Posted on: Hancock County, Il Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Hancock?read=988 Surname: Gould, Hays, Hayes ------------------------- Obadiah Gould born abt. 1807 in, I think, NY, moved with his wife, Esther Lavinia Hays and children to Hancock County about 1847. They are on the 1850 Hancock census. In 1855 they're in Stephenson County.