This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.3.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I did a bit of digging just in our local newspaper archives. The site is www.morningsun.net. First I found an article about the miner's memorial submitted by family of the man they are creating a statue of, John Christian Ott. In the article it lists a letter mailed to his daughter House 43, Ashley Camp, 15, Rural Route #2, Pittsburg. It says he lived near Fleming. Fleming was a small mining town west of Pittsburg which does not exist now. I also found a list of coal camps in Crawford Co. and Ashley was on it. There is also an obituary for a Henry R. Wettstein of Pittsburg, age 93. This was printed just this year Feb. of 06. This is probably why it is so familiar. His wife, Dorothy just passed away this summer. This Henry was born in 1912 Colorado to a Henry Sr. and Mary May Wettstein. In Henry Jr.'s sister Helen May Jones' obituary it lists her being born in 1909 Pittsburg to Henry and Mary Ann (May) Wettstein. The Genealogy Society's email is genealogy@pittsburg.lib.ks.us Have you tried to see if he has a WWI registration. They usually list where they work on those (if they registered) I had a great uncle that listed that he worked for Weir Coal Co. and I found that the same company owned coal companies in Oklahoma and I found him in Muskogee, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma in 1930. There is abviously a connection there.