This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4kB.2ACI/956.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Since he was my Mother's stepfather, I really am not certain about his family background. He and my grandmother, Nancy Pearl Butler) had both lost their spouses. I believe his first wife died in childbirth. My grandfather,Thomas Floyd Butler, died from the 1918 flu. I am afraid I am not much help. Good Luck Gail