Mr Berry is certainly entitled to his opinion, yes. However this is not a site for opinions, unless it has to do with ancestry. This is not a site for pro- or con- current events. List Administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops home" banner remove his banner before posting to the list, or remove him from the list entirely. It is inappropriate for this list. It most certainly does NOT have anything to do with genealogy, and the rest of us researchers should not be subjected to Mr. Berry's opinion on the subject. THANKS, Doreen family in Air Force, Marines, Navy, Army ___________________ Nobody asked me for 'my 2 cents' but I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. The statement has a lot to do with genealogy - a lot of our troops are dying over there - and Mr. Berry is certainly entitled to his opinion. Dee __________________ To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 List administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops home" take it off of his banner. It is a political, anti-war message that has no place on a genealogy list. (It might even be against the rules). Thanks ____________________ RE: .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Doreen: I am interested in the HOOVER family. Thanks, Neal Tucson, Az. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sdl7394@aol.com<mailto:Sdl7394@aol.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:<mailto:undisclosed-recipients:> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:56 AM Subject: [PACLEARF] WHITAKER headstones Dear List: Recently I was in Clearfield for vacation. I took some photos of headstones that may have ancestry history for my family line. The following is a list of last names on headstones of which I have photos. If you are interested, email me, directly. Doreen, AZ Bell, Bloom, Caldwell, Ferguson, Gearhart, Guiher, Hagerty, Haines, Harry, Hartshorne, Harvey, Helper, Helper-Wall, Henry, Hoover, Johnston, Jordan, Knepp, Lewis, Lippert, Maines, McClure, McCracken, Merry, Norris, Orcutt, Ross, Rowles, Selfridge, Spencer, Spencer-Bloom, Wall, Whitaker, Wriglesworth, ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour<http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Perry Co. was formed from Cumberland Co. in 1820. Perhaps you will want to check Cumberland Co. Courthouse in Carlisle. If you've not contacted the Perry Historians, who've abstracted much of this data, you should do so. Justin At 08:02 AM 7/17/2007, Michi wrote: >I know this is not the Franklin or Perry list but, there are so many >knowledgeable people here, I thought that I would give this a try. > > > >If someone would be so kind as to give me some guidance, I would greatly >appreciate it. > > > >Recently I was viewing a MapQuest result and I followed the road east from >Dry Run, Franklin County, PA and ran right into New Germantown, Perry >County, the next town east. I have been unsuccessful in tracking down the >Evans and Bonner families who lived in Germantown, Sherman's Valley in >1780. I know the Evans family married into the Baker and McCrea families >from that area in the mid 1700's. > > > >In 1780-1790, if I were standing at the present location of New Germantown, >on the edge of Sherman's Valley, what county would I have been in? What >county would I be searching in now? > > > >Michele > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PACENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I know this is not the Franklin or Perry list but, there are so many knowledgeable people here, I thought that I would give this a try. If someone would be so kind as to give me some guidance, I would greatly appreciate it. Recently I was viewing a MapQuest result and I followed the road east from Dry Run, Franklin County, PA and ran right into New Germantown, Perry County, the next town east. I have been unsuccessful in tracking down the Evans and Bonner families who lived in Germantown, Sherman's Valley in 1780. I know the Evans family married into the Baker and McCrea families from that area in the mid 1700's. In 1780-1790, if I were standing at the present location of New Germantown, on the edge of Sherman's Valley, what county would I have been in? What county would I be searching in now? Michele

Nobody asked me for 'my 2 cents' but I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. The statement has a lot to do with genealogy - a lot of our troops are dying over there - and Mr. Berry is certainly entitled to his opinion. Dee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda S. Matthews" <genrsch@verizon.net> To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 > List administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops > home" take it off of his banner. It is a political, anti-war message that > has no place on a genealogy list. (It might even be against the rules). > Thanks. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "paclearf-request@rootsweb.com" <paclearf-request@rootsweb.com> > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:02:01 AM > Subject: PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Morrisdale, PA (GreatBerr@aol.com) > 2. Re: Morrisdale, PA (GreatBerr@aol.com) > 3. Re: Ginter, Pa. (GreatBerr@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:43:30 EDT > From: GreatBerr@aol.com > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <cbc.1531ce27.33cc4362@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > Hello Leah! > > Yes, I think I know the park you're talking about, but we always called it > Red Pine Park. It was situated along Route 53 - on the left hand side of > the > road going from Morrisdale to Allport. > > > .........Grant Berry > Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet > Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. > > SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! > > > > > In a message dated 7/15/2007 6:48:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > ljwaring@aol.com writes: > > Have you heard of Whispering Pines? It was located in the Alport area, > Morrisdale postoffice area.? This was an area where there were slides and > swings > and a few other childrens play equipment.? The