This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/465.543.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John Elmer could not be the right one but his father might have been. The adoption of the male infant occured about 1868 so the birth father could have been born about 1850 or later. Do you have names of JOHN ELMER CLARK'S father and grandfather ? Do you know where they resided before Iowa ? Thank you very much for yur response and any other information you can share. Lora