John Tippet wrote: > Merle: > > Way to go Merle! That is really good news regarding John Gray (both the > census information and land transactions). BTW: was there a female > enumerated in the > household old enough to have been Esther? Yes, There is one Female in the same age bracket as John Gray (40 - 50). > As far as Chapman, Aaron and > Henry are concerned, I had already found them in the 1840 census. They are > in fact included on my web page under the census section. I had not gotten > around to looking up the France's yet, however. Now that I know that John > Gray, Esther's second husband, may have moved to Fulton, I checked the > Ancestry.com census index and found the following: > > 1835, John Gray, Fulton County, IL State census, p. 28 > 1840, John Gray, Fulton County, IL State census, p. 67 > 1840, John Gray, Fulton County, IL Federal census, p. 373 > 1860, John Gray, Fulton County, IL, Federal census, p. 108 > > There may be some clues here. Thanks for that info. I'll have to try to get back to look up this 1860 Census. It will probably have more info on whether this is really the same John Gray. Also, maybe he had a Will... Merle Saunders