This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ramsey, Chesnut, Huggins, Barks, Masters, Morrison, Link, Proffer, Winters Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2JB.2ACE/485.1.2 Message Board Post: Merrie, My great-great-great-great grandparents were William Ramsey and Margaret (Chesnut) Ramsey. Both had ties to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia. William died in Lincoln County, North Carolina, sometime after he wrote his will in 1804. One of William and Margaret Ramsey's sons was my great-great-great grandfather, Samuel Ramsey (b. 1777, VA; d. 1822, MO). He married Virginia-born Rebecca Huggins in Lincoln County in 1797. Samuel and Rebecca Ramsey brought as many as nine children to the Cape Girardeau District of Missouri Territory from Lincoln County between 1816 and 1819. My great-great grandfather, Alfred Ramsey, was born in Cape Girardeau District in 1819. Alfred's older brother Albert had been born in Lincoln County in 1816. He married Catherine Barks in Cape Girardeau County in 1838. She was the daughter of Jacob Barks and Hannah (Masters) Barks. Albert and Catherine Ramsey had at least 12 children. One of Albert and Catherine Ramsey's 12 children was their son Julius Jacob. He married Mariah Caroline Morrison, who I believe was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson O'Neal Morrison and Matilda (Link) Morrison. I don't know if the Julius Ramsey-Mariah Morrison marriage evidences ties between the two families that date back to North Carolina, or if those ties developed after my Ramsey family arrived in Missouri. Digging through my files for information on Thomas Jefferson O'Neal Morrison, I ran across this note: John F. "Frank" Proffer and Missouri Alice Link married on 1 January 1879, in the home of the groom's sister, Mary E. (Proffer) Winters. Reportedly, the marriage ceremony was performed by T.J.O. Morrison, the groom's uncle. John Franklin Proffer and Mary E. (Proffer) Winters were children of John Proffer and Nancy Mariah (Link) Proffer. Nancy Mariah (Link) Proffer and Matilda (Link) Morrison were sisters. I believe Mary E. (Proffer) Winters' husband was A.H. [Aaron Henry?] Winters. Aren't you also looking for information on Lucius Oliver Morrison and Emma E. Winters? There's no proof of any connections to the individuals you've named, but there is an interesting coincidence of names. Be glad to compare southeast Missouri notes with you. Clete