This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAIRD (BARD, BEARD), HALE, LUDINGTON, MCNUTT, TESTERMAN, LAMAR, ELLIS, HALL, HICKS, POWERS, LIVESAY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HMB.2ACE/1151.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Here's what I have on the Hales: My great-grandfather's sister Elva "Ellen" Baird, (daughter of John Baird (Bard) and Melisa C. ? of Marion Polk, Co, MO.) married Benjamin Filmore Hale in Polk County. I believe they had 6 children: 1. ? 2. ? 3. Aurelia Juniatte (aka Nettie), b: Polk Co, 20 June 1884 4. Aletha L., b: Polk Co. July 1886 5. John E., b: Jan 1892, Indian Territory 6. Loy (?) E. b: Mar 1895, Indian Territory In 1880, I found Benjamin (Farmer-TN-TN-TN) and Ellen in Marion Twp, Polk Co, MO, living next door to Melissa C. Baird (her mother), and sons Landy B. and Sherman "Grant" Baird (my g-grandfather). Next door on the other side is who I believe is Benjamin's parents, Laudon C. Hale, wife Anice B., and children: Margaret, Aurelia G, Olivine, and Minnie. In 1900 I found Benjamin, Ellen and the children in Tarkio Twp, Page Co. Iowa, (ED 97) living next door to my great grandfather Sherman Grant Baird, his wife "Belle" and two children. In 1920, I find Banjamin, 69 yrs old, widowed, living with married daughter in Los Angeles, CA, (ED 7, page 213). Aletha L. is his daughter married to William Teneyck (or Temayake), listing children Dale, b: Iowa, Donald, b: Iowa, and Ross, b: CA. Happy hunting! Be sure to let me know if this is in fact the right Hale family, as there were quite a few Benjamin Hales in Missouri. If it is, we can exchange more info! ~~Kay