This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dowdy, Elliot Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.stoddard/717.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Angela: I may have written to you previously on this query but thought I'd write again since there is no response posted on the message board. I have checked with the pre-eminant genealogist working on this line and she says emphaticlaly that Amos and Rebecca did not have a son by the name of Joseph. Ruth Dowdy-McArthur