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/907.2.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Not this John Dakin. George William's father is John, but he reportedly died in the Civil War not long after George William was born, and very little information about him was passed down. George William was born in Wheeling, WV, but did not know where his father was born. He left home at an early age, and no living descendents know what his mother's maiden name was or the name of her second husband. I'm trying to find more records on George William in the hope of finding more clues about his parents, but I can't find him in the Census at all until 1900, after he had married Sarah Philena Koons and settled in Ashland County.