This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dove, Brumfield, Mayhew, Butcher, Richey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3AC.2ACE/1544 Message Board Post: Looking to make connections with family, I descend from Elisha Dove b. 1820 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia and Sarah Brumfield b. 1831, Virginia. Their Son Samuel m. Mary Dial in 1881 Assumption, Christian Co., Illinois. Have lots on the other children as well. Elisha returned from the war to find that Sarah had died. He took his children and relocated to Indiana. Elisha remarried to a Louisa Butcher, and had 3 more children. As of this date I have still not been able to find a father for him. Other relatives have said they hit this same brick wall. They also referred to his mother Mildred Dove as a lady of the night. She indentured her children. Elisha was indentured out at the age of five to a family in Campbell County Virginia, with the last name of Lee. Would appreciate additional information. thanks Brenda [email protected]