Hi Arlene, I'm sorry I can't get the certificates you need, but here is the web site address: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/certs.asp It seems to me that I recently read somewhere that a Wayt was Governor of Colorado. I might be wrong but it sure seems like it. The Masonic cemetery has been entirely filmed, have you found the photos of their headstones yet? Not all of the photos are online yet, but they have been taken. In the Elks records, Paul Wayt was a resident of Walsenburg and was a lumber dealer. He was born 9-28-1893 in Walsenburg. He became a member of the Lodge on 3-18-1919 and was dropped for non-payment of dues on 4-1-1935. Paul was proposed for membership on 2-12-1919 paid his last dues on 10-4-1922. Ralph G. Wayt was born in Dorrance, Russell County Kansas on 4-4-1899. He was proposed as a member on 1-8-1916 but was rejected on 2-12-1916. It doesn't say why he was rejected. He was a garage owner and owned Walsenburg Auto Plumbing and Elec. Co. About 1911 he was treated by Dr. Johnson in Denver for acute tonsillitis. Dr. Paul E. Mathews was the examining doctor for the Lodge and he reported that he had know Mr. Wayt for 25 years. He described him as 5'9", 152 pounds, light complexion, brown hair and blue eyes, with a small scar on his left cheek. This is all I have on your line right now but will watch for anything else. Hope this helps! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "arlene Johnston" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:44 PM Subject: birth certificate hi karen well after all this time of being on the list and not asking for anything, i shall do so now....the first thing i need is a certified copy of my mothers birth certificate... she was born in walsenberg on nov 10, 1913 her name was eva lucile wayt her mothers name was fay alta (eikenberry) wayt father was ralph gordon wayt.... i know it costs so just let me know how much with postage and where to send a check and i will do so....my relatives from walsenberg were sumner jellison wife catherine jellison....i know they had at least one child possibly more. they are all buried in the masonic cemetery in walsenberg...one son is buried between them, there are two other graves of jellsions near them...were they related and how....sumner was my gr grandmothers brother ....i would like to have a copy of sumners death certificate to see what his parents names were....i know that he was born in wood county ohio....in the same cemetery is the only daughter of my grgrandparents eva wayt..she was born raised to 17 and died in walsenberg...my other relatives were my grgrandparents william bernard wayt and wife jennie rose wayt their two sons ralph gordon wayt born in kansas and paul arthur wayt born in walsenberg....i have not found anything on the huerfano site about any of them except the elks club list... other than the above i really am looking for confirmation about their story or where to find it.. they came to walsenberg from wilson kansas about 1890 william wayt built homes for people on a payment plan that he devised...later he opened a furniture store and built and sold furniture in walsenberg....jennie his wife was a poet and wrote the advertisments for his businesses....she also wrote a poem that was published for the farewell party give for rev. i.a.smith and wife who was pastor of the m.e. church south at walsenbert for four years....the poem was read as the presentation accompanying the present the members of the church gave them.. i have no idea what ralph my grandfather did or paul my great uncle did. ..they were both adults when the family left walsenberg in 1916...the other part of this story that i would like to be able to find out about is that i beleive my great grandfather came to the valley as a child with his father..he was born in 1862...i do not know where...in another of my grgrandmothers poems she writes that the reason they moved to walsenberg is because my great grandfather had loved it so as a child........her poems were mostly about her life as a child and as an adult and about her family and friends...her books were published in denver and los angeles......if there is any place that you can think of for me to search please let me know...... waiting for an answer arlene johston los angeles ca....