Is there something wrong again with the system or is everyone really quite today? Thanks

This is the information I have on WILLIAM C.TRAVELSTEAD; Father FREDERICK TRAVELSTEAD JR. B. abt.1785 N. Carolina D 1854 Saline County, Il. Married 12 1818 Sumner County, Tn. Mother Mary Burton B. unknown near Charleston, S, C. D. 1855 White County, Il. Joe Barter

This site and Union are working fine. Is anyone getting mail from Jhnson and Masaac? I haven't had mail from either for quite a while. Betty FL

For Joe Barter: Do you know who William C. Travelstead's parents were? I believe I found him on the 1850 census of Allen County , Kentucky, at age 16, but he is working on the farm of a James Mayhew. I am guessing his father is Abram Travelstead. Margaret Reynolds Oliver ----- Original Message ----- From: <BJBarter@aol.com> To: <ilwillia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [ILWILLIA] Travelstead > Sarah Ellen Travelstead' Parents: > > William C. Travelstead, B 3-17-1833, Allan Co Ky, D, 11-6-1897, Saline, > Co. > Il. Ward Cemetery, Brushy Tws, > > Nancy Cole, B, 1-1833, Allen Co. Ky, Death and Burial unknown. > > Traced to Traffenstatts. > > Joe Barter > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Do you have the father's first name and was Elaine the first name of the daughter? I probably do have them, but need the first names. Linda

Yes Elaine was the daughter she could have been around 17 - 18 years of age. I can't remember the Father's name we called him Preacher White. Thanks for your reply. Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: <dolluver01@insightbb.com> To: <ilwillia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [ILWILLIA] families with ties to Creakl Springs > Do you have the father's first name and was Elaine the first name of the > daughter? I probably do have them, but need the first names. > Linda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

When I lived in Herrin in the 40's we were friends with a family by the name of White.....the father was a preacher and sometimes worked in the mines. They had about 5-6 children, one was Elaine and she was slightly mentally challenged. Do you know this family? Sarah@Whc.Net ----- Original Message ----- From: <dolluver01@insightbb.com> To: <ilwillia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [ILWILLIA] families with ties to Creakl Springs > Lorraine, > Although, I was born in Chicago, my father was raised in rural Creal > Springs, IL and I went to school a few years at the grade school before > moving to Peoria, IL. When I was a child in the 50's, Creal Springs was > a very nice small town with wonderful old buildings that housed four > grocery stores, Holmes, Beltz(Kroger), Waters and one other one. It also > had a skating rink, drug store, general merchandise store, lumber yard, > post office, several service stations, etc. The town at that time was > kept very clean and neat and the people of that generation took great > pride in their home and places and town. Of course, like any town of > then and today, there were a few places that weren't as nice, due to the > fact of older people living in them and not capable of caring for their > places the way they should be. But there again, other people in town > would help each other more than today. It was a nice small community > to raise children. When I went through there a couple ! > years ago, I was saddened, to see the way things were. > Also, you may be reconizing address from Creal of people that live around > the lake. They too, have an address of Creal. > Thanks, > Linda Holmes White > SURNAMES: WHITE, HOLMES, TANNER, UPCHURCH, HENSHAW, TURNER, GULLEY > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Your reply was fine. However, it is common practice to not copy the previous mail unless it is related to your post. I have copied all of your mail to show you the result. Angela's post had nothing to do with your's yet it got resent to the list - with the close of the list repeated also. If you delete the previous mail, or at least the unneeded parts it is helpful to others, particularly if they are doing a quick scan for useful information. The importance of the subject line, and even the information sent is that many folks get upwards of 100 emails a day and they sort them for deletion by subject. The ones they keep, it is often useful to be able to read quickly on the first round. With a good subject line and useful info, there is a better chance of getting a useful response from someone, rather than it getting lost or deleted. The surname of interest is proper as you did it. In your case, the dates would have been too restrictive. If there had been an appropriate date, then it is good to add that. That was what Angela was getting at and you followed it fine. I looked through my database and did not find your Thompson, or other names. Sorry on that. Hope someone else had your names. Bill > Angela, > This is the first time I've written, so hope I do this right and send it > to the right spot! > I'm trying to track my great-great grandparents Terence Thompson and > don't know wife's name. > My grandfather was Benjamin Thompson, born 1/11/1889 in Marion, IL. > Died 1/28/54, buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. > My great-grandfather was Solomon D. Thompson, born 10/23/1841, possibly > in Rome, TN; died May, 1921 and buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. > My great-great-grandparents were Terence Thompson, who were Irish > immigrants that evidently came to Illinois with a land grant. I've > reached a dead end on this. > > The last names of Burnett & Ferrell are from my grandmother's side of > the family. All families, I believe came from Crab Orchard in > Williamson County. > I live in Idaho, so not possible to visit Illinois. Any help would be > greatly appreciated > > Place, Angela R wrote: > > >Hello everyone. I too have been pleased to see all the recent activity and connections made. That said, I want to remind everyone of the following: > > > >1. Please remember to type a very specific subject line (X family, Z time period, etc) on your messages to the list. Many people don't read every single message that comes through, and may skip yours entirely, especially if it has a generic subject line. > > > >2. There are currently 309 people subscribed to the list, and of course we are not going to make everyone happy all the time. But please try to be as courteous to everyone subscribed as possible. If you are responding to a message on the list with info relevant only to the original poster, PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER. This goes ESPECIALLY for messages like "nope he's not in my line" and "good to hear from you," etc. When the list gets exceptionally busy, like it is right now, we have lots of people drop (which is NOT A GOOD THING, those people may be your fifth cousins and no one has made the connection yet) because they get tired of wading through all the personal replies that go out to the whole list. Plus, I get nasty notes from all the irritated ones. :> > > > >3. Rootsweb has been updating the lists and switching some things around, and a fair number of folks are having trouble posting to the list, etc. If you have problems and have already emailed me, please give me a day or so, and I promise I will get back to you (I have about 22 people to check on so far). If you have not emailed me about problems but are having them, please let me know. > > > >FINALLY, since we have probably already irritated all those likely to be irritated by lots of messages, I would like to do an official "ROLL CALL" of the list. We used to do one twice a year, and since I started having my kids, that seems to have gone by the wayside (my fault, definitely, and by the way we are adding yet another little branch to our family tree in 2007). :> Everyone who hasn't already, please send a message to the list, telling us which families you're researching, and in which locations. PLEASE BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. > > > >I am looking for: > > > >RUSHING - I have started an ambitious project to figure out how the heck each and every Rushing in Williamson Co in the 1800s is related to each other. This takes me back into TN for one group and KY for another. But if you have Rushings in the 1800s, I'd love to know what you know. > > > >CAGLE - I descend from Charles Cagle & Polly Demontbrun Cagle, who came here from Nashville, TN in the 1830s with LOTS of children. I have lots of info to share. > > > >CHAMNESS - I descend from Jonathan P. Chamness's daughter Martisha, born about 1842, who married Allen Cagle. Again, I have a fair amount of info to share. > > > >THOMPSON - Any info about the family of Richard/Richmond M. Thompson & his wife Sarah Hendricks Thompson, who came to Herrin from Logan Co, KY in the 1890s. > > > >Hope to hear from you all soon - > > > >Angela > >Williamson Co, ILGenWeb > >http://www.people.ku.edu/~place/williamson.html > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lorraine, Although, I was born in Chicago, my father was raised in rural Creal Springs, IL and I went to school a few years at the grade school before moving to Peoria, IL. When I was a child in the 50's, Creal Springs was a very nice small town with wonderful old buildings that housed four grocery stores, Holmes, Beltz(Kroger), Waters and one other one. It also had a skating rink, drug store, general merchandise store, lumber yard, post office, several service stations, etc. The town at that time was kept very clean and neat and the people of that generation took great pride in their home and places and town. Of course, like any town of then and today, there were a few places that weren't as nice, due to the fact of older people living in them and not capable of caring for their places the way they should be. But there again, other people in town would help each other more than today. It was a nice small community to raise children. When I went through there a couple years ago, I was saddened, to see the way things were. Also, you may be reconizing address from Creal of people that live around the lake. They too, have an address of Creal. Thanks, Linda Holmes White SURNAMES: WHITE, HOLMES, TANNER, UPCHURCH, HENSHAW, TURNER, GULLEY

Loraine, By todays standards Creal Springs is rural. However there was a time when it was a thriving community with it's own college. The "springs", naturally occurring springs around which the village grew, were a big draw. Today there is a bank, one or two (small, locally owned) places to eat and a convenience store/gas station. The school is part of the Marion school district, grades K-9 with high school age kids bussed to Marion High School. Robin Robin's PhotoGraphics http://www.robinsphotographics.com On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:00 AM, ilwillia-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:46:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Loraine Miller <lorainemiller@yahoo.com> > Subject: [ILWILLIA] families with ties to Creakl Springs > To: IL <ilwillia-l@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <20060928034656.63150.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I have a question regarding Creal springs. My mother grew up on a > small farm (40 acres) in Creal Springs from about 1919 until 1932 when > she and her Mother moved into Marion. I always thought that it was a > rural area. I notice an awful lot of people with families coming from > Creal Springs. Is it a large area? It seems as though there are an > awful lot of families coming from there. Am I wrong about it being > rural? > > Loraine > >

I have an Elijah N. Spiller m. Elizabeth unknown b. c 1803 TN. He is in the 1850 Williamson Co. Census with wife and seven daughters oand two sons, William and James. The children were born from 1830-1850. Sharon

I have a question regarding Creal springs. My mother grew up on a small farm (40 acres) in Creal Springs from about 1919 until 1932 when she and her Mother moved into Marion. I always thought that it was a rural area. I notice an awful lot of people with families coming from Creal Springs. Is it a large area? It seems as though there are an awful lot of families coming from there. Am I wrong about it being rural? Loraine --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ILWILLIA] Thompson, Burnett & Ferrell Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:13:26 -0700 From: Dwaine Hasenoehrl <dphansen@orofino-id.com> Reply-To: ilwillia@rootsweb.com To: ilwillia@rootsweb.com References: <77830D303C6C574884A7083CC4012021025C40A0@MAILBOXSIX.home.ku.edu> Angela, This is the first time I've written, so hope I do this right and send it to the right spot! I'm trying to track my great-great grandparents Terence Thompson and don't know wife's name. My grandfather was Benjamin Thompson, born 1/11/1889 in Marion, IL. Died 1/28/54, buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. My great-grandfather was Solomon D. Thompson, born 10/23/1841, possibly in Rome, TN; died May, 1921 and buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. My great-great-grandparents were Terence Thompson, who were Irish immigrants that evidently came to Illinois with a land grant. I've reached a dead end on this. The last names of Burnett & Ferrell are from my grandmother's side of the family. All families, I believe came from Crab Orchard in Williamson County. I live in Idaho, so not possible to visit Illinois. Any help would be greatly appreciated Place, Angela R wrote: >Hello everyone. I too have been pleased to see all the recent activity and connections made. That said, I want to remind everyone of the following: > >1. Please remember to type a very specific subject line (X family, Z time period, etc) on your messages to the list. Many people don't read every single message that comes through, and may skip yours entirely, especially if it has a generic subject line. > >2. There are currently 309 people subscribed to the list, and of course we are not going to make everyone happy all the time. But please try to be as courteous to everyone subscribed as possible. If you are responding to a message on the list with info relevant only to the original poster, PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER. This goes ESPECIALLY for messages like "nope he's not in my line" and "good to hear from you," etc. When the list gets exceptionally busy, like it is right now, we have lots of people drop (which is NOT A GOOD THING, those people may be your fifth cousins and no one has made the connection yet) because they get tired of wading through all the personal replies that go out to the whole list. Plus, I get nasty notes from all the irritated ones. :> > >3. Rootsweb has been updating the lists and switching some things around, and a fair number of folks are having trouble posting to the list, etc. If you have problems and have already emailed me, please give me a day or so, and I promise I will get back to you (I have about 22 people to check on so far). If you have not emailed me about problems but are having them, please let me know. > >FINALLY, since we have probably already irritated all those likely to be irritated by lots of messages, I would like to do an official "ROLL CALL" of the list. We used to do one twice a year, and since I started having my kids, that seems to have gone by the wayside (my fault, definitely, and by the way we are adding yet another little branch to our family tree in 2007). :> Everyone who hasn't already, please send a message to the list, telling us which families you're researching, and in which locations. PLEASE BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. > >I am looking for: > >RUSHING - I have started an ambitious project to figure out how the heck each and every Rushing in Williamson Co in the 1800s is related to each other. This takes me back into TN for one group and KY for another. But if you have Rushings in the 1800s, I'd love to know what you know. > >CAGLE - I descend from Charles Cagle & Polly Demontbrun Cagle, who came here from Nashville, TN in the 1830s with LOTS of children. I have lots of info to share. > >CHAMNESS - I descend from Jonathan P. Chamness's daughter Martisha, born about 1842, who married Allen Cagle. Again, I have a fair amount of info to share. > >THOMPSON - Any info about the family of Richard/Richmond M. Thompson & his wife Sarah Hendricks Thompson, who came to Herrin from Logan Co, KY in the 1890s. > >Hope to hear from you all soon - > >Angela >Williamson Co, ILGenWeb >http://www.people.ku.edu/~place/williamson.html > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >. > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message .

Angela, This is the first time I've written, so hope I do this right and send it to the right spot! I'm trying to track my great-great grandparents Terence Thompson and don't know wife's name. My grandfather was Benjamin Thompson, born 1/11/1889 in Marion, IL. Died 1/28/54, buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. My great-grandfather was Solomon D. Thompson, born 10/23/1841, possibly in Rome, TN; died May, 1921 and buried at Pleasant Grove, IL. My great-great-grandparents were Terence Thompson, who were Irish immigrants that evidently came to Illinois with a land grant. I've reached a dead end on this. The last names of Burnett & Ferrell are from my grandmother's side of the family. All families, I believe came from Crab Orchard in Williamson County. I live in Idaho, so not possible to visit Illinois. Any help would be greatly appreciated Place, Angela R wrote: >Hello everyone. I too have been pleased to see all the recent activity and connections made. That said, I want to remind everyone of the following: > >1. Please remember to type a very specific subject line (X family, Z time period, etc) on your messages to the list. Many people don't read every single message that comes through, and may skip yours entirely, especially if it has a generic subject line. > >2. There are currently 309 people subscribed to the list, and of course we are not going to make everyone happy all the time. But please try to be as courteous to everyone subscribed as possible. If you are responding to a message on the list with info relevant only to the original poster, PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER. This goes ESPECIALLY for messages like "nope he's not in my line" and "good to hear from you," etc. When the list gets exceptionally busy, like it is right now, we have lots of people drop (which is NOT A GOOD THING, those people may be your fifth cousins and no one has made the connection yet) because they get tired of wading through all the personal replies that go out to the whole list. Plus, I get nasty notes from all the irritated ones. :> > >3. Rootsweb has been updating the lists and switching some things around, and a fair number of folks are having trouble posting to the list, etc. If you have problems and have already emailed me, please give me a day or so, and I promise I will get back to you (I have about 22 people to check on so far). If you have not emailed me about problems but are having them, please let me know. > >FINALLY, since we have probably already irritated all those likely to be irritated by lots of messages, I would like to do an official "ROLL CALL" of the list. We used to do one twice a year, and since I started having my kids, that seems to have gone by the wayside (my fault, definitely, and by the way we are adding yet another little branch to our family tree in 2007). :> Everyone who hasn't already, please send a message to the list, telling us which families you're researching, and in which locations. PLEASE BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. > >I am looking for: > >RUSHING - I have started an ambitious project to figure out how the heck each and every Rushing in Williamson Co in the 1800s is related to each other. This takes me back into TN for one group and KY for another. But if you have Rushings in the 1800s, I'd love to know what you know. > >CAGLE - I descend from Charles Cagle & Polly Demontbrun Cagle, who came here from Nashville, TN in the 1830s with LOTS of children. I have lots of info to share. > >CHAMNESS - I descend from Jonathan P. Chamness's daughter Martisha, born about 1842, who married Allen Cagle. Again, I have a fair amount of info to share. > >THOMPSON - Any info about the family of Richard/Richmond M. Thompson & his wife Sarah Hendricks Thompson, who came to Herrin from Logan Co, KY in the 1890s. > >Hope to hear from you all soon - > >Angela >Williamson Co, ILGenWeb >http://www.people.ku.edu/~place/williamson.html > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILWILLIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >. > > >

