_I checked all of my Elizabeths and they are either too young or too old to be the right one. Also none of them married a Hamilton. The Blackledges came from Virginia into PA and who knows where from there._ On 8/30/2011 11:18 PM, John Michael Hamilton wrote: > The earliest ancestor that I can trace is a Henry Hamilton listed in the 1850 census, born in Jefferson County Ohio ca 1835. He is at 1850 census time living with a family by the name of Blackledge. There is circumstantial evidence that his parents were James Hamilton and Elizabeth Blackledge from Harrison or Jefferson county Ohio. In 1860 he (Henry) married a Mary Ann Slates and around 1870 moved west to DeKalb County Missouri. Henry and Mary Ann had 6 boys: Riley, Thomas, William, Fred, Jim (twins) Edward and 2 girls, Hannah (Minnie) and Elizabeth > > I would asume Eliabeth Blacklegde Hamilton would be born around 1810- 1817 if she is the Mother of Henry Hamilton. > > Thanks John > **** > Please visit http://www.chartiers.com/pages-new/pawashin.html for list information, particularly the bottom of the page. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAWASHIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >