Hi Amy, I'm just going through my e-mail for the past month and found your post about La Salle biographies. Would there be an Ellis White listed? He married Desire Kuney. Ellis was my gr-grandfather. His daughter, my grandmother, came to the SW with her husband (Edward Everett Becker) when he contracted TB. Only her oldest sister, Edie, came to visit, I know that she had about 7 siblings, and little more. Her mother was Desire Kuney, and there's a lot of information on the Kuney family, but it's really Sadie that I want to know about. She was actually sort of a surrogate mother to me and I'm not sure what or where I'd be now without her. Anyway, if you have any information on Ellis's parentage, or anything, I'd love to know. Thanks, Nance ([email protected]) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:09 PM Subject: [ILLASALLE] Biographies from History of La Salle County Book >I found the following bio for my ancestor Allen McDonell in a book The >History of La Salle County, Illinois: together with scetches of its cities, >villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political >history, portraits of prominent persons and biographies... published in 1886, >which I accessed on-line through my (Oregon State) library. > >If you think your ancestor might be listed here, let me know and I will look >it up (This is a very slow process on my computer so please be patient). I >would need the township and the individuals name. > >If anyone has more information on anyone listed in this bio, I would love to >hear from you. > >Biography from History of La Salle County, Illinois: >Allen McDonell, deceased, was born in Invernesshire, Scotland, in 1825, and >came to the United States in 1848, locating in Peoria County, Ill., where he >was married in 1849 to Mary Taylor, a native of Shropshire, England, born in >1827, daughter of Wiliam Taylor. She came with her parents to America in >1849, and located in Peoria County, where her father died the following year. > Mr. McDonell lived in Peoria County till 1864, when with his wife he went to >Scotland and remained a year. Upon his return to America, he settled in >Osage Township, LaSalle County, where, with the assistance of his sons he >improved a valuable farm. He died May 1, 1876, leaving behind him a good >name and a memory cherished by all who knew his sterling qualities. The >mother with her six children, Donald, Duncan, Sarah, Ronald, John, and Agnes, >lives on the old homestead, on section 11. the farm contains 400 acres of >land and is located on sections 10, 11 and 23. > >Amy Reaney >Portland, Oregon > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >