This is my first attempt to post, so hope I am doing it right! My great-great-grandmother was Mary Craig. She married John Sims in 1860 somewhere in Illinois, possibly in Elgin. (John Sims was born in 1833 in Champaign County, Ohio. His sister, Sarah Sims, married a man named Anstine to become Sarah Anstine We have no other information on her.) Mary Craig and John Sims had six children: JOHN FRANKLIN "FRANK" SIMS, born 1870, Scotland County, MO; died 1920, Nampa ID - Married Ida Matilda Rydell, c 1891 in Holdrege NE. IVA MAY SIMS - married a man named SILVER - they were living in Seattle, WA in 1942 GEORGE SIMS - Photos only NANCY SIMS - Photos only EMILY "EMMA" SIMS (married MILTON SCHAEFFER or SHAEFFER) - photos only MINNIE SIMS - Photos only Family records are sketchy regarding Mary Craig's family. Her father may have been named Richard Craig (if so, we have a picture of him taken in Elgin, Illinois by Thomas & Danley photographers when he was quite an old man). She had a brother, who may have also been named Richard, and whom we have a picture of when he was a child. Her brother (Richard Jr.?) was in the Civil War along with her husband, John Sims. Family tradition has it that both Richard Craig Jr. and John Sims fought in the Union Army and were in Andersonville prison. My g-g-grandfather, John Sims. developed palsy as a result of the experience and was never the same. Apparently, Mary's brother survived Ansersonville also, but died later in the war. After the war Mary Craig and John Sims received a 300 acre land grant in Holdrege, NE, where my grandmother, Lula May Sims, was born in 1898. They sold the acreage due to hardship and moved to Idaho in 1903. I'd love to hear from anyone who might be a long-lost "cousin" .... Chris in San Rafael, CA