I live in Wooster, OH and can check to see if there is anything on him in Wooster Library if you think it would help. Is there anything in Wooster, Wayne Co., OH you need? Shirley edythe98@aol.com In a message dated 8/26/2004 12:10:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, cheater@nccw.net writes: Trying to get a middle name and any other info for John VanNest that left Dillsburg Pa.To go to Wooster Ohio in 1838 with a son also name John VanNest. The father born 1774 and the son born 1814. They may have traveled with a family named Weiler to Wooster Ohio. Thanks for any help. This in a book is all I have on them. This from the 1880 history of Ashland County by Geo. W. Hill JOHN VAN NEST, was born Dec. 1,1814 in York county, PA. He attended common schools, learned the trade of a saddler in 1831-32 , came to Wooster, Wayne county, in 1838, and worked until 1839. He married Miss Sarah Wiley, of Smithville, Wayne county, May 2, 1839, moved to Rowsburg the same month, and has carried on business ever since. He has served as a justice of the peace six terms. He was elected commissioner in 1864, and served two terms. He has been a member of the Lutheran church since 1849. His ancestors were from Holland, and located in New Jersey. His father, John Van Nest, located in York county, PA., and came to Wayne county in 1838, and died in Millbrook, in 1862, aged eighty seven. John Van Nest is the father of ten children - two dead eight living.