In a message dated 12/15/1999 8:37:48 PM Mountain Standard Time, aggie@rmci.net writes: > Do any of you have the Deal surname in your lines - I am looking for the > origins of David Franklin Deal who turns up in Catawba County in the > census for 1850 born maybe 1819. He later married one of the daughters of > David Wike also of Catawba County. In 1850 he is living with David Wike's > family. > > Also would like to find anyone who has the surname Dealsnyder in their > background - they would have been in Lincoln county in the 1820 to 30's > > A Cloninger > Agnes, We have several Deal names in our database. Most of them are of Pennsylvania and Maryland origins however. There is one though that I came across that may be of interest and that was a Nancy Deal, b. abt 1812 who married Elias Clodfelter, b. 1794 in Catawba County, NC. This shows that most likely your Deal family was in the Catawba County area for some time. As you may be aware we also have thousands of Cloninger descendants from NC in our database. Our database is online at: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/ Don & Jeanine