This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sawyer, Shields, Bither, Sterritt, Wilson, Tyler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRFBAIB/1291.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Debra, you may have already made this connection, but I figured I'd post anyway as maybe someone else can use this information. At the Linneus Town Offices there is a birth record for Isaac S. Sawyer. It states that "Isaac S. Sawyer" was born on 3 May 1869 to "Orvill L. and Nancy J. Sawyer". Isaac's middle name was Sterritt which is his mother's maiden name. His father was Orville Leonard Sawyer. Orville's parents were Isaac Sawyer and Eunice Bither. I believe Orville's father was Daniel Sawyer. If so, then his sister was Rachel Sawyer who married John Shields and also raised a family in Linneus. I descend from this line. Eunice's parents were Benjamin Bither and Anna Tyler. She is a member of the huge Bither family in Linneus. Isaac's mother was Nancy Jane Sterritt. Her parents were James Sterritt and Lillian Jane Wilson.