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Additions and Corrections 369 was such a person, is given as about 1752. If this was so, he would also have gone to the Diament home as a minor, and his step-father would have been expected to at least recognize his existence in his will, which he does not. It appears likely that this Ebenezer is the grandchild mentioned in the will of Nathaniel Harris, and if so, it would appear much more likely that he was a child of another of Nathaniel's children. Walter Lee Sheppard, jr., FASG, FGSP, FNGS. In Memoriam The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania is saddened to report the death of one of its Fellows, Dr. George E McCracken, who was appointed a Fellow in 1982. George McCracken began the pursuit of genealogy as a young man of 17. He was the first to admit that at the time he had a lot to learn, and learn he did! He became the editor of The American Genealogist MG] in 1966. In 1970 he published Tice Welcome Claimants; Proved, Disproved and Doubtful. Among his articles for TAG were "Rakestraw on Delaware"; "The Connecticut Pennsylvanians" and "Colonel Robert Levers of Pennsylvania". He was born in Dunmore, Pennsylvania in 1904. He held degrees from Princeton and Lafayette College, and was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He taught Greek, Latin and German at Grove City College, Susquehanna University, Otterbein College and Drake University. He is survived by his wife Emily E. (Swettman) McCracken, a son Samuel and a daughter Elizabeth Wrede. He lived in Des Moines, Iowa.