Josiah V
Josiah V. Thompson
Family Record
Uniontown, Pa
Vol. 10
Oak Hill June 11, 1923 9:37 PM
In looking through the very old papers sent to me last year by Mrs Mary S. Carroll then having address of Box 35, South Hills Branch, Pittsburgh Pa, wife of C.E. Carroll D.D.S. now of Arlington office Bldg, Arlington at Washington, Los Angeles Calif Phone 760-876, but who is now here in Uniontown Pa at her old home on a visit, I find that on Aug 30, 1910, I had recorded in five or six back fly leaf pages of my cash acct book "K" the full old records of birth, but I find penciled in her handwriting the following record of deaths:
Benj Stevens died Feby 21, 1811 aged 73 yrs
Elizabeth Stevens died Apr 8, 1810 aged 62 yrs
Pricilla Stevens died July 23, 1791 aged 21 yrs
Dr Benj (M) Stevens died Jany 4, 1813 aged 38 yrs
Sophia Stevens died Mch 20, 1847 aged 70 yrs
The first two I take it are man & wife, the third Priscilla, their daughter & Dr Benj, their son & the last, Sophia is his wife nee Peairs, daughter of Elisha & Elizabeth.
There is also an old writing, yellow with age & in three pieces with scrolls to the right & bottom & which is the most perfect writing I have ever seen scarcely distinguishable from print as follows:
"Filios Erudiamus
Solon made a law that those parents should neither be relieved nor regarded in their old age by their children who took no care by a good and virtuous education in their youth to instruct them in all the principles of their duty."
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Oak Hill June 12, 1923 10:15 AM
In Clara A. Arbogast's letter of May 23, 1923, she enclosed a printed page report of the secretary of the Oregon Children's Aid Society dated Salem Oregon Oct 8, 1880 & signed Mrs S.C. Adams, Secy & covers two yrs from Sept 5, 1878 & which Mrs Arbogast found in the bible of her grandfather, James Thompson.
The larger number of payts were to James Thompson & wife, Manager & Matron. He was Keeper of the home for over six yrs, say 1874 to Oct 8, 1880 to the entire satisfaction of the board of managers & we can proudly say that they have been efficient & faithful to their trust. We can truly say that to the little ones under their charge, they have been father & mother in the highest relations of sympathy, kindness & watchful care."
I am returning the report today.
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[Descendant Chart]
Patrick & Jeannette Power
[children]
Rev James Power, D.D., born 1745, died Aug 5, 1830 aged 85 yrs. He came to Western Penna in 1774 when aged 29 yrs & in 1776, he, with his wife & 4 young daughters came out with their baggage on 3 horses, mounted horseback & settled first at Dunlaps Creek. He married Mary, daughter of Philip Tanner, an Elder in East Nottingham Church & had eight children, all daughters. [not listed here]
Col. John Power, born June 6, 1757 & died July 21, 1805 on Mch 25, 1778, he married Margaret Finley daughter of Rev James & Hannah Evans Finley who was born Sept 17, 1756 & died May 29, 1836. Both are buried at Rehoboth. Had eight children. He moved into Rostraver Tp in 1782. See B 26 P 182, 173.
Dr James Power, B Oct 29, 1779 ob Jany 18, 1844 m.1. June 7, 1804 to Susannah Torrence who died Nov 20, 1815. Had 5 children. M.2. Nov 27, 1817 to Nancy Jack who died Sept 14, 1864 in her 70th yr & had 10 children. Children all born on farm 2 1/2 miles east of Elizabeth, Allegheny Co Pa.
John Power, B July 8, 1805, m. Feby 1835 to Mary Howell, 4 chil
Martha, B Jan 14, 1807 m. Jany 1826 to John Allen see b 26 p 174.
Joseph Torrence B Mch 2, 1809 ob Sept 14, 1833 at New Orleans La. M. Elizabeth McElhany
Mary Findley, B Dec 31, 1810 ob Mch 24, 1860 m. Sept 1830 to John Westbay see B 26 p 176
Eliza Jane, B Mch 18, 1813 ob Jany 27, 1835, m. Mch 18, 1834 to Saml W. Boyd Shff of Fay Co Pa see book 13, page 184.
Susannah, B Oct 2, 1818 m. Nov 21, 1839 to Preseley Hurst see b 26 P 171?
Sarah Hannah, B May 19, 1820 ob Apr 12, 1900 M. Dec 12, 1844 to John Brown see book 6 p 170 see book 12 p 34
James, B July 9, 1821 m. Mary Humes 2 chil b 20 p 110
Wm Jack, B July 29, 1824 m. Nov 13, 1851 to Mary J. Pollock B 26 P 181
Samuel, B Feby 15, 1826 murdered in Nevada 49 yrs ago say 1872.
Thomas, B Sept 3, 1827 ob Sept 9, 1859 says died at 30 - 63 yrs ago.
Francis Herron, B July 25, 1829 ob Oct 16, 1863 at Nashville,
Tenn. Says died at 34, 59 yrs ago.
Newton Carnahan, B Apr 1, 1831 m. Mary _____ in Calif 39 yrs ago say 1862 3 chil.
Nancy Jane, B Apr 3, 1834 m. Aug 3, 1864 to Joseph Scott ob D.A.R. Home Swissvale Pa July 6, 1923 & buried at Rehoboth Cem. No issue.
Calvin Blythe, B Mch 26, 1838 m.1. May 9, 1861 Gertrude Wycoff M.2. Sept 5, 1867 Mary McKee. M.3. June 20, 1877 Elizabeth Shields see book2 p 35 see book 12 p 32.
Jeannette Power, B Jany 25, 1781 ob Nov 14, 1798 in her 18th yr.
Patrick Power, B Oct 20, 1782 ob Sept 29, 1841 in his 59th yr m. Feby 8, 1810 by Rev Dr Jennings to Nancy Gallaher who was born Sept 7, 1790 & died Apr 15, 1857. See book 7 pages 42 & 43.
1. John Power, B June 24, 1871, ob Apr 6, 1896 m. Sept 13, 1836 by Rev Wm Aman to Jane Fulton dau of Henry Fulton & his wife Rebecca Jack who was born Nov 15, 1814 & died Mch 23, 1891. No issue.
2. Ann, B Jan 28, 1813 ob July 19, 1814
3. Eliza, B Mch 17, 1815 ob Mch 2, 1816
5. Ebenezer F., B Feb 22, 1818 ob Mch 6, 1841
6. Wm Johnston, B Apr 26, 1820 ob May 15, 1871 m. Oct 29, 1845 by Rev Jno Kerr to Rebecca Fulton dau of Henry Fulton &
his 2d wife, Elizabeth Taylor who was born July 19, 1822 & died Dec 13, 1870 see book 7 page 41.
Henry Fulton, B Sept 20, 1846 ob Jan 1, 1920, m.
Anna Eliza, B Apr 11, 1848
John Eben, B June 25, 1850 ob Nov 27, 1876, unmarried.
Elizabeth, B Feby 16, 1852 ob June 7, 1856
James Patrick, B Jany 16, 1854
William Taylor, B Oct 11, 1856
Mary Rebecca B July 13, 1859 ob Jan 3, 1890, unmarried.
Jenney, B Mch 12, 1861
Harriet Newlon, B June 30, 1863 ob Apr 13, 1886, unmarried.
Margaret Guthrie, B Feby 16, 1862.
7. Samuel W., B. May 14, 1822 ob Apr 8, 1885 m. Hasden
8. Mary Jane, B Apr 8, 1825 ob Aug 6, 1858 m. Harry Smith see book 7 p 42.
4. James B. B Dec 10, 1816 ob Feby 15, 1866 m. Oct 24, 1844 by Rev James Smith to Cynthia A. Wood.
9. Thomas Evans, B June 9, 1827, ob July 14, 1889 see book 7 page 43.
10. Joseph C. Power, B Aug 10, 1829 m. lived in WVA
11. Harriet N. Power, Born Nov 21, 1834. She died Sept 26, 1864 in her 30th yr. M. William J. Porter.
Hannah Power, B Oct 11, 1784
John Finley Power, B Nov 1, 1786 ob Dec 19, 1865 m. Feby 17, 1807 to Mary Starrett, dau of James & Elizabeth Starret who was born Oct 16, 1790 & died Mch 14, 1836. Two infant sons died.
Elizabeth S. B Oct 1808
James S., B Apr 14, 1810
John F., B Dec 7, 1811
Evans W., B Dec 6, 1813
Jane, B Mch 20, 1816
William, B May 20, 1818
Margaret, B Mch 4, 1820
Hannah, B May 4, 1822
Harriet, B Nov 14, 1824
Mary E., B May 11, 1826
Elizabeth Frances, B Mch 30, 1828 ob May 5, 1901 m. Dec 3, 1847 to Bela S. Houseman, son of John & Eliz Smith Houseman who was born June 15, 1824 & died Feb 26, 1898
Homer Houseman, B Oct 20, 1848 m. Sept 6, 1881 Mary Franklin, dau of Benj & Nancy McFarland Franklin who was born Nov 6, 1857.
Margaret Ella, B. Oct 23, 1882
Sarah Agnes, B Dec 17, 1883 m. Dec 23, 1904 C. Gillette Lutz [best guess]
Elsie May, B July 2, 1910
Donald Blackburn, B July 5, 1916 ob Sept 3, 1918
Kenneth Irwin, B June 9, 1920
Jeannette, B Oct 10, 1885 m. Aug 29, 1918 to Walter Heath Zundel.
Walter Richard, B June 17, 1919
Rhoda Pauline, B Feby 21, 1921
Frances Mary, B Aug 30, 1889
Ruth Irene, B May 14, 1893 M. Oct 9, 1913 Plummer D. Speers.
Frances Jeannette, B Nov 29, 1914
Winifred Irma, B May 17, 1917
Glenn Houseman, B Oct 31, 1918
Margaret Ella, B Jany 7, 1850 ob June 28, 1880
James S. B Apr 7, 1851 ob July 1915
Mary Frances, B Dec 5, 1853 ob Jany 13, 1899
George W. B Feby 22, 1856 ob July 1913
John Power, B July 7, 1859 ob Mch 12, 1921
Harriet Elizabeth, B Nov 22, 1864 ob Jany 19, 1914
Nancy L. [dau of John Finley Power] b June 13, 1830
Margaret Power [dau of Col John Power] B Jany 15, 1789 m. Rev Woods
Mary Power, B Apr 12, 1798 ob Mch 15, 1865 m. John Torrence B Mch 19, 1793 ob Sept 3, 1864
Isabella Power, B June 19, 1803 ob Jany 23, 1873 m. Isaac McConnell Irwin see book 12 p 33 He was born June 8, 1798 & died May 16, 1879.
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[Descendant Chart]
Jacob Thompson & Ann Downard see book 9 page 520
[children]
Ann Thompson, born July 15, 1749 died in Fayette Co Pa Apr 21, 1819. For her 7 children see book 9 pages 520 & 521. Married Sept 20, 1772 Joseph Moss (son of Joseph Moss) who was born in Chester Co Pa July 19, 1749 & died in Fayette Co Pa Oct 22, 1841.
Ann Thompson Moss, 4th & middle child, born near of in New Salem Pa Nov 3, 1781 died Feby 26, 1861 in her 80th yr & is buried at Rehoboth g.y. married Mch 28, 1799 Robert Galloway, a native of Ireland. See Lewis Pub Co 1912 Vol 3 Pages 840-842 at "Holler". He died June 30, 1818 & is buried at Rehoboth g.y. He was born in Ireland May 12, 1770. All their children were born in Wash Tp, Fay Co Pa near the Concrete bridge by Andrew Brown's. He was a 49r, millwright & miller & built a mill there in partnership with Andrew Brown in 1800. He bought Brown out.
1. Margaret Galloway, Born Jany 25, 1800 ob M. William McKee, moved to Ohio see book 13 p2
2. Anna Galloway, Born Jany 13, 1802 ob. Mar Joseph Patton & moved to Ohio. He was son of John Patton & his wife Nancy Woodrow. See book 13 p 2 & 3. He was born Mch 22, 1803 see page 10.
A son, died in infancy
Ann Maria Patton, Born Dec 11, 1843 ob Jany 24, 1924 unmarried very deaf, buried at Rehoboth.
Emma Galloway Patton, B Apr 12, 1846 ob Feby 12, 1921 & buried at Rehoboth. M. Sept 16, 1879 to Thomas M. Patton born Aug 9, 1852 in Washington Tp, Fayette Co Pa son of Hirim [sic] Patton & wife Harriet Wright. He my informant this Nov 24, 1924. Had but one child, born near here in this Perry Tp. See book 13 P.2.
Lucy Virginia Pearl Patton, Born Nov 2, 1880 m. Dec 30, 1903 to Dr Colley Johnson Miller born Mch 18, 1870 in Menallen Tp & died Sept 11, 1920 son of John Hiram Miller & his wife Emma Colley. No issue. Lucy is here living with her father & my joint informant of the day.
3. Mary Galloway, Born Jany 6, 1804 died Dec 1809 buried at Rehoboth. No marker
4. Samuel Galloway, B Dec 19, 1806 ob Apr 21, 1891 aged 84 yrs 4 mos & 2 days. M. Rebecca Reed born Mch 25, 1810 ob May 18, 1886 aged 76 yrs 1 mo 23 days. mar say 1835 to 1840 daughter of Peter Reed & wife.
9. Joseph Galloway, B Tuesday Feby 3, 1818 ob Nov 14, 1893. He was never married buried at Rehoboth. His team scared at train near [two words unreadable, may be scratched out] Perryopolis & ran to Fuller Sta. His foot caught [last two words undecipherable, looks like a or at hab or thab, anyway, must have been cause of death]
5. Robert Thompson Galloway, B Aug 28, 1809 ob Feby 5, 1885 He was a lawyer & I knew him. Mar Ellen Cummings, dau of Major David Cummings & his wife, Elizabeth Cathers of Connellsville Pa.
7. Elizabeth Galloway, B Monday in year 1813 ob Dec 17, 1816 buried at Rehoboth. no marker. Houseman [last word may have had line drawn through it.]
6. Mary McK Galloway, B Jany? 26, 1811 ob , M. James Moss, her 1st cousin & moved to Ohio to town of Antrim or Rumley. Mrs McC says it was Antrim.
8. Susan Patterson Galloway, Born in Washington Tp Fayette Co Pa Feby 3, 1816 died July 22, 1889 M. Oct 1838 Stephen Woodrow Patton son of John Patton & his wife Nancy Woodrow who was born Feby 1, 1805 in Wash Tp, Fay Co Pa & died there June 3, 1891 in his 87th yr. He was a cabinet maker.
2. Nancy Patton, B Dec 13, 1840 ob Jany 3, 1841.
1. Anna Eliza Patton, B June 30, 1839 ob Feby 16, 1900 of paralysis, unmarried, Buried at Rehoboth.
3. Sarah Ellen Patton, B Nov 14, 1841. Living. m. Dec 1860 John McClain, son of David McClain & his wife Elizabeth McCrory. He was born in Belle Vernon along the River when there were but a few houses here on Dec 27, 1826 & died in Perry Tp, Fay Co Pa Aug 9, 1904 & is buried in Belle Vernon Cem.
Lewis N. McClain, B July 14, 1861 ob Jany 28, 1878 unmarried was premature birth & was never well.
Myrie Emma McClain, B June 13, 1863 ob Sept 17, 1865
Martha Susan McClain, B July 10, 1865 ob June 7, 1880
Joseph Galloway McClain, B Feby 14, 1867 M. Dec 25, 1889 to Jessie Myrtle Jamison, dau of Wilber Fisk Jamison & his wife Mary Ann Lynch & who was born Aug 24, 1871 near Scenery Hill Pa.
Mary Lillie McClain, B Nov 6, 1890 ob Dec 22, 1921. She mar Dec 12, 1910 Chas Porter Wallace & his wife Sarah Williams. Lives California Pa & has a restaurant there, 1st & last chil. born Belle Vernon Pa other two at Mon City.
Chas Albion Wallace, B Sept 26, 1911
Wilber Hoon Wallace, B Feb 17, 1914
Frances Myrtle Wallace, B Sept 19, 1916
Sara Wallace, B Feby 28, 1920
Elizabeth Frances McClain, B Sept 9, 1892. Teaching & living at home. Is unmarried
Nancy Edna McClain, B Mch 22, 1895 m. May 30, 1917 to Clarence Burkhart, son of Michael Burkhart & his wife Isabel Green.
Betty Isabel Burkhart, Born July 1918, ob Jany 14, 1919
Albert Jamison Burkhart, B Nov 30, 1919
John Jamison McClain, B May 8, 1897 m. Aug 2, 1919 to Bertha Evangeline Clement dau of Hubert Clement & his wife Flora Goddard who was born at Lock No 4 Pa Sept 12, 1899 & live at 309 Speer St here.
Betty Jane McClain, B June 18, 1920
Margaret Ellen McClain, B Sept 3, 1906 at home unmarried.
Margaret Torrence McClain [daughter of Sarah Ellen Patton & John McClain], B Aug 30, 1869 m. Dec 14, 1888 to Van Voorhis Speers son of Noah Speers & his wife Amanda Ward, who was born Sept 25, 1867 & live across the River at Speers Pa.
Jno Patton McClain, B Aug 15, 1871 ob Sept 23, 1882
Robert Elliott McClain, B June 13, 1874 unmarried. Lives here with his mother.
Elizabeth Ann McClain, B July 2, 1877 m. July 3, 1894 to Frank Vandiver Scott son of Frank Scott & his wife Sarah Evalyn Vandiver of Chester Co Pa who was born in Derry Tp, Chester Co Pa Feby 8, 1876 & both living. She at 312 Speer St here. He is at Buffalo NY.
Sara Margaret Scott, B Dec 28, 1894. At home single. Teaching [unreadable] writing in Monessen & Donna [best guess]
Robert Vandiver Scott, B Feby 7, 1898 m. June 14, 1921 to Olive Grace Elliott of Newcastle Pa dau of Slater Elliott & wife Elizabeth White who was born June 24, 1894
Robert Elliott Scott, B Oct 31, 1922
Roger Patton Scott, B July 6, 1902 with his bro at Lockport NY, unmarried.
Evalyn Lockhart Scott, B Sept 6, 1904 at home single now & for 6 mos in a cast
Lois Caroline Scott, B Jany 9, 1907 at home, single.
Stephen Woodrow McClain [son of Sarah Ellen Patton & John McClain], B Sept 25, 1880 ob May 6, 1892
Lillie Catherine McClain, Born Dec 9, 1883, ob Dec 4, 1885.
4. John S. Patton [son of Susan P. Galloway & John Patton] b Jany 22, 1844. Unmarried. Still living at old home Baptized John & school teacher put S. in to distinguish & he always retained it. P.O. Belle Vernon Pa RD 2
5. Dr Robert Galloway Patton, B June 19, 1846 a dentist m. May 13, 1869 Naomi Madora Patterson, dau of Geo S. Patterson & wife Mary Stephens who was born Dec 25, 1845. Have 3 girls & 2 boys. He died Nov 4, 1917. She died Jany 4, 1910 Jno s. Patterson is her brother. See next page.
6. Nancy Patton, B Aug 4, 1848 m. Nov 6, 1879 Norton M. Dodd. Had 4 children. She died Oct 6, 1900. He was born Wash Co Pa June 23, 1851, son of Dr Thaddeus Dodd & wife Mary Stockdale. See book 9 p 521.
7. Martha Scelene Patton B Apr 13, 1851 m.1. Dec 23, 1892 Rev Wm Willson, son of Thomas Willson & wife Jane Kidds, Pres min who was born Apr 27, 1822 near Old Bethel Ch Ally Co Pa & died May 14, 1900. She did keep house for her brother John S. & she married 2nd June 24, 1913 Norton M. Dodd being his 3d wife. No issue.
8. Noah Woodrow Patton, B Oct 1853. M.1. Isan M.D. ob 1915
9. Mary Aletha Patton or as she is called "Lillie" [unreadable] B. Mch 31, 1856 m. 1884 Robert Thompson Hutchinson ob Apr 21, 1921
10. Rev Joseph Galloway Patton, Born Sept 11, 1860 ob Aug 28, 1922 m. Jany 28, 1891 to Irene Morton Knight dau of Oliver Reed Knight & his wife Isabel McJunking who was born Aug 18, 1868 at Brownsville. Lives 123 N Ave Washington Pa.
Robert Knight Patton, Born Mch 14, 1892 at Brownsville Pa
John Stephen Patton Jr, Born Oct 11, 1901 at Washington Pa
Joseph Donald Patton B Apr 10, 1905 at Washington, Pa.
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[Descendant Chart]
Robert Galloway Patton D.D.S. & Naoma Madora Patterson, his wife see preceding page. First two born in Wash Tp, last three born in Rostraver Tp.
[children]
Mary Olive Patton, Born Mch 29, 1871 m.1. Noah Webster Cronshore son of Michael Cronshore & his wife Elizabeth Roose who was born say 1869 & he died Nov 13, 1913 & is buried at Rehoboth upper part & has a marker m.2. Chas Harris Cook son of Rev Cook Episcopalian minister of Denver Col. Live 501 Broad Ave Belle Vernon Pa No issue to Cook.
Robert Henry Cronshore, B June 29, 1899 in Rostraver Tp, single, lives in Belle Vernon.
Susan Allene Patton, B Nov 18, 1873 m. Dec 11, 1900 in Rostraver Tp by Rev Joseph G. Patton to Robert Finley Allen, son of David Baird Hough Allen & his wife Martina Springer who was born in Rostraver Tp in this house Oct 5, 1865 & has always lived here. Have 4 children all born in this house children all single & at home.
Naoma Jean, B July 6, 1902
Mary Martina, B Dec 11, 1904
Robert Finley Jr, B Mch 5, 1907
John Fred, B, Jany 10, 1909
Ocie Anna Patton, B Jany 8, 1877 m Oct 18, 1899 to Dr David Richey Shepler in Rostraver Tp by Rev Jas G. Patton. He is son of John B. Shepler & his wife Josephine Claywell. He was born Nov 30, 1876 in Rostraver Tp & live in Main St West Newton Pa.
Joseph Robert, B Mch 17, 1908
Dallas Richie, B Feby 14, 1911 ob May 15, 1924
George William, B Aug 30, 1880 m. to Maude Roose sister of Mrs Clarence Finley & live in Rostraver Tp where their children were born.
Dorothy Maude
Helen
Ocie Roose
Hazel
Fred Ethan, B Jany 18, 1885 m. Jany 18, 1909 to Ruth McConnell, dau of McConnell & his wife Sarah Smith who was born say 1892. They live at Hermosa Beach Calif where he is a chemist.
Fred Ethan Jr, B May 15, 191
Robt Galloway, B Feby 3, 1918
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Oak Hill June 14, 1923 10:44 PM
This is the sixth anniversary of Amerigo Pallini's birth & I left with his father driving in our car at 6:26 AM & went to Rostraver & Washington Tps & to Belle Vernon, Fairhope, & Fayette City Pa & got home at 10 PM & have just finished eating some crackers, cheese, two boiled eggs, a banana & an orange not having eaten since 6 o'c this morning save some peaches & apples I got as we came through Fayette City & I will now write down what I penciled off in addition to the filling in & extensions on pages 6 & 7 & page 8 written up entire.
Residence of Clarence M. Finley, Rostraver Tp Westnd Co Pa June 14, 1923 7:45 AM
I arrived at this hour & was ushered in by cousin J. Maude Finley & paid her $1050 for 7 yrs int on her $2500 H-D C & C Co notes. She told me that her brother Clarence & wife had twins since I was there May 17, 1922 see book 6 page 467 line 23 viz Robert Clare Finley born Oct 4, 1922 Robert Jane Finley born Oct 4, 1922. & also that her cousin Clare Evans son of her father's half brother Thomas Patton Finley, a fine handsome man as per photo she showed me had died in Chicago Ills Feby 21, 1923 aged abt 40 yrs. he was unmarried & the only child of his father who was there on a visit & came in & was
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introduced. He is a fine, well built virile man, well preserved, vigorous & handsome. He said he knew father very well & said he had often visited them. He said Mr Handy a big farmer who came from Cincinnati O lived at Cynthiana, Ky in 1894 or 1895 when he saw him there. He was a Presbyterian & had made up a record of the Handy family embracing a lot of the Finleys. Handy had seen Howard Finley, son of Jim in Texas who had referred him to Thos P. who don't know whether it was published or not.
Thos P. Finley lives at 3649 Pine Grove Ave, Chicago Ills, who says he met a Mrs McKinley there, a widow of a lawyer who introduced him to a lady friend aged abt 60 yrs, also a widow who lives with her son there & who it developed was a descendant of a Methodist preacher named Finley who he thought she said was her great grandfather, probably Rev James B. Finley or one of his two clerical brothers. He will get her name & address & send me. She lives in Chicago. They tell me that Mrs Nancy Jack Scott, now in her 90th yr, who I had expected to see today had fallen in Dec last & broke her hip & was now bedfast in the G.A.R. home at Hawkins Sta on the PRR, Pgh Pa when at her brother C.B. Power's later, Mrs Power sd she was at the above home at Swissvale.
Left abt 8:30 AM
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At residence of John S. Patton, Washington Tp, Fayette Co Pa June 14, 1923 11:16 AM
I arrived here two hours ago & have been talking to Mr Patton. He says his grandfather, Robert Galloway died from infection from being struck in the face or head with the tine of a fork in the hands of his son Samuel who was then but twelve yrs old when they were loading manure.
He says his father & mother were married by a Baptist preacher, the Pres. preacher being away from home. He said it was in 1838, but he knew no further date, but his sister, Sarah Ellen McClain says it was in Oct 1838. He says their oldest child, Ann Eliza was born in the Spring House loft at his grandfather Galloway's & the next two, Nancy & Sarah Ellen were born in their grandfather Galloway's little log house, all near the concrete bridge beyond Andrew Brown's from here in Wash Tp, Fay Co Pa. His parents then moved to this house in 1843 & he & all the other children were born here in this house, Wash Tp, Fay Co Pa.
At the bottom of the record of his father's children, he gave me on a sheet of paper was:
Ralph Patton born June 5, 1861. He explained that he was the illegitimate son of his oldest sister, Ann Eliza Patton.
He said his Aunt Margaret McKee nee Galloway see page 6 went to Ohio
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& of her children, he recalls:
1. Elizabeth McKee, unmarried
2. Martha McKee, unmarried
3. Thompson McKee, unmarried, a carpenter
4. Susan McKee, unmarried reported by Mrs McClain.
These Mr Patton thinks were all born in Ohio & got to Pgh because their sister, Jane lived there & they lived there together & John S. is not sure but thought they were taken to Ohio for burial but he didn't know what part of Ohio.
5. Mary Ann McKee married Jacob Shoemaker & lived in Ohio
6. Jane McKee married a Birch & moved to Pgh & the others followed. Her children were:
1. Ann the oldest
2. Belle
3. Elizabeth
4. Morris
5. Robert
6. Grant
7. a son with whom Thompson learned carpenter trade
8. He thinks there was another son in the west.
(It is 12:30 AM 15th & I am very sleepy & will go to bed.)
(June 15, 1923 5:55 AM resuming yesterday's transcribing)
Mr Patton's Uncle Samuel Galloway is buried at Rehoboth along the road between the main driveway & the church. His death was prior to that of Stephen Patton.
He married Rebecca Reed who was a sister of John Reed whose daughter
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married Wm Patterson. They had three children, viz:
1. A boy died in infancy
2. Anna Maria, who is stone deaf, unmarried & lived with her sister Emma & is still living with her sister Emma's husband Thos M. Patton in Perry Tp, Fay Co Pa on a farm between Perryopolis & Wick Haven Pa two miles north of Perryopolis.
3. Emma, who married Thos M. Patton, son of Hiram Patton & his wife Harriet Wright a granddaughter of the first or early Rehoboth Elder Wright. Emma is dead but Thos M. is living. They had but one child:
1. Lucy Patton who married Dr Colley J. Miller of Brownsville Pa son of John Hiram Miller of Haddenville Pa who is dead & she lives with her father. She has no issue.
Joseph Galloway's record as he gave it, is entered on page 6.
Robt I. Galloway, whom I knew see page 6 was Col of the militia & once when at a muster at Connellsville Pa with a number of young girls about him, he noticed a button off of his coat & said "Will one of you young ladies sew it on?" & Ellen Cummings jumped & ran to get needle & thread & did so & that introduction, her alacrity & deftness won him & ripened into marriage & it was she who said of him in his late life that "he was real frisky in the mornings". He was once Prothonotary of Fayette Co Pa. She was a sister of Dr Cummings. They, with their only children, Rob & Mrs James L. Paull are buried at Connellsville Pa. Elizabeth was Mrs Paull's name. See her son Joseph R. Paull, Pgh for record.
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Mary Mck Galloway, his aunt married, both he & Mrs McClain said, James Moss, not Jacob & had children, Robert, John, Elizabeth & Anne & all lived in Ohio. He said:
1. Robert, died unmarried
2. John, he thinks has died, never heard of him marrying.
3. Elizabeth married a McBurney a professor in some school. She is dead he thinks. Thinks she had children.
4. Anne, the youngest daughter is, he thinks, living & unmarried. Said ask Mrs McClain.
He said his sister, Ann Eliza's son Ralph Patton went away out west & they have lost all track of him. Mr P. says "better drop that please".
He says his sister Sarah Ellen (Mrs McClain) is living in Belle Vernon Pa on Speer St in North Belle Vernon in Westnd Co Pa which you reach by turning as you go in from the west by turning to the left at Kyles store & then again to the left around the Baptist Church just across the street in 2d house in a frame house. She has had 10 children, 4 living. Robert G. Patton D.D.S., his brother. He said to get date of his death from monument at Rehoboth, which is to the right of the main driveway well up toward the upper side. Says to write him giving years & he will look up exact date in his diaries which he has been keeping since 1864 "sixty yrs". Robt G's lot is just below the monument & Dr Noah W's is right above & Norton M. Dodd's is just above Noah's
Dr Robt G. had 3 girls & 2 boys viz;
1. Mary Olive m.1. Noah Cronshore & 2d Chas H. Cook
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2. Susan Allene ("Allie") mar Robt F. Allen.
3. Ocie A. mar Dr D.R. Shepler of West Newton Pa.
4. George W. who lives out from Allie's on the West Newton Road in the 3d house, a brick one beyond the brick road going to Monessen on left hand side. He has four girls
5. Fred E. married & has 2 boys. Lives in California
Dr Noah W. Patton M.D., his brother was twice married. I met his son Edwin of Charleroi, a bachelor who was here & he is going to send me his father's record.
Mary Aletha, called "Lillie" from Aletha is dead having died abt 3 yrs ago. They lived in Lower Tyrone Tp where he husband is still living on a farm. His P.O. address is:
Robert Thompson Hutchinson, Layton Pa RFD 1.
Have three children:
1. Noah Jay Hutchinson married & has 4 children
Lives on one of his father's farms & works for a Cochran Co possibly the Yough Co working the Freeport vein of coal which out- crops there.
2. Joseph, at home single
3. Mara Beth, married Geo Gault & lives with her father. Her husband Geo Gault lost an arm in a saw mill & is abt graduating at State College, Pa. He is son of Mathew Gault & his wife Ellen Hutchinson, a sister of Robert I. whose mother was a Thompson. Mara
Beth runs the farm, does the ploughing herself "gears the horses", miles six cows & makes butter for sale. No issue. Write her father for record.
Rev Joseph G. Patton D.D., his brother. He says to write to his widow. Mrs Irene K. Patton, Washington Pa for their
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record. They have three boys, Roger K. John S. & Joseph Donald all young & at home single.
John S. had the record of his grandfather John Patton who was married Feby 12, 1801 & had nine children as follows & which he had on one side of a sheet of paper. He said he did not think his father ever kept a record in his bible.
The children were:
Martha Patton born Dec 17, 1801 Joseph Patton born Mch 22, 1803
Stephen Patton born Feby 1, 1805
David Patton born Jany 10, 1807
Henry Patton born Nov 13, 1808
Thomas Woodrow Patton born March 22, 1810
John Patton born Jany 16, 1813, died Oct 3, 1813
Hiram Patton born June 1, 1815
Ellen Patton born Nov 12, 1820
The old Galloway family record is in a Dictionary of the Bible Vol 2 by John Brown minister of the Gospel at Haddington medium size leather back well preserved & printed at Pittsburg Pa from the Ecclesiastical & Literary Press of Zadok Cramer 1807.
He sd he did not have any Cramer almanacs. This volume commences with "Jabel" & in the back is a list of the subscribers a great number in order as follows: A few names from which I have noted:
1st State of Penna
2d Pittsburg
3d Washington Co Pa
E. Jenkins 10 copies, James Moss, Andrew Burget
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Josiah Scott, Alexander Scott, Robert Shannon, James Scroggs, Abraham Scott, Capt Josiah Scott, Robert Thompson & Henry Westby.
4th Westmoreland Co Pa.
David Bell, William Bell, John Bell, M. Findley, Robert Fulton, WM Findley, Joseph Findley, Michael Findley, Joseph Markle, John Markle
5th Fayette Co Pa
N. Breading, Robert Baird, David Breading, Andrew Brown, Col Edwd Cook Wm Ewing, Thomas Frame, James Frame, Ebenezer Findley, John Fuller, John Gaddis, Robt Galloway, Joseph Huston, Andrew Hoover, William Hogg, John Jackson, Catharine Rabb, Robert Thomson, Joseph Thornton 7 copies, James Veech, John Wilson, Samuel Wilson, David Wilson, Andrew Wilson
6th Beaver Co Pa
Samuel Carothers, James Carothers, Thomas Dunlap, David Potter, Andrew Robb, John Thompson.
7th Mercer Co Pa. Thomas Thomson
8th Butler Co Pa Samuel Findley Esq
9th Crawford Co Pa, Joseph Hackney
10th Armstrong Co Pa, James Thompson
11th Venango Co Pa, Alex Thompson
12th Erie Co Pa, William Beatty
13. Indiana Co Pa, Alex Thomson
14. Warren Co Pa, none taken by me
15. Luzerne Co Pa, none taken by me
16. Philadelphia Co Pa, Benj Thaw
17. Bedford Co Pa Robt Thompson, John Thompson
18. Cumberland Co Pa, Andw Carothers, William Carnahan, John Scroggs
19. Franklin Co Pa, Col Patrick Jack, Sam Thompson
20. Somerset Co Pa,
21. Dauphine Co Pa
22. Greene Co Pa
23. Lancaster Co Pa, James Thompson, Wm Thomson
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24. Adams Co Pa, J.O. Thompson, Capt D. Wilson, James Wilson
25. Chester Co Pa
26. Huntingdon Co Pa
27. Jefferson Co Pa
State of Ohio
28. Belmont Co, Robert Thomson
29. Jefferson Co Robert Carothers, Samuel Dunlap, Robert Jackson, Saml Thompson.
30. Hamilton Co, Chas Killgore Esqr
31. Butler Co
32. Green Co
33. Ross Co, Sam Finley Esqr
State of Kentucky
24. Warren Co Joseph Thompson
25. Mason Co Zachariah Thompson
State of Tennessee
36. Blount Co, Robert Thompson
The record of the Galloway births & some of the earlier deaths on Page 6 of this book were all taken from the record in the above book & the earlier dates were Mr P. thought in the handwriting of his grandfather Robert Galloway. I did not take the records of his sisters Nannie & Martha as he directed me to the residence of Norton M. Dodd where I expected to get. Norton first married Nannie, then married a sister of Martha's husband & then married Martha for his 3d wife.
Left at 1:55 PM
We then drove back to the concrete bridge but without crossing it, turned back on the right taking the road we came on & the first house on the right an old brick with roof off & being torn down, was the Joseph Galloway farm which Mr P. tried to buy but his sealed bid was 10 cts per acre below
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that of a Mr Houseman who got it. We then passed the next house, Griffith Stephens which is being repaired & turned at the first right hand road beyond & going down same about a mile, came to a frame house on the left hand side, the first one on the road with a high porch in front, a basement kitchen under same on the sloping hillside & entrance at the back to the living rooms above & were:
At residence of Norton M. Dodd Wash Tp Fay Co Pa June 14, 1923 2:25 PM
Tried all the doors but there was no one at home. There were many fruit trees & plenty of peaches on the trees, so I
Left at 2:33 PM
& driving on was:
At Rehoboth g.y. Rostraver Tp at 2:42 PM June 14, 1920
J. Elliott Cook who was doing some work there, came up & spoke to me & went with me to find the graves I sought.
To the left of Main driveway & along the road, I found:
1. William Moss 1803 - 1885
Elizabeth, his wife 1807 - 1864
2. Samuel Galloway, died Apr 21st 1891 aged 84 yrs 4 mos 2 days
Rebecca, wife of S. Galloway died May 18, 1886 aged 76 yrs 1 mo 23 days
3. Robert Galloway 1770 - 1818
Ann T. Galloway 1781 - 1861
Joseph Galloway 1818 - 1893
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4. Susannah G. Patton 1816 - 1889
Stephen W. Patton 1805 - 1891
sons
Dr R.G. Patton D.D.S. 1846 - 1917
Dr Noah W. Patton M.D. 1853 - 1915
Rev J.G. Patton D.D. 1860 - 1922
daughters
Anna E. Patton 1839 - 1900
Nancy P. Dodd 1848 - 1900
Mary A. Hutchinson 1856 - 1921
Joseph G. Patton 1860 - 1922
Irene M. Knight, his wife 1868 -
Naoma M. (wife of Robt G.) 1845 - 1910
5. Dodd Monument
Nannie P. (Patton) (1st wife) 1849 - 1900
Mary W. (Wilson) (2d wife) 1861 - 1911
Mattie S. 1883 - 1887
Hope 1886 - 1888
John P. 1889
Leaving 3 PM
We then drove to Robt F. Allen's on the corner & Naoma Jean told me her mother was lying down & I told her I would be back in about 2 hours. We then drove in to Belle Vernon & were:
AT residence of Mrs Sarah Ellen McClain No 312 Speer St, Belle Vernon Pa June 14, 1923 3:22 PM
This house is in Westmoreland Co & the Fayette Co line is just back of the house. Mrs McClain owns this house & lives on West side with her unmarried son Robert E. & her mar-
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ried son Joseph G., a small sized man whom I saw with his family, lives in the east side of the house.
Mrs McC's daughter Elizabeth A. Scott owns & lives in the house adjoining on the West. Joseph G's son, John J. & wife live just across the street.
Mrs McClain has gone over to Mrs Scott's to get a bottle of ink & Mrs Scott went upstairs & brought down her mother's big bible from which & their joint & combined memories, I made up the record of Mrs McC's family on page 7. Mrs McC. thinks the McKees went to Salem Ohio, but is not sure, but says she often heard them talk of Salem. She says they had a daughter Susan, also unmarried, as well as Elizabeth, Martha & Thompson & she lived with them.
Jane McKee, who married a Birch neither of them could give his first name, has a daughter: Mrs Elizabeth J. Smith, living at No 3901 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh Pa E.C. who will be able to give the McKee record & who I must go to see. They showed me a recent letter from her. Mr McKee's name was William. She called him "Uncle Billy" & thinks they were not related to the Francis McKee family.
Anna Birch oldest sister of Mrs Elizabeth J. Smith married a Fulton of the family who had the foundry at Pgh in which he had an interest.
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Anna Galloway, aunt of Mrs McC married Joseph Patton, oldest brother of her father Stephen Woodrow Patton & had two daughters, Mary & Nancy & four sons John, Robert, Samuel & Ross. They moved to Ohio & had a farm there. Children she thinks are all dead unless it might be that Ross is living. The girls never married, stayed with their mother, who survived her husband & lived to be away up in the 80s. Mrs McC well remembers both of them. He died several years before she died. The boys all married & had families. John had children & Alma Patton teaching at the Charity School, Massillon O is one of his descendants, write her. Samuel had one daughter & Ross had two sons, that she knew of.
Mrs McC. thinks her Aunt Mary Moss (her husband she says was "Uncle James") had 2 boys & 2 girls viz: Robert, John, Elizabeth & Anne. Elizabeth married a McBurney. Anne never married. never heard of Robert & John marrying.
Mrs McC's daughter, Margaret T. Speers address is Belle Vernon RD Pa living across the River opposite. They have 7 children living & 2 dead & in order of their ages are as follows:
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Sarah, oldest, Stephen, Noah, dead, Ray Finley, John Lawrence, Alden O'Davis, Rebecca Ward, Margaret, Dead, Ward. Write her for record.
Mrs Scott's children Sara, Robert & Lois born in Belle Vernon & Roger & Evalyn in Perry Tp, Fay Co Pa
Leaving 6 PM
It is now 11:11 AM & I must go in town.
It is now 7:16 PM & I am resuming.
AT Residence of Robert F. Allen, Rostraver Tp, Westnd, Co Pa June 14, 1923 6:15 PM
I came here direct from Mrs McClain's & was ushered in by Mrs Allen & she called Mr Allen in. Mrs Allen says her husband's grandmother Allen was a Hough & she thought her name was Mary & said she was a sister of Paul Hough who married a Cook. Mrs Allen gave me the record of her father's family as noted on page 8 & the data lacking about Mr Cook's parentage & the dates of birth of her brother Geo W's children she is going to send me. She says her Uncle Jos G. Patton was the officiating minister at her sister Mary Olive's first wedding. She was due to attend a party at her sister, Mrs Dr Shepler's in West Newton Pa at 8 o'clock, so I bade her goodbye &
Left at 7:27 PM & driving to Fairhope stopped at
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Residence of Calvin B. Power Fairhope June 14, 1923 7:33 PM
I found Mr P. & his wife sitting on the porch & explained that it was too late to go into the extended record I wished to get from him & would come back some morning. Mrs Power spoke of his sister being in the G.A.R. home at Hawkins Sta or Swissvale & that although bedfast from the broken hip she sustained in a fall last winter, said her memory of old affairs was better than C.B's & we all agreed that it wd be best to see her first & then go to see him.
He said his half sister, Eliza Jane Power (who later married Shff S.W. Boyd) was after her mother's death, taken by her grandfather Torrence who lived where Leiseuring NO 1 now is & was raised there by him. Joseph Torrence of Connellsville Pa was brother of Eliza Jane's mother.
Miss Isabel Power, sister of C.B's father, James Power, married Isaac Irwin & their children were:
1. Margaret Irwin married John Blackburn & had a daughter:
Esther who married J.P. Sloterbeck of Fayette City where he now lives. She died recently. I think Mrs Adam H. Wycoff was also her daughter. C.B. thought Mr Sloterbeck might have the Irwin records.
2. Elizabeth Irwin, unmarried whom I knew
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3. Rebecca Irwin, married Andrew Robertson, who died 4 yrs ago aged 93 yrs. She died before he did. Of their children, there are 4 boys & 3 girls who are still living at the old home in Rostraver Tp, two miles from West Newton on the West Newton & Monongahela City pike, all unmarried, who might have the Irwin record & would certainly have their parents record & would be delighted to give it. The oldest of the girls is particularly well informed on family matters. They were three other children one being a lawyer in Pgh & another was Isaac I. Robertson now decd late Pres of the F & M Bank West Newton Pa. The old home is a frame house on right hand side of road as you go west. You turn to left a mile out from West Newton for Belle Vernon, but keep straight on the Monon Pike another mile to the Robertson place.
C.B. said John Allen who married his Aunt Martha Power was a son of David Allen.
Leaving 8:11 PM
John S. Patton told me about working up the incorporation of the Rehoboth Cemetery & of enlisting Andrew Brown's help & raising an endowment fund & said he wanted to make it a bequest. He spoke of starting his dealing with one cow & of selling a calf she had & then trading
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for a colt which he broke & sold & continuing the purchase & breaking of bad colts & then selling them & getting some capital & once his father told him he was going to sell his wheat & he told him to not do so as the price was going up. His father said however, he was going to sell as he must have some money. Well, sd John S. "if you re bound to sell, I will buy it". He did & made 50 cts a bushel on it. He continued buying wheat & grain from neighbors who had to have money & held it for a raise. He bought the farm over the hill adjoining & after making the last payment on it, he still had $500 out at interest. He has a wonderfully good spring, fine cook water, nice spring house & good watering trough hewed out of solid rock. He has been keeping a diary since 1864, this being his 60th yr.
The old woman he has keeping house for him is a native of Switzerland. Coming home, I went in town & got my mail & got home at 10 PM
It is now 8:35 PM 15th & I am written up to date. JVT
Dec 4, 1923
Mary Jane Reed was born in New York City, she thought on Mch 1, 1829. Shortly after her parents arrived from Ireland & her mother died of cholera when she was a baby. She died Nov 4, 1908. She married Elijah G. Stevens who died Nov 14, 1859. Their son, Frank Stevens died Aug 7, 1918. His wife Mary Emily Chick was born in Uniontown Pa Jany 28, 1851. Chas E. Carroll was born near West Alexander Pa June 22, 1876
Percy D. Coates was born in Boston Mass Nov 3, 1881 son of Chas J. Coates. Mrs C.E. Carroll's P.O. address is 1924 Hillcrest Drive, Los Angeles Calif.
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Oak Hill June 16, 1923 8 PM
Mary S. Carroll, now of Los Angeles Calif is here with Mr & Mrs Percy Coates & her great Aunt Clara C. Stevens & have brought along the bible of Clara's father, Wm C. Stevens which was printed by Wm W. Harding Phila 1867 & is 11 1/2 inches long 9 1/2 wide & 3 in thick, well preserved & covered by Clara with red plush. The record is as follows:
Marriages William C. Stevens and Sophronia Gadd married Dec 5, 1822
Births
William C. Stevens was born Feby 3, 1798
Sophronia Gadd was born Feby 10, 1865
Their children:
1. Theadotia Stevens was born Aug 30, 1823
2. Benjamin Stevens was born Sept 8, 1825
3. Benjamin Stevens was born Sept 13, 1826
4. Elijah Gadd Stevens was born Apr 25, 1830
5. Jane Stevens was born July 18, 1832
6. William C. Stevens Jr was born June 21, 1835
7. John Gadd Stevens was born Nov 16, 1837
8. Sophia Peairs Stevens was born Sept 16, 1842
9. Clara Clinton Stevens was born May 26, 1846
Grandchildren:
Ella Priscilla Peach was born Feby 5, 1852
Mersilla Jane Peach was born Feby 2, 1857
Deaths
Benjamin Stevens died Sept 22, 1825
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Benjamin Stevens died Oct 1, 1847 in the City of Mexico
Elijah G. Stevens died Nov 14, 1859
Teadotia Peach died July 6, 1857
Sophia P. Stevens died June 6, 1860
William C. Stevens died Oct 2, 1870
Sophronia Stevens died July 16, 1876
Benjamin Stevens died while in the service of his country in the Mexican War.
John G. Stevens entered the Civil War in 1861 & served until the war closed.
Sophia P. Stevens was unmarried as was her brother Benjamin.
William C. Stevens Jr married Annie Dolan of Fayette Co O Washington C.H. He & she both died in Texas. She dying first. They had 3 sons & 1 daughter.
1. Arthur, married & lives at Bowling Green KY in the town & has a wallpaper store. Has children.
2. Charles married & lives in Chicago Ills employed in office of the Gas Co & has children.
3. Harry, married, had one child, a boy & died, she thinks in Cincinnati O.
4. Mamie [Manie?] married a man named Stafford & had several children & lived in Jacksonville Fla with one of her sons.
Mersilla Jane Peach married Geo W. McBeth of Connellsville Pa. She is dead. Think he is living. No issue. She died Feby 2, 1915 in NY & buried in Oak Grove Cem here.
John G. Stevens died July 23, 1922 so Mary wrote s env Feby 12, 1924.
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Jane Stevens married Brice L. Summers of WVA about 1849. Both dead dying at Jefferson Greene Co Pa & are buried there & have a marker at grave. Had three children:
1. William, married a Waynesburg Pa woman Kate _____. Both living in Carrick. Retired.
2. Lizzie, died unmarried & buried at Jefferson.
3. Fred, died before his parents
4. Harry married Lizzie _______. He died & is buried in Jefferson. She married 2d a man named Riggle (Frank) No issue.
John G. Stevens married Maria Reese, both dead. No issue. Clara is going to send me their record & Mary is going to send the record of her grandfather Elijah G. Stevens descendants. They were here from 7:50 to 9:20 PM & I got the foregoing bible record & Clara gave me from memory what follows. Mary said she was at school with a sister of her husband who were children of my friend Hamilton B. Carroll of West Finley Tp Wash Co Pa & went to visit her & applied for a school there & they wrote to me & I gave a grand recommendation & she got the school & later, a husband. I weighed them & Mary S. Carroll weighed 205 is 5 ft 10 in
Clara C. Stevens weighed 134
Mrs Percy D. Coates weighed 165
Percy D. Coates weighed 120
J.V. Thompson weighed 197.
See bottom of page 26. JVT
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[There is a peculiar "sign" in the upper left hand corner of this page resembling a fermata. No idea what it means. See Page 46. CW]
Oak Hill June 19, 1923 7:55 PM
I went to Pgh Pa this morning on the early 6:40 AM PRR train. Saw W.H. Clingerman on the train & he said all the papers with a new map he had prepared showing the whole proposition (my Perry & Wayne Tp offer of coal lands) had been sent in to or with D.G. Kerr, but he would not be able to get it presented before he had to leave on a trip to the North West on which he would be gone two weeks so I would not be able to hear of it for about three weeks. I got off at East Liberty & in six minutes got a train back to Braddock & taking a street car there I went back to Hawkins Sta & was
At the Ladies G.A.R. Home Hawkins Sta Pa June 19, 1923 9:55 AM (10:55 AM their time.
After waiting about 20 minutes, they took me in the room where Cousin Mrs Nancy Jack Scott, now in her 90th yr was lying on a cot or small bed & there were four or five other women lying on similar cots in the same room. She is feeble & her memory has failed her greatly since I saw her at Fairhope Pa 13 mos ago.
She said Rev James Power was her father's Uncle & that he had eight daughters & no sons, but she could not give the names of the eight daughters
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She said Major John Power was her father's younger brother John Finley Power & his wife was Mary Starret. She said her Aunt Hannah Power married a Fry & went to Washington Co Pa & that her Aunt Margaret Power married Rev Woods & had sons Rev James & Wm Woods & that her Aunt Mary (Polly) Power married John Torrence a farmer (a brother she thought of her father's first wife Susannah Torrence) & lived in Westnd Co Pa & had children James Torrence who lived at the Cross Roads on the Gbg Pike near West Newton Pa & raised a family and also there was Samuel Torrence, the oldest who was not married, Jane Torrence married a Gamble & Power Torrence who died rather young. Said her Aunt Isabella Power married Isaac Irwin & among their children were Rev John Irwin & Dr James Irwin, an M.D. who was named for her father.
She says her father Dr James Power was the oldest of the children of her grandfather Col John Power & that he was born East of the mountains & was carried over on horseback. She wants Andrew Brown to come for her & take her home.
Left 11:11 AM
On Street Car in Pgh
Mrs Scott said she was at her nephew Willson's at
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Belle Vernon Pa when she just slipped & fell & broke a couple of small bones in her hip. She was taken to a hospital & treated & "Mary", an accommodating matron in charge of her floor & room said she was brought there six weeks ago, about May 1st & the parties who brought her said she was able to sit up in her chair but "Mary" said she had only been able to sit up a half dozen times since she has been there. She says she does not suffer pain, but is weak. They say she has been rather poorly the past week.
I got the 11:31 AM St car back of the home to the city where I arrived at 12:20 PM & going to the Wm Penn Hotel, I found in the telephone book J.T. Esplen 1308 Grandview Ave S.S. Telephone Lafayette 0794-M & the Porter told me to get there I should take a Mt Washington car at corner Wood St & 5th Ave & got through the tunnel so I took the car there at 12:42 PM & was:
At John Thomas Esplen's No 1308 Grandview Ave, Pittsburgh (Mt Washington) SS June 19, 1923 1:05 PM
Mr Esplen says his grandfather Robert H.N. Thompson was from Amity, Wash Co Pa & was one of the first Alderman in the old Sixth ward here.
Mr E. said his father, Henry Esplen
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died Oct 9, 1909 & was buried on the 10th at Greenfield MO & is buried in the cemetery there & was 85? yrs old. Henry's wife died when 43 yrs old. She was a daughter of Robt H.N. Thompson, her name being Isabella Martha Thompson. Her brother, James Buchanan Thompson is still living in the town in Clarion Pa & it was he to whom I wrote a few yrs ago. He is up in his 80s.
Another brother, Archibald Lindsey Thompson was in the Civil War & died recently & his widow, bright & intelligent, aged near 80, lives in Wilkinsburg with her daughter Mrs Joseph C. Pierce.
1330 Wood St Wilkinsburg Pa Telephone Franklin 2835-J
Mrs Esplen had infantile paralysis when a child & improper treatment by the doctor left his lower limbs helpless. He was a telegrapher for the PRR & was retired last July on an old age pension & started the Fire Ins business here which he conducts largely by telephone & mail, his wife acting as legs for him & being a wonderfully good helpmate & says he makes a living. He walks with two canes & both legs below the knee are turned & apparently helpless. He has gone upstairs to get their bible record, his wife having gone over to the city..
He says his mother had a brother
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George Thompson, & also a brother Thomas Thompson from whom Mr E's middle name came. This Thomas Thompson left a son John, here & a boy Eddie who died. Thomas Thompson married a second wife & moved to Jeffersonville, 2nd, & communications with him ceased after his 2nd marriage.
The wife of Mr Pierce was or is Bella Thompson, daughter of Archibald L. He, Jno T. remembers his grandfather Thompson, who he said died in the sixties aged 65 yrs up on Decatur St & his widow died in the seventies. He copied from the bible upstairs & told me his mother:
Isabella Martha Thompson was born Mch 24, 1831 at Amity Wash Co Pa & was married Apr 20, 1853 to Henry Esplen son of John Esplen & his wife _____ who was born June 5, 1825 in Scotland not far from Edinburgh & died as above noted. She died Feby 17, 1874.
Their children are:
1. Margaret Emma Esplen
2. John Thomas Esplen born June 4, 1857. he was named for an Uncle John Esplen & his Uncle Thos Thompson as above. He married Mch 30, 1886 Mattie Hattie Jones who was born Oct 16, 1868 at Beaver Falls Pa daughter of _______ Jones & his wife Sarah ________. They have had two children:
1. dau died aged 1 1/2 yrs
2. son died aged 2 mos
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3. William Henry Esplen, born Apr
4. Mary Lizzie Esplen
5. Anna Bella Esplen
He is going to write me giving missing names & dates. He says there was a Charles Thompson living in the town of Elizabeth Pa back in the 70s who was a first cousin of his mother. He had then a daughter Maud who lived with him. See pages 119 & 120
Left 2 PM
I noticed as I left that his home is on a point which is just above a point on the Ohio River about 200 ft below the Junction of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers at the point. I took the street car back & went to Union Trust Co but finding Mr McEldowney out, went up & saw Jno F. Hudson, who is going tomorrow to Greene Co to see John F. Lantz & who with me saw Chas H. Korns who we told to go ahead & sell the Smith Creek field at $365 ie $350 net to me. I then went & saw W.A. Seifert & Saml McClay & was there two hours during a heavy rain & thunderstorm & calling H.A. Phillips fr Mr McClays office closed sale of R.E. Kent's half int in 98 A Clay Dist at $200 per acre & $10 per acre com to me. I then went & saw Joe H. Bialas & then to the Union Trust Col & saw Mr McEldowney & am to write him proposing sale of F.A. Gump's half of Patk Donley heirs Pgh Coal at $500 if Gump takes their surface at $100. It is now 9:50 PM
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At Albert E. Budd's across the River at West Newton Pa is Rostraver Tp June 21, 1925 10:50 AM
I left Uniontown Pa at 9:05 AM on the B&O & Allieann Scholl met me at the Station at 10:33 AM & has driven me over to this fine spacious property which was the old Gallagher home & we were admitted by Mrs Budd a very pleasant woman. She called in her father-in-law, I. "Mack" Budd who says his mother took her family bible with record in it west with her in about 1885 when she went to Pierce City, Mo when she went there to live with her daughter Susan, wife of Elam Powelson, who she married here about 1876. He was a glassblower from Pittsburgh Pa. Mr Budd's brother Jacob Budd also living in Pierce City MO went to get the Bible. Shortly after, his sister Mrs Powelson died in 1895, without issue, but Powelson wd not give it to him. Powelson continued to live at Pierce City MO until about 2 yrs ago when he came east to Wilkinsburg Pa bringing his effects with him & died shortly thereafter at the home of a sister (possibly a brother, but he don't recall her married name). Mr Budd saw notice of his death in the newspapers. Powelson was an old Civil War soldier. His mother, Mrs Budd however, came back to West Newton Pa in Apr 1885 leaving the bible with her daughter & died at Mr Budd's home up the River in July 29, 1885
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Mr Budd says he understands his mother's Uncle Andrew Finley went to Ohio but don't know the town or county. He thinks he died in Ohio when he was quite small or perhaps before he was born. he says "Ginsey" Budd's (he calls her Jane) Benjamin Budd was son of Joseph Budd, a brother of his father Benjamin Budd. Joseph & Benj Budd's father was Joseph Budd, who with his brother Joshua were the first settlers here & they could walk on their own land from Budds ferry on the Yough just above here to Webster on the Monongahela River, they owning all the land between the two rivers there for which they had traded with the Indians. They laid out a town at Budds Ferry & sold 50 lots in one day, but Joshua had married some fool woman who would not sign the deeds & he took to drink & died he thinks without issue. There had been a road laid out from Washington Pa to Phila which crossed the Yough River at Budd's Ferry & over which all the stock then driven east passed. Mr B. says his Uncle Joseph saved 500 acres at the Ferry which became the home of him & his brother Benjamin. He says his father had twelve children & was married but once. He says his Uncle Robert Armstrong, living at Fredericksburg, O & who had married Easter Budd, a sister of his father Benj, told him when he was once there on a 3 mos visit with him that Andrew
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Finley came to Cincinnati O & came up a creek from there by boat as far as he could & then built a dam & continued farther up to Fredericksburg, O & he thinks on beyond.
He now says that he wrote down the dates of his brothers & sisters births in an old day book before his mother took the bible west & also what deaths were noted in the bible, but not the marriages & he has now just said he would go up with Allieann & me to get that record. Just what I want. He says his own bible record is over in West Newton with his daughter, Mrs Riley. He says he had 7 children.
Leaving 11:22 AM
We then drove up the River & at a frame house where the roads forked, we took the left hand road, a little traveled by road & very rough & a going in a gate, continued along a steep hillside until we came to the farm building & an old frame house which was the present:
Residence of Isaac McLaughlin ("Mack") Budd. On the Yough in Rostraver Tp, Westnd Co Pa June 21, 1923 11:37 AM
Mr Budd occupies here the bare uncarpeted room on the ground floor, in the upper end of the house, which we entered from the
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porch & on which to the left as we went in was a small unforbidding cot. In the upper far corner of the room, he got out an old day book with the record he copied from his Father's bible before his mother took it west & from which I copied as follows:
Births
1. Joseph Budd born Dec 20, 1831
2. Mary Budd born Mch 30, 1833
3. John Finley born Budd born Dec 14, 1834
4. Andrew Haggerty Budd born May 28, 1836
5. Jacob Liby Budd born Jany 18, 1839
6. Rachel R. Budd born Mch 1, 1841
7. Benjamin Finley Budd born Oct 29, 1842
8. Susan Budd born Feby 2, 1844
9. Isaac McLaughlin Budd born Mch 21, 1847
10. Nehemiah Finley Budd born Oct 22, 1849
11. Still born boy Budd
12. James Budd born May 14, 1853
Deaths
Andrew H. Budd Nov 25, 1881 (at West Newton Pa)
Benj F Budd July 18, 1882 (near Pierce City MO)
Eleaner [sic] Budd July 29, 1885 (his mother died in this house)
Benjamin Budd July 7, 1871 (his father)
Henry Budd Nov 1918 (son of I.M. Budd died of "Flu" in West Newton)
James Budd Mch 14, 1854 (his brother)
Julia A. Budd, Dec 1, 1919 (his wife)
John F. Budd, Dec 29, 1922 (his brother)
Mr Budd had continued to enter records of death in his family in this book. See page 45 for continuation of what he told me.
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At the old Andrew Robertson home in Rostraver Tp, Westnd Co Pa June 21, 1923, 2:15 PM
I arrived here at 2 o'clock direct from Ginsey Budd's. She, Isabella Robertson says her father was the son of Thomas Robertson, whose home was the old stone house just below here where her brother I.I. [?] Robertson owned & died. He, Thomas, was a brother of Uncle John Robertson & married Jane Mitchell. They had children viz Elizabeth, High, Charles, William, Thomas, John, Susan, Jacob & Andrew, the youngest.
Andrew Robertson was born at the old home in Sewickly Tp May 4th, 1824 & died Apr 12, 1917 in this house & is buried in West Newton Cem. He married Dec 12, 1850 at the old Irwin home in Elizabeth Tp, Allegheny Co Pa abt one mile from here to Rebecca Irwin, daughter of Isaac Irwin & his wife Isabella Power. She was born Aug 1, 1829 at the old Irwin home above named. Isaac Irwin's father, Alexander Irwin lived in the old stone house which he built & it bears date of erection. Alex's wife was a McConnell. Miss Isabella Robertson, my informant says part of this farm of over 400 acres which her father owned, runs across the line into Allegheny Co. She thinks her great grandfather Robertson's name was James Robertson, who was
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she thinks, the emigrant & was Scotch Irish. Her mother died Apr 13, 1901 in this house & is buried in the West Newton Cem. They had ten children named in order of their ages by Miss Robertson from memory as follows:
1. James Robertson, born May 31, 1852
2. James Robertson, born Dec 12, 1853
3. Thomas Robertson, born Nov 1st, 1855
4. Isabella Robertson, born Nov 28, 1857
5. Oliver Patterson Robertson, born Dec 24, 1859
6. Alexander McConnell Robertson, born Mch 6, 1862
7. Charles William Robertson, born Sept 12, 1864
8. Rebecca Jane Robertson born Jany 6, 1867
9. Elizabeth Florence Robertson born Oct 22, 1869
10. Calvin Knox Robertson, born Aug 28, 1872
James Robertson died Mch? 1910 & is buried in West Newton Cem. He was unmarried
Isaac I. Robertson died Nov 1, 1918 & is buried in West Newton Cem. He married Josephine Bank Neel & she now lives on 5th St West Newton Pa. They had two daughters, Margaret Rebecca & Elizabeth Marie.
Oliver P. Robertson lives in Crafton Pa & is a lawyer practicing in Pgh. He married Anna Belle Esplen a daughter of Henry Esplen. He has two children, Donald Esplen & Andrew Knox.
The other seven are all unmarried
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& live here.
Miss Rebecca Jane says the home of her mother's Aunt "Polly" Torrence, nee Power, was two miles west of here on the Mono Pike, in Elizabeth Tp, an old brick house now owned by foreigners & where she says her mother lived for 5 yrs with her Aunt, Mr Perry Gamble whose mother, Jane, wife of Hiram Gamble was a daughter of her Aunt Polly Torrence lives about a mile farther on in a frame house & he can give the Torrence record.
Rebecca's Aunt Margaret Irwin married John Blackburn. They lived in Fayette Co Pa not far from Banning Sta where he died on the old Blackburn farm. They are both buried at Rehoboth. They had seven children.
1. Belle, mar Noah Lutz & lived near Fayette City & had 3 boys & 1 girl. See Book 12 pages 32 & 33.
1. Gillette
2. Graham an M.D. lives at Roscoe Pa
3. Carl
4. Edna, M. Hough & is dead.
2. Elizabeth, mar George Lutz, a brother of Noah. Had two children:
1. Walter, in the far west
2. Ethel, lives in Donora with her father. Her mother died years ago.
3. Loraine, called Rene [Reno?] mar Adam H. Wycoff. Both dead. He buried in the far west & she at Rehoboth.
4. Esther mar J.P. Sloterbeck of Fayette City Pa where she died Mch 20, 1923 & is buried at Rehoboth. Had 3 boys.
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1. William, oldest
2. Edgar, doctor at Monessen Pa
3. Charles
Thinks J.P. Sloterbeck would have the Blackburn record.
5. Dr James Power Blackburn practiced at McKeesport Pa & he could give the family record. He died in Feby 1922. He married Emma Menke & she survives & lives on Jenny Lind St McKeesport. Had two daughters:
1. Bernice, eldest
2. Margaret
[Both] young girls at home with their mother.
He might have left some family records as he was here in Sept 1921 telling them about the family.
6. Margaret mar Joseph Finley, son of Thomas Finley. She is dead & buried at Rehoboth & he lives at Donora Pa & is a carpenter. Had two boys & two girls.
1. Lawrence, oldest
2. Lois
3. John
4. Margaret
7. Rev John Irwin Blackburn D.D. died in the west in a hospital. He married Celia Murphy. She survives & lives in Pgh. No issue.
Miss Elizabeth Irwin died in Uniontown Pa Feby 1908 & is buried at Round Hill.
James Irwin, her brother, died July 7? 1872 & is buried at Round Hill.
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Isaac Irwin & his wife Isabella are buried at Round Hill, grandparents which is 5 miles from here.
Andrew Knox Robertson, son of Oliver P. born Sept 10, 1910 in Crafton Pa is here, a fine bright boy.
Leaving 3:50 PM
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From Page 39
I did not have the facilities at the Budd's now writing with ink in my book, but took down with pencil what is written on Page 36, copied 8 to 8:30 this morning 22d at Isabel N. Evans Connellsville Pa & pages 37 to 37 [sic] inclusive copied 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM the 22d at Room 522 & am continuing my transcribing:
1. Joseph Budd is dead. He married the widow "Polly" Marsh. He died in the stone house above here, between the "Ginsey" Budd home & the river. Had a girl & a boy, Nellie & William who lived about Pittsburgh the last he heard of him.
2. Mary Budd, married James Rossell of Perryopolis Pa. She died in childbirth with her first child, a girl which died with her. See page 52 item 4 for record of her burial at Salem Baptist Church.
3. John Finley Budd. I got his record from him. see book 4 pages 57 to 65.
4. Andrew H. Budd, married Belle Coughanour & had a boy & a girl. William & Nannie. Nannie married a man about Elizabeth Pa & is dead.
5. Jacob L. Budd, married Julia Zook. He died in Pierce City MO without issue & she is still living there.
6. Rachel R. married Bennett Heltebran & lived in West Newton Pa. He died & she is still living at Dickerson Run Pa with her son Hardin Hilderbrand. Had two children, Hardin & Dessie. Dessie married a foreigner & lives in Indiana Pa.
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[There is a peculiar "sign" in the upper left corner of this page. It resembles a fermata or a numeral one under an arch. No explanation that I can find. It matches the one on Page 30 of this book, perhaps signalling a beginning & ending point in JVT's transcribing? CW]
7. Benjamin F. Budd died in Pierce City Mo unmarried.
8. Susan Budd died in Pierce City Mo without issue. mar Elam Powelson. See above.
9. Isaac McL ("Mack") Budd, my informant of the day says he married Aug 22, 1871 Julia A. Funk who was born June 10, ______ daughter of
Christopher Funk & his wife & who was a first cousin of her husband. Says has 7 children, 6 of them living. Get record from Mrs Riley.
