This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/958.970.973.2 Message Board Post: I, too am descended from Bartholomew T. Mather, Sr. and his son Richard Melcor Mather who settled in Alton, IL. Richard Melcor was brother to Bartholomew T. Mather, Jr. I'm looking for any Mather contacts and have been working on Mather research for about 4 years with trips to Sedalia, MO and Louisville, KY. I have much info on the Alton Mathers.