This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stevens, Taylor, Trowbridge, Armstrong, Lyon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0lJBAIB/1208.1731.2038 Message Board Post: Ancestors Alvah Stevens b: 1799 NY, d: 1883 MI; his son (not my direct ancestor) Orville B (OB) Stevens b: 1827 NY, d: WI or MI; Orvill's son Thaddeus Gibson Stevens b: 1868 WI d: abt 1925 WA; and (possible son, living with them in census) Charles Stevens b: 1855 WI. Alvah's daughter Eliza Stevens Armstrong (my g-g-grandmother) b: NY 1837 d: MI 1906. Also, I think Alvah Stevens may have had brothers named Martin b: 1806 NY, and John b: 1795 NY. Some common names - thought perhaps there was a connection.