This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ABB.2ACE/1088.1 Message Board Post: Are you aware of the Lt. Cdr. Jesse Mims ROPER (d 31 Mar 1901 - Phillipines) of another generation? [Please see my recent Posts beginning "Death of Lt. Cdr. Jesse M. ROPER (d 1901 - Phillipines)" at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.roper&m=692 .] This latter Jesse Mims ROPER seems to have been the first son of Alfred William ROPER (b abt 1819 - KY). From what I can tell the Joseph ROPER enumerated in Hickman county, KY, seems like the most likely candidate to be alfred William ROPER's father. I ahven't yet checked L. David ROPER's ROPER Family History files to see where he is placed by others, but your indication of a Jesse Mims ROPER in KY in a previous generation seems to almost surely link these. What else can you share with us regarding your research on this line??