This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ig.2ADI/1143.1 Message Board Post: History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Illinois : together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent individuals, and biographies of representative men : History of Illinois, embracing accounts of the pre-historic and historic races, and a brief review of its civil and military history. Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Co., 1885 This book, a secondary source with information probably given by family, contains a brief bio of Samuel Darlington b Scioto Co. OH on 14 Aug 1827. In 1840 he came with his parents, Abishra and Eva (Cramer), to IL , locating on Section 21, Mississippi District, Jersey Co. His father was b PA 1785 and died here in 1851. His mother was b PA in 1790 and died at home in 1849. They are both buried on the home place. The interesting thing about this is that in the 1860 census of Miss. Dist., Jersey Co., this Samuel Darlington 33 b OH is on the same page as Andrew and Margaret Gillham (she 36 b OH), separated by only two households - and next door on the other side is a Henry Darlington 42 (b OH). IN 1870, Margaret Gillham is listed with her children, in New Bern, about 4 pages from Samuel Darlington, also in New Bern. Abisha is listed in Jeffereson Twp., Scioto Co OH in the 1820 census, online,with several young children, male and female. He is listed next to Henry Creamer, Sr. Have you tried the 1850 census? I have no index for it.