This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Godby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YVZ.2ACIB/57.1 Message Board Post: Katrina, I have a Dryden Godby in my database -- a cousin of my gg-grandmother. What I received from a distant cousin shows him in Missouri with two different wives and different children than what you list. However, I looked up Dryden Godby in the Illinois state marriage records, and there are these 2 listings that I think match your Dryden: GODBY, DRYDEN MOODY, ELIZABETH 11/14/1861 0A2/ 00000101 MASON GODBY, DRYDEN PELHAM, EIZA ANN 03/29/1857 00A/0132 MASON I'm intrigued by this because Mason County is where my gg-grandmother lived. This may be her cousin. I can't find him in the census, though. Can you tell me any more?