This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mades Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HY.2ADE/1100.2 Message Board Post: My husband is a great-grandson of Charles Mades who owned the Mades hotel and died 6/2/1915. I have dug up some Washington Post articles from Ancestry.com -- obits, etc. on the Mades family. His daughter, Lena, his grandmother was born in 1878. Don't know which of Charles' wives was her mother. Lena married James A. Springman who was a detective on the D.C. police force. Their daughter, Hilda, married Emory Irwin Marton and is my husband's mother. I suppose you're a cousin to my husband, though many times removed. K Marton