This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kirk, Rives Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hc.2ADE/275.1.2.1 Message Board Post: My gg-grandmother was Melissa Kirk, born in 1832 in Cobb County, GA (Cobb is the county just west of Roswell). Melissa had an older brother Thomas that may be your Thomas (Kirk wasn't that common a name and most in the area seem to have been related). Melissa and Thomas's father was a John Kirk from NC. He was married twice (Melissa and Tom are from the first wife--Mary Rives), and the Kirk family eventually settled on the west side of Kennesaw Mtn.