I'm new to the Blair Co. list, so I figured it appropriate to post something about those lines I have involving Blair Co. All of them are by way of Bedford Co., PA, with ties to Cumberland, Huntingdon, Cambria, and Allegheny Counties. All are allied to the extended family of Jacob FLETCHER (1743-1831), b. York Co., PA, then to Frederick Co., MD, and finally to Bedford Co., PA, in the area that now comprises Monroe Twp. Via his son Jacob FLETCHER (1771-ca. 1853), a one-time sheriff of Bedford and Justice of the Peace, the families RIPPEY, BLODGET, PIPER, CALVIN, CRAINE, and CARR are brought together. Children of the younger Jacob FLETCHER and Anna Margaret _____ (unknown) were: 1. Anna/Annie/Nancy, m. to John Adams BLODGET of Bedford and later Blair (with an intervening sojourn in Rock Island, IL), their daughter Eliza BLODGET m. to Alfred CRAINE of Bedford, and daughter Rebecca BLODGET m. to Samuel CALVIN of Blair (with CALVIN descendants in Hollidaysburg, Blair Co. as late as the 1930s). 2. Julia Ann, m. to John PIPER of Bedford and later Blair, with Piper descendants in Blair Co. 3. William, m. to Elizabeth RIPPEY of Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., married in Bedford, and widowed in Cambria Co. The RIPPEY and PIPER lines were also previously intermarried in Cumberland Co. One child of William and Elizabeth FLETCHER married locally: Mary Rippey FLETCHER, m. William K. CARR of Ebensburg, Cambria Co. in 1859. The CARR family removed to Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co. PA, in the 1870s. The CARR and CRAINE families are believed to have come to Bedford Co. from the Huntingdon area. Samuel CALVIN helped organize Blair Co., and served in the House of Representatives from the area in the early 1850s. Buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Hollidaysburg are Samuel CALVIN and wife Rebecca Blodget CALVIN, as well as her parents John Adams BLODGET and Anna Fletcher BLODGET. Still unaccounted for are Eliza Blodget CRAINE and her daughter Rebecca CRAINE, living in Philadelphia with recently widowed Anna BLODGET in 1870 with no subsequent records; Anna died in 1872, presumably in Hollidaysburg where she is buried with her husband. I know this has run a bit long, but I though it best to establish what my research parameters were in the Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Cumberland area. I've no idea whether the CRAINE families of Altoona have ties to the one intermarried with my FLETCHER/ BLODGET line; Alfred A. CRAINE, son of Abram and Jane CRAINE, is believed to have moved with his family from Huntingdon to Bedford ca. 1840. Both elder CRAINEs are buried in Bedford, while Alfred is believed to have left his wife and child and moved to New Mexico in the early 1860s. David Fletcher Richmond, VA