This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZY.2ADI/353.1.1 Message Board Post: Carol, thanks so much for your search effort for me. I appreciate that so much and promise to repay by helping others with their searches. I enjoy doing that! You have been able to help me realize that my ancestor is not in the cemeteries that you checked at or near Sterling. My grandfather was born at Sterling, Colo....apparently his parents had gone there with their small children to start a new life. My grandfather was child #4 of 9.....he was the only one born in Colo. The others after him born in Iowa. So that family returned to IOWA--not staying in Colo. The old GG Grandpa is said to have died in Sydney, Nebr. I have had someone there do lookups for me and no burial record or place of burial was found for Wm. Ewin/g. So I wonder what they did with him in that year 1888? Another of his sons lived at Creston, IA......I have checked there and no burial record either for Wm. Ewing died 1888. Could they have just buried him any ole place that they desired? I hear stories of people being buried along the trail. I know this family (like most) had little or no money. Any ideas that you can think of regarding the Sterling area......I know that Sydney, NE, is not that far away from Sterling.....any suggestions appreciated. Thanks a billion......"In Search of that Elusive Ancestor" Linda Ziemann