This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Knox, Blackburn, Buckles, Barnett, Eaton, McKinney, Baird Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SNE.2ACIB/1178 Message Board Post: Looking for the decendants of Samuel Blackburn b. ? Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland d. bef. 1880 in USA married Matilda (Martha) Knox b. abt. 1816 Castletorrison, Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland d. 1901 in the USA. Martha is listed in 1880 as a widow at Hamel, Madison Co., IL, USA and Eliza, John and Samuel W. are listed as living with her at the time. They had 7 children: * Martha Knox Blackburn b. 1840 Conigillagh, Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland d. 1926 and married Robert A. Gray (also of Ireland) and had 9 children: Annie, Margaret, Elizabeth, Edna Blackburn, Frank, John, Robert, Martha, and Sarah. Married surnames connected with this family are Walley, Long, and Burdick. * Margaret Knox Blackburn b. abt. 1842 in Conigillagh, Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland married a William J. Baird on May 5, 1870 in Madison Co., IL, USA (Found in the 1880 US Census at Pin Oak, Madison Co., IL, USA, possible children: Samuel, Nancy and William. Margaret is listed as widowed). * Jane Knox Blackburn b. abt. 1843 in Conigillagh, Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland and married a Joseph McKinney on Dec. 25, 1873 in Madison Co., IL, USA. Had three children: John R., Bernice and an unknown. John could have been a rancher in Payette, Idaho, USA. * Rebecca Knox Blackburn b. abt. 1846 in Conigillagh, Convoy, Co. Donegal, Ireland and died in 1933. Was a school teacher. * Eliza Ann Knox Blackburn b. Edwardsville, IL, USA and married William Pomeroy Eaton on October 4, 1882 in Madison Co., IL, USA. Their children were: Henry Blackburn, William John, Joseph King, Samuel West, Benjamin Pomeroy and Thomas Marion. Henry became a lawyer, Samuel served in WWI as did his brother Thomas. * John Knox Blackburn b. 1856 in Edwardsville, IL, USA married a Dora F. Barnett on February 11, 1883 in Madison Co., IL, USA. No further info. * Samuel West Blackburn b. August 6, 1858 in Edwardsville, IL, USA married Harriet C. Buckles on April 22, 1885 in Madison Co., IL, USA. No further info. haymccreary@hotmail.com