I am looking for Delmar Harold CHEW. According to my Great Grandfather's written record, Harold as he was known by the family was born about 1895 give or take a year to William Chew and Mahala Stinnett in Okalahoma Territory. Mahala walked out on William while pregnant with Harold and divorced him. (I won't go into the sordid details) She eventually worked for Charles Henry Fowler whose wife had died and left him with several children to care for. They found they were compatible and decided it was to their mutual benefit to marry. They grew to love each other very much. When Harold was grown he left home to work. He was in Colorado and my Great Grandfather Edgar decided to join him there. Edgar suffered from hay fever badly. Working in Colorado would help him escape that for a while. I will write down my GGrandfather's words for the rest of the story. In the fall of 1912 I had perhaps, my worst attack of hay fever, an affliction which has visited me every fall since boyhood. I decided to go to Colorado to get relief and wrote to Harold Chew, who was then working near Denver, thinking he might help me to find work. He met me at the train in Denver and suggested that we go to an employment agency and find a job where we could work together. This resulted in our going into the mountains to work at a sawmill, where we worked about six weeks, or, until the mill closed down for the winter, when we returned to Denver. At Denver we bid each other "good-bye", Harold indicating he would go on to San Francisco, while I went south to the Castle Rock area where I was acquainted, to work a few weeks longer before returning home. It was in November, 1912 when Harold and I parted in Denver and that was the last time he was ever seen by any member of the family. After that he was heard from occasionally for 3 years or so, generally, p! erhaps always, from California. It was, I think, in 1915 that he wrote of meeting a very beautiful girl about 20 years old, whom he called Edith, and marrying her. He said they were going to Honolulu on a honeymoon. The letter was, I think, signed, Harold and Edith. The next thing that was received from him was a picture postcard, apparently bought off a card rack at a drug store, which had a photograph in color of a very beautiful girl about 20 years old. The card was not dated, nor was any address given, but it was postmarked Los Angeles, California, June 26, 1916. On the card was written this message: "Dear Bro. and Sis: Here is a picture of Edith before she got sick. I will send them now because she may never have any more taken. (Mother* received a similar card) When she took sick she weighed 140. Now she weighs 98. She is just withering away. If she don't rally pretty soon by fall she will pass away with the rest of the roses. Write and tell me what you th! ink of her picture. I will send you my own one of these days. With Love, H.C. and Edith." After this the BLANK' No effort to contact Harold or to learn anything more about him ever met with any success whatever. Mother would almost have given her life just to know what became of him. *Mother refers to Mahala who raised Edgar and Harold. I have looked through death records and can find nothing that appears to be the Chew that I am looking for. I have looked through marriage records but cannot find anything. I even had a short attempt at the draft records for 'world War 1. Does anybody have any ideas. I think I have tried most of the obvious places to look but at this point all I can think to do is search every available record ever created in California, a daunting task to say the least but one that is severely compounded by the fact that I reside in Australia. Any ideas or help are greatly appreciated. One thing I would love to check into is the trip to Honolulu.! Would records exist for that? Anyway, Thank you again. Judy