Ok - it's snowing, raining, close to sleeting and I had time on my hands. I've been searching the web again and have some new miscellaneous information and decided to overload your mailbox and get some of it posted tonight. This will be random. Frederick Proctor Gorin, son of Rev. Marcellus Gladden Gorin and Joanna Knott; grandson of Dr Bartley William Gorin and Mary Johnson; great-grandson of Henry and Sarah Pell Gorin. I'd lost him for a period of several years - he was in Gallatin Co IL 1840-1850 timeframe. I'll look up his records later. ** "Union League of America - a secret political and patriotic order had its origin in the late Civil War for the avowed purpose of sustaining the cause of the Union and conteracting the machinations of the secret organizations designed to promote the success of the Rebellion. First regular Council of that order was organized at Pekin, Tazewell Co, IL 25 June 1862 of eleven members. Included Grand Master - J. R. Gorin of Macon Co IL. This would be Jerome Rinaldo Gorin, son of John Darns Gorin and Martha Thomas; grandson of Henry and Sarah Pell Gorin. ** Mobile Co AL William Book 3, part 2, Mobile AL. 24 Nov 1860, p 406-414, will of Thomas Gailard. To Gladin Gorin and Charles L. Scott. I have no idea of who this is - but with the name Gladin Gorin, he has to be ours - will investigate more. ** Marengo Co AL Dec 1860-1861, P. 15. Gorin, Gladin, planter, Hampden Township, township 14, range 4e. Likely same as above. ** Marshall Co CO. Marshall, Mary Gorin buried Orchard, Mesa Municipal Cemetery, Mesa Co CO. 1880-1963. this would be Mary Pearl Gorin, wife of Leland Otis Marshall, dau of James Henry Gorin and Nancy Elizabeth Marcum, granddau of Major James J Gorin and Lucy Ann Mansfield, greatgranddau of John Henry Gorin and Elizabeth Bailey Jones, gggranddau of Gladin Gorin and Nancy Hinch - one of the original 3 brothers. ** Georgia Civil War Soldiers Index, p 114. GSI #72433 - Gorin, F. A., Co C, 185th Inf Regt, Pvt. The only F A Gorin I have on file is Francis A Gorin, born abt 1843 in IL, son of Gladden Gorin and Mary Catherine Weber, grandson of John Darns Gorin and Martha Thomas. This Francis just disappears off the face of the earth ... maybe he went to fight in the war and was killed there or remained in GA??? ** Decatur Co GA Marriages 1824-1945. Thomas A Gorin to Mary A English, 5 Sept 1872. Marriage book B, p.134. I'm not sure on this one. There was a Mary English Gorin who pops up later on in Glasgow KY. ** Upson Co GA Poor School Records for 1856: Gorin, T M, 2nd grade, Flint School. Don't know - might not be connected but ... ** Acadia Parish Probate Successions Index through 1997, Crowley LA. Gorin, Ella McClelland D, 29 May 1920, succession Gorin, Orville B, 5 Mar 1945, Succession. This is Orville Browning Gorin of Decatur IL and his wife Ella, he the s/o Jerome Rinaldo and Eleanor Fawcett, grandson of John Darns Gorin and Martha Thomas. Ok, looked up in my genealogical dictionary and it is as I had suspected, successions a list of descendants shown in probate. So someone in the family had died - likely on Ella's side. *** Alphabetical Birth Indexes for Orleans LA Parish 1796-1900: Father was Thomas Hamilton, son named Thomas Hamilton, mother was Adelaide Gorin, born 27 Mar 1851, volume 22, page 348.Don't know. Same book, father was Richard Nixon, child was Richard Nixon, mother was Adalaide Gorin, born 1 Jan 1857, book 22, p.349. Assume another marriage for same lady. *** Death Index for Orleans Parish. Gorin, Ellie, 60, female, white, died 25 June 1915 Gorin, Helen M Dodd, 82, died 21 Aug1912 Winn, Ellie Gorin, 60, 25 June 1915 - same as the first. Helen M Dodd would be the wife of John Henry Gorin Jr; Ellie was her dau. John Henry Gorin Jr was son of John Henry Gorin Sr and Elizabeth Bailey Jones; grandson of Gladin and Nancy Hinch Gorin. ** That's enough for tonight - I found some obituaries on the above line and funeral home records. They'll hold until tomorrow! Sandi Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin