This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YMB.2ACI/1155 Message Board Post: I am trying to find an Alvis Martin, who is supposed to have died in Cedar county around 1870 "of getting overheated in his fields". The other known facts are that he went to California during the gold rush and that he had a family. Also according to a nephew "he was a fine figure of a man, around 200 pounds".. I am beginning to think Alvis was not his first name. He came from Tennessee to Missouri and was probably born between 1820 and 1825. Does this resonate with anyone?