This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CKB.2ACE/1698.1 Message Board Post: Shelley, Here is a little background for you. Virgil Aleshire is my biological father. Descendants of Willard Riley Aleshire Generation No. 1 1. WILLARD RILEY4 ALESHIRE (JACOB3, PETER2, COONROD1 AILSHITE) was born July 01, 1849 in Meigs Co., Ohio, and died March 25, 1910. He married MARY ANN MCDANIAL June 05, 1870. She was born April 01, 1850, and died February 20, 1916. Child of WILLARD ALESHIRE and MARY MCDANIAL is: 2. i. ROBERT NELSON5 ALESHIRE, b. December 16, 1878, Fordland, Missouri; d. March 12, 1956, Springfield, Dade Co., Missouri. Generation No. 2 2. ROBERT NELSON5 ALESHIRE (WILLARD RILEY4, JACOB3, PETER2, COONROD1 AILSHITE) was born December 16, 1878 in Fordland, Missouri, and died March 12, 1956 in Springfield, Dade Co., Missouri. He married NOLA MARM DICKERSON July 04, 1913 in Corry, Missouri, daughter of JOHN DICKERSON and ZERRAH BENNETT. She was born April 20, 1897 in Dade Co., Missouri, and died July 24, 1976 in Dade Co., Missouri. Children of ROBERT ALESHIRE and NOLA DICKERSON are: 3. i. THEA6 ALESHIRE, b. December 24, 1913; d. April 03, 1977, Dade Co., Missouri. ii. BERTHA ALESHIRE, b. 1920. iii. LYDIA FRANCES ALESHIRE, b. 1922. iv. TINA KATHRYN ALESHIRE, b. 1926. v. JOHN LINCOLN ALESHIRE, b. 1928. 4. vi. VIRGIL ALLEN ALESHIRE, b. March 12, 1931, Christian Co., Missouri. vii. EDITH LILLIAN ALESHIRE, b. 1935.