This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shaffer, Cross, Booher, Taylor, Pullon, Houser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/igB.2ACE/1075.1086.1 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of John Franklin Cross b. 1845, NC, who married Sarah Booher. Their son William A. Cross b. 1874 is my great grandfather, he married Martha Kidd Shaffer. Their son, Joseph b. 1907 had a son Charles, my father. I have only traced the family back to John Cross and Dinah Lane. I also have the Lane Family. I think John's father was John but I have not gotten any further yet. In the posting, you said that you have traced yr info back to Robert Crosse, I have recently ran across a book at Brigham Young University that list the Sir Robert Crosse. I have not yet read in detail, but I soon plan to. Are you by any chance the author Harold Cross who published it in 2000, and mentioned the nice dedication of yr father?