This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALLEN, ATTERBURY, NEET, FOSTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oMB.2ACI/124.283.2 Message Board Post: Allen Foster [deceased] of Linn county, Missouri, is my second cousin once removed. Our comon ancestor is James Givens Allen. Allen's farm at the Grundy county line was on James' original 1857 homestead. James and two of his sons, my great-grandfather, William Martin Allen, with William's younger brother, John Allen, served with the Eighteenth Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. If I remember correctly there were Atterburys in the regiment, which was organized in 1862. James' sister, Sarah Allen, married Frederick Neet. They had Margaret Neet. Margaret married Henry T, Atterbury in 1848. And they had Minnie Helen Atterbury in 1865. If this helps let us know at ballensr@adelphia.net WDA end