This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, LIle, Staton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JKB.2ACE/101 Message Board Post: I'm researching Marion Bedford Hicks, he was born 1904 in Missouri and died 1961 in California. He married Esther Staton or Stanton, they had a daughter named Sally or Sallie Mary Elizabeth Hicks, in Maimi, OK. Then Marion married Lillian Lile in Clinton, Henry Co, MO in 1932. They then moved to California and then to Nevada where they opened the Thunderbird Hotel and Casino and The Algiers. Marion was A real estate developer in LA, California. He also built the El Cortez in downtown Las Vegas. I'm hoping I can found someone to help feel in the missing links to my husbands families past. Sally passed on last year and she never really told to much about her passed. I do know that both Marion and Esther which are Sally's parents were both full blooded indians. Anyone out there that can help please contact me.