This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RATLIFF/RATCLIFF/RADCLIFF/RIGDON/KOONCE/MURPHY/THOMAS/BYAS & MANY OTHERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGCBAEB/883.1 Message Board Post: Your message caught my interest. This is a real long shot though. We are searching the Ratliff line also, and believe our Joseph Ratliff was possibly born in Tennessee about 1815?? Searching for parents & Siblings. Joseph married a Sarah Barrentine in Miss. and removed to Louisiana. We also have an Elizabeth Gibson, who married an H. P. Simmons in DeSoto Parish Louisiana in 1861. Wonder if this is any connection to your Simmons, or Ratliff?? She then married our Joseph Ratliff in Louisiana about 1864. Would be happy to exchange information with you if you think it might be helpful.