This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nead/Niad Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HZB.2ACI/868 Message Board Post: Searching for information on Gabriel Nead/Niad who lived in Medina county, Harrisville township around 1870, his wife was Mary Eckerman, and together they had two sons and two daughters. His career was stonemasonry. This man would be my great great great great grand-father. I am descended from his son, William M. Nead who co-founded Albany Memorial Hospital in Albany, New York.