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/Vm.2ADE/866.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I was so happy to hear from you this morning. My mother who is 88 said I had the information goofed up. Papa Dickason, as my mother calls him, was separated from Mama. He was living on a farm in Missouri, when he became ill. My grandmother Mary Ethel Craig and her husband Alva Chance drove up to Missouri and brought him home to Alva Oklahoma. My grandparents took care of him until he died in 1926. He is buried in Alva. My mother was nine at the time. I have quite a few newspaper clippings that(Margarete E. Dickason) Elizabeth Thill had pasted in her autograph book. One is the original obit on her father. The book dates from 1885. My grandmother knew I was nuts about genealogy so she gave it to me for safekeeping. Also I have a photo of Elizabeth Thill Dickason. She was related to the Jackson's in Hutchinson who owned the Ice creamery. In addition do you need information on Julia Servaty (that may not be the correct spelling) She was also a relative. Hope this is of some help. My grandmother had two children, Vernon Devon Chance and Maxine Ethel Chance. Uncle Vernon lived at Liberal Kansas and had three children. My mother lives in Comfort TX as do my husband and I. I teach school at Boerne HS. Hope to hear from you soon. Jan. P.S. Are you related to the Hoffman's around Pratt? I have a great uncle who is related, different branch of the family.