Posted on: VanBuren Co. Ia Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/VanBuren/11353 Surname: Drummond ------------------------- Hi! Very huge thanks for the letter of Verna Lewis...it is quite something that she also mentions that the Drummond family of Van Buren County, Iowa, listed from 1860 census onward, could perhaps have come from the Virginia's. Despite that there is a rootsweb listing of some Drummond with such similar names and one date for Rebecca seems right on, somehow I find no evidence that they came from anywhere other than via Portage County, Ohio where Rebecca and Stephen Hopkins were married in, I think, 1837, from Jefferson County, New York. Early Jefferson histories give that Duncan and John Drummond came there from Perth, Scotland at about 1803, and since an old cemetery there gives about 8 Drummond burials, and since Henry, of Van Buren county, said he was born at Jefferson county, somehow the Virginia connection for our line doesn't fit, unless someone could clue me in, for which I'd be grateful..... THANKS again! Someday we will discover Rebecca's parentage and birthplace. In the, I believe, 1820 or 1830 Jefferson Co. New York census, under John Drummond, the ages fit..I don't have my notebook at the tip of my finger at this minute, so cannot be precise. What is your connection? You probably said, but my brain doesn't remember....grin...Kris.......