Hi, Marilyn: Indirectly, my ancestors settled on the north side of Fairbury, IL on the border of Indian Grove and Avoca Townships. Their surname was McDowell with the patriarch, Wm. McDowell, an OH War of 1812 soldier, who brought his family from OH, via a few years (1828-1832) in Tippecanoe/Montgomery Counties, IN. However, John McDowell married Elizabeth Julian Moore (1820 Nashville, TN-1895 Mt. Hope, KS Cemetery). This is why I am somewhat familiar with the surnames Darnall/Spence/Moore of the south side of Fairbury, IL. Also, all my roots are from the Fairbury area on my mother/father's side. I grew up with the typical summertime setting, swinging on the front porches of the old Victorian homes of Fairbury and listening to the cousins (1st, 2ond and even 3rd) relate stories of their childhood.