Hello, I found an adoption record in a Land record by accident that I had no knowlege ever having been in my family. I was checking land my granmother had gotten from when her first spouce had died as to what happened to the Land. They had two sons, Wesley and James. James was killed in early 20's by falling down a log floom out of Toledo , Wa. His death also was in the Land record. It seems that My grma's Parents, the John H Pumphrey and wife Martha had adopted him after Grnma had mar Paden Baldwin. The Wesley went to live with a uncle, bro of John H P's name Francis ( Frank) Pumphrey. I assume that these two boys and their new stepo father couldn't see eye to eye. Anyway Thew gran fa John I think ( memory) had died. Granma Martha wanted the 1/3 interest Jame had in the property from his dead father they had been living on. By now Mom, Sarah had abt 7 other children. The court ordered the property sold to pay the Granmother ( adopted mom) the 1/3 belonging to now dead adopted son ( birth granson). The Parents, Sarah Jane Pumphrey Smith and Paden Baldwin with 7 ch found another place to move so moved out so they wouldn't be left without shelter etc when they would have been booted out of their long lived in home. I asked for the film on the land and found all the papers etc ref. to the adoption etc and copied them. I asked the clerk for a copy when I took the film back and she gaveme a paper to fill out and called the Judge in to sign it as all parties were dedeased by late 1900's . They had not known that I already had a copy but went to look for them and gave me another copy. So my advice is go check land records on birth parents ( if you have names) and the adoptive parents and maybe you will get lucky. Also check other Court records as any Divorces, marriages, etc. -----Original Message----- From: allgilmore@adelphia.net <allgilmore@adelphia.net> To: WASPOKAN-L@rootsweb.com <WASPOKAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: [WASPOKANE] Re: Washington Home (for children) >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/3BC.2ACE/1618.2.2.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Dear Christine: >I'm not really up on WA., State adoption laws, but yes, it is entirely possible an adoption could have taken place out of Washington Home. As some advice I got from a young woman who works for them now was going to suggest how I could find out about an adoption process. >However I already know about my father's situation and he was not adopted from the Home, he (and his brother) was brought back to Pend Oreille Co., by his own father, who when he could not care for him placed him into foster care and those people became the adopted grandparents I knew. We already have those papers, as my adopted Grandmother never let them get lost. There was never any secret about the process in our family, the legal adoption happened in 1918 and my father was old enough to know what was going on. And even concurred in the process. He raised us his legal adopted surname, but always kept us aware of his birth family who kept in touch with us and still do. Of course my Dad and his siblings are now deceased, but cousins, etc., are still in touch. >Wish I could help further, >Mary Gilmore > > > >==== WASPOKAN Mailing List ==== >Spokane County Message Boards >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.s tates.washington.counties.spokane&maxrows=25&dir=next > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >