Based on weekly and monthly reports I get from the search engines.. There are best results to obtain: The BEST Results?? Be mindful - all lists are always "SURNAME, given name" Three best ways with QUOTEMARKS " 1. "Surname, " (put a space after , then ") 2. "Surname, given name" (don't bother to try for middle name (middle names produce poor results) 3. ", Mary" - will work if you are not sure of married name but will produce a LOT of results! 1. Don't bother trying without quotemarks, you get more unwamted results. 2. Don't try county name, just go to the county list and you get more results there. 3. Don't try state name, just go to the state in question and browse. 4. Don't try these words - probate, guardianship, etc. Just go to appropriate sections. You get better results. http://www.sampubco.com/

Does anyone have any old photos of Slate Hill cemetery, its said 50 or more years ago there were pictures of this cemetery Gordon Crooks

This is exactly the time my ancestors left Franklin County. It was the conjunction of free land in Kansas and a terrible ongoing depression from the failure of the Grand Trunk Railway. It wiped out many prosperous people who had no other options. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Shields" <shields.laura@comcast.net> To: pafrankl@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:42:29 PM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 113 I enjoyed that. My great grandfather went out to Kansas from Franklin Co. the following year when he was about 18 years old and I always wondered how he happened to know so many people who were already there. Even had a job as a teacher lined up. Laura -------------------------------------------------- From: <pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:00 AM To: <pafrankl@rootsweb.com> Subject: PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 113 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fw: [PABLAIR] EMIGRANTS ALTOONA TRIBUNE 1878 > (Donna Heller Zinn) > > Hello Fellow Listers: > > The forwarded posting is from the Blair Co., PA. List... and I just > received > it. Take note that the first newspaper notice mentions "people from ... > York and Franklin counties.". > > Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MMSGemstone@aol.com> > To: <PABLAIR@rootsweb.com> >> Morning Tribune, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa. 1878 >> >> A HEAVY TRAIN of EMIGRANTS >> Wed. 13 March 1878 issue. >> Eleven passenger cars comprised the second section of the Fast Line west >> last evening. They were filled with emigrants to the number of probably > four >> hundred, bound for Kansas. Mr. W.J. Fleming had about fifty of them in >> charge. His people were from Mifflin, Huntingdon and Blair counties and > the >> balance were from York and Franklin counties. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I enjoyed that. My great grandfather went out to Kansas from Franklin Co. the following year when he was about 18 years old and I always wondered how he happened to know so many people who were already there. Even had a job as a teacher lined up. Laura -------------------------------------------------- From: <pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 2:00 AM To: <pafrankl@rootsweb.com> Subject: PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 113 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fw: [PABLAIR] EMIGRANTS ALTOONA TRIBUNE 1878 > (Donna Heller Zinn) > > Hello Fellow Listers: > > The forwarded posting is from the Blair Co., PA. List... and I just > received > it. Take note that the first newspaper notice mentions "people from ... > York and Franklin counties.". > > Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MMSGemstone@aol.com> > To: <PABLAIR@rootsweb.com> >> Morning Tribune, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa. 1878 >> >> A HEAVY TRAIN of EMIGRANTS >> Wed. 13 March 1878 issue. >> Eleven passenger cars comprised the second section of the Fast Line west >> last evening. They were filled with emigrants to the number of probably > four >> hundred, bound for Kansas. Mr. W.J. Fleming had about fifty of them in >> charge. His people were from Mifflin, Huntingdon and Blair counties and > the >> balance were from York and Franklin counties.

Hello Fellow Listers: The forwarded posting is from the Blair Co., PA. List... and I just received it. Take note that the first newspaper notice mentions "people from ... York and Franklin counties.". Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MMSGemstone@aol.com> To: <PABLAIR@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 4:03 PM Subject: [PABLAIR] EMIGRANTS ALTOONA TRIBUNE 1878 > Morning Tribune, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa. 1878 > > A HEAVY TRAIN of EMIGRANTS > Wed. 13 March 1878 issue. > Eleven passenger cars comprised the second section of the Fast Line west > last evening. They were filled with emigrants to the number of probably four > hundred, bound for Kansas. Mr. W.J. Fleming had about fifty of them in > charge. His people were from Mifflin, Huntingdon and Blair counties and the > balance were from York and Franklin counties. > > One of the emigrants on the second section of the Fast Line, last evening > was leaning out the window whistling a lively tune. It was thought to be the > "Grasshopper March"; a la Kansas. > > Thursday 14 March 1878 issue. > There were thirty emigrants on the Pacific express west for Nebraska this > morning. They were all from Blair county. > > Wed. Mon. 18 March issue. > Ten emigrants will be sent to Lincoln, Nebraska, on the Fast Line this > evening through S.T. Wilson. They are from Altoona and vicinity. > > Wed. 20 March 1878 issue. > THOSE EVERLASTING EMIGRANTS > There were three car loads of emigrants on the Fast Line last night bound > for Kansas and Nebraska. Among those a family of thirteen persons. The > emigrants were mostly from Sunbury, Harrisburg and Lancaster. Some of them are > going to Waverly, about eighteen miles northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska. One man > in the party has a contract to build twenty-two houses at Waverly and was > taking a number of carpenters with him for that purpose. Two car loads of > emigrants including their families, from this vicinity went to Council Bluffs, > Iowa yesterday morning. > > M.S. > > > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or visit the PABLAIR mailing list archives, go to http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/PA/blair.html > To sign up for the Daily Uploads mailing list of PA USGenWeb Archives, go to http://www.usgwarchives.net/mailman/listinfo/padailyuploads > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PABLAIR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Have a little bit on George Gordon. Taxed in Antrim Twp, Cumberland, now Franklin Co, in 1751 Deed records (Deed Book 5, page 535) from Carlisle, PA show that George's eldest son Henry petitioned the Orphans Court on March 8, 1763 as George died intestate. "Henry to take the plantation paying younger children, names; Mary, Elizabeth, Arrabella, Sara, Purdence, Rachel, George and Ruth, 200 acres of land. "Signatures (Mary Laurence - John Laurance. 1778 George Dewent (Dement) - Sara Dewent) 1788 (David McGraw)" Cumberland County Courthouse, Carlisle, PA "The Account of Sarah Gordon and Henry Gordon Administration of all and Singular the Goods and Chattles Rights & Credits which were of George Gordon late of Antrim Township in the County of Cumberland, Deceased." The document states: "Exhibited into the Registor Office at Carlisle on the 9th Day of March 1763" and signed by Sarah Gordon with her mark and Henry Gordon. Distributions are for "The Widows Share - 34.10.4 Pounds, Henry Eldest Son Share - 13.10.0 Pounds". The remaining children are listed for 6.10.1 Pounds each. Names shown for these children are Mary, Elizabeth, Arabella, Sarah, Prudence, Rachel, George and Ruth. Children: Henry (1734-1809 Antrim Twp) married Sarah Johnston George Jr b c 1735 Elizabeth (c1740-p1788) m John Crunkleton Mary b c 1742 m John Lawrence Sarah b c 1745 m George Dement. George died in Ohio Co, now West Virginia Ruth m Arthur Eckels Rachel b c 1755 m William Matthews (1754-1834) Arabella b c 1740 m Joseph McGrew Prudence m James Matthews Have not worked on this in several years. I have a note at the bottom - 'Needs lots of work.'

Does anyone know ANYTHING at all about this George Gordon "conceived in Ireland, born at sea" about 1698 to 3/8/1759 Antrim Twp, Franklin County, PA. Married a Sarah, had at least one child, Prudence, born perhaps as late as 1752 in Antrim, who married James Matthews (1750 Ireland -1845 Ohio) about 1773 in Antrim Township. Does anyone know ANTHING at all about this James Matthews who was son of George Matthews and Isabella Lee, both from Ireland. Thanks!

Hi Folks: There are several of us working on research of Slate Hill Church & Cemetery and one of the things we need is the names of anyone buried there. I already know there were burials as late as 1850, so probably this cemetery was in use close to 100 years. There are quite a few American Revolution veterans buried there and I have some of their names. I have the S A R disc and will do look up for those who might be buried there, at this period of Time I can't do general look ups for other cemeteries etc. Check your bible records, old letters etc. and look for possible burials there and send me the information. In due course we will puiblish a list of all known buruials for anyones use. Gordon Crooks

Descendants of Robert Frank McCune 1 Robert Frank MCCUNE b: November 03, 1850 d: December 21, 1922 Burial: Cherry Grove Brethren Cemetery, Cherry Grove Twp., Carroll Co., IL . +Mary Ellen ROWLAND b: June 29, 1852 m: November 16, 1871 in Carroll Co., IL d: April 08, 1906 Burial: Cherry Grove Brethren Cemetery, Cherry Grove Twp., Carroll Co., IL Father: John L. Rowland Mother: Susan Puterbaugh . 2 Orin MCCUNE b: 1872 d: 1921 . 2 Susie MCCUNE b: 1875 d: 1925 Burial: Cherry Grove Brethren Cemetery, Cherry Grove Twp., Carroll Co., IL . 2 Howard MCCUNE b: 1877 d: 1948 . 2 Frank E. MCCUNE b: August 15, 1882 in Carroll Co., IL (appears in 1930 Mt. Morris, Mt. Morris Twp., Ogle Co., IL census) ..... +Ona May HOGAN b: Abt. 1884 in MO m: 1913 ..... 3 Robert F. MCCUNE b: Abt. 1916 in IL ..... 3 Samuel Emmert MCCUNE b: Abt. 1918 in IL . 2 Lulu MCCUNE b: 1879 ..... +B. O. BROWN Roger Cramer Peoria, Arizona Roger and Sue Cramer's Genealogy Site http://members.cox.net/rogercubs/index.html Ogle Co., IL Genealogy Site http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilogle/

I have collected a great deal of information on JAMES WALKER who lived in Greencastle, Franklin Co., from about 1807 until his death in 1833. He was married to JANE DUFFIELD and had sons JOHN, THOMAS, and GEORGE and daughters MARGARET, AGNES MELISSA, MARY,and ELIZABETH, and others who I do not know. Son THOMAS became a physician who practiced in Waynesboro for over 40 years until his death in 1862. THOMAS had sons SYDENHAM, JOHN, AND GEORGE. I am seeking more information on JAMES himself and son JOHN who married an Elizabeth GRAHAM about 1810. I welcome any information on this family and will gladly share what I have. Joan in Ohio

