>Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:32:26 >To: PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com >From: Ken and Dora <kendora@hula.net> >Subject: Stovers in Lancaster County > >Aloha, it is a little more difficult for me now to research my Stover ancestors in Lancaster County, as I left home over forty years ago to join the Army when I was seventeen years old. Thank goodness now for the rootsweb genealogical data co-operative, for I have a better chance to finding my roots. Here is what I know, in brief: > >Great Grandfather: Samuel STOVER. Great Grandmother: Mary SMITH (her maiden name, of course). As there are so many Samuel Stover and Mary Smith's, it makes the search more difficult, so here are facts on their children which, I am hoping will "shed some light". > >Their children: Three sons, (1) Samuel STOVER, married Tillie (?), had son, Kenneth STOVER (NOT my father, also named Kenneth). Perhaps other children as well. (2) Carson STOVER, b. December 1893, d. 1977, married Maude (?), . They had a daughter named Mary Jane STOVER, and raised my father, Kenneth Clinton STOVER as well. They lived in Middleltown, PA. Carson STOVER was very active in Red Cross work in the community, and was a retired Colonel in the US Air Force. And,(3) my grandfather, Clinton Jacob STOVER >married Ella HULL. I do not have any birth and death data on Samuel (as there are way too many to determine which one it is, nor do I have on my grandfather Clinton, as my father is now deceased and my mother does not know. Clinton divorced my grandmother Ella, and remarried unknown person. Clinton had a son to his second wife, whom they named Vernon STOVER, b. November 1921, d. November 1976. Vernon married Peg (?) and had several children, names unknown. While I am uncertain as to the dates of birth for Samuel and Clinton STOVER brothers, it is probable they were born sometime within a few years o0f the brother, Carson STOVER who was born in 1893. To my knowledge, all lived in Lancaster and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania. (though Vernon STOVER did live in New Jersey for a while). Mahalo (thank you) for any help anyone might provide. Kenneth Clinton STOVER, Jr. >