This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GZB.2ACI/806.2.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi Faith, Sorry it took so long for my reply. Been off-line, and it's taking ages to get caught up. I didn't know about the tombstones being used for the house and sidewalk, but perhaps this explains why none of the headstones in the cemetery is in it's original position. I've attached a photo of the home where my grandfather and mother were born. Is this "the old homestead house"? It was called the 'new house' when my mom lived there. A two story brick house is just visible in the upper left corner. It was the 'old house' back then, and was probably the home of the Patterson-Slyh family. The second picture shows it better. Were the barns original to the farm as well? You also mentioned "1773 (Jonathan Alder's birth year)". If you are descended from Jonathan, you're probably also related to the Millikin and Cary families. Jonathan's son Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of James Millikin and Elizabeth Cooke (a Mayflower descendant), and Solomon Cary married their daughter Anna. Do you by chance have any picture of the farm (house & barns) before the old house was torn down? What I've attached are all that I have, and I've been praying that I'd one day find someone who does! If you'd like to chat about the farm some more (hope so), why not just e-mail me directly... just click on my name above to get the address. Hope I'll be hearing from you again soon. Thanks, Dorothy