This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ralston, Flowers, Stanley, Bailey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oMB.2ACI/486.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Hey Garneta - Thanks for your response. Will be happy to share what I have; however, I haven't yet connected my Thomas Ralson to John Ralson. I know they are related somehow, be it brothers, father and son, or uncle and nephew. More on this later. But first I'd like to explore the relationship of your Richard Monroe Ralston and the possibility that he is the missing Richard Ralston, son of my Thomas Ralston. Do you have anymore info on Richard Monroe Ralston? Birth? Place of Birth? Children? You say you have a death certificate? My Thomas Ralston at 84 years of age is listed as living with his son Richard Ralston on the 1880 census Spickard, Franklin Twp, Grundy Co, MO. Ralston, Richard M 26 Patent Right Man Ind Ky N.Cal. ? Lanora F 23 Wife Housekeeper Ind Ind Ohio Frankie M 3 Son Mo Ind Ind J.or I. A. F 1 Daughter Kansas Ind Ind Thomas M 84 Father Blind Ky Va Penn (You can view the above census at familysearch.org.) Was your Richard Monroe Ralston born about 1854? I am hoping that he was. If so, then I think we definitely connect. My Thomas died about 1885. I think the wife Lanora died early on. The daughter may have died about 1898 and her brother Frankie may have been serving in the military at that time. From there on I have no info. On your Richard Monroe Ralston's death certificate did it list a mother? My Richard's mother probably was Rachel M. Stanley who first married a Bailey. I'm hoping against hope that we have a match here. Please respond to me directly in e-mail at cakemp@yahoo.com. Thanks, Cheryl Kemp