Diane, What is your Laird connection? Mary Laird was my gr grandmother. She married James Wilkes. Their daughter, Valetta Wilkes, was my grandmother. Mary's parents were Mathew Laird and Isabella McMullen. Isabella took all of the children and moved from Waterloo, PA, to Woodhull, IL, about 1855, leaving Mathew in PA. Several of Matthew's brothers also moved to the Woodhull area. Mary and James Wilkes lived most of their married life in Knox Co. James Wilkes was from Wataga. The rest of the family spelled the name "Wilks" but James preferred "Wilkes." Mathew Laird's parents were Samuel Laird and Martha Curry who came from Ireland and lived in Franklin County, PA. Samuel's second wife was Elizabeth Campbell. Lucille << ------------------- X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 05:28:13 EDT From: Diane14Sim@aol.com To: ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <87.465f1b.26e616ad@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Gertrude Wyckoff - May, 1884 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Pat, I don't know for sure if this Gertrude Wyckoff is related to my family or not. What I do know is that I am a descendant of the Dunbar family of Knox County, Illinois. In our family we have an Alice G. Dunbar who was born on 5 October 1860 in Henderson Township, Knox County, Illinois. Alice married John G. Wyckoff and they had 4 children that I know of: Mattie (1888), Lena (1892), John (1897) and Frederick (1900) Wyckoff. I think it is quite likely that there were other children born earlier than Mattie. Alice was 28 years old when Mattie was born so it is unlikely that Mattie was her firstborn. I would very much like to have a copy of your Gertrude Wyckoff to add to my files. Please let me know if I can send an envelope or if you have the ability to scan the photo and send it as an email attachment. I'm also be very interested in contacting anyone who connects to the Wyckoff family. Wyckoff is a fairly unusual name and I think it likely that Gertrude was related to my Knox County Wyckoff family. Just let me know how I would go about receiving a copy of the picture and I will be glad to respond. Thank very much for posting your finding. Take care, Diane Simpson Diane Eileen Davis Simpson 1874 Woodside Drive Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 (805) 492-5457 Researching - Broughard, Brouhard, Brohard, Dunbar, Laird, Davis, Bishop, Sawyer, Sheets, Moats, Gellinger. VA>OH>IN>IA A family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots.