This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Prather Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28136 Message Board Post: John C (bn 1796) & Catherine (bn 1803) were married in 1824 in Clark County, IN. They had 3 boys (Samuel, John & William and a girl, Emily, in Indiana prior to 1840, traveled to Upper Alton, IL and then had another boy, Hardin, in Upper Alton. John C was the son of William Smith & Martha Cleghorn. Catherine was the daughter of Basil R Prather & Rachel Holman. I can locate John C & Catherine in 1830 Indiana, 1840 Illinois in the census records. They do not appear in the 1850 census. In 1860, Catherine, their son John & Hardin appear in the Upper Alton, IL census. Catherine died in 1868 in Upper Alton and her newspaper obit indicates that she is a widow, however does not reveal the name of the cemetery. I can find no records for the death of John C. Smith. Samuel & Emily went back (reason unknown) since, in the 1850 census, I find Emily living with her grandmother (Rachel Prather) in Utica, Clark County, IN, and her brother, Samuel, married and living in Jeffersonville, Clark County, IN. Emily married in 1853 in Indiana. Can anyone assist me in determining the date/place of death/cemetery for John C. Smith. I have been unable to find any death info in Illinois.