This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lerow, Leroe, Stebbins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACI/2224 Message Board Post: I have just received the obituary for my gggrandmother Mary Stebbins [LEROW] and found the answers to some of my longheld questions, which of course lead to other questions! I have bits and pieces of information, which I may now be able to tie together with some help. Mary was born in Coppertown, Ostego Co., NY on July 9, 1837. In the 1850 Ostego Census, there is a Mary Lerow living with Thomas T. and Caroline Davison. Could Caroline be 'Carrie' and be Mary's sister, d's/o Alexander Lerow and Mercy Pack? Did Mary live with her sister Caroline/Carrie after Alexander's second marriage to Margaret ____ and the birth of their daugther Luella,[who died in 1851 at the age of 3yr 8 months]?? Mary married Samuel Stebbins in 1855 in NY and moved to Parkersburg in the 1860's...one of their daughter's was named Carrie; they also had Emma, Lee[Lerow] and Ella. Mary died in Parkersburg, WV Sept 21, 1939 at the age of 102. Since Lerow/Leroe is not a real common name, it appears, in NY in the 1840's, I feel this is a very definite connection which just needs a little help to establish. Many questions!