Am interested in finding someone to do a little research for me in Beaver County records. Is there a list of contacts there who do research for a fee? Will be working on the surname Flowers

Your best bet is to check out the Beaver County Genealogy & History Center website. We do research!
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pabecgs/
The cost is very reasonable and prompt.

Alice Kern

Do they do research at the courthouse? I need estate and deed records from the earliest years of the county--1800-1810 about. I would rather not write a long letter if they don't do that kind of work. Thanks.

I am still searching for parents of John Flower who married Susanna Fitch in Beaver PA about 1827 and moved to Hardin OH.
I have identified Alexander and Isaac Flowers, brothers living Beaver PA about 1800 who moved to Hancock WVA. Their parents, according to Alexander's death certificate, were William and Sarah Flowers. There is also a Benjamin Flower who married Jane and moved to OH.
Do let me know anything new you find.

Hi Lois, We're still at it! There must have been a very early William in our family, as that name is found frequently. He would have been alive in about 1800. I thought he would have been in Greene County, but maybe he was descended from our James who married Susanna Kirkman of York Co., PA. I will try to do some more research when I'm in Salt Lake next. I haven't come upon anything about your John Flower. I found a Benjamin living in Ohio and later in Beaver. His wife was named Elizabeth:
CENSUS:
1860, Stock, Harrison Co., OH
Flowers, Benjamin, 50, PA
Elizabeth, 58, PA
Nancy Bell, 21
Elizabeth Bell, 3
CENSUS:
1870, North Sewickley, Beaver Co., PA
Flowers, Benjamin, 62, barber, PA
Elisabeth, 72, keeping house, PA
Bell, Nancy, 32, keeping house, PA
Bell, Elisabeth, 13, PA
Bell, Amanda, 9, PA
I still haven't figured out who he is, but he could be a descendant of my James too. Jeanne

James Flower was in his second marriage, to Susanna Kirkman Ault, when he moved to Beaver PA. I strongly suspect that he had sons from a first marriage who joined him: possible names John, William, Alexander, Issac, Henry, Thomas.

I find Alexander and Issac Flowers, with s, in Hancock WVA. Both were said to come from Beaver PA about 1810. Alexander's father, I confirmed by death certificate from Hancock CO WVA, was William Flowers and his mother was Sarah. I wonder if they died Beaver PA? I did not see those names in WVA.

FYI. I found the grave of W. Earl Flowers (1916-1998) at Locust Hill Cemetery in Chester, WV.