schools used to take > elementry > children there for a spring break. Not long before school was outthe end > of > May or early June.? I remember spending a few nice days there. > > Leah > > > > > .........Grant Berry > Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet > Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. > > SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:45:52 EDT > From: GreatBerr@aol.com > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c60.14f605f5.33cc43f0@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > Hello Jean! > > I remember the slides very well. The higher slide was the one I would > never > ride because I had a fear of height and the top of the slide was 15 or so > feet from the ground. > > > > > In a message dated 7/15/2007 9:13:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > Jeann8lte@aol.com writes: > > When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us > the > 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and > the > slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we > thought > then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural > playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once > Chestnut Ridge > one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at > Patton > Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. > > My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked > at > NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his > spare > time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. > > I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved > elsewhere. > > Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to > the > area after college, depending on the job market. > > Jean > > > > > > > .........Grant Berry > Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet > Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. > > SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:55:18 EDT > From: GreatBerr@aol.com > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c73.187133dc.33cc4626@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > My Grandfather Thomas Berry lived in Morrisdale and was a coal miner until > he had an accident. Two coal cars came together on his leg and crushed > it. > He spent more than a year in the hospital in recovering from this, and > never > walked without a severe limp and a cane from that day on. Fortunately, > Robert > Bailey (the Bailey's were a very wealthy family that lived across the > street > - the "street" being Route 53) gave my Grandfather a night watchman's job > at > his garage about 200 yards up the street that intersected with Route 53 > almost directly in front of my Grandfather's house. > > The house literally sits so that the front porch is just 2 or 3 inches > from > Route 53. They had their front porch torn off several times over the > years > when large coal trucks on Route 53 got too close. > > My Grandfather had a heart attack when he was 76. He was in the > Phillipsburg Hospital for a week, and was doing well. One morning the > nurse came in and > was opening the curtains and he looked up at her and said "Well, I'm > going > now." and died. To my dying day I will wonder what it was that he saw or > felt > that he knew his time had come. He was a fantastic person! > > Grant > > In a message dated 7/14/2007 9:46:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > ljwaring@aol.com writes: > > After the TMI accident there were a lot of people that were demanding > that > we go back to using coal.? I ran unto one such person on a soap box in a > Hills > store.?(At the time of the TMI accident I lived within the five mile limit > from TMI). ?I asked her if she had done any research into what happened to > the > men that worked in the coal dust. I myself?grew up?in the coal region in > Clearfield county.?? I seen the men that were maimed from accidents.? The > men > that had a hard time breathing from the Black Lung, (coal dust that was > inhaled and coated the lungs to the place that the person couldn't > breathe). The > clothing that couldn't be washed clean due to the coal dust in the air.? > At one > time I lived down a valley from a coal cleaning plant.? The air was > always > full of coal dust that would settle on your laundry and even make it's > way > into the cracks of your house to settle on your funiture, bedding and even > food. > Has anyone thought about the watersheds that were torn up just so ! > the coal could be striped.? At one time this was a great necessity to > heat > ones homes and cook with.? Thank God that we have found other ways for > heating > and cooking. > > Leah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeann8lte@aol.com > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 9:46 pm > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. > > > > It would help if you put in the date of your family's involvement in coal > mining. I was raised in Clearfield County in the west central part, > Penn, > Pike, > > and Bloom Twps are the ones I know best. > > In the early 1900s there was a lot of deep mines, especially in the south > and > eastern sections of the county. A lot like the West Virginia mines, the > company owned the town, the houses and the stores. There was not a lot > of > safety. > Blasting accidents were common. As I child, our next door neighbor was a > widow, her husband being killed in a mining accident. A cousin of my > father > was > > blinded in a mining accident. In elementary school in the 1950s we were > taught not to swim in strip mine ponds, not to touch blasting caps and > not > to > wander into old mine shafts which had not been sealed. Once or twice a > year > a > child or two in the county would die in one of these accidents. > > In the 1950s on strip mining came in as a major industry. In general > this > was safer for the men, but tore up the land pretty much. It was not > uncommon > for land to be deep mined, later stripped for good coal, later for lessor > coal > and finally for clay for one of the many brick yards in the county. > > There were also large stone quarries in the Curwensville and Anderson > Creek > Hill areas active over time in the 