Hello Susan! You and I will have to put our heads together on the Sharps again soon! Stay in touch! Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan E" <specreatmusicepp@verizon.net> To: <PAARMSTR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: [PAARMSTR-L] new server/Susan Eppich/ Bleakney, George families and James P. Carter family. > Hello again, > > We have been home again long enough to change our phone service and computer > ISP, so that we > can have DSL, or the super fast service, for my husband's computer needs and > my GEN seaching. > Any of you that I have been in contact with in the past, I wanted to let > you know that the name remains > the same but the server is different, that is: > > Specreatmusicepp@mindspring.com has been changed over to > > Specreatmusicepp@verizon.net > > If you should have trouble with my email, you can send it to my husband's > and he will forward it to my computer. > > deppich@verizon.net > > In going through www.google.com tonight, trying to delve deeper into my > Bleakney and George families, I realized that > I have missed several messages which were sent to this list regarding these > families and others listed below. > > I am sorry that I didn't think to check there before. We take my husband's > laptop with us and I thought that we were receiving all of the email, > including answers sent to the lists, but evidently that hasn't always > happened. We will be > leaving again before Christmas to be with family and those little grand > daughters and will return late in January just > after their birthdays. > > I am still working at getting my information into GEDCOM format so that I > can share it with any who needed my info. > I spend a lot of time doing it, but then often get myself tangled with the > advancing technology and too many things > on the computer, that are tying up its memory capabilities. I wish my > computer skills would advance as quickly as > the amount of online information increases. Hope to have it done before our > trip, so that I can take discs with me, instead of suitcases full of records > and references. I know that my husband would surely appreciate it! > > My families that I am searching for are primarily in Plumcreek Twp and South > Bend Twp in Armstrong counties and > Armstrong Twp, Mahoning Twp. in Indiana county. > RALSTON - David and Margaret SHARP, her first cousin once removed, Nancy > Agnes SHARP RALSTON MITCHELL > and James S. RALSTON and Marie Antoinette BLEAKNEY, daughter of Hannah > GEORGE and William BLEAKNEY > 1806-1865. > Hannah GEORGE is a tremendous mystery, probably born about 1812 in PA and > died after 1880 census and she or > someone fibbed about her age. From 1850 onwards to 1880, she only aged 22 > years! Who does she belong to. > > And WHERE did the BLEAKNEY siblings of "Nettie" Bleakney settle? They md. > William Patton, {Isabelle}, Robert McManus, a Mr. Craven, and a Ruben > Farren, {Elizabeth - but the one in Washington Twp. seems to be too young?} > Hannah George Bleakney is missing in the 1870 census and was possibly living > with one of her daughters. In the 1880 census she is ill and living with > James S. and Nettie Ralston They also had a brother Robert, born 1847 that > I would > like to find out about. Did he marry? > > Again, thanks to all of you who answered previous questions about these > families? Hopefull, we will get it figured out some day. On a positive > note, I did find out the where-abouts of Fergus Bleakney in the 1810 and > 1820 census by going through each page of the census. He and his family are > in Mahoning Twp. and in the 1840 census there is a Mary Bleakney living in > Washington Twp, Indiana county, PA who is elderly. She could be his second > wife Mary Wachob. But much more information and documentation is needed. > They were the parents of my William Bleakney, father of my Nettie. > > In regards to Fergus Bleakney's marriages. His first wife was Julia Ann Cox > {the spelling is more like Julyan or Julian) > in Franklin county and this last July when in Chambersburg , .I found her > father's will in which her death is mentioned. > We brought home stacks of zeroxed papers and I don't have that in my > computer records yet. But this seemed to verify > that Mary Wachob was the mother of William and any later children. Will > forward exact reference as I get to that record. > > Hope your Thanksgiving and Christmas Time will be blessed with good health, > peace and safety, and good friends. > > Susan and Dave Eppich > > > > > ==== PAARMSTR Mailing List ==== > >