Hi Everyone! A few weeks ago when this list was going real strong I posted a message stating that I do cemetery and obituary lookups for Mercer County, PA. If anyone sent a request to me please resend it and I will answer you ASAP. My computer crashed and I lost everything on it - which means I lost all requests. I am sorry for any trouble this may have caused anyone but I will reply ASAP if you resend your requests. Janet Stanko janets@infonline.net Look up person for all Mercer County, PA cemetery information. Also do obituary lookups for Mercer County, PA. Please e-mail me for more information. Moderator for The Obituary Daily Times the email newspaper of obituaries from around the world! To subscribe: send a message to: GEN-OBIT-Request@rootsweb.com with the message: subscribe Visit our searchable web site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary

I also found a State Line Methodist Church and State Line Cemetery in W.Shenango Twp., Crawford County, PA

There was/is a State Line in Franklin Co., Antrim Twp.; State Line Junction in Bedford Co, Londonderry Twp.; State Line Mills in McKean Co., Eldred Twp.; and a State Line Station in each of Bradford Co, Wells Twp. and McKean Co., Foster Twp. Beyond that I have no further information to un-muddy the water I just gave to you. My apologies and may God Bless! Lew ><>

I have a relative whose daughter lived at Stateline in the 1930's or 1940's. Since she may have had Down's Syndrome, I'm wondering if Stateline is an institution. It could be in OH. or PA. The parents lived in the Hubbard, OH. area. Joani

Soni, Solomon Firster will be coming up next. What I could locate on Irvin Amon: (also shown as Irwin ??) mustered in 25 Feb 1864, wounded Cold Harbor, VA, 2 June 1864, died 14 June 1864, buried Arlington National Cemetery. Widow's pension claim filed 9 Sep 64. Removed from Arlington to Deer Creek Cemetery, Stoneboro, Mercer County after the war. If you are interested, it would be to your benefit to send for the pension packet. It often contains beaucoup family information used to verify the claim. If you have any written communications or photographs, the historian would like to copy them for the regimental history or get copies given to him as he is a working stiff like the rest of us. This history project is a very large one because members came from Beaver, Mercer and Allegheny Counties, and maybe a few others. Mac

Hi, I'm new to this list and would like to contact someone that might know something about STEELEs being in Sharpsville in the time slot of 1868-1869. Am trying to find out why my BAILEYs and BRERETONs would stop there for a time before moving on west to Wisconsin and then on to Iowa. TIA Jean RoladexMOM@aol.com

SHARP, JONES, MUNNELLS, RICE, HOOD, CROWTHERS, SHANNON, ARMAGOST, BOWMAN, NEELY, ELDERS, ROSE, EDWARDS, BORN, GETTINGER, REED, STAHLMAN, HAZLETT, GROVE, WHITMORE, WALLACE, MCCORMICK, BROWNLEE, WTHIINGTON. I would like to share research with others working any of these lines. Harry

How about this. Have a great aunt born in 1860 in Trumble County, Ohio. Moved to Mercer County, Worth Twp. with her family in 1861. Her Older sister born in1865 in Jackson Center relates that her younger sister Luella McFarlin was killed as a child by a Ram butting her to death. I wonder what the chance of finding any information on this? Walt in Colorado

Rooters, The gentleman doing the history on the PA 139th is looking for the descendants of Lt Ephraim Grace, killed in action in the Wilderness 5 May 1864 and buried in Wolf Creek Township. A descendant he had talked to several years ago, named Grace, had two photos that he could not identify. The researcher now has a group photograph of all the officers and would like to match names and faces. Any other 139th inquiries welcome and will be answered as time and availability permits. Aside to Jim Sterrett; Company A was from Mercer County. A large portion of the regiment was from Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. BTW Jim, my full name is Frederick Collier McCutcheon. <G> Mac

