This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harves, Spechtman, Heisman, Kassan, Benning, Lentz, Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1817 Message Board Post: WHile searching through my mother's buffet I came across a 13-page typewritten document entitled "Harves Family History" which details the descendents of John Henry Harves who settled near Sunman, IN in the 1840's, married Minnie Spechtman, and had 10 children: John, b 1849, who went to Minnesota Henry, b 1852, who married both Anna Heisman and Rebecca Heisman Wolter Anna, b 1854, who married Louis Kassan Margaret, b 1856. who married Henry Benning Lucy, b 1858, who married Fred Meyer William Henry, b 1859, who married Christine Lentz Emma, b 1862, who married Elisha Alphonso (Dale) Williams Fred, b 1863, died in his teens August, b 1864, died in childhood Louis, b 1865, died in childhood The document was originally prepared in 1953 by H. Mabel Kassen and recopied by Alice Benning in 1983. Family history in the document runs from ~1840 to ~1950. My connection to the Harves family is through a daughter of Margaret Harves and Henry Benning. Anyone researching any of these lines, please contact me for additional information. Rikard Hill