This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richardson, Thompson, Sweeney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FKB.2ACE/1117.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a Christopher Columbus Richardson born Oct 4 1898 in Belleview, Iron Co MO. He married Feb 13 1895 in Iron Co MO to Mary E. Sweeney. I found a record of John M. Swiney /Sweeney who married Dec 22 1878 in Iron Co MO to Mary Eliza Thompson b. abt 1860+ John & Mary E. Sweeney had a son James born abt 1881 in Reynolds Co MO In the 1900 Iron Co MO Census, there is this family listed: Richardson, Columbus (h) Mar 1862 38 m/6yr MO MO MO Mary E. (w) Apr 1866 34 m/6yr MO TN TN (2 children, 2 children alive) Birdie (d) Sep 1894 5 MO Arthur (s) Mar 1898 2 MO Sweeney, James W (ss) Apr 1881 19 MO My question: Is this Mary E. Listed above & married to Christopher C. Richardson the same Mary who was married to John Sweeney? Do you have any information on this? I am pretty sure the Richardson & Sweeney families are connected in some way) Some of the Sweeney family & my Richardson family wound up in Kemp, OK. My mom (Anna Richardson) knew the Sweeney family in Bryan Co OK where she was born. Her grandfather, Thomas Andrew Richardson was born in MO. (Probably Iron Co MO) Thanks Mary