I don't know if it helps your search to know that Pioneer Square is not a city, but a neighborhood in Seattle. In 1972 it was a downtrodden area, the original Skid Row (now gentrified). I don't know of a town in Washington called International, but there is an International District in Seattle, the home to many Asian immigrants for more than a century. The rents then would have been cheap. If that's what the town of Independence means, and if either is the last address you have for Frank, it implies he may have been down on his luck when he died. That's only a theory, of course, as some people of means lived there too, but there were cheap boarding houses in both neighborhoods. Picturesque areas even then in Seattle, tourist destinations in daylight, and now with nightlife too. I hope you find that living descendant, who can tell you his circumstances at the time of his death. Doris Waggoner Seattle -- tyler952001@yahoo.com wrote: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swartwout Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4020 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Frank Swartwout. He was born in 1906 and died in 1972. His last addresses were in the towns of International, Pioneer Square and Seattle. He was born in Arkansas and had a brother named William. I can't find William after 1919. Their parents were both dead by 1911. William registers for the draft in WWI in 1919 in Arkansas but lists his residence as El Paso Texas and states his profession as a "Showman" for "United Campbell Shows". He disappears after that. All I know about Frank other than he died in Washington is that his social security number was issued in Montana. I am looking for a living descendant. ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx