This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thompson, Howe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XKB.2ACE/94.141 Message Board Post: Do you know the birth date of the Will Thompson, mentioned as a son of John Riley Thompson. I have a William Thomas Thompson in my line who had a son named Riley Thompson (b. in 1897 in California Mo). His brother, Charles Truman was born in Jamestown and is my grandfather. William Thomas married Mary Delilah Howe in 1887 and was born in Indiana around 1868. Other children of William Thomas were Russell, Jenny, William Coley, Emma, Lila J., James Roy, Clara and Hadley H.