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/4g.2ADE/761.796 Message Board Post: Hi, I have the Knox County, IL, P&B and in there is an Alex. Thurman don of John G. and Dorothy Strange Thurman. He was born in Highland county, Ohio, Dec. 01, 1821 and married Eliza A., daughter of Mark and Fannie (Merchant) Thurman. Her parents were pioneers of Knox county, coming there as early as 1829. There they resided until their demise. Mark Thurman, the father of Mrs. Thurman, was the first Justice of the Peace in Knox County. His demise occurred Oct. 26, 1845. The parental family consisted of ten children, of whom Mrs. T. was the third in order of birth. February 14, 1829, in Highland County, Oihio she first saw the light. If interested in this bio you can email me at [email protected] Also there is a bio on an Alfred Thurman who married the daughter, Barbara, of David and Elizabeth (Thornbrough) Housh, at Knoxville, August 03, 1854. Mrs. Thurman was born in Haw Creek Twp, august 20, 1836, and by this union became the mother ot\f two daughters--Florence and Emma C. Florence m is the wife of Benjamin S. Green, and they are at present residing at Peoria; Mrs. Green is the mother of three children, viz: George A., sophia B. and Benjamin J.; Emma C. died when three months old. It really doens't say alot about Alfred he must of died for she married a Mr. William H. H. Green who had previously been married to her sister Amanda. Let me know... Happy Gene Hunting. Foxie http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/