Posted By:	Keith Hansen
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	Subject:	Looking for Mary Houghton, b:1794, NY
	Post Date:	March 08, 2008 at 11:11:03
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/houghton/messages/1578.html
	Forum:	Houghton Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/houghton/

Looking for a Mary Houghton born in NY around 1794 and moved to Wisconsin later. We have a Mary (no maiden name), married to Elisha Dawley, probably around 1814, in either New York state, or Wisconsin (around Sauk). I think she's a Houghton because of the tendency for people to use their family surnames as first and middle names for their children and Elisha and Mary's great-grandson is Allison Houghton Ruhe. Generally great-grandparents (the parents grandparents) would be as far back as the family would pull a name from, because they didn't know the great-great-grandparents. The Ruhe side is traced back quite a ways with no Houghtons, and the Allison side has no Houghtons. Mary is the only ancestor that we have that we don't know the last name of, so I'm thinking it might be Houghton. I searched Ancestry.com and the LDS site to no avail. Any help out there? Thanks, Keith