In a message dated 5/10/2001 7:21:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, paulette@elite.net writes: > I am looking for information on a Joseph D. Henwood and his wife. He > married Martha Jane Scroggins she was married (before 1865) to a cousin > of mine, Green Vandegrift, they divorced (1879) and Joseph is her third > husband I want to find a death date and were she is buried. I would like > to know who her parents were. He worked for the Washington Mine and was > an agent for the Mariposa Gazette. Martha married (2) David Stewart > Kirkpatrick this marriage only lasted a few months when David died. She > had six children with Green Vandegrift. Green and I think the children > returned to Arkansas since I have never seen any of the children in the > Mariposa Gazette. > > Tom, Have you searched the CA Death Index? There are a lot of Vandegrifts that were born in the 1860's and 1870's listed there. Maybe the children moved to another county. http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi I found a Martha Henwood listed there but she was born in 1870-something. Sharon CAMARIPO List step-mom