This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mead/Meade, Steffee/Steffey, Ryan, Hamill, Crawford, Decker all in Iowa and Kansas Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wl4.2ACEB/500 Message Board Post: I found some information on another board that may knock down a brick wall. I am related to the Parrs by marriage but I am hoping the cousins researching Parr will find it. My Mead and Steffee lines came to KS from Iowa and I keep running across the Parr name in my Iowa research so the KS Parrs may have come from there. I hope this helps someone. Blessings Gayla Meade Templeton The Gazette Davenport, Scott, Iowa Sep 2, 1847 Supposed Loss of Emigrants The St. Joseph's Herald of the 27th gives a list of persons suppose to have been murdered by Indians in Oregon among whom we find the following: Mr. Tucker and 7 persons fo Rock Island, Ill.; Job and Jonathan Parr and families of eleven persons of Lee Co., Iowa; Mr. McCracken & family of five persons from Wapello Co.; and Mr. Bothe and six persons of Lee Co., Iowa. We trust that they may yet all arrive at their place of destination.