Leo Hill <leochill@yahoo.com> wrote:Yadda-Yadda-Yadda Well, ain't it really serendipitous that http://www.whitepages.com/ work so well. I looked up my 9 year older niece's phone and gave them a call just now. Surprise, surprise, surprise as Gomer used to say. My 92 year old sister-in-law - it's hard to think of a 92 year old woman as a SiL - was there and her mind is a sharp as a tack. We chatted for about 20 minutes and here's what was said. Low and behold the "1958 Report of The Woodland History Committee" seems to have some "typo's" My dear niece found on-line a marriage certificate from my grandfather and grandmother when they were married in Missouri. And without telling me she found that my grandfather's name was not Elvin, but Elgin. And my father's middle name was originally Elgin but at some point he changed it to Ellis. Okie-dokie - We've got a grandfather named Elgin Hill and a father named Leo Elgin Hill at birth and changed later to Leo Ellis Hill. No reason why given, but my 1/2 brother also changed his middle name from Kenneth Jay to Kenneth Dwain - again for reasons unknown. Grandpa Elgin is buried in the Frank Able cemetery - but is not recorded properly. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/cowlitz/cemeteries/frankable.txt My SiL said that a baby last named Robbins was buried over Elgin. Look on the above link and there is a ROBBINS, Michael 12 Mar 1945 25 Mar 1947 Nina - my SiL - confirms that is the baby that is above my grandfather. Apparently when the 1958 history was being written they did explore the cemetery and did not explore the burial records in the Cowlitz county courthouse. So even though the initial find wasnt exactly correct, I have another tidbit of info to research a marriage certificate from Missouri ca. 1880-85-ish. And who knows where that might lead? I might be a long lost cousin from some of you folks that have been concentrating on the Ohio/Kentucky/Tennessee areas prior to the Civil War. Still a-grinnin Leo Veteran. Patriot. Democrat.