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 Message Board Post: Fay, I read your email. In the probate records for Mathew Jr. it said that Patsey Thompson was Mathew Jr. first wife and William is the 3th child on their list. It says that William was also living in Dawson, Missouri. If the Probate Records are true this was his family ( He married into our Randall family ). 6. ABIGAIL CARDELLA2 RANDALL (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1838 in Ohio, and died 1878 in Burlington Juction, Nodaway Co, MO. She married WILLIAM MASSENGALE September 27, 1855 in Marion Co, IA. He was born 1837 in Iowa, and died in Burlington Juction, Nodaway Co, MO. Children of ABIGAIL RANDALL and WILLIAM MASSENGALE are: i. LOUISA ANN3 MASSENGALE, b. 1856; d. 1890; m. MITCHELL HUSTEN BAILEY, 1880, Nodaway Co., Missouri; b. January 25, 1862, Elderodo, KS; d. October 29, 1885. ii. HARRISON MASSENGALE. iii. LEWIS MASSENGALE. iv. WILLIAM MASSENGALE. v. JAMES A MASSENGALE. vi. NANCY JANE MASSENGALE, b. March 19, 1869, Burlington Juction, Nodaway Co, MO; d. January 05, 1948, Burr, Otoe Co, NE; m. JOEL STARTING CARMICHAEL. vii. MARY MASSENGALE. viii. IVA E MASSENGALE. ix. SQUIRE E. MASSENGALE. ___________________________________________________ Have you looked at all that I posted on the Nodaway County, Missouri message board? I don't know how many I posted but there were 12 pages of attachments with Probate information, some census and marriages. If Mathew Massengale Jr. was married before marring Patsey Thompson I don't know why it wasn't in the probate records. ? Our William name was William Riley Massengale not William Mathew Massengale. Mathew Sr. was in Jefferson County, Iowa before 1840. Mathew Sr., Henry, and John are head of households. It is in 1 of the attachments I posted.