> > John and Rebecca Morton are my husband's great great grandparents. The = > 1859 Federal Census of Pike County Illinois lists this young couple, = > ages 21 and 20 respectively, living in the Pittsfield area. They have a = > 2 month old baby daughter named Emily J. =20 > We know that John is the son of William 'Billy' Morton, a well known = > Pike County pioneer and that John was born in Pike County in 1829. = > Billy's brothers, John and George, also migrated from Chatham County = > North Carolina to Pike County Illinois by way of Hawkins County = > Tennessee. Their sons married the Frame sisters of a Tennessee family = > that apparently migrated to Pike County along with the Mortons. > John died in 1863 while in the Union Army during the Civil War. We know = > that Rebecca apparently remarried a man named Cox as she signed for = > John's pension to his daughter as R.Morton Cox (gdn) on his pension = > record. > We do not know where they were living in 1860 nor do we have official = > record of Rebecca's remarriage. We do have record of Emily J.'s = > marriage to Hugh Guantt (my husband's great grandfather) a widowed = > father of two small children living in the Spring Creek Township of Pike = > county. > We would love to hear from anyone who has family links to these = > families. > Naomi A. Wood > Wenatchee, WA > >