Good morning everybody. I'm jumping into your list for some assistance with finding obits for two of my gr-gr-uncles. I believe they both stayed in your area after serving in WWI. If someone has access and is willing to look for them, I'd be happy to pay. If not, perhaps one of you knows which newspaper I should ask for on inter-library loan? Lynn Elbra PERRY died 27 JAN 1958 at the Roslyn Convalescent Home. David Wilbur PERRY died 20 OCT 1931 at the Coatesville Veteran's Home. Good luck and happy hunting! Beth Perry in Ohio.

Hi All Back again this time looking for help in finding any ancestors or DESCENDANTS of any of the men listed on www.clymerpa.com/history.htm about 3/4 th of the way down on the page all were killed at Sample Run 8/26/1926 mine explosion, we are starting THE SAMPLE RUN PROJECT and need a little help. While you are look around the new Clymer web site. Thank You. www.clymerpa.com Thanks in Advance [email protected] Jerry Hetrick 1-972-366-8102

Hello, Has anyone come across this skeleton - Constantine O'Neal who lived in East Nantmeal Township, Chester Co. was hit in the head with an axe. His wife, Sarah, went before a Grand Inquest in Oyers and Terminer Court charged with muder, but was released, not guilty. This happened on 15 October 1792. Does anyone know of any cemeteries of that timeframe. He had 3 children baptized at Pikesland Mission of St. Joseph's Catholic church of Philadelphia. The data I am hoping to find is where and when he was born. Thank you, Beulah O'Neal

An interesting and excellent website. It should be pointed out that the data needs a caveat. The gentleman responsible for the website does state that the recorded executions are for the time and place listed, but if you examine the California data you will see that it begins with executions prior to 1800, almost 50 years before it was even a territory of the United States - under the control of the Hispanic authorities from the south. Now, come on....is that really fair? Florence

Regarding: > Subject: Skeletons in the closet > From: Mary McIndoe <[email protected]> .... > Here's one of the more bizarre online databases I've come across recently: > http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/PENNSYLVANIA.htm During the 270 years of Pennsylvania executions recorded here, there were an average of 3.85 per year. The statistics always interest me and I found that numerous crimes were considered capital crimes in the early years. Counterfeiting, housebreaking, burglary, robbery and rape all qualified in the good old days. Since 1900, none were ever executed unless murder was involved. (except Wm Evans in 1917 where no information was given). The crime of treason lead to only 4 hangings, 2 in 1778 and 2 in 1780. The most unusual entry was the 1788 charge of guerilla activity against the Doan brothers. I examined the ratios of blacks to whites. males to females, and Chester county versus other counties. Of the more than 900 murders listed, over 200 were attributed to black males and 7 to black females. All together there were 27 females executed; but only 3 since 1900. The last two were electrocuted in 1946. Three native Americans were listed, by the way. Chester county boasts of only 24 capital crimes, while Philadelphia county had 246. Actually, that rate probably places Chester well ahead of our neighbors in the City of Brotherly Love. Chester had around 400,000 in 1999 versus 1.6 million in Philadelphia county. I'll change that Chester county boast to lament. Thanks, Mary, for an interesting link. Clay

And possibly quite valuable as a result! Vince On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mary McIndoe wrote: > At 08:49 AM 5/23/2004, you wrote: > >I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. > > > >I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the > >main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was > >murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist > >Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant > >cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was > >tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned > >her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and > >brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. > > > >Jackie Wells Lubinski > >[email protected] > > It really is interesting to see what the whole story is, isn't it? And it > goes to show, too, that sometimes we can find out a lot more about > something if we look outside the normal places for the information. One of > my best finds over the years of researching my own family was finding out > that the old quilt my mother had tucked away from her mother's side of the > family was actually an old Quaker autograph quilt, complete with the names > of the family members and their relationship to the maker of the quilt! > Certainly not a normal kind of source but a very valuable one in my case! > > -Mary > > http://gen.atleeridge.us/ > Southeastern PA Genealogy and History > > > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Check out the searchable USGenWeb Project Archives! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgwarch.html >

