This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilson, McCrite, Gearing, Cox, Lightner, Caldwell, Lee Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/He.2ADI/143.1 Message Board Post: Joyce, My gggrandfather was a brother to Isaac N. Wilson. I have quite a bit of information on the Wilson line. Let me know what you need. Kim

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/He.2ADI/144 Message Board Post: I am seeking information on William G. Adams who lived in the Goose Island Precinct in 1870. His wife was named Margaret Dozier. They had daughters Lillie, Virginia, Laura, Molly, and Elizabeth Bell. Lillie Leona was my gg-grandmother married to Isaac N. Wilson. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/He.2ADI/143 Message Board Post: I am researching the Isaac Wilson family who lived in the Delta area and run a grocery store there around the early 1920s. This is my gg-grandfather. I have his death certificate, and know where he was born. Would appreciate any information. Thanks!

Who are the parents of little child (James J. Greenwell) who died July 3, 1924 in Alexander Co., IL? Thank you, Jeannet

I'm looking for other people researching the McRaven line. The ancestor I'm specifically researching and am related to is Benjamin Franklin McRaven. I believe his birth date is 1841 in Alexander county, IL. -I don't have a death date for him. I'm in the process of finding that. I'm trying to map out his life. I know he migrated to Arkansas sometime because he married Nellie Lawes and had a fathered a girl- Rebecca Adaline McRaven 1884. If anyone has any McRaven info I'd love to hear it! Sincerely Nicole --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now

Hello gang, My name is Rick Gray. I have a major roadblock in my Brown family line that I am hoping you might be able to help me with. My great-great-grandfather was Charles Brown, supposedly born in Kentucky, he believe in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. He was not sure of his age and listed it variously as 1847, 1852, and 1859. He told his children and grandchildren that his parents were Billy Brown and Betty Wysinger. He was not sure of the spelling on her last name. He remembered that Billy was a minister and his mother he called a doctor. We wonder if it could have been midwife or something of that sort. He stated that he thought they were born in North Carolina for Billy and South Carolina for Betty. He had one brother named Frank that we believe was older than him. He never really said for sure. He thinks they could have lived in Virginia at one time also. He did not know what denomination that Billy was a minister for. When he was about 5 or 6 years old he was orphaned. We do not know if that meant both his parents died at the same time or one previously and the last one died at that time. He told his daughter he went to live with his aunt and uncle. (She is gone now and did not write in her journal whether it was a relative of his mother's or fathers) His aunt was very abusive to him and at age 9 he ran away from home. One of the grandsons still living thinks that he remembered him saying that his brother Frank ran away with him, but in my great-aunts diary it does not indicate that. He spent the next couple of years up and down the Mississippi River working for steamboats. My great-aunt wrote that he talked alot about Cairo, Illinois as well. We do not know what the connection was. At some point he ended up in Tennessee. I find him at age 15 on the 1870 Census working as a farmhand (can't remember the city right now). He told his daughter this family took him in and cared for him. In 1880 he is listed as 21 years old and living in Maury County, Tennessee where he made his home for many years. In 1882 he married the former Matilda Ann Bell and they built a home in the Mt. Joy community of Maury County, Tenn. They had several children: Sherman, Lon, Crittendon, Willis, Seth, Bessie and Maude. After Matilda Ann died, he married Rebecca Ann Cavender and had 3 more kids: Jewel, Jay, and Jack. Another clue may be the Bell family. He told his daughter that his parents were friends with the parents of Matilda Ann Bell either in the Carolinas or the Virginias and that they might have went to Kentucky together. He remembered her parents from when he was a child. In my research of the Bell family I have not found them in Kentucky as of yet. They do list on Census records that her parents were born in North Carolina and South Carolina, but all the children that were born to her parents, William H. and Elizabeth Bell, were born in Tennessee. In a history book on Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee in Maury County, Tenn., there is a listing that the Bell family came to Maury County from South Carolina around 1800. My William H. was born in about 1805 in South Carolina. These Bell's settled in the same area I find my Bell family in 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. So I feel South Carolina may be a key. I am checking from every aspect of this line that I can - South Carolina, North Carolina, Bell, Brown, Wysinger, Tennessee and Kentucky - hoping that it will strike a hit with something or somebody. This has been a major roadblock for me for years. Any help you might give would be greatly appreciated. Rick My Direct Lines: Gray, Kennedy, LeMay, Brown, Cotton, Thomason, Rich, Lindsey, Chapman, Milligan, Henderson, Ray, Bell, Douglas, Basham, Reams, Boshers, Mitchell, Neely, Wysinger, Duke, Johnson, Cates, Dixon, Winslow, Renfro, Ussery, Pinicuff, Williams, Hudson, O'Daniel, Robertson, Martin. "So Many Relatives, So Little Time"

