Jim, thanks for the reply. The particular individual I am looking for is Lysander J. McFarlin. He was born in Coitsville, Ohio just over the border from Mercer County in 1835. He was orphaned at the age of 6 and I am not sure of who raised him and one sister and one brother, but possibly his mother. She was Melissa Hard (McFarlin) who died in 1885 living with her daughter and son-in law William Brackenridge III in Viola, Illinois. An entry in John Anderson McFarlin's bible says that his brother Lysander was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and died there. His older brother John Anderson McFarlin married Lavina Wick Kimmel in 1855 and bought a farm in Mercer County in 1861. John and Lavina had 8 children. One of them Elizabeth Lillian McFarlin married Thomas Harrison Northcote in 1890 in the Millbrook Area. They farmed just northeast of Millbrook. They had 5 children. One of them Grace Lillian Northcote was my wife's mother. The four other kids were Hazel Ora, Vera Blanch, Paul Wick and Edgar William I believe that John Anderson McFarlin was also the Postmaster at Centretown, Worth Twp. John was 78 when he died in 1901 Thomas Harrison Northcote was on the school board for Worth Twp. Thomas died in 1941 when he was 75 years old. Most of the family is buried in the Union Home Cemetery just SE of Millbrook. I must say that I have met some of the greatest folks while digging in the fertile farm fields of Mercer County. I have learned so much and yet have so much more to learn. Living high in the Colorado Rockies it seems that Mercer County has become my second home. I study maps and history so much that it is almost as familiar as my back yard. Searching NORTHCOTE McFARLIN KIMMEL WICK HOWE MOORE SOPHER EDMUNDS KINGSLEY Reischman Ordoff Osburn Gilmore Ritenour Shaw McConnell Focht Fascetti Uber Ponikvar McGowan Watts Turner Stiles Urey Grim (Grumm) Mauger Dank Kilgore McCurdy Hodgson Glenn Montgomery Most are from various parts of Mercer County but have ties to Venango and Trumble/Mahoning County Ohio. Pretty heavy in the Wolf Creek watershed area. Thanks for your ear all. Walt