Russ... While I have some copied pages of Plum's book, I don't remember where I received them and I'm not sure where to get an actual copy of the book. We will probably never know for sure about William (the Tory) Riddle's origins. What was the website for Elam? Yes, I believe he was a surveyor by trade (and I remember hearing that he surveyed quite a bit of Mount Pleasant, Texas, a town he helped to found). I have extensively researched Matilda Simpson's side of the family. I have it back to the 1500s and with a theory of mine about Matthew Rodham's parentage, which I have yet to present to a qualified genealogist, I can expand it quite a bit further. A lot of what is on the family history site as well as in the Family History Center (which I have spent countless hours at in Mesa, Arizona) is unverified. A giant leap without proof was made about Matthew Rodham's parents being Edmund Roddam and Margaret Grey (Matthew Rodham was Matilda Simpson's 5-Great Grandfather). It was just assumed that since there was a Roddam family in England that this must be where Matthew Rodham came from. With years of working on proof of this personal brick wall, I am near presenting my findings. The Images of the Past photo is wrong and I have spoken to someone at the Mount Pleasant Library/Historical Center about it. As an aside, Elam Riddle was the 6th Postmaster of Mount Pleasant, Texas, appointed December 9, 1852. Connie... My father, and everyone else on this side of my family, is from Mount Pleasant and the family dates back to the town's founding (and with the Cochran side, even before that). All... It is a balmy 52 in Kings Worthy, Winchester, England (70 miles southwest of London). Charles Smith