Franklin Listers. The following site has a great deal of information and documents about Slate Hill Cemetery, including the current owner. http://sites.google.com/site/andersonmccullohmccune/Home/anderson-family/slate-hill-cemetery/slate-hill-cemetery-history Good hunting. Rob Shinafelt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Crooks" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> To: <captainlaser@comcast.net> Cc: <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land > Folks: I now have a complete copy of the 1777 deed for Slate Hill > Cemetery, the original is lodged in Carlisle Court House. What I need is > help in locating the CURRENT HOLDER of the deed which I presume must be in > the Franklin Co. courthouse. Can anyone offer any help here? I live 80 > some miles away in Maryland. > > Gordon Crooks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: captainlaser@comcast.net > To: Gordon Crooks@verizon.net > Cc: PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com ; Joseph Barnhart > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land > > > Gordon, > > How sad. Is this what is known as the Church Hill Cemetery in Peters? > > If so, the list of graves is here: > > http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/franklin/cemeteries/chur0001.txt > > I went looking for that graveyard earlier this summer and couldn't find > it. Now it is gone. > > If that is the same graveyard, Reverend King's grave is gone and > Archibald Irwin (Grandfather to a First Lady of the United States) is also > gone. It is a crime. > > Ray > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Crooks@verizon.net" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> > To: "Joseph Barnhart" <joe.susieq@comcast.net> > Cc: PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:42:07 PM > Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land > > Unfortunately I was so upset at what I saw I forgot to take pictures, it > looks like it might be soy beans, the act was very deliberate and he only > planted what was the approx. boundaries of the cemetery > > Gordon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Barnhart" <joe.susieq@comcast.net> > To: <PAFrankl-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:36 PM > Subject: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land > > > > Hi All > > I too am appolled that farmers don't respect burial grounds on their > > farms. > > There are laws on the books but unless you have the money to sue to > make > > them take care of the area, you will just make them angry and they will > > encroch closer and closer and maybe just plough the whole thing up and > > plant > > crops there. Unless there is a will somewhere stating that the area is > to > > be > > a burial ground forever, we are at the farmers mercy. Good Luck with > this > > guy, and keep your cool and pray to GOD for him to leave it alone. > > Take pictures to preserve whats left for posterity. > > Joe Barnhart > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gordon Crooks@verizon.net" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> > > To: <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:01 PM > > Subject: [PAFRANKL] Seceeder Cemetery > > > > > >> Folks: That farmer plowed up the Seceeder Cemetery on Route 16 just > >> outside of Mercersburg and planed a crop with 6 ft of the few > tombstones > >> left, he deliberately got as close as he could to the stones and > memorial > >> and did not plant a crop on the near by fields.I have a burial there > and > >> I > >> resent this common treatment of a burial ground, let raise hell and > >> protest his deplorable actions. > >> > >> Gordon Crooks > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> PAFRANKL-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 > > PAFRANKL-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 > PAFRANKL-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 > PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Folks: I now have a complete copy of the 1777 deed for Slate Hill Cemetery, the original is lodged in Carlisle Court House. What I need is help in locating the CURRENT HOLDER of the deed which I presume must be in the Franklin Co. courthouse. Can anyone offer any help here? I live 80 some miles away in Maryland. Gordon Crooks ----- Original Message ----- From: captainlaser@comcast.net To: Gordon Crooks@verizon.net Cc: PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com ; Joseph Barnhart Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land Gordon, How sad. Is this what is known as the Church Hill Cemetery in Peters? If so, the list of graves is here: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/franklin/cemeteries/chur0001.txt I went looking for that graveyard earlier this summer and couldn't find it. Now it is gone. If that is the same graveyard, Reverend King's grave is gone and Archibald Irwin (Grandfather to a First Lady of the United States) is also gone. It is a crime. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Crooks@verizon.net" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> To: "Joseph Barnhart" <joe.susieq@comcast.net> Cc: PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:42:07 PM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land Unfortunately I was so upset at what I saw I forgot to take pictures, it looks like it might be soy beans, the act was very deliberate and he only planted what was the approx. boundaries of the cemetery Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Barnhart" <joe.susieq@comcast.net> To: <PAFrankl-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:36 PM Subject: [PAFRANKL] Farmers and Cemeteries on their land > Hi All > I too am appolled that farmers don't respect burial grounds on their > farms. > There are laws on the books but unless you have the money to sue to make > them take care of the area, you will just make them angry and they will > encroch closer and closer and maybe just plough the whole thing up and > plant > crops there. Unless there is a will somewhere stating that the area is to > be > a burial ground forever, we are at the farmers mercy. Good Luck with this > guy, and keep your cool and pray to GOD for him to leave it alone. > Take pictures to preserve whats left for posterity. > Joe Barnhart > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon Crooks@verizon.net" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> > To: <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 3:01 PM > Subject: [PAFRANKL] Seceeder Cemetery > > >> Folks: That farmer plowed up the Seceeder Cemetery on Route 16 just >> outside of Mercersburg and planed a crop with 6 ft of the few tombstones >> left, he deliberately got as close as he could to the stones and memorial >> and did not plant a crop on the near by fields.I have a burial there and >> I >> resent this common treatment of a burial ground, let raise hell and >> protest his deplorable actions. >> >> Gordon Crooks >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PAFRANKL-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 > PAFRANKL-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 PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In a message dated 10/26/2010 3:13:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com writes: I have been doing some research for a lady who is related to the McCune's of Franklin Co. and I asked Abby Bowman for a little help, she found a good URL with the history of this family back to Scotland. I will forward it to anyone who wants it. I would love to have this site. Thank you in advance. Phyllis in Ohio

