This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kummings Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Hi.2ADI/113.2 Message Board Post: We are of the Kummings side of the family. John Kummings and his wife Catherine, Indiana via Germany. Any info on the Kummings would be appreciated. We do have the obit for John. He also served in the Civil War 1864 (135th Infantry) Railroad duty. His daughter Hannah married Owen Patrick Smith, the founder and inventor of Greyhound Racing.