Hi Again Terry, Sorry, I'm a couple of days behind in reading my mail lists due to a computer club meeting yesterday. I didn't realize that you were so lacking in information about your father's family or the reasons why. I think this conversation should be kept on line to everyone, then people like Gail Meeks can offer the military information she knows and everyone else with knowledge can add to this conversation. In my last email I stated that I've not been able to tie John Ross into any of the other Criswell families. I assume since John Ross started a family in 1919, he was probably born in the 1890s, so I check the birth records, I submitted, which are listed in the Marshall Co GenWeb archives. A John D. b 1895 was a possiblilty, but I checked in other records and the D wasn't a R mistakenly read. Also he marrieds Irene Hall and had 3 children, but not the 3 you're interested in. The other possibility is a male born 1898 to James Alex Criswell & Nancy J. Syhock, But I have no other information on this family. And then of course there is a 3rd possibilty that John Ross's birth wasn't registered. Does anyone out there have any information on the family of James Alex Criswell & Nancy J. Syhock? Sylvia