FYI -- I didn't realize that the message went to the list, so I replied privately. Then I saw the message on the list, so am forwarding my reply to the list. -- Mary Taffet mdtaffet@syr.edu "Mary D. Taffet" wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > I honestly don't know whether it will help my research or not. Conrad > is a name mentioned in some of the earlier letters (mentions a Jacob > Conrad, in a letter written about 1840). I know that Diana Smith Yancey > married a George Oliver Conrad. One of their descendants, Jessie > Conrad, married Howard Kemper Gibbons. I recall Cousin Jessie with > great fondness, but didn't realize until long after she died that she > was a Yancey descendant. I always thought our connection was through > Howard. I recall him with great fondness as well, though he did tend to > sleep quite a bit when we went for visits. > > My grandmother was Charlotte Yancey, wife of James Hillyer Boice. > > I have the book by Rebecca Yancey on descendants of William Layton > Yancey & Frances Lynn Lewis. It mentions the Thomas Kennerly > Harnsberger that you listed below. I have a sneaking suspicion that the > line I will find to be most relevant is that of Jeremiah Harnsberger and > his wife Elizabeth Miller. I am now assuming that they had a child > named Will, and that she had a brother named Jacob. This is of course > only a guess, but I think it's a good guess, because Jeremiah was close > enough to Jackson's camp for Jackson to come for visits now and then. > > Do you have anything on Jeremiah? > > -- Your Yancey cousin (& probably cousin in other lines as well...), > Mary Taffet > mdtaffet@syr.edu > > CMSANFO@aol.com wrote: > > > > Mary > > > > I'm sure that I'm somehow related to the line you researching .... I have a > > Elizabeth Kisling married to a Edward Stevens in the 1800 time frame. Their > > son Jacob Richard Stevens married in 1850 a Sarah Ursula Conrad b1819. Sarah > > parents were Henry Conrad b1789 and Sarah Harnsberger B 1794 and they were > > married 1813. > > > > I have Anne Virginia Yancey b1828 married in 1855 to a Thomas Kennerly > > Harnsberger b1826. > > > > I have several Jacob Miller in my line... One was born in 1769 his wife is > > unk and it is believed he has a dau named Susan Miller b1793 that married in > > 1810 George Conrad b 1785. > > > > All of these families are from the Elkton area of Rockingham Co. > > > > I have a fair amount of information on the Miller/Harnsberger/Conrad lines > > that I'm willing to share if you think it will help your research...