10. Nehemiah F. Budd married Fannie McLaughlin. She is dead & he is living at Pierce City Mo. Has two children, Grace & Ella both unmarried & living at home & are Principals in schools there.
12. James Budd, died young see page 39 & also page 52 for record from tombstones at Salem Bap Ch.
Leaving 12:12 PM
We then drove back to the frame house & turning around same to the left, continued along a valley until the road ran into another road where was a frame house opposite & where we took the left hand road & went up the hill passing a frame house on the left & bearing to the right, we reached the very attractive old brick house:
Home of "Ginsey" Budd, Rostraver Tp, June 21, 1923 at 12:33 PM
A younger
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Mrs Budd recd us & took us upstairs to see Mrs Jennette F. (of "Ginsey") Budd, now in her 94th yr & who went to housekeeping in that house Jany 1, 1850 when married. She was sitting in her chair smiling & jovial as ever with not a wrinkle in her face & looking younger than many women of 70 do.
She said her father-in-law, Joseph Budd & "Mack's" father, Benj Budd were the only two sons in their father's family that grew up, but they had a brother who had fallen in the fire & was burned, but they had five sisters:
1. Amy Budd, married Joseph Sutton
2. Rebecca Budd, married Joseph Welch
3. Rachel Budd, married McLaughlin. Their son Henry McLaughlin lives near here.
4. Elizabeth Budd married James Stewart
5. Easter Budd married Robt Armstrong.
She remembers her great Uncle Andrew Finley who came back from the west on a visit when she was 19 or 20 yrs old. He walked over here from Monongahela City Pa & had a lot of money with him & was dressed dirty so he would be taken for a tramp & not robbed. She was at her home in West Newton Pa when he came in & his sister, Nancy Bell was there & ran to him & kissed him. He had several children but she don't know their names. Mrs Budd's daughter-in-law thinks he lived in Missouri the time above referred to
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They have brought out the old Budd Bibles from which I copy:
Births
Joseph Budd, born (say 1789 see item 3 P 57 [last number guess, cut off] Elizabeth Stewart born Feby 13, 1802
Their children:
1. Nancy Jane Budd born Jany 13, 1818
2. Joseph Budd Jr born July 29, 1819
3. Archibald Budd born July 29, 1821
4. Susannah Budd born Aug 30, 1823
5. Benjamin Budd born Aug 3, 1825 Mrs B's husband
6. Sarah Rebecca Budd born Sept 14, 1827
7. James Budd born Apr 20, 1832
8. Eliza Budd born July 20, 1834
9. Ebenezer Budd born Nov 13, 1836
10. Rachel Budd born Jany 29, 1838.
(The children named on the preceding page, including five sisters, were of a generation earlier being sisters of Joseph mentioned on line 4 above)
Deaths in same oldest bible
Eliza Budd died July 11, 1836
Joseph Budd died Aug 9, 1838
Rachel Budd died Oct 28, 1839
Then followed Bible of Mrs Budd's husband & herself:
Marriages
Benjamin Budd & Jennet Neff Jany 1, 1850
Cyrus P. Hough & Lavina S. Miller July 6, 1892
Charlie Miller & Lavina Budd June 14, 1890
Charlie Miller died Sept 15, 1890
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Births
Benjamin Budd, born Aug 3, 1825
Jennetta Budd born Feby 16, 1830, my informant
Their Children
1. Joseph Budd, born Oct 13, 1851
2. Andrew M. Budd born Oct 30, 1854
3. Birthalena Budd born May 11, 1858
4. Eliza L. Budd born Nov 25, 1860
5. Edward Budd born Oct 13, 1863
6. Chalmers M. Budd born Sept 4, 1866
7. Silva J. Budd born June 5, 1869
8. Lavina S. Budd born May 24, 1872
Homer S. Hough born June 28, 1893
Mrs Budd, youthful in spirits, jovial, fleshy & jolly & without a wrinkle in her face in her 94th yr, leads one to meditate on the fact shown in the above births viz that most of them are three years apart.
Deaths
Berthalena Budd died Jany 12, 1861
Joseph Budd died Dec 8, 1863
Infant Daughter of Albert & Lizzie McKelvy died Nov 2, 1882
Mrs Budd said Joe Sutton kept records & might have recorded where Andrew Finley of Andrew Esq removed to & says to see his descendants who would have said record. She says she was named for her great grandmother Jennetta (Ginsey) Finley, wife of Andrew
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Finley Esq & daughter of John Jack & that her great grandfather, Andrew Finley raised her mother, who was left an orphan by the death of her mother when 11 (or 13) months old & that he had a pet bear for her which used to frighten visitors who called & when they would get after the bear, it wd run up a tree. She says she had often been told that she was so small when born that she was put in a quart measure which she wouldn't believe until when after her marriage & moving out here she met Sam Weimer's mother living out near here to whom she expressed her doubt & who told her "Well, you need not doubt it for I was the party who put you in the quart measure myself & put my hand over it". This house was scrupulously clean throughout in the inside & the yard & surroundings outside were clean & attractive.
Left 1:30 PM
We then drove back to West Newton Pa west side & turning to the left, went out the Belle Vernon improved road a mile & turning off of it to the right, crossed a small stream & came to the old Thomas Robertson home, which has been owned by his grandson I.I. Robertson & is probably yet a part of his estate & proceeding a mile further, came to the Andrew Robertson home, an attractive big frame where seven of his children, all unmarried, live. See Page 40 to 44.
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We then continued on & turning to the left up a bad hill road were soon:
At Salem Regular Baptist Church Graveyard, Rostraver Tp, June 21 1923 4:16 PM
This church is on an eminence & commands a fine view over the country eastward & the site with the g.y. was given to the Church by her husband's grandfather, Joseph Budd Sr so Mrs Budd told us & she repeated to us the inscription on his tombstone which is the same as appears on the Solitary grave stone in the South Huntingdon Tp of Cornelius Casali her own grandfather, father of her reputed father Dave Casali. We made note of the following inscriptions:
1. Joseph Budd Sr died Mch 16, 1826 aged 71 yrs & 21 days
Remember man, as you pass by
As you are no, so once was I
As I am now, so must you be
Prepare for death & follow me.
Susanna Budd died Feby 19, 1849 in her 86th year.
2. Elsey C. wife of Joseph Budd died Mar 11, 1858 aged 25 yrs 10 mos 26 days
3. Nancy J. Budd born Jany 13, 1818 died Sept 3, 1894
Susannah Budd born Aug 30, 1823, died Mch 10, 1885
Joseph Budd (Jr) died July 24, 1882 aged 93 yrs
Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Budd Jr died June 7, 1884 aged 82 yrs 4 mos & 23 days.
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Joseph Budd, son of Joseph & Elizabeth Budd w.d.t.l. Aug 29, 1838 age 19 yrs & 1 mo.
Elizabeth Budd, dau of Jos & Elizabeth Budd died July 11, 1836 aged 1 yr 11 mos & 22 days
Rachel Budd, dau of Jos & Elizabeth Budd died Oct 29, 1839 aged 1 yr & 9 mos
James Budd, son of J & E. Budd died Oct 7, 1852 aged 20 yrs 5 mos & 17 days
Ebenezer Budd, son of J & E Budd died Dec 8, 1853 aged 17 yrs 25 days
4. James Budd son of B & E Budd died Mch 14, 1854 aged 11 mos 11 days. Should be 10 mos see page 39 line 20
Mary Jane, wife of James Rossell died Aug 15, 1864 aged 30 yrs 5 mos
Also infant daughter of J & M.J. Rossell see page 39 line 10 & page 45 lines 16 to 20.
5. Joseph Budd, son of B & F. Budd died Dec 8, 1863 aged 12 yrs 1 mo 25
days.
Bertha E. Budd, dau of B & J.F. Budd died Jany 12, 1861 aged 2 yrs 8 mos & 1 day
Capt Benjamin Budd born Aug 3, 1825, died Feby 13, 1897
Jennetta F. Budd Born Feby 16, 1830, living.
6. Nathan McGrew, died May 4, 1886 aged 70 yrs 6 mos & 16 days
Phebe Catharine, wife of Nathan McGrew died June 7, 1883 aged 62 yrs 2 mos 4 days
7. Sarah Weddle, consort of Joseph Weddle died Dec 15, 1842 aged 59 yrs 2 mos 5 days.
8. Ann, wife of John Thompson died Apr 14, 1848 in her 27th year
9. Aaron Weddle Co H 100th Pa vol Inf Born Feby 23, 1839 date of death eroded.
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Hylena, dau of A & M.J. Weddle died June 27, 1870 aged 2 yrs 20 days
Mary Weddell died Nov 6, 1880 in her 43d yr.
10. John W. Jackson born Sept 29, 1841, died June 11, 1876
Robert L. Jackson died July 18, 1870 in his 27th year
Elizabeth J., wife of Samuel Jackson born Mch 24, 1817, died Mch 29, 1883.
The Church was instituted A.D. 1792 & the present building, a wide brick one, was erected in 1842.
Left 4:55 PM
We then drove into West Newton & were soon:
At residence of Mrs I.I. Robertson No 203 5th ST, June 21, 1923 at 5:15 PM
Allieann went around back & got the record from her as she wasn't so she could come downstairs just then. We left at 5:22 PM & met her daughter Rebecca at the corner of Vine St & corrected the record as her mother had the dates all wrong. The correct dates are as follows:
Isaac I. Robertson died Nov 1, 1918. He married June 30, 1897 Josephine Bank Neel, daughter of Thomas Neel & his wife Margaret Jane Kidd who was born at Port Perry Pa Oct 19, 1868 &
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have two children:
1. Margaret Rebecca born June 22, 1898
2. Elizabeth Marie, born Apr 9, 1905
We then drove over to the station & took the 5:47 PM train meeting Mr Stevenson & his daughter, who get off the train & reaching C'ville at 6:30 PM, I got shaved & shined & walked out to Isabella N. Evans where she & her guests, J. Fred Kurtz, Ray Whitmore, Marie Sturgeon & Nannie Rebond? were in waiting for dinner & with whom I spent a very pleasant evening. Nannie, who is a first cousin of Marie on Marie's mother's side, said that Marie's grandfather was living in C'ville aged 99 yrs hale & hearty. I got up at 8 AM & wrote up Page 36 from my penciled record & walking around the corner, I was:
At Residence of Miss Sallie E. Allen No 204 W. Greene St, Connellsville Pa June 22, 1923 9:45 AM
The maid asked me to sit down on the porch & called Miss Allen who came out & sd she was going to a picnic at Shady Grove at 11 AM. She says there is a sketch of her father's family in the big red backed history of Fayette Co about the middle of the book. She says she will look it up & send me the reference to it. She says too
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that she has a short manuscript sketch of the Allen family on a foolscap page or two. She went in the house & looked for it, but couldn't find it & thought it might be in her box at the bank. She sd she wd hunt it up & send me a copy from it.
She said her grandfather, David Allen had a brother Elisha Allen & they were sons of James Allen & his wife Mary Peairs. Said her father had brothers John & another, who clerked in Skiles Dry Goods store & in McKean's store in Uniontown, but his brother, Wm, stayed on the farm. She said her father married a daughter of Jonathan Allen of Vance's Mill, who was a sister of Wm H. Allen whom I knew & whose son W.K. Allen lives here & is with the West Penn Power Co.
She says her brother, Walter Allen died 8 or 9 yrs ago in Harrison Co Ohio, but his widow, who was a Long & family moved in town 2 yrs ago & now live in the Edge of Cadiz O. She sd Bradford Allen & a brother owned the land that Donora Pa is now built on & that a son of Bradford now lives in Monon City. She gave her "Old Redstone" to Bela B. Smith who lives across the street in a fine brick house second one black from the big corner brick. He married a daughter of Jos A. Cook. I came home on the 11 o'clock St Car having bade her goodbye at 10:25 AM, got in at 12 o'c noon & wrote up this book
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& compared the greater part of the Hartman papers fr 5 to 8:20 PM with Minnie L. Redburn who came in from Fox Hill where she celebrated lunch with Joe on his 8th birthday.
Edward Ellsworth Sickles was in at 4:30 PM & I sold him 2 A of the Sarah J. Johnson tract back of his home bought from E.H. Rockwell for $400. He is a son of Taylor W. Sickles with whom I used to work on the farm & who died aged 27 yrs but had married when 16 & had 5 children, 2 boys & 3 girls. E.E. sd he was 8 yrs old when his father died & that he had married when 27 & has 5 children.
It is now 12:12 AM 23d & I'll quit as am written up to date.
Oak Hill June 25, 1923 9:15 PM
This afternoon about 5 o'clock Rev G.G. Kerr of Canonsburg Pa called in at the Holler in answer to a letter I had written him & we talked until 5:55 PM. He said his mother was Sarah Dunlap, daughter of Alexander Dunlap, son of Samuel Dunlap & his wife Hannah Lecky. She was the first wife of Huston A. Kerr now decd & died when Geo G. was abt 4 yrs old & he & a sister Louise were the only children. Louise married young & had a premature birth & never regained robust health & died without issue. He says he has been twice married & his son 18 yrs old, a fine handsome
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boy was driving the car. he said his step-mother said there was no Dunlap bible about the house that she ever saw, but there is an old Davis bible which record with his father's & his own, he will send me. He said his mother's sister, Elizabeth Dunlap married Cyrus Silbaugh & they had but one child, Dora Silbaugh, who he says is a school teacher & lives about Haddensville Pa. He says he wants a book when I get it completed.
I am expecting to go on the early train in the morning to Latrobe to see McComb & to Derry Pa to see C.W. Gaut & his mother & grandmother. His grandmother is the oldest daughter of Samuel Bell who was son of Walter & Polly Finley Bell, so I am starting a family tree to work from, made up from the family bible record I got Oct 29, 1920 at the residence of Wm Smith, Rostraver Tp. See Book 4 Pages 51 to 53 inclusive which I am starting on next page.
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[Descendant Chart]
"Polly" Finley, daughter of Andrew Finley Esq & his wife "Ginsey Jack was born Aug 5, 1793 & died Dec 26, 1888. She married Walter Bell. See book 4 pages 51 & 52 48 to 50 & 3 & 4.
[children]
Andrew Bell, Born Feby 23, 1814 ob Nov 22, 1821.
Rosanna Bell, B Oct 3, 1815, ob. Mar July 4, 1837 William Milligan.
William T.N. Bell, Born Jany 12, 1817 ob Dec 24, 1888 m. Sept 3, 1850 Frances Ann Bennett who was born Mch 11, 1827 dau of David Bennett & his wife Sarah Hough. She died Nov 19.
Jane F. Bell, B Dec 23, 1818 ob July 8, 1843 m. Jacob Hough
John R. Bell, B July 26, 1820, ob. M. Mary Bennett
Samuel Bell, B Oct 27, 1821, ob. M. Susanna Boyd dau of Archibald Boyd & his wife Mary Waltz. She was born Nov 15, 1831 & died.
Mary Dellnora, B Sept 27, 1852. M. May 18, 1870 to Milton Fleming Corbett son of Paul C. Corbett & wife Margaret Guthrie. He was born in Clarion Co Pa Nov 5, & died in Pgh Hospital May 27. Children all born in South Huntingdon Tp.
Anna Bell, B Mch 25, 1871 m. Sept 24, 1891 to William Clark Gaut, son of William Gaut & wife Mary Jane Wray who was born Dec 26, 1867 near Mendon & died in Derry Pa Mch 11, 1918 & is buried in St Clair Cem Gbg Pa.
Harry Edgar Gaut, Born June 19, 1893 m. Oct 1917 to Hazel Belle Piatt dau of David Piatt & his wife.
Helen Wray, Born Oct 22, 1918
Clark Wray, B. Jany 20, 1895 in Gbg Pa
Joseph Guy, B May 30, 1873 ob June 13, 1873
Maggie Clara, B Nov 21, 1875 ob July 21, 1879
Samuel Edgar, B Dec 12, 1879 m. Jany 17, 1908 to Abigail Lucille Eisaman who was born June 16, 1883. Both living Scranton Pa. She daughter of Jacob B. Eisaman & wife Jane Agnew.
Donald Edgar, B June 18, 1910. see page 216
Mary Jane, B Jany 21, 1915
Jay Rawling, B Feby 18, 1922
Harry Cleveland, B Apr 30, 1883 m. Feby 8, 1916 Miriam Genevieve Barnhart who live in Gbg Pa. She was born Oct 8, 1893 at Gbg Pa dau of James Knox Barnhart & wife Tide Diehl
Robert Barnhart, B May 15, 1917
Richard Wilson, B May 13, 1922
Anna Lydia Bell, B Mch 6, 1859 m. Apr 26, 1881 Morris Lobingier Painter & live at Greensburg Pa on Tremont Ave Sept 8/23. He died at Gbg Pa Sept 1, 1923 in his 77th yr born Feby 21, 1844 in Lancaster Pa. See book 12 P 496.
William Pollock, B Aug 1, 1862 ob June ______ M. Lizzie Markle dau of Joseph & Jane Pinkerton Markle.
Maggie Clara, B Sept______ ob July______ aged 24. Unm.
Mary Ann Bell, B Feby 22, 1823 ob May 13, 1903 m. Oct 5, 1854 John Keefer
Elizabeth M. Bell, B Dec 27, 1824 ob Oct 13, 1825
David P. Bell, B July 27, 1826, ob. Mar Nov 13, 1849 Sarah Jane Bennett who was born June 24, 1832 daughter of David Bennett & his wife Sarah Hough.
Martha B. Bell, B. Feby 20, 1828 ob Apr 18, 1836
Lydia O. Bell, B May 1830 ob. M. Sept 18, 1851 Henry B. Keefer
Nancy Bell, B Mch 17, 1831 ob Aug 11, 1865 m Dec 24, 1850 William Pollock who was born in Greene Co Pa Sept 23, 1830 the youngest of 5 sons. He remarried in Indiana & he died in Mexico MO. Apr 29, 1924. Cousin Kate says Nancy had no issue
Elenor D. Bell, B Mch 1832, ob Mch 29, 1836
Walter Bell, B July 3, 1835
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At residence of Mrs Mary Dickie Carr McComb, widow of James A. McComb No 600 N. Ligonier St, Latrobe Pa, June 26, 1923 9:44 AM
Mrs McComb says her husband is the son of Robert N. McComb & a great grandson of Gen James McComb. She shows me two books that have his name printed on the front cover, books which he evidently used when in the Legislature. One book, the "laws of Penna" by Thos McKean Thompson vol VI "Octaoraro Printed by Francis Bailey 1804", the other "Acts of the General Assembly of the Com of Pa printed by same party in same place 1805 & in both in bold plain hand is written in pencil:
"Gen James McComb died July 13, 1814 aged 56 years". & in both is pasted a white piece of paper on which is written in ink:
"Presented by George McComb to R.N. McComb Jany 1, 1859".
George is probably the father of Robert N. In a New Testament belonging to R.N. McComb is written:
"Dr A.D. McComb died Sept 5, 1901 interred 7th"
"Rev D.J. Irwin died Feby 20, 1898 at 8 PM"
Mrs McC has a small black backed 96 page "History of the Churches of Blairsville Presbytery" by Alexander Donaldson D.D. Pgh 1874" & also 21 page pamphlet "History of Ebenezer & Clarksburg Churches Pres of Kittanning by Rev D.J. Irwin Indiana Pa 1877".
An old small day book 16 by 23 lines
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on first remaining page has written:
"Nancy McComb, her hand & Pen Aprile 4th 1829 in the year of our Lord".
This is 15 yrs after he died & 4 yrs before her death. On inside of same leaf on Nov 19, (probably 1810) in statement of a settlement with Randel Laughlin he signed his name. Jas McComb
This day book shows his appointment on committees Dec 4, 1812 & covers entries fr 1809 to 1813 inclusive.
One of the entries is: [Note: this entry has a large "x" drawn through it. CW]
"James Cooper Cy [best guess]
June 25th By one day moweing .50
July 2, by 1 day moweing .50
July 2, by 1 1/2 day moweing .75
Aug 2, by 1 day moweing .50"
A letter to James A. from his brother Jno N. McComb dated Pgh Mch 5, 1917 states that at the Carnegie Library there, he found reference to Gen James McComb's military record.
XV. 2. McComb, James, Brigadier General Armstrong co 1812 died 1814"
I wrote to James A. McComb here on Jany 16, 1922
Mrs McC shows a letter to her late husband fr J.G. Linn dated Carlisle Pa Apr 15, 1920 which suggests: "that you write to Rev S.S. Wylie Shippensbug Pa R.D. He was pastor there (at Middle Spring Church) for years, now is an old man retired.
Mrs McC. says her husband:
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James Albert McComb was born Sept 14, 1870 in Louisville, Indiana Co Pa & died in this house Nov 21, 1922 from uremic poisoning. He was about my build but taller & was a very fine looking man. On Oct 22, 1903, he married in this house by Rev Wm B. Carr her father, Mary Dickie Carr, who was born in Livermore P June 23, 1876, the daughter of Rev Wm Brainard Carr & his wife Sarah Florinda Dickie whose father James Dickie bought this house when he moved here from Congruity, related to the Hitchmans & Shields of Mt Pleasant Pa & the Wilsons who founded Wilson College Chambersburg Pa.
Mr McComb was first with Mr Barnett in the Citizens NBK here & then went to the Peoples NBK in 1909 as cashier was with it until he died, he being then cashier & a director & was for 21 yrs an elder in Pres Ch. Mrs McComb says they have had but one child viz:
Sarah Carr McComb born May 28, 1905 in this house & very pleasantly admitted me when I arrived at 8:55 AM. Mrs McC says John D. Miller of the Merchants & Farmers NBK Gbg is related to Mr McComb & may give some data. He says Jeff Taylor, lawyer at Gbg is related also possibly however on the mother's side & he is very much interested in family lore & might help me. She has also a small pamphlet "History of the Old Ebenezer Church" prepared by the Pastor Rev J. Wallace Freser D.D. for the 130th An. Oct 13, 1921
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She says the aged Rev Scroggs lived in the second house beyond here on the same side of this street & he had a son David. She has gone to call her step-mother who she thinks can tell me more about the Scroggs.
Mrs McC says her step-mother could not tell about the Scroggs, but she sd Mrs Wm McFarland, living abt 1 or 2 miles out this St extension & on phoning her, Bell 452-R-4, she says she is a granddaughter of Rev Scroggs being a daughter of Mrs Huston Cochrane & says she has some old Scroggs Bibles & a Hist of the Scroggs family, so I am going out.
Mrs McComb says her husband's oldest sister, Mrs Mary Kiner, lives in Derry Pa (Mrs George Kiner) across from Pres Ch. I called Mrs Chas Hoffman whose son Theodore S. Hoffman Jeweler Phone 522 lives with her at 342 Main St. She says her grandfather was Robert Wilson & in that way, she was related to the Jacks. Mrs McC. thinks she is abt 70.
Leaving 11:40 AM
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At residence of William MacFarland, Derry Tp, Westnd Co Pa (P.O. Latrobe RD 2 Box 43) June 26, 1923 12:20 PM.
I arrived here at 11:58 AM & Mr MacFarland met me on the porch & tells me he had 170 acres in the farm since selling off some. His wife soon appeared & produced some letters, two in fact, from C.J. Scroggs dated 1908 & 1909 at Bucyrus O, a lawyer, son of Hon Jacob Scroggs also a lawyer who died there in 1897. They do not give any data that I want.
She has also produced a greenish backed book ctg 208 pages viz:
"History & Kin of the Cowden & Welch Families by Rev James Marcus Welch, Indiana Penna January 1904".
In this book page 37, it is stated that Margaret Cowden, one of then children of John Cowden I, & his wife Mary Reynolds see page 22" became the second wife of James Scroggs about 1772 while her father still lived & when their home was in the Conococheague Valley, then Cumb Co Pa. Much assistance was needed to untangle the skein of her posterity. It is in correctly stated in Crumrine's Hist of Wash Co Pa that she married Reynolds Scroggs, Reynolds being the name of her mother before marriage & it being affirmed by some of the friends in Wash Co that a Reynolds Scroggs did marry a Cowden made a very patience trying puzzle" etc. see solution page 38.
On pages 40 & 41 is given the names of the
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three immigrants brothers Alexander, John & Allen son of John Scroggs of near Edinburgh Scotland. It says Alexander, the third brother who emigrated to Penna was born in Scotland Oct 2, 1708. In 1745 when 37 yrs old, he came to Cumb Co Pa & located on a farm in Green Spring in Hopewell, now Newton Tp about 3 miles west of Newville Pa. He, like his brother Allen was a Ruling Elder in the Big Spring Associate Church. It mentions his run away match with Rachel Leith of Edinburg Scotland an Heiress, by whom he had 11 children, seven that grew up, being 1. James, see later, 2. Alexander born 1749, wed Mary Brown in 1776. 3. Ebenezer born 1751, unmarried, 4. Jeannette wed Joseph McElwain, of this line was Rev Alexander Donaldson of Eldersridge Pa, 5. Rachel wed John Stevenson, 6. Ann, wed Hugh McElroy of this line is Rev J.M. McElroy, of Ottumwa Iowa, 7. Sarah born 1762.
Alexander Scroggs by his second marriage to Rachel Ireland had 10 children, a total of 21. The ten children by 2nd wife were:
1. Allen wed 1st Margaret Creigh 2d Mary Porter
2. Miriam born in 1775
3. John H. born 1776, a general in the War of 1812 wed 1st Isabella Walker, 2d Anna White, & died in 1844. Mrs Royce of New Castle is of this line.
4. Aaron born 1778 wed Sarah White
5. Moses born 1780 wed Margaret Thompson
6. Rachel born 1781 wed Wm McConnelly
7. Sarah born 1783 wed Alexander Thompson
8. Rev Elijah born 1785, died 1851 wed Margaret Inbure [best guess] & had 7 children all of whom died in youth.
9. Mary Ireland born 1788 died 1845 wed Robert Thompson
10 Tabitha Elizabeth born 1790 died 1870 wed Hugh Thompson
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James Scroggs, the oldest child mentioned above was born 1746 on the Green Spring near Newville Pa when a young man he visited Scotland & while among the scenes of his ancestors wed Margaret Jack (it should be Eleanor Jack) bringing her back to the Cumberland Valley home in 1768. Her relatives were acquainted with the Scroggs on both sides of the water, Matthew & Patrick Jack having early come to the Penna colony & settled in the Cumb Valley. There was one son born to this marriage. he was called Alexander & removed to Kentucky but died in Coshocton O. He left a family, one of whom was Rev John Scroggs an Associate Preacher in NY State, who died in the beginning of his ministry.
James Scroggs about 1772 married a 2d wife, Margaret Cowden of the "Black" or Swarthy complected Cowdens. He enlisted as a private in the company of Capt William Pebbles (I think Peebles) a Pres Elder of Big Spring & served through the Revolution. The Co consisted of 81 riflemen expert marksmen, many of whom were captured at the Battle of Long Island, but he escaped. After the war, he moved to Wash Co Pa in 1801 & took up a farm on Millers Run. He had 8 children by 2d wife.
See Book 9 page 98
1. Ebenezer
2. John, mar Jane Paxton & had 3 children
3. Ellen mar Dr John Murdock of Wash Pa & had 2 children
4. Polly died at 12 of smallpox
5. James, born 1784 died 1833 mar twice
6. Reynolds Scroggs died aged 30.
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7. Rachel mar Rev John Walker, founder of Franklin College at New Athens O & had 8 chil.
8. Joseph born 1793 wed his cousin Mary Hanna of Wash Co Pa & had 10 children. His daughter Rachel W. Scroggs born Dec 8, 1838 mar Huston Cochran & died last year aged 84 (she sd 89) had a fine clear intellect & was the mother of Mrs McFarland, my informant of the day. The book is 21 X 17 lines. She is giving me a small book with record prepared by Thos E. Scroggs of Leechburg Pa which I am to copy from & return.
Leaving 2:05 PM
See page 448 for copy of above record from the small book.
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At residence of Anna Bell Gaut No 223 Fourth Ave, Derry Pa June 26, 1923 4:18 PM
I arrived here an hour ago & have made entries on Page 58 of some of Samuel Bell's descendants. Mrs Gaut's mother, Mary Dellnora Corbett lives at 618 North Penna Ave, Greensburg Pa & she or her sister, Mrs Painter, also in Gbg, will have the earlier bible record needed in Samuel Bell's line on page 58.
Mrs Gaut says Mrs Anna Bell Smouse nee Hamilton bought the old home across from Sewickly Church of her grandparents Rosanna & William Milligan & lives there & will be able to give that record.
Left 6:25 PM
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Oak Hill June 27, 1923 8:33 PM
I reached Pgh last night abt 10 PM city time & this morning at 9 AM went to the mfrs bldg on Duquesne Way & gave Mr Dermitt an order for six more books like this, Nos 11 to 16 inclusive. Then went to Mr McClay's office & had an hour & a half's conference with him & Francis B. Farren. Then went to Jno F. Hudson & going to Union Trust Co found Mr McEldowney was in NY. They went to the Wm Penn Hotel & found Mignon just driving up with her mother Mrs Cotton & going with her to Kauffmann's store, we soon rtd & started over to 1432 Kelton Ave Dormont where I found Cousin Kate Smith waiting & also cousin Sallie Brown who said cousin Kate's folks had taken her when she was seven days old & raised her. We started with Cousin Kate at 12:22 PM, my time & coming through Castle Shannon Library, Finleyville, Monongahela, Bentleyville, Beallsville & Brownsville reached here at 3:11 PM covering 54 miles fr Dormont & 59? miles from Wm Penn Hotel. Cousin Kate says tonight that Lucy Hood of West Newton Pa was at Sallie's last Saturday night & she asked her who her grandmother was (is her mother Eliza J. Oliver's mother) & she said Isett. (See Book 8 pages 73 & 80). Kate then said Eliza J. Oliver had two diamond rings which she got from her mother with which they no doubt cut their
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names on the glass that Mr Painter showed me out at the Willow Tree. She said Eliza J. Oliver's father was James Brison Oliver & she was a daughter of his first wife. His second wife was from the Cumberland Valley. He was a brother of Old Samuel Oliver buried at Dick Church, married three times or so, once to Salome Markle.
Cousin Kate stood the trip well for one of her age. She was born Jany 3, 1832 & is feeling very comfortable in her rocking chair.
10 PM. Kate has just told me that her father's father & grandfather were both named Florian Smith & lived in France & her grandfather Florian Smith born in France, moved to Boovenbach, Germany & his father did also & the elder Florian died there. Her grandfather Florian went to England & was in business there & died of pulmonary trouble in England & had $10,000 with him which they never got. Her father was born in Germany at the above named town in 1793 & when 19 yrs old in 1812, the country then belonging to France he was drafted into the French or Napoleon's army & served one year & was in the battle of Leipsic in which 92,000 fell. He was then home a year & was put in the German army & had to serve 8 yrs. He learned clock making at points where they would be stationed & after his discharge continued with a jeweler 3 mos.
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Oak Hill June 28, 1923 7:22 PM
Read to Cousin Kate from Book 8 Pages 112 to 134 incl, but there was nothing she knew about. She retired at 11 PM & it is now 11:40 PM
Oak Hill June 29, 1923 7:17 PM
Reading to Cousin Kate from Book 8 Pages 176 & 177. Says the brother of Wm H. Rothermel who attended the meeting Allentown was a fine looking man who came in one door gave them $100, said they were not pursuing the right plan to get the money & went out the other door as her Uncle Ben Rothermel who was there reported. She says a Fisher who was a relative & a Yeager went abroad with Forney & later when her Uncle Sam A. Rothermel was down at Berks Co, he saw Fisher who told him "As sure as that water in Moselem Creek runs, that money is there".
Quitting 10:35 PM
Oak Hill June 30, 1923
Cousin Kate tonight said that her Uncle Ben Rothermel after returning from the meeting at Allentown Pa said there were a lot of Rothermels in attendance from the State of NY
Oak Hill July 1, 1923 2:33 PM
Reading from Book 8 page 298 lines 23 to 26. She said Squire Milligan tax collector West Newton, Pa told her, she thought
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about 12 yrs ago, that they had recd or someone had, a letter from a daughter of Andrew Finley of Squire Andrew, saying he was still living in the west, but was very old & childish.
Oak Hill July 2, 1923 9:42 AM
Reading to Cousin Kate from Book 8 Page 349 Line 21 that Mary Jackson Thompson was 52 yrs old when her youngest children Joseph & David were born Mch 4, 1803 twins. She said Cousin Nancy Hough (formerly Bell, daughter of Squire Andrew Finley) was 55 yrs old when her youngest child, Josephine Hough was born, that Nancy's daughter Mrs Stephen Pollock had told her so.
6:25 PM
Was up 1:30 to 2 PM today along with Miss Minnie L. Redburn for a short call on C.A. Van Kirk. She said that their neighbor, Mrs Jennings was the only woman that came to help them when her father died, Aug 3d, 1850. All others were afraid of the cholera.
Quitting 11:44 PM
Oak Hill July 4, 1923 9:33 AM
I read Cousin Kate a clippings of the wedding notice in yesterday's Morning Herald of the marriage by Rev C.D.A. Hoon at the 1st Pres Ch manse at Fairchance Pa last Saturday evening June 30, 1923 of Nellie M. Jenkins, daughter of Mr & Mrs John Jenkins of Gans Pa to Oliver N. Rothermel of Point Marion Pa. She supposes he is a great grandson of her Uncle Benjamin Rothermel,
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whose son Jacob Smith Rothermel married a devilish girl named Rebecca Hantz, who had worked for some of the Bells about Sewickly Church section & could not get along with her own folks at home, or with those of anyone else. They moved to Point Marion where he was foreman in a coal bank & died suddenly a few years ago & "Becky" has died also. They had but one child, James Rotharmel ("Jim" as she called him) who married a girl from over by New Geneva Pa whose father is a farmer & he lived alongside of his father in Point Marion "Jim" has a "host of children" & Oliver N. above is not doubt one of them. One, the oldest, was Benjamin Franklin, another was Sevilla & two died young. I must see "Jim" & get record. Going in town 2:44 PM
Oak Hill July 5, 1923 8:55 AM
Book 8 Page 573. Cousin Kate says Sam Lash married a Getchy & his Aunt Susannah & his wife fought so much that the wife went home. Sam built her another house in which he & she lived & to which his Aunt Susannah had to come, by reason of her enfeebled condition, the last year or so of her life. Kate says Sam Lash still lives in West Newton. She does not recall knowing Cassius Marsh.
The marriage license of parties above shows names as:
Oliver Newton Rotharmel, Cheat [Chest?] Haven Pa & Nellie Marie Jenkins, Gans Pa
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Oak Hill July 8k 1923 2 PM
Reading from Book 9 Pages 104 & 105, Cousin Kate says there was Hibbens lived just next to them in West Newton Pa & they were from Uniontown Pa viz James Hibben & two of his sons Samuel & Thomas & they were all wagon makers. Reading to Cousin Kate tonight about the Dunkleberger relatives at Los Angeles Calif, she said she had heard her mother speak of them & said their names were among a raft of names she had down that were entitled to share in the fortune, but she couldn't get Sallie or Emily to look it up for me & feared they had thrown it out or burned it up. 10 PM
Oak Hill July 14, 1923 8:15 PM
Reading from Book 9 Pages 152 & 153 about where Mrs Weddle said on Jany 3d last that her father Abram Fulton lost his money to Cousin Kate, she said her Uncle Dan Rothermel had married Hannah Newlon, sister of Rachel the wife of Abram Fulton, they being daughters of Wm Newlon (not Richard as Mrs Weddle thought) & his wife Keziah Robbins & when Abram lost his money, he appealed to Lizzie, daughter of Dan & Hannah above, who had married "Mike" Haymaker who was rich for help & she wouldn't help
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them & Kate says her mother was very mad at her niece Lizzie Haymaker because she wouldn't help her Uncle. She says Rachel had three brothers, Brint, Elijah & William.
Brint was a farmer & married a Quaker. Cousin Kate thinks a McGrew. ELijah married Mary Markle, the daughter oldest, she thinks of Uncle Jacob Markle. They lived up at Bradys Bend. William was a doctor & died a bachelor, according to Mrs Weddle at Pacific Grove Calif. See Book 9 Pages 152 & 153. The Haymaker above was he who wanted to marry Hannah Newlon & she wouldn't have him & he later married her daughter Lizzie when he was a 60 yr old bachelor & she was 28 & had Kate says six children. She says when "Rox" Markle Miller died about 8 yrs ago, two of Lizzie's unmarried daughters, who were old, were living over by Newlonsburg in Westnd Co, with a married brother at the old Haymaker home I think.
Reading to Cousin Kate from Book 9 P 157 bottom, she says Nancy Hough told her brother Sam Smith that it was on the Ohio River where Barrett lived with the two Jack girls Nellie & Margaret, one on one side & the other on the other. They sent Sam back to ask her what town, but she didn't know. Kate says when she told me before she didn't know the name of the River, but now remembers that Nancy said the Ohio River.
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Oak Hill July 16, 1923 9:54 AM
Reading to Cousin Kate this morning from Book 9 P 287 bottom, she says that the Haymaker who married Lizzie Rothermel (& she married him because she didn't have a home) was "old Mike" as she called him & he had courted & tried to marry her mother, Hannah Newlon (dau of Wm of the Willow Tree) who wouldn't have him. Kate says when he was courting Hannah (who later married her Uncle Daniel Rothermel) his brother was then the husband of a sister of Hannah, evidently John Haymaker who married Ann Newlon. Kate says Ann & Mary ("Polly") who married Joseph Miller were the two older of the Newlon girls "Mike" & Lizzie had six children as Kate has heretofore told me.
Oak Hill July 17, 1923 9 AM
I am writing to D.S. Bohrer, North Loup, Neb & am making here notations from some obituary notices he gave me when at his home Jany 17th last, see book 9 pages 294 to 299
From clippings:
No 1. Obituary of Mrs Melissa Markel who was born in Sullivan Tp, Ashland Co O, Sept 6, 1857 & died July 20, 1887, daughter of Mr & Mrs Munholden. She married Frank Markel Dec 5, 1882 & had a son & a daughter. She was a sweet lovely christian woman & was buried from the M.E. Church Orange & buried
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in the Orange Cemetery. On the same obituary is noted the death a week later of her babe, Ethel May, daughter of (E) Frank & Melissa Markel who died July 27, 1887 aged two months & one day & was buried beside her mother.
No 2. Obituary of Frank Markel
The funeral of Frank Markel was held in the M.E. Church Thursday morning at 10:20 o'c. He had been a great sufferer for years but was jovial, quaint & humorous. It states:
"Ezra Franklin Markel was born in Orange Tp Feby 21, 1848 and died Dec 27, 1910 aged 62 yrs 10 mos & 6 days. Dec 5, 1882, he was married to Miss Melissa Monhollen. Two children were born to this union, Solomon & Ethel May. On July 20, 1887, his wife died & on July 27, 1887, little Ethel's spirit winged its flight out into the great beyond. On May 14, 1889, Mr Markel was united in marriage to Miss Mary D. Swope who nursed & cared for him during the years of his affliction. He was converted four years ago. He leaves a wife, one son Solomon, one grandson, two brothers & one sister. His remains were laid to rest in the Nankin Cemetery beside the loved ones who preceded him many years ago.
We wish to thank the friends & neighbors for their kindness & help during the sickness & death of our beloved husband & father.
Mrs E.F. Markel, S.C. Markel"
No 3 "Israel W. Markel of the 116th Illinois Regiment, died of disease in the hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 30th of January. He was a son of Solomon Markle, a much esteemed citizen of Orange Tp, this County"
Evidently from editorial column early in Civil War
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No 4 Obituary
Mrs Annie Arndt Markel who died recently at her home near Nankin was born in Lancaster Co Pa Jany 14, 1834 being the eldest child of Andrew & Mary Arndt, who moved to Ashland Co O. Jacob J. Markel & Annie Arndt were married on Mch 18, 1857. In Mch 1859, the husband left his wife & infant daughters among friends & joined the throng of gold seekers bound for Pike's Peak rtg the same year empty handed. The family moved to Macon Co Ills where they spent 8 yrs. During this period, four children were added to the family. Ill health of both parents & children necessitated a change & in the autumn of 1867, the entire family, the youngest being but six weeks old were placed in a covered wagon & the team headed south, traversing the Southern half of Illinois, crossing Missouri & Arkansas & halting at Jefferson, Texas. Here, team & wagon were disposed of & after a residence of a few months, they went by boat to New Orleans. The bitter feeling against Northerners led them after a brief sojourn to Embark for Cincinnati where they left the boat & reached Ashland Co O, sometime in 1868. On much of this long journey, Mrs Markel drove the team with her babe in her lap & her husband lying sick in the wagon. On Apr 1, 1872, they came to the farm near Nankin where they have since resided & where the youngest child was born. They had lived together over 51 yrs, when a separation came in the death of the husband. She had joined the M.E. Church in 1855 & died Dec 5, 1912 aged 78 yrs 10 mos & 21 days.
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No 5. Obituary
Margaret Ann Markel was born in Ashland Co O Apr 27, 1841, died in Scotia Neb, Sept 14, 1915 aged 74 yrs 4 mos 13 days. On Feby 14, 1861, the deceased was married to Reuben R. Krebs whose death occurred in March 1914. To their union was born six children, five sons & one daughter.
1. Oliver, who died in infancy
2. Morgan L. Krebs of Scotia
3. Corry D. Krebs of Scotia
4. Charles F. Krebs of Hitoman, Iowa
5. Mrs Myrtle M. Hicks of Omaha
6. Harry Krebs of Boise, Idaho
she is survived by two brothers & two sisters
A.S. Markle of Nankin O
Mrs J.K. Bohrer of North Loup Neb
Mrs Isaac Piper of West Salem O
Lewis Markel of Akron O
A large family of grand children also survive. The pallbearers were her two older sons & four oldest grandsons. She was buried beside her husband in Mount Hope Cemetery.
Oak Hill July 18, 1923 11:33 AM
Reading to Cousin Kate this morning from Book 9 p 503, she said there was a James Springer who died here abt 40 yrs ago whose mother was a Hibben. I said that was probably James H. Springer & she said his grandfather was James Hibben & Hannah Van Kirk who lived below them, wife or widow then of John Van Kirk was a daughter of Thomas Hibben, a son of James & she said the wife of Samuel Hibben, another son of James died when living just next to them.
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On Monday afternoon the 16th inst, Mrs Samuel Brown, daughter of David Keener, aged 77 yrs was in the office, 522 with her niece, Mrs Annie or Olive Welch, daughter of her brother Oliver W. Keener & his wife Amanda nee Brown & I asked her what the name of Eliza Jane Keener's father was & she said: "Jane don't care to talk about that, but I think her father was a Boyd." I had asked her if it wasn't Wilson, & she said she thought not, but was Boyd. See my conference with Mrs Keener on May 2d last in Book 9 pages 536 to 548. It is 1:23 PM now & I must go in town. JVT
Oak Hill July 18, 1923 10:40 PM
My cousin Mrs Walter L. Dearth came in room 522 this afternoon about 3:11 PM with her daughter Ruth, a handsome black eyed young girl who has just graduated from High School & wants to go this fall to State College & Mrs Dearth wanted to know if I could help them by some payt on the note I owed her father Capt Wm S. Craft. I told them I would pay them $500 which Ruth sd was the charge for one year, half to be paid on entrance in Sept & the other half about Christmas.
I asked them to give their family record which they cheerfully gave from memory. Mrs Dearth said she had the original Dearth bibles back to James Dearth, the emigrant she said from England who took up all or the greater part of their 257 A farm in Luzerne Tp, Fayette Co Pa from
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the Indians & had been in the family for six generations. (I also count six) descending from James Dearth to his son George Larkin Dearth, who was a member of the Legislature, riding to Harrisburg on horseback & from him to his son Larkin Dearth & then to his son John W. Dearth whom I knew & from him to his son Walter Larkin Dearth whose youngest son is named for his great great grandfather & whose oldest son is named for out noted astronomer John Brashear, who was named first citizen of the Commonwealth, who was related to them through the Millers. Samuel Miller, the father of Mrs John W. Dearth was a near relative of Mary Miller Beeson, the mother of Jacob M. Beeson. The record they gave me is as follows:
Eliza Jane Craft was born Apr 27, 1874
Walter Larkin Dearth was born May 18, 1874 They were married Dec 14, 1898 by Rev Chas Marshall, he being son of John W. Dearth & his wife Bertha Virginia Miller daughter of Samuel Miller. They were both born in Luzerne Tp & all their children below were also:
1. John Brashear Dearth was born Feby 23, 1900
2. Ruth Graham Dearth was born Dec 11, 1903
3. Virginia Miller Dearth was born June 21, 1906
4. George Larkin Dearth was born Dec 11, 1912
I counted up tonight the number of conferences & number of people of the families concerned that I had on my recent trip Oct 9, 1922 to Jany 24, 1923 to the far west & find I had 418 conferences with 829 people, covering 11 families & 108 days in which I traveled over 16,500 miles as follows:
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Anderson family, 2 conferences with 4 people
Jack family, 54 conferences with 91 people
Thompson family, 122 conferences with 264 people
Wilson family, 18 conferences with 31 people
Elliott family, 2 conferences with 4 people
Potter family, 1 conference with 2 people
Redburn family, 36 conferences with 102 people
Caruthers family, 78 conferences with 110 people
Markle family, 53 conferences with 98 people
Finley family, 19 conferences with 46 people
Rothermel family,_33 conferences with _77 people
Tot. 11 families 418 conferences with 829 people JVT 11:22 PM
Oak Hill July 19, 1923 8:15 PM
Reading to Cousin Kate from Page 4 this book, she says that great Uncle John Caruthers was a great big man & very neighborly, that he came every morning for a week & fed the stock when her grandfather, Peter Rothermel was in his last illness & once when the whole family nearly, her mother & Aunts Katy, & Polly & her Uncles Dan, Ben & Jake were down with the dysentery, John & his brother James came every morning for a week, milked the cows for them & did the necessary work. She said John Caruthers wife was Isabella, daughter of Rev James Power & the wife of John Finley who had owned the farm her grandfather bought was another, the wife of Rev Wm Swan was another & she understood her mother to say that Nat Hurst's wife was another.
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Oak Hill July 20, 1923 10 AM
Reading to Cousin Kate Page 36, she says the Albert E. Budd main building was built by a man named Thomas & that John Markle, son of Sheppard B. bought it & they moved over there after they sold the West Newton home to Cyrus P. The house wasn't big enough for them & they built an L to it. John left it to his sister Kate L. Markle & she sold it to Gallagher.
Cousin Kate says that Susan Budd had a child before she was married to Elam Paulson or Powelson, but it died young, probably aged one or two yrs, but she didn't know who its father was.
8 PM
Reading from Page 58, Cousin Kate said Polly Bell died at the home of her daughter Mary Ann Keefer.
Oak Hill July 20, 1923 10:15 PM
I have just finished up to date reading my books to Cousin Kate & Mrs Pallini hast [sic] just gone with her to bed.
Mrs Elizabeth Jane Brown was in this afternoon from 2:15 to 2:40 with her niece, Mrs Welsh at room 522 & speaking of the Brown connection, she had never known of a brother of James M. Brown.
Speaking of her father-in-law & the Fisher
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marriages she said on my mentioning the three last girls & who they married that that was correct:
James Brown married Rebecca Fisher
Robert Hagerty married Fisher, her sister
George Bolsinger married Fisher, her sister, his 1st wife
William Moss married Nancy Fisher, her sister
& David Fisher, a brother of above four girls went, she said, to Ohio.
She said that:
Susan Brown, sister of James Brown never married.
Lydia Brown married Worley & had 3 children
Orpha Brown married Henry Black & had children:
1. Taylor, says Chas H. Clack is his son & that he has invented an envelope that cannot be steamed open & had it patented. Also says that he has recently divorced his wife who was Ellazama [Ellazana?] Riffle, daughter of Wm H. Riffle who she says he claimed was only with him four yrs out of 14 of married life.
2. Alex
3. John
4. Sarah
5. Evans, living in Nebraska. Lewis A. Brown of Adah Pa can give his address.
She said James M. Brown, who was a son of Joshua had the following children:
1. Elizabeth
2. Mary
3. Jesse P.
4. Jacob
5. Hester Ann
6. Lydia
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7. Phoebe
8. Ellen
9. Jane
She named Hester Ann who was not given by Eliza Jane Keener Book 9 0 536 & omitted Clark who Mrs Keener named. She said that:
John Brown, brother of James, her father-in-law had two children:
1. Elizabeth who married a son of Peter Crago
2. William who married a daughter of Peter Crago
and that:
William Funk also married a daughter of Peter Crago
Samuel H. Moore also married a daughter of Peter Crago
William H. Riffle also married a daughter of Peter Crago.
She said "I will tell you a little circumstance". She then went on to relate that when she was a young 15 yrs old girl, she went with an elderly lady to old Jesse Brown, an old bachelor, brother of her late husband's grandfather, who was seeking a housekeeper & he said to them that he wanted a wife & the moment he married, he would make his wife a deed for his farm. She said he had a good comfortable house on his farm & she had been living in a log cabin & she thought she would just marry him & get a fine home, but she didn't. I said "when then did you marry, when you were "sweet sixteen?" & she said "I married before I was sixteen & he lived 15 yrs after that & I often thought I would have gotten very tired waiting for him to die & advise everyone to marry only for love." I think she scared Sam into proposing. She sd old Jesse got childish & went in broad daylight to take a honey comb from a hive of bees & they stung him so badly that it killed him.
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Cousin Clara Jane Williams from Hollywood Calif came in Room 522 at 2:44 PM today & was there until 4 PM, cousin Lulu Chalfant coming in about 3:30. She, Lulu, says she has Uncle Theodore & Aunt Jane's bible & her brother T.V. Hibbs has her parents bible. Clara Jane gave me her record & what she could of her sister Susan's.
Matilda Ruth Van Kirk was born June 17, 1852?
Eli Cope Jr was born Mch 11, 1850?
They were married Sept.
Their children were:
1. Clara Jane Cope born in Uniontown Pa July 14, 1873
2. Susan Finley Cope born in Streator Ills July 31, 1879
3. Ruth Ellen Cope born in Streator Ills 1885 & she died at Streator Ills aged 2 1/2 yrs.
Clara Jane Cope Mar 1. Dec 20, 1897 Albert Edwin Martin who was born at McComb Ills Jany 10, 1871, son of Thomas Martin & his wife Clara Rebecca Hutchinson by Rev Stoltz. He died at Harrington Arizona Aug 28, 1905 & is buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena Calif. Had two children:
1. Louise Martin born at Streator Ills Dec 21, 1898. She died at Jacksonville, Ills Jany 25, 1899 aged exactly 5 wks & is buried there.
2. Edith Martin born at Peoria Ills Apr 29, 1902. Is now in University of Calif College, Southern Branch where she will graduate next February.
Mar 2. July 14, 1907 John Franklin Williams who was born she thinks in Texas
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Aug 11, 1877 son of Milam Williams & his wife Mary Elizabeth. They separated in Aug 1914 & she got a property settlement by which she became a feme [sic] sole trader. He is living at Belleflower Calif. They have had two children:
3. Milam Eli Williams born in Monrovia Calif May 16, 1908 & is a junior in Hollywood High School
4. Lincoln Avery Williams born in Monravia Calif May 9, 1910 & is in LeConte Junior High School, Hollywood Calif.
She & her three children live now at No 1322 Highland Ave, Hollywood Calif. Is a Presbyterian & a Republican.
Susan Finley Cope was married at Pasadena Calif 1910 to George Stephens Polley, a native of Sherburne England where he was born on 1873. They have had two children:
1. a daughter born at Pasadena Calif & died aged 5 wks
2. Georgina Cope Pooley born Jany 30, 1917 at Pasadena Calif & entered school last Feby.
They live at 1168 Chester Ave Pasadena Calif.
Lulu Chalfant lives at 61 Nassau St in light brick house opposite Dr F.B. & Florence B. Hess, corner Nassau & Stockton Sts. I arranged to go there with my book & get their record.
Clara J. Williams said her grandfather, Eli Cope, built the brick house the L.H. Abrams
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place in Redstone Tp, one mile east of Brownsville on the National Road which was Uncle Theodore Van Kirk's last home.
Minnie L. Redburn was out today with Lida G. Thompson to Mrs John Cook's on the New Salem Road 4th house beyond Sandy Hill Church to get some red raspberries & had been out the day before with Louisa B. Richey getting some & she said Mrs Cook Nee Frankhouser (both she & her husband worked years ago at Springdale) & she said brother Will M. Thompson had been a father to her & had been her Sunday School teacher for thirty years.
Oak Hill July 23, 1923 9:31 PM
This afternoon about 1:45 PM, two large women came in & said they were daughters of Hettie Grove, to whom I owed a large note & said they wanted to see if there was any hope of ever realizing anything from it. I explained the situation & then told them of their being in the Wilson family (through the Lecky's) a History of which I was getting up & they gave me from memory their individual records.
I told them I had gotten their father's bible record from their brother, Wm E. Grove on Apr 1, 1922 see book 6 Page 389 from which record I take the record of their births as I did not ask them of the remainder of the record each one gave their own. Mrs Jamison is much the larger of the two.
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Elizabeth Anna Grove born June 13, 1863 married Nov 6, 1884 to Larry Jasper Coffman son of David R. Coffman & his wife Mary Poundstone who was born in German Tp, Fayette Co Pa June 8, 1860 & both are living on the McClellandtown Road in German Tp in a frame house on the north side of road & being first house this side of the D.R. Coffman brick residence, they have but two children & have not lost any.
1. Edna Blanche Coffman born Oct 27, 1886 married Dec 10, 1919 to James Deffenbaugh Wilson, son of Morgan S. Wilson & his wife Meta Deffenbaugh. No issue.
2. Iva Irene Coffman born Apr 5, 1894 unmarried.
Both born in German Tp in the house where they now live.
Etta Cora Grove born Apr 1, 1867 married May 24, 1893 to James Franklin Jamison, son of Samuel Jamison & his wife Elizabeth Roderick, who was born in Luzerne Tp, Fayette Co Pa Mch 18, 1861. Both living at 2247 W 10th place, Gary Indian. Have not lost any children & have but one who was born in McKeesport Pa viz:
1. Mildred Blanche Jamison born Feby 20, 1905.
She will send me record of her brother Uriah H. Grove when she gets home. Left 2:20 PM
Rev Geo G. Kerr of Canonsburg Pa weighing 139 lbs was here between 7 & 8 PM & reported progress in getting records. JVT 10:11 PM
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Oak Hill July 25, 1923 11:11 PM
I went this morning at 9:30 o'c in our car, with Pallini driving with Cousin Kate Smith born Jany 3, 1832 to see her first cousin Mrs Kate Brown & her husband Geo W. Brown living now in this Tp in a new house their son Ed D. Brown had built for them, going out North Gallatin Ave passing the old Robt Hogsett former home & also passing the improved road, turning to the left through the Leisennings to the 2d house on the left hand side where we arrived at 10 Am & left at 11:11 AM.
Mr Brown said that Jacob Greenlee whose mother was a Getzendamner, as told to him by old Polly Humbert, married a Gans who was a sister of Wm Gans, the father of L.B. Gans & had six children viz: Oliver, William, John & Janes Greenlee, Mrs Henry Roderick & Mrs Geo W. Chick. This James Greenlee lived to be 97 yrs old & died at Woodbridgetown & is buried there. I knew him. Charles Greenlee, whom I also knew as a son of a Wm Greenlee who was a cousin of James Uncle.
Robert Britt's wife & Alex Dejarmon's first wife were sisters of Chas Greenlee & they had a brother Porter Greenlee who went west.
There was a brother of Jacob Greenlee who went over to Greene Co Pa & settled on Ruffs Creek.
Mr Brown also said that David Morgan
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the father of Col John Morgan married a girl named Walters who came out her from Balto Md but had no relations here.
He said Woodbridgetown formerly Known as Mifflinsburg was the county seat of Yohogania Co VA, which extended to Pgh prior to running Mason & Dixon's line.
Ed D. Brown said yesterday that his great grandfather had two or three wives or women & had children by all of them & asked me if his grandfather had ever told me anything about them. Said his great grandmother was Jennie? Akers & lived to be nearly 100. I told him that his grandfather, Rev Benj F. Brown had told me she was his mother. Ed D. said whenever he asked his father anything about it, he would shut up like a clam & wouldn't talk.
Geo W. Took Pallini & me up & showed me his garden, a good one & a nice 4 acre field back of it which belongs to Ed. John C. Brownfield, son of Alf, lives just adjoining beyond him & Alfred Brownfield over 80, but not showing it, came over to see Cousin Kate.
We then drove Cousin Kate out here & then drove to No 16 Grant St to see Mrs Dora Hill who has been sick with rheumatism & hasn't been downtown since Mch 1920 & has fallen in weight from 230 to 135. She didn't have my notes which she at my advice deposited with the creditors com & when I go to Pgh Friday, I will see if I can get them. I then drove to the Citizens F & I Co & left
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my three M&WRW Co Receivers cfts for collection & passing up street, Sam Stern came across the street to ask abt the acre of coal under the old Joe Barton home, I having bought the farm fr Sarah J. Johnson in Sept 1901 & got a deed fr Joe Barton's wife fr the 1 A of coal under the house dated Sept 30, 1901 ackd Oct 11, 1901, Recorded Dec 16, 1901 in Deed Book 194 p 342 & which on looking up my acct, I can't find that I paid Barton anything & I evidently had Sarah J. Johnson pay him unless she or her father, Wm H. had an agreement by which it was to be included. From Stern's, I went at 12:15 PM to the Court House & looked this up & also conveyances from Thos Frame finding from references viz:
Deed Book B Page 337 Luzerne Tp I had this record
Deed Book C Page 283 Luzerne Tp didn't find this yet
Deed Book D Page 44 Menallen & German Tp see below
Deed Book I Page 39 German Tp see below
Deed Book D P 44 Thomas Frame to James Brown. Deed dated Apr 6, 1797 between Thomas Frame, yeoman of German Tp, Fayette Co Pa & Elizabeth, his wife of 1st part & James Brown of same Tp for consideration of £427 conveys part of tract of land in Menallen & German Tps called Farmingham for which a deed of confirmation issued to sd Frame Feby 25, 1786 by the Com of Pa beginning in line of John Ewing, thence by John Frame & the heirs of James Wilson or Thompson ctg 85 a 10 6/10 P signed Thomas Frame, Elizabeth (her mark) Frame. Witnesses: Abraham Stewart, [1]*Mary Stewart, Ackd Apr 6, 1797 before Abraham Stewart
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Deed Book I Page 39 Thomas Frame to John Craft Deed dated Mch 19, 1811 between Thomas Frame & Elizabeth, his wife of German Tp, Fayette Co Pa of the first part & John Craft of Greene Co Pa of second part wherein for the consideration of $1850 conveys following described pt of tract of land called Farmingham situate in German & Menallen Tps, Fayette Co Pa for which a patent of Confirmation was granted sd Frame Feby 25, 1786 by the Com of Pa. Beginning at James Brown's land, thence by James Frame, Lacy Hibbs, James Findley & William Thompson & by James Brown (being above part of Farmingham tract) ctg 184 1/2 acres & allowance of 6% for roads. Thomas Frame, Elizabeth (her mark) Frame. Witnesses: Charles Porter, Robert Shirly, Nathan Couch, Ackd Mch 19, 1811 before John Downard J.P. Recorded May 30, 1812.
In looking for the reference in Deed Book C, the old elongated one, I noticed on Deed Book C Page 278:
A mortgage dated July 29, 1797 given by Daniel Maricle late of Berks Co Pa now of Uniontown Pa Hatter of one part & John Wood of Uniontown Pa merchant & saddler to secure two obligations to sd wood for £580 each for £290 payable on Sept 15 next & one in Apr? following pledges parts of two lots (they are 4 & 5?) on north side of Elbow St in Jacobs Addition beginning at East corner of lot No 5 sold to Christian Wireman, thence northward at right angles 15 ft
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to Peter St, thence by same Eastward 80 ft 8 in to corner of lot lately sold to Heckman? thence southward at right angles (then follows a long description along alley) patented in 1788 to Jacob Beeson as Mt Vernon & by him & wife conveyed in 1790 to Dr Henry Chapees, who with Sarah, his wife on Mch 25, 1793 conveyed same to John Savary, who on Nov 7, 1794 conveyed same to John Wood who with Elizabeth, his wife, by deed dated equal herewith conveyed same to Daniel Maricle. Mortgage signed Daniel Maricle, John Wood. Witnesses Alex McClean, Joseph Lewis Ack Nov 7, 1797 before Robert Moore.
On July 25, 1800, just 123 yrs ago today, John Wood ackd payt in full & signs the record John Wrood.
Just following this, is deed fr sd John Woods to Daniel Maricle.
Deed Book C Page 280 is Plan about Williamsport enlarged by new addn as New Geneva & signed by Albert Gallatin. Look up.
Deed Book C Page 282 is a deed from Frederick Stoever of Lebanon Pa. Look this up.
Also look up the Deed Book C P 283 for that Thomas Frame conveyance.
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I arranged with Geo W. Brown for him to go with me next week to see Jim Rothermel at Cheat Haven, his wife's nephew & to George Moser's at Rubles Mills who he said is 85 & the best informed man out there. I found Cousin Minnie L. Redburn in bed from a disordered stomach when I was there 5 to 6 PM. Mrs Luther Keck, with her mother, sister & niece came out at 8:11 PM & Luther came at 10 & took them home at 10:33 PM. My scales showed them weighing:
Mrs Margaret Keck of Uniontown Pa 107 lbs
Mrs Edith Lender, her sister of Monessen Pa 89 lbs
Mrs Samuel Smith, her mother of West Newton 98 lbs
Miss Margaret Frances Munnia, her niece aged 6 of Ingram Pa 40 lbs
Miss Kate Smith aged 92 of Dormont Pa 95 lbs
Mrs Augusta Pallini of Oak Hill 114 lbs
Luther Keck of Uniontown Pa 207 lbs
JVT of Oak Hill 193 lbs
Cousin Kate said she wanted to tell me about the Browns & said that Rebecca Rothermel, wife of Jacob who her Cousin Kate Brown sd today had only died a year ago, had told that G. Wash Brown & Rev B.F> Brown were sons of Joshua Brown by a hired girl that lived with him (this was Jennie Akers) who he put in a little house up the mountain & she lived to be about a hundred yrs old. She sd she asked her Cousin Kate Brown today if her father-in-law had any brothers & sisters except "Wash" & she said "yes, lots of them."
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She said too, that Rev B.F. Brown was about to marry a second wife & she demanded that he deed her the farm before she would marry him & he couldn't do that as he had already deeded it to his son Geo W., who I was to see today. However, he went every Saturday night to see her, taking her all manner of things to eat in his buggy each week. I told her about the Daniel Maricle find & that of Frederick Stoever. Speaking of them, she said Gen Joseph Markle said Mrs Stoever was his Aunt & that one of her daughters married a Rohland & the elder Philip Rohland who came out to West Newton had often said that he & Cyrus P. Markle were second cousins.
She said Cyrus Markle of Gasper who was a fine man, had gone with & courted her Cousin Kate Rothermel (now Brown) for several years before they moved to Fayette Co.
Speaking of Daniel Maricle, who I thought was a son of one of great grandfather's brothers, she said her grandmother, wife of Peter Rothermel, had told her that two of the Markle brothers who were fine men, used to come every week to see her father, Capt Conrad Stenger, when she was a young girl. They lived not far above where he lived. I think he had bought great grandfather Casper Markle's farm.
It is now 3:15 AM 26th & I will go to bed. JVT
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[Descendant Chart]
Peter Casner, see page 290 & 291 Book 8
[was the father of]
Vandal Casner
[children]
Barbara Casner, she died at Albia Iowa & was buried there about 1815 married John Stout, see book 8 P 290. He died at Ottumwa Iowa. He was born Dec 21, 1795 in what is now WVA & died May 6, 1858 at Ottumwa Iowa, so Mrs Eloise M. Roberts of Avard Okla writes Aug 6, 1923 large envelope & the dates of birth of their children as given below are from her.
3. St Leger Stout B Jany 19, 1821 ob Feby 15, 1895. Lived in Carroll Co Mo. Mar.
George Stout, Mar. Live at Columbia MO
11. John Stout, B July 13, 1838, mar & lived in Iowa
10. Abraham Stout, B March 24, 1836, mar & lived in Iowa
9. Benjamin Stout, B 1834, ob in Oregon where he lived
6. George Stout, B Feby 18, 1827, ob in Oregon where he had lived.
5. Milton Stout, B Feby 18, 1825 ob abt 1911 in Salt Lake City. mar
8. Annie Stout, B July 12, 1831, ob aged abt 20 yrs & is buried at Ottumwa Iowa?
4. Elizabeth Stout, called "Betsy" B Mch 25, 1823 ob. mar William Crawford & once lived in Texas
1. Clarissa Stout, B Apr 29, 1817, ob. Mar Taylor & lived in Oregon.
2. Emily Stout, Born Dec 28, 1818 ob Jany 24, 1912 aged 93 yrs & 27 days. Mar Apr 2, 1838 to John Finley who was born Jany 13, 1808 in Fayette Co Pa & died Oct 20, 1872. See Book 7 pages 305 to 307 incl.
7. Vandal Stout, born June 16, 1829
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At residence of George W. Mosier Rubles Mill, George Tp, Fayette Co Pa Aug 1, 1923 8 AM
I arrived here 20 minutes ago & have met Mr Mosier & their daughter Jennie whose hands are both doubled up like a closed fist from rheumatism & are also swollen therefrom & she says they have been that way for thirty years. She also says she has had to wear glasses since she was twenty yrs old by reason of an attack of scarlet fever she had had. She went in the bedroom adjoining the front room in which I am writing & brought out the old Black bible & went upstairs above this room & brought down the old Mosier Bibles that of her grandfather, Abraham Mosier & also the bible of her father George Moser with their record. I am copying from these three bibles in the order named, commencing on the next page, the several records they contain.
As I was leaving, Miss Moser [sic] said her big toes were doubled under the other toes & they were turned up over the top of her feet & she could get no shoes that she could wear. Geo W. Brown said George Moser owned 14 acres there which is good land in good repair & he has a good orchard with plenty of apples & a comfortable frame dwelling for his home. They have an old chair 150 yrs old that the Blacks brought from Ireland.
