Marilyn Kline Washington -----Original Message----- From: marilyn <[email protected]> To: cambri <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 7:55 pm Subject: Book: The Descendants of Michael Wagoner ca 1774 -- 1826 I just found this book with some of my things. It came originally from Charles Lantzy and he gave it to my cousin Joan Weakland Yeckley because we had a Wagner great grandmother, but this was another family. The book is by Margaret M. Wagner, from Iowa, and was published in 1976. The book contains information about families who resided between Ashville [called Ashland Furnace then] and Chest Springs. It included a copy of the 1867 map from the Historical Society which is hanging on the wall there. Copies were later made of individual sections, which can be purchased. It lists all the land owners and show all the roads in existence in 1867. I really didn't read it when Joan gave it to me, and I still have not, but I looked at it. Some of the people in the book still live here in the Ashville to Chest Springs area along Rt 36, but the best thing about the book is that Margaret M Wagner was from Iowa and she records the families who moved there. I have already found several families, including the Waltz family, who vanished from this area. Many of the people from Cambria County and Clearfield County went to Iowa. I have researched some of them for people residing now in Iowa. Some of them went previous to the Civil War and other after the Civil War, as Civil War Bounties given to the veterans were situated in Iowa. Many veterans sold the land, but other moved to Iowa. Some returned, but many stayed. So if your ancestors lived in the Ashville- Chest Springs area in the early 1800s and "disappeared," they may be in this book. If you want to post me, I will look in the excellent index for you. Margaret Wagner visited this area and it also includes families who stayed in Cambria County. Marilyn Kline Washington