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/RAC.2ACI/1604.2 Message Board Post: There are records of 3 births in the TX birth index for a R H SMITH/Raymond H SMITH/Raymond Howard SMITH all with wife's name of Thelma Jean TROUT. Jan. 29, 1927, Potter Co. female may have died at birth. Dec. 31, 1927, Dallas Co. male may have died at birth. Feb. 09, 1932, Dallas Co. male named Ray Gene SMITH Is this your Grandfather? If so, he did not die in 1927. They are in the 1930 census in Dallas Co. He is age 34 and she is 22. They are living with her mother and sister. He is a electrician. The said that they married at age 30 and 19