This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elmore Walker Van Meter Hawkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RSB.2ACE/674.827.830.831.836.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sue. Yes I had more Elmores that went to IL. Not quite sure where all the locations are but the families that went are consistent with traveling in a "pack." They moved en mass! From what I have read the Indians north of Louisville weren't the friendliest. I have a Jacob V born 12-19-1828 I'm sure in Allendale, and died 4-19-1910 in Mason City or county, IL. He married a Sarah Hill. Jacob was the son of Peter Elmore and Eliz Victor. I also have William Elmore, son of Peter and Eliz, who married Elizabeth Town, Henrietta Town and Elizabeth Salsman Elkins, and had kids by them all. William Elmore and Elizabeth Elkins had children together and a couple of those went to IL. There was Welby who first went to Nebraska and then to IL. There was Hestle who is buried in Princeton, IL. And I'm working on others matching the kids up to the right parent.