This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VanHorn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/4725 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on my great-grandfather, William Daniel VanHorn. He was born around 1879 in Crescent, St. Louis county, Missouri. He was a retired Railway Express Agent and eventually moved to Malvern Arkansas around 1942. He married a Martha E. Cook in 1905. Two of the federal census I found them in said her name was Bessie. which leads me to believe her middle name was Elizabeth. She was born in Texas. They had nine children. His obituary said that one of his sons Lawrence VanHorn still lived in St. Louis, this was in 1960. The names of his other children are William Raymond, Laura, Clara, Mary, Don, Herbert, Ed, Gene, and Walter. I also know that Walter died on a Red cross ship during WWII. An online paper said his hometown was St. Louis. If anyone has information on this family please let me know. Thanks in advance. Amanda