In a message dated 10/14/99 10:17:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, judy@abcs.com writes: << Lots of researchers on this line - what is your line - maybe someone wants to give you a hug and welcome you to the family. One hug from me, Judy >> I read somewhere that it takes two hugs a day just to survive - well that means I'm not even surviving - sometimes I get months behind! My Macoupin connections include Samuel GIBERSON and his wife Margaret HUFFMAN who moved to IL from Hocking Co OH about 1865. Their children were: Isaac who married Mary Jane GREEN; William killed in Civil War; Rebecca who m. ....WILSON; Joseph who m Marilda FULLER; Margaret (my ancesstress) who m Joseph SMITH (a Jersey Co IL "boy", son of Hubert SMITH and Catherine BARMAN); and Jacob who died unmarried at age 23 in 1873 of cholera, sadly the same week both his parents died of the same cause. They are buried at Shaw's Point. Sooooooooooooooooooo, any family hugs available? Thank you for your interest. Lorraine