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/HZB.2ACI/821.1 Message Board Post: Jeanine, This is not a direct response to your query, but perhaps the following information from WADSWORTH HERITAGE by Eleanor Iler Schapiro, 1964, will provide some clues and direction for your research: Harvey B. Spelman, the mother of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. started a chain store business in Wadsworth. "In a financial partnership with Mr. Roswell Kent of Middlebury, Mr. Spelman opened a branch store in Wadsworth in 1833 . . .It appears that the building he reected there was both a store and a home for his family, for here his younger daughter, Laura Celestia Spelman, was born on September 9, 1839." "Not long after Laura Spelman's birth the family moved to Kent, where her father conducted another branch store, and in 1841 to Akron, where Mr. Spelman, in partnership with Charles Clapp, had a mercantile business. . .At the same time he also had a branch store at River Styx. In 1841 he also became a member of Akron's first school board, and in 1849 he was elected a rewpresentative to the Ohio Legislature..." "Laura Spelman Rockefeller's mother was Lucy Henry, before her marriage a pioneer schoolteacher in a log schoolhouse at LeRoy." Eventually Harvey Spelman moved to Cleveland, where his daughter Laura attended old Central High School, then on Euclid Avenue opposite East Sixth Street. . ." Laura had a sister named Lucy. Also, check out http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/oh/medina/1840/pg177.txt.Several Spellman's, Brown's, and at leat one Curtis are listed.