I have connections with these families if anyone would like to share anything. May Ann Lear married Benjamin Pyatt Jr and they moved to Jacksonville Il around 1843. Benj had a Tobacco company there. Her mother's family, the CASSELL's, lived there also. Her father's sister, Rebacca married AARON SMEDLEY and his family, two brothers, moved to Jacksonville. Mary Ann's brother, HENRY LEAR, married RHODA GROGAN, there in Jacksonville on 10/7/1844. Some time after this, one or two years, Henry & Rhoda moved back to Palmyra Missouri and raised their family. I hav emuch info on the Lear's and would like to find any distant cousin of any of these families. Melissa Musick in Missouri