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of > Italians > were brought in to work in these. Recently a company has started stone > quarring > > again in the area of Bloom's Quarry on Anderson Creek Hill. > > There is still strip mining along I-80 in Clearfield County and in > scattered > sites around the county. The recent book by Hughes on Clearfiled County > in > the 1900s has a lot of names and places listed for mining. > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new > AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the > body > of > the message > > > > > > > .........Grant Berry > Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet > Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. > > SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PACLEARF list administrator, send an email to > PACLEARF-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PACLEARF mailing list, send an email to > PACLEARF@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 > **************************************** > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Marjorie That turning area for the engines was?just a short walk?from your g grandparents home. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Marjorie <pearldesert@comcast.net> To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:37 pm Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF] Morrisdale / West Decatur, PA Hello Aunt Leah, I found that very interesting. Marjorie ----- Original Message ----- From: <ljwaring@aol.com> To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF] Morrisdale / West Decatur, PA >I as well as well as my mother attended the West Decatur elememtry school.? >This is the six room school?that burned last winter.? The original school >was across the road. it was a four room, two story school, built of >wood,?that was bought by George Grant Wood.? He put a basement under it and >turned it into a home for his family.? It may have been expanded to have >more rooms in later years. > > This is getting off of the subject of Morrisdale but for those of you > that?would like?to know a little of the area.? There was a brick making > plant in the small town of West Decatur that was owned by the General > Refractories Company.? They had their own clay mines in the countryside > near the town. There?were several small trains, that brought the clay from > the different mines to the brick?yard.? The engines were called dinkys. > There was an area a few miles away, near the small town of Ohio where > there was room for the engines to turn and to be stored for the night.?I > can't say for sure but I believe the area may have been known as > Roundtown. Eventually all but one engine was sold and it was stored at the > brick plant at night.? I often wonder what happened to it.? I was back > there several years ago and there is nothing left of either the turnstiles > not the brick yard.? It has all been torn down. > > For a number of years George Wood was an engineer on?one of these > engines.? His son Jonas Wood was a? fireman on one of the?engines.?I > remember as a kid waving to the engineers as they passed by. I also > remember some of the?fires that were started by cinders that were thrown > from the smoke stack of the engine. ?Bob?Dougan?was the last engineer to > run the train. He and his wife lived in a house near the centre of town. > > Leah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeann8lte@aol.com > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:11 pm > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > > > > When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us > the > 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and > the > slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we > thought > > then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural > playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once > Chestnut > Ridge > one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at > Patton > Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. > > My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked > at > NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his > spare > time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. > > I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved > elsewhere. > Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the > area after college, depending on the job market. > > Jean > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

I applaud the gentleman for coming forward and making things right. Neal Tucson, Az. ----- Original Message ----- From: GreatBerr@aol.com<mailto:GreatBerr@aol.com> To: genrsch@verizon.net<mailto:genrsch@verizon.net> ; paclearf@rootsweb.com<mailto:paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 Hello! I'm the culprit with the anti-war message. It's part of an automatic signature block. I have suppressed it here and will continue to do so as you requested. I apologize for any inconvenience. Grant Berry In a message dated 7/16/2007 9:20:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, genrsch@verizon.net<mailto:genrsch@verizon.net> writes: List administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops home" take it off of his banner. It is a political, anti-war message that has no place on a genealogy list. (It might even be against the rules). Thanks. ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour<http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm looking for Hawksblack. Anyone heard from him? Renee Waring ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Hello Aunt Leah, I found that very interesting. Marjorie ----- Original Message ----- From: <ljwaring@aol.com> To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF] Morrisdale / West Decatur, PA >I as well as well as my mother attended the West Decatur elememtry school.? >This is the six room school?that burned last winter.? The original school >was across the road. it was a four room, two story school, built of >wood,?that was bought by George Grant Wood.? He put a basement under it and >turned it into a home for his family.? It may have been expanded to have >more rooms in later years. > > This is getting off of the subject of Morrisdale but for those of you > that?would like?to know a little of the area.? There was a brick making > plant in the small town of West Decatur that was owned by the General > Refractories Company.? They had their own clay mines in the countryside > near the town. There?were several small trains, that brought the clay from > the different mines to the brick?yard.? The engines were called dinkys. > There was an area a few miles away, near the small town of Ohio where > there was room for the engines to turn and to be stored for the night.?I > can't say for sure but I believe the area may have been known as > Roundtown. Eventually all but one engine was sold and it was stored at the > brick plant at night.? I often wonder what happened to it.? I was back > there several years ago and there is nothing left of either the turnstiles > not the brick yard.? It has all been torn down. > > For a number of years George Wood was an engineer on?one of these > engines.? His son Jonas Wood was a? fireman on one of the?engines.?I > remember as a kid waving to the engineers as they passed by. I also > remember some of the?fires that were started by cinders that were thrown > from the smoke stack of the engine. ?Bob?Dougan?was the last engineer to > run the train. He and his wife lived in a house near the centre of town. > > Leah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeann8lte@aol.com > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:11 pm > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > > > > When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us > the > 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and > the > slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we > thought > > then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural > playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once > Chestnut > Ridge > one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at > Patton > Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. > > My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked > at > NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his > spare > time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. > > I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved > elsewhere. > Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the > area after college, depending on the job market. > > Jean > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello! I'm the culprit with the anti-war message. It's part of an automatic signature block. I have suppressed it here and will continue to do so as you requested. I apologize for any inconvenience. Grant Berry In a message dated 7/16/2007 9:20:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, genrsch@verizon.net writes: List administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops home" take it off of his banner. It is a political, anti-war message that has no place on a genealogy list. (It might even be against the rules). Thanks. ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

I'm interested in it, because some of my ancestors worked for the railroad after they left the coal mines. Sharon Erickson Howell ----- Original Message ----- From: <ljwaring@aol.com> To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: [PACLEARF] PACLEARF] Morrisdale / West Decatur, PA >I as well as well as my mother attended the West Decatur elememtry school.? >This is the six room school?that burned last winter.? The original school >was across the road. it was a four room, two story school, built of >wood,?that was bought by George Grant Wood.? He put a basement under it and >turned it into a home for his family.? It may have been expanded to have >more rooms in later years. > > This is getting off of the subject of Morrisdale but for those of you > that?would like?to know a little of the area.? There was a brick making > plant in the small town of West Decatur that was owned by the General > Refractories Company.? They had their own clay mines in the countryside > near the town. There?were several small trains, that brought the clay from > the different mines to the brick?yard.? The engines were called dinkys. > There was an area a few miles away, near the small town of Ohio where > there was room for the engines to turn and to be stored for the night.?I > can't say for sure but I believe the area may have been known as > Roundtown. Eventually all but one engine was sold and it was stored at the > brick plant at night.? I often wonder what happened to it.? I was back > there several years ago and there is nothing left of either the turnstiles > not the brick yard.? It has all been torn down. > > For a number of years George Wood was an engineer on?one of these > engines.? His son Jonas Wood was a? fireman on one of the?engines.?I > remember as a kid waving to the engineers as they passed by. I also > remember some of the?fires that were started by cinders that were thrown > from the smoke stack of the engine. ?Bob?Dougan?was the last engineer to > run the train. He and his wife lived in a house near the centre of town. > > Leah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeann8lte@aol.com > To: paclearf@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:11 pm > Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > > > > When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us > the > 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and > the > slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we > thought > > then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural > playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once > Chestnut > Ridge > one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at > Patton > Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. > > My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked > at > NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his > spare > time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. > > I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved > elsewhere. > Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the > area after college, depending on the job market. > > Jean > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

