Anyone have more information on Edward Erwin? Thanks, Patrick On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Jill Horner <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I can help with your questions regarding Malica/Malissa > Irvin/Irving/Ervin/Ressler. I am a descendant of Daniel Ressler and > Charlotte Skiles, and in my research I came across a posting at the Indiana > County PA mailing list that would seem to solve the problem. It references > the following court case: > > > > Indiana County PA Court Case. June Quarter Session, 1857. > > Commonwealth vs Edward Erwin. Seduction/Fornication and bastardy. > > Charlotte Skiles, Prosecutrix. > > Settled out of court, on payment of costs. > > > > The researcher, Sonya Barclay, notes that the above is all the information > that was available. Based on this and Malica/Malissa's age at the time of > the 1870 census from BroadTop Twp, Bedford Co, PA which includes her in the > Daniel & Charlotte Ressler family, it sounds like she's Edward Erwin's > biological daughter, raised and/or adopted by Daniel Ressler (my > great-great > grandfather). Here's the link to the discussion from 11/00: > > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PAINDIAN/2000-11/0973635748 > > > > Hope this helps solve a mystery. > > > > I'm on the hunt for Daniel Ressler's deeper ancestry. All I know is that > his father was Jacob Ressler, born 1817 in VA (though a later census record > state PA), and who married Sarah Helsel, They were living in Jackson Twp, > Cambria Co, PA in 1850, but all subsequent censuses show them in East > Wheatfield Twp, Indiana Co, PA, til Jacob's death there on 1/21/1890. If > anyone has any information on them, I'd be thrilled! > > Thanks > > --Jill Horner > > > > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >