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/ZUV.2ACIB/24.2 Message Board Post: I am interested in your lineage. My gg-grandfather was Francis Etherton Dawson. The Etherton name was passed down to children and grandchildren as a middle name, so I feel there has to be a connection to an Etherton family. One grandson spelled his name Etherington instead of Etherton. Francis Etherton Dawson was born about the same time as your Frances Etherton. He was born in Tennessee (so the census say), migrated to Jackson County, IL where he lived among some Ethertons. He married Catherine Woolsey of Kentucky and they had a number of children (Roxalana, Mary Ann, Susanna, Henry, Jane Etherton, and I believe a Martha). He and family moved to Franklin Co. IL by 1850. He died in 1861 and the family moved to Laclede County MO. Please let me know if any of this rings a bell.