This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHANK,CROWNOVER,YARNELL,ROSS,KOSER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AcB.2ACE/1595 Message Board Post: Does anyone have info. for the following family? NICHOLAS SHANK b.abt.1824(Germany) m: ELIZABETH ? b.abt. 1830(Saxony,Germany) Children: MARY b.1849 Germany, SAMUEL B.1854 Pa., *SAMANTHA CAROLINE b.1858 Pa.& married John Crownover of Huntingdon Co.,Pa., EMMA b. 1862 Pa. *SAMANTHA had a daughter GRACE YARNELL(b.1880) before her marriage to John Crownover in 1884. They lived in Huntingdon Co.,Pa.& later in Mifflin Co.,Belleville area, where they died & are buried. I am looking for info. as to the birth father of Grace. Grace Yarnell Ross died(11-30-1909)in/near Belleville, Mifflin Co., giving birth to daughter Edna Mae Ross Jackson. Any info. about this family will be welcome! Kathy

In the 1880 Barree, Huntingdon, Pa census is a Leonard, Rudy, age 45. Living with Rudy are sister Nancy Rudy, 52 niece mary J. Rudy, 9 niece Araminta Rudy, 7 ****niece Grace Yarnel, age 4 mos (shows that she was born in January) and transcribed as Grace Garnel**** nephew Samuel Selfridge, 24 daughter, Effie M. Rudy, 2 In the 1900 Barree census, Grace is living with her widowed grandmother, Elizabeth Shank who says that she was born in January of 1835, her grand-daughter Grace says that she was born in January of 1881. In this census Elizabeth says that she is a widow, but in the 1880 census, she says that she is divorced. I think your Grace must be a niece of this Leonard Rudy. Perhaps if you can find out who his sisters married, you might find the missing Yarnel(l).