Dennis, My ggg grandfather was a different Joseph Wilhite, not your Joseph Thornton Wilhite. But in the course of trying to track down my Joesph Wilhite (I have him as descended from Michael, Michael, Tobias, Johann Michael, etc) I have often run across your Joseph Thornton Wilhite who lived at the same time and was found in some of the same general areas. As I remember your Joseph Thornton Wilhite descends Aaron, John, Adam, Johann Michael, etc. In the 1840 Illinois census I found Joseph Wilhite (Joseph Thornton I assume) in Morgan County, Illinois and in the same 1840 census there is a Joseph Wilhite in the town of Virginia in Cass County, Illinois. I can see on the map that the town of Virginia is located only a few miles from the Morgan County line. Do you know what is going on here? Based on the ages and number of children, these appear to be duplicates, but I don't understand why. Possibly the apparent duplication relates to the later establishment of Morgan County out of a larger Cass County? Or possibly I found a town census that is duplicated in a county census? Could there have been two Joseph Wilhites in the Morgan/Cass County area in 1840? Gerald Wilhite -----Original Message----- From: PilgrimD@aol.com [mailto:PilgrimD@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:45 PM To: WILHITE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WILHITE] Sarah Margaret Wilhite b. 1848 Cass Co, IL Deb, I have a record of Sarah Margaret Wilhite b. Dec 5, 1848 to Eli Wilhite and Elizabeth Ryman in Cass Co, IL. The record has her married to a Daniels. This record comes from papers I recieved from my grandmother who was a daughter in law of Sarah's younger brother. I also have the 1850 census record. The reason there is no 1860 record is that Eli died in 1855. His wife Elizabeth and the younger sons showed up in Iowa with a few of the older brothers in 1870. My guess is that in 1860 they were with relatives somewhere in the Cass County area, but I have not found them yet. I do not have record of Sarah's marriage but Menard Co is a stones throw from where Sarah was born. Her younger brother, Eli Thornton Wilhite, my great grandfather married a girl from near Petersburg, Menard Co. I am guessing that he met her while back in Illinois from Iowa visiting one of his sisters that seemed to settle over that way, maybe Sarah. As for Eli and Elizabeth, Eli is a son of Joseph Thornton Wilhite who moved to the Cass county area in the 1830s while it was still part of Morgan Co. I have a great deal of information on him and his forebears. Elizabeth Ryman was a daughter of Joseph Ryman and Margaret Johnson. I have some information on them and their ancestry but not very complete. Let me know what you need. I will be happy to share. I am of course interested in whatever information you may have as well, particularly because I have not been able to locate the place of death and burial for Sarah's mother, my great, great grandmother. She seems to dissappear from Iowa before her death in 1899. I am guessing that in old age she went back to Illinois to live with a daughter. There is no marker for her next to her husband in Cass Co. and I have found no death record for her in Iowa. Maybe we can figure this out or maybe someone else out there has a clue. Dennis Wilhite ==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: WILHITE-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) WILHITE-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) Type only ONE word in the Subject line: unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237