Hi Mailing List As a new comer to your ranks I want to thank you for the warm welcome and for inviting me to introduce myself. This is a wonderful way to share information with others about one's ancestors right off. Mine were in the greater Puget Sound area (as you define it) early on. Although I've resided for the most part in Arizona for many years, I was born and raised in Lewis Co., WA. My parents were both born and raised there, as was my father's father, Edmund Fay, and my mother's mother, Edith (White) Joy. Edith's father, Cyrus White, was also born in the Boistfort valley, Cyrus being the first settler's child born there in 1853. His sister, Mary Alice (White) Maynard was born a few years later in the community's fort on the Buchanan donation land claim at the time of a rumored near Indian attack (it did not happen). My father's grandfather, Joel Henry Fay, came across the Oregon Trail from Illinois in the early 1860's. He, too, settled his family in the same general area, ! although along the Chehalis River near Adna, WA. I'm a member of Lewis County Chapter #9 of the State Association of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington by virtue of these and other Piuoneers of Washington State, including the family lines of George Washington Buchanan and George Wilson. I'm constantly finding out more about my ancestors and at the present time am finding that many other of great-great-grandfather George Wilson's people had come west than previously thought. Of course I'm determined to identify them all. Alexis George Wilson is buried in the Boistfort Cemetery beside his wife, Sarah Jane Harper Moore Wilson. Fortunately, being retired, I can and do spend some time in WA each summer. I will gladly share my ancestry information with anyone interested. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Mary L. (Fay) Donovan