[email protected] wrote: > > Looking for info on a Michael HARE, I think married to Elizabeth > had 11 or so children, I think he might have been in Warren, prior > to moving to Erie County..Waterford Maybe????? There are several mentions of Michael Hare in _The History of Erie Co., Pennsylvania_ on line at < http://www.rootsweb.com/~paerie/bates/batesindx.htm>. Michael Hare is mentioned in the first paragraph of Section II, Chapter XII, The Pioneers. There are a couple mentions of him in Section II, Chapter XXVII, Miscellaneous. First, he is mentioned in the section about Revolutionary War veterans and second, in the chapter about oldest men and women of Erie Co. Michael lived to the grand old age of 115 years 8 months 23 days! More mentions in Part IV Chapter XVII, City of Corry; Chapter II, Waterford Township; Chapter XIII, Greenfield Township; and Chapter XVIII, Wayne Township. Hare Creek is also mentioned several times in these chapters. The following is a bio for his grandson (this isn't online yet). JAMES HARE, farmer, P. O. Le Boeuf, was born Oct. 22, 1815, in Le Boeuf Township, Erie Co., Penn., second son of John Hare, a native of Pennsylvania, who must have come to Erie Co. about 1800, and whose father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and also served in the French war. He witnessed the defeat of Braddock, and shouldered his musket to go forth in the war of 1812, when over eighty years of age; he died in 1843 at the patriarchal age of nearly one hundred and sixteen years. John Hare reared a family of thirteen children, five now living; he died in 1854. Our subject married, in 1835, Harriet Preston, a native of New York State, and a daughter of Jeremiah Preston. To them have been born seven children—Amos W.; Stephen W., who served twenty-one months in the late war and was honorably discharged; Silas H., a soldier in the 83rd P.V.I., and died in the hospital at Alexandria in 1862; Martin E., a soldier in the 83rd P.V.I., was missing at the battle of the Wilderness and never since heard from; Mary J., widow of David Cottrell; Lydia A., wife of S. B. Stoke, and Aaron L. Mr. Hare is descended from one of the oldest and most respected families of the county. He owns eighty acres of improved land—a part of the old homestead. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. In politics he is a Republican. Source: Samuel P. Bates, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, (Warner, Beers & Co.: Chicago, 1884), Part VI, Biographical Sketches, Waterford Township. Another write-up about Michael is at <http://www.rootsweb.com/~indian/hare.htm> Hope this helps! Gaylene Kerr Banister Houston, TX [email protected] http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~banister/index.html