This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CCC.2ACE/2273.2 Message Board Post: There was, and maybe still is, a "State Soldiers Home" in Orting, Washington. It was, or is, in Pierce County about 20 miles SSE of Puyallup. I know it was still in existance in 1926 when my great grandfather died there. I have also talked to people who indicated it was still operating as late as 1990.