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/5g.2ADI/68.1 Message Board Post: You might check the Nashville Journal, Nashville, Illinois Microfilm for information. There was a Durant who wrote the DuBois section of the paper in the 1800's. I seem to remember his obituary in my reading. I very much enjoyed his column and was upset when it ended. Now I was born many years after he was alive. Trudy