Iris, it looks like we are distant cousins. Your Telitha Messer was a 2C4R to me. Her G Grandfather Benjamin Messer was a 5 G Uncle to me. Email me if you like and we can compare notes. I also have Teltha Messer marrying a Matson Adam Stephens. John Davis In a message dated 4/15/2006 6:27:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I believe that Telitha (Litie) Messer daughter of Nelson Messer and Mahala Davis is my great grandmother. She was married to Palestine (Pal or Pallis Bingham) and they had a daughter Ollie Bingham, my grandmother. Telitha, her sister Adeline Messer Marlowe Miles, and Nelson Messer are buried on a small farm I own in Rockcastle county. Can we compare records? Iris Young in Mt. Vernon