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/ZCC.2ACE/1418.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, I really appreciate your help. I had not heard the story about the red headed baby! But I sort of figured they got into some silly fight and he married the second wife as an "I'll show you!" then couldn't stay apart after they realized how silly it really was. By the way, have you ever heard of a man named Al B. Miller? I guess it could be Albie, but my uncle who was very close to "Grandpa George" (Jerdan and Ruth's oldest child) used to tell me about this man and he said Al B. Miller was Ruth's son and was raised by someone in her family and that he was once temporary mayor of Charleston. I can find no trace of this man, but low and behold he showed up as Ruth's son (father James Miller) in Joel Hager's file and I know he didn't get that from my Uncle! I e-mailed him, but he only sent me an invitation to join his website. I did, but couldn't find anything more. I know Ruth had a younger relative named Albert, but he doesn't seem to be the same person. Also, my uncle told me Jerdan and Ruth's daughter Geneva, fell in love with Al B. and not knowing he was her 1/2 brother, eloped with him. The family found them and had the marriage annulled. Genevy then went on to marry Wilshure Dunlap. They had no children, but raised a young cous! in. She was a midwife and delivered my mom and most her siblings, she was also their great aunt. Another thing, in case you are related to this family, at some point a researcher recorded Ruth's mother as being Susannah Nickell, and that has been repeated for decades now, but on Ruth's death record and several of her brother's their mother is named as Susan/Susannah Hager. Are you kin to or descended from Jerdan and Ruth, too? Thanks again, Lora I apologize for dragging you away from your original topic!