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INELKHAR-D Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 68

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  #1 [INELKHAR-L] WILBERT BEEGHLY'S WOR   [william.knotts@dfas.mil]

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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:02:00 -0500
From: william.knotts@dfas.mil
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Subject: [INELKHAR-L] WILBERT BEEGHLY'S WORK
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     Looking for Wilbert Beeghly's published and unpublished work on the 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     his published and unpublished works?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     I have obtained about 250 typed pages of his unpublished work from an 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