Thanks for the information on the BOTT family. Don't know yet if it connects. Another family member talked to Hugh a couple of years back and Hugh couldn't find a link. Our grandfather Clarence BOTT was born in Woodsfield 11/11/1896 (according to his death cert. issued in Lorain Co.) to Jacob BOTT b. 1865 and his wife Christine STEIDINGER. They were married in Woodsfield in 1885. The problem is, we are being told that Clarence was actually adopted by Jacob and Christine and that his real name was ROGERS., and that there was a murder in the ROGERS family and that is how they came to adopt him. Woodsfield has no record of his birth on that day, as either BOTT or Rogers. Adoption may be a possibility as they were married in 1885 and Clarence (their only child) wasn't born til 1896! Does this murder case ring any bells? Is there anywhere we can check to find out? We are getting desperate! Thanks in advance. Pat Owens