This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barber Harter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/443.442.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Ann -- really good news: 1) Joseph Lutz (or Letz) Barber, Born Jan 10, 1868 in Nipanose Valley, Lycorning (sic) Co, PA. Married (Lina or Tina) Anderson, date unknown - can you confirm & amplify? I talked to my Mom this morning, she remembers "Uncle Joe" was indeed a successful hog farmer. I have an old sale flyer she gave me wherein Joe's brother C.W. (my grandfather) and his oldest son (Lake A. Barber) were holding a hog sale near Lane, S. Dak. on Feb 6, 1923. If you like, I can email you a photocopy of this flyer. 2) Joe and C.W. were two of the eleven children born to John Kniseley BARBER and Sarah E. HARTER. There were two other living brothers (Jim and Frank) and six sisters: Chestie Ann, Mary Catherine, Minerva, Arabelle, Maggie Alice, and Effie Irene. I have a complete record of their names and birth dates to share with you, in a Microsoft Word document I can email to you. I also have a photocopy of a family portrait depicting John K and Sarah and all of their living children and can email this to you -- Joe is in that portrait! My Mom is currently reviewing my first draft of updating family records down to the present generation. I will be posting all of this to the Internet, but can share it separately with you if you wish. 3) Jim and Frank went up to South Dakota and talked their brother, Charles William, into emigrating up there from Kirkman Iowa as well. Times were hard, the soil wasn't as good as in Iowa, and there were droughts to deal with. My grandmother never forgave Charles for going too far North, and talked frequently about how she told him it was a mistake. He, being stubborn, ignored her. All 3 brothers settled on farms around Lane, South Dakota and later Frank moved again to Rapid City and founded a dairy. (My Mom's oral history recollections this morning. More research to follow.) 4) Can you confirm the spelling of "Knisely"? I had it as "Knicely" and either way, it wound up being the middle name of my Uncle Leo (still alive) who was apparently teased incessantly about it while growing up... 5) Can you provide any additional details of Barber ancestry? I understand you to say that you are a descendant of James Barber / Mary Maze where James was a brother of John K. You mentioned they had 11 children in Pennsylvania. Please explain again the tie to Michael Maize Barber, B. 1824 / D. 1888. (Maze & Maize spelling variations both appear in the notes which I have inherited.) 6) If you send me your email address I can forward copies materials to you directly. I also have wonderful portraits from two wedding albums; Joe is undoubtedly among them! Regards, Denny / [email protected]