This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Seagraves, Pittman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nNABAIB/2032.3047 Message Board Post: I was stationed in CA from 1976-1983: NAS Miramar, NAS Pt Mugu & NS Mare Island. 2 of my grandfather's (Benjamin Charles Phillips) son's moved to CA in the early 1950s. I have lost track of any descendants. James Arthur Phillips b 25 Nov 1902 Caddo OK d 22 Oct 1970, Burney CA. w Maddie Willie Belle Pittman. Ch: Sarah Maxine married Jim Warner & lives in CA now, Kenneth Wayne spent many years in the US Navy stationed in CA, Oleta never left OK. William Albert "Sampson" Phillips b 5 Oct 1907, Clarksville TX d 3 May 1966 Ontario CA. Wife Ollie Seagraves. Ch: Evon, Helen, Jean, Barbara, Vickie. Here's a funny story my cousin Kenneth told me. He was stationed in Oakland CA. He met a cute young thing who lived in Oakland. After a date or two, she invited him over to his apartment. She was showing him a picture album of his family, when Ken saw a familiar face. "Who's this" he asked the cute young thing. "Oh, that's my uncle Charley", she says. "Oh no", he says, that's my grandfather. Of all the millions of people in the San Franciso Bay area, he managed to find the granddaughter of his uncle.