This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blackburn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SNE.2ACIB/762.777.2.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, the names and the line you mention, Ralph, Claude, Evelyn and Walt, are not of the Colorado Blackburns who traveled there from Missouri. I am aware that there were other Blackburns in Colorado back in the late 1880s, primarily around Denver, but no connection with my Missouri Blackburns. (Interestingly enough, there WAS a Walt Blackburn among the children belonging to Thomas Blackburn from Missouri, but it wasn't the same Walt as yours.