This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Conatser Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACE/951 Message Board Post: There is a story in my family that one of our ancestors named John Elliott Conatser settled in Washington. The story says that he donated the land where the city of Walla Walla was built. He supposidly died in 1901 and lawyers had to track down his hiers to give them their inheritence. Has any one heard of this man in connection with the land that Walla Walla is built on? And am curious if he is shown on the census for 1900 for Walla Walla County. Thank you