Hello! I've been working...and working...on my MOORE family and have recently had a few wonderful breakthru's....thanks to some Wonderful And Kind fellow genealogists. So I'm passing it on. There are a few MOOREs listed in below that are new to me and, hopefully, related to me. Those of you w/ MOORE...please read thru this...I'm hoping you'll recognize some one....or it may help you! .....or both : ) Here's the family as I first knew of them... #71, 1880 Missouri, sheet 27 line 23 MOOR, John H. head w m 43 KY KY KY " , Amos son w m 15 IN KY IN " , Sarah E. dau w f 11 IL KY IN " , Jas W. son w m 8 IL KY IN " , John father w m 67 KY PA ( ) (this is my ONLY clue to this man) " , Sarah mil w f 54 KY PA ( ) (** a baby, Henry was b/d 1876, Mary died 1878) My MOORE family settled in Johnson Co, MO c 1873-74. Mary died before the 1880 census. John died before the 1900 census...they lived in a burned county...I have little to go on in MO on this family. But...I didn't give up...read on! Thru a kind person's lookup...just by chance we found each other...I found James A. MOORE and family in the 1860 IN Census, Brazil Twp. His dau, Mary, later married John H. MOORE. Yes...fun isn't it! 1860, IN, Clay, Brazil, 0899 0891 MOORE, James A. 35 Farmer KY line 01a " , Sarah 35 Housekeeper KY line 02a " , Mary 11 IN line 03a " , James W. 2 IN line 05a " , John 7 IN line 09a (I wonder if the John in this census is suppose to be 7/12. James & Sarah were said to have had 7 children...dau, Mary, is only one to live to adulthood) Then, 1850, thanks to the kindness of the transcriber of the census.... 1850 IN, Clay, Jackson Reel 138, Pg# 281A 512 512 MOORE, James 25 M Labourer KY MOORE, Sarah 25 F KY MOORE, Mary E. 2 F IN MOORE, No name yet 4/12 F IN MOORE, David 35 M KY (I do not yet know how/if he is related) These two census were of great help...but, I wondered, what happened to them between 1860 IN census and the death of James A. MOORE (b1825) in 1874 MO. I found, thru IRAD (via the USGenWeb IL site), that there was a marriage of a John MOORE & Mary MOORE in Edgar Co, IL in 1864...I *think* this is them. Then, once again, the kindness of another .... from the death cert of Sarah "Sallie" MOORE (dau of John & Mary) MAXWELL's dau, Viola MAXWELL LETTERMAN,....Sallie was born in "Fulton, ILL". Okay...Fulton Co or town of Fulton. The man looked them up in the 1870 Census of Fulton Co and * Bingo * there they were!!!!!!!!!! This kind person sent me a copy out of a book and it included a few families that "sounded" familiar. I went back the the online 1850 IN, Clay Co. census and found several of them...I think. I am hoping that they are related...heck...they seemed to have followed one another...I need to get into land records to verify that. Anyway, take a look...there are a couple of MOORE families listed below... 1870 Census For United States State: Illinois County: Fulton Town or Township: Harris 146 146 MOORE, John H. 32 M Farmer KY , Mary E. 23 F IN , Amos W. 6 M IN , Sarah 2 F IN (ahhgg, this doesn't match) MOORE, James 42 M KY , Sarah 42 F KY , Henry 22 M KY (oh my, who's he?!?) 149 149 MOORE, William R. 78 M Ret'd farmer KY (*found in Clay Co 1850) , Drucilla 70 F KY 150 150 MOORE, Amos 37 M Farmer IN (?son of Wm of 1850) , Sarah J. 31 F IN , Drucilla 13 F IN , Jacob 11 M IN , James 8 M IN , Rebecca 6 F IN , John 4 M IN , Sarah R. 5/12 F IL Let me know if any of these sound familiar to you. Janice : ) (DoNotSPAM@aol.com)