Hi Betty: There have been some unusual deaths in our family. With fishermen in Shetland, of course there were lots of drownings including my G.G. Grandfather Laurence SMITH. Recall an aunt by marriage losing her brother to drowning in Canada while on a fishing trip and had a lst cousin who was shot and killed by his best friend (murdered). Believe liquor was involved. A Great Uncle on my Mother side, Frank COOMBS was hit by a car dying in Oregon. Another G. Uncle Coombs had one or two of his children die in a house fire and supposedly one of his sisters drowned in the fountain of an asylum (no proof of this story). Luckily, there have not been a lot of accidental or violent deaths in the family, tho a number of ancestors died from consumption - TB. Lauraine