I haven't written to this list in quite a while, so in case we have new subscribers, I want to post my brick, and I do mean brick wall. My cousins and I have searched for years, obits, cemeteries, all that we know to search, LDS files, Merriman Boramon Stevenson (M.B.S.) Hall was born Dec. 27, 1819 in Knox County, Ohio. He married Mary Ann Ross in 1843. To them two living children were born. Joseph and Melinda Hall. In his obit in Stroud, Okla. it doesn't say a thing about parents; says after his first wife died, he went to Iowa, remarried Alcinda Hedges and by her had two living children. One, my Grandfather Thomas Robert Hall who had one of the first stores in Douglas, KS and in 1899 he moved to Okla., I.T.and had one of the first stores in Stroud, I.T. Okla. Lincoln County. Have information on his first and second wife but zero on M.B.S. Hall. By the way he was my Gr. Grandfather. Alcinda Hedges was my Gr. Grandmother. Lot on her but it is as if he had no parents. On a census in 1900 in Okla. someone said his parents were born in Maryland. No names. Any and all help or suggestions would be welcome. I have helped several find their Hall roots who like me couldn't find just one person. A lot of people have helped me but this one blank is really frustrating. I don't like to keep posting it but maybe the right person will read this and have some idea. Thanks for everything/ God Bless you all and don't quit. We will eventually know from whence we came. Barbara