This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/3728.1.2.2 Message Board Post: Hey again, Sarah, Sorry hit the return button one time too many and accidentally posted my first response before I was finished. Thomas and Martha Morgan Tittsworth did have a daughter named Mary born in 1837. However, Martha died on July 18, 1850, survived by Thomas who subsequently married Charlotte Duncan, so there could not have been a suit between Martha and anyone over his estate since she died first. In my previous message, I said Martha was his 2nd wife, but I misremembered and when I checked my Family Tree file just now, I saw that she was his first wife and Charlotte was his second. Our Thomas died May 31, 1863, according to the Bible records. Thomas and Martha had 8 children and then Thomas and Charlotte had 3 more children of their own. Our cousin, Lyn Massey, in TX has extensive information on the Tittsworth family, going back to Willem Tietsoort about 1600. Lynn is my source of information beyond the 1801 Thomas Tittsworth. According to the information he sent me, our 1801 Thomas Tittsworth's father was Frederick Lewis Tittsworth, born 1768 in Haw River, AL, married and moved to WV, fought in the War of 1812, Pvt. Allison's and Bunch's Reg't, East Tennessee Militia. According to Lyn's genealogy he died before 1828. Frederick's father's name is recorded in Lyn's genealogy as Thomas Alexander Titsort. Thomas Alexander Titsort, according to Lyn's records was born on 1/4/1730 or 1731, probably in North Carolina, was married to Ann Falkerson, lived in Kentucky at some point and died in 1819, and is more than likely one and the same as the Thomas Tittsworth No. 1 you have in Sullivan Co. TN. The spelling went from Titsort to Tittsworth in that generation. The records Lyn sent me do not include a complete! list of all children in the families, but from the dates of birth it seems very possible that your husband's ancestor Thomas No. 2 could have been a child of Thomas No. 1 and brother to Lyn's and my husband's direct ancestor, Frederick Lewis Tittsworth. I will contact Lyn directly and ask him to contact you if he can fill in any gaps for you. I appreciate the problems you have had with documentation, I am having the same problems with the recurrent name of Thomas in my Massey genealogy research. I think I am on the right track with census records and 3 Thomas ancestors in a row in Philadelphia, but I have not been able to confirm it. Happy Hunting to you, too. Shirley Massey