ROLLIE, don't believe this letter includes your notes on SELLERS, Jacob? owning land/Paying taxes on land on STRAIGHT CREEK. =(included below,msh) Need documents. HERMON, WHERE is/was STRAIGHT CREEK? msh (Tom, are you the fellow who lives in the Cincinnati area, who is active in working with children, and who comes up when one does a Google search using SKRISTJACK? If so, you live close to the [now] Brown County - Adams County, Ohio, border where Leannah Sellers's parents once lived and paid taxes in northeastern Brown County on Straight Creek -- in the 1820s, or so. Her parents were Jacob Sellers (1793 - 1857)and his wife Deborah/Debra/DeBora (Dunn) Sellers (ca. 1791 - shortly aft. 1850). I am not sure whether the Dunn surname is Deborah's maiden name, or is the surname of a deceased youthful first husband. Both of Leannah's parents become complicated to follow back further. from ROLLIE) Please send me/us this document= tax list, etc? WAR OF 1812 JULY 22, 1813 JACOB SELLERS enlisted in Adams Co,OH as a private in Captain Abraham SHEPPARDS CO , Col -- EDWARDS. He was allowed bounty land Wt#12416 - 160 acres , March 24, 1855, Mercer Co, Il 12-16-1815 MICHAEL SELLERS and wife Katherine of Clermont Co, Oh sell 50 acres, all that land deeded to them by John SELLERS IN FOX SURVEY/ADAMS CO which may be close to STRAIGHT CREEK? sending copy to Hermon to help me/us on location. LAND location in this time frame is Very important. WHERE was and is STRAIGHT CREEK? JACOB SELLERS married 1817 CLERMONT CO,OH Deborah DUNN BROWN CO,OH was created the 1817-18 winter,the old CLERMONT-ADAMS CO line 1820 BROWN CO, OH CENSUS JACOB SELLERS= page 342 Eagle 1 male 26/45 (1775/1794) 1 female 16/25 (1795/1805) CLARKSON DUNN, PAGE 357 EAGLE FERRELL, HENRY, JAMES DUNN, WE do Not have the Mercer Co, Il census/marriages posted on SELLERS/DUNNS and PARKERS are a very important family from this area of OHIO, which kinda appear to have went to IL/Mercer Co, IL also? . Need. THANK YOU for sharing and understanding questions, etc marie, iowa -----Original Message----- From: SKRISTJACK@cs.com [mailto:SKRISTJACK@cs.com] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 3:21 PM To: RHauser@csuchico.edu Cc: Dawngurl@aol.com; mari@netins.net Subject: Re: ........Leanna/Leana Sellers/MERCER CO, IL....Tom/Rollie/Marie..... Rollie - congratulations on your retirement. You "googled" the correct Tom Jackson - I'm active here in Cincinnati with Children's International Summer Villages - a foreign exchange program that my 13-year old daughter, Delaney, participates in. Your offer of additional information on the Sellers-Dunn line, and what you've already shared by email, is greatly appreciated. My family and I have passed Straight Creek in Brown County many times on rural rambles - so I look forward to pinning down the Dunn's homestead. We also have friends on a farm in Robertson County, Kentucky - just south of Maysville - so hope to physically identify Jacob Seller's origin at some point. My line to Leannah is as follows (genealogy reporting nomenclature isn't my strong suit): Thomas M. Jackson, son of Richard L. Jackson, son of Guy C Jackson, son of Omer Jackson, husband to Lilly Irene Hillman (Hillmon?), daughter of Charles Hillman and Ida Rader, daughter of Joseph Rader and Leannah Sellers My father Richard was born and raised in New Boston, Mercer County, Illinois and I was born in Urbana, IL when he was at Illinois after the Korean War. My mother, Margaret A. Manning, was from southwestern Missouri (Ozarks). I spent most of my childhood in Cedar Rapids, IA where my father took a job with Collin's Radio (now Rockwell Intl.) and my mother taught elementary school. They're still there - so that's my Iowa connection. My partner, Sally Krisel, was raised in Omaha where her father still resides. Between traveling back and forth from Cedar Rapids to Ames where I graduated in 1981 - and taking Highway 30 between CR and Omaha - I've been through Marshalltown many times. Again - great to make your acquaintance. Full-time work, the kid's soccer games and my ignorance of many genealogical research methods may limit the utility of this offer, but please let me know if there's any assistance I can provide you in checking sources in this area. All the best for the New Year. Tom Jackson 4250 Langland Street Cincinnati, OH 45223 (513) 681-7917 Home skristjack@cs.com