This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YATES, BEAL, HAMMER, KEITH, PETERSON, RAMSEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oMB.2ACI/500.4 Message Board Post: Hi, Saw your query and the names Yates and Beal stood out. My Gr. Grandfather John P. Yates b. 1827 TN married Mary Jane Beal ca. 1853/54 prob. in Greene Co. MO. The ultimately settled in Stone Co. MO and had 10 children, 8 of which live and grew into adults and had lots of offspring. Would love to share information. Some of their children married into the following families: Hammer, Overstreet, Keith, Peterson, Ramsey, Pitts, Underwood, Mathes, Watkis, etc. Sincerely, Berta Ranft branft@houston.rr.com