Thank you so much for information you gave me but there is one thing I may not have told you and that is I don't live in the USA I live in the UK. I have Ancestry.UK. and our libraries do not have Ancestry.Com so I am having to rely on help from like minded people like me to help guide me through my research so that when I can get to the USA and I can see for myself. My husband and I being seniors.

Matthew Willis is my great grandfathers older brother and he came to the US between 1850 and 1860 with his four sons John, Philip, Richard and William and wife Jenny/Jane. Thomas married a Susan Haar in Grant in 1863. Most of the research I have aquired is from trawling around the internet with the help of Cyndi's List.