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The old Black Bible published by M. Carey & Son Phila 1817
Family Record
Marriages
Hannah Coldren was married to James Parshal Mch 1, 1820
John Coldren Junior was married to Anne Allender Mch 1, 1824
Nancy Black to Joseph Devebaugh Mch 26, 1829
James Black to Hannah McGuilliams Sept 24, 1829
Elizabeth Black to John Edgar 1837
Henry Black to Orpha Brown Jany 24, 1839
Sarah Black to Joseph Woodward Mch 11, 1875
Henry Black to Matilda Franks May 1, 1885
Births
Old Sarah Black was born Dec 1780
James Black was born Dec 14, 1806
Mary Black was born Dec 15, 1808
Nancy Black was born Mch 1, 1810
Alexander Black was born June 27, 1812
Henry Black was born Dec 26, 1816 written over 181[cut off]
Elizabeth Black was born Feby 18, 1818 written over 1817
Sarah Black was born June 10, 1820
William Black was born June 28, 1823
John Coldren was born Oct 27, 1800
Hannah Coldren was born Oct 25, 1803
Matilda Black was born Dec 13, 1829
Children of Henry Black & his wife Orpha Brown:
1. William Henry Black was born Aug 19, 1839
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2. Sarah Elizabeth Black was born Aug 3, 1840
3. Samuel Wakefield Black was born Oct 5, 1842
4. James Taylor Black was born Mch 12, 1846
5. John Henry Black was born Apr 7, 1848
6. Alexander Fillmore Black was born Jany 12, 1851
7. Evans Willson Black was born Dec 27, 1853.
[Margin note reads:] Sept 28, 1924. Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Moser died at her home near Rubles Mill Sept 26, 1924 at 8:45 PM Interment 2 PM today in Woodbridge Cem. JVT.
Deaths
Isaac Coldren died Nov 20, 1803
Nancy Anderson died Apr 27, 1843 aged 85
William H. Black died Aug 26, 1855, Mrs Moser's bro died at McClellantown
Mary Smith died Oct 14, 1855, Mrs M's Aunt, sister of Henry Black
John Coldren died Nov 29, 1846, a half bro of Henry Black
Orpha Black died July 19, 1882 aged 63 yrs
Henry Black died Dec 10, 1828 aged 100 yrs
Henry Black died Sept 27, 1845 aged 62 yrs
Nancy Deffenbaugh died June 20, 1846
James Black died Dec 21, 1848
Hannah Black died July 20, 1856
Sarah Black died Sept 8, 1870
Sarah E. Edgar died Sept 3, 1869
Alexander Black died Mch 14, 1878
Matilda Black died Mch 30, 1893 at 6:30 AM
Joseph Woodward died Apr 7, 1887 aged 76 yrs
Sarah Woodward died Apr 5, 1900
These were father & stepmother of Chris & Caleb.
On a slip of paper in pencil is:
children of James & Hannah Black
Caroline Black born Aug 29, 1830
Sarah Black born Oct 23, 1832
Levi Black born Aug 28, 1834
Mary Black born May 26, 1837
Robert Black born Aug 29, 1840
Mary F. Black born Sept 5, 1842
Emma Black born Mch 25, 1845
Willie 8 yrs old
Father died Dec 21, 1848
mother died July 20, 1856
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The Abraham Mosier Bible was printed in Phila Pa in 1853 by Jasper Harding. The record from it is as follows:
Marriages Abraham Mosier & Sarah Whisler was married date not given. This was his first marriage.
Abraham Mosier & Hannah Thompson was married by the Rev Caleb Rossell Sept 21, 1847, His 2d wife.
George Mosier & Sarah E. Black was married by Rev G.W. Hertzog Mch 8, 1859
Henry W. Mosier & Margaret E. Vance was married by Rev Isaac Winn May 15, 1859.
Births
Abraham Mosier was born Oct 7, 1813
Sarah (Whisler) Mosier was born Mch 11, 1815
Hannah (Thompson) Mosier was born Nov 14, 1814
Their children:
Henry Whisler Mosier was born Jany 25, 1836
George W. Mosier was born Apr 10, 1837
Daniel R. Mosier was born Sept 28, 1838
William Mosier was born Aug 21, 1840
Catharine Mosier was born Mch 7, 1841
Ebenezer Mosier was born June 26, 1844
John Mosier was born Oct 5, 1845
Thomas Thompson Mosier was born Sept 3, 1848
Alexander Provins Mosier was born Aug 22, 1853
James Abraham Mosier was born Sept 30, 1856
Deaths
Abraham Moser died May 7, 1885
Hannah Moser died Jany 19, 1888
Thomas Thompson was born Nov 23, 1789 & died Mch 27, 1851. He was father of Hannah Mosier & was a soldier in the War of 1812, so George Mosier says. [variations in spelling noted]
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George Moser's bible was printed in Pgh Pa by Joseph Horner but is not dated. The record therefrom is:
Marriages
George Moser & Sarah E. Black Mch 8, 1859
Their Children
Births
1. John Henry Moser was born Aug 26, 1861
2. Orpha Jane (known as Jennie O) was born Dec 6, 1863
3. Sarah Ellen Moser was born Nov 2, 1866
4. Charles Abram Moser was born July 29, 1869
5. Andrew Allen Moser was born Feby 4, 1872
6. Evans Willson Moser was born Apr 6, 1875
7. Annie Eliza Moser was born Sept 21, 1878
8. Emma Laura Moser was born May 22, 1881
Deaths
Sarah Ellen Moser died Oct 17, 1868
Charles Abram Moser died Aug 19, 1888
Annie Eliza Moser died Aug 1881
Evans W. Moser died Feby 27, 1910
Orpha J. (Jennie O) says that her brother, Andrew A. lives on the road to Yorks run road opposite the Stewartson home second house on left hand side. He married Marie Snyder & has 2 chil. Grace & Frank.
Evans W's widow lives at Fairchance on side toward the mountain
Emma L. her sister, married Roy Hayden, son of Joseph Hayden & live at NO 37 Ken St Uniontown Pa & have two children Edith & Dorothy
Hannah Coldren Page 101 line 5 & 6 was a half sister of Mrs Moser's father, whose mother had first been married to a Coldren. She don't know who James Parshall was but thinks he was from Waynesburg Pa. Her Uncle James Black, who married Hannah McWilliams moved west, but Mrs Moser don't know where nor what McWilliams it was.
Elizabeth Black, sister of Mrs Moser's father, married first John Edgar & second Wm Lecky & Huston Lecky is her son.
Mrs Moser's father, Henry Black married 2d Matilda Franks who was a sister of Harvey T. Jaco's wife.
Page 101 line 18. Old Sarah Black was Mrs Moser's grandmother & her maiden name was Anderson. Her husband was Henry Black who died Sept 27, 1845 & he was son of Henry Black who died Dec 10, 1828 aged 100 yrs & who came from Ireland & Mrs Moser thinks is buried at McClellandtown Pa & she has his naturalization papers. They are signed by Richard William Lane, Protty of Fayette Co Pa & dated July 25, 1814 & say that Henry Black was a native of Ireland & had resided in the U.S. between June 18, 1798 & Apr 14, 1802 & since & in the State of Penna at least one yr.
Mrs Mosier says her brother Samuel Wakefield Black died when two yrs old & she
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thinks is buried at Lecky's g.y.
The widow of her brother, James Taylor Black is living in Scottdale Pa. She was Hannah Kiener.
Her brother, John Henry Black, married Annie Hill from near Beallsville Pa the only daughter of Joseph Hill. John H. Black was a cabinet maker, took measles & took a cold & he died of hasty consumption & died near Beallsville Pa without issue & is buried there. She married again & Jennie O sd when they last heard 10 yrs ago, she was living in Wilkinsburg Pa
Alexander F. Black, Mrs Moser's brother, died here in this house July 9, 1922 from a stroke of paralysis he suffered on Apr 27, 1921 & is buried at Woodbridgetown. He was married 14 yrs before he died to Adaline Moore daughter of John A. Moore & she was buried in the Capt Moore G.y. by side of her father, whose baby girl & particular favorite she was. Her husband put a marker to her grave. After her death he lived here fifteen yrs. They did not have any issue.
Evans W. Black, who is a carpenter lives in North Loup Neb. He married Nellie E. Chase only child of Henry Chase, a noted man at North Loup & a rich farmer. E.W. is versed in Historical matters & I will write him for data.
Jennie O says "Jack" Thompson was a brother of Hannah Thompson who was Abraham Mosier's second wife & his daughter, Ella, mar-
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ried Sam Brownfield who was a son of Smith Brownfield & she is now a widow living on Water St Smithfield Pa.
Leaving 11:15 AM
[The strange fermata mark appears beside the next entry]
Oak Hill Aug 1, 1923 9:30 PM
Isaac Coldren whose death is noted Page 102 line 10 was evidently the father of John & Hannah, page 101, lines 29 & 30 & the first husband of Old Sarah Black line 18 page 101, who after his death married Henry Black the second of the name noted above on page 102 & they became the parents of the eight Black children noted lines 20 to 27 page 101 & died Sept 27, 1845 aged 62 yrs as noted Page 102 line 17. Her maiden name was Anderson.
At residence of Mrs Ella Lydia Brownfield, widow of Saml Alexander Brownfield Water ST Smithfield Pa Aug 1, 1923 11:33 AM
Mrs Brownfield says her father, Andrew Jackson Thompson, was born Apr 11, 1832 & died Apr 7, 1915. He was commonly called "Jack". He was born opposite Robert Long's old place, at Mortons Mills on the Thompson place, their own home, the son of Thomas Thompson, see above 1789-1851 & his wife Elizabeth Johnson. Thomas Thompson is buried at Smithfield Pa & has a marker. He was in the War of 1812 & was one of twelve
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men selected by Perry to win the Battle on Lake Erie. She thinks his father's name was Joseph, possible William. It is not only possible, but very probable that he is great grandfather Wm Thompson's brother, when you note about Thomas's son Joseph going back to Cumberland Valley to hunt his brother Wm. Mrs B. says Eliza Dial nee Showalter, sister of E. Sturgis Showalter, now living at Waynesburgh Pa with her brother John there, said a few yrs ago that Samuel Thompson, who was older than "Jack", her father & who was his first cousin was then living in Ohio. He was son of Joseph Thompson who was an older brother of Thomas. Samuel Thompson above was unmarried & lived with two sisters in Ohio. The sister, however, had both died & he was living with a niece. She thought it was Youngstown O. Mrs B. says that Mrs Hannah Cline lives at Farm Ridge or [2]*Ridge Farm Ills (being same county where Phil Sesler got two of his wives) has the old Thomas Thompson family bible which has the family record in it. She is a first cousin of Mrs B. being daughter of Euphamia Thompson, who married Alex Provins of Masontown Pa & who married Philip? Cline.
Thomas Thompson's brother, Joseph Thompson, married Elizabeth Showalter, a sister of old John Showalter
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who was the father of James the father of E. Sturgis Showalter.
A. "Jack" Thompson had an elder brother Wm who went away abt 1835 & was never heard of afterwards. His brother, Joe went to the Cumberland Valley Pa to hunt him on the "Conocojig" where they heard, he had married a Hurst & was doing well.
Mrs B. says that my father had often been at their house & she well remembers him & said he & her father often talked of the family genealogy. She says of her grandfather Thos Thompson's children that:
1. Hannah Mosier 1814-1888 was the oldest 2. Joseph was next, then, 3. William, then 4. Aunt Rhoda Evans, then 5., Aunt Euphamia Provins, 6. Uncle John & then 7. Uncle Sam, twins, 8. Uncle George, who was father of Isaac F., Milton S., Mrs M.L. Reis, Mrs Harry B. Hadden, Mrs Wm M. Hinsey & Mrs Alice Smith, buried today, then 9. Aunt Nancy Dixon, then 10, Aunt Eliza Delay & 11. Aunt Frances Britt, wife of Evans Britt & 12. Aunt Lydia Stuck, wife of Sam, a bro of Jim R., 13 A. Jackson Thompson born 1832 the youngest.
His brother, Wm went off when he was 3 yrs old. Thomas had other brothers & sister than Joseph, but she don't know their names. Her father used to visit them about here. She sd her father married a daughter of Nathan Brownfield & also that Mrs C.M. Hogg of Cadiz O & her daughter Alberta, who married a Lynn had told her that she had given them the best information of the Brownfields of anyone they had seen.
Leaving 12 o'c noon
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At residence of Andrew A. Moser Smithfield Bor, High House St, Aug 1, 1923 12:35 PM
Mr Moser has admitted me & is giving me the record of his immediate family.
Andrew Allen Moser was married May 1, 1901 at high noon by Rev J.W. Hays at residence of Wm H. Waggle in Nicholson Tp to Marie E. Snyder, daughter of Eugenus Snyder of Monongalia Co WVA & his wife Mariann Morris, who was born in Grant Dist Monongalia Co WVA Sept 3, 1866. They have had but two children, both born in Georges Tp, at rubles Mills Pa viz:
Frank Daniel Moser born Aug 31, 1902
Sarah Grace Moser born Feby 8, 1908
Met Mrs Mosier & Sarah Grace also.
Frank D. is an electrician & is working with the Reed Radio Co Brownsville Pa.
Leaving 12:55 PM
Geo W. Brown said that Wm H. Waggle's wife was a sister of Mrs Andrew A. Moser.
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At residence of James Buchanan Rotharmel, Springhill Tp, Fayette Co Pa Aug 1, 1923 1:40 PM
Mrs Rotharmel has brought out their big family bible which is well preserved & in prime condition & was printed by A.J. Holman & Co Phila 1888 & from which I copy:
"This is to certify that James B. Rotharmel & Emma E. Brooks were united by me in holy matrimony at the bride's home on the 28th day of December 1884 in presence of Oliver Baker and Joseph Brooks.
W. Orris Wilson D.D. Pastor of St John's Lutheran Ch
Births James B. Rotharmel was born Jany 16, 1860 in Westmoreland Co Pa
Emma Elnora Brooks was born Dec 28, 1863 in Springhill Tp, Fayette Co Pa
Their children:
1. Bertha May Rotharmel was born Apr 18, 1886
2. Amy Elizabeth Rotharmel was born Nov 27, 1887
3. Sevilla Edith Rotharmel was born Aug 30, 1889
4. Infant daughter Rotharmel was born Oct 4, 1891
5. Benjamin Rotharmel was born Mar 20, 1893
6. Jacob Lester Rotharmel was born Jany 7, 1895
7. Oliver Newton Rotharmel was born Dec 25, 1896
8. Margaret Estella Rotharmel was born Nov 9, 1898
9. Matilda Blanche Rotharmel was born May 4, 1901
10. Ada Lurena Rotharmel was born May 23, 1905
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Deaths
The infant daughter died Jany 9, 1892
Sevilla Edith Rotharmel died Dec 24, 1904
Ada Lurena Rotharmel died Jany 8, 1906
Benjamin Franklin Rotharmel died Apr 14, 1912
1. Bertha May Rotharmel was married in Dunbar Pa June 19, 192 to Samuel Mossburg, who was born at Percy Pa Dec 18, 1888 & who was son of John Albert Mossburg & his wife Mary Ann Shock. They live at Zarephath, NJ where he is farming. No issue.
2. Amy Elizabeth Rotharmel, present with her four children & informant for her own record was married Apr 9, 1910 at Uniontown Pa by the Squire to Joseph Frank Fishbaugh, who was born Aug 28, 1887 at Pittsburgh Pa, son of John Fishbaugh & his wife Margaret Bangler. They live at Bridgeport WVA where he is a glassworker. They have four children & have not lost any viz:
Margaret Josephine, born in Point Marion Pa Nov 19, 1910
Bertha Anna born in Point Marion Pa Mch 13, 1912
Blanche Eleanore born in Bridgeport WVA Apr 22, 1914
Joseph Frank Jr born in Bridgeport WVA Aug 3, 1916
6. Jacob Lester Rotharmel was married June 28, 1920 at Washington Pa to Anna Bella Oliphant, daughter of Elizabeth Oliphant, sister of James L. Oliphant who was born Mch 28, 1899 in Springhill Tp. He lives in a house just back of this one in Springhill Tp & is a motorman in the mine. No issue.
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7. Oliver Newton Rotharmel was married June 30, 1923 at Fairchance Pa by Rev C.D.A. Hoon to Nellie Marie Jenkins, daughter of John P. Jenkins & his wife Lizzie Darby. He is also a motorman in the mines & lives here.
8. Margaretta Estella Rotharmel was married June 5, 1919 at Cumberland Md to Ray E. Lyons who was born Oct 26, 1889? in Springhill Tp son of Philip Lyons (son of John A.) & his wife Olive Stentz. They live on Bunker Hill in this Tp where he is a farmer & miner. They have two children viz:
Dorothy Elnora Lyons born Mch 30, 1921
Evelyn Edna Lyons born Nov 25, 1922
Dorothy was born at Brier Hill in Redstone Tp & Evelyn was born in Springhill Tp
9. Matilda Blanche Rotharmel was married June 17, 1920 at the Parsonage of Eden Church at Stewartstown WVA by Rev S.H. Steele to Oliver Andrew Blosser, son of Edward E. Blosser & his wife Elizabeth Colebank. He was born in Monongalia Co WVA on Cheat River Oct 9, 1900. She is living here. Have two children. The older born in Monongalia Co WVA & the younger one here in this house. He is at Stewartstown WVA.
Emma Elizabeth, born Dec 7, 1920
a boy, born July 12, 1923
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James B. Rotharmel is the son of Jacob Smith Rotharmel, who was son of Benjamin. Jacob S. had an infant son who died at birth or born dead. Younger than James B. who was the only other child.
Jacob S. married in Westnd Co Pa Miss Rebecca Margaret Hantz who was a first cousin of Prof J.M. Hantz. They moved to Fayette Co Pa during the Civil War either in 1863 or 1864, Mr Geo W. Brown who is with me says.
Jacob S. Rotharmel died Feby 2, 1903 & is buried at the Lutheran Cem between here & Mt Morris Pa & has a marker. His wife, Rebecca M. Rotharmel died in this house Dec 30, 1919 & is buried same place. She was almost 84 born Feby 22, 1836.
Mrs Emma E. Rotharmel was born at the old Brooks home, now the Barricklow place, daughter of Oliver Brooks & his wife Elizabeth Ann Lyons who was daughter of Joseph Lyons, Oliver Brooks father was son of James Brooks whose father also James Brooks lived to be 102 & is buried at the Campbellite Church near Morris X Roads.
Leaving 3:12 PM
I stopped at the Campbellite Church as I was passing & looked through the g.y. 3:33 to 3:50 PM but did not find the James Brooks marker.
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We then drove to Friendship Hill & were there fr abt 4:10 to 4:50 PM & met Mrs W.A. Seifert & her son & she gave us some very good lemonade & sandwiches. I looked through the orchards & find plenty of apples, pears, plums & peaches. Many things are going to rack & the garden is grown up in grass & weeds. We picked up a lot of apples from the ground & brought them with us.
We then drove to Old Frame & was:
At Storeroom of John H. Moser at Old Frame, Nicholson Tp, Fayette Co Pa Aug 1, 1923 5:30 PM
Mrs Moser was in the store & looks very like her mother, Eliza Jane Keener Brown, widow of Saml Brown. She asked me to wait until her husband, John H. Moser who was out in the orchard came in which he soon did & she waited on some customers in the meantime. With their combined efforts, I got the following information from memory, she being the best, as they sd they had no written record but had been talking of making one. They said:
John Henry Moser & Sabina Ellen Brown were married Dec 22, 1887 on the Sam Brown hill in German Tp, Fayette Co Pa by Rev Andrew J. Sterling. Sabina Ellen Brown was born May 12, 1863.
Their children:
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1. Eva Pearl Moser born Nov 29, 1888 at Rubles, George Tp
2. Bessie Myrtle Moser born Feby 26, 1890 at Adah German Tp
3. Laura Belle Moser born Mch 27, 1891 at Adah German Tp
4. Samuel George Moser born Feby 21, 1893 at Adah German Tp
5. Sarah Elizabeth Moser born July 13, 1895 at Adah German Tp
6. Clarence Ray Moser born July 11, 1901 Old Frame Nicholson Tp
Deaths
Sarah Elizabeth Moser died Aug 25, 1900
Clarence Ray Moser died Nov 8, 1914 & was buried on the 10th.
1. Eva Pearl Moser married Dec 27, 1911 Clark C. Griffin, son of Geo F. Griffin & his wife Ocie? Lobingier of Mt Pleasant Pa. They live in the Geo F. Griffin home just beyond the Wm P. Griffin home & have two boys:
Charles
George
2. Bessie Myrtle Moser, married Apr 1917 George Deffenbaugh son of Henderson S. Deffenbaugh & his wife Moore, youngest daughter of John A. Moore whose favorite she was. They live right opposite the old Wm P. Griffin home where Emerson Deffenbaugh lives. No issue.
3. Laura Belle Moser was married May _____ to Smith Shoaf, son of James R (Polk) Shoaf & his wife Newcomer. They live in the Doc Richards house where you turn down on the corner Water St
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toward Ruble & have 3 boys:
Kenneth
James
John H.
Her mother says to see her & says she can give all the dates.
4. Samuel George Moser married Nov 1919 Jessie Shafer, daughter of Policeman Shafer decd of Uniontown Pa & his wife Jones, dau of Jesse E. Jones (brother of Reese H. Jones) & his wife Sarah Jane _____. He lives here at Old Frame just below the store on the road to Smithfield. Have two children:
Ruth
Jesse Llewellen
Oak Hill Aug 2, 1923 12:55 AM
I have read over the days work & written down here what I had penciled down at Mrs Brownfield's & John H. Moser's. We went from Mrs Brownfield's to Geo M. Grimm's at Smithfield at noon & got some sandwiches & coffee for Mr Brown & Pallini.
Going into Haydentown Pa this morning Geo W. Brown pointed out at the left side of the road just as we were entering the town the site of the old Scythe & Sickle factory which was operated & owned by the early Victor of Haydentown. Coming in tonight, I asked
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him about his daughter Sallie Victor who married Wm Swaney. He said she was a beautiful girl & woman & so strong & healthful & that she had sixteen children, one by Ross & fifteen by Swaney. James Jones, he said, married Annie Ross & her brother Ross of Greene Co Pa came over to visit the Jones's & met Sallie Victor & got her in the family way & the child was Alpheus H. Swaney, the father of Rose O. Ellenberger. I think Sallie married Wm Swaney before Alpheus was born & Daniel B. Swaney was one of her 15 children by him. Geo W. Brown said Wm Swaney told him he had made a mistake in marrying too young a woman. Geo W. said he though she was but 45 when her husband died & lived to be up in the 70s. he said the other Swaneys used to pick on Alph & he told them he wasn't their brother or of their Swaney tribe. He also told Capt J.M. Hustead the same. Alph's father, a handsome man, soon after went to South America, but came back later. James Jones & his wife Annie Ross were the parents of Jesse E. Jones & Reese H. Jones & Geo W. Brown said that Jesse E. Jones & Alph H. Swaney 1st cousins, looked as much alike as twins. Reese H. Jones' wife was a sister of Chas Greenlee.
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Geo W. Brown said his mother was Maria Lyons who was a sister of Thos W. Lyons & they were children of John Lyons & John Lyons was a son of Wm Lyons who had 7 sons & 3 daughters viz: Jacob, James, Jesse, John, & Joseph & he couldn't recall the names of the other two, but said one of the girls married Wm Woods, one married Wm Morris & their son, John Morris, was father of Alva. The other Lyons girl mar Col John Morgan.
Margaret Josephine Fishbaugh had about as fine chiseled a forehead as I have ever seen & is a beautiful girl & her two sisters are attractive. He said old Luther Burchival [Burchinal?] (not Luther W.) married Annie Thompson, a sister, he said, of A "Jack", but she was not named by Mrs Brownfield & I think he must be mistaken & she probably was a sister of "Jack's" father, Thomas Thompson. Mr B. said she lived to be 91 yrs old & that Sallie M. Finley, now aged abt 87 was her daughter. See Mrs Brownfield about this.
It is now 1:42 AM
Oak Hill Aug 2, 1923 9:10 PM
At Will L. Woods this morning, George Thompson, son of Isaac F. said that Joseph Thompson, brother of his grandfather, George P. Thompson, had lived at Elizabeth Pa & 2 yrs ago, his granddaughter was in the P.O. there & sd his sister in the Fayette Co Gas Co.
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could tell me her name. Upon asking her this afternoon, she said her name was Nancy Thompson, daughter of Charles who was a son of Joseph, but that she had married since & she would get her married name when she went home & let me know. See page 35 this book.
Oak Hill, Aug 3, 1923 9:50 PM
Sister Lenora T. Niccolls gave me last week when at her home Veech Place the Thompson coat of arms with the following explanation which she had written out. She also has the Niccolls coat of arms.
Thompson
Arms:
Or - on a fess indented azure
three stars argent; on a canton of the second the Sun in his splendor
Crest:
A cubit arm, erect nexted gules cuffed argent, holding in the hand five ears of wheat.
Motto:
Imlumine lucern Shine thou in the light
Thompson
Symbolic:
The fess represents the belt which in ancient times was worn over the armour by officials of rank at certain court functions
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The stars denote fame, brilliancy & happy conditions - a star among his fellow men. The blue canton with the sun is a special augmentation of honor. It is given or granted only for special meritorious services. The hand and the ears of wheat indicate the ancestor followed agriculture as his occupation. The ears of wheat represent honorable fruits of successful enterprises. Same as the bountiful harvest from good seed.
In Lumin Lucem
Motto.
July 24, 1923
Lenora gave me this when at her house July 26, 1923 for a call with Cousin Kate Smith. I am filing it with the family letters.
Saml W. Henshaw Exr of Miss Mary E. Hadden gave me last week a leaf 10 1/2 by 8 inches with two closely written columns on both sides, one side containing the McClean record, being written in the fine even plain hand of Alexr McClean, same as our deed & will book records are written for the first fifty yrs of the County's existence when he was Register & Recorder. All of the McClean page except the Josephine A. McDermitt birth & his own & two other McClean deaths, after his own are in his handwrite. Also the record of the first four Hadden's death is in his writing. The record of births & deaths of his father, mother & brother Alex M. are in the handwriting of Armstrong Hadden. The other record is, I think, written by Miss Mary E. Hadden.
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Family Record
Births Henryetta McDermitt was born the 28th day of February 1827 A.D.
Josephine Armstrong McDermitt born August 15, 1830
William McClean and Elizabeth Rule were married Feby 20, 1732.
1. William McClean was born Dec 26, 1733
2. Archibald McClean was born Oct 26, 1736
3. Moses McClean was born Jany 10, 1737/8
4. John McClean was born May 11, 1740
5. James McClean was born July 29, 1742
6. Samuel McClean was born Sept 30, 1744
7. Alexander McClean was born Nov 20, 1746
8. Elizabeth McClean was born Feby 16, 1749 & died Sept 17, 1758
9. Joseph McClean was born July 1, 1752 & died Oct 6, 1776 about 11 o'clock AM
The above was taken from my Father's family bible & transmitted to me by my brother Moses, then at Chilicothy and entered here at the request of Betty Hadden for preservation or aid to memory 30th August 1832 Alexr McClean.
Alexander McClean died on the 7th December 1834
Stephen McClean died Oct 3, 1867 between 12 & 1 o'clock at night
Ephraim McClean died Sept 28, 1873.
Sally Holmes was married to Alexander McClean 26th October 1775 & died 26th March 1832 aged 81 yrs 11 months & 12 days.
1. Ann McClean was born 7th Sept 1776 about 4 o'clock in the evening
2. Joseph McClean was born 17th Nov 1777 about 3 o'clock
3. Elizabeth McClean was born 27th Mch 1779 about 7 o'clock
4. William McClean was born 14th eve Oct 1780 about 8 o'clock in Uniontown.
5. Alexander McClean was born 17th Sept 1782 at midnight
6. Ephraim McClean was born 23d July 1784 at 9 o'clock in the morning
9[3]*. Stephen McClean was born 23d Sept 1786 at 9 o'clock in the morning
10. John McClean was born 23d Feby 1788 at 9 o'clock in the morning
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11. Richard Brown McClean was born 17th May, 1790 at 4 o'clock in the morning.
12. Moses McClean was born 11th Mch 1793 & died 25th July 1832 at 33 minutes after eleven at night. He had requested Betty Hadden (his sister) to take notice of the time of his departure. I am now in my 86th year. I leave this as a memorandum that will not be easily forgotten.
30th August 1832 Alexr McClean
Deaths
Thomas Hadden died at Union Town 1st June 1826 about 10 o'c PM
Blair Hadden died 18th Apr 1811 at min after 3 o'c PM
Samuel Hadden died 15th Dec 1811 3 o'clock AM
Stewart Hadden was killed by the Indians on the return from a voyage up the Missoury [sic] River about 600 miles above the mouth of said river on the 4th day of July 1827 & was buried at Peraza Dushane in Sat Louie.
Elizabeth Beeson Hadden died Jany 29, 1897 at 11:30 Friday night.
Thomas Hadden was born Apr 19, 1770, died June 1, 1826
Elizabeth Hadden was born Mch 27, 1779, died May 23, 1856
Alexander M. Hadden was born Dec 24, 1803, died Apr 22, 1856
Alexander McClean was born Sept 17, 1782, died Oct 24, 1871
Armstrong Hadden was born Feby 2, 1808, died Oct 19, 1872
John Marshall Hadden was born Apr 1, 1799, died Dec 21, 1876
H.B. Hadden was born Mch 16, 1819, died May 21, 1879
Sarah McClean Hadden was born , died Oct 25? 1886?
There is also Miss Mary E. Hadden's book of Family records to look through. It is a black flexible backed "Ledger" 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 & almost one inch thick ctg 84 pages & is written on from page 1 to 121 inclusive & on pages 274, 278, 279, 282 & 283 & is the property of Mrs A.S. Vincent It is now midnight & I will quit for tonight. JVT
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Oak Hill Aug 4, 1923 9:48 AM
I compared last night midnight to 2:44 AM & this morning 7:30 to 9:40 AM, Miss Hadden's record with the copy Tom Hadden born Aug 9, 1839 gave me in Doylestown Pa May 12, 1923 see book 9 p 471 & made many corrections which with the omissions I am having Mary E. Shepler copy for me.
7:44 PM
These McClean-Hadden papers belong to Mrs A.S. Vincent (Lillian) of NO 11 Langdon Ave Watertown Mass who is a niece of Miss Mary E. Hadden.
President Warren Gamaliel Harding died suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Calif at 7:30 PM Thursday Aug 2, 1923 & his remains are now speeding homeward. I was a guest at the Palace Hotel seven months ago Jany 4, 1923
Referring to Book 8 Page 377 for record of Sherman Dale Meighen, his widow, Mrs G.S. Smith No 205 N. Brown St Jackson Mich writes under date of Aug 2, 1923 that she, Emma Susan Fleshman born in Grundy Co MO July 12, 1871, daughter of Samuel P. Fleshman & his wife Rachel Priest was married at Galt, Grundy Co Mo on March 1, 1891 to Sherman Dale Meighen who was the son of James Meighen, originally from Ohio, where he had married Susannah Riggs. Sherman Dale Meighen died in St Louis MO
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Mch 19, 1909 aged 42 yrs 1 mo & 17 days, born there say Feby 2, 1867, it was 1868 see 12[cut off]. They had three children all born in Grundy Co Mo:
1. Harry Edward Meighen born July 12, 1894 married in Neodesha Kansas Apr 12, 1913 to Pearl Hayden who was born 1893 in Neodosha Kansas, daughter of Jones Sherman Hayden & his wife Rodia [sic] Howelyshell of Altena [state cut off]. No issue.
2. Charles Amons Meighen born Mary 12, 1900 married in Jacksonville Florida May 23, 1923 to Pearl Dansley who was born 1903 at Wade, Olochula Co Fla. Parents both dead. No issue.
3. Ruth Irene Meighen born July 4, 1906 & is single.
Mrs Meighen was married second on Apr 22, 1913 at Neodesha Kansas to George Stanley Smith & lives at 20t N. Brown St Jackson Mich.
See Book 8 page 377. H.E. Meighen Trenton Mo writes Oct 2, 1923 small envelope filed away that his name is:
Hugh Ebbert Meighen born Dec 16, 1865 at Athens O & was married Sept 2, 1886 to Margaret Ann Gibson born Dec 25, 1867 at Lindley Mo daughter of J.C. Gibson & his wife Nancy A. Grimes & have children:
1. Ray Meighen born in Kansas City Kansas July 5, 1888
2. Lester Meighen born near Galt MO Feby 4, 1892
3. Gladys Marie Meighen born in Augusta Oklahoma Jany 16, 1902 & who died unmarried Nov 4, 1921 aged 19 yrs 9 mos & 19 days during her last year in high school. JVT Oct 16, 1923 See page 359 see also book 12 P 352.
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At residence of Homer Moody, Howard St, West Newton, Pa Aug 7, 1923 11:25 AM
I arrived here at 11 AM & was recd by Miss Lottie Milligan, granddaughter of Nancy Hough who says she is 79 yrs old. She said Nancy Hough died in 1871 & was, she thought, abt 75 yrs old & is buried at Sewickly Church & she thinks her last husband Joseph Hough was buried up about Barren Run. Says Nancy lost three children with scarlet fever before her mother was married. The name of one of the children was Elizabeth & all three are buried out at the Stone (Sewickly) Church as is their parents, Wm Bell & Nancy Hough.
Miss Milligan has given me a list of her grandmother's children in the order of their ages as she remembers them & I am entering them in a genealogical table commencing on page 130. She has given me a photo of her grandmother's brother Andrew Finley taken at Forest Hill Calif of his second wife taken at Gold Run Calif which he sent to his sister, Nancy & which Miss Milligan says I may keep. His should go in the book. She says her grandmother died at her mother's home out in the country in sight
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of the Dick Church. Nancy's youngest child, Josephine Hough married Dr Logan Brown, who practiced at Pleasant Unity. She got consumption & insisted on coming to Mrs Milligan, so she & her mother (who had moved from West Newton a year before to live with Josie) taking Miss M. thought, her lot of books with her) both moved to Mrs Milligans where Josie died of consumption in Sept 1871 & her mother died Dec 187[cut off] Josie is buried at Sewickly. Her oldest child, Nancy died young with pneumonia aged abt 1 yr & is buried at Sewickly. Annie married & lives in Greensburg. She don't know her name but says Mrs Dave Markle just this side of the Catholic Church can give her name. Dr Logan brown married again, but has since died & she says Evaline Markle can tell about him. Miss M. says her grandmother had a real old bible which she thought was her mother's bible, but she don't know who got it. She had a goodorner[cut off, no idea what this word is] bible with some records written with some records written in it which she says Rose Ann Pollock got. She got the bible that has the record of her Father's & mother's family in it & her niece, Mrs Moody with her daughter has come in & has gone upstairs to look for it. The James Milligan bible which Miss Moody brought down was printed in NY
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in 1845 by the American Bible Society, has record of the deaths of Miss Milligan's grandparents & she has also brought in Hitchcock's Analysis of the Bible published in NY in 1871 by A.J. Johnson which has the later records. I am embodying the dates therein given in the table following. She says that after her Aunt Josephine Brown died, her mother, Nancy Hough went to Pleasant Unity & brought some things back & among other, her new good Bible that had the record of the births of her children & gave it to her daughter Rose Ann Pollock & Miss Milligan feels sure that Evaline Markle got it as she thinks none of the other children would want it. There are several slips of paper, yellow with age in the Hitchcock Analysis with the Milligan records which I am copying while waiting for Mrs Moody to come back to give her record.
Alexander Milligan born Oct 18, 1780
Elinor McClintock born Mch 16, 1782
They were married Feby 14, 1804 by Rev Wm Swan
Their children were:
1. John M. Milligan born Mch 16, 1806
2. William A. Milligan born Sept 8, 1810
3. James A. Milligan born Sept 15, 1812
4. Ann Milligan born Aug 19, 1814
5. Samuel Milligan born Feby 8, 1817
6. Elenor Milligan born Feby 16, 1819
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7. Mary Milligan born July 14, 1821
8. Jane Milligan born Feby 8, 1823
9. Nelly Milligan born Apr 1, 1825
Died
Alexander Milligan died Sept 29, 1860
Elenor Milligan died Jany 29, 1854
Deaths
Elinor Aug 9, 1819
Nelly Aug 1, 1825
John 1876
Mary 1875
Ann 1886
Samuel 1888
I think that James died in 1897. I don't know what year William died in.
A letter from Will Milligan, son of Miss M's Uncle John dated Buena Vista May 26, 1899 says:
Father was born Mch 16, 1806 died Aug 1, 1876
Mother died June 1866. He then gives births & deaths of their family:
Wm A. Milligan born Apr 10, 1840
Agnes A. Milligan my wife born July 10, 1845
Our children:
Pauline A. Milligan born Mch 21, 1863
Sarah Jane Milligan born Mch 29, 1867, died 6/10/87
Charles S. Milligan born Apr 9, 1869
Ella May Milligan born June 29, 1871
Albert C. Milligan born Sept 6, 1873
Nannie M. Milligan born Dec 16, 1875 & died 10/30/92
John E. Milligan born May 2, 1878
Joseph E. Milligan born May 7, 1880
Franklin W. Milligan born Sept 14, 1882
James W. Milligan born June 18, 1885
Laura B. Milligan born Mch 19, 1889
Leaving 2:42 PM
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[Descendant Chart]
[The entire top line or two lines are cut off. I enter what I can make out. CW]
[Bell] ...Sewickly Tp at the home of her dau Jane or Ginsey Milligan in Dec 9, 1871 aged..... .....Joseph Hough for his 2d wife..........Wm Bell d. 17 Aug 1839 & Nancy Bell Hough died Dec 9, 1871. She don't remember Joseph Hough & thinks he died when she was very small. The Bell children were born at the Old Bell home in South Huntingdon Tp, now owned by Broddys. Nancy Finley was born Oct 31, 1799 & mar Wm Bell Feby 15, 1816. Wm Bell was born Aug 30, 1781
[children]
1. Jane Bell, born Jany 4, 1818 ob Oct 24, 1885 mar Feby 8, 1838 to James Milligan who was born in Sewickly Tp Sept 15, 1812 & died there June 23, 1882. He put the initial "A" in his name to distinguish. He was son of Alexander Milligan & his wife Ellen McClintock.
William Bell, B June 1, 1839 ob June 15, 1839
Florilla Milligan, B May 3, 1841 ob May 7, 1888 mar Mch 4, 1864 to William B. Chain, son of John Chain & his wife Nancy Weaver. He was born in Tyrone Tp, Fay Co Pa Nov 28, 1839 & died there Mch 11, 1884 & is buried there. He was a blacksmith.
James Harry Chain, B June 28, 1867 in Sewickly Tp. m. Lena Schroyer, dau of James M. Schroyer. Both living here on Vine St. He is mgr of Pgh Coal Co stores
Radnor Chain, born in West N. going to school
Nancy Cornelia Chain, B Mch 2, 1869 in Sewickly Tp. M.1. Frank Baughman son of Joseph Baughman a bro of Eben & his wife Sarah Simeral. He died in Arizona. M.2. Huddleston & both living in Arizona.
Harry Baughman
Eugene Baughman
a girl Baughman
a boy Huddleston
a boy? Huddleston
John Franklin Chain, B Jany 23, 1871 in Tyrone Tp, Fay Co Pa married in Arizona & lives there. Had a boy & girl at last reports.
Charlotte Milligan, my informant B Apr 8, 1844, unmarried.
Samuel, B Mch 14, 1850 ob Mch 13, 1915 in West Newton. Put letter "P" in to distinguish. Never married.
Alexander [twin] born Aug 20, 1852 ob Nov 9, 1852
Andrew Bell [twin] born Aug 20, 1852 unmarried & is now living at the Hamilton Home Dravosburg Pa where he works.
Nancy Milligan, B. Sept 27, 1855 ob Mch 7, 1889 mar Sept 7, 1876 to Elias Everett, son of David Everett & his wife Julia Ann, who was born in South Huntingdon Tp & died June 20, 1902. He was a carpenter & fell off roof of Radiator Works & was killed. Buried West N. Cem. Children all born in Sewickly Tp.
Jennie Bell Everett, B Feby 28, 1877 m.1. Edward Smith, m.2. Charles McCune. Both living on a farm 1 1/4 miles fr Mendon toward Barren Run. Had 4 chil by Smith & 6 by McCune see her & get record.
Julia Ann Everett, B Mch 22, 1879 m. Homer Moody son of Samuel Moody & his wife Minerva
Mary
Ellen
Homer
Orpah [sic] Everett B Oct 1, 1881 m. Edward Zimmerman. Both living in McKeesport Pa where he is a carpenter.
Ellis
Ruth
James Everett, B Jany 9, 1885 M. Mary Jones. Both living in Belle Vernon Pa
Mary Everett
Israel Everett, B Feby 14, 1889 m. Phoebe Pendleton who was born Aug 18, 1888 separated & divorced. Have but one child
Elizabeth Nancy Everett, B Oct 11, 1908 with her mother
2. Andrew Bell, [son of Wm & Nancy Finley Bell] B Dec 27, 1820 ob. Went to Iowa when Miss M. was a little girl & married there.
3. Rosanna Bell, B Aug 17, 1822 ob Oct 20, 1887 m.1. July 27, 1838 to Henry Greer who died July 25, 1847. m. 2nd Nov 8, 1849 to Stephenson Pollock who was born Jany 26, 1817 & died June 26, 1900 see pages 136 & 137.
4. Nancy Bell, B Sept 4, 1824 ob Aug 8, 1850 buried at Sewickly. M. David Hough who she thinks was son of Joseph.
Theodore Benton, went to Cairo Ills lost trace. B. Sept 5, 1843
Joseph, died yrs ago unm & buried at Sewickly Ch Ob July 24, 1859 B Sept 9, 1845.
William B., died yrs ago unm & buried at Sewickly Ch B May 20, 1848 ob Oct 7, 1868.
Polly Bell, B Feby 4, 1834 ob Apr 12, 1852 was unmarried.
5. Wm Todd Niccolls Bell, B Sept 20, 1826 ob July 23, 1863 died in West Newton unmarried & is buried at Sewickly Ch.
Elizabeth M. Bell, B Dec 5, 1830 ob Apr 4, 1836 of Scarlet fever
Bell, ob in infancy of scarlet fever
Bell, ob in infancy of scarlet fever
Josephine Hough, Born in South Huntingdon Tp where S. Florence Hunter now lives B Nov 23, 1848 ob Sept 8, 1871 & is buried at Sewickly Ch mar Dr J. Logan Brown Aug 23, 1869.
Nancy R. Died aged 1 yr B Nov 17, 1869 ob Dec 25, 1870
Annie E. Mae, married & still living. Her husband is Gress. She was born July 3, 1871. No issue.
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At residence of Mrs Evaline Bell Markle No 214 Second St West Newton Pa Aug 7, 1923 3:33 PM
I arrived here about 15 minutes ago with Cousin Hannah E. Lawther in a taxi from Rollison? West Newton taxi Co. Her daughter, Ada, has come in since a beautiful young black eyed girl & taken the old red backed bible out of the under corner compartment of cupboard or bookcase in this room. This bible was printed by John B. Perry, Phila in 1853 & in front is written:
Mrs Nancy Hough's book bought July 22, 1853 in West Newton.
Mrs Markle says that Mrs Ann Gress of Greensburgh Pa sent this bible to her about a year go. Annie lives there with her husband, but is delicate & is childless. She is daughter of Josephine Hough Brown, see preceding page & got many or most of her grandmother's effects. Mrs Markle says her grandmother, Nancy Hough, was just the dearest old lady she ever knew. I am copying the record from this bible complete
Marriages
William Bell to Nancy Finley Feby 15, 1816
James Milligan to Jane Bell Feby 9, 1838
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Henry Greer to Rosanna Bell July 27, 1838
J. Logan Brown and Josie F. Hough Aug 23, 1869
Births
William Bell was born Aug 30, 1781
Nancy Bell wife of Wm Bell was born Oct 31, 1799
Their children:
1. Jane Bell was born Jany 4, 1818
2. Andrew Bell was born Dec 27, 1820
3. Rosanna Bell was born Aug 17, 1822
4. Nancy Bell was born Sept 4, 1824
5. William T.N. Bell was born Sept 20, 1826
6. Elizabeth M. Bell was born Dec 5, 1830
7. Polly Bell was born Feby 4, 1834
8. Josephine F. Hough was born Nov 23, 1848
Theodore Benton Hough was born Sept 5, 1843
Joseph Hough was born Sept 9, 1845
William Hough was born May 20, 1848
Nannie R. Brown was born Nov 17, 1869
Anna E.M. Brown was born July 3, 1871
Deaths
William Bell died Aug 17, 1839
Elizabeth M. Bell died Apr 4, 1836
Nancy Hough died Aug 8, 1850 consort of David Hough
Polly Bell died Apr 12, 1852
Wm T.N. Bell died July 23, 1863
Andrew Finley died July 5, 1829 This is the Squire
Jinney Finley died Oct 8, 1830, wife of Andrew Finley
Joseph Hough died July 24, 1859 son of David & Nancy
William B. Hough died Oct 7, 1868 son of David & Nancy
Nannie R. Brown died Dec 25, 1870
Josie F. Brown died Sept 8, 1871
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This certifies that David Markle & Eva B. Pollock were married at Connellsville Mch 3, 1880 signed John M. Bennett In presence of John B. Miller, Mrs M.J. Pollock
Births
David Markle, Westmoreland Co Pa June 30, 1853
Eva B. Markle, Westmoreland Co Pa Nov 25, 1861
Their children:
1. Mamie Bell Markle in West Newton Feby 18, 1881
2. Anna Elizabeth Markle in West Newton Sept 26, 1882
3. George Pollock Markle in West Newton Mch 16, 1884
4. Clara Nevada Markle in West Newton Dec 14, 1885
5. William Greer Markle in West Newton Apr 29, 1890
6. Maggie Pearl Markle in West Newton Jany 27, 1892
7. Ethel Mae Markle in West Newton Sept 13, 1894
8. Ralph Clayton Markle in West Newton Sept 4, 1897
9. Ada Irene Markle in West Newton June 17, 1901
Bible of Rosanna Pollock William Bell Greer son of Henry & Rosanna born Feby 5, 1840
John Bell Greer son of Henry & Rosanna born Dec 8, 1841
Lydia Bell Greer dau of Henry & Rosanna born Aug 30, 1844
George Henry Greer son of Henry & Rosanna born Mch 31, 1847.
Stephenson Pollock & Rosanna Greer were married Nov 8, 1849
Stephenson Pollock born Jany 26, 1817
Rosanna Pollock born Aug 17, 1822
Their children:
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Mary Elizabeth Pollock born July 1, 1850
Nancy Jane Pollock born Oct 6, 1852
Josephine Pollock born Sept 11, 1854
Evaline Bell Pollock born Nov 25, 1861
Alvina Guffey Pollock born Sept 12, 1864
Harry Andrew, son of Samuel & Lizzie Smith born Mch 9, 1869
Deaths
Henry Greer died July 25, 1847
Lydia B. Greer wife of Mathew H. Pillow died in Pgh Pa May 8, 1877
George Henry Greer died in East St Lou[cut off] Ill in 1883
John Bell Greer died
William Bell Greer died
Elizabeth Pollock (mother) died Dec 13, 1851
Nancy Jane Pollock died Sept 9, 1854
Mary Elizabeth Smith died Mch 14, 1869
Alvira Guffey Pollock died Feby 21, 1871
Josephine Pollock died July 18, 1886
Roseann Bell Greer Pollock died Oct 20, 1887
Stephenson Pollock died June 26, 1900
Geo H. Greer married & has two children.
Leaving 5 PM my time 15 min fast.
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[Descendant Chart]
[top lines are cut off, but Lee Hastings has written them in as follows:]
Rosanna Bell see p 130, B. Aug 17, 1822 ob Oct 20, 1887 m. 1st July 1838 to Henry Greer - Henry d. 25 July 1847, the son of ______ Greer, & then m. 8 Nov 1849 to Stephenson Pollock who was b 1817 in Greene Co Pa & d 20 June 1900.
[children]
William Bell Greer, Born Feby 5, 1840, ob. died unmarried out at or near East St Louis Ills
John Bell Greer, b Dec 8, 1841 ob, died unmarried in West Newton Pa see book 11 pages 588 & 589.
Lydia Bell Greer, B Aug 30, 1844 ob May 8, 1877 in Pgh, m. 1871 to Mathew H. Pillow. No issue.
George Henry Greer, B Mch 31, 1847 ob 1883 in East St Louis Ill married & had 2 children.
Mary Elizabeth Pollock Born July 1, 1850 ob Mch 14, 1869 m. Apr 1868 Samuel Smith son of Andrew Smith & his wife Julia Rothermel.
Harry Andrew Smith, born Mch 9, 1869. He has been married twice see book 11 page 590
Nancy Jane Pollock, B Oct 6, 1852 ob Sept 9, 1854
Josephine Pollock, B Sept 11, 1854 ob July 18, 1886, unmarried.
Evaline Bell Pollock, B Nov 25, 1861 my host & handsome informant of the afternoon. She married on Mch 3, 1880 David Markle, son of Big Gasper Markle & his wife Elizabeth Orr. Feby 22, 1930. She died at her home above of pneumonia Feby 19, 1930. See bk 23 p 42.
Mamie Bell, B Feby 18, 1881, ob.
Anna Elizabeth, B Sept 26, 1882
George Pollock, B Mch 16, 1884
Clara Nevada, B Dec 14, 1885
Wm Greer, B Apr 29, 1890
Maggie Pearl, B Jany 27, 1892 m. Apr 26, 1916 Walter Scott Endler B Jany 6, 1892 & engineer on the B&O. Both living at 236 Trowbridge ST Hazlewood Pa. See Bk 21 P 50
Harold Vernon, Born July 24, 1918 stillborn & weighed 14 lbs 6 oz.
Ethel Mae, B Sept 13, 1894
Ralph Clayton, B Sept 4, 1897
Ada Irene, B June 17, 1901
Alvira Guffey Pollock, Born Sept 12, 1864 ob Feby 21, 1871
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[fermata marks appears upper left hand corner of this page CW]
Oak Hill Aug 7, 1923 11 PM
I went this morning on the 9:05 AM B&O train to West Newton Pa. The train carrying President Harding's remains from San Francisco to Wash D.C. should have been through Connellsville at 7 AM but was reported 5 hrs late & in fact was much later as it did not pass through West Newton until after 2 PM while I was at Homer Moody's with Lottie Milligan. I walked up there from the station, being one of the upper streets back of M.F. Scholl's & the last house on the lower or north side of the street, a framer house.
Miss Milligan is a small woman, under 5 ft & of abt 110 lbs, but is active & well preserved to be in her 80th yr. She says she went a yr ago to the Hamilton Home at Dravosburg Pa, which has 26 inmates to live. Mrs Moody is a handsome pleasant woman as is her daughter Ellen, who were in but for a few minutes. Walking back, Millard F. Scholl came out of his office & walked with me to the West Newton taxi co office on Main St near the Bridge. He sd his brother, Wm L. was in town attending a Board meeting at the bank. He said too, that Eliza Hurst of Mt Pleasant Pa aged 87 yrs, whose husband Jim Hurst disappeared some yrs ago, was very low & he was going in the afternoon to see her. She was a Stouffer & her mother was a Scholl he said. Mrs Moody didn't get back to give her own record.
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I got a taxi & drove across the bridge & got "Tan" Lawther who was waiting on their yard seat & drove to 214 second St to Mrs David Markle who was feeling much upset fr having been down in the crowd to see Prest Harding's train go through. She is a tall, well preserved handsome black eyed woman & does not look to be 62. She says, however, that her health for several years has been delicate. Her handsome daughter, Ada, came in later & got out the old bibles, the record from which I copied on pages 132 to 135 inclusive & since reaching home, I have entered on pages 130 & 131 in the table, the record of dates of birth, marriage & death of Nancy Finley Bell Hough family that appeared in her bible.
I have also made up since my return on pages 136 & 137 the record of Rosanna Bell's descendants from the data in the Pollock & Markle bibles.
I then went across the street & a little beyond & called a half hour 5 to 5:30 PM on Miss Elizabeth Fritchman & her sister Mrs Howard Miller. Mrs Miller says her husband's mother, the widow Miller, who was a daughter of Joseph Milligan, had been married in Santa Anna Calif between Christmas & New Years last, the week after I was there, which they knew of, to Oliver Perry Markle & they were living in Santa Anna & he had a chain of three grocery stores. I got the 5:47 PM train & reached home at 7 PM & Pallini was there waiting & brought me right out. It is now 11:37 PM JVT
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Wm Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh Pa Room No 923 Aug 14, 1923 11:11 PM
I left home Friday morning 10th inst on the 6:35 AM PRR train for NY where I arrived 6;20 Pm that evening. Dr Anjou came in Sunday at 10:15 AM & we conferred until about 12 o'c noon. I phoned Harry A. Kuhn at Garden City L.I. & he said he would mail me the D'Invilliers report which he said was an appraisal one. I left at 8:45 AM yesterday Monday for Erie Pa where I arrived at 9:30 PM & was met by Mrs Mizener who drove me to her home at North East Pa. We left there at 7:11 AM this morning in her car, with her mother Mrs Wells & her daughter Mathilde & passed through Erie, Waterford, Cambridge Springs, & Meadville to Titusville Pa where we arrived a little after eleven o'clock & drove around to No 224 West Main St, a fine big brick residence with spacious yard to the residence of Capt Alonzo J. Thompson & not finding him at home, went to his office across from the 2d NBK & P.O. & found his name & "NY & Penna Lumber Co Inc" on the door, but his stenographer, Miss Hendricks said he had gone to a meeting at 10:30 AM of the Directors of the Titusville Trust Co of which he was one. I had her telephone to him there &he came to his office where I met him at 11:25 AM. He had her
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read me a copy of the letter he wrote me on 10th inst. He told me he was born the same day that John D. Rockefeller was, viz: July 8, 1839 & that he served four years in the Civil War. He said his father was Elias Greene Thompson whose ancestors had been early settlers at Plymouth, Mass & came he thought from England. His father had no brothers & but one sister, who married a Newbury & her son, Thompson Newbury invented the pointed gimlet screw. He said he had paid little attention to his family history, but that a sister of his had the Thompson record back to 1600. she however died childless, giving it to another sister, also childless who lives in Los Angeles, is past 80, but is visiting now somewhere in the middle west. He thinks he can get it from her or from the Thompson Newburys who also had the record & he is going to try to trace it for me.[4]* He said his father had 11 children. His brother, Geo W. Thompson 2 yrs younger than him, lives at Warren Pa, but is an invalid. he took me over to the Trust co & introduced me to Mr Hopkins, the treas, who sd his mother was a Thompson of the Indiana Co family. The banking room is a very fine one. The building was built by their Pres, J.C. McKinney at a cost of $250,000 & presented to the stockholders. We left Titusville & A.J.T. abt 1 PM & came through Oil City, Franklin, Harrisville, Butler, etc & arrived here 6 Pm ie 7 PM daylight sav time. It is now 11:46 PM & I will go to bed. JVT
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Hotel Virginia, Staunton, Augusta Co VA Aug 17, 1923 9:33 PM Room 54
I forgot to note that A.J. Thompson of Titusville Pa is a slender man & says that he has been more or less of an invalid for near 60 yrs. He said he was in Denver Col in 1860 before there was any town there.
We left Pittsburgh Pa Wednesday morning 15th about 10 o'c Pgh time & crossing at Point Bridge, went through Carnegie, Bridgeville, Canonsburgh & via Hill Church to Washington Pa where I showed my party where I had lived when at College & took them over to the First Pres Ch to the College & Court House & to the Geo Washington Hotel where we had lunch & proceeding on showed them the David Bradford & Dr Francis Julius LeMoyne homes & the female seminary & came over the national Road through scenery Hill, Beallsville, Centerville, Brownsville, & Searights to Oak Hill where I left the folks & went in town & got my mail 40 letters four or five of which I answered & laid the others aside.
We left at 9 AM yesterday morning 16th & stopped an hour at Lingerlonger & then came on over the National Road through Farmington & Somerfield Pa, Grantsville, Frostburg, Cumberland & Hancock Md to Hagerstown Md where we put up for the night at the Hotel
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Hamilton. It commenced raining about midnight last night & rained continuously until after 8 o'c tonight over 20 hours. We left Hagerstown, Md in the rain, abt 7 o'c this morning & came through Martinsburgh WVA to Winchester VA where we stopped for a few minutes at the Hotel Jack, the Proprietor being O.H? Jack, a handsome smooth faced young man who said his father was Charles B? Jack & that his sister had a history of the family away back, but she had gone to NY to attend the wedding of her daughter there today. He said if I would write her, she would wend it to me & he gave me her address as: Mrs E.V. Smith, Hotel Jack, Winchester VA.
We then drove on, stopping for soup & tea at 11:20 AM at the NY Restaurant, Woodstock Va, then passed through New Market Va & to the "Endless Caverns" where we stopped at 1 PM went through them 2 1/2 miles showing wonderful formations & left at 3 PM & came through Harrisonburg Va & Strasburg Va to this place where we arrived at 4:45 PM, got rooms & I went to the Court House arriving five minutes before they closed & found a will filed in 1771 of William Elliott who left a widow Jane & sons James, John, Wm & Archibald & I think other children which he did not name. I am going back when
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they open at 9 o'c in the morning. After dinner, I got a taxi & we were driven in the rain up by the parsonage of the First Pres Ch where ex Pres Woodrow Wilson was born & went at 7:30 to 9 PM to the moving picture of Alice Brady in the Leopardess which was very good. It is now 10:10 PM & I will quit & answer the letters I got when leaving yesterday morning & write also to Mrs Smith. JVT
I wrote the letters & mailed them at midnight. I also want to note that A.J. Thompson gave me on Tuesday at Titusville Pa a remedy or cure for rheumatism which he said had cured him & worked wonders with may others. I have not had time to read it, but will later copy it into this book.
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Register & Recorder's office, Staunton VA Aug 18, 1923 10:18 AM Augusta Co
Will Index Book Page
1816 Carothers, David Will 12 164*
1874 Caruthers, Isaac Will Codicil 3A 91*
1848 Caruthers, James Adm Bond 27 509*
Caruthers, James Estate Apprsmt 29 148*
Caruthers, James Sale Bill 29 151*
Caruthers, James Settlement 29 155*
1855 Carruthers, J. Estate Settlement 34 612*
1787 Crawford, Patrick Will 7 31*
Crawford, Patrick Estate Inv 7 33*
1779 Caruthers, Rob Will 6 106*
1795 Crawford, Saml Will 8 176*
Crawford, Saml Estate Appmt 8 197*
1779 Elliott, Archd A.C. Estate Appmt 6 59*
1848 Elliott, Julia Ann Guardian Bond 28 194*
1860 Elliott, John C. To Baylor W.L.H. Trust 37 284*
1868 Elliott, John Estate Inv or App 42 167*
Elliott, John Estate Sale Bill 42 168*
1837 Elliott, Thos To Cochran D.T. 21 373*
1771 Elliott, William Will & bond 4 417/418*
Elliott, William Estate Appmt 4 448*
1786 Elliott, William Acct Estate 6 521*
1807 Frame, Ann To Frame B.S. 10 129*
1834 Finley, Geo W. Will 19 482*
1765 Findley, John Guardian 3 413*
1791 Finley, John Will & Appmt 7 404/43*
1802 Finley, John Will 9 242*
1803 Finley, John Estate Appmt 9 277
1804 Frame, James Will 9 381*
1805 Finley, John Estate Sales 10 32*
1806 Frame, Jane Estate Settlement 10 47*
1807 Finley, John's Estate Settlement 10 111*
1811 Finley, John's Estate Appsmt 10 414
1821 Frame, John C. To Kinney N.C. D.T. 13 367/410
1822 Frame, Janetta & C Settlement 13 412 wrong dea[?]
1825 Finley, John's Estate Settlement 15 153
1814 Frame, Samuel Estate Will 11 322*
1822 Frame, Samuel Estate Settlement 14 141*
1834 Frame, Samuel Settlement 20 110
1838 Frame, Samuel Settlement 22 174
1841 Finley, Samuel & Elizabeth Harnest Mar Con 23 496
1849 Finley, Samuel Will 29 287*
1857 Finley, Samuel Exrs Lewis Johnson Emancipation 36 133
1874 Finley, Saml B. Will 45 373
1876 Finley, Saml B. Estate Settlement 46 347
1877 Finley, Saml B. Estate Settlement 47 135
1796 Frame, Thomas Will 8 255*
1789 Finley, William Will 7 176*
1807 Frame, William Will 10 155*
1835 Finley, William Will 21 291
1839 Finley, William Estate Settlement 22 254
1766 Pierce, Daniel Adms Good Pasture 3 254
1797 Price, John Will 8 283/30
1799 Price, John Settlement 8 342
1763 Pierie, Thos Will & Bond 3 217 & 21
1753 Thompson, Alex Guardian (Pennel) 1 525
1769 Thompson, Ad Will & Bond 9 350
1803 Thompson, Alex Will 9 350
1806 Thompson, Andrew To Kearns N.C. 10 51
1824 Thompson, Alex Will 14 426*
1826 Thompson, Alex Settlement 15 363
1830 Thompson, Alex Settlement 17 219
1832 Thompson, Alex Settlement 18 213
1833 Thompson, Alex Settlement 19 56
1820 Thompson, Catharine Will 13 141*
1762 Thompson, Hugh Will & Bond 3 181 & 183*
1750 Thompson, James Bond 1 317
1764 Thompson, James Adm (Thompson) 3 351
1773 Thompson, James Will & Bond 5 97 & 99
1811 Thompson, John Will 11 13
1820 Thompson, John Will 13 215*
1841 Thompson, John Will 23 419
1843 Thompson, John Will 25 9
1845 Thompson, John Settlement 26 466
1866 Thompson, Lucas P. Will 41 119
1867 Thompson, Lucas P. Settlement 42 339
1753 Thompson, Mat Sr Will 1 499
1760 Thompson, Mary Admr 2 365
1778 Thompson, Moses Will 6 30, 5
1781 Thompson, Moses Acct estate 6 129
1807 Thompson, Mathew Appsmt 10 107
1820 Thompson, Mathew Will 13 193
1822 Thompson, Mathew Will 14 8
1828 Thompson, Mathew Settlement 16 386
1834 Thompson, Mary Will 19 397
1755 Thompson, Thos Adm Bond 2 128,194
1758 Thompson, Thos G? Bond 2 242
1760 Thompson, Thos Invtg 2 396
1761 Thompson, Thos Acct Estate 3 102
1765 Thompson, Thos Inv 3 422
1766 Thompson, Thos Will & Bond 3 455/456
1773 Thompson, Thos Acct Estate 5 133
1857 Thompson, Thos Will 35 557
Thompson, Thos Proof of Will 36 22, 11
1747 Thompson, William Guardian Camill 1 41
1760 Thompson, William Adm 2 387
1781 Thompson, William Will 6 209*
1807 Thompson, William Appsmt 10 149
1815 Thompson, William Will 12 37
1863 Thompson, William Will 39 393
1864 Thompson, William Settlement 40 108
1763 Reaburn, James Guardian (Reaburne) 3 274
1798 Reaburne, Jno Will 8 298
1801 Rayburne, Jno Appsmt 9 162
1803 Reaburn, John Settlement 9 339
1806 Rayburn, John Settlement 10 87
1754 Rabourn, Margt Admr Bond 2 45
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Room 317, The Homestead Hot Springs Va Aug 18, 1923 11:33 PM
I went this morning to the Register & Recorders office at the Court House, Staunton Va & copied from the first will Index 1745 to 1904? the references as shown on the preceding pages 145 to this 148 & by that time, it was 1 o'clock PM the hour at which they close on Saturdays & the Register would not arrange to let me work in the office this afternoon or at night, so I went to the Hotel Virginia, got our lunch, paid my bill, filled up with gasoline & oil & at 3 o'c, started over here coming via Churchville, Buffalo Gap, Goshen & Warm Springs & arrived here at 7 PM covering 66 miles. My plans are to go on Monday via of Covington & Lexington to Natural Bridge & then on to Staunton & spend Tuesday in the Registers office & then go to Charlottesville Wednesday. We got our dinner here & went to the movie picture of Wallace Reid in "nice People" after which B.F. Jones Jr, Prest of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co passed by & shook hands. It is now 11:44 PM & I will write up my cash Acct book.
JVT.
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Room 208 of the Graham Bldg in connection with "The Campus Inn" on the ground of Washington & Lee University at Lexington Virginia, Monday Aug 20, 1923 9:22 PM
We left "The Homestead" Hot Springs Va at 9:44 AM this morning & drove by Healing Springs to Covington Va said to be the Pgh of Va & from there to Clifton Forge Va where we arrived about 12:15 PM & stopped at the Gradys Inn & had lunch & from there drove over North Mountain which was very high & steep & fully five miles up to the top & four miles down on this side & drove along by it a considerable distance. Mathilde weighed 80 lbs at Clifton Forge Va. We reached Lexington abt 4:30 PM & drove 15 miles south to Natural Bridge where we arrived at 5:30 PM & walked down & viewed this wonder of nature & took some pictures & started back at 6:20 PM arriving here at 7:10 PM having driven just 100 miles today & dark approaching, we concluded to stay here over night, got our suppers where we met Miss Belle? Larrick who along with Mr Mattingly Registrar of Washington & Lee University is running the Campus Inn here in the summer where they have 40 regular boarders & who were very nice to us. After supper we all four walked through the grounds & saw the large colonial buildings one being over 100 yrs old & also the chapel where Genl Robt E. Lee is buried & Mr Mattingly
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said "Stonewall" Jackson was buried in the Presbyterian g.y. now belonging to the city over on Main St which we passed coming in from Natural Bridge. S Mathilde & I were coming in, I spoke to three young girls & they turned back & asked Mathilde to come & play with them & were very beautiful, good & gracious, but it being nine o'clock, Mathilde's mother & grandmother would not let her go, as they wanted to go to bed. Accordingly, I bed them good night & have come up to my room 208 & have written up the days itinerary. Mr Mattingly says there is a Dr McClung living here now & says there are Pattersons here & at Brownsburg Va 17 miles North, who are Finley descendants. I was trying to get to Staunton Va for tonight, but the roads were too rough & hard to make it, so we are aiming to get up at 5:30 & off at 6 AM so I can get breakfast at Staunton & get to work at the court House when they open at 9 AM tomorrow. It is now 10 PM & I will quit & get ready for bed. JVT
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Augusta Co Va Court House Staunton Va Aug 21, 1923 9:55 AM
1. Will Book 12 Page 164
Will of David Caruthers dated May 25, 1810, states he is of Augusta Co Va. Gives to wife Elizabeth 1/3 of Real & personal estate as long as she remains my widow. To my sons James & John, the plantation I now live on equally & authorizes James to sell farm near Middlebrook that Saml Jackson lives on & money to be divided among my daughters as their necessities require & as they come of age.
To my oldest daughter, Jean, certain houses & other daughters to be provided for as wife thinks best.
Appoints wife Elizabeth, Samuel Jackson & James Bert Exrs. Signed David Caruthers (seal) Attest Robert Scott Wm Engart, Peggy (her mark) Jackson & Samuel Jackson. Proven May 27, 1816
2. Will Book 3A P 91
Will of Isaac Caruthers, of the Co of Monroe, State of Va
2d To William Erskine of Salt Sulphur Springs in Monroe, all my estate, in special trust to apply same to education of my granddaughter, Mary Jane Caruthers Robertson, until she reaches 21 yrs & after that, entire income to be pd to her, but free from
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marital control if she marries & at her death, the principal to go equally to such of her children & grandchildren as are then living & failing issue from her, what remains to go to such of the children & grandchildren of my deceased brothers & sisters as may be living at the time of the death of my sd granddaughter to be equally divided per stirpes [sic]
4th States that his property is the Salt Sulphur Springs "tract owned in partnership with sd Wm Erskine which is conducted as a place of entertainment for visitors. He direst it be held for 20 yrs expressing the belief that in that time, the debts of Erskine & Caruthers wd be pd off out of [cut off]
5th Appoints said Wm Erskins sole Exr. Dated Dec 30, 1851 Isaac Caruthers. Witnesses: Cyrus B. Campbell, W. Watts, N. Harrison
Make a codicil same day declaring he had sold Greenbrier tract, also another codicil same day. Proven Mch 20, 1854 by the 3 witnesses.
