This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spencer, Hanks, Vaught, Stanley, Dewhirst, Wilcox, Hill, Marlin, Hodgson, Peacock, Goodman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yh.2ADE/641.843.845.1 Message Board Post: I noticed some errors that I simply wanted to correct, as I so often make mistakes in my own recordings that others might duplicate. In fact, Tanya may have gotten some of the information incorrectly from me. Joseph William Spencer, the son of John 'Jack' Jackariah Spencer and Elizabeth Kershaw, married Nancy P. Stanley in Edwards or White County, Illinois on August 30, 1848. Nancy was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio on December 18, 1828. She was reported to be the eldest of 16 children. Her family migrated to near Bone Gap, Illinois when she was only seven. Undoubtedly, she was raised in Edwards or Clay County. She is thought to be the daughter of Francis Roulandson Stanley. Joseph was married in Edwards County in 1843 to an Elizabeth Dewhurst / Dewhirst that died in 1847. He did have a daughter, Harriet Spencer, by this first marriage. I have no recording for a marriage for her. I do not know if the Mary Hanks that married James B. Green in 1871 is the daughter of Joseph Spencer and Nancy Stanley. Mary DID marry a Daniel B. Hanks in White County in 1876 on April 6. Her marriage was easy to miss in the Illinois State Marriage Index as they misspelled her last name as SPENCE. I think that should she have been predeceased by Mr. Green that the Illinois State Marriage Index in most instances would have listed her name as Mrs. Mary Spencer Green. Joseph Spencer, son of Joseph and Nancy Spencer, married Frances HANKS in Edwards County on November 15, 1878. George W. Spencer, son of Joseph and Nancy Spencer, married Mary E. Wilcox in Edwards County on January 11, 1884. Sarah Spencer, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Spencer, married THOMAS HODGSON in Edwards County on September 9, 1898. The Sarah Spencer that married a ROBERT FRANKLIN VAUGHT in 1900 was the daughter of Edward Kershaw Spencer and Martha Hanks. Martha Spencer, a twin to Sarah and d/o Joseph and Nancy Spencer married a Byram / Byron Jefferson Hill. I do not have a date or location for their wedding. I do know that they lived in the Indianapolis, Indiana area...raised their only child, a son, in that vicinity. They may have returned to Grayville or White County before their deaths. Alma Spencer, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Stanley, that married Albert Goodman would later marry a Marlin from Carmi before her death. She lived in the large home behind the Methodist Church at Church and Robinson, later the home of Dr. Fred Smith. I do not have a date of marriage for the Marlin marriage. Her four children were by Mr. Goodman.