This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GMB.2ACI/88.2 Message Board Post: I am John Wesley Curtis's great granddaughter. I have been trying to connect with all the different branches on the family tree and update mine. My grandfather was born 2/28/1847 married Mary J Martin in Winston County, MS in November 1868 or 1869 dependent upon whose records you are reviewing. John Wesley Curtis died in Norman, OK where he was receiving treatment for a medical condition in January, 1920. He was running a wagon yard and was a grain merchant there. His obituary cites he was one of the towns most respected citizens. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. and attended M. E. Church. Mary Martin Curtis went to the I O O F Retirement Home in Checotah Oklahoma where she died in 1930. The family had moved to Texas in 1882 and the moved to Oklahoma in the fall of 1906. He had a son and daughter: William Henry Curtis, my grandfather, and Beulah Curtis I know that Buelah died prior to my ggranddad and she married a man by the last name of Huckaby. They had relatives in the Chickasha Oklahoma area because my dad took me to a funeral there for one of them when I was about 9 or 10. My grandmother, Ella Mae Spears, died when in 1909, and my father and his two sisters were raised by their maternal grandparents in Van Zandt County, TX. His name was Thomas Spears and his wife's name was Addie "Unknown". My father was William Glendon Curtis, b. 1907 and died 1971. My aunts were Gracie Mae Curtis and Maudine Curtis who married Rex Callicott in Wills Point, TX. Grace married Elmer Lewis - he had previously been married and had a son Ray who was killed in World War II. They never had children. Grace belonged the the Church of the Nazarenes and Maudine was a Seventh Day Adventist. I was raised in the Baptist Church, more from convenience of location to attend than anything else, I believe. My father was married twice - once to Della Mae Sanderson from which marriage there were two offspring - my brother Charles Thomas Curtis and Bobby Glen Curtis. His second marriage was to Opal Lillian Adamich - they had two children - me (Muriel Dean Curtis Horn) and my brother, Randall Ray Curtis. All of us have children and grandchildren of our own. Please let me know if you need additional information. I am glad to have found someone - Both of my parents died prior to 1971 and we have very little family other than ourselves that we actually know of from the Curtis side - Aunt Grace only had a step son and Aunt Maudine only had two children: Rex Jr. and Betty. Please let me know how else I can help.