This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VJIBAEB/28066 Message Board Post: Still trying to find out about my grandfathers family. His parents were Thomas M & Emaline (Wilshire) Smith. They had Susan Anna b: 1880, m: 1898, d: 1906 in Pope Co, Il....Catherine Louetta aka Cassie (we know about her lineage).....Hiram aka Harmon/Harmie b: 1896, m: 1922 Illinois, d: 1969 Arkansas....Jesse J b: Dec 1885. In the Masaac Co Illinois 1900 census, Catherine, Harmie,Jesse were listed. We also know that there was another child somewhere in the line but don't know what happened to him/her. We also lose track of Jesse after that. Family history says the parents died in a diptheria epidemic in the early 1900's because Cassie went to Northern Illinois and Hiram went to live with his Aunt Nancy Snider. Seems everything happened in the Masaac Co,Il area or surrounding counties. We know the history of Thomas M Smith but not much about Emaline. Can anyone help ?