In a message dated 6/3/03 10:01:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, MITCHDOR@aol.com writes: << It's interesting how neighbors often married neighbors after the death of a spouse. Of course, neighbors were so much closer back then, probably socializing often and helping each other in times of need, and very often neighbors were related to each other as well. >> Many times the neighbors were families that had traveled as a group many times, too...so very close. Marti