Hello All, I've been searching for years for the roots of this man, John Wesley Conroy, my mother-in-law's grandfather. There's some mystery surrounding his death which we've decided was sometime between 1900-1910 (re: 1910 census which showed his wife as widowed and head of the household). Here's what we know: JWC was b. 1847 (TN or RI as shown in some census') and d. in Crystal Springs, married Amelia Mangin b. 1850 LA and d. May 1910 Hazelhurst., in Oct 1882 in Crystal Springs. JWC rptdly came to America on the ship "Spirit of St. Mary", owned by his father. His parents returned to Liverpool, and JWC stayed behind in medical school in Providence RI (perhaps Brown Univ?) His parents then left Liverpool to return to the states but they never made it. No knowledge of when or what happened. JWC received a U.S. patent on a new washing machine design in July 1873. I found him in Terry MS then. A traditional phrase my mother-in-law remembers hearing often while growing up is: "Miss Amelia was just never the same after they came and took the old doc away." Perhaps when family said this they were just describing her grief when he died but my m-in-law has always felt that it was something more. Hoping one of you has a similar story in their family, Ronda Walker drwalk@multipro.com