Hi, Re: DICKINSON & PITTENGER lines Well I have folks from Pa coming through Ill. to New Hampton. I have folks coming from New Hampshire (we think) coming to New Hampton, we have marriages in New Hampton, Babies being born etc. Must have been a happening place in the mid 1800"s :-). I thought I'd post these names and story incase they ring a bell with anyone. First George DICKINSON & his brother E.H. DICKINSON (perhaps Ethan) came in the mid 1800"s from New Hampshire to New Hampton. George DICKINSON fathered some 23 children including Lewis, Charles, Coryell(b 1871), Burt, Frank, Etta & Jenny One of George's wives was named Nancy, another was Melvina RIDDLE. So we now have my gg grandfather Coryell DICKINSON and family in New Hampton...meanwhile in Lycoming Pa, Abraham PITTENGER and his wife Minerva CHAPMAN pack up their crew of Samuel S., George C., Reuben S., Marget A. (Margrett Amela), Henry C. & Robert C. head west, stopping in Kane CTy Ill. to have more kids, George Washington Pittenger, William Lafeyett Pittenger , John, Joseph, Rozett, Frank L. & Fred E. Abraham & family arrive in New Hampton are sometime after 1864. Son, Samuel PITTENGER (my gg grandfather)brings a wife Margaret HOLDEN from Kane CTy and start their family in New Hampton having the following: from 1862-1882 Anna Viola, Minera Lucresia, Ida, Edgar Samuel, Etta Mae, Claire Belle, & Mayme. Their daughter Etta Mae PITTINGER marries George DICKINSON's son CORYELL and this is my line. Abraham PITTENGER died in 1889 and his wife Minerva in 1895 both at the farmstead near Alta Vista. Their obituaries say they were one of the first settlers in Chickasaw County. They are buried at the Deerfield Cemetery. So it looks like New Hampton & Chickasaw Cty hold some important keys to the family tree. Thanks for listening, Carol Dickinson Robertson