This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2583 Message Board Post: Searching for info on the family of James O'Shay who appear in the Springfield, Sangamon County, IL 1870 US census as follows: James O'Shay age 45 b. Ireland Johanna age 39 b. Ireland Mary age 20 b. Ireland Johanna age 18 b. New York Michael age 13 b. Ill Emma age 9 b. Ill Christopher age 8 b. Ill Eliza age 6 b. Ill Annie age 4 b. Ill Jonathan age 2 b. Ill Johanna age 70 b. Ireland Please contact me if you have info on this family. Thanks Patricia

I too, am interested in the name of Irwin from Pleasant Plains. Would someone with the same interest email me: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Thank you Carolynn Eilts

CAROLE SO SORRY I was wrong it is REED.

No problem! I got excited for a moment. ;o) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [ILSANGAM-L] Early Pleasant Plains resident > CAROLE > > SO SORRY I was wrong it is REED.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2580.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jennifer, It does help. Thank you very much. Gina

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> Carole > You might just be connected to the Donner Party that left Springfield > ad > trie to get to California. Reeves is also known for being on that trip > I looked at some of the Donner Party site and I saw a Reed family but not Reeves. Carole

Thanks you for mentioning this....I've been meaning to mention that Alice J. Irwin. Her maiden name was Combs and she and Benjamin F. Irwin were married in Menard Co. in about 1844. Her tombstone is broken and doesn't show her date of death but various places online show it as 1848...and I can only assume that is true. If so...she isn't ours. Ailsey Irwin was alive in Nov. 1863. I have tried to find a marriage record for an Aisley-Alice-Elsie-Elizabeth Reeves anywhere in IL to an Irwin but I haven't been able to identify anyone as our Aisley. Very frustrating! The Reeves children were very illiterate and their last name is spelled every way imaginable... using all of the vowels and rotating them. Looking them up in an index is a nightmare. Ailsey is the only child of Alexander Reeves and Effie Cummins that I haven't been able to find. I assume that she moved away with children and remarried. Thanks, Carole > There is an Alice J. Irwin buried in Irwin Cemetery, outside of Pleasant > Plains, IL. The cemetery reading and a picture of her stone is online at > the MAGA > site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/cemetery/irwin.html

Seeking info on the marriage of Sarah MILLER and N.S. BASTION/BASTIAN in Athens. I'm confused about whether it should be Menard or Sangamon, since I know the county boundaries changed. So I'm posting it on both lists. Here is how Bastion described it in his Bible: The marriage took place " Thursday evening 6 O'clock, in the evening, December 8, 1835, and the house of D. Allen, Athens, Illinois, by Rev. Hooper Crews." He was b. 1808 in NY, and came to IN as a child. He turns up in Lebanon, St. Clair Co. in 1830, as a teacher, but I can't track how or why. She was b. in Davidson Co. TN 1809, came to Sangamon co. with relatives in 1828, according to the obit BASTION (sometimes spelled BASTIAN) wrote after her death in 1850. I know very little about her, except he says that she became the tutor to the children of Peter CARTWIGHT, the famous Methodist preacher and evangelist who later became a member of the IL legislature. I can't find her in the 1830 census, but the obit says that Sarah and BASTION met in 1833. Probably it was in Sangamon Co, because he was the minister of the Methodist church there for two years starting that year. They appear to have immediately left for Dubuque, where he was then a teacher. As he was never again assigned by the Methodists to a church in Sangamon Co., she never lived there again. I don't know where in the county either Nicholas or Sarah lived. D. ALLEN may well have been one of her relatives. Does anyone know this family? Or it may have been a friend of either hers or his, or just someone with a large enough house. Too many options, unfortunately. I'm also interested in Rev. Hooper CREWS. Was he the settled Methodist minister in town? Was he a circuit rider who just happened to be there when they wanted to get married? Is there someone who can track down the Methodist church's history for me, to see if he shows up on the right dates? The Methodists did keep good records. Thanks, Doris Waggoner Seattle

Seeking info on Sarah MILLER in Sangamon Co. She was b. in Davidson Co. TN 1809, came to Sangamon co. with relatives in 1828, according to the obit her husband, N.S. BASTION/BASTIAN wrote after her death in 1850. Unfortunately, he didn't name them and multiple queries to that list haven't provided any clues. Too common a name! Presumably they didn't include her parents, or he would have given their names? Whatever schooling she may or may not have had, the obit says she became the tutor to the children of Peter CARTWIGHT, the famous Methodist preacher and evangelist who later became a member of the IL legistlature. I've read CARTWRIGHT's autobiog and it doesn't mention her, but there's no reason it would. (They would have to have been the youngest ones.) It does mention BASTION, also a Methodist minister. I can't find her in the 1830 census, but the obit says that Sarah and BASTION met in 1833. Probably it was in Sangamon Co, because he was the minister of the Methodist church there for two years starting that y! ear. They were married in Athens, Sangamon Co, Dec. 3, 1835, and appear to have immediately left for Dubuque, where he was then a teacher. As he was never again assigned by the Methodists to a church in Sangamon Co., she never lived there again, but every year or two or three got transferred across the middle of the state, from Alton to Paris, Edgar Co., where their only child was b. after 13 years of marriage. The next year, 1849, They were sent as missionaries to Liberia. Six weeks after arrival, the baby died. Sarah set up a school for females. But she too died there. Except for the Liberia information, and his moves with the Methodists, everything I know about her comes from his obit of her or his Bible. I would love to have some other information, even though I descend from his second wife. Thanks, Doris Waggoner Seattle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TAYLOR Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2582 Message Board Post: I found an ancestor listed in Pleasant Plains on the 1920 census. His name was Cicero Taylor age 24 from Kentucky along with his wife Gertie and 2 year old daughter Flora. He is listed in Springfield on the 1930 census with additional children, Sonia and Granvil age 6. I found his death listed as June 2, 1935 in Clear Lake. His occupation on the census was coal miner. I am looking for information on any descendants that might be happy to share information.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2580.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes PLEASE I have very little on the Claypools. My husbands grandmother is Clara Margaret Claypool Ford. Thomas was her Great-Grandfather through Levi Benjamin Claypool. The information that I have is only the names of Thomas' parent, Levi Claypool and Melinda Rollins. I know that Levi Claypool was born in Greenbriar Co. VA and Melinda was born in Flemming Co. Ky.I don't even have Thomas R. 's death date. Please any information would be much appreciated. Thank You Very Much!!

Carole You might just be connected to the Donner Party that left Springfield ad trie to get to California. Reeves is also known for being on that trip

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xg.2ADI/1453.1562.1.1 Message Board Post: HI CHRIS, JUST NOTICED YOUR EMAIL. YOUR MYRTLE WAS MY HALFSISTER SHIRLEY CLARK GRANDMOTHER . I REMEMBER HER WELL. MY SISTER SHIRLEY MOTHER WAS FERN MERRITT. ARE YOU FROM THE SAME FAMILY? ANITA JO

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLCOCKSON, ENGLAND, CLAYPOOL, DUNLAP, HUFFMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2580.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Thomas R. Claypool was a brother to my 2nd Great Grandmother Clarinda. She married William Boone Willcockson. William Boone Willcockson was the son of William Willcockson and Mary England, a sister to Stephen England. I have lots of information on these lines if you need it.

There is an Alice J. Irwin buried in Irwin Cemetery, outside of Pleasant Plains, IL. The cemetery reading and a picture of her stone is online at the MAGA site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/cemetery/irwin.html In a message dated 11/27/2004 11:13:12 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Ailsey Reeves was married to an Irwin and lived in Pleasant Plains. She was a widow by Nov. 1863 at the time of the probate of Alexander Reeves of Gardner Twp, her father. Ailsey Reeves Irwin had a grandmother Alice, called Alsey, so it may be that her name was also Alice. Ailsey may also be the same as Elsie, another name short for Elizabeth. Are any of you familiar with the Irwin family of Pleasant Plains? Census records have been inconclusive because in 1860 just initials were used for the people of Sangamon Co., IL. Thanks, Carole

