i may have some of this story wrong and i always find new stuff whenever i go online, but if i stay at it i get it right eventually. i sometimes operate under false assumptions, so don't hold me to this as it sometimes comes unraveled.

but i took a break from my immediate grandparents, and people i knew, and went back up to the top of the genealogy to explore a few questions. starting with the boys that supposedly stole a pig: it seemed two from one family came over around the time of the war of 1812; the older one stayed in pennsylvania a little while and then moved west a ways to a small town in ohio, not too far from wallace run. the other joined the army, came back from the war, married and had ten kids, and started the family line that i'm studying.

so what happens when you move over and study the older brother, the one that sauntered off west to ohio? he was eight years older than our man, and i don't know if he joined the army or not. his wife was from pennsylvania, and their child was born in p-a, but soon they were in a small town in eastern ohio. their daughter married a nott, percival nott. they had an only child too, william wallace nott. and then william wallace nott married and had an only son elmer, born in that same county in 1876.

but elmer went on down to athens county, coal country, and got a job in the mines. he had nine children. nine children! who i think answers the question of whether there are any living relatives on that side, descended from the older brother.

anyway elmer was the victim of a big mine accident, around 1922, but it didn't kill him. most of his children were born by that time, in the time between 1900-1922, but I'm not sure. anyway though he survived, he suffered a lot, and died after having been bedridden for a while, thirteen years later, at the age of 58.

i haven't finished looking through the nine, all born in the early years of the twentieth century, older than my dad, most dead by now i'm sure. but if they survived that family - a family of eleven with the father unable to work - they'd probably survive anything. the depression? yeah that was right around then too.

i can hardly imagine it, and i look forward to learning more.