This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper, Ghormley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kgDBAEB/762.2 Message Board Post: After completing my previous Post, I located an Oregon death record for a Charles C. ROPER who died in Wheeler County, Oregon, on 04 Jul 1919. His death certificate is shown to have number "6". It would appear that Nancy Clara Ghormley ROPER returned to her home in NC to give birth to Lyman ROPER, but that Charles C. ROPER diedn't actually die until near the end of the decade. You might be able to ascertain further details of his death by obtaining the death certificate or looking for a contemporaneous obituary in Oregon or North Carolina.