Carolyn, I think you are in the right tree, but I don't have the branch!!! Take a look at this link to my rootsweb database. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=lanaclark&id=I2067 Margaret Ellen Devor, granddaughter of Jesse Devor and Ruemma Peterson was married to a Winfield Walker. Now, this marriage is fairly late compared to the dates you put out, but you KNOW how these families all intermarried generation after generation...so this may be a start. Notice the child I started the tree with for you............. Samuel Alexander Walker! Thanks to getting myself really digging into the Devor side of my family (I had basically just straight line back before your post last week peaked my interest), I now know that I am a DOUBLE Devor! (Do you think that is anything like being a double stuffed Oreo?) My great grandmother was the child of a Devor and a Peterson, but through all my digging, I found that her Peterson father was ALSO a Devor. Her parents were second cousins. Thanks for the nudge Carolyn! Lana http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~lanaclark/ ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Carolyn K. Shearer" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [PAHUNTIN] Peterson Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:12:00 -0400 Thanks Teresa and Lana for your help with the Petersons and Devors. While they are not my direct line, I am still looking for clues to what happened to all the children of Alexander and Mary Walker of Malin, County Donegal Ireland who moved from Chester County to what is now Metal Twp in Franklin. Alexander Walker (c1700-1775) and wife Mary (c1710-1774) had sons James, Samuel, John, Robert, and David. Of these, John died c1815 and David d 1824 in Dublin Twp, now Huntingdon Co. As David Peterson and Hannah Bair of Dublin Twp named a son Samuel Walker Peterson (b 26 Aug 1850) I feel there may be a connection. Hannah Bair was the daughter of Samuel Bair (of the Lancaster County Bairs) and his wife Margaret Steel (sometimes spelled in the German Stahl) so they are probably not the right side of the family to look for the Walker connection, but the Petersons MAY be. Note - A Ralph Lee who d c1774 Fannett Twp left a legacy to David Peterson of Cecil County MD. There are also Devor/Deavor families including a Jesse Devor in this area of MD in the mid 1700's. Has anyone traced the Petersons and/or the Devors to MD? ==== PAHUNTIN Mailing List ==== REMINDER: Huntingdon RootsWeb Message Board postings ARE relayed to the PAHUNTIN mailing list. PAHUNTIN mailing list messages ARE NOT posted to the Huntingdon RootsWeb Message Board. ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement