Kenn, If you haven't already received an offer of help on the request you posted on the PS Roots Mailing List, I would be happy to see what I can find for you on Father Allain. I live within an hour's driving distance of St. Martin's (in fact, my sister received her masters degree from St. Martin's College, which is on the same site as the Abbey), and can get you pictures of the tombstone, if they allow public access to the cemetery at the Abbey. I can check that out, and also check if they might have any information on him in their library. Do you have a copy of his obituary? I can easily get that from microfilm of the Tacoma newspapers. Can also get the census information. Do you know where he was between 1909 and 1929? You mentioned that he died in Oregon but was residing in Tacoma. Have you already checked any sources in Washington (so I don't duplicate things you have already done)? Not that it matters, but I'm curious whether you are researching this as an archivist for that area of NB, or as a personal genealogical project. It's an interesting story, and since I've not done any research in Catholic records, it will be a new experience for me. I may not be able to provide quick results, since I work full-time and am also president of our genealogical society (which takes up much more time than I was lead to believe), but I will work away at it. Colleen Rockwell Coanrock@aol.com