In a message dated 9/10/2000 1:24:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, stebbhs@juno.com writes: << STEBENNE, Charles Alexander, b. 1 Oct 1830, Marieville, QC., d. 4 May 1889, Kankakee, IL. He m. MUENIER, Louise, b. 1832, Marieville, QC., & d. 20 May 1889. 7 Known ch., Alexander, Louisa, Louis, Peter, Mary, Anna and Tilla. >> Bon soir, Howard ! I see that the one Kankakee reference you have given is the death date of Charles - and I see that Louise died about 2 weeks after he did: was she also in Kankakee Town? And - do you happen to have any birth dates or locations for the children? An obit for Charles in a K3 paper? Any idea why Charles came to the area? Sometimes that helps. Well, we'll sharpen our figurative pencils; maybe one of us can find something, although our expertise is more in the little town of St. Anne than in Kankakee. Please send any added detail that occurs to you. Good luck! Ginny Crawford ILSTANNE-L list administrator VCrawf@aol.com