This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GZB.2ACI/782.2 Message Board Post: Diana, I think we spoke before, but can't remember. Abner and Melvina were my great grandparents through their youngest child Geneva born 4/9/04 in Clark county Illinois. Marriage 12/24/1897. Grandmother always told me that all the children were born in Illinois. All of them were brought back to Madison County Oh in spring of 1906 by great uncle socrates comeans and his wife nancy after Melvina died. Abner Partlow stayed and remarried in Clark County. Flossie was put in orphanage; tressie and floyd were "indentured" to as area poultry farmer. My grandmother, and infant, was raised by Socrates. She said she reunited with them as a young girl and frequently saw them at church meetings and county fairs. When she went to columbus to attend nurses training, she was at both sisters weddings; she helped nurse floyd as he died of tb at 25 years old. Tressie died of Influenza during the 20''s. Flossie divorced and remarried, eventually moving to san bernadino ca where she died 24 oct 1954. My mom met Flossie during the late 40's in columbus. hope this helps. kayci