Hello Rodney, I hope you were able to figure out what the Caroline was talking about and what message she was referring to? Yes I have Emailed you before. I think I helped you when you first or close to it, put message to contact relatives. I have been watching your progress but don't remember all of it. You have had quit some messages with others and am happy that you found relatives, school chums etc. I have only lived here since 1989 at Roy. I moved to Steilacoom in 1986 Jan out here in 1989. I used to live most of my life in Eastern ORE and Wash and in Okanogan Co above Wenatche. I lived abt 20 miles south of the Canadian Border which is 3 miles north of Oroville ,( as border crossing 3 miles north.) in the 1940's going to school. in Tonasket, Wa. Worked in apples, thinned, picked, sorted, packed, etc. I also lived in Charles City Iowa in Floyd Co in 1949/50/51 till May and left for Yakima, Wa and then to Hermiston ( Ordinance) in June 1951 where my then spouce Floyd Edward Brooks went to work at the Umatilla Ordinance Depot. When a state Rep bought the housing development for a PIG FARM we had to move to Hermiston abt to /8 miles away. I lived in Ketchikan, ( or rather existed) 1982 to 1985 and was glad to get out of the hell hole Rip Off Tourist Town run by the people and their decesndants of the WWW 2 days. My Gr Grandparents come to Lewis co after a younger bro had come in late 1850's. name of William Pumphrey. John Hamilton and another brother Francis "Frank' Pumphrey, came in abt 1880's from Ill and from Lewis Co Va , Weston , as their parents, Joseph Pumphrey lived with other ch still there. then. I have been researching so many surnames in my family that I have boxes of old fashioned way plus 5 times more E Mail way and more fun, that I am going to be sorting and putting in My Fam Com As soon as I can. I need lots more. Have a number of loop holes and some dead ends. Maybe I'll find these after doing the My Fam Co thing. Did you know of the Dentist named Lane in Morton?? he also was an Accountant and died in abt 1965.? His dentist tools are in the museum there. He also started the May days celebration they have there. I am told. Well a Lane descendant I met here in Tacoma and I found him for his only Dau. in abt 1992? From a message plea by his dau through her son. memory, ),when she became 80 yrs old. She lived in Fla. Mr Lane and he rmother divorced and he got custody of , the dau, abt 1917. He went to get her after the Court granted the divorce and gave her to the father, and the mother hide her in a wood shed as she was about 3 yrs old then, and sent him to relatives and after he left she was all ready packed etc. and she left Maine, for Fla. with her. She then told dau. he was killed in war. After her mother died at abt 90+ yrs, the dau was going through her mothers things and found a notebook where all this imfo was kept like a diary and she had kept up with where he went etc after he left maine when he couldn't find the dau. But all those yrs she never let her dau. know she still had a father and the terrible thing she did to the dau depriving her of a father. By E Mail from her son, we found hin in SSDI, then went to the City Directories, in Tacome, lost him in a 3 yr period and I thinking that he may have been missed kept checking and he had returned in the city directory of Tacoma. So then we checked by calling the Senior Center in Morton and asked questions etc.. and located people that knew him and of 2 ch of an adopted dau of her father's The Lane Dentist. He never found her. All those yrs. Her son took a week and brought his 79 yr old mother on plane to Tacoma and met the step grson of her father an they went to Morton pre arranged by us. They got a big welcome and she got pictures given to her and saw the museum and had a grand time except for getting to see her father. She went home with all her dreams filled as much as she could have after all these 80 yrs. We helped her celebrate her 80th birthday with her son at the OLive Garden in Tacoma for Dinner. We all cried and it was so rewarding to have been able to help this great granmother to have a dream fullfilled and go home a happy Gr mother. I will never forget it. Before they left for home our families and them had a big dinner at The then new,Country Kitchen in Lakewood as we could all pick what we wanted to eat.We took pictures also to remember our time. She was so delightfull. She was so upset with her mother and said never again will she put flowers or go to visit her mother's grave. I guess her mother never remarried . It was a terrible thing she had done to a child or even when she had asked about him to be lying all those years. Isn't this about one of the sadest and joyful storries you have ever heard, Rodney??? I thought since you were raised in Morton I would tell you about some of our experience of a lifetime. I would like to hear from someone in Lewis Co at Morton when this lady was there to find out about, her Father, ied The DENTIST, MR LANE who d I think it was abt 1965 there. Anyone Can contact me below. Maxine Baldwin Wilton mmwaw@sprynet.com -----Original Message----- From: Rdvsr@aol.com <Rdvsr@aol.com> To: mmwaw@sprynet.com <mmwaw@sprynet.com> Date: Friday, June 23, 2000 4:51 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Reply [Fwd: [VARUSSEL]William Vincent JESSEE] I may have told you before, that I was reared in Morton, Lewis Co, WA. My mother's ROBERTS family went there was W.V. in 1901. Nearly everyone in the area was from the same area in W.V., Ky, & VA. Most were related in some fashion. My uncle Lee GOHEEN (now dec'd) was from Roy WA. Fun to talk with those from "home". Are you on the Lewis Co web site also? Rodney Veitschegger "In the sea there are riches beyond compare... but if it's safety you seek, your place is on the shore."