God Bless America and pray for strenght to carry on for the families of those who were lost on those airplanes and in front of our eyes as we watched in horror , fear, shock and anger, for the loss of those lives who left home in the morning , never to return again. Pray for those who were strangers to us this morning , but as the day's go on we will come to know them and the grieving families well. Hold your family close when they come home from their day's work and say a Prayer for those who will never again know that joy. God Be With Them All, Sally Malishefski

Benton is in Columbia County, not Montour. It is on Rt 487 in the northern part of the county. Benton Twp. is in Lackawanna Co. It includes Fleetville, among other hamets. The phone number for the office is (570) 945-5897 Tom

Looking for any researching a Louis Justin family. Looking for descendants. Lenora from Wisconsin Researching: Weber, Hengel - Luxembourg Duckgeischel, Rosar, Dippre,Griswold,Burg,Grim-Germany Hayburn, Kelley, Cairns, Dean-Ireland/Scotland

Looking for anyone researching a Henry Reif family possibly living in Scranton in 1911. Lenora from Wisconsin Researching: Weber, Hengel - Luxembourg Duckgeischel, Rosar, Dippre,Griswold,Burg,Grim-Germany Hayburn, Kelley, Cairns, Dean-Ireland/Scotland

Looking for anyone researching a James McGinness family possibly lived in Scranton. He married a Hamm (that's her last name not her personality) Lenora from Wisconsin Researching: Weber, Hengel - Luxembourg Duckgeischel, Rosar, Dippre,Griswold,Burg,Grim-Germany Hayburn, Kelley, Cairns, Dean-Ireland/Scotland

Looking for anyone researching the Hamm family of Scranton. Living mostly in South Scranton. Lenora from Wisconsin Researching: Weber, Hengel - Luxembourg Duckgeischel, Rosar, Dippre,Griswold,Burg,Grim-Germany Hayburn, Kelley, Cairns, Dean-Ireland/Scotland

Hi BJ, Clark Summit State Hospital is still open and they did not charge me anything for the information. Annette

I am looking for the church that Rev. P. C. Nagel served at in 1859. I thing he wa sa monsignor in the early 1900's. Lenora from Wisconsin Researching: Weber, Hengel - Luxembourg Duckgeischel, Rosar, Dippre,Griswold,Burg,Grim-Germany Hayburn, Kelley, Cairns, Dean-Ireland/Scotland

A good map program, or set of maps, is an essential tool when doing family genealogy from afar. Herrick Center is in the eastern part of Susquehanna Co., north of Forest City about six miles. You will find it just along PA Rt 171 north of Uniondale. It's connection with Carbondale was the D&H railroad's Pennsylvania division (before 1955 also known as the Jefferson division of the Erie railroad who also used the same route), running north from Scranton over Ararat Summit to the Susquehanna River at Starucca / Lanesboro, PA. Mt. Ararat to the northeast of Herrick is 2656 ft above sea level and is among the highest mountaions on the Pocono Plateau. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Callahan <jcallaha@ctctel.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:38 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] herrick center ? >hello list.. is herrick center near honesdale or is it in the direction >of forest city pa.. thank you joe callahan > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) >AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed >Please forward any offending email to <mailto:pieroth@ix.netcom.com> >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > >

Hi: Was there a form or a charge for information received from Clarks Summit State Hospital and is it still opened? Thank you for any information. BJ

hello list.. is herrick center near honesdale or is it in the direction of forest city pa.. thank you joe callahan

Joy--this is speculation, but it occurs to me that the answer to your question might lie in the history of the Hillside Home. I wonder, specifically, whether they accepted patients for what we would now call mental illness at the time your ancestor was admitted in Harrisburg. I do not have any references to refer to here at home, but I know the name of the Hillside Home, (CS State Hospital), and possibly the population served, changed over the years. It was at one time operated under the aegis of the Scranton Poor Board (or some such entity), and may have been primarily for the shelter of indigents, more like a poor house or work house. It may very well have served various groups, of course, all at the same time, but I believe it has not always been exlusively for the treatment of mental illness. Sorry for the vagueness; maybe some other reader can refer to a history of Lackwanna Co. for you--or Scranton--that would give some specifics about the institution. My point being that Harrisburg may have been the closest appropriate facility available at the time. ??? Anne

It does help to get the address right. Thanks. Anne

The Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum may be the present day Harrisburg State Hospital located across the street from the State Farm Show Building on Cameron Street. My gggaunt was institutionalized there as well and her name appears on the census as residing there around the same time period you are talking about. Pam Packer (my Lackawanna roots are on the West Side - names Reynolds, Hughs, Davis, Lyons and Williams. My grandfather grew up on Academy Street and is buried in Washburn St. Cemetery).

Hi all-- Anyone know anything about the PA State Lunatic Asylum near Harrisburg in Dauphin Co.? My GGGrandmother was institutionalized there by "the directors" in 1869 and spent almost two years there and then was released as "stationary". She was from Olyphant. Why would she have been sent there? I would love to find this story--any ideas? Joy

Your comments have prompted me to do a little research on the subject. I was previously aware of the merger which created CMC, although it was not in the forefront of my mind. My first encounter with the organization refered to, was in my search for my great-great-grand mother, Esther Evans Rees Owens, who was survived by a brother, Dr. Daniel W. Evans, of Cambridge, MA. Since my gggm spent all of her adult life in Scranton after the families arrival in Taylorville in late 1869, it was logical to assume that Daniel spent a considerable amount of time in this area as well. Going to the city directory, I soon found, and traced Dr. Daniel W. (D. Webster) Evans from about 1899 through 1935 (the limit of my resources here). Upon my next visit to Scranton, an inquiry was made at the Lackawanna Historical Society, which turned up information about this West Side Hospital, but eliminated the doctor as an uncle [for the record, there was only two months difference in birth between my Daniel W. Evans, PhD, and this Daniel W. Evans, MD]. "Not long after his arrival in Scranton, Dr. Evans opened an institution known as the Scranton Sanatarium and Medical Baths, its present name being the Dr. D. W. Evan's Hospital. The hospital has a capacity of fifteen patients"...was founded in 1909... and is located at 157 South Main Ave. - History of the City of Scranton, pgs 371 (bio) and 321 - LHC collection. Following the trail through the city directories I thought I found the name evolving to the West Side Hospital, but I WAS WRONG! Rechecking the city directory today for 1919 (and I made a copy so I don't make this mistake again), I found that the West Side Hospital existed then and is therefore not the same as Dr. Evan's establishment. A complete list will be typed and sent to the web master for inclusion. -----Original Message----- From: CGTJ@aol.com <CGTJ@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:28 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] Re: Richard JAMES III > > >The West Side Hospital may have once been located on South Main Avenue at one >time but it didn't go out of business in the 1930s. It was located on >Jackson Street and was still in existence as pretty much of a full service >hospital (including child delivery and a fine nursery) until sometime around >the 1960s I believe when it merged with the Hahnemann Hospital. They became >at that time Community Medical Center East and Community Medical Center West. > After a few years the West branch (the old West Side Hospital) was closed >and CMC East simply became Community Medical Center (CMC). Scranton State >General Hospital on Mulberry Street was demolished to put up the new State >Northeast Veteran's Center between 1988 and 1991 when the ground was broken >for the Vet's Center. The Mercy Hospital is also on Jefferson Avenue in >Scranton and many children were born there. Rich is right though when he >says that chances are that someone born in 1919 was born at home. People >didn't usually go to the hospital for childbirth then. > >In a message dated 9/5/2001 10:17:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > >> X-Message: #8 >> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:20:39 -0400 >> From: "Richard M. Reese" <richreese@fast.net> >> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <002e01c13661$622c90e0$1ea25cd1@rich> >> Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III >> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset="Windows-1252" >> MIME-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> In all likelyhood he would have been born at home. However, the West >> Side hospital on S. Main Avenue is a possibility. More of a clinic, having >> only a few beds, West Side went out of business in the 1930's just prior to >> the death of its' founder Dr. Daniel W. Evans. >> The other hospitals were Scranton State General located on Mulberry >> Street, demolished in the early 1970's I believe; Hahnemann, now CMC, and >> Moses-Taylor - both are in the Hill section just east of center city. >> Although the county stopped recording of births Dec. 31, 1905, when the >> Commonwealth (Bureau of Vital Statistics) took over, the Board of Health of >> the City of Scranton did maintain some record keeping functions. Perhaps >> either of them would be a better direction to go. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jim Long <cactuspatch@charter.net> >> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:12 PM >> Subject: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III >> >> >> >I need some advise or assistance. Richard JAMES 3rd was born Feb 13, 1919 >> in Scranton PA. I am trying to get information on his parents. What >> hospitals were available in 1919 that I might find a birth record? >> > >> >Also, he served in WW2. Would there be a site that might help me with >> service records and would they have parents information? >> > >> >Thanks for any leads. Jim >> > > > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Have you seen the USGenWeb Pennsylvania Page? http://www.usgenweb.org/pa/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

Correct Address is http://istg.rootsweb.com Was just there. Spent about an hour. Barbara

correction.. my great grandfather died between 1900 and 1903 in carbondale need help with lookup if possible for obit.. thanks joe callahan in north dakota -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PA-LAC] help c'dale lookup nwspaper Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:47:59 -0600 Resent-From: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:53:43 -0600 From: Joe Callahan <jcallaha@ctctel.com> Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com Hello.. anyone here monitoring from carbondale? I need someone to lookup or watch for a death notice/obit for my great grandfather who died bet 1906 and 1910. correction 1900 to 1903 His name was Patrick Callahan and he lived at 190 Belmont St and was married to Catherine O'Neill Callahan. He was in the 1900 city directory and his wife lived with their daughter by 1910. Any suggestions appreciated. I believe the paper was the carbondale leader, right? thanks joe callahan ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== Visit the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern PA http://www.cfrobbins.com/grsnp/ To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList

I've heard the poem many times before, but I never tire of hearing it, perhaps because I have found no less than five separate JONES surnames in my family tree. Believe me, I understand the difficulty of tracking them. Gayle Thorpe Baar Irving, Texas Researching: Colonial America: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, Davis, Easton, Evans, Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Hall, Hughes, Lee, Payne, Pettebone, Read, Stephens, Swetland, Tiffany, Whitaker, Woodruff England: Gibbons, Morrell, Thorpe Ireland: Ladburner, Hutton, Ignew, Miller, Starkey, Scotland: Anderson, Arnott, Mackie, Watson Wales: Davies, Evans, Harris, Hughes, Jones, Williams, Lackawanna County, PA: Harris, Jones, Mackie, Morrell, Thorpe Luzerne County, PA: Gay, Hughes, Pettibone, Swetland

My uncle found a note among his mother's papers that William Lundy 1904-1939 is buried in Cathedral Cem under a tombstone inscribed "Groff" plus the cryptic notation 48-290-17. William was born in NYC but both his Lundy father and Burkhouse mother had deep roots in Scranton. His wife was Jean O'Grady of NYC. So can anyone tell me about Scranton GROFFs and possible connection to Lundy/Burkhouse? The notation 48-290-17 would seem to be section/range/plot/grave info. Can anyone translate for me? If SKS could locate this grave and provide details on this one and neighbors I'd be very grateful. ---Thnks, Dan Lundy, NYC 8 Sep 01