Resend; it said it didn't send it. (It more than likely did.) Dora On 9/1/2012 7:19 PM, Dora Smith wrote: > Say, Barbara, what's with confusing old election district 4 with > Rising Sun? > > I mean, I've got actual family with actual records showing them to > have lived in both places! > > Wait a minute. I think I have less of a mystery. In actual, if very > small, e.d. map from that Hollingsworth document, I find Rising Sun in > the 4th election district just south of Nottingham (which is in > Chester County PA). I thought it was in the east. And that > Hollingsworth document begins with the news that any notion that > Rising Sun is in ED 4 is the product of confusion. Sigh. > > But a few mysteries begin to clear up. In 1820 and 1830 to 1837 the > family lived in E.D. 4, and I suspected maybe vicinity of Conewingo > and Rising Sun. 1850 people I think belonged to this family lived in > Lower Oxford Township. OK, now, on Google Earth, for some reason, > Lower Oxford is north of Oxford..... Lower Oxford appears to be > nine and a half miles from Risng Sun. > > OK, now, I want to find family records in churches and cemeteries > around here. What churches and what cemeteries do I look in? > > They could have lived closer to Conewingo. > > Conowingo does not show up on google earth, but I begin to see what > the problem is in E.D. 4. The entire land space between Rising Sun > and the river can't be more than 15 farm fields - though there is a > sizeable village (wiith no name, my guess is Conewingo) between them. > > Dora > > > On 8/31/2012 6:14 AM, Barbara Kelly wrote: >> I have to say, I really enjoy reading everyone's posts even when they >> don't relate to my family. I live in Rising Sun, Md- formerly West >> Nottingham. All of the locales we discuss are close to me and it >> just makes life so much richer thinking about the history you share. >> It really is a blessing. >> >> Barbara Russell Kelly >> Following the Houston, Montgomery, Mitchell, Doak, and Finley families >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >