Hi list, Found this on the clinton Co Pa Obit board, I had posted it for someone else, amazing how one can forget. This confirms "Franklin Bechdel" as father, and the step-sisters. Lock Haven Express 9/12/1952 Mrs. Catherine E Summerson 86, widow of Joseph R Summerson, for many years a resident of Leidy and Cross Forks, where the family had a farm, died yesterday at 11:30 p.m. in the Private Hospital. She had been ill fro six years, suffering from the complications of old age. Mrs. Summersons immediate survivors number more than 50. They include a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Ardner, 608 East Main Street, Lock Haven, with whom she has lived with for six years, and these additional children, Mrs. Mary Summerson, Renovo; Mrs Nancy Daugherty, Newark, New York; Mrs. Alice Smith and Mrs. Daisy Henderson, both of Lock Haven; and Herbert Summerson, Niagra Falls. A sister Mrs. Annie Walters lives in Renovo, and three half sisters are Mrs. Susie Calhoun, Hammersley Fork; Mrs Margaret Miller, Sinnemahoning; and Mrs. Alice Evans, Mobile, Ala. There are 16 grandchildren, 26 great grand children and six great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Summerson was born in Centre County, a daughter of the late Franklin! and Nancy Boozer Bechdel. During the latter part of her life, before she came to Lock Haven, she lived at Cross Fork with a son Henry B., who died five years ago. She attended the E. Main St. Methodist Church in this city.