Here is a query from our newest member and if anyone can help him it would be greatly appreciated I'm sure. He is Fred Baker and his e-mail address is : [email protected] He is not on the list but I will add him and then if he wants off I can unsub him. Thanks, Ruby Ruby, please save the effort of sending me a card; the likelihood I'll need to use the card is very low as it is not my intention to be visiting you-all. Rather, I wish to be able to access the group's collective knowledge to find out more about my great-grandmother, Edmonia Eugenia Budge ( ne Bartlett ) and her parents. There must be a story here but even the knowledgeable guy David Hochin cannot find it. Edmonia's parents, Eugen and Atalanta (Berkley) Bartlett lived in Clarksburg as per the 1860 census. He was well-to-do as his father James Bartlett owned the hotel next to the courthouse. Edmonia was born in 1862 but by 1870 was living with her aunt and uncle. Eugen and Atalanta were in their 30's so I assume some calamity befell them prior to 1870. What was it? Was there a fire in the hotel and they perished? Was there a plague? Was it the yankees (Eugen voted for secession)? Where are Eugen and Atalanta buried? There must be obituaries but I could not find them ... And then there is Eugenia ... Again in the 1880 census she is living with her aunt/uncle, but by 1885 she was married to Charleton Stevens Budge, was living in Cincinnati and had a child. Were they married in Clarksburg? How could she have met Charleton Budge who was an immigrant from Canada and who later worked for the National Biscuit Company - later Nabisco. Was there a Nabisco plant in/near Clarksburg? Because she was from a family of some means, even if she married out-of-town, there might have been a wedding announcement which would offer insite as to what was going on ... So Ruby, all I ask is the the above be posted wherever it is appropriate and I'll answer any questions the members might have... I have the marriage license of Eugen and Atalanta, the 1860, 1870 and 1880 census data should anyone want to have that detail. Thanks, Fred