STARDNCER@aol.com wrote: > > 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???Deane, John W. SAYLORS is my ancestor. He was definitely an interesting character - had at least three wives but never divorced the first one. I did quite a bit of research on the JACO family for Conway Twitty (the singer) at one time. His wife at the time was a JACO. Mary Ann DYER JACO was indeed an enigma. As best I could determine, she was probably born in KY about 1805 - 1812, 1st married to John W. JACO, then to John W. SAYLORS. She and SAYLORS were living next door to each other in the 1850 Jackson Co. TN census and her youngest child was James Lafayette whom she had by SAYLORS. However, SAYLORS has a wife named Mary also in this census. Lucinda ABLE who was SAYLORS' wife was in Allen Co. KY by 1857 and I have no trace of her after 1859. The last I have found of Mary Ann Morgan Dyer Jaco Saylors Broadway is the 1880 census. Some of the family stated she died before her son Andrew with whom she was living at the time - she probably died in Union Co. IL. Andrew JACO died about 1883 in Pope Co. IL. This is definitely an interesting family. Rick Allen