This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WEB.2ACI/222.1 Message Board Post: Doris, I don't know if this will be any help to you but I knew a Gene Crooks when I was growing up in the Buckeye area in the 40's. She was a resident of the La. Baptist Children's home in Monroe, La. but was from Rapides Parish. She married an O'Neal and they lived in the Holloway area of Rapides Parish.