Kathy - Many thanks for posting all of this information! It was great! I was able to confirm information I already had, add new information on birth & death dates, and confirm as fact some theories I had. I found the articles on Etna Mae quite touching. It brought tears to my eyes. Also it is easy to forget in this day of antibiotics how pervasive and deadly diseases like pneumonia, whooping cough, and tuberculosis used to be. Some notes The W. R. Pattrick mentioned in the second article was the uncle and guardian of the two orphans Etna Mae and Shelton Lessley (Shelton is identified as May Lessley in the article). The children apparently lived with other family members as they grew up. In the 1900 census Shelton appears in the household of his uncle and aunt, Henderson and Mary Pattrick Burton and Etna Mae appears in the household of her uncle and aunt Francis and Addie Pattrick Tymony. I don't know who the Miss Bettie Burton mentioned in article three is, but it is a good guess that she is a relative. There were a few marriages between members of the Burton families and the Dawkins and Pattrick families. One article mentioned that Etna Mae was cared for a time by her mother's parents. These would have been Hezekiah E. and Mary Elizabeth Dawkins Pattrick. Mary died in 1893. It was not the first time that the Pattricks had cared for grandchildren who had lost their mother. Years earlier their daughter Annie Pattrick Lessly died shortly after giving birth to her sixth child. For a few years at least this child, Annie Lessly was reared by her Pattrick grandparents. I read with interest that William Augustus "Gus" Lessly died of "Bright's disease". Does anyone know what this is? The obit of Willam Augustus Lessly states that he was born on July 1, 1875. I have a birthdate of July 14th 1875. Thanks again for taking your time to post all of these items. They are much apprecitated! Carole