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Bob: Thank you for your messages. You pointed me in a new direciton. I knew my
grandfather, Walter Ellery Slingerland, was born in Pa. He listed Coryville on his
marriage registration..however, I could not find that town and was not sure where to look
on the census. Searching Keating, McKean, Pa...I have now found his parents and siblings.
The 1900 was particularly good...I knew the names of his siblings, but did not know their
birth years, which that census gives.
As to Lucy M. Champlin: I had previously found a Lucy Champlin in the 1850 Scio,
Allegany, NY census..daugher of William and Nancy, not William & Lucy. As to whether
she is the right Lucy ??? Ellery and Lucy did live in Wellsville, Allegany, NY at the
time of the 1870 census and Scio & Wellsville are adjoining towns so she could
possibly be the one.