This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitehead, Robinson, Gallaway, Dowdy, Henson, Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.stoddard/1603/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thomas L. Whitehead, son of John Whitehead and Mary Henson was born abt. 1849 in Missouri, He married Martha E. Gallaway 27 Sep 1868 in Stoddard County, Missouri. Martha was the daughter of the late John T. Gallaway and Rebecca C. (Dowdy) Nichols. Thomas and Martha had one daughter, whose name was Mary R. (Rebecca), b. Dec 1869, and who may be the Mary R. Whitehead who married a William Robinson 14 Apr 1889. Martha died sometime between the birth of Mary R. and 1879, when Thomas married Nancy E. Pierce, also in Stoddard County. Anyone with knowledge of this family, please contact me at ruthmcarthur@comcast.net.