Yes, Frank D. Layman, the son of Charles and Philena (Roe) Layman, was born in 1872. Charles, Philena and Frank are buried in South Jewett's Maplewood Cemetery. Either the transcriber made a mistake or the misspelled surname, Laymon, appears on their gravestone. Jim Planck, the writer of that recent Daily Mail article, gave Frank's age as 25 because that was how it was reported in newspapers at the time of his death. > I have Frank D. Layman born Dec 1872 in both the 1880 and 1900 census, in > Hunter, son of Charles b.1846 and Philena b.1845, also from Hunter. Is he the > one mentioned in the story? He would have been 27, not 25, at his death if > it's the same Frank.