Bobbi, my family moved to Highland County from Maryland before 1814. I have gotten some information from McBride and McBride, but still have some unanswered questions. Would really appreciate your offer to look up: John Ellis, b. 1781 in MD, died in Union Township, Highland County in 1838, at the same time as a child of about ten years old. They are buried in the Ellis Cemetery, which has only three graves. The story is that the river was swollen and they could not get across to Hillsboro. His wife was Elizabeth, and I think they were married in Maryland, but I have never been able to find her maiden name. Their son, John Plaemus (sic!) Ellis, was born in MD in 1810, married in Highland Co. in 1834, Eleanor Daniel(s), the daughter of James Daniel and Hanna Reed. I have never been able to find any more about James and Hannah. Benjamin Conard, a Quaker, owned a "queensware" (china) shop in Hillsboro. His first two wives died, and he married Elizabeth Hussey Johnson in 1855. I have a great deal of information about Benjamin and Elizabeth. Who knows? You might even share some of these ancestors. Anyway, if you find anything in the Pioneer Sketches, I would really appreciate it. Margaret Ellis-Miller