This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gentry, Mitchell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/938 Message Board Post: Trying to locate where my grandfather was actually born. He says Thayer, Missouri (that is on the Arkansas border) Several of his children remember him specifically he was born in Thayer and it was near Paradise, MO... Was there a Thayer or a town similar in that area. The names I am looking for would be Estell Mitchell born 1890. His father Sylvester N Mitchell born 1860 Indiana. Estell's mother Addie L Gentry born Feb 1862. This is all I have to go on and have hit a brick wall...