Hii, I have a friend, Larry Ferguson whose is an authority on the Ferguson Family. Contact him at lferguson@meer.net. Tell him I referred you to him. Jim >From: Bsheehana@aol.com >Reply-To: wvhardy@rootsweb.com >To: wvhardy@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WVHARDY] McDonald, Welch, Lewis, Schell >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:30:00 EDT > >Hello, I am new to this list. I am looking for parents of Mary Susan >McDonald born 1844 who married John Alexander Welch. All we have is a >paper that >says Mary Susan McDonald's father was Benjamin McDonald and they lived in >Maysville. On one of their childrens death certificate lists Mary Susan's >maiden >name as "Lewis". I suspect that Lewis may be one of her grandparents >name. > > >In my research I keep coming back to Ferdinand Lewis who married Ada >Schell. > Also may connect to Stingley and Michael familys. > >I cannot find her in any 1850 census, but do find her at age 16 living >with >Solomon Michael in 1860. I suspect that perhaps her parents were dead by >then. One mystery I would like to solve is from a Richmond newspaper >dated >March 23, 1859 "Miss Margaret E. McDonald died in Hardy County, Va., on >the 9th >(March) instant, being the tenth member of her family - including her >parents >who have died in the last five months. Only one sister now remains out of >a >family of eleven." > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Barbara Sheehan >_bsheehana@aol.com_ (mailto:bsheehana@aol.com) > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WVHARDY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message