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/XEz.2ACEB/536.1.3 Message Board Post: I sent a reply yesterday, but got to thinking that this is problaby my family, but i don't know how the connections work out. I was told several years ago that Allen Irvin Brown's dad name was James and that he married two sisters 1st to Mary Adams and than when she died he married her sister Lucy Adams. my ggrandfather Allen was only about 4 years old when his mother died. I was led to believe that he had older siblings and I know that he had a younger brother Joseph who married Erica Steel daughter of Noah Steel. I was also told that Allen was raised by an Uncle Allen Brown. I believe that my ggrandfather is buried in the same lot as an Allen Brown and his wife at the Labadie Cemetery. We were there a few years ago and found the grave but had a hard time locating it. I would like to know more about Allen's parents if I can find out about them. My grandfather was Allen's son William Benjamin, He died in 1920 and is buried in Dilworth Okla. So he was gone before I was born ,my father was only a small child at that time he was the youngest in his family. my father's mother died when he was young also and he was raised by an older brother. My grandmother was Sarah Jane Bailey who was a gggranddaughter of Mosias Maupin. so you can see that I have an interest on both sides any help would be greatly appreciated. The dates listed for the James in this Bible would make him only about 18 or 20 when my ggrandfatther was born if he were my ggrandfather's father, I know that is possible but I was led to believe that Allen had older siblings. Could this James be an older brother of Allen. Thank you Alice Quick