Thank you Jane. I wasn't reading it wrong since you are seeing Westmont also for Peelor street. Yes always a possibility of renaming a street. I have copies of city directories but my eyes are to tired tonight to look at anything else. Will do it tomorrow Thank you Sharon Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:28 PM, "JCTripp" <jctripp@charter.net> wrote: > I have never been to this area of Cambria Co. so I'm starting from square > one. > I did see John Fritz at 36 Peelor Street, Westmont in the 1920 census. > Looking at the 1910 census his family is at the same Peelor Street Westmont > address. > On that same 1910 census page is maybe a cross street named McKeever Street > in Westmont. > > I looked at both streets on a map. > Peelor Street is indexed in Johnstown, east of Roosevelt Blvd - 403 & 56, a > short street. > McKeever Street is indexed in Westmont west of Roosevelt Blvd - 403 & 56. > > There is a Brownstown Volunteer Fire Department on that map of Westmont. > > I would think a note to them (or the Johnstown Fire Dept.) asking about > Peelor Street, near McKeever Street, in the 1920s now renamed as ???? would > answer your question or connect you to a local historian. > Regards, Jane Tripp > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shadonkd35@aol.com > To: pacambri@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 7:20 PM > Subject: [PACAMBRI] Westmont > > > Ok I just checked it out again to verify what I am seeing on the federal > census. > > 1920 definitely says Peelor Street in Westmont Borough, Cambria County, PA > > How interesting is this that something is really a fluke here. Either at > one time there was a Peelor street in Westmont or the census taker made a > huge mistake. > > Ok so as one of you have said, Peelor Street is in Prospect and just above > Prospect is Eastmont. > But on the census, it is clearly a "W" and says westmont. > > Thank you > Sharon > > > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message