This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Jg.2ADI/1191.2.1 Message Board Post: I may be able to give you some information about Jane Spurgeon. I am descended from Francis McGinnis and Jane Copher through their son Enoch McGinnis who was a sister of Zaurtha Jane McGinnis. Eleanor was the second wife of Francis, Jane Copher McGinnis having died 9 June 1849. Francis and Jane did not have a daughter named Tabitha but they did have one named Zaurtha Jane and she married Joe Surgeon. This may be the reason you have been having difficulity - her name was Zaurtha, not Tabitha. How many Joe Surgeons can there be in Jo Davies County? ( I have found several errors in this line - especially Francis' death date.) Zaurtha Jane was born in 1839 in Indiana and died in 1864. I just visited the cemetery where she is buried last summer and her tombstone says "Jane Spurgeon lived 25 years". It is on one side of a four sided tombstone. Another side is for Francis McGinnis and one for his wife, Jane. There is no doubt she is a daughter of Francis and Jane McGinnis. ! She is buried in Clay Cemetery, Berreman Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois where many of the McGinnis' are also buried. I don't have any of Jane and Joe's children. Sherry and I have corresponded for some time and I gave her most of this information so she may have passed it on to you. If you would like more on Francis McGinnis and his family, please contact me. I am currently working on the Cofer/Copher line and looking for more on Reuben, Jane Copher's father.