From: Eric Bugaile, researching the valley names: ANDERSON, BUGAILE, CARRICK, CLOSSON, DONEY, GILLINGHAM, KROPOS, MATHEWS, and ZEWE. In response for your requestfor a mini roll-call, I'm not certain of which of these three was first. I'll start with the one i'm sure of: John CARRICK (1826-1907) and his wife Ann RACE (1830-1910) were my Great Great Grandparents. They came to the US from England in 1853, after three years of marriage. They lived in Coal Valley, where my great grandmother Mary Ann CARRICK ANDERSON was born in 1869 and also near Elrama. They had nine children and eventually moved to McKeesport to live with their daughter Hannah HOHN, owner of a store on Fifth Ave. Frank ANDERSON (1842-1916) my great great grandfather was born in Ireland and came to America during the potato famine. Not much is known about who traveled with him or the exact date. He married Mary MATHEWS of Bunola about 1863. The earliest info I have is the birth of their son William (1865-1909), my great grandfather. (they resided in a number of valley towns including Allen Twp. (Allenport), Vesta, Bunola, Gill Hall (Mifflin Twp/Allegheny Co.) and Monongahela. Alex MATHEWS (1825-1899) my Great, Great, Great Grandfather may have been born in the valley (Elizabeth Twp.). I have conflicting reports that he may also had been from Bucks County and traveled west with his wife, Mary Ann GILLINGHAM, (1821-1900) a Bucks County Quaker who accompanied her parents, William Preston GILLINGHAM (1796-1854) and Euphemia CLOSSON (1799-1878). Accounts have the Mathews family with 11 children. The GILLINGHAM"S, meanwhile, according to the Gillingham Family History, were said to have "drove from Philadelphia to Monongahela....stopping at....Dry Run, below Monongahela City, and moved into the old brick house at Dry Run Hollow because two of their children had diptheria. One died and was buried in the Old Taylor Cemetary."