Thanks, Mona, for the great obituaries! I always keep my eyes peeled for Sussex & Morris County Obits. You are doing such a great service! My Grandfather, Cornelius Hamler, had "mystery children" by his first wife Hannah ("Annie") (Morgan) Hamler. She was deceased by the 1900 Census and when her child, Harry, died in 1888--information given me by a Rooter-- the newspaper article said that relatives feared for her life, so desperate was her grief. There is a family story that when the mother died, the remaining children went to live with relatives in Pennsylvania. I have no other names but the deceased Harry. And I am not too sure whose relatives the children went to live with, Cornelius's or Hannah's (Anna's). It seems like Cornelius spent some times in a New Jersey prison for a felony between the Census of 1880 and when he publically had his citizenship as a citizen of New Jersey restored to him in 1889. In the Census of 1900 (Sussex Co.), Cornelius was listed as "living alone, a widower." In 1902 he married my Grandmother Augusta ("Gussie") Carpenter who was from Morris County. My deceased father (John) Kenneth Hamler was born in 1908 Morris County. Five years later, the 63 year old Cornelius died in Newton, Sussex Co. Does anyone have any ideas about how to pursue these mysteries? Hannah Morgan was born in 1853 in NJ. Her parents were married in Somerset Co., NJ in 1850. Couldn't find her father Jacob Morgan at all by 1860. I am not sure about her mother, Sarah Reed Morgan; there was a Sarah Morgan in a New York Census who was born around the time that Sarah was born (1832) but her name is a common name. How do I make sense of this family??? How do I find my father's step-siblings in Pennsylvania? Where is Hannah buried? She is not buried next to her husband in Newton Cemetery. Many thanks, and thanks again for the person who found my Dad's step-brother Harry Hamler in an obituary, dying at the age of five. Just keep pouring on those obituaries! What a blessing! Kathleen