This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shanks, Sims, Claybaugh, Switzer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lg.2ADE/1231 Message Board Post: I am working on a branch of the Shanks family. Alexander "Alic" Shanks is the younger brother of John Shanks (grandfather to Alfalfa). Alic was born the son of Joseph Shanks and Catharine Sims in Johnson Twp., Clark County 3 Nov 1865. John and Alic moved their families to Edgar Co., about 1910 after Joseph died in 1903. I have a date of death on Alic as Oct 10, 1910, but I don't know where/how and where he is buried. His wife Naomie remarried Elmer Claybaugh in 1913 and she and the four children, Charles, Eddie, Dell, and Fanny are found in Paris in 1920 census records (actually, Charles and Dell are counted twice). Here is what I have on this line - can anyone provide further information on this family? Thanks, Beth Shanks Alexander "Alic" Shanks b: 03 Nov 1865 in Johnson Twp., Clark Co., IL; d: 10 Oct 1910; married Naomie Smith (b: Apr 1876 in Jasper, Illinois) 1) Charles Shanks b: Aug 1893 in Illinois; d: 08 Aug 1946 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois; married Taddia May Unknown (b: Abt. 1897 in Kentucky); ....i) Athorn V Shanks b: 24 Mar 1918 in Illinois; d: 23 Jan 1989 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois ....ii) Dell B Shanks b: Abt. 1921 in Illinois; d: 03 Dec 1948 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois ....iii) Charles A Shanks b: 08 Aug 1922 in Illinois; d: 15 Feb 2005 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois ....iv) Leo V Shanks b: 24 Mar 1924 in Illinois; d: 25 Jun 2004 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois 2) Harley Edward Shanks b: Aug 1897 in Casey, Clark Co., Illinois 3) Dell Bryan Shanks b: 22 Dec 1899 in Illinois; d: Sep 1974 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois; married Esther Unknown (b: 25 Feb 1906 in Illinois; d: Jan 1981 in Florida) ....i) Bernard W Shanks b: Abt. 1924 in Illinois ....ii) Richard A Shanks b: Abt. 1928 in Illinois ....iii) Charlene F Shanks b: Abt. 1930 in Illinois 4) Francis "Fannie" Shanks b: Abt. 1903 in Illinois