-----Original Message----- From: Bruce A. Rockwell <[email protected]> To: Iris Peppers <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Sanford Lines >Iris > >Getting in on this because of the Huron Co., OH connection. My gg gf was >Ephraim H. Sanford. According to Cutler's History of Kansas, he was in the >Cleveland, Akron, New London, OH area from some time in the late 1840s thru >some time in 1857, when he went to Kansas in the free state effort. I could >send the bio, just didn't want to jam up your mailbox. > >Again, according to the bio, he ended up in OH because his family got sick >while heading toward Washington, DC. This is what puzzles me. The only >marriage I know about was to Mary Jane St. John, my gg gm (who, it appears, >had a first marriage and several children we never heard about--but that's >another story). The 1850 fed census has a 38 yr. old Ephraim Sanford in >Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga County. Listed as an editor, which would be >consistent, but no family mentioned in census. > >Don't know what to make of the Cutler story. Is the family getting sick >story not true, did everybody die (which is never mentioned, but I haven't >done any checking in OH), or was the family maybe some siblings, etc? > >I just checked the Sanford Research Page, don't see either a Volney or an >Isaac listed as an Ephraim H. sibling. Don't know what your timeline is. >Maybe they were just unrelated groups in the same area, or maybe we just >don't know enough yet. > >Bruce Rockwell > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Iris Peppers <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 1:03 PM >Subject: Sanford Lines > > >>Carol, >> >>Just saw your post on Sanford in Ohio. My husband has a line that came out >of Huron Co OH. Volney Sanford married Rachael >>Cole in Huron Co OH. Volney is the supposed son of an Isaac Sanford, but I >haven't found any info to prove it yet. Do you >>connect to this line? Thanks. >> >>Iris Peppers >> >> >