This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilkins, Tull Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/2011 Message Board Post: I am desparately looking for any record of my gr gr gr grandfather, Thomas Wilkins b. 1815-1818?, in OH, Union, RossCo., I think, and his wife , my grandmother, Mary Tull , m. Aug 1840, in OH. They moved to Hadley, Pke co. IL in the early 1850's, and in 1860's moved to Perry , Pike co IL. He was living with his dau. Rachel Wilkins Mercer in the 1880 Census. I assume Mary passed by then, but I have no record. He is listed in the 1900 census. I think he died soon after the census was taken, possibly Nov or Dec. 1900. I Only found a blurb in the personals in the Pike newspaper in Nov or Dec 1900 that his son , professor John ? Wilkins came from Vermont IL to his funeral . I have checked all the cem books, I've walked the McCord and Wilson Cem several times, I've walked the Wade and Seybold Cem also just in case the burial place was overlooked. His chldren and grandchildren are buried mostly in Perry. His son Milton and grandson Russel ran a grocery store in Perry, I wou! ld think that a write up would've been in the paper. i THINK Thomas parent's were John and Nancy Wilkins b. Delaware, moved OH in 19th cen. and this John died 1869 in OH. Maybe Thomas and wife wanted to be buried in OH where they were born and with their parents? Please Help