Dear List, I can't believe it, but I believe I am coming back to Tazewell County again for information on another branch of my husband's tree. The first was for John Maxwell and descendents. Now I find that John and Prudence Moore very well might also have been there in the 1820s and 1830s. Actually, they bought land in what is now Woodford Co., and I can't tell if it was in a part that was Tazewell county in those days. Their daughter Eliza Jane married Zephaniah Ellis Atterberry in 1845. The 1830 Tazewell census has a William P. Arterberry on page 164, with husband and wife in their 20s and a female child under age 5. On page 165 I see a John Moore and his wife in their 30s, 3 sons and 2 daughters. Does anyone know anything about these two families? The land office sold land W1/2NW of section 32, 26-N township, range 1-W 3rd PM, Woodford Co., IL on October 15, 1835 to these patentees: Prudence Moore, James Moore, John Moore, Eliza Moore, Martha Moore, Alfred Moore, and Charles Moore. I am amazed that the land was in the name of Prudence and her children, rather than just John Moore Sr. Maybe they got a divorce or he died before 1835. Prudence bought two more parcels totalling 80 acres in 1837. A John Moore (son or father?) bought 80 more acres in 1839. There was also a John W. Moore around buying up property in McLean County in 1837 and 1839. I don't know if there was a relationship. Has anybody worked on the John Moores or Atterberries of Tazewell or Woodford County? Any help appreciated. Margie Bridges in Calif.