This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EADS/COLLINS/JAMES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EhB.2ACE/1125.2 Message Board Post: Hi Karlyn, I've just revisited this board after a couple years away from my genealogy...researching Eads/Eades/Collins in Wayne Co., MO mostly...We've heard an old family story about some Eads and Collins ancestors possibly involved with some of the "Wild West" gangs...Specifically through my great-grandmother Collins side of the family. Story goes that GR.GM warned her children and grandchildren away from some cave in the Mill Springs area of Wayne Co., MO--due to supposedly some of the gangs who robbed trains stashed their goods there...and maybe my Eades/Eads/Collins ancestors were involved as members of the gang? I really have no other info.-one of my older brothers says he vaguely remembers hearing whispered stories when he was a very young child in the 1950's, but other than this we really have no idea!! Just wondering if you know any more about this since your posting? And, if you've ever heard of Eads/Collins links to the Gads Hill robbery or any of the other robb! eries linked to the Jesse James or other gangs?