This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lewis, Short Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FKB.2ACE/44.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In the book, Ozark Heritage, Dent County, Missouri, Volume I, pg 338, there is a bio on John Lewis, Sr. (Salem, Missouri: Dent County Historical Society, 1978). Sons James (1820) and Samuel (1827) moved to California. There mother was Thankful Short (1802 - aft 1880). Does this sound like your people. I have information on Thankful Short's ancestors and some information on the children that stayed in and around Salem, MO.