My gr grandmother ran a railroad boarding house in the 1900-1915 era...When I check the census in that time I get 4 or 5 unrelated men in the household....Railroad or construction boarding houses were very common in this time... I do not know for a fact what they were doing, but that is the time period when the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad was built. Carolyn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp