After looking at the census image, I really question if the "James Waller" is really a Waller or should they have transcribed "Miller". Sure looks like Miller to me !! Oh, well, I tried ! Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: <JulieBskt@aol.com> To: <ILWHITES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [ILWHITES] WALLER ROAD Whiteside county > Cynthia, > > Thank you for the possible namesake ideas of the Waller Road, Route 84. I > will try to look into them, Henry, Frank and James Waller, to see if any of them > were famous enough to have a state wide road named for them. We had assumed > that somebody there in Whiteside Co was the namesake for the road, but it is for > the full length, north to south of the county. As soon as it hits another > county, the road is no longer Waller Road. I also wondered about the > possibility of a famous Illinois state person the road was named after. > > My Waller friends lived in Rock Island Co, around Moline, and this has been a > curiosity to them for years. > > Julie > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >