This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kmccartney17 Surnames: Gifford Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.unknown/12789.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have no idea if this helps but I have Gifford's as very distant cousins. The father George Lewis Gifford, born March 27, 1824 in Sherburn New York married Clarinda Quigley born Feb. 20, 1830 Switzerland Co., Indiana. They had 7 children all born in Iowa, 2 buried in Osborne Kansas and the rest in Debuque or Littleport Iowa. The names are: Esther,(1849) Amira,(1851) Socrates,(1853) Horatio,(1855) Prentice,(1857) Ezra, (1860) and Annice,( 1862). Socrates died at 6 years of age. The oldest lived to be 93 and that was Ezra. They all married in Iowa in the 1800's. George's father is listed as Asoph Willey Gifford and mother Hulda(h) Pendle. It doesn't say where they are from. George is buried in the Union Cemetery in Littleport, Iowa and he died Sept. 7, 1896. This info is from a written family genealogy that I helped create when I was in high school and my grandmother was 86 in 1971. This may help and it may not but there could not have been to many Gifford's from New York at that time. If you want to know who each child married I can tell you that and the date but that is all that I have. My family tree went the other way. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.