Lynda: The eight names you gave me from the cemetery records were those of Arthur and Mary BREWER and six of their eleven children. I had all the names and the birth dates but five of the death dates were previously unknown to me - thank you very very much!! Sad to see three of the children died in infancy and two more in their late teens. I suppose life was very hard for them and facilities pretty basic compared with those of the present day. The rest of their family consisted of 4 boys and 1 girl. The girl was named Ivie May Brewer (b. 6 Jul 1892) and that is all I know about her. The 4 boys all married and had children of their own. They don't appear in the cemetery records because they all moved away from Morgan after marriage. Anyway, this has strayed away from the Handcart theme so I will try to pursue it further through the BREWER list. With regard to my query about William, the one possible 'handcarter', you will probably have seen the reply from Andy E. Wold which shows quite clearly that my William was not the William Brewer involved with the Heneferville organ. (Henefer and Heneferville ? same place ?) Date-wise he may just have been among the last of the handcart companies - his nephews certainly were not. Thanks again for the information you have been able to provide - I don't know if any of these reference CDs and other indexes are available here in England. From the contents of the mail it is clear that you are all much better organised than we are (that might be a bit unfair to my countrymen - it is probably just me that is badly organised, I've never made contact with any genealogy groups in Britain!!) Hope your business visit proved successful In message <00000B75.1637@tmac.com>, Durfee_Lynda@tmac.com writes >I'm going out of town on business 7/18 for a week. When I get back, I'll try >to >check the "Crossing the Plains Index" and "Crossing the Ocean Index" for the >Brewers. If I find them in either one, it would establish the dates they came >to the valley. These microfilmed indexes of file cards are on microfilm. Most >of the large Family History Centers have them. I checked the book "Handcarts >to >Zion"; didn't find any Brewers on the roster, but again, they could have pushed >a handcart alongside a wagon company. Often, though, the story gets garbled as >passed from one generation to the next. > -- George Hayling Island ENG