This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gass, Kershner, Persing, Sober, Dreher, Moyer, Kreiger, Moore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DcB.2ACE/3160.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Dave, After at least a year and a half, I am steamed up about finding my ancestors again. Do you know anything about Lemuel Tharp, b1850 d1917? He married Mary Florence Dreher (step daughter of Lewis Chamberlin.) Lemuel and MF's daughter was my great grandmother, Mrs. HS Gass. Lemuel is my earliest Tharp to date. Harry S Gass' sister Bertha married a J. Wesley Richie. I think the Richie's may have lived near or on the old William J. Gass homestead in Irish Valley in the 1970's. It is so hard for me to get info on my family members from the late 1700s and early 1800's in Northumberland County. I am way out here in New Mexico and I don't know when I will get back to PA now that my dad has passed on as well as my maternal grandmother. I am desperate to find William Henry Gass's ancestors. This is the William Henry Gass who married Mary Kershner. Her birthdate was about 1792. I don't have his dates. I am also very curious to know why he and his wife named their second son Reily. That does not seem like a PA German surname of the early Nineteenth Century. Most of the relations in this line are buried at Reed's, the Blue Church or Summit Cemetary. Any info you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kay