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Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Thank you, Belmont County
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:15:42 EDT

After spending the Summer roaming Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and
Washington, D.C., and six weeks catching up on my work, I would like to thank
all those people who helped me so much in making this such a productive trip.
In particular, I would like to thank Bill O'Neill, who first told me about my
3g grandparents, Samuel McWilliams and Jane Wilson, and run,
without whose help I never would have found Egypt Cemetery where my great
great grandparents, John Wiley and Sarah McWilliams, are buried.
Unfortunately, their headstones had been destroyed by vandals, but I was able
to locate several other members of the McWilliams family.

I was also able to locate the graves of Samuel McWilliams (1752-1825) and
Jane Wilson McWilliams (1760-1853) and many other members of the McWilliams
clan at the Taggart Cemetery near Lafferty. Both stones were still clearly
legible. Imagine my shock at finding a brand new stone at Samuel's grave,
honoring his Revolutionary War service. I was able to find out that a
gentleman from Barnesville was placing new stones on graves of Revolutionary
War veterans. What a wonderful generous gesture.

I would like to heartily recommend the National Archives in Washington D.C.
to anyone who has ancestors who served in any of the 18th or 19th Century
Wars. I came away with copies of letters written by three of my ancestors as
far back as 1851.

Jack Ehmer

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