Hello everyone, The informant of my Great Grandmother Mary Etta [Tippett] Queen's death was was her husband, Sim M. Queen. His address is cited as what first appears to be a capital "L" followed by Etna, NC. The USGS Geographic Names Information System Query Results indicates that Etna is/was a Post Office located in Macon County (see below). Interestingly, it includes mention of Alarka. NOW, everything I've seen indicates that Alarka is in SWAIN County. The only Etna I am able to locate on a map appears to be in Macon County, BUT it is clearly closer to the Swain County line than it is to Franklin. Incidentally, I have also seen/heard it referred to as "Larky"... Until today, I had been unsuccessful in locating a copy of Sim's death certificate. Both Sim's and Mary Etta's death certificates are inexplicably missing from the Macon County Courthouse. The copy of Mary Etta's death certificate I that I received today came from the Division of Archives and History in Raleigh, but they couldn't locate Sim's. She died in 1941, and he died in 1944. What gives? Is it even REMOTELY possible that Sim's death was recorded in Swain County? Doubtful...? They're both buried in Macon County... ETNA, NORTH CAROLINA 1 Feature records have been selected from GNIS.* Feature Name: Etna Post Office Feature Type: post office Elevation: 1941 State: North Carolina County: Macon USGS 7.5' x 7.5' Map: Alarka Latitude: 351642N Longitude: 0832634W AND, I also obtained a copy of Martha Hickey Queen's death certificate from the same source. :) :) Apparently, she is buried in the Cowee Cemetery although I was unable to locate her grave last summer. Any help in the regard, too, would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Gayle Phillips Cantrell gpcantrell@home.com What's my line? "It is hard when looking at the pasts of other people to understand the fine points of their lives. It is difficult to know the exact shadings of dates which were never written down and to know the intricacies of events which we have not lived through ourselves but only viewed from the distances of time and space." No Great Mischief © 1999 by Alistair MacLeod, 1st American Edition 2000, W.W. Norton & Company Ltd.