This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28386.1 Message Board Post: Your Harriet Smith was born about 1831, not 1820. The older children of Seba Bronson and Harriet Smith were born in Ohio. So, I looked for them in Ohio in 1850. Living with Seba and Harriet in that census was Clarissa Bronson <1777>, who was born in Conn. This is probably Seba's mother. Based on the 1850 census, birthplaces given and proximity to a relative (cousin I believe) of Seba's named Ransom Bronson, my best bet for the parents of Harriet are Leonard <1801> and Eliza [?] <1806> Smith who were living in Columbia, Loraine, OH in 1850. Leonard and Eliza were both born in New York, as were all of their children. By 1870 Leonard and Eliza show up in Clinton Co, MI. Eliza died there, acording to the Michigan Gendis, on 02 Aug 1871. Names of her parents weren't given, unfortunately.After Eliza's death Leonard married Sarah Eliza Harris, widow of Jacob Sharp in Clinton Co. Not much, I know, but maybe it will help. Debby