This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [email protected] for more info. --------------9C3DCF78DC8703A8C2340B85 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: <[email protected]> I recently received the following information via e-mail, and am wondering how this William Crump is related to my Mary "Polly" Crump who was b. 1799 in VA and married Ira Briscoe in Washington Co., KY in 1818. Polly and Ira moved to Pike Co., Illinois in 1834. Mary "Polly" Crump Briscoe's parents were Thomas Crump and Frances Taylor. Does anyone know of a connection between Mary "Polly" Crump Briscoe and the William Crump referred to below? Many thanks in advance for any help. -- A. Utick _____________________________ > > >From History of Pike County (Chapman's) > > William Crump, farmer, sec.24; P.O. New Salem; was born in Washington > County, Penn, in 1815; his parents, Stephen and Nancy Crump, were > natives of Virginia. From 1828 to 1835 the family lived in Virginia. Our > subject came to this State in the spring of 1835 and settled in Quincy; > while there he manufactured wagons. In 1837 he moved to this county, and > in 1838 he married Miss Margaret Hooper, who was born in Clermont > county, Ohio, in 1821, and they had 8 children, Joseph, John, George W., > Nathan, Mary E., Thomas H., Harriet E. and Jennie A.; the second and > fifth are dead. Mr. Crump has followed farming, principally, since > settling in this county. When he came here the settlement was very thin, > there being but one family between his farm and Griggsville; the nearest > mill was 8 miles away. Mr. and Mrs. C. are Methodists. > --------------9C3DCF78DC8703A8C2340B85--