Hello; I am looking for a half ancestor Uncle. Name Wesley Smith. ( and other's), Mother was Sarah Jane Pumphrey who mar. in 1875 to a Peter Smith. They lived on a acreage out of Maybe Chehalis or Centralia or Little Falls. Peter died from a wagon loaded with grain accident from his farm in abt 1885. I found abt. 3 line piece in Chehalis newspaper in 1875. Wesley had a Brother, James who was killed from a fall down the Log Flume out of Toledo, I believe when he was abt. 24 yrs. old. James was adopted by his grandparents after his mother mar .to Paden Cox Baldwin abt 1886/7 in Chehalis Court House. They lived in Little Falls( Vader) Vader) Lewis Co. Wesley went to live with his Pumphrey ,grandfather's brother Francis ( FRANK) Pumphrey & family as he didn't like his grandmother.. After these boys Grandfather, John Hamilton Pumphrey died in 1900 I think, and the adopted grandson, James Smith died from the accident in the flume, abt 1900/01, . the wife ( of John H.) , Martha Morgan Pumphrey filed a court paper forcing her dau. Sarah Jane Pumphrey Smith Baldwin to sell her home she and sons, James and Wesly inherited from her 1st spouse, Peter Smith. Sarah Jane and 2nd spouse, Paden Cox Baldwin and 7 chi. by 2nd spouse, were then forced out of their home so her own , Mother , Martha,( of Sarah Jane), ( could get the share of money from the sale that was James who she adopted) , and her family had no home. Martha, who with Sarah's father , John H. Pumphrey had adopted the James Smith and Martha wanted the money. Martha then with the money made some kind of deal to live with her deceased spouse's brother's family. The Francis Pumphrey. family. It didn't last too long as Martha was not about to stand the noise of children etc. and she left and went to Winlock to live. It was not to her liking to live in the same house with her dau. Sarah & family so they could have a home that they had lived in since 1887. This happened in abt early 1900's of 1901/3. Sarah died of T B in about 1905/6 leaving 7 living ch plus the 1, Smith, Wesley, and 1 deceased baby born just before her death. . Her death date has not been found exactly. She was first bur. in the Pumphrey Family plot at the other brother , of John and Francis(Frank). (3rd. bro. name William Pumphrey).'s property in Olequa. Later, after William died and property was sold, all the graves were moved to various other cemeteries in Lewis and Cowlitz, counties in abt 1924. Some went to Little Falls Cem. out of Vader. Sarah has a concrete stone there with. " Sarah Jane Baldwin, mother of James Smith," only engraved on it. No vitals on it. I have repeatedly tried to find a death date. One dau., Sarah "Sadie" Baldwin Murray said she was but 6 yrs. old. and she b in 1999 . that would give the yr. abt. 1905. My father said he was 7 when she died., he b in 1898. another son was 3 yrs, being b in 1902 as 3 yrs. younger than Sarah was. and he was 3 when mother died. A more sad story about these 7 ch. left motherless came about after her death. Father Paden Cox Baldwin mar . in 1908 to abt 18 yr old Minnie Butler from Yelm , Wa in Thurston co.. Minnie gave in 1909, birth to another son, name unk.. and Minnie died after or during.. Left the baby boy making Paden with 8 ch. He gave the baby boy to Minnie's parents and they took him and moved back to Kansas where they had come from. Later in abt. 1935, I found he had married and come to Toledo looking for his other siblings and none was found in the area. He talked to and found a descend cousin on Baldwin side of RANT MULLINS. I talked with Rant in 1986 but he couldn't remember his first name but Baldwin was his last name. In abt. 1909/1910, Paden placed the 7 ch. in a place for children without a mother I was told boys went to maybe a place in Winlock or Chehalis and 2 girls went to St Marys out of Toledo. These girls were abt 14 and 8. One day the sisters there spanked Sarah ( Sadie) and Hazel the oldest didn't like the spanking and beat up on2 of the sisters and put one of them in a hospital. They after were moved to a Catholic home in Seattle. My father ended up on a wheat ranch in Lind Wa. and Robert ended up in Idaho.... In abt 1986 I found a cousin, living in an apt. in Winlock. dau of Earl Baldwin, and she told me she and her Ex spouse, last name Potter, used to pick up the Wesley Smith and give him rides into Vader and she said he was crippled in one leg. She said he never mar. till past 40 yrs. and mar . to a widow in Vader , her ch. were grown. She had not known that he was her own half Uncle and a half bro. to Earl her, own father. I am locking for anyone who is connected to any of these people. Sarah's sister Mary mar. to John Layton and also d. of Tb as well as her dau. Mary Layton. Another sister Martha b 1851 had moved there from ILL after the other's had,. and also d of TB. someone has that Martha d as a child but she did NOT as I found her mar and living in ILL to a Bland, who d. in a logging accident in Ore. where he had gone to work. They later moved to Lewis Co. Wa. I found and met a living descendant of Martha's She remar. after Bland's death.. If you know of or can find any info on these people I would greatly appreciate it. Maxine Wilton willma@sprynet.com .