This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.hancock/3349/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for anyone that may be researching this family. I have not proved that the Wm Ross I found on the 1850 and 1860 census records with a wife of Martha is mine or not. Sarah Ross married Moses True Dyer in Hancock County in 1847 and in 1852 came to Oregon with a daughter Lauretta. I have them on the 1850 census in Hancock. I believe that Wm Ross died before Sept. 5 of 1870, I found a guardianship record in Douglas County, Oregon with the name of Wm Ross and listing the children of Sarah. Thanks, Lorelee Iles Dendauw~Oregon