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/HY.2ADE/1728.1 Message Board Post: I believe the Hammond Studio is still open for business in Porterville Ph # 559 784-4183, they might have records and other photos. Look at www.vitalsearch-ca.com Death Index 1930 to 1939. There is a Monroe Hicks listed but the image is blurry as to the code for the county of death, but it doesn't look like 56 for Tulare County. Death date looks like 3/23/31 (1931)-Certificate # 16547. If this is your Monroe he would be 29 as he was born abt 1902. The age is blurry too but the it does look ?9. Your Hicks family must have of come to CA after 1930 as I found great grandfather, in TX from 1900 to 1930. 1900 and 1910 in Stephens Co. , 1920 in Fisher Co. and 1930 in Henderson Co. Roy and Monroe are living, listed as cousins with Andrew Rankin Hicks in Smith Co. TX in 1930. Ernest Robert Hicks is the household above. Couldn't find Wm Vernon for 1920 and 1930 census. Andrew and Ernest/Earnest are buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Porterville, Tulare Co. CA and an obit for Ernest was in the Porterville Evening Recorder Dec. 31 1957 to Jan 3 1958. This information is on the USGenWeb CA Tulare County website. They are in the CA Death Index-1940 to 1997 www.vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search