a wee bit more information comes from the material sent me by [email protected]: there is a copy of a letter from some years ago, apparently from a granddaughter of William Oliver Ewing, Mrs. Robert H. Hurlbutt (Louise White Hurlbutt) In it, the writer tells that "One year, when Robert and I were East, we went up into Perry County, Pennsylvania, and to harrisburg, but many of the Pennsylvania records were burned. My next effort was to locate my Grandfather Ewing's family. He was a twin and born in Perry County, Pennsylvania. His parents and one brother died from small pox and the twins were raised by different families. In the 1850 census, I found a Jane Ewing and an Oliver Ewing living with a family but did not find Robert....... "Then in the National Archives in Washington, D. C., I found the 1850 and 1860 census listings....of William Ewing working for William Bird and in Fulton County, Robert Ewing, his twin, working for Richard Bird...." Additionally, many Bird's and Lane's and Proctor's intermarried with the Wilson's in the mid 1800's in Western Peoria and North East Fulton Counties. I very much suspect that Jane Ewing Wilson is the Jane mentioned above and that finding her parents will involve some checking of the 1830/40 Pennsylvania census, church records, probate and family court for Perry Co. Paul in Bflo