Pearl Maxine Lehman was born in 1929, while the family was still living on Phillips School Road.  She married Clarence Shingledecker and moved to Eastern Ohio in 1947.  They had four children- Richard, Ruth, Tom and John.  Pearl helped the family by cleaning houses while Clarence was working in the mills. 

Russell Andrew was born in 1931.  He served in the Army during the Korean war, and then worked in the local mills and driving truck for area businesses.  He married Virginia Geiwitz in 1956.  They raised three children- Russel Edward (called Eddie), Audrey and Art.  The family settled on Wet Track Road between West Middlesex, PA and Hubbard, OH.  Virginia is the sister of Ed Geiwitz, who married Russell’s younger sister Norma.

Willard Donald Lehman was born in 1932.  He married Rita Cooper in 1952 and raised seven children- Paul, Patricia, Debra, Janette, Willard Donald Jr., Alice and Norman.  Willard was a carpenter and handyman by trade, but ran into trouble with the law for taking money for jobs and spending for his personal needs without finishing the job.  He went to jail for a short time, but returned to the same practices when he was released.  Rather than risk going back to jail, he and Rita took all of the children except Paul (who was old enough to care for himself) and moved without telling the family where he was.  For years he would call his mother only to tell her that he was okay, but never telling where the family had relocated.  He was even unable to attend his father’s funeral in 1972.  The family found out eventually that Willar was living in Texas.  Rita died in 1977 and Willard married Barbara Means, a member of the Church of Latterday Saints, in 1978, although the marriage was later annulled.  He married Vivian L. Smith Smiley (also a member of the Mormon Church) in 1979.  Willard and his family remained in Texas permanently and he died there in 1994 of a heart attack.

Alice Mae Marie Lehman was born in 1934.  She married Donald Perrine, who worked as a produce manager in local grocery stores, in 1955.  Alice drove bus.  She drove for local schools, for chartered bus companies, and eventually drove the city shuttles for the city of Hermitage.  The couple had two children, Donald Jr. and Sheri.  (Donald’s son, Donald III, married Laura Leigh Taylor, the granddaughter of Melvin Sipe’s sister Dorothy Shrawder).  Sheri had three children- Shawn, Robert and Janet.  Donald died in 1988 and is buried in West Side Cemetery in Sharpsville, PA.

Ivabelle Jean Lehman (known to most as “Ike”) was born in 1935.  She was born one day after the family lost their farm to William Lehman’s sheriff sale.  Ike was married to Carey Mabry in 1952 and they lived briefly in a small cottage in the Neshannock Falls Park before they divorced.  She remarried in 1956 to Robert Reed, who was known most commonly as “Buck”.  They raised one daughter, Judith.  Buck supported the family with his job at Westinghouse until he retired in the early 80’s and the couple moved to Florida.  Ike opened up her own ceramics shop in Florida and the family lived there exclusively for many years until they bought a home in Sharon, PA and began to split their time between winters in Florida and summers in PA.

Barbara Ann Lehman (born in 1937) was the first of Norman and Katherine’s children to finish high school.  She graduated from Grove City High School and became a book keeper.  She married Bill Raney in 1961.  Bill was a farmer from Enon Valley and they moved into his family farm (“Long View Dairy Farm”).  Bill took care of the farm until his health prevented him from continuing, and then his son, Kevin, took over.  The couple also had one daughter, Cindy, who moved to North Carolina. 

Norma Nina Lehman was born in 1940 and graduated from Grove City High School.  The family had moved from their home on Creek Road to Harlansburg during Norma’s senior year of high school, so she lived with Lois’s family in

Leesburg Station in order to finish high school at Grove City.  She worked in local offices after graduation, spending several years in Medical Records at Jameson Hospital and eventually retiring as an office manager at Flowline Corporation.

 She dated Ed Geiwitz (the brother of Russ’s wife Virginia) for 25 years before they married in 1988. Norma bought Belle Lehman’s house on Woodbine     

Ave. in Sharon, PA and lived there with her mother before marrying Ed and moving to his family farm in West Middlesex. Ed is a farmer and also a bus driver for the West Middlesex school district.

Karen Lynn Lehman was born in 1943 and graduated from New Castle Area High School while the family was living at the Fenati Brick Plant.  She married Donald Oliphant in 1963.  Don had his own business doing appliance repairs and also worked for the water company before finding a job at the Penn Power power plant, where he eventually retired.  They had two children, Diana and Don.  Diana married Daniel Fiorilli and had two children (Vincent and Rocco).  Don married Joni Smith and moved to Texas.  The couple has no children.  Karen worked as a homemaker and later for a cleaning service, as well as babysitting and helping her children.

Kathy Lee Lehman was born in 1945 and also graduated from NeCaHi.  She married Terry Mumford in 1965.  Terry worked for the Rockwell Corporation and owned his own machine shop at the couple’s home near the intersection of Rte. 956 and Rte. 19 in Harlansburg.  Kathy worked in the office at Haney’s department store and later sold Mary Kay cosmetics and worked as a mail carrier.  They had two boys, Rodney and Douglas.  Doug was killed suddenly in a motorcycle accident in 2005, leaving two children (Jacob and Stephanie) behind.  Rodney also had two children (Kara and Portia).

Karol Lucille Lehman was born in 1947.  She attended NeCaHi, but left early to marry Daniel Joseph Locke (nicknamed Joe) in February of 1965.  Joe was a mill worker and Karol a homemaker.  The couple lived in Transfer, PA and raised one son, Dan.  Dan also had one child, Stephen Locke.  Joe died of a heart attack in 1994, leaving Karol a young widow.  She spent much time caring for her grandson, as well as selling baked goods and cleaning homes.

The youngest child was Wesley Norman Lehman, born in 1949.  Wes married Donna Baker in 1969, after graduating from Hickory High School.  He served in the Air Force and the couple spent one year in Arizona on an Air Force Base early in their marriage.  They had two sons, Michael and Gary.  Wes was a mill worker and did some light farm work at their family home.  Donna was a homemaker who also babysat after a stroke and diabetes kept her from driving.  Wes was injured in a blast furnace explosion at Mercer Forge in the late 1990’s.  Although he was severely burned and injured, he recovered fully and continued working.

            When Marcia Kaufman became interested in family history she started by asking Katherine for help.  On one occasion she was told that a relative was a “petticoat relation”, meaning that they were related in more than one way.  Marcia soon found out that Katherine and Norman were related to each other.  Katherine’s grandmother (Katie Zook Kauffman) was a sister to Norman’s grandmother (Veronica Zook Kauffman).  That would make Katherine and Norman second cousins. 

Norman Lehman supported his large family by working as a coalminer and making couplings for railroad cars at The Malleable, while Katherine stayed home to care for the kids.  Norman later worked as a farmhand at Indian Run farms.  When the children were older, Katherine found work outside of the home to help the family make ends meet.  She was a cook at The Tavern in New Wilmington, and at Porter's Diner on Rt. 18 outside of New Wilmington.  When they moved to Sharon, Katherine kept house for Dr. Nami.  

Norman died in 1972 from a heart attack; he had lung problems from working in the mines and the breathing problems put a strain on his heart.  Katherine lived with her children until she married Kenneth Yoder in 1982.  Kenneth was the widower of Katherine’s cousin Hazel.  They lived in Ken’s house on Means road.  Katherine had lived through Scarlet Fever as a child and it had weakened her heart.  She died of a heart attack on May 9, 1985 and was buried next to Norman at Maple Grove Mennonite cemetery.

The Lehman family moved frequently after losing their original home to the sheriff’s sale that took his father’s farm.  The following is a list of their homes, their nicknames and approximate locations as best as can be pieced together by the recollections of Lois Lehman Sipe: