This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLIAMS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2658.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: We must be on the same wavelength this morning. I am right now searching more records and had just found a reference to the Davenport Library. After traveling to Germany this summer, then to Iowa (just returned Tuesday), I am back online looking for info on a Mausoleum / cemetery in Davenport, across from the old orphanage. My Uncle Don Williams in Des Moines confirmed for me that he was in the Annie Wittenmeyer home, as were his siblings: Catherine Williams, b 1919, Barbara Williams, b 1929, Walter Williams, b 1921 and Jeanette Williams, b 1924---and Donald R. Williams, born 1916. Don, an old WWII vet has lived alone for year and has no phone, bad eyesight, etc.---so answers to my questions were best answered in person, plus we just plain needed to go see him. Walter Williams (according to Donald "Don", who is soon to be 88 yr. old) is buried in the Mauseleum. Walter died late 1930 / early 1931 I think --from complications of gangrene suffered when he and Don tried to ran away from the orphanage. The "baby" Barbara was 17 months old (family says) when the children were placed in the orphanage---making it about June / July, 1930. The children had been with the mother, Ivy Laura in Farley, Iowa and / or with the father, Joseph Henry, living in early 1930 with the grandmother, Magdalena Williams in Dubuque---who died in Sept. 1930, and I think she was sick before that, so children needed a home. Thanks so much to you and your husband for any help!