This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peters, Woodworth, Sylvester Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oV.2ADE/1184 Message Board Post: I received a copy of my Grandparents marriage record, Sept 12, 1929. My grandmother, Elsie Mae Lyon, was 18 years old when she married. I was surprised to see on the marriage record, she listed her mother's name as Bell Woodworth from Manila, Arkansas. My grandmother was the youngest child in the family and I know she didn't know too much about her family. My grandmother had told me her mother's name was Mattie 'Belle' Peters and on all other records, my great-grandmother's name is Mattie 'Belle' Peters, born in Michigan. I think Woodworth must mean something. My great-grandmother was raised by an aunt and uncle because her parents died in a train accident when she was young. I don't know their names. Maybe it is Woodworth. My grandmother was 12 years old (abt 1923) and living in Peach Orchard, when her mother remarried and everyone moved to Washington state. My grandmother remembered they visited an aunt before they left Arkansas. Also, interesting is my grandmother's siste! r, Nellie, her middle name is Sylvester. This must mean something, too. I'm sure the name Sylvester did not come from my great-grandfather's family. His name was William Elsworth Lyon and I have found all the surnames for the women, too, and there is no surname of Sylvester. Anyone have Peters, Woodworth or Sylvester in their family genealogy?