Sandy; Got your DC transcription and the obit lookup is scheduled for the next run. Will let you know on that. Here is the DC transcription. San Diego 60-1136 James E. Skeen 3527 Orange Ave., San Diego Died: 4/7/1947, 8:32 pm, at home male, white, No SS#, married, retired machinist, age 76 years 3 months 7 days Spouse: Viola M. Skeen (age 67) Birth: 12/31/1870, Campoon County, Illinois FA: Rhuben R. Skeen, Illinois MO: Catherine Shryer, Illinois Cause: Chronic myocarditis, hypertension DR: H. F. Ludwig Mort: Lewis Colonial Mortuary Burial: 4/10/1947, Greenwood Cemetery Informant: Spouse In County: 20 years In State: 44 years Will let you know about the obit. Hope this helps. Donna At 09:45 PM 10/25/00 EDT, GENOBUF@aol.com wrote: >Hello - I don't know if you remember me or not but you were very helpful to >me with my Johnson side of the family. With your help I have been able to >locate almost all of my Johnson cousins. > >I just came across a family name by pure luck when checking the data base by >using the maiden name in the California death index and I cannot believe what >I found. I found a great great uncle of my husband's family that has been >lost for years. > >Would you have time to do an obituary for me in San Diego or know of anyone >who could and also a transcription of his death record? > >Name: James E. Skeen >DATE OF BIRTH: December 31, 1870 >Date of Death: April 7, 1947 >San Diego County, CA >Father's last name: Skeen >Mother's last name: Shryer > >This has to be my husband's grandmother's brother in which no one in the >family knew where he went. > >I don't remember if I told you or not but my father had been married before >he married my mother. It was noted that he had two children who died as >infants. I looked in the birth records and came up with a few names that I >would like to find out if the father's name was Hammond Andrew Johnson and >the mother's name was Stella Nancy Taylor. > >The children would have died either as an infant or before 1940 when he >married my mother. > >Beverley Mae Johnson born 3/25/1933 >Shirley Ann Johnson born 7/28/1934 >Emma Jean Johnson born 8/13/1936 >Viola Mae Johnson born 5/28/1936 >Patricia Johnson born 6/30/1938 >Marilyn Lee Johnson born 10/10/1937 >Chleo Bernard Johnson born 6/18/1934 >John Roy Johnson born 5/15/1935 >Newell Whitney Johnson born 5/27/1937 >Thorval John Johnson born 6/27/1937 >Ray Edward Johnson born 6/9/1938 >Donald Herbert Johnson born 1/17/1939 >Pierce Johnson born 11/26/1939 >Richard Alva Johnson born 10/10/1939 >Roy Benjamin Johnson born 3/24/1939 > >My mother doesn't remember if they were boys or girls but for some reason she >remembers that they might have both been girls. > >Isn't it amazing what you can find in your family.... > >I have asked for a lot of information, let me know what it would cost to >reimburse you. > >Sandy Boyse >Kansas City, MO > >