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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have only been on the list a few days and I think I know
why some people are dropping. Maybe they are new like me and haven’t
seen anything yet related to genealogy.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I will try to do a query and I hope someone out there can
help me. I am trying to find a death record for a child named Verna Marie
Hardwick. I think she died sometime between 1915 and 1919. She was
the child of Noah Hardwick and Versey Venus Howell. She was born </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sept. 11, 1914</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oregon</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, but I don’t
know where. I also would like to have an actual record of her birth as
this date was given to me by a volunteer at the Blue Mountain Genealogical
Society and she didn’t tell me where she got it.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This child is a total mystery in my family. The legend
was that she was drowned in the </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Columbia river</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> by her
father who had gone berserk. I don’t think I believe this story
because I have found Noah Hardwick in the 1920 census or maybe it was the 1930
living with a new wife and 2 children. He had a brother named Jesse that
seems to have dropped off the planet about 1919. I found him living (Jesse,
that is) in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Portland</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in the City Directory of
1918. He was living with his brother’s wife at the time. Does
anyone have access to early obituaries in </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Portland</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I know this is more than one query, sorry. I am just
very frustrated over this as I really want to know the truth.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dale in California</span></font></p>
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