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

I've driven through Morrisdale many times on my way to I-80. It's there, they have a Post Office. It's an older town, but there are children - I've been behind the school bus a few times ;-) There are a lot of small towns in the 168 zipcode area, many of which you'd hardly know are there. Centre County and Clearfield County had small communities everywhere back in the agricultural and small-scale manufacturing days. Most of them still exist, or were absorbed into nearby towns. Not that many were completely abandoned like Erbtown, unless they were in land that ended up in the hands of government.

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

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

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 ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

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

Hello All: I'm looking for the marriage date of Isaiah SMEAL (aka SMAIL, SCHMEHL) and Calista Amanda FOX. Can anyone help me? Thanks and best regards, Jacquelyn

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Dear Group, Just recently learned where my fathers family first lived on arriving here in the USA . Knew it was in Clearfield Co. but never knew the exact area. Would anyone please give me info about the area and if coal mining was the type of area it was? Grandfather and most of the men in family were miners. Any info would be appreciated. Also, at this time, is there a known plot map with names of East Ridge Cemetery? I know where the cemetery is and have been there many many times but since I live in Florida now, would like to have a map. Thanks in advance...Scottie Lester ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

I am doing some work on our Snyders. I visited the Mt. Joy Church of the Brethern at Five Points a couple of weeks ago. Is anyone on the list familiar with the Jonas Snyder (1830 - 1901) and Mary Fox (1834 - 1905) that are buried there? His father Jonathan is just up from them and Jonathan has 3 generations of my husband's family to the left of him. Would love to hear from more family, Doris Snyder ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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CLEARFIELD PROGRESS, Clearfield, PA, June 8, 1962 MRS. MARY E. BUSH OSCEOLA MILLS - Mrs. Mary E. Bush, 93, a lifelong resident of the Morgan Run area, died yesterday at 2:10 p.m. in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sophia Gearhart at 604 Kate St., Osceola Mills. She had been making her home with her daughter for the past several years. She was born July 20, 1868 at Sanborn, a daughter of the late Daniel and Sophia (Goss) Kline. She was married to John J. Bush who preceded her in death in 1922. She was also preceded in death by eight children. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Roberta E. Shaw, West Decatur; Mrs. Pearl Coulter, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Sophia Gearhart, Osceola Mills, and Mrs. Velma Casher of Woodland. Also surviving are 59 grandchildren; 154 great-grandchildren; and 59 great-great-grandchildren and the following brother and sister: Daniel Kline and Mrs. Annie Hallman, both of Sanborn. She was a member of the Ohio E.U.B. Church where services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. Ernest McClain and Rev. Ralph Lithgow officiating. Interment will be made in the Mock's Hill Cemetery at West Decatur. Friends will be received in the Dahlgren Funeral Home at Philipsburg from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. ======================================= CLEARFIELD PROGRESS, Clearfield, PA, June 9, 1962 MRS. MARY E. BUSH OSCEOLA MILLS - The name of a granddaughter, Mrs. Velma Casher, was unintentionally omitted from the list of survivors of Mrs. Mary E. Bush of the Morgan Run area who died Thursday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sophia Gearhart of 604 Kate St., Osceola Mills. Mrs. Casher was reared by Mrs. Bush. Eileen Jenkins http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/e/n/Eileen-M-Jenkins http://www.gencircles.com/users/jenkins/ -----Original Message----- From: paclearf-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paclearf-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of paclearf-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 3:02 AM To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Subject: PACLEARF Digest, Vol 2, Issue 132 Today's Topics: 1. obit (maryann czarnecki) 2. Re: obit (June Pack) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:25:00 -0700 (PDT) From: maryann czarnecki <maryannczar@yahoo.com> Subject: [PACLEARF] obit To: paclearf-l@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <974683.27059.qm@web52408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Is there someone on the list who could look up an obituary for a death that ocurred in Clearfield County? The person is: Mary L. (Kline) Bush who was born in 1868 Date of death: June 7, 1962 I believe she lived in Curwensville. Thanks for any help. Maryann --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 22:01:29 -0400 From: June Pack <manatees4me@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] obit To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BAY131-W4278C35493A308FB36A668F7010@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Mary Ann, I checked the Clearfield Progress for June 1962 and the only date they had on ancestry.com was June 6, 1962. Sorry, you may be able to email the Clearfield Historical Society and see if they have anything in their files, I'm sure they have copies of the paper or even the Clearfield Progress that has a lot of papers on microfilm. June> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:25:00 -0700> From: maryannczar@yahoo.com> June> To: paclearf-l@rootsweb.com> Subject: [PACLEARF] obit> > Is there someone on the list who could look up an obituary for a death that ocurred in Clearfield County?> > The person is: Mary L. (Kline) Bush who was born in 1868> Date of death: June 7, 1962> > I believe she lived in Curwensville.> > Thanks for any help.> > Maryann> > > ---------------------------------> Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.> > -------------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. 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Mary Ann, I checked the Clearfield Progress for June 1962 and the only date they had on ancestry.com was June 6, 1962. Sorry, you may be able to email the Clearfield Historical Society and see if they have anything in their files, I'm sure they have copies of the paper or even the Clearfield Progress that has a lot of papers on microfilm. June> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 18:25:00 -0700> From: maryannczar@yahoo.com> To: paclearf-l@rootsweb.com> Subject: [PACLEARF] obit> > Is there someone on the list who could look up an obituary for a death that ocurred in Clearfield County?> > The person is: Mary L. (Kline) Bush who was born in 1868> Date of death: June 7, 1962> > I believe she lived in Curwensville.> > Thanks for any help.> > Maryann> > > ---------------------------------> Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.> > -------------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary!   http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlmailtextlink

