This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0dB.2ACI/4051.1.2 Message Board Post: I am not related, but in doing other research, I found an article in 1906/07, telling of his big oil strike on the Witherup Farm near Scrubgrass Creek. There is also a picture of Mr. Rapp in the book, "Oil, Oil, Oil," published in 1997 by the Venango County Historical Society. If you don't have this information, let me know, with your mailing address, and I will send a copy of the newspaper article.