This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1209.1 Message Board Post: found some info you might find helpful homestead index 1861-1924 humboldt coulter, kate 9-26-1885 book 4 page 398 1880 great reg. humboldt coulter, benjamin carroll age 51 born tenn merchant living in mad river coulter james lafayette age 58 born tenn teamster eureka coulter burrial permits coulter, mrs kate age 77y died blue lake 23 mar 1913 1912 blue lake voters records coulter, benjamine carroll democrat retired blue lake 1890 blue lake directory population 200, located on the arcata and mad river railroad 8 miles north from arcata. Is situatied in a lumber region. chandler henderson and co have a saw mill at this place. There are also many small farms in this vicinity. Powelville is 1/2 mile north-east and Scottsville is 1/2 mile north of blue lake. Both are small places. this is a shipping point of some importance of tanbark. By boat and rail from Eureka twice a day. Fare .75c. coulter, j.l. farmer coulter b.c.gen merchandise mad river honor roll jan 4, 1886 coulter emily 1853 list of post masters, g.w. coulter in mariposa co maswell's creek post master john coulter born ireland, daughter angeline m coulter born 1857 enniskiller ireland died 3 may 1913 ripley co MO, not sure these two are any link to yours but if they are someone in our area is looking into this line 1880 census mad river coulter, benjamin white male 44 farmer france france france coulter, julia white female 52 wife keepshouse, france france france coulter louise white female 19 daughter at home CA france france coulter adele white female 15 daughter at school CA france france abstracts of humboldt co. edward l lewis farmer and carpenter, born smaland, sweden 3 jan 1861, son of lawrence lewis native of sweden born 14 aug 1830. came to US in 1881 arriving at castle garden NY but soon went to Warren co IL arrived eureka 15 mar 1883. In eureka 3 july 1887 m Mary emily coulter. 2 children. lucile and carroll. Mrs lewis native of gilroy ca. daughter of benjamin carroll coulter, cat of bledsoe co tn born there 8 july 1832 1875 voters reg. coulter james lafayette age 36 farmer arcata This information was from the redwood researcher the local genealogy soc in fortuna. I hope that it was some help to your researching. It looks like you might wish to find more info in the gilroy area as that is where mary was born. Also looks like perhaps her middle name was not A but emily. genzi founder CGC http://groups.yahoo.com/group/californiagenealogy