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.2ACE/51.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ellen, I'm thinking the name Middleton rings a bell but I've looked at so much stuff, I can't even trust my memory of what I heard through my family anymore. My grandparents had three children: Catherine Wales (Wailes) Dryden (5-17-1921), Clarence Franklin Dryden (10-29-1922), and Mary Louise Dryden (11-16-1924). My grandmother (Olive Frances or Francis) celebrated her birthday on May 10th. There seems to be some question as to the year she was born. The info I found does not match the year on the tombstone. Really just finding my way on some of this. Didn't expect to find so much conflicting info as to ages and such when comparing census info vs. official marriage records vs. family knowledge. Actually got so discouraged when working on another part of my family that I didn't work on my genealogy for awhile. Have never used a message board before. Didn't even know what to do. Hardly knew where to begin with my grandmother. She told me stories about being from Vi! rginia and I remember a bunch of us piling in a car when I was a little girl and all going to Pungoteague, VA, to please my grandmother. And she ooh'd and ahh'd and reminisced. But I was very young. And she always indicated she was from VA. I had always thought that one of her parents (possibly named Mattox--that's how I remember her spelling it) was from Pungoteague and that her grandparents on that side continued to live there. And her memories of Pungoteague were from visiting or living with those grandparents. And all those stories about VA kept me drawing a blank on finding any info. So your having information on the Arvey family has given me a real boost and given me a direction to go in. Would love to get together when you can fit it in your schedule. I'm now retired but keeping busy. Thanks again. Wanda