Still looking for my father's family in Spokane Washington or southern counties of Eastern Washington. I have been searching for over twenty years but don't see a lead yet to my father, Joe Buster Chandler. The "Red headed aunt he thought raised him," the inherited baldness at age 18 and possibly the crooked pinkie finger are all clues, but need some help from Chandler families in Eastern Spokane County, WA. to come up with a lead about knowing or hearing of an orphaned Chandler boy, 1907-1920. I think this may be the only way I will ever find him is through people like you who know of other Chandler families in the area and may have heard or have a bible that tells the story of Joe. All I know for sure is that he said he was born 09/09/1899 and lived in Spokane (don't know if it was city or county) until he left for California in 1925. He knew nothing about his family other than he said he was an only child and his mother died when he was about three years old, (1902) ? . Since he said he left home at age eight, his father A.J. or John J. may have died in 1907. He did say that his father was a merchant and had a store in Spokane. He remembered of riding on a buckboard with his father to Yakima, (I presume more than once for him to remember this) maybe to visit relatives ? The family that he grew up with after the age of eight (Red headed Aunt) may have lived possibly in Columbia County in the Starbuck area as he talked about swimming in the Snake, Tucannon & Palouse rivers. He remembered that there were no other children in the house where he grew up in, however being an only child does not mean he could not have had other siblings if he was sent out to live with older relatives. He did say that his Uncle (Chandler or ?) was in the first WW1 and served in Europe. He said he was a migrate fruit picker as a young man. This is about all I know of his early years in Washington. I have tried the Spokane County and Olympia, WA for his birth record of which there is apparently none recorded. I have never found him on the 1900-1910 or 1920 census records, but a lot of these are unreadable. (The Joseph B. Chandler in Pacific County in 1920 is not my Joe.) Joe came to San Diego County, CA. in 1925/26 where he lived until his death in 1984. He was employed by the Railway Express Company at the Santa Fe Depot in San Diego for 23 years. I have all his records from 1930 & up and everything recorded says he was born in WA. including the San Diego 1930 Census, which states his parents were from Michigan. Thanks for any help, Dave - Famsource@aol.com