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