The Oskaloosa Times for January 19, 1900, under the heading "Judge Dick's Court," says: During the past week, S Champion filed a final settlement as guardian of Eugene Snow and others. Undoubtedly "S Champion" is Smith Champion, my great-grandfather. But who might Eugene Snow and others have been? I checked the (June) 1900 census to see if I could find a connection, and the most likely family geographically seems to be that of G W Snow, a 21 year old farmer in Sarcoxie Twp, with a wife named "E Snow," who is 23. They have a son "E Snow," born January 1900 and thus "4/12" years of age in June. But this news item appeared the same month this kid would have been born. But he has parents living and doesn't seem like he would need guardians, especially if he was only two weeks old. (The Champions mostly seemed to live in Sarcoxie Twp.) There's a Charles Snow family in the 1905 Kansas census, living at McLouth in Union Twp, but their family doesn't include a Eugene. In Douglas County, on Delaware Street in the 2d precinct of Lawrence, I found some more Snows. In the March 1,1905, Kansas census there's a widow named Eldora Snow, who is 49, living with her children, Richard 21, Anna 18, and Eugene 10. If that's our Eugene, he would have been born c1895, so I suppose he could have had time to have a guardianship opened in a probate court, but why not in Douglas County? Does anybody out there claim any of these Snows? Is it possible to find out from the probate records who the "and others" might have been? Or what relationship Smith Champion might have had with the family? Did Smith Champion hold some kind of office in the community that would have made him a likely guardian for anybody? How would I go about finding out this kind of stuff? Jan Tompkins ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.