on 4/24/03 1:01 PM, ILMCHENR-D-request@rootsweb.com at ILMCHENR-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Archdale and Flora were married 24 Jan 1881 in Lyon County, Kansas. His was > from Richmond, Illinois. She was from Emporia, Kansas. Linda, don't think I can give you any data on these folks, but the parallels with my family are amazing. My gggrandparents Joseph and Martha Hutchins came to McHenry County in the early 1840 and homesteaded in Burton Twp, east of Richmond. Their son Morris S. Hutchins (my ggrandfather's brother) and wife Anvanette lived nearby later, until 1874, when they sold the farm (house still there on Wilmot Road but about to be bulldozed down by the sand quarry west of Antioch) and moved to Lyon County. I have a photo of their son Morris A. taken in Richmond Twp. My ggrandfather later came to Lyon County and was married in Americus in 1876 to my grandmother Amelia Hall, who came to Americus with Morris S. and family from Lake County - east of Antioch. Then later her sister Ella Hall and husband Erskine Hoskins (from Salem Wis. originally) moved to Lyon County (north of Americus) in 1878. Still later my ggrandparents died in CO leaving five kids, including my grandfather. Two of his sisters, my great aunts, were sent back to Americus and were raised there by the Hoskins. They both later married in Americus and lived in Emporia. Methodists. I've researched in both counties - good source material at libraries, cemeteries and the Historical Societies. Our ancestors may have known each other! Bob Denton County, Texas