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Remember Peggy Fogg who wrote me a few weeks ago asking for some help finding her mother's grave? Well, she's found it and several readers stepped up to help her.

Peggy is 65, and she had her mother's name, Jeannette (Fisher) Curtis, and her date of death, March 10, 1955, at Sturdy Memorial Hospital.

"I live in Maine and I really want to find mother's grave so I can visit and put some flowers on it.," she e-mailed me.

I looked in our files and came up empty. Then I asked you for help.

Betty Fuller called and said she believed she knew where Mom was buried. Marian Wrightington, chairwoman of the Attleboro Historical Commission, wrote to say she believed Peggy's mother was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Medway, and that she had lived the last 18 years of her life in Arnold Mills.

Also enthusiastic about the hunt was Gil Bagley of Plainville, who was sure he had located the grave and had other information about Peggy's mother.

Gil is an amateur geneologist, and he said he would make Peggy's dilemma an on-going project. "I just wish to make this lady's dream come true," he wrote me.

But life takes its own turns. Here's Peggy's story in her own words, in an e-mail to Gil and I:

"I can't thank both of you enough for your efforts on my behalf. I had also inquired of the Woonsocket Call, Pawtucket Times and Providence Journal. You're the only one who acknowledged my request. Thanks for giving a damn.

"As it happens, recently my husband Randy had a stroke of luck and found my long lost cousin William. D. Creighton on a Web site he had posted five years ago looking for relatives!

"We corresponded and he confirmed that my mom is, indeed, buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Medway, along with her mother, Maybelle Creighton Fisher, my great-grandparents William D. and Mary McKim Creighton, and several assorted relatives, in the Creighton family plot.

"The reason I couldn't find it is that, until 18 years ago, the stone only said Creighton. My cousin had all the information from his great aunt Marguerite Creighton Keefe, and had the names engraved at that time.

"He feels that there are probably other relatives there as well, as the plot is large enough for 16. The cemetery lost the records years ago.

"He also located my great grandparents Oliver and Emma Fisher in Oak Lawn Cemetery in Bellingham, and thinks my granddad is probably there as well. "My dad is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Ellsworth, Maine, and his parents, William A. and Eva Metcalf Curtis, are in the cemetery in Arnold Mills next to the Methodist Church.

"I grew up in Arnold Mills village. My granddad's parents were Joseph and Lavina Cook Curtis. I don't know where they are, but surely in the Bellingham, Franklin, Woonsocket, Cumberland or Smithfield area.

"I have Lavina's obituary, but mostly all it describes is what kind of flowers they had!"

"Again, thanks a million for caring. I plan to visit Massachusetts before winter and see the graves. It's good to get closure after years of wondering."

Nice job, folks.

See you next week.

ORESTE P. D'ARCONTE is publisher of The Sun Chronicle. Reach him at 508.236.0394 or at darconte@thesunchronicle.com.

Thanks for the papers

"Went to visit my brother Ronald and my grandchildren Michael, Angela and T.J. in upstate New York and brought back a couple of local papers," writes Mike Warenda.

"Took a four-day mini-vacation to Quebec," write Paul and Lorraine Taylor of Attleboro across the front page of a copy of The Globe and Mail. "Great weather, friendly people, wonderful food and the Frontenac was reasonable and hard to beat. Lots of contruction going on, streets, buildings, etc, as the city gets ready for its 400th birthday next year."

My daughter and I were in Tucson, Ariz., in August and went sight-seeing," writes Bub McKillop of Taunton. "We found out there is a real 'Tombstone.' Thought you might be interested in seeing what The Sun Chronicle might look like over there." He sent along a copy of The Tombstone Sentinel.

Thanks for the cuddlers

Thanks to the person who dropped off two bears anonymously, and to another person that dropped off seven bears, also anonymously. That brings our bear total to date to 5,045.

The bears, new please, go to Bears on Board, a program of the Greater Attleboro Area Council for Children.

They are given to local police officers, firefighters and ambulance drivers to give to children in crises.

See you next week.

ORESTE P. D'ARCONTE is publisher of The Sun Chronicle. Reach him at 508.236.0394 or at darconte@thesunchronicle.com.

See you next week

Fahrenheit 451

"When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in Peril." - Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States, 1950.

The Big Read/Attleboro's 1 ABC project, has selected "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury as this year's book for the comunity to read and discuss.

See you next week.

ORESTE P. D'ARCONTE is publisher of The Silver City Bulletin and The Sun Chronicle. Reach him at 508.236.0394 or at darconte@thesunchronicle.com.

Thanks for the papers