This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHERRY, WILLIAMS, BURRES/BURROWS, SMITH, HIRD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TcI.2ACIB/734 Message Board Post: Am I the ONLY one researching this man, my husband's great grandfather? Born in England 1817, married Amelia KILLION in 1841 in Madison Co., Illinois; migrated to Richland Co., Wisconsin in 1847; died in Iowa Co., Wisconsin in 1874. Don't know where in England born; when he migrated; to where in USA; as a child with parents, as an adult, with sibling/s? He had to be related to somebody! Children: Elizabeth Jane CHERRY (HIRD); Thomas Michael (were Eliz. & Michael Joseph's parent's names?, Michael was the maternal grandfather, born in North Carolina) CHERRY mar Elizabeth WILLIAMS; Mary Ann CHERRY mar?; Agnes Amelia CHERRY (mar Edwin John 'Ted' WILLIAMS); Joseph Henry CHERRY, SR (mar Mary Richards WILLIAMS); Sarah Maria CHERRY (mar Samuel WILLIAMS, John BURRES/BURROWS, Edwin John 'Ted' WILLIAMS, sister's widower); John William CHERRY (mar Alice Mary WATTS); Margaret Adline CHERRY, died as child; George Washington CHERRY (mar Margaret Jane SMITH). All born between 1842 and 1863, last 7 in Wisconsin. After Joseph's death family migrated to Nebraska. Updating previous posting; also have new e-mail address: cherrytree@uneedspeed.net