Linesville is not in Armstrong County. Linesville, PA is in Crawford County along the Pymatuning River and Reseviour. Linesville is known as the place where the ducks walk on top of the fish at the spillway.. AmyHutton@aol.com wrote: > Denise, my father-in-law was born in Linesville, but it isn't in Mercer > County. It's in Armstrong County, but I guess you knew that. It's a teensy > little place by the river just before you get into Freeport. Blink and you > miss it. > > SOMEWHERE on the web I have seen a site that deals with orphan schools from > the civil war era in PA. I grew up in Pittsburgh, (now FL) and I do know that > at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in the Genealogy Room, or the > Pennsylvania Room there is a crumbling fat old book that they keep in one of > their non-airconditioned rooms that describes every PA orphan school and has > photos and lots of stuff. I used to take it out and look at it for the heck > of it. > > NOW that I can't access it, I have found an ancestor who grew up in one! I > surely hope that the conditions in which this great library is keeping such > marvelous records in has improved in the past 13 years! But I doubt it. The > Western PA Historical Society may also have a copy. > > AmyHutton > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the Mercer County, Pennsylvania list, > contact the listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert@stlnet.com > > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ > > This list is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Please help support Rootsweb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html -- Janet Stanko janets@infonline.net Look up person for all Mercer County, PA cemetery information. Also do obituary look ups 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@apple.rootsweb.com with the message: subscribe