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/4NC.2ACE/412.1.2.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Derek Thank you for your reply. I do have some information now on Margaret Messer Cleghorn as prior to his death I did talk to Burton Cleghorn (her son). However Burton was ill and meant to get back to me after surgury, but he did not make it. So I do not have a list of all of her 11 children nor a lot of information on the family. My Grandmother is buried in St Stephens Rural Cemetery next to her 3rd husband. . The Clarence I was referring to was Clarence Messer brother to Margaret. I have no record of what happened to him. Margaret and Clarence were the children of Mary Apple Messer (later McKeeman) and George Messer who married in Gouverner NY. George Messer worked for the RR. Mary Apple was previously married to a Howard Weedmark and she was my mother's bio mother from this first marriage prior to her marriage to Geo. Messer making both Margaret and Clarence my mother's half brother and sister. Another daughter was a Viola Kinney and she would be the youngest. I am not sure if she is still living or not. Another son was B per my mother but deceased at B or early as an infant. When Mary Apple married George Messer she had another daughter by her first marriage Mary Loretta Weedmark who later became Rheta Marian Messer and married first a Briggs in Frederickton in 1931and later a Doan or Doane. (not sure of spelling). This is a rather complex story as my mother remained in NY State and withdrew contact with any of the family.. At one point early in her life she went to NB with her mother but wanted to return to a Grandmother. At that time they stayed on a farm with George Messer's sister & family. Mary Apple Messer tried to make contact with my mother for years, but my mother rejected her. All appears to be from lack of communication or understanding among the family and facts that had not been explained properly. My mother carried this sad feeling with her for years and always told us children she was an orphan. In later years she regreted this decision she had made and felt she lost out on having siblings for companionship and a real family. She had hoped to contact one of her siblings prior to her death (a little late now), she departed iin 2003 (after I wrote my message) but I am seeking additional information on this part of my family per her wishes. Any further information on living children or grandchildren of Margaret Messer Cleghorn, Viola Messer Kinney or Clarence Messer and where to contact them would be greatly appreciated.