This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Sams, McClees Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xgk.2ACEB/7811 Message Board Post: I don't know exactly how to start this query out, so I'm hoping you will bare with me. I am looking for the family of Jesse T. Jackson born around 1805 in New York or Pennsylvania, and then Ohio, where he married Katherine Sams, then to Illinois where he married Catherine Price/McClees. I find him in Tazewell County, Illinois in 1850 with his second wife, Catherine Price/McClees with his kids, her kids and their kids, then I find Catherin in 1860 as a widow. Now, I believe that I found Jesse T. in the 1840 McClean County, Illinois Census, and if it is him, he has a Peter Jackson living next door, about the right age to be a brother to Jesse, and he was from Pennsylvania. Then I find Peter again in the 1850 McClean County census, with a Robert Jackson also from Pennsylvania living near him, also the right age to be a brother to Jesse and Peter. Now, Peter also had a son named Gustaves Jackson, which I'm hoping that someone out there might have a Jackson family that has all of! these names in it. If you do, could you please notify me, I would ever so much appreciate it. Thank you for any time and trouble that you might go through on my behalf. Jan Kelley bhdjkelley@hotmail.com