This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CUMMINS, CUMMINGS, BIBB, SCHOOLCRAFT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/2001 Message Board Post: Seeking information on Sarah Ellen Cummins/Cummings, born 1868 in Dunklin County, MO, died 1913, Hornersville, MO, married Edwin Lucius Bibb 1-31-1886 in Dunklin County. According to oral family history, Sarah was supposedly “ born and raised in the Malden area”; however, I think it more likely to be the Kennett area. “ Sarah’s mother died when she was 7 yrs old and she was raised by a family named “MacRath” who had one son named Lee. Sarah had a brother Jim Cummins and two sisters, Betty and Mary.” I have a photo of Fannie Izora Bibb with a Simon Cummings about 1910, so it seems Jim Cummin/gs had a descendant. The Cummins/Cummings were supposedly Native American. Sarah and Edwin’s marriage certificate states that her guardian James Cummings gave his permission for the marriage. Sarah and Edwin had the following children, all born in the Hornersville, MO, area: Alfred Thomas Bibb, born May 1887, died 1913, married Ethel Horner James Fairlan Bibb, born Sept 8, 1889, died Oct 7, 1925, married Dessie Forsythe Maude Viola Bibb, born Aug 9, 1891, died 1918, married John Cullins Walter Lee Bibbs, born Sept 6, 1893, died Feb 19, 1977, married Ella Rentfrow (1), Roxie Collins (2) Fannie Izora Bibb, born Aug 7, 1895, died Dec 31, 1989, married Oscar Samples Ida Mae Bibb, born Feb 6, 1987, died Jul 22, 1986, married Henry Bates Brinkley John Henry Bibb, born Jan 13, 1899, died May 19, 1976, married Hessie Lee Martin Ivy Lucrecia Bibb, born about 1901, died about 1913 Dollie Grace Bibb, born Mar 7, 1904, died Sept 1, 2000, married Birch Hopper Claude Edgar Bibbs, born Feb 23, 1906, died Oct 16, 1981, married Etta Annis Loucks (1), Marjorie Lucille Goodwin (2) Florence Myrtle Bibb, born Apr 7, 1909, died May 26, 1948, married Melvin Martin Sarah’s name on her marriage license is “Cummings”. I found James & Elizabeth Cummins, daughter Mary in the 1860 census in Independence Twp, Dunklin County. The 1870 Independence Twp census shows Elizabeth as a widow with the following children: Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, James and Sarah. Also listed working on the farm is Silas Schoolcraft. The Schoolcrafts were neighbors of James and Elizabeth Cummins in the 1860 census along with a William and Arrena Cummins and family. In the 1850 census, the Schoolcraft family (Hamilton County, Ill) had a daughter Elizabeth and the Cummins (1850 Stoddard County census) had a son James—both of the right age to be the couple in the 1860 census. I am searching for a connection to either of these families.