This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkisson, Morris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1103 Message Board Post: This is what I have found: W. S. Adkisson married Alice May Morris (he would have been 22 years of age and she would have been 16) Alice was born about 1874 to Reubin L. and Sallie L. Morris date and place of marriage: August 28, 1890, Cass County, Texas to W. S. Adkisson; they may have resided in Camp County, Texas. They were married by J. B. Minnis (Cass County, Texas Records of 1890, pg. 157), an Ordained Minister. I do not know what denomination. Alice Adkisson married I. W. May on December 30, 1894;a CAMP County Texas Marriage record. This tells me that W.S. Adkisson and Alice divorced sometime between 1891 and 1894. I am trying to find a copy of the divorce decree. I would also like to find out if there were other children born to W. S. Adkisson and Alice May Morris Adkisson during their marriage. I doubt it, because he had a history of marrying, making a baby and moving on. There are gaps, as many as 9 years, where he is no where to be found. And, then poof, he's back again. This is what I have since learned about Rueben: Reuben Alonzo Adkisson born June 1, 1891, Cass County, Texas; lived in California 1942; Lookebo, OK in 1950s; died January 1977, Hinton, Caddo, OK. WWI Civil Draft Registration, shows born Pitsbury, Texas, Comanche County. Buried in Sicles OK cemetery. There is a 33 year age gap between Reuben, my grandfathers (W.S. Adkisson) oldest son and my mother, his youngest child and only daughter (that we know of). I know for a fact that he was married to Alice May Morris, Lela Dyer, and Jennie Mirus (my grandmother) and story has it that there were 2 other marriages that I haven't been able to verify. Do you have any family stories about him you can share? When I was little, we used to go to Lookebo, OK to visit Uncle Reuben, he had a peanut farm. He was about 4'10" tall and up next to my 6' dad they were a site walking around the property. He was married and I think had 2 or 3 grown (adult) daughters all living on the farm with him. Not knowing the history at that time, I remember him being "old", not brotherly but fatherly, which of course he was old enough to be my mothers father instead of brother. The next child (Robert S.) born to W. S. Adkisson was in 1902 in Greenville. We had absolutely no connection with him. Don't know why. I now have to wonder at this stage of my life if my mother even knew he existed - because to her family was everything. Or, maybe after some of the stories I have heard about my grandfather, maybe Lela wouldn't allow her son to have anything to do with my grandfather. My mother had two brothers, both born in OK in 1913 and 1916 (Ralph and Raymond). So Reuben had at least 3 half brothers and sister. I would appreciate hearing anything you know or have heard. Thanks, Beth