3. Will Book 29 Page 148
Inventory of James Caruthers, covering 4 pages appraised Nov 5, 1846 by Wm Young, John Brooks, A.S.A. Curry. Sale bill covering 5 pages amtg to $548.22, Contra $146.71. Bals in hands of Adm $401.51.
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David S. Bell was Adm. Estate shows no settlement in as much as suit is still pending vs Samuel Jackson.
In Book 34 P 612 et seq, shows int added for several yrs & the sum of $519.92 in Adms hands which is equally divided between 4 heirs:
1. John Caruthers $128.73 (Payts)
2. Samuel Harris & wife $128.73
3. James Beazley $128.73
4. W.C. Browning & wife $128.73
4. Will Book C Page 105 & 106
Will of Rebecca Caruthers of Augusta Co VA on this Oct 22, 1779. Wills 1st to my daughter Esther, all the monies arising fr the sale of my estate together with £1200 willed to me by my husband, the money to be put to interest & the money arising therefrom to be applied for the education & trouble of raising my said daughter & also give to sd child, all such of my wearing apparel as my Exr & my mother shall approve, also bed & bedding, large walnut chest with drawers, all my table furniture & leaves, care of sd child to my Exr during his life & if my mother survives him, then I leave the care of my sd child in her non age & my estate to her in like trust if she will receive it, but if she is not circumstanced to do so, the I place same upon John Caruthers, but if my child should die without heir of her own body, then I
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bequeath £50 of the aforesaid money to each of my sisters & also the clothes & furniture to be divided among them if my child died in non age & to my brothers, all the remainder of said monies if my child dies without an heir & give my mother my saddle & bridle & my brother William my bay horse & he is to pay unto my two brothers James & John £50 Each. Lastly, I make & ordain my father, John Moffit Exr. Rebecca (her mark) Caruthers. Witnesses: James Cunningham, James Young & Wm Moffit. Proven Nov 16, 1779 by James Young & Wm Moffit.
5. Will Book 6 Page 59
Appraisment of estate of Archibald & Lantz Elliott decd shows carpenter tools appraised & 1 bible £2, 1 mare & colt £90, Rifle Gun £12, 1 hat £6, Bible & primer £1.10. Signed John Vochub, John Meek, Robert Wallace.
This is not dated, but just preceding, was that of Moses Thompson, dated Mch 16, 1779 & just following is that of Thomas Hog dated Aug 14, 1775. I now see that Archibald & Lantz Elliott's is dated Mch 16, 1779 & aggregates £41.14.3 for Lantz's com with the Rifle gun & Archibald's ending with mare & colt aggregated £108.10
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6. Will Book 28 Page 194
Guardians bond of Julia Ann Elliott, wherein Eli Shelly & Wm A. Hauger are bondsmen in $100 dated Mch 24, 1845 of "Julia Ann Elliott, orphan of Johnston Elliot, decd"
Presented in court at Mch term 1845.
7. Will Book 37 P 284
John C. Elliott. A chattel mtge dated Feby 6, 1860 to Wm G.H. Baylor mtges his box of carpenter tools, books & 1/6 of a 100 A tract of land called the Henderson tract of Moffit's branch which descended to sd Elliott's wife fr her father. Recites a page of debts which it secures.
8. Will Book 42 P 167 & 168
Estate of John Elliott, Inv & App & sale bill. Appraised Nov term 1867 by Henry Ripatoe, James C. Earhart & John Stoner which include a box of carpenter tools $20, a rifle gun $7.80 & aggregating $231.50
Sale bill shows $101.56 returned Jany 22, 1867 & sold by A. Daniel Adm & in addition is list of articles taken by the heirs:
15 articles taken by A. Daniel $170.85
3 Rasors & 1 strap taken by John Elliott Jr 1.50
1 spyglass & compass taken by " " " 3.00
1 Rifle Gun taken by " " " 7.50
1 box carpenters tools taken by George Elliott 20.00
1 broad Axe ___1.00 $203.05
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9. Will Book 21 P 373
Deed of Trust from Thomas Elliott of Augusta Co VA to James A. Cochran dated Apr 3, 1836 states he is indebted to John Tate in $333.59. Pledges 5 shares of the Warm Springs & Harrisonburg Turnpike worth $250. etc.
10. Will Book 4 Pages 417 & 418
Will of William Elliott
I William Elliott of the Co of Augusta & Colony of VA being sick in body, but in perfect judgement & memory etc. I this July 7, 1771, make & publish this, my last will & testament in manor following, to wit, leaving my soul to a Marsyfull [sic] God & my body to the earth to be buried deasently [sic] & as to my worly estate as follows:
I leave my loving wife, my plantation & all my movable estate for while she lives a wedo & if she inclines to Mary, I allow her a horse & saddle, her own cloas, & bedding of cloas upon these Farms & I empower my wife to my estate if that she takes care to scoul my children & to portion them of at her discretion. As for my son Jame [sic], I allow him £5 & for the remainder of his improvements, I allow him £8, according as she can spear [sic] it & as for my son William, I allow him that mare & colt that was named his & that black colt that I work, I allow him the value of him in other creatures & what his
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mother sees caus besides & if my son John is plyable to his mother & willing to undertake to work the plantation & assist his mother to scool [sic] & portion of the rest of the children & for his trouble I allow him the plantation at his mother's diseas & what she pleases to give him & if he does not incline to stay & undertake this trouble, she may choose anyone of the rest & give them the same after & I allow Archibald Scouling & put the Smith tread [sic] & Lantz scouling & let him choose his trade & I appoint my wife Jane & my son John Elliott to be Exrs of this, my last will & testament & I do hereby disannul & revoke all former wills I made by me in word or in writing. In witness hear of, I have set to my hand & seal the day & year above written. William Elliott. Witnesses: Robert Clark, John Stephenson, James Clark. Proven Aug 21, 1771 by said witnesses & Jane Elliott & John Elliott granted letters with Archibald Armstrong & John Dickinson bondsmen.
On pages 448-451 is listed the appraisement filed Nov 10, 1771 by James Graham, Christopher Vachub & John Graham Apprs which among many other articles shows:
William Crawford's note £8. 7.6
Margaret Clarke's note 4.10.
James Blean's account 1. 8.6
William Blean's note 3.15
Robert Graham's account 6. 8.
Not added
over
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In Will Book 6 Page 521, the Exrs in settlement of estate charge themselves with the footing of the 4 pages amtg to £188.14 & take credit for 18 different payts, among them being:
To William Elliott acct pd him £ 4. 4.
To George Elliott, acct pd him .15.
To James Elliott, legacy agreeable to Will 13.
To William Elliott, legacy agreeable to Will 16.10
To Jeans Elliott, legacy agreeable to Will 16.19.3
To Elizabeth Elliott, legacy agreeable to Will 16.19.
To Archibald's Elliott, Dead legacy agreeable to Will 16. 5.
To Ann's Elliott, Dead, legacy agreeable to Will 37.10.
To Lantz Elliott, deceased in his minority Will 7. 6.6
To Margaret's Elliott, Legacy agreeably to Will 32.
To Sarah's Elliott Legacy agreeably to Will _28._______ £198.19.5 1/2
which shows an overpayt of 10.5.1 1/2. Agreeably to order of Court to us directed we have examined the acct of John Elliott Exr of estate of Wm Elliott decd & find vouchers for the several sums charged as above except for the sum of £16.5.0 charged Archibald & £7.6.6. to Lantz who are deceased & John Elliott says their estates to that amt were apportioned amongst the surviving children to mutual satisfaction. And also that sum of £16.10.0 to William Elliot there is no voucher, but it appears to us agreeably to the will to be his proportion. And that John Elliot appears to have paid her the above account stated, the sum of £10.5.1 1/2 more than the amt of the estate per the appraisement bill. Given under our hands this 20th day of March, 1786, Alexander St Clair, Rd Gamble.
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The estate of Jane Elliot is credited with:
one negro wench £66.10.0
& same is distributed to:
To Robert Givens £33.5.0
To Sarah Elliot 33.5.0
Agreeably to order of Court to us directed, we have examined the above acct as stated of John Elliot, guardian to Margaret & Sarah Elliot & find vouchers for the equal division of the above £66.10 which appears to have been left them by their mother, Jean Elliott decd. Given under hands this 20th Mch 1786 Alexander St Clair, Rd Gamble
Augusta Co Court Mch 21, 1786
This account of the estate of William Elliott decd by John Elliott Exr was returned to the court also the sd John Elliot's acct as gdn of Margaret & Sarah Elliot which together with the report of the examiners hereon are ordered to be recorded. Test J. Lyle Jr D.C.
[variations in spelling Elliott/Elliot noted CW]
11. Will Book 10 P 129
Bill of Sale of Ann Frame recites that "I, Ann Frame, widow of John Frame, Decd, late of Augusta Co" for consideration of $30 to me pd by son Archibald Frame, hereby grants & sell to sd Archibald, 4 stacks or rye in the field, 40 dozen sheaves of wheat in the barn 25 acres of corn on the stocks in the field, 27 acres of rye now in the ground, 2 mares & 2 colts, 14 head of cattle, 12 hoggs, 1 bureau, 1 cupboard, all the beds, bedsteads & furniture thereto belonging & also saddle, bridles, gear
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ploughs, tables, pots, ovens, frying pans, axes, mattocks, hoes etc all belonging to me which I have granted bargained & sold to the sd Archibald forever. In witness whereof I have affixed my name & seal this June 22, 1807. Ann (her mark) Fream [sic]. Witnesses Ann Fream Sienen. William Fream, Elisabeth Fream. Presented to the court same day.
12. Will Book 9 Page 381
Will of Jane Frame.
I, Jane Frame of Augusta Co, widow of Thomas Frame decd, will as follows:
Give to my grandson, John Craig Frame my negro man, Jack & Phillis, a black girl rising 2 yrs old.
Give to my granddaughter Peggy Allin Frame my negro girl Dorcas now rising 6 yrs old.
To my grandson, Thomas Frame, my negro woman Rachel now abt 31 yrs old together with all her offspring from the present date.
To my granddaughter Nancy Allin Frame, my negro girl Jinney now abt 15 yrs old together with her increase.
Items: Wills that all movable property viz: horses, cattle, farming utensils, household furniture, books &c shall be equally divided between my four grandchildren before mentioned.
To my son, Samuel Frame (he having already recd nearly his proportion of my estate) $10.
I appoint Saml Findley, son of John Findley & John Craig Barkin Exrs. Dated Aug 3, 180[cut off] Jean (her mark) Frame. Witness: Wm Wilson, Wm Bell Jr, John Crawford, Proven Nov 26, 1804
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Will Book 10 Page 47
Settlement of Jane Frame estate. Shows acct of John C. Baskin's Exr filed Apr 12, 1806 showing a balance in his hands of £262.16.3 1/4
13. Will Book 13 Page 367
Deed of Trust from John C. Frame. Dated Oct 9, 1821 between John C. Frame of Augusta Co Va & Nicholas C. Kinney of same place in order to secure $541.13 mortgages 2 slaves.
On page 410, same book on Jany 4, 1822 gives another D of T which Kinney acknowledges payt of Jany 28, 1824.
14. Will Book 11 Page 322
Will of Samuel Frame. States he is of Augusta Co & gives:
To wife Patsy Frame 1/3 of my place I now live on & 1/3 of my movable effects during her natural life or while in a single state.
To my son John Frame £30 in horse flesh
To my son Thos Frame my still house place, but if he died without heirs to go to his sister & brother.
Desire, Malvina & Jane be made equal with Peggy & Nancy in what was left to them by their grandmother Frame & if anything is then left, he wishes it divided among the girls & after his wife dies, place to be sold & divided equally among all my children viz John, Thos, Peggy, Nancy, Malvina, & Jane. Appoints Rev Wm
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Wilson, Col Alexr Robertson, & Capt Wm Robertson or any two of them Exrs. Dated July 26, 1809. Samuel Frame Attest: John Thompson, David Connely, Jno Connely. Proven Feby 28, 1814 & on Mch 3, 1814 was further proven by the oath of John Thompson, a witness thereto & letters granted to Rev Wm Willson with Andrew Anderson & Wm Willson sureties in $20,000 bond.
On page 400, is appraisement of slaves etc covering 5 pages aggregating 1604.1.2 returned Oct 24, 1814
In Will book 14, P 141 is settlement of Saml Frame's estate by Wm Wilson & Wm Robertson covering 11 pages which I have not time to read, which is filed Sept 12, 1822.
In Will Book 20 P 110 is another acct filed covering 4 pages filed Sept 15, 1834
In Will Book 22 P 174 Wm Willson Snr Exr files acct Sept 18, 1838
15. Will Book 3 Page 413
John Finley is appointed gdn of Mary Gardner orphan of Thos Gardner on Aug 20, 1756
16. Will Book 8 Page 255
Will of Thomas Frame. Recites he is of Augusta Co Va. Gives:
To wife Jane Frame tract of land I bot of Samuel McKee & on which I now live also lot of slaves etc.
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To my son, Samuel Frame, all other lands & slaves in his possession.
To my grandson, John Craig Frame, the home farm after his widow dies, but if he dies before he is 21, land to go to my son Samuel Frame's next oldest son if he should have another son, or then to his oldest daughter. Appoints wife Jane Frame & son Samuel Frame Exrs. Dated Apr 18, 1796 Thos Frame. Witnesses: James Hodgson, Thomas Connelly, William Irwin.
Makes a codicil dated Sept 8, 1796 nothing important. Proven Dec 20, 1796.
17. Will Book 10 P 155
Will of William Frame. His will is produced Nov 23, 1807 on oaths of Jacob D. Williamson & Wm Black & on motion of Archibald Frame he not having appointed an Exr.
Will is dated July 27, 1807 & bequeaths to his brother Archibald & to his mother the whole of my share in my father's lands estate equally. To my sister Ann & Betsy £10 each. William (his mark) Frame Witness Jacob Williamson, Rachel Black, Wm Black
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18. Will Book 10 P 32
John Finley's Sale of his personal estate & slaves Nov 3, 1802 shows sales to:
Robert Finley, to hemp not watered £ 2.10.0
Robert Finley, to rifle gun .15.
Robert Finley, pair stilliards .11.6
Robert Finley, 162 lbs broke flax 2. 9.
Samuel Finley, pitchfork . 2.
Robert Finley, 1 white sow & 7 shoats 2.14.
Esther Finley, one sorrel horse 25.10.
Esther Finley, one cow with the bell 3.12.
Esther Finley, one twin over James Ramsey 3. 2.
Robert Finley, 7 hogs 4. 4.
Robert Finley, 4 gallons brandy .12.
Samuel S. Finley, 52 1/4 bus wheat 10. 0.3 1/2
Esther Finley, 21 bus wheat 1.10.7
whole sale was 405. 3.6 1/2
John Caldwell, Saml S. Finley, Co Exr returned to Dec court 1805 & ordered recorded. On pages 111 to 116 is settlement of acct by above Exrs amtg to £2090.19.1 Mch 24, 1807
See Page 175
18 1/2 Deed Book 2 P 111
Deed to Wm Elliott made Feby 3, 1748 by Wm Beverly of Blandfield in the Co of Essex & Wm Elliott Junr of the Co of Augusta 225 A.
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Room 54 Hotel Virginia, Staunton Va Aug 21, 1923
We left Lexington Va at 6:15 o'c this morning & drove through Fairfield, Brownsburg, Moffit Creek, Middlebrook & Afton Va to here, Staunton where we arrived about 8:40 AM, got our breakfasts (we covered 42 miles on the trip) & I went to the Court House & worked continuously until they closed the office at 5 PM as recorded on pages 151 to 164 inclusive. Mathilde came a half hour later & I will now copy what she took off & Millie followed her an hour later & what she took off will follow Mathilde's.
I checked thus [*] at the right hand end of the line on pages 145 to 147 incl such references as I took off Saturday 18th as we three had time to get before the office closed. I will continue numbering at 19. I having taken off 1 to 18 inclusive.
Commencing with 19 taken off by Mathilde:
19. Will Book NO 7 Page 31
Will of Patrick Crawford of Augusta Co Va dated Dec 4, 1786
Item: to my beloved son George Crawford, the plantation whereon I now live & one negro girl Phebby.
Item: to my beloved son John, my negro Sam
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Item: to my beloved son James & children, that tract of land which I purchased from Madam Wood & two negro boys named Tony & Tom and
To my son William a negro woman named Rose.
Item: to my well beloved daughter, Martha, one hundred pounds in cash & Linny, a negro wench, saddle, bed & furniture.
Item: to my well beloved daughter Mary £100 in cash & two negro girls named Molly & Ella with her saddle, her bed & furniture.
Item; to my grandson, George McChesney £100
And what other cash shall remain is to be divided among my four sons or as many of them as be alive then & if either of my twin sons, James or William should die without issue, the survivor shall enjoy the whole. Appoints son George & John Crawford to be sole Exrs. Patrick Crawford (seal) Witness John Poage, James Crawford & Alex Robertson
Will proven by Poage & Robertson & James McChesney.
On pages 34-36 incl is appraisement list aggregating £2462.3.7 made by Rob Kenney, John Sivens, James Rankin & George Crawford in 1788.
20. Will Book No 8 P 176
Will of Samuel Crawford of Augusta Co Va dated Feby 14, 1795 1st To my wife Elizabeth, the whole of the
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profits of my place where I now live & also the cleared lands.
After instructions about schooling the children, gives to son William the whole of the above place, but if he should die under age, then my wife to enjoy the land forever & directs his Exrs to sell a survey on North Mountains.
Authorizes his brother James Crawford to recover, settle for & sell a tract of land in Cumberland granted to John Lovengear. Names grandson Wm Griffen. Samuel Crawford. Witness: John Young, Robert Wallace, Sharrel Freil. Page 197 this book shows a good appraisement filed Sept 23, 1795 Appraiser were Wm Moffitt, Benj Brown, & Samuel Bell.
21. Will Book NO 4 Page 204
Will of Adam Thompson of Augusta Co Va. Gives: To my wife Naomi Thompson after all legal debts are paid, she to have 1/3 of my personal estate & then to my son Andrew 1/3 of personal estate & to my well beloved daughters Margaret & Rebecca 1/3 of my personal estate. Dated Jany 11, 1769 signed Adam Thompson. Witness: Samuel Downey, Andrew Scott, Thos Scott. Appoints Samuel Downey & Andrew Thompson Exrs. Died Mch 29, 1769.
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22. Will Book NO 9 Page 350
Will of Alexander Thompson of Augusta Co Va Gives: 1st To my son Alexander, the side of the plantation on which he now lives the tract to be divided equally by a line across from Geo Marshall's on Gibson's line etc.
To my son Patterson the other half on which I now live & the improvements etc & to each of my daughters, Agness, Martha, Margaret & to Polly a horse & saddle, a bed its furniture & the rest of my stocks & property I give to Alexander & Patterson equally & also my other tract of 130 A lying on the main road leading from Staunton to Richmond & adjg to Dolor Lane to be divided equally between Martha, Margaret, Sarah, They passing to Agness & Polly £30 each. Appoints sons Alexander & Patterson Exrs & my beloved brother Robert to look & see that they fulfill it. Dated Jany 23, 1801 Alexander Thompson Witnesses: John Henry, Patterson W. Thompson, William Thompson.
Proven Jany 21, 1804 by oaths of John Henry & Patterson W. Thompson, two of the witnesses before Charles Kinney.
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23. Will Book 14 Page 426
Will of Alexander Thompson of Augusta Co VA Gives:
3d to my nephew William Thompson $10
To my nephew John Thompson $1200, my negro man & my dirk
To John Shields, son of my niece Rachael [sic] Shields $500 to be divided among them &
To Mary Rean $100 &
To Alexander Thompson Rean $200 &
To my niece Mary Davison $1020 &
To my niece Mary Shields $1000 &
To my niece Jane? Thompson $100 &
To the children of my niece Cathrine Long to Betsy Parry, Alexander Long & Joseph Long $100 each & to Mary Long $500 also 1 horse & to Porrus? Long & Nancy Long $500 each. To Rebecca Pelter $500, my wearing apparel to my Exr. Dated Apr 20th 1808 Alexander Thompson Witness James Black, John Black, Samuel Black.
24. Will Book NO 13 Page 141
Will of Cathrine Thompson Augusta Co VA I allow to Catharine Alexander, daughter of Peter Alexander of Ky £20. All the residue of my estate to my sister Molly Hunter & appoints Thomas Jackson Exr. Dated Dec 1, 1818 Catherine Thompson Witness: James Crawford, Robert Steele. Proven 1820
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25. Will Book NO 13 P 215
Will of John Thompson of Phila Pa merchant gives: To my wife, Rebecca, all my household goods & my wearing apparel, also the lot of ground on east side of Delaware St which I purchased from Mary Foulke, also the lot of ground on east side of Delaware St which I purchased from Mary Foulke also yearly sum of $200 &
To my son Samuel Thompson $2000 & ordained to my? to her children the same
1/5 to my son Jonah Thompson & the same to my son George Thompson, same to my son Samuel Thompson, same to my other children, the remainder to my sons Jonah Thompson & George Thompson.
Appoints son-in-law, Samuel Lewis & my son George Thompson Exrs. Dated. John Thompson. Witnesses; Isaac Norris, Thomas Norris, Henry Polls
26 Will Book no 2 Page 181
Will of Hugh Thompson Realizing by the common course of nature that my departure is drawing night, I give:
To my wife £11 & 1/3 of the plantation.
To my son James, a small bible and a "Confession of Faith" &
To my daughter Elinor, her bible "Allens Call to the Unconverted: & Thompsons Catechism of a small bible
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To my grandson, Hugh Russell
To my dear wife any riding horse & a mare called the Blean mare etc.
To my daughter Elinor, mare & horse etc & £5
To my grandson one horse, one mare
To my granddaughter one cow
To my grandchildren Hugh & Elizabeth one bald horse & £5
To my granddaughter Rachel Russel £2
To my grandson George, one heifer
To my grandson James, one steer
To my grandson Opan [Ojean?], one steer
To my grandson Hugh, a young boy colt
Signed Hugh Thompson. Witnesses Jacob Jenk?, Homer Gray, John Craig, James Craig. Proven Apr 1757
27. Will Book No 2 Page 476
Daniel Pierce & Peter Hoog stand bound Nov 1776 in bond of said Pierce as administrator of Goodpasture
The above nine from 19 to 27 inclusive were taken of [sic] by Mathilde Mizener. The following items commencing with No 28 were taken off by Mildred Mizener.
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28. Will Book 19 P 482
Will of Geo W. Finley of Augusta Co Va Directs that a slab of marble cover his grave by the side of the grave of his mother & then wills:
See page 176
To my nephew Archibald George Christian $100 to be pd under direction of his father with accrued interest when he is 21 yrs old.
2d To my sister Maria W. Finley $300 & my watch
3d To my sister Nancy Hall $200
4th To my sister Caroline E. Harper should she live to have a son called by my name $300 if she should not have a son to give her $200
5th To my brother William $300
6th To my sister Lavinia $300
7th To my brother Samuel $300 also my flute & knife & wearing apparel to him & my brother William they giving such of my old clothes as they may all prefer
8th To my brother John $150
9th The balance of my estate to be equally divided with my father 1 each of my brothers 1 & sisters 1?
Lastly appoints brother John W. Finley & my brother-in-law John B. Christian Exrs. Dated Apr 21, 1834 & signed G.W. Finley. Witnesses: James McFarland, Baxter Branford, James Fulton, Jons [Jens?] Fulton May Term 1834 proved by the father of Baxter Branford & James Fulton & bond in $6000 given. John B. Christian refused to act as Exr.
It is 2:30 AM & I will go to bed.
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Downstairs office waiting & writing room of the Princess Anne Hotel, Fredericksburg VA Aug 22, 1923 11:44 PM
I got up at 6:15 this morning, took a cold bath & by reason of very slow service for breakfast, we did not get started until 8:45 AM & going east, reached Charlottesville Va at 11:30 Am & stopped at the Queen Charlotte Hotel where we got an excellent lunch. James L. Humbert, son of Capt James & Virginia G. Humbert was at a funeral as pallbearer when I called up his home two miles out on the Fry Spring Road, but he come in a little later & at 1 o'clock, we started out through the rain, & stopping at his home, met his handsome wife & daughter Mary & continuing on, he drove me to the farm I bought for James H. Bowell, six miles south of town which is in a frightfully dilapidated condition. We got back to the Hotel abt 3 o'c & at 3:15 started for Culpeper Va going through Cobham, Mechanicsville, & Gordonsville to Orange where we concluded to come here 40 miles over good roads instead of going 20 ms over bad roads to Culpeper. We arrived here at 7:30 PM & could get but one room 109 where the girls have gone to bed & having no other room open, I am taking advantage of the opportunity to write & read all night to catch up & will continue on the following page transcribing what Mildred took off yesterday.
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29. Will Book 7 Page 404
Will of John Finley See B2 & P482-3 On Aug 17, 1791, John Findley of the Colony of Va Co of Augusta, farmer, being in a low state of health, makes his will directing 1st payt of all lawful debts & funeral expenses out of my real estate & gives:
To my dearly beloved wife Thankful, all household furniture, except one old bed & furniture & my negro woman Hannah during her life & a good horse & saddle, likewise a good decent room & decent maintenance out of the part of my estate I have willed to my son David.
Item: I give & bequeath unto my beloved sons George, Robert & my daughter Margaret Shields each of them five shillings Va cy.
Item: To my beloved son Thomas £120 VA cy to be pd by my son David
Item: To my beloved son John, one bed & furniture at wife's decease
Item: To my beloved daughter Jean, riding mare & negro woman at wife's decease & to her son John Trimble, my saddle & bridle.
I. To my son David all my lands & all bals of my estate.
Item: To my beloved daughter Thankful W. Carter 6 shillings
Appoints son David sole Exr. Signed John Finley (seal)
Witnesses: David W. Nair, John Thomas, John Wilson. Proven Sept 20, 1791 on oaths of David W. McNair, John Thomas & John Wilson
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30. Will Book 9 Page 242 See B 21 P 482-3. See Page 164
Will of John Finley
On Feby 2, 1802, John Finley of the Co of Augusta Va says Patsy Lecklain? at different times has got as much of my estate as I allow her to have.
Certain further furniture to be sold & money to go to my daughters Esther & Polly. I allow each vs Ann Shannon, Esther Finley & Polly Finley £200, Polly to be given a setting out equal to the others when she gets married. Each to have a good riding beast. My son James Finley to be put to school & to get a good education & to have fr estate clothing suitable for his calling. Appoints his two nephews, John Caldwell & Samuel Steele Finley Exrs. John Finley (seal) Attest: Samuel Finley, William Ramses, William Finley. On Oct 23, 1802 proven on oath of Wm Finley & also on oaths of Robert Finley & Sam Finley that it was a holographic will & letters issued to John Caldwell & Sam S. Finley they giving bond for $10,000 with Wm Davis, Thos Marshall & Andrew Fulton sureties.
31. Will Book 29 P 287
Will of Samuel Finley of Augusta Co Va directs all children to account for advancements as charged on his old ledger B & then gives:
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To Jane S. Christian $2740.
To Nancy McHall 2822.10
To John S. Findley 4116.67
To William Finley 4059.67
To Samuel B. Finley 3041.67
To Caroline E. Harper 2527.93
To Livanea E. Gibson 2281.69
See Page 172
subject to be added to or diminished according to the amt that will be collected on Peter Lawry's claim on Peter Hauger notes & accts of sons John & Sam
2d Directs lands be sold if they cannot be divided.
[fermata appears in the margin here]
To Daughters Jane, Caroline, & Lavinia
To sons William & Sam in equal shares to each
To my son John I give $1000 more than each of preceding children
To daughter Nancy I give same amt lacking $400 of which I give to each 5 children above named, to wit, Jane, Caroline, Lavinia, Wm & Sam, my reasons, Nancy cost me more & John made me more than $1000 more than the others.
4th I also give to Sam Finley Van Lear $15 & to Saml Finley McGaffin $10.
Appoints son John S. Finley & sons-in-law Mathew Pilson & son Sam B. Finley Exrs, written with my own hand Sept 20, 1841 Sept 27, 1841 ackd in presence of C.S. Larew, Saml Brown, Ballard Smith, Benj F. Graham, Saml Finley.
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Codicil
As I have married since will was made & entered into a marriage article, I now state amts which each child has been advanced from my estate:
John S. Christian $4766.79
Nancy McHall 3885.60
Wm Finley 4432.29
Saml B. Finley 4500
John S. Finley 4176.6[cut off]
Caroline E. Harper 3858.2[cut off]
Lavinia E. Pilson 3829.1
May 4, 1847. Samuel Finley.
32. Will Book 7 Page 176
Will of William Finley of Augusta Co VA After debts are all paid gives:
To son William Finley, the land on which He now lives as it stands in his plat.
To my son Robert Finley, that part of the land whereon myself & him now lives, between that part of the land given to my son William & the land of John Ramsey decd.
To my two sons William & Robert Finley, the remainder of my survey of 200 Acres that was left after my son John got part of the sd survey, to be equally divided & the remainder of my estate I give to my son Robert Finley & his children. Appoints 3 sons John, Wm & Robert Exrs this Dec 21, 1787. Wm Finley. Witnesses: Wm Wallace And Ramsey, Searah [sic] Finley. Probated Sept 15, 1789 being proven by Andrew Ramsey & Wm Wallace
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33. Will Book C P 209
Will of William Thompson of Tinkling, Augusta Co Va wills:
To my youngest son, Robert, all my real estate in land, to wit 200 acres which I now live on & he at his own expense shall maintain my wife and one riding horse & two milk cows out of the benefits of sd land for her while she lives & if my wife thinks proper to live in the house with him its will, but if she does not choose to live with him, he shall build at his own expense, a house either for himself or for her, but it shall be at her choice in which the house shall be built for. I give all my movable estate to my wife while she lives. At her death, it shall be sold & the money equally divided among my six children:
Alexander Thompson, John Thompson, Robert Thompson, Agnes Edmondson, Rebecka McNeely, & Sarah Hendry. Appoints sons Alex & Robt Exrs & Trustees for my wife & other children. July 4, 1774. Wm Thompson (seal) Witnessed by Wm Caldwell, John Caldwell, William Finley. Probated Nov 23, 1781 on oaths of John Caldwell & Wm Finley.
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34. Will Book 6 Page 30
Will of Moses Thompson of Augusta Co Va. First all movable property to be sold then gives:
To wife Elizabeth Thompson, one third & the rest to be equally divided to everyone of my children an equal part. My oldest daughter Catharine Thompson & her part permit to the care of my sister Anne Tunan,wife of Robert Tunen in North Carolina if thought by my friend & Exr Mathew Patton. Jany 14, 1777 Moses Thompson. Witness: David Mathew, Benj Cleaver Thomas Kidmore. Proven May 19, 1777
Account of Moses Thompson approved? £711.9.6
35. Deed Book 7 Page 71
Deed made May 21, 1752 by John & Mary Johnson to Archibald Elliott, consideration £5. Witnessed by John Brown, Chas Knight & Wm Elliott. Recorded May 21, 1755.
Items 28 to 35 inclusive 8 in all were taken off the record by Mildred W. Mizener.
This gives all references noted on Page 145 but two, but shows many on pages 146, 147, & 148 that I had to leave without getting.
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At Queen Charlotte Hotel, Charlottesville Va Aug 22, 1923 at 11:22 AM I got from their City Directory for 1922-23:
Carruthers, Elmer I. Sec-Treas University Shop Inc City Auditor & Bursar, University of Pa h. University
There were no other references to desired family names.
James L. Humbert said today that once, when his brother Will Humbert was Postmaster at Charlottesville, he was in Washington D.C., he say a man in the Treasury Dept who told him of John Skelton Williams animosity & persecution of me & Jim wanted to come to Uniontown Pa & tell me but Will would not let him by reason of his having promised to hold the conference he had given to him inviolate. It is now 4:50 AM Aug 23 & I will close here & write up my cash acct books & then read the papers. JVT
As we drove out of Charlottesville, we saw an equestrian statue of Thos Jonathan Jackson (which was unique.)
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Room 527, New Willard Hotel, Washington D.C. Aug 25, 1923 12:54 AM
I wrote up my cash acct at Fredericksburgh VA & it was then daylight of the 23d, so I did not go to bed, but read the papers until the folks came down when we got breakfast & about 9 AM, we started in on Auto sight seeing trip with Eugene Buckner a 35 yrs old 6 ft 5 1/4 inches negro as driver & guide. He was well informed & as we drove out Princess Ann Street where on the left, he pointed out the old building where Geo Washington in 1752 received a high mark in the Masonic Fraternity & also on the left, the old frame building which was once the home of James Monroe. Also, the Hugh Mercer home on the bank of the Rappahannock River, which was used as a Sentry box in the Rev War, that of 1812 & in the Civil War. The battle of Fredericksburgh was fought on Dec 11, 12, & 13, 1862 with Lee on the Fredericksburg side of the River & Gen Burnside across on the other side in command of the Union Army. We also passed the house where John Paul Jones once lived cor of Main & P____ St. As we drove across the River on the right, before crossing, was an old stone house built
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originally it was thought for a tobacco house & later used to house the slaves who were brought from Africa until they were sold & during the Civil War, the Union prisoners were kept there.
Across the River on an eminence, was the old Lacy home which was used by Gen Burnside for his headquarters. Eugene said that Basil Gordon of Falmouth, a mile or two beyond, was the first American Millionaire.
We then drove to the farm which was Geo Washington's home from the time he was six yrs old, when his parents moved there from Westmoreland Co VA until he was 21 & from which was on the Rappahannock River, Geo Washington was said to have thrown a silver dollar across the River & was shown the spot where George was said to have cut down the famous cherry tree. The little old house which was their early home has on it the original shingles protected by another house built over. Our Guide, Eugene Buckner was born here Nov 7, 1888. The old home was abt home & here we saw Harold Quann 9 yrs old. At the home is now owned by J.B. Colbert. We saw his wife at the gate & tipped our hat to her.
The old Lacey Home called Chatham is now owned by Col D.B. DeVoe
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a West Point graduate, who a yr ago retired from the Regular army.
Geo Washington courted Martha Custis here & Lee also courted his wife here & for that reason protected the house directing that the guns do not fire on it.
Eugene says he weighs 230 lbs. As we came in Fredericksburg four miles out was a monument to Stonewall Jackson, which marks the spot where he was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. We also passed the Rising Sun tavern 1760-1827 on Main St No 1304 where Lafayette was entertained, the wide boards with which it is weatherboarded being ploughed & grooved & the window panes are very small.
We also saw the home of Mary, the mother of Washington, where her son George, brought her from the farm across the River for protection during the Revolutionary War. It is at the corner of Lewis & Charles St. We also saw Kenmore the home of Betty Washington, sister of George who married Col Fielding Lewis. Also the monument to Gen Hugh Mercer who was killed in 1777 at the Battle of Princeton.
The monument to Mary Washington said to be the largest erected to woman (they forget the Taj Mahal) is at the North End of Washington Ave & she is buried there. The inscription reads:
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"Mary
the mother of
Washington"
erected by her country women, by Jno Crawford & Son, Buffalo NY & is 12 x 12 & abt 70 ft high. Meditation Rock to which she used to retire for meditation & prayer is just behind the monument. In an enclosure between one grave is that of Susan F. Gordon who died in 1869 aged 94 yrs. It was 10:30 AM when we were here. There was a Fireman's parade in the town & many streets were roped off. Gen Burnside threw pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock & marched up George & Hanover St to the sunken road just below Marge's Heights where 9000 of his soldiers were slaughtered & his defeat caused his retirement from the command of the army & Grant was appointed to succeed him. Marge Heights, a delightful spot & old Colonial Home is now owned by Capt Maurice B. Rowe, Those old breast works thrown up by Gen Robt E. Lee who used this house as his headquarters still show very plainly & may bullet holes in the brick house have been filled with cement & old cannon balls lay at the front door. A very famous old big tree, an imported English Oak I believe for which $00 was recently spent in filling it with cement to save it is of great beauty & is, I should
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say 200 ft in circumference around its branches 20 to 50 ft up & 70 ft in diameter thereof. The trunk is 20 ft in circumference or about 7 ft in diameter & the tree is 90 ft high. We left here at 11 AM, drove back to the Princess Anne Hotel, got our baggage & auto & started for Washington D.C., just after getting our lunch & arrived here about 5 PM. We got our dinner at the New Willard & went to Keith's Theatre when we saw Lou Tellegen & Jack Wilson & others in vaudeville & on Friday went on the 10 o'c boat to Wonderful Mt Vernon going down the beautiful Potomac River where we arrived at 11:30 AM & returned at 1 PM arriving here at abt 2;15 PM. The exquisite beauty of Mt Vernon is so fully written up, I will not attempt a description. From 3 to 4:10 PM, we were driven around the city by the Gray Line & saw the wonderful statue of Lincoln by French in the Lincoln Memorial Bldg which & his monument 555 ft high & the capitol are in an exact straight alignment. We then went to Loew's Theatre to a moving picture & got our dinner & went to the 9:14 PM performance at the Rialto Th on 9th St to the moving picture "Merry-Go-Round" which let out at 11:11 PM & coming to my room I have written up to date & am going in the morning at 7:15 to Leesburg Va to see my relative Miss Long. It is now 4:33 AM & I will go to bed as I am to be called at 6 AM JVT
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Law Office of Wm Hy Martin opposite the Court House, Gibson Bldg, Market St, Leesburg, London Co Va Aug 25, 1923. 11:11 AM, my time (their town clock is just striking 11)
In one of the scrapbooks, Miss Virginia Mason Long gave Mr Martin her executor for safe keeping is an obituary of Col Ebenezer Burges Ball with his likeness. He was the grandfather of Miss Long's father, Burges Ball Long whose mother was a daughter of Col E. Burges Ball.
This photograph shows as strong & determined a face as I have ever seen & is strikingly like Geo Washington's likeness, but a stronger face, with a determined set mouth & piercing eyes. I copy the obituary complete. The obituary is just the latter portion of the obituary of Burgess Ball Long I think & says:
"Col Ball's grandfather, Col Burges Ball of Virginia, sank his whole fortune in raising a troop for the Revolutionary army. He was Washington;s close friend & cousin, related to him through three lines of cousinship.
His personal resemblance to the First President is very marked & is strongly emphasized in the portrait engraved herewith, showing him in the uniform of the Continental Guards of which body he is an
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honorary member. "George Washington", says Col Ball "Got his looks from his mother Mary Ball & I got mine from the same side. When foreigners see my photograph, they always mistake it for a picture of Cousin George"
In another book, same length & width as this, neatly covered in cloth (as is the other, which is 30 lines long & an inch wider) was around at Mr Martin's home & he sent his young lady stenographer around there for it & from it, I copy. The book contains 164 pages & is written full of family records in Miss Long's fine plain handwriting. In the front page is written:
"Virginia M. Long, New Castle, Delaware, May 2, 1894"
I copy commencing first on page 144:
"Col Burgess Ball of Traveller's Rest, near Fredericksburg, & London Co (Springwood) was born July 28, 1749, died March 7th 1800 at Springwood.
Mary Chichester was born July 22, 1753, died Apr 27, 1775
Col Burgess Ball married Mary Chichester July 2, 1770
Their children:
1. Elizabeth Burgess Ball born March 16, 1772 died July 28, 1806
2. Burgess Ball, born Oct 26, 1773 died in
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Phila of yellow fever in 1793. " Dr Charles Carter, his fellow student of medicine hazarding his own life by remaining with & nursing him."
Col Burgess Ball's second wife was Frances Washington whom he married Apr 7, 1781 (see page 31 of this book extracts from "Virginia Genealogies, written by the Rev Horace E Hayden M.A."
Col Armistead Long was married three times - first to Ann Greenough of Va Elizabeth Burgess was his second wife & the last was Mrs Latham (nee Gray) widow of Robert Latham of Culpeper VA
Col Armistead Long was commissioned Lt Col of Virginia militia by Gov____ Jany 1807. Col Armistead Long married Elizabeth Burgess Ball on the 21st of June 1793
Their children:
1. Mary Chichester Long born Apr 5, 1794
2. Burgess Ball Long born Mch 7, 1796
3. Eleanor Long Nov 15, 1797
4. Albert G. Long born Apr 3, 1799
5. Armistead Long born Jany 29, 1801
(and two children who died probably in their infancy - graves not marked) The only child by Col Long's last marriage (to Mrs Latham) was
6. George T. Mason Long. There were no children by his first marriage to Ann Greenough
Burgess Ball Long married Mrs Sarah Ann Thompson nee Thompson (widow of
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James C. Thompson of Philadelphia) on the 9th of Apr 1833
Their children:
1. Virginia Mason Long born Apr 22, 1834
2. Eleanor Long born Apr 11, 1836
3. Melchior Mason Long born Mch 19, 1838
4. William Allen Thompson Long born July 13, 1840
Children of Mrs Burgess Ball Long by her first marriage (to James C. Thompson)
1. Robert Lockyer Thompson was born in Philadelphia on the 2d of Feby 1829
2. Catharine Rebecca Talcott Thompson (always signed her name Kate T. Thompson, except in business matters) was born in Philadelphia on the 20th of Nov 1831.
Mrs Sarah A. Long, wife of Col Burgess Ball Long died on the 18th of May 1841 at Clifton Union Co Ky - in 1873 her remains were removed from a private burying ground to the cemetery near Henderson & interred in Mrs Yeargan's lot (Mrs Yeargans is a daughter of the late Major Thompson of Henderson Ky - formerly from Virginia & an old & valued friend of Col Burgess B. Long & his wife)
Their youngest child, William Allen Thompson Long died in infancy & was buried in a private burying ground belonging to Col Long's brother's families in Union Co KY.
Col Burgess Ball Long's second wife was Eleanor Parker Foulke of Phila Pa. She died
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at her residence 1134 Arch St in 1881 & was buried in a cemetery near Phila where others of her family were buried (There were no children by this marriage)
Melchior Mason Long, son of Burgess Ball Long & Sarah Ann Long fell in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Shenandoah Co Va (near Strasburg) on the 19th of Oct 1864. His rank was 1st Lieut of Engineers in the Confederate army & at the time of his death, he was acting as aid de camp to Genl Gabriel Wharton. He was buried in the Presbyterian Church yard in Strasburg but since then (in 1893, August the 12th) his remains have been removed from Strasburg to the cemetery to the cemetery near Leesburg Loudoun Co Va where they were interred by the side of his father, Col Burgess Ball Long
Col Burgess Ball Long died in Phila Pa at his residence 1134 Arch St on Wednesday the 30th of July 1873. He was buried in the cemetery near Leesburgh, Loudoun Co Va on the base of the granite cross erected over his grave are his name & the names of his wife Sarah Ann Long & their sons Melchior Mason Long & William Allen Thompson Long - and their daughter Eleanor Long.
In the same lot is the grave of Mrs Fannie W. Johnston, a dear friend of our family who esteemed us the same as if we had have been
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her near relatives & requested to be buried in our family lot. She died in Dowingtown Pa Dec 3, 1883. My sister & I placed a granite cross over her grave.
Robert Lockyer Thompson, son of Sarah Ann and James C. Thompson died at his residence in New Castle, Delaware on Monday the 21st of March 1892. He was buried in Immanuel Church yard on Thursday March 24th, Funeral services in the Church, Rev P.B. Lightner (the rector) officiating.
Kate T. Thompson (Catherine Rebecca Talcott Thompson) daughter of Sarah Ann & James C. Thompson died at her home in New Castle, Delaware on Tuesday June the 6th 1893. She was buried in Immanuel Church yard (in the same grave with her brother Robert Lockyer Thompson) on Thursday, June 8th. Funeral services in the church Rev P.B. Lightner officiating. Her name was carved on the monument already erected to R. Lockyer Thompson by Kate T. Thompson, her sisters Virginia and Eleanor Long & her cousin Thompson Ritchie.
Eleanor Long, daughter of Sarah Ann & Burgess Ball Long died on Thursday the 16th of August 1900 at her home in Leesburgh, Loudon Co Va. Funeral services in St James Church, Rev Edward S. Hinks (the rector) officiating. Interment in the family lot Union Cemetery near her father, Col Burgess Ball Long & her brother Melchior Mason Long: Bottom Page 152
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At top of every page except the first of the 5 pages she has written "Family Records" Pages 145 to 148 are missing, two leaves gone.
On pages 53, she has written:
"General William Thompson was Ma's paternal grandfather" & there follows six pages abt Genl Thompson. Then on page 59 is the following:
"General William Thompson was a son-in-law of the Rev George Ross & his wife Catharine Van Geza having married Catharine Ross one of their daughters. Their son William Allen Thompson married a widow, Mrs William Clay, whose maiden name was Sarah Lewis McWilliam (a daughter of Judge Richard McWilliam of Delaware)
Their children were:
Sarah Ann Thompson &
Catharine Rebecca Thompson
Sarah Ann Thompson married Mr James C. Thompson of Phila & after his death she married Col Burgess Ball Long of Virginia
Catharine Rebecca Thompson married Capt Andrew Talcott of U.S. army
When I was at Residence of Mrs Clara Sampsell's where Miss Long lives fr 9:23 to 10:44 this morning, Miss Long spoke of having met on the streets of Washington D.C. when a young girl walking with her father Judge Peter V. Daniel of the U.S. Supreme Court
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who told her that he was related to her by blood & they both were related to nearly all of the prominent families of Va. Mr Martin says Miss Long by her will directs both of the books above referred to, to be given to her Cousin Joseph R. Long. It is now 2:10 PM & I will only have time before the 3:05 St Car that I must return on to go back & see Miss Long again.
Residence of Mrs Clara Sampsell again Church St Leesburg Va Aug 25, 1923 2:40 PM
I walked back here at 2:20 PM from the Law office of Wm Henry Marton to see again Cousin Virginia Mason Long & was with her again until 2:55 PM when I walked about 5 blocks & caught the 3:05 PM St Car. Miss Long is a wonderfully sweet & charming woman, a refined woman of the old school & was very kind & gracious to give me all the information she could & will write me giving some addresses. She is slender & about 5 ft & In & is not at all feeble for one in her 90th yr since last Apr 22d. She having been born Apr 22, 1834. She said that her full sister, Eleanor Long, her full brother Melchior Mason Long & her half brother Robert Lockyer Thompson & her half sister Kate T. Thompson all died single, none of them ever marrying. She thought she was born
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in Kentucky. At least her mother died there & she was brought to Phila Pa where she lived several years & was educated & taught to write, both large & small hand by an English woman teacher. The scrapbook & Family Record Book above referred she is leaving to her cousin Joseph R. Long who is Dean of the Washington & Lee University at Lexington Va who is much interested in gathering in any data about his family. She showed me many photographs of her relatives on all of which she has written the names. She said Thompson Ritchie was a cousin on her mother's side & lived at Phila & that the descendants of her Aunt, Mrs Talcott, were in Delaware & she will write & give me the addresses of some of them along with some other data I asked her to get for me. I never saw a cleaner house than that of Mrs Sampsell with whom she lives.
Mr Martin sd he would have his stenographer who told me her name was Miss Margaret Garrett copy what was in the Family Record Book about Genl William Thompson & send it to me. I left on the 3:05 PM street car & got to 36th St, Wash D.C. at 4:55 PM & taking a street car, got to Penna Ave at 5:10 & walking down, met Stuart B.
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Marshall & wife just as I was going in the New Willard Barber Shop. We got our dinners in the coffee shop 6 to 7 o'c & went to the movies at the Metropolitan to "The Lonesome Road" at 7 PM & at 9:30 to Loews Theatre where we saw "Salomy Jane" both good. I am now written up to date & we have decided to go on to Gettysburgh in the morning & as I only got about an hours sleep last night & it is now 1:36 AM the 26th, I will go to bed. JVT
Room 412 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NY City Aug 30, 1923 11:33 AM
It is 101 yrs today since Father was born in Mason Co KY. We got up Sunday morning 26th inst at New Willard Hotel, Wash D.C. got an early breakfast & left, going through Frederick Md & arriving at Gettysburg Pa at 1 PM where we stopped at the Hotel Gettysburgh & got our lunch. The Hotel secured the services of James W. McDonnell as guide & fr 2 to 4 PM he showed us over the battlefield of over 16,000 Acres. We then went on to Harrisburg Pa & put up for the night at the Penna Harris Hotel. We got up at 4 Am 27th & started at 5 AM for Erie, Pa pressing through Duncammon, Millerstown, Thompsontown, to Mifflintown Pa
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61 miles where we stopped at 7:30 AM at the National Hotel & got a good breakfast & drove around to the street above & Mildred took a Kodak picture of her daughter, Mathilde Mizener in front of the Methodist Epis Church where her grandfather Mizener preached 80 yrs ago, her father Francis Asbury Mizener being born in that town. We then moved on through Lewistown, Reedsville, Belleville, Allensville, Mill Creek, Huntingdon, Water Street, Tyrone, Bald Eagle, Osceola Mills to Philipsburg Pa where we stopped about 12:30 PM at "the Phillips" a fine big hotel & got a good lunch. We then moved on through Clearfield, Grampian, Da Bois, Reynoldsville, Brookville, Clarion, Shippensville, Kossuth, Oil City, Franklin, Cochranton, Meadville, Cambridge Springs & Waterford to Erie Pa through continual showers throughout the afternoon where we arrived abt 10:30 PM, a distance of 350 miles from Harrisburg & Millie drove her mother & daughter on home to North East Pa making a distance of 365 miles that day or 1432 miles since we left two weeks before on the morning of the 14th inst. The 11:05 PM was late, but I got off on in it at 11:55 PM & after an hours wait in Albany next day, I got in to NY at 3:55 PM & found Mignon C. Downes had arrived at 1 Pm that day the 28th. We have been at several theaters to Evening Mays a matinee & movies since & she went over to her relatives at Clifton NJ this morning
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& I went at 10 AM to No 158 E 55th St which is east of Lexington Ave to see my relative, Mrs Margaret Sanderson, granddaughter of Abraham Markle who lives there with her niece, Mrs N.M. Campbell. Their telephone NO is Plaza 4050 & getting no response, a woman who was polishing the door knob said they were all away from home at Ocean Grove NJ.
I had stopped at Liggetts going up 5th Ave, they referred me to Aitchinson Optician Opp the Library for small scales & they gave me the name of Eimer & Amand 18th St & 3d Ave & stopping in at Poweroy Co 16 E 42d St, they sd I could get the scales at Whitehall, Tatum & Co 48? Barclay St (I dont' find such firm in telephone book). I took the 3d Ave Elev & going to Einer & Amend, they did not have the scale I wanted & sent me across the street to R.H. Forsehner Co 230 3d Ave. They did not have the scales, but said 30 grams were about equal to one ounce. I got a box opener & hammer there which will be good for cracking hickory nuts. The man sent me to Schum Bros stationers in the next block & told me to ask for the small nickle plated Austrian scale. The man said they had sold out 7 mos ago & didn't think they would be able to get any more, as they had bought all the party had. He, however took my name & address & I told him to send or save me two if they got any more. I then came up here & have written this up & Mignon is not yet back fr NJ. It is now 12:30 PM JVT
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Oak Hill Sept 3, 1923 9:35 AM
I came home from NY leaving Friday Aug 31, 1923 at 8:30 AM & reached town on the street car that night at 10:15 PM & found 84 letters, fully half of them answers to letters on family history & among them one (small envelope) from Miss Marietta D. Finley, Indianapolis Ind, daughter of Lieut Leighton Finley who sd she had a chest full of records of the Finley family which he had gathered which she would send me for a consideration of $150. I sent her ck accordingly on Saturday 1st inst.
Charles Coburn Stevens came in Room 522 on Saturday Sept 1, 1923 at 3 PM for another payt on his painting bill on contract made by my dear sister Ruth A. Shepler before her death, & I got on questioning him the following information about his immediate family:
Charles Coburn Stevens was born Aug 29, 1883 & on May 31, 1903 was married to Nancietta McFadden daughter of James W. McFadden & his wife Elizabeth Monteith, who was born in Georges Tp Fayette Co Pa July 14, 1882.
Their children were:
1. Emily Elizabeth Stevens born Sept 12, 1904 single
2. Eleanor Lucile Stevens born Feby 19, 1906 & died July 13, 1920. Both were born in Uniontown Pa. Charlie said his
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sister Nellie was buried in Oak Grove Cem the same day that father was Mch 18, 1889, they being in the cemetery at the same time we were.
Fortuna S. Morgan came over from Wheeling WVA arriving Saturday Ev Sept 1, 1923 about 5:40 PM, driven over by Mrs G.E. Gates in her Studebaker car accompanied by Audrey Foster aged 22 & Edwin A. Seifert, brother of Fortuna who is Audrey's beau. She is from Columbus O where he is attending a Medical college & expects to finish next June. Mrs Gates is a wonderfully sweet charming woman, genuine & wholesome & was just lovely as was Audrey who is her first cousin & Fortuna. Mrs Gates whose name is Daisy, said her mother, who was a FitzGerald was a sister of Audrey's mother. Fortuna sd Daisy's name before marriage was Smith. It is now 10 Am & I will go in town. JVT
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Oak Hill Sept 8, 1923 8 AM
On my return last night from Greene Co Pa, I recd letter of 4th inst small envelope, from Cousin Mrs Alwillah Boyd Schwer of No 230 N 6th St Hebron, Nebraska whom I visited Jany 20th last, see book 9 pages 306 & 307 asking for the return of the Adms report of Relatives in the estate of J. Clark Moore which I am copying below entire as it gives a number of my Clark relatives. I am not interested in the Moore relatives, but copy it entire:
State of Ohio, County of Harrison} S.S. In Estate of J. Clark Moore deceased.
Administrator's Report of Relatives.
J. Clark Moore died intestate and without issue June 17, 1911 being at the time of his death a resident of Harrison Co Ohio.
In order to find the proper relatives, it has been necessary to ascend to William Moore, the paternal grandfather, and to Joseph Clark the maternal grandfather of J. Clark Moore.
The children of William Moore, the paternal grandfather are as follows: Mary Fulton, Nancy Birney, Samuel Moore, John Moore, Hannah Gilmore, David Moore (father of deceased), Rachel Snider, Alexander Moore, Sarah Clark, Jane Craig, William Moore.
The children of Joseph Clark, the maternal grandfather are as follows: Johnson Clark, Ingram Clark, Jane Moore (mother of deceased), Ephraim Clark, Oscar Clark, Albert Clark.
If anyone who receives this list should find it incorrect or not full and complete, or any
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address different from which is given, they will please notify the Administrator at once, also should any change their address, he should be notified. There will be no distribution of personal property at least until after June 20, 1912. Below is a full list of the heirs at law of Mr Moore with a memorandum of their relationship to the common ancestor as follows:
Part First
Name of Heir Address How Related to William Moore
Sarah Clark Cadiz, Ohio Daughter of Common Ancestor
Eva A. Schwer Hebron, Nebraska Dau of Sarah Boyd, dau of Mary
Fulton, dau of C.A.
Eliza Black Freeport, Ohio Son of James Fulton, son of Mary
Fulton, dau of C.A.
Albert Fulton Heyworth Ills Son of James Fulton, son of Mary Fulton, dau of C.A.
Belle Welch Bloomington, Ills Dau of James Fulton, son of Mary
Fulton, dau of C.A.
Mattie Brown Heyworth, Ills Dau of James Fulton, son of Mary
Fulton, dau of C.A.
James Fulton Heyworth, Ills son of James Fulton, son of Mary
Fulton, dau of C.A.
Anna B. Moore Bloomington, Ills Dau of Wm A. Moore, son of John
Moore, son of C.A.
Wm D. Moore Joliet, Ills son of Wm A. Moore, son of John
Moore, son of C.A.
Dwight Moore Bloomington, Ills son of David O. Moore son of John Moore, son of C.A.
Lincoln Moore Bloomington, Ills son of David O. Moore son of
John Moore, son of C.A.
Edna Moore Bloomington, Ills dau of David O. Moore, son of
John Moore, son of C.A.
J. Beatty Moore Chicago, Ills Son of John Moore, son of C.A.
Mary E. Craig Emmet, Idaho Dau of John Moore, son of C.A.
Isabella A. Barricklow, Cadiz, Ohio dau of John Moore, son of C.A.
Nancy J. Hammond Chicago, Ills dau of John Moore, son of C.A.
Joseph C. Moore Omaha, Neb son of John Moore, son of C.A.
Ingram C. Moore Sharon Penna son of John Moore, son of C.A.
Thomas L. Moore Fort Collins Col son of Alex Moore, son of C.A.
Amanda Sylvester Greeley, Col dau of Alex Moore, son of C.A.
Geo C. Moore Salt Lake City, Ut son of Alex Moore, son of C.A.
Elizabeth A. Oglevee Clinton, Ills dau of Jane Craig, dau of C.A.
Amanda Niccolls Peabody, Kan dau of Jane Craig, dau of C.A.
John Craig Schuyler, Neb son of Jane Craig, dau of C.A.
Martin Snider Delavin, Ills son of Rachel Snider, dau of C.A
Sarah J. Hammond Los Angeles Calif dau of Rachel Snider, dau of C.A
Wm M. Snider Schuyler Neb son of Rachel Snider, dau of C.A
Caroline Glover Cadiz Ohio dau of Rachel Snider, dau of C.A
William Gilmore Fairbury Neb son of Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
John Gilmore Los Angeles Calif son of Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
Anna Ironson Omaha Neb dau of Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
Joseph Gilmore Minneapolis Minn son of Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
Anna Jamison Minneapolis Minn dau of Lizzie Jamison, dau of
Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
Lucy Law Minneapolis Minn dau of Laura Law, dau of Hannah Gilmore, dau of CA
Wilber Law Minneapolis Minn son of Laura Law, dau of Hannah
Gilmore, dau of CA
Mary E. Jones Keokuk, Iowa dau of Samuel Moore son of CA
Ebenezer B. Moore Vicksburg Arizona son of Samuel Moore son of CA
A. Oliver Moore Green Castle MO son of Samuel Moore son of CA
Charles Ringler Pine Bluff Ark son of Rachel Ringler, dau of
Samuel Moore, son of CA
Olive Ayres Shrewsburg Park MO dau of Rachel Ringler, dau of
Samuel Moore, son of CA
Don Ringler Teauge, Texas son of Rachel Ringler, dau of
Samuel Moore, son of CA
Nancy J. Close ElDorado Ark Dau of Rachel Ringler, dau of
Samuel Moore, son of CA
Georgia Caldwell Ancon Canal zone Dau of Amanda Hanson, dau of
Isthmus of Panama Samuel Moore, son of CA
Rachel Metcalf Ancon Canal Zone dau of Amanda Hanson, dau of
Isthmus of Panama Samuel Moore, son of CA
Nora Moore Anadarko, Okla dau of Wm Moore, son of Samuel
Moore, son of CA
Ethel Moore Apache, Okla dau of Wm Moore, son of Samuel
Moore, son of CA
John W. Birney Bloomington Ills son of Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Elizabeth Hickman Seward Neb dau of High Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Minnie I. Skillman Pleasanton, Neb dau of Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Oliver C. Birney Bloomington Ills son of Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Otto Birney Kearney Neb son of Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Roy Pendell Portland Oregon son of Alice Pendell, dau of
Hugh Birney, son of Nancy Birney, dau of CA
Myrtle L. Pendell Kearney Neb dau of Alice Pendell, dau of
Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA Orlo G. Pendell Seward Neb son of Alice Pendell, dau of
Hugh Birney, son of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA Mary Birney (minor) Seward Neb dau of Edwd Birney, son of Hugh Birney, son of Nancy Birney,
dau of CA
Ada M. Tinklepaugh Los Angeles Calif dau of Edwd Birney, son of Hugh
Birney, son of Nancy Birney,
dau of CA
Mary L. Sever Mentor Ohio dau of Samuel Birney, son of
Nancy Birney, dau of CA
Marshall Weaver (minor) Scio, Ohio son of Jesse Weaver, son of
Sarah Weaver, dau of Nancy
Birney, dau of CA
Ella Birney Long Beach Calif dau of William Moore, son of CA
Arthur Fulton son of William Fulton, son of
Mary Fulton, dau of CA
Ralph Fulton son of William Fulton, son of
Mary Fulton, dau of CA
Florence Fulton Chicago Ills dau of William Fulton, son of
Mary Fulton, dau of CA
Ethel Ditewig Spokane Washington dau of William Fulton, son of
Mary Fulton, dau of CA
Part Second
Name of Heir Address How related to Joseph Clark
Oscar Clark Newton, Kansas son of Common Ancestor
Jennie Clark Pittsburg Penna dau of Johnson Clark, son of CA
Georgia Clark Pittsburg Penna dau of Johnson Clark, son of CA
Chas B. Clark Craig Neb son of W.A. Clark, son of Ingram
Clark, son of CA
John I. Clark Santa Anna Calif son of W.A. Clark, son of Ingram
Clark, son of CA
James A. Clark Tekamah Neb son of W.A. Clark, son of Ingram
Clark, son of CA
Clara Stapleton Craig, Neb dau of W.A. Clark, son of Ingram
Clark, son of CA
Catherine Fisher Aurora Neb dau of W.A. Clark, son of Ingram
Clark, son of CA
Chas G. Clark Cadiz Ohio son of Ingram Clark, son of CA
Ella B. Mills Gas, Kansas dau of Ingram Clark, son of CA
Ida McFadden Cadiz Ohio dau of Ephraim Clark, son of CA
J. Chester Clark Boise, Idaho son of Oliver Clark, son of
Ephraim Clark, son of CA
Bertha Dalgleish Cleveland Ohio Dau of Oliver Clark, son of
Ephraim Clark, son of CA
Besse Wells Fulton MO dau of Oliver Clark, son of
Ephraim Clark, son of CA
Mamie Clark Fulton MO dau of Oliver Clark, son of
Ephraim Clark, son of CA
Isabelle Clark Fulton MO dau of Oliver Clark, son of
Ephraim Clark, son of CA
Cassius Clark Boise Idaho son of Albert Clark, son of CA
Minnie Clark Boise Idaho dau of Albert Clark, son of CA
Clark Nesbit (minor) Canon City Colo son of Lucy Nesbit, dau of Albert Clark, son of CA
John Nesbit (minor) Canon City Colo son of Lucy Nesbit, dau of
Albert Clark, son of CA
Francis O. Clark Craig Neb son of Frank Clark, son of
Oliver Clark, son of Ephraim
Clark, son of CA
Ingram E. Clark Craig Neb son of Frank Clark, son of
Oliver Clark, son of Ephraim
Clark, son of CA
Mildred V. Clark Craig Neb son of Frank Clark, son of
Oliver Clark, son of Ephraim
Clark, son of CA
Respectfully submitted
Chas G. Clark
Administrator of J. Clark Moore deceased.
Those of the Moore relatives descending from Mary Fulton are in our line.
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Mr Chas P. Schwer, Alwillah's husband, who came to America from Switzerland & joined the Union Army as a very young boy, gave me a newspaper clipping published he said, in 1916 which I am also returning today & am copying here:
"The Boys of Sixty One"
"Surprise is often expressed that there are so many veterans of the Civil War still living. The fact is that the war was fought at least on the northern side by boys. Of the 2,159,798 enlisted, there were only 46,626 who were over twenty-five years old. The official figures of the age at enlistment in the Civil War were read in the House of Representatives the other day by Joseph C. Cannon and they are as follows:
Those 10 years and under 25
Those 11 years and under 38
Those 12 years and under 225
Those 13 years and under 300
Those 14 years and under 1,523
Those 15 years and under 104,987
Those 16 years and under 231,051
Those 17 years and under 844,891
Those 18 years and under 1,151,438
Those 21 years and under
(these two classes make the total
number of enlistments) 2,159,798
Those 22 years and over
(these two classes make the total
number of enlistments) 618,511
Those 25 years & over 46,626
It will be noticed from this statement that the greatest number of enlistments were
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of boys eighteen & under. In a great number of cases, these boys became officers before they were twenty, some of them even reaching the rank of Captain. The methods of war have so changed that in future armies, there must be a far greater portion of mature men. There must be a large number who can handle the intricate complex & death dealing machinery & engines of destruction.
But as far as the Civil War was concerned, the fighting was done by boys & the phrase "boys of Sixty-One" is a literal expression of the truth & not metaphorical. The men of big business, the representatives of hundreds of millions which they were able to accumulate by the sacrifices made by these boys, assembled at Chicago the other day to hold a National Convention, but they forgot all about the "boys". There are still 400,000 of them alive".
11:13 AM JVT
Oak Hill Sept 8, 1923 6:55 PM
Mrs Louise Mabel Moser came in 522 this afternoon at 4:22 with her two daughters, my wards & her son-in-law & were there half an hour during which I paid her, on acct of my wards boarding & clothing & taxes she had paid $130 odd for each ward being the first payt on acct of the sale of their 20 A each of Ohio Coal. They all gave me the following family record, each one giving their own age & the others verifying it.