Is there someone on the list who could look up an obituary for a death that ocurred in Clearfield County? The person is: Mary L. (Kline) Bush who was born in 1868 Date of death: June 7, 1962 I believe she lived in Curwensville. Thanks for any help. Maryann --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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Thank you to all who responded. I still am at a loss how Harry and Lulu fit in with my Fronk, Westover or Woods family if at all. It looks like they may connect to the McGarvey family. I did not find that Harry and Lulu had any children. What I did find in the Clearfield progress is that they were very involved in the County Extension Association. Harry Weaver farmed about 8 acres of potatoes and kept cows and chickens. Mrs. Harry Weaver as she is referred to in the newspapers is active with 4-H and sewing, cooking and many other farm wives topics. She also was a member of the local DAR, the Susquehanna Chapter. Their farm was in Burnside Township, Harry farming the same land his father owned. More later, Marcia -----Original Message----- From: paclearf-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paclearf-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann O'Rourke Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:37 AM To: paclearf@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PACLEARF] Harry Weaver 1939 - LuLu Wetzel - 1918 This is my family! Harry is James H. Weaver, born 4 April 1895, died 1980. He married Harriet Lovella Wetzel, born 1895 and died 1990. They are buried in Mount Zion Cemetery. Harry is the son of James M. Weaver b 18 Dec. 1857 and Anna E. Ross, born 13 Oct. 1861. I can take this back two or three more generations if you are interested. Ann

This is my family! Harry is James H. Weaver, born 4 April 1895, died 1980. He married Harriet Lovella Wetzel, born 1895 and died 1990. They are buried in Mount Zion Cemetery. Harry is the son of James M. Weaver b 18 Dec. 1857 and Anna E. Ross, born 13 Oct. 1861. I can take this back two or three more generations if you are interested. Ann --- Ecosao3@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/10/2007 8:25:38 P.M. Eastern > Daylight Time, > houstonjm@verizon.net writes: > > Anyone know anything about Harry? > > >From International marriage records: > > Name: Anna Elizabeth Ross Gender: female > Birth Place: PA Birth Year: > 1860 Spouse Name: <HLT> . . <HLT Spouse > Birth Place: IL Marriage > Year: 1881 Number Pages: 1 > > > > ************************************** See what's > free at http://www.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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php