In a message dated 5/29/00 7:22:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Graff Surname Date: 5/29/00 7:22:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] (patinfla) Reply-to: [email protected] (patinfla) To: [email protected] Hi Listers, I haven't posted this in a while so I will try again. I'm looking for any information on Marcus Young Graff and his wife Maria Herstus Johnson who migrated to Tiffin, Seneca county in the early 1820s. Marcus was on the County Commission for a number of years. I'm also looking for information on their children Marcus Young Graff, born 1828 in Maryland Eleanor D.,born 1820 in Maryland Sabastiana, born 1832 in Ohio John P.C., born 1836 in Ohio Eli D., born 1839 in Ohio. Thank you for any help.....................Pat Saemmer >> For Pat Saemmer. Hi Pat, We have a few Seneca County, Ohio publications at home. I checked them for your Marcus Y. GRAFF, and here is what I found: 1.History of Seneca County, Ohio, by Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. Page 247. General History of the County. (About) 1833, "Jon Seitz, Marcus Y. GRAFF and John Crum were (county) commissioners." "In March, 1834, the twenty-second meeting of the commissioners accepted a deed from Josiah Hedges for a certain lot of land for the purpose of erecting a jail, valued at $150, in part payment of materials named in said Hodges' bond due said county. Marcus Y. GRAFF, one of the commissioners, notified Mr. Hedges that the commissioners required payment of the residue of the money and materials due in said bid." Page 261. General History. Mentions the first political "jollification" party ever held in the county was that by the Democrats December 6, 1832, at Goodin's Hotel, Tiffin, David E. Owen presiding. Among the leading participants was a Joseph GRAFF. Page 261. Under the heading of "Elections 1833-34-35." Mentions John Crum, Marcus Y. GRAFF and John Seitz were elected commissioners. Page 456. Section on Clinton Township. "Marcus Y.GROFF and Hezekiah GROFF are names well and favorably known in the history of Tiffin. Silas W. GROFF, a member of Capt. F.K. Shawhan's company of the One Hundred and Twenty-Third Ohio Voluntary Infanry, died March 4, 1885, in his thirty-ninth year. He was a mere boy when he entered the service of the Union." 2. Seneca County, Ohio Chancery Records, Court Index, 1825-1860, by Seneca County Genealogical Society, 1991. October Term 1834. Plaintiffs: Benjamin Biggs, Isaac Osgood, Philo Hillyer, Ralph E. Bush, Edward B. Bostwick. Defendant: Marcus Y. GRAFF and wife. Vol. 1, Page 233. September 1837 Term. (a.) Plaintiff: Marcus Y. GROFF, et. al. Defendant: Perry A. Freeze. Vol. 1, Page 650. (b.) Plaintiff: Eli Dresback. Defendant: Marcus Y. GROFF, et. al. Vol. 4, Page 20. November term 1850. Plaintiffs: John D. Phoenix, F. M. Babcock. Defendant: Marcus Y.GROFF, et. al.. Vol. 8, Page 266. 3. Original Land Entries of Seneca County, Ohio, by Brill, Sackett and Holscher, 1992. Adams Township. Page 5. Balliet, Hellfrich & GRAFF. S.W. 1/4 section 23, June 19 1823. Page 8, Balliet, Hellfrich & GRAFF. E. 1/2 S.W. 1/4 section 36, June 5, 1823. Balliet, Hellfrich & GRAFF. W. 1/2 S.E. 1/4 section 36, June 5, 1823. Regards, Ken Shute, in MD. ([email protected]).