I had not heard about 1880 as a starvation year, but earlier, in 1816, was a year that sent many New Englanders migrating westward. See - http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm Or go to http://www.google.com and enter the search phrase "year without a summer" for several other articles on that infamous year. Carol At 04:01 AM 5/22/03 -0600, MEYORK-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >MEYORK-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 97 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [MEYORK] 1880 Winter of Starvation [Mugs12@aol.com] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from MEYORK-D, send a message to > > MEYORK-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:55:46 EDT >From: Mugs12@aol.com >To: MEYORK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <18b.1a73d887.2bfd4fe2@aol.com> >Subject: [MEYORK] 1880 Winter of Starvation, Berwick >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >An old family tradition tells of a very severe 1880's winter causing no or >little crop harvest and wide spread hunger. This resulted in mass migration >to the state of Ohio of local York residents. > >Anybody know anything about this??? > >Del Earle mugs12@aol.com