For those who would like to contact the author, here it is: Jane Evans Best, 660 Willow Valley Square, M307, Lancaster, PA 17602-4874. Her e-mail address is: JEBest6@aol.com I'm sure Jane would appreciate any corrections or additions. For those that have other Bear/Bair/Bare lines, you might want to contact this author also, her work is much larger than this little bit in Rockingham Co. VA, and includes all Bears that originated in PA, I believe. I would like to find the names of the parents of the spouses of these Bears, where not noted. Cont. BA5174.483 Jacob Bear, b. 1802; d. Feb. 27, 1877; Colonel. m. Feb. 23, 1836, Anna Maria Hall, b. 1812; d. Mar. 16, 1869. BA5174.4831 Henry Adolphus Bear, b. Dec. 12, 1836; d. Dec. 1, 1921, Mauch Chunk, Pa. m. Aug. 11, 1868, Betty B. Edwards BA5174.4832 Richard Waughfield Bear, b. Apr. 16, 1839; d. Nov. 11, 1899. m. Nov. 8, 1866, Ida F. Harnsberger BA5174.4833 Charles Wesley Bear, b. June 22, 1841; d. Nov. 30, 1870. BA5174.4834 Decatur Bainbridge Bear, b. May 27, 1845; d. Sept. 1, 1921. m. Feb. 10, 1886, Annie V. Gibboney BA5174.4835 Jacob Asbury Bear, b. Nov. 29, 1849; d. Sept. 16, 1927; 7 ch. m. Nov. 24, 1881, Fannie C. Brubaker BA5174.484 Elizabeth Bear, b. Jan. 15, 1806, near Conrad's Store, Elkton; d. Sept. 29, 1881, bu. on farm near Marksville, Va.; 9 ch. m. Apr. 17, 1827, Jacob Brubaker, b. Nov. 25, 1803, Massanutten, Va.; d. July 22, 1872, bu. on farm near Marksville; son of John Brubaker and Barbara Mauck (d. 1872) BA5174.485 Charles Wesley Bear, b. 1812, Rockingham Co.; d. 1879. m.(1) 1839, Elizaabeth Conrad, b. 1816; d. 1841; dau. of Henry Conrad and Sallie Haines Geiger; 1 ch. m.(2) Nov. 16, 1843, Page Co., Va., Sarah Ann Wood, b. Apr. 2, 1824, Shenandoah Co.; d. Nov. 23, 1851, Luray, Page Co.; dau. of Benjamin Wood and Elizabeth Abbott; 3 ch. m.(3) Elizabeth Petty; 2 ch. Children of m.(1) BA5174.4851 Sallie Catherine Bear, b. 1839; d. 1886 m. 1858, Samuel Patrick Henry Miller, b. Nov. 24, 1834; d. 1895; son of Henry Miller and Susan Ursula Harnsberger. Children of m.(2) BA5174.4852 Mary Jordan Bear, b. Oct. 14, 1844, Luray; d. 1910, San Francisco, Calif. m.(1) James Randolph Langdon of Kabeltown, W. Va.; 1 ch. m.(2) William Henry Carpenter, storekeeper at Elkton; 3 ch. BA5174. 4853 Charles Edward Bear, b. Feb. 25, 1846, Luray; d. Dec. 12, 1922, Washington, D.C.; 2 ch. BA5174.4854 Helen Pasquette Bear, b. Apr. 7, 1849, Luray; d. Mar. 31, 1890, Luray; 3 ch. m. Earnest Augustus Wilson, b. Nov. 26, 1845, Clearfield Co., Pa.; d. Aug. 16, 1922 Knoxville, Tenn.