Have you checked with the newspaper index at the New Castle Library ? Birth, marriage and death are indexed. Bev Zona is a great help there. Good luck, Barbara > Forwarded from the message boards. If you can help, please respond back to the > board through the link listed below: > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ldB.2ACI/2526 > > Message Board Post: > > My great aunt Lizzie Connolly, wife of David Stewart, lived in Mercer county, > PA, having emigrated from co. Antrim, Ireland. They died in an accident at a > railway crossing when their horse and buggy was hit by a train. In 1912, they > sent a wedding present home to my grandfather in Antrim; I don't know when they > died. We don't know anything more about this lost relation; does anyone know of > a newspaper account of the accident? We don't think that they had children; we > don't know where David Stewart was from, but we think probably Antrim also. They > were farming. > It would be very interesting to find out more about their lives and deaths; I'll > hope to hear from someone who can help fill in some of this for the family in > Ireland > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > See your ancestors on line.... check out our collection of Mercer County Old > Photos.... over 1400 old photos on line! > http://www.familyoldphotos.com/pa/mercer >