This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Butters, Carmel Indians, Gibson, Long, Perkins, Steel, Steers, Stiers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2YB.2ACI/1225.1237.1379.1.2 Message Board Post: Dear Darlene and Nancy Morrison; You may have located Butters Road, about 3 to 5 miles southwest of Carmel, Highland County, Ohio. Butters Road is the epicenter of the CARMEL INDIANS. I drove Butters Road last year. It runs west>east. It's halfway up the hill. The terrain up the hill is quite rough. This is the area where Melungeons (Gibson, Perkins, etc.) would come down from to take jobs in local truck farms. There are stories of Carmel Indians moving north to Logan County. The county seat is Bellefontaine, which had been known as "Blue Jacket's Town". Just northwest of Bellefontaine is "Indian Lake". In a Delorme Atlas for South Carolina, there is a Butters village. It's very small, at the end of a road where the swamps take over. I will go home and try to find it again. It's located exactly where a Melungeon would go to get lost. While I do not know her ancestry, Bernice/Bernita Long is the part-time secretary for the Mowrystown Presbyterian Church, about 15 to 20 miles west of Carmel, also in Highland County, Ohio. We have a Benjamin and Eugene Steirs/Steers which in some records is Steel. We have discounted Steel, but might reconsider. They were early folks from Kentucky.