I am researching Elzia Lee RATLIFF. Where did you find my posting not Elijah; not Elzia. Thank you for your response. ----- Original Message ----- From: <backintexas@austin.rr.com> To: <RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: [RATLIFF] Re: Alonzo Elijah Ratliff > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Ratliff > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGCBAEB/342.348.350.546.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Larry, > > This is so weird. Because the Elijah Ratliff I have was born in August, 1836 and died Nov. 10, 1916, I tend to think it must be the same person as your wife's Alonzo Elijah Ratliff. The dates are uncanny. My records show, however, that Elijah was born in Goliad, TX and was a Citizen of the Republic of Texas (according to my mother-in-law, who has a picture of his gravestone in Llano). They also have a portrait of him and his wife, Lucinda Jane Willbern, in their living room. But he didn't marry Lucinda until Sept. 1, 1868, when he was about 32 years old. Elijah and Lucinda had 9 children, Walter Lee, Mae, Affie, Alfred, Nancy Jane, John D., Louella, Alonzo ("Lon"), and York. Because one of his children is named Alonzo makes me wonder again if there is a connection. > > If Elijah was the father of Calvin Taylor Ratliff, born 1855 when Elijah was about 19 years old, maybe he had a previous wife? I don't have anything about where he was before he married Lucinda, so he might have had another family in MS ... who knows? My in-laws don't know of any stories in the family about his being married to someone else. Any clue as to who Calvin's mother was or whether he had siblings? > > What are your thoughts? Also, I found an ancestral record of a William Henry Ratliff married to a Sarah Elizabeth Light (rather than Price) on the Latter-Day Saints website, which you probably already know about. Same birth and death dates and locations as you have for both. > > Anyway, the more I look at this stuff, the more questions I have.... Let me know what you think. > > (I tried to reply to you privately, but the "mailer demon" returned the email with "user name unknown".) > > > ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== > Chain letters, 'virus warnings' and the like should NOT be posted > to the list. Send them to the list admin first for verification of validity at lisaj96@knology.net > >

Who were Elzia Lee RATLIFF's parents, do you know. I am continously looking for a Lee RATLIFF who was my grand-dad's brother. born before 1877. Kelly I am researching Elzia Lee RATLIFF