This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hale Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UNB.2ACI/819.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Christine: Thanks for your help. I was looking for help with the Hale family. The Hale family in Dexter was there for quite awhile and then some of them moved to the Springfield MO area in the 1920's. There was already a Hale family here in Springfield and I was trying to find out if they were related. Reuben Hale came to MO(from Tennessee) in the 1830's and married Martha (Weaver) Taylor in 1839 in Miller CO and then they settled down in the Sparta area just south of Springfield MO. I was hoping that the Hale family in the Springfield area was related to the Hale family near Dexter. I hope that you can help--I keep running into brickwalls----thanks for your help. brian in springfield mo