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Richard, My mother's cousin, Wanda (Cooper) Zekeres, spent years doing a research on the Coopers, Flynns and Frymans that were of our ancestry. She had many books that she had assembled and she had made an index for each, but she did
the index in the same way that you would do a descendancy
chart, including birth and death dates as she had found them. Census dates are not necessarily accurate, after all, the enumerator shows up at their door unexpectedly and whomever answers the door gets flooded with questions, (you can imagine a child trying to answer) or the husband or wife may not know exactly how old the other is, or just
couldn't remember. Sometimes a neighbor was grilled. I'm reasonably certain that they had no idea that someday their descendants would be using that information. Wanda
could not give me all of her information, so she ran off
copies of her indices, and from these I have made my own books. I did my early work at the Mid-Continent Genea-logical Library and we made several trips to different areas of the country doing research, now I am restricted to doing nearly all of my research by computer, and use Heritage Quest for census. I have only been able to add two families to Wanda's work of the Fryman's so far, and those are Richard Hill & Charlotte Fryman and Richard Worrell & Margaret Fryman. The cs. record show there were
several daughters of George and Margaret (Snapp) Fryman, and I am still trying to find out who they were. See my
other messages on this forum. I will try to answer any
questions you may have. As far as what happened to William Waits is concerned, I do not know, but there were several epidemics of cholera through out the 1830s and 1840s, this caused by unsanitary conditions fouling up the canals and rivers. There were many deaths from this and from typhoid. I imagine this is what caused the flood of familes coming into Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s. Alma Spragg
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