In a message dated 8/14/2013 8:03:59 PM Mountain Daylight Time, wbtst2@atlanticbb.net writes: Merle: Also wanted to provide some info of Somerset County Amish related families who migrated to Ontario. The John Stump of Brothersvalley owned property in what later was Elk Lick Township, then Summit Township (near Meyersdale). 1. Brothers John and Christian Troyer and their wives sisters Veronica and Barbara Yoder. Barbara was previously married to Joseph Forney and prior to that Isaac Miller. They migrated from Elk Lick Township after 1802. Joseph Forney's daughter Elizabeth married Christian Livengood, the son of Brethren minister Peter Livengood. Hoping to set the record straight concerning Elizabeth (Forney) Livengood: Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies by Gingerich and Kreider states in footnote 4 on page 233, that Elizabeth Forney who married Christian Livengood was a daughter of Joseph Forney, by his first wife. It is a wonderful book, but this appears to be one of its few mistakes. The February 1981 issue of the Laurel Messenger on page 8 has a few queries. One by Dorothy J. DeGruchy has this: FORNEY - FAHRNEY: Peter Forney b Darmstadt, Germany abt 1739, father of Elizabeth FORNEY b. 1769, Berks Co., m. Peter (I believe she meant to say Christian) Livengood. Need to know wife of Peter Forney and other children. Peter settled Elk Lick Twp. and was a Rev. soldier. In the January 1994 issue of Mennonite Family History, page 46 there is a query by Lois Ann Mast. It reads: Livengood: Who was the wife of Christian Livengood (1761-1837), son of Peter and Barbara (Nafziger)? It was not Elizabeth Forney, dau. of Joseph Forney, as many sources quote. That Elizabeth (1779-1852) remained single all of her life and d. in Ohio. Her brother, John Forney (1776-1846), a well-known clergyman in the Brethren Church in Somerset Co., Pa., purchased Elizabeth's share of her father's estate in 1802 after their father died. She was single at that time. So who was Christian Livengood's wife with whom he had fifteen children? Could she have been Elizabeth Forney, dau. of Peter Forney? The book Tombstone Inscriptions of Cemeteries, Somerset County PA, page 210 says Elizabeth was a daughter of Peter Forney. A Somerset Past issue (I believe it is Vol. 1, #3, from Oct 1981), page 15, also says Elizabeth, consort of Christian, was a daughter of Peter Forney. I believe Christian Livengood's wife was Elizabeth Forney, daughter of Peter. Unfortunately I show no siblings for Elizabeth. She and Christian Livengood were in my direct line. Debby Bliss

Some comments on Peter Forney being the father of Elizabeth. 1. You reference Lois Mast. My source was not AAMG, but a book by Lois Mast titled "The Peter Leibundgutt Journal". However, this was published in 1991, and your MFH citation was 1994, so she appears to have changed her mind. 2. There are two Peter Forney's from this period. One in Earl Township, Lancaster County, and one from what became Lebanon County. Joseph had a brother Peter, and both came from Lebanon County (sons of Peter Forney, who died in Lebanon Township about 1763). The Peter in Elk Lick Township tax records is most likely Joseph's brother. Forney's were originally Mennonite per another Somerset County Historical source. The Peter who died in 1763 references two Mennonite family names in the Orphan Court records. 2. Although Peter is on the tax rolls for Elk Lick Township, he is also on the tax rolls for the Lebanon County area where the Forney's came from. 3. Peter is on a number of militia lists for what became Lebanon County, including years he is taxed in Bedford County (later Somerset County) and is missing from the 1789 Bedford County militia list. The Bedford militia list does include Joseph Forney. (should stress that many of these militia lists relate to those eligible for service, and are not lists of those who actually served). Thus, there is some doubt if Peter ever lived in Elk Lick Township. Bill Thomas