Joan . . . Hang in there. We've talked before, I think. I can't get to it tonight but will this week. I'm fairly sure I have some parentage information on him but have to dig it all out because BEST is a sideline for me. Valentine married a relative of mine, Eleanor Montgomery WOODSIDE. I had photos of their tombstones and that of several of their children. I also have ALL of their children's names and several with marriage information. The Eleanor BEST you refer to IS Valentine's widow and my cousin several times removed. Eleanor's father, James WOODSIDE, was an older brother of my ggg-grandfather, John WOODSIDE. Just like you are trying to tie them all together, I'd like to find more on VB's siblings for background . . . he was such a well-known man and the person most responsible for Montour County finally being carved out of Columbia. I would dearly love to have a copy of that "front page Obit". By the time he died, his son-in-law was running the paper. When you finally tie it all up neat, I'd to know how they interconnect, too. BTW, does it say WHICH Presbyterian Church? There were two in Danville. The early one and first was Grove Presbyterian. Later, because some folks didn't want to have to travel north of the canal, Mahoning Presbyterian English Church was formed and Grove's congregation split. The Memorial Park across from the Grove church was formerly the first cemetery which became "full" so they either moved the bodies to Fairmont, etc or, if no family claimed them for removal, they laid down the tombstone, added more soil and created a park. Lovely preservation of history, that. Kathleen Woodside Freiburg woodside.1728@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Best" <joanbest1@earthlink.net>, Monday, April 23, 2001 11:28 AM > Help!!! >> I am looking for family information on Valentine BEST. <Big SNIP> My ancestor was Michael BEST who was in the 1810 Greenwood Twp. (now Columbia Co.) census, later is mentioned as teaching school between 1816 and 1824 in a school run by Eleanor BEST, who was, I think, someone's widow-don't know who. (Michael's wife was named Anna.) I have the information on John Best b. 1759, Michael's brother, and his son James H. BEST. <<