May the holidays bring each of you Peace, the Joy of sharing the time with family and friends, and the falling of your most troubling "brick wall" by a contact from a cousin with all the data you are missing. { :>) Well, one can always hope. Kim CHAPMAN, now living 22 miles north of Detroit, Michigan (I grew up in Sesser, Franklin Co.) [email protected] Researching Perry Co. lines: CHAPMAN - the descendants of George CHAPMAN and Hattie Jane LINN, who moved to Du Bois, just north of Perry Co., Illinois from Racine Co., Wisconsin between mid-1868 and 1870. Many of their children lived in Perry Co. EATER - the descendants of Henry EATER and Elizabeth HUNTER, who came to Perry Co., Illinois from Pennsylvania (with stops in Ohio and Indiana?) by about 1841. CAMPBELL - The descendants of David F CAMPBELL and Mary Ann Louisa DEES, of Jefferson Co., Illinois in the 1850s through the 1880s. Their daughter, Julia E CAMPBELL married Jonas Washington EATER, and moved with her husband to Perry Co. David F was the son of Edward CAMBPELL, born 1801, and Mary LEWIS of Lewis Co., Kentucky. DEES - Several branches of the DEES family moved to Illinois in the very early 1800s, with some families moving to Perry Co., by 1850. Family Names from Southern Illinois, with connections to Perry Co.: BOOTHROYD, McLAUGHLIN, HUNTER, HILL, CHRISTIAN Other Family Names from Southern Illinois, but not necessarily from Perry Co.: LEWIS, FOSTER, MOORE, PAGE, ADDISON, HARMON, LEWIS, BURROWS, CLINTON, HARMON, POLK