This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ratliff, Simmons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RGCBAEB/895 Message Board Post: I have come to a dead end looking for the parents of Ezekiel Ratliff. He was married to Mary Ann Simmons. The earliest record I can find is in the 1850 Federal Census. Can you help?