This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: May, Treadway, Kite Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/an/mYSBAEB/238.1.1 Message Board Post: The information that I have is Eliza May (her maiden name) Treadway married Jeptha Kite sometime after the Civil War. Eliza had 2 sons (James Abraham and Benjamin Franklin Treadway) and she and Jeptha had 2 sons (Richard, born 1869 and Jeptha, born 1870). Jeptha Sr. died sometime after 1870. In the later part of the 1880's the four brothers (James, Benjamin, Jeptha and Richard), and I am assuming that Eliza also, went to New Mexico and Arizona to round up horses and they brought them back to Oklahoma for the Land Rush in 1889. They are recorded in New Mexico. Eliza filed for Civil War Pension on Jeptha Kite in 1888 in New Mexico (I don't know exactly where she was at the time). I do know that Jeptha Sr. was in the 1st Arkansas Calvary for the Union side. I also show that he was in Jefferson Co., MO in 1850 and 1870 and he was in Crawford Co., AR in 1860. Eliza May was widowed in 1862 and her husband (Benjamin Franklin Treadway) was buried in Sabastian Co., AR. I am a! ssuming that she met Jeptha in Arkansas and they moved to Missouri (Eliza was born in Newton Co., MO). So I figure that they both had family in MO. After the Oklahoma Land Rush the Treadway and Kite boys, with their mother, went back to Missouri. Eliza died in 1894 and is buried at Springfield, MO. James Treadway moved to Perry, Oklahoma and Benjamin Franklin moved to Clinton, Oklahoma. I don't know whatever happened to Jeptha and Richard. I have not been able to find out anything about them after 1889. If you find out more or have more than I have let me know. [email protected]