Terry, I don't know if your Joseph Coffelt is the same Joseph or not. 'Shupe' rings a bell -- either old VA or on an adjacent farm in Greene, OH. I'll have to access my Greene Co Marriages to 1840 to see if I can snag any Shupe's or Armstrong's to try for a connection with the Coffelt's and Blessing's. (We recently had a basement flood; everything is high & dry, but 'high' -- it's time to get them down again.) From what I've seen, the westward movement was through various Ohio Counties (add Greene and Ross Co's to your list, too) rather than a VA to IN leap. Sandusky makes as much sense as any other county in OH where farmland had opened-up after he War of 1812. One researcher said that Joseph's 2nd marriage had been 'arranged' (I'd assume through the old families - parents from the same church in Shenandoah Co, VA. Zion? Zion-Pine?). He set out in a wagon to fetch his intended, and they were married on their way back to his farm. And, that was that. No specific county in OH was mentioned. Being widowed, Leah could have returned to live with any Shupe bro or married sis, too, before this marriage was arranged. I've been astounded at the family 'traffic' back and forth between OH and VA and between IN and OH. This wasn't the one-way trek I used to think of when I read about families moving west. -- Sue On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Teresa Snyder wrote: Sue, Have you found any connections with the Coffelt family and Seneca County, Ohio or Sandusky County, Ohio? Joseph Coffelt's second wife was Leah Shupe Armstrong. They were married in Sandusky County, Ohio. Leah had lived previously in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Stark County, Ohio, Wood County, Ohio, Seneca County, Ohio and Sandusky County, Ohio before marrying Joseph and moving to Warren County, Indiana. Terry S.