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/an/RGCBAEB/127.331.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I do have a Thomas J. Ratliff in my data base. Thomas was a son of Allen & Sophia Ratliff . Don't know if this is your Thomas or not but here is my information. Thomas Jefferson Ratliff (Allen-2, Luke-1). He was married to Mary Jane Adams (daughter of Ezekial Adams and Harriet Howard) about 1857. Mary Jane Adams was born on September 27, 1857 in Sumter Co., Ga. She died Novemebr 8, 1936. Thomas Jefferson Ratliff and Mary Jane Adams had the following children: +47 i. John Alexander Ratliff (born on January 24, 1875). +48 ii. Ezekial Alvin (Zeke) Ratliff (born on June 6, 1877). +49 iii. Thomas Allen Ratliff (born on March 4, 1879). +50 iv. Ada Ratliff (born on February 2, 1881). +51 v. Alice Ida Ratliff (born on January 1, 1883). +52 vi. Ardella Ratliff (born on September 16, 1885). +53 vii. Joseph Henry Ratliff (born on December 16, 1888). +54 viii. Zebedee Benjamin Ratliff (born on January 26, 1892). +55 ix. Ethel Mae Ratliff (born in October 1893). +56 x. James Ratliff (born on March 4, 1896).