This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WcF.2ACEB/244 Message Board Post: In John Brashear's autobiography "...a man who loved stars" he states that he was influenced by his Aunt Lucy Rhaesa. I have been researching the Rhaesa family in this country and in Germany for a number of years. Lucinda Brashear was living with Isaac Woodward (widower of Maria Brashear) in the 1850 Federal census for Brownsville, Fayette, PA. Was Lucinda related to Maria? Lucinda (Lucy) Rhaesa was living with Isaac Woodward in 1860 and 1870 and with Cirus Ruchard in 1880, all in Brownsville. In both places she was the housekeeper. She had a daughter, Annie (1860 census). Lucy or Lucinda seems to have been born around 1824/26 in PA, as were her parents. Annie born about 1844 in PA. Ann May Rhaesa married Frank Ames, 17 June 1862 in Brooklyn, NY. My Rhaesa connection is from Luxembourg: Julius Rhaesa was married to Marie Brasseur, born 1804 in France. Does any one know who Lucy was and how was she connected to the Rhaesa family? She seems to appear and then disappear into thin air. Any help will be appreciated. I have Rhaesa information posted on the Rhaesa forum. Judy Sheldon