I have a copy of my grandfather's funeral notice/obit. But I also found interesting that there was a notice written up about the funeral service. Thought I'd type it in because of all the local names in it. (December 1955) Long Service A largely attended and impressive funeral service for O.L. Long of 57 Buhl Blvd., was held at the L. Trevor Sample Funeral home at 2 p.m. yesterday in charge of Dr. William L. Wishart. Burial was in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Mr. Long, who was treasurer and a director of Sawhill Tubular Products, Inc. and a prominent local civic leader, died Saturday in Sharon General Hospital following an extended illness. He was 64. Active pallbearers were N.R. Mehler, Ray F. Eisenbies, Ralph Douds, Ernest D. Heintz, E.F. Resch, Mayor Myron W. Jones, John Shook, and Henry Jones. Honorary pallbearers included Paul Fair, Ray V. Turner, Henry Roemer, Jr., Louis J. Wiesen, J. B. Myers, C.H. Albright, James A. Connelly, Ray Rowney, S. B. Doyle, Carlton Shilling, Earl E. Morgan, and Phillip Ellovich. Also I have a list of district deaths (I can't figure from what news paper) of Tueday, December 1955. (Perhaps one of these names will help someone.) District Deaths Mrs. William R. HOWE,(age unreadable), of 429 Crandall Avenue Youngstown, O. Mother of Persis Knapp, wife of Karl M. Knapp of Beaver. Funeral Wednesday from King Funeral Home, Youngstown. George W. CARSON, 94, in Smithfield O. Miss Myrtle M. DURST, 70, retired schoolteacher in Connellsville. Charles E. ZEIGLER, 85, of Newry, Blair County, in an Altoona hospital. Mrs. Maude V. FISHER, 77, lifelong Altoona resident and widow of Jack Fisher in a Pittsburgh hospital. Mrs. Margaret M WACHTER, 60, Hollidaysburg native and sister of Michael McKnight of Pittsburgh in Altoona. John GRINNELL, 89, retired Erie Railroad conductor in Conneautville. William Wesley KINGSLEY, 79, lifelong member of Big Bend Church in Southern Venango County in Emlenton. O.L. LONG formerly of Mount Pleasant and comptroller and treasurer of Mercer Tube Company and member of board of Sawhill Manufacturing Company in Sharon. Funeral Wednesday afternoon at L. Trevor Sample Funeral Home. Levi S. HOON, state bank examiner for nearly 20 years in Butler County Memorial Hospital. John B. RATHUSKY, 64, designer of the Marvelous Lightweight engine for the Gearless Motor Corporation of Pittsburgh in Lyndora. Arthur CARMANY, 81, of a heart attack after his car stalled on a snowy road near his home in Clarendon. John Jacob ADVENT, Sr., 73, in his Grays Landing home. Ernest E. YOUNG, 80, in his Point Marion home. (Even these short notices are much more informative than most today.) Joanne

I have activated some new DATA boards for Mercer County. These boards are FOR DATA ONLY and NOT for queries. Please don't use these boards to post queries or respond to data submissions. I am leaving the boards open for now and see how it goes. If a lot of query-type messages start getting posted, I will have to make them "read-only" where you have to submit the data through me and then I post it. So, please make my life easier and restrict your submissions to these boards to data only. I have not updated the Mercer County web site yet with these new links, but here they are if you have data you would like to start submitting to them: Bible Records: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerBibl Biographies: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerBios Deeds: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerDeed Obituaries: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerObits Pensions: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerPens Wills: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/MercerWill Enjoy! Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________________ Mercer County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb county coordinator

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS TAKEN ON BOARD THE S.S. Nevada 1872 Liverpool & Queenstown to NYC It is online! http://www.rootsweb.com/~pavenang/nevadaopening.htm You can visit through Sligo Ireland, Venango County Pa or Sullivan County Pa. Sheila Barr Helser ****************************************************** The essence of humanity is in the pursuit of the arts! dp dp || hhelser@bright.net _||_ ' || ` ~/ ) || ( // _)::(_ // ) || ( // ( \/ ) // `-..-' /' SHEILA'S CORNER http://www.bright.net/~hhelser/sheila.html Sligo County Ireland Genealogy County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlsli/index.html Venango County Pennsylvania Genealogy County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~pavenang/ Sullivan County Pennsylvania Genealogy County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasulliv/ ******************************************************

Linda Stevens wrote: > > I'm hoping to locate others who might have information concerning JAMES C. > GAUT/GAULT. He was born in 1783, likely in Fayette Co. PA.. > > JAMES C. married MARGARET CHAIN. > > Both died in Mercer Co. PA.. > > My major interest is in the middle name of JAMES C. GAUT/GAULT. I believe it > to be either CHAIN or CUNNINGHAM. > > Any information would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Linda > > ----------------------------------------------- > List problems? > Check > your WELCOME message FIRST > http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/problems.htm SECOND > then contact stephenL@indiana.edu

