Dear Vee: Phoebe is my gg grandmother on my fathers side. Her husband, whom she married in 1875, Daniel Clickner is my direct descendant. While I have never met her, I feel as if I do know her personally from reading her diaries. The 1857 diary was given to me by my great Aunt LaNita Clickner when I was in high school, and at that time, I had no idea what I had. Just recently, about two years ago, my mom was cleaning out her garage, and she noticed the boxes of family history things, and she knew I'd be interested in them since I was just starting to research our family. Mom mailed everything to me, needless to say the postage was expensive. Mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas, and I said those boxes of family treasures! She asked me, "Are you sure that's all you want?" And I say "Yes, I don't need anything else!" Needless to say, I was like a kid at Christmas! Well, it looks like I got off the beaten track. Back to Phoebe's family. Daniel Clickner came from the Town of Pendleton, and before that in Brunswick, Rennselaer, Co, N.Y. I did forget to mention Phoebe's adopted sister, Fanny. We don't know much about her, except she was mentioned in Phoebe's father's will. We don't even know how Fanny came to be with the family. Fanny eventually married someone with the last name of Barker. Some of the other neighbor's I remember are a Mrs. Sherman, Mr. & Mrs. Whitington. I took a look at the 1860 census at HeritageQuest, and I found that Phoebe was living in Castleton, in Richmond County at the time when Phoebe wrote her 1860 diary. Why she went there, I don't have a clue, but maybe we'll find out later in her diary. Maybe this is the "long dreaded year" she was referring to! Kim