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Louise Mabel Smith, my main informant, was born in Georges Tp, Fayette Co Pa Nov 27, 1876, the daughter of Daniel Porter Smith & his wife, Margaret Hertzog Malaby. On May 28, 1902, she was married to Evans Willson Moser (see pages 100 to 107 this book) by Rev James W. Hays. They had but two children viz:
1. Gladys Elizabeth Moser born Sept 10, 1903 in Georges Tp
2. Lillian Margaret Moser born Oct 14, 1907 in Georges Tp
On June 8, 1922 Gladys Elizabeth Moser was married at Fairchance Pa by Rev J.C. Rose to Ira Edwin Mitchell, who was born at Revere Pa Oct 28, 1897, the son of Joseph R. Mitchell (son of Peter) & his wife Annie May Ewing, daughter of Joseph Ewing of Smithfield Pa
JVT 7:15 PM
Oak Hill Sept 14, 1923, 7:33 PM
I went to Waynesburg Pa this morning P. Pallini driving leaving at 7:22 AM & got back at 7:10 PM. Saw E.D. Patterson, A.M. Nichols, S.M. Williamson, G.M. Gump, T.S. Crago, W.D. Cotterel, James Neal, Jerry E. Debolt, J.W. Closser, W.E. Hague, & Forney W. John, all on business & at 3:20 PM, left for Ruffs Creek & arrived at Cox's first house east of the Caleb Grimes old home & met Mr Frank Cox & his wife who is the only child of Hugh Montgomery & heir to the Pgh Coal under his farm which they want to sell. They called in his mother, Mrs Maria Cox who is hard of hearing medium height & weight & well preserved & is in her 98th
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year, born Apr 29, 1826, the daughter of Samuel Crayne, she & he said. She had never heard of Tickacus Rose or his wife Catherine Jack who was born Dec 14, 1754, nor of their children & knew nothing of John Fulton who she married a few yrs after Rose died. They said the oldest Fulton they knew was Evans Fulton living north of them on the ridge so we took the road turning north at their home & went 5 miles passing a church & found him in his garden picking up potatoes he had ploughed out. He said he was 73 yrs old, the son of Samuel Fulton & grandson of John Fulton. He said his grandfather, John Fulton had several children & his wife was Belle & that he was not married twice. He said his father had a brother John who went west, but that did not go back far enough. He never heard of Tickacus Rose or George Boyd Rose or Catharine Jack, but said there were a family of Roses living over by Clarksville Pa. He said John Rose who lived to be an old man & who lived in the neighborhood & who Mrs Maria Cox spoke of had not left any children. Mr Fulton said the Wash-Greene Co line went through his front portico & that his house was in West Bethlehem Tp, Wash Co Pa. Mr Cox said Pollock had paid up the interest on the mtge we gave for $6000 which he assumed. JVT
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Room 715 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York Sept 18, 1923 11:55 PM
I took the tubes at 33d St & Broadway this morning at 8:10 AM & went to Hoboken where I took the D.L.&W 8:30 train for Montclair NJ & arrived at No 7 Bradford Place at 9:15 AM & had an hours conference with James Lane Allen leaving him at 10:20 AM, I walked out south to Plymouth St & Orange road & went up Plymouth & through Dykes Lane a 5 ft thoroughfare to S. Mountain Ave & went out South thereon to No 194 S. Moutain Ave & found Miss Lucy Lenoir Finley who is there acting as governess I think for Mary Louise, a 75 pound 7 or 8 yr old girl & Thomas Holt ______, the bright 3 1/2 yr old boy & had lunch with their grandmother, the mother of the children's father whose father, Thomas Holt had been once Governor of North Carolina.
Miss Finley gave me some papers she had recd from Scotland to bring with me & copy & some she had gotten from Mabel Linley [Smiley?] of Lincoln Neb whose mother she sd was a Finley & from whom I have at home an unread letter. I brought these papers with me & am having them copied by Thos J. Thomson the stenographer here & am to get them at 10 o'c in the morning & return the original & a copy to Miss Finley. I got back to NY at 4 PM
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[fermata mark appears in upper left margin]
At Residence of Harry White No 458 Morgan St, Dickson City, Lackawanna Co Pa Sept 20, 1923 10 AM
I left Scranton Pa on the Carbondale St car at 9 AM & got off at the bank at Dickson City, turned around the Bank to the right & going a short square turned to the right & walked out Morgan St to this number arriving ten minutes ago & was met by Della, wife of Harry White, a large clean skinned handsome woman & she took me in the basement or living quarters of their two story & a basement frame house where I met her father, Daniel Markle. Neither of them know of any old Markle Bibles nor of his father's bible. They say that his father, Jacob Markle & his mother Eunice Sherman were living at Ledgedale, Wayne Co Pa & were probably taken from there, by Mrs Fish, who Della thinks was his sister, to Rochester NY where they think they both died, but he says he never saw them again. Mr Markle's Uncle Cornelius Markle lived at Honesdale Pa where he died & in his last days sharpened scythes, sickles etc. His wife was Eunice Van der Mark & she is living in Honesdale Pa at 1223 Dyberry Place with her daughter Rose Dunning wife of Eugene C. Dunning. She is past 75. Della's mother was an Osborne
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& she has the old Osborne bible with their record & also her own father's record. Her father, Daniel Markle was born Oct 9, 1843 in New York State on the Mohawk River near North Norwich?, the son of Jacob Markle & his wife Eunice Sherman. He was married Oct 4, 1869 his cft saying he was from Panpack, Wayne Co Pa near Pike Co line (just across the River) to Eliza J. Mattison of Salem, Wayne Co Pa who was born Sept 5, 1851 the daughter of Sm A. Mattison & his wife Martha N. Schoonhover Mr Markle's children were:
1. Martha Alice Markle born Mch 29, 1871
2. Burton David Markle born Sept 26, 1876
3. George Reuben Markle born Aug 29, 1881
4. Elizabeth Della Markle born Oct 2, 1889
There were two other children older than Della of whom there was no record kept as they died in infancy. So far as they both know, the children were all born in Ledgedale, Wayne Co Pa.
Deaths
1. Martha Alice Markle died June 2, 1875
2. Burton David Markle died Oct 1909 at Binghamton NY & is buried there. He was a baker. He married Effie Wright from Salem, Wayne Co Pa, a daughter of Eugene Wright & his wife Mary. She is living around Clarks Summit Pa near here & is a nurse & has two children named for her father & mother:
1. Eugene Markle, aged abt 17
2. Mary Markle, aged abt 15
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Deaths continued
Eliza J. Markle died Mch 30, 1916
Infant boy, son of Della born in forepart of July 1913 & died aged two days
3. George Reuben Markle was in the Spanish American War for 3 yrs & was at Manila P.F. after his 3 yrs expired, he came home & was married at Carbondale Pa Feby 22, 1905 to Ethel Stanton, daughter of Charles L. Stanton & his wife Nettie Woodruff. He divorced her after two years, after having one child, Irene Markle who was abt 3 or 4 mos old when the parents were divorced & is now abt 18 or 19 yrs old. The last Della heard, her mother had put her in the school at Scotland Pa for her education. After a few yrs, probably 4 or 5 yrs, he married Miss Florence Burrell, a divorced woman, step daughter of Adebert Day whose wife is Florence's mother. Thinks he was married in Carbondale the second time & had one child, Jessie Markle born before Della was married & aged 15 or 16. They were not living together 4 or 5 yrs ago when Della heard from another sister-in-law that Florence had told her she was married to another man & thinks then they were divorced. Don't know where Jessie is & haven't heard from her brother George Reuben for 4 or 5 yrs. He might have gone to World War or might have died of flu.
4. Elizabeth Della Markle was married
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Aug 26, 1908 at Carbondale Pa by Rev Charles Lee Presbyterian minister. (He also married her brother Geo Reuben & Ethel Stanton) to Harry Harrison White, who was born Aug 26, 1888 the son of Charles White & his wife Matilda Osborne a step-sister of Della's mother. Matilda's father was the second husband of Della's mother's mother & she was his second wife.
Della has two children living & lost one as above.
1. Thelma Matilda White born Nov 22, 1909
2. Infant son born & died July 1913
3. Gerald Eugene White born Aug 18, 1920
Thelma M. & the infant son were born in Jermyn Pa & Gerald Eugene was born here in Dickson City in this house.
Mrs White says they were Presbyterians but there is no Presbyterian Church here, so she goes to the Primitive Methodist & Thelma M. baptized a Presbyterian goes to the Bradley M.E. Church at the City line Scranton Pa.
Leaving 11:25 AM
Hotel Casey Room 809 Scranton Pa Sept 10, 1923 9:55 PM
I got in here from NY City last night at 9;30 PM & took a half hour standing shower bath with water at temperature of 111. Went out to Dickson City as noted Pages 209 to 212 inclusive. Mr Markle
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who will complete his 80th yr next month has no mind left at all scarcely & could tell but little of his family, could only recall one viz Cornelius of his father's brothers & sisters & did not know the name of his grandfather Markle. He is a small slender man much the build of his brother Eli of San Diego Calif. He was unshaven, but asked Mr Quinton, a roomer, I believe to whom Mrs White introduced me to tell the barber he wanted a shave. I did not see Mrs White's daughter Thelma. When I got up to the street car line, I saw the 11:30 Am car going into Scranton, so I waited in the rain under cover at the girls entrance to Columbus School & at noon took the street car to Carbondale & the bus not leaving for Honesdale for 2 hrs & the train not until 4 hrs, I hired a taxi to drive me over to see the widow of Cornelius Markle at 1223 Dyberry Place, Honesdale Pa. Her daughter, Rosette, a heavy set woman of medium height, admitted me & her mother, Mrs Markle came right downstairs. She is heavier & shorter a little than her daughter & between them they gave me what is recorded on the next two pages written with Mrs Dunning's fountain pen. They both said that Cornelius, in speaking of the Markles at Hazleton Pa thought they were his cousin, son of his Uncle Henry. Mrs Markle sd she had had the "flu" very bad & since then her memory has not been good. Both she & Daniel Markle were very unsatisfactory by reason of their total lack of knowledge about the earlier ancestors. Mrs Dunning said her son was a fine capable fellow & was over 6 ft. She showed me a photo of her father, Cornelius, whiskers all over his face which was a good kindly one. See page 217.
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[Descendant Chart]
Cornelius Markle. They are not sure of his name. Mrs Eunice Markle first said she thought it was Wm, but one obituary said Cornelius's father was Cornelius & another sd his father was Jacob whose wife was Betsy Connor Markle. Mrs Eunice Markle thinks it was not Cornelius, but knows that his mother was a Connor. He lived in Ulster Co NY & she thinks his business was following the canal. He married Betsy Conner. She died when Cornelius was born ie when he was four days old. He died when Cornelius was 10 or 12 yrs old. Mrs Markle thinks he died in Ulster Co NY. See Page 365 also 380 & 379.
[children]
Mary Markle, see page 365. Thinks the oldest M. Wesley DeWitt & lived at Homonack, Ulster Co NY & both died there. Both remember her.
Henry
George
Leah, m. Edward Hoffman & live at Middletown NY & they both say she can give the Markle record. She has several children. He came to see Cornelius Markle in 1911.
A dau, m. Wood
Jacob Markle, m. Eunice Sherman. He went fr Lakeville Pa to Rochester NY. His daughter, Mrs Fish came out & Mrs M. went with her to get them & they died at Rochester NY
Fred Markle, He lived in Ulster Co was married. Thinks his wife was a Shoemaker. Don't know whether he had any children. Has been dead a good many years. Mrs Woods remembers him, but cannot give record. Talked low Dutch. See Page 379.
Nellie Markle, see page 365, Married Elijah Beatty, a nice old farmer, an honorable [sic]. Some of his children are living in Kingston NY. Had 3 daughters. No sons.
Sallie, married
Phoebe, m. Jim VanderMark. Thinks they are living in Kingston NY
Gertrude, youngest m. John Crispell (or Krispell). Both dead.
Sarah Ann Markle, Thinks she was not married. Mrs Wood thinks too that she was not married.
Lydia Markle, M.1. Davis m.2 She lived down toward Middleport NY on Mombackus
John Davis, got drowned when young, unmarried
Sarah Davis, m. Coddington. She dead.
Cornelius Markle, Born in Ulster Co NY June 30, 1838 some lady took him after his mother's death when he was 4 days old & took care of him until abt 4 yrs old when his sister Mary DeWitt & her husband came & took him to their home & raised him. The lady who first took him when on her death bed sent for him to come & see her, but he wouldn't leave his work & didn't go. He died here in Honesdale Sept 14, 1918 aged 80 yrs 2 mos & 15 days. he was married at Indian Orchard this Co by Rev D.W. Halsted on Dec 31, 1860 to Eunice Leonard VanderMark, who was born in this Co Nov 6, 1844 the daughter of Abram VanderMark & his wife Elizabeth Conklin. She my co-informant of the day.
Elizabeth Markle, B Jany 26, 1862 ob Aug 14, 1863
Rosetta Markle, B Mch 3, 1865 m. Oct 26, 1887 at Honesdale Pa by Rev L.O. Gernell, a Baptist minister aged 80 yrs to Eugene Charles Dunning who was born Sept 30, 1865 at Panpack, Wayne Co Pa on this side of the River, the son of Benjamin R. Dunning & his wife Clarissa Downs & both living now at 1223 Dyberry Place Honesdale Pa where I am writing & she & her mother are my informants
Florence Harrison Dunning, B Nov 6, 1888 at Hawley Pa, graduated as valedictorian of high school & graduated with first honor fr State College in 1912 & is now Supt of Gurney Electric Elevator Co here, unmarried.
Arthur Newton Dunning, B June 30, 1891 at Hawley Pa ob Nov 14, 1892 at Hawley Pa
William Arthur Markle, B July 14, 1876 ob Oct 11, 1879
Earl E. Markle, B Mch 26, 1883, ob Nov 6, 1890
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AT residence of Saml Edgar Corbett No 203 Colfax Ave Scranton Pa Sept 20, 1923 8 PM
Mr Corbett says that Rev Emmons when Pastor of Sewickly Church thought that Polly Bell's history should be written up so he interviewed her got the facts from her & wrote it down & that history is now in the hands of Mrs Col Null of Greensburg Pa Col M.F. Null was once Prottonotary & is now clerk to the commissioners at Greensburg Pa. Mrs Null is a daughter of Wm T.N. Bell & hence a first cousin of Mary Delnora Corbett & she will be able to give the record of her father's family. See Page 58
Mr Corbet is a salesman for the H.J. Heinz Co Pittsburgh Pa
He says there is a Finley & Co Dry Goods store opposite Hotel Casey but he heard some Jews had bought it. The telephone book gives a Joseph Finley 312 Mulberry St 7-8102-J. Mr C. called them up & Mr Finley had gone to a movie & we made appointment for them to see me at 8:30 in the morning.
Leaving at 8:40 PM
Left at 9 PM
Both he & his wife wanted me to stay all night with them, but I told them I had work here I must do.
Apr 29, 1924, they gave me the dates etc entered in above colored ink in table on page 58.
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From page 213
He was a very good Christian Man & I told them I would like a picture of him for my book. He was very much beloved & had hosts of friends. Mrs Markle said that abt a week after his death, a Mr. Markle came from Hazleton Pa to see her, but she was feeling so badly that she gave him no information & I inferred did not treat him cordially, hardly civilly & got no information, nor gave any. They both insisted on my going to Middletown, NY to see Leah Hoffman, saying she could give the information. Mrs Markle had written down the names of her husband's 2 bros & 4 sisters, but did not remember who they married. Mrs Dunning sd she had written down these names too, as told her by her father shortly before he died giving their married names & she says the girls were all married. The paper she wrote it on is she thinks boxed up at the barn. She says she will try to find it & I left her my address to write me if she did. She sd she wanted a book & sd her husband also worked for the Gurney Elec Elev Co. I left in the rain at 4:10 PM & walked across the River & at 4:25 Pm got the 4:30 Bus for Carbondale where I arrived at 5;25 & took the 5:30 PM train on the D & H road arriving here at 6:30 PM. A man named Geo Miller who got on the bus at Honesdale Pa sd the River I crossed there was the Lackawaxen & that the Dyberry River flowed in it at Honesdale & it flowed into the Delaware River 25 miles below.
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Room 809 Hotel Casey, Scranton Pa Sept 20, 1923 11 PM
Last night, I looked through the first twenty one names in the Scranton Telephone Book for Apr 1923 viz:
Bohemia, Boyds Mills, Brooklyn, Canadensis, Carbondale, Centre Moreland, Clarks Summit, Conynham, Cresco, Dallas, Dalton, Dushore, Factoryville, Freeland, Galilee, Glen Summit, Gouldsboro, Hallstead, Hamlin, Harveys Lake, & Hawley & find no Carothers, Finley, Jack, Kilgore, Markle, Redburn, or Rothermel listed. At the next name however:
Hazleton Pa is: Tel
Jack, Rev R.B. r 209 W. Diamond Av 325-J
Markle, Alvin r 321 W. Broad 729
Markle Banking & Trust Co 8 W Broad *530
Markle, Charles r 411 E. Chestnut 594-J
Markle, George B. Jr off. 227 E. Broad 6
Markle, George B. & Conyngham Pass 961
No Caruthers, Finley, Kilgore, Redburn or Rothermel
Nothing in Honesdale or Huntingdon Mills but in:
Kingston, Luzerne Cp Pa, I find:
Finley, Thomas Jr r 852 Thomas Westmoore 7233-W
Finley, Thomas Sr r 131 Pringle 8183-R
Markle, Chas T. r 110 S. Bennet Door 8060-J
Markle, J.F. r 292 Wyo Ave 8547
Rothermel, Earl D. r 519 Market 8837-W
Nothing of the other names. Kingston has pop of 8592 & is on the D.L.&W & Lehigh Valley RR & I must go there. It is on the way to Hazleton. Nothing at:
Laceyville, Lackawaxen, Lake Ariel, Lake Como, McAddo, Mehoopany, Meshoppen, Montrose, Moosic, Moscow, Mt Pocono & Mulenburg, but at:
Nanticoke, I find:
Finley, Miss Helen D. r 228 Center Wanamie 164-R-13, but nothing else & nothing in Narrowsburg NY but in
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Newfoundland Pa I find:
Kilgore, L.A. r Greentown 15-G
Nothing else & nothing at:
Nicholson, Nuangola, Nuremburg, Olyphant, Pittston, Pleasant Mouth, Plymouth, Pocono Lake, Prospect Hill & Ricketts, but at:
Scranton Pa, I find:
Caruthers, F.D. High Grade Investments Scr Life Bldg 3227
Caruthers, Frank D. r 517 Arthur Av 7-1133-4
Caruthers, Mrs Wayne, r 825 Pine 7-7093
Finley, The Co Dry Goods 510 Lacka Av *4111
Finley, Joseph r 312 Mulberry 7-8102-J
Kilgour, W.H. r 1717 Church Av 7-8798-W
Nothing else, but at:
Shickshinny Pa, I find:
Markle, C.W. undertaker Union 38-R-26
nothing else nor anything at:
South Canaan, Starrucca, Susquehanna, Taylor & Tunkhannock, but at:
Wapwallopen, I find:
Markle, Miner r Hetlerville 28-1
nothing else nor at:
Weatherly or White Haven, but at:
Wilkes-Barre Pa, I find:
Finley, C.A. r 62 E. Market 5180-J
Killgore, J.E. Reese r 16 Sturdevant 4288
Killgore, Reese S r 16 Sturdevant 4288
Rothermel, Mrs Daniel r 60 Oak 45330J
Rothermel, Thomas J. r 270 1/2 Carey Av 2688-R
nothing else nor at:
Wilsonville, Wyalusing or Wyoming
JVT 2 AM 21st
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Scranton Pa Hotel Casey Room 809 Sept 21, 1923 10:25 AM
I got up at 7 Am, got my breakfast at 7:30, read the paper & took a taxi to see Joseph Finley at 312 Mulberry St & was admitted by his wife a short stocky handsome blonde young matron who took me upstairs where I met him, a dark swarthy Italian. He explained that he was born abt 20 miles fr Naples & brought to America by his mother when 2 yrs old & his name was Fingliette which he Americanized to Finley, so I did not want anything further from him. Was there 8:30 to 8:36 AM & then walked around to the Finley dry good store No 510 Lackawanna Ave & was cited to Mr Bingham who had been with store 45 yrs. He said the founder of the store was Pierce B. Finley who died at Los Angeles Calif in Nov 1918 & was brought here for burial in the Dunmore Cemetery. His only surviving relative in the family was a daughter, Margaret Finley who married an Adams & was living at no 925 Scarf[5]* St, Los Angeles Calif, write Moses A. Baird & have him interview her. I arrived at the store at 8:44 & left at 8:54 AM
I then came across to the Hotel & went down the other st a square to the Scranton Life Bldg & at 9 Am was at Room 229 with name of National City Co on the door. Entering, I found Frank Davis Caruthers at his desk, a fine urbane young man who was very courteous, had lived abt Pgh & heard of me quite often.
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He said his father was Thomas Fillmore Caruthers who died in Phila Pa in 1909 aged upwards of 60 yrs. He was the son of Jason Caruthers who had lived at Coopersville near Christiana Lancaster Co Pa where he died. He, Jason, had one brother Frank, that my informant knew of. He was of the Irwin Pa family where two of his sons & his widow, a 2d wife lives & the sons there would be best fitted to give information about that branch. Mrs Wayne Caruthers, living here at 825 Pine is the widow of Wayne, who was the youngest son of Frank. My informant says his brother Eugene W. Caruthers to whom he gave me a letter of introduction, who works for the Penna RR Co at Broad St Sta Phila Pa got up a family tree a few yrs ago & he says he has a chart & can materially aid me. He sd to inquire for him at the Genl offices. Frank D., my informant said he was born in Phila Pa, Jany 19, 1891. His brother’s home is at a suburb of Phila where he has his records. Left at 9:35 AM
I then went to several stores on that St & at last got a Rand McNally NY book at Reismanis. Then came to my room & called up W.H. Kilgour's res 1717 Church Av No 7-8798-W & a lady fr NY visiting there said he had gone to his silk mill on Market St but being a stranger she did not know his number. Called at 10:05 & rang off at 10:08 AM yesterday. I noticed this side of Seelyville, a mile west of Honesdale, a big farm, mostly north of the road & extending 2 miles west of Seelyville, which was entirely fenced with stones, gathered fr the fields.
Leaving 11:27 AM for Wilkes-Barre Pa
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Luzerne Co Pa Court House, Registers office No 25 2d floor. Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 1:27 PM
Will Index
*Markle, George B. Hazleton City 1914 Book 34 Page 361
*Finley, Martin, Larksville Boro 1915 Book 35 Page 412
*Finley, Patrick, Ross Tp 1904 Book X Page 558
*Finley, Robert, Hanover Tp 1896 Book P Page 284
*Finley, Timothy, Wilkes-Barre City 1887 Book K Page 39
There are no other wills of above name & none of a Caruthers, Jack, Kilgore, Redburn, or Rothermel.
The first will recorded in Book A Page 1 is that of Solomon Finch dated Sept 3, 1786 & probated Sept 24, 1787 before Timothy Pickering Register.
1. Will Book P page 284
Will of Robert Finley of Hanover Tp states he is sick. Gives to wife Julia A. Finley the use of his entire estate with power to devise it as she sees fit among my children. Proviso that is she marries again & has children from such marriage, none of his estate is to go to those children. Appoints wife Exr & dated Dec 27, 1895 signed
Robert Finley
States the date of his death was Dec 28, 1895 at 7 AM
Will proven Jany 2, 1896
2. Will Book X Page 558
Will of Patrick Finley of Ross Tp states 1st Gives to son Peter Finley my farm of 50 A
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on which I now reside reserving to wife Ellen the income of same during her life.
2d gives to sons John and Michael & daughters Ellen & Catherine each $10 to be paid by son Peter after death of wife Ellen.
3d to wife Ellen all personal property, but if anything is left at her death to go to Peter. Appoints Peter Exr. Signed Patrick (his mark) Finley Dated Mch 14, 1904
Date of his death Apr 1, 1904
Will proven Dec 21, 1904
3. Will Book K Page 39
Will of Timothy Finley Labor of City of Wilkes-Barre Pa
2d wills son James Finley $1.
3d wills to daughter Mary E. Melvin during life one house & lot in Wilkes-Barre called the old homestead on Wood St no 187 & at her death to go to her children now in being.
4. To daughter Bridget Kinney house & lot at corner Wood & RR Sts Wilkes-Barre now numbered 186 Wood St during life & at her death to her children now in being.
5. To daughters Bridget & Mary the rents of house No 185 upon RR St & at their deaths to go to their children that are now in existence.
Makes sd daughters & their children residuary legattees as above.
Appoints Mary E. Melvin Exrx Apr 4, 1887 signed
Timothy (his mark) Finley
died Apr 16, 1887 at 6:30 PM
Will probated May 4, 1887
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4. Will Book 35 Page 412
Will of Martin Finley of the Bor of Larksville
Gives $50 to be used by Exrs for purpose of having mass
Gives $50 for head stone at grave
Gives to wife Ann Finley all my R.E. for life & at her death to be divided equally between my eight children, Edward, Ellen, Margaret, Michael, Lizzie, Theresa, Thomas & Martin
Gives bals after above $100 is paid 1/3 to Ann Finley & bals equally to 8 children & appoints sons Edward & Michael Exrs. Dated June 9, 1910 signed Martin X Finley
Date of Death June 9, 1915
Proven July 7, 1915
5. Will Book 34 Page 361
Will of George B. Markle of No 488 of 1914. A declaration of trust made by Geo B. Markle of the City of Hazleton, Co of Luzerne Pa of & concerning the estate & property bequeathed by George B. Markle Sr in his last will dated Oct 28, 1886 & probated at Phila Pa which reads as follows:
"And upon the further trust, that in the event of the death of any of my children leaving lawful issue, that my exrs & trustees shall immediately grant assign & convey such share of the principal of my estate so specifically devised or which may hereafter accrue to them in trust for the use of such child by virtue of the provisions of this my will unto the child or children and child of [sic] children of any deceased child or children of mine, in such manner & form & such share & proportion & for such estates & interests, either in trust or absolutely as my said
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child by any instrument in writing in the nature of a last will & testament, whether covert or sole may direct, limit & appoint & for want of such appointment, then in trust to grant, assign & pay the same unto all the children & grandchildren of my said deceased child ( the issue of such child taking the share their parent would have taken if living) in equal shares & propositions"
I hereby declare it to be my will that such estate & property as shall remain at my death shall be held in trust to keep the same safely invested & after deducting the expenses of the trust to pay the income thereof to my son George B. Markle quarterly for the period of 21 yrs after my decease & at the end of such period to transfer & pay him the principal thereof. In case he shall die before the end of such period, leaving a child or children, or issue of any such child or children, then the said principal sum shall be paid to such child or children or their issue absolutely any issue to take his or her parents share. In case my said son die before the end of said period, leaving no child or children, or the issue of any child or children surviving him then the said principal sum shall go to & be vested in the lawful heirs of my said son absolutely.
During the sd period of 21 yrs, the income payable to my sd son shall not be subject to any of his debts, liabilities or engagements theretofore contracted or which may at any time, thereafter be contracted nor to any attachment or execution in any way whatever.
I hereby appoint Charles Barden Adamson of Phila Trustee of this will, directing that in all things pertaining to the trust, he shall consult
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my said son before final action.
Witness my hand & seal this Mch 22, 1897 Geo B. Markle (seal)
Witnesses: Edwd F. James S.A. Barber
Date of Death July 11, 1914
Proven July 22, 1914 & Chas B. Adamson & Geo B. Markle Jr were granted letters of Adm C.T.A. (there being no Exr named in the will) C.J. Gallagher Register
Leaving 3:33 PM
Hotel Sterling Room 420 Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 8:37 PM
I left Scranton Pa on the trolley at 12 o'c noon for this place & arrived here shortly after 1 o'c coming through Pittston & was driven to this hotel, got this room & walked up to the Court House & although the County seems to have been started in 1787, there were no records of our people being here at an early day & all the records I took which are inconsequential are noted on pages 222 to this 226.
After finishing there, I walked back to the Hotel & got direction from the porter to go out to E. Market from here & then to come back to the square & take "Plymouth" car for Carey Ave & would get Sturdevant & Oak there too. I penciled down at all of the four places & will now transcribe it.
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At residence of Mrs C.A. Finley No 62 E. Market St, Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 4:11 PM
Mrs Finley's mother, a short, stout pleasant faced woman admitted me at head of stairs & said Mr Finley had died & then called her daughter who is a large heavy woman of medium height. She said her husband:
Clinton Albert Finley was born in Newark NJ Feby 10, 1859 & died here Nov 18, 1922 after six years of sickness from paralysis during which he was reduced from 205 lbs to 90. He was a large round faced handsome man. He was son of Richard Finley from Scotland & his wife Eliza Stephens from the North of Ireland. She thinks Richard came to America abt 1854 or 1855. He had a brother who settled in Chicago Ills & became wealthy. Richard died in Newark NJ long before she & C.A. were married aged probably 60 yrs. C.A. had no full brothers or sisters but had a step sister.
He, C.A., married 1st Nettie Dennis, who died abt 1899 in Newark NJ & left one child, a daughter Edith Finley now aged about 33 yrs. She is married, but Mrs F. don't know to whom. Last she heard she was living with her mother's folks in Newark NJ.
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C.A. Finley married 2d Nov 2, 1901 at New York by Rev Newton to Miss Minerva G. Aldrich, my informant, daughter of Burton Aldrich & his wife Mary Eagels who was born at Fall River Mass Apr 20, 1878. No issue. They joined the Methodist Church together.
Left 4:25 PM
I then walked back to the Park Circle & took a Plymouth Car to Carey Av getting off at the Riverside Hospital & turning to the right, walked out Carey Av & found NO 270 1/2 a nice frame cottage home in the rear of No 270 & was:
At residence of Thomas Jefferson Rothermel No 270 1/2 Carey Ave Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 5 PM
Mr Rothermel was born Nov 8, 1871 at Parryville Carbon Co Pa, the son of William Wilson Rothermel & his wife Matilda Widener. Wm W. Rothermel died in Lehighton, Carbon Co Pa Apr 28, 1923 & was buried May aged 89 yrs 5 mos & 7 days having been born Nov 21, 1833, he thinks in Fleetwood or that vicinity. He died at the home of his youngest son Horace Albert Rothermel who lives at No 431 N 3d St Lehighton Pa & works at the Lehigh Valley RR round house.
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There was a bible with record in it & if it is not at Horace A's it is with their sister, Mrs Harvey Swartz who lives at 146 Jamestown St in Jamestown outside the city of Lehighton but a part of it.
Wm W. Rothermel had a sister who was considerably younger than him & who was very sick when he died. Her name was Rebecca, but he don't know her married name. She lives, if living at Friedensberg or Fleetwood Pa but Mr R's brother James Henry Rothermel, living at Manch Chunk Pa, right by the Opera House, an Insurance Agt, can tell where she is & her name & can give fuller information abt the family. Just before his father's death, he was down among the people at Fleetwood & hunted up the family records which he has. Wm W. had a brother, Henry Rothermel who lived on N 3d St Lehighton where he died abt a yr ago aged abt 76. His wife died shortly after he did. No issue.
Another brother, Charles was killed in the Civil War.
Another sister, Susan married a Moyer a butcher in Reading Pa. He don't know whether she is dead or not. He says his father had an even dozen children. One of them, Sarah, widow of Wallace W. Hottenstein lives at Weispport just across the River from
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Lehighton Pa
Another brother of my informant, Daniel Jonathan Rothermel lives a half mile fr here at No 60 Oak St. Thos J. Rothermel was married Dec 15, 1892 at Lehighton Pa by Rev J.H. Kuder, a Lutheran preacher to Susan Brunner, daughter of Henry Brunner & his wife Katharine Schmidt who was born in Germany Dec 12, 1871. Both are living here. Mr R. is a track foreman on the Delaware & Hudson & has lived here abt 35 yrs, coming from Lehighton Pa. No issue, which he says is strange as his parents had a dozen children & his wife's mother had seventeen. He says his father "was a horse", "could stand anything, always had good health, always worked, was a carpenter & his only sickness was the last four days of his life".
Leaving 5:40 PM
He said he had a letter a few yrs ago from a Mr Verpue of Logansport Ind asking abt the family history & saying his mother was a Rothermel. I then walked back along Carey Ave & was soon:
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At residence of Daniel Jonathan Rothermel No 60 Oak St Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 6 PM
Mr R says his father's bible is with his sister, Louisa Swartz, wife of Howard (called Harvey for a nickname) Swartz & she lives at Jamestown which is a part of Lehighton Pa
Mr R. was born in Shamrock, Berks Co Pa not very far from Fleetwood on Aug 25, 1858, son of Wm W. Rothermel, who was son of "Lafe" or Lafayette Rothermel. He never remembers seeing his grandfather & thinks he died before D.J. was born. He remembers seeing his grandmother Rothermel 45 yrs ago in 1878, when he was back there on a visit when 20 yrs old. Just after he had lost his left arm. She was living in the old stone house (the homestead of her husband who was a farmer) in Pricetown, which is abt two miles from Fleetwood Pa. Her daughter Rebecca lived with her mother at that time & was not then married, but has married since. (His brother, James H. can tell her name & where she lives) & lives near Pricetown. Mr R's brother Jim is an Ex shff of Carbon Co & is an auctioneer & a great talker. He is a yr older than D.J. D.J. does not
know of any brothers or sisters of his grandfather
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His father's brothers & sisters were:
1. Charles, who was shot & killed by a sharpshooter on his way home after the Civil War was closed. He thinks he was unmarried.
2. Henry, who died in Lehighton Pa without issue.
3. Hannah married to a Moyer in Reading Pa. Thinks she is dead.
4. Rebecca, married but don't know who
5. Mary, married, but don't know who
Mr Rothermel was married Aug 1, 1893 in Wilkes-Barre Pa by Squire Cruger To Sarah Jane Marsh, dau of Elias Marsh & his wife Sarah Miller, who was born in Freemansburg, Northampton Co Pa Aug 15, 1870. No issue. He came to Wilkes-Barre June 1, 1891 from Manch Chunk Pa & started in then as a switch tender on the Delaware & Hudson RR & is still at the same switch & is also telephone operator & has never had an accident & the officials give him the palm for a wonderful record. He lost his left arm Apr 27, 1878 by an accident on the Lehigh Valley RR. He & his brother T.J. have each been married but once. Says his father's people were Methodists & he himself goes to the M.E. Evangelical Church on Dana St & his brother Tom J. goes to the Lutheran Ch which is his wife's faith. D.J. talks with a decided Dutch accent.
Left 6:33 PM
& walked over to the:
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Residence of J. Evans Reese Killgore No 16 Sturdevant ST Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 21, 1923 6:52 PM
Mr Killgore had just gone out, but his son Reese S. Killgore was at home & said he was born June 14, 1895 at New Columbus, Columbia Co Pa which is near to Berwick Pa, the son of John? Evans Reese Killgore whose father Rev James Langdon (or Lanning?) Killgore, was a Methodist preacher & named his sons all for Methodist preachers & they all have three front names. He had eleven children & I think seven sons.
Reese don't know what the name of Rev James L's father was, but says he was a mfr of oil cloth at Frederick City Md. He says his grandmother Killgore lives in Phila Pa, her name being Anna Kilgore & she is up in the 70's, hale & hearty having had 11 children & has followed six of them to their graves. She moved just recently. Her husband was a surgeon & dentist in the Civil War & gave up both & went into the ministry & was an A.B., D.D. & L.L.D. Reese S. is a musician, Clerk in the U.S. Internal Revenue office, Deputy Shff etc. He was in the Greenwich Village Follies Co a few yrs ago & in a town out in Illinois saw a political ad of a James Langdon Killgore who was running for Shff. His father is coming tomorrow night to see me. Left at 7:11 PM, he’s driving me in, in his auto. It is now 7:50 AM 22d
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Room 420 Hotel Sterling Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 22, 1923 5:36 PM
I got up at 7 o'c this morning, got my breakfast & read the Phila North American from which I noticed the death on Thursday 20th inst of Jasper Augustine, aged 70 at Addison Pa of acute indigestion. I then took a street car in front of this hotel, crossed the Susquehanna River & was soon in Kingston Pa & got off at Kingston corners & walked back Market St to No 519 (7:40 PM, I had just gotten to here at 5;45 PM when Earl D. Rothermel called on the phone & I went right over, was there 55 minutes, caught a car & came right back, paid my bill have had my dinner & will now pack up & continue this record when I get to Hazleton Pa as I am leaving on the 8:30 PM trolley)
Room 115 Hotel Loughran, Hazleton Pa Sept 22, 1923 10:08 PM
I left Wilkes-Barre at 8:30 PM on the Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Rwy Co (Trolley) & arrived here at 9:35 PM just around the corner from this hotel. Sat with Frank McDade who said he had lived here 42 yrs & knew Geo B. Markle Sr & knows his sons. I will not continue transcribing what records I scratched off hurriedly today, using the hours of conference as if written originally in this book commencing where I was stopped at line 14 above & was:
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At residence of Earl D. Rothermel No 519 Market St Kingston Pa Sept 22, 1923 9 AM
I went up the back steps to the rear of their apartment & Mrs Rothermel came to the door & said her husband had gone to Scranton Pa this morning. She sd he was 34 yrs old, was the son of James & that they came here recently from Reading Pa. She sd he wd be back at 5 PM this evening & for me to call then.
Left 9:05 AM
I then walked back to the corners & turning to the right walked out Wyoming Ave to No 292 & was:
At Residence of Fred J. Markle 292 Wyoming Ave, Kingston Pa Sept 22, 1923 9:18 AM
Fred is a fine capable young fellow, rather tall & slender with good address & demeanor & his wife who came in his store from the house in same building was a small handsome sweet looking little girl. He is an electrician & the store is full of electrical supplies, lamps, globes etc.
He said his father was Minor Dodson Markle, living near Hetlerville Pa. To reach him he sd to get off the RR from Hazleton at Zenith Sta & go to Shaffers Church & turn up a lane by the graveyard & continue to or near Nescopeck, he living abt two miles fr Zenith Sta & abt 54 yrs old, was
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born in Briar Creek Tp, near Berwick Pa the son of Conrad Markle. He said Conrad's father was killed when Conrad was abt 8 yrs old & his mother dying abt the same time left him an orphan.
Fred sd his full name was:
Frederick Joseph Markle born May 31, 1889 in Berwick Pa & married July 25, 1912 at Nescopeck Tp, Luzerne Co Pa to Della Kocher who was born in Plymouth Pa Mch 16, 1891. Have had three children, two living & one dead viz:
1. Ruth Anna Markle born Mch 16, 1914 ob Mch 19, 1914
2. Mildred Crista Markle born Oct 3, 1915
3. Betty Jean Markle born Aug 5, 1921
Mrs Markle is daughter of Emanuel Kocher & his wife Jennie Oats.
The first two children were born in Plymouth Pa & last one in Berwick Pa where he lived three years until last fall & moved here Sept 1, 1922. Said he started in the electric business when 17 yrs old & left the farm & home when 18 & came to Plymouth where he lived 13 yrs.
He says his grandfather Conrad Markle had 9 sons & 1 daughter & that Fred's Uncle Moses Markle living in Berwick Pa has his father's family bible with record. Fred says C.W. Markle, undertaker at Shickshinny has a brother George living back in the country from Shickshinny Pa who says he is 3d cousin of Fred's & says they are both 3d cousins of the Hazleton Markles.
C.W. & George have sisters, Mrs Chapin
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& Mrs Bender living in the neighborhood. He thinks their father is living. Fred said he wanted a book if it didn't cost too much.
Leaving 10 AM
Fred said when I was leaving that he had a sister living at 101 Stanton Ave Wilkes-Barre Pa who has 5 children viz: Florence Blanche Markle, wife of Byron S. Peters a carpenter. Said to take a "Grove & Brown" car at the circle & get off at Stanton St.
I then continued out Wyoming Ave a few sts to Pringle & turning to the left was soon at:
Residence of Thomas J. Finley Sr No 131 Pringle St Kingston Pa Sept 22, 1923 10:15 AM
He was a raw boned man above average size with every appearance of an Irish Catholic which he proved to be & was very uncommunicative & by questioning dragged out of him that his father, James Finley came to the U.S. from County Mayo, Ireland. Says he died in Wisconsin (thinks Iowa Co) abt 1901 (22 yrs ago) aged near 70. He married Mary Moore here in the U.S. She was fr this section. James had a brother, Andrew Finley who died in Ireland, never came to this country. James & Andrew also had some sisters, but they remained in Ireland. His own name is Thomas Joseph Finley & he was
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born Aug 1870 at Larksville Pa this county. Has a brother James & also another brother living in the west. Thomas J. Finley at 85 Thomas Westmoor here is his son so I did not need to go see him. He said they were Catholics.
Left 10:30 AM
I walked back to the Ave & took a street car to S. Bennett St & walking out it, was soon:
At residence of Charles Thomas Markle No 110 S. Bennett St Kingston Pa Sept 22, 1923 10:44 AM
Approaching the house, the porch in front was full of females viz Mrs Markle & four of her seven daughters. Mrs Markle is a heavy set fleshy but handsome woman, was well groomed, & not a wrinkle in her face, but her hair snow white. Her three young unmarried daughters were of her build, but her married daughter, Mrs Pritchard who was there, was slender build & they two & the youngest daughter were my informants. Mr Markle, who is a chauffeur has been down in New Jersey all summer, but is expected home on Wednesday next. His wife says he was born at Winfield, Union Co Pa Apr 2, 1871, the son of John Markle & his first wife, Margaret Shannon who was a sister of Joseph Shannon of Wyoming Pa. John Markle married
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2d a widow who is still living in Williamsport Pa. They said John Markle's sister, Ellen married Joseph Shannon & they live now on Monument Ave Wyoming Pa abt 3 miles north of here. Take a W. Pittston car & get off at beginning of asphalt pavement, entering Wyoming & see Mrs James Allen in a big vine covered frame house at left, right there. She is their daughter & her husband James Allen is a lawyer. They think Mr Shannon has some Markle records. Charles T. Markle was married Jany 12, 1894 at Wilkes-Barre Pa by Rev Thornton A. Mills, Presbyterian (which they are) to Mary Frances John, daughter of Robt John & his wife Catharine Rees who was born Aug 9, 1875 at Plymouth Pa & have 7 daughters & no son, the first six born in Wilkes-Barre Pa & the youngest in Westmoore, now a part of Kingston, just across the Susquehanna River from here. They never lost any children, who are as follows:
1. Ruth Muriel Markle born July 5, 1895
2. Lauretta Margaret Markle born Dec 10, 1896
3. Hazel Gwendolyn Markle born Feby 17, 1901
4. Mabel Irene Markle born Dec 26, 1903
5. Marion Frances Markle born Apr 25, 1905
6. Charlotte Ida Markle born Feby 2, 1907
7. Jeannette Bowman Markle born Dec 11, 1910
The first four are married & their records follow:
1. Ruth Muriel mar Aug 1, 1917 in Kingston Pa by Rev Bell (Methodist)
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to Norman Ringstrom, son of Alfred Ringstrom & his wife Eva, who was born in Kingston Pa Apr 26, 1895. They live at West Trucksville, Luzerne Co Pa where he is with the Metropolitan Life Ins Co & has a fine home. Have two children viz: both born in Wilkes-Barre Pa
1. Alfred Charles Ringstrom born Sept 7, 1918
2. Barbara Clair Ringstrom born May 15, 1923
2. Lauretta Margaret mar July 27, 1916 in Nanticoke Pa by Rev Morgan R. Jones (Welsh Congregationalist) (An Uncle of Mr Prichard) to Harry David Prichard son of Henry H. Prichard & his wife Elizabeth Jones, who was born in Wilkes-Barre Pa Aug 26, 1893. They have but one child born in Wilkes-Barre viz:
1. Robert David Prichard born Feby 27, 1919.
She is living here with her mother & was my joint informant.
3. Hazel Gwendolyn mar May 27, 1921 (a runaway match) at Scranton Pa by Rev Wm L. Sawtelle to George W. Bonning son of Wm E. Bonning & his wife Gertrude Spencer who was born Oct 30, 1900. No issue. They live near here at 121 Church St. He is an electrician.
4. Mabel Irene mar Jany 2, 1922 at Wilkes-Barre Pa by Rev L. Domer Uhish of St John's Lutheran Church to William Frederick Witt son of Carl
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Louis Witt & his wife Marie, who was born in Wilkes-Barre Pa Mch 20, 1896 & they have one child: born in Wilkes-Barre Pa
1. Charles Paul Witt born July 16, 1923
They live at No 70 W. Pettebone St Forty Fort near here. He is an electrician. Most if not all of these grandchildren who were born in Wilkes-Barre Pa were born in the city hospital there to which the mothers repaired for the occasion. They have lived in Kingston Pa since Mch 1908. Mrs Markle thinks (but is not sure) that Chas T's great grandfather & John, Alvin & Geo B's great grandfather were brothers. Says Chas T. resembles the Hazleton Markles.
Charles T. has one brother viz: Lester Eugene Markle living who was in the Spanish-American War & has enlisted in the army several times since. They had a card from him last Christmas from Florida. For two yrs before that, he was at Sugar Point, Louisiana & was not then married. He is 10 yrs younger than Charles T. There were only two boys but there were two girls who died young.
Leaving at 11:55 AM
I then walked back to Wyoming Ave & waited half an hour for a car & went to the Allen's & Mrs Allen sd her mother was not a Markle, but her husband drove me to her father's & was soon
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At residence of Joseph Shannon No 565 Monument Ave Wyoming Pa Sept 22, 1923 12:55 PM
Mr Allen took me in & introduced me to Mrs Shannon & went & called Mr Shannon who was working at his chicken coop. He is all bent over in a circle & can't straighten up, resulting from his having fallen five feet years ago & he has spent hundreds of dollars for relief, his internal injuries working serious constipation. Mr Shannon says that John Markle older half brother of his wife & father of Chas T. was first cousin of Geo B. Markle Sr who came from Watsontown Pa & married a sister of the wife of Ario Pardee whose maiden name was Roberts & another sister married a Lilly. The name of John Markle's father was Isaac ("Ike") Markle who was dead before Mr Shannon was born, but who was a school teacher & boarded at Mr Shannon's father's for 5 yrs while teaching school in the vicinity. He took the typhoid fever & died suddenly in three or four days at or near Winfield in Union Co Pa. He was a single man & never married but was engaged to Susannah Stetler, daughter of Nicholas Stetler & his wife Elizabeth Trutt, who was born in Union Co Pa say in 1825 & died in Union Co Pa, abt say in 1825 & died in Union Co Pa, abt a mile from Winfield, where she is buried, in 1873
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aged 49 yrs, who he got in the family way & died three weeks thereafter & John Markle, the natural son of this liaison was born 8 mos & 1 week after his father had died, so Mr Shannon said he had been told by people who knew. John's mother Susannah Stetler married about two yrs after John's birth Mr Samuel Meck, as Mrs Shannon, the oldest child of this union says she was abt 3 yrs younger than her half brother John Markle. Her mother married Meck in Union Co & had 7 children by him & they sd that of her children 4 were living & 4 dead. Mrs Shannon who was the oldest was named Mary Ellen Meck & was born Apr 4, 1850 so she said. They said:
John Markle died at Williamsport Pa aged 52 yrs. His second wife was a widow & has a son living by her first husband & she is still living in Williamsport Pa & her name is Markle as she has never remarried. John Markle's first wife, Margaret Shannon (sister of my informant, Joseph Shannon) was daughter of Joseph Shannon Sr & his wife Harrietta Redding (often called Redman). Margaret was born in Union Co Pa
Mr Shannon reiterates that Geo B. Markle & Isaac Markle were first cousins. Says John Markle was raised by his grandfather Nicholas Stetler
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& that he was a soldier in the Civil War & was confined in Libby Prison for eleven months.
Mr Shannon says he knew Geo B. Markle Sr the coal man, who earlier in life had been a boatman on the Penna Canal & an engineer & was worth eight million dollars when he died. He also boated on the Juniata River & on the canal at White Haven.
Mr Shannon was born in Union Co Pa Jany 11, 1850. He says he learned much about the Markles in his talks with older people but never wrote any of it down. He perhaps is the one man from whom I could have learned about Isaac Markle as above.
His sister, Margaret Shannon Markle died in Williamsport Pa & is buried there. She had four children to John Markle viz:
1. Ida, the oldest, born in 1863 he thinks on Aug 16th was quite a bit older than Chas. Thinks her father was in the war when she was born.
2. Charles Thomas Markle born Apr 2, 1871
3. Jane or Jennie Markle d.y. aged 7 or 8 yrs
4. Lester Eugene Markle, the youngest.
Leaving 1:50 PM
I then walked back to Wyoming Ave & waited abt half an hour for a street car & came direct to the Sterling & then going over to the circle took a "Grove & Brown" car & reached the:
It is now 3 AM 23d & I will go to bed
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Resuming transcribing 8:54 AM 23d
Residence of Byron Scott Peters No 101 Stanton ST. Wilkes-Barre Pa Sept 22d 1923 3:20 PM
Mrs Peters, a pretty little cordial girl admitted me & was very much amused when I told her my business. Her boys & girls were all there & she called her husband who was just preparing upstairs to take a bath. They own the property, a two story frame cottage with a fine expansive view from the front. Her name was:
Florence Blanche Markle born Sept 20, 1893 at Nescopeck Tp, Luzerne Pa near the line, a daughter of Minor Dodson Markle & his wife Margaret Stevenson (or Stephenson). She died when Florence was under four yrs old & her father, Minor D. remarried in 1900. He is a son of Conrad Markle. Florence Blanche married Jul6 25, 1912 (being a double wedding with Fred J.) at her father's home in Nescopeck Tp, by Rev C.W. Walck, Reformed Protestant minister. Byron Scott Peters, son of Philip F. Peters & his wife Maria Fenstermacher, who was born at Hobbie, Luzerne Co Pa Jany 9, 1886 & live at this number which they own. He is a carpenter & they have five children & have never lost any viz:
1. Woodrow Minor Peters born Dec 5, 1912
2. Roy Alfred Peters born Dec 19, 1913
3. Ethel May Peters born May 5, 1915
4. Viola Florence Peters born Sept 24, 1917
5. Margaret Anna Peters born Apr 13, 1923.
Woodrow, Roy & Margaret were born in
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Wilkes-Barre Pa. Ethel M. born in Dorranceton (now Kingston) Pa & Viola F. born in Forty-Fort Pa.
Mrs Peters sister, Margaret Markle married Rufus Yoder & lives half a mile above Zenith Sta in a double block house. She has one child. Stop & get her record when going to see her father. Florence Blanche remembers her grandfather & grandmother Markle & when a little girl, lived with them awhile at their home at Briar Creek Tp. This was before her mother died as she remembers their coming for her, saying her mother wanted to see her before she died & they took her home & she remembers crawling in the bed where her mother lay dying but cannot recall her face or features.
Mrs P's sister Bertha Markle married Whirlie (or Worley?) Walters & they live in Bloomsburg, Columbia Co Pa on Glenn Ave (take a bus) & have two children. He works for the Bloomsburg Traction Co.
Leaving 3:55 PM
Mrs Peters had Ethel May get out a large unframed photo showing a fine family group of her father & step-mother's family, in which Minor D. Markle & his wife were seated & showing also Fred J & his full sisters, also his younger half sister & brother with his step mother's son & daughter by her first husband & her first husband's son older by his first wife.
I waited half an hour at corner Grove & Stanton before I got a car back to the Hotel Sterling.
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Phoned J. Evans Reese Killgore No 16 Sturdevant St Wilkes-Barre Pa Phone 4288 Sept 22, 1923 at 5:11 PM from Hotel Sterling.
He said he had an engagement to go out this evening & could not come in to the Hotel, but proposed telling me what he could over the phone.
He said his grandfather was Joseph Killgore of Christiana Hundred New Castle Co Delaware & that he dealt in oil cloths at Wilmington & Newport Del. He thinks he was born in Christiana Hundred where he thought his father had settled & probably died. Joseph died there about 1883 to 1885 aged 96 yrs. He mentioned three sons that he had viz:
1. John Killgore who died unmarried.
2. James Langdon Killgore born abt 1832 as he died in 1898 aged 66 yrs. Did not marry until he was 35 yrs old, was a Methodist preacher, although the family were Presbyterians & had 7 boys & 5 girls.
3. Joseph Killgore married but had no issue. His widow Nellie Killgore is living at No 343 Sixth Ave Brooklyn NY & can he says, give the earlier record of the Killgores. Go see her. The elder Joseph had a brother who went west to Ky or Tenn. He says too to write or go see: Miss May Watson Green, Newport Del who is abt his own age 48 or 49 yrs & whose mother was a daughter of the elder Joseph.
Rang off 5:27 PM
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Back at residence of Earl D. Rothermel No 519 Market St Kingston Pa Sept 22, 1920 6 PM
See Pages 234 & 235. Mr R. says his grandfather was Amos Rothermel who settled in Oley Tp Berks Co Pa at or near Friedensburg. He had a farm on the outskirts of Friedensburg & later on started an undertaking establishment in the town, but discontinued that occupation abt 6 or 7 yrs before he died. He was 82 yrs old when he died in 1909 at Friedensburg & is buried in the town. His wife died about 4 yrs before he did. His brother, a very old man is still living in Minersville, Schuylkill Co Pa near the town & is a farmer & has 3 or 4 grown sons. Mr R's father is James M. Rothermel living at 149 Elm St Reading Pa & he can give fuller information abt his father Amos's family.
James M's sister, Mrs Wellington Brumbach, wife of a prominent shoemaker at Friedensburg Pa would have her father, Amos Rothermel's bible as he died at her home.
At 10:50 AM, I went to Church & now back at 12:27 PM
Other children of Amos Rothermel are: John Rothermel living in Berks Co Pa 5 miles North of Reading, along or near the Allentown Pike. Is a farmer, married & has a large family. Earl D. thinks he could tell more about the family than the others & he has a penchant for such things. See him.
Ezra Rothermel, living in Reading Pa thinks
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at 12th & Oley Sts, Meat Market married twice & has 3 or 4 boys & a girl.
James M. Rothermel married Sarah K. Dundore & lives 149 Elm St. Has but two children viz:
1. Annie Dundore Rothermel aged 44 yrs who married Harry M. Keller & lives with her father. Has 3 boys
2. Earl Dundore Rothermel born Apr 26, 1889 in Mt Pleasant (P.O. Obold) Berks Co Pa married Dec 29, 1910 at West Reading Pa by Rev Wm Harr of the Reformed Church to Gertrude Louisa Leinbach dau of Jacob Henry Leinbach & his wife Sallie Ann Klopp who was born in West Reading Pa Sept 13, 1889 & have but one child:
Mildred Leinbach Rothermel born Feby 5, 1915 in Reading Pa who is a large handsome girl in knickers, tall for her age & will weigh 75 lbs as I wd guess by my swinging scales. Mr R. came here from Reading Pa Feby 1, 1923 & is Boiler Inspector for the Travellers Ins Co. Has 8 counties, crossing the line & among others including the Co that Binghamton NY is in. He was a clerk for some years in the Colonial Trust Co Reading Pa in which he sd Abraham H. Rothermel is a director & he gave him the "Pioneer Rothermel" pamphlet which he got out. He is a tall handsome young man I should say 6 ft & his wife is a sweet charming little girl.
Left at 6:55 PM
See page 234. It is now 1 Pm & I have finished transcribing.
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Room 115 Hotel Loughran Hazleton Pa Sept 24, 1923 12:22 AM
After finishing transcribing, I read over a lot of my weeks work & made slips for all up to date at 3;22 PM 23d I called up Alvin Markle Sr & he sd to come to the bank at 10 AM 24th & he would see me. He did not know Charles Markle & sd he was not related. I then concluded to walk out to his residence & upon reaching it, I rang several times & knocked & the lady in the apartment adjoining said she had just seen Mr Markle at the back door & sd for me to walk back that he might be at his daughter Ruth's living in the house on back end of the lot. Walking back over good walks & well kept back yard, I found him at back gate, a man about my height but not so heavy, handsome & intelligent with a finely chiseled face & head, a freight conductor that anyone might well be proud of. When I told him my mission, he at once asked me in the house & we walked in the back way to the:
Residence of Charles Elmer Markle No 411 E. Chestnut St Hazleton Pa Sept 23, 1923 3:50 PM
(I will now transcribe what I penciled down this afternoon & tonight)
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Charles Elmer Markle says his father Daniel Markle aged 75 yrs lives now at No 203 Harrison St Sayre Pa, Bradford Co. He & his wife were here visiting for 7 weeks & spent 3 of them here with Chas E. & only went home last Tuesday 18th inst. Daniel's father, Jonas Markle died in Rush Tp, Schuylkill Co Pa in the Quakake (pro Quawke) Valley when Chas E. was about 15 yrs old, say abt 1894, aged he thinks 74 yrs. He don't now recall any brothers & sisters of Jonas. He gave names of Jonas children as:
1. Jacob Markle. Thinks was killed on RR in Rush Valley, unmarried. He may have him confused with Gideon which see later.
2. Joel Markle. Living in Rush Valley in the farming country P.O. Tamaqua Pa. Lives 8 miles north of Tamaqua Pa in Schuylkill Co Pa & is unmarried. Don't think he wd have his father's bible.
3. Daniel Markle, born Apr 8, 1848 thinks in Rush Valley, married Catharine Warg. Both living as above & have seven children.
4. Missouri Markle, married 3 times & is now a widow. Her present name is Missouri Rose & she lives with her son Oliver Hontz P.O. Bethlehem Pa just outside of town across the bridge toward Allentown Pa. 5 chil. Get her record. Chas thinks she might have her father's bible
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5. Hannah Markle married Swartz & both dead. She died in Phila. Thinks she was more likely to get her father's bible. Her son Oliver Swartz wd know abt his mother's effects. He used to live on Dover St near Girard Ave between 28 & 29 sts. He was a Phila & Reading RR man & got out a yr ago in the strike & has had a little restaurant on Broad St the last year. He is her only child. His last address that Chas E. Knew was 1524 Newkirk St Phila Pa but ask for him at the Drugstore cor 29th St & Girard Ave.
6. Albert Markle. Died in Mahoney City or its outskirts 12 or more yrs ago. Was married, but his widow is living there yet so far as they know. She was a Catholic. Had 4 or 5 children, one of whom Anna is married & living at Bryn Mawr. Go to Mahanoy City & hunt her up.
7. Ellen married 3 times, last husband was Dreisbach who died a yr ago in Reading Pa & she is living there now & is in poor health. She did live at 904 Rose St but moved to West Lawn on the outskirts of the city where Mr & Mrs M. visited her 5 wks ago. She had but 2 chil living a boy & a girl & a little girl died. The son lives at a small town close to Reading Pa.
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8. Elizabeth Markle, daughter of Jonas Markle married Jefferson Day & died at Pottsville Pa. He is dead too. Had 2 chil in Phila Pa 2 in Calif, 1 at Pottsville Pa & 1 in Mahanoy City Pa viz Daniel Day a miner who still lives there & is married.
9. Mrs Krebs a daughter of Jonas Markle died many yrs ago as did her husband & her only child, Frank Krebs is also dead in Reading Pa of the "flu". He was married & they think his widow & her one child a daughter are living in Reading Pa
10. Gideon Markle, son of Jonas Markle was killed on the Lehigh Valley RR in an accident. Was single. Mrs Kline says he was killed just back of their home in the Quakake Valley when a young man & was single.
Chas Elmer Markle was born in Rush Valley Nov 19, 1878 & was married Mch 12, 1902 at Trescokow, Pa, Carbon Co by Rev Sefellen E. Stofflett, Pastor of Reformed Church to Lottie Alice Welsh, daughter of John Franklin Welsh & his wife Elizabeth Mahala Mace who was born in Black Creek Valley Luzerne Co Pa Jany 31 1878. They have never had any children, but have legally adopted a girl, Ruth Seiwell, who was born in Wapwallopen Apr 15, 1902 & was legally adopted when 3 yrs old.
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She was married Aug 21, 1922 to George Seigel son of Charles Seigle [variation in spelling noted] & his wife Ida Wolf who was born in Apr 1903. They have one child:
Charlotte Louise Seigel born Mch 13, 1923 in Hazleton Pa. They live on the back end of this lot.
There are Markles living in Weatherly Carbon Co Pa 10 miles east of here who Mrs M. says are some relation. There are none in Tel Book by name of Markle see page 219.
There is a passenger brakeman on Lehigh Valley RR named Markle aged 35 or 40 living at Delano Pa Schuylkill Co who is a distant relative.
There was a Nathaniel Markle who lived at Shenandoah Pa & died there a few yrs ago rather young & left several children, one of whom, Susie whose first husband, a farmer was killed & her second husband is Jacob Manbeck & both are now living in Ringtown, Schuylkill Co Pa. Nathaniel has a brother Jonas in Shenandoah Pa who was a baker but may not be living yet. Chas E. & wife say they don't know of any relationship to Alvin Markle.
There is a Mrs Shleu (Sarah) (pro Shaloo) who was a Markle
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& who Mr M. thinks was a first cousin of his father who lives in St Joe Mo. Ask Mr M's father as they correspond.
Chas E. Markle says he has been in Hazleton for 24 yrs coming here from Rush Valley & is a freight conductor on the Lehigh Valley RR. It was not him however that went to Honesdale Pa to see Mrs Cornelius Markle. He is 5 ft 7 in tall almost my own height.
Mrs Markle's mother, a heavy set old lady came in. She married the second time, her second husband living but 5 yrs she said. Her name is Mrs Shepperly. Mrs Markle telephoned to her Aunt, Mrs Kline, sister of her father who told them of other relatives of Mr Markle's grandfather Jonas Markle viz that Jonas had:
A sister Rachel Markle
A brother Abraham Markle
A brother Reuben Markle
a Brother Gideon Markle
Sarah Shleu mentioned above is a sister of Nathaniel & they are children of Abraham.
They told me of Mrs Line nee Welsh who gave this information living with her 2d husband C. Bruce Kline aged 63 yrs at 663 N. Vine St Hazleton so I concluded to go see her after supper. They said to take
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any northside car (I took a "Freeland) at the terminal & go to 8th & Alter St turn to right & walk up one square east & she lives on N.E. corner on the inside double house.
They sd Reuben Markle as Mrs Kline told them had 3 daus & a son:
1. Mrs Price dead in Weatherly Pa
2. Mrs Whitehead dead in Altoona Pa
3. Mrs Fritz living in Delano Pa
4. Reuben Jr.
Leaving 5:40 PM
walked back & reached Hotel Loughran at 5:55 PM. Got my supper sharpened up my 8 lead pencils & took the trolley arrived at Mrs Kline's at 7:15 PM & found the house dark. The adjoining neighbors thought she might have gone to church or to see her daughter so I sat down on the front porch & waited an hour & she drove up in an auto & sd she had been to see her daughter who has a young baby. She is a short chunky matronly woman with strong features & invited me in very cordially & I soon learned that she was of the Markle blood, her mother's mother having been Leah Markle, same as my grandmother, sister of Jonas. She said her mother could neither read nor write, but had a wonderful memory & lived to be 82 & was very sorry I had not got here to see her as she knew so much abt the Markles so I was then:
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At residence of Mrs Elmira Elizabeth Kline, No 663 N. Vine St, Hazleton Pa Sept 23, 1923 8:18 PM
Mrs Kline was not able to tell me the name of her grandmother Leah Markle's father, but was sure Daniel Markle of Sayre Pa can tell. She gave me the names of his children, however in the order of their ages, she believing that there were but six as follows:
1. Jonas Markle was she thinks the oldest
2. Gideon Markle was next
3. Abraham Markle was next
4. Reuben Markle was next
5. Rachel Markle was next
6. Leah Markle was next & the youngest.
She said her mother said the Geo B. Markles were related & says there [sic] ancestors came from Holland & that there was a fortune coming to them from Holland. Said the heirs here once hired a man named Andenried from this section who went over to look after it & when he came back he opened up the Andenried Collieries which are still going. Her mother never got any money from there. See Bk 19 P 425.
She has undertaken upon my questioning to give me as far as she knew a list of the descendants of above six viz:
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1. Jonas Markle see pages 251-253 for list given today by Chas E. Markle
2. Gideon Markle, only knows of her mother calling him Uncle "Gede" ie Gideon.
3. Abraham Markle married Susannah Saunders from Phila Pa. He lived in Black Creek Tp, Luzerne Co Pa & was buried Quakake. He went to Raven Run in Northumberland Co to visit his son William but died at the supper table there simply clasping his hands over the top of his head & dying almost instantly, it was thought from a stroke. He was taken back home for burial. This was about 1881 or 1882 when he was in his 60s. His widow survived until abt 20 yrs ago & died in Shenandoah Pa. She give the names of six children they had viz:
1. William Markle, oldest
2. Elizabeth Markle
3. Jonas Markle
4. Abraham Markle Jr
5. Nathaniel Markle
6. Sarah Markle
1. William Markle married & lived at Ravenrun which is in Schuylkill Co Pa & died leaving a big family who are living abt Ravenrun & Shenandoah Pa
2. Elizabeth Markle, married July 10, 1861 Henry Henninger & thinks both are dead. Lived at Ithaca NY. Had 4 children. All live there.
See pages 388 & 458 for genealogical table JVT (Oct 18, 1923)
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3. Jonas Markle, dead married a widow Mrs Julia Whary & thinks went to Pittsburgh Pa & died. Had children Elmer & Harry. His widow is living at Phlanx (is it Phalanx) Sta West Farmington O. He died 2? yrs ago aged 60.
4. Abraham Markle Jr mar Kate Marshall & lived at Mt. Carmel Northumberland Co Pa where he fell down a man way or shaft at the mines & was killed. Had two girls viz:
a. Clara Markle mar Yost & both living at Mt Carmel Pa.
B. Minnie Markle mar Blake. She died at Mt Carmel Pa without issue.
5. Nathaniel Markle married Emma ______. He died at Shenandoah Pa & his wife also. Had a big family. His dau Susie mar 1st a White who was killed prying out a stump when the lever flew back & hit him. Mar 2d Jacob Mondeck. His other daughters Hattie & Mattie married & did live in Phila but don't know husband's names. His only son Nathaniel Jr went thru Girard College, came home when his grandmother was buried 20 yrs ago & then disappeared. He was then abt 20 or 21. Mattie told Mrs Kline over the phone tonight that he had come back.
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6. Sarah Markle married Bill Shleu (pro Shallu) & moved to St Joe Mo where both are living, but are separated. They had but one child, a dau Mabel Shleu who is married but can't recall her husband's name. She has two children.
Mrs Kline called Mrs Mattie Yost at Sugarloaf (Black Creek Tp) Luzerne Co Pa wife of Harvey Yost, who she got out of bed, for much of above data.
4. Reuben Markle married Betsy _____ & lived at Quakake & died there. His wife survived him & married 2d a Van Horn & died here in Hazleton Pa at her daughter Mrs Price's. Reuben had six children their order of ages she thinks were:
1. Elizabeth the oldest
2. Hannah
3. Emma
4. Sybilla
5. Violet
6. Reuben Jr
1. Elizabeth Markle mar Reuben Haldeman & lived at Delano Pa where he died & she married again & went to Chicago Ills where she died "had quite a family"
2. Hannah Markle married Charles Whitehead Both dead. He at Weatherly & is buried at Manch Chunk & she at Altoona & buried at Manch Chunk Pa in a cem which is up on a hill. Have tombstones. Had two boys:
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a. Harry lives at Altoona Pa is mar & is overseer of the water works there.
b. Ed, married & lives at Altoona Pa
3. Emma Markle married Chas Price. Both died here in Hazleton & are buried at Odd Fellows Cem at Tamaqua Pa & probably have markers. Had 4 children 1 girl & 3 boys viz:
a. Iva, a boy mar & lives at Lansford, Carbon Co Pa near Tamaqua Pa. He is a railroad engineer.
b. Charles Price M.D. married a Blakeslee & practices in Phila.
c. George Price a bachelor lives with Charles in Phila
d. Audrey Price, the girl married Raymond Wear & lives at Middletown NY. He is dead & she is a young widow with two children a girl & a boy. She got most of the things from home & no doubt got her parents bible with record.
4. Sybilla Markle married 2d Chas Welsh but no relation of Mrs Kline. They lived at Chicago Ills where both died. Had two children viz by 1st husband mar 1st a Moyer.
a. Alfred Moyer, a blind boy & mar a blind woman. He is a great musician & plays in the churches at Chicago Ills
b. Mattie Moyer mar Harvey Yost
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& lives in Black Creek Tp, Luzerne Co Pa at Sugar Loaf.
Mrs Sybilla was first married to a Moyer & that Alfred & Mattie are children of that Union she says Mattie would know who got Reuben Markle's bible. Her P.O. is Sugarloaf R.D. He is a farmer abt 3 1/2 miles out fr Rock Glen Pa. Have 2 boys & 2 girls viz:
a. Sadie mar Freese Zehner
b. Harold, bachelor at home
c. Orva, married George Landis
d. Samuel at home single
5. Violet Markle married Frank Fritz. He is dead, but she lives at Delano Pa & is up in her 70's. She wd know who got her father's bible. She is the only one of his children living. Ask her what her grandfather Markle's name was. Has 3 children 2 girls & a boy.
a. Anna Fritz, mar Wm Perry
b. Arzilla Fritz mar Ed Tamaris but are not living together as she is in a sanitarium
c. Harold Fritz mar & lives at Allentown Pa. Is a R.E.
lawyer. Had an arm shot off when out hunting when he was 18.
6. Reuben Markle Jr mar Elizabeth _____. Both dead at Delano Pa. "had quite a few children", only 2 boys & 5 or 6 girls. Thinks one boy lives in
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a. Delano name may be Lewis
b. Emma mar Hansen & lives in Tamaqua Pa
c. Martha mar & lives at Delano Pa. Can't recall names of the others.
5. Rachel Markle married Abram Horitz & lived up abt Scranton Pa & died there. She had but one child Abram Kerchner, but don't think she had been married before. I inferred from the way she spoke that he was born out of wedlock. He is a silk hat dude, well fixed & lives in Chattanooga Tenn. He was married & when he came here on a visit, she took up with a darkey coachman & when he went back they divided up fifty-fifty & each went their own ways. No issue.
6. Leah Markle, the youngest of the family, married Abram Airgood, a small man of English descent who was born in NJ. They lived in Tamaqua Pa where he died & she then married a man named Shultz. She died at the home of Mrs Kline's mother's Charlotte Welsh, from hasty consumption & was only 38 yrs old & is buried on the hill at Tamaqua Pa probably it is in the Odd Fellows Cem. Shultz died at Bloomsburg Pa & is buried there, she had 3 children by Airgood viz:
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1. Charlotte (the oldest) Airgood
2. Sarah Airgood
3. Deborah Airgood
She had 3 or 4 children by Shultz but they all died in infancy.
1. Charlotte Airgood born Aug 7, 1834 at Pottsville Pa & mar Oct 14, 1849 when in her 16th yr in Tamaqua Pa by Rev Shellhamer Reformed Church minister to Reuben Welsh, son of John Welsh & his wife Elizabeth _____ a big red headed Irish girl who was born Jany 18, 1827 & died July 18, 1864 in the 14 days battle. See Page 274. He fell over from exhaustion on the battlefield & was taken to the Brooklyn NY Hospital where he died. He was born in Black Creek Tp. She died Apr 19, 1916 here in Hazleton, just catecornered across the street fr here at 658 N. Vine St & is buried in the Vine St cem here. Had 7 children, 4 living & 3 dead viz: see pages 601-2
a. Levi Henry Xavier Welsh. He lives in Hazleton Pa on East Juniper St, married twice & has 8 chil by 1st wife & 2 by 2d wife. Lives back of Primitive Meth Ch
b. John Franklin Welsh dead, mar Elizabeth Mahala Mace & had 2 children:
a. Charlotte Alice mar Chas E. Markle
b. Ellsworth Franklin Welsh married Agnes Payne on Aug
10, 1904 & lives Nesquehoning Carbon Co Pa 7 have 2 boys:
A. Harold born Nov 10, 1905
B. William Franklin born July 13, 1910 school boys
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c. Eli Welsh, died in infancy
d. Crumy, a boy died aged 2 yrs
e. Elmira Elizabeth Welsh born in Black Creek Tp Apr 22, 1861 & is my good informant of over 3 hours session tonight. m.1st Mch 13, 1880 at Conyngham Pa by Rev Clemens of Reformed Church to Abram Rynard Hauze, son of John Hauze & his wife Phoebe Rittenhouse who was born in Black Creek Tp July 12, 1852 & died from Hydrophobia from a dog bite Jany 11, 1896 in Black Creek Tp. M.2d Nov 20, 1899 at Andenried Pa by Rev Jenkins Pres to Chauncey Bruce Kline son of Leonard Kline & his wife Margaret Wenna who was born in Fishing Creek Columbia Co Pa near Berwick Pa July 14, 1873. She has had six children all by her first husband & no issue by Kline:
A. Ada Reberta Hauze, born June 21, 1881 died May 15, 1882
B. Phoebe Charlotte Hauze, born Oct 4, 1883 died Nov 11, 1883
C. Agatha Hauze, born Jany 29, 1886
D. Susan MoDelle Hauze, born July 6, 1888, died Jany 29, 1892
E. Mildred Martine Hauze, born Nov 11, 1890
F. Rolland Eliott Hauze, born May 23, 1894
C. Agatha Hauze mar May 12, 1908 at St Paul's Church Hazleton Pa by Rev Dr Gilbert & Rev Dr Fasic to Elmer J. Sonn. Both living at 330 E. Cranberry ST Hazleton Pa & have 3 children viz: he is a machinist. See page 273
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aa. Elmer J. Sonn Jr born [6]*Nov 21, 1908
bb. Thoburn Dyson Sonn born Dec 16, 1910
cc. Richard Gilbert Sonn born Nov 22, 1913
E. Mildred Martine Hauze married Aug 5, 1908 at Belvidere NJ (a runaway match) to Edward J. Matthews, son of Thos Henry Matthews & his wife Emily _____, who was born Apr 25, 1888. They live in Hazleton Pa at 118 S. Church St. He drives a truck. Have 4 chil 2 boys & 2 girls.
aa. Charlotte Hauze born Mch 25, 1910
bb. Edward Rolland Hauze born Dec 1, 1913
cc. Rynard Arthur Hauze born May 12, 1917
dd. Elmira Elizabeth Hauze born July 27, 1923
F. Rolland Eliott Hauze married May 30, 1914 at Elkton Md (another runaway match) to Nettie Smith dau of Theodore Smith & his wife who was born at Hazleton Pa Sept 10, 1891 & live at 17 Oak St West Hazleton Pa where he is a grocery man by trade. Have one little girl:
aa. Mildred Agatha born Sept 7, 1915
f. Howard Johnson Welsh born in 1863 on Jany 1st & married to Laura Croll & lives at 36S 55th St West Phila Pa & works at Baldwin Locomotive works & never has had any children. He has his parents bible. See him & get record. See page 601 back of this book.
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He works by day & gets home late, would have to see him at night. However, he has not been well recently. Does not have a telephone. I find that I overlooked getting record of Mrs Kline's aunts Sarah & Deborah Airgood. See if Mrs Markle or L.H. can give them this afternoon. Left at 11:22 Pm & Mr Kline walked down to the street car station with me.
I went in the Hazel Lunch & got a club sandwich two cups of tea & worked all night got my breakfast at 8:20 got shaved & at 10:05 AM went across the street to see (Alvan Markle & was with him (& his son Alvan Jr came in the last half hour) until 12:17 PM at his room back through) the inside Banking quarters
He has referred me to Mrs Emma E. Kohler down east Broad at No 219 whose mother was a sister of his father Geo B. Markle Sr her married name being Griffin. She came here from Milton Pa where his father & grandfather John Markle are buried in a vault there in the Milton cem. & who he says can give more information about the Markles of his branch than any one he knows. Her husband is blind. It is now 12:55 PM & I will walk down there.
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At residence of Mrs William Lewis Kohler (Emma Elizabeth Kohler) No 219 East Broad St Hazleton Pa Sept 24, 1923 1:25 PM
Mrs Kohler has brought out the big old leather back bible of her grandfather John Markle which was printed at Phila by H.C. Carey & L. Lea Chestnut St 1825. From which I copy:
Marriages John Markle and Elizabeth Penny, widow alias Elizabeth Bright was married Oct 11, 1821.
Births
John Markle, son of Christian and Mary Markle was born Oct 24, 1785.
Elizabeth Bright, daughter of Jacob & Eve Bright was born March 10, 1799
Clarinda Penny, daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth Penny was born Oct 14, 1816.
1. Eveline Bright Markle, daughter of John & Elizabeth Markle was born Oct 14, 1822
2. Wm Christian Markle son of John & Elizabeth Markle was born Nov 25, 1824
3. George B. Markel son of John & Elizabeth Markel was born July 1, 1827.
4. Mary Margaret Markle daughter of John & Elizabeth Markle was born Dec the 19th, 1829
5. Emma Jane daughter of John & Elizabeth Markel was born August the 15, 1834
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Deaths
Wm Christian Markle, son of John & Elizabeth Markle departed this life on Saturday morning April 6th at four o'clock 1826 aged 16 months & 13 days.
Elizabeth, consort of John Markle departed this life August the 5th, 1837 at six o'clock PM aged thirty-eight years, four months & twenty-six days.
Eveline Bright Markle, daughter of John & Elizabeth Markel departed this life on Saturday evening Oct the 7, 1843 at 4 o'clock aged 20 yrs 11 mos & 23 days.
Clarinda Sweeny (nee Penny) died Jany 18, 1867 aged 50 yrs 3 mos & 4 days
John Markle died Mar 14, 1868 aged 82 years 4 mos & 18 days.
[variations in spelling noted]
Mrs Kohler says her mother told her that the above record was written by John Markle himself except the last two entries are in a different hand.
On an addressed half of an envelope directed to George B. Markle, Hazleton Pa from the Quaker City Auto Co Phila postmarked Phila Pa Mar 14, 1908 9:30 PM is written in pencil by said Geo B. Markle, brother of Alvan the following:
"Pall H. Thompson married to Emma Jane Markle Oct 9, 1855.
Pall H. Thompson died April 18th, 1886
G.B. Markle & Emily Robinson married?
G.B. Markle died Aug 18, 1888
Emily Markle died Sept 17, 1888"
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Mrs K. says her Aunt, Mrs P.H. Thompson died in Chattanooga Tenn & her husband died here & both are buried in the Hazleton Cemetery here.
Mrs K. says her mother, Mary Margaret Markle, wife of William Griffin died in Milton Pa on July 15, 1908 & is buried in the Milton cem right in the town.
A fine obituary states that she left 3 sons & 2 daughters & the names in the order of their ages are:
John Markle, Emma Elizabeth, Benjamin, living at the old Homestead No Centre St, Milton Pa has his parents bible with record. Clarence and Clara now wife of Luther M. Smith also in Milton Pa living on Stanton Ave has two daughters, Clarence is married & lives on Chestnut St Milton Pa & has 3 daughters & one son. Benjamin Griffin is unmarried & John M. died & is buried in Milton in his mother's lot & has a marker.
Emma Elizabeth Griffin was born July 30, 1855 at Providence Luzerne Co Pa where all five of the children were born. She married May 18, 1880 at Williamsport Pa by Rev Clark to William Lewis Kohler who was born June 18, 1848 the son of Jonas Kohler & his wife Martha _______. No issue. He was foreman of the Hazleton Mfg Co & a chip from a bolt flew & cut the eyes so that he is totally blind. This was in 1893. They were preparing to go to World's Fair & instead went to a Hospital at Phila to try [to] save his sight.
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Mrs K. shows me an obituary of Miss Anne Markle who died at her home on Mahoning Street & Garfield Ave Milton Pa about Mch 30, 1911 from the effects of a fall on the ice on Elm St 7 wks before breaking her left hip. States she was one of the oldest native born citizens of Milton being born in this Borough Aug 1829 & being then in her 82d yr. She was the daughter of Jacob & Harriet (Eckert) Markle. Her father & John Markle were brothers, the latter being the father of Mrs Margaret Griffen & the late Geo B. Markle who was the father of Mrs Carl Dahlstrom of Ardmore, Mrs Herman Hessenbruch of Phila & Geo B. Jr, John & Alvan Markle of Hazleton. She was an esteemed & lovable woman. She was member of First Baptist church.
Mrs K. says Miss Anna is buried in front of the vault & thinks Miss Anna had a sister who is buried in same lot. She says that Zachariah Markle buried in another lot in same cemetery was a half brother of Anna. Thinks Zachariah was a widower, but without children. Mrs K. says Miss Georgia Derickson now married & living in Milton Pa can give more Markle data. Her mother's mother was Aunt Katie Markle who married a Fulmer & who was a sister of John Markle.
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John & Jacob had a brother Christian Markle. Alvan speaks of John at Sunbury & his sister Mrs Cadwallader also there & Mrs K. says Mrs C. was a first cousin of her mother so they are probably children of Christian. Georgia Derrickson will no doubt be able to give data in more detail. Alvan said Wm P. Bonbright's of NY City, mother was Markle, but Mrs K. never heard of them. Ask George. Georgia's father, Mr Derrickson & his wife were first cousins & ask her if her father's mother was a Markle. Mrs K. thinks Georgia's mother's mother & her father's mother were the two sisters of her grandfather John Markle. Mrs Kohler says they moved here in 1883. Look for Jacob Markle's will at Milton Pa.
Leaving 3:15 PM
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At residence of Chas E. Markle 411 E. Chestnut St Hazleton Pa, Sept 24, 1923, 3:33 PM
Just arrived here & have met Elmer John Sonn who says he was born in Hazleton Pa Dec 10, 1879, the son of Jesse Sonn & his wife Minnie Gilbert. see page 265. Mrs Markle & Mrs Shepperly say that Sarah Airgood see top of page 264 married 2nd, John Shriver, a farmer & lived in Sugarloaf, Wallder [best guess, cut off]. Both died there & had 4 children:
1. Norman Spaulding
2. Eli Spaulding
3. Gertrude Shriver
4. Elizabeth Shriver
1. Norman is mar to Rachel Seible, daughter of Bill Seible. He lives at Tomhickon where he is a boss. Have 3 boys.
2. Eli, mar Sallie Pettit. He was a boss at Coleraine & died here abt 14 yrs ago, but she has never remarried & lives here on James St. Had four children 2 boys & 2 girls. Take st car up W. Broad to James & turn to the right.
3. Gertrude died of diptheria aged abt 16 yrs.
4. Elizabeth mar Drumheller & live in Sugarloaf Valley on the old farm. Thinks have 4 or 5 children.
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Deborah Airgood, see top Page 264 married John Welsh, being his 2d wife & he being the father of Reuben Welsh who married her older sister Charlotte. See Page 264. She died before he did, without issue.
John Franklin Welsh Page 264 was born Jany 18, 1855 at Tamaqua Pa & on Feby 22, 1877 at Sugarloaf by Rev John Clemens, was married to Elizabeth Mahala Mace, daughter of David Mace & his wife, Harriet Spaid, who was born in Sugarloaf Valley on July 6, 1856. John Franklin Welsh died Sept 9, 1902 & on July 4, 1918, she was married to William Shepperly, son of John Shepperly & his wife Lucy_____. He was born Aug 29, 1856 & died Oct 29, 1922
Charlotte Airgood Welsh mar 2d to Nathan Barager a farmer & lived in Sugarloaf Valley where he died about 43 yrs ago, thinks in Mch. She had no children by him. Mar 3d to Jonas Bittenbender a farmer down by Sugarloaf. He died before she did, thinks 10 or 11 yrs before she died. She had no issue by him. Sarah Airgood mar 1st a Spaulding & Norman & Eli were from this Union.
Geo Washington Markle, brother of Chas E. was born Feby 22, 1881 & mar abt 20 yrs ago in Mch 1904 to Emma Smith
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who was born Aug 1882 & have two children:
1. Wilbert, born Nov 11, 1907
2. Howard born Oct 1912
Leaving 4:36 PM
I then walked up the hill two blocks & turned to the right & was at:
Residence of Levi Henry Xavier Welsh on east Juniper St Sept 24, 1923 about 4:45 PM
His present or 2d wife came in & said he had been very sick for the last day or two & was flighty & could not tell about or give any record, & said he did not have any bible record & she could not give any dates of his children by his first wife. She said he was born Oct 18, 1850 & married 1st Mary Catherine Totten & had 8 children but she knew nothing abt the order of their ages, but their names, Oliver, mar & lives in Tomhicken
Eli married twice
Ellsworth? (Silas H.)
Roy
Arthur
Grace, married
Ida, married
Flora, married twice
Married 2d Apr 24, 1899 at Hazleton Pa
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by Squire Fallon to Mrs Eva Michaels, my informant widow of Frank Michaels & daughter of Aaron Sager & his wife Sarah Sniders who was born Black Creek Tp, Luzerne Co Pa June 5, 1863 & has had two children to him:
1. Elmira Welsh born Oct 6, 1899 & died May 8, 1900
2. Ira Bruce Welsh born Feby 5, 1902. at home single & is their bread winner, working in the Laundry.
Mr Welsh is a carpenter by trade but has not worked for 18 years. He is, she sd, showing me his picture on the wall, a large fat man weighing over 200 lbs. She is a very short broad dumpy woman.
Leaving 5 PM
I then walked down to Broad St & out past 1st Pres Ch & Alvan Markle's & turned to the right & went up James ST one block & was:
At residence of Sarah Catherine Spaulding No 24 N. James St Hazleton Pa Sept 24, 1923 5:30 PM
She was my informant & gave her own & Eli's record as follows:
Sarah Catherine Pettit was born Apr 19, 1862 in Black Creek Tp Luzerne Co Pa daughter of Wm Pettit & his wife Julia Smith. She married.
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Feby 24, 1883 at Conyngham Pa by Rev Derr Reformed Pastor to Eli William Spaulding who was born Nov 15, 1861 in Steuben Co NY. He died Nov 13, 1906. their children are:
1. John Franklin Spaulding born May 15, 1884 in Black Creek Tp Luzerne Co Pa married Aug 16, 1910 to Mary Ferrey who was born Apr 2d or 3d, 1892. Both living at Allentown Pa where he is an electrician. No issue.
2. Edith Lydia born at Tomhicken Pa Jany 1, 1886 & married Oct 24, 1917 to Philip Maue (pro Mow'-ie) who was born Nov 26_____ son of Philip Maue & his wife Mary Nussbaum. They live at Shamokin Pa & have one daughter:
1. Jane Spaulding born Nov 24, 1918
3. Ethel Maud Spaulding born Apr 16, 1892 in Schuylkill Co Pa was killed on RR at Cranberry Crossing Aug 12, 1917 unmarried.
4. Howard Gordon Spaulding born Oct 26, 1902 at Mellensville, Luzerne Co Pa. He is at home, single.
Leaving 5:55 PM See book 11 Ps 13 & 14
When across the street this morning from 10:05 to 12:15 Pm with Alvan Markle, he spoke of Judge Gains Halsey of their Courts here having once told him of the Merckles coming from Holland to New York State in Mohawk Valley
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in 1609 which he believes, but I don't & then a hundred years later, made their way down the Susquehannah River in boats to Harrisburg & then up Swatara Creek through Lebanon Co Pa to Berks & Moslem Creek. He said Zachariah Markle, a relative lived at Danville Pa. see Mrs Kohler's statement & that John Markle & his sister, Mrs Cadwallader of Sunbury Pa were also relatives. Also said Wm P. Bonbright the broker NY was related, his mother being a Markle.
He said Geo B. Miller of Lewisburg Pa was related but Mrs Kohler knew nothing of it.
He said there was a valuable record in the books about the Markles which you can learn about at the Wyoming Hist Society at Wilkes-Barre Pa.
He thought Bright's mother at Reading Pa was a Markle but John Markle's bible shows that his wife's maiden name was Bright & the relationship evidently comes from that connection. It was a great find in his sending me to Mrs Kohler & finding their grandfather John Markle's bible. Mrs Kohler is a large heavy set woman very like the cousin Cyrus family of Markles. Alvan said when they came down to him they
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had about run out of names & a letter written by his mother to his oldest sister who was 12 or 13 yrs older than him states that after his birth, his father Geo B. Markle Sr sat down with the bible & commenced going through it to hunt a name & when he came to the 36th chapter of Genesis & 23d verse, he found the name Alvan which pleased him & so he looked no further & called him Alvan. He said he was born Aug 29, 1861. He said Miss Anna Markle of Milton Pa who died 12 yrs ago was a cousin of his father & that the Derricksons were also relatives on the Markle side. it was news to me that Alvan was a bible name. It is now 10:20 PM & as I wasn't in bed at all last night, nor slept any then or today, I will get ready for bed & get up early in the morning & try to figure out my itinerary for going the many places my slips call for.
JVT
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Ferguson Hotel Shenandoah Schuylkill Co Pa Downstairs office room Sept 25, 1923 8:27 PM
I got up at 6:15 AM at the Loughran Hotel at Hazleton Pa & spent one hour arranging my itinerary, got my breakfast & walked out to the cemetery on Vine St & will now record what I have penciled down & remember of a very busy days work, using the dates & hours of my conferences as if written originally in this book as I have not had the facilities or time where I have been today to write it at the time in the book.
Hazleton Pa Cemetery on Vine St Sept 2, 1923 8:33 AM I walked to the office Building & Sexton Frank Walser who has been in charge since Jany 1, 1901 took me to the Thompson & Jack graves, the lost being near together almost adjoining, just north of the office bldg. I made the following notations from the tombstones:
No 1. Pall H. Thompson died Apr 18, 1886 aged 52 yrs
Emma J. Thompson died Apr 23, 1917 aged 83 yrs
Chas C. Thompson died Oct 11, 1888 aged 32 yrs
Geo W. Thompson died Nov 18, 1909 age 42 yrs
Father, Mother & two sons. The wife being a sister of Geo B. Markle Sr, Sexton Walser says a son lives in Tenn.
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No 2. Rev Alexander Jack born June 13, 1831, died May 21, 1886.
then came markers of 7 children of A.B. & C [cut off] Jack. See book 11 page 396.
Alex O. Jack born & died Apr 29, 1870
Owen S. Jack Born Apr 29, 1870, died may 12, 1870
Alice O. Jack, Born Oct 15, 1880 died Apr 15, 1882
Gertrude A. Jack born Sept 2, 1879 died Jany 3, 1883
F. Louise Jack born Sept 2, 1879 died Jany 3, 1883
Henry M. Jack born Mch 21, 1871, died Nov 20, 1883
Alexander W. Jack born Oct 7, 1882 died June 7, 1888
Sexton Walser says Mrs Rev A.B. Jack is still living here with her son Rev R.B. Jack at 209 W. Diamond St which is only a square from here.
Leaving 8:55 AM
I then walked out the back entrance to Cem on to W. Diamond St & walked down same a square to:
Residence of Rev. Robert Bonner Jack No 209 W. Diamond St Hazleton Pa Sept 25, 1923 9:05 AM
I was admitted by Norman Hamilton Jack, the youngest of Ev A.B. Jack's twelve children & he called his brother Rev R.B. Jack downstairs. He is a large stalwart well proportioned six footer & recd me very graciously & was glad to see me. I told him I had been at Church Sunday morning & heard him preach & he recalled seeing me.
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He said he was "baching" it & he & his brother were going to the Kiwanis Club for lunch, his wife being away & his mother, who he sd was 80 I believe being up at Providence R.I. She is a descendant of Roger Williams through a daughter of his. He took me upstairs & showed me on the wall the pictures of his three ascending ancestors all preachers viz: Alex B., Alexander & Robert, the latter, Robert being son of another Robert, who was a church elder at Glasgow Scotland. He has considerable information about the first two Roberts which a relative from Scotland dug out of different Histories & sent him. He said he wd at his leisure write it off & send to me. He took down some of the things I told him & was much interested in the statement I gave him that they were French Huguenots & spelled their name Jacques. He said his daughter had asked if they couldn't change their name to that spelling. He said it was a tradition in their family that they were descended from Huguenots, but they had no corroborating evidence before. He mentioned several of his father's sisters who married into prominent families in Great Britain & one had married Alexander Ramsay & their son is the man who was first successful in restoring the sight of a person who had been
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born blind & for his wonderful skill therein had been knighted by Queen Victoria I think & is now Sir Alexander Ramsay & is his first cousin. I bid them both adieu at 10:05 AM & walked out Vine St to W Broad & down to the Bank to see Alvan Markle Sr & Jr & bid them goodbye & was:
At Markle Banking & Trust Co No 8 W. Broad St Hazleton Pa Sept 25, 1923 10:22 AM
Alvan Jr took me back to his father's office & he was very gracious & kind as he had been yesterday & said his wife spoke of knowing of me through Ada Wentz, wife of Dr John L. Wentz, who with their daughter Dorothy who is married are all, he said, living in Scranton Pa. He said Dr Wentz got to playing the races & went bad. I told him of finding his grandfather John Markle's bible yesterday at [7]*Mrs Kohler's & of it disclosing that he was son of Christian & Mary Markle. He said the address of his sister was Mrs Ida M. Hessenbruch Wynnewood Pa. His sister who died last week was Clora Markle Dahlstrom & her surviving husband's address who would likely have her father's bible she got is Carl A. Dahlstrom, 43 Linwood Ave Ardmore Pa
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Alvan Sr said the name of his Uncle that married his Aunt Emma J. Markle was Peletiah Haley Thompson who came here from St Louis Mo. He has a brother in St Louis Mo named Charles & he named a son for this brother, Ario Markle Thompson, son of P.H.& E. Thompson in Tennesse & his address is: Ario M. Thompson, Signal Mountain, Chattanooga Tenn. where he is connected with a lumber concern.
Alvan thought the John Markle at Sunbury who was brother of Mrs Cadwallader & who was not married & he thought Mrs Cadwallader had one child. He said both died in Sunbury Pa. Look up their wills & her descendants. Mr Alvan Markle's youngest son, John Markle, a short heavy set stocky young man came in & he introduced me. He said he was born May 22, 1902.
Alvan did not know who Georgia Derrickson at Milton Pa had married but recalled knowing Mame & Sade [sic] Derrickson, spinsters, who are buried at Milton Pa & also a Samuel Derrickson of New York City who was of the family & lived then at Washington Square the fashionable part of NY & was an old time friend of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. As I came out I asked Alvan Jr
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when he was born & he said on July 28? 1889.
Alvan Sr sd yesterday that his mother was a Robinson & that she was a descendant of Daniel Boone. He sd today that if there was any further aid he could give, to call on him & he would be very glad to help. He said yesterday that they would move out of their old town house, which they had sold to the Elks or some order, today & he was going to build a new home out of town.
Left at 10:42 AM
I then went across to the Hotel, paid my bill, packed up & walked up W. Broad two blocks & took the 11 AM Mahanoy bus & arrived at the P.O. Delano Pa at 11:45 AM passing through scrub brush mountain land all the thirteen miles of the way. Asking at the P.O. for Mrs Violet Fritz, they said she lived in 3d house up the street around the corner right there to the left & proceeding there was at:
Residence of Mrs Violet Jane Fritz, No 47 Bon-Ton St, Delano Pa Sept 25, 1923 11:55 AM
Her grandson took me in & called her, a short active woman who came in from the kitchen to the sitting room where her daughter, a large handsome black eyed swarthy
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complected woman of Markle build & countenance was sewing.
Mrs Fritz says her father, Reuben Markle had brothers Jonas, Abraham, Gideon "Gede" & sisters Rachel & Leah (Airgood). Says she didn't know Leah, but knew Rachel well & that she was married but once & that to Abram Hontz & lived at Hyde Park, Scranton Pa. Both died & are buried there. Mrs Fritz was to see her before she, Mrs F. was married over 50 yrs ago, but says she never saw her after that.
Abe Kerchner was her first child. He lived in Chattanooga Tenn. His wife was Cordelia______ who he married in Scranton Pa. They never had any children. She is dead. Thinks she had one son & three daughters by Hontz. The son had falling fits & died unmarried. Says the daughters were young girls when she was there 53 yrs ago. Thinks some of them would be living in Scranton Pa yet, but don't know whether they were married or not.
Says Uncle "Gede" - Gideon - was a farmer & thinks he lived in the west. She never saw him, but knows he was married.
She knew her Uncle Abe. She came to visit his son Wm at Raven run & had a stroke at the supper table & died just after saying to his wife
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Susannah who was with him: "you can say what you have done, but don't say what you are going to do" & then drooped & they thought he was joking. His widow Susannah died in Shenandoah Pa where some of them live now & where the granddaughter Susie now lives. Didn't know to whom she was married but Jacob Mondeck is her second husband. She is daughter of Nathaniel of Abraham.
Some of the children live at Roaring Creek. Says Wm's folks have all left Ravenrun & gone to Roaring Creek. Says to ask Mattie Yost. She is daughter of Mrs Fritz sister Sybilla Welsh, but was taken by her Aunt Susannah Markle & raised. She lives in Conyngham Valley near Rock Glen abt 10 miles fr Hazleton Pa.
Mrs Fritz says her sister Mrs Price got her father's family bible & her daughter wd have gotten it. Mrs Price lived at Weatherly, but died in the Hazleton Hospital 13 yrs ago last July. Her child, Iva, lives at Lansford Pa. Dr Chas at Phila & George is with the Doctor. Audrey, the daughter lives at Middletown NY. She too thinks she wd have got the old Reuben Markle bible. She left the organ in Hazleton. Reuben Markle died aged 55 yrs, 2 yrs before Mrs Fritz was married. His
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children in the order of their ages were:
1. Elizabeth the oldest, mar 1st Reuben Haldeman. mar 2d John Motz. what children are living are in Chicago Ills. Her son:
1. Eli Haldeman lives in Altoona. He is a machinist boss in the shop. Married & has one daughter at home.
2. Rose Haldeman, married Ed Jasper of Wilburton, Columbia Co Pa 4 miles out of Mt Carmel Pa. Both living. He a miner. Have 3 boys & 1 girl.
3. Violet Haldeman, died unmarried
4. Louise Haldeman, who is the oldest girl married Al Gimpy, a barber in McAdoo. She can tell about Sally Motz, her half sister & the Chicago people. They correspond. They have a boy Ruby & a girl Pearl who live with their father.
5. Sallie Motz, married but don't know who.
2. Abraham Markle married Elizabeth Moyer who was born Nov 5. He died in Delano Pa & she in Tamaqua where both are buried in Odd Fellows Cem, he in soldiers ring & she in her daughter Gulder's lot, but does not believe she has a marker. Had several children viz:
1. Emma mar Hauser & live in Tamaqua Pa
2. Lizzie mar Kline & live in Tamaqua Pa
3. Tillie mar Joe Goldner & he lives Tamaqua Pa. She died 2 yrs ago
4. Lewis lives in Tamaqua, used to live
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here. He married Carrie Gouldner a niece of Joe Gouldner [variations in spelling noted]
5. Winfield is at Mt Carmel & used to be passenger brakeman here on the Lehigh Valley RR on which he runs yet. Married Arletta Blue & have 3 girls & a boy.
6. Martha Markle see page 292 et seq mar 1. Will Rhoads mar 2 Joe Tarn & lives here in Delano Pa up the RR tracks fr the Sta & has children Eva, Lee, Edgar & Mildred Rhoads & Emma Tarn. Her house is the last one up the RR tracks on the left hand side.
7. Harry Markle lives at Bethlehem Pa with one of his children on a chicken farm. He married Kate Koch, but they are parted. Has nine children.
8. Reuben Markle Jr lives Elizabeth NJ. Mrs Tarn his sister sd later that he lived at 649 Adams Ave where he is a blacksmith for the Jersey Central RR. His wife is living & they have three children.
3. Martha Markle died aged six yrs
4. Frank Markle died young
5. Sybill Markle mar 1. Albert Moyer & had 2 children. mar 2. Chas Welsh & had 3 children:
1. Albert Moyer. Lives in Chicago Ills
2. Mattie Moyer mar Harvey Yost & lives in Conyngham Valley
3. Minnie Welsh }
4. Sadie Welsh } All in Chicago Ills
5. Archibald Welsh }
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6. Hannah Markle married Charles Whitehead & had 4 children:
Emma, dead unmarried
George, d.y.
Harry, in Altoona
Edward, in Altoona
7. Violet Jane Markle born in Tamaqua June 11, 1850 & is the only one of Reuben Markle's twelve children living. She married June 24, 1870 in Hazleton Pa by Rev Yocum, Methodist, Henry Franklin Fritz (called Frank), son of Geo Fritz & his wife Elizabeth Angeline Henninger who was born in Palo Alto Pa (near Pottsville) Jany 16, 1849. He died on the couch right by me in this room Sept 11, 1915. Had eight children, the oldest born here in Delano, next two in Mt Carmel & last five in Delano in this house which belongs to the coal company & in which she has lived 38 yrs.
Anna Louisa born Dec 12, 1871 mar Sept 3, 1893 to Henry Lewis Perry son of James Perry & his wife Mary Brill who was born in Barnesville Pa Aug 15, 1871 & died Oct 25, 1901 in Hospital at Pottsville from injuries aged 30 yrs 2 mos 10 days. She was along with her mother, my helpful informant of the day. had 3 children viz:
1. Ronald Milton Perry Born Jany 20, 1898 in Mahanoy City Pa. At Home single works on RR firing engine.
2. Warren Henry Perry born Feby 1, 1900 in Mahanoy City. At home single. Works in the shops here of Lehigh Valley RR Co
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3. Unnamed daughter born Dec 28, 1901 here in Delano & died same day. She was unconscious at the time & never saw it.
2. Stillborn daughter born Nov 1874
3. Zillah Jane Fritz born Nov 2, 1875 mar Oct 20, 1895 at Tamaqua Pa by Rev Fisher of Reformed Ch to Edward Philip Thamarus (pro Ta-mar'-is), son of Philip Thamarus & his wife Alice Stong who was born in Tamaqua May 1871. Both living, he at Allentown Pa where he is a machinist & she in the Insane Asylum at Rittersville Pa. Had a stillborn boy Oct 1896.
4. Mary Violetta born Aug 1879 & died in Sept 1879, living but 15 days
5. Stillborn son born June 30, 1883
6. Esther Oliver Fritz born Sept 1885 & died July 1888 aged 3 yrs
7. Harold Wesley Fritz born Sept 16, 1889, married 1916 to Dora Gothrie dau of Joseph Gothrie & his wife Elizabeth _____. Both living, no issue. He ran off & married & they didn't know of it for 2 yrs.
8. Dead born girl born Mch 1892
8. Levi Markle d.y.
9., 10., & 11. There were some stillborn children being twelve in all.
12. Ivan Markle, died aged 3 yrs while his brother Abe was in the Civil war. He was the youngest. They showed me a History of Schuylkill Co published in 1882 in which was a page notice on page 176 facing his picture
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of Michael Merkel, wonderful resemblance to our West Newton Markles which stated that he was born in Cressona, Schuylkill Co Pa 58 yrs ago say 1824 the son of Philip Merkel a native of Berks Co Pa. I did not have time to read all of the article and left at 1:46 PM
I wanted to take the 1:55 PM train on the Lehigh Valley RR for Mahanoy City Pa four miles further on, which did not give me time to go up the tracks to see Mattie Tarn, but the agt sd the train was 18 minutes late & I asked him if it would give me time to go up to see her & he said she was there in the women's waiting room, so she came in the men's waiting room & her husband & son also & gave me data until train came & she & her husband were going to Mahanoy City & they continued until we reached Mahanoy City & we went in the waiting room there & finished up her record which was considerable & which is as follows: see page 289.
6. Martha Markle born July 15, 1872 in Delano Pa mar 1st Oct 1, 1892 to William Edward Rhoads who was born Nov 15, 1865 at Locust Gap Pa son of Jacob Rhoads & his wife Rosanna ______ & who died Jany 10, 1910.
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Mar 2d Apr 13, 1912 to Joseph Rhoads Tarn son of Wm Tarn & his wife Elizabeth Davis who was born at Shenandoah Pa Apr 16, 1884 & who is extra conductor on the Lehigh Valley RR, a tall well built capable man who by reason of his familiarity with RR & trolley lines was very helpful in suggestions for my itinerary. She is a bright well formed plump, pleasing woman & I was very fortunate in connecting up with them. She has had six children, Eva, Lee & Edgar born in Delano, Mildred & Rosanna in Mt Carmel & Emma in Delano.
1. Eva May Rhoads, born May 30, 1893 m. 1st Nov 11, 1909 when she was 16 & he 19 Thomas Thatcher, son of Thomas Thatcher, who was born at Shenandoah Pa say 1890 & who died Jany 29, 1912 being killed on the Lehigh Valley RR at Andenried overhead bridge aged [cut off] M. 2d Apr 1920 George Beers who is 14 yrs older than Eva & was 45 his last birthday, son of George Beers. Her children:
I. Harold William Thatcher, born Aug 29, 191[cut off]
II. Georgine Beers born July 6, 1922
2. William Lee Rhoads, born Oct 15, 1894 m. Aug 1917 to Franey [sic] Smith dau of David Smith & his wife Ellen Shaffer. Didn't know date of her birth. Have 3 children.
I. Lorraine Rhoads born July 16, 1918
II. Martha Eleanor Rhoads born Dec 10, 1919
III. David William Rhoads born July 6, 1923
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3. Samuel Edgar Rhoads born Aug 3, 1896 & died July 9, 1918 unmarried.
4. Mildred Elizabeth Rhoads born Jany 12, 1898 m. Oct 19, 1916 to Lee Watkins who was born in Janesville Pa. He is chief locomotive inspector for the Lehigh Valley RR Co & lives in Delano Pa & have 5 children:
I. Jane Virginia Watkins born May 20, 191[cut off]
II. Edgar Watkins born July 9, 191[cut off]
III. Lee Watkins Jr born Mch 192[cut off]
IV Myrle (a girl) Watkins born May 16, 1922
V Arline (a girl) Watkins born Apr 4, 1923
5. Rosanna Rhoads born Nov 7, 1899 unmarried. is with her Uncle Lewis Markle at Tamaqua Pa at No 119 Washington ST. He is machinist foreman for Atlas Powder works & has 3 children.
6. Emma Marion Tarn born Feby 16, 191[cut off]
Her brother Winfield Markle's address is Park St, Mt Carmel Pa just across from the park. He has 4 children. Mrs Tarn says there are Markles in the Quakake Valley, two old men but only one now. Says the one moved away with his son (this was Daniel who went to Sayre Pa) but his brother, also old, is blacksmith at Stewarts Water Plug abt 3 miles east of Quakake town. Mr Tarn saw him last Sunday on his last trip there. He was down on RR & waved to him as he went by. (This is Joel oldest son of Jonas.)
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Mattie Tarn says her mother's house was burned down by fire at Delano & their bible with record & everything was burned up. Her brother Harry is at Bethlehem Pa on Cherico St & has 9 children, all married but three. He works on a farm with his son Howard Markle between Bethlehem & Allentown.
Mr Tarn sd after going to Jackson Patch to take trolley to Shenandoah & then take PRR train or trolley to Minersville & then go via Pottsville to Tamaqua on train or trolley & then take train on P&R RR to Quakake & see Joel Markle by auto which can get in Quakake & take next train at Quakake & take P&R train to Ringtown. Mrs Gimpy at McAdoo can tell abt her sister Rose at Aristes Columbia Co Pa or Mrs Albert Markle can tell. Aristes is near Mt Carmel.
Bidding Mr & Mrs Tarn goodbye, I walked out to the P.O. at Mahanoy City & got the address on W. Spruce of Daniel Day & walked 8 blocks & found him setting on his front porch & was:
At residence of Daniel Day No 108 W. Spruce St Mahanoy City Pa Sept 25, 1923 3:50 PM
Mr Day says his Aunt [8]*Ella Markle sister of his
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mother was married three times. M.1. Robert Marsh who is dead. M.2. John Blair who is dead, M.3 Tighlman Dreisbach who is dead, he called it Trispot & that she lives at 904 Rose St Reading Pa up near the cemetery on a back St. Had two children, one by Blair & one by Dreisbach. She lives with her daughter by Blair who married a mail carrier. She will be able to tell about the family. She is daughter of Jonas Markle & sister of Daniel at Sayre & Joel at Quakake.
Daniel Day was born here in Mahanoy City Pa May 11, 1872 & on Aug 29, 189[7 or 9 cut off] married Mary Krause widow of Daniel Krause & daughter of Peter Engelman & his wife Dora Dietrich who was born in Germany Mch 25, 1866. They were married here in Mahanoy City by Rev G.M. Buck, German Lutheran minister & have two children born here viz:
1. Eva Elizabeth Day born Apr 26, 1901
2. Mary Katherine Day born Feby 14, 1905 Both at Home single.
He is a miner & a German Lutheran. His brother James Day is dead. His widow who survives is a Catholic. She has five boys at home all single & her two daughters both died.
His brother Jonas Day had ten children, seven living. He lives at 100 Prince Ave Norwood (Darby) Phila Pa.
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His sister Mrs Minnie Connors lives Spring Garden St, Pottsville Pa, up fr the jail. Has 3 chil. His sister Mrs Emma Landis, wife of Philip Landis is 431 Paoli Ave. See Bk 16 P 571. Roxborough Phila Pa.
His brother Thos J. Day lives in Calif. Daniel is 5 ft 11 in tall & weighs 212 used to weigh 230. I had to wait until his wife & daughter Mary came home, whom I met. Mrs Day medium weight short woman & Mary a big fleshy pretty girl. He then walked with me to his sister-in-law's who has his parents bible.
At residence of Mrs Julia Ellen Day No 423 or 428 E. Mahanoy St Mahanoy City Pa Sept 25, 1923 4:30 PM
Daniel introduced me to Mrs Day & one of her sons. She sent her son upstairs & he brought down the big bible of his grandfather Day which was printed by M.J. Moore & B.W. Mahanoy City Pa but without date. I copied the record as follows:
Father: Thomas Jefferson Day born Mch 22, 1814
Mother: Elizabeth Day born Feby 1, 1841
George Day born June 20, 1852
(Daniel said his mother was a Hinkle probably his father's first wife). Then follows the children of T.J. Day by his wife Elizabeth Markle dau of Jonas Markle.
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1. James Day born Mch 23, 1861
2. Thomas Jefferson Day Jr born Feby 4, 1865
3. Daniel Day born Mch 11, 1872
4. Emma Day born Sept 30, 1873
5. Jonas Day born Mch 4, 1877
6. Ellamena Day born July 23, 1881
(Daniel says her name was Wilhelmina & they call her Minnie)
7. Ellen Day 2d child next younger than James who died would be now 59 born say 1863 or 1864. She married Andrew Warren. He lives in Phila. She died 19 or 20 yrs ago. Left 4 boys & a girl viz: See page 308.
Thomas Warren, lives Phila Pa
John Warren 413 E. Market, Pottsville up from the depot, from PRR turn to left. From P&R turn to right across st Married & an engineer.
Arthur lives in Phila
Eva lives in Phila
Woodward lives in Phila
James Day was married Dec 24, 188[cut off] to Julia Ellen Thornton dau of Michael Thornton & his wife Annie Sherry who was born Sept 4, 1862 at St Nicholas Pa outside the town. Mr Day was a miner & died Jany 20, 1911. Have had 8 children all born in this town except Thos who was born at St Nicholas Pa.
1. James Day born June 7, 1884
2. Thomas Jefferson Day born Aug 19, 1886
4. John Joseph Day born Oct 1, 1891
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3. Stillborn Day born Dec 11, 1890
5. Michael Francis Day born July 12, 189[cut off]
6. Joseph Benson Day born Nov 12, 1898
7. Annie Day born Sept 23, 1889
8. Elizabeth Rose Day born July 16, 1892 ob July 3, 1906 aged 1[cut off]
All at home single
Thos J. & John J. were abroad in the World War and Joseph B. were in the service on this side.
Leaving 5:05 PM
Hotel Allan Pottsville Pa downstairs public writing room Sept 26, 1923 7:17 PM
I commenced after supper last night to write down yesterday's work see page 280 & wrote until 7:54 AM this morning without stopping but half an hour for breakfast & then took the 8 AM trolley from Shenandoah from here on the car that Joseph H. Markle was conductor on & he would not take any pay. I got all of yesterday's work down but the last conference with his mother & family & will now transcribe that & today's work so far as I can. I was not in bed at all last night & cannot get a room here tonight but have enough work to keep me another night, provided I don't get too sleepy.
I took St car at 5:30 last night at Mahanoy City for Jackson Patch, left my satchel with Mrs Simpson & walked down to the "Barn" & was:
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At residence of Mrs Sarah Markle "The Barn" Jackson's Patch near Mahanoy City Sept 25, 1923 5:55 PM
Mrs Markle said her husband's full name was William Albert Markle (called Albert) son of Jonas Markle & his wife Julie Ann Stewart. Says that Joel at Quakake is the oldest or 79. Ellen Dreisbach at Reading Pa 904 Rose St might tell. Mrs Markle says she was married five times or six. Wm Albert Markle was born in Rush Tp, Luzerne Co Pa in the Quakake Valley on Nov 18, 1861 & died June 26th 1912. He was married Sept 13, 1886 in Mahanoy City Pa in St Caricus Church by Father Peter McEnroe to Sarah Igo daughter of James Igo & his wife Annia Salen who was born at Valley Furnace who was born Jany 1, 1866 & have had 5 children all born in Mahanoy City except Joseph H. who was born in Jackson Patch.
1. Annie Matilda born July 12, 1888
2. Julia Cecelia, born Nov 30, 1890
3. Loretto Rosalie born Feby 23, 1893
4. Joseph Howard born Apr 30, 1895
5. Sarah Frances born July 27, 1898
1. Annie Matilda mar Feby 22, 1908 at NY to Arthur John Scanlon, son of John Scanlon & his wife Margaret Rogan, who was born Jany 1, 1889 at Hudsondale Pa. Both living at No 109 Petrie Ave Rosemont Pa (near Bryn Mawr) where he is an electric engineer. Have 5 children 1st one born in NY 2d & 3d in Jackson Patch & last two at Bryn Mawr.
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1. Anna Catharine Scanlon born May 22, 1[cut off]
2. Mary Scanlon born May 14, 19[cut off]
3. Helen Scanlon born Dec 4, 191[cut off]
4. Paul John Scanlon born June 29, 1915
5. Margaret Scanlon born Aug 24, 1919
2. Julia Cecelia mar Apr 27, 1911 at Phila by Father Cowle to Charles O'Neil Wisher son of Charles Wisher & his wife Ellen O'Neil, who was born in St Nicholas Pa Aug 28, 1888 & both living in a part of this same house "The Barn" where he is a miner & have 5 children, 4 born here & Arthur born in Phila Pa.
1. Charles Daniel Wisher born Jany 5, 1912
2. Eleanor Claire Wisher born Feby 20, 1913
3. Joseph Howard Wisher born June 23, 1917
4. Arthur Wisher born Dec 23, 1919
5. Sarah Wisher born Dec 25, 1921
3. Loretto Rosalie mar Oct 1, 1914 at Mahanoy City Pa by Father McEnroe who married her mother, to Raymond Kline son of Fred Kline & his wife Kate Lookingville who was born in Mahanoy City Pa Jany 6, 1893 & both living at Mahanoy City Pa where he is a miner.
4. Joseph Howard Markle mar Aug 10, 1921 at Mahanoy Place Pa by Father Fleming to Catharine Marie Boyle daughter of John Thomas Boyle & his wife Mary Josephine McGough, who was born in Phila Pa Mch 18, 1901 a most beautiful girl & have one child:
1. Joseph Markle born May 26, 1922 in this house.
Joseph H. lives here & is conductor on the Schuylkill Street Rlwy
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5. Sarah Frances Markle mar Feby 8, 1921 at Ellangowan Pa by Father Munley to John Cullen son of John Cullen & his wife Alice McCgreen [McClreen? McCoreen? best guess] who was born at Mahanoy City Pa Nov 26, 1895 & have one child:
1. John Cullen born Nov 19, 1921.
Mrs Markle said Missouri Rose was married five times & is now living at Bethlehem Pa.
Left abt 7 PM
in Joe H. Markle's Ford with him & his handsome wife, for Shenandoah Pa where I arrived 7:22 AM [sic] at Hotel Ferguson where I wrote all night last night.
I left with Joe on the trolley at 8 AM this morning, reached Pottsville Pa 31 miles at 9:30 AM, left my satchel & overcoat at New Eagle Hotel & walked 6 or 8 squares up most hilly Sts to 323 Spring Garden St & was told I might find Mrs Connors at Lees Corner N 2d St & E. Market. On the way down the steep streets, I stopped at the Court House & on pages 304 to 307 inclusive are noted what data I took from the records at the Registers office. I then walked down N. Second to Market & was soon at:
Residence of Miss Ella Lee No 5 N 2d St Pottsville Pa Sept 26, 1923 12:17 PM
I found Mrs Connors here at work, she explaining that
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she worked different days for different people & that while they called her "Minnie", her name was Wilhelmina Day born July 23, 18[cut off] & married Jany 6, 1898 at St Patricks Rectory in Pottsville by Father Dryle to John J. Connors, son of Daniel Connors & his wife Bridget Kenne[cut off] who was born in Pottsville Pa Nov 25, say 1861 (as she sd he was 20 yrs older than she was) & died Mch 1, 1911. Have three children, lost none, all born in Pottsville Pa viz:
1. Daniel Alliwishers Connors born Jany 19, 189[cut off]
2. John Joseph Connor [sic] born Dec 1, 190[cut off]
3. Mary Elizabeth Connor born Dec 2, 1910
1. Daniel A. married July 27, 1922 at St Patricks Rectory by Father Campbell to Catharine Sweigert & they live with his mother at 323 Spring Garden St. He works in the Round House at Tamaqua Pa. John J. & Mary E. are in school. She thinks her mother died in 1893 in July aged 56, buried in Odd Fellows Cem here & her husband is also buried there & Mr Connors is buried in the Catholic Cem No 3 just along side. No markers at her father's or husband's. Her father died at Mrs Warren's in Phila but Mrs Landis wd likely know the date.
John Warren an engineer on PRR living on east side of Market here has a bell Tel. says she wasn't 11 yet when her mother died. Says her mother had 13 children of whom 7 grew up & 6 d.y. Thinks Mrs Landis can give record.
Leaving 12:40 PM
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Registers office of Schuylkill Co at Pottsville Pa Sept 26, 1923 10 AM
An old gentleman in the office says the County was organized 1811 or 1813. He says he is 82.
Will Index
Date of Death Name Will Book
*Oct 7, 1901 Finley, Ann Vol 12 P 47
* Markle, William Vol 3 P 248
* Merkel, Michael Vol 7 P 364
*Nov 30, 1909 Merkel, Chas H. Vol 16 P 397
*Jany 5, 1911 Merkel, Simon Vol 17 P 229
*Oct 26, 1912 Merkel, Curtis W.S. Vol 18 P 222
*Feby 2, 1920 Merkel, Wm H. Vol 23 P 158
No 6. see page 224 Will book 12 Page 47
Will of Ann Finley recites that she is of the Bor of Tamaqua & wills:
2. To dau Mary Ann Moore wife of Thos Moore of Warrior Run Luzerne Co Pa $125
3. To dau Bridget Simmers wife of Peter Simmers of Silver Creek Schuylkill Co $125
4. To son Moses Finley of Valley Furnace Schuylkill Co $25
5. To son Morris Finley of Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co $725 & all the bals of my estate.
Lastly appoints Arthur J. Pilgram of Pottsville Pa Exr signed June 11, 1900 & witnessed. Ann (her mark) Finley
Probated Oct 21, 1901
7. Will Book F Page 248
Will of William Markle recites he is of the Tp & Co of Schuylkill, farmer & directs:
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1. that his body be interred in the burying ground of the Zion Church Lewistown in sd Tp
1st gives to son Simon Markle 100 A upper part & all the sawed timber blanks & the blanks at Solomon Markles, he to pay $50 per acre for the land $1000 of it to be pd as part of his legacy.
Directs that the old Homestead farm be rented out until my son Benjamin Markle becomes 21 yrs old when he shall have right to take it at $60 per acre of which $1000 is to be allowed on his legacy.
To my daughter Hattie married to John Schock $1000
To my daughter Catharine married to Benneval Yoddar $1000
To my daughter Hannah Markle $1000
Balance to be equally divided among my five children. Appoints esteemed sons Solomon Markle & Simon Markle Exrs & appoints Solomon Gdn of Benj Dated Oct 28, 1866. William (his mark) Markle Witnesses: James Evans a name in German (Jeremias Yensen), Stephen Ringer. Nov 7, 1866 above 3 witnesses proved will $7 Int Rev Stamps.
8. Will Book 16 p 397
Will of Chas H. Merkle recites he is of the Bor of Cressona & gives entire estate to sister Annie C. Merkle of same place & appoints her Exr. Dated Oct 9, 1907. Charles H. Merkle.
Probated Dec 4, 1909
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9. Will Book 17 P 229
Will of Simon Merkel recites he is of Walker Tp & leaves estate to wife Lydia for life & then to be distributed in accordance with Intestate laws. Dated Apr 21, 1902. Simon Merkel
Probated Jany 31, 1911 & letters c.t.a. granted to Lydia Merkel whose mark is witnessed by Emma M. Merkel.
10. Will Book 18 P 222
Will of Curtis W.S. Merkle recites he is of Bor of Cressona & gives:
2d to my son Harry Guy Merkle my silver watch & chain
3 To my daughter Ethel June Merkle my piano
4 To my wife Mary Elizabeth Merkle all personal & household goods & also all my R.E. as long as she remains unmarried, but if she marries, Exrs to sell R.E. & divide proceeds equally between my wife Mary Elizabeth Merkle & my two children Harry Guy Merkle & Ethel June Merkle. Appoints wife sole Exr dated Feby 9, 1904
Curtis W.S. Merkle Probated Nov 6, 1912
Don't find will of Wm H. Merkle at Book & page noted.
11. Will Book 7 P 364
Will of Michael Merkel recites he is of the Bor of Minersville, yeoman, directs body be interred in M.E. cem Minersville
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Gives to wife Margaret Merkel all household goods & $5000 Life Ins $2000 in others etc etc also use of dwelling in Minersville for life, she to support our daughter Mary Rosanna.
Gives daughters Clara & Mary Rosanna each a watch.
To my daughter Clara Ellis, wife of George Ellis certain judgts etc
To son George F.P. Merkel a judgt
To son William my repeating sixteen shooting rifle
To dau Mary Rosanna, piano reversion of property, but if she die before reaching 21 yrs, her share to go to my children equally viz: John H. Merkel, Philip Merkel, Clara Ellis, Geo F.P. Merkel, Horace E. Merkel & William Merkel.
To grandson Claude Boyer son of my daughter Emma decd $200
Charges son Horace E. Merkel with $1500 spent in his education for doctor of Medicine. Appoints brother-in-law, John M. Heilner, gdn of Mary Rosanna & appoints son Geo F.P. Merkel Exr Dated July 22, 1889 Michael Merkel, 2 witnesses. Probated July 30, 1889
There are no wills by any Caruthers, Jack, Kilgore, Redburn, or Rothermel
The first will recorded is that of John Fearster of upper Mahantongo Tp Co of Schuellkill [sic] dated Sept 4, 1811 & recorded Nov 6, 1811
Leaving 12 o'c noon
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At residence of John Warren No 412 E. Market St Pottsville Pa Sept 26, 1923 12:55 PM
I found them eating their lunch. Mr Warren is a compactly built stocky young man & his wife & daughter are handsome & well dressed. He, John Warren was born Apr 25, 1885 in Mahanoy City & married June 30, 1906 at Phila by Rev Wm Smith of Talmadge Reformed Church to Rebecca Ann Witman daughter of Andrew Witman & his wife Laura Elizabeth Bartlett. She was born in Roxborough Pa on Feby 14, 1888 & they have but one child:
1. Laura Elizabeth Warren born Nov 1, 1909.
Mr Warren had undertaken to make up in a big bible he has a record of his family & had written them down as he got them. I will however, rearrange the order of the births at least. His mother Ellen Elizabeth Day see page 298 was married Jany 24, 1883 by Rev D.L. Mott Pastor of St Johns Eng Lutheran Ch to Andrew Warren of St Nicholas Pa. He was born Sept 12, 1860
Elmira (Ellen) Elizabeth Day born Aug 12, 1866.
Their children are:
1. Thomas Jefferson Warren born Dec 24, 1883
2. John Warren born Apr 25, 1885
3. Margaret Eva Warren born Mch 14, 1888
4. William Arthur Warren born May 12, 1890
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5. George Ralph Warren born Sept 6, 1892
6. Woodruff Wilbert Warren born Sept 16, 1900
Deaths
Elmira E. Warren died Dec 8, 1904
George Warren died Sept 6, 1898
Andrew Warren is still living
Thos J. Warren lives 4362 Pechin St Roxborough Pa married but no issue
Wm Arthur Warren lives in 4100 block Pechin St Roxborough Pa married 4 children living, one dead.
M. Eva Warren married Edwin Epley & live on Ridge Ave abt 3800 Block Phila Pa in Wissahickon. Have 3 children
W.W. Warren lives Cor Pechin & Pensdale Sts Roxborough Pa have 2 children.
Leaving 1:17 PM
John Warren said to turn to the right from Main entrance of Odd Fellows Cem here & go down along the fence & would find the grave of his grandmother Elizabeth Day on the left of the walk. With the help of janitor or sexton, H. McLennan No 807 N. Centre St Pottsville Pa we found the small marker well down toward the corner. I gave McLennan 25 cts to look up the records & get date of her death if he could. The marker only had her name on it.
Left 1:40 PM
I then had the taxi drive me to new Eagle Hotel & got my satchel & overcoat & then to P&R RR where I found next trains to Sunbury being 3:33 PM & 6 AM. Then to St car stop & took the 2 Pm car for Minersville Pa & went to:
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Residence of Claude F. Rothermel 21 Sunbury St, Minersville, Pa Sept 26, 1923 2:33 PM
The entrance to this residence is through the Thompson barber shop where Mr R. was getting shaved & I talked to his daughter, wife & niece. This house is just around the corner from where I got off at the street car sta. Mr R. says his grandfather was Isaac Rothermel, was a farmer & had the following children:
1. William Wilson, dead, Farmer see page 231
2. Amos W., dead, Father of my informant
3. Manasses, farmer, living near Klingerstown
4. Lazarus, farmer living in Klingerstown
5. Monroe, farmer living near Klingerstown
6. Abraham, farmer living near Klingerstown
7. Lucy, mar Nich. Adams, living
8. mar John Weiser, living
Claude said that Lazarus lived at Klingerstown in the far western corner of this Schuylkill Co in the town & his brothers Mansasses, Monroe & Abraham, all farmers live near, within 2 or 3 miles of the town, one of them living on the old home farm of their father. Find from them whether his name was Isaac or Lafayette, see page 231. Mrs Adams lives in Williamstown Pa near, he thinks Uniontown, is 8 or 10 miles from Klingerstown, north
Amos W. Rothermel came here from Klingerstown & settled here. Had
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married before coming Eliza Klinger. She had a son Alvin K. Wiest who was older than the Rothermel children & Calude's wife indicated that Wiest was born out of wedlock as his mother had never been married, but once & that was a rather common occurrence.
Amos W. Rothermel died Jany 11, 1907 aged 65
His widow Eliza Rothermel died Apr 1921
Their children were:
Maslada, a girl
Milton
Edwin
Charles
Lucy
Claude F., the youngest. F. is but an initial he put in his name.
Claude F. Rothermel says he was born at New Castle in this Co Oct 18, 1883 & on May 26, 1906 he was married at Minersville Pa by Rev Perkenpine a Methodist to Helen Jones, daughter of Daniel Jones & his wife, Mary Jane Watkins, who was born in Gowan Pa on Mch 26, 1887 & have 3 children:
1. Mary Olive Rothermel, born Feby 24, 1907
2. Margaret Jones Rothermel, born Dec 27, 1914
3. Helen Louise Rothermel, born Jany 28, 1921
Milton & Charles live on Lewis St between 5th & 6th. Claude F is a dairyman. Mrs R. is a very large woman, not tall but broad, but has a very attractive face. He said that his mother had an old Rothermel Bible
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which he said had ten or twelve pages written full of family records & when his mother died in Apr 1921, her son Al K. Wiest kept it & would not give it up. Edwin says A.K. Wiest died Feby 2, 1923 & that he will try to trace it. I told him I wd pay $10 for it & then give it to him after copying the record.
Left 3:40 PM
I then walked out & up Sunbury St five blocks to the end of the brick st & of the town & turned to the right at 6th St to Lewis the next St & found the:
Residence of Milton Rothermel, Lewis St Minersville Pa Sept 26, 1923 4 PM
He lives in a block of new houses, as does his brother Charles & the houses are not numbered yet. Neither of them were home from their work, so their wives gave the records. Mrs Milton Rothermel had just recently had ten teeth pulled & was yet suffering therefrom. She said Milton Rothermel was born on June 9, 1873 at Klingerstown Pa & was married Dec 29, 1895 at Pottsville Pa by Rev J.H? Umbenhen, German Lutheran to Edith Cardella Bueck, my informant, daughter of Henry Bueck & his wife Anna Spilthorn. She was born in Minersville Dec 27, 1875 & have 3 living children & one dead, all born at Primrose Pa. She said she had been married 14 yrs & 4 mos when her first child was born.
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1. Norman Lester Rothermel born Apr 25, 1910 & died Mch 2, 1915
2. Dorothy Pearl Rothermel born June 13, 1912
3. Herbert Milton Rothermel born Mch 24, 1916
4. Russell Rothermel born June 11, 1919
Mr Rothermel is a timber contractor. She sent Herbert to show me which house Charles live in.
Left 4:11 PM
A half a square down the street was:
Residence of Charles K. Rothermel, Lewis St Minersville Pa Sept 26, 1923 4:18 PM
This Mrs Rothermel is a very handsome woman, large & well formed, pretty face & a happy healthful demeanor & her baby Gloria is a beautiful fat baby, even features, good head, happy & smiling. Mrs R. said Charles K. Rothermel (K is but an inital) was born in Mt Pleasant Pa in this section on Mch 13, 1876 & was married Nov 10, 1904 at Minersville Pa by Rev Karsch, German Luth. to Bessie Athey Vera Crone, daughter of John Crone & his wife Lizzie Athey. She says she was born in Donaldson Pa Feby 27, 1886 & have two children living & 1 dead viz:
1. Charles Rothermel born Apr 7, 1905, died Apr 17, 1905
2. Harry Burton Rothermel born Apr 10, 1919
3. Gloria Rothermel born Aug 10, 1922
Mr Rothermel is also a timber contractor
Left 4:28 PM & walked back to Claude's & then out the other way to:
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Residence of Edwin Klinger Rothermel No 228 Westwood, Minersville Pa Sept 26, 1923 5 PM
I found Mr Rothermel sitting on his front porch, he having got in a few minutes before from Pottsville Pa where he is clerk in the Recorders office. He says his Aunt Hannah Rothermel, now the wife of Emmon Haupt lives out beyond Klingerstown abt 3 or 4 miles north, where he is a farmer. Mr R's sister Maclada Rothereml who married Wm J. Morris who died but she lives in Centralia which is abt 2 miles fr Mt Carmel. She has two children living & one boy was killed in France in the World War.
He was not sure of his grandfather's name & first said it was Jacob Rothermel but concludes it was Isaac & that it was his brother Jacob that went west he thought to MO.
He said his grandfather Rothermel's father lived in Northumberland Co. Examine wills at Sunbury. One of the brothers of his father lives on the old home farm. Edwin K. Rothermel says he was born in Klingerstown Pa June 18, 1874 & was married June 15, 1904 at Pottsville Pa by Rev D.J. Power (Episcopal) to Margaret Stevenson daughter of Hugh F. Stevenson & his wife Mary Brown who was born in Posttsville Pa Aug 22, 1877, & have two children viz:
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1. Edwin Francis Rothermel born Aug 3, 1905
2. Gladys Margaret Rothermel born July 12, 1907
He said Alvin K. Wiest who had the old Rothermel bible & who was his older half brother, son of his mother had died Feby 2, 1923. He sd he wd try to trace it.
