Pat, Miracle of miracles...I did find something...this is from Vol. 9, No. 2 issue of the Navigator, the newsletter for the Monroe Co. Chapter/OGS: pg. 30 - Newspaper Abstracts (no notation as to whom abstracted and not full date) 1895 - A tragedy was enacted on a shanty boat at Cochransville. Frank ROGERS, 20, went to one of the disreputable boats moored along the river and talked to a woman named Alice McCLELLAND, wanting her to leave the boat and live with him. Suddenly he flashed a revolver in her face but she pushed it away as he fired and the bullet went through her wrist. A second shot struck her in the right breast. He then, evidently thinking he had killed her, shot himself through the heart. The woman may possibly recover. I checked the 1880 Monroe Co. census and the only person I came up with who MAY be Frank is a son of a John ROGERS (only Rogers in Monroe Co.; 2 RODGERS, but no boy aged 5) who is named James in the 1880 census. He is age 5. Could still be Frank as possibly his name was James Francis or something like that, and he went by his middle name. John ROGERS is enum. in Franklin Twp. on page 456B. Cochransville is in Jackson Twp. I already checked the Jackson Twp. cemetery book I have and no ROGERS/RODGERS or BOTT/BUTT. There were no McCLELLAND or McLELLAND in Monroe Co. in 1880. Try to get this Frank ROGERS death cert. and see what it says. Hopefully his parents may be named. Clarence's birth record may be in Monroe Co., but possibly the record was sealed and so not in with the regular birth certs. Maybe you should check out the film of the births thru. the LDS, altho. it is possible it may have been deleted from them too. Keep us informed. I love a mystery! -- Bonnie Burkhardt <burkhard@flash.net> <bburkhardt@juno.com> Researching: Allender/Arbo/Archibald/Bergman/Burdick/Burkhardt/Debruler/ Deline/Holden/Hathorn/Hyett/Keyser/Lashley/Long/Pervorse/ Porter/Rice/Sternbacher/Stone patticake wrote: > 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