This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jeffers Winterbotham Belford Elder Coss Noe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1776.1 Message Board Post: In my great grandmother's journal ( a resident of Baylis, New Slaem Pike Co. Il) TOLAND, Rhoda (aunt) died Jan 15, 1910 TOLAND, Sallie died May 14, 1932 TOLAND, Raymond son of Bill and Mary May 1929 TOLAND, Thomas died Nov 8, 1914

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/17.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ronald Thank you so much for the information That explains all the names on the Lewis Sheppard Bible page I found on the Ilmaga website in Aug. the Sittons and Barrows were listed on the Sheppard bible pages . Good Luck with your research . Judy

The book SITTON AND GIBSON GENEALOGY by Enid Wells Sitton contains the following statement about Joseph Sitton. JOSEPH SITTON, oldest son of John Sitton and Elizabeth Pendleton. Born Oct. 15, 1745 in Virginia, probably Culpepper Co., and died Feb. 8, 1832 in Lincoln Co. Mo. His father, John Sitton, was born in England and was the oldest son of John Sitton. Joseph married Diannah Beck., date unknown. She was born May 14, 1749 in Penn., and died Feb. 8,1842 in Lincoln Co. Mo. She was dau. of --- Beck and Lydia Phillips, of Welsh descent. Joseph and Diannah Sitton moved to North Carolina, where several of their children were born. He served in the Revolutionary War. See N.C. State Records, Vol. 17, page 247. The family then lived in South Carolina for some years, where the older children were masrried. Then all the family group went to Tennessee where they lived seventeen years. In 1811 the Sitton family, children, grandchildren and relatives went to Missouri Territory. Joseph and Diannah Sitton are buried (headstones) in Bryant's Creek Cemetery near Troy, Missouri. In 196 this cemetery was located on Missouri County Road "E," east of Silex on the way to Elsberry. Following this statement there is a list of their children with birth dates. The children that are listed are as follows: John, Jeffrey, Joseph, Philip, Lydia, William, Thomas, Jesse (Mar. 11, 1783 m Sallie Harvey) Lawrence B., Diannah B., Jehu L., and Selama. This is the statement about Jesse Sitton JESSE SITTON, son of Joseph Sitton and Diannah Beck. Born Masr. 11, 1783 in S. C. Married Sallie Harvey. He was a farmer and Baptist preacher in Lincoln Co. Mo. 1821-1828. Later he moved to Pike Co. Ill. His wife died Jan. 12, 1851 in Pike Co., Ill. The following children are listed: Terrell P., Elizabeth P., William H., Jehu, Anna M., Jeffry B., Caroline, Joshua K., Lydia K., Felix Sitton, Jesse B. Written in the margin is another: Linnie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/17.1.1.2.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ronald That is great this matches the names found in a Biography page I found Now What I need is the name(s) of Jehu's wife I have from a bible page a Sarah S. Sitton b. ???the 4th 1821 and then I know Jehu married Palmyra (Palmira, or Almira) Barrow JAN. 19, 1863, I found a census page with 1870 that lists Jehu Sitton wife Almira son John age 12 I know this is John H. b. 1858. who is the mother of Terrell R. 1838 William T. 1840 James H. 1842 Robert R. 1845 Samanth J. 1847 John H. 1858. I understand Jehu and Palmyra had a son b. Dec. 22, 1866 but no other information on that. I hope you can help with the name of the mother of the children b before 1863 and Tell me who Sarah S. is. Thanks for any help you can give. Judy

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/kg.2ADI/17.1.1.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I can give you all the way back to 1783. Joseph Sitton was born in Scotland do nt have wife,s name or date of birth. He had one son Jesse born march 11 1783 om Virginia , died November 29 1832 in Detroit Township Pike county Illinois. He married Salley Haney. Children of Jese and Salley are the following. 1 Jehu Sitton b. March 04 1815 Lincoln county Missouri d. November 29 1882 Scottville Illinois. 2Terrell P Sitto3 Eliza P Sitton 3Eliza P Sitton 4 William H Sitton 5Anna M Sitton 6Jeffery B Sitton 7Caroline Sitton 8Joshua King Sitton 9Lydia K Sitton 10Linnie A Sitton 11Felix G Sitton 12Jesse B Sitton If you need more info i can go on

