One of my lines seem to change the spelling of their name every time they change location or get married. Matter/Motter/Maeder/Mater/Mateer/ and so on. My great-grandfather was born in Cumberland County PA from the above line. His father signed his will Mater. My great-grandfather came to Ohio and signed his name Mater on his marriage license in 1859 in Crawford County. In 1860 in Franklin County he was in the census as Mateer and later I have his signature and numerous court records and his death certificate - all Mateer. And I can prove that I am talking about the same man. In 1850 his brother Emmanuel is listed in Wooster in a boarding house in the Wayne County census index as Mateer. And there is another Emmanuel also in Palin Township,Wayne County in the same census index with the surname Matter. I am getting census details but Emmanuel is such an unusual name that I suspect this is the same man who got counted twice in the census. We have good reason to believe that he followed railroad construction from the Harrisburg, Pa area into Ohio. I believe the Pennsy was connecting into Ohio about then. Anyone researching in Wayne County happen to know anything about Emmanuel whatever, or the comming of the iron horse from PA? Hal