This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carpenter, White, O'Bryant, Beall, Helms, Copitt, Robbins, Thornhill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UkB.2ACI/4823.1.1 Message Board Post: I have only Heritagequest and I guess I trusted them too much. Naturally William would go by initials, being he hadn't used them before! I will go look again at the sites you looked on being I am sure I was there and just didn't pick up on initials. Willie's mother from Illinois is Permelia Carpenter, daughter of Benjamin and Lucinda Buzbee Carpenter and is one of the very difficult Carpenters I am chasing in Texas . I will try for an obituary next. Cordially Grace in Alaska