Hi Rosemary in MT who asked about Samuel Cox, blacksmith & Fam.: (My wife of 47 yrs is Rose Marie, a French spelling of your name !). There was no more mention of Samuel Cox, the blacksmith as I quoted in that portion of the book, so I went to the Index of Biographical Sketches in both Skagit and Snohomish Co.s- On pp. 921-922 there is a Biog Sk. for William Columbus Cox, M.D. of Everett, WA 1891. Born Sept 20, 1858 Flinty Branch, Mitchell Co. North Carolina (QUOTED AS FOLLOWS): . . . The eldest son and second child of Samuel W. and Cynthia (Blalock) Cox. The Cox family is of English dnd German lineage but of old American colonial stock. The father of Dr. Cox was born in North Carolina also. he was a farmer by occupation and in the year 1873 left the Atlantic to seek a home in the far west. He arrived that year in Walla Walla, Washington, and after spending twenty years as a pioneer of this state passed away in 1893 at the age of sixty-six, having been born August 2, 1827. His wife was also a native of Mitchell county, North Carolina, born December 31, 1837, the daughter of a Southern farmer and planter. The belonged to an old American family, and was of German and English descent. END OF QUOTED LINES. There is much more about this fam. so let me know if this is of interest to you, Rosemary. On p. 696 is a George Cox, Supt. of Sedro Woolley Ice Company plant; b. Port Huron, Michigan, in 1850 son of James A. Cox, a vessel owner on the Great Lakes. If any of this is of interest to your endeavor, let me know. If you have any more info. on the info you seek, you might let me know that. I have a friend out at Machias, who might be able to direct me to a local source of Machias history that I don't have immediate access to. Playing clues is one of the tools of this addiction ! Carroll in greater, or lesser, Snohomish * * * No Snow in Snohomish * * * , yet !!! ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]