[Grampa Dave]

Most of mine were hard working souls who came here for jobs and to get away from the Crown.

One however, was apparently a Green Back, he probably sneaked across the Canadian border in the late 1800's. He avoided a paper trail until he died. Even that provided no clues to where he came from.

[AnAmericanMother]

You may yet get a clue.

I had an elusive ancestor that I knew had come from somewhere in England and was living in South Carolina when his first wife (not my ancestor) died.

I eventually tracked him down -- he is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome GA - less than 50 yards from our family plot . . . the thought that he had been there all along, just quietly resting, while I was hunting all over SC, Alabama, and London for him, makes me laugh. His will was still in the vault at the Probate Court too -- and as wills go it is highly amusing to read. He was a freethinker which probably scandalized his good Baptist second wife.

I hope he thinks the whole thing's funny too.