Cris Murphy...............I feel your pain. lol Just when you think you are hitting pay dirt...........you don't. In spite of the obits in the World Herald with quite alot, well enough, to prove Williams relationship to my mother in-law, his only child, and after finding out the funeral home doesn't have older records, the cemetery tells me they have no record of his burial there, either. It even says that the committal was taken care of by someone from the Vets. Monica found him on the 1948 city directory in Omaha.......he would have been 81.......doubt he would have gone somewhere else after that. Today, I found this online: CHAP. 8883.-An Act Granting a pension to William C. Berghahn. [Pr¤v¤¤=. N¤- 2485-1 Be it enacted by t/ae Senate and House of Rqrresentatbves of the United mm,,, c_ Bm. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the ¤¤¤¤P-I Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the nsion roll, subjectto the provisions and limitations of the pension llnsws, the name of Wihiam C. Berghahn, late of Company D, Third Regiment Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, and pay him a pension at the rate of twelve dollars per month. Approved, June 6, 1906. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now this makes things more of a mystery. I found the family in Texas in 1870. His marr. cert. says he was born there and gives the parents names. They jive. But in the 1880 census in Ne, the family names jive except for Williams age. Not unusual. Would they give a pension to a 30 something? He and May were married in 1906. Then, he went on to work in the mines in Nevada for a short time. ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210