I as well as well as my mother attended the West Decatur elememtry school.? This is the six room school?that burned last winter.? The original school was across the road. it was a four room, two story school, built of wood,?that was bought by George Grant Wood.? He put a basement under it and turned it into a home for his family.? It may have been expanded to have more rooms in later years. This is getting off of the subject of Morrisdale but for those of you that?would like?to know a little of the area.? There was a brick making plant in the small town of West Decatur that was owned by the General Refractories Company.? They had their own clay mines in the countryside near the town. There?were several small trains, that brought the clay from the different mines to the brick?yard.? The engines were called dinkys. There was an area a few miles away, near the small town of Ohio where there was room for the engines to turn and to be stored for the night.?I can't say for sure but I believe the area may have been known as Roundtown. Eventually all but one engine was sold and it was stored at the brick plant at night.? I often wonder what happened to it.? I was back there several years ago and there is nothing left of either the turnstiles not the brick yard.? It has all been torn down. For a number of years George Wood was an engineer on?one of these engines.? His son Jonas Wood was a? fireman on one of the?engines.?I remember as a kid waving to the engineers as they passed by. I also remember some of the?fires that were started by cinders that were thrown from the smoke stack of the engine. ?Bob?Dougan?was the last engineer to run the train. He and his wife lived in a house near the centre of town. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Jeann8lte@aol.com To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:11 pm Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us the 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and the slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we thought then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once Chestnut Ridge one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at Patton Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked at NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his spare time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved elsewhere. Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the area after college, depending on the job market. Jean ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

List administrator: Please have the poster with the "Surge our troops home" take it off of his banner. It is a political, anti-war message that has no place on a genealogy list. (It might even be against the rules). Thanks. ----- Original Message ---- From: "paclearf-request@rootsweb.com" <paclearf-request@rootsweb.com> To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:02:01 AM Subject: PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 138 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Morrisdale, PA (GreatBerr@aol.com) 2. Re: Morrisdale, PA (GreatBerr@aol.com) 3. Re: Ginter, Pa. (GreatBerr@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:43:30 EDT From: GreatBerr@aol.com Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <cbc.1531ce27.33cc4362@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hello Leah! Yes, I think I know the park you're talking about, but we always called it Red Pine Park. It was situated along Route 53 - on the left hand side of the road going from Morrisdale to Allport. .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! In a message dated 7/15/2007 6:48:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ljwaring@aol.com writes: Have you heard of Whispering Pines? It was located in the Alport area, Morrisdale postoffice area.? This was an area where there were slides and swings and a few other childrens play equipment.? The schools used to take elementry children there for a spring break. Not long before school was outthe end of May or early June.? I remember spending a few nice days there. Leah .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:45:52 EDT From: GreatBerr@aol.com Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c60.14f605f5.33cc43f0@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hello Jean! I remember the slides very well. The higher slide was the one I would never ride because I had a fear of height and the top of the slide was 15 or so feet from the ground. In a message dated 7/15/2007 9:13:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Jeann8lte@aol.com writes: When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us the 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and the slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we thought then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once Chestnut Ridge one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at Patton Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked at NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his spare time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved elsewhere. Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the area after college, depending on the job market. Jean .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:55:18 EDT From: GreatBerr@aol.com Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c73.187133dc.33cc4626@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" My Grandfather Thomas Berry lived in Morrisdale and was a coal miner until he had an accident. Two coal cars came together on his leg and crushed it. He spent more than a year in the hospital in recovering from this, and never walked without a severe limp and a cane from that day on. Fortunately, Robert Bailey (the Bailey's were a very wealthy family that lived across the street - the "street" being Route 53) gave my Grandfather a night watchman's job at his garage about 200 yards up the street that intersected with Route 53 almost directly in front of my Grandfather's house. The house literally sits so that the front porch is just 2 or 3 inches from Route 53. They had their front porch torn off several times over the years when large coal trucks on Route 53 got too close. My Grandfather had a heart attack when he was 76. He was in the Phillipsburg Hospital for a week, and was doing well. One morning the nurse came in and was opening the curtains and he looked up at her and said "Well, I'm going now." and died. To my dying day I will wonder what it was that he saw or felt that he knew his time had come. He was a fantastic person! Grant In a message dated 7/14/2007 9:46:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ljwaring@aol.com writes: After the TMI accident there were a lot of people that were demanding that we go back to using coal.? I ran unto one such person on a soap box in a Hills store.?