The first step was my father, LeRoy Oviatt

My father, LeRoy Ellsworth (Roy) Oviatt was born to Charles LeRoy (Ray) Oviatt and Ruth Huxtable. He had one sister, Irene Lillian Oviatt. His parents divorced and Ruth remarried having one more daughter, Wilhelmina Sophia Werner, my father's half-sister.

My father, LeRoy Ellsworth Oviatt and my grandfather, Charles LeRoy Oviatt

.  Charles LeRoy Oviatt b. 20 Dec 1886, Madrid, Boone Count, IA, d.22 Jan 1983, Centralia, WA
       m. 01 Sep 1914 to Ruth Huxtable b. 23 Sep 1898, Plainville, WI, d. Jun 1975, Denver, CO
..  LeRoy Ellsworth Oviatt, b 22 Jan 1918, Sioux City, IA, d. 18 Jan 1990, Centralia, WA
.. Irene Lillian Oviatt, b 17 Nov 1919, Sioux City, IA

Charles LeRoy Oviatt 









My father had a note with the names Oliver and Roxy on a pad which served as my first clue. Being new to genealogy I started with a visit to the family history library at the LDS church in Oakland. This was long before access to information on the internet. I discovered the best place to start was the census data.