I received an e-mail from Tom Coumier this morning to see if I was alright. I guess I am alright sort of . Just hung up on my genealogy. That’s all.I tell my wife it’s like an hound dog on a trail . you can’t quit. When I started ,y genealogy a little over five years ago I knew myGrandpa Spratt’s name and he was born in Missouri. That was all Iknew about the family. My parents said they thought the name Spratt was a German name. Now I know that my GGrandfather was Wilson Marion Spratt born about 1834 in Kentucky and according to the 1880 census his parents were born in Virginia. That’s as far as I have been able to get. My GGrandfather was married in 1855 in Platte County Missouri but had moved to Franklin County Kansas by 1860 . He was in the 16th Kansas Calvary in the Civil War and by 1866 he was getting divorced in Frankiln County Kansas. I have been un able to locate him in the 1850 census or the 1870 census. I have an Enoch Spratt born 1793 in Virginia that married Sally Samples born 1797 Virginia in 1818 in Kentucky and Enoch was in the Green County Kentucky Census 1830 and 1840. He was performing marriages as a minister in 1832 and 1835 in Green County Kentucky then I find Enoch Spratt in the Ray County Missouri marriage books performing marriages in 1841 . With all of my research no one else is researching Enoch Spratt. Everyone is researching his brothers and sisters but not him . Sally Samples had a brother Charles Samples that moved to Clay County Missouri and Enoch Spratt had a brother Elijah Spratt that moved to Clay County Missouri. Ray County ; Clay County and Platte County all three boarder each other in northwest Missouri. Everything I research points to Enoch but I can’t find proof positive connection saying that Wilson Marion was his son. That’s what I have been doing for the last two months. Doing some more digging.Maybe someday I will hit pay dirt. When I do if I am correct I will have about three more generations on the Spratt family. Oh by the way. I haven’t found a bit of German in the name Spratt. Looks like Irish. But in the 1860’s if the name was spelled SPRATTE or SPRATTS they came from Germany . I don’t know if they were Irish that went to Germany then United States or what but that is what the census says.All I knoiw mine goes back to Virginia.