Thank you, whoever you are, who sent all that information about my gr-grandfather, Larkin Maddox of Jackson County, Missouri. It never ceases to amaze me how generous and helpful other genealogists are. I have done my part in sharing, so looks like what goes around, comes around. Larkin Maddox was married twice, and I am descended from his first marriage. The wills you sent refer to his second marriage. As you can tell, he was well off, but because he and his sons fought on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War, and were "Bushwackers", their land and property were destroyed by the Kansas "Jayhawkers". Although he left everything (almost) to his second wife and their children, he and his first wife and some of their children are buried together in a family plot in a cemetery in Cass County, Mo., and his second wife who got everything, is buried by herself in a completely different section of the same cemetery. I've been there and taken pictures of the tombstones. My grandfather (my mother's father) was a son of Larkin Maddox and his first wife Jane E. Powers. Those were strange and difficult times on the Missouri/Kansas border during the Civil War, and in many stories are referred to as "The Border Wars". Again, thank you for the information you sent. Marjorie