This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Williams, Peoples, Groom, Petty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/706.1 Message Board Post: Is this Freeman ROPER still living?? If not, when and where did he die? * * * I would point out that the 1910 Census record for Samuel C. and Annie WILLIAMS shows that as of 1910 Samuel was in his FIRST MARRIAGE ("M1") and Annie WILLIAMS was in her SECOND MARRIAGE ("M2"). Samuel and Annie WILLIAMS seem to have been married for FOUR YEARS by 1910 (married about 1906). But Annie WILLIAMS also showed in this same Census record that she had only THREE (3) CHILDREN of whom only TWO (2) are shown to be living. And then the record gives sons William WILLIAMS, age 3, and Sam WILLIAMS, age 2, each born in Oklahoma. So on its face, the information in this 1910 Census record seems to preclude the possibility that Annie Groom WILLIAMS is Freeman ROPER's Mother. * Also, I would take exception with your representation that Samuel C. WILLIAMS was born in Arkansas. I read the 1920 Census record as saying that Samuel was born in OKLAHOMA. Moreover, and more importantly, I read the record to say that Freeman ROPER was born in OKLAHOMA to a Father born in the US and a Mother Born in OKLAHOMA. Also, Parilee WILLIAMS, age 1, was born in Oklahoma to a Father Born in Oklahoma and Mother born in MISSOURI. It would therefore appear to me that the children Rachel PEOPLES, May PEOPLES, William PEOPLES and Mary PEOPLES are children of Frances Jane PETTY. The youngest child Parilee WILLIAMS also must be a child of Frances Jane PETTY. Samuel, Frank and Minnie WILLIAMS must be children of Samuel Cleveland WILLIAMS and Annie GROOM. It seems most unlikely that Freeman ROPER is actually a son of Samuel Cleveland WILLIAMS, bith as a consequence of the difference in surname and the fact that the birthplace of the Father is shown as "US". The person giving the information DOES NOT KNOW where Freeman ROPER's father was born. And Freeman ROPER's mother cannot reasonably be Frances Jane PETTY, as she was born in MISSOURI, but Freeman's mother was born in OKLAHOMA. * One possibility is that there might have been another intervening wife BETWEEN Annie GROOM and Frances Jane PETTY. While we are INCLINED to think that Annie Groom WILLIAMS was the mother of Frank and Minnie, the mother could also have been a heretofore unidentified intervening wife who was also born in Oklahome. You do NOT mention having a date of death (or divorce) of Annie Groom WILLIAMS. I would be inclined to tighten up this detail FIRST. Also, it would appear that Frances Jane PETTY was married to a Mr. PEOPLES at the date of the 1910 Census enumeration. Do you know the first name of Mr. PEOPLES. This would be helpful in locating a 1910 Census record AND helping to identify a date of death and possibly a Will for this Mr. PEOPLES. I would try to obtain copies of BIRTH CERTIFICATES of Frank and Minnie WILLIAMS to ascertain with a higher degree of certainty the name of their mother. And I would try to obtain a birth certificate of at least one of the PEOPLES children to determine or verify the name of the father.