Hello, In yesterday's mail, I received a "death notice" from a newspaper in or near Gardena, CA. It was for Mrs. Helen (LEWIS) TALMADGE from 1972. I had written to the Gardena Library asking for research, as I have been unable to find out who Helen LEWIS married, and whether she and her husband had children (in MA or CA?). The "death notice" is very brief, and it does not mention her husband. So, perhaps he had passed many years before, or they were divorced ! Helen's children are listed as Mrs. Mariam CORPLE or CORPIE ("death record" says Mariam COYNE), and then Richard TALMADGE, Robert TALMADGE, Peter TALMADGE, and Carl TALMADGE. I believe that Helen's younger brother had already moved to Gardena, CA, and married out there, so perhaps Helen and her husband moved out there to live near them ! This is about all I know about this family, so I guess this is just an FYI .. for people who might have TALMADGE on their family tree ! By the way, the Library was unable to find a death-notice or obituary for John LEWIS from ~1962, even though he and his family had lived there for many years ! But, the lady in the Reference Dept. explained that publishing obituaries in CA ... "is not the norm." I was surprised at this ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) (As per my other postings, Helen was one of 13 LEWIS children growing up in Stoneham, MA, from ~1881 until the parents' deaths in 1923 and 1924.) (By the way, I have found out that another brother, Arthur LEWIS, moved to Sandwich, NH, and had a small farm there. And, that must have been where their father went to live when he found out he had cancer !)