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/Cei.2ACEB/145.2755.1.1.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have William Donaldson's middle name as Carroll, not Calvin. His wife is Elvina Hicks (not Elvinia; it's often misspelled in the census, etc.; her nickname was Viney), dau. of Elijah Hicks and Patience Bennett. William, Elvina, and her mother Patience are bur. in Little Hickory cem. in Fayette Co. IL (Patience Morris, as she apparently remarried an unk. Morris after Elijah Hicks died; the whereabouts of Patience from 1830 to 1870 are unknown to me). I have John T. Donaldson mar. Susan Cora Hicks 21 Apr 1853 Montgomery Co. IL (IL state mar. records online); she is dau. of Butler C. Hicks and Martha McPeak. I have her sister Nancy Elizabeth Hicks mar. Jackson Donaldson with this note: "his full name might be Andrew Jackson Donaldson; however, note a mar. John T. Donaldson to Elizabeth Hicks 5 Nov 1873 Fayette Co. IL, so perhaps John T. Donaldson mar. Eliz., sister of his 1st wife after latter's death (but may not be same John T. Donaldson or same Eliz.)". Perhaps John ! Donaldson's middle name is not Temple, or he has two middle names, which is not unusual. Otherwise, I have no idea who this Jackson Donaldson is, or who the parents of Elizabeth Hicks actually are. If you're close to Fayette Co., go to the library in Vandalia where there is much data on these families, or drive over to Fillmore in Montgomery Co. and talk to Audrey Probst (no computer). Elvina (Hicks) Donaldson had 2 known sisters - Elizabeth Hicks who mar. Lemuel Pope and res. Fayette Co. IL, and Martha Hicks who mar. Calvin J. Butler and res. first in Carroll Co. TN and then after about 1863 in Fayette Co. IL. Early census data for Elijah Hicks indicates more daughters than these 3 - possibly 6 - but their identities are not known to us. One possible dau. (not proven) is Nancy Hicks who mar. Wiley W. Butler 1837 in Carroll Co. TN and stayed there. Presley Garner Donaldson refers to Nancy (Hicks) Butler as "Aunt Nancy" in his monograph "Life and Times of P. G. Donaldson", reprints of which may still be available from the Fayette Co. Historical Soc. This is about all I know.