Leaving 5:22 PM
I then walked back to Claude's & got my satchel & went to the street car station & took the 5:36 PM car for Pottsville Pa arriving at 5:55 PM & coming in this Hotel, Allan said they had no room to give me, but that I could write in the writing room. I got my dinner & commenced on page 299 to write up my work. AT 1 PM the night clerk said one party who had a reservation didn't turn up, so he let me have the room. It is now 3 AM & I will go to bed as I am to be called at 5 AM, so I can get my breakfast at the Plaza Rest. & catch the 6 AM train on the P&R RR for Sunbury Pa. JVT
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Registers Office of Northumberland Co Pa at Sunbury Pa Sept 27, 1923 9:25 AM
Will Index
*Crothers, Andrew, Alex Colt Admr Bk 4 P 232 Apr 7, 1851
no Crouthamel, Abram R T.H. Crouthamel Admr Bk 9 P 6 Mch 24, 1886
*Cadwallader, Albert Seth I. Cadwallader Exr Bk 14 P 245 May 4, 1912
*Cadwallader, Geo B S.P. Wolverton Jr Admr Bk 15 P 37 Oct 27, 1914
*Cadwallader, John M Geo B. Cadwallader Admr Bk 6 P 440 May 9, 1887
*Cadwallader, Mary N Robt W. Correy Exr Bk 6 P 535 Sept 17, 1878
*Cadwallader, Mary G Geo B. Cadwallader Admr Bk 7 P 568 May 29, 1885
no Crumheller, Abraham Martin Drumheller Admr Bk 3 P 262 May 6, 1837
*Dunkelberger, Abraham Susanna Dunkelberger Bk 3 P 400 Mch 14, 1842
*Dunkelberger, Abraham minors Jacob Reaker Gdn Oct 9, 1848 *Dunkelberger, Abraham Felix Maurer gdn 169 Mch 16, 1858
Dreibelbiss, Abraham
no Derrickson, David Jesse Derrickson Exr Bk 3 P 26 Sept 22, 1828
*Derrickson, Jesse Sarah C. Derrickson Admr Bk 9 P 8 May 4, 1886
no Derrickson, Mary V Edwin V. Derrickson Exr Bk 5 P 258 Apr 20, 1864
*Derrickson, Mary Sarah C. Derrickson Exr Bk 14 P 209 Mch 21, 1912
*Derrickson, Mary E Clarence A. Robt Exr Bk 17 P 555 Feby 6, 1919
*Derrickson, Sarah C H.W. Chamberlin Exr Bk 18 P 220 Oct 11, 1920
*Dunkelberger, Solomon Sarah Humble Admr Bk 6 P 47 June 19, 1872
Acct filed 4/7/80
*Derickson, Wm W Mary E. Derickson Exr Bk 5 P 329 Dec 6, 1865
*Eisenhart, Elias Casper Scholl Admr Bk 5 P 293 Feby 28, 1856
*Eisenhart, John Jones Eisenhart Admr Bk 3 P 239 Oct 4, 1836
*Elliott, Thomas Alexr Elliott Admr Bk 2 P 94 Feby 23, 1809
*Fetterolf, Emanuel Edward Fetterolf Amdr Bk 9 P 163 Jany 29, 1895
*Finley, John Jacob GroJean Admr Bk 1 P 6 May 10, 1775
*Fetterolf, Mary John Tressler Admr Bk 9 P 293 Feby 20, 1901
*Finley, William David Beveridge Exr Bk 12 P 44 Apr 6, 1904
*Markle, Abraham Catharine Markle Admr Bk 9 P 334 Oct 15, 1902
*Markle, Amandus S. Martin D. Markle Exr Bk 13 P 398 May 14, 1910
*Markle, Benjamin Isaac H. Knorr Admr Bk 5 P 279 Oct 3, 1864
*Markle, Catherine John Latshaw Exr Bk 18 P 51 Nov 22, 1919
*Markle, Annie M. Geo B. Markle Exr Bk 13 P 611 Apr 4, 1911
no Merkley, Elizabeth Jacob Merkley Admr Bk 1 P 131 June 3, 1794
*Markle, Gideon Mary Markle Admr Bk 4 P 230 Apr 1, 1851
*Markel, Gideon Chas F. Markel et al exr Bk 14 P 634 Apr 7, 1914
*Markel, Jacob Harriet Markel Admr Bk 3 P 67 Apr 21, 1830
*Markle, John G. Mary G. Cadwallader Exr Bk 6 P 575 Feby 11, 1879
*Markel, Jacob Bk 8 P 23 Mch 1, 1886
*Markle, Martin Daniel M. Schwartz Admr Bk 5 P 149 Apr 23, 1862
Markle, Martin minors Michael Emerich Gdn 316
no Mechen, Michael Saml H. Rodarmel Exr Bk 5 P 527 Sept 25, 1869
*Markle, Martin Amandus S. Markle etal Bk 12 P 327 Jany 23, 1906
*Markle, Martin Marin D. Markle Admr Bk 15 P 234 Nov 24, 1920
no Markley, Peter Elizabeth Markley Admr Bk 1 P 61 Apr 26, 1789
no Markley, Simon George Markley Admr Bk 1 P 61 Feby 14, 1789
no Marcley, Solomon Henry Shaffer Admr Bk 2 P 203 Feby 23, 1813
no Markley, Solomon Edwd G. Markley Admr Bk 2 P 517 May 23, 1826
*Markle, Zachariah Wm P, Wendel Exr Bk 10 P 564 June 17, 1898
*Rothermel, Abraham Wm Rothermel Admr Bk 3 P 450 Oct 17, 1843
*Rothermel, Abraham Saml H. Rothermel d.b.n. Bk 6 P 459 Oct 11, 1877
*Rothermel, Abraham's minors Saml S. Wagner gdn 159
Rothermel, Abraham Bk 5 P 91 Mch 23, 1861
*Rothermel, Abraham P.S. Bickel et al exrs Bk 7 P 187 Mch 30, 1881 July 5, 1876
Rothermel, Barbara B.M. Bubb Trustee 312 1/2 Aug 6, 1885
*Rothermel, Charles Danl B. Rothermel Exr Bk 8 P 503 Mch 25, 1892
*Rothermel, Charles H. B.F. Keistetter Admr Bk 15 P 147 oct 19, 1918
*Rothermel, Charles L. Jennie M. Rothermel Admr Bk 15 P 173 Feby 19, 1919
*Rothermel, Daniel Abraham Rothereml Admr Bk 2 P 436 May 17, 1823
*Rothermel, Daniel Isaac Rothermel Exr Bk 6 P 552 Bk 4 P 269 Jany 27, 1854
*Rothermel, Daniel B.M. Bubb, Admr Bk 6 P 552 Nov 15, 1878
*Rothermel, Daniel H J.G. Smith Admr Bk 9 P 139 Dec 9, 1893
*Rothermel, Elizabeth Isaac Rothermel Exr Bk 5 P 32 Nov 21, 1859
*Rothermel, Eliza Bk 10 P 532 Mch 11, 1898
*Rothermel, George T. James L. Rothermel Admr Bk 9 P 184 Feby 22, 1896
*Roadarmel, Gideon Oliver P. Roadarmel Bk 9 P 192 July 9, 1896
*Roadarmel, Gideon David Bittinger Admr Bk 9 P 192 June 11, 1896
*Rothermel, Harrison D Saml A. Bergstresser Bk 6 P 528 July 29, 1878
*Rothermel, Heaty J.H. Heinsling Exr Bk 7 P 429 Nov 10, 1883
*Rothermel, Harriet Joseph K. Brosious Admr Bk 9 P 142 Jany 16, 1894
*Rothermel, Isaac Isaac S. Rothermel Exr Bk 8 P 490 Feby 5, 1892
*Roadarmel, Isaiah Simon Vought Admr Bk 9 P 114 July 2, 1892
*Rothermel, Isaac Wm Rothermel Exr Bk 10 P 360 Oct 15, 1896 Sept 22, 1911
Rothermel, Ira Geo A. Foltz Gdn 700 Feby 22, 1906
no Raker, Jacob Geo Raker Ad c.t.a Bk 4 P 251 Aug 30, 1851
*Rothermel, James G.W. Armstrong Admr Bk 6 P 480 Jany 14, 1878
*Roadarmel, Jesse F. Sarah E. Roadarmel Exrx Bk 8 P 580 Feby 13, 1893
*Roadarmel, John F. Simon Vought Admr Bk 9 P 185 Mch 9, 1896
*Rothermel, Joseph Morris Rothermel Bk 9 P 84 Oct 14, 1904
*Roadarmel, Leonard John Roadarmel Bk 3 P 201 Jany 12, 1835
*Roadermel, Lemuel Mary A. Roadermel Bk 4 P 607 Apr 9, 1858
*Rothermel, Mary James F. Raker Exr Bk 6 P 445 July 18, 1877
*Roadarmel, Marget, George E. Roadarmel Exr Bk 10 P 26 Aug 12, 1893
*Rothermel, Mary Harvey A. Rothermel Admr Bk 15 P 314 Aug 6, 1923
*Rothermel, Oliver P. Bk 18 P 331 May 20, 1921
*Roadarmel, Roland R Deloo Roadarmel Admr Bk 9 P 379 July 5, 1904
Roadarmel, Rodman R's minors Sep Co Sham Gdn Guaranty trust 769 Feby 23, 1910
*Rothermel, Richard H. Jennie S. Rothermel Admx Bk 15 P 259 Oct 13, 1921
*Rothermel, William's minors Saml S. Wanger gdn 187 Feby 3, 1868
*Rothermel, William Daniel Holshue Adm Bk 4 P 361 Dec 10, 1853
*Roadarmel, William Jesse F. Roadermel Exr Bk 6 P 547 Oct 21, 1878
*Rothermel, William Grant M. Rothermel Admr Bk 9 P 241 Oct 10, 1898
*Rothermel, William M.S. Rothermel Admr Bk 15 P 280 May 27, 1922
*Thompson, John James Thompson et al exrs Bk 1 P 253 Oct 5, 1801
*Thompson, Joseph Joseph, Henry Bennet exrs Bk 1 P 276 July 30, 1802
no Thompson, John Sarah Thompson exr Bk 7 P 263 Dec 29, 1881
*Thompson, Mathew Rebecca Thompson et al Bk 1 P 23 Dec 10, 1782
no Thompson, Michael Jacob Reed et al Exr Bk 1 P 259 Jany 9, 1802
no Thompson, Robert Matilda M. Thompson Bk 12 P 229 July 3, 1905
no Thompson, Samuel Maria Thompson Admx Bk 4 P 359 Nov 11, 1853
*Thompson, William Jean Thompson et al exrs Bk 2 P 75 Apr 22, 1808
No other Caruthers or Finleys, Markles or Rothermels & no Jacks, Kilgores, or Redburns but there are Dreibelbiss, Driesbachs & Dunkelbergers galore.
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The new 1923 Directory of Sunbury & Northumberland up to date, shows:
Carothers, Danl (Hazel F.) h 548 Reagan
Cadwalder, Mary r 228 5atha
Markel, Chas F. (Mame E.) Blksmth RD 3 Hamilton h 1304 Market
*Rothermel, Alice C. r 440 Fairmont Ave
Rothermel, Anna M. wid Oliver P. h 226 Pine
Rothermel, A. Oscar Carp r 149 N 2d
Rothermel, Ceil J. (Elizabeth S.) lab h 11 Penna Ave
*Rothermel, Chas E. (Sarah E.) h 724 Market
Rothermel, Clarence F. (Mabel M.) Mach. h 344 Walnut
Rothermel, Emmet (Agnes M) h 820 Market
*Rothermel, Geo L. (Music schr) h 113 Market
Rothermel, Gladys I. r 121 S 2d
Rothermel, Grant M. (Bertha M.) Brakeman h 121 S 2d
Rothermel, Guy E. (Agnes M) Gass Fitter Penn Power & light Co h 3 Catawissey Ave
Rothermel, Henrietta, Weaver, Susy Silk Mills h 1050 Wolverton Av
Rothermel Howard Appraiser Susy Silk Mills r 75 8th
Rothermel, Howard, silk wkr r 42 N 4th
*Rothermel, James M. (Cora E.) mach. Susy Silk Mills h 1050 Wolverton Av
Rothermel, Jennie M. wid Chas L. h 330 N 4th
Rothermel, Kevi R. (Elda) mach h 843 N 4th
*Rothermel, Sarah J. wid Richd H h 440 Fairmount Av
Rothermel, Ulysses G., lab r 250 Line
The above is Sunbury Directory
Below is Northumberland Directory:
Carothers, Sarah r 167 Wheatley Ave
Carothers, Wm Lab h 167 Wheatley Ave
Rothermel, Clyd A. (Cath E) barber r 81 Duke
There are no Finleys, Jacks, Kilgores, or Redburns. JVT 3 PM 27th.
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See page 306 NO 12
Andrew Crothers was of the Bor of Northumberland & Dr Joseph Priestly & William Elliott were bondsmen in $250.
13. Albert Cadwallader of Bor of Milton covers 6 pages of will book. Names Annie L. Cadwallader as 1st wife dead & Louisa A. Cadwallader 2d wife surviving.
Excludes daughter Gertrude H. Spindel wife of Garnett Spindel.
Provides for sons Austin S. & Seth I. Cadwallader & daughter Mary Louisa, wife of Henry Hill, Kate Elizabeth, wife of Norman Rife & dau Bertha May Cadwallader & son James Albert Cadwallader.
States that he had a marriage contract with present wife nee Louise A. Crawford dated Apr 16, 1909 by which during her widowhood, he pay her $60 monthly. Will dated Aug 20, 1909 & Probated May 6, 1912.
14. Geo B. Cadwallader's estate was later admrd on see same Book p 67 where on Jany 6, 1916, letters were granted to Mary M. Cadwallader his daughter with bond in $10,000 with Anna E. Wolverton & Mary E. dissinger on. States he was of the Bor of Sunbury & died Oct 21, 1914
15. Estate of John M. Cadwallader states he was of Sunbury & died Apr 26, 1877 at 9 PM & letters granted to Geo B. Cadwallader bond $500.
16. Estate of Mary Nesbit Cadwallader, will discloses that she gave music lessons that her husband
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is still living, but she does not name & gives equally to her three sons, James Cameron, John Murray & Robt Irwin Cadwallader a long list of property given to her by her father when she got married & another list accumulated from her earnings. Dated Jany 23, 1878 Probated Sept 17, 1878
17. Estate of Mary G. Cadwallader of Sunbury states she died May 9, 1885 & letters granted to Geo B. Cadwallader with bond in $16000 with Simon P. Wolverton & John Haas sureites on may 29, 1885. See Book 15 P 67 where on Jany 6, 1916 letters were granted to Mary M. Cadwallader, she being a daughter, with bond in $8000 with Annie C. Wolverton & Mary E. Dissinger on.
18. Estate of Abraham Dunkelberger states that Susana who took out letters was his widow.
19. Estate of Jesse Derrickson states he was of the Bor of Milton & died in Feby 1861 & that the Exr viz W.W. Derrickson named in his 2will having died now May 4, 1886, Sarah C. Derrickson is appointed Amr with bond for $200 with Geo B. Cadwallader & L.T. Rohrback on bond.
20. Will of Mary Derrickson of Bor of Milton wills her entire property to her sister Sarah C. Derrickson & makes her sole exrx. Dated June 11, 1888 & witnessed by Samuel Derrickson Sarah A. Gilmore. Signed Mary Derrickson, Saml Derickson's signature. Proven Mch 21, 1912 by Kate M. Ettla & Georgia N. Derickson.
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21. Will of Mary E. Derickson gives
To son Samuel Derickson the "Derickson" family clock & half dozen silver tablespoons.
To daughter Georgia M.D. Roat entrie bals of personal property.
After debts are pd, bals to divide one half to daughter Georgia M.D. Roat & remaining half to my two grandsons Geo H. Ettle & Myron D. Ettle. Appoints daughter Georgia M.D. Roat & son-in-law Clarence A. Roat Exrs. Dated Jany 2, 1918 signed Mary E. Derickson Proven Feby 6, 1919
22. Will of Sarah C. Derrickson [sic] of Bor of Milton gives:
2d to Jessie Irene Derickson dau of Dr Saml Derickson $100 to Sarah B. Weddell $300 to Harriet P. Derickson $300.
3d to Samuel Derickson of Dorsey Neb $1000
4th To Mary H. Sensenbach of Williamsport Pa $300, but if she shd die before to go to Margaret H. Quigley also of Williamsport Pa
5th to womans For Mis Soc of Milton $100
6 to Amer Bible Soc $100
7 To Milton Cem Co $100 to care for lot
8. To Dr James B. Neal of Shantung China $00 for Shantung Christian mission
9. To Salvation Army of Milton Pa $200
10 To Mary R. Rathmell $500
11 To Clarence A. Roat of Milton Pa $200
12 To Georgia M. Roat of $500
13 To Geo Ettla & Myron Ettla each $100
14 her estate to pay collateral inh tax
15 to 1st Pres Ch of Milton Pa $200
16 to place a bronze tablet of Rev Wm P. Breed in 1st Pres Ch Milton Pa. Georgia M. Roat 1/2 & Ettla boys other 1/2 as residuary legatees dated May 1919 Sarah C. Derickson. Proven Oct 11, 1920
23. Estate of Solomon Dunkelberger states he was of Cameron Tp & letters issued to Sarah & Thomas Humble (Anna Ruff having first renounced her right) bond in $8000.
I got to here at 5 PM & they were closing for the day.
The Neff Hotel Room 406 10 PM Sept 27, 1923 Sunbury Pa
I got my supper & got a taxi to take me out to Fairmount Ave No 440 & will record my work of the past 3 hours as I have just got in.
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At residence of Mrs L.A. Schrader No 440 Fairmount Ave Sunbury Pa Sept 27, 1923 6:55 PM
Mrs Schrader was the second wife & widow of Richard H. Rothermel & she gave me directions of how to reach James Monroe Rothermel, his brother. She said her late husband Richard Harrison Rothermel was born Aug 17, 1872 at Dalmatia, this Co & Mar 1. in Oct 1893 by Rev Snable to Sallie Ann Leitzel, who was born Oct 27, 1875, the daughter of Henry Leitzel & his wife Mary Shelley & by her had:
1. Elsie May Rothermel born May 6, 1897 in Richfield Pa & married Mch 29, 1921 to Charles F. Wian, son of Ulysses Wien [sic] & his wife Caroline McCafferty. He was born in Lewistown Pa July 14, 1890 & has had two children viz:
1. Charles Rothern Wian Nov 15, 1921 in Sunbury Pa
2. Stillborn son born Dec 13, 1922
Elsie's mother, Sallie A. Rothermel died Oct 31, 1895 & Richard H. Rothermel mar 2. June 19, 1905 at East Salem Juniata Co Pa by Rev Joseph E. Ott to Jennie Sarah Shirk daughter of Michael B. Shirk & his wife Josephine Shallenberger, who was born at Richfield, Juniata Co Pa July 26, 1887 & had two children & 1 dead (1905)
2. Alice Carletta Rothermel born Dec 28, 1905 in Sunbury
3. Stillborn daughter born in Wanchula Fla Mch 18, 1913
4. John Leon Rothermel in Sunbury Pa Oct 22, 1915.
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Richard H. Rothermel was killed in an auto being hit by a train on the PRR at a grade crossing at Selins Grove Pa Junction Sept 27, 1921. His widow, Jennie Rothermel married on July 7, 1923, Lee Anthony Schrader & live here.
Richard H's father was or is Aaron Rothermel who moved to Snyder Co Pa & is living there with his daughter Mrs Fred H. Mengel on a farm abt 2miles from Mt Pleasant Mills, a widower who will be 79 yrs old at his next birthday in Jany. She says he has an old bible with record, which he has with him.
Leaving at 7:25 PM
She was a helpful handsome young woman & is pretty & intelligent. Her boy came in I then walked down to Market & out 10th to Wolverton & was:
At residence of James Monroe Rothermel No 1050 Wolverton St Sunbury Pa 7:50 PM
He says his grandfather was Charles Rothermel & that he died in Rebuck this Co (I think I have reference to his will on page 317) over 30 yrs ago & he thinks he was 81 or 83 yrs old. He was married twice. His first wife being a Brower & his second
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was the widow Beistel who had two sons & a daughter by Beistel. He thinks he had 4 children by first wife & 7 by the second. He does not think that his father got the Charles Rothermel bible. Says I could find out from his father's half brother Daniel Rothermel, a retired farmer living at Urban this Coutny. He said he would know "more about the flock" than his father, as he was raised with them & his father wasn't. The first wife's children were:
(It is 12:55 AM 28 & I am sleepy & will go to bed) (Resuming at 6 AM)
1. Killian, the oldest
2. Harriet, mar Benj Phillips. Both dead & left a "whole bunch of children:. See Killian Phillips, their son at Hickory Corners this county & he can give record.
3. Joseph
4. Aaron Rothermel, living near Mt Pleasant Hills
children by 2d wife
5. Daniel, living at Urban, was father's exr
6. Frank
7. Lewis
8. Leannah, a girl
9. Sarah
10. Mary
11. a girl, d.y.
4. His father, Aaron had 7 children two of them died small
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1. Minnie mar Reuben Markley & both living at Beaver Springs Snyder Co Pa & have 3 children.
2. Richard H., have record
3. James. He gave me his own viz Born at Mandata, Cumberland Co Pa Oct 14, 1874, & married Jany 22, 1897 at Shamokin Pa by Rev Wampol to Cora Hapner dau of Wm Hepner & his wife, Alice Schnee, who was born in Freeburg, Pa Jany 22, 1879. No issue. He is a blacksmith, medium sized man, living at above number.
4. John Benton born May 22, 1879?. He was killed in Reading Pa on the P&R RR Co on Apr 1st or 2d 1905 where he was conductor over a freight gang. He married Minnie Keim who died abt 2 yrs after he was killed. She had one child born between 5 & 6 mos after his death in Sept 1905 viz John K. Rothermel aged 18 & who lives now in Stronsetown, Berks Co Pa with his mother's parents.
5. Ira, a boy, between Jim & John? died aged 3 yrs
6. Adella, mar to Fred H. Mengel two miles out of Mt Pleasant Mills, west out the Richfield Road & with whom her father Aaron is now living.
7. a baby girl died just after birth
To go to Daniel Rothermel's take PRR to Herndon, this Co & then take a mail bus or get someone to take
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me to Urban Pa where he lives. He directed me how to reach Chas E. Rothermel on Market St abt No 720.
Left at 8:25 PM & walked to house indicated & his wife & daughter I believe, sitting on the porch said he had gone to bed & said I could see him if I wd come early in morning. They then directed me to go up over the hill to his brother Geo L's & said his siter had just left them to go home.
I then walked up Market St & finally in the darkness found just over the hill on right hand side a fine home.
The residence of George L. Rothermel No 1113 Markle St Sunbury Pa Sept 27, 1923 8:55 PM
A lady admitted me & said she was Mr R's sister viz: Lillie Ida Rothermel born at Mahanoy in Schuylkill Co Pa near Demsite? Apr 10, 1865 the daughter of Andrew Rothermel & on Dec 9, 1883 married at Uniontown (Pillow) Dauphin Co Pa by Rev C.K. Brumheller Lutheran Pastor, to Charles Clinton Bingemon born Mch 28, 1863 son of John Bingemon & his wife Mary Wiest. He died July 9, 1915. He was a painter by trade but was in the hotel business the last two yrs of his life. They had two children:
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1. Clarence Hurl born Apr 29, 1884 in Dalmatia Pa this Co & died Oct 11, 1888.
2. Clinton Cleaver Bingeman born Sept 4, 1888 in Dalmatia Pa.
These dates were taken from their bible record in a small bible she went upstairs & brought down & from her marriage cft. She said her son Clinton C. was married at Harrisburg Pa to Effie Fegley daughter of Cherry? Fegley & they live at No 221 N 6th St, this city nearly up to the tunnel to whom she referred me as her memory was bad. Said they had two children Charles Clinton born on a May 2 & Helen.
At this point, 9:18 PM, her brother George Lanton Rothermel, more unattractive than she & he was less communicative than she & almost uncivil but said he was born at Dalmatia Pa Oct 15 [9]*1869 & is unmarried & says he tunes pianos & is a teacher & writer of music. She said her father Andrew Rothermel aged 72 yrs (he must be older) is living at Dalmatia Pa & that his father Isaac Rothermel had a brother Jacob. Andrew lives one block down along the RR tracks from the PRR Sta. Go see him.
Left at 9:25 PM & walked back to Hotel. It is now 7:30 AM 28th & I will go to breakfast.
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At residence of Charles Ellsworth Rothermel No 724 Market St Sunbury Pa Sept 28, 1923 8:05 AM
I found Mr R. a Heavy set jovial man back of the house at the garage burnishing up his car preparatory to a week-end auto trip to Harrisburgs & Phila Pa. He said he was born in Lykens Valley, Dauphin Co Pa Apr 22, 1869 (he says his brother Geo L. is the oldest & was born in 1861 not 1869 see preceding page) & was married Feby 3, 1889 at Dalmatia Pa by Rev Geyer Lutheran minister to Sarah Elizabeth Fenstermacher dau of Michael Fenstermacher & his wife Rebecca Snyder who was born at Dalmatia Pa Feby 3, 1871 & they have had but one child & she is dead viz:
1. Arlie May Rothermel born at Dalmatia Pa Aug 23, 1889 & died Oct 14 1919 but who however had married on June 22, 1914 at Sunbury Pa by Rev O'Boyle, Harry M. Stevens son of D.M. Stevens & his wife Margaret Neagley who was born in 1890, a year younger than his wife but had no issue. He lives in Collingwood NJ & travels for a whoel sale dry goods house.
Leaving 8:17 AM
I then walked back to N 6th ST & turning to the right went out to:
Residence of Clinton C. Bingeman No 221 n 6th St Sunbury Pa Sept 28, 1923 8:26 AM
Mrs Bingeman recd me graciously
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She is a buxom medium sized woman good natured & kind but talks with a Dutch twang as does Chas E. Rothermel. She says she & Clinton C. Bingeman were married in Harrisburg Pa by Rev Kramer Reformed minister & that her name was Mary Effie Feagley & that she was born at Mahantongo, Dauphin Co Pa July 24, 1890 & was married as above Nov 29, 1909 & have two children, never having lost any, but she was married 6 1/2 yrs before her first child was born viz:
1. Charles Clinton Bingeman born May 2, 1916 at Dalmatia Pa
2. Helen Rowena Bingeman born Apr 23, 1918 here in Sunbury Pa
Mr Bingeman is silk inspector at the Sunbury Converting Works of the Susquehanna Silk Corporation
She said Chas E. Rothermel, their Uncle had been out in his auto yesterday to his farm.
Left 8:37 AM & walked here to the Court House where I arrived at 8:50 AM & have written these two pages & will now continue my work on the records.
I noticed a tablet in front of a fine new bldg, the site of the old city hotel, in honor of Thos A. Edison which says that in 1883, 40 yrs ago, he installed successfully a lighting system in that hotel that gave it the distinction of being the first building in the world that was commercially lighted by electricity. Tablet put up at time of their Sesqui-Centennial here July 1, to 4 incl 1922.
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No 24 see page 323
Will of Wm W. Derickson states he is of Milton Pa. Gives my wife the household goods & a one third dower int in R.E. for life & gives:
To sister Mary Derickson $1000
To sister Sarah Derickson $500 & then directs bals estate be divided equally among my children when they reach 21 yrs of age, his wife to get income until then for their maintenance & education. Don't name wife or children until now when he appoints wife Mary Elizabeth Derickson Exrx. Dated Oct 6, 1865. W.W. Derickson. Proven Dec 6, 1865.
25. Estate of Elias Eisenhart states he was of Shamokin Bor & the widow having renounced her right to Adm Casper Scholl is appointed Bond in $1000.
26. Estate of John Eisenhart states he is of upper Mahanoy Tp & his widow Magadalena Isenhart [sic] having renounced Jonas Isenhart is appointed Bond in $2000
27. Estate of Thomas Elliot, states he is of Chillisquaque Tp & bond given in $200 John Frick Reg.
28. Estate of Emanuel Fetterold states he is of upper Mahanoy Tp & that he died Nov 26, 1894 Bond in $1000
29. Estate of John Finley merely states that letters of Adm were granted to jacob GroJean by Wm Maclay Dep Reg.
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In the front of this Will Book NO 1 is copy of Com dated Mch 26, 1772 appointing Wm Maclay of Northumberland Co Pa Dep Reg of wills for Province of Penna signed by Benj Chew, Reg Genl
On front fly leaf is a 3 cloumn notice with his picture from the Phila times of Jany 18, 1891 referring to his diary recently published Robert Morris & he were the first U.S. Senators fr Penna 1789 to 1791 & Maclay seems to have been against everything & everyone in authority
The first estate no 1 on page 1 Vol1 is that of Micahel Welant with letters granted to his widow Magdalena Welant on Dec 18, 1772.
The 4th one on same page is on estate of John Wilson with letters granted to his widow Jannet Wilson on Nov 23, 1773 by Wm Maclay Dep Reg.
30 Estate of Mary Fetterolf of Upper Mahanoy Tp states she died Dec 1, 1886 bond $2000
31. Will of Wm Finley of Bor of Mt Carmel Pa wills everything he posesses in the world to his belvoed friend David Beveridge of Port Carbon, Schuylkill Co Pa with the charge that he support my wife for life. Dated Mch 23, 1904 Probated Apr 6, 1904
32. Estate of Abraham Markle of Bor of Mt Carmel Pa who died Feby 20, 1902. Letters issued to Catherine Markle, who gave $900 bond. Issued Oct 15, 1902 Bondsmen J.E. Bastress & John Carl Jr
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33, Will of Amandus S. Markle of the Bor of Shamokin Pa covering one full page, directs he be buried in Shamokin Cem with rites of Grace Lutheran Cong of which he is a member provides for a monument & gives:
1st to my son Martin D. Markle gold watch & chain
2d to my son Oscar J. Markle $100
3d to my dau Anna K. Markle $100
4th to my dau Cecelia H. Markle $300
5. to my wife Maggie Markle during life or widowhood all bals estate including homestead & at her death or remarriage, goes same equally to his children who he lists as follows:
Anna K. Markle, one fourth
Martin D. Markle one fourth
Oscar J. Markle one fourth
Cecelia H. Markle one fourth & appoints wife & sons Exrs. Dated Mch 25, 1908. Probate says he died May 5, 1910 & Maggie Markle & Oscar J. having renounced letters were issued to Martin D. Markle on May 14, 1910. Not our line see page 526 JVT 11/5/23
34. Will of Catharine Markle, single of the town of Helfenstein, wills everything to Lewis B. Felker. Appoints friend John Latsha Exr. Dated Aug 7, 1919 Catharine (her mark) Markle Probate sates she was late of the Tp of East Cameron & died Nov 3, 1919. Probated Nov 22, 1919
35. Estate of Gideon Markel of Sunbury Pa with letters to Mary Markel with bond for $3000 with Benj Hendricks & Thomas Robinson Apr 1, 18151.
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36. Will of Gideon Markel of Sunbury Pa & wills:
To son Charles F. Markle gold watch & chain
To Ida May Espenshade bedroom suite
To son Ralph M. my hat rack
To dau Nellie G. my piano
to son William G. one side board & then wills estate equally each 1/5 to above legatees. Appoints Charles F. & Ralph M. Markel & Ida May Espenshade Exrs. Dated Apr 21, 1910 Gideon Markel.
Probate says he died Apr 4, 1914 & on Apr 7, 1914 letters issued to above three Exrs (see Pages 424 & 425)
37. Estate of Jacob Markel with letters on Apr 1, 1830 to Harriet Markel with bond in $400 with Henry Frick & John Markle sureties
38. Will of John G. Markle of Sunbury Pa Wills:
To my sister Mary G. Cadwallader intermarried with Geo B. Cadwallader, his entire estate for her sole & separate use & free from any debts or interference of her husband & appoints her Exr Dated Nov 6, 1877
Probate states he died Jany 8, 1879 & letters issued Feby 11, 1879 (see pages 409 & 421)
39. Will of Benjamin Markle states he is of Jordan Tp directs property be sold & divided in equal shares to::
See Book 9 Page 210 & investiage JVT 10/15/23
To heirs of my daughter Hannah Schwartz decd one share
To heirs of my daughter Easter Paul one share
To heirs of my daughter Susanne Staufer one share
To heirs of my son Martin Markel decd one share
To heirs of my daughter Christina Baum one share
To heirs of my daughter Susan Staufer one share
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To my daughter Justina Witner one share
To my daughter Sarah Tobias one share
To my daughter Cathrina Wentzel one share
To my daughter Elizabeth Schwartz one share
To my daughter Soffia Markle one share
To my daughter Herreth [sic] Daniel one share
To my daughter Engealine Alling one share
Dated Aug 7, 1863 & signed Benj Merkel (seal) Probated Oct 3, 1864 (see page 425)
40. Will of Jacob Markel of Jordan Tp wills all personal property to wife Catherine Markel for life & then in equal shares to my children viz:
To my son John M. Markel one share
To my son George W. Markel one share
To my daughter Ester [sic] Markel one share
To my daughter Catherine Markel one share
& my R.E. 49 A in Jordan Tp gives to sons John M. & Geo W. Markel at $1200 out of which they are to pay to my daughter Ester Markel $400 & to my daughter Catharine Markle $200. Dated Feby 8, 1886 Jacob Markel Probate states he died Feby 9, 1886 Probated Mch 1, 1886.
See book 9 page 211 & investigate JVT 10/15/23
41. Estate of Martin Merkel granted Apr 23, 1862 to Daniel M. Schwartz (the widow having renounced) bond in $4000 with David Schwartz & Elizas Shaffer on (see page 424)
42. Will of Martin Markle of Shamokin Pa gives:
To wife Emma all rents & income & use of home
To friend Geo C. Graeber of Shamokin Pa in trust $50,000 & to pay income to wife for life
3d gives & devises to my children & the children of my children my residuary estate as follows: see page 526 & eliminate
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To my son Amandus S. Markle one seventh
To my son George F. Markle one seventh
To my daughter Mary Ann married to Pius Schwerbing one seventh
To my daughter Alena Margherita [sic] married to Daniel Stahl one seventh
To my daughter Sarah Agnes wid of Charles Tretten one seventh
To my daughter Celia Louisa married to Francis O. Rankey one seventh
To the children of my decd son William M. Markle equally one seventh
Appoints son Amandus S. Markle & son-in-law Daniel Stahl Exrs. Dated Sept 30, 1904 Probate states he died Jany 18, 1906 Probated Jany 23, 1906. On Nov 23, 1920, letters d.b.n.c.t.a. on this estate with bond in $5000 were granted to Martin D. Markle & Geo D. Stahl see letters of Adm book 15 P 234.
43. Will of Zacahriah Markle of the Bor of Milton
2d to Sarah Derickson $200 or 2 shares of Danville Natl Bank
3d Gives bals of estate composed of Lehigh Valley Rr stock, Danville, NBK stock & one gold watch to Annie Markel of Milton Pa Appoints Wm P. Wendle
Exr Dated Apr 15, 1898 signed Z. Markle (seal)
Codicil dated Apr 18, 1898 revokes 2d clause stating he had made suitable provision for Sarah Derickson. Probate states he died May 26, 1898 & letters were issued June 17, 1898
44. Will of Annie M. Markle of Milton Pa directs she be interred in the Harmony Cem at Milton in accordance with the rites of the Baptists Church. Directs that her brown frame dwelling house at 217 Mahoning St Milton be sold & proceeds to go in equal shares to my cousins Fred E. stees, Geo E. Stees, Mary E. Kendall, Laura E. Holmes
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Annie E. Batdorf, Myra E. Godschall. Directs her 8 shares of stock in the Danville NBK of Danville Pa be sold & proceeds go to her second cousins George B. Markle, Alvan Markle, John Markle, Ida Hessenbruch, Clara M. Dahlstrom equally. Gives to Minerva Angeny for life the income on 10 shs in Milton Trust & Safe Dep Co provided she pay the annual expense of caring for the cemetery lots in which Zachariah Markle, William Follmer & myself are buried & at her death sd stock is to be sold & proceeds to go to 1st Baptist Church Milton Pa. Directs 6 A land near Inverness Citrus Co Fla & 10 A near Dunellen Marion Co Fla be sold & proceeds go to 1st Bp Ch. she also gives to 1st Bap Ch her stock in Keystone-Bromide mining Co her bank bals in 1st NBK, Milton Pa. Gives to Minerva Angeny the contents of the trunk marked with her name. Gives to Mrs Rose Griffen, my light colored oak bedroom suite. To Mrs Clara Smith my walnut suite of parlor furniture. Gives to George Markle, my father's framed portrait, to Mrs Mary Follmer my mother's framed portrait & my sewing machine to Mrs Clara Dahlstrom certain antique furniture. Residuary to go to Fred E. Stees & Geo E. Dimm. Appoints Geo B. Markle Exr or in case of his death Fred E. Steese [sic] Dated Mch 18, 1905 signed Annie M. Markle (seal) Probate says she died Mch 30, 1911 & on Apr 4, 1911 letters granted to Geo B. Markle.
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45. Estate of Abraham Rothermel states that letters were issued to William Rothermel (the widow having renounced) on Oct 17, 1843 bond in $1000 with Samuel Wagner & Felix Maurer.
Further proceeding in Book 6 p 459 states that he died in 1840 & on Oct 11, 1877 the sd Abraham Rothermel is mentioned as late of Little Mahanoy Tp & letters d.b.n. were granted to Samuel H. Rothermel with bond in $2200 with C.D. Maurer & G.W. Deppen on see page 429.
46. Will of Abraham Rothermel of Georgetown, farmer, directs his body be interred in Georgetown Cem in accordance with rites of German Reformed Ch
To wife Hattie Rothermel $300 & int on 1/3 of R.E.
To grandson William Arbogast $1000 my mtge on Lessman farm
To daughter Sarah mar to G.W. Arbogast all the bals not conveyed to her & my grandson Alonzo Arbogast by deeds of certain property in Lower Mahanoy Tp. Then directs some remaining property be sold & divided equally between my daughters Sarah & Kate, said Sarah being intermarried with G.W. Arbogast. Appoints friends P.S. Bickel & Isaac Harris Exrs & appoints Harris trustee over Wm Arbogast. Dated Mch 21, 1881 Probate states he died Mch 24, 1881 Probated Mch 30, 1881 (see page 441)
47. Will of Charles Rothermel of Washington Tp gives:
1st to wife Harriet Rothermel $600 & what she gets by law
2d to my 4 children by my 1st wife Kilian Rothermel decd or his heirs, Harriet Phillips, wife of Benjamin Philips, Joseph Rothermel & Aaron Rothermel $100 together to be equally divided.
3d I give to the children of my second wife viz Eliza Hoffman wife of William G. Hoffman, Harriet Brosius, wife of (see page 429)
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Joseph K. Brosius & Samuel Chark $100 together to be equally divided
4th Give to my six children of my second wife viz Helena Oxenrider, wife of Elias Oxenrider, Daniel Rothermel, Frank Rothermel, Lewis B. Rothermel, Mary Geist, wife of James Geist & Sarah Snyder wife of Daniel Snyder $200 to be equally divided.
5th All residue to my ten children mentioned above 6th Stated Kilian had owed him $400 which is to taken care of by his chil.
Appoints son Daniel & Joseph Brosius Exrs. It is dated Apr 26, 1889 signed Charles Rothermel
States he died Mch 18, 1892 & letters issued Mch 25, 1892 to Daniel B. Rothermel & Joseph K. Brosius.
48. Estate of Chas H. Rothermel states he was of Trevorton & died Oct 17, 1918 bond in $500 & states "his heirs being all minors".
49. Estate of Chas L. Rothermel states he was of Sunbury & died Jany 7, 1919 & letters issued to his widow Jennie M. Rothermel Feby 19, 1919 Bond $100
50. Estate of Daniel Rothermel states he was of lower Mahanoy Tp & letters are issued to Abraham Rothermel May 17, 1823 with bond in $1000 with Daniel Fegley & Abm Rothermel sureties.
51. Estate of Daniel Rothermel late of Lower Mahanoy Tp states he died the blank day of Clark 185 - blank & the heirs having renounced letters now Nov 15, 1878 d.b.n.c.t.a. issued to B.M. Bubb bond $1000
See below & Page 441
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52. Will of Daniel Rothermel of Lower Mahanoy Tp states he is sick & weak gives:
1st to my wife Elizabeth, all my lands that I have not sold to my son Isaac for life, provided she keep my daughter Barbara. After wife's death, property to be sold & divided among my children.
To my son, Abraham to have his share
To my son, Isaac to have his share
To my son, Jacob to have his share
To my daughter Catharine married to Philip Zerbe her share
To my daughter Elizabeth married to George Snyder her share
To my daughter Barbara shall be maintained for her share fr R.E.
Appoints son Isaac Rothermel & friend Michael Lenhers Exr. Dated Apr 7? 1852 Daniel (his mark) Rothermel. Probated Jany 27, 1854. Item at No 51 is on his estate (see Page 441)
53. Estate of Daniel H. Rothermel of Zerbe Tp states he died in 1893 & letters issued Dec 9, 1893 to J.G. Smith bond in $500.
54. Will of Elizabeth Rothermel gives:
To daughter Barbara, a whole raft of household goods, cow, calf, hogs etc & gives her all bals of estate not named. Appoints son Isaac Rothermel of Lower Mahanoy Tp Exr. Dated Jany 27, 1858. Elizabeth (her mark) Rothermel Proven Nov 21, 1859 (see page 441)
55. Will of Eliza Rothermel of Upper Mahantongo Tp Schuylkill Co Pa wills everything to beloved husband Manasses W. Rothermel. Dated Jany 15, 1894 Probate states she was late of the Tp of Jordan & died Mch 4, 1898 Probated Mch 11, 1898 but no letters issued. [signed] Elizsa [sic] Rothermel
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52. Estate of Geo T. Rothermel of McEwensville Bor states he died Feby 2, 1896 & the widow having renounced letters were issued Feby 22, 1896 to James L. Rothermel bond $100
57. Estate of Gideon Roadarmel of Rush Tp states he died July 1, 1894 & letters issued July 9, 1894 to Oliver P. Roadarmel bon in $200 with J.M. Roadarmel & W.C. Roth Exrs.
58. Estate of Gideon Roadarmel of Shamokin Tp, states he died Mch 21, 1896 & letters issued June 11, 1896 to David Bittinger, bond in $600 with Peter R. Wilthour & Henry M. Oberdorf on.
59. Estate of Harrison D. Rothermel of Mt Carmel Bor who died July 2, 1878 & letters issued July 29, 1878 to Saml A. Bergstresser (the widow having renounced) bond in $500
60. Will of Heaty Rothermel of Georgetown, widow, directs that her body be buried in Georgetown Cem if there be room beside my late husband Abraham Rothermel according to the rites of the Reformed Church & gives:
To daughter Maria, married to John Bowen Black cassimere [sic] dress goods.
To daughter Kate my black shawl
Directs other effects divided between said daughters & appoints Mrs Mary Bingeman & Polly Spatz to divide them & directs them to get her a $40 tombstone. Gives extended further directions but all about above two daughters. Appoints Dr J.H. Hensling Exr. Dated Oct 13, 1883. Heaty (her mark) Rotharmel Probate says she died Nov 3, 1883 & letters issued Nov 10, 1883.
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61. Abraham Rothermel's minors see orphans Court Docket No 9 Page 13 15 &
123 Page 13 Petition of Lewis Rothermel son of Abraham Rothermel late of Little Mahanoy Tp states he is a minor above 14 & on Nov 6, 1843 Wm Raker is apptd gdn Bond in $300. Page 15 Like petition of Reuben saying he is above 14 & on same date Frederick Raker is apptd. Bond in $200.
Page 123 is further petition of Reuben stating his gdn Fredk Raker Esq had since died & on Apr 7, 1845 Saml S. Wagner is appointed.
62. Estate of Harriet Rothermel of Washington Tp says she died Jany 7, 1894 & on Jany 16, 1894 letters were issued to Joseph K. Brosius bond $1000.
63. Estate of Isaiah Roadarmel of Ralph Tp says he died May 26, 1892 & letters July 2, 1892 to Simon Vought bond $600.
64. Estate of John F. Roadarmel of Ralph Tp who died Feby 9, 1896 & letters Mch 9, 1896 to Simon Vought Bond $200, children having renounced.
65. Estate of Joseph Rothermel of Washington Tp who died Oct 5, 1904 & letters Oct 14, 1904 to Morris Rothermel bond in $800, with John Tressler & Joseph K. Brosius or William Rothermel oldest son of Decd having renounced.
66. Estate of Roland R. Roadarmel of Shamokin Bor who died June 22, 1904 & letters July 5, 1904 to Delos Roadarmel Bond $1400.
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67. Estate of Wm Rothermel of Lower Mahanoy Tp who died Sept 15, 1898 & letters Oct 10, 1898 to Grant M. Rothermel bond in $400, widow having renounced.
68. Will of Isaac Rothermel of Shamokin Tp, gives: 3d To my dau Clarah $100 for taking care of me the last 2 yrs
4th directs all his property be divided in 7 parts & given as follows:
1. Andrew, my oldest son one seventh part
2. Mary, my daughter widow of Sawora [sic] Snyder one seventh
3. To the children of my decd dau Elizabeth who was mar to Isaac Dreibelbiss one seventh
4. To my son Isaac, son seventh if he be dead, to his heirs.
5. To my daughter Emeline one seventh
6. To my daughter Alice Irene now living in Phila int on the 1/7
7. to my youngest daughter Clarah one seventh
Appoints J.M. Wolverton & son Isaac Rothermel Exrs Dated Jany 15, 1887
Isaac (his mark) Rothermel
Probate states he died Jany 11, 1892 & on Feby 5, 1892 letters to Isaac S. Rothermel the other Exr J.M. Wolverton having died. (see pages 441-444)
69. Will of Jesse F. Roadarmel of Rush Tp gives: To my sister Sarah E. Roadarmel my entire estate & appoints her sole Exr. Dated Aug 11, 1884 Jesse F. Roadarmel. Witnesses Simon Vought & Simon Yeager Probate says he died Jany 29, 1893 & on Feby 13, 1893 letters to Sarah E. Roadarmel.
70. Will of Isaac Rothermel of Jordan Tp wife to have use of two houses & land where I now live & int on $1000 when farm is sold on which my son Monroe now lives Directs two farms to be sold & gives then
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To my son Amos $10
& bals to be divided in equal shares to my after mentioned children & heirs:
To my son William one share
To my daughter Cherty Rothermel now Cherty Weiser 1 Sh
To my daughter Lucy Rothermel now Lucy Adams 1 sh
To my son Lazarous Rothermel one share
To my son Manases Rothermel one share
To my son Esroum Rothermel one share
To my son Isaac Monrow Rothermel one share
To my son Abraham Rothermel one share
To my daughter Hannah Rothermel now Hannah Hank one share.
Appoints sons William & Lazerous Rothermel Exrs Dated Dec 27, 1892 Isaac Rothermel Probate states he died Oct 1, 1896 & on Oct 15, 1896 letters were issued to William Rothermel & Lazerous Rothermel (on Oct 22, 1896)
It is now 5:17 PM. Back at 7:27 PM
71. Estate of Lemuel Rothermel of Shamokin Tp letters granted Apr 9, 1858 to Mary Ann Roadarmel bond $150
73. Estate of William Rothermel of Little Mahanoy Tp letters issued Dec 10, 1853 to Daniel Holshue (the widow having renounced) Bond in $1800 with Saml S. Wagner & John Snyder on.
74. Estate of James Rothermel of McEwensville Bor who died Aug 18, 1877 & letters issued Jany 14, 1878 to G.W. Armstrong (widow having renounced) bond $500.
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75. Will of Mary Rothermel of Little Mahanoy Tp 1st directs body be interred in g.y. at the Emanuel Church, Little Mahanoy Tp.
2d gives her large family bible to the son Samuel but should he not want it then to my granddaughter Catharine Rothermel now wife of James F. Raker.
3d to said granddaughter Catherine all personal property except said bible & my money.
Lastly appoints said James F. Raker Exr. Dated 30 Nov 1875, Mary (her mark) Rothermel. She died 10 July 1877 at 10 PM & letters issued July 18, 1877.
76. Will of William Roadarmel of Rush Tp yeoman gives:
1st to wife Mary Roadarmel all personal & real estate for her life & after her death to go to my son Jesse F. Roadermel. Rebecca Ann Roadarmel & Sarah Roadermel they the said Jesse F. Raker, Rebecca Ann & Sarah to pay jointly the sum of $500 as follows:
To my son Jacob Roadermel $250, his full share.
To H.J. Roadermel $250, his full share of my estate.
Directs the 3 1st named shall not pay the $500 on any part of it to my sons Jacob & Henry J. until 5 yrs after the death of my wife Mary. Appoints son Jesse F. Roadermel exr dated Sept 18, 1874 Wm Roadermel He died Oct 6, 1878 & letters issued on 21 Oct 1878 to Jesse F.
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77. Estates of Leonard Roadarmel of Rush Tp Letters granted June 12, 1835 to John Roadarmel bond in $500 with David McWilliams & Henry Reader on
78. Will of Mary Ann Roadarmel of Rush Tp widow of Lemuel Roadarmel decd Gives entire estate real & personal to son George E. Roadarmel & appoints him Exr Dated Aug 14, 1885 Mary Ann (her mark) Roadarmel Witness S.F. Gilbert, Simon Vought. She died Aug 2, 1893 & letters issued Aug 12, 1893 to Geo E. Roadarmel
79. Estate of Mary Rothermel of Upper Mahanoy Tp date of death blank letters issued Aug 6, 1923 to Harvey A. Rothermel bond in $50.
80. Estate of Richard H. Rothermel of Bor of Sunbury Pa who died Sept 27, 1921. Letters issued Oct 13, 1921 to Jennie S. Rothermel with bond in $200 with Jno K. Savidge & James M. Rothermel on.
81. Estate of William Rothermel of Jordan Tp who died May 18, 1922 & letters were issued May 27, 1922 to M.S. Rothermel bond in $5700.
82. Will of Oliver P. Rothermel of the Bor of Sunbury
1. To wife Annie M. Rothermel all personal property
2. To wife Annie M. all R.E. for life or until remarriage
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3. To Elizabeth J. Cyr, wife of John Cyr entire residue.
4. Appoints wife Annie M. Rothermel Exr Dated Mch 31, 1916
Oliver P. Rothermel.
States he died Apr 30, 1921 & will was proven May 20, 1921
83. Will of John Thompson of West Buffalo Tp yeoman being weak in body, do on this Apr 28, 1801 make this my last will gives:
to my son James Thompson 12 A & all personal property
to my son Benjamin Thompson £150 to be pd in 10 yrs
to my daughter Rachel Lincoln $1
to my daughter Susannah Patterson $1
to my daughter Sarah Piper $1
All to be paid by James & makes his sons Benjamin & James Thompson sole Exrs. John Thompson (seal) Probated Oct 5, 1801
84. Will of Joseph Thompson of Point Tp Gives: To wife Margaret Thompson £500, household furniture, horse, etc exclusive of her dower in R.E.
Directs R.E. to be sold & certain int for life to go to wife & at her death to my brothers & sisters children as hereinafter mentioned.
To my brother-in-law Henry Bennett £150 in trust for the use of my brother Joshua Thompson & at Joshua's death to be divided among my brothers & sisters children
After his widows death to be divided among my friends & relatives as follows:
To my brother John Thompson's children lawfully begotten
to my brother Abraham Thompson's children lawfully begotten
to my sister Elizabeth Bennett's children lawfully begotten
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to Ann Sharp's children lawfully begotten
& to the child or children of each & every one of them that may hereafter be begotten in lawful wedlock.
To my sister Elizabeth Bennett's daughter Sarah Croxall Bennett £100 additional.
Appoints friends Henry Bennett of Lancaster Pa Enoch Smith Esq of Sunbury Pa & Thos Hamilton Esq of Northumberland Exrs Dated Oct 10, 1801 Joseph Thompson
Proven July 30, 1802 as the will of Dr Joseph Thompson
85. Estate of Mathew Thomson letters granted Dec 10, 1782 to Rebecca Thomson & Andrew Culbertson with Archibald Quay & David McKenney sureties.
86. Will of William Thompson of White Deer Tp makes wonderful extensive provision for his wife Jean Thompson & directs his daughter Ruth have a home in the house while single & gives her £300 & other things. Wills entire estate to son James Thompson he to pay legacies to wife & daughter & appoints wife Jean Thompson & son James Thompson Exrs. Dated Nov 26, 1807.
William Thompson (seal) witnesses Wm Clingjam [best guess] & James Thompson Proven Apr 22, 1808
It is now 9:50 PM & I have practically finished & the man working in the office is about ready to quit. JVT
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Room 410 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Sept 30, 1923 7:11 AM New York City
I will now transcribe the notes taken yesterday morning at Sunbury Pa from 7:44 to 10:11 AM on my calls at eleven residences, dated as if recorded here at the time.
Residence of Miss Annie M. Rothermel No 226 Pine St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 7:55 AM
Mrs R. states that Oliver Perry Rothermel born Dec 2, 1858 at Tharptown, near Shamokin Pa & was 62 when he died Apr 30, 1921 (page 348 line 5). He was married at Sharp Ridge by Rev Timothy Tubbs, Methodist on May 20, 1884 to Annie Margaret Shuler, my informant who was born at Sunbury Pa Oct 19, 1864, the daughter of John Shuler & his wife Elizabeth Myers. No issue.
O.P's father was Gideon, who died a long time ago, some 30 yrs, right after we were married (he died July 1, 1894 see page 342 line 7). She shows me a framed photo large size on the wall. Shows a big head & good face, covered with whiskers. He died in Rush Tp, Gideon had sisters:
Mrs Effie Metz who is dead.
Mrs Zimmerman who is dead & one brother, Lemuel Rothermel who had a son Edgar who lives in Ralph Tp, a farmer O.P. had brothers & sisters as follows: Wellington, 16 yrs younger, a farmer in Rush Tp. Maggie, married John Helvick & live at Aristes & have 5 children, Art, Geo, Wellington, Hazel & Raymond.
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Ella married Fred Row, live at Elysburg Pa. Have no children living. Have had three die. Flora married George Baker & live at Union Corners this Co No issue. She was out sweeping pavement when I arrived. Left 8:11 AM
Wellington has several children married & some at home.
Residence of Clarence F. Rothermel No 344 Walnut St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 8:20 AM
Mrs Rothermel, a pleasant woman received me & said Clarence Franklin Rothermel, her husband, was born below Dalmatia Mch 14, 1887 & was married Apr 28, 1914 in Sunbury Pa by Rev J.M. Francis to Mabel May Yarger, my informant, daughter of Harvey Yarger & his wife Sarah Baney, who was born in Sunbury Pa July 9, 1893 & have four children all born in Sunbury & have not lost any viz:
1. Lucile Elizabeth Rothermel born Nov 12, 1916
2. Ruth Jane Rothermel born Dec 20, 1918
3. Alvin Clarence Rothermel born Jany 5, 1921
4. Sarah Cleora Rothermel born Nov 9, 1922
C.F. is son of William Rothermel (see page 344 item 67) who died below Dalmatia. She don't know names of Wm's father or brothers.
C.F.'s brothers & sisters are:
Grant M. Rothermel in town
Ceil J. Rothermel in town
Francis Rothermel in town
Mrs R.E. Tressler, Dalmatia Pa
Leaving 8:30 AM
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At Grant M. Rothermel's no 121 S. 2nd St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 8:33 AM
He received me & says his full name is:
Grant Maurice Rothermel born in Lower Mahanoy Tp May 4, 1873 & was married June 25, 1902 at Sunbury Pa by Rev Chas H. Brosius (of Grace Lutheran Church) to Bertha Maria Mantz, dau of Rannel D. Mantz [Mautz?] & his wife Hannah Connelly who was born in Snyder Co Pa on Feby 9, 1881 & have had but one child:
1. Gladys Irene Rothermel born July 16, 1904 in Sunbury Pa
Grant M. is son of William Rothermel of Lower Mahanoy Tp whose father was a brother of Andrew's father which would make Jacob & Andrew first cousins. Andrew lives at Dalmatia Pa.
Grant's father, William died Sept 15, 1898 & his widow Mary Elizabeth Rothermel aged 66 yrs lives at Dalmatia. Ask Ray E. Tressler, cashier of Farmer's State Bank, right back of PRR Sta who married Grant's sister can tell how to reach her. Dalmatia is 17 miles from here. Her children are:
Grant M. oldest, Sunbury Pa
Minnie, next married Ray E. Tressler
Charles Lee, dead
Francis Jacob, at home
Clarence F. Sunbury Pa
Ceil Jerome, Sunbury Pa 2 chil
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Of his grandfather Jacob's children:
Daniel was in the Civil War is dead
Solomon is dead. Ike killed in Civil War
Mary, married Tobias Hecker, a soldier. Both dead
Sallie married Daniel Radle, all dead
William, as above
Leaving 8:55 AM
At Ceil J. Rothermel No 111 Penna Ave Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9 Am
Mrs R. said her husband Ceil Jerome Rothermel was born at Dalmatia Pa Jany 8, 1889 & was married Jany 15, 1910 at Sunbury Pa by Rev J.N. Wetzler to Sarah Elizabeth Witmer, my informant, dau of Charles Wm Witmer & his wife Amanda Walborn who was born in Dalmatia Pa June 29, 1891 & have two children:
1. Watson Kenneth Rothermel born Mch 17, 1910 in Dalmatia Pa
2. Mary Amanda Rothermel born Mch 29, 1912 in Sunbury Pa
Leaving 9:09 AM
Residence of A. Oscar Rothermel No 149 N 2d St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9:11 AM
They were not at home, but Mrs Nener who rents part of the house said he was at work at Shamokin Pa & was a Boss carpenter. Says his father in his 80s & his mother 75 are living at Dalmatia Pa which formerly was Georgetown.
Leaving 9:13 AM
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At residence of Ulysses G. Rothermel No 250 Line St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9:16 AM
No one at home.
Residence of Levi R. Rothermel No 843 N 4th St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9:20 AM
Mrs R. said the R in her husband's name was but an initial & he, Levi R. Rothermel was born near Urban Pa Nov 3, 1887 & was married Sept 13, 1913 at Red Cross, this Co by Rev H.M. Shofer to Elda Augstadt my informant, dau of Benj Augstadt & his wife Charity Leiss who was born at Lyons Berks Co Pa Oct 22, 1886 & have three children, the first two born at Urban & the last one here in Sunbury
1. Daniel Augstadt Rothermel born Nov 26, 1916
2. Glen Urban Rothermel born Dec 23, 1918
3. Shirley Marguerite Rothermel born Dec 24, 1921
Mr R's father is Daniel Rothermel who lives at Urban & has a brother Aaron living near Richfield, Snyder Co Pa. Daniel is upwards of 71 yrs old & has children:
1. Jane, married Wilson Brosius whose P.O. is Dorusife, [sic] 4 chil
2. James mar & lives at Urban, 4 chil
3. Ida mar John Sierer & lives at Mt Pleasant Mills or near there & comes to Sunbury to Market. He has a fruit farm with plenty of Nambo apples. Says can drive fr here to Mt Pleasant Mills in half an hour. Have 7 children
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4. Charles mar & lives at Herndon this Co 12 to 15 miles out, 2 chil
5. Levi R. Rothermel as above works for PRR
6. Katie mar Herbert Hoffman & lives at South Williamsport, Lycoming Co Pa. He works for PRR 2 chil.
7. Mabel mar Lyal Minot & lives in Sunbury Pa. He works in silk Mill have 4 chil
James, son of Aaron is first cousin of Levi R.- their fathers being half brothers.
Leaving 9:38 AM
At residence of Daniel Carothers No 548 Reagan St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9:40 AM
Finding no one at home went across the street to Mrs C's mother & she said they had gone to market.
Left 9:42 AM
At residence of Jennie M. Rothermel No 330 N 4th St Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 9:46 AM
Mrs Rothermel is a buxom good business woman & keeps lodgers & boarders. Her husband Charles Lee Rothermel was born Nov 22, 1881 below Dalmatia Pa & died Jany 6, 1919 of "Flu" & pneumonia. He was married Apr 23, 1906 at Sunbury Pa by Rev Frank I. Paul to Jennie May Martz dau of John Henry M. Martz & his wife Catherine Strohecker, who was born at Klingerstown, Schuylkill Co Pa Aug 1, 1886 & have had but two children both born in this house viz:
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1. Stoddard Robert Rothermel, born May 6, 1911
2. Rue Ray (a boy) Rothermel born Feby 4, 1916
Mr R. was a traveling salesman & had a delicate constitution. He was son of Wm & his mother, Mary Elizabeth is living in Dalmatia Pa.
Leaving 9:55 AM
At residence of Howard Rothermel No 42 N 4th ST Sunbury Pa Sept 29, 1923 10:04 AM
They live on the top or 3d floor with a stairway in a hallway up to 3d floor with no entrance to 2d floor, which is reached from the other side. I find his young handsome wife in the kitchen at work & she, my informant said he was a silk worker & was away at his work & that his full name was:
John Howard Evans Rothermel & he was born in Sunbury Pa Apr 10, 1904 & was married Jany 1, 1923 at Elkton Md the Gretna Green of Young Pa lovers by Rev G.T. Alderson to Henrietta S. Harro, daughter of Harry Shell Harro & his wife Della May Jones who was born at Bellefonte Pa Dec 22, 1903 but have no issue - yet.
Mrs R. says her husband's father is Guy Emmet Rothermel, living right here in Sunbury Pa at NO 3 Catawissa Ave & his grandfather is Also Guy Rothermel & lives on 2d ST here & his great grandfather lives at Dalmatia Pa in the town, is a road maker working every day but 80 yrs old. see page 422.
Leaving 10:11 AM
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The driver of the taxi I had was W.M. Bingeman who says he has been driving for 22 yrs. He certainly knows his town & lost no time. I gave him my schedule of places to go when I was in Mrs R's in Pine St & he mapped out the route so as not to need to retrace at all as is evidenced in the dispatch with which I got from one place to another.
I got to the P&R Sta at 10:15 AM & took the 10:19 AM train through Reading & reached Phila at 3:40 went to Broad St Sta & took the 4 PM train for NY & arrived here at 6 PM got dinner & took Rose & her three beautiful girls to see "Sallie" at the New Amsterdam Theatre & it is now 12:12 PM 30th & we are going for a ride up town on top of the Coach.
Room 410 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City Oct 1, 1923 8:11 AM
I got up at 6:30 this morning & find temperature down to 52 but the sun shining brightly. I brought the Bell telephone directory for Apr 1923 with me from Sunbury & cull from the many towns listed the following names of interest:
Berwick Pa (Columbia Co)
Merkle, Wm A. r 109 Walnut 145-R
Elysburg Pa
Roadarmel, Wellington r Danville RD 6 8-14
Mainville Pa
Fetterolf, Howard r 11-25
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Mandata Pa
Fetterolf, Chas, farm Hepler 11-2-B
Fetterolf, Elmer, huckster, Hepler 11-4-B
Fetterolf, John, huckster, Hepler 13-2
Rothermel, Arthur, undertaker 11-3-A
Rothermel, Charles, undertaker Herdon 8=3=A
Mifflinburg Pa
Roadarmel, Wm r 129-J-14
Shamokin Pa
Fetterolf, William r 51 N Diamond 384-M
Fetterolf & Schreffler, garage 9th & Dewart 189-W
Fetterolf & Schreffler, meat market 414 E Sunbury 749
Sunbury Pa
Rothermel, Mrs Jennie r 330 N 4th 377-Z
Rothermel, C.F. r 344 Walnut 259-Z
Rothermel, G.M. r 121 S 2d 252-Z
Rothermel, Geo L r 1113 Market 341-Z
Trevorton Pa
Hensyl,Dr office 28-3-B
Raker, W.Z. store 28-4-A
Wapwallopen Pa
Markle, Minor r Hetlerville 25-1
Watsontown Pa Northumberland Co
Rothermel, Geo r McEwensville 91-1
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AT residence of Napier Markle No 90 Prospect Ave Middletown NY Oct 2, 1923 8:50 AM
Mr Markle says his father was Solomon, but he don't know name of his grandfather who was called "Pap" Markle & died about the time he was born. I am making a table on next page of what he tells me.
Leaving 9:30 AM
From Page 125 & Jany 27, 1924
Hugh E. Meighen of Trenton Mo writes under date of Dec 19, 1923 small envelope that his two sons are both married viz:
1. Ray Meighen was married July 24, 1909 to Goldie Johnson who was born Sept 8, 1891 at Galt MO, daughter of Robert Johnson & his wife Martha McGowan & have two children:
I. Alvon Lester Meighen born Dec 11, 1913
II. Margaret Frances Meighen born Mch 10, 1917
2. Lester Meighen was married Feby 1, 1913 to Edna June Foland who was born July 31, 1893 daughter of Edward E. Foland & his wife Sallie Ethel Terry & they too have two children:
I. Doris Ruth Meighen, born July 14, 1916
II. Vada Dean Meighen born Feby 23, 1922
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[Descendant Chart]
[fermata mark appears here]
"Pap" Markle. His name was Henry Markle see pages 376 & 377.
[children]
Martha Markle, m. John DePuy Schoonmaker. Both long time dead. A farmer lived at Port Jackson, now Accord, Ulster Co NY some 12 yrs ago. sons, wife was living in Accord.
Helen, dead m. Emsee Hornbeck
Mary Elizabeth, dead m. Jno BurNoy [best guess}
Hyla, a girl m. Albert Myers may be living in Accord.
J.D. Jr, dead, m. Louise Krom.
Lydia Markle, m. Joe Wood both dead at Accord.
Leah, unmarried, died in Accord
Minerva, died single
Agnes, m. & he died 6 wks ago M. Silkworth
Calvin M. dead married & 2 chil
Hyla Markle, M. Benj Mowris both dead
Mary, living in Accord. Thinks single. Thinks can tell more than anyone. Also see Agnes Wood is village adjoining.
Charles, living in Western NY
Russell, mar & was living at Accord
Calvin Markle, m. Nancy DePuy. Her brother Wilbur DuPuy at Howells NY Blacksmith may give some information. He moved to Phila Pa where he died.
Lena Markle, m. Charles Corwin lived at Seneca Falls NY. Had issue.
Solomon Markle, died at Accord Apr 10, 1868 aged abt 46 yrs mar Elizabeth Hasbruck [best guess] Schoonmaker, but not of the J.C.s. family. She died Sept 1892 children all born at Accord.
Estella Markle [dau. of Solomon Markle], M Wm Van Keuren & lives Union Hill NJ. Lena sent her a chest of old papers 30 yrs ago P. 371.
Norris Eugene Markle [son of Solomon Markle], m. Emma Sherwood, He dead. she living at 8 Oak St
Norm Eugene Markle [son of Norris Eugene Markle], Lives West New York Hoboken Heights
James W. Markle [son of Norris Eugene Markle], married & lives here 193 W. Main St & is the chauffeur
Lydia Markle [dau. of Norris Eugene Markle],, m. Frank Reeves & lives Port Jervis at No 105 Ball St
George Markle [son of Norris Eugene Markle],, at Clifton NJ
Napier Markle [son of Solomon Markle], B Apr 29, 1862 never married Laborer clerk etc
Lena Markle [dau. of Solomon Markle],, m Peter W. Moore & both living at 49 Lake Ave here. She got parents bible records.
Hannah? Markle [dau.of Henry Markle], m.
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Edgar Hoffman born June 17, 1841 at Ulsterville Ulster Co NY
Leah DeWitt was born Feby 13, 1842
They were married at Philipsport Sullivan Co NY
Their children as recorded in their old dilapidated small bible printed by the American Bible Society NY in 1849. All born in Spring Glen, Ulster Co NY
1. Ora Ella Hoffman born Jany 13, 1868
2. Lilly Hoffman born Feby 18, 1870 ob Sept 11, 1870
3. Wesley Hoffman born Jany 25, 1871 ob Aug 9, 1872
4. Mary Hoffman born Dec 17, 1872
5. Bertha Hoffman born Feby 19, 1875
6. Alice Hoffman born Aug 19, 1877
7. Nina Hoffman born Sept 11, 1880
8. Earl Hoffman born Nov 9, 1883
9. Rachel Hoffman born Feby 20, 1886
Ora Ella Hoffman Caldwell died Nov 29, 1910 8:20 PM at Kingston Sanitarium from an operation. No issue.
4. Mary Hoffman mar Wm Irwin of Port Jervis NY & lives there. Lost 2 chil, none living
5. Bertha mar Fred Terwilliger & lives in Newburg NY. Have 2 boys & 1 girl
6. Alice mar Bert Misner an engineer & lives at Livingston Manor where her mother now is on a visit. Has 3 boys & 3 girls.
7. Nina mar Frank Boyce & lives in Newburgh NY No issue
8. Earl H. Hoffman mar Sept 29, 1909 at Middletown NY by Rev Walworth, Meth min.
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to Eunice Anna Brown, daughter John W. Brown & his wife Anna Greenfield, who was born at Rome NY Mch 10, 1888 & have three children of whom the oldest & youngest were born in Middletown NY & the middle one in Walton NY
1. Evelyn Hoffman born Feby 25, 1912
2. Robert Earl Hoffman born Oct 4, 1915
3. Margery Leah Hoffman born Apr 2, 1917
9. Rachel Hoffman m.1. Guy Quick & has 2 boys. He died of Typhoid fever. m.2. Allen Smith & both living in Beacon NY & no issue.
Leaving 10:44 AM
10:40 PM at Hotel, transcribing, Mr Hoffman sd that Spring Glen was on the line & some of his children were born there when he lived on the Sullivan Co side. He said his wife who was Leah DeWitt is now at her daughter Alice's at Livingston Manor NY on a visit. Said she was born at Alligerville, near Port Jackson. He said that Mrs Maria Delia Wood now aged 84 yrs was the oldest daughter of Mary M. Markle & her husband Wesley B. DeWitt lives at Port Jervis NY where she lives with her sister Jane, the youngest daughter, wife of Will E. Coleman, where he runs the A & P Tea store. He sd that Jane & Delia got the old bible. See pages 364 to 368. He also referred me to his wife's brother, Chas A. DeWitt living on Wickham Ave where I went.
He said he was 5 girls & 1 boy living & all married & 3 children dead 14 grandchildren & 1 great grandchild, see this & preceding page.
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At residence of Willis E. Coleman No 16 Spring St Port Jervis NY Oct 2, 1923 3:20 PM
Mrs Maria Delia Wood has brought down her father's old big leather backed bible & I am taking the record from it published by Wm McCarty Phila in 1842.
