This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xVB.2ACE/1593.1.1 Message Board Post: i know who Sybil JACOBS is. She was born Sybil LITTLE, sister to my ancestor, Rhoda LITTLE who married Richard RILEA in Morgantown, WV. Richard drew a pension of $96.00 a year from the 8th of May 1819 until the time of his death, August 7, 1839 in Brown County, Ohio. According to Thompson's HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF BROWN COUNTY, Richard lived in Washington Township in 1829 and was a Township Trustee for 3 terms. He was buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Section #E, Lot 5, gravel, 2 miles S.E. of Sardenia, Ohio, off State Route 74, near Slab Camp Creek in Washington Township. Two months after Richard's death, on 4 October 1839, Rhoda appeared in the Brown County Court of Common Pleas and applied for a widow's pension. She testified to the date and place of her marriage and filed a page torn from the family Bible to show the names and ages of her children. Her son, William, then thirty years old, appeared with her and filed an affadavit as to the authenticity of the Bible record. Her sister, Sybl Jacobs, aged seventy years, also certified Rhoda's statements. Rhoda received her pension, the record showing her award of $96.00 a year to commence on March 4, 1848, and a certificate of pension issued on the 7th of June 1850 was issued in Cincinnati. It is not stated when she died. She also is buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Notes for Rhoda Little: According to the 1850 and 1851 Census Records, Rhoda Little Rilea was still living in Brown County, Washington Township, Ohio. Her husband, Richard Rilea died in 1839. The spelling of her last name in the census records is "RILEY". You can contact me at [email protected] Jan Lund.