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/17.1.1.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you I am looking for information on the William H. (Jehu) Sitton who was the father of William T. Sitton I basically want the name of your Great Great Great Grandfather and G G G Grandmother so basically a generation back farther. Judy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/17.1.1.2.2 Message Board Post: Looking into my Sheppard family I found on the Ilmaga website a listing for the Sheppard Bible. Jehu Sitton born 1815 m. Palmyra Barrow 1863 Palmyra was the dau. of Jesse Barrow and Nancy Shepherd I can with research connect the Barrows but am having touble with the other Sittons on the bible pages. Sarah S. Sitton b. 1821; Terrell R. b. 1838; William T. b. 1840; James H. b. 1842; Robert R. b. 1845; Samantha J. b. 1847; and John H. b. 1858 Census shows a Jehu Sitton , wife Almira and son John age 12 in the 1870 census all above children (if that is who they are) born before marriage date of 1863 Also found Illinois Statewide Marriage Index a William H. m. a Sally Jones in 1834 No mention of a Jane but wondering if you have these people in your family and can maybe straighten me out as to the mother of the above mentioned children. You can email me directly if you want with the surname as the subject.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LEEDS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1732.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My great grandfather would be Frank Grant Leeds born April 13, 1868 in Griggsville, Illinois. His father would be John Phillip Leeds (mother Frances Virginia Empson Leeds) born July 5, 1904 in New Jersey. We suspect but do not know for sure if the Samuel W. Leeds listed in the census near John would be his father. Any help in connecting the various Leeds families would be of help - we believe they are connected. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/539.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Louisa KIRGAN-FEE, had a sister, Sarah. Sarah died in Placer Co., CA, where David FEE's son Stephen signed an affidavit, 1908, regarding her estate.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAIRD, DEXTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1399.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the info! I have her d/o John & "Lavina" (Dexter) Baird, but undoubtedly the same person. Appreciate your response.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kg.2ADI/1399.1 Message Board Post: Yes Mary Baird was the daughter of John Baird and Larnia (Dexter) Baird Larnia was the daughter of Darius Dexter and Hetty Winsor This Info was from Ionia Co.,MI Local History under Celia (Dexter) Sessions Hope it Helps

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/kg.2ADI/1732.2.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Can you tell me anything more about Annie REEDER. I, too, have a REEDER line. Norma

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilkins, Reeder, Reed Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1732.2.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so very much!! I also have Peter Wilkins in my line, his oldest daughter was my ggrandmother, my grandmother Annie Reeder was her daughter. I found a cousin a few times removed, her grandfather was one of Peter's younger sons. Thanks again for all your help Liz

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leeds Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1732.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There are several Leeds families that lived in Pike Co. What do you know about your connections? Are Frank & John brothers, father & son -- dates? Perhaps I can help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leeds, Barley, Demoin, Ragsdale, Ward, Manker, & others Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1732.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I will keep that surname in mind as I work building an everyname index. I am also working on old diaries in 1800s with the same objective in mind. Recently read an article in news about a town "New Philadelphia" near Barry. I will be tracking progress on data collection there based on content of some old letters, etc. from Hannibal and Louisiana, MO. Really want others to have access to history of Pike Co, IL.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grimes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1070.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes above and here [email protected] is my e mail address no one else uses it. I'll try and send the other message again.

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/kg.2ADI/1070.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Margaret; Thanks much for your reply. I must have hit the y key instead of the v key in my e-mail address. It's the correct address above. Do you have a private e-mail address I can use to send you my snail mail address?? Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks again. Vera

This was in the Chicago Tribune today... interesting! I never thought to see a byline from my family's home time in my local paper. Just curious if there are any of Free Frank McWhorter's descendants on this list doing family research? - Tonia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Black history unearthed Archeologists in Pike County, Ill., are exposing traces of the first town founded in the United States by an African-American By James Janega Tribune staff reporter Published September 5, 2004 BARRY, Ill. -- The farm field grew corn and native grass for years, the sun-baked land hiding what remained of the first town a black man had founded in the United States. More than a century after the 1836 town of New Philadelphia disappeared into the prairie, scholars digging here hope its broken pots, hand-forged nails and buried garbage will fill in details of life on the nation's old northwest frontier. But historians also say the summer dig in western Illinois has unearthed significant gaps in what is known about black Americans from that time, as differing interpretations have been presented for why blacks and whites lived side-by-side here on the frontier. Pointing to property records showing ownership next door to one another, some have characterized New Philadelphia as an unusual example of racial harmony for its time. Archeologists conducting the dig called the town "a chronicle of racial uplift" in their federal grant proposal. Black historians familiar with the strained race relations of the time, however, dismiss such suggestions as hogwash. "Because whites and blacks lived in the same town, that does not suggest racial harmony," said Juliet E.K. Walker, a historian and descendant of the town's founder. Frontier land speculators could come in any color, she suggested. Early in the three-year study of New Philadelphia, one thing seems certain: Then, as now, race relations were complicated. The story begins with the town's founder, a onetime Kentucky slave later known as "Free" Frank McWorter. A shrewd businessman and land speculator, McWorter escaped servitude by degrees. By offering his owner a cut of the profits, he gained permission to mine saltpeter, a crucial ingredient in gunpowder, on his own time. During the War of 1812, the mining operation ultimately provided McWorter's road to freedom. He bought his wife out of slavery in 1817 and then bought himself two years later, said Walker, director of black history at the University of Texas at Austin and McWorter's great-great-granddaughter. In 1831, nearly broke from buying his sons out of slavery and sensing the possibilities waiting on the frontier in Illinois, McWorter moved out of Kentucky and turned to land speculation in the north. Five years later, records show McWorter laid out New Philadelphia in what was assumed to be desolate land in Illinois, though talk had been growing about building the Illinois & Michigan Canal nearby. He put plans for the town on file with officials in Pike County. It was a signal moment in black history, Walker said. No other black had laid out formal papers for a town before in the United States. The next year, the nation was racked by a depression that lasted until the mid-1840s. A postman wrote in 1841 that, despite occupying a promising site, New Philadelphia held only three houses and that during one ride near town, he had been chased by wolves. Still, in a period when some 20 towns were founded on paper in Pike County, McWorter's actually grew. While Free Frank lived on a farm just outside town limits, New Philadelphia eventually came to attract a blacksmith, a wheelwright, two cobblers and a grocer. By 1850, census figures show 58 people lived there in 11 buildings, respectable for a frontier town. Twenty of the townspeople were black. The rest were white. The presence of whites suggests that "the white settlers may have been relatively free of the period's pervasive white racism," said University of Western Ontario historian Jack Blocker, who studies the time period but is not involved with the Illinois dig. Another scholar, Sundiata Cha-Jua, questions how far to follow the thread of racial harmony. "I'm certain that they weren't living warmly," said Cha-Jua, director of the African-American studies and research program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. "It's a hotly contested time that in truth does lead us to the Civil War." McWorter died in 1854, an old man at the height of the town's growth. The town died shortly after him, when a railroad cut across the horizon in 1869 and missed his town. By 1880, New Philadelphia was officially dissolved and gradually returned to use as farmland. Interest in the site's past renewed more than a century later, as dusty knickknacks began turning up in the plowed fields east of Barry, Ill. Though little was known about life in New Philadelphia, the town had been commemorated since the 1940s by a painted sign on a pitted tar and gravel road a half-hour drive east of Hannibal, Mo. When talk grew of an interstate highway to connect rural western Illinois with the state capital in Springfield in the 1980s and '90s, interest grew in memorializing the site, including talk of building a highway turnoff there. The turnoff plans were ultimately deemed too complicated, but in 1996 a group calling itself the New Philadelphia Association formed to promote the town as a historic site that could draw outsiders, tourists and the curious. The lone sign was replaced, and as members grew more interested in the town's past, they contacted academics like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign archeologist Christopher Fennell and Paul Shackel, a University of Maryland anthropologist, to study the town's remains. Phil Bradshaw, a local farmer and president of the New Philadelphia Association, says his group is still pushing for national recognition of the town--a plaque designating it a historic site, or perhaps an interpretive center. But he has shied away from taking sides over how to interpret its racial history. "I don't know anything about this. I just happened to be a fella in a position to make things happen," he said. Still, the racial question is real, said Bradshaw, who is white. "That is one of the challenges facing us," he said. "I am personally so afraid that I culturally will say or do something that isn't correct." Also urging caution is Walker, who has been frustrated by the suggestion of blacks and whites living happily together at a time when fugitive slave laws were toughened and blacks were systematically denied rights, even in free states like Illinois. "People want something uplifting," she said. "But to turn back to the good old days, even if these good old days are being fabricated, is that something good?" The question loomed as volunteers working for Shackel and Fennell followed a plow across the field in 2002 and picked more than 7,000 items from dolls' heads to broken pottery off the ground. This summer, armed with a $230,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, archeologists dug four shallow pits where the ground-level finds were most concentrated. The dirt was "just full of artifacts," said Fennell. One shallow hole seemed to coincide with a trash pit full of chicken and pig bones. Another seemed to be a house foundation. A terra cotta pipe came out of the earth, as did pieces of a child's pewter tea set and tableware made locally and in Staffordshire, England. In five weeks, students had an additional 3,000 objects, cataloged later in crowded rooms at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. Digs will continue next summer and the year after. Determining the age and origin of the objects will be the easy part, researchers say. It is harder to find in a broken pot whispers of how people behaved toward one another. "There's just a tremendous amount to be done on the social history to tease out the social contours," Fennell said. Researchers at the site, Shackel added, have been cautious about making interpretations. "By no means am I painting this as a place of harmony or a place where people got along," Shackel said. "But I think this is a unique case where people are coexisting in a biracial community, and we need to find out more about this."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grimes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1070.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Vera Mayfield. I don't have a Thomas or Robert W. Grimes in my list. Have a John and several John's with middle names, I tryed to send you an e mail with a partial list to the following address, It came back as no such address. ------------------------------------------ [email protected] ------------------------------------------ If you want, send me your snail mail address, and I'll be glad to send you the whole file, no problem. ----------------------------------------------------- Also a Lady in Illinois has been searching the Grimes Family for a long time, she may have a connection that I don't have. In fact the bulk of the file I have on the Grimes in Illinois came from her. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Butcher [email protected] --------------------------------------------------- contact her, use my name. good luck.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grimes, Hack, Bennett, Brewer, Hancock,Ricketts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1070.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I would like very much to have this information as I truly believe that we may be distant relatives. I am a descendant of John Grimes, father of Thomas who was the father of Robert W, Grimes , who is my father.The family was from Parke Co. Indiana but some moved to Vermilion Co. Illinois to the best of my knowledge. My own branch moved to Vermillion Co, Indiana but some of the family moved back and forth between Vermilion Co. Illinois and Vermillion Co. Indiana as the wo counties are just accross the Wabash River froom each other.. We have been trying to put together our family History for a long time. This may be the info I am needing. Thanks very much. V. Mayfield