This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/4300/Ci.2ADE/1629.1932 Message Board Post: Hello, My name is Mona Holder and John William VanMatre was my Great-grand father. His son Perry VanMatre was my Grand-father. I,m so glad I read your note . I always knew my Great-Grand-Mother as Dora.. Perry was born in Advance Mo. in 1896 and Died in 1975. Please let me know what I can tell you.I do know a little about family history....Uncles and Aunts..Also my Mother ( Perry's daughter ) has a leadger kept by John after Dora died. I have read this and other letter's he wrote..