This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweet Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HBRBAIB/1156.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Otha was my Grandfather, born 2/28/1884 in Cook county IL. He left home at about 17, because of a family conflict. Something to do with his mother, perhaps being put into a hospital or institution? He became a professional wrestler, and broke his back prior to 1920. He lived in Iowa, married my Grandmother, Lena Wilkening,I'll have to look up that date! He became the town marshall of State Center, Iowa around that time too. He spoke of a sister Zelda, and that he had 7 sisters and brothers. My Aunt remembers that he received word of his mother's death sometime in 1927. On his marriage cert, his parents are listed as Columbus, and Louisa Sweet. I have a few dates but that's about it. I have never been able to connect him to any other Sweet family, nor had my father prior to his death in 1989. My father visited a town in IL, that had plenty of Sweet's in the 80's and one of the male Sweet's gave him a Sweet history, of the Sweet's in the area, and we didn't connect to any of t! hem. Let me know if you can help!