>From the 1932 Farrell Reflector. Class of 1919 Samuel Adler, Lawyer...Hollywood, Calif Marie Bowen Rumbel...Hubbard, Ohio Mary Bovard Hile...Farrell, PA Anne Broscoe Wrynn...Sharon, PA John Connair, Draftsman...Sharon, Pa Myrna Dunham, Teacher...W. Tommersville MA Bessie Evans Davis...Sharon, Pa Clifford Hepler, Dentist...Philadelphia PA Estelle Johnston, Teacher...Cleveland Ohio John Konnerth, Clerk...Farrell, Pa John Kozar, Clerk...Cleveland Ohio Frank Kress, Druggist...Los Angeles, Ca Rose LaCamera Monaco...Sharon Pa Gladys Longwell Carrol...LeRoy, NY Max Markovitz, Druggist...Philadelphia Pa Joseph O'Brien, Dentist...Pittsburgh Pa Rose Rosenblum Kamenetzky... Cleveland Ohio Harold Rumbel, Dentist...Hubbard Ohio Helen Sage, Teacher...Farrell Pa Samuel Sayers, Merchant...Miami Fla. Homer Schell, Salesman...Farrell, Pa Martin Schell, Teacher...Pittsburgh Pa Doris Schillings Heiges...Sharon Pa Stella Teilhet Bastide...Farrell Pa Phyllis Turner Davis...Farrell Pa Wilhelm Van Natten, Merchant.... New York City Class of 1920 April Baker Schell...Pittsburgh Pa Eva Bullock, Stenographer...Farrell Pa Addie Carrol, Teacher..LeRoy, NY Elvira Collechi Esposito...Farrell Pa Gertrude Forbes Shaffer..Farrell Pa Mary Fulford Johnston..Wheatland Pa Uldine Gandtz Cameron...Sharon Pa Marguerite Goldstein...Deceased Lucy Grande Mollo...Providence RI Benjamin Gross, Salesman...Cleveland Oh Myrtilla Johns, Teacher...Farrell Pa Robert McHugh, Clerk...Sharon Pa Amelia McKinney Ray...Farrell Pa Kingsley Miller, Salesman...Grove City Pa Glen Morris, Clerk...Farrell Pa David Neiman, Lawyer...Youngstown, Oh Felix Pannuto, Mechanic...Detroit Mich Earl Phillips, Contractor...Los Angeles Ca Irvin Rosenberg, Doctor...Farrell Pa Marguerite Sabo Lawrence..Canton Ohio Felix Sarcinella, Merchant...Farrell Pa Dominic Scardina, Musician..Farrell Pa Clara Schlesinger, Chemist...Pittsburgh Pa Jack Sobel, Druggist...Farrell Pa Helen Sinclair,Stenographer...Farrell, Pa Ann Weiner Regenstreich...Youngstown Oh

Jim and the list, My ggf, Frederick Hill Collier was the commanding colonel of the 139th PA Volunteers. Al Richardson of the Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial, 4151 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA., 15213, tele 412-621-4253, was working on the 'History of the 139th". I have not heard from Al for a few years and do not know if it is finished but I do know that he would like to hear from any descendants of any members. Mac Fred C McCutcheon, 219 Blossom Lane, Sewickley, PA., 15143

Seek info/descendants of William JONES & Mary CATTERSON of "JONESVILLE," Lackawannock Twp. Mercer Co. William Jones b. 7 Feb 1798 Chester Co. Pa d. 1846 Mercer & Mary Catterson b 1801- d.1876 Children: Elizabeth Jones. 1821-1905 m. John Miller McKINNEY Thomas Jones, 1822-1897 m. Lavina BYERS William Jones, 1826-1905 m. Nancy McDOWALL Nancy Jones, 1829-1881 m. Reuben HILANDS Mary Jones, 1832-1896 m. John DONNELL HAWTHORNE Hannah Jones, 1837- ??? m. William SMEAL Rebecca Jones 1841-? m, ????????????? James Jones, 1845-1858 m No bur. with Catterson Grandparents,. Thanks, Bob McKeon

