This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stephanie Bertani Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HO.2ADEB/50.81.85.130.131.237 Message Board Post: Willis Ainsworth was the first husband of my grandmother, Della Lee Boykin. She was born in Willis, Tx. in July 8, 1888 to Caroline Brown Boykin and John Alexander Boykin, son of John Joseph Jeremiah BOykin and Hennrietta Brashear. Willis and Della married 8/25/1906 in Willis, Montogomery Co. Tx. They bought a farm and moved to the Alameda Community outside of Ranger Texas. Willis died in 1909 of illness. They had one child John Levin Ainsworth.(John married Martha and they had four children: John J., Peggy, Martha Dell, and Glenn Tex. All are still living except for Peggy who died March 2002) Della later married Willis' best friend and neighbor, Charles Valentine Fox. They had five children, including my mother.