Greetings Ted and other fellow researchers! Anyone out there looking for departed Sandersons or Davises? My three-great grandfather, Edward D. SANDERSON (b. 1807 VA or KY), married Judith (also Juda) DAVIS d\o John and Frances Davis, in Barren County, KY in 1838. A couple of Judith's siblings married into the POYNTER family in that county. Along about 1841 Edward, his wife and baby son (per 1840 Barren Co. census) moved north to IL along with a bunch of Poynters. They settled first, briefly, in Madison County, then spent several years in Effingham County. Meanwhile, Judith's brother John G. DAVIS and his family moved up to Bond County to settle. Edward's firstborn child died before 1850. Between 1850 and 1855 Judith and their two daughters passed away. In 1855, Edward is living with John G. in Bond County along with surviving sons James Cowan Sanderson and George W. Sanderson. James C. grew up and fought in Civil War, returning after service to marry Lucy Ann DAVIS, daughter of William Davis and Lucy Ann Nance, in Bond Co. in 1866. George W. married Mary Ann Jett in Bond Co. in 1868, then disappeared. (I've since found him down in Arkansas, widowed and remarried.) James C. and Lucy Ann had eleven kids, the eldest being my great grandfather, and lived to ripe old ages. The MYSTERIES: Who were Edward D.'s parents? Was he born in VA, as he claimed, or KY, as his son James C. thought? Were the two Davis families related? Clues, anyone? :) Sandy