Births
His children:
1. Jacob DeWitt born Jany 17, 1838
2. Maria Adelia DeWitt born Feby 23, 1840
3. Leah DeWitt born Feby 13, 1842
4. Ephraim E. DePuy DeWitt born Aug 17, 1844
5. George Alva DeWitt born Oct 18, 1847
6. Rachel DeWitt born Oct 26, 1851
7. Charles Augustus DeWitt born Apr 14, 1852
8. Cornelia Jane DeWitt born Sept 6, 1854
Marriages
Wesley B. DeWitt married Mary Margaret Markle 1837
Geo A. DeWitt married Jane Graham in 1870
Jacob DeWitt married Jane Scott in 1868
Ephraim DePuy DeWitt enlisted in the Civil War when 16 & after 3 yrs of service was killed Aug 9, 1864
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at 11 AM at City Point VA by the explosion of Government ammunition barge. He was a Corporal & on duty to guard the barge. He was unmarried.
written on a slip:
"Mary Margaret Maracle, daughter of Cornelius Maracle and Mary Conner Born Nov 4, 1818 baptized Mch 7, 1819" see page 214. "Nelly Barantha Smith Maracle born Dec 16, 1820".
The above was copied from the Church records & sent to them. Mrs Woods thinks the church was between Ellenville & Rondout. Her mother sent for it when applying for a pension.
Wesley B. DeWitt died Oct 13, 1903
Mary M. DeWitt died Aug 17, 1902
They died in Spring Glen & are buried in Philipsport Cem, NY.
Mrs Woods says her grandfather Cornelius Markle died when her mother was confined with Rachel in Oct 1851 & her father didn't tell her mother. She says he was a very old man. He was a farmer & owned a nice farm, thinks in Ulster Co NY. In his later years, he became a drinking man & was well fixed before he got to drinking. See pages 214 & 215.
Cornelia Jane DeWitt was married on Sept 5, 1883 at Laurenkill NY by Rev J.W. Ackerly to Willis Eugene Coleman son of Archibald Coleman & his wife Mary Case who was born at Liberty in Thompson Tp NY July 1,
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1863 & have had five children four of them living viz:
1. Blaine Eugene Coleman born July 16, 1884
2.* George Alva Coleman born Oct 12, 1886
3.* Earnest Cudney Coleman born Apr 17, 1891
4. Vivian Vera Coleman born Nov 23, 1895 & died July 15, 1902
5. DeWitt Coleman born Jany 18, 1897
*Geo A. & Earnest C. were born in Chicago Ills.
1. Blaine Eugene Coleman was married June 10. 1907 at Ferndale, Sullivan Co NY by Rev _____ Meth to Nellie Adella Loder, daughter of Harrison H. Loder & his wife Amelia Krachts who was born in Ferndale NY July 8, 1885 & have had six children:
1. Evelyn Eugemia Coleman born Aug 1, 1908 ob June 6, 1911
2. Margarette L.C. Coleman born Mch 23, 1911
3. Harrison Willis Coleman born Oct 25, 1912
4. Jennie Louise Coleman born June 13, 1914
5. Claude Eugene Coleman born Apr 24, 1918 ob Oct 1918
6. Blanche Vivian Coleman born Nov 5, 1919 aged a few days over 6 mos.
Mrs Nellie Adella Coleman died Nov 30, 1921 at Middletown NY where Blaine E. lives at 7 1/2 Bonell Place where he runs a meat market.
2. George Alvah Coleman was married May 19, 1906 in Chester NY to Henrietta Miller dau of Chas A. Miller & his wife Emma Gavender who was born June 25, 1884 & died March 19, 1922 & had three children, 2 living.
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1. Willis Blaine Coleman born Jany 9, 1907
2. George Alvah Coleman born Apr 7, 1908
3. Infant son
3. Earnest Cudney Coleman was married Aug 3, 1922 at Sussex NJ by Rev Wm Allen Baptist to Dorothy Elizabeth Babcook, daughter of Benjamin Babcook & his wife Rachel Annie Huff, who was born in Vernon NJ Oct 9, 1904. Earnest C. is a carpenter & is living here. No issue yet.
5. DeWitt Coleman was married Feby 7, 1917 at Port Jervis NY by Rev Simmons of the Drev [best guess] Meth Ch to Grace May Burger, daughter of Edward T. Burger & his wife Anna Bryers who was born at Ellenville NY Feby 12, 1896. No issue.
Mrs Mary Adelia DeWitt says she was born at Ellenville NY & was married there by Rev ____ of Meth Ch on Mch 31, 1860 to Wm Sudbury Wood son of John Wood & his wife Mary Sudbury? who was born at Goshen NY (He was 7 yrs older than Mrs Wood). He died in 1884 in Jany. Was a farmer & boat owner on Erie Canal. had but three children viz born in Spring Glen NY
1. Wilbur Wood born in Apr 24, 1861 & died 4 yrs ago Apr 27? 1919 aged 58 yrs.
2. Ephraim DeWitt Wood born Nov 13, 1864 & died in Mch 1895.
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3. Lillie Eudora Wood born Apr 8, 1871. She is a patient in the State Hospital at Middletown & is single.
Neither Wilbur or Ephraim were married.
Mrs Wood said her grandfather Cornelius Markle was a tall man. Blaine says to see Mrs Jesse Carman at Richmond Hill, Middletown & she can tell about Sarah Coddington's family. Sarah was daughter of Lydia page 215.
Leaving 5:22 PM
AT Mitchell Inn Middletown NY office floor writing room Oct 2, 1923 9:05 AM
I got in last night at 9:35 PM & got room 415 where I wrote up in my cash acct book until I got sleepy 11 PM & then came down here to get warm by the wood fire in this big room.
I looked through their telephone book & find at:
Newburgh NY
Finley, D.P. r 188 Dubois Tel 322-M
Finley, Moses L.B. r 48 Montgomery Tel 402-W
Kilgour, Miss Gertrude r 258 Water Tel 2262-M
Washingtonville NY
Finley, Robert, farmer (Coldenham) Wastmode? 26-T4
with none of our family names of:
Caruthers, Finley, Jack, Kilgore, Markle, Redburn, & Rothermel in any of the following other towns shown in the telephone book:
Barryville, Beacon, Chester, Cold Springs, Cornwall on Studio, Dingmans Ferry, Florida, Garrason
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Goshen, Highland, Highland Falls, Highland Mills, Marlboro, Milford Pa, Milton Pa, Monroe, Montgomery, Pine Bush, Port Jervis & Waldein.
Out of the Middletown & Goshen Directory I got the following names:
Markel, Joseph, lab h 19 prince
Markle, Mrs Emma, nurse h 8 Oak
Markle, James W. Chauffeur now 193 W Main ST
Markle, Napier Emp W.W 90 Prospect
Markle, Sarah, wid of Solomon, Shirtmaker 66 Sprague Ave
Wear, Audrey L. wid Raymond N. Bkkpr 62 North St h 14 Wells Ave
I got a taxi at 8 AM & drove to Mrs Wear's & found she had gone to her work. I then drove to No 8 Oak St where I was 8:24 to 8:27 AM & was told she had gone to visit her daughter at 38 Prescott Ave Clifton NJ
Driving then to Mrs Sarah Markle's 66 Sprague Ave was told she had gone to her work at the factory. Leaving at 8:33 AM, I went to 90 Prospect Av & found Napier Markle a short heavy set smooth faced cordial man up in a tree in front yard picking prunes, a handful or two of which he gave me as I was leaving. I have noted pages 359 to 361 what he told me. He also referred me to his youngest sister Lena C. Moore 49 Lake ST who he said got their family records & where I went later which see.
I then went to Edgar Hoffman's 58 Wisner Ave & recorded on pages 362 & 363 when I arrived at 9:50 AM
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Residence of Charles Augustus DeWitt No 168 Wickham Ave Middletown NY Oct 2, 1923 11 AM
She said he was born Apr 14, 1857 (but was wrong, it being 1852 see page 364 for bible record) at the time of the big snow storm. He was married May 29, 1881 at Middletown NY by Rev Silliman (Epis) to Emma Elizabeth Wilson, my informant, dau of George Wilson & his wife Nancy Myers, who was born in New York City Mch 7, 1854 & have had but two children.
1. Ella Clemons DeWitt born Feby 2, 1882
2. Antoinette Fuller DeWitt born Jany 26, 1884
1. Ella C. married Oct 26, 1911 at Middletown NY by Rev Dr White of Pres Ch to Henry F. Linderman son of James Linderman & his wife Ruth Bull who was born Aug 1, 1886 at Bullville NY. Have one child.
1. Bernice DeWitt Linderman born Sept 20, 1912 Mr Linderman is conductor on the O&W RR & lives at 112 1/2 Linden Ave here.
2. Antoinette F. married Mch 1, 1905 at Middletown NY by Rev Cookman (Meth) to John B. Herbert who is a Policeman & lives at 72 Grand Ave here & who was born Feby 14, 1873 & have one child:
1. Morris DeWitt Herbert born Apr 8, 1910 Mrs DeWitt called her daughters on the phone to get much of their own record.
Leaving 11:25 AM. I then drove to:
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Residence of Mrs Lena Corwin Moore No 49 Lake Ave Middletown NY Oct 2, 1923 11:33 AM
Mrs Moore said she was named for her Aunt Lena (Markle) Corwin. She said that her cousin Agnes Silkworth, see page 360 whose husband died a month ago is daughter of Lydia Markle who married Joseph Wood & who lives at Accord, Ulster Co NY (12 miles fr Ellenville NY) or her cousin Mary Mowris unmarried, dau of Hyla Markle, who married Benjamin Mowris (Hyla having died only a yr or so ago aged 92 yrs) would either of them know more abt the family than she does as she is the baby of her family. She disclaimed having the old bible records & said that some 30 yrs ago, she put a lot of the old papers in a chest & sent them to her sister Estella Markle who married William Van Keuren an engineer on the West Shore RR & who lives at Union hill NJ near the Grove Church of which her husband is Treas at 96 Dollison St. Mrs Moore has some of her mother's old papers in the attic here, but she had a cold & cough & can't go today to the attic to search as she has been staying in a warmed room for two weeks. Don't know whether she has her parents or grandparents old bible or whether she sent it to her sister but will look it up &let me know. she wants book. Says to go on O&W to Accord. She, Lena Corwin Markle Moore, my informant, daughter of Solomon Markle
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& his wife Elizabeth Schoonmaker was born at Port Jackson, now Accord, the baby of the family & married on Dec 2, 1890 in NY City by Rev Fletcher Hamlin (Meth) to Peter Walter Moore son of Oliver Moore & his wife Mary Jane. He was born in Orange Co NY & have had five children, two dead & three living viz:
1. Elizabeth Hasbrouck Moore born Sept 6, dead
2. Eva Napier Moore
3. Estella Van Keuren Moore
4. Leah M. Moore
5. LaGrande Walter Moore, dead.
She would not tell their ages. Thought her grandfather was Henry Markle but in this she was not wrong. See page 376 & 377 & 360 & 361.
Left at 12 o'c noon
I then came to the hotel, got my lunch & went around to 62 North St & saw Audrey L. Wear, a handsome black eyed widow & she sd when she went home tonight, she would look for the old records which she stoutly disclaimed she did not have. I then took the 2:04 PM train on the Erie RR for Port Jervis NY & on pages 364 to 368 is noted what I learned there. Blaine E. Coleman drove me back in his auto 5:35 to 6:25 & we stopped at his home & got some additional dates, then came to the hotel, got my dinner & at 7:55 PM drove to:
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Residence of Mrs Sarah Markle 66 Sprague Ave, Middletown, NY Oct 2, 1923 8 PM
She said she was married to Solomon Benjamin Markle July 1, 1912 at Newburgh NY & that he was born Mch 6, 1867 at or near Kohonson NY (Don't know abt spelling) in Greene Co in the Catskills but don't know the name of his father. He had a step-mother whose name is Markle, who she says is living there now. She thinks his father had been dead some years. Solomon B. died June 13, 1915 in a hospital at Scranton Pa & is buried at White Mills Pa. No issue. Says some of his Markle Aunts & Uncles are living yet at Kohonsen. Mrs M's name was Sarah Andrew, dau of Wm Andrew & his wife Lucy Weller & she was born at Streator Ills Feby 19, 1875. Her mother, a large woman was there totally blind, having lost her sight by giacona? [glaucoma probably]. She said Solomon B. didn't have any full brothers & she never heard of any full sisters, but did know of a half sister who lived at Kohansen. Mrs M. says she has lived here for 26 yrs & is a shirtmaker in Lesburg's factory. Said her husband was a glass cutter.
Leaving 8:30 PM
I then drove to the:
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Residence of Mrs Audrey L. Wear at No 14 Wells Ave, Middletown NY Oct 2, 1923 8:45 PM
She had not yet looked for the papers, said if she had them, they were in the attic & there was no light there & she could not look until daylight. She took my address & said she would send me the record when she found it, but insisted on my seeing her brother Ivan Price 406 W. Bertock St Lansford Pa who she thought would know about them.
Left at 8:50 PM
Then came to the hotel, got my dinner & have written up the day's work until date & it is now 12:30 AM & I will quit & go to bed as I am to be called at 5:30 AM to take the 6:20 train on the O&W for Accord NY. A name I saw in Blaine E.'s bible was Homowack NY where I think some of them died. JVT
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At residence of Mrs Agnes J. Silkworth Accord NY Oct 3, 1923 10 AM
Says Fred Markle was first cousin of her mother & he was married twice but don't know wives names. Says Mrs Vernooy can tell.
Never heard of Elias J. Markle being related.
Leaving 11:11 AM
Written at Sayre Pa 5 AM 4th
Mrs Silkworth's home is a very attractive frame cottage, with a yard in front just back of Miss Mowris & opposite the depot. She was out to the P.O. & her sister-in-law, Mrs Wood who lives with her received me & Mrs Silkworth, also a tall woman soon came in. She hunted up a little home made leaflet or book of her mother's from which she read me the dates of birth of her grandparents & their children & some of the deaths & also some of the dates of the younger generations. Mrs Silkworth was leaving on 12 o'c train & had to get ready & being thus hurried I only got from her the record of the descendants of her Aunt Hannah & her mother on the next two pages & the address of Mrs Perry.
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[Descendant Chart]
[Markle]
[children]
Henry Markle was born Jany 2[cut off] 1795 [or 3]. He married Mary Kelder who was born Sept 5, 1792. They are both buried here in Accord NY Rural Cemetery & inscriptions on their tombstones give dates of death. They died here.
Hannah Leah Markle, B Sept 28, 1813. She thinks at Whitefield, formerly Newtown near here ob May 6, 1880 m. John Burns who died Mch 7 in his 82d yr. They are buried in Seneca Co NY. She thinks at Clyde.
Lamari, B Sept 8, 1834 ob. M. Will Anderson
Oscar Anderson on the old homestead at Malcolm NY in Seneca Co NY
Mary, m. Dr Chas Vernooy & live at Cortland NY & she can give records of her family.
Sabrina, ob M. Hiram Waddams 3 chil. Ask Mrs Vernooy.
Mary, ob Feby 12, 1888 m. Chas Smith 2 chil get fr Mrs Vernooy.
Lydia Markle, B Feby 12, 1817 ob Aug 5, 1897 m. Feby 4, 1841 to Joseph Wood son of Wesley Wood who was born Jany 22, 1818 & died Nov 29, 1864 & are buried at Whitfield. He had a grocery store.
Asa Miller Wood, B Nov 2, 1841 ob Aug 3, 1843
Leah Maria Wood, B Sept 19, 1843 ob Mch 26, 1899 unmarried.
Sarah Catharine Wood, B Feby 26, 1846 ob Oct 18, 1847
Edward Henry Wood, B Sept 1, 1848 ob Sept 7, 1848
Martha Ellen Wood, B Aug 16, 1849 Living. M. Ferris W. Ploss Both living at New Haven Conn, but are about moving. He works in lumber yard. Have 2 chil living & 2 dead.
Anna Minerva Wood, B Mch 13, 1852 ob Apr 6, 1915 unmarried
Agnes Jane Wood, B Feby 17, 1857 my informant. M. Dec 27, 1893 to John H. Silkworth, son of Dubois Silkworth & his wife Eliza Freen who was born Mch 27, 1857 & died Aug 21, 1923.
John Howard Silkworth, B May 31, 1897 ob June 3, 1898
Calvin Markle Wood, B July 5, 1860 ob Mch 5, 1917 m. Nov 29, 1888 to Mary Silkworth, sister of Jno H. who was born Sept 18, 1862.
Harold, B Sept 13, 1891
Charles Merlin, B July 20, 1897
Martha Markle, B Sept 30, 1819 ob. M. John DePuy Schoonmaker
Ellen Schoonmaker, ob m. Emzy Hornbeck Both dead at Accord NY
Martha Hornbeck
Maria Hornbeck
Fred Hornbeck
Annetta Hornbeck
Henry Hornbeck
Mary Elizabeth Schoonmaker, ob M. John Vernooy & lived at Accord NY Both dead.
Dr Chas D. Vernooy Corland NY can give record. He married Mary Anderson his 2d cousin, granddaughter of Hannah.
Abt 5 other children.
Hilah Schoonmaker, ob m. Albert Myers Both dead & buried here.
Mary Myers
John Myers
Carrie Myers
Charles Myers
Joachim Schoonmaker ob M. Louise Krom Buried here
Daniel Schoonmaker
Alton Schoonmaker
Helena Markle, B June 30, 1822 m. Charles Corwin Mrs Vernooy can give data.
Lucins M Corwin., married. All dead No issue
Hilah Middah Markle, B May 3, 1825 ob aged 94 yrs mar Sept 20, 1855 Benjamin R. Mowris who was born Jany 21, 1828 & died.
Mary Elvena Mowris, my informant Born Sept 22, 1856 unmarried.
Charles Corwin Mowris, B Mch 12, 1859 m. Oct 14, 1881? to Mary E. Hull who was born Feby 22, dau of Wm Hull. Both living at South Lima NY where he is a produce Com merchant
Chas Russell Mowris, B Dec 26, 1882? m.
William Mowris Born Apr 26, 1923
Mary Elizabeth Mowris, single
Arthur Hull Mowris, single
John Russell Mowris, B Aug 14, 1863 mar June 20, 1905 to Charlotte Tucker & both living at Copley O. No issue.
Solomon Markle, B Oct 30, 1827 ob Apr 10, 1868 m. Elizabeth Schoonmaker. No relation of Jno DePuy S.
Calvin Markle, B Oct 10, 1830 ob M. Nancy DePuy. Had 8 children.
Elizabeth Markle, ob mar Wm F. Perry & both living at NO 413 S 43d St Phila & can give record of her family.
Jacob Markle, see P. 380
Joseph, unmarried
Lucas, married
Jemima, was 2d wife of Jacob Davis. Buried at Accord NY. See page 380 & 381 & item 2 page 384 Instead of being a dau of Jacob, she may be dau of a sister Maria
Lydia Markle, mar Asa Miller & had dau Lydia
Reuben Markle, see p 380 lived in Waterloo Seneca Co NY mar a Van Wagenen & had a family. Both dead.
Cornelius Markle, see p 380 also pages 214 & 215.
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Wilbur Hotel Sayre Bradford Co Pa Oct 4, 1923 4:14 PM office floor writing desk.
I just got in ten minutes ago on the Lehigh Valley RR from New York City where I left at 8:10 PM last night having arrived at 7:10 Pm from Accord NY, got my teeth, my laundry & my supper.
I recall that on Tuesday evening driving from Port Jervis to Middletown with Blaine E. Coleman, the Shewango Mountain Ridge was on the right & our route passed along the Delaware & Hudson Canal & after passing the village of Huguenot NY, there was a large plain between the road & the mountain & Blaine said there was a seventeen mile level there between locks in the old days of the lock. We crossed Neversink River on the way. Nearing Middletown, we passed a big State Institution where Mrs Wood's daughter is confined. She hurt her spine & then went in bathing when her monthly courses were on, with the result that she lost her mind & went crazy.
Yesterday going to Accord NY, I passed at Napanoch & Wawarsing a big state institution for Criminal Mental defectives.
I also passed Kerponkson Sta & P.O. NY which is no doubt the place referred to on page 373 as the place her husband Solomon B. Markle came from but it is not in Greene Co. I think the tombstone of Daniel H. Markle at Accord NY see later is that of his father.
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Residence of Miss Mary Elvena Mowris Accord NY Oct 3, 1923 9:22 AM
Miss Mowris has a nice home, frame building near the RR sta & adjoining the P.O. & lives very comfortably on the second floor renting the first. She is a tall well built woman with big eyes & was very kind & gave most valuable information on my return later.
She said her grandfather was Henry Markle, called the Yankee from New England but who came originally from Penna she thought. He died when her mother was 20 & his wife died when her (Miss M's) mother was 18. She said she had a list of her mother's brothers & sisters with dates of their birth, but she thinks she packed it & sent it, with other papers to her brother Rev John Russell Mowris, Pastor of the Copley Meth Ch at Copley Ohio near Akron O where she expects to go the last of this month & if she does & finds the record will send it to me. She says she knew Fred Markle well & that he had a brother or two & she thought a sister who married a Decker & says he was a first cousin of her mother Hilah Markle see page 214. She says there is an Elias J. Markle who had a brother Abraham who were sons of Jacob Markle & said Elias J. was living a mile or two from here but she didn't think they were related although they claimed they were.
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Elias J. had a brother James whose sons Myron & Leonard live in Kingston NY but she said Elias J. Markle living 1 1/2 miles below here on State Roads to Kingston NY aged over 80 could tell of his family. He is living with his nephew Charley Markle, son of Richard.
Leaving now at 9:50 AM to go see Mrs Silkworth & return.
I returned at 11:20 AM & Miss Mowris had written off the record of her father & mother with names & dates of birth of their children which I am embodying in table on page 376.
Miss Mowris during my absence had refreshed her recollections by a talk with an elderly neighbor & said her grandfather, Henry Markle had brothers Jacob, Reuben & Cornelius & she guessed that Cornelius's wife was Betsy or Mary Connor. See page 214 & 215.
Her mother's Uncle "Jake" had two boys Joseph & Lucas who lived around here "Luke: moved away & she thinks was married, but Joseph wasn't.
They had one sister Jemima who married Jacob Davis & they lived half a mile fr here. She was his 2d wife. His first wife was a Schoonmaker by whom he had two children. He had three children by Jemima viz:
1. Jerome Davis, who is dead. Had two girls one of whom is dead.
2. Mary Davis, married Lewis Flenckiger & live at Kerhonkson, NY.
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3. Mead Davis, he is a school teacher at Connelly across the River from South Roudout near Kingston, NY
Reuben Markle, Uncle of Miss Mowris' mother lived out in Seneca Co NY in the town of Waterloo, NY. He married a Van Wagenen & had a family. He &
his wife are both dead. Don't know whether there are some children there yet or not. Miss Mowris visited him there when she was abt 20 yrs old, say in 1876. Has never seen any of them since.
Reuben, Jacob, Cornelius & Henry had a sister who married Asa Miller & she thinks her name was Lydia as she had an only child. She thinks whose name was Lydia & who she thinks was named for her mother. She gave me the record of her Aunts, Martha & Helena's descendants & of her mother's which I have entered in the table pages 376. She said her mother was 94 when she died. I expected to get dates of her parents & grandparents death at the cem, but in the few minutes I had before the train left, I got but part of what I went for & should go back.
I bade my very helpful & considerate informant goodbye & left at 11:55 AM
I went then to L.M. Decker's store on the other side of the P.O. & he called a young man who came in abt 15 minutes & drove me out two miles to Elias J. Markle's, an old
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stone house on a slight elevation to the right of the Kingston Road, where the woman told me he was in his 91st yr & had walked down the road half a mile to Edgar Krom's so my auto having gone, I walked back & was:
At residence of Edgar Krom, Rochester Tp Ulster Co NY Accord P.O. Oct 3, 1923 1 PM
This is a fine old residence to the left of the road coming back a thousand feet or more & Mr Krom, with gray whiskers said his ancestors settled there abt 1720 or 1701. He said Elias J. Markle, who was his Uncle by marriage, he having married a sister of his father, had not been there today, but our auto having returned, he got in with me & we went up to the garage on the road, where we found Mr Markle & took him back to the house. He said his full name was:
Elias Jacob Markle Born Feby 14, 1833 in this Tp in or near Accord, son of Jacob A. Markle who was born in the same Tp & neighborhood in 1801 & who died in 1883 aged 82 yrs. He died in the fall. His house got fire & he being feeble was not able to get out & was suffocated from the smoke. His old Dutch Bible with the record was burned in that fire. Jacob A's father was Abraham Markle, as Elias J. says his father often told him, that his Elias J's brother Abraham was named for his grand-
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father. He says his grandfather came from Holland so his father told him. He cant recall whether he ever saw him or not, but he does recall that he, Abraham, his grandfather had the following children:
Jacob A, his father
Elias, for whom he was named
Johanns
Mollie, who was married twice
Elizabeth, who married an Osterhoudt
Nancy, who was married.
His Uncle Elias Markle had sons Jacob & James whose descendants scattered off & one was a miller below Hawley.
His Uncle Johannns [sic] had children:
1. Jacob A. Markle who married Dinah Osterhoudt & had 8 boys & 2 girls
2. Abraham
3. Thomas
4. Helena
He said old "Hancum" as he called him ie Henry Markle, the grandfather of Miss Mowris, was some kind of a cousin of his father, so his father had told him.
He says his grandfather Abraham didn't come over alone, thinks a brother came with him. Says he is sure his grandfather came over from Holland & landed about Newton. My time being limited, Mr Krom proposed getting further records & sending to me, so I gave him my address. Mr Markle is a slender, tall well preserved man with moustache & sparse whiskers under his chin.
Left 1:22 PM
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At Accord Rural Cemetery Accord NY Oct 3, 1923 1:30 PM This cemetery is just a short distance from the RR Station & in the back part of same are many of the Markles & their kin, but in my limited time I only got a few viz:
1. James S. Markle, Dec 18, 1838, June 17, 1876
Maria C. Van Wagenen, his wife July 8, 1837, Jany 15, 1909
2. Phoebe J. Schoonmaker wife of Jacob Davis died Jany 5, 1857 aged 37 yrs 8 mos 3 days.
Two daughters of Jacob Davis, died
Phoebe Davis died Feby 2, 1844
Charlotte aged 6? mos 17 days
Jane Ann aged 3 yrs 1 mos 17? days
Jacob Davis died Apr 16, 1896 aged 81 yrs, 8 mos 8 days
Jemima Barley, wife of Jacob Davis born Nov 25, 1835, died Mch 14, 1908.
Maria Markle, wife of Henry Barley died Feby 19, 1889 aged 76 yrs & 6 days
Leah L., dau of Jacob & Jemima Davis, died May 11, 1874 aged 1 yr 3 days
Clark V., son of Jacob & Jemima Davis died Apr 24, 1871 aged 3 yrs & 1 day.
3. Solomon Markle died Apr 12, 1868 aged 41 yrs 5 mos 12 days
Elizabeth H. wife of Solomon Markle died Sept 6, 1892 aged 57 yrs 2 mos 12? days
Norris E. Markle Aug 27, 1856, Jany 31, 1914
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4. Daniel H. Markle 1837 - 1900
His wife Lavina Gross born 1840 - evidently still living
Elizabeth Addis wife of Daniel H. Markle born Apr 30, 1837, died May 25, 1874
Almira
Jacob
5. Martha Markle, wife of John D. Schoonmaker died Mch 18, 1892 aged 72 yrs 6 mos.
Joachim H. Schoonmaker died Feby 28, 1879 aged 32 yrs 9 mos 24 days.
John D. Schoonmaker, died Nov 6, 1870 aged 71 yrs 3 mos 2 days.
Saw the Calvin Markle tombstone nearby & had to leave before getting some of the most desired records.
Left 1:44 PM
Drove down to the station & sent telegram to Dr W.B. Force No 20 E 53d St NY to leave my teeth, gold plate, at information desk Waldorf Astoria NY before 7 PM today, got my ticket & left on the 1:56 PM train on the NY out & Western RW Co for New York where I arrived & left as above noted. It is now 7:46 AM 4th & I am written up to date & will go in to breakfast.
JVT
At residence of Daniel Markle, No 203 Harrison St, Sayre Bradford Co Pa Oct 4, 1923 9 AM
Mr Markle is a remarkably well preserved man for his years with a full smooth unwrinkled face & talks with a very noticeable Dutch accent. He does not know the name of his grandfather, but says his father Jonas Markle always told him that he, Jonas was born in Berks Co Pa. He thinks his grandfather died in Berks Co Pa but is not sure but says his widow died at the home of her son Jonas Markle in the Quakake Valley when Daniel, my informant, was a small boy abt 6 yrs old & is buried in the Quakake Cem Packer Tp, Carbon Co Pa as is her sons Jonas, Abraham, & Reuben, but he says there are no markers to any of them. He says his Uncle Gideon moved to the State of Indiana but he don't know the town or county. He does not remember ever seeing him. Only knew Abraham & Reuben & the Aunt that lived in Scranton Pa. There were three other sisters, one in Ohio, one in Reading & one here, but he never saw them. He thinks his brother Joel, 3 yrs older than him would have his father's bible. He, Joel Markle, lives in Rush Tp, Schuylkill Co Pa, an old bachelor living by himself. Go to McAdoo Pa & Mr Miller who has a knitting mill can tell you how to find him as he passes his place every day in his auto. Mrs Markle has brought out their
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own big bible printed by C.F. Vent, NY & Cincinnati 1872 from which & their information I am making up a genealogical table with names & dates of birth of their children as given in the bible.
Mrs Markle says she had a lot of church cfts giving births & christening of her husband's brothers & sisters, but she gave them to his brother Joel. Mr Markle says that of his children, Laura & Charles were born in Packer Tp, Carbon Co Pa & all the others were born in Rush Tp, Schuylkill Co Pa. He kind of half believes on thinking it over that his grandfather's name was Abraham Markle but isn't sure. Says his Uncle Abe had a son Abe & his Uncle Rube had a son Abe. Mr Markle has a short iron gray mustache & his hair is iron grey. His wife is a small active lithe woman. Their youngest daughter, Lilly (Mrs Kleckner) came over & has given me her record on Page 389 & helped me to complete her brother William's on Page 388 by calling Amy who is at a neighbor's on the phone.
Mrs Markle's hair is still black.
Leaving 11:55 AM
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[Descendant Chart]
[Markle]
[Children]
Jonas Markle, born in Berks Co Pa. He was born Oct 1, 1816? & died Apr? 1892 in Rush Tp, Schuylkill Co Pa. Mar Julia Anna Stewart. Died abt 6 mos after her husband.
Benneville Markle, died when small
Elizabeth Markle, m. Thos Jeff Day
Gideon Markle, died of typhoid fever in his 21st yr, unmarried.
Joel Markle, unmarried B Nov 1844.
Daniel Markle, Born Apr 8, 1848, m. Apr 17, 1873 to Sarah Catharine Ward who was born Nov 27, 1854 (daughter of Lydia Ann Lindner) in Rush Tp.
Laura Ellen Markle, B Aug 23, 1873 m. William Moser. Both at Quakake Junct. He is an engineer on Lehigh Valley. Have 1 boy & 2 girls.
Samuel Irvin Markle, B Sept 19, 1876 m.1. Emma Christ, divorced. M.2. Cora Niemeyer, a widow. No issue by either. He lives in Wash D.C. & is a Photographer
Charles Elmer Markle, B Nov 19, 1878 Got his record
George Washington Markle, B Feby 22, 1881, m. Emma Smith & have 2 boys living. Lives in Hazleton Pa. Drives A & P Co truck.
Daniel Augustus Markle, B Oct 2, 1883 m.1. Carrie Snyder, divorced. M.2. Carrie Zearfoss, a divorcee. No issue by either. Lives in Flint Mich. Foreman in Buick works.
Sarah Elizabeth Markle, B July 16, 1888 ob Sept 11, 1889
William Benhard Markle, B Sept 11, 1890 m. Feby 5, 1913 to Amy Godshall dau of Benj Godshall & his wife Kate Texter, who was born June 28, 1891. He is a switchman in Lehigh Valley RR yards.
William Irvin Markle, B Oct 17, 1913
Olive Augusta Markle, B June 26, 1916
Glenna Catharine Markle, B Oct 23, 1918
Lilly Minerva Markle, B Mch 8, 1893 m. August Kleckner. Both living at 710 S. Wilbur Ave Sayre Pa where he is a RR yardman, son of Wilson Kleckner & his wife Hannah Godschall. He was born June 26, 1890 & mar Dec 22, 1909, oldest child born in Rush Tp other 3 here in Sayre Pa.
Melva Catharine Kleckner, B July 16, 1911
Warren August Kleckner, B Mch 27, 1915 ob Sept 12, 1915
Alberta Mae Kleckner, B Apr 9, 1916
Wilson Daniel Kleckner, B Apr 6, 1918
Jacob Markle, [son of Jonas] went to Delano to get some tobacco & walking back on the tracks was struck by train & died, was unmarried.
Missouri Markle, M.1. Charles Barrier died of consumption. M.2. Nathan Hontz, Luzerne Co farmer where he died. M.3. Adam Rose. he died in Weatherley. She lives in Bethlehem Pa with her son Oliver Hontz.
Amanda Markle, M. Elia Krepps. She died & he is at Mt Carmel Pa.
Frank Krepps. He died 3 yrs ago
Martha Krepps
Hannah Markle, died unmarried see page 594
Amy Markle, died young
Wm Albert Markle, M. Sarah Igo
Ellen Markle, the youngest, m.1. Roberts. He died in 6 mos later. M.2.
John Blair, he died 2 yrs later. M.3. Tighlman Driesback. He died last Mch. She was living in Reading Pa at 904 Rose St, but recently moved & her P.O. is Interville Pa, Berks Co Pa where she lives with her son-in-law James C. Northheimer.
Abraham Markle [brother of Jonas] married & had a family see pages 258 & 458.
Reuben Markle, m. "Betsey" Moore. Had children.
Gideon Markle, married & had children. Went to State of Indiana.
Rachel Markle, m. Louis Hontz. Lived & died in Scranton Pa. Don't know abt her children.
Hannah Markle, m. Koch. Lived & died in Reading Pa. Only saw one of the boys whose name he thinks was Dan.
Leah Markle, never saw her, she died when Mr M. was small. Had 3 daughters.
Rebecca
Sarah, m. John Shriver, died in Sugarloaf Valley
Charlotte, m.1. Reuben Welsh. He went to war & never came back M.2. Nathan Barrier. He died in Sugar Loaf Valley. M.3. Bittenbender [Bitterbender?] who died in Hazleton.
A dau Markle, m. Foulke. Lived in Ohio. Don't know town or Co.
Jacob Foulke, in Ohio, visited here once.
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At residence of Benj F. Griffin No 201 Centre St Milton Northumberland Co Pa Oct 5, 1923 8:40 AM
I walked out here from the Hotel & a short fleshy serving woman told me Mr Griffin had gone to his work at Shimers machine shop, but that Mr & Mrs Kohle, Geo Markle & his wife had been up here last Sunday for the day & told them I would be here so they had the large dilapidated Griffin bible laid out on the table in readiness. It was printed in 1861 by Wm W. Harding Phila & the record is as follows:
Births
Mary M. Markle was born in Dec 19, 1829, daughter of John & Elizabeth Markle.
William H. Griffin, son of Isaac & Elizabeth Griffin was born in the town of Providence, June 26, 1825.
Their children:
1. John M. Griffin born Jany 30, 1854
2. Emma E. Griffin born July 30, 1856
3. Benjamin Franklin Griffin born Nov 17, 1860
4. Clarence Griffin born Aug 10, 1862
5. Clara S. Griffin born Dec 18, 1863
Deaths
William H. Griffin died Mch 5, 1865
Mary M. Griffin died July 15, 1908
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Benjamin F. Griffin was married to Sallie Springer, who died & is buried in Watsontown, her old home. They had but one child:
Sallie Springer Griffin, born Feby 20, 1882 & who died Apr 12, 1882.
An obituary notice found in the Bible of Geo B. Markle Sr says he died at the residence of his son John on West Broad St (Hazleton Pa) a few minutes before 11 o'c Saturday night, aged 61 yrs. Funeral services in the Pres Ch Thursday afternoon 1:30 Interment at Milton Private States:
He was born in Milton Pa July 1, 1827 & was the son of John & Emily Markle. Attended the Common Schools & learned surveying. Left school at 14 & followed different avocations & at 17 went to Phila & learned carpentering while engaged as a carpenter he fell & hurt himself & rtd home, & went to Bloomburg Pa to help his father who had left Milton & gone to that place. At the age of 20, he married Miss Emily Robison of Bloomsburg. Their union was blessed with nine children, five of whom are living - Miss Clara, Miss Ida, George B. Jr, John & Alvan. He moved to Hazleton Pa in 1849 & in 1858 formed the firm of G.B. Markle & Co & commenced mining coal in Jeddo. In 1872, his health commenced to fail & in 1879, he retired & spent 1879-1880 abroad. Spent winter of 83-84 in NY & as travel did not improve his health, he decided
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to spend his remaining years in quiet. He moved to Phila in 1874 & lived there since. He arrived in Hazleton May 14, to spend the summer where he became suddenly worse & the skill of the best physicians including Drs Costa & Mayo of Phila could avail nothing.
Funeral notice of Mrs Geo B. Markle Sr which funeral took place from the residence of her son Alvan on West Broad St (Hazleton )a) Services conducted by Dr John Hemphill D.D. of West Arch ST Pres Ch Phila of which she was a member compares her with Dorcas & cites a life full of good works. Pastor cited that often they would find a large roll of greenbacks in the contributions box with no hint from whom they came, but they always knew such rolls were also often sent to his home. His sermon was a beautiful eulogy.
Mrs Nancy Seiler is the housekeeper who has given me the above records & directs me to Mrs Smith, Mrs Roat & the cemetery.
Leaving now 9:35 AM
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At residence of Luther McLancthon [Melanethon?] Smith No 117 Stanton Ave Milton Pa Oct 5, 1923 11:11 AM
Mrs Smith met me at the door & is giving me the following which she says she copied from the Bible. Mrs Smith was:
Clara Sweeney Griffin born Dec 18, 1863 & on May 26, 1887 was married by Rev Pollsgrove (Meth) at Milton Pa to Luther M. Smith who was born July 16, 1854 in Belle Vue Huron Co O, the son of Joseph H. Smith & his wife Elizabeth Brown. Have had two children, both born here.
1. Clara Viola Smith born May 30, 1888. She married Nov 7, 1921 at NY City to George Quincey Barnet, both of NY City where she made her home. He was born Dec 23, 1887, the son of Robert Barnet. They have one child born in NY City viz:
1. Donald Barnet born Aug 4, 1922. Mr Barnet is in the Government school taking up drawing. He served in the World War & was over seas in service.
2. Emma Ruth Smith born Sept 22, 1891. At home unmarried.
Mr Smith is a filer at Shriver & sons Machine shop.
Mrs Smith's brother, Clarence Griffin, Milton Pa 410 Chestnut St married & has 3 girls all married & have several children & the boy is at home. Write him & her:
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Mrs Smith's brother John M's widow Mrs Rosa Griffin Clinger Bldg Mahoning St Milton Pa. Write her.
Leaving 11:40 AM
At residence of Clarence Anten Roat No 376 E. Mahoning St Milton Pa Oct 5, 1923 12:07 PM
Mr & Mrs Roat have brought out the old big German bible of her great grandfather, Christian Merkel which is in German & was printed in NÜrmberg in 1768. The bible is well preserved is covered with hogs hide is 18 inches long 12 1/2 in wide & 5 1/2 in thick. The only family record is on the back fly leaves & covers two pages, all the earlier record written in German as is shown by the translation which Mr & Mrs Roat had made by a good German scholar & which is as follows:
"Translation
Christian Merkel, born on the Mosselem (near Reading) Mch 18, A.D. 1758. Upon arriving at the age of manhood, he was pleased to get married after the Christian religion with a maiden named Maria Strauben who was born near Lancaster in Jany 8th A.D. 1759.
The Lord blessed them with a little son & he received the name by Holy Baptism of:
1. Jacob, witnesses being his grandfather
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& grandmother. He first saw the light of the world Aug 31st, A.D. 1782.
The Lord blessed them again with a little son & he received the name by Holy Baptism of:
2. Wilhelmns born Nov 8, A.D. 1783.
The Lord again presented them with a son who received by the Holy Baptism the name of:
3. Johannes born Oct 24, A.D. 1785.
The Lord presented a little daughter who received the name by Holy Baptism of:
4. Elizabeth, born July 24 A.D. 1787
The Lord blessed them with a little son who received the name by Baptism of:
5. Samuel, born Feby 27 A.D. 1788
(Here is a 7 mos child which was not the first one after marriage)
The Lord presented again a little son who received the name by Holy Baptism of:
6. Gideon, born on Mch 25th, A.D 1791
The Lord again presented a little daughter who received the name by Holy Baptism of:
7. Maria, born Nov 26, A.D. 1792
The Lord presented again a little daughter who received the name by Holy Baptism of:
8. Katherina, born Sept 23, A.D. 1796
(Mrs Roat says Christian Markle's wife above is what we call Straub & the "en" was just the German as in "Mercklen")
There are 740, 512 & 480 pages & then some unpaged in the old bible = 1732 pages.
9. Peter Markle son of Christian & Mary Markle was born Mch 8, A.D. 1798
(Mrs Roat says Peter died unmarried, but don't know where)
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Katharina Merkel born Sept 23, 1796 married John Philip Follmer who was born near Milton Pa in 1793.
Their children as recorded in the back of the old German Bible were:
1. Samuel born on the Homestead near Milton Pa July 29, 1830
2. Mary Elizabeth born on the Homestead near Milton Pa Nov 29, 1831
3. Philip Henry born on the Homestead near Milton Pa Aug 17, 1834
John Philip Follmer died Sept 16, 1882 }see item 5
Katherine Markle, his wife died June 21, 1883} page 40
Samuel Follmer died Nov 24, 1866
Philip Henry Follmer died July 11, 1891
Mary Elizabeth Follmer Derrickson died July 3, 1919
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The Neff Sunbury Pa Room 508 Oct 5, 1923 10:10 PM
I will now transcribe what I penciled down after leaving Mr Daniel Markle at Sayre Pa yesterday afternoon in addition to what I wrote down today in Milton Pa at the three residences visited Pages 390 to 396, the greater part of my conference with Georgia Roat being penciled down & she being a veritable find & delightful charming cousin fully sensed & full of the traditions of the family. When I got to the Wilbur Hotel & asked for the street car for Elmira yesterday, the 12:30 PM car had just left two minutes before, but I took the 12:50 car to Waverly NY & while waiting there for the 2 o'c car, got shaved. reached Elmire NY at 3 PM & found train for Milton Pa wd not leave until 3:55 PM, so that did not give me time to go out 4 miles in the country to see: Mrs Geo Gasper Pine City NY RD1 who is Sudie, one of the daughters of Elizabeth Markle (dau of Abraham) (See Page 258 bottom) who mar Henry Henninger whose address Mrs Daniel Markle gave me.
Amy, her daughter-in-law sd to take the Pine City St car fr Elmira NY. They live on a farm 3 or 4 miles fr Elmira.
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She is over 50, was married before, write her now & get her own & her mother's record. I then got my dinner & went over the directories while waiting for my train.
Daniel Markle has the typical Markle build, a little under average height & stockily & solidly built with the distinctive Markle type of face. His wife is a small homely woman, but was very kind.
3:40 PM Elmira NY Oct 4, 1923
Telephone Directory
Jack, E.L. r 405 W. 5th Tel 2511-J
Kilgore, H.W. r 213 Mt Zoar Tel 2138
No Caruthers, Finleys, Markles, Redburns or Rothermels
Train leaving 3:55 PM
Office of The Milton, Milton Pa Oct 5, 1923 7 AM
Northern Dist United Tel Directory June 1923
Ashland Pa
Rothermel, W.S. res 228 Centre Tel 8-E
Bellefonte Pa
Markle, R.W. res High Tel 126-6
Markle, H.J. res Pleasant Shore Pa Tel 28-Z
Jersey Shore Pa
Fetterolf, John Res 426 Washington Ave Tel 65-W
Lansford Pa
Price, Floyd, res W. Bertsch Tel 210-E
Mill Hall Pa
Markle, Paul Farmer Mill Hall Rd Tel 4513
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Numedia Pa
Merkle, Samuel Res Catawissa RD 3 Tel
Shamokin Pa
Jack, Frank L. Res 423 S 5th Tel 45-Z
State College Pa
Markle, A.F. res E. Beaver Ave Tel 4-A
Markle, James res State College RD Tel 103-C
Tamaqua Pa
Fetterolf, Mary res 125 W. Broad, Dentist Tel 126-Y
Zion Pa
Markle, Wm H. res Hublersburg Tel 2212
No other Caruthers, Finley, Jack, Kilgore, Markle, Redburn or Rothermel in any of the following towns listed in the directory:
Altoona, Avis, Beech Creek, Bellwood, Berwick Bloomsburg, Catawissa, Centre Hall, Coaldale, Danville, Elysburg, Exchange, Girardville, Glasgow, Greenwood, Hollidaysburg, Howard, Hughesville, Landsville, Lewisburg, Lock Haven, Loysburg, Mahanoy City, Mantzville, Maple Hill, Martinsburg, McKeansburg, Millheim, Millville, Milton, Minersville, Montgomery, Montoursville, Mt Carmel, Murray, Nesquehoning, Northumberland, Nuremberg, Orangeville, Oriole, Pottsville, Ringtown, Roaring Spring, Salladasburg, Schuylkill Haven, Seven Points, Shenandoah, Snow Shoe, Strawbridge, Summit Hill, Sunbury, Tremont, Trout Run, Turbotville, Tyrone, Washingtonville, Williamsburg & Williamsport.
Bell Telephone Directory at Milton is same as the one I went over at Sunbury Pa.
Finished 8 AM
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Harmony Cemetery at Milton Pa Oct 5, 1923 10:10 AM I walked up here from Benj F. Griffin's & after looking over one corner of cem, came to where Mr G.N. Taylor, Asst Sexton was working & he took me up past the Markle vault to the top of the hill to the other Markles & their relative's graves viz:
1. Zachariah Markle Dec 23, 1807, May 29, 1898
Ann O. wife of Z. Markle Jany 28, 1813, July 2, 1854
Just across the walk fr above is:
2. Hiram R. Shearer died Jany 1, 1913 aged 83 yrs 10 mos 20 days
Ellener A. wife of Hiram R. Shearer died Jany 11, 1888 aged 51 yrs & 17 days.
Ida Shearer dau of H.R. & A. Shearer died Nov 12, 1868 in her 9 yr
Annie E. Shearer dau of H. & A.E. Shearer died Nov 22, 1878 in her 10 yr
3. In memory of Christian Markel who was born Mch 18, 1758, died Mch 28, 1836 aged 78 yrs & 10 days.
He left this world in heart resigned, In hopes a better world to find
In memory of Ann Maria wife of Christian Merkel who died May 23, 1832 aged 73 yrs 2 mos 27 days. Departed in Peace
There is a small U.S. Flag with "American Revolution" on it put up by D.A.R. between their two firm tall stones.
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4. Harry, son Wm W. & M.E. Derickson age 5 mos
Jesse, son of Wm W. & M.E. Derickson aged 6 yrs
Willie Wood, son of W.W. & M.E. Derrickson died Nov 21, 1872 aged 7 yrs & 8 mos
Wm W. Derickson died Nov 17, 1865 aged 46 yrs.
5. Samuel C. Follmer died Nov 24, 1866 aged 36 yrs 3 mos 26 days
Sallie A. wife of Samuel C. Follmer Born Feby 10, 1835, died Dec 18, 1899.
John Follmer, son of W.P. & Ella Stout died Sept 14, 1878 aged 10 mos & 15 days
Elizabeth Crist, widow of Adam Crist died Sept 16, 1831 aged 78 yrs 8 mos 28 days
Susan Follmer, born Jany 27, 1771, died Jany 17, 1861 aged 89 yrs 11 mos & 20 days.
Henry Follmer died Mch 28, 1822 aged 54 yrs & 19 days
These two are the parents of Philip Follmer below.
Katie Markle, wife of Philip Follmer born Sept 23, 1796 died June 21, 1883 aged 86 yrs 8 mos & 18 days.
Philip Follmer born Dec 15, 1793 died Sept 16, 1882 aged 88 yrs 9 mos & 1 day.
Then going down around the Markle vault (ie the Geo B. Markle Sr vault)
6. Mary M. Markle wife of Wm Griffin Dec 19, 1829, July 15, 1908
Benjamin F. son of John & Rosa Griffin July 7, 1885, Jany 6, 1911
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John M. Griffin Jany 30, 1854, Sept 28, 1914
Rosa M., his wife May 22, 1861 - still living
7. Markle, this is the Geo B. Markle Sr tomb covered with vines, ivy, myrtle etc on a sloping hill & the back part being about level with the ground it is almost hidden. I looked in but could not go in to get any inscriptions.
8. Markle monument, small one right in front of vault
Father Mother
Jacob Markle Harriet Markle
Sister Anne
Lizzie Markle Anne Markle
No inscriptions on any. Going up the hill again to go out, on Turbot St, I saw:
9. David K. Rugh Co 9 112 Reg Pa Vol 1832 - 1915
Leaving 10:55 AM
I then walked down Turbot St to Centre & turning to the right, went one block to Stanton Ave & turning to the left, found Mrs Smith at the first house on the right hand side with her younger daughter Ruth & on Pages 393 & 394 is the record she gave me partly from their records & from her & Ruth's memory. The Kohlers had been there Sunday & told them of my coming. I then walked back Turbot St past the cemetery to Mahoning St to Georgia Roat's, see pages 394 to 396 et al & what follows:
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At Georgia Roat's 376 E. Mahoning St 1 PM (see page 394 et seq) Milton Pa Oct 5, 1923.
Mrs Roat with the proverbial Markle hospitality, insisted on my having lunch with them, so before I had quite finished copying the translation from her great grandfather's wonderful bible with the fine firm clasps, which it took us both to hook, by my pressing down, I went & sat down with her & her husband & her fine nephew, Geo H. Ettla. Mr Roat asked me to say the blessing & we had a fine lunch, everything being good & tasty. Mr Roat is a smooth faced handsome man, the picture of health & Mr Ettla is 6 ft with a Roman nose & looks much like Jim Scholl. We talked for 3 hours & I noted down part of what Georgia told. She said she was delicate as a girl & consequently did not marry until too late to have children, which she said was a mistake & she regretted. She is about the size of Mrs Pallini & while not a handsome woman is a wonderfully good woman.
She said when at Reading Pa, some 13 to 15 yrs ago, she met a Mrs Burke (it was Brandt) who was a Lutheran aged up in the 60s, whose husband was then living who was the daughter of Samuel Merkel who about 40 yrs ago was Treasurer
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of Berks Co & who was an iron man & had furnaces & who owned the old Moselem Springs farm where his ancestors had settled & he was the seventh generation of Markle owners. He left the farm to his son who was a younger brother of Mrs Brandt. He would not farm, but ran on the RR was dueless, with no love of the family traditions & after letting the farm run down, he sold it. He later visited Mr & Mrs Roat here in Milton. She doesn't know whether either or both of them are living but I must go to Reading & see if she is still there. Also look up my 1898 index & see if I got a reference to Samuel Merkle's will. The son was the 8th generation of Markle owners Georgia says Mrs Rhoads (mother of John H.) was a first cousin of Georgia's grandmother Katie Follmer, her mother Esther Bushar being a sister of Christian Markle 1758-1836.
Esther Bushar had a daughter Hettie Bushar who married David Krauser & their grandson, William Krauser is a druggist here owning the Drugstore at No 9 S. Front ST just a few doors from the hotel Milton. Georgia phoned the Drugstore & residence & found that he & his wife were both out & would not return until 6 PM. He is abt 32. Ask him for Grandparents bible. Write him.
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Hettie Bushar Krauser's children were:
1. Charles Bushar Krauser, oldest. He is dead. He had a son:
1. James, living here on Front St unmarried.
2. Hettie died unmarried aged abt 18
2. Ellis Krauser, died unmarried.
3. Louise Krauser, married Cyrus Brown who had but one child:
1. Esther Brown who married Dr Wm H. Follmer. She is dead, but left one son:
A. Cyrus Brown Follmer, who was overseas in the World War & rendered very distinguished services in the ambulance corps, got several medals of honor & was by reason thereof was made U.S. Asst Consul at Lyons, France. He is unmarried. Write him. His father married again & lives now in Williamsport Pa.
4. Daniel Krauser, married Catharine Heinen. Both dead & it is their son Wm H. who is the druggist here above referred to. I called at the Drug store at 5:30 PM on my way to the train & he had not returned. The clerk gave me a slip: E. Krauser & Bro Druggists No 9 South Front St Milton Pa. I told him I wd write.
5. Emma Krauser, died unmarried.
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Of Christian Markle's (1758-1836) children, Georgia gave me the following record:
1. Jacob Markle, mar 1. Catharine Hougendoebler & had one son by her viz:
1. Zachariah Markle. He married a woman of lovely character both beautiful & good & he was so wonderfully in love with her that when she died comparatively young, he so revered her memory that he wouldn't think of having anyone take her place. Another mistake as Georgia said. No issue.
[Jacob Markle] mar 2. Harriet Echard who had a queer strain that descended to her children:
2. Elizabeth, died unmarried, born 1828
3. Anne, died unmarried, born 1830.
Mrs Cora Dahlstrom, oldest child of Geo B. Markle Sr was Anne's closest friend & may have gotten her & her father's records. The mother, Harriet would be born about 1797 & died _____. Cora Dahlstrom got her father Geo B. Markle's bible & probably that of Anne's father. As she just died abt 2 wks ago, I think it well to see her husband at Ardmore Pa soon. Anne was born abt 1830 & died I believe abt 1911 as heretofore shown. Elizabeth was 2 yrs older & born say 1828.
2. William Markle, died unmarried when young & is likely buried here but is not sure.
3. John Markle, got his record in part at Hazleton Pa Get bible to complete.
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4. Elizabeth Markle, married Robert Gray, a Scotchman & lived & died here. Buried in a cemetery here which the city took & Georgia undertook to remove her remains to her lot in Harmony Cem & did do so, but in doing it the stone was broken & carried off & the inscription lost. Thinks she died in 1850 or 1852 & he survived her. A one line printed slip she found in the big bible says he died in 1854 aged 70 yrs. They had 4 children:
1. John Gray, married & had 2 children. He left Milton Pa early before Georgia's time & she don't know what became of them.
2. Jane Gray, married a Johnson & had but one child & it died young & she died at Montoursville Pa
3. Catharine Gray married the same Johnson, who had first married her sister Jane for his 2d wife. No issue.
4. Clarissa Gray, born she says 1809 & died 1889, died unmarried in Milton Pa "was a proud old spinster". Anne Markle had a tombstone put up for her but without dates which they explain by saying it would cost more to have dates cut.
5. Samuel died when a child
6. Gideon Markle married Mary Robins, a proud aristocratic woman of Sunbury Pa. He was killed in a runaway accident caused by an organ grinder playing his organ coming up over a hill &
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meeting him, scaring his spirited horses, of which he was a great lover. He was not killed outright, but died from the effects of his hurts. Georgia says she was once with her grandmother Katie Follmer when an organ grinder appeared & she made them drive him off, as she never after countenanced them because of having caused the death of her favorite brother. He died early in 1851, see item 35 page 334. His wife survived him a number of years. Had two sons & one daughter.
1. Dr John G. Markle, oldest
2. Christian Markle
3. Mary Georgiana Markle. She mar 1. Horatio Wolverton, She mar 2. Genl Geo B. Cadwallader a distinguished Civil War veteran & a druggist later. Had children:
a. Mary Wolverton, d.y. aged 7 yrs
b. Mary Markle Cadwallader, living at No 22 S 5th ST Across from the five half million dollar Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Stone, corner of 5th & Market in 2d house from corner. She lives by herself, but has a companion living with her.
c. Anna Jones Cadwallader, m.1. Simon P. Wolverton Jr, His father was first cousin of Mary Georgina's first husband. M.2d Wm R. Rohrbach & live at
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No 1040 Market St, Sunbury Pa. No issue by either husband. Her present husband was a widower with children.
7. Maria (always called Mary) married Jesse Derickson & had a number of children. Two died in infancy. Family record is in the West & Mrs R. will get it for me. Of their children:
1. Samuel Derickson oldest, lived in NY City, a very excellent gentleman & was a close friend of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt & a witness to one of the codicils of his will & was also a close friend of Russell Sage. He died in NY City about 1908 aged abt 89 yrs. He was a real Markle in appearance & Georgia said the contour of his face was strikingly like mine. He had six children, 3 daughters & 2 sons & a baby died young. His record would likely be with his daughter:
a. Sarah Waddell, widow of Robert Waddell. Did live in Washington Square, but moved she thought to suburbs, says can get her address from John Markle, NY. She has three children, a son & two daughters. Her address is No 2 Graham Court at 1945 16th St NY City
b. Mary Derickson mar. Townsend who is dead & she lives at above number or did two yrs ago. No issue.
c. William Wood Derickson Jr, dead.
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Was married & died in NY. Had 3 children, 2 boys & a girl. The girl is married. Don't know abt the sons. Ask Mrs Waddell.
d. Harriet Derickson died unmarried in NY City
e. Samuel Derickson died a few yrs ago in Connecticut where he was a practicing physician. Married & had one daughter Irene who was unmarried 2 yrs ago.
f. the baby that died young
2. Mary Derickson, next to Samuel died here in 1912 aged 93 yrs a very excellent & wonderful woman. She is buried in the upper cem & would have a marker.
3. Martha Derickson mar Joseph Anten. She died a young woman without issue abt 1849. Buried in upper Cem. He is dead & buried in the west where he went after her death.
4. William Wood Derickson, father of my informant & was the handsomest man in Milton Pa, an excellent man & very popular. He, like his brother Samuel, took after the Markles in looks & disposition. He died of cirrhosis of the liver. He was in business in NY City with this brother Samuel. He married his first cousin Mary Elizabeth Follmer "the best woman that ever lived", daughter of Philip Follmer & his wife Katie Markle Follmer.
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Philip Follmer was a very handsome man, but from the country of one of the earliest Pioneer families of Northumberland Co Pa. He was a rich farmer living 3/4 mile from town. The Markle girls, Mary & Katie were also very handsome. There was a Union of a couple of churches which both families attended & there the young people met. Jesse Derickson was a cabinet maker & his son Wm W. became adept as a craftsman & made a darling little chair for his best beloved cousin Mary Elizabeth Follmer. He was ten yrs older than her. Her parents never dreamed of anything but a cousinly affection, but when she was 18 & he 28, they plighted their love & when she was 22 he came back from NY & asked her mother for Mary Elizabeth's hand in marriage. She was so utterly surprised & it was so against her religion & principles for cousins to marry that she refused & he went west & came back utterly heart broken & sick unto death & was about dying, but told her mother that if she would let him marry Mary Elizabeth, he would be restored. He was such an excellent man & the relationship being the only objection, Katie Follmer said let's go & eat & be reconciled like David which they did & he & Mary Elizabeth were married & went to NY City to
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live & later came back to Milton Pa to live by reason of his ill health & liver trouble thereby superinduced & their six children were all born here in Milton.
A. Jesse Derickson died aged 6 yrs
B. Catharine Markle Derickson married Harry David Ettla of Marietta Pa. She died in 1918 & he lives in Williamsport Pa. She had two children:
a. Geo Henry Ettla born June 30, 1888, single. It is he I met who was with us at lunch & I think lives there, a fine man.
b. Myron Derickson Ettla born Apr 7, 1891, also single. Lives in Rock Island Ills.
C. Samuel Derickson, a twin with Philip Henry. He lives in Dorsey Nebraska & has the bible record of his grandparents Jesse & Mary Derickson & like his sister Georgia is a stickler for old family heirlooms. The cradle spoken of later is also with him. He has 8 children. She will get me their record.
D. Philip Henry, twin with Saml, died a babe.
E. Georgia Markle Derickson born Jany 8, 1862, my good gracious & wonderful informant who by her statement that her mother & grandmother told her that Esther Bushar was a sister of her own great grandfather Christian
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Markle, enables me with the information gotten in Aug 1898 from John H. Rhoads & the records at Reading Pa to locate this Christian as the son of Peter Markle the oldest brother of my great grandfather Casper Markle 1730-1819. She married Apr 25, 1912 at Milton Pa by Rev Dr J.M. Reimensnyder to Clarence Anten Roat who she styles as good a husband as ever was, who was born in Mausdale, Montour Co Pa, near Danville Pa Jany 17, 1869, son of Lewis Roat & his wife Jane Anten (of the distinguished Hunter family) a 2d cousin or 1st cousin once removed of Philip Anten. His business is that of an auditor which he has held with the American Car & Foundry Co for 25 yrs. By reason of delicate health she did not marry earlier. No issue.
F. William Wood Derickson Jr died in 1872 aged 7 yrs
The Shimer Works are known as Milton Mfg Co. They make nuts & bolts.
5. Catharine Derickson, dau of Mary Markle Derickson & sister of Mrs Roat's father mar Geo Deibold of Phila Pa. No issue. Both dead. She too was
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a beautiful woman, was buried in Milton Pa in upper cem & has a marker. She thinks he is buried in Phila Pa.
6. Samuel? died in infancy.
7. A son died in infancy. Their records wd be with Samuel Derickson of Dorsey Neb who has the Jesse Derickson bible.
8. Sarah Caroline Derickson last child of Jesse & Mary Markle Derickson died aged 83 yrs in 1920 & is buried in the upper Milton cemetery. She was unmarried.
8. Katherine Markle married Philip Follmer of Turbot Tp 3/4 of a mile fr Milton Pa. The Follmers were early pioneer settlers here. The family came to Penna in 1738 from Wurtemburg Germany, coming over on the ship Friendship & first settled in NY & soon removed to Berks Co Pa. See History of Follmer Family 1899 Published & compiles by Chas Carroll Follmer, Grand Rapids Mich & can be had by sending him two dollars. It only gives his branch however. Georgia allowed me to bring with me four type written pages of Derickson & Follmer which I am to have copied & return originals to her with a carbon copy ctd top of next page.
Mr C.F. Markle came in at 6 Am & it is now 7 AM & will have to quit, get bkfst & to to train.
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Oak Hill Oct 8, 1923 6:55 PM continuing transcribing.
Continued from line 32 preceding page.
Philip & Katy Follmer had four children. They were very religious. Georgia thinks her Uncle's daughter must have gotten the bible of Philip & Katy. Their children:
1. Samuel Follmer married Sarah Summers from Milton Pa & had but one child.
A. Ella, who married Wm Stout & had four children:
a. Sarah Stout married Philip Kohler of New York City. She is dead, he living in NY City. No issue.
b. Maurice, married.
c. Lee, married
d. "Ned" Thinks was not married. Don't know about these boys except that one lives in Phila & one in Chicago.
2. Mary Elizabeth Follmer, married Wm W. Derickson see page 411 et seq where I have part of this.
3. Philip Henry Follmer m.1. Sarah Dresler & had one child:
A. Catharine who married a Mr Noll a Reformed Minister who lived for many years, but recently came fr there to Milton Pa He is dead & she lives here with two daughters, one daughter is married & living in Mass.
(It is now 7:44 Pm & I am sleepy & will go to bed as I didn't go to bed last night at all.)
(It is now 8:40 AM 9th & I will resume. I slept 11 hours last night fr 8:45 PM to 7:45 AM)
Write to her viz: Mrs Catharine Noll RFD Milton Pa for her grandparents bible record & her
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father's record & her own & her children's.
[Philip Henry Follmer] m.2. Mary Meixsell & by her had two children:
B. Carrie, unmarried lived in Lewisburg Pa
C. Grace, unmarried lived in Lewisburg Pa. Their mother & father both dead. Georgia says they would not have old record but Catharine would.
Referring to the Follmer History adverted to above, she said George Jacob Follmer, who was born in America, moved in 1773 from Bethel Tp Berks Co Pa to Turbot Tp, Northumberland Co Pa. He came with his brother Michael Follmer, who was the father of Henry (see item 5 page 402) the father of Philip who married Katie Markle.
Speaking of her talk with Mrs Burke when in Reading Pa, Georgia said the old Markle homestead after being in the family for 8 generations passed after 1888 following the death of Samuel Merkle into other hands to whom his son sold it. This Samuel was the father of Mrs Brandt.
Leaving 4:11 PM
I noted down after leaving Georgia the following things she told me:
Robert Gray died in 1854 aged 70 yrs. She thinks his wife died 20 yrs before that.
Mrs Roat said that Christian Markle, her great grandfather, moved from Berks Co Pa to Bloomsburg Columbia Co Pa & she thinks her grandmother was born in Columbia Co Pa. Mrs R has looking glass they brought to Bloomsburg Pa with them apparently as good as new 3 ft by 16 inches black walnut frame. She also owns the cradle they brought, but which she loaned to her brother Sam in Nebraska to rock his children in. In moving
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from Berks Co Pa, they strapped this looking glass & the cradle on the feather beds & thus carried them safely to their new home in the wagon. This was before her grandmother was born. She says the cradle is a plain cherry one & in it her grandmother was rocked & all of her children, grandchildren & some great grandchildren & is still good & strong. Her brother Sam in Nebraska has it now.
The big German bible was given by Christian Markle to Katie his favorite child & she gave it to her daughter Mary Elizabeth who gave it to her daughter Georgia as a wedding gift. She has also a breakfast table which they brought from Berks Co Pa
Mr Roat says he was born Jany 17, 1869 at Mausdale, just this side of Danville Pa in Montour Co Pa.
Georgia says her grandmother Katie Markle went with her husband Philip Follmer into the Reformed Church to which the family has since adhered.
Georgia spoke of an old leather bag that Mrs Brandt told her about which had been in the Markle family for generations & which had in it the old family records & old letters from prominent members of the family & other prominent people & which Mrs Brandt said had been stolen after her father's death. Among the letters in this bag were some from a member of the Markle family who was a sea Capt or at least a seafaring man. This was probably Bernard, a son of Peter, who if I remember right was a seafaring man.
I then got the 4:50 PM P&R RR train for Sunbury Pa, got my dinner there at the Neff & walking out Market St was soon at my cousin's viz:
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Residence of Miss Mary Markle Cadwallader No 22 S. Fifth St Sunbury Pa Oct 5th, 1923 7:33 Pm
Miss Cadwallader admitted me. She is a short well built woman about the size of Sarah F. Ainsworth & says her father, Genl George B. Cadwallader was born in the country, near Langhorne, Bucks Co Pa, but was brought to Danville Pa when about 2 yrs old & reared by his Uncle Dr Magill a brother of his mother Hannah Magill. His father, Dr Cadwallader was a practicing physician in Bucks Co Pa about Doylestown Pa.
Genl Geo B. Cadwallader died Oct 21, 1914 aged 86 yrs & 1 day born then Oct 20, 1828. He was stricken with pneumonia on his birthday 20th & died next day. Miss C's mother Mary Georgianