This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GRIFFES, MCDONALD, JONES, DOANE, SNOW, HOPKINS, BEATTY, BEATY, HAGGERTY, WEBB, BARABU, LITTLE, LITCHFIELD, WILCOX, KEHL, WEISER, SIMMONS, BORDEN, WILEY, TILDEN, WARREN, COLE, ENSIGN, PILCHER, WADE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BGB.2ACI/486.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: It made me chuckle but I can see that it might work! I appreciate your telling me about it. Jim, I looked at your posting history and I, too, have the surname Wilcox in my family. I am pretty close to finding the family of my Ann Maria Wilcox, who is on my mother's side. The Clarks were on my father's side, but I have Clarks on both sides. My Ann Maria Wilcox might have been one of twelve children. I know she had a brother Frank who worked on the railroad in Indiana, and the youngest might have been Hess Wilcox, according to someone who recently contacted me and descends from the youngest of the twelve. I have a beautifully written (but too scrolling!) marriage record, and her father's name was spell three different ways on the same beautiful page! The mother's name was only written one time, but it is difficult to decipher. Therefore, I know that her parents were Halobert/Halabuud/Halabund/Halaboo Wilcox and Jennie/Jenine/Jeniue (?). The third witness besides her parents was Jane Wilcox. My great-great-grandparents: Ann Maria Wilcox: b. 26 Feb. 1824, Walkerton, St. Joseph Co., IN; d. 19 March 1874, Chesterton, St. Joseph Co., IN; m. 14 December 1840, St. Mary's Twp., Mercer Co., OH to James Lewis Beaty: b. 20 Nov. 1819, Stark Co., OH (Probably Massillon); d. 17 Oct. 1888, South Bend, St. Joseph Co., IN.