Surnames in this Query -- ARMSTRONG, ARTHUR, BARR, BROWN, DONHAM, FIELDS, GREGORY, HAPNEY, JAMES, JEFFERS, KESLER, LOCKWOOD, MESSICK, MEWHINNEY, MORRIS, NEES, PRICE, RECTOR, REECE, ROBERTS, SMITH, STONEBURNER, STOOPS, TIEFEL, WEIDLE, WITTY, WYATT.... My great-grandfather Melvin DONHAM (1882-1960), born in Clay County, IN, to Ferdinand Lee DONHAM (1851-1927) and Florella Jane "Jennie" RECTOR (1862-1890s), went to the Alaska Gold Rush with Ferdinand around 1898. The two of them later ended up in San Francisco, where I was born and raised. Melvin's sister Goldie Elizabeth DONHAM (m. Lot Dean LOCKWOOD) was a nurse in World War I and later died in the Philippines in 1920. I have a lot of information on Ferdinand and Florella's ancestry, but right now I am trying to track through to the present all of the descendents of their brothers and sisters. Ferdinand was the son of Abijah DONHAM (1812-1864, son of William DONHAM and Sarah ARTHUR) and Margaret DONHAM (1815-1895, m2. Robert BENNETT, daughter of John DONHAM and Elizabeth BROWN). The children of Abijah and Margaret included: John Singleton DONHAM (1834-??), m. Calista A. KESLER Elizabeth DONHAM (1838-??), m. Hiram WYATT William DONHAM (1839-??) Sarah A. DONHAM (1840-1891), m. William J. WITTY Nathaniel DONHAM (1841-1916), m. Alma L. ARMSTRONG Janetta DONHAM (1844-1911), m. John Giles HAPNEY Robert L. DONHAM (1847-??), m. Mattie James Lafayette DONHAM (1849-??), m. Malena C. GREGORY Ferdinand Lee DONHAM (1851-1927), m. Florella Jane RECTOR Isaac H. DONHAM (1852-1900) Melissa DONHAM (1855-??), m. Dr. Oliver JAMES Erasmus DONHAM (1857-1857) Margaret Alice DONHAM (1859-??), m. Hartley D. STONEBURNER Florella was the daughter of Enoch Mabury RECTOR (1828-1905, son of John Preston RECTOR and Catherine PRICE) and Elizabeth DONHAM (1836-1909, daughter of Abel DONHAM Jr. and Matilda REECE). The children of Enoch and Elizabeth included: Lewis Cass RECTOR (1855-??), m. Emma FIELDS, Nancy Eliz. STOOPS Cinderella RECTOR (1857-??), m. John Mack NEES Margaret Belle RECTOR (1858-??), m. Emanuel T. JEFFERS Elva Angie RECTOR (1860-1949), m. Erastus Freeman JEFFERS Florella Jane RECTOR (1862-1890s), m. Ferdinand Lee DONHAM Ulysses Grant RECTOR (1864-??), m. Anna F. ROBERTS Melvin Sherman RECTOR (1866-??), m. Elizabeth WEIDLE Annie Dora RECTOR (1867-??), m. Adam MORRIS, Mark MESSICK Emma Mae RECTOR (1869-??), m. Dan Henry TIEFEL Daniel Voorhees RECTOR (1871-??), m. Lo SMITH George Ross RECTOR (1872-1917), m. Hallie BARR Mary Mollie RECTOR (1874-??), m. Joe P. TIEFEL John Oren "Bob" RECTOR (1875-1966), m. Elsie MEWHINNEY Please contact me if you have any information on these siblings, their families, and descendents.... -- Scott Trimble 731 Montecillo Road San Rafael, CA 94903-3135 home 415-472-0557 e-mail stst@stst.net =========================================================== SCOTT T.S. TRIMBLE, stst@stst.net, ICQ #5075289 Northern California Movies, http://sfbay.stst.net/ =========================================================== "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." -- Matthew Broderick, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) =========================================================== "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill; I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill." -- Rush, "Freewill" ===========================================================