Hello list, I have very little to go on for this : My Cousin ,Joe Hemler ,said to have been a fairly well known rodeo rider in the southwest,was said to have died in a plane crash "somewhere " over New Mexico before 1950. >From what I have been able to find -Joe was probably born 1925-1930 the adopted son of Thomas"Ben"Hemler and my aunt Claire Grant/Hemler(rumor has it that he was "Ben's"brother's son.Claire Grant/Hemler died in 1937 & is buried at Cottonwood Arizona( am waiting for a snail mail letter to return from there)No word on where Ben ever disappeared to after Joe died. Some say Joe had a wife and 1 or 2 kids,but again no one in my family is sure of that.Joe was never in the military because of an injury (being dragged threw a branding fire by a cow/steer on a local ranch--don't know the name of the ranch)Is there an address of a New Mexico state Genealogy/Historical Society out there that I should/could write too? Thank-you for taking the time to read this. Regards- Claire Marie Grant Sioux Falls South Dakota __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/