This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DYKES HOWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RS.2ADE/1092.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: That is Thomas L. DYKES, son of Thomas G. DYKES and Zilpha Delilah HOWELL. Zilpha tried to get a mother's pension on her son Thomas L. DYKES in 1882, but either died or gave up. It was listed as abandoned [no activity for 3 years] in 1887. Thomas L. DYKES left no wife or heirs.