This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bruce, McCarty, Blood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XOG.2ACIB/1243.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a John Bruce, Born 1788, Died 1855, Wife Clarissa. They lived and their graves are in Boon Co. Ill. I have some pictures of the graves. Their children were Hannah, 1818 to 1897, married a Gifford. Sarah, Clarissa, Cordenio, Cyrus, Timothy and maybe Mary J. (Blood) Bruce. John came from Jefferson Co. NY. I have lots of data on Timothy's family. I wrote the Bruce Family History for my brother-in-law, Howard Bruce. His great grandfather was Timothy Bruce. His grand father was William Henry Harrison Bruce that settled in SE Minnesota. I found a 1999 inquiries in the Jefferson Co. records by Heidi Huff indicating Cordenio lived in Pleasanton Kansas. If anybody is researching this family? Please email me at [email protected]