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/kdF.2ACIB/259.1.1.2.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Matthew: My dad met me in Springfield Mo. in 1947 while I was stationed in the army at Ft. Sill, Okla. He took me on a tour of his childhood places. We walked down a country road to the farm. It was about 40 acres, had a well kept small home and a nice barn. Behind the house was a nice pond. Dad told me that all of our grandads crony's refered to him as TJ. Your full gg aunt Hannah and gg uncle Joe never moved far from the farm. Part of the first family of children, your side, may have been born in Casconade County as that is where Valentine settled with the family after coming from Tennesse. . I have a reproduced picture of your aunt Hannah and her husband at their 50th wedding anniversary. Mom always talked about how nice she was. By the way while visiting dad, we went to Branson, Mo. and it was just a little four corner village, maybe 500 people, but in beautiful country. After traveling though Mo. several times I had always wished dad had kept the farm and! we could have lived there. There was also a little gas station down by the farm with just 2 old pumps and a little square building that dad's full brother Tom owned for awhile. You are the only close relative that I have ever been able to talk with about our Grandfather and as my life is a lot shorter than yours I sure hope I can feed you some correct information.. I have seen pics of Rueben, but never TJ Will talk to you later, Dale