This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ryan, Simpson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FMB.2ACE/1371 Message Board Post: Does anyone know anything about the John I. Ryan who appears on the 1880 census in Praire Township? Born abt 1811 in Virginia. female in house Elizabeth Ryan, 37 b. KY possibly his wife but more likely a daughter. Also in home Joseph Simpson, 16 b. MO, Mary Simpson, 11 b. MO. Am looking for any link of John Ryan to Adam Henry Ryan who is also in Pettis Co, 1880. Adam was b. 1819 in KY, parents unknown born in VA.