Hello,
I am totally new to rootschat so I hope I am doing this correctly. I have seen your correspondence concerning the Heron and Rees families of Washington in the 1890's to the early 1900's. I am related to the Rees family of Sangamon County, Illinois, and believe that your Rees line and mine are connected. Here is what I know:
My great-grandmother was Delilah Rees who was born in 1863 in Monmouthshire, Wales. She, along with her father, Lewis James Rees (sometimes referred to as James Lewis), mother, Esther Davis, and siblings immigrated in about 1871. They ended up in Dawson, Sangamon County, Illinois. There, Delilah married William Baugh in 1862. William and Deliliah's son was Franklin Squire Baugh, the same Frank who is with John Rees in the 1900 census. Franklin's first wife was Mary Heron, sister to Isabella Heron. So.....we have sisters marrying possible cousins. Do you know much about the parents of John Rees? I have to assume that John and Delilah Rees' fathers were "connected" in some way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.