I noticed your VANCE posting. My gr gr gr grandmother was Amanda VANCE from KY born 1819. She married Joshua CHILDERS. Their daughter Altha Ann CHILDERS married Wm Edward GILLESPIE in 1868 and moved to Adams Co., IL. Amanda VANCE's parents are Robert VANCE & Elizabeth PIERCE. They also had a son named Robert VANCE born 1827. Other than that I don't know anymore about this family, yet. Is there any connection to your VANCE? Kerry McHugh Olympia WA > > > Subject: Re: [ILADAMS] Re: Culp > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:23:15 +0800 > From: Mde <spirit@iquest.net> > To: ILADAMS-L@rootsweb.com > > I DO NOT know this person. But I AM researching VANCE in Adams Co. IL > beginning in 1840. I noticed the middle name VANCE. > > Meg > > >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/Wg.2ADE/643.646.1057.1071 > > > >Message Board Post: > > > >Maureen, > >I am helping an older friend try and find out something about her father. > >His name was Paul Vance Winters, Jr. He was born around 1895-1900, she > >thinks in Ohio. He died in NC around 1934. Does any of this ring a bell > >for you? It would mean a lot to her to find out something about her > >father. Anxious to hear from you. > >

This has been a brick wall for a long time. I have: Robert P. VANCE, carpenter, age 48 from Virginia and Ann age 62 from MD (Is ANN his wife or mother, sister?????). According to Adams County IL 1850 census. They lived next door to John W. Hutchens (probably Jonathon W. HUTCHINSON) saddler, age 24 from OH and Sarah A. age 20 from KY. and Helen U. 6 months from IL. A marriage. From Adams Co. Illinois 1850 census. A marriage record from Adams Co. IL lists Jonathon W. HUTCHINSON married Sarah A. VANCE Dec. 10, 1848. Robert VANCE living next door is probably Sarah's father. Robert is listed in Adams Co. City directory about this same time. This was possibly a boarding house he ran. He is listed as witness in several minor court cases. If he were the owner or manager of a boarding house he probably was called as witness in several domestic incidences. I have a land record from Adams County IL 1840 for a Robert Pinkerton VANCE. I'm relatively sure this is my Robert P. VANCE. A Robert VANCE appears in the 1840 census of Adams Co. IL. Then the 1850 census following as listed above. On marriage records of Jonathon W. HUTCHINSON's children in Vigo County, IN Sarah's maiden name is some times listed as VANCE on others it is listed as Mc GILL. I believe that come confusion existed and perhaps Sarah's mother's name was Mc Gill. Also note that Sarah A. HUTCHINSON purchased cemetery plots next to a Samuel McGILL in Woodlawn Cemetery, Vigo Co. IN. These were purchased on the same day. Some of Sarah's children and grandchildren are buried on this plot. Samuel Mc GILL was a businessman in Terre Haute, In and owner of lumber yard and editor of newspaper in Rockville, IN. He is buried in Parke Co. IN. No documented relationship has been found to Sarah A. Also note that the Hutchinson family is also listed in the 1850 census of Brown Co. ILL. Believed they moved and were re-listed as Brown Co. residents. However more of the HUTCHINSON family is listed as living with Jonathon and Sarah in Brown Co. Finally, the 1840 census of Adams Co. IL lists a Samuel Hitchens (spelling hard to read). Could this have been Jonathon's father I have also in Adams county IL found a few other VANCE names living outside the city of Quincy. I do not have that data with me tonight. I have speculatged that these folks were related, but have little on them. I was in Adams Co IL a few years ago and could find little other than census which I already had and the one City Directory and court cases. After 1850 I can find NO record of Robert VANCE anywhere in this area or for that matter several other areas I've investigated. I'd love ANY information on this line. Meg > Meg >I noticed your VANCE posting. My gr gr gr grandmother was Amanda VANCE >from KY born 1819. She married Joshua CHILDERS. Their daughter Altha Ann >CHILDERS married Wm Edward GILLESPIE in 1868 and moved to Adams Co., IL. >Amanda VANCE's parents are Robert VANCE & Elizabeth PIERCE. They also had >a son named Robert VANCE born 1827. Other than that I don't know anymore >about this family, yet. >Is there any connection to your VANCE? >Kerry McHugh >Olympia WA > > >> >> >> Subject: Re: [ILADAMS] Re: Culp >> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:23:15 +0800 >> From: Mde <spirit@iquest.net> >> To: ILADAMS-L@rootsweb.com >> >> I DO NOT know this person. But I AM researching VANCE in Adams Co. IL >> beginning in 1840. I noticed the middle name VANCE. >> >> Meg >> >> >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/Wg.2ADE/643.646.1057.1071 >> > >> >Message Board Post: >> > >> >Maureen, >> >I am helping an older friend try and find out something about her father. >> >His name was Paul Vance Winters, Jr. He was born around 1895-1900, she >> >thinks in Ohio. He died in NC around 1934. Does any of this ring a bell >> >for you? It would mean a lot to her to find out something about her >> >father. Anxious to hear from you. >> > > > > >==== ILADAMS Mailing List ==== >Messages posted to this list must be on the topic of Adams County genealogy. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Please visit the web site I created with my students http://www.geocities.com/midwestinstitute Also visit my Indiana Orff Schulwerk (music and movement education) web site. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6131