This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moyer/Ancona/Montefiore Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DaB.2ACE/4105 Message Board Post: The family has hit a brick wall in researching it's roots on George Moyer b 1819 Reading, Bucks Co., Penn. - d 1890 in Fair Haven, Carroll Co., Illinois. George was orphaned at age 5 when (it has been said) his parent's (names unknown) horse drawn buggy was hit by a train and they were killed. The children (1 brother & 2 sisters) were adopted out. George married in 1847, Reading, to Carolina Louise Ancona and they had eleven children: Jacob, Martha, Hester, Mary, Katherine, George, Morris, William, John, Linneaus (our family line), and Moses J. He left Pennsylvania in 1856 for Illinois. Am wondering if someone locally might be able to check the local newspaper in about 1824 for a report on the buggy train accident. Other suggestions welcomed!