Dear Listers HELP PLEASE ! ! ! ! I have James CHEEK b.1818 in England with wife Maria b.1819 in England, in the 1860 Census with their 8 children in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio.... all checked and accounted for..... Daughter Emma CHEEK stayed in Pawtucket and got married, did NOT go to Ohio Daughter Sarah Jane CHEEK went back to Pawtucket RI and married in 1861 Son George Henry CHEEK went back to Pawtucket RI and was there in 1862, married in 1870 Daughter Louisa CHEEK never seen again in Census or RI death records..... Daughter Harriet CHEEK came back to Pawtucket before 1870 and was married by 1880 Daughter Amelia CHEEK never seen again in Census or RI death records.... Daughter Lauretta CHEEK came back to Pawtucket and died in 1874 in there Daughter Ella F (Ellen) came back to Pawtucket, 1870 was a scholar living with her sister Emma, 1880 at home living with her other married sister Harriet IDE Daughter Catherine never seen again in Census or RI death records James and Maria never seen in Census records after the 1860 Census in Ohio...... Things which are exercising my mind...... James was a wagon maker.... Could they have been killed in the Civil War coming back to RI???? Which route would one normally take from Ripley, Ohio back to Pawtucket, RI.....can I check this out some way??? How come small children under 10 years of age found their way back to Pawtucket by themselves???? The parents were not around because they lived with their sisters???? I have all the CHEEK deaths in RI for the period 1855 through to 1900, nothing there???? I am lost and have no idea where to go next.......HELP PLEASE! ! ! ! David Cheek - Adelaide - Australia Protected by Norton Anti-Virus 2006 Transcriber of Parish Registers in South West Somerset, England and FreeBMD

David , Check this link for Ohio Railroad maps Bill Keough http://www.railsandtrails.com/Maps/default.htm

David - I can't help with your Cheek family but the fact that the children came back to RI suggests the others may died either in Ohio or on the way back to RI, and the children went back to live with the sister Emma who stayed in RI. That would make sense if she were the only known living relative. Hard to imagine children traveling alone like that, but they certainly couldn't have stayed in Ohio with no one to care for them. I have a friend who is a Taft. She is 94. She told me that her maternal great grandfather went out west on the Oregon trail with his daughter [my friend's grandmother] after his first wife died. He remarried out there. The daughter didn't like the stepmother, so she came back to Massachusetts by herself at age 17. [I think her name was Harriet Wheeler, but I'm not 100% on the first name] Ohio was mainly farmland - have you tried looking for your Cheek in the bureau of land management database? They probably went there for the land, but if they died, the children wouldn't have been able to keep up the property at their ages. You can search the database here - http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/ where you will find a record for Amelia Cheek applying for a patent in 1820. I think it's pretty unusual to find a woman doing this. You can get the land patent at that site. I don't know how to follow up on that property, but someone on an Ohio list can probably help you. I just started looking for some people in Ohio, and it's all new to me too, but I suggest you check out the usgenweb pages for Ohio, and maybe join a mailing list for Ohio and/or Brown county. You can find them at rootsweb.com. there is a list of ohio links here http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/visitors/StateResearch.asp Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "david cheek" <mcheek@bigpond.net.au> To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:06 AM Subject: [RIGENWEB] James CHEEK 1860 - Ohio to Rhode Island > Dear Listers > > HELP PLEASE ! ! ! ! > > I have James CHEEK b.1818 in England with wife Maria b.1819 in England, in > the 1860 Census with their 8 children in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio.... all > checked and accounted for..... > > Daughter Emma CHEEK stayed in Pawtucket and got married, did NOT go to Ohio > Daughter Sarah Jane CHEEK went back to Pawtucket RI and married in 1861 > Son George Henry CHEEK went back to Pawtucket RI and was there in 1862, > married in 1870 > Daughter Louisa CHEEK never seen again in Census or RI death records..... > Daughter Harriet CHEEK came back to Pawtucket before 1870 and was married by > 1880 > Daughter Amelia CHEEK never seen again in Census or RI death records.... > Daughter Lauretta CHEEK came back to Pawtucket and died in 1874 in there > Daughter Ella F (Ellen) came back to Pawtucket, 1870 was a scholar living > with her sister Emma, 1880 at home living with her other married sister > Harriet IDE > Daughter Catherine never seen again in Census or RI death records > > James and Maria never seen in Census records after the 1860 Census in > Ohio...... > > Things which are exercising my mind...... > James was a wagon maker.... > Could they have been killed in the Civil War coming back to RI???? > Which route would one normally take from Ripley, Ohio back to Pawtucket, > RI.....can I check this out some way??? > How come small children under 10 years of age found their way back to > Pawtucket by themselves???? The parents were not around because they lived > with their sisters???? > I have all the CHEEK deaths in RI for the period 1855 through to 1900, > nothing there???? > > I am lost and have no idea where to go next.......HELP PLEASE! ! ! ! > > > David Cheek - Adelaide - Australia > Protected by Norton Anti-Virus 2006 > Transcriber of Parish Registers in South West > Somerset, England and FreeBMD