1. Benjamin Spiller married Elizabeth Benson (Benjamin & Elizabeth came from Tennessee. Benjamin purchased land in Williamson Co in 1833) 2. Jesse Spiller b1806 d1868 (lived entire life in Williamson Co & is buried in Hurricane Cemetery) married Kezia Stockton b1823 d1868 (previouly married to John Tufnell, she died in Williamson Co & is buried in Hurricane Cemetery) 3. Stephen Spiller b1848 d 1901 (lived entire life in Williamson Co & is buried in Hurricane Cemetery) married Aljo Adams b1862 d1936 (died in Jackson Co & is buried in Hurricae Cemetery) I would love any info! Linda Cascio

Subject: Fw: surnames To the ILWILLIA; I would like to add my surnames too, ADAMS...Williamson & Jackson Co. Decendants of John b 1802 Va, son Anderson b 1832 Tn, and grandson George W. b 1866 IL md Rebecca (Bettie) HINDMAN BEASLEY...Williamson Co...Abe md Nancy R Russell HOGG.......Williamson Co....Lewis d ca 1844 his decendants, md into RUSSELL and TY(i)NER families HINDMAN..Williamson & Jackson Co...decendants of William and Nancy THORNTON HINDMAN , son William M b 1931, md Sidney Jane RUSSELL WILLIAMS RUSSELL...Williamson Co///Decendants of Philip and Elizabeth STEWART RUSSELL early Williamson settlers. WILLIAMS...Williamson Co decendants of ?Henry and Mary ? WILLIAMS, son Thomas md Sidney Jane Russell, grdau of Philip and Elizabeth STEWART RUSSELL, and Mary ? WILLIAMS later md Philip RUSSELL. Connecting lines, LUTHER, DUNCAN, FOX, HARRIS,and many others...Williamson, Jackson, Gallatin, Saline etc. Also looking for daughter/daughters of Carrie GEORGE ADAMS, who lived in Creal Springs(the dau/daus), unfortunately I don't know the name(s), or the resting place of above Carrie, She was my great aunt married to Andy "Shorty" ADAMS of Anna IL, they both had worked at the Hospital in Anna, we were in contact with Carrie before she died.Supposed to have died in Creal Springs, would love to know where she is buried. Will trade/share data . Thank You, Kathleen Gloyne Blacksmith or meow@finestplanet.com

Does anyone connect to Elizabeth Howerton, born abt 1822 in Tennessee, married 19 Mar 1840 in Johnson Co., Ill to John W Taylor, born abt 1818 in Ill, both died in Creal Springs? Also have Sarah Frances Creal born abt 1855, died 1885, married to John Owen Taylor, born 1857 in Johnson Co, Ill, died 1922. Especially looking for parents/siblings of Tillman Gates Russell, born 2 Feb 1812, North Carolina, married 18 Feb 1840, probably in Stewart Co, Tenn to Martha Hogan, born 14 Sep 1818 in Tenn, died 23 Mar 1856 in Williamson Co. Have been at a brick wall for years with him. He was in the 1836 tax rolls and 1840/1850 census in Stewart Co, Tenn and first appeared in Williamson Co census in 1855. Would love to be able to trace back on this line. He is my great-great grandfather. Researching: Russell, Hogan, Taylor, Howerton, McMahon, McGregor, Flowers, Shadrack, Griffin, Wood(s), Tomlinson, Mandrell, Richmond. Thanks, Cathy (Russell) VanTubbergen

CHITTY, RICH Need info on Samuel Rich, 1843-1886, Franklin Co. IL, married Mary Jane Oden or Martin b 1850. Children: John Russell, James, William Marion, and Sarah. John Russell mar Louisiana Jackson (need info). William married Cora Howard of Desoto, Jackson Co., IL (have some info)

Am related to the Abraham Beasley family of Williamson County. Have family info it will help. Do you have a specific Beasley you are searching for? Drop me a line and I'll check my link.

I don't think so. My grandfather stayed and died in Williamson Co. IL. He had a uncle that moved to MO. and his name was Martin A. Russell who was born in 1850 in White Co. IL. I foreward your e-mail to a cousin and haven't heard back from him. JoAnn