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.