Just got interested. Traced someone on dads side back to a marriage record from Virginia dated 1806. I am finding less for my wife's family so far. There used to be a tree mom had. Hope it is in stuff down stairs. I do recall one branch was hanged as horse thieves.
I have a letter written from Vance county MO in 187? telling Mr. Peel his son Richard was at their home bedfast 2 weeks with typhoid so they would know. I havent pinned that story down yet.
Another story, if I can find it tells about smallpox going through a town taking whole families, parents leaving orphans.
Family seems to be Iowa, Missouri, Illinois so far.
This endeavor makes ne lonesome
