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/DFC.2ACI/2212.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, Sorry to hear of the death of your uncle Delbert. Gary Davis is the new President of the Lee and Davis reunion. He will do well in that capacity. The Secretary (Beryl) was a Lee so it is good that we have a Davis to be the President. I succeeded a Davis as President a little over 10 years ago. Our family is doing well. Still nothing more on the Richards family. I made personal contact with an Edwards descendant, Collaine Brand, of Parkersburg. We share a fairly close connection on my mother's side. My mother's father and her father's father were brothers. That gives her the same Richards connection through Samuel Edwards who married Evaline Richards. Evaline was a child of Otho Richards (she has Dovenor Otho Richards) and Rebecca Dotson. Collaine does not have any further information on Otho Richards either. I have found Otho Richards on the 1840 Census of Wood County, but have not found him before that time on any census in any location. With a birthdate of about 1783, he could have been the head of a household as early as 1800, 1810, 1820 and 1830. I suppose he could have still been living at home with his parents until the 1840 census. With Rebecca born about 1814 that's certainly possible. Rebecca would have been 20 in 1834 and Otho would have been 51 - their first child was born in 1835. The other possibility is that Otho was married prior to his marriage to Rebecca. Perhaps he was listed under a different name (nickname?). Hope you and your family are doing well.