I love reading the messages on this list. Joannie does a wonderful job of helping us with our requests. Joannie, thanks for being there for us in Illinois....and I am glad that you are recovering well. Like most of us, I have some ancestors that are my brickwall. I am looking for the burial place for William Ewing......the last name could be spelled without the last g......perhaps just EWIN. AND his wife, Frances Ewing...or EWIN. My research effort has uncovered the fact that my Gr Gr Grandfather and one of his sons, (my great grandfather) chose to drop the last g in their latter adult years. These are my paternal gr gr grandparents. I have checked with LaSalle county and Marshall county....and would appreciate a check from the Streator Library, if there is an index that can be searched. This couple appeared in the 1880 Fed. Census....Marshall county, Bennington Township. William Ewin Francis Ewin I have traced this couple and their children. I have not been able to find out where they are buried. I have recently found that William Ewin/g died in Sidney, Nebraska. The LDS site states the year of death as 1888. (I have written that submitter with no response as to how he came up with the year.) A volunteer in Cheyenne co. Nebr., has done some library checking for me. There is no record of a burial in that county anywhere for William Ewin/g. Frances is said to have died 17 FEB 1890 in Creston, Iowa. Courthouse searches there by myself and a volunteer have turned up no burial record for her there. So.....could you check the Streator library records. It is worth it to me, since Streator lies so close to where this couple lived in Illinois. I was thinking that maybe there could be a burial record for one or both of them if their families brought them back to Illinois for burial. This Frances Ewin/g was Frances Stratton. I had a wonderful lady in Marshall county help me with burial records for the Stratton's in Marshall county. She found the Stratton burial records in the Rutland cemetery, but nothing for my Frances Stratton Ewin/g or her husband William. I know the timeframe was 1888 and 1890, but I want to think that the family at that time would have documented their deaths with a burial recorded somewhere, even if there was no tombstone marking the grave/s. I will keep looking and do appreciate any help you can give me in Streator. I know this is a long shot, but not an impossibility. Thanks for your attention and time when that permits. Always seeking those elusive ancestors....there is always one more story to find!! Linda Ewin Ziemann Search engine use: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/index.html Linda Ziemann, County Coordinator Plymouth County Iowa NewspaperAbstracts http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/Plymouth/index.html