At 08:49 AM 5/23/2004, you wrote: >I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. > >I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the >main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was >murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist >Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant >cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was >tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned >her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and >brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. > >Jackie Wells Lubinski >[email protected] It really is interesting to see what the whole story is, isn't it? And it goes to show, too, that sometimes we can find out a lot more about something if we look outside the normal places for the information. One of my best finds over the years of researching my own family was finding out that the old quilt my mother had tucked away from her mother's side of the family was actually an old Quaker autograph quilt, complete with the names of the family members and their relationship to the maker of the quilt! Certainly not a normal kind of source but a very valuable one in my case! -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. Jackie Wells Lubinski [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Mary McIndoe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PACHESTE] Skeletons in the closet Here's one of the more bizarre online databases I've come across recently: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/PENNSYLVANIA.htm It's a listing of executions by the state prior to the use of lethal injection, and includes the person's name when known, their occupation, actual crime, their location by county, date of execution and age when known. I guess it's case of hoping to not find your ancestor on the list, but an interesting database nonetheless.... For some really interesting reading, take a look at the early Massachusetts entries. The main page of the site is: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Visit the PAGenWeb website http://www.pagenweb.org

Here's one of the more bizarre online databases I've come across recently: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/PENNSYLVANIA.htm It's a listing of executions by the state prior to the use of lethal injection, and includes the person's name when known, their occupation, actual crime, their location by county, date of execution and age when known. I guess it's case of hoping to not find your ancestor on the list, but an interesting database nonetheless.... For some really interesting reading, take a look at the early Massachusetts entries. The main page of the site is: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

I may have missed it, but can some one give me the location or address of the Deep Run Cem? Or if there is a list of internments, can someone check to see if there are any RIGHTER's, RITER's or RITTER's. Appreciate the help. Searching for RIGHTER also spelled RITER or RITTER Jacqui

The Cemetery you describe is the LOWER BURYING GROUND of the Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church. If you go to the Church Office they will confirm that information for you. I have ancestors buried in that lot.

Dear Mary, I posted that message last year after visiting my brother in Downingtown. Kay Torpey on this list wrote & told me it was Lower Burial Ground of the Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church, and that the initials I.S. were for Isaac Smith who put up the money for the gate & is buried in the cemetery. Roxanne

At 05:34 PM 5/19/2004, Wendy Mclean wrote: >Breou's Atlas (1883) shows a "B.M. Presbyterian Parsonage and Graveyard" at >that location. The "B.M. Presbyterian Church" and the "B.M. Presbyterian >School" as well as another graveyard are a bit to the northwest. My guess >is that the "B.M." stands for "Brandywine Manor" as that village is labeled. >No idea what the "I.S." means on the gate, unless it is something in latin. OK, that makes sense. Lynn sent me a link to a SAR site (http://www.sar.org/passar/graves/cemetery.html) that showed the cemetery as Forks of the Brandywine Lower cemetery and the site listed one of the people that was on the list I had, so it looks like we have a winner! Thanks folks! -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

Breou's Atlas (1883) shows a "B.M. Presbyterian Parsonage and Graveyard" at that location. The "B.M. Presbyterian Church" and the "B.M. Presbyterian School" as well as another graveyard are a bit to the northwest. My guess is that the "B.M." stands for "Brandywine Manor" as that village is labeled. No idea what the "I.S." means on the gate, unless it is something in latin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary McIndoe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:41 AM Subject: [PACHESTE] Can you identify this cemetery? > From a posting last year on the PA_cemeteries list, I found a list of > burials from a cemetery described as follows: > > an old cemetery in West Brandywine, on the corner of Horseshoe Pike (US Rt > 322) & Highspire Rd. There's no church nearby (though the Forks of > Brandywine Presbyterian Church is up the road on the next corner at > Hibernia) or anything to identify it but the letters I S on one of the gate > posts, & 1822 on the other. > > Does anyone know anything about this cemetery? > > -Mary > > > ----------------------------------------- > Southeastern PA Genealogy and History > http://gen.atleeridge.us > > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Stop by our associated website for Chester County Genealogy at > http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/ >

