I have been doing some more searching this afternoon and I have found that Anetta Williams Dunleavy is the daughter of William & Mary (Magdalena) Williams. I have tracked them back on every census to 1850. William Williams died sometime between 1860-1870. I am wondering if he is the same William Williams shown on Ancestry'c "American Civil War Soldiers" from Schuylkill Co., PA that enlisted 19 Feb 1864 as a Private and was killed on 12 May 1864 at the Spotslvania Court House, VA??? In 1850 there is a Margaret Burkhard (age 51 b. PA) living with William and his wife. Could this be his mother-in-law?? In 1900 Mary (Magdalena) Williams was living with John Miller and Lizzie (Geist? Dunleavy?). It said she had a total of 10 children, only 2 living at the time of the census. How very sad. She had several sons, I wonder if they also died in the Civil War. She had Lewis, Henry, & Adam. The search continues . . . . Karen ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Karen, I got an Email from a "Genealogy cuzsn" Peggy, very informative, which may shed a bit of light --or make us more confused. In 1890 directory there was a child to Wendel Miller-- Ida Irene Miller, sister of Alice. Peggy had a "copy" of her marriage license. Ida Miller married first to Mr Kroh, and 2ndly to Ferdinand Enders , on that License (enders - Ida Kroh) was the name of her parents: (Sch. Co. Courthouse) Wendel (Miller) and her mother was Elizabeth WILLIAMS, which means Elizabeth and James Dunleavy's wife Annetta, may be sisters, not that it helps with the relationships somehow. Think that 1900 Census was a mix up with the way the enumerator listed it. We know Sadie Dieter,Deiter was step-daughter not step-sister, from the Baptismal records at St. Paul's (Artz) Church Records in Schuylkill Co. Vital Records book 3; and that Alice was really John's sister, from the Census; but in the census 1900 (June) she is considered single, but her name is under Dunleavy...and they were not married yet - not til August. Dunleavy was a cousin -not step-brother, or a brother-in-law, to be. :) That is if both Dunleavy's wife, Annetta, and Miller's wife Elizabeth were sisters - probably. As for the "Magdalena" Williams with the Millers in 1900, she was a "Mary" Williams living with James Dunleavy and Annetta in 1880 (ages are off). and the wife of William Williams of the 1860 Barry twp. familly. Perhaps you are correct about the Civil war taking the boys, and maybe we will find little Lydia, baby sister (listed in 1860) of the Williams clan had died young, also. I will check the cemetery records, but if they were poor folks, there will be no stone. There is a william williams in Artz' Cemetery record on line at rootsweb. : William williams born 27 Mar 1796 died 31 May 1865, that would fit in the above Census (In 1860, gone by 1870) but what happened to all the boys? We shall try to digest this information and get back on why Lizzie was a Geist, maybe she really was a Geist? Notice in the 1880 Census it listed James Dunleavy as born PA; and Annetta born in PA but...Lizzie is listed born PA, father born Ireland???? mother born PA. (??another error by the enumerator??) Please sleep tonite, the genealogy will only "ripen with age..." :) Yes, the search continues. Where are the Geist family genealogists, when we need them??? Sarah.