Greetings All: I am posting again hoping to connect. My gr-grandmother, Elzirah FARRIS, b 1836, ILL., d. abt 1875-6 married Isham Marion THOMPSON 1835, ILL., d 1933, and named a son DOCTOR Franklin, born 1862, Macoupin Co., Illinois, died about 1940, Trinity Co., Texas. I dont know when or where Isham and Elzirah were married. The first place I found them is the 1855 Macoupin Co., ILL. state census. Isham and Elzirah went to Nebraska in about 1864-5, and a son, Isham Carroll, "see below" was born there and on to Carroll Co., Arkansas by about 1867 and Elzirah died 1874-76, as Isham married Martha Ann WYATT in Carroll Co., in 1877. 1860 census, Macoupin Co., IL. lists "Sarah FARRIS", age 53, b. Tennessee in house with Isham and family. Sarah is surely Elzirah's mother. Also the 1860 census says Isham and Elzirah born in Illinois with both their parents born Tennessee. Isham and Martha moved to McIntosh Co., Indian Territory, Oklahoma in 1892 and are buried in Bixby Cemetery, Bixby, Tulsa Co., OK. Isham and Elzirah's children: Sarah, b. 1855, d. 1858, Macoupin Co., IL., Cemetery records William G., b. & d. 1856, Macoupin Co., IL., Cemetery records Mary Jane, b. 1858, Married James B. MILLER, Carroll Co., Ar James Samuel, b 1859, Macoupin Co., IL., d. Tulsa Co., Ok. 1838, married, Margaret C. WOOD, Martha ARNOLD and Mollie Josie McGUIRE Doctor Franklin, b. 1862, Macoupin Co., IL., d. abt. 1940, Trinity co., Texas, married, Mary Elizabeth MOORE, Carroll Co., AR. Willis Newton, b. 1864, Macoupin Co., IL. d. 1951, McAlister, Pittsburgh Co., Ok. married Elizabeth RAINES and Susan Ann PIERCE Isham Carroll, b 1866 Douglas Co., Nebraska, d. 1948 McAlister, Pittsburgh Co., Ok., married Elizabeth F. BROWN Spicy Anneta, b., 1868, Mo. No other info. John Wilson, b. 1870, Mo., married Jennie TOMLINSON, Carroll Co., AR Leonard Jasper, b.1872, Mo., d., 1916, Soper, Choctaw Co., OK. married Mary Traintwilla KENNEDY, "my gr- parents" Buford Alexander, b., 1873, Carroll Co., Ar., married Rosie E. MILLER. Children of Isham and Martha Ann WYATT: Charles Hanna, b. 1877, Carroll Co., AR. d. abt. 1951 Harris Co., Texas, m. Ida B. MONTGOMERY, 1902 Rosa C. b. 1878, Carroll Co., d. 1946, Bixby, Tulsa Co., Ok., m. Samuel VOWELL and John W. CRABTREE. Marion Elliott, b. 1880, Carroll Co., d. 1955, Washington Co., Ar., m. Paralee MONTGOMERY, sister of Ida. Pearl Rebecca, b. 1883, Missouri ?, m. 1902, McIntosh Co., Ok., Samuel Wesley STEWART Martha Alice, b. 1884, m. 1902, McIntosh Co., Ok., Jason Emerson STEWART, bro. of Samuel Maton Hale, b. 1886, Carroll Co., d. 1937, Okmulgee Co., Ok., m. Maudie LANDRUM, Jessie GOFORTH, and Willie NIMMO, Joseph Gabriel, b. 1886, Carroll Co., d. 1964, Creek Co., Ok. M. 1907, Tulsa Co., Ok. Mattie HAMM Henry J. b. 1890, Carroll Co., d. 1907, Roosevelt Co., NM Obituary of Isham THOMPSON, January 1933, Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa, Ok., says he fathered nineteen children, seventeen lived to adulthood, sixteen married and his decendents numbered more than eight hundred. I have located two cousins, direct decendents of Isham and we have looked for many years and have not found parents or siblings of Isham or Elzirah. Leonard F Thompson, Len in Ca