Thanks. Sam did marry Margaret Matthews and later Mary Day Matthews. Her first husband was named Thomas Day and Samuel Day is their son [both per Samuel Downing's Bible]. Thomas Day died March 6, 1822, also according to the Bible. That part I have. I wondered if that Samuel Day is the same Samuel Day who married into yet another branch of the Timothy Downing line. In Sam's Bible he gives birth dates for Margaret and Mary's siblings John, Thomas, William and [I can't make it out but from your post perhaps it is Sarah!!!]. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com Logan County, ILGenWeb, coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L-request@rootsweb.com Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L-request@rootsweb.com Downing query board> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Downing Lucas query board> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Lucas