Marion, Perhaps a possibility. Thanks for your quick response. I had carpal tunnel surgery & will do more investigating...and write more when I get the stitches out and can quit "Hunt & Pecking" HA HA...and it wasn't caused by being on the computer !!...yea...right !! Dorothy Rowley ----- Original Message ----- From: <Cludy52@aol.com> To: <FRENCH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [FRENCH-L] Another French line to consider > Dorothy, > > I have a William H. French, son of Nehemiah French and Margaret Shaff. > William was born ca 1840, probably in either Middlebury, Tioga Co., PA or in > Horseshead, Chemung Co., NY. > > William was listed as living in Colorado at the time of his father's death in > 1906. I haven't been able to track William down. > > William had two sisters, Sara D. French, b. ca. 1843, m. William R. Morey, d. > ca 1869 in Minnesota; and Martha Rosanna French, b. ca 1841, m. Elisha > Willoughby, d. unknown. > > William also had a half sister (is there really such a thing) and a half > brother, through Nehemiah's second wife, Olive Churchill, widow of unknown > Samson. These siblings were, Esther Elizabeth French, b. 19, April, 1862, > Clara, McKean County, PA, m. William H. Hazen, died after 1934; and my great > grandfather, John Churchill French, b. 13, august, 1856, Port Allegheny, > McKean County, PA, m. Effie Deans Donshea, d. 6, November, 1934. > > Add to those siblings the two sons of Olive Churchill by her first husband > unknown Samson - the boys were George Samson b. ca 1846 and Joseph A. Samson, > b. 1850. > > I do know that Joseph Samson was close to his siblings and later in life he > and my great grandfather were in business together. I have Joseph living in > Kentucky - then later in Whitefish, Montana. > > What do you think?? > > Marion Scherer >