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/5BC.2ACE/984.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, JoAnn, for the informative site. I will check into the newspapers in Lowden, if any. All that was listed on Ancestry.com was that my great grandfather died in Hill, Walla Walla County, Washington. I have sent for his death certificate....hopefully that will have more details as to the actual town. My grandmother was left on the doorstep of the Sacred Heart Church in Calumet, Michigan (Upper Pennisula) in 1902. In 1902, having a baby out of wedlock was shameful. Upon my grandmother being placed at the church, her mother was sent to Arizona by her mother to live with a sibling. David D. Smith is the father of my grandmother whom we know to have died in Walla Walla, Washington per depositions given in the estate proceedings from 1953 when the natural mother died. David was a ticket agent for the railroad in Calumet as well as in Walla Walla, Washington per Census information. I would really like to have his obituary as we know so little about him other than the fact that he was my grandmother's natural father and that he worked for the railroad. But with the town name of Hill....not sure what paper it would be in.