Wendy--since writing you on Saturday, I too (along with Ellen) was thinking that in addition to checking Wood National Cemetery burials (which apparently do not include Daniel Boyle), you should contact the adjoining historic old Soldiers Home of Milwaukee (also formerly NW Home DVS ), now known as Zablocki VA Center. Their records might well show that your guy Daniel died there in, say, 1905-- but was perhaps buried with his wife Margaret (who reportedly predeceased him), elsewhere in Wisconsin-- maybe Marquette Co.? For what this is worth, my understanding is that the old Soldiers Home, first opened just after the Civil War, is situated (very attractively) on an very erosion resistant outcropping of a tropical, 440 million year old Silurian reef. It would seem fortunate that your Daniel Boyle, a naturalized widower, is clearly listed in the 1900 census at the old Soldiers Home-- revealing a birth date of Aug 1835 (age 64) in Ireland + an immigration date of 1860. (Maybe he's "absent" when the census taker arrived because he was getting his beard trimmed.) Presumably all this census data ties in fine with other info you have on him. Veterans Affairs Dept. of the U.S. Government-- Zablocki VA Medical Center 5000 W. National Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295 (414-384-2000) http://www.visn12.med.va.gov/Milwaukee/ http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/hp/register/viewSummary.asp?refnum=94000667 http://www.soldiershome.org/history/default.htm More from me offline when Christmas activities become less hectic. Also I wonder whether you are aware of the following from some 5th graders at Little Chute, Outagamie, WI ...............John (in metro Chicago) ______________________________________________________________________________ ___________ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=littlechute&id=I719 01 [also: http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=littlechute&id=I71901] The information in this file was gathered over several years by students at St. John Nepomucene School, Little Chute, Wisconsin as part of a class project to study their ancestors and how they are related to one another. ID: I71901 Name: Daniel Boyle Sex: M Birth: 1835 in Ireland Marriage 1 Margaret White b: 1810 in Massachusetts Children: Theresa Boyle b: OCT 11 1870 in Briggsville, WI [Tressie?] Anna Boyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------- ID: I71900 Name: Theresa Boyle Sex: F Birth: OCT 11 1870 in Briggsville, Wisconsin Death: JUL 21 1931 Burial: St Joseph Cemetery, Phlox, Wisconsin Father: Daniel Boyle b: 1835 in Ireland Mother: Margaret White b: 1810 in Massachusetts Marriage 1 Henry Eggink b: DEC 25 1874 in Little Chute, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin * Married: MAY 09 1900 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin Children 1. Joseph William Eggink b: JAN 24 1901 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin 2. Margaret J Eggink b: FEB 13 1903 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin 3. Mary Leona Eggink b: FEB 08 1906 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin 4. Edward Henry Eggink b: DEC 17 1907 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin 5. Living Eggink 6. Clara Imelda Eggink b: DEC 19 1910 in Phlox, Langlade Co, Wisconsin ______________________________________________________________________________ ___________