This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1175.1.1.1 Message Board Post: An Early History of the Shahan Family 1678-1920 by Elizabeth Shahan, c1993, page G-27 gives the parents of Sarah Jane Eliason as Jeremiah/Amelia Killen Eliason. I do not know her source. A History of Preston County Part I, by Oren F. Morton, 1914, page 426 names the wife of Jeremiah Elliason as Ann Killen. This family came to Preston Co from Delaware and they are the only Eliasons in the 1840 and 1850 censuses of Preston Co having a family. Jeremiah Eliason (c1800-1857) and his wife Nancy A (c1806-1850) are buried in the Blackwood Cemetery. (Nancy is a nickname for Ann.) Although there is not a female in Sarah Jane's age group in Jeremiah's household in 1840, she may have been living with another family at that time or her age group may have been incorrectly marked as 5-10. As with other death records of that period, Sarah Jane's does not give the names of her parents. In the absence or incompleteness of official records, sometimes circumstantial evidence is all that is available. Hope this helps, Roy Lockhart