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

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