This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Custer - Lite - Stover - Ball - Strassbache Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gh.2ADI/1060.1 Message Board Post: Roscoe Custer descends from the line of Frederick A. Custer, I & Elizabeth STOVER. Will - PA - Somerset Co. - Strassbache, 13 Jul 1811 - proved 24 Aug 1812, To Frederick Custer -- Take notice that the last will and Testament of John Kuster dec'd has this day been proven in the Register's Office for said County and you are hereby cited to appear at the next Orphans Court to be held for said County on the last Monday in August inst at Somerseset to show cause if any you have why the Letter of Administration granted to you should not be revoked and disanulled. Witness my hand and seal of office this 24th day of August 1812. Alexander Ogle, Register. Information given me by Mable Lite Custer. "Puzzles and more puzzles. What fun!! My mother spent a lot of time with John Custer, her G Grandfather when she was a little girl. She was 14 when he died and he lived very near my mother. with his daughter, Polly Hershberger after Polly Custer died in 1907 My mother was a remarkable woman. She could recite family history, names and dates with out anything being written down. When one of my cousins was in grade school she helped him do a paper -family tree - thing and gave it all from memory. I have studio pictures of John Custer and Polly Berkey and also five of their children. John told mother about his father Frederick and his grandfather John 1731-1812. He said his GGrandfather was Jonathan Custer and his GGGrandfather was Paul Custer and his gggrandmother was Sarah Ball. All history was handed down by mouth and mother said everyone in the family knew these to be true. No question in our family about Paul and Sarah as some books say."