Hi... I don't know either except back when they were living in Lancaster PA there was a Robert Luckie will. I have seen both spelling in NC also. I think back at that time some of them changed the spelling to be easier to be identified. I know in my Willson line my great grandfather spelled his last name Wilson which was different than the rest of the family. However the kids put the extra l on his headstone. In Jersey County there was an older man named William Luckey living with the Samuel Davis family. My Samuel Luckey married their daughter Mary. Several of these families all seamed to be kind of intertwined, such as Luckey, Davis, McGuire and more to be found. A large number of the earlier settlers in Jersey County IL were born in Rowan County NC. Karon "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer". ~ William S. Burroughs Dyer - Willson - Luckey - Scoville -----Original Message----- From: rowanroots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rowanroots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gdvedmonds@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:34 PM To: rowanroots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] Joseph Luckey & wife Esther of Jersey County, IL - Formerly of Rowan County NC Karon, I have another Luckey will I will be posting as soon as a transcribe it.? It is for a Samuel Luckie of Rowan County, NC.? The will is dated May 31, 1797 and lists wife Ann, sons Robert and Samuel and granddaughter, Peggy.? The will is witnessed by John Hall, William Luckie, Jr. and Robert Luckie.? Don't know who this Samuel Luckie is though.? ~Glinda -----Original Message----- From: Karon <kcks39@yahoo.com> To: rowanroots@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 4:16 pm Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] Joseph Luckey & wife Esther of Jersey County, IL - Formerly of Rowan County NC Thanks for the tips. I did know about James McGuire and my Joseph Luckey both moving to MO around the same time and living near each other. ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Karon, I have a Henderson Benson married to Betty Wilson in Rowan Co sold their land abt 1827 and Henderson is listed in the 1830 Census in Jersey County, IL. I lost him after that but found a non genealogy descendant who could tell me very little about who travelled with whom or why or where they were for several censuses. He lived in Jerseyville Ill before his death. Did they all leave for new farm land, a religious colony, better weather? Any clues to search him in the Jersey Co area? On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Karon wrote: > Hi... > > I don't know either except back when they were living in Lancaster > PA there > was a Robert Luckie will. I have seen both spelling in NC also. I > think > back at that time some of them changed the spelling to be easier to be > identified. I know in my Willson line my great grandfather spelled > his last > name Wilson which was different than the rest of the family. > However the > kids put the extra l on his headstone. > > In Jersey County there was an older man named William Luckey living > with the > Samuel Davis family. My Samuel Luckey married their daughter > Mary. Several > of these families all seamed to be kind of intertwined, such as > Luckey, > Davis, McGuire and more to be found. A large number of the earlier > settlers > in Jersey County IL were born in Rowan County NC. > > Karon > "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and > wait for the > answer". > ~ William S. Burroughs > > Dyer - Willson - Luckey - Scoville > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROWANROOTS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Jersey IL was actually Greene IL at first have you looked in Greene IL after 1830? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Del & Curt" <cmano@buffnet.net> To: <rowanroots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] Wilson of Jersey County,IL - Formerly of Rowan Co NC > Hello Karon, > > I have a Henderson Benson married to Betty Wilson in Rowan Co sold > their land abt 1827 and Henderson is listed in the 1830 Census in > Jersey County, IL. I lost him after that but found a non genealogy > descendant who could tell me very little about who travelled with > whom or why or where they were for several censuses. He lived in > Jerseyville Ill before his death. Did they all leave for new farm > land, a religious colony, better weather? Any clues to search him in > the Jersey Co area? > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Karon wrote: > > > Hi... > > > > I don't know either except back when they were living in Lancaster > > PA there > > was a Robert Luckie will. I have seen both spelling in NC also. I > > think > > back at that time some of them changed the spelling to be easier to be > > identified. I know in my Willson line my great grandfather spelled > > his last > > name Wilson which was different than the rest of the family. > > However the > > kids put the extra l on his headstone. > > > > In Jersey County there was an older man named William Luckey living > > with the > > Samuel Davis family. My Samuel Luckey married their daughter > > Mary. Several > > of these families all seamed to be kind of intertwined, such as > > Luckey, > > Davis, McGuire and more to be found. A large number of the earlier > > settlers > > in Jersey County IL were born in Rowan County NC. > > > > Karon > > "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and > > wait for the > > answer". > > ~ William S. Burroughs > > > > Dyer - Willson - Luckey - Scoville > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROWANROOTS- > > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Del & Curt wrote: "He lived in Jerseyville Ill before his death. Did they all leave for new