This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gaze, Chase, Maynard, Hughes, Fose, Rosentreter, Zastrow, & Holland Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.niagara/915.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Just read your 2005 posting to this message board. I thought you might be gracious enough to give me some much needed help of locating my husband's grandfather's gravesite even though I'm sure you're very busy with your cataloging. I have managed to trace my husband's roots back to the 18th century in Stalham, Norfolk, England. We have verified from census records that his grandfather, John B. Gaze was born to John E. Gaze and Lillie May Oderkirk about 1889 in Ridgeway, Orleans County. But John B. Gaze no longer appears in the 1920 census, so we are unsure if he died or just moved out of the area. We were able to find all ten of John B.'s siblings as well as both of his parents buried in West Ridgeway Cemetery in Orleans County. But, as yet cannot find a gravestone for John B. Gaze, my husband's grandfather. Under the assumption that he may have lived close to the Barker area (where he was married to my husband's grandmother in 1911), we are thinking that his gravesite might possibly be somewhere in the Barker or Somerset area. Most of my ancestral research is done online since we live in Florida now. We are hoping to make a trip up to western NY this summer, but just don't know where to begin o! ur search for this missing "Gaze" gravestone. Have you come across any Gazes in your cataloging in Niagara County? We are already certain of only four Gaze interments that would be buried in Niagara County. If someone would take the time to do a lookup for John B. Gaze born about 1889, I would be forever grateful. Annette