Barry County List Readers and cousins, as you know I did DNA back in December and have been plowing through the data for several days now. I have been going through my cousin connections and looking for clues for our Simpson family research. We are matching as a cousin to a woman who has family in Gibson Co., IN, and her down line is through Peter Ryan Simpson. George Washington Simpson who was born in Barry County, moved to Washington, Kansas, and died in Huntsville, AR, in Madison County. His ancestor is Peter Ryan Simpson but his family came from Cannon Co., TN, to Barry County. So on our George Simpson line - it looks like that we are descendants of the George Simpson who was born in Barry County and died in Madison Co., AR in 1945. I came to this conclusion because we are also showing up as cousins to the Spradling family, which were his mother's people. And also - we are showing up as cousins as some of his ancestal grandmother's - several wsurnames. George Simpson's father was named John Rose Simpson and he along with other relatives are buried in Madison County. At one time some of his grandchildren had a store in War Eagle. Somewhere around 40 years ago I went to visit a descendant of this family and while there asked if her George Washington Simpson had been married and had a family before he married their grandmother. The woman I talked to assured me that if her grandfather had fathered two children by another woman that they would have known about it. I suppose she didn't know or that she was protecting the memory of her grandfather! I thought she looked like part of our family, but I decided that was wishful thinking and so I discounted it all as nothing more than an idea. As for the Washington, MO, birth place of Jamie Mooney - I found that one of the Spadling uncles moved to Washington, MO, and was living there at the time our James Harvey Simpson Mooney was born. The reason I questioned the place of birth is that George Simpson moved to Washington, Kansas where he married in 1880. We know that John Simpson, George and America's first child was born in 1875 in Eagle Rock; and that Jamie, their second child was born in 1877 in Washington, MO. We will NOT change that information in our files. This isn't firm - not yet, and since this is so complicated - yes, we will still need a male descendant's DNA to firm up the connection. We have a promise of that coming up soon. I just wanted to share with you what I have learned up to now. On America Simpson's family I am matching with two Simpson families that are probably hers. As far as I can tell they are not related to the George Simpson's family mention above. Her family was from VA to KY, and then to IN. If she had people in Gibson Co., IN, it is not a known fact. Her family was from Warrick Co., IN. Donna Cooper