Well,I don't know these names - but that sure is a lot for coincidence: My Frank Pickering would grow up to marry a Snyder (Bertha H.); her father, William, was born in 1861 or '62 - close enough to be a sibling of your Frank. What's more, Bertha's maternal grandmother was born a Beal/Beale/Beall. Hmm. I may need to cogitate on this. KHP From: Robert Collins <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OHGREENE-L] Orphanages Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:38:32 -0400 I know of a Frank Snyder B abt 1870 M Rittie ?, they lived in Ross Co. and moved to differents town around that. They had several children Clay, Foster, Warren B 1906 , David ,Marion , Frank Jr. and two daughters Marie and Ruth. Also William G. Beal married Mary Admanda Bargdoll in 1860, they had these children Clara Jane, Joseph F. Mary A. & William H. Beal. Let me know if this helps and maybe we could trade information Thank you Kurt Pickering wrote: >Question, Listers: > >If a widower had to put a child in an orphanage in the Greene County, OH, >area in the late 1870s, where would that orphange most likely be? > >My great-great grandfather Joseph F. Pickering was widowed in Missouri in >1877, when his children ranged in age from 10 months to 5 years. He moved >back to Ohio, where his late wife was from and where it seems they both had >family and friends. Joseph is in the 1880 census in Caesor Creek Township >as a single blacksmith; the two older children, Margaret and Charles, are >in >it in other households. > >But I can't find hide nor hair of my great grandfather, John Franklin >Pickering, then 3 or 4. He comes of age in the area, marrying a Warren >County girl on a Greene County lincense in 1898 and appearing in censuses >in >Greene County, OH, in 1900 and 1910 and in Montgomery County in 1920. > >I'm wondering if, since he was still an infant when his mother died, he >ended up in an orphanage. God forbid it was back in Missouri (no offense, >Show-Me State, just trying to search manageable parameters), but assuming >he >came east with his brother, sister and father where might he have been? >Dayton? > >Researching these 8 greats: >Pickering-Snyder-Roach-Teegardin-Hodges-Evans-Kantner-Shifflet >+ these contributing Pickering/Snyder lines: >Orndorff-Kinsey-Beall >And, of course, many more! > >Peruse our entire GEDCOM at > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kpickering&I11.x=34&I11.y=8 > >ONWARD AND BACKWARD! >Kurt Pickering, IBSSG >La Vergne, TN _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com