This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Commodore Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/7aB.2ACEAE/825.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I wish I was born earlier and had known grampa ben, but i wasn't born until 1957. i have heard some awful stories about dad and grampa, dad was supposed to have to have known that grampa ben was sick in the woods, hiding from dad, and dad let him die. what a sick racist pig. i am not proud to be his youngest child, i love my heritage, i feel i was born in the wrong era, god bless them and their trials.