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Today I spent quite a bit of time working on genealogy. I started out thinking I would just try to clear off my desk by getting my family files that I have been working on put together. As I started to do that I wanted to finish up the Google search I had been doing about the Oregon State Hospital. There have been quite a few articles written by the newspapers in Portland about the hospital. I finished the searches and then read more thoroughly the obituary of Emmett's brother, William. The obit says that he had a sister living in Washington by the name of "Side Ingrham". I knew that the 1870 census listed an "Eliza Waterman" and that after Robert Waterman, Eliza's mother, Frannie Elizabeth had married a Jacob Ingraham...wondered if the census taker had just thought Eliza was "side" and she had never married and just been known as an Ingraham...or even adopted.

That sent me searching for Eliza Waterman and/or Eliza Ingraham. I was pretty excited to find a marriage record for Eliza's daughter, Grace. Surprisingly Eliza also married an Ingraham - a Joseph Ingraham! And another interesting thing was that they all lived in a town just a very few miles (like 3-4) from the town my mother was born in! And, further searches netted the family in the census records too. I am pretty excited about that. Tomorrow I will try to do a few other searches but I'm becoming quite certain that the Emmet Bainbridge at the state hospital is indeed Rich's great-grandfather.