Hi, Deborah! While you are doing updates, here are a few additions and corrections you can make to your Colby Connection WorldConnect website and to the FindAGrave memorial for my great grandfather, Guy Irving Colby: a.. Date of death: According to his obituary in the 12 July 1911 edition of the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register, he died the afternoon of 11 July 1911 (not 12 July). b.. As shown on your website, his second wife, Laura Lynn Troxell, was born in 1861. This date is missing from her FindAGrave memorial as well as his. Also, her maiden name is missing from both FindAGrave entries. c.. His third wife, Bessie Olive Hall, was born in Girard, Crawford, Kansas (your website just has "Kansas"). She died in 1957 in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington (not in 1931, as currently shown on his FindAGrave memorial). This information came from their granddaughter, Linda Mae (Colby) Shamek, the younger daughter of their son Logan Hall Colby. d.. Children's birthplace: My grandfather, Guy Irving Colby Jr., was born in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts (your website shows Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois). The family moved to Chicago in 1887 or 1888, and the other four children from my great grandfather's first marriage were all born on Chicago (your website shows Springfield for three of them). The family did not move from Chicago to Springfield until 1895. e.. Children's names and birthdates: Marion's full name was Marion Higgins Colby. According to her death certificate, she was actually born in Chicago 1 Nov 1888 (your website shows 29 Oct 1888). She died of membranous croup (probably diphteria) in Chicago on 9 Mar 1894, at the age of 5y, 4m, 8d. Frank's full name was Frank Eastman Colby (after Col. Frank French Eastman, my great grandfather's brother-in-law). Your website shows Frank and Marion as twins, but that was not the case. According to his death certificate, Frank was actually born in Chicago on 6 May 1893. It was a premature birth, and he lived only four days, dying on 10 May 1893. Both Frank and Marion were originally buried in Oakwoods Cemetery in Chicago. When my great grandmother (Lucy Maria Higgins Colby) died of pneumonia in 1900 at the tragically young age of 35, my great grandfather bought a family plot in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. Frank's and Marion's remains were reinterred in that plot, where they share a single headstone. In all, there are ten burials in that plot: My great grandfather, his first two wives, Frank and Marion, my grandfather, my grandmother, and my father's three siblings (Marion Dell Colby, Muriel Miller Colby, and Glen Higgins Colby). The one remaining space was intended for my father, but since he is buried in Dallas, Texas (where he lived the last 26 years of his life), it will probably never be used. I currenly have in my data base a total of 189 descendants of my great grandfather, Guy Irving Colby. Regards, Guy I. Colby IV Irving, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: Deborah M Colby To: colby@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [COLBY] Findagrave.com I just finish going through all 2409 entries and where I had additional info, wrote to the owner to update the info so others would have an easier time finding their loved ones.