Sarah A. Cook (1844-1937, mother of Albert Cook Myers) and her older sister Elmira Jane Cook (1839-1914) traveled from their mill on Opossum Creek, north of Bendersville "in an open spring wagon" about eleven miles to Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863, where they heard Pres. Lincoln. http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/news/recollect.htm Arthur Weaner, a local historian from Gettysburg, sent me a list of the people who rode in the wagon that day. The wagon originated from Conrad Weaner's farm. 1. George Weaner, driver and his friend, 2. Louisa Rice, who he afterward married 3. Cornelius Weaner 4. Elizabeth Weaner 5. Miss Susan Weaner 6. Hannah Weigle, and her friend, 7. Jacob C. Smith, whom she afterward married 8. Lewis C. Smith, brother of Jacob. 9. Miss Sallie A. Cook, later Mrs. John T. Myers, & Mother of the late Albert Cook Myers 10. Miss Cook's sister, Elmira Jane Cook, later Mrs. Charles D. Cook. Arthur Weaner went on to say: A newspaper clipping in the possession of the author published February 1928, perhaps in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, gives the above in detail by Mrs. John T. Myers. Mrs. Myers states her father, Jesse Cook, was a prominent Quaker in the community and was a station master on the Underground Railroad, and among the hills surrounding their home scores of escaped slaves were living, befriended by her family. Her brother George was a prisoner in Libby Prison. "At the last minute something came up, couldn' get to town, but some neighbors drove us in, in an open spring wagon with two good horses, and there were 9 young people in the party." She states the Cook family were cousins of Judge Wills, and on the occasion visited the Wills House and shook hands with President Lincoln there. Anyone have the article mentioned from 1928? Bob Cooke