Kenneth, I don't know if the following will be of any help at all, but here goes. Maybe some clues here for you. In the Bittinger Book, I found an Anna Catherine "Annie" Wiland (Aug 6 abt 1856-Nov 5, 1927 m. Jonathan Kennard Broadwater mn (Apr 27, 1852-Aug 24, 1930, son of Samuel "Sam" Broadwater, Sr., and Nancy Ann Layton. I looked for Rhoads in the Hoyes Pioneer Book, but no luck . . . lots of Rodeheavers though :-) Anna Catherine was the dau of Joel Wiland and Catharine Hershberger. There are several pages about the Wiland Family in the Bittinger Book. Starts out Joel Wiland, son of William (Jan 27, 1825-Apr 24, 1892) was the son of William Wiland and Margaret, Durst. Joel m. Catharine Hershberger (Sep 6, 1827-Sep 27, 1898) as Salisbury, PA. In 1850, Joel headed a household near Grantsville, MD . . . By mid-1870, Joel's household was living in the New Germany area . . . On December 31, 1875, Joel bought 103 acres of a tract call "Swanton," located in the New Germany area. He and his family were still in the New Germany area in 1880 and Joel was farming . . . also had a saw mill. Jacob Brown wrote Joel's obit where he mentioned that . . . "Joel had quite a reputation for many years as a cancer doctor or rather specialist. He had no training as a physician whatever. His remedy or medicine had been a secret or mystery confined to his family for a hundred years or more, reaching back to his grandfather who has been dead most of that long period, and Joel's father has been dead about 40 years, so all three were lineal practitioners with the Wiland cancer remedy." Joel's father William (b. in PA abt 1785) m. Margaret Durst. "Wm and Margaret's eldest-known child Phebe, was born in MD in abt 1811. By 1820, Wm was living in the valley of the Casselman River in Allegany County between Ridgley Hill and the present town of Grantsville. On June 8, 1822, Wm bought a little over 31 acres of a tract calld "Desert" located 3/4 of a mile SW of the present town of Grantsville, mostly bottomland around Shade Run, near its intersection with the Casselman River. It is now divided by Rte 495. Wm later added to this property and lived the remainder of his life there. " -- lots of family connections to Upholds, Dursts and Custer. They are buried at Miller Hill (former Wiland property) located in a little knob beside Maryland Rte 495 on the east side of the road, just before it crosses (going southward) over Shade Run. The graves are not marked with stone. **** In a message dated 11/22/2003 7:41:24 AM Pacific Standard Time, epaurora@visuallink.com writes: > Hello everyone: > > I am requesting assistance or any available information regarding the > following: > > Harry W. RHOADS, b. Apr 1897, Brothersvalley, Somerset Co, PA - > parents...Elmer E. RHOADS (Rhoades, Rhodes, Rhoads, Roade, Roads), b. 18 Jul 1863, > Brothersvalley, Somerset Co, PA, Caroline R. "Carrie" HAUGER (Hager), b. 17 Aug > 1864, Brothersvalley, Somerset Co, PA > > Harry W. RHOADS was married to Katherine R. WEYANT/WYANT (Weyand, Weyandt, > Weiand, Wiland, Wayland, Weiland, Weyland, Wyand, Wyland, Wyon). Katherine's > father was Harry, b. c. 1887 PA, mother named Anna, b. c. 1888 PA > > Katherine and Harry were married c. 1928. Following their marriage, > Katherine R., her husband Harry W. along with Katherine's sister Grace E. moved to > Accident, Garrett Co, MD. > > If you have knowledge of, or have these people in your family, I would > appreciate any thing you could share. Thank you. > > Kenneth > > >