This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TAYLOR, MILLS, GAMBREL, HAMMONS, MESSER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CBB.2ACE/5115.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Why don't you write back and let everyone know who you are. You did not sign your e-mail. There are literally dozens and dozens of direct descendants of the MILLS family on the Message Board and the Mail List for Knox Co. You should return to the Message Board and post a reply to your own or to my message so that it all will stay together. Don't make a brand new posting. I have in my data base that your father, Benjamin Robert "BR" MILLS, b. April 23, 1884 in Knox Co.; married October 22, 1905 in Clay Co., KY. He died July 26, 1952 at lexington, Fayette Co., KY. Benjamin's father was James Isaac "Jim Ike" MILLS and one of his 3 known wives, Elizabeth "Bettie" MARLOW. Then James Isaac's father was Isaac MILLS mar. to Lavina "Vina" HAMMONS and Isaac's parents were Nasby and Esther HADDOCK MILLS. I have colateral family lines through Clark "Big Clark" MILLS who married two of Cornelius Alexander TAYLOR and Sarah Ann WALKER TAYLOR's daughters, Sarah and Margaret. And another dau., Alabama TAYLOR mar. the nephew of Clark who was Brice MILLS. There were many, many other marriages bet. TAYLORS and MILLS and other related family throughout the years. BR's first wife was Martha JONES. Do you have any information as to who her parents were?? He didn't marry your mother until in the 1940's. What a spread in ages you have between the first family beginning in 1905 and the second marriage in the 1940's!! So, I can see that Ben R. MILLS was b. in 10-31-1942 and would know that you were then born at some point close to that and prior to his death in 1952. You would have been so young when he died, you probably have little memory of him. Did your mother then remarry? If so, to whom? Your mother, America "Merkey" GAMBREL. All I have is that on her birth record in the 1920's, her mother's maiden name is shown as Gessie MESSER. What additional information can you share on her so that I can really know who she is? Like, who was America's father and the actual name of her MESSER mother. I and many others have GAMBREL and MESSER connections also. I'm sure I already have something on her family in my data base but just am not able to know who the connection. Let me know if I can help you further. Some of my information on BR MILLS has come from the files of Teresa TOWNSLEY COREY at: tlcorey@yahoo.com Was wondering if you have spoken with her. I believe she is a direct descendant. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA