Hi, List, and especially Cathy DiPietro, THANK YOU so much for the recent postings on SMITH and SICKLES/SICKELS. Cathy, you may not have realized it at the time, but your posting on Thursday about Robert "QUAYLE" (actually QUAIL) also connects to SMITH and SICKLES. Robert QUAIL was my great-grandfather. His wife was Lydia Jane SICKLES, and her mother was Elizabeth SMITH. The information you found about his being a member of the Brotherhood of Trainmen gives me his occupation, and the one thousand dollars explains, finally, how my great-grandmother, a widow with six children (one under a year in age) could afford to buy a lot from the Musconetcong Iron Works in Sept. of 1892 and then have a house built on it. This was always a mystery to me, and now I know! I really appreciate everyone's hard work and sharing on this list. Shirley in Ohio, but from NJ