This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Ready Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kNB.2ACI/1902.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thomas Lewis left Maries County with a new wife, his first one had died, and went to Arkansas for a time. When he left, he left behind his youngest child with his first wife Easter. Easter died the day after this child was born. His name was William Columbus Parker. Thomas Ready raised this boy also, like he helped raise Cornelius's kids. There is alot of the 'close-mouth's' surrounding this family. My own great-gret grandfather, Levi Ready, just disappeared from Maries County, probably about the time Thomas Lewis left here and headed to ARkansas. I have often thought perhaps it was a 'trade-off'. William Columbus was still a boy and needed raising and Levi Ready had money and marital problems. Levi Ready would have been Thomas Lewis Parker's nephew. I have never yet been able to pinpoint him, even though he was only 25 years old when he left here, and unless something unforseen happened to him, he probably married and raised another family. Tell me what you do k! now - perhaps you are a missing link? Who was your father, your grandfather, as much as you know. My email is ljames62@osagecon.missouri.org. I am thinking my Levi Ready, may have very well went by Levi Parker after leaving here.