This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UaB.2ACE/3267 Message Board Post: Dear Jerilyn, I also have Ruth Elizabeth Clawson at the same birth date of 1806 and marrying Benoni Williams.I have more on the States side than on the Clawson side. Matthias States married Jane Clawson they had 3 kids. 1. Samuel States 1777 2. Ruth Elizabeth States 1779 Married Cornelius Clawson 3.William States ? died young Cornelius Clawson Jr.- Ruth Elizabeth kids 1. Matthias Clawson 1791 - Oct. 7, 1869 - Mary Williams 2.Ruth Elizabeth Clawson 1806- ? Benoni Williams 3. Nathan Clawson ? 4. Rev. Samuel Clawson?- Died 1882 - Harriett Ricketts This is all I have the last kid would be born before 1819. Cornelius died about 1819. I have them having 12 kids. According to Matthias obituary 7boys and 5 girls. after he passed 1869 1brother and 3 girls. My GR. GR. Grandma was Anna Maria (Clawson) Bear/Bair born April 16, 1828 Married May 1844. Her sister was Catherine M.(Clawson) Bear/Bair June 1, 1825 and a Brother Samuel Clawson born June 15, 1834. All of these were born in Punxsuntawney, Pa and married there too. I think Gr. GR. Grandma's dad was one of the son's of Cornelius and Ruth Elizabeth Clawson. I just don't know which one? The 3 kids did stay in Punxsutawney,Pa till 1847. If you give me your address I'll send all the papers on the Ruth Elizabeth States side. E-Mail is sandland@brightok.net. Write me back I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Carol Bair -