Posted on: Sawyer Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/FamilyAssoc/Sawyer/240 Surname: Sawyer, Beits, Viets, Parkison ------------------------- HORACE B. SAWYER looking for information, ancestors, descendants. His wife was Malinda "Minnie" (Beits/Viets?). They were the parents of my great-grandmother Grace Hannah Sawyer. They are listed in the 1880 Federal Census Index for Monroe Co., Michigan with 7 children, including Gracie and Reuben. Grace married James Robert Parkison and most of their children were born in Arkansas City, Kansas. Several of their children, and two of Grace's brothers, Reuben Sawyer (b. 1869 MI, m. Anna E., d. 1955 CA) and Sherman (b. 1883 MI, m. Eunice, d. 1960 CA), eventually moved to California. Grace died around 1930 and her husband around 1940.