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I have a listing of children from some research my grandmother did back in the late 1960s. She descends from Richard Alexander Conn through his son James Lee Conn. Following is a list of the children of Richard Alexaner Conn:

1) Hardic Conn

2) Mortimer Conn

3) Greenville Conn

4) Elgiva Conn

5) Elizabeth Conn marr. Jack Walker

6) Allen Simon Conn marr. Sarah J. Polluck 2-29-1862
+ James Conn d. 1928 Holt County, MO.
+ Ann Conn d. 8-4-1940

7)William Conn
+ John Conn
+ Jimmie Conn
+ Upton Conn
+ Two Other Children

8)James Lee Conn b 12-16-1828 Louisville, KY d 1-18-1880 Brown Co. KS-Buried Rose Hill Cem. marr. Amanda Daily of Plattsburg MO.

OK...so here is what I am hypothesizing about these eight children. Child 8 James Lee is my ancestor, my ggg grandfather. I have plenty of information on his offspring and it would be unseemly to post it all here. If you would like to know more about his family, I am glad to post it.

Child 7: I have no more information than this on this William Conn

Child 6: Allen Simon Conn: what is above is correct, though lacking in details. I have death certificates for his children; they are buried, as per another post I have read, in Holt County, Missouri. Neither ever married. Both were born in Colorado and both died in Holt County, MO.

Child 5: I have no more information than what you see above for Elizabeth Conn

Child 4: I have no more information than what you see above for Elgiva Conn. I do not know if this is her name. My GG Grandmother Laura Elgiva Conn was apparently named for her. Often times this odd middle name is given as Ellen in records.

Child 3: Greenville Conn: I think that this might be Greenbury/Greenberry/Green Conn who married one Elizabeth Sparks and died in the 1860s in Kentucky. He had a son named Richard, and two daughters. This is conjecture, but there is a JL Conn or something like that living with him, who is likely James Lee Conn, child 8 above.

Child 2: Mortimer Conn: I think that this is Mortimore Conn, who appears in several messages in this Conn board. He married Louisa Brown in Holt County Missouri, then moved to Gentry County. Laura seems to be dead by 1870, when Mortomore appears on the census there. He had two children, Mileteus, who migrated back to Kentucky and died there, and a daughter named Syrilda Jane. She married William T Linville and died in Arizona in 1919, and had several children.

Child 1: Hardic: I can find no record of anyone with this name. I think it might be Robert/Robin H, with whom Mortimore was living in Gentry County in 1870's census. Again, this is conjecture, but this Robin/Robert/R H conn is about the right age to be Mortimore's brother.

This is a brief sketch of what I have for these children. As for Richard Alexander Conn himself, the tale is a little more windy: Grandma has him born in 1783 in Ireland and dying 2-14-1862 in Kentucky. He lived in Holt County, MO for the censuses of 1850 and 1860, and says he is from Kentucky. If he moved back to Kentucky and died there in 1862, they must have drug his body back to Missouri to bury it in Holt County. His wife, Grandma lists, is Lucy Matilda Carter "said to be the sister of Anne Hill Carter, mother of Gen. Robert E. Lee." I find Richard A Conn being married in Hardin County, KY to a Lucy POWELL. This is all I have found on his wife. He was apparently married again, and I have seen the name-Elizabeth Rockwell or something to that effect. If Lucy POWELL was marrying for a second time, and her maiden name was Carter, Grandma would be the only witness I know of this fact. I have a tree, Fisherfamily1, on Ancestry if you can access it it will have a more detailed analysis of the people mentioned here