At 06:11 PM 6/11/99 +0000, you wrote: >Jo Ellen: I can't really give you any information, but I did have the name Keown who went from SC to Bowling Green, Ky area with Youngs, McDonalds, McCurdys, and in Ky area the Keowns mixed with Cooksey name. As I remember, this group went to Illinois. Wish I could tell you more. Jean [email protected] > >JoEllen Barnes wrote: > >> I am looking for information on "Isom and Mary Lynn". Isom and Mary Lynn are the parents of Jim Lynn (James). Jim was born approximately 1849 - 1851. Jim Lynn worked and lived on the Cooksey property in Bowling Green, Kentucky on Slim Island Road. Therefore I know that Isom and Mary lived prior to Jim being born in 1849 -1951. >> >> Any assistance that can be given will be greatly appreciated. Going to Illinois from KY was a very common route, as was going from parts of SW VA, Shenandoah Valley, and parts of NC.....thru what is today Eastern TN, the Cumberland Gap and into KY. Anyway, around 1814 there was the Shawneetown land District in Illinois.....I think land was recorded at Vincennes Indiana at some point. Several Illinois counties came out of the area - Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, hardin, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline, White, Williamson. Also parts of Pulaski, Union, Wayne, Edwards, and Wabash. Also before 1820, some land in present Fayette, marion, and Clay were recorded at Shawneetown. I guess what I am trying to say is.....many southern families ended up in Illinois say 1820s-1840s or so. Some then later moved on to MO, AR, or the Northwest. So it is not uncommon to have a family begin in NC, move to KY, and finally IL. Then the older generation dies, and the next one continues on to perhaps AR, OK, TX or to the western U.S. All this moving in the space of a couple of generations. Mary