This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: TKachermeyer Surnames: Joseph Kachermeyer Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.chautauqua/12767.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear ddlhorst, We have been searching for you for a long time. I am so excited to find you. I am so sorry to hear that Donna and Joseph's children were placed in an orphanage after she died. I have done a lot of research on trying to find out what happened to Joseph. It will remain an unsolved mystery, I believe. I do know that after Donna died, from Tuberculosis, he moved south to either Virginia or West Virgina and re-married. Had 3 more children, Eugene, Ruby and Thelma, Eugene was my husband's father. (Joseph was his Grandfather that he never knew). Joseph just "disappeared" when Eugene was a child. His second wife eventually had him declared legally dead. The 3 children never knew what happened to their father either. We must share information, get together, and meet. There are a bunch of cousins out here that would like to meet you. Are you Clarence's child or Richard's? I think that the saddest information that I found, (besides finding out that your dad was raised in an orphanage) was that Eugene never knew that he had two "brother's". And also that fact that they all served in WWII. He would have loved to have met them. He died in 1994. Your father and uncle died in 1977, I believe. I would be most happy to share what information I have. I just haven't had time to post it on ancestry yet. Please contact me. Looking forward to hearing from you. TKachermeyer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.