Faith, I am going to send you what I have gathered thus far on the Cunningham family. Perhaps you will see some clue within the documents that I am missing. I will give the Mathis family another shot when I get back to the library. I did see some references to various Mathews when I was checking, but nothing with any regularity that made me expect a connection to your family. From what I gather from your communications, you are expecting the Mathis spelling to be the more predominant? It does seem unusual that with all of those kids there isn't another researcher but I am in a similar situation with one of my families. Three cousins on one line with a few siblings and none but me on the line that had a whole house full! I'll try to get this out in the mail this week. I'm not certain when I'll get back to the library--at the moment my various children have croupe, tonsillitis, and a fever spiking to 104.3 (sigh). Lisa >From: "Faith Keahey" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Cunningham >Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:16:31 -0700 > >Hi, I really don't have much on Cunningham outside of the names and >marriages. I gathered some from censuses, and two cousins. The cousins >not >interested in the Cunningham line, just paternal side. One would think >with 15 Cunningham children I could find more cousins and maybe someone >else interested in them. I have a half a dozen Mathis cousins who ALL >decend from one sister of my Sarah. > >Long before I knew where the Cunninghams were I had written Genealogy >Society there in McLean County and was sent only a fragment of Mathews, >that >wasn't mine, they were also unable to find Mathis. I found one in a census >with a Cunningham, but wasn't one of mine, although I know now he was >probably a cousin. > >It is a huge mystery. I went thru 1860 census at BYU for all of Brown Co., >IN and found only 5 of the older ones. Then this census was put on-line >for >Brown Co. so went back thru it and they are not there. That makes about 7 >missing children!! Yet at least 5 pop up in IL 10 years later! I am >still wondering how Nancy and Sarah met the Smith cousins from Adams Co., >IN!! > >I really do appreciate your help! Faith > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com