This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mathews/Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VW.2ADE/1067 Message Board Post: When I was 16 years of age, 1952, I met one of my step-father's third cousins, a Novella Mathews. She was avery attractive girl about 18. She was due to get married, and I am sure, in fact I know she did, and that she had one child with her husband, I believe his name was Bob, also I believe of Dos Palos. I am sure that Novella is still alive, and I hope she is well, and her husband, too. I would like to hear that her children, and that she had several, are alive and well, and who they might be. The reason is that I have discovered very recently that I have relations that live and have lived in and nearby to them and that my relations have been in California since the turn of the last century.I mention this as Novella and her parents were always up tight about "family". I sure would like to be able to tell Novella, that she and her family were always right. "Family" is where everything is and should be. Thank you all for reading this. I hope someone can let me know where the! siblinbgs are, and hopefully one of them will have an email address. Thank you.