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/0AC.2ACE/890 Message Board Post: Hello Everyone, I am researching a gentleman by the name of John Spotswood. He would have been born bet. 1763-1768 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co. VA. This John Spotswood married a lady by the name of Miss Coughenour on or before 1823. Our Charles Cogley Spotswood was born on 11 Nov 1823 in Gettysburg, Adams Co. PA. We have come to the conclusion that our John must have crawled out from underneath a rock or something like that because we can't find nothing on him regarding this marriage, nor his son. Anyway, in our Family Bible it has John Spotswood as being his father and his father dying of his wounds that he had received in the Seminole Indian Wars. About 1818-1838. States that his father died when he was 55 years old, but it doesn't give a date or where or exactly when. There is absolutely nothing on our Coughenour lady, no birth, no death date although we suspect that she must have died while having Charles, and it doesn't even give her first name at all. There again we come up empty handed. If any of you have any information regarding this particular Spotswood/Coughenour relationship we would greatly appreciate it if you would enlighten us about him and his wife Miss Coughenour. Thanks in advance, Bill