I'm having little luck finding the parents of Elizabeth S. Rippey, b. ca. 1805 in Cumberland Co., PA. She married William Fletcher, son of Jacob Fletcher of Bedford, PA, ca. 1830. They had 8 children, 5 of which were living at the time of William Fletcher's probate in 1845 (d. Nov. 1843): Mary Rippey Fletcher, James Reeside Fletcher, Jacob Philip Fletcher, John Rippey Fletcher, and Laura Virginia Fletcher. On the 1850 census for Bedford Borough, Bedford Co., PA, the family was listed living with William's father Jacob. By the time of the 1860 census, all family members were gone. The only clues I've found were that James Fletcher later gave the name of John A. Blodgett, an attorney in Bedford, PA, as his uncle. John Blodgett's wife was Nancy; was she a sister of Elizabeth Rippey Fletcher? Also of interest was that the youngest child, Laura Virginia Fletcher, unmarried, was living in Pittsburgh at the time of her death in the 1920s. Had Elizabeth and her children moved from Bedford to Pittsburgh after the 1850 census, to be with another Rippey family member? Any help with placing this Elizabeth S. Rippey of Cumberland and Bedford, with her parents and family during the early and mid 1800s, would be most appreciated. I've seen several references to Rippey families in Shippensburg during this timeframe, and wondered if Elizabeth were part of one of them. David Fletcher Richmond, VA