I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that the 1900 census page also had the following family: Weiler, David - head - w - m - 8/1824 - 75 - married 19 yrs. - PA/PA/PA - (blank) -------- Anna - wife - w - f - 8/1839 - 60 - married 19 yrs. - PA/PA/PA - 1 child/1 living - (blank) -------- Frank H. - son - w - m - 7/1883 - 16 - single - OH/PA/PA - at school On Thursday, Aug 26, 2004, at 01:09 US/Eastern, doug wrote: > Trying to get a middle name and any other info for John VanNest > that > left Dillsburg Pa.To go to Wooster Ohio in 1838 with a son also name > John > VanNest. The father born 1774 and the son born 1814. > They may have traveled with a family named Weiler to Wooster Ohio. > Thanks for any help. This in a book is all I have on > them. > > This from the 1880 history of Ashland County by Geo. W. Hill > JOHN VAN NEST, was born Dec. 1,1814 in York county, PA. He attended > common > schools, learned the trade of a saddler in 1831-32 , came to Wooster, > Wayne > county, in 1838, and worked until 1839. He married Miss Sarah Wiley, of > Smithville, Wayne county, May 2, 1839, moved to Rowsburg the same > month, and > has carried on business ever since. He has served as a justice of the > peace > six terms. He was elected commissioner in 1864, and served two terms. > He has > been a member of the Lutheran church since 1849. His ancestors were > from > Holland, and located in New Jersey. His father, John Van Nest, located > in > York county, PA., and came to Wayne county in 1838, and died in > Millbrook, > in 1862, aged eighty seven. > John Van Nest is the father of ten children - two dead eight living. > > > > > > ==== PA-YORK-GEN Mailing List ==== > Come join us at the Pennsylvania Dutch website at: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/padutch/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >