Folks, I'm reposting for our new Saratoga mailing list members. I need to find a "daddy" for my Thorn Connell born in Halfmoon 1805! I think it might be one of the male children of John C. Connell who died in Halfmoon 1801. John C. Connell's male children per his estate papers were: John Isaac C. (Promising, as has a child the right age on the 1810 Halfmoon Census) Christopher Alcha Abel (Man or womans name?) Aaron (Thorn not his child) Thorn Connell's obit follows. Any ideas on how to get over my brick wall? - Margaret Shinoki, near San Francisco. In Memoriam. ----- Died, at Alba, Oregon, Jan. 2, 1884, Thorn Connell, aged seventy-eight years and three months. Thorn Connell was born at Half Moon, Saratoga county, New York, A.D. 1805, and lived there till manhood, when he married Harriet Emily Mosher. They emigrated to Union City, Branch county, Michigan, in 1837, where they settled on a farm, and had born to them five daughters and two sons, of whom four daughters and the two sons are now living, viz: Mr John G. and Helam T. Connell, and Mrs. Ann Gibbon, who reside at Alba, Umatilla county, Oregon: Mrs. Mary Morilla Minkler, residing at Algona, Kossuth county, Iowa; Mrs. Juliette Young, at Nashua, Chickasaw county, Iowa; and Mrs. Emily Statirie Connell at Faulkton, Faulk county, Dakota. With his wife and children Mr. Connell moved to Floyd county, Iowa, in 1854, where his wife and one girl died. Keeping the rest of his children with him, he went into Kossuth county, Iowa, in 1865. There his children matured to men and women and made homes for themselves. In 1873 he came with his son, John G., to the Willamette valley, Oregon. In 1878 he came to Eastern Oregon, and at the Meadows joined with the United Brethren Church. In 1881 he came to Alba, where he has lived with his children until his death on January 2, 1884, at the home of John G. Connell, where the filial affection of his children supplied his wants and gave that sympathy which is the highest comfort of old age. ---------- A Card of Thanks. To the many friends of Camas Prairie whose considerate assistance in the care of our father during his last sickness was so kindly rendered, our thanks are gratefully presented. JOHN G. CONNELL. MRS. ANN GIBBON. HELAM T. CONNELL. Alba, Jan. 7, 1884. ----------