Vince: I don't know if I have had correspondence with you in the past about the Ayres, but my little Everheart cemetery up in Grayson county is full of "Ayres". This particular branch of Ayres came from Missouri during the Civil War. If you are interested, I will give you more history on this family. Mike Everheart Vince Summers wrote: > Hi, Folks: > > It is good to see a fellow chemist online! > > I have a copy of the CD, though the volumes are located > at UVA (I do not work there, but at the N.R.A.O.). > > My relative, George Bucher AYRES is one of the major > contributors to the original Annuals. And understandably > so. George's father, William Ayres was deeply involved > in the development of Harrisburg, and had arrived even > earlier at Philadelphia, than his father, Samuel Ayres. > > George was the first Cadet in his father's school, which > was a military institute called, if I remember correctly, > Partridge's. Dr. William Henry EGLE (to be) was to > enter the field (with distinction) as historian. So it > was natural for Dr. Egle to invite George to participate > in laying out much information he had at his fingertips > or his recall. In fact, George was granted an "Honorary > Historian" position. > > Dr. EGLE died in 1900, as I recall, and his memorial is > laid out in the final volume of the series. > > He covered such delightful topics as Indian raids and > massacres, the Whiskey Rebellion, the development of > the City of Harrisburg, various obscure graveyard > inscriptions, fire-department memberships, court > disputes, family-trees, etc. Dr. Egle also published > other materials, one of which (naturally) was a book of > Pennsylvania Genealogies, one whole chapter of which was > on AYRES. It was how I got started (in a really big way) > on my AYRES data. There may be several errors, though I > must confess whenever I have crossed paths with the data > from other sources (limited) they have never deviated > one from the other, with the sole exception of Lizzie > W. Hicks (so listed by EGLE) being, according to birth > record Lizzie M. Hicks... And who can say with absolute > firmness that it was not the birth record that was wrong? > Remember the source Dr. Egle undoubtedly used... > > I believe, also, full well, that there must be errors, > some typo (as even Lizzie W. may have been), and some > otherwise. But I could not really let the concept stand > that he had a careless outlook on the data he received. > > But, then, maybe I have cause for bias... > > Vince > > ==== PALEBANO Mailing List ==== > If you have a personal web page, please share your URL with us!