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From: Tom Lundeen <>
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] To Tom Lundeen re Swedish documents
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 98 09:22:18 -0600


on 1/12/98 8:57 PM, nancy hammes wrote:

>Tom: I have reading the posts back and forth and maybe this is not on our
>genealogy subject, but I, too, want to ask. Did you happen to graduate in
>1958 from GHS? I did, and I graduated w/a Tom Lundeen.
>
>Now, I will mention my family names in Knox County: Allen, Benson, Cain,
>Williams and Moon. I would appreciate correspondence w/anyone re Delia
>CAIN b 04 Mar 1858 in Ellisville Fulton Co m Francis Marion Allen 29 Jan
>1881. She is the d/o Daniel Cain (Kane) and Mary Jane Jones Cain, possible
>from KY.
>
>Also, my big mystery: My gggrandmother, Ruth Hannah Williams. She kind of
>appears when her son, George Christopher, was born in 1846 Fulton Co IL.
>She m Robert C Benson 30 Dec 1851. I am looking for her parents who she
>states on a census were from NJ. But I cannot find them. I have her death
>certificate (her parents info is not on the cert) and her name is given as
>Ruthindia Benson. I have never seen that name regarding her before. She
>died 20 Apr 1909 in Ottumwa Wapello Co IA. Anyone out there know anything
>about her??
>
>Anyway, Tom, let me know if you graduated in '58.

Guilty as charged!

Hi, Nancy! If I remember right, you used to live on the east side of
Seminary, somewhere around Dayton. Since I don't remember you from Silas
Willard and do from Hitchcock, you must have moved there somewhere around
1953?

Where in Illinois are you now located? We're in Palatine, in the NW
suburbs of Chicago.

Good luck in your research. I think we all have a few mysteries like
that -- which is part of what makes genealogy so interesting.

Tom

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