In a message dated 11/28/99 8:34:43 AM Central Standard Time, jlowary@mail.coin.missouri.edu writes: << For a couple of weeks I have access to the above book, and will attempt to do look-up's if anyone want/needs them from this book. >> Hello Jim! Thank you so much for your wonderful offer. My family is said to have been some of the earliest inhabitants of Hancock county --- Jacob Waggoner and sons Gershom, Gad and John, daugther Rebekah (WAGGONER) WILLIAMS. (wife of Peter WILLIAMS of Commerce, IL) I would love to obtain any more information on Peter and Rebekah WILLIAMS, or any of their children. Thank you! Valerie Boatkitten@aol.com Here is a post I made last year: Does anyone have info on a JACOB WAGGONER, b ?, m Unknown, who had a daughter b Dec 25 1792 OHIO named Rebekah WAGGONER (Wife of Peter WILLIAMS). Other children were Gershom, Gad and John - b abt 1783 and was a stone mason and was the earliest settler in Montebello Twp, Hancock County (1824 from Cincinatti Ohio), as mentioned in Gregg's History of Hancock County. His son's were "steamboat pilots on the river" based in St. Louis. John's son Isaac Newton WAGGONER was "One of the most knowledgeable men concerning river navigation on the Mississippi". He later retired to farm 200 acres of land and run a steam mill in the town of Riverside along the MIssissippi. He died in 1877. (I have more on this family) ~~~~~ Rebekah (WAGGONER) WILLIAMS died of sickness during the "Winter of the Deep Snow" in Nauvoo IL, April 3, 1833, and is buried on a bluff beside the Mississippi river (beside her 6 day old daughter, Julia Ann who died a few weeks earlier on March 19, 1833). Another daughter Phoebe, b 1825 in Warsaw IL, was said to be "One quarter Indian", as handed down by her grandson. (Which parent was 1/2 Indian? Peter or Rebekah (WAGGONER) WILLIAMS???) Peter's father was John Williams of Ohio. Her discouraged and heartbroken husband Peter left their often-flooded Illinois farm (Commerce, now Nauvoo) soon afterwards with their remaining children (Including Elizabeth, Phoebe, Elijah) , to farm just south of Fort Madison, Iowa and became good friends with Chief Blackhawk, often entertaining 3 of the Chief's children in his home. (Peter' and Rebekah's daughter, Elizabeth (WILLLIAMS) BOX, is my GGGGrandmother who is buried in Schuyler county) Peter died in 1835 and is buried the the Farmington, Iowa graveyard on the bank of the Des Moines river. In 1892, Peter and Rebekah's son, Elijah, wrote a very good history about this part of his father's life. I have more info regarding this Williams history.