Walt again, I just ran my eyes down that list again, and saw the surname STILES. My friend, Ken Stiles, has gobs of geneological into, and he's a member of the Stiles family association. He has one ancestor who lived north of Pittsburgh, but I'm not sure it's on the Stiles side. Still someone in his group may have info for you. If you want to answer off list, my email address is (nhagenliddle@compuserve.com). Nancy Hagen-Liddle

Walt. The last name on you list of surnames you are looking into is Montgomery. My family includes MONTGOMERY ancestors from Brooke Co, W. Va. and from Westmoreland County. PA. Care to swap info? Maybe there's a tie in. Nancy Hagen-Liddle

> > Subject: [PAMERCER-L] CIVIL WAR ??? > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:26:18 EST > From: WJankow477@aol.com > To: PAMERCER-L@rootsweb.com > > If somebody lived in the Millbrook area, what unit might they have joined to > fight in the CIVIL WAR? > > Walt > Walt, I can't answer your question directly, but the 1888 Mercer County History, Chapter 16, is devoted to the Civil War. It recommends to see Bate's "History of PA Volunteers," (1869-71, in 5 Volumes, PA State Printer, Harrisburg, PA). Chapter 16 does list a number of units from Mercer Co., PA and gives the names of those recruited into each unit as follows (about 20 pages): 39 Reg.10th Reserves, Co. B and G. 57 Reg., Co. B, C, D, E, F, and I. 76 Reg., Co. B. 77 Reg., Co. E. 100 Reg., ("Roundheads") Co., G. I have the 1989 Morningside Book on the Roundheads by Gavin. 139 Reg., (some from Worth Twp.) Co. A. 140 Reg., Co. B. 142 Reg., Co. A. 145 Reg., Co. G. 169 Reg., Co. A and D. 211 Reg., Co. D. The names are listed in alphabetical order, so I could go through it and search for certain Names for you. What names are you looking for? Oh by the way, I went to the Millbrook one-room school in 1939 for the 3rd grade. It is a two-story brick building with one room on each floor. I noticed your post on Feb 23. What was the Surname of your wife? My Sterretts came from Irwin Twp., Venango Co. right next to Worth Twp. in Mercer Co., PA. And I grew up in Grove City, PA. > Jim Sterrett/Palo Alto, CA > sterrett@ix.netcom.com

Jim, thanks for the reply. The particular individual I am looking for is Lysander J. McFarlin. He was born in Coitsville, Ohio just over the border from Mercer County in 1835. He was orphaned at the age of 6 and I am not sure of who raised him and one sister and one brother, but possibly his mother. She was Melissa Hard (McFarlin) who died in 1885 living with her daughter and son-in law William Brackenridge III in Viola, Illinois. An entry in John Anderson McFarlin's bible says that his brother Lysander was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison in the Civil War and died there. His older brother John Anderson McFarlin married Lavina Wick Kimmel in 1855 and bought a farm in Mercer County in 1861. John and Lavina had 8 children. One of them Elizabeth Lillian McFarlin married Thomas Harrison Northcote in 1890 in the Millbrook Area. They farmed just northeast of Millbrook. They had 5 children. One of them Grace Lillian Northcote was my wife's mother. The four other kids were Hazel Ora, Vera Blanch, Paul Wick and Edgar William I believe that John Anderson McFarlin was also the Postmaster at Centretown, Worth Twp. John was 78 when he died in 1901 Thomas Harrison Northcote was on the school board for Worth Twp. Thomas died in 1941 when he was 75 years old. Most of the family is buried in the Union Home Cemetery just SE of Millbrook. I must say that I have met some of the greatest folks while digging in the fertile farm fields of Mercer County. I have learned so much and yet have so much more to learn. Living high in the Colorado Rockies it seems that Mercer County has become my second home. I study maps and history so much that it is almost as familiar as my back yard. Searching NORTHCOTE McFARLIN KIMMEL WICK HOWE MOORE SOPHER EDMUNDS KINGSLEY Reischman Ordoff Osburn Gilmore Ritenour Shaw McConnell Focht Fascetti Uber Ponikvar McGowan Watts Turner Stiles Urey Grim (Grumm) Mauger Dank Kilgore McCurdy Hodgson Glenn Montgomery Most are from various parts of Mercer County but have ties to Venango and Trumble/Mahoning County Ohio. Pretty heavy in the Wolf Creek watershed area. Thanks for your ear all. Walt