Hank, the 1860 Cesus for Avon Fulton County, Illinois it lists

Abraham 23 Brickstone mason born abt 1837 Oh
Sophia    22                              born abt 1867 NJ
John         1                               born abt 1859 Il
Mary Hall 74                              born abt   1786 NJ (Must be Sophia's Mother?)
Abraham and Sophia marries 12/03/1857 Fulton County, Illinois

Sophia remarries to a Joshia M. Ward 01/06/1869 Fulton County, Illinois
They have a daughter Sophia Ward.
 Have you sent for Abrahams compiled military records? Sophia put in a pensioner claim. There can be alot of info in those. I learned that my gr-gr-grandfather was acting as a nurse while wounded.
If you haven't done that, there is historysites. com that is alot cheaper than NARA.
Another site if you are not familiar with is the cyberdriveillinois, it has different databases on it you can search IE, marriages, deaths 1916-1949, court cases and etc.
And many other things you can explore on there.
I am not researching this family just helping out.                        Deb

-- Edited by deb06 on Thursday 1st of April 2010 11:28:50 PM

-- Edited by deb06 on Thursday 1st of April 2010 11:29:15 PM