The Feb. 1990 issue of the Laurel Messenger newsletter indicates that the movie star "Jean Harlow" (1911-1937) was a descendant of the Beal and Korns families of Somerset County PA. Her great-grandfather was Jesse Beal Sr., son of John and Mary Magdalena (Korns) Beal; Mary Magdalena Korns was the third child of Michael Korns, Sr. and was born in 1785. Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter on March 3, 1911 in Kansas City.
Here, below, is an ahentafel showing what I think I understand her relationship to the Korns family to be.
1. Jean Harlow
2. Dr. Mont Clair Carpenter
4. Abraham L. Carpenter
5. Dianna Beal
10. Jesse Beal
11. Lydia Hoyman
12. John George Beal
13. Mary Magdalene Korns
26. Michael Korn, Sr.
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