Harcy was a boy of six years when his mother died at the age 26 and seven when his father and step-mother moved to Watervliet, Michigan, west of Kalamazoo, Michigan. As a young man (probably @1860-1866), Harcy worked in the oil fields of Foxburg, PA, where he met and married Esmeralda Glass, supposedly a girl of 14, when they married in 1866. No paper record has been found. After their marriage, Harcy and Esmeralda removed to Hartford, Michigan (5-mi. from Watervliet on US 12), where Harcy worked in a wagon factory and made wagons and where his father was living and working. Later, Harcy became a blacksmith. By about 1878, Harcy, Esmeralda, and family returned to Foxburg, where Harcy worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company until his untimely death from a mastoid infection, after becoming ill from a walk home in a freezing rainstorm. This handsome man left his wife with FOURTEEN children. Esmeralda, with assistance from her older boys, built a large home directly next to the Memorial Episcopal Church of Our Father, separated by a stone wall and the livery stable where Harcy sometimes worked. The two-story home stands today on Church Street and was once known as the ABEL House. Some of the 14 siblings have been impossible to track; some having changed their surname spelling to ABLE. Omitted from the FAG Memorial are sons Fred, Ward, and Archie. Son Clarence “disappeared” after 1949, possibly in Cincinnati. After years of exhaustive research, it is believed that only THREE siblings have living offspring – the families of Edmund, Annette, and Clarence. NEW INFORMATION HAS COME TO LIGHT IN 2019 AS THE DESCENDANTS OF CHARLES "CHARLIE" ABEL HAVE BEEN FOUND; HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT TO DATE WILLING TO COMMUNICATE. Well, Hope Springs Eternal!!! If you are related to this family, PLEASE contact me. [email protected].