Please forward Gordon. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: <pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com> To: <pafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 3:00 AM Subject: PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 106 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. McCune (Gordon Crooks) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:03:33 -0400 > From: "Gordon Crooks" <gordoncrooks@verizon.net> > Subject: [PAFRANKL] McCune > To: <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <A7C34300374443358911BE5AB6EED724@GCrooks> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I have been doing some research for a lady who is related to the McCune's > of Franklin Co. and I asked Abby Bowman for a little help, she found a > good URL with the history of this family back to Scotland. I will forward > it to anyone who wants it. > > Gordon Crooks > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PAFRANKL list administrator, send an email to > PAFRANKL-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PAFRANKL mailing list, send an email to > PAFRANKL@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAFRANKL-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 PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 5, Issue 106 > **************************************** >

I have been doing some research for a lady who is related to the McCune's of Franklin Co. and I asked Abby Bowman for a little help, she found a good URL with the history of this family back to Scotland. I will forward it to anyone who wants it. Gordon Crooks

Hi Folks: I am Colby related and received this newsletter, its quite interesting. Gordon Crooks Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [COLBY] Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? > Very interesting. I followed the link and read the Wikipedia (very > technical) article, as well. This is the stuff I mentioned last week (or > so), > excerpted from The Story of English: > > Divided by a common language, each generation has made the enjoyable > discovery that the English of England is different from the English of > America. As > early as 1735, the settlers' word bluff (meaning a bank or cliff) was > under > attack as "barbarous English." As pioneers, the first Americans had to > make up many new words, some of which now seem absurdly commonplace. > Lengthy, > which dates back to 1689, is an early Americanism. So are calculate, > seaboard, bookstore and presidential. As members of a multiracial > society, the > first Americans also adopted words like wigwam, pretzel, spook, depot and > canyon, borrowing from the Indians, Germans, Dutch, French and Spanish. > > In 1776, the spoken English in both countries was essentially the same. > A > contemporary diarist reported that the Americans "in general speak better > English than the English do. No country or colonial dialect is to be > distinguished here." A conversation between George Washington and Lord > North > would probably have produced only a handful of noticeable contrasts in > vocabulary and accent. > > The Americn Revolution marked the turning point in the making of this new, > American kind of English. In 1782 the citizens of the new Republic were > proudly christened Americans and in 1802 the Congress recorded the first > use > of the phrase, "the American language." > > Thomas Jefferson was fascinated by words. Belittle was one of his most > famous, much ridiculed in London at the time. He also lent his approval > to > the new currency terms like cent and dollar. Benjamin Franklin was the > godfather, if not the midwife, of such spelling differenes as honor for > honour, > theater for theatre, plow for plough and curb for kerb, a familiar cause > of > Anglo-American linguistic friction. > > In 1790 when the first census was taken, four million Americans were > counted, and 90 percent were descendants of English colonists. > +-+-+ > Thanks for launching me on this revisit to the language. > > Kate Forster > > > ============================= > Colby list archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/COLBY/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COLBY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

My husband and I were recently in Franklin County (from Oregon) to see if we could find the cemetery where his ancestors were said to be buried. The information I had from FindaGrave said the cemetery (Church Hill aka White Church) is in Mercersburg. I had also found a small entry in the Franklin Co IAGenWeb Archive for the cemetery that said it was Presbyterian. After searching for most of the day we stopped at the Mercersburg Police department. :-) The office on duty had no clue where the actual cemetery was because it wasn't in the borough of Mercersburg. BUT he did give me clue, he hoped. He thought there was a pioneer cemetery somewhere out towards LeMaster. Just about a half mile out of Mercersburg is road called Church Hill Lane. We found a little walled in cemetery about a mile down the Church Hill Lane road (about 3 miles from Mercersburg) and stopped, I asked a lady who lived next door to it if it was White Church or Church Hill Cemetery. She only knew it was owned by the Presbyterian Church. So I went in and started looking (just in case it was what I was looking for) and there was my husband's ancestors ... in a little cemetery in Peter's Twp with a LeMaster address, not Mercersburg. And that was the main point the police officer stressed ... if it was not in Mercersburg or a part of Mercersburg borough. My whole point of this little explanation is ... as much as we all appreciate the information that goes on line, there are unintentional errors that can keep us from finding what we are really looking for. Had I gone just for the information on line and not searched for the correct information, my family genealogy documentation would not be accurate. Constance

