This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MATTHEWS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XiB.2ACI/1623 Message Board Post: I am trying to find info on my gggrandfather, William "Billy" Monroe MATTHEWS from Anderson Co., TX. He was born Aug 1843 in AL, married to Sallie Mae PENRY, they had two children: daughter Jesse, b. 1880 in TX and son John Edwin Swanson, b. 1882 in TX. I have heard that he had a second family that was African American. Would like to know more about that, too.