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/zIJ.2ACEB/174.178 Message Board Post: Charles Clouse lived for a time in Fort Ripley, MN before moving to California. He had four children: Goldie, Lisle, Cecil, and Leon. They are related to me through the ROSE line (Aunt Matt --Martha Ann Rose was my ggrandmother's sister). Goldie married Ern Clute and is buried in San Diego, CA. Lisle married Ed Holmquist and is buried, I believe, in Brawley, CA. Leon Clouse and his wife Minnie JOHNSON are both buried here in the Fort Ripley, MN cemetery. They had one daughter who died at age 16 and a son who was stillborn. Leon and my father were cousins. There are a few pages of biography on Leon Clouse at the Brainerd, MN Crow Wing County Historical Society, but they do not go into his family history before he came to Fort Ripley, MN.