I am not a member on Ancestry so please e-mail me directly at
mcwallace01@yahoo.ca.
I just found your query this morning. I can tell you that Rachel's parents were John and Ann (Dinsmore) McMurtry who are buried here in Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
I have a copy of a letter from your grandfather, George Washington McAllister, dated April 10, 1944 in New Providence, to my wife's great grandfather and your grandfather's first cousin, John James McMurtry. In it he indicates having received a letter from John. Any chance you have seen that letter?
Interested in filling out the McMurtry family tree.