FYI:
--If any of your female ancestors ended up moving and marrying in
Pikes Peak area -- this may be reason why they did so...
from newspaper:
May 3, 1860 Pg 2:
Wives Wanted -- the Pike's Peak Miners are sadly in want of
marriageable young women. At one of their Lycesms the following
resolution was announced... "to immediately export a large number of
young ladies to the Territory who wished to avail themselves of the
married state".
--On another note -- if your ancestor from Perry Co, IN went to
Missouri/Iowa border area they probably had gone with the group of
Smith followers (Latter Day Saints) who left from Perry Co, IN and
after they were thrown out of a town in northern Ill or Iowa (I forget
which), they later settled in Lamoni, Iowa area and when Smith went on
they stayed and still kept their Reorganized Latter Day Saints church
going to this day...the rest kept on to Utah with him.
--I know many of us in this list have come here because our ancestors
had lived in Perry Co, IN -- just out of curiousity I am wondering
where ya'll are now and how ya'll descended from Perry Co, IN to where
you are now.
I will start out -- I am Judith Ann (Sandage) Fullmer Murphy, widow --
my ancestors were the Bolin and Sandage clans. My set of folks ended
up moving over to Gibson Co and Pike Co, Indiana. When my daddy went
into the military (he had been born Princeton, IN) he left the area
and married a woman from New York while they both were in Washington
DC area (him military, her working civil service and in hospitals
there too). They moved around with military and ended up staying in
San Antonio, Texas where I was raised (although my brother, sister and
I were all born in various states). Later I went to Iowa for awhile
and back to Texas until Aug 1980 I moved to southwest Ohio to work for
the government -- and here I still am..........but my heart is still
in San Antonio, Texas
Judy M.