Posted on: Hancock County, Il Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Hancock?read=1051 Surname: Barnard, Bernard ------------------------- I'm looking for the "Barnard/Bernard Gang" of Hancock Co., IL. "Big John" Barnard murdered Henley Sutton. Big John was arrested along with two of his brothers Anderson and Elisha and two cousins John Barnard Jr. and Clint Barnard. They were sentenced to death, but Governor Taylor intervened and gave two of them their freedom [ Elisha and John Jr. [ the cousin]]. Big John got 10 years and Clinton and Anderson got 5 years. All this happened after the war and the Sutton man was a mean character also, who had killed his own father. The Newspapers had a "Heyday" with all this calling them the "Barnard Gang" Another article says; The aged grandfather of the Barnards, than whom tere is no better citizen in Hancock County, refused to allow his name to appear on the petition praying for pardon, but said, "No, the boys are guilty, and have been tried and convcted, let them suffer." All this is pieces of articles from the Newspapers from Jan. 1889 to Oct. 1892. I'm dying to know who this Barnard/Bernard family was. Can someone give me a helping hand with the census and the Newspaper articles. Thank You Karen