Hello everyone - Remember- I sent you the letter about George Washington PAYNE and how I was able to find him thru the hospital records in St Louis, Missouri - I thought perhaps if I told you what I know of him, one of you may know of the family - I know very little about George - I have his birth, death and marriage to Rosa Burnett- I know that Rosa and George had 3 children - 1. Nettie 1885 [she changed her birth date so often to stay younger- but that is the correct year!] 2. Lester 1888 3. Theresa b 1890- our line I know that Lester's high chair fell into the fire place while Rosa was down the hill getting a bucket of water- when she came back he was laying in the fire, with Nettie screaming - Lester lived for 2 days - this was before 1890 [he died before Theresa was born - we have no written proof about Lester's death - just family knowledge passed down-] I know that Theresa was born 1890 in Pike county, Indiana - I have lost them in the census after that - I know that Rosa left George abt 1900 and took Nettie with her, leaving the youngest child, Theresa who was abt 10 with her father George. [have always found that odd - don't you?] I know that Rosa married 2nd perhaps abt 1900? TO Albert PARISH and they lived in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan - Rosa died 1920 at Hillsdale, Michigan where she is buried. I know that Theresa at age 12 didn't want to live with her father any more, and asked the police how she could be taken from him - they told her to go stand on a corner after curfew and they [police?] would pick her up - Theresa went home put all of her belongings in a pillow case and went with a girl friend and stood on a corner until she was picked up.. She was taken to a Industrial School for Girls [don't know the complete name of it or where it was] Theresa lived at the home until she was 16 when she went to live with a family by the name of STRONG in Strongville, Ohio. We have pictures of Nettie and her mother - we only have a couple of pictures of Theresa and her mother - Theresa married 14 March 1908 TO George HAYNES at Strongville, Cuyahoga, Ohio- I have a picture of the whole family, Rosa, her 2nd husband Albert PARISH, Nettie and her two children - Theresa, her husband George HAYNES and their two children , Ernie and Maxine- they were all standing by George and Theresa's 'new' 1920 car-- this was just before Theresa, George and their 2 children Ernest Asa age 10 and Maxine Louise HAYNES age 2 left for California and the anticipated smell of the orange blossoms- this was in 1920 - Rosa died 2 months after Theresa and family were in California - Theresa couldn't go back to Michigan for her mothers funeral- which bothered her all the rest of her life. Nettie soon moved to California - she and her younger sister Theresa were close - and enjoyed each other's company - Aunt Nettie was like "Auntie Mame" life was exciting every time we were around her... always something new was happening. The next 'I' know of George is when he was 78 years old and visiting his daughter Theresa in Laguna Beach, California - He got angry at something - so the family story goes - he got on a train and left for his home - [I don't know where that was] He became ill on the train and was removed to the hospital in St Louis, Missouri - and you know 'the rest of the story' from the letter I posted 2 days ago- I have some pictures from Aunt Netties' shoe box - of families - who I don't know other than "The Kelly's - aunt and uncle and cousins on Papa's side" Papa was George Washington PAYNE- or Papa's cousins on another picture - Thanks for listening - Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com