>> >> >>I have been researching my family, and thought maybe since I can't come up >>with any leads, that I would put them out for you and see if anyone has any >>idea or knows anyone who is related. >>My great-great grandfather was Joesph SALESMAN who died in 1899 in >Illinois. >>I know that he was born in Ky. His brother Jacob Allen SALESMAN was born >in >>Green Co. Kentucky in or around 1840. He married a girl named Mary Ann >>RICTOR who was born in Bullet Co. Ky. arun 1844. They had several >>children. Some born in Ky and some in Ill. They had a Sarah C. who >>married a Joseph HANDLEY. ADughter name Elizabeth Etta SALESMAN. A Mary E. >>SALESMAN who married a WELLS and lived at Cisne Illinois in 1942. They had >a >>daughter Norah Myrtle WELLS b. Dec 4, 1898 in Zif Twp. Clay Co. ILL. >>Joesph SALESMAN was married two times. Believed to have brought a Martha >>CAMP from Ky and married her in Ill on 9-17-1871 >>and they had one child Phillip SALESMAN. In the Census later it shows that >>Phillip is with his father at age 7 and he is remarried to a Mry O. JENNNER >>daughter of George and Mary JENNER. She was born in Kentucky also. They >>married on 12-11-1877 and her name at that time was Mary McGATH. She was >>married to a George ENSOR, John McGATH and then to my great-great >>grandfather Joesph SALESMAN. She had five daughters Katie McGATH who >>married George GARRETT, Parmelia McGATH who married a WM P. BEAN, Miranda >>ENSOR, Cora ENSOR who married a A.J. Dant, Mary A. ENSOR. Three sons, my >>Ggrandfather >>Wm James SALESMAN, his brother Albert SALESMAN, and a brother Donald who >>died at infancy in 1882. >>Jacob and Mary SALESMAN had a son name Edgar Earl SALESMAN, Elsah E. >>SALESMAN, Aaron SALESMAN. Jacob and Joesph also had a brother named >>Phillip SALESMAN who was born in Ky alos. He was 23 in 1880 census in >>Illinois. >>Any information on who or where in Kentucky they may have come from or any >>info at all would be greatly appreciated. This family >>didn't leave behind much info. Very secretive? Contact me at >>guido@viaduct.custom.net if you know anything to help me. >>Darla in Indiana >> >