This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLOUSE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zIJ.2ACEB/8.17.134.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Apparently Jacob Clouse and Emmeline Crouch were married during the period for which the Illinois Statewide Marriages Database does not have the records for Lawrence County. I'm sorry I don't know anything more about them. I will be viewing the microfilm on Lawrence County marriages at the nearby LDS Family History Center, and that is one of the couples I'll be looking for. I'm quite sure that John and William Clouse were brothers, but have not been sure about Jacob, though I think it's a near-certainty that he was their brother. The parents of my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Jane "Betsy" Clouse (1) Allen (2) Hornback, were John Clouse and Harriett Parker. They had four children that I know of - William H., Betsy, Joseph Marion and Elijah, before the death of John Clouse. After he died, Harriett Parker Clouse married John Weger on April 30, 1865, and had several more children. William Clouse, brother of John Clouse, married Sarah I. Parker. The spouses of John and William were possibly sisters or maybe cousins. I am descended from both William and John Clouse, as John's daughter Betsy married James Riley Allen and one of her younger sons, Luther Sherman Allen, married his second cousin, Gladys Cordelia Montgomery, daughter of Mary Frances Clouse (William and Sarah's daughter) and Andrew Jackson Montgomery. The mothers of Luther and Gladys, who were my grandparents, were first cousins. I have some old photographs of Betsy Clouse Allen Hornback, and a stern portrait of Mary Frances Clouse Montgomery. If I discover anything further about Jacob Clouse, I will post it.