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/GW.2ADE/1030.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Jim, Thanks so much for responding! Everyone has been so helpful!!! It is entirely possibly that Leighton is in fact Laton (although it was spelled Leighton both in the probate record and later in a newspaper clipping) The family in question is that of Matthew McCarty (b.abt 1849 in or around Chateaugay, NY to James McCarty and Anna Breen) and his wife Joanna Quinlan. Matthew moved from Belmont, NY in late 1908 or early 1909 and is listed in the probate of his mother as living in "Leighton, Fresno Co., CA). Matthew apparently had at least 7 children. The obituary of his daughter Eva from Malone NY in 1911 states that neither her father Matthew or any of her brothers or sisters were able to attend her funeral due to thier residence in California. There is another newspaper article on file at the HOH in Malone NY that was evidently sent to the NY newspaper from California that says James McCarty, son of Matthew late of Belmont, New York, and now of Leighton CA mar! ried Clara Seth in Chama, New Mexico - the date is unreadable on the article, except that it is clearly in the 19 hundreds. Chama has no record of thier marriage. The family was Catholic (as are all of the descendants that I have found so far) The names of Matthew McCarty and Joanna Quinlan's children were James John, Mary (Maria Agnes), Catherine, John, Eva, Joseph, and at least one more that I don't have a name for yet. Matthew was a blacksmith and a farmer in New York. Thanks Again Colleen