Tom, dawn Marie, and Marie H.: Hello and Happy New Year! Go Sellers! Sorry for the long silence, but I just discharged my last obligation under my university's faculty early retirement program. So . . . I am now free as a bird -- and look out, dead ancestors. 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. I have been to Georgetown, Ohio, a couple of times in the last few years and have worked there with the good people who run the Brown County Historical and Genealogical Society there. By now you have read dawn Marie's very recent e-mail which correctly associates Leannah (Sellers) Rader's younger sister, Olive (Sellers) Crook, with her second husband, John Wyland Ditto. Olive married John in Mercer County, Illinois, on 11 November 1873 according to the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, which is available on-line. If you would be willing to supply me with your U. S. Postal Service mailing address by return e-mail, I would be glad to print off and mail to you some family group sheets and 40-some-odd pages of a Sellers-Dunn time line which has your Leannah (Sellers) Rader and Joseph Rader on it. dawn and Marie H. already have this, I think. I have the following note regarding Joseph Rader: "In the 1850 federal census returns for the township which became New Boston Twp., Mercer County, Illinois, there is a Joseph N. Rader, aged 24, farmer, boarding in the household of Pettis and Ester Finch, near other families who married children of Jacob Sellers in that county. In fact, I think one of the Sellers boys married a Finch girl, but my memory could be mistaken on this point. -- RKH 17 June 2001" How, exactly, do you and your family connect up with Leannah and Joseph? Where are your relatives located in Iowa and Nebraska? What is your descending line back to Leannah and Joseph? I was born to Cyril Ernest "Cy" Hauser and Alice (Sellers) Hauser in Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa, and grew up on a farm just outside of Williams, Hamilton County, Iowa. I graduated in 1960 with a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in Ames. Hope to hear from you soon. Cheers. Rollie Hauser Rolland K. Hauser 1075 Tracy Lane Chico, California 95926-1446 voice: 530-891-4033 e-mail: rhauser@csuchico.edu -----Original Message----- From: SKRISTJACK@cs.com [mailto:SKRISTJACK@cs.com] Sent: Thu 1/1/2004 7:17 PM To: Dawngurl@aol.com; SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com; Hauser, Rolland Cc: Subject: Re: ........Leanna/Leana Sellers/MERCER CO, IL....Tom/Rollie/Marie..... Dawn...thanks for your reply. My family and I just returned from two weeks of visiting family in Iowa and Nebraska - so I'm just starting to wade through emails. I appreciated the Sellers/Ditto lead and will follow up on it. I haven't corresponded with Rollie yet...or answered Marie's request for information on my line from Leanna - but I really appreciate all the work they have put into the website. Leanna Sellers and her son-in-law, Charles Hillman (husband to Ida Rader) - have been two of my biggest hang-ups for years. All the best for the New Year. Tom Jackson skristjack@cs.com