Hi John and KC List Members, My name is Joyce (FLEETWOOD) Lawrence. Originally from California, my husband and I retired to Dolores, Montezuma County, Colorado in 2000. We have 6 acres, a pond, with lots of wildlife to watch. I joined the KC list because I have ancestors in both KCMO and KCKS and really appreciate John O'Brien's postings over the years and also enjoy reading other people's stories. My maternal grandfather, Joe B. CAMPBELL, lived in KCMO from about 1889 until his death in 1951. He lived in the manufacturing (Ford Motor Company) area near today's Truman Road and Winchester, built two houses on Winchester Avenue in the early 1900s, and lived at 700 Spruce in the 1940s. Joe B. CAMPBELL's mother Mary Elizabeth (BEDELL) CAMPBELL came with him to KCMO from IL as a widow. On an 1889 city directory she lived at 18th and Central and worked as a folder at a publishing company. She m. Thomas SALTAR in 1892, he d. in 1904 and she then lived with son Joe until about 1930, when she moved to the Odd Fellow's home in Liberty MO. She d. during a terrible heat wave and is buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery. Joe CAMPBELL was m. in KCMO 1907 to Martha Ann "Mattie" PETREE and she was from Dawn MO, daughter of Robert E. PETREE and Sarah Ann HANNA. Mattie CAMPBELL had a sister who also lived in the same Sheffield area, Cora May (PETREE) SNIDER. Her youngest, Billy SNIDER, was a dwarf who played professional trumpet in Judy Conrad's band in KC and around the country. Joe and Mattie's children were all born in KCMO. Most of the Campbells and Sniders are buried at Mt. Washington Cemetery. Joe's first wife and two sons are buried at Union Cemetery in unmarked graves. Joe and Mattie's daughter Mary K. CAMPBELL is my mother--she went to Manchester School and East High School, class of '32. (More later.) Other KCMO relatives were my gr gr grandmother, Elizabeth (DICKINSON) BEDELL, d. in KCMO 1891, her son George A. BEDELL and family, and her brother Almon DICKINSON, who resided at 27th and Hardesty. He had a large dairy operation at one time with his nephew Forris BEDELL, per family stories. George BEDELL lived and built four identical houses that I believe still stand on the 700 block of Fremont. He died in 1919. Almon DICKINSON was a charter member of the Old Men's Club and attended Dundee Methodist Church. He died in 1902 and is buried at Elmwood Cemetery. Now for KCKS. My mother Mary CAMPBELL married John Wayne FLEETWOOD, who graduated from Argentine High School in 1937. His parents were Jesse and Kathryn FLEETWOOD, who moved to the Argentine district in about 1917, where my grandpa Jesse worked for Armour Packing Plant (where he lost part of his finger--hope it wasn't in a sausage) and AT&SF Railroad. His sister Cynthia Catherine "Kate" FLEETWOOD was married to Herman BEIMER, who was a foreman at Santa Fe in Argentine. Two other sisters worked for the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet company in the 1920s. My paternal grandmother, Kathryn "Kate" (STEELE) FLEETWOOD had Steele and CREW relatives in the KCKS area and her own grandmother, Catherine (JACKSON) STEELE OLINGER GUARDINEER who d. 1921 is buried at Highland Woodlawn Cemetery. Long story, and there are plenty more, but I think this covers most of the names I am researching. If anyone can relate to any of the above, I'd appreciate an email. I would like to know more about Judy (male) CONRAD's band, if anyone recalls it. This would be the 1940s and '50s. Also, I visited Elmwood Cemetery in 2004 but could never find the grave of Almon DICKINSON. Any helpers? Thanks for reading all of this and good luck to fellow KC researchers! Joyce Lawrence Dolores CO rjl@fone.net