Hi Delores, You added some new info. Ray told me Uniontown, but he was 87 at the time! I had forgotten about the Gold Rush and Panama bits, so I'm glad you reminded me. I'm going to print out your response and record the info right away!!!! Thanks, Joanna

Joanna, Did you ever find any records of your family in the Effingham area? Except for the Isaac Loy born in OH, all of the Effingham County Loys descend from my ancestor John Henry Loy, son of Henry, son of Martin. For a while the descendants of Matthias Loy lived there (ca. 1870-1890ish) but they moved on to other states, such as KS. One of the daughters of this branch married one of the grandsons of John Henry Loy, but they divorced. Other than this, I didn't find any other "stray" Loy family in the county that couldn't be accounted for. As a side note, just before that Isaac F. Loy came to the county, there were also two Loy women (sisters?) that married Moore men there. One was Cinderella Loy who md. 25 February 1863 (Effingham Co., IL) Samuel Moore and the other was Mary E. (b. ca. 1824 KY) who married A.S. Moore. One record gives Mary E. b. OH, which is same as Isaac, who was born ca. 1839 OH and ran a livery business. In 1850 there was also a Hugh W. Loy b. 1820 KY, who was the only Loy not descended from my John Henry Loy. The fact he was from KY makes me think he may have been an unrecorded first cousin. Have you come across any of these in your family records? Also, from the way it sounded was that William P. lived in Effingham prior to his shipwreck. If so, I wonder if he left any family at all in Effingham? He's not in any census I've found. I also own the state census on microfilm and book, and he wasn't listed there either. Delores By the way, to me Effingham is more south than central. I used to live in northern IL (Galesburg) and to us Bloomington area was central and Effingham was south--or, it would be if the state was divided into thirds. If divided into fourths, I guess it would be south central. I'm the first generation since 1839 that wasn't born in that area, though I did visit there and grew up in the state. On 1/29/02 1:39 PM, "Joanna Hosteny" <jmlh@megsinet.com> wrote: > Hi Delores, > > You added some new info. Ray told me Uniontown, but he was 87 at the time! > I had forgotten about the Gold Rush and Panama bits, so I'm glad you > reminded me. > > I'm going to print out your response and record the info right away!!!! > > Thanks, > > Joanna > > > > ==== LOY Mailing List ==== > *** Roxanne Munns, ListHostess *** > Questions? Please contact me at: Loy-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >