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/ABB.2ACE/49.1216.1 Message Board Post: Write to me directly. I can connect you with a descendant of Robert Ryman who may have this information. She was a genealogical student of mine some years ago. Robert Ryman was witness to a nuncupative will made by one of my ancestors, Mason Gardiner, in Fayette Co., in 1824. Allen Gardiner