This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Curtis-Hayes-Groves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/1968 Message Board Post: Three sons of Thomas Curtis came to Texas from MO. in 1879. They all had children born in MO, though I believe they were only there during the 1870's. Later, a grandson, Thomas, son of Moses Curtis, returned to MO. and married there Martha Anne Hays, step-dtr. of Marshall Ozbirn (Ausbun) and seemed to go back and forth between Collin Co., TX and Holcomb, MO. Martha Ann died 1907, he married at least twice afterward, and was postmaster at Holcomb on 1930 census. Would like to know of Curtis marriages during the 1870's, to understand why Thomas went back to that particular area, etc....