This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: wanted William & Mary Keefer Clabaugh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5BC.2ACI/23.287.2.1 Message Board Post: Bobb, You may have better luck if you spelled Marys name Kieffer. But there is a Wm Clabaugh-b1730/d1784 and Mary Kieffer-b1735 d-1785 m 1759 They had 10 children, The 10th one being wm.-b1779 d-1828 m Barbara Kieffer 1802. If my dates and all are right Fredrick and Mary Clabaugh both died in 1735, that would make Wm. 5 yrs old and I am sure he was probably absorbed right into the Clabaugh family. That is how to do it with out any fuss and bother. And there were certainly enough of them. Several older children would have been able to care for him.