Content-Type: text/plain INELKHAR-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 68 Today's Topics: #1 [INELKHAR-L] WILBERT BEEGHLY'S WOR [william.knotts@dfas.mil] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from INELKHAR-D, send a message to INELKHAR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:02:00 -0500 From: william.knotts@dfas.mil To: INELKHAR-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <9810219089.AA908982645@dfas.mil> Subject: [INELKHAR-L] WILBERT BEEGHLY'S WORK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: "cc:Mail Note Part" Looking for Wilbert Beeghly's published and unpublished work on the BEEGHLY / BOWMAN surname. I have seen where he had published at least three books on the BEEGHLY surname. I understand that from about the 1940's until his death in Somerset County, Wilbert traveled and visited with many of the BEEGHLY and BOWMAN descendants. He gathered and compiled many pages on those surnames. Can anyone provide information on where Wilbert donated or left all of his published and unpublished works? I have heard that at one time he lived at Pittsburg, PA and in his later life moved to Somerset County, PA. I think he died at or near Meyersdale, PA, and had plans to leave all of his works with the Historical Society in that county. I was told that he never married, however he had a close relation (niece or nephew) in Somerset County, PA. Can you provide any close relations name?, Address?, Phone number? I have obtained about 250 typed pages of his unpublished work from an Amish elder Eli H. Bowman from Holmes County, Ohio. This is a copy from a copy that was yellow and faded from its 40 or more years of age. This has more than 1300 names of the descendants of John J. Bowman, Sr. and Elizabeth Beeghly. Covers many surnames! Their is a lot of blank information for many of the names. Some blank spaces have pen and pencil entries, some of those entries have faded from being a copy of copy! Also, with Eli Bowman, I found several typed pages of a BEEGHLY history by Emanuel Beeghly that settled at Bruceton Mills, Preston County, WV. I would like to find the original work of Wilbert Beeghly to try and fill in the blank spaces. Can you help?? Would like to hear from those with interest in this work of Wilbert Beeghly. And, the descendants of John J. and Elizabeth Beeghly Bowman. Thanks for you attention Bill Knotts, email address: wknotts@cleveland.dfas.mil