Hi---I'm a real amateur, but I do know you can go to Google or other places and ask for cemetery records for certain localities eg IL. I've never done it myself for IL but have for other states. And also, during the depression years, one the WPA projects was to hire people to visit cemeteries (actually, I think it was mainly to find the graves of veterans??) but in the process they identified all burials in particular cemeteries, the description, condition,condition of stones and fences etc. All cemeteries were not included, possibly because of the WPA project being discontinued. I know these searches are on microfilm at the LDS library--maybe also on the internet. Also, I know it was not uncommon to find orphaned children in different homes--quite often in homes of relatives -----Original Message----- From: Michael S. McGough <mcgoughm@charter.net> To: ILJERSEY-L@rootsweb.com <ILJERSEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:20 PM Subject: [ILJERSEY] Elizabeth Lannon Information Request > I am looking for any information I can find on this lost soul. Here is what >I know: > >Birth: Abt. 1840 (IRE - King or Queens Co - I think) >Marriage: Cornelius Whalen, Jersey County, Dec 25, 1856 >Death: Abt 1867-70 (Location Unknown Poss. Jerseyville area) > >Children: > >Mary Ann Whalen: Birth - September 01, 1858 >Daniel Whalen: Birth - July 30, 1861 >Thomas Whalen: Birth - January 10, 1867 > >I also know she appears with Cornelius in 1860 Census: > >WHEELER CORNELIUS 22 M W IREL IL JERSEY JERSEYVILLE PCT 1860 He was with >Lizzie 20 and child Mary Ann, 1 > >Her Son Thomas Whalen's Obit said that she died when he was an infant. I >believe during that time they would still have been in Jersey, However, I >also have some information that shows an orphaned Thomas Whalen: > >There was also a Thomas Whalin, age 2, listed as an orphan in 1870, in >Montgomery Co., IL. Also but in a differ location his brother Daniel and >sister Mary are also shown as orphans. > >Which lend credibility to the fact that I was told that the father up and >went out west at some point and left all his kids at a crossroads. If he was >an orphan at that age in 1870 then his mother died maybe around 1867 - >1870ish. > >What I am looking for is any information on possibly where this woman is >buried, how she died, anything at all. It is obvious by census records they >were in Jersey in 1860s then possibly the youngest son was orphaned by his >father sometime after the mother died. > >Any information on her, possibilities where they could have been buried or >anything would be great. I think they lived in Jerseyville PCT, but I also >have a baptism cert for Thomas that says something about fidelity/medora. > >Any help on her would be immensely appreciated. > >Mike McGough > > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >