Sue, Would you send the first page again.I hit the wrong button and, deleted the message with the list on it...... Thank you Kindly Bea [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:39 PM Subject: [PAMIFFLI] old Milroy graveyard markers > from page 262 of Joseph Cochran's 1879 book "History of Mifflin county". > This deals with his walk through the Milroy graveyard in, presumably, the > late 1870's and hi observations of some of the graves; > > ""We note these to show the surviving population, where rests the mortal > remians of the old pioneer. William P. Alexander, died 1850, aged 58 years, > 6 months; and wife, died 1848, aged 55 years; John Hamlin, died 1852, aged > 48 years; William McNitt, died 1864, aged 81 years; Mary, his wife, died > 1846, aged 65 years, 6 months; Rhoda, wife of David C. Miller, died January > 23, 1833, aged 33 years; Moses Mitchell, born 1815, died 1860; Col. > William Reed, died 1877, aged 81 years, 9 months; James Thompson, died > 1879, aged 78 years, 7 months; Robert M. Thompson, died 1847, aged 45 > years; Christian Brown, died 1875, aged 66 years, 6 months; William Brown, > died 1844, aged 57 years; and Mary, his wife, died 1844, aged 54 years; > Sarah Steeley, died 1844, aged 73 years; Rachel, wife of Isaiah Coplin, > died 1872, aged 72 years; John McDowell, died 1869, aged 76 years; Nancy, > wife of John Beaty, died 1842, aged 75 years; John Beaty, died 1840, aged > 78 years; Bruce McNitt, who lost his life by the burning of the Pacific > Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, February 20, 1858, aged 22 years; James Brown, > died 1841, aged 58 years; Nancy, wife of James Brown, died 1861, aged 73 > years; William McDowell, died 1851, aged 75 years, 9 months. Having passed > away, here rests the hardy pioneer who braved the toils and perils of > frontier life. These were people of experience and strong personal > character." > > > > ==== PAMIFFLI Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb Mifflin County Genealogy Project > Cemetery Records > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamiffli/cemeteries.html > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >