This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VARNS, VARNES, ROBINSON, ROBISON, ELLEARD Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3367 Message Board Post: Re: Frances "Fannie" Varnes or Varns d/o Jacob Varnes or Varns and Mary Stauffer of Fayette Co., PA Jacob VARNES' will in Fayette Co. dated 1838 lists "Fanney" as a daughter. According to the book entitled THE GENEALOGY OF THE JACOB LEIGHTY FAMILY OF FAYETTE CO., PA 1980 by Floyd Harold Leighty, Sr., Frances VARNS d/o Jacob and Mary VARNS was b. Sept. 29, 1825 in Fayette Co., PA and d. Feb. 26, 1848. In the 1850 census of Fayette Co., Dunbar Twp., little Ann ROBINSON age 2 was living with Mary VARNES (name difficult to decipher) and two of her grown children, Stephen and Sarah. In the 1870 census of Fayette Co., New Haven Borough, Anna Robinson age 22, a teacher, was living with Samuel G. and Sarah Smutz. Anna Robinson disappeared in the 1880 census, but an Anna R. ELLEARD (about the right age) w/o George ELLEARD appeared in Fayette Co., Dunbar Twp. Anna d. in 1901 and a death listing for Fayette Co. 1893-1905 showed: Anna "Elard" b. Fayette Co. Father Johnson ROBINSON Mother Fannie VARNS d. May 23, 1901 age 53 The name for Johnson ROBINSON is sometimes seen as ROBISON. George and Anna R. ELLEARD had four children: Samuel Arthur, James C., Sarah who m. Eugene Sullivan, and George Edward.