This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Raynolds & Hann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJDBAIB/3266.1 Message Board Post: 25 Dec 2001 Joy, I MAY have some info helpful to you...though the place is not right. Am researching the Raynolds family (obviously, a particular line--and one that generally spelled the name with an A, not an E)...One of the direct ancestors of my clients was "James Madison Raynolds" (often called just "Madison"....1808, Muskingum Co, OH to 1883, Canton,. Stark Co, OH)...I find it hard to imagine he was in Jackson Co, IL, in (was it 1840)...He was a merchant in Canton, and a prominent citizen...One source is Memorial Sermon... on the Life and Works of James Madison Raynolds, by a man/minister named Latter, in Canton, when he died. On second thought, Reynolds by whatever spelling wasn't that uncommon a name, and it wouldn't have been unusual for a son to be named after the fourth President. So I suppose it's a different person. But let me know if you think there's anything worth pursuing... Brian