Person:William Linn (2)

Based on various sources, including his will, I believe William first married Elizabeth Laird and had surviving children:

  John 1795-1883 WV -- in 1860 listed in Charleston, Kanawha Co. Virginia [later West Virginia]
  William 1801-1875 IL -- in 1860 listed in Cass Co., Illinois
   Mary Ellen 1809-1882 IL m. William Thomas Ishmael -- in 1860 listed in Cass Co., Illinois
    Elizabeth Laird 1810-1851 KY m. Samuel McFerrin Ishmael -- 
    and Philip Edmond 1811-1886 OR m. Mahala McDannald, m2 Christina Long -- 
 He married Elizabeth Stoops abt 1811 and had surviving children:
    Sarah 1815-1884 m. Isaac Bowen m2 Thomas McCabe
    Susanna 1817-1901 NE m. (?) Linn, m2? Robert McDonnald 1826- ;
    Alexander B. 1818-1854 IL m. Margaret Myers;
    Nancy B. 1820-1892 MN m. William Brooks Campbell;
    Martha H. 1821-1858 IL m. Peter M. Myers;
    Elmira (1824- aft 1900) m. Alpheus Maservy;
    Robert S. 1826-1904 WA m. Hannah Pleugh, m2 Elizabeth Beckman m3? Elizabeth Briggs;
    Samuel T. 1830-1901 MN m. Mary Ann Pleugh;
    Mahala (1833-1909 MN) unmarried;
    Benjamin Lexington 1838- m. Mary Jane Stevens/Stephens
 "William Lynn wrote his will the 11th day of March 1847 and it was witnessed by R. West and John Stoops. The will was produced in open court at the August Term in 1847 in Nicholas Co., Ky. And proven by the oaths of Robert West and John Stoops. In the will he names his wife, Elizabeth; sons: Robert S., John, William, Phillip?, Alexander B., Samuel T. and Benjamin Lex; daughters: Polly Ishmael, Elizabeth Ishmael, Sarah Boen (Bowen), Nancy Campbell, Susan Lynn, Martha H. Myers, Elmira Lynn and Mahala; grandchildren: Almarinda and Thomas Jefferson." {'Philip E. Linn Descendants' by Sharon Torango & Rusty Brown, <http://www.pelinn.com/geneaology.html>}
 According to a posting on the Linn Message board, Almarinda Linn (1837-1921 MN) was a grandchild of William Linn -- I believe she may have been the daughter of Susan who may married a Linn, possibly a cousin.
 "Philip [Edmond Linn] was born in Sandy Lake Twp. of Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, near the present town of Sandy Lake. He was the youngest of eight children of William and Elizabeth (Laird) Linn. Elizabeth died in, or as a result of childbirth and a few months after her death William married Elizabeth Stoops, whose family resided in the adjoining Venango County. Early in 1813 William and his family moved to Kentucky. After residing in Fleming County a year or two, where he worked at his trade as a miller, he moved to a farm in the adjoining Nicholas County, where he remained until his death in March 1847. It was on this farm, along or near Cassady Creek about a mile from where it flowed into the Licking River in northeastern Kentucky, that Philip was reared." {'Philip E. Linn Descendants', citing research of Albert Shankland, <http://www.pelinn.com/geneaology.html>, 7 Dec 2006}