This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Laird, Peterson, Martin, Russell, Lapsley, Johnston, Cravens, Bradley, Akers, King, Steele, Nicholson, Bruner, Glass, Graves, Robertson, Scoles, Broker, Broeker, Settergren, Lloyd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/951.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Generations: Current - James R. Glass Jr. and his offspring. Parents: James R. Glass and Lois W. Glass (5 children, infant stillborn boy, Bill, James R. Jr., Susan, and Tom). Grandparents: Welcome E. Glass and Marjorie Graves Glass (2 children, James R. and Margene). Great grandparents: John Wesley Glass and Emma A Freeman - 7 children, Charles Orlando, Lulu Anna, Welcome Edwin, Hazel Urdine, Jay Winfield, Mabelle Wanieta, and Helen Ester. Charles Orlando Glass was married 1st to Ora ?somebody? (she is buried in the Glass section at Eastside Cemetery here), 2nd to Gertrude Ella Minner (she is buried in the Coleman section of Eastside Cemetery), and 3rd to ?unknown?. Lulu Anna Glass was married to Chester Coleman until her death in 1927, and is also buried in the Coleman section at Eastside. Before my husband's grandfather's brother Charles Orlando Glass (who was called "Orlie"), was married to Aunt Gertie Coleman, as you call her, Orlie was married to a little gal by the name of Ora something who died at the age of 18 of pneumonia not long after they were married. I don't have the particulars of that, haven't attempted to find the obit yet. The cemetery has limited information about her. Gert was the second wife, and then Orlie married a 3rd time after Gert divorced him. My husband's grandparents used to travel to Florida at least once a year to see Orlie and his 3rd wife, and apparently had a good relationship. This was after Orlie's death. Then, during the late 80s or early 90s, at the end of a long-term relationship, my husband was doing a bit of traveling after his second female partner (translated "live-in tramp") had filed for support and had seized a large part of his property in the palimony settlement. His travels took him to Florida where he attempted to get to know Orlie's family, that he had heard so much about, to see what kind of people they were. He didn't have much to say about them that was very complimentary. I don't know if he ever met Menota, but he says he has a rather large photograph of a woman with the name Menota written on it. According to the accounts I've heard, Orlie was seriously alcoholic and may have been abusive. I haven't got any confirmation of this. I've heard that Ernest, one of the sons, also had an alcohol problem. Gertrude and Orlie's oldest boy was named Chester Orlando Glass, and was apparently closer to his mother than some of the others were. Chester's wife Lulu Anna Glass died on the 17th of May 1927. Gert filed for divorce shortly after that, and she married Chester Coleman on the 30th of July 1930.