This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ratliff, Baldwin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGCBAEB/908 Message Board Post: I am looking for information/family connections to "Shade" Ratliff who was killed digging coal out of a coal bank in the early 1900's. He was married to an Orpha Baldwin and has several children. I have not been able to locate a marriage license but family stories say they were married and after he was killed, Orpha went on to raise the children alone. I believe they lived around the Little Prater area of Buchanan county Va. If anyone has any information please email me at bhale7904@aol.com. I am at a dead end on this one....