This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chiswell, White, Simmons, Tannehill, Smith, Reed Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/417.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, John With all of this discussion of the trip that our common ancestors made from Maryland to Missouri, I wonder if you have any information on the story of that wagon train trip? My mother (a great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Smith White who married Carlton Tannehill) used to say -- and since she was too young to have made the trip (1907-2002) -- had to have heard it from her own mother, Birdie McCall (Smith) Reed, who lived in Wellsville, Montgomery Co., MO. She said that her grandmother, Birdie's mother, was only a "babe in arms" on that trip [Sarah Newton Tannehill] and that they [Elizabeth & Carlton] had to stop for a year in Kentucky. Personally, I suspect that Elizabeth had gotten pregnant along the way and they stopped until the baby was born and then continued. The children of Carlton & Elizabeth Tannehill were as follows: Benjamin White Tannehill (died in Civil War, unmarried) Sarah Newton Tannehill (m. William Wyatt Smith) John W.T. Tannehill (died at 25 of pneumonia) Carlton Jack Tannehill (moved to Brownsville, Texas) Rebecca Elizabeth Tannehill (married into Holland Family) I have always wondered which route they took, etc. I know that they first lived in St. Charles County and then moved to Montgomery County, Missour, after a couple of years.