Sorry for stuttering. There is also a Moon, just North of the Pittsburgh airport. Moon Run is SE of the airport. -----Original Message----- From: Dick Harris <Dick.Harris@mindspring.com> To: INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com <INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:06 PM Subject: Re: Steele's >There is a Moosic in coal country between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. >We are another Carpenter family, and perhaps I can help eliminate some in >Clay county for you. >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Veneskey <stevev@netdirect.net> >To: INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com <INCLAY-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:46 PM >Subject: Steele's > > >> >> My great grandfather was Robert Steele. He came from England and >>his father was Scottish, his mother English, they were coal miners. >>Robert's wife was from Wales and her name was Sarah Jane Carpenter, >>mostly she went by Jane. Jane's father was from Wales and her mother >>from England. >> They settled in PA and then moved on to Clay Co., IN. Their >>children were born in PA and IN. Robert was born about 1840-44, he >>arrived in the U.S. about May the 23rd 1876. We have William born on >>3-28-1871 (PA), John born on 9-24-1872 (PA), Joseph born on 3-12-1874 >>(PA), Elizabeth born on 3-1875 (PA), James born on 2-21-1878(IN), >>Thomas born on 1-11-1880 (IN), George born on 11-15-1882 (IN), Sarah >>Martha born on 1-27-1884 (IN), Herman born on 4-25-1886(IN), Robert >>born on 2-24-1888 (IN), Frank and Archie born on 11-17-1892 (IN). An >>aunt was with them her name was Anna Steele born on 5-20-1869. A John >>Carpenter is listed with the Steele family as a neighbor in the 1900 >>census, he was also listed as a coal miner. John's parents were one >>from Wales and one from England. He was 23 in 1900 and born in PA. He >>could be a brother to Sarah Jane Carpenter Steele. I hope this may help >> >>someone and maybe myself. >> I believe that William may have lived in a place named Moosie ( is >> >>there such a place?) or may be Moon, these came from an old newspaper >>clipping. It was close to Pittsburgh and William was a miner, those are >> >>the two things I know about him. >>. >> There are more, Stories, Karen >> >> Thank you for taking time to read this. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>==== INCLAY Mailing List ==== >>This list brought to you by Rootsweb,be sure to check us out at >>http://www.rootsweb.com/ >> >