This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SWANNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZNB.2ACI/543.1.1 Message Board Post: Kim, I don't know if I can help or not! I decend from Enoch Gray Swanner, son of James Swanner , son of Jesse Sr. Swanner, son of John Swanner , son of Mathias Tobias Swanner of North Carolina. There is a possibility that you may have decended from my great great grandfather also! Enoch Gray had a brother Joseph C. Swanner who came to Missouri with him when James , their father, came by wagon train from North Carolina via Tennessee. They also had a sister Emaline that came on the wagon train. Enoch Gray Swanner had the following children: James M. Swanner, Enoch Claude Swanner, who died in Idaho, Martha Elizabeth, my great grandmother, Louvina F., Nellie V. Swanner b.9-29-1898 d. 10-10-1900, Samuel Robert b. 2-2-1857 d.2-1-1873, Mary Catherine, William Franklin, Evaline F., Maria Etta. They only ones I have any information on are Martha Elizabeth and William Franklin Swanner. I have been in contact with a Karen Matthes, who decendes from James M. Swanner, Enoch and Maria Catherine Swanner's oldest child. At this point, I am trying to re-enter data into my computer as my computer crashed and my back- ups would not work! I have a lot of material, but I need to re-organize it! I will post a message when I get everything back up and running! If you find any information on your branch, I would love to have it! If I discover any information on your Leroy Swanner, I will send it on to your. Good Luck! You can order the social security applications and sometimes find the parent's names listed! Anne Hart