If someone could look up the obit for DERWIN Fox, b/ 1852/53 it may help. His parents may have been John and Mary A Fox. I think he had a brother Peter who named his son Derwin F Fox b/1871. I would also check for Darwin. Hope this helps. Anything listed in any of the cemeteies for Derwin ? Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:01 AM Subject: PAWESTMO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 231 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A little STEINER/MILLER/FOX help needed > (Richard McClelland Simpson, III) > 2. Lauffer family reunion today (JoAnn) > 3. Silversmith (Shirley Silverman) > 4. Re: PAGenWeb update (RickandRana) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:04:17 -0400 > From: "Richard McClelland Simpson, III" <[email protected]> > Subject: [PAWESTMO] A little STEINER/MILLER/FOX help needed > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Greetings, listers... > > I am working on the far end of some of my STEINER lines, when I discovered a > quandary. > > I have a list from someone that states that Leah Elizabeth STEINER (1857 - > 190?) married a George W. MILLER (1858 - ?) and had two daughters, Agnes > Adele MILLER and Jennie MILLER. > > I found a 1900 census entry confirming this, sort of. > > Miller, Dr. G. W. - Head - Nov 1858 - 42 - M - 6 > Miller, Leah E. - Wife - Feb 1858 - 43 - M - 6 - 3 - 3 > Miller, Mary S. - Daughter - Nov 1877 - 22 - S - 0 - 0 - 0 > Miller, Agnes A. - Daughter - Dec 1880 - 19 - S - 0 - 0 - 0 > Miller, Jennie - Daughter - Sep 1882 - 17 - S - 0 - 0 - 0 > > So I found this family, which looks suspiciously like the one that I need, > right? Everything matches until you get to the number of years of present > marriage. In this case, it is listed as 6. But the girls are 22, 19, and > 17. > > I looked for a 1880 census for Leah E. STEINER MILLER, but I found the > following: > > FOX, Dewin - W - M - 27 > FOX, Leah E. - W - F - 22 > FOX, Mary S. - W - F - 2 > > My question is this. Has anyone more information about this particular FOX > family? The neighbors of this FOX family are ROSENSTEEL, BAKER, STEINER, > and ERRETT, all of which are related to Leah Elizabeth STEINER in some way > or another. > > Dewin Fox is listed with a spinal disability, if that helps. > > The lady that I got the STEINER list from responded that the MILLERs were > married not in 1894, like the census reports, but in 1881. > > And Leah Elizabeth STEINER died before the 1910 census was completed, > because George W. MILLER was listed as a widow on that census, living with > Agnes A. MILLER and her sister Jennie, along with Jennie's husband and two > children. > > I would love to close this line definitively. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Richard > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:18:35 -0700 > From: "JoAnn" <[email protected]> > Subject: [PAWESTMO] Lauffer family reunion today > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > There is a newspaper article in the Tribune Review on the Lauffer family reunion which is meeting in Westmoreland County today. They are descendants of Christian and Susannah Lauffer. There is a link within the article to Jim Lauffer's genealogy website. > JoAnn > http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_583179.htm l > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:22:47 -0400 > From: "Shirley Silverman" <[email protected]> > Subject: [PAWESTMO] Silversmith > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Attention Jim Miller: > > I messed up your e-mail address, please contact me once again. > > > > Thanks, > > Shirley > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:52:54 -0400 > From: RickandRana <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] PAGenWeb update > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Chris, yes, this info helps! > Thanks for taking time to send. > > Rick and Rana > > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Christina Hunt <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Rick, > > The original land in Pennsylvania was gotten by land grants. People who > > wanted > > to settle went through a process including a survey and finally a land > > grant. > > They could then settle on a piece of property. So these are names of the > > first > > to own the land. They may or may not have actually settled in Rostraver > > Twp. but > > this gives an idea of who the first settlers probably were. The names are > > taken > > from a map of the land. > > For a bit more on the process see: > > http://www.directlinesoftware.com/landacq.htm > > Hope that helps. > > Chris > > http://www.pagenweb.org/~westmoreland/<http://www.pagenweb.org/%7Ewestmorela nd/> > > > > | On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Christina Hunt > > | <[email protected]>wrote: A little update on the Westmoreland > > | site. We have added the list of Rostraver Grant names kindly > > | contributed by Raymond Popp. > > | > > || For those of us new to PA genealogical/historical research, will > > | you please tell us the meaning of Rostraver Grant names? > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PAWESTMO list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the PAWESTMO mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PAWESTMO Digest, Vol 3, Issue 231 > **************************************** >