Message text written by "Dick" >Mike, I think some of the Couch family moved to East St. Louis, IL. Check the St. Clair County, IL census. Dick Hudson < ============== Dick, Thanks for the reply. I will check the St. Clair County census. The family (Avery and Nancy Couch) was in Monroe County in 1850, then St. Clair, then I think the family split up. Some went to Missouri and Arkansas. Some either stayed in Illinois or later came back to Illinois. I recently learned that there is a marriage record in 1864 in St. Louis for John Taylor to Sarah Couch. They may be the couple who appears in the 1870 Bond County census (Sarah may be the daughter of Avery and Nancy). I had thought that Nancy (wife of Avery) probably died in the 1850's, as Avery remarried in Missouri about 1856, but now suspect that he may have divorced or deserted Nancy, and that she may be the Nancy Couch in the 1870 census of Bond County in the John and Sarah Taylor household. Avery's son, Henry Couch, evidently moved back to Bond County from Arkansas in the 1870's, as he was married (for the fourth time) in Bond County in 1870's, and appears in the 1880 Bond County census. Two of his daughters were married in Bond County (in the 1880's, as I remember). I'm looking for the Township in Bond County where John and Sarah Taylor, along with Nancy Couch, were listed in the 1870 census. I know that they were in Bond County (I saw them in a printed copy of the 1870 Bond County census). Thanks again for taking the time to reply to my query. Mike Landwehr