Sheila Watson posted several obits this weekend for the Burden family in Grant Co. While this isn't my family, they are part of the group of families with whom my Jeffries traveled . My gg-grandmother, Minnie B.Jeffries, was last heard of 1903 in Gas City, married to a James Tomlan or Tomlinson. If someone has cemetery records for the IOOF cemetery mentioned in the obits (sorry, it doesn't specify which one and I see there are two in the county)can you please take a look for Minnie Jeffries/Tomlan, born about 1874? The Jeffries and Burden families were not black, but were descendants of the Saponi tribe from Virginia and North Carolina. You can see a bit more about them and their struggle to be identified as native americans on my Jeffries webpages. http://users.nni.com/dehoff/jeffriesfam.html Thank you in advance for helping solve a family mystery. Annette DeHoff netandmike@nni.com