mksroots@juno.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: WING, DUNPHEY, BARR, OVERSHINER >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jg.2ADI/1392 > >Message Board Post: > >Eliza WING married 1828 in NY Stephen DUNPHEY and they had 6 children: (Minerva DUNPHEY married Gideon J Overshiner; Cecelia DUNPHEY; Eliza DUNPHEY and Dexter DUNPHEY). Stephen Dunphey died in 1842 and his widow Eliza WING married 2nd James BARR who had two children with his 1st wife. Eliza WING DUNPHEY BARR died in 1860 in LaSalle co, IL. Following is Eliza on the 1850 census. > >1850 census Galena, Jo Daviess, IL pg 258 dw 2500 fam2514 >Eliza Barr 39 b 1811 CAN >Julius V. Stoddard 26 b CT wagon maker > > Galena, Illinois must have been a home for many Irish immigrants; becasue that is where all my Irish ancestors lived, three from County Fermanagh, and one from County Cork. Sharon