drdx@neo.rr.com writes: << 1855...stated in his card file was that he was a pauper and "a resident of Guernsey Co., Ohio, in Newark Twp., six weeks". >> <<If the Children's home was not operational back then, does anyone know of a poor house or a prior incarnation of the Children's Home in Guernsey?>> The home first called Poor House, later Infirmary and then County Home, was established in 1841 located in Wills township, two miles south of Washington on 212 acres. (this info was published in 1943) This is the only home and location of its kind listed in Wm Wolfe's Stories of Guernsey Co. Marilyn McCormick Murphy - MMacMurph@aol.com Direct ancestors in eastern OH - 1813 to 1900 Belmont Co.: GILLESPIE, MCCORMICK, MCKNIGHT, RANKIN, THOMPSON, Guernsey Co: ARMSTRONG, BAIRD, BENNETT, COOKE, GILLESPIE, HENDERSON, MCCORMICK, MCCLEAN, PATTERSON, THOMPSON Harrison Co.: ANDERSON, BENNETT, COOKE, MCKNIGHT, MOORE, ROGERS Jefferson Co.: BENNETT Knox Co.: PATTERSON Tuscarawas Co.: BENNETT, ROGERS, STEWART »ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï« Collateral names: ALLENDER, BENEPE, BOYD, CLARK, CULBERTSON, DEAN, GROSS, HEADE, HUNT, KIRK, LIEUZANDER, MCCRACKEN, MCCULLEY, WALKER, WARNE, »ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«,¸¸,»ïÏï«