Dear List, I just joined and was happy to see an active historian with my first e-mails? For starters I would like to ask if Orcus Island is located in or near Pierce Co. for how far away it is from Tacoma. My Washington map is not that great. My great great aunt Beulah Betsy (MELVIN) LOCKWOOD with her husband, TIMOTHY LOCKWOOD from Oregon to Tacoma sometime about 1880/90. I understand that her mother, ELIZA (WISNER) (MELVIN) PITT was with her and died in Tacoma. Her brother, my great grandfather, MILAN MORREL MELVIN was up in the San Juan Islands, Orchus (excuse spelling) to be near them where he had a heart attack and died in 1894. I wonder if there are any good websites that I could visit to start looking for these deaths. I visited the Pierce Co. website, but did not find any type of search engine. Would appreciate any direction one could give me to try to locate information on this family. Please reply to the list as this e-mail name cannot accept e-mails. Thank you, Phoebe in CA