This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith/Duncan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28147 Message Board Post: I am trying to find out who Clifford married. His wife is the half sister of Martha Susanne (nee?) Hames. I am trying to find the parents of Martha. Here is her obituary. The Spartanburg Herald - January 5, 1932 Chesnee, Jan. 4 - Mrs. Martha Susanna Hames, 57 years old, wife of P.J. Hames, died at her home here shortly before noon Sunday following a week's illness from pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Tuesday from the State Line Baptist Church with the Rev. R.P. Lamb of Chesnee officiating, assisted bye the Rev. J.J. Boone, pastor of the State Line Baptist Church. Interment will follow in the church yard. Surviving Mrs. Hames are her husband, six sons; Willie and John Hames of Gaffney, route 3, Almer, Hollis, Lonnie and Buford Hames of Chesnee, route 1; six daughters, Mrs. George Parris of Chesnee, route 1, Mrs. Z. Scruggs, Gaffney, route 1, Mrs. Fred Jolly, Mrs. Maudie Lamb, Mrs. Clifford Roddy of Chesnee, route 1, and Miss Lucille Hames of Chesnee; a sister, Mrs. James Thrift of Inman, route 1, a half-sister, Mrs. Clifford Smith of Gaffney, route 3, and a half brother Dexter Duncan of Gaffney, route 3. 30 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.