----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Lynne Nelson" <mlnelson01@comcast.net> To: <PAMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:43 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} ROLL CALL: Nelson, Mehl, Maisenbacher, Swartsfager, Mitcheltree > > Archibald Nelson and John Nelson, brothers from Scotland who came to > Mercer > County in 1865. Both were originally coal miners. Archie settled in > Sharpsville, John in Grove City, though he left there before 1920. > Earlier > Nelsons who came to Mercer County are from Scotland may also be related. > No > link to the Mercer County Nelsons that are of Irish descent, though, as > far > as I know. > > John Mehl emigrated from Alsace Lorraine in 1857 and settled in > Sharpsville > in 1866, married Sophia Swartsfager of Venango County. Children were John > J. > Mehl (married Anna Maisenbacher), Kate Mehl (married James Luce), Clara > Mehl > (married William(?) B. Mitcheltree)and Charles Mehl. > > John Maisenbacher served in the Civil War. He is believed to have > emigrated > from Germany in 1850. His family moved to Bath County, Illinois, during > or > after the Civil War but he settled and was a tailor in Sharpsville, Mercer > County until his death. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery in > Sharpsville. > (Nearly everyone listed here is buried there) > > Mitcheltree - the family that Clara Mehl married into - is the only branch > of the Mehl family that I cannot trace completely, to the present day. > Anyone researching this family who might have a link? > > Mary Lynne Nelson > Owings Mills, MD > > > > >