This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lNT.2ACEB/201.1 Message Board Post: I wonder if Samuel could be the son of Henry Dorris and Catherine Stiff. Henry and Catherine were married in 1844 in Gallatin Co., Illinois. I have four known children for them. 1. John Dorris 2. William Dorris 3. Sarah Dorris 4. Samuel Dorris Sarah married George Hamilton in Saline Co. Illinois in 1866. You should check out the census for them and see if it is a match to what you are looking for. You will probably have to look in the 1860 census under Catherine Dorris as Henry had died by 1853. Of course she could have remarried. But I do not know that she did or not. Anyway check that out and let me know what you come up with.