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/zk.2ADI/443.449 Message Board Post: I am responding to Mar 2001 quieries and email posted to this board. The notes were posted by Ann McFarland, Suzette, and Val regarding a Barber family. I have been collecting information about the Barber family in Union Co. PA. I would be glad to email entries I've found to you. Ann, you asked about James Barber's father being a Pres minister. I don't know if his father was Samuel Barber but there is a reference to a Rev Samuel Barber of Mifflinburg, Union, PA in Union County Pennsylvania 1865-1875 by Mary Belle Lontz (1966). There are many other references to the Barber family as well. She lists records from a number of different Union Co PA sources. Adam Smith's, Rev War Soldier, of Northumberland/Union Co PA, dtr Anna Barbara Smith bn 1776 m. Michael Maize bn ca 1770. Adam had a son and grandson Michael. I believe the grandson Michael is the father of Noah Smith bn in Union Co in 1824/5. Noah appears in the Henry Barber household in the 1850 Stehpenson County Illinios Census. Does your James Barber have a brother Henry who settled in Stephenson County Illinois? Do you know of any connection between the Barber's and Smiths other than Michael Maize marrying Adam Smith's dtr. Anna Barbara bn 1776 and the Maize's and Barbers marrying? I believe the Mary/Marie Maize bn 1805 that Suzette and Val wrote of may be a dtr of Michael Maize bn ca 1770 and Anna Barbara Smith bn 1776. I hope I can be of help, or at least have something of interest to you. Marie Smith Peer