Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1302 Surname: Ely, See, Shaver ------------------------- Mary Nell, had I responded to your msg last night, I couldn't have said anything except "thank you." However, today I came across some research done by a Mildred Edgarton of Washington, D.C., with whom I had regular contact in the 1980s; I moved and perhaps she did, and we have lost touch. However, she had sent me a family group sheet, forgotten, which I found today; I'll copy the parts which might be of interest to you: Primary source: p. 685 of PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD_HISTORY OF MARION, RALLS & PIKE COUNTY, MO. Husband's name: (first, and then crossed out lightly) Joshua Ely, and written above it, Benjamin. His father, Isaac, d. 1792; his mother, Sarah. Benj.'s date of birth, 1750 in Scotland. Place of death, VA. Wife's name, Miss Scott, b. 1754. Her father, probably Wm. Scott, d. 1767. The first son's name is William, b. 1774. The third child is Isaac, b. 1775 in VA, and the 5th son is Benjamin,b. 1782, probably following the pattern of naming children for parents. My ancestor, Sarah, married to Conrad or Coonrod See, was the 4th child, b 1779 and d. after 1858 in Ralls Co. There are 9 children in all, with fairly detailed information on most of them, including names of most spouses. If you would like more, please ask and I'll try to send as an attachment somehow or other. I'm definitely not a computer wizard yet. I had searched Hampshire Co. several years ago in the Allen County Library in Ft. Wayne, but recently was the first try on the net. I'll keep looking for other things Millie might have sent me, in the meantime. Good luck. Are we distant cousins?