This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BMB.2ACE/874.1.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: One chief problem I see with William Riley Massengale being the son of Matthew III is that he was born in Iowa in 1837. While Matthew II was in Iowa by that year (The 1856 Iowa State census says he had been living in Iowa for 19 years), Matthew III was still in Anderson County TN in 1840. He cannot have been in Tennessee and Iowa at the same time.