This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Porter & Ralston's, Brooke VA, Carroll Co OH, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/343.881.889.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Ralph for the info. Interesting note - Alexander was listed as Alexander Curtis in the marriage record in Brooke? not sure why? but he named a son Curtis. ALso found in a land deed in Brooke abt 1831 Richard Porter & Martha (Ralston) sold land to George Allison. this lot of 60 acres of land was Martha's from her parents Samuel & Martha's estate in 1829, daughter Martha was single then we think. Later this land gets back in the Ralston hands & my GG Ralston grandfather purchased it in 1870's. I can't find a marriage for Richard Porter & Martha Ralston in Brooke. I find a Richard & Alexander Porter both get land in Carroll Co OH the same time period- 1830's-35. then I find a record of marriage for Martha Ralston in 1841 Brooke marry's Abraham Morehead. I found Martha Ralston Morehead buried in the Morehead cem in Carroll co OH, with several young children & 2 listings of Abraham Moreheads married in Carroll, 1 is buried with wife in Harlem springs cem in Carroll Co. I have other Morehead connections to my Ralstons. SO I wonder if she married Richard Porter, sold land in Brooke, they moved to Carroll co- with money from the land sell...then he died? or they divorced? & she went back to Brooke & married Abraham Morehead & moved back to Carroll co OH? But only a guess till I find out more info. Do you have dates of birth & death of James & Eleanor Porter? where are they buried? Thanks for sharing the info with me. Treasure it. Happy Trails in all your searching too. Kim