----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: LA PLATA COUNTY----PORTER MINE MAXSON/MAXON(?) IS THE SURNAME....CLARENCE ISAIAH MAXSON BORN "IN PORTER" IN 1890....HIS SISTER RUTH MAXSON/MAXON BORN 1897 IN DURANGO....PARENTS CHARLES FREMONT AND MARY SMITH MAXON/MAXSON....ONE CHILD HAD ACCOMPANIED THEM FROM THE MINING AREAS OF ARKANSAS...THEY COULD HAVE BEEN THERE IN PORTER AS EARLY AS 1886/7 AND REMAINED UNTIL MID 1890 SINCE THEY WERE IN SHOSHONE COUNTY, IDAHO AT THE MINES WHEN MY FATHER WAS BORN 1N 1901....COULD YOU PLEASE HEAD ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BY MY READING--OR OTHERWISE...TO LEARN WHAT WAS GOING ON IN PORTER MINES(TYPE OF ORE, UNION OR NON UNION MINES, MINES STILL IN EXISTANCE, PORTER STILL IN EXISTANCE..PAPERS(IF ANY)...HOW CAN I FIND OUT ABOUT THEM DURING THIS 9-10 YEAR PERIOD...ALL SUGGESTIONS WILL BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED AND IF THERE JUST MIGHT BE ANYTHING IN MY GENEOLOGY FILES WHICH I MIGHT SHARE, PLEASE KNOW IT SHALL BE DONE ON THE REQUEST OF ANY GENEOLOGY GROUP...SIGNED VERN MAXSON IN MISSOURI(REPLIES, IF ANY, TO [email protected] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.370 / Virus Database: 205 - Release Date: 06/05/2002