This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xFh.2ACEB/26.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, this does look like my Lorenzo Dow Hamilton. He and Mary Etta Grissom are my great-grand parents. I don't have any siblings for Lorenzo (also spelled Loranza Daw), but I have his parents as being Valentine Austin Hamilton and Martha Caroline Dean. I have Lorenzo being born in Kentucky, but I have always had trouble tracking him down, so that info isn't very solid. Lorenzo and Mary Etta had at least 9 children: Guy Neely Hamilton b. 20 jul 1891 TX, d. Aug 1953 Loranie Carolyn Hamilton (my gr. mother) b. 12 jul 1893 TX, d. 13 jun 1972 CA Valentine Ogden H. 1895 OK - 1936 Rosabel H. 1897 OK - 1952 Wiley Coleman H. 1900 TX - 1951 John Randall H. 1901 - 1955 Charlie Leslie H. 1903 TX - 1950 Reuben Eugene H. 1906 TX - 1944 Jewel Desolee H. 1910 TX - 1997 OK I have been trying to track down Martha Caroline Dean for years and haven't been able to find anything. Your info about her being born in NC will help. I don't think I've looked there because I thought she was born in Alabama or Kentucky. Thanks! Let me know if this little bit helps. I can look some more when I have more time. My email is: tcselby@hotmail.com :o) Teresa