farm land, a religious colony, better weather? Any clues to search him in the Jersey Co area? ..... " At the risk of stating facts many may already know, the exodus from Rowan County was widespread and more families went than stayed. It seems to have happened from about 1790 through 1810 when many folks followed Daniel Boone's trail into Tennessee and Kentucky. After 20 years there, more or less, they then moved northward into Indiana, Illinois and Missouri if they hadn't gone west through Oklahoma Territory and Texas. It helps to know and remember that Indiana opened up, about 1798, after the Greenville Treaty was signed. Illinois became a state in 1818 and Missouri followed in 1821. All instances meant cheap public land became readily available and Illinois land could also be had with War of 1812 bounty warrants. My Rowan County families that followed the northward path were in Davidson and Williamson Counties in Tennessee from about 1810 until the last left in the mid-1830s. Their next move was to Clinton and Washington Counties in Illinois beginning 1818. Their trip took them down the Cumberland to the Ohio, west to the Mississippi and up that river to Alton, Illinois. They then followed the Illinois River, to what became Greene County, where they settled on Apple Creek, in the north central part of Greene, in the area of the towns of White Hall, Belltown, Berdan. County formations moved fast. So a family may have lived in three or four counties and never moved from their first home. My folks were in Washington County for the first federal census of Illinois in 1818. Greene County was formed in 1821. Jersey County was not formed until 1839. My first family to leave Greene County was that of Michael Waltrip who was born in 1788 in Halifax Co VA, married Mary Glasscock in Breckinridge Co KY in 1813, followed his father and brothers to Greene Co IL in 1818 and died in 1843 in Hutton Twp., Coles Co IL. The boy covered a lot of ground in his 55 years! One of his brothers stayed in Greene County and another went to Missouri. So, three brothers went in three different directions in two different states. I'm not aware if this Waltrip family was related to any of my Rowan families but a few vague facts seem to indicate it may be so. Other of my NC/TN families that came to Greene County, Illinois, from 1818 through the 1830s, and purchased state land were: [Listing earliest to latest land purchase dates; first year public land became available was 1821.] 1821 -- Thomas Allen, John Allen, Zachariah Allen, William Allen, John Andrews, Francis Bell, 1822 -- James Pinkerton, Andrew Pinkerton, 1823 -- Amos Andrews, Samuel Morrow, 1824 -- William Speaks, 1825 -- Jesse Stark, Samuel Allen, 1826 -- William Morrow, James Davis, William Waltrip, 1827 -- Thomas Allen, 1828 -- William Waltrip, 1829 -- David Pinkerton, 1830 -- Robert W. Bell, Josiah Allen, John M. Lakin, John Pinkerton Jr., William Pinkerton, Luke Waltrip, 1831 -- Luke Waltrip, 1832 -- Jordan Lakin, 1833 -- Thomas Allen Bell, John Stark, 1834 -- John J. Lakin, Cager Stark, 1835 -- James Davis, Allen Morrow Davis, Alexander Lakin, Thomas Lakin, John Brannan, Zachariah Allen Morrow 1836 -- Joseph Orton, James Davis Jr., William Harbour, Bird Waltrip, Lastly, in 1837, Erasmus Wethers Allen purchased 120 acres of state land in Greene County in February. His grandfather, also Erasmus Wethers Allen, had held North Carolina State Grant #1242 in the 1780s. So goes part of my part of the first fifteen years in Greene County. All of these families were related and I've not listed but a fraction of the total. The mortar that held all together was that each and every man had a wife, mother or grandmother who was a BRYAN. While I've found no Bryan family per se that came to Illinois, many of their descendants did. A good example is Joseph Orton, 1836, whose mother was a Bryan and he also married a Bryan girl who was his first cousin. When his wife died in 1835, he sold out in Tennessee and moved with all ten of his adult children to Illinois, probably because his relatives who had gone before encouraged him to do so. He purchased land near Berdan and then claimed an additional 80 acres with a land warrant for his service in the War of 1812 when he fought in the Battle of New Orleans. He is buried at Belltown. These Illinois people returned to Tennessee and Kentucky a time or two and they were back and forth across the Mississippi River as if it were the road in front of their house. While the Boones were in St. Charles County, Missouri, others from Rowan County were in St. Genevieve, St. Francois, Perry and Cape Girardeau, all of the old French counties below and including St. Louis County. Those are other places to look. After one generation in Southern Illinois, many families began to migrate north. Mine went from Washington/Clinton/Greene to Macoupin, Christian, Macon and Sangamon, always creeping northward. From there they migrated to the far northwest corner of Missouri by 1875. All this after a side trip to Texas, 1849-1851 where they lived for a couple of years in Collin County. Check out the "Peters Colony" on the Collin Co TX, US GenWeb website. [I used to just love to tell my kids to "go look it up!"] Many, many folks from Greene County IL were there beginning 1841. There is even a Carrollton, Texas, named after the town in Illinois. I've rambled more than I intended but my message is to look northward in Illinois, in Texas and in the old French counties of Missouri if you're looking for folks who may have moved from Greene County in Illinois in the mid 1800s. They generally did not move singly, they went in bunches wherever they went. If you can find one, you can usually find more. It ain't easy..... Good luck! Myrna Madigan "hiding out in the weeds and woods of the wild and windy Illinois prairie"