This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MITCHELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/596.1 Message Board Post: From "Portrait & Bio Album ... 1890": (p. 207) Peter Michell is listed as the current Sheriff of Waushara County. [ may not be your relative? ] (p. 320) Village of Plainfield - Walter Waterman Post, No. 197, G.A.R., was organized Aug. 22, 1885... The first officers were ... Peter Mitchell, Surg. ... (p. 619) Theresa (daughter of Sidney C. and Betsy Waterman), wife of Peter Mitchell, Sheriff of Waushara County. These may not help of be related, but you never know. Also, this is around 1890, 40 years after you say they arrived. Maybe this was his second occupation, and wife? John