At 12:31 PM 10/21/02 -0400, Edith Bartley wrote: >[snip] >My source for both of these is Julius Whiting Lilly's >"Lilly/ey/ie Family History," a 1930 WPA project of the >Los Angeles Public Library. No footnotes/bibliography. >JWL gives Eliza's maiden name as: Eliza Davis (Eliza A. >Brewer). I don't understand what he means by that. >William and Willard are very distant cousins; both are >descendants of the George Lillie who was of Reading MA >ca. 1650. [snip] Hi, Edith: My guess about Eliza would be that she was born Eliza A. BREWER, and married (first) a DAVIS. For me, the middle initial "A." is an important clue; if she were a DAVIS by birth, I would not expect it in her married name. But I am by *no* means certain. Darrell Darrell Allen MARTIN a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois [email protected] www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/