Unfortunately, Angela, it seems we've all struck out on Mary Elizabeth's parents. We too had heard that she was an orphan child, maybe Indian, but no proof. No birth records to be found, no marriage record. Her maiden name Phelps written on an old picture from Bisbee and in the court papers my Grandfather John Garland filed in the early 1950's for his birth documentation to get his social security card. One of Joe Alan's descendants did load of research a few years back, but she hit the Mary Elizabeth brick wall - the "elusive Mary Elizabeth" she termed her. I discussed the matter with one of Edmund Bruin's (P.G.'s brother) but no luck there either. Bill ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.