Carol, I do know that the Franklin County Historical Society, 175 E. King St., Chambersburg, PA 17201 has a genealogy book on this Imes family. You may want to write to them and ask them to do a look-up in that book. Bonnie Bingaman---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Carol Black" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:10:38 -0400 >Requesting look-up for William IMES, an African-American, who at the >time of the 1860 Census was 65 years old, lived in Mercersburg, >Montgomery Twp, Franklin County, with his wife, Fannie (age 61), three >children: Margaret (age 5), Mary (age 14) and William (age 9) and >another relative, Henry IMES (age 38). > >The family seems to have vanished after 1860, except we were able to >find the wife, Fannie IMES, in the records of a Dietrich Funeral Home, >Greencastle, PA, that were on file in the Franklin County Historical >Society, listing her death in 1862 with the notation, "Mrs. Imes was >wife of William near this place." Thus, William was alive in 1862. > >Ten years earlier, at the time of the 1850 Census, the family lived two >doors from William's brother, John IMES, his wife, Elizabeth, and >children: David (age 10), Mary (age 8), James (age 6), Esau (age 4), >Caroline (age 3) and John (age 1). Tragically, the parents, John and >Elizabeth IMES, both died in 1854-1855 and left seven orphaned children >who most likely were taken in my neighbors. Two eventually made their >way to Oberlin College, became teachers, and subsequently settled in >Mississippi (Esau) and Kansas (Caroline). We have never been able to >discover what happened to William IMES or John IMES' 4 children or >William's 3 children. > >Would appreciate any look-ups for William IMES (1815- after 1862) and >the children by this list and/or suggestions for additional research. > > >Many thanks, > >Carol >Phila., PA > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >