Hello everyone, I and new to your list and would greatly appreciate any help you can give me and my family. I will give you all of the details I have right now. We are so desperate to find something on grandfather - it is as if he has vanished into thin air and never existed - except I know he did - I have a marriage certificate and birth certificate to prove it! I am looking for death/burial location of Gaither A. Moses or any information leading to his grave site. Also would like to find any living relatives because they could help me find Grandfather Gaither's grave. Pertinent details are: * Gaither A. Moses, born about 1890 in Burke County, NC Our family does NOT know what the "A" - middle initial stands for. * Parents: David Moses and Francis Helms Moses(Surname also has been listed as MOSSES) married January 17, 1877 in Burke County, NC * Believed to have three sisters, Lola and Ruth Moses and Moice J. Mosses * Had a brother named Joe Moses living in Gastonia, NC * Has a daughter named Cansadie (not sure of spelling) and also had twins * Lived in the High Shoals or SOUTHSIDE area, NC in a house next to his father's house for about eight or nine years around 1928 when he was separated from his first wife * Married Mary Lee Moses Nov. 12, 1935 Lincoln County, Lincolnton NC * They separated a few months later (Gaither never knew that grandmother was pregnant with my father - so his new family would be unaware of that they have other family out here) * Believed to have relocated to Bessemer City or Kings Mtn. NC around 1936 and is said to have remarried. He was said to have worked in Shelby, NC in a cotton mill (name unknown) about 1937-40 * Was said to have been very good friends with a Bess and Bynum Cook of Bessemer City, NC and possibly lived with them for awhile. Bess Cook supposedly had one son who took his own life and another son named Gettis (perhaps spelled Gaddis?) and she had a daughter who married, divorced, then remarried a man named June Cook (Bynum Cook's brother) * Was also said to have lived in Tennessee (area ??) at one time and had relatives in upstate SC (possibly in Simpsonville or Abbeville). His sister Lola Moses owned a farm in South Carolina. PLEASE - if you can find ANY information on any of the above Moses family, PLEASE - PLEASE e-mail Cmcamidge@aol.com And just so I don't waste anyone's time), I have already tried * Soc.Sec.Death Index * Online Vital Records * WD FLOYD cemetery site * Ancestry.com (not member/ also as member) * GenForum.com * KnowX.com - paid search * Have written Soc.Sec. * Have written Bureau of Census * Have searched RootsWeb * Have been to Register of Deeds various counties * Have been to libraries * Some have searched FTM CD's for me * Written NC & SC Vital Records and Archives - they have no record of his death but say it is entirely possible "fell through the cracks" and did not get reported at the state level like it should have - perhaps he died in hosp/nursing home w/no relatives (I hope not! I hope someone was there!) I ALREADY FOUND: GAITHER, Moses - died Monroe, NC THIS ONE IS NOT MY GRANDFATHER I ALREADY FOUND: MOSES, JR., Clyde Gaither - HAVE ALREADY CHECKED THIS ONE - NOT MY GRANDFATHER! I've been to several suspected county register of deeds offices and libraries. I really hope you can help me. Kindest regards and... respectfully submitted..Carolyn Moses Camidge