(At the time of the TMI accident I lived within the five mile limit from TMI). ?I asked her if she had done any research into what happened to the men that worked in the coal dust. I myself?grew up?in the coal region in Clearfield county.?? I seen the men that were maimed from accidents.? The men that had a hard time breathing from the Black Lung, (coal dust that was inhaled and coated the lungs to the place that the person couldn't breathe). The clothing that couldn't be washed clean due to the coal dust in the air.? At one time I lived down a valley from a coal cleaning plant.? The air was always full of coal dust that would settle on your laundry and even make it's way into the cracks of your house to settle on your funiture, bedding and even food. Has anyone thought about the watersheds that were torn up just so ! the coal could be striped.? At one time this was a great necessity to heat ones homes and cook with.? Thank God that we have found other ways for heating and cooking. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Jeann8lte@aol.com To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 9:46 pm Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. It would help if you put in the date of your family's involvement in coal mining. I was raised in Clearfield County in the west central part, Penn, Pike, and Bloom Twps are the ones I know best. In the early 1900s there was a lot of deep mines, especially in the south and eastern sections of the county. A lot like the West Virginia mines, the company owned the town, the houses and the stores. There was not a lot of safety. Blasting accidents were common. As I child, our next door neighbor was a widow, her husband being killed in a mining accident. A cousin of my father was blinded in a mining accident. In elementary school in the 1950s we were taught not to swim in strip mine ponds, not to touch blasting caps and not to wander into old mine shafts which had not been sealed. Once or twice a year a child or two in the county would die in one of these accidents. In the 1950s on strip mining came in as a major industry. In general this was safer for the men, but tore up the land pretty much. It was not uncommon for land to be deep mined, later stripped for good coal, later for lessor coal and finally for clay for one of the many brick yards in the county. There were also large stone quarries in the Curwensville and Anderson Creek Hill areas active over time in the 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of Italians were brought in to work in these. Recently a company has started stone quarring again in the area of Bloom's Quarry on Anderson Creek Hill. There is still strip mining along I-80 in Clearfield County and in scattered sites around the county. 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My Grandfather Thomas Berry lived in Morrisdale and was a coal miner until he had an accident. Two coal cars came together on his leg and crushed it. He spent more than a year in the hospital in recovering from this, and never walked without a severe limp and a cane from that day on. Fortunately, Robert Bailey (the Bailey's were a very wealthy family that lived across the street - the "street" being Route 53) gave my Grandfather a night watchman's job at his garage about 200 yards up the street that intersected with Route 53 almost directly in front of my Grandfather's house. The house literally sits so that the front porch is just 2 or 3 inches from Route 53. They had their front porch torn off several times over the years when large coal trucks on Route 53 got too close. My Grandfather had a heart attack when he was 76. He was in the Phillipsburg Hospital for a week, and was doing well. One morning the nurse came in and was opening the curtains and he looked up at her and said "Well, I'm going now." and died. To my dying day I will wonder what it was that he saw or felt that he knew his time had come. He was a fantastic person! Grant In a message dated 7/14/2007 9:46:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ljwaring@aol.com writes: After the TMI accident there were a lot of people that were demanding that we go back to using coal.? I ran unto one such person on a soap box in a Hills store.?(At the time of the TMI accident I lived within the five mile limit from TMI). ?I asked her if she had done any research into what happened to the men that worked in the coal dust. I myself?grew up?in the coal region in Clearfield county.?? I seen the men that were maimed from accidents.? The men that had a hard time breathing from the Black Lung, (coal dust that was inhaled and coated the lungs to the place that the person couldn't breathe). The clothing that couldn't be washed clean due to the coal dust in the air.? At one time I lived down a valley from a coal cleaning plant.? The air was always full of coal dust that would settle on your laundry and even make it's way into the cracks of your house to settle on your funiture, bedding and even food. Has anyone thought about the watersheds that were torn up just so ! the coal could be striped.? At one time this was a great necessity to heat ones homes and cook with.? Thank God that we have found other ways for heating and cooking. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Jeann8lte@aol.com To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 9:46 pm Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. It would help if you put in the date of your family's involvement in coal mining. I was raised in Clearfield County in the west central part, Penn, Pike, and Bloom Twps are the ones I know best. In the early 1900s there was a lot of deep mines, especially in the south and eastern sections of the county. A lot like the West Virginia mines, the company owned the town, the houses and the stores. There was not a lot of safety. Blasting accidents were common. As I child, our next door neighbor was a widow, her husband being killed in a mining accident. A cousin of my father was blinded in a mining accident. In elementary school in the 1950s we were taught not to swim in strip mine ponds, not to touch blasting caps and not to wander into old mine shafts which had not been sealed. Once or twice a year a child or two in the county would die in one of these accidents. In the 1950s on strip mining came in as a major industry. In general this was safer for the men, but tore up the land pretty much. It was not uncommon for land to be deep mined, later stripped for good coal, later for lessor coal and finally for clay for one of the many brick yards in the county. There were also large stone quarries in the Curwensville and Anderson Creek Hill areas active over time in the 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of Italians were brought in to work in these. Recently a company has started stone quarring again in the area of Bloom's Quarry on Anderson Creek Hill. There is still strip mining along I-80 in Clearfield County and in scattered sites around the county. The recent book by Hughes on Clearfiled County in the 1900s has a lot of names and places listed for mining. ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Hello Jean! I remember the slides very well. The higher slide was the one I would never ride because I had a fear of height and the top of the slide was 15 or so feet from the ground. In a message dated 7/15/2007 9:13:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Jeann8lte@aol.com writes: When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us the 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and the slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we thought then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once Chestnut Ridge one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at Patton Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked at NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his spare time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved elsewhere. Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the area after college, depending on the job market. Jean .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Hello Leah! Yes, I think I know the park you're talking about, but we always called it Red Pine Park. It was situated along Route 53 - on the left hand side of the road going from Morrisdale to Allport. .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! In a message dated 7/15/2007 6:48:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ljwaring@aol.com writes: Have you heard of Whispering Pines? It was located in the Alport area, Morrisdale postoffice area.? This was an area where there were slides and swings and a few other childrens play equipment.? The schools used to take elementry children there for a spring break. Not long before school was outthe end of May or early June.? I remember spending a few nice days there. Leah .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

When we were very young in the 1950s, mother would occasionally drive us the 15 miles or so to Whispering pines to picnic and play on the swings and the slides. One slide was not too high and another was rather high or so we thought then. This was in the days before there were such things on the rural playgrounds. Irvin Park in Curwensville had swings and slides. Once Chestnut Ridge one room school was closed, and we moved into the old high school at Patton Building, but there was still not much playground equipment. My mother had eight children in 12 years and a dairy to run. Dad worked at NARCO making fire brick for the steel mills and did the field work in his spare time. So we mostly stayed on the farm and worked. I still have three sibs in the home area and the rest of us moved elsewhere. Way things look now, two of my one brother's children may come back to the area after college, depending on the job market. Jean ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Have you heard of Whispering Pines? It was located in the Alport area, Morrisdale postoffice area.? This was an area where there were slides and swings and a few other childrens play equipment.? The schools used to take elementry children there for a spring break. Not long before school was outthe end of May or early June.? I remember spending a few nice days there. Leah -----Original Message----- From: GreatBerr@aol.com To: paclearf@rootsweb.com; pacentre@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 1:52 pm Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA Hello Michelle! My name is Grant Berry, and I think I can help with some information about Morrisdale PA. My Grandfather, Thomas Berry, was a coal miner who lived in Morrisdale. Morrisdale is very much in existence - my wife and I visited and drove around a bit, including visits to 2 cemeteries, about 6 months ago. My Grandfather Thomas Berry and Uncle Norman Berry are buried in one cemetery, and my Grandmother Sidonia Moreau Berry and her mother Sidonie Moreau are buried in "the Catholic cemetery". My father, Grant Sr., was born and grew up in Morrisdale. After graduating from Lock Haven Normal School (later Lock Haven State College, then Lock Haven University) he returned to teach in the Elementary School at Allport. The Route 53 you mentioned is very familiar. It ran directly in front of my Grandfather's House, directly across from Bailey's Store and catty corner from Al Shannon's "beer garden". Hope this information helps. If you have questions, I will try to answer them, although I know Morrisdale only from memories of my visits to my Grandfather's house over the years - many years ago. .........Grant Berry Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. SURGE OUR TROOPS HOME !!! In a message dated 