I received the following note from a Bill Utterback, listowner for the KYPurchase list and hope someone can help him: >RE: Phelan >I'm not sure that I can shed any light on the ILL Phelan clan. My interest in the >family is a corollary one. My ggg-uncle, Richard Montgomery Skaggs, had some >Phelan folds living with him the 1860's in Dunklin Co., MO. >When he wrote his will in 1866, he named "....my trust friend...", William G. Phelan, >as executor. Since the phrase, "my trust friend", can indicate kinship when used in a >will, I have been scratching around trying to see if I could connect the families. No >luck so far, either on the Skaggs side, or on the Norsworth side (Richard's wife was >Isabella Norsworthy). I have not seen anything yet to indicate ILL connections. >If you happen to see anything that looks like a connection to Dunklin and Stoddard >Co., MO in your Phelan research, I'd be interest in hearing about it. Bill U. >[email protected] If anyone can help Bill, you can e-mail him direct but would like to hear about it on the list, too. Thanks, Glenda in Memphis