Tom I aplogize for taking so darn long to get your stuff straightened out, I have been traveling almost eery day for over a month for work. At any rate, I have changed the e-mail address on your query, I think Davis was all that was listed, if I missed any please let me know. Changed e-mail on l/u also. I made a family file for your query (below) I thought it would fit better. I linked it under Davis, Duvall, Montgomery and Stone. URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/homepgs.htm Let me know if I can do anything else. Regards Joe > Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 10:22:55 -0700 > From: "Thomas Davis" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ILMONROE-L] 1850 - 1900 DAVIS/DUVALL/MONTGOMERY Families > To: [email protected] > Reply-to: [email protected] > The following describes what I know of my Monroe County forebears. > Hopefully someone will recognize the family, and offer additional > information. > > Monroe County land records include an 1848 town lot purchase by Thomas > Davis. He presumably was a newcomer to the county, as he was not > enumberated in Monroe County at the time of the 1845 Illinois census. The > federal census of 1850 shows Davis living in Columbia with his wife, Mary. > He was listed as age fifty, born in Illinois, a carpenter. His wife, Mary, > was sixteen. > > Thomas M. Davis, a widower, and Mary Duvall had been married earlier in the > year by Reverend William Cliff, a Methodist minister at Waterloo. During > the following four years Davis bought several pieces of property near > Columbia, and in January of 1854 leased 100 acres of land. The couple's > only child was born on March 26, and named James Bissell Davis. Thomas died > during the summer of 1854. His father-in-law, Washington Duvall, also of > Columbia, was named administrator of the estate, which for some reason did > not include the property purchased and/or leased in the previous six years, > nor does county records reflect disposal of the property. > > Thomas may have been the child of either James Davis, or Richard Davis, as > they were the only Davis' enumerated in the Illinois Territory, at the time > of the 1807 census. > > His widow, Mary Duvall Davis, remarried, and is listed with the Davis child, > her new husband, William Stone, and their one-month old child, Julia, in the > 1860 census for Columbia. As in 1850, her family lived a few doors from her > parents, Washington and Ann Duvall. > > By the census of 1870, the family had grown, and included William Stone, age > 38, born in Tennessee; Mary, age 36, born in Virginia; James Bissell Davis, > age 16; Julia, age 10, George, age 7; Mary, age 5, and a new-born. > > Mary's mother, Ann, had died, however, and Washington Duvall had in 1866 > married Melvina (Patterson) Agneu, also of Monroe County. Mary > (Duvall/Davis) Stone died ca 1872, presumably at Columbia. Her father > shortly thereafter moved to St. Francois County, Missouri. He died there in > 1882, and is buried at Salem Methodist Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve. Mary's > husband, William Stone, raised their children, and joined by his younger > sister, Mary Anne, remained at Columbia, dying there ca 1902. William and > Mary's daughter, Julia, also died ca 1902. > > Separately, the 1850 census shows William Montgomery, age 31, born in Ohio, > living at Centerville, St. Clair County. The following year, William married > Matilda Jane Smith, at Mounds Methodist Episcopal Church - South, at St. > Louis, Missouri. In 1860, the census for Monroe County shows William and > Matilda at Waterloo, where William was employed as constable. Their family > then included John , age 7 (born at Waterloo), and Martha, age 3. > > The Stone and Montgomery families come together in 1897 with the marriage of > John Montgomery and Julia Stone. > > Any additional nformation relating to the Davis, Stone, or Montgomery > families would be very much appreciated. > > Tom Davis > > > > Cocke Co., TN Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~tncocke/Index.html Monroe Co. IL Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmonroe/