List Readers, 47 years ago I leaned that great grandfather's mother had left him at the Mooney home when he was about three years old. Through the years there has been a driving force for me to find out who America Simpson was and why she gave away some of her children. My new found relatives seem to think that John Wilkerson died, but they have no idea what happened to George Simpson. I still don't have all the answers but with each passing year I add more to the bulk of data I have gathered. Every time I passed on information and posted about this family, I thought that some day some one will read my stuff and know what I am looking for. A woman named Elyssa Spurgin did just that when she googled America Simpson and found me. She put me in contact with her mother who had some old photos. Marie and her daughter descend through Dovey, a child of Elijah Poe and America (Simpson) Bailey. I remember seeing Dovey one time. She came to my great grandfather, James Harvey Simpson Mooney's funeral. I was 9 years old. I remember she had on a pill box hat. There are still a thousand unanswered questions about this family, but we now have a photo of America, her daughter, one of her husbands, her brother James T. Simpson, her sister Mary Margaret Simpson, and her brother Green Simpson. We also know that George Simpson was her first husband or anyway she had two children by him. I have never been able to find a marriage license for them. John Simpson is buried near James Harvey Simpson Mooney in Washburn Prairie Cemetery. The moral to this find is never give up - keep on looking and seeking and someday your brick walls will look like small, maybe even like paper walls. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/photos/photo-4/baileyElijahAmericaDovey.htm More Photos later. Donna Cooper