I am the direct decendant of Major Bejamin Stites, who came down the Ohio River on a flat boat and settled Columbia a small part of what is now Cincinnati, Ohio, with other members of his family on a cold snowy day in December of 1788. My mothers father was Russell Stites, he had three daughters, one of which is my mom, Estella Miriam Stites. My mom met my dad, John Edawrd Kinner in Cincinnati where they both lived, they married and had thre more...
