Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina/367 Surname: ------------------------- Except where mentioned below, I find no mention of any of your people in History of Medina Co. (Baskin & Battey), but from Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cemeteries in Medina Co., OH, I find: Pg 246 Chatham Cmty - Chatham Twp WOOD, Palmer Phinias, June 25, 1828 - July 6, 1909 " , Christianie E., Oct. 26, 1842 - Jan. 6, 1928 " , Joel, Dec.2, 1789 - May 26, 1883 " , Phebe, June 4, 1803 - Mar. 1, 1876 There are no Yoemans at all and none of your Best people are listed with markers in Medina Co., but in my file of notes on the county, I had copied the 1850 census info on on your Wood family. The writing was a little hard to read, but for what it is worth, it looked to me like the "A" Best you mentioned might have been Ab(iron?), age 3, b. Ohio. 1860 (as I read the film) 905/898 BEST, Geo. 38 m Farmer 4000/194 b. NY " , Lucretia 36 f b. NY " , Augusta 14 f b. NY " , Bryson 13 m b. OH " , Lila 7 f b. OH " , Chester 4 m b. OH " , Eveline 2 f b. OH " , Baby 3/12 f b. OH Again in my notes, under Deaths is: BEST, LUCRETIA - 75 - w/f - widow - Housewife - Consumption - d. 15? Nov 1887 - Medina Twp, Medina Co., b. N.Y? - residence, Medina Twp. I find no tombstone for her. In History of Medina Co., OH, among a list of men serving from Chatham Twp. during the Civil War is George Best, Co. B. 42d O.V.I., enlisted Sept.22, 1861; discharged Feb. 28, 1864. Also, Byron Best, 70th O.V.I.; died May 13 1865. Jean Best