I encourage you to do census research as a way to broaden your knowledge of the families you are researching. You can access the census in several locations. The National Archives has regional branches in metropolitan areas throughout the US. The National Archives used to have a film rental program before September 11th, and I suspect it will start up again. You can borrow films from a Family History Center. I have purchased census CD's from Heritage Quest, which are actual images of a roll of census film. In addition, Ancestry.com now has all of the US census online. There are 4 households on the 1870 Missouri Census index with the surname PERRIGO. Three of them are in Clark county and one is in DeKalb County. These families may all be related somehow. Clark County, Jefferson Twp. page 539: PERRIGO, Johnathan, age 60, white male b. NY Caroline, age 58, white female b. NY Henrietta, age 17, white female b. Missouri PERRIGO, William, age 29, white male, b. Kentucky Mary J., age 22, white female, b. Virginia George, age 3, white male, b. Missouri Amanda, age 1, white female, b. Missouri Clark County, Jefferson Twp., page 544 PERRIGO, Martain, age 44, white male, b. Virginia Sarah E., age 25, white female, b. Indiana Union J., age 7, white female, b. Illinois Louisa M., age 5, white female, b. Illinois Sarah A., age 3, white female, b. Missouri DeKalb County, Grand River Twp., page 471 PERRIGO, Green, age 39, white male, b. Kentucky Matilda, age 27, white female, b. Illinois James, age 18, white male, b. Tennessee Delilah, age 15, white female, b. Illinois Nancy, age 13, white female, b. Illinois Mary, age 12, white female, b. Missouri John, age 9, white male, b. Missouri William, age 2, white male, b. Illinois Sarah, age 5/12, white female, b. Missouri This information doesn't answer your question, I know. Have you ever located your Justice Perrigo on the 1900 census? That would give you some idea of his age, and an indication of his place of birth (although I have found errors on many census and you'll want to find several listings). Because there are errors on the census in all categories, I am suspicious of the above entry for Union J. who is said to be female. Could your Justice Perrigo be Union Justice Perrigo? The one thing these families have in common is that a child was born in Illinois. I happen to have the 1870 census index for Illinois, so I took a look. There are several families with the surname Perrigo. I won't check them all. I can give you a printout if you're interested. HOWEVER, there were 2 listings I thought might be of further interest: a Justise S. Perrigo and a Jastice Perrigo in Adams County which I did check out. ILLINOIS, Adams County, McKee Twp., page 275: PERRIGO, Justice, age 54, white male, b. New York Rebecca, age 53, white female, b. Kentucky Ellen, age 16, white female, b. Illinois Elizabeth, age 14, white female, b. Illinois George, age 10, white male, b. Illinois (I am not certain of this child's name, but it is definitely NOT Justice!) There were other Perrigo families on this page, but none with a child called Justice. Adams, County, page 282, PERRIGO, Justise S., age 40, white male, b. New York Mary, age 37, white female, b. Illinois Lavina, age 18, white female, b. Illinois Justice, age 9, white male, b. Illinois Hope this helps, Addie. Elizabeth Richardson, Ketchikan, Alaska erich@ktn.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morrissey Addie" <cuznsrus@mindspring.com> To: <MOSULLIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:19 PM Subject: Earlier Perrigo Post > Good evening, > I am so sorry, I sent the previous message to quick. I have the > following information which was all gathered from a bible and family > letters. Again I am sorry for the quick finger. I was so anxious. :>) > My gg-grandfather was Justice Perrigo. I know he was in Sullivan, > Clark, Putnam, Adair counties MO. He died in MO but not certain as to > where. > He married Eliza Snyder in Adair County in 1882 and had two sons > Hiram b 1882 & Jonathan b. 1887. Justice had brothers but am not aware > of their names. It was mentioned in letters that Justice and his brothers > went into the war. I know they were in MO from 1880-1900 from what I have > been able to gather from a bible and letters. The letters state he was > raised in MO but never said where he was born or came from. According to > the death cert. of Hiram it stated he was born in Green Castle 1882, but > I am told there is no such place and I don't know what county or town > Jonathan was born in as the letters never stated? I am at a loss as I > am in Florida and I have called MO Archives, county seats for the above > mentioned counties and all tell me there is no indices, no such town as > Green Castle and very few records. I really do not know where to start > as the information I have been given is very vague. I thank you for any > assistance. > > Thank you, > Jack & Addie Morrissey > Remember "The Truth Is Out There" > Proper Citation is essential to a credible genealogy > =============== > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >