>from Steve Kemp, Huntingdon > RE: > "born in Black Log, Huntingdon and came here (Newport, Perry Co., PA) as a >young girl". > >Based on my experience in this county, and what I'm seeing, namely, no >parents' names on the death cert., and no Harriet in the 1860 and 1870 >censuses, there's likely something out of the ordinary going on. Ask yourself why she came to Newport as a young girl. Parents may have both died. Mother may have died, father remarried, sent Harriet off to be raised by relative. Mother may be a McGarvey, Harriet out-of-wedlock, sent as a baby to live with relatives. Alternatively, father may be McGarvey, mother not married, same scenario. Out-of-wedlock could explain the daughter not knowing her grandparents' names. I would look in Newport and rural areas near Newport in those census years for a litlle girl named Harriet, under any surname, with any family, could appear to be a daughter or other relative, could even show as domestic helper. Might take awhile but you might find her. Spelling: try Mac instead of Mc, try McCarver... but probably the McGarver is the one. Townships: Cromwell and Shirley in Huntingdon, Lack in Juniata, in that order south to north, cover all of Black Log Valley. I heard that there once was a Black Log Post Office in Lack Township, Juniata County.