This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kelley/Deal Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IEC.2ACE/114.376.477.568.572.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Carolyn, Here is the original message that I found. The Kelley& Deal lines are directly related and the Burke & Flanagan lines are inter-related. I would really be gratedful for clarification on the information in the following posting pertaingin to Susan Deal and Alexander Kelley. Appreciate the help very much. Janice Author: Jane McCann Walsh Date: 6 May 2001 12:00 PM GMT Surnames: DEAL, DEAHL, DIEHL, BURKE, COX, HOVATTER, SLIGER, McGINNIS, DURST, CLARK, KELLEY, FLANAGAN Classification: Query In Reply to: SEARCHING FOR FAMILY by: david deahl Post Reply | Mark Unread | Report Abuse Print Message Jack, I have noted that Somerset County, PA is the location of many, many, many DIEHL families and some supposedly spell the name Deahl; others, Deal. A Henry DEAL went to Preston from Somerset about 1830 according to Owen Morton who wrote a "History of Preston County, West Virginia, Volume I". Henry had a brother named Simon who settled in Canada. Henry's son Henry, Jr. located in Reno, Preston Co. His son Jasper N. spelled the name DEAHL and was a "professor in the State University," presumably WVU circa 1914 when this book was published. Morton finished with "Jacob and Andrew J. remained in Pleasant." That's on p.339. Elsewhere on p. 425, Morton says that Henry was born in 1791; that Jacob m. Sarah Burke; that Henry Jr. married second Jennie Hovatter Cox --- nothing on first wife; George was killed by R.R. circa 1877; Simon m. Catharine Sliger. JOhn went to PA. Andrew J. m. Rhoda Frankhouser. Barbar m. first Peter McGinnis and second Joseph Durst. Sarah m. Lockey Clark, Susan married Alexander Kelley and Mary married John Flanagan. Regards, Jane