Oh, Chris, I don't know whether to laugh or cry! I spent so much time researching what you just posted, I want to cry that I could have just looked in the internet white pages phone book for a Charles Haeska, but then it makes me laugh, too, that all it takes is a post on a message board. I am also laughing because Haeska was such a tough name for me to spell when I first ran across it, and now it just rolls off my fingertips onto the keyboard. :)

Somebody in your family has been doing/had done genealogy, because the Brown Co Kentucky came from his headstone. I remember being quite pleased with myself for finding it, and considered it quite a coup. :) It lead me to more information the Manns in Brown Co Kentucky, but I haven't checked in a long time to see if anything else has popped up. We live in an amazing time for genealogy with more and more items being posted daily and available on the web.

I am pretty sure I have everything in your post except Dora's maiden name which was quite frustrating because it is pretty recent history. But let me get my UPS shipment for my Family Treemaker software and get the tree loaded before I commit.

Of the 4 children (Grace, Adolphus, Teresa and Mary) is there any more information on them? I followed them all - I think I found that Adolphus died as a teenager, and I get Teresa and Mary confused a bit without my notes, but was able to follow both of them, too, but just up to a point -- maybe 1910 or 1920? (going by memory). One married a Russian and they divorced, and one married a man who died shortly after the birth of their child, but then she remarried and he adopted the child. I think they ended up in Ft Dodge, Iowa. I would love to send the list of who they married and their kids to your dad to see if he agrees with what I found. Women are always tricky because of the change of name. I don't think I have their death dates, and it occurred to me that they may have remarried and died under a third name. (see what I mean by tricky?)

Of all the Mann children, George is my favorite because of the burden he had with those old maiden aunts and the little kids, losing his wife, and then his son. He had a tough go of it, and so did the kids, losing their mom and brother and all. I'd like to include photos in the book if at all possible as a way to honor him. His photo or that of his kids, I mean.

As an aside, Of Cyrenna Griffith's parents and family, I can find nothing! I looked and looked and looked and never found a cotton pickin' thing -- not even something that would be classed as a hunch, but was unprovable. It's like she sprouted among the corn in Indiana as a full grown woman. I can't find a burial for her in Marion or Hamilton Cos in Indiana, either. That could mean she died on the way west, or it could mean she was buried in a family plot burial area on a farm somewhere in Hamilton Co., Indiana.

Suzy