Hello Everyone! I know how we all hate to recheck for records but some times one really needs to do that very thing! In May 2003 I was in touch with a FOX family who had connections to the location where I live. I told them I would see if I could help find the records for them as we think there is a connection to my FOX line. I have been everywhere and made numerous telephone calls. We found some things but then it came to a stand still. I was told there was no death record, no church record, no cemetery record of the burial. Only the grave stones. Yesterday I went to the cemetery and walked until I found the grave stones. Church had burned and all records gone a long time ago so it was walk and walk until we nearly gave up. Then there they were..in the far corner by the fence. Now I had the proof they are really there on a double stone. A son is buried next to them but old cemetery book says he is son of another FOX. We know better from his probate, as it lists his siblings. Two daughters are near with husbands. I came home and called my friend who has been working on more records all winter. This time he had added the Veterans Records of our William to his list. He could give me the entire date of birth and death June 4 1923. We only have yrs on stone. He had cause of death and next of kin who we know is a daughter. The wife was on a CD he had been loaned by the Archives for his work this winter! I had checked with him twice before in past two years and he had nothing. Not until this winter when he was loaned material to type up and worked with the "new" data from the Columbus Veterans Registration. (I had sent for Williams Civil War records and they sent me the wrong file in Jan.) I went back to the online Ohio Death Index which I had checked time and time again for his death record. This time it was there! Remember they are adding to online data bases all the time on these sites. They have his name spelled Willian But we know this is William. Now we have a certificate number and date of death. I will now go to the Health department which I have called several times and see if they can find the record with the number. I have always been told they dont have it. If not we will send to Columbus for the record. Then I will search the newspaper microfilms and see if we can locate anything about them. She was drowned so there should be at least a line or two mentioning that fact and that she left a husband and seven children behind, the youngest being only a few months old. I know these people got tired of my calls and inquiries but I knew there had to be something in the records some where. I was determined not to quit! Now its finally paying off! Sue Ellen "Life is what happens while you are making other plans"