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    1. A Neat STOCKHAM Find - and a Question to Boot
    2. Vince Summers
    3. I found Charles M. STOCKHAM who had been born NJ to George & Margaret, which family made its way to Pennsylvania, in, of all places, Topeka, Kansas! At first I could not figure out his occupation, but, finally, it dawned on this thick-skulled old fellow! He was: Sup't AT&SF Lumber Yard Sound mysterious? Boring? Maybe not so, when you realize, as I did, that it was the Lumber Yard of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe RR! That made my day. Fun stuff... But I also found the old goat had remarried by 1910 to a girl 40 years his junior! Now I am tracing his son, Charles M. Jr. STOCKHAM, born in 1896 in NJ. He married a missouri-born woman, named Ola. She should be easy to identify if this is the correct spelling of her name. What is my question? In the household of 1850, in Philadelphia, I find many family members not of the immediate circle, along with some others - not family- probably boarding with them, but I suspect working with them in some way. The name of one of these seems mighty familiar! Are you aware of a Wharf-Builder named George Diele (or, perhaps, of some permutation of that name) who may have been in Camden at some point? That name strikes me as being mighty familiar, for some reason. Aged 25, he was thus born circa 1824-1825. Thanks, Vince Summers

    09/22/2004 03:04:59