Hi All, I just put up page # 3 on the 1850 Hancock Co, Census. Check it out at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ I am going to try to get a couple of pages up a week until I am finished then on to 1860. Please bare with me because Christmas is comming and I make all our Christmas presents, Cards, Bows and everything else plus decorating the house. I also have a couple people I am helping with their family and I have a divorce to do and a custody suit. I hope you all like what I have done with the site. I have big plans for it and If we all pull together we can make this a great site for research. remember this is our web site. Thanks Shawnnee

Hi, I'm not sure if this list got my message. I think it had bounced. Please check out my webpage. http://people.ce.mediaone.net/backster/family.html For you slower modem users, use: http://people.ce.mediaone.net/backster/baxter.html Enjoy. julie

Researching the following names in Hancock Co,IL - from 1850 on... MURTLE,(MYRTLE), MAJOR(S), RAMSEY Terrie Reichling jlreichling@home.com

Listers, I am researching BROCKWAY, FREEMAN, HUTTON and SPIKER. I have pretty well exhausted all of the Hancock Co. resources but I stay on the list just in case a new cousin happens by. Pat

LOWARY/McCOY/ELSTON/BISHOP/NEWMAN/REYNOLDS/HARDY/BYLER These are the names of Families I have in Hancock, Co. Unfortunately their brick walls are in other states, but if someone is interested in these names I'll share what I have on them. Below are the families and the areas were they came from or where the trail grows cold! Lowary/Lowery/Lowry - Washington Co., PA - Ireland McCoy - Coshocton Co., OH - Ireland Elston - Woodbridge, NJ Bishop - Zionsville, IN Newman - MD Reynolds - Monmouth, NJ Hardy - Scotland Byler - Berk CO., PA Happy Hunting, -- Jim LowAry jlowary@mail.coin.missouri.edu LowAry http://www.lowary.org/

Hi all, My name is Michelle Davis and I am researching the following surnames in Hancock Co. SYMMONDS, HOWARD, HOBBS, WALKER, WHITE, BRENNEMAN, SHORT There may be some Lunbecks or Pettegrews in the area too but I have not made a definite connection to the county yet. My big brick wall right now is William HOWARD b. abt 1851 in Hancock Co. There are three William Howards in the 1870 census that could be him. I have not been able to locate a marriage record for him, and don't know what happened to him after 1870. His parents were Levin Howard and Margaret HOBBS, and he had brother, James HOWARD, b. 1855. Thanks, Michelle

Hi All, Ok here it is in the nutshell, I just talked to my ISP and they do not know at this point when the email will be back up. If all who has sent me any email today could you please resend it to jrsentrprzs@jps.net I would really appreciate it and you can use that email address until I email you all that my server is back up. I have been going nuts without any email at all today. 1 message this morning. I am haveing email withdrawals. LOL Shawnnee

I really only have one Hancock county family that I know of, my 3rd greatgrandfather moved to Hancock county sometime after 1846 and before 1850. David BEDFORD was born about 1805 in Canada. He married his fourth wife in Stark county in 1846, Mary Knapp and they lived in Hancock county until 1870. In 1880, Mary BEDFORD was in Montana with her son and stepson. David BEDFORD and his third wife Charlotte DURAND are my ancestors, they had one child Tyrilla BEDFORD in 1842. I have no idea where Tyrilla was between 1842 and 1859 when she married in Stark county. Pat Thomas Post Office Box 885 Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885 1-507-452-8290 mailto:ptthomas@hbci.com Support public genealogy - join or sponsor the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html

I'm researching the following surnames in Hancock Co, ILL: DELAPP- John & Sarah Jane(MOODY) ANDERSON-James &Louisa (of Greene Co, PA), Isaac & Mary ROBERTS- James & Lucretia (of Greene Co,PA) FORDYCE HORNER SLOAN- Workman & Pery Anne MORRIS HOOK CLARK- Johnson & Betsy(Elizabeth), Joel, Abraham & Mary Ann PARR The CLARKS are a new line which has just opened up because of gracious researchers found on the internet. Thank you! Willing to share information. Dorothy in Az not Oz