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2580.1.2 Message Board Post: Hey I just re-read you query. Same family line later I have a Turner Holland marrrying a Nancy Cantrall producing a daughter named Fanny Holland who married Thomas R. Claypool 10-8-1854. Thomas R. Claypool was my husband 3rd great grandfather.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Slaughter Ford Randolph England Holcomb Combs Dyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2580.1.1 Message Board Post: Stephen England was b 6-12-1773 in Goochland Co. VA. He married Anna Jane Harper on 12-17-1791 in Bath Co. Ky. They had 12 children. He died 9-26-1823 in Sangamon Co. IL. Now I have some more historical documentation on his journey into Illinois as one of the first settlers if you arre interested. Stephen's parents were David England and Lucy Hodges. Anna's parents were John Harper and Sarah Wells or Walls. Anna was born 9-1-1772 in VA. She died 6-1-1841 in Sangamon Co. IL. They are both buried in Brittin Cem. Sangamon Co IL. David England was born in 1754. He married Lucy 11-12-1772 in Goochland Co. VA and they had 11 children. David died in Owingsville Montgomery Co. Ky. on 12-8-1801. His parents were William England and Elizabeth Lee. Lucy Hodges, b 5-26-1757 in Goochland Co. VA, was the daughter of John Hodges, b 1730 in Goochland Co. VA married 11-11-1756 in Goochland Co. VA and died 5-1810 in Montgomery Co. Ky. and Deborah Lee, b 1738 in Goochland Co. VA. Deborah Lee'! s parents were John Lee, b about 1705 in Charles City Va. d 10-10-1770 in Goochland Co. VA and is buried at St James Parish VA., and Lucy Seaton Braxton. Lucy was born about 1710 in Northampton, Lancaster VA. Lucy and John had 5 children that I know of, she died 7-2-1771 in Goochland Co. VA and was buried 7-23-1771 in St James Parish VA. John Lee's parents were Ann ? and Thoams Lee. William England was b in Hanover Goochland Co. VA and died 8-15-1768 in Goochland Co. VA. William's parents were William W. England and Mary Anderson. Elizabeth Lee (I have no connection between Elizabeth and Deborah but I bet there is) was said to be born in Virginia. Elizabeth and William had 11 children. Will. W's father was John England born in St Peter's Parish, Dorset, England. His mother is unknown to me. William and Mary had 3 children that I know of. I do have all the children's names and most birthdates of the Englands. Going back to the Lee's: Thomas Lee married Ann ?, they had 6 c! hildren. Thomas was born about 1679 and died about 1735 both in Cobbs Hall Northamptonshire Line Co. VA. His parents were Charles Lee and Elizabeth Medstand. Elizabeth Medstand was b about 1661 in California. Charles Lee was b 5-21-1656 in Cobbs Hall Northamptonshire Line Co. VA. He married Wlizabeth in 1676 and had at least 3 children. Charles died about 1701 in Northamptonshire. His parents were Richard Lee II and Anna Constable Owen. Richard II was born in 1605 in Cotton HAll Shropeshire England married 1641 and died 3-1-1663/64 in North Cumberland VA. He and Anna had 9 children. Anna was boen in London Englnad in 1615 and died 10-6-1706. She was the daughter of Richard Owen. Richard II was the son of Richard Lee, b 1563 in Shropeshire England married 10-21-1599 and died 1621 in England, and Elizabeth Bendy. Richard Lee was the sone of Johannes/John Lee and maybe Jocy Romney Lee. I do have more information but my family tree maker is currently down. I hope this helps!

Ailsey Reeves was married to an Irwin and lived in Pleasant Plains. She was a widow by Nov. 1863 at the time of the probate of Alexander Reeves of Gardner Twp, her father. Ailsey Reeves Irwin had a grandmother Alice, called Alsey, so it may be that her name was also Alice. Ailsey may also be the same as Elsie, another name short for Elizabeth. Are any of you familiar with the Irwin family of Pleasant Plains? Census records have been inconclusive because in 1860 just initials were used for the people of Sangamon Co., IL. Thanks, Carole

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2581.1 Message Board Post: Please see links at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/inp/webpages/main.html