Dear Fulton Co. listers, Some of you have asked me about the 1888 Seward Co. book I quoted from earlier. I own a reprint of the 1888 Seward book, and pulled the quote myself. Many Fulton Co. families moved to Seward Co., Nebraska in the 1860s and 1870s. I am gathering as much info as I can about settlers who moved from Fulton to Seward Co., and am planning to share it all with our Fulton researchers eventually. I have at least 6 ancestors myself who made that move: Zerilda "Jane" (Wilcoxen) Johnson (2nd mar.: James Snodgrass) Abraham Wallick and his wife Mary H. (Johnson) Wallick Simon Peter Hageman, with his parents: William Brown Hageman and his wife Magdalena Voorhees (Stryker) Hageman. Also, many of my aunts, uncles, and cousins made the move to Seward Co., Nebraska, including Rev. Elijah W. Wilcoxen, Thomas David Skillman and his wife America Johnson. My families moved in covered wagons, together with other Fulton Co. families who were their trusted friends. I have posted on my family website a long quote from Nebraska: the Land and the People: Volume 2, pages 521+522. Here is a small section: "In 1864 he [Thomas David Skillman] married Miss America Johnson. In the early spring of 1865 this young couple, together with a younger brother, Abraham V. Skillman and three other young couples, Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sampson and Mr. and Mrs. John Durland, left by wagon train for the territory of Nebraska. At this time there was only one log cabin at present site of the City of Lincoln." To read more of that long quote and other information about the people I mentioned above, go here: http://www.stipak.com/hageman/williambrown/RR01/RR01_002A.HTM#P414C2 I am also collecting and starting to post photos of graves of Fulton people buried in Seward Co., including most of the Skillmans, Wallicks, Johnsons, and Hagemans mentioned above. If you have trouble navigating my website to those photos, just ask me by the name of the person whose grave you want to see. Plus, I have some cemetery books from Seward Co., but not all. I will be glad to try to help those of you who have Seward connections, and share with you what I have, as Seward is a focal point of much of my research. The 1888 Seward book has a limited index, but I would be happy to try to look up your people if they moved to Seward. Please give me as many names, including maiden names, dates, and places as you can, and I will look in my books (I have other Seward books, too!). Have a good weekend, everybody, Alice