Viewing the world from the shelter of his fine and self-earned farm in Walnut Grove Township, McDonough County, Earl M. Byers may well congratulate himself that his lines have fallen in pleasant and profitable places, and that his occupation is one for which nature and inclination have admirably fitted him. A native son of Illinois and born in Hancock County, November 3, 1861, he is the oldest of the three sons and one daughter of WILLIAM AND EMILY (TUCKER) BYERS, the former born in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Illinois. William Byers moved with his family from Hancock to McDonough County in 1874, and there conducted general farming until his retirement from active life to his present home in Macomb in 1891. His children all are living, but he has been a widower since the death of his wife, April 10, 1905. With such aids to back him as a common school education and thorough agricultural training under his father, Earl M. Byers embarked upon a self-supporting life on a farm east of Raritan, Henderson County, this state, where he remained three years. In the spring of 1887 he purchased 161 acres of land in section 17, Walnut Grove Township, which land he has greatly improved, adding, besides a variety of modern implements, a residence constructed in 1902, and a barn of more recent date, costing $2,000. Besides raising grain and other products which thrive in the central west, he is an extensive breeder of Shorthorn cattle, and in addition to the facilities required for successfully conducting his business, has surrounded himself and wife with the comforts and even luxuries of existence. His home is unexcelled for architectural and general appropriateness in the township, and his standing as a farmer and citizen is an enviable one. On September 10, 1885, Mr. Byers was united in marriage to BESSIE DEAN, a native of Illinois and the seventh in order of birth of the six daughters and two sons of MICHAEL AND SUSAN (CUMMINGS) DEAN. Mr. Dean was born in Bath County, KY, and his wife is a native of the vicinity of Greenoch, Scotland. The latter came to America with her parents when five years old, and was married in Fulton County, Ill., to Michael Dean on March 10, 1842. In 1856 the family moved to their present home in Warren County, where was solemnized the marriage of their daughter, Bessie and Mr. Byers. In politics, Mr. Byers is a Democrat. A broad minded and intelligent farmer, a promoter of education and morality, he is a capable exponent of the highest tenets of agricultural science.

Hi all, I am researching the ROSE family. Richard Rose, b. Abt 1754 in Virginia. He lived in Adams County, Illinois from about 1834 untill his death in 1842, but was buried in Pulaski Cemetery in Hancock County, near Augusta, Illinois. Norma Brown rubduk@worldnet.att.net

Hi all, I am researching the following lines in Hancock County, IL: SCOTT -- Samuel, Larkin, John Edwin, etc. BUSH -- Elizabeth, Thomas BRIGGS -- Gertrude, Richard M. WETTERICH -- Leonhard, George Leonhard, Louisa BRATZ -- Catherine HORTON -- John, James, Philip, James Joseph IKERD -- Elizabeth, Philip LUTZ -- Susannah GIFFORD -- Malinda, Joseph SIEGRIST -- Mary Ursula, Lewis, Rudolph AMSLER -- Maria GNANN -- Dorathea, Benedict SUTTER -- Ursala LAMB -- Frank Baker, Samuel, William BAKER -- Sarah, Cornelius BYERS -- Gracie, John White, William Andrew, John COCKRAN -- Esther HOPSUN -- Lois, Robert PIERCE -- Narcissa Still have lots of family in Hancock and Adams Counties, IL, but I am in California Mary Ann Scott Horton mahorton@pacbell.net

Hi i am researching Fuller's in Hancock county approx. 1860 on. Mick mickmous@bright.net

Beilstien Bricker Clippert Diehl Dockendorf Kirkendahl Klippert Kuse Niebert (Neibert) Rinckel Sauter Swivel (Zwiefel?) -- Janis Beth Wilkens in South Carolina lorenbeth@usa.net "Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future." (Gail Lumet Buckley)

Hi all, Please view my website at: http://people.ce.mediaone.net/backster/family.html If you have a slow modem, for the Roberts, look at: http://people.ce.mediaone.net/backster/roberts.html For the Bridges, look at: http://people.ce.mediaone.net/backster/bridges.html Enjoy julie

Found this in a book i was looking through at the library. " IF YOU COULD SEE YOUR ANCESTORS ALL STANDING IN A ROW..... WOULD YOU BE PROUD OF THEM ? OR DO YOU REALLY KNOW ? SOMETIMES STRANGE DISCOVERS ARE MADE WHEN CLIMBING THE FAMILY TREE OCCASIONALLY ONE IS FOUND IN LINE WHO SHOCKS THE PROGENY. IF YOU COULD SEE YOUR ANCESTORS ALL STANDING IN A ROW THERE MIGHT BE ONE OR TWO OF THEM YOU WOULDNT WANT TO KNOW NOW TURN THE QUESTION RIGHT AROUND AND TAKE ANOTHER VIEW, WHEN YOU " MEET " YOUR ANCESTORS WILL THEY BE PROUD OF YOU ? Author Unknown

All i really have at this point is John Tarry (Tary) and Sarah Ann Nichols married in Hancock County November 22,1860. Sherri Brown Rock Island, Illinois

Hi all, I wanted to let you all know that my email server has been down all day. They are updating my service. If anyone sent me an email and it was sent back to you please send it again. I have only received one email message today and that was at 8:00 this morning. I seem to be able to send ok but not receive. They said it would be around 5:00 before I would be able to receive any email. Thank you Shawnnee

Still searching for further documentation on my Hancock County, Illinois TRUITT line. The family of JAMES ISAAC TRUITT and his wife ELIZABETH ANN BOWEN TRUITT may have lived in Hancock County, Illinois in 1847, and 1849. Their daughters Elizabeth Ann Truitt and Mahala Truitt were married in 1847 and 1849 respectively, in Hancock County. Lottie Hendricks Mesa, AZ

I am researching Bartell, Schlei or Schley, and Wedemeier or Wedemeyer. - Chris Bartell Portland, Oregon