This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SU.2ADI/589.590.947.1 Message Board Post: I am searching for info on my great-grandfather Oliver Mathis (d 1939). According to my mother, he had red hair and a temper! The family name was Matthews before coming to this country (from England?). He was married to Hattie Matilda Lockwood (her family came from England) and their children were Lola (d ~1974), Carrie (d <1934), and Elmer Lesley Mathis (1889-1950) who was my grandfather and died before I was born. Oliver had a brother but I don't know his name. I found a grandson of the brother who said his family came from TN. Elmer married Gladys Goldie Skinner and they lived in IL because that's where my mother was born and grew up.