Who and where are people researching?

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Permalink Reply by Heather Ruth Buchanan Pack on March 25, 2013 at 7:37am

I'm researching the DEMOULIN, FOULON, and BESIN families.  They all immigrated from France to Madison, Bond, and Clinton Counties in Illinois around 1850.  In particular I'm looking for information about Susanne Besin who married Nathan Demoulin.  She was born in France in 1840 and died around 1871.  I can't find where she was buried or her death certificate.  I believe that Nathan and Susan's only boy is my grandfather, John Buchanan.  Family legend says that he ran away from home at the age of 14.  Our family now believes he also changed his name from Demoulin to Buchanan.  Possibly an anglicized version of Besin?

Right before he died he told his daughter-in-law, my grandmother, that he was born in Highland, Illinois, his mother's name was Susan "Boo-shan" (no spelling, just pronunciation) and that she was from France.  He said that his father's name was Nathaniel.  After 25 years of looking, I have found a family that matches his description.  The 1870 census shows a little baby in the Nathan and Susan Demoulin family named John (my grandfather was born in late 1869). They lived on a farm in Clinton County near Carlyle.

At this point I'm interested in find stories about the family between 1870 and 1885.  I'm thinking newspapers, but don't which newspapers to research.

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