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Surnames: Calhoun, Skillman
Classification: Query
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Catherine, have you done some research in the Soldiers and Sailors database to look for
Lucy's brothers?
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ - now complete, with all 6.3 million service records of Union
and Confederate soldiers! I have more links to CW sites here:
http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/american-civil-war-or-war-between.html
Have your searched for her marriage record? Often the parents are mentioned there, or you
can find an announcement of the wedding or the engagement in a local newspaper of the
time. This might help:
Genealogy in the Illinois State Archives:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/services.html
Have you searched for Lucy in the 1870 and 1860 census records?
Best of luck!