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/HAB.2ACI/848.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You're welcome. It is very hard to know who, outside of residents of Kansas City, MO, would post obituaries in the Kansas City Star/Times. There is a chance that someone in Bates county would. Butler is now almost a suburb for KCMO, but that has not always been the case.There are probably little local papers and they may read/use the Springfield, Greene county MO, paper. If you are looking for the step-daughters and think they might have stayed in Butler through death, it's best to ask the librarian or that Bates county message board for advice. I did do a Kansas City, MO, newspapers search for Blanch Albright, also spelled it Blanche, and nothing came up. That doesn't mean that she didn't die here. The searches seem to be incomplete and there is a gap in the digital papers between the early 1960s and then the obituary collection that they have for about 1996-2006. The gap has to be searched on microfilm and that is a royal pain if you don't have a date. Your idea to look for her in the KC directories is probably a good one. At least to see when she disappeared from the area or if she was ever listed. You might post a request to the Jackson County message board. If I am in the downtown KC library and have time, I will try to remember. If you have Blanch's birthdate, and have not done a Social Security search, I will be happy to do one for you. That sometimes gives the last place of residence. Since Arthur was a veteran, the military files in the National Archive may contain pension information. That might include any payments to the widow and where she lived. I'm not sure who to ask about that. Perhaps an e-mail to the Archive itself would get you an answer. I know that I have traced Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War widows through the info out of the Archive. I just don't know anything about WWI. The files that I've gotten from the earlier wars have just been marvelous and contained more info that I could ever have imagined, including marriage dates and places, etc. I also suggest that you see if you can get any sense, perhaps from Butler, MO, directories, of whether the step-daughters stayed in Bates county. They may have married there. Again, researchers in Bates might have some good ideas. Good luck, Patricia