I am interested in information about the community of Monessen. If any one can help or lead me in the right direction I would be grateful. early history of the land and its inhabitants: Native peoples, geology, etc. early family settlers: Manown, McMahon, Miller, Luce, McGowan, Cook, Neil, Mathews, Reeves, Neil. Any family stories about Monessen through the years. Thanks, Cassandra Vivian

Jordan, Lehner, Scott, Bloom, Blum mostly from Clarion, Armstrong, Stewart from Pgh, etc.; Johnston, Hall, Beaumont, from Cannonsburg, PA & Pgh. Ruth whillp@kih.net

The following info was sent to me by others on this list, which I recived with deep gratitufe and now share with other inquirers. [my apologies for not recording the original presenters] Cora -------------------- In 1900, Hope Church (Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co) had a railroad station, a telegraph station, an express office, and a post office. Population: 1,000 according to Bradstreet's Commercial Reports. Hope Church was in Mifflin Township near Lincoln Place. Hope Church was at the bottom of Mifflin Road and Lebanon Road (Rte 885 N) and was adjacent to Hays P.O. and ran along Streets Run Road near the Pgh and Virginia Railroad tracks. The majority of the property was a plan of homes owned by I.D. Risher. This may be the same person that owned Risher Coal. Risher married into the John Hays family (they started the coal mines in Hays). John Hope and William Hope had coal mines in the northwest corner of Mifflin Township in 1876. On the 1876 Allegheny County Map there is a Hope Church in the NW corner of Mifflin Township. It looks like it would be situated where Lincoln Place is now - close to the Munhall border line. About where West Run Road and Main Street and Interboro Avenues meet. In 1876, Gill Hall P.O. was in Jefferson Township nearer to Snowden Twp.

Sorry about the previous email from me, it was sent to the list by mistake. Wendy

Khanxay, Did you get your securities license? I have an exam scheduled for next Monday for the life insurance policy. Good luck with everything. Wendy

In a message dated 11/17/01 11:36:22 AM, Mmb3563@aol.com writes: >The file (70 pages) >contains many local names. Marge, Any COPELANDs, CLINTNERs, STERNERs, or JURYs? Cora <Arocmae@ol.com>

Thanks to all who answered my last request for information sometime ago. I am hoping some new viewer might see this and could tell me what happened to HUGH A DUMMETT (Dummit...etc who was born in Washington Co. Pa in 1813. He married Nancy Cox, daughter of ENOCH COX and MARY RARICK, also from Pa. She was born in 1817. I need to know where HE came from, and who were his children and parents. They later moved to LaSalle Co. Ill. I'm not real sure if he came with his wife and children or not. He was my GGGrandfather. I know he had children, but not how many. Thanks for ANY help. Joan Dummett Jamison 611JoanJ@msn.com

Subject: Searching for Leibrook, Salisbury, Ramsey Hi All, I am new to this list. I am searching for Leibrook ancestors who came from Germany. Mary Leibrook, b @1825, Francis B @ 1824 and Catherine b @ 1825 were siblings - all born in Germany. Their parents were Henry Leibrook and Mary Eve Ginder, as noted on Francis' marriage record. The siblings married and settled in New Orleans as I found Catherine's marriage record from 1836, but I can't find anything earlier. Mary Leibrook m. Issac Ramsey (from PA) in New Orleans in 1841; and then married William Salisbury from VA @ 1842-43. Since Issac Ramsey was from PA, I am wondering if the Leibrooks might have also come from PA. Issac Ramsey died in West Goshen, Cheste County, PA, 1842. If anyone has a connection to the Leibrook's, Salisbury's or Ramsey's, I would like to share and exchange information. Any ideas about the Leibrook name would be appreciated. I don't find many in New Orleans. Thanks and appreciation. Rose

Hi, Some one on the list was asking about early Funeral Homes in Belle Vernon, PA. In my 2nd. G Grandfather George W. Rose's (1823-1905) Civil War File, "C. Reppert and Son's" of Belle Vernon handled the funeral arrangements. He is buried in the Belle Vernon Cemetery. The file (70 pages) contains many local names. Marge

>From the Allegheny county list. Sounds like a good CD. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clare" <Clare@sierratel.com> To: <PAALLEGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: [ALL] New CD published > Retrospect Publishing is proud to announce the completion of our 11th > CD-ROM > in the Pennsylvania Retrospective Series: > > > MONONGAHELA VALLEY - Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, > Washington, Westmoreland > (Item#: M221 $39.95) > > This CD contains the images of the ORIGINAL PAGES along with a FULL TEXT > search capability for the following books: > > - The Monongahela of Old: Sketches of southwestern PA > to the Year 1800 (James Veech; 1910) > - The Old and New Monongahela (John S. Van Voorhis; > Nicholson, Printer; 1893) > - Directory of Monongahela Valley in 1876-7 containing > the principal towns and villages in the valley also > a Directory of Westmoreland Co. (Wiggins & McKillop; 1876) > - The Tenmile Country and its Pioneer Families, a > Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley > Vol I-VII (Howard L. Leckey; Waynesburg Republican; 1950) > - Old Westmoreland: History of Western PA during the > Revolution (Edgar Hassler; 1900) > - The county court for the District of West Augusta, > VA, held at Augusta Town, near Washington, PA, > 1776-1777; with an account of the county courts > for Ohio, Yohogania and Monogalia Counties, VA, held > 1777-1780 (Boyd Crumrine, Observer Job Rooms; 1905) > - Excerpts from the Annals of the Carnegie Museum > pertaining to VA Court Records in southwestern PA, > 1775-80 (Vol I, No. 4; Vol II, No. 1 & 2; Vol III, > No. 1 & 4; Boyd Crumrine; 1902) > > The Monongahela River which forms the valley begins in the mountains of > West > Virginia and flows in a northerly direction through Greene, Fayette, > Washington, Westmoreland and Allegheny Counties to Pittsburgh, > Pennsylvania, > where it joins the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River. The valley > was a > hot bed of immigration during the late 1700's and early 1800's. For > those > people researching southwestern Pennsylvania from the mid 1700s to the > late > 1800s, they will find this an invaluable collection of material. Within > minutes you will be able to search for well over 40,000 Monongahela > Valley > residents. Search transcribed deeds and court minutes from the 1770's > or > locate a pioneer family and their descendants in the well documented > Tenmile > Country. The author of this book, Mr. Leckey, took great effort and > pride > in combing through court, bible, cemetery and many other types of > records in > order to provide accurate and well documented accounts of the people and > families of the area. Whether you are searching the list of settlers in > Fayette County and contiguous parts of Greene, Washington, Westmoreland > Counties in 1772 or viewing maps related to the boundary controversy > between > Pennsylvania and Virginia you are bound to learn more about this region > of > the country. (2267 pp maps included) > > To order you can print out an order form at > http://www.retrospectpublishing.com/Forms/orderfm.htm. You can also > simply > mail a check for $39.95 plus shipping (shipping in the USA $4.95 - VA > residents please add 4.5% sales tax) to: > Retrospect Publishing > 1307 Warrington Place > Alexandria, VA 22307 > Please indicate item# M221 with your order. > > For more information about other PA CD-ROMs check out our website at: > http://www.retrospectpublishing.com and please remember to let us know > what > other PA counties you are interested in. Thank you for your interest in > our > products. > > Retrospect Publishing > http://www.retrospectpublishing.com > > System Requirements: CD-ROM drive; Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, NT or 2000; a > 486 > or higher IBM PC or compatible; 16MB of RAM; 4MB hard drive space and > VGA > display, 256 colors. Not compatible with network software. > > > ==== PAALLEGH Mailing List ==== > WorldConnect: Linking the World One GEDCOM at a Time. > A gift to genealogists from RootsWeb! > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

Not many readable ones here, but all you need is one --- if it's the right one! Felgar Road Cemetery Directions: Take Route 31E towards Somerset. Where Routes 31E and 381N intersect go approximately 7/10 mile, turn left on 381N towards Kregar; 381N will cross 130, go approximately 4 miles to Felgar Road. You will see the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the right. Mailboxes in this area list their address as Stahlstown (Westmoreland County). Bear to the right on a small gravel road. The cemetery is on state game lands (Forbes State Forest). Do not attempt to visit this cemetery in the winter to spring. Road is only passable with a 4-wheel drive vehicle. http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabtcdar/felgar.html Cora PS: Can anyone tell me who Stahlstown was named after?

If you are looking for ancestors buried in Old Mount Pleasant Unity Cemetery Old Mount Pleasant Unity Cemetery, possibly called Salem Cemetery now, located on Todd Farm Road in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, PA, one mile from Route 70 off Route 51, turn right on Todd Farm Road. Cemetery transcribed and cataloged by Connie Specht and Carol Pack Urban on May 25, 2000. The CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS are found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabtcdar/mtplstunity.html Cora Ott

I found these folks near the family of Thomas Courtright & Mary Scott in Green Co.,PA 1860. first has anyone proven the parents of Thomas to actually be Jacob Cortright & Anna Quick? Thomas lived just across the river in PA from my John in OH, they both moved to PA/OH the same time. No other Cortrights around Thomas & no other Cortrights around my John. My working theory is that the parents of my John were John Cortright & Susanna Kittel. Thanks, Cindy Descendants of Silas Kittel 1 Silas Kittel b: 1817 MD .. +Susan b: 1817 VA 2 S.E. Kittel b: 1840 Va 2 S.J. Kittel b: 1843 2 William Kittel b: 1844 2 Stacy Kittel b: 1847 2 John Kittel b: 1850 2 M.C. Kittel b: 1854 2 S.C. Kittel b: 1858

Hello, Does anyone have information on the following family? I know that Isaphene Young married William J. Harris and Sarah married Jonah Harris, but have little information on the other children. Also, looking for ancestors of parents, Joshua and Sarah . Thank you. Carol Harris Joshua YOUNG b: 1801 in Pennsylvania +SARAH b: 1806 in Maryland Children: William B. YOUNG b: 1828 in Pennsylvania married Parmelia ? b: 1837 Mary A YOUNG b: 1830 in Pennsylvania Sarah Jane YOUNG b: 1834 in PA d: 1888 +Jonah HARRIS b:1831 d: 1875 Isaphene YOUNG b: 1834 d: 1903 +William Jefferson HARRIS Joseph YOUNG b: 1836 +ANNIE b: 1842 Samuel YOUNG b: 1837 +JANE Nathaniel YOUNG b: 1841 +AMANDA b: 1849 d: 1907 Hannah YOUNG b: 1842 Marion YOUNG b: 1846 +MARY b: 1849 d: 1870 James YOUNG b: 1847 +Harriet P. b: 1880

P.S. Cemetery is in P.A. -----Original Message----- From: scherer <clou@pulsenet.com> To: Marvin Brown <travlers@swlink.net>; Pamonaval Genealogy <PAMONVAL-L@rootsweb.com>; Martha <anniesmommy@webtv.net>; BOB Morton <bobmorton@gowebco.com>; Morton Genealogy <MORTON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:59 PM Hi I have been going to Mount Zion Cemetery(GingerHill) Fallowfield Township. I have been putting them on findagrave.com , I have much more to do just keep checking Cindy

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------44728CD8618D5038578EC0B4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Thanks Mike Donaldson, Bentleyville, PA (mdonald4@bentcom.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mon Valley History and Genealogy Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/ Mon Valley: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: http://www.geocities.com/mdonald318/ My family gedcom: http://www.my-ged.com/donldson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listowner of: Monongahela River Valley of Penna Rootsweb mailing list: PAMONVAL-L@rootsweb.com - Mail mode PAMONVAL-D@rootsweb.com - Digest mode Bieneman / Bienemann Rootsweb Mailing list Bienemann-L@rootsweb.com - Mail Mode Bienemann-D@rootsweb.com - Digest mode --------------44728CD8618D5038578EC0B4 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from gcinet.net (cluster1.okwireless.net [12.106.198.15] (may be forged)) by atl4.america.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA07371 for <mdonald4@bentcom.net>; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:52:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 99476 invoked by uid 85); 9 Nov 2001 13:50:27 -0000 Received: from imogene@greencis.net by cluster1.okwireless.net with qmail-scanner-1.01 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4167. sweep: 2.6/3.49. . Clean. Processed in 8.677399 secs); 09 Nov 2001 13:50:27 -0000 Received: from duip-12-106-199-110.gcinet.net (HELO greencis.net) (12.106.199.110) by cluster1.okwireless.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 2001 13:50:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3BEBE0E9.B0A8E3C5@greencis.net> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 07:58:01 -0600 From: Imogene Davis <imogene@greencis.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mdonald4@bentcom.net Subject: Hazelbaker Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 1810 Census Daniel Hazelbaker Washington County, Pa. Fallowfield Twp #62 Listed as Hasibaker - Daniel b. ca. 1786. 3 - 1 - - Male 16-25 Age bracket 1 - 1 - - Female (I have noted next door John Fox and George Grant.) LOOKING FOR FIRST WIFE - His first daughter was Sarah, possibly named after Mother or her Grandmother. Any one have a Sarah in their surnames? --------------44728CD8618D5038578EC0B4--

--WebTV-Mail-2226-934 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit WHERE WASJOHNSON FROM AD WA IT A SARA ??????? --WebTV-Mail-2226-934 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.121) by storefull-167.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:06:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) id 16952110; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:06:54 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: vandergriftpa@webtv.net Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by smtpin-102-3.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 3F1CD174; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:06:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id fA8H1HQ16497; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:01:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:01:17 -0700 Message-Id: <200111081701.fA8H1HQ16497@lists5.rootsweb.com> From: PAMONVAL-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: PAMONVAL-D Digest V01 #199 X-Loop: PAMONVAL-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PAMONVAL-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume01/199 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: PAMONVAL-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: PAMONVAL-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain PAMONVAL-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 199 Today's Topics: #1 [PAMONVAL] 1907 Belle Vernon under ["Marilyn Prinzing" <marjenp@mindsp] Administrivia: Stop in often to the new PAMONVAL Web page at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/ To unsubscribe from PAMONVAL-D, send a message to PAMONVAL-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the PAMONVAL-D list administrator, send mail to mdonald318@aol.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 04:33:14 -0600 From: "Marilyn Prinzing" <marjenp@mindspring.com> To: PAMONVAL-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <004701c16840$e1318880$61a5aec7@acer> Subject: [PAMONVAL] 1907 Belle Vernon undertakers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, My family is still trying to solve the mystery as to why New Castle continues to tell us that they have no record for the death of my g,g,grandfather, Nathaniel Worrell, who died Dec. 12, 1907, and was living in Belle Vernon in 1907. I know that the recording of deaths was required by PA as of Jan. 1, 1906, and have obtained several Death Certificates from New Castle for people who died early in 1906. Has anyone ever experienced instances where New Castle has misfiled a Death Certificate? Does anyone on the list know who the undertakers or embalmers were who would have service the deceased of Belle Vernon? We do not know whether Nathaniel was at a funeral home or whether he was laid out at home. Nathaniel Worrell is buried in Gibsonton Cemetery which I understand is the responsibility of the North Belle Vernon Cemetery. Does anyone know if records for Gibsonton exist? Thank you, Marilyn; Lake Co., IL; marjenp@mindspring.com. Still researching: Anderson, Barringer, Bedall (Beadle), Bayer, Dicks(Dix), Howe, Jarrett, Jenkins, Johnson, Jordan, Kennedy, Landis, Mayhorn, Minerd, Moller, Nein, Roley,Shallenberger, Sharp, Sisler, Smith, Walters, Weber, Weems/Wemyss, Wetzel + Var., Wilson, Worrell. Locations: PA: Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Berks, Fayette, Greene, Lancaster, Lehigh, Mifflin, Northampton, Somerset, Washington, Westmoreland, York Counties Maryland: Frederick Co. and Hagerstown. Scotland -------------------------------- End of PAMONVAL-D Digest V01 Issue #199 *************************************** --WebTV-Mail-2226-934--

Hello, My family is still trying to solve the mystery as to why New Castle continues to tell us that they have no record for the death of my g,g,grandfather, Nathaniel Worrell, who died Dec. 12, 1907, and was living in Belle Vernon in 1907. I know that the recording of deaths was required by PA as of Jan. 1, 1906, and have obtained several Death Certificates from New Castle for people who died early in 1906. Has anyone ever experienced instances where New Castle has misfiled a Death Certificate? Does anyone on the list know who the undertakers or embalmers were who would have service the deceased of Belle Vernon? We do not know whether Nathaniel was at a funeral home or whether he was laid out at home. Nathaniel Worrell is buried in Gibsonton Cemetery which I understand is the responsibility of the North Belle Vernon Cemetery. Does anyone know if records for Gibsonton exist? Thank you, Marilyn; Lake Co., IL; marjenp@mindspring.com. Still researching: Anderson, Barringer, Bedall (Beadle), Bayer, Dicks(Dix), Howe, Jarrett, Jenkins, Johnson, Jordan, Kennedy, Landis, Mayhorn, Minerd, Moller, Nein, Roley,Shallenberger, Sharp, Sisler, Smith, Walters, Weber, Weems/Wemyss, Wetzel + Var., Wilson, Worrell. Locations: PA: Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Berks, Fayette, Greene, Lancaster, Lehigh, Mifflin, Northampton, Somerset, Washington, Westmoreland, York Counties Maryland: Frederick Co. and Hagerstown. Scotland

Leah There was a Voytilla family in Star Junction, Fayette County. 1930 thru 1940s. Went to school with a jack and a Betty Voytilla. Grant -- _________________________________________________________________ Prior 1900 - Pike, Bell, Henderson, Byers, Evans, Hart : Germany: Whetzel, Miller, Bungard, Friedline, Keffer, Grimm/Grim, Hart, prior to 1840, Conklin, Donlon, 1800 - Baker, Travis, Crosby

Thanks to a very helpful person on this list I have identified that two of my ancestor families lived in Gill Hall at the time of the 1870 Census. This is the first time I have heard Gill Hall as a place where they lived and have no background on the town during that period. Can someone fill me in? Also, they are listed as living in dwellings # 614 and # 636. Is it possible to find out the street addresses of these dwellings? Jeff Haberman