After finding my three younger siblings and "Baby Boy" Faulk (not his real name, and which was changed by the four childrens' adoptive parents), my dad and I attempted to find my baby sister, who was only about seven months of age, when my dad and I last saw her in July of 1958.

My dad and I looked and looked through the State District Court Docket for any mention of "Baby Girl"Faulk's name, but could not find anything. You are probably wondering why I do not call my younger siblings and my youngest sister by name. The reason is simple. I was warned by the now adult younger brother to never use his name nor that of his adoptive parents.  I also suppose that my youngest sister, also an adult, could feel the same way about my using her name and/or that of her adoptive parents. So to keep peace in the family...Isn't it interesting that "use" is an anagram, whose letters also spell "sue"? 

Then it hit me! I recalled a picture of the 4 children who visited me at the Protestant Children's Home in San Antonio in June of 1959, shortly after I had my tonsils removed. But where was the baby girl? She was not in that picture!  So dad and I went BACKWARDS from July of 1959 and found her adoption records in the Spring of 1959 when she was adopted by another family, after her first being in the family's "foster care" for a few months. My sister bugged me for 11 years to try to find our baby sister, but I ran into a dead end.  I was sitting in my office in my mobile home in Marion, Texas when I received a phone call from a man with the "International Soundex Reunion Registry." He asked me my name and asked me if I had a sister by the name of my littlest sister. I said yes to both questions, he told me that my baby sister had recently registered with Soundex, and as soon as her record was entered into the system, there was an instant match. She had found me! You will have to wait until my books are published to find out the rest...Just a hint...August  21,1993 was the first time since late July of 1958 that all six children were together. This August 21, 1993 date is significant because it was my parents's 50th wedding anniversary!

The following day, I showed my three sisters one of several house in which my parents and I had lived.Then we drove to the Bexar County Courthouse and went up to the Third Floor to the State District Court Clerk's office, where I showed them the very District Court Record in which I had found their names in 1993.  The irony of this story was that just as I was showing my three sisters their names, a Deputy District Clerk, whose name was Tom, came up and told me that those Records were not to be opened and read by the general public, and that in fact, the District Court Records were considered to be "sealed" by the District Court.

I pointed to each of my three sisters and told Tom that I had found these three women eleven years earlier in this very District Court Record, which Tom was taking from my hands!

We drove to Seguin, Texas, which is about sixty miles from San Antonio and for the first time since July of 1958, the three women met Bob and Lucille.  Lucille was in a nursing home, and Bob lived about twelve miles away, in McQueeney, Texas.

So there you have it...blessings can happen when the Holy Ghost intervenes on your side, as it did on mine.