There is a small town or community called Brownfield in Pope Co., I am told. Does anyone have any information as to who the town is named after. I am asking for a friend by the name of Brownfield, who traced some of his family to Pope Co. and is interested to see if the town was named after his Brownfield descendant. He would also be interested in any other history of this town. Thank You bob

Cindy: I cannot believe I am sitting here reading your e-mail to the Pope County page about Silas Vaughn and Phoebe Ann Leverett. I have been trying to find someone related to them for a long time. I know that Silas and Phoebe moved to West Frankfort, Illinois many years ago, I can remember visiting them there. Several years ago I tried to locate a "Vaughn" through information from the phone company, none was listed in West Frankfort. I had about given up hope of reaching any of Silas's relation. Silas was my step grandfather's brother. My step grandfather was Wesley (Humpy) Vaughn. He married my grandmother, Lou Ona (Henderson) Barton Vaughn. They lived in Metropolis, Illinois (where I was born). As a matter of fact, I have just come into possession of my grandmother's picture album and there are pictures of Silas and family in it. Until reading your e-mail I did not know Silas was born in Stonefort. My father, Clyde Barton was also born there. The Barton's and Vaughn's must have known each other long before moving to Metropolis. How are you related to Silas and where do you live? Can't wait to hear from you!!!!! Check out my web page..... <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/il/bbskaggs/">Bonnie Barton Skaggs</A>

Message text written by INTERNET:ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com >Still searching for the proverbial Jaco family. Have bits and pieces. Did they not want to be found out about??? LOL Early in the 1800's beginning with John Jaco and Mary Ann Dyer/Morgan.< Can you tell me more about your Mary Ann Dyer? Is she related to a Joseph Dyer b. 1858?

I have a lot of Dyer information but am a bit confused about the message below. Please contact me directly. Dee Doyle DMD@ACCESS-ONE.COM ---------- > From: Michael J. Bowers <mjbowers@compuserve.com> > To: ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILPOPE-L] Re: ILPOPE-D Digest V98 #157 > Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 10:44 AM > > Message text written by INTERNET:ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com > >Still searching for the proverbial Jaco family. Have bits and pieces. > Did > they not want to be found out about??? LOL Early in the 1800's beginning > with John Jaco and Mary Ann Dyer/Morgan.< > > Can you tell me more about your Mary Ann Dyer? Is she related to a Joseph > Dyer b. 1858?

Connie ; I think you're absolutely right about who this James VAUGHN was but there are so many piculiarities and similiarities between your GGrandfather and mine while liveng so close to one another at about the same point in time that I believe there probably was a connection someway. Certainly they each had a tremendous respect for someone named George each one having given one of their children that name but then I have found that same situation just about everywhere I've researched the VAUGHN family. In TN. I found a James VAUGHN & a George VAUGHN both in the TN. 44th Inf. Regiment serving together at the same time for the CSA. during the Civil War. When I researched all the VAUGHNs that served with the CSA. durihg that time in the South I had 25 pages of VAUGHNs & another 20 some odd pages of VAUGHANs using the extra "A" whenever thay felt like using it and there were more James & Gorges than I cared to count. Kent.

