This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DIXON, PARKS, PITTS, DEMPSEY, HARRIS, WILSON, MILLER, SKINNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBB.2ACE/345.563 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of James Dixon through his son Hiram and his wife Sarah Wilson and their son Hiram and his wife Nancy Pitts and their daughter Martha M. and her husband William Parks and their son Emil Parks and his wife Florence Miller, my grand parents. Some time around the early 1880's, William and Martha M. Parks, adopted or took in, Joseph Elmer Skinner, b. abt 1876, MO. and raised him to manhood. Joseph took the name of Parks. Joseph was the son of Andrew J. Skinner and Martha A. Dixon, b. 1857 MO, Some researchers think that Martha M. Dixon and Martha A. Dixon are the same person and she was married to Andrew Skinner, but I have found proof that this is not true. They both are listed in the 1880 census with their husbands and families in Hickory Co. MO and I found Martha A. Dixon as the daughter of John Dixon and Julia Harris along with her siblings; Hiram, b. 1847, MO, Henry L.G., b. 1850, Meekin (male), b. 1851, MO, Laura, b. 1852, MO and Benjamin, b. 1858, MO. Now, what I believe (no proof) is that these two were cousins and becouse they had the same name and were born very close together that they were close and that is why Martha M Parks raised Joseph. I also believe (no proof) that John Dixon Father of Martha A Dixon could be the son of James Dixon and Jenny Dempsey. I also believe that Julia Harris was most likely not John Dixon's first wife becouse she was 20 years younger than him. Can anyone help me with this ???