From: bagley@info2000.net
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:06:01 -0600

Subject: Price and Phillips

Seeking information on the following couple:

	Mary Ann PRICE (who married) Theophilus PHILLIPS

Mary Ann (Price) Phillips is known to be a cousin of Angeline (Reese) Smith
who was born about 1852 to Thomas J. Reese in St. Clair, Schuylkill County,
Pa.

A distant cousin has a photo of the two cousins (Mary Ann PRICE and
Angeline REESE) in a photo album.  Says the two girls look to be about the
same age.

Angeline (Reese) Smith lived in Schuylkill, Luzerne, and Lackawanna counties.

Do these names sound familiar to anyone out there?


Subject: THOMAS and JAMES

Looking for any info on Mary Ann THOMAS (birthdate and place unknown) who
married Thomas JAMES (b. 1846) on 9/17/1866 in St. Clair, Schuylkill County.

Wondering if she could be my g grandfather's mysterious first wife who is
said to have died in childbirth (prior to his second marriage in 1880 to
Jennie or Mary Jane LITTLE, my g grandmother).

JAMES and THOMAS were married in St. Clair, Schuylkill County, possibly at
the home of his grandparents, Thomas J. REES(E) and Ann PRICE.  His parents
and younger siblings were living in Luzerne County.

My (brief) notes follow.

Hoping someone has info regarding the THOMAS/JAMES family in their research
notes (census records, church records, cemetery records, etc.).


!QUESTION-MARRIAGE:  MINERS JOURNAL; Marriages 1852-1934; 1866 Marriages
(8/7 -10/11);
EXTRACT:
9/17; Thos. S. James & Mary Ann Thomas; St. Clair; Minister, Wm. Morgan;
QUESTION-ACTION:  Determine if this is our Thomas James and his first wife,
said to have died in child birth;
NOTE:
(1)	Thomas James was born in St. Clair;
(2)	His grandparents, Thomas and Ann (Price) Rees(e) lived in St. Clair;
(3)	1866 is one year after our Thomas James was released from
        military service in Civil War;
(4)	Would have been abt age 20 years;
(5)	May be same minister that married his parents in 1844; William
        Morgan vs William Morgans (two ministers in Schuylkill County with
        same/similar name(s)?);
(6)	May be the same minister that married Catherine Rees(e) and John
        Batten, his aunt and uncle, in 1850;
(7)     Notes of Leona Pearl (Stoker) James, my deceased grandmother, indicate
        marriage before 1872.


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Ruth Ann in Colorado (U.S.A.)
E-mail:  bagley @info2000.net
FAMILY SURNAMES:     PRICE or PRYCE, REES(E), JAMES
WALES and/or ENGLAND >
Pennsylvania (Schuylkill, Luzerne, and Lackawanna Co.) and California

Following surnames known/believed to tie into family tree:

Allen, Andrews, Badgley or Badgeley, Barnes, Batten, Borando or Borondo,
Cadwalader or Cadwallader, Case, Castner, Caswell (or Caiswell or Careswell
or Casewell or Cazwell), Connag or Connaq, Connolly, Davies, Davis, Evans,
Green, Haughrey, Heulard, James, Jones, Lewis, Link(s), Little, Martin,
Mason, Metcalf, Mitchell, Peiper, Price or Pryce, Rees or Reese, Richards,
Seligman, Smith, Snyder, Soldate, Spears, Starns, Stevens, Stires or
Stiers, Stone, Tatton, Thomas, Underwood, Wallace, Watkins, Weaklin
(Weaklen, Weaklem or Weaklim), Williams.

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Found this info.  Thought I'd share it.

To learn about the coal mining accidents (and a one or two sentence
describing the incidents), write to the following:

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Bureau of Deep Mine Safety
Rachel Coarsen State Office Building
Post Office Box 8463
Harrisburg, PA  17105-8463
PHONE:  (717) 783-7515

Give them an idea of a time frame (for example, date of death 1840-1860).

Be sure to send a SASE.

If you get a date of death, next try to get a copy of the obituaries and wills.

Good luck in your search.

Ruth Ann