Hello, Being a descendant of Anna Barbara Baer & Jacob Kisling, I have some info on the Baer/Bear family. I suggest you take a look at the following web page, which I built on behalf of Debbie Bear: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/bear_letter_series.htm I also suggest you take a look at: http://userweb.nashville.com/~john.seay/baer.htm http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/u/c/David-L-Tucker/GENE0001-0001.html http://www.smsu.edu/contrib/bms/county/bear.htm Where I know the answer, I will try to respond below. -- Mary Taffet mdtaffet@syr.edu M Archer wrote: > [snip] > 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. According to my information, Wesley Bear's wife, Mary Elizabeth Conrad, was the daughter of Henry Conrad and Sarah Harnsberger. > 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.