This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARTIN/HEADY (or HEADLEY/HEDLEY)/HODGES/DAY/VAUGHAN/MOFFITT/CAMPBELL/WATKINS/FUNKHOUSER/SMITH/WOOD/ICE/BEEMER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Blh.2ACEB/236.237.243 Message Board Post: Hi Don I am very interested in your EPHRAIM MARTIN and your HEADLEY connection. I, too , am researching MARTIN's and either HEADLEY's/HEDLEY's/or HEADY's. But i can only document their lines to 1797....nothing before that. I have: ABRAHAM MARTIN born 9-4-1797 (either S.C. or KY);died7-28-1852 Wayne Co, IL. Married MARY JANE ("POLLY") HEADY/(or HEADLEY/HEDLEY??) born 1801 VA; died 7-20-1845 Wayne Co, IL. Do not have date/place they married.....but their eldest son was born in 1825. The courthouse in Wayne County, IL burned to the ground in 1886- no records available. 10 children of ABRAHAM & "POLLY": 1) JEPTHA MARTIN born 1825 2) EMILY MARTIN born 1828;married AARON W. HODGES 3)PRUDENCE JANE MARTIN born 1829...married JOHN D. VAUGHAN 4) JAMES MARTIN born 1831 5) GEORGE M. MARTIN born 1835...married SARAH ("SALLY") MOFFITT 6) ELEY AZER MARTIN born 1838; died 1897. Married: 1) LUCRETIA WATKINS; 2) MRS. MARY MAYO 7) ABRAHAM H. MARTIN born 1840; died 3-18-1862 Shawneetown, Il during Civil War.No spouse/known children. 8) MARY MARTIN (twin) born 1842 9) MANERVA VIRGINIA MARTIN (twin) born 1842...married JAMES F. DAY 10) MARGARET (or MARTHA) MARTIN born 7-20-1845 Wayne Co, IL Do any of these names "run"in your MARTIN/HEADLEY famillies? Please e-mail: elhzm@comcast.net Thanks! Laura