This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/hZ.2ADIB/1691.1 Message Board Post: Alex!! So excited to see your message, I believe we can help each other fill in some gaps. Your great grandfather Willie Allison I believe is the half brother of my great grandfather and his brothers. Sarah Elizabeth Smith was a second or third cousin of her husband Robert Louis or Lewis Snith. Maybe A Smith was a Smith? Anyway Sarah and Robert had left Missouri with there three young sons and got as far as Wagon Mound, which is in New Mexico, but had not yet become a state. There wagon broke and he was unable to fix it. He left Sarah and the boys and told her he would return for them when he could. He never contacted her and 8 or 10 years passed before he returned. By then Sarah had married "Mr" Allison, assuming Robert was dead. Mr Allison and Sarah had a son they named Willie. She stayed with Mr Allison until his death and then remarried Robert. Sarah and Robert had three sons Jackson Leroy my greatgrandfather, Phillip and Bert. Jackson Leroy born June 6 1877 in Arkansas, Bert died in a barroom brawl and Phillip J. born Dec 13, 1884 in Missouri. I did not have a birth date for Willie we estimated around 1898. He was considerably younger than her first sons. 1895 would fit in the time frame and since you have the birthdate as March 15 1895 you probably had access to info I don't have. Phillip the brother you are looking for married Ida Hendricks I do not have a wedding date but I do have three children listed for them. Della Mae or Mary, Gertha "Gertie, and Iva Lee "Bobbie". Della married Ben Runnels, also in my family line and Gertie married Ernest McCorkle. The wife I have for Willie is Frances Boggs, is that who you have? Frances Boggs is the sister of Thomas Boggs. He was married to Ina Elizabeth Kitchens the sister of my grandfather George Washington Kitchens. Grandpa Kitchens married Lillie Smith who is the daughter of Jackson Leroy Smith. Willies oldest half brother. Please tell me these names are the ones you are looking for!! We have wondered who Willies dad is for over 30 years!! I have a picture of Phillip and some of his kids and a letter from Gertie. Let me know if we are looking for the same roots and I will send you what I have for what you have!! So Anxious to hear from you, Penny pennybaisdentx@yahoo.com