We have updated our online family database this evening adding about 15,000 new names, bringing our online total to now over 652,000 linked names. Many come from Lancaster and Franklin counties. You can see these at: http://familyhart.info Thanks! Don & Jeanine Hartman FamilyHart http://familyhart.info twitter-@familyhart Rootsweb List Admins for: Pennsylvania, PADutchGenONLY, Penna-Dutch, PAYork, PA-York-Gen, MD-Fred-Gen, MDWashin, Burket, Dierdorff, Gotshall, Glattfelder, Hartman, Kohr, Kaufman, Shirk, Sturm USGENWEB CCs for: Adams Co., PA; Franklin Co., PA: Lancaster Co., PA; York Co., PA; Frederick Co., MD; Washington Co., MD Any genealogical information sent to FamilyHart grants permission to use that information for any genealogical purposes by FamilyHart.

THE PERRY HISTORIANS AWARDED GRANT and are HAVING SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD The Perry Historians, a genealogical library located near New Bloomfield, Perry Co., PA., have received a grant from the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission and the National Park Service to research the African American families of Perry County. This application was also supported by the Newport Public Library and the Perry County Council of the Arts. During the coming year, research into the African American community from 1820 until 1920 will continue, culminating in a book, a driving tour, and a Power Point presentation available for community and school use. Perry County has a long history of strong African American communities and family groups. Several Underground Railroad routes and "conductors" have been identified. A cemetery and African Methodist Episcopal Church have been located near Millerstown. Nearly thirty Perry County young men served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, and many are buried in the county. During this year-long project The Perry Historians are seeking information about the African American heritage of the County. Some topics of interest are camp meetings, "hex doctors" or healers, the Little Washington and Forge Hill settlements near Millerstown, black skilled labor in the iron industry, land ownership, businesses owned and operated by African American families, sports figures, and many others. Jerry Clouse, Vice President of TPH and Jean Tuzinski, Secretary, recently signed the contract for this project. Janet Taylor will coordinate the research and write the book. Jerry Clouse will be in charge of preparing the book for publication. Jean Tuzinski will act as Project Manager as well as producing a Power Point presentation, and Steve Metzger will organize a driving tour of African American locations in the County. Many members of TPH have already contributed information found during their own research on various subjects. On Sunday, October 24, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., The Perry Historians will host a discussion of the Underground Railroad in Perry County, Pennsylvania. The county was the scene of much action on the "Underground Railroad" between 1830 and 1863. This informal network existed to aid fugitive slaves escaping to freedom. There were at least five "stations" in the county and many "agents" or "conductors" Janet Taylor will lead a discussion of the latest findings, including how to go about locating an Underground Railroad Station. Known and possible routes through the county will be explored, including the Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal. Other topics will include Methodists and Mennonites, the sea shell thank you gift, and why secrecy was so important. This is an information sharing session, so any information at all about the UGRR will be greatly appreciated! The discussion and presentation are FREE to all and will be held in the upstairs of the Hoverter Archives at the Harry Lenig Library - home of The Perry Historians. Light refreshments to be served following the program. Please contact The Perry Historians at 717-582-4896 or through our website at www.ThePerryHistorians.org for further information or to pass on any items of interest.

I have send a long msg. to the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia who have told me they will do a search of their records and hopefully find a deed or record of same. for the Slate Hill Presbyterian Cemetery near Mercersburg. I am also being sent a copy of a old plat of this cemetery by a individual which might be of some help Gordon Crooks