This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Rh.2ADE/409 Message Board Post: i am looking for descendants of Alonzo Shrum and Melissa Ann Shrum Lynch(wife of Timothy J Lynch).their mother ,Mary E (DeWhitt) Shrum,was a sister of my great great grandfather,Henry DeWhitt.i believe Alonzo and Melissa lived with some of my DeWhitt relatives in Jefferson and possibly Perry county,Illinois after their mother died in 1866(in Perry county,i think)it may be Alonzo and Melissa living with the family of my great grandfather,William A DeWhitt, in the 1870 Jefferson county U.S. census.thank you for any help. Carl DeWhitt