From a posting last year on the PA_cemeteries list, I found a list of burials from a cemetery described as follows: an old cemetery in West Brandywine, on the corner of Horseshoe Pike (US Rt 322) & Highspire Rd. There's no church nearby (though the Forks of Brandywine Presbyterian Church is up the road on the next corner at Hibernia) or anything to identify it but the letters I S on one of the gate posts, & 1822 on the other. Does anyone know anything about this cemetery? -Mary ----------------------------------------- Southeastern PA Genealogy and History http://gen.atleeridge.us

West Grove Borough in London Grove Township, was organized in 1893. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary McIndoe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:02 PM Subject: [PACHESTE] West Grove township > Does anyone know when West Grove township was formed? > > -Mary > http:\\gen.atleeridge.us, Southeastern PA Genealogy and History > > > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Stop by our associated website for Chester County Genealogy at > http://www.pa-roots.com/~chester/ >

Does anyone know when West Grove township was formed? -Mary http:\\gen.atleeridge.us, Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

Greetings, all! Some of you may remember me as the original County Coordinator for Chester and Delaware counties under PAGenWeb. Unfortunately, family matters and a horrible webhost (which managed to trash most of my website) necessitated my stepping down from the project back in the fall 0f 2002. But, I've finally bee able to carve some free time out again and have gotten soem of the original Virtual Cemeteries data back online again on my new website: http://gen.atleeridge.us/Default.aspx?tabid=113 (Actually the main page is http://gen.atleeridge.us but the link above is to the actual page carrying the actual cemetery records) In the weeks and months to come I am hoping to get a lot more of the former county sites information back online in one form or another and I hope all of you will take some time to stop by and see what's available. Mary (AKA Mary Harris, and soon to change again to Briggeman) McIndoe

I found this on the web, while looking for an Alexander WIGGINS of Philadelphia, NJ born, and by occupation a church minister... Can you tell me anything about this fellow? I am wondering if they may not be one and the same fellow... "Articles of incorporation for the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church of East Coventry were filed on December 10, 1867 in the court of common pleas of Chester County. Bethel remained on the Pottstown Circuit until 1868 when Bethel and Springville (Spring City) Methodist Church, of which Bethel is the mother church, united to form a new circuit. This circuit existed until 1874 when Springville's growth was such that it became a single charge. Bethel remained alone for one year, but the necessity for more married men's charges caused the Philadelphia Conference of March 1875 to annex Bethel to the Temple and Cedarville charges which constituted a married man's charge under the name of Temple and New Bethel. The Reverend H.U. Sebring was appointed pastor of the united circuit. In 1890, Bethel was made a separate charge and the Reverend Alexander Wiggins was appointed pastor. In 1894, during the pastorate of the Reverend William Beyers, the parsonage was constructed and Bethel was made a married man's charge, fully supporting its own pastor and work." Thanks, Vince

Vince, I have will abstracts 1801-1825 for Chester Co: In will of Daniel CORNOG, Williston, dated 1/9/1799 and proved 3/16/1802, he mentions daughter Jane, married to Sampson DAVIS and bequeaths her 150 lbs. Also bequeathes to his wife's niece, Sarah, wife of Dr. DAVIS of Charlestown, 50 lbs. Wife was also named Sarah. In a will of James DAVIS, Charlestown, dated 5/8/1817, proved 8/20/1818, he mentions son Sampson and bequeaths him 800 lbs. Wife Anna, other children: Benjamin, Rebecca, James, David, William, Mordecai, John P. Execs: Sampson & Mordecai Davis and wife Anna. Sampson DAVIS was admin of estate of Benjamin CUSTARD, Vincent on 12/27/1825. Sampson DAVIS witnessed will of Nicholas HOLDERMAN, Vincent written on 5/1/1818. Diana in AL