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From: "Linda Evans" <>
Subject: Re: [SUMMERS] Thomas L Summers
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:18:45 -0500
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Scott,
Thanks for you reply. Nothing rings a bell right now, but that doesn't mean
anything. I have found out quite a bit about them since they came to Clay
County, but know nothing about them before. I'm sure he didn't leave KY by
himself, but don't have a clue who any of his or her families are.
Linda
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Subject: Re: [SUMMERS] Thomas L Summers


> Hi, Linda! Not familiar with "your" names......but "my" Summers line was
in
> the same geographical areas as yours at roughly the same time (and, like
> yours, hailed from KY), so maybe there's some sort of connection. Rev.
> Cornelius Summers (1790-1843) and his wife Elizabeth Hadden Summers
> (1791-1869) were from near Mount Sterling, Montgomery Co., KY (about 30
miles
> east of Lexington). In the 1830s, they and their 9 children moved to
> Hendricks and Putnam Counties, IN (25 miles west of Indianapolis).
>
> I am descended one from of their elder sons, Alfred (1814-1863) and
his
> wife Allie Whitsett Summers (b. 1817), both also from the Mount Sterling,
KY
> area. They're in the tiny town of Franklin, Lee Co., IA in the 1850
census
> (northwest of Keokuk). Then they're in Alexandria, MO, in the 1860
census:
> just across the DesMoines River from Keokuk in "your" Clay County, MO. I
> know that one of their sons (a distant uncle of mine), Bodford Bennett
> Summers (b. about 1852), moved across the Mississippi River to the
Illinois
> side and lived in Hamilton, IL -- your Hancock County, IL. (I am
descended
> from Alfred and Allie's middle son (of about 13 children) James Knox Polk
> Summers, 1846-1917, who lived most of his adult years in Kansas City.)
Have
> yet to find any Thomases in my line, however. If you see anything to all
> this that ties to "your" Summers folks, please let me know. Thanks......
>
> Scott Summers
>
>
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