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gray, Kennedy, Lemay, Brown, Cotton, Thomason, Rich, Lindsey, Henderson, Ray, Bell, Douglas, Reams, Renfro Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/142 Message Board Post: Hello gang, My name is Rick Gray. I have a major roadblock in my Brown family line that I am hoping you might be able to help me with. My great-great-grandfather was Charles Brown, supposedly born in Kentucky, he believe in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. He was not sure of his age and listed it variously as 1847, 1852, and 1859. He told his children and grandchildren that his parents were Billy Brown and Betty Wysinger. He was not sure of the spelling on her last name. He remembered that Billy was a minister and his mother he called a doctor. We wonder if it could have been midwife or something of that sort. He stated that he thought they were born in North Carolina for Billy and South Carolina for Betty. He had one brother named Frank that we believe was older than him. He never really said for sure. He thinks they could have lived in Virginia at one time also. He did not know what denomination that Billy was a minister for. When he was about 5 or 6 years old he was orphaned. We do not know if that meant both his parents died at the same time or one previously and the last one died at that time. He told his daughter he went to live with his aunt and uncle. (She is gone now and did not write in her journal whether it was a relative of his mother's or fathers) His aunt was very abusive to him and at age 9 he ran away from home. One of the grandsons still living thinks that he remembered him saying that his brother Frank ran away with him, but in my great-aunts diary it does not indicate that. He spent the next couple of years up and down the Mississippi River working for steamboats. My great-aunt wrote that he talked alot about Cairo, Illinois as well. We do not know what the connection was. At some point he ended up in Tennessee. I find him at age 15 on the 1870 Census working as a farmhand (can't remember the city right now). He told his daughter this family took him in and cared for him. In 1880 he is listed as 21 years old and living in Maury County, Tennessee where he made his home for many years. In 1882 he married the former Matilda Ann Bell and they built a home in the Mt. Joy community of Maury County, Tenn. They had several children: Sherman, Lon, Crittendon, Willis, Seth, Bessie and Maude. After Matilda Ann died, he married Rebecca Ann Cavender and had 3 more kids: Jewel, Jay, and Jack. Another clue may be the Bell family. He told his daughter that his parents were friends with the parents of Matilda Ann Bell either in the Carolinas or the Virginias and that they might have went to Kentucky together. He remembered her parents from when he was a child. In my research of the Bell family I have not found them in Kentucky as of yet. They do list on Census records that her parents were born in North Carolina and South Carolina, but all the children that were born to her parents, William H. and Elizabeth Bell, were born in Tennessee. In a history book on Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee in Maury County, Tenn., there is a listing that the Bell family came to Maury County from South Carolina around 1800. My William H. was born in about 1805 in South Carolina. These Bell's settled in the same area I find my Bell family in 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. So I feel South Carolina may be a key. I am checking from every aspect of this line that I can - South Carolina, North Carolina, Bell, Brown, Wysinger, Tennessee and Kentucky - hoping that it will strike a hit with something or somebody. This has been a major roadblock for me for years. Any help you might give would be greatly appreciated. Rick My Direct Lines: Gray, Kennedy, LeMay, Brown, Cotton, Thomason, Rich, Lindsey, Chapman, Milligan, Henderson, Ray, Bell, Douglas, Basham, Reams, Boshers, Mitchell, Neely, Wysinger, Duke, Johnson, Cates, Dixon, Winslow, Renfro, Ussery, Pinicuff, Williams, Hudson, O'Daniel, Robertson, Martin. "So Many Relatives, So Little Time"

Can anyone tell me when Elizabeth (Hodges) Greenwell of Alexander Co., IL or her husband George F.Greenwell died?

Could some one lookup an obit for James GREENWELL who died July 3,1924 in Alexander Co., IL? (for a fee) Jeannet

1880 Census Hodges Park, Alexander Co, Illinois George F. GREENWELL age 56 MO Elizabeth GREENWELL Wife F M W 27 IL Children: Robert GREENWELL age 21L Joseph GREENWELL age 14 George GREENWELL age 9 IL Nettie GREENWELL age 6 Willie GREENWELL age 3 Are their more children? Anyone researching this family? Jeannet

Dr Reuben Shelby is said to have lived in Alexander Co., IL after 1880 as he was before in Perry Co., MO. His daughter Reubina marr. James Greenwell 1871, are they found after 1880 in Alexander Co.? Thank you, Jeannet

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dotson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/141 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on the Elisha Dotson family who lived in Cairo IL in 1880 (3rd Ward, according to the census). They had an 11 yr old daughter, born in KY. My g-grandmother was Lucy Jane Dotson, born in KY about 1870, supposedly in Cairo KY. She never said anything about her family or childhood, so very little is known. I'm grasping at straws, but I think this 1880 census record is a good straw to grasp. Thanks, Colleen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sronce:Dickerson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/140 Message Board Post: I am searching for any information on Sronce from Jonesboro, & Alexander County. Mostly James Sronce & Betty Dickerson. Also, does any one know of the Cummins Cemetary in McClure, IL? Thanks for any help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/He.2ADI/131.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Lora. I faxed a request to the Cairo Library and they did do a search for me. There were no results for Alexander County so they tried Pulaski County. There were two Musicks in their list for my time period but not the ones I was looking for. So I am back where I started. I really appreciate your information about the library in Cairo. They were very helpful.

I have found a post card written by Eliza Garaghty to her brother, John Robbs, in 1911. She had married Edmond B. Garaghty in Alexander in 1884. I have been unable to find where they lived. The post mark isn't readable. Another card was to Uncle John from Urliss Garaghty. Does anyone know these names? The Robbs family is on the 1870 census. John and Sarah were married in Alexander and lived part of the time there and in Pope Co. Other names marrying into the Robbs family are: Goodman, Craig, Hutton....... Sharon Robbs Brown

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/He.2ADI/137.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Mark. Thank you for answering my query. I would be most interested in the clippings , etc you mentioned. I will be anxious to see them . I am sending you my email address

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/He.2ADI/137.1 Message Board Post: Send me your e-mail address & we can send you copies of the newspaper clippings. Ours is mkglaab@midwest.net

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/He.2ADI/131.2 Message Board Post: Rosemary, the Cairo Public Library in Cairo, Il. has a book that lists namesof People buried in Souther Il. They will do lookups for a very reasonable fee, but only the ones who have headstones. The book is not availabe to be checked or loaned out. Hope this helps...Lora

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shavnore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/23.2 Message Board Post: There is a Danuthla Sharp that married a Shavnore in our side of the family. If you are interested email me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore, Taylor, Pender Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADI/23.1.1 Message Board Post: There was a Wiggs family that settled in Union Co.Ill in 1839. They were from N.C. (My ancestors)