This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweeten Hoyt Persing Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2062 Message Board Post: I am searching for anybody who can help me find out ANYTHING about my uncle Laurence Hoyt or Lawrence Hoyt who may have died in Modesto CA around 1940 He may also have used the name Laurence Persing or Lawrence Persing He was born abt 1906/07 in Oregon he is listed as 14 in the 1920 San Francisco Co. Federal Census living with his mother. He was the son of Edna Sweeten, Edna Hoyt, Edna Persing