This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALLAM or ALLUM Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/2321.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for your most helpful and speedy reply. I live in Hummelstown, PA. My PA-German ALLAM (generally AHLUM) family is from the Bucks County, PA immigrant. There is one other ALLUM group in Western PA wherefrom I do not know. Its a long story but my ALLAMS have been difficult to connect because my great-great grandfather, Aaron's first family all but died out and he remarried. I'll briefly outline it in case any potential relatives in Johnson County are interested: Aaron's parents, Henry and Sarah (STEVER) AHLEM appear in the 1850 census for Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA. The names are difficult to read--but there is a Wm. About 1995, Pat Perry, of Ojai, CA, contacted me to say that William, one of Henry's sons, left PA, migrated to Alabama, and served for the Confederacy. I sent her whatever I had but never heard from her again. I've had recent success in piecing Henry and his descendants together. I found William in the 1880 Census for Shelby Iron Wo! rks, Shelby County, Alabama. That Census says that he and his parents were born in PA. The Alabama Archives recently confirmed that all four entries for William ALLAM (or ALLUM) for the 3rd Alabama Cavalry are him. He's at Selma, Dallas County, AL in 1860 and at Columbiana, Shelby County, AL in 1870. In 1900, he is in Johnson County, AR. I found index entries for Barbara Fern, Bedford F, Carl, Lena, William R Sr, and W.R. Jr for pages 26 and 43 of the Apr 1995 Johnson Co Historical Society Journal. And there was a record for Mary A and/or Mary Ann on pages 46, 48 and 52 of the Apr 1985 Journal. Your response gives me much of that--and he had a son Forrest in Alabama which ties. In addition, you provide the maiden name of William's wife. This is the only known instance of anyone in my genealogy serving in the Confederacy and is most interesting. I'll have to check for those pension papers. Meanwhile, I'm searching for the marriage of William and Mary in Alabama th! at your information will help tremendously. Hopefully, either the pen sion or marriage record will confirm him as Henry's son. Their other children (all born in Alabama) were Alberta, b 1869; Caroline M, b 1871; Henry C, b 1876; and Mary E, b 1878. The Wm ALLAM in Bethlehem, PA in 1850 was a brick mason and, of course, the Bethlehem Iron Works later became the Bethlehem Steel Company. So I find it interesting that he was a brick mason at the Shelby Iron Works at Columbiana, Shelby County, Alabama in 1880. I descend from William and Elizabeth (REMALY) STEPHENS; then James and Florence (ALLAM) STEPHENS; then James Clemens ALLAM and Mary EGAN. Then Aaron ALLAM and Rachel CLEMENS. Then Henry and Sarah (STEVER) ALLAM. Henry, alleged father of the Johnson County, William ALLAM, was the son of Johann Jacob AHLEM and Catherine Elizabeth OTT. Jacob was the son of the immigrant Johann Jacob AHLEM and Margaret DRACH. So again, I thank you very much for your kind response!