7/15/2007 11:46:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, cunhel@comcast.net writes: Hello, Group: I was at the post office in Billerica, MA, waiting to mail a package and the person in front of me was sending something to Moshannon, PA and asked for a zip code. That got my attention, because my mother grew up in Grassflat, PA and I knew it was not far. I started a conversation with the person in front of me while the clerk got the zip code. She said that the package was actually going to Morrisdale, but The postal worker was not able to find a zip code for that town. Boy, did that ever get my attention. I told her about my quest to find ancestors and that the brother of my 4th great-grandmother was born in Morrisdale, but I was never able to locate it. That is when the postal worker "discovered" the postal worker came up with a zip code for "Morrisdale, PA, 16858. It is about 15 miles South/West of Moshannon, off of Allport-Bigler Road (53.), just North of Allport. Even my Mom, who grew up in the area didn't know where it was! If anybody else knows anything about the town (even if it is a ghost town) I would welcome some info. Now This puts that family in the area in the 1790-1800 time frame. I did not think that the area was so settled back then. Michele ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Sign on to mapquest.com and do a search go Ginter.? It will show you where it is located. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Scottie <scotfaye33983@yahoo.com> To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 7:46 am Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. Good morning, Sorry about not leaving the time period..just wanted to know where Ginter was?? My grandfather immigrated from Scotland in 1924 and the rest in 1925. I know they ended up in Emeigh Run and my father was killed in that particular mine in 1940. Am just tracing their tracks of when and where they lived when they first came here. thanks for the info you have already sent. Grew up in Cambria myself a few miles from Marstellar..know well of what you talked about with coal mining. My mothers father, brothers worked there too for a while as did many others of the family. Scottie ----- Original Message ---- From: "Jeann8lte@aol.com" <Jeann8lte@aol.com> To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 9:46:51 PM Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Ginter, Pa. It would help if you put in the date of your family's involvement in coal mining. I was raised in Clearfield County in the west central part, Penn, Pike, and Bloom Twps are the ones I know best. In the early 1900s there was a lot of deep mines, especially in the south and eastern sections of the county. A lot like the West Virginia mines, the company owned the town, the houses and the stores. There was not a lot of safety. Blasting accidents were common. As I child, our next door neighbor was a widow, her husband being killed in a mining accident. A cousin of my father was blinded in a mining accident. In elementary school in the 1950s we were taught not to swim in strip mine ponds, not to touch blasting caps and not to wander into old mine shafts which had not been sealed. Once or twice a year a child or two in the county would die in one of these accidents. In the 1950s on strip mining came in as a major industry. In general this was safer for the men, but tore up the land pretty much. It was not uncommon for land to be deep mined, later stripped for good coal, later for lessor coal and finally for clay for one of the many brick yards in the county. There were also large stone quarries in the Curwensville and Anderson Creek Hill areas active over time in the 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of Italians were brought in to work in these. Recently a company has started stone quarring again in the area of Bloom's Quarry on Anderson Creek Hill. There is still strip mining along I-80 in Clearfield County and in scattered sites around the county. The recent book by Hughes on Clearfiled County in the 1900s has a lot of names and places listed for mining. ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Hello all, I have been to Morrisdale. It is in Morris Township I believe. My great-grandmother, Ruth Hewitt grew up there. It is a nice, quaint small Pennsylvania town. I have posted a partial tombstone photo project of the local cemetery for Morrisdale at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/clearfield/tsimages/grandview-morrisdale.htm Ellis Michaels File Manager Clearfield County Pennsylvania GenWeb Archives Project ellisrn@earthlink.net "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing" (Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac) > [Original Message] > From: Michi <cunhel@comcast.net> > To: <pacentre@rootsweb.com>; <paclearf@rootsweb.com> > Date: 7/15/2007 12:45:22 PM > Subject: [PACLEARF] Morrisdale, PA > > Hello, Group: > > > > I was at the post office in Billerica, MA, waiting to mail a package and the > person in front of me was sending something to Moshannon, PA and asked for a > zip code. That got my attention, because my mother grew up in Grassflat, PA > and I knew it was not far. I started a conversation with the person in > front of me while the clerk got the zip code. She said that the package was > actually going to Morrisdale, but The postal worker was not able to find a > zip code for that town. Boy, did that ever get my attention. I told her > about my quest to find ancestors and that the brother of my 4th > great-grandmother was born in Morrisdale, but I was never able to locate it. > That is when the postal worker "discovered" the postal worker came up with > a zip code for "Morrisdale, PA, 16858. It is about 15 miles South/West of > Moshannon, off of Allport-Bigler Road (53.), just North of Allport. Even my > Mom, who grew up in the area didn't know where it was! If anybody else > knows anything about the town (even if it is a ghost town) I would welcome > some info. Now This puts that family in the area in the 1790-1800 time > frame. I did not think that the area was so settled back then. > > > > Michele > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message