This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Darnell/Coffey?/Swanson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XBB.2ACE/1718 Message Board Post: Is anyone doing research on the Darnell family? I am interested in one Catherine Darnell widow of John Darnell. She lived in Russell County 1900 and 1910 according to census records she was a widow living with her bro in law Larkin Darnell and a ward named Ona Sylva Swanson. Any help would be appreciated. thanks BJ

BJ: The 1880 census shows this: Household: John M. DARNELL Self M Male W 42 KY Farmer KY KY Cath Arine DARNELL Wife M Female W 35 KY Keeping House KY KY Cora MC ELRAY Other S Female W 5 KY At Home KY KY Larkin DARNELL Brother S Male W 27 KY Farming KY KY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Source Information: Census Place White Oak, Adair, Kentucky Family History Library Film 1254401 NA Film Number T9-0401 Page Number 58B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not sure, but I would say that the female with them is Cora McElroy...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John M. Darnell was in the Civil War.....Union 13th Kentucky Infantry - Company B Roster...........I have a transcription.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John M. Darnell's mother Martha "Patsy" Phelps Darnell died in January 1880 of Heart Disease. Source unknown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can find nothing on Catherine. I suspect she may have been married to a Mc Elroy and the child Cora might be her daughter..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'll keep looking.........Marilyn