Thanks for replying.Unfortunately this is some of the info I already have. Thalus and "Lottie" left Allamakee for Minn. MN shortly after Orsemas' death in 1903. I have nothing else on him until his death record in 1940. I have Orsemas Wiley living in Freeport in 1903 according to the list of heirs......and him married to Ada Arley but no record of when or where they married.....cemetery records show his DOD as Nov. 24, 1929. Vesta Beach shows up in Wadena MN on the 1900 census, along with Jay Lavell's daughter in his household, then disappears. His daughter Emma pops up on an Oregon census in 1906 as a "servant". Then she too disappears. I have nothing on Jay Lavell until his death record (1932) from Henepin County MN with a second wife. So you see, I have lots on the family but enormous gaps between their births and deaths.....also did they have any children???? I only know of three for the whole group....It was easier to find info from the 1700's and 1800's than from the 1900's........ Thank you again....edna