At 03:49 PM 6/20/00 -0700, you wrote: >Hello Listers, > I'm new to this list and wonder if anyone can help me locate the >following: > 1) Elkanah Gaige/Gage b. about 1801 & wife Phebe/Phoebe Howard b. abt. >1803. These are my GGgrandparents. Children: Almarvia b. 1829 in >Brackney, PA; Sarah b. 1831 in Brackney, PA who married Randolph >Lottridge; Daniel b. 2/1836 in Brackney, PA who married Mary Caroline >Archer (parents: Henry Purdy Archer & Abagail Moore) in Winona, MN where >he went to homestead. Elkanah & Phebe were Quakers. Cannot locate >Phebe Howard's parents; nor info on Almarvia & Sarah. > >2) Neale Britton b. 1815 in Ireland arrived on ship "Oswego" with wife, >Ellen, in 1843. Daughter Kathryn/Kate/Catherine born 1852 in Silver >Lake, Susquehanna Co., PA. Neale died in 1855 in Silver Lake, >Susquehanna Co., PA. Ellen Britton married my Ggrandfather, Charles M. >Gage on 11/15/1858 in Binghamton, NY (justice of peace). They also left >to homestead in Winona, Winona Co., MN. No cemetery listing for Neale >Britton -- if I can locate his tombstone, hopefully it would provide the >county of Irish origin for Neale & Ellen. > My second great grandfathers brother went to Winona, MN to settle also, I have been trying to locate cemeteries there to see if he is interred in one. He is not buried in Susquehanna Co. Here is a tidbit on him: Pg. 635: History of Winona County, together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc. (gathered from matter furnished by interviews with old settlers, county, township and other records, and extracts from files of papers, pamphlets, and such other sources as have been available.) Chicago: H.H. Hill and Company, Publishers.; 1883...................... John C. Brown, son of Eden Brown and Mary,whose maiden name was Squires, was born in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania; came to Wisconsin in 1844, and to Minnesota in 1854, and settled in the town of Wilson, East Burns valley; Winona, Mn. Mary Jean (*please note I do not have this book, information was supplied by cousin Natalie Cottrill) From Cemetery to Tree My Pennsylvania Roots http://home.stny.rr.com/brown/index.htm Researching: Brown, Wilmarth, Tewksbury, Tiffany, Squires, Perry and others.