MY CLUES I am still on the search for Young E. Bradshaw, Union County, Illinois. 1. My first record of him was 8/26/1819 10th Regiment, Illinois State Militia 2. He married Nancy Tripp in Cape Girardeau, Mo. 5/8/1821 3. His name appears on the 1825 Miller County petition, Indian Territory, of Arkansas/Texas, to the US President. These were settlers who were made to leave the area under a territorial dispute. 4. He is then found in the 1830, 1831,1832,1833,1834,1835 Jefferson County Arkansas tax lists. Also 1835 Johnson County Tax List and in Lawrence County, Arkansas 1833 census. 5. He seems to have vanished after the mid 1830s. His wife Nancy Bradshaw was back in Union County Illinois as head of household in the 1840 census. In 1845 in Union County Illinois she married Henry Hunter under the name of Mrs. Nancy Bradshaw. She had two (maybe three) children with Young E.. Jacob O. Bradshaw b. 12/18/1825 is my 2x great grandfather. 6. The Bradshaws left Union County Illinois in the early to mid 1820s and went to Arkansas. The names that show up frequently are John, Sr., John, Jr., Jacob, Sherard and William. JohnSr., have been the father, grandfather, Uncle or Brother to the rest of them. He may have had two families. He signed as John Bradshaw Esquire in Illinois, was JP, judge, etc., 7. MY QUESTIONS ARE: Was JohnSr., patriarch of this family? Where were they before they were in Illinois beginning in 1807? What happened to Young E., was he killed or did he die about 1836 or did he head west? Are there any Arkansas Bradshaws who are related to this family? 8. 11/29/1846 Jacob O. Bradshaw married Elizabeth Lemley in Union County Illinois. They are buried in Brooks Cemetery. Their children were: Mary Ann b. 1848, John H. b. 1850, Albert b. 1858, GEORGE W. (MY 1X GREAT GRANDFATHER), Jackson b. 1860, Sadie b. 1862, John A. b. 1864, Walter A. b. 1866, Paralee b. 6/17. Some of Jacob O. and Elizabeth Lemley-Bradshaw's children moved to MO. COMMENTS: The name Young is of Irish origin. In the Scottish Irish settlements a Mary Commack was a young widow of John BradshawSr., died shortly after his only child JohnJr., born. She married a Frances Dollarhide and had several half siblings to John, JR. I find the Dollarhide and Young names appearing over and over with the Bradshaws in Maryland, NC, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and finally on the Miller County Arkansas petition. If anyone reading this has any explanation, leads, clues, or hunches to pass on to me, please do so. My Dad who is 91 worked on this for years and now I. It is a brickwall. Any help appreciated and I hope maybe my research has helped some of you other Bradshaws as well. Sharon Bradshaw-Hampton