This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Megenity, Alderman, Buchanan, Ellis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gAB.2ACI/159.201.1.1 Message Board Post: This may or may not pertain to your family, but I found this name in an obit for Joanna Alderman. It was glued to the front of a penny post card. The front of the card is a portrait of her mother standing by a bush and possibly a headstone. The obit says that she had a daughter named Rose or Rosa Megenity of Greenacres (I assume that it means Spokane, Wa) Do you have Rosa or her sister, Viletta in your records? Joanna Alderman died at age 82. She came west in about 1862, probably, as other Ellis family members came that year. She is buried at Moscow, Idaho.