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Subject: [ILPOPE-L] Samuel Austin of Pope Co., IL
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:00:18 -0500

Frank,
You seem to be very well informed about the AUSTIN's and I would like to
trade information and sources with you. Would you care to email me
privately on the Austin's? Please do...
Clara


On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 19:23:17 -0400 "Frank Butler"
<> writes:
> There appears to be a great deal of confusion and a lot of people
> have a lot
> of different information.
>
> I think he originally came from York, England to southern New York
> in the
> 1700s and moved on over to Ohio and then to southern Illinois,
> specifically,
> Golconda. I think that he had three sons with him. John Austin,
> Joshua
> Bailey Austin, William Harrison Austin and Thomas Jefferson Austin.
> I have
> a good bit of data on W.H. as I am descended from him. I believe all
> of my
> W.H. data is correct. There is a great deal of confusion about T.J
> as W.H
> also had a son named T.J. and a grandson named T.J.
>
> I believe ol' Sam's wife may have been named Charity and some say
> her last
> name was Bailey, but who knows.
>
> A lot of folks say there are many more children of Sam, but I just
> don't
> think so.
>
> Some also say that two of his sons served in the Black Hawk Indian
> war, but
> I can find nothing to support that.
>
> I think that W.H. was born in Ohio, but can't find a darn thing
> there about
> it.
>
> There is another group online that has a huge amount of data on
> J.B., and I
> have most of that.
>
> Who are you looking for?
>
> Frank Butler, son of Thomas Butler, son of Jessie Austin,
> daughter of Thomas Jefferson Austin, Jr.,
> son of Thomas Jefferson Austin,
> son of William Harrison Austin, son of Samuel Austin.
>

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