Your William & Benjamin Bruce would be the brothers to Isaac Jones Bruce who married Lucy Walters daughter of Anderson & Elizabrth (Joyner)Walters. Anderson would be my ggg grandmother, Martha Gossett's brother ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Dugger" <cvdugger@allera.net> To: <ILWHITE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:38 AM Subject: [ILWHITE] Bruce/Wilkerson > Re Alexander E. BRUCE: > > I do not have any information about this Alexander BRUCE in my files, but I > do suspect that he is a branch of the Bruce family from which I descend. I > have no information about anyone named Wilkerson in my files in connection > with the BRUCE line. I am more inclined to think this Alexander may be from > the PHIPPS branch of the family, but as I said, I don't know for sure. > There were a lot of Bruces and my own line comes from my gggm Milly BRUCE > (b. 1788) who married Dread DUGGER in Tennessee and then moved to Omaha, IL > in around 1832. Milly had several brothers, Walker, Littleton, Jefferson, > Madison and Benjamin BRUCE, and several sisters as well. Milly's father was > William BRUCE (wife named Mary) and William's brother Benjamin and married > Mary Crysel then came out from VA ending up in White Co IL. Benjamin's line > is the main White Co IL line which gets into the TROUSDALE and PHIPPS lines > in White Co. > > Always seeking more data on them! > Carol Dugger > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >