It does seem a promising list! Around 1936, my maternal grandfather, Dallis Willard, and his brother-in-law, George Russell, bought a blacksmith shop in Vermillion, Ks. That's in Marshall County, in the NE part of Kansas, about 9 miles south of the Nebraska line. When Uncle George moved to California in 1941, Grandpa bought his share, and ran it himself until the 1960's. (Am not sure when he gave it up.) It was across the street from a small elevator. I can still see, in my minds eye, the corn cobs spilling out of that elevator. The shop itself was just an old rectangular building, covered with brown, brick-look asphalt siding as far back as I can remember. It had a partial loft, possibly with a little office in it. I'm not sure about that. I have a photo of grandpa and his son, Lawrence Willard, (who later became a Methodist preacher) in the shop. I can never look at it with-out the feeling of being there, smelling the smells of the forge, and all that went with it, and hearing the clang of the anvil. Grandpa has been gone for many years, but the last time I was in the town, a couple of years ago, the building was still standing, abandoned, and surrounded by weeds. The elevator was torn down years ago. I also had a gggrandfather on my paternal side, who was a black- smith, but I don't know which surname, or where. His name was probably Barber, or Raybourn. In the photo I have of him, he has a long, scraggly beard, and is standing beside an anvil. The only information with it was in my Grandpa Raybourn's writing, saying that he thought it was one of his grandfathers. The name also might have been Zeigler or Hudson. Maybe someone out there will have a blacksmith ancestor with one of those names. Pat Luce