Carlene, My earliest Laws to live in Illinois (Jonathan A.) was born 1808 in Hillsboro, Orange County, NJ. The 3 generations of Laws before him were all from Orange County, NJ. Jonathan died in Bond County, IL - he and his wife, Celia Vaughan, were m. in KY and had a dau. named Sarah Ellen Laws. Sarah Ellen Laws b. 1849 in Bond County, IL - (both buried Greenway, Arkansas) m. Theodore Ferber Sargent b. Milo, Maine . They are the parents of Blanch Ellen Sargent b. 1-12-1872, who m. William Mathew Baxter. Their daughter, Olive Aurilla Baxter, m. James Ford Haney. Their dau. Willo Wanda Haney is my mother. (My father, William B. Wood) was raised at Mt. Carmel, IL). His mother was a Sharp. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: morgan <angler@dave-world.net> To: <LAWS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [LAWS-L] Squire Laws > Linda-- > I haven't been able to discover the sibs or parents yet. Most of the census > records from the counties involved do not seem to be on-line and I haven't > had time to go down and check. All I know is that he married Susan Arabell > (Belle) Webber (she had been married before and had a son Arl(e)y but I > don't know the name of her first husband) and they (Squire and Arabell) had > two children, Nellie and James Lindsey (my grandfather). Belle apparently > outlived Squire as I have a picture of her and my aunt remembers her. I > think she is buried in Olney. Nellie married French Conour. My father was > born in Claremont. I found a mention to a 1860 Lawrence Co. census to a > "Squir Laws, 4" posted on a message board in 1999, but the person who posted > it isn't using the same e-mail address as she did then. They had Squir > listed under Lindsey Laws in Lawrence + Crawford County census, but that > didn't match the children I had found earlier for Lindsey Laws. > > Carlene > > > ==== LAWS Mailing List ==== > Please post Laws related information at our GenConnect Board at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schwartz/Laws/laws_bds.htm > >