This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fronk, Gifford, Moyer, Fouts Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AcB.2ACE/1556.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Nelson, Living in Milroy and working in Lewistown sounds likely. What is interesting to me is that I think Isaac Fronk lived in Clearfield County and may have moved to Milroy for employment and then returned home. He was age 52, listed as a laborer on the 1930 census. From what I read, the silk mill in Lewistown was manufacturing goods for the military at some point. As a side note and maybe more than you want to know, they did make several efforts to produce silk in Pennsylvania. There was a bit of a craze in the 1820's, nurserymen were buying and selling for profit a new variety of Mulberry tree that was needed to be grown to feed the silk worms. I came across several notices in the early Dauphin County newspapers for the sale of the Mulberry trees. One difficulty in production was finding cheap enough labor that was needed to unravel the silk from the cocoons, very time consuming work. Marcia Fronk