This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clouse, Connett, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zIJ.2ACEB/255.258 Message Board Post: Barbara, I think that Squire Lewis Clouse was a brother to Wm. Henry Clouse and not a son.... His son, Louis/Lewis Clouse that married Christina Logan was born 8 Jan 1872, and died Greene Co, MO, May 1919. On the 1880 Crawford Co, ILL census (Robinson Twp), Squire Clouse 26, b IN is shown living close by Wm. H. Clouse. Squire has a wife named Susan, age 17 with him, no others in household. NOTE: Census taker wrote Tenn and Penn for states, and often you can not determine which one he meant. house # 69/69 William H. Clouse, 28, husband, b IN/PA/NC Ruth, wife, 29, b IN/OH/OH Mary A. dau, b IN/IN/IN Lewis 8, son, b IN/IN/IN Nancy dau, 4, b IL/IN/IN Almeda dau, 2, b ILL/IN/IN House # 70/70 Squire Clouse, 26, b IN/TN/NC Sousan, wife, 17, b ILL/TN/TN ===== Connett family is also found in Crawford Co ILL in the 1870 and 1880 census. 1870 Crawford Co ILL, Robinson Twp Gardiner Connett, age 56, b OH Elizabeth E. Connett 59, b Virginia Fannie, 20, b IN Wilson 17, b IN John S___N (Surname not Connett) 10, b IN Allen Mann 20, b ILL, farmer 184/ Aaron Connett 28, farmer, b OH Fannie 22, keeps hse, b PA Charles W. Connett 3, b IN William S. Connett 2, b ILL ==== 1880 Crawford Co ILL Robinson Twp Page 8 Aaron Connett 39, husband, b OH/OH/VA Anna 33, wife, b IN/Scotland/Scotland Charles W. 14, son, b IN/OH/IN Wm. S. son, 12, b IL/OH/IN Bertha E. dau, 9, b IL/OH/IN Elizabeth Connett, mother, widow, 70, b VA/OH/___ Note: hard to read last birth entry Missland? ___land Catherine Sparks, 20, no relation, b IL/IL/IL Nellie Sparks 2, b IL/IL/IL ==== I helped Bob Nickles get this family history started in the 1980's , we were close friends. Bob died in June 2000, and I wanted to complete some of it to give his family. I am posting his family data here: http://www.gencircles.com/users/crystalj/7 ===== CJ