This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Blh.2ACEB/184.194.1 Message Board Post: My 3-g grandfather was Samuel HEADLEY. I have birth dates of 1802 or 1807 and birth places of PA or VA. Obviously, I don't know which is correct. I do know he married Rachel SCOTT. The only child I know of is John Barret HEADLEY born June 5, 1842 in VA/WVA. The 1860 Fulton Co, IL, Census finds them in Deerfield Twp. There is a younger Samuel HEADLEY living nearby. The 1870 Fulton Co, IL, Census shows Samuel HEADLEY with son John living next door and the younger Samuel HEADLEY living next door to John. I'm assuming the younger Samuel is related. I haven't had access to the 1880 IL Census. At some point John and his family moved to NE and he died there. Apparently the males in my HEADLEY line disliked their given names. John and Sarilda's children were Meridith (went by the name of Dan), Benton Eugene (went by the name of Jake), Andrew Jackson (went by the name of Jay), a son who died at age 3 went by the name of Dockey and I doubt that was his given name, William, Rachel Ann and Mary Elizabeth. Meridith (Dan) HEADLEY said that his father also went by the name of Dan. True or not, I don't know.