I'm looking for information that would help identify the parents of my grandfather, Edward Lafayette (Lafe) DAVIS. According to his death certificate (information provided by my grandmother), he was born in Blanket Hill, OH on March 9, 1872 and his parents were Albert DAVIS and Mary SHELL, both born in PA. However, for the 1900 census, Lafe stated that he also was born in PA. I have not been able to locate a Blanket Hill in OH, but there is such a place in Armstrong County, PA. Lafe married Harriet SNYDER in New Haven Twp., Huron County, OH on October 14, 1896 and he died there on September 22, 1923. According to a distant cousin, who published a history of the RUBINS family in 1973, "Edward's parents died young and he was raised by foster parents." I don't know where she got that information, but Lafe's daughter and one son was still living then, so maybe one of them supplied it. I could not find an Albert DAVIS with a wife named Mary and a son named Edward or Lafayette in the 1880 census soundex for PA, but did find an Albert DAVIS with a wife named Sarah and a son named Lafayette, all from PA, in the 1880 census soundex for OH. They lived in Plymouth Twp., Richland County, which is only 3 miles from New Haven. They reported that Lafayette was nine, but Lafe should only have been eight when the census was taken. They also had six children younger than Lafayette, but my mother said she never heard anything about Lafe having any siblings. The members of this family from Plymouth were: Albert, 39, b. PA; Sarah, 29, b. PA; Lafayette, 9, b. PA; Laura, 7, b. PA; Lurenza, 5, b. PA; Louisa, 4, b. OH; Harry G., 3, b. OH; Bertha, 1, b. OH; and a son, 2 mo., b. OH. I have not been able to locate this family after 1880. I would greatly appreciate any information that would help confirm or refute the possible connection of Lafe to the Albert DAVIS of Plymouth or could throw some light on the identity of Lafe's parents. Thanks so much for any help. Jim Davis in Wenatchee, WA