This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones, White, Watson, Henderson, Riley, Sharp, Culbertson, Copeland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1045.2 Message Board Post: Bert, After looking at the book Some Copeland and Little Families written by A.Lucille Harney & Fairline Bigley I looked up the Simpson family on pg 40 and it says the children of William Simpson and Polly Jones: i -William Simpson b Detroit, Wayne Co., MI; Maried Kezia Parmley ii-Jackson Simpson b Lexington, KY; d. 1864 Johnson Co., IL; Married Elizabeth Shearer b. 1804, d. 1846 iii- Amanda Simpson; Mar. Thomas Jones, son of the pioneer, James Jones (bio. review of Johnson, Massac, Pope & Hardin Co., IL,p. 302) *From Pg. 41 of the same book here is the information on the family and children of Amanda Simpson and Thomas Jones: i- John Monroe Jones, Married Mariah Rose. Their ch.: 1- James Monroe Jones mar. Venie Abney ( dh: Ethel Jones mar. Otto Murrie), 2-Mimple Jones, 3-Olive Jones, 4-Pleasant Jones, 5-Frank Jones, 6-Charles Jones, 7-Herschel Jones, 8-Maude Jones ii-Frances Marian Jones iii-Elizabeth Jane Jones iv-Sidney Clarissa Jones v-Franklin Morris Jones vi-Mary Ann Jones vii-Thomas Wesley Jones viii-Barila Isabell Jones ix-Juliet Susanna Jones * The source sited in this book for the above information is Mrs. P.T. Chapman, History of Johnson Co., IL; pp. 173, 237, 357. And the other source is descendant, Golda (Weaver) Helmig, RR. 3, Metropolis, IL. If you would like I can scan the pages your interested in out of this book. I have a copy and would be glad to do it. I have a picture of Thomas and possibly Amanda's grave that I made in Oct. 2005 when I visited the Oliver cemetery in Johnson Co., IL.