In a message dated 2/24/2008 11:04:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, terryculver@embarqmail.com writes: My Amy Button, wife of Nathan Wells Brown, was b abt Oct 1769 d. Mar 28, 1854 and buried in Brookfield. So she in not John Hancock Button's sister, who died in 1881. I did not have a spouse for that Amy. I wonder what the source for her spouse's name "Brown" is. Does anyone know where Amy sister of John Hancock Button is buried? Dear Teresa: I got out my BUTTON FAMILIES OF AMERICA and looked up all the Amys. To my surprise, there are only three and none of the three is the one you cite. Would you please let me know who the parents of the Amy born 1769 were? I do not have her in my database at all. My info about Amys comes from BUTTON FAMILIES OF AMERICA, but I do have much BUTTON info from many places in NYS and New England that I wrote in the 1980s and 1990s. I do not have the burial place of Amy, sister of John Hancock BUTTON. There was a lot of confusion in some parts of BUTTON FAMILIES OF AMERICA. In looking at Amy BUTTON, sister of John Hancock, I am reminded that she could not have been the daughter of John BUTTON born 1749 and Anna COON born 1747; they were much too old to be her parents or the parents of several other children Nye attributes to them. In fact, some of us BUTTON researchers have thought that Anna COON married John BUTTON born 1756, which is my direct line, but we cannot prove it. At any rate, Nye sometimes gives children to couples who were much too old to be their parents. They may have been their grandparents or some other relation. Nye calls the husband of Amy, sister of John Hancock, as "Mr. Brown." The grandson of the author of the BUTTON BOOK has his grandfather's notes and has a lot more information than what the book has. His name is Ralph Button, and his email address is _ralph@rbutton.com_ (mailto:ralph@rbutton.com) . I have emailed him in the hope that he will be able to help sort out my BUTTON-BUTTON and BUTTON-PALMER problems. He emailed me back as follows: "I'll find the original research Grandfather did... usually he found some original record or a grave stone to confirm the data. I have gotten a better handle on his way of working now. He used cards to catalog his information. Then piles of papers, letters, or other research he had done to backup the basic information he had on his cards. So if he has the information on his card system, someplace in the boxes is the original documents or copies he made of them that will have where he confirmed the data." You could email him if you haven't already. I found his original message about this on GenForum. Jayne _perllan987@aol.com_ (mailto:perllan987@aol.com) Jayne _perllan987@aol.com_ (mailto:perllan987@aol.com) **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)