I'm interested in your AKERS/PURCELL connection. My AKERS/BUSH?/PARE/VAUGHAN connection from Barren/Monroe Co, KY had a grandchild that went on to marry a PERSEL from IN. He was an orphan and I have no idea who his parents were. I now believe (thanks to the list) that my KY bunch went into IN, which is where George Washington PERSEL was born about 1842. By chance do you have him in your PERSEL information? Parents are unknown. Will turn over any stone.......thanks...Carmen >===== Original Message From AKERS-L@rootsweb.com ===== >Hello, > >Maybe this is part of the family that stopped for a while in Iowa on its way >to Utah. > >Jane Akers b. 1794 -- the daughter of Thomas Akers b. abt 1882 and Kate >Malone-- married Jesse Purcell. They were Mormons and stopped in Iowa and >never left there. I do not know if part of their group went on to Salt Lake >or not. > >Jesse and Jane had 7 or 8 children. One of their daughters Mariah married >George L. D. Jones and they had eight children. Jane's brother Bedy or >Benjamin had a son named Wm. C. Akers. > >Jane is one of my favorite foremothers. She must have been a valiant lady. >She went to Iowa in a covered wagon with her children and grandchildren. > >W.L. Barker > > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. Carmen Boyd, MS, LPC, RD <cab011f@mail.smsu.edu> Instructor, Biomedical Sciences Department Southwest Missouri State University ********************************** Beginning the third generation searching for the parents of the orphaned George Washington Persel born 1842 in Putnam Co, IN ************ Visit my page at <http://www.smsu.edu/contrib/bms/county/myfamily.htm> ************ Researching: Boyd, Marshall, Wynne, Short, Stith, Worsham, Little, Seaman, Denton, Harris, Elam, Spain, Robertson, Hastin, Graves, Persel, Pare, Vaughan, Barbour, Williamson and others...... Neas, Renner, Rader, Ottinger, Rausch, Zirkle, Andes, Bowers, Gable, Bear, Buck, Wheeler, Cotner, Detterman, Ensley/Endsley, Freshour, Harmon, Wagner, Peters, McBroom, and Schindeldecker and still others...... ***********