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/WZB.2ACI/660.1 Message Board Post: In some booklets I own covering Sandusky County, The Lays are mentioned in severla instances. --------------- OTTAWA, SANDUSKY, AND SENECA COUNTIES, OHIO NEWSPAPER OBITUARY ABSTRACTS 1836-1870 --------------- In the Seneca Advertiser (Tiffin) on Feb 18th 1859 LAY, John---Green Creek res son, Sandusky Co, 31st Jan 84y8d, born in Conn 1775 -------------- SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO LANDOWNER ATLAS 1860 -------------- LAY, Charles 108 Acres Section 6, Rice Twp LAY, E. 45 Acres Section 8, Washington Twp LAY, T 60 Acres Section 9 Washington Twp LAY, L E 40 Acres Section 33 Green Creek Twp LAY, Wm E 80 Acres Section 35 Green Creek Twp -------------- SANDUSKY COUNTY, OHIO INDEX TO WILLS, ESTAES AND GUARDIANSHIPS 1820-1900 ---------------- LAY Ann Maria---E1879 c2531 Heirs---G1852 483 Heirs---G1880 c2667 John---E1854 c790 Wm E---E1900 c5259 E-Estate G-Guardianship c---case number -------------------------- I hope you find something here that will help. Al O'Brien PS My g-grandfather and his family, fresh off the boat in 1848, after a couple years were on a farm in Ballville Twp.