This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QRB.2ACI/2161.1.2 Message Board Post: Arline, Thank you so much for the information. Some of what you wrote, I had just recently found. Other parts were totally new to me. I can't tell you how I appreciate your kindness. I was surprised that see Francis Ray Dean finally married. Wonder if they had children? He died about 15 years after marrying. My grandfather, Fay Allen Dean was the son of Guy Rodman Dean and Sarah May Allen. Sarah May was Guy's second wife. Sarah died after the birth of her second son, Ray Rodman Dean. My grandfather and his baby brother were put in an orphange in Denver, Colorado. Baby Ray Rodman Dean died in the orphanage a few months later but my grandfather was adopted and his name changed to Ray A. Sleater. Grandpa never knew he had a half brother. In fact, it was only a couple of months ago that I found out Guy R. Dean had a previous marriage. I can't tell you what a laugh I got when I found out that all three boys ended up with the name Ray - Francis Ray, Ray A. (adopted name) and Ray Rodman. Now what are the chances of that happening to all three sons of one man? Have no idea what made the adopted parents name my grandfather Ray. I am hoping to find out the death date of Lillie and her place of burial. I have the death date of Francis Ray Dean but am still trying to get his obit and place of burial. Not easy in California with some of the laws that have recently been passed there. Again, thank you so much for your help. Dee