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/Vh.2ADE/833 Message Board Post: I thought I had better mention as well that on the estate papers for these names her name is listed as Merryman. Back then and I guess even now, census takers did not spell the names as they should so I thought this may be helpful. By the way, one of ggg grandfather's son (unnamed) but had an nephew named Allen Jones settle in Shelby County, Illinois in the 1840's. Along with them, came 2 of my great grandfathers girls named Amanda Jones and Christian (Chrissey, Chrissy?) Jones who married up there as well. Amanda married a Hilliard and Chrissy married a Eli Lowery, Lowry?. These 2 daughters were the children of William Jones b. Virginia, lived in Montgomery County, NC along with his father Charles Jones. Charles Jones was in the Montgomery County Militia here in North Carolina. He resigned in 1802 to the General Assembly as the Colonel and I was able to get a copy of this. I suspect that he was granted a huge number of acres for his service time during the revolutionary was and moved on west to Tennessee. William Jones stayed but is not there on the 1840 census of Montgomery County, North Carolina but still had land holdings there. I suspect he as well with with Mary moved on to Tennessee or Illinois. William's daughters I would not think would have gone to Illinois without their parents especially during that time period. William Jones died in 1846 the same day that his son James Jones died. Mary Jones, William's wife died in 1845. This info came from some handed down info. As of this date, I have not been able to find out where they died (what state) nor located any kind of will or estate. I am hoping that some folks in the Shelby County, Illlinois area may be decendended from this this family and will contact me. If you are, please do and maybe we can get these missing pieces filled in! Thank you! Charlotte