Regina Saw this message and couln't help but note that your ancestor had many of the same characteristics of someone I've been searching for. I had a Sarah Amanda Hughes Waters born bet. 1807 and 1812 that I've been unable to trace. Her parents settled in Kentucky then New Madrid MO and ultimately Pope Co. Was your ancestor's maiden name Hughes or something else? Livingston Co is just across from Pope and Massac. Ida Cheek -- Rmarkowi@aol.com wrote: Judy, so very good to hear from you. I just hookup to the Pope County Sight. Do not know what took so long. Seems like we have been corresponding since old Prodigy Days back in the late 1980s when that was all that was available. Time have been good to we genealogist. I just found the death place of my Great Great Grandmother, Eliza (Elizabeth) Sarah Hughes Covington, born ca. 1812, died 23 Oct 1872 in Pope County. I found the entry in a Massac County book. I knew the family had property there and that she was left behind when her six sons left for the Kansas land rush. I spent years looking for her in Livingston County, KY where she and George Washington Covington raised their family of 10 children from the time he was given his first land grant in 1836. This is what I wrote in my files: "On May 19, 2005, I discovered the death notice, at last, of Eliza as published in the "Massac County Memories Book, Vol IV," on page 365. This book was compiled and published in 2000 by committed historian of Metropolis, Illinois, Paul Fellows. He has worked very hard to preserve local history and I am very grateful for his years of dedication and effort. In the past he has located materials I have sought on our family history in Metropolis and the surrounding area without charge, and for this I am grateful. At last, we have a date of death and place for Eliza. It has taken me 30 years. The article does not indicate the exact place but I assume it must have been in New Liberty, a town too small to have a newspaper, near Galconda on the Ohio River just a few miles east of Metropolis and of what is now I-24. Incidentally, the administrator for her estate if James C. Covington, her son, who by the time of his mother's death must be, along with his other brothers and family members, in Kansas. Or, perhaps, the reason she did not travel with them was that she was already deceased. I will now have to look for her burial place. Judy, would you please tell me if she is listed in your books. I believe all the Covingtons would be mine, as well as Eliza, if there are any. I also believe I searched your books several times but my memory is slipping. I would be deeply appreciative. Regina Bruner Markowicz Troy, Michigan