Sharon, This is the info I have on the Melissa Rumsey Robb family. Judy Descendants of Melissa Lucinda RUMSEY Generation No. 1 1. MELISSA LUCINDA3 RUMSEY (RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born 06 May, 1858 in Floyd Co GA, and died 23 September, 1930 in (New Liberty Cem). She married (2) JAMES NEWTON ROBBS 02 March, 1881 in Richard RUMSEY'S Res., Pope Co IL, son of JAMES ROBBS and CATHERINE RANDOLPH. She married (3) JAMES LAFAYETTE SAYLORS1 18 March, 1886 in Richard RUMSEY's Res., Pope Co IL, son of JOHN SAYLORS and MARY DYER. Child of MELISSA LUCINDA RUMSEY is: i. MISSOURI4 RUMSEY, b. 21 May, 1878. Children of MELISSA RUMSEY and JAMES ROBBS are: ii. JAMES "MAN" RICHARD4 ROBBS, b. 09 June, 1883. iii. SAMUEL"NEWT" NEWTON ROBBS, b. 30 July, 1885; d. (Sulphur Springs Cem). Children of MELISSA RUMSEY and JAMES SAYLORS are: 2. iv. NANCY MELINDA4 SAYLORS, b. 01 September, 1889, Pope Co IL. v. PEARL SAYLORS, b. 30 September, 1887, Eddyville, Pope Co IL; d. 20 March, 1979; m. CHARLES HERBERT STONE, 09 May, 1909, Glendale, Pope Co IL. 3. vi. ULYSSES LAFAYETTE SAYLORS, b. 30 September, 1894, near Eddyville, Pope Co IL; d. 10 April, 1927, (New Liberty Cem). vii. MELISSA SAYLORS, b. 30 September, 1894, Eddyville, Pope Co IL; m. THOMAS S. MITCHELL, 24 November, 1912, Glendale, Pope Co IL. Generation No. 2 2. NANCY MELINDA4 SAYLORS (MELISSA LUCINDA3 RUMSEY, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born 01 September, 1889 in Pope Co IL. She married JAMES ARTHUR POE 11 February, 1906 in Lafayette SAYLOR's Res, Pope Co IL by J.T. DAVIDSON, J.P., son of DANIEL POE and MARY BRUSH. Children of NANCY SAYLORS and JAMES POE are: i. JAMES HOWARD5 POE, b. 11 July, 1907; d. June 1908. ii. MAUDE POE, b. 10 September, 1910. iii. MABEL POE, b. 10 September, 1910. iv. NORMAN LESLIE "RED" POE, b. 18 October, 1920. 3. ULYSSES LAFAYETTE4 SAYLORS (MELISSA LUCINDA3 RUMSEY, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born 30 September, 1894 in near Eddyville, Pope Co IL, and died 10 April, 1927 in (New Liberty Cem). He married ZURA EZEL CUMMINS 22 September, 1917 in Mrs. CUMMIN's in Pope Co IL by R.M. RUMSEY, Min., daughter of EDMOND CUMMINS and ANNIE COMPTON. Child of ULYSSES SAYLORS and ZURA CUMMINS is: 4. i. JAMES E. "J.E."5 SAYLORS, b. 15 March, 1927. Generation No. 3 4. JAMES E. "J.E."5 SAYLORS (ULYSSES LAFAYETTE4, MELISSA LUCINDA3 RUMSEY, RICHARD2, JOHN1) was born 15 March, 1927. He married LYDIA SHOCKLEY 05 July, 1947. Children of JAMES SAYLORS and LYDIA SHOCKLEY are: i. KAY6 SAYLORS, b. 01 August, 1948; m. ARNOLD. ii. LULA RAE SAYLORS, b. 05 November, 1949; m. MYRICK. iii. KIM SAYLORS, b. 11 September, 1961. Endnotes 1. Ricky T. ALLEN, 1870 Federal Census and Mortality Schedule of Pope Co IL, (1987), Page 65, 06 July 1870 T12S R6E P.O. Eddyville 146/146 [should be 147/147] Living in household of Mary BROADWAY, 58 KY and several other people. Lafyett SALIERS, 21 TN; Salina A. 20 GA; Samuel 2 IL; John W. 1 IL. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Southeastern Illinois Resource Books [Pope, Massac, Johnson & Hardin] http://www.angelfire.com/il/leefoss Judy Foreman Lee Document your research & cite your sources. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ On Sun, 03 Jan 1999, The Browns wrote... >I have contact with Dee Robbs's step-granddaughter. Dee is from Eddyville. His >grandmother was Melissa Rumsey Robbs. I've noticed some Rumsey kin on the line. Anyone >intestested? I have Dee's father (must be Samuel Newton Robbs) married to Grace >Whiteside in 1908. Dee was born in 1903. Does anyone know if he had a first wife? Or, >are the dates wrong. I got my information from Bruce Morse. Also, I understand that >Dee had one brother, John, and two sisters. One sister was Fern and the other M >(will have to check)something lived at Vienna. >

Well, well, Green without an E..on the end!!! LOL Finally!! Looking for info on a Benjamin Franklin Green...said to have been fullblood American Indian. Said to have died in Ark. Buried there on an island somewhere. Any info?? Sure would appreciate it.. Thanks. Deane Jaco-Green

Any of you Barger people out there....do you have any info on an Barger who married an Atkin/Akin/Atkinson/Akinson? She was my grandmother Bertha/Berthie A..who came from Rosebud, Il. Her mother was a Barger if I'm reading the death certificate right...hard to make out. Cressie was born 4/17/86. Would have been about the time she was born...she died about 1934/6. She and Cressie later moved from Pope county to Alexander county, McClure, Il. She is buried in Lindsey cemetary. BTW...there are Browns and Jacobs buried near them. The gravesites are as you face the cemetary...on the far right side on a steep hillside. Thought maybe someone would like to know. Bertha does not have a headstone yet..but you can find the Jaco headstone there. The Browns used to live right next door to my Ggrandmother Goodman and her son Cressie Jaco. Thanks for any help..Deane Jaco-Green

Still searching for the proverbial Jaco family. Have bits and pieces. Did they not want to be found out about??? LOL Early in the 1800's beginning with John Jaco and Mary Ann Dyer/Morgan..not sure which is her last name for certain, in Tenn. Then Mary Ann and children..bout 11 of them moved to Pope County, Il, well, not all of them but the most of them. She was pg with a neighbors child...a Saylors. She later had him in Pope county. Think John went onto Kentucky, remarried and had more kids. Mary Ann remarried first to Saylors..he came from Tenn..but hadn't divorced his wife..then when he died, married a Roial..or Royal Broadway in Pope County. Also, still looking for Alice Dean Broadway, b. about 1866, don't know where from sure. She is either legally a Broadway..born to a marriage or the illegitamate daughther born to Louisa Elizabeth Jaco and Zachariah Broadway in Pope County. The child listed as living in Z. Broadway's home with her servant mother L E Jaco..was spelled Allice..no middle name listed. I doubt very much is this is the ggrandmother I am looking for..but open to suggestions. My ggrandmother spelled her name Alice Dean...and the dates don't match. I believe she is the daughter of Broadways who came to Pope County from another state..migrating. Any help sure would be appreciated on any of this...so I can begin to connect my past for my future. Thanks to anyone who sees this..Deane Jaco-Green By the way Cheryl, was this Royal the son of Z. Broadway???

I have contact with Dee Robbs's step-granddaughter. Dee is from Eddyville. His grandmother was Melissa Rumsey Robbs. I've noticed some Rumsey kin on the line. Anyone intestested? I have Dee's father (must be Samuel Newton Robbs) married to Grace Whiteside in 1908. Dee was born in 1903. Does anyone know if he had a first wife? Or, are the dates wrong. I got my information from Bruce Morse. Also, I understand that Dee had one brother, John, and two sisters. One sister was Fern and the other M (will have to check)something lived at Vienna.

I am trying to locate a descendent of Silas Vaughn his wife Pheobe Ann Leverett. His parents were Henry Vaughn and Mary Satterfield. Silas was born about 1885 in Stonefort, IL. Pheobe's parents were Henry Leverett and Margaret t A Lauderdale. Cindy L Skiles Frie

Kent: I believe the James Vaughn you referred to is my gg grandfather. He was married to Eliza Moyers, May 20,1842 in Pope County,IL They had 5 children: George, Joseph, Henry (my g grandfather), Angeline and Margaret. He then married Elizabeth Catharine PINNELL, Sept.15,1859 in Pope County. They had 3 children: Alfred, Daniel and Spencer. As you say there are so many Vaughns with the same names it is hard to tell who is who. Connie

Joyce, I have Womack's in my family. My ggg grandfather was Abraham Womack b. 1810 NC, m. 1831 Pope Co to Eliz. Shewmaker, d. 1856 Hardin Co. I also have Garrett's in my family, but I believe they were mostly from Gibson Co, Ind. My gg grandmother was Eliz. Garrett and her father was Harrison Garrett. Do any of these name match yours? Judy Brown JSiason@aol.com wrote: > Surnames: DOUGLAS, WOMACK, ROSE, GRIFFIN, STEWART, HEIDEMAN, BERRY, GARRETT, > FAHRENKAMP ETC. IN Pope, Hardin, Massac, Pulaski counties. > > Happy New Year to all, > Joyce (Douglas) Siason > Pleasanton, Ca.

Dear Dee My husband's Waldon line is very elusive. I have only been able to go back to his great grandfather William Mathis Waldon who was born in Missouri in 1843. This man was on the 1850 census of Jasper Co., MO, with his (assumed) parents, James and Joanna Waldon. James listed South Carolina as his birthplace, and Joanna's was Kentucky. That's all I know about them. William ended up in Texas (several different counties). I haven't had any success in tracing James any further, although recently I found a reference to a James Waldon in a record in Laurens Co, SC. Do you have a Waldon line? Carolynn

I think Herrin is in Williamson County. Do they have a geneology link?

I've heard of Dee Robbs of Herrin all my life. He had a gas station. His brother, John, had another store. I remember visiting them when I was a child. I need to know who he is. I've made contact with his step_ granddaughter through a search link. Can anyone help? I think he is a cousin, just don't know how. According to Amy, his mother was Fern. Sharon

Billy ; I don't find any reference to any VAUGHN named Frances but I now know that James was listed in the census' of 1860 & 1870. He apparently was George VAUGHN's father since George was listed with James in the same house-hold as a child along with several others. The 1860 census showed a 30 yr old woman in the houes-hold named Betsy but in 1870 a 39yr old woman was listed in the house-hold named Elizabeth C.(no more Betsy) I don't know who George ever married or what happened from there but by 1880 James was no longer listed in Pope County. I don't know about the rest of his children or where they went. He may not have even been the same James VAUGHN I'm looking for as there seems to have been a large number of VAUGHNS with the same given names in the general area & all over IL. at the time. Many of them from TN. just as my GGrandfather was. Hope you locate your Frances. Kent VAUGHN, Riverside,CA.

Yes, Yes. Herrin is in Williamson Co., IL and Williamson Co. has a rootrsweb site. Sam in KY In a message dated 01/02/1999 3:35:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, winston@apex.net writes: > Subj: [ILPOPE-L] Link > Date: 01/02/1999 3:35:12 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: winston@apex.net (The Browns) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com">ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com</A> > To: ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com > > I think Herrin is in Williamson County. Do they have a geneology link? > > > > ----------------------- Headers --------------------------------

My G GrandMother was a Frances VAUGHN of Golconda, Pope Co. I have no further clue as to her family. It is thought that she was born abt 1850. She was married to George Wilson JACKSON, son of William L. JACKSON odf Pope Co. My GrandFather Thomas Gresham JACKSON was born December 2, 1866 and from family stories, Frances died shortly thereafter. We have never been able to tie her in with any family of VAUGHNs. What can you tell me about any of the VAUGHNs before George married Elizabeth? I sure would like to have some help along with you. Thanks. Kent E. Vaughn wrote: > Listers ; I'm trying to connect to the James VAUGHN line. James may have > been related to the George VAUGHN line from Pope Cnty. as he m.Elizabeth > SHELL in Shawneetown, Gallatin Cnty, in 1869 and they named their only > child George Louis VAUGHN. Thank you for any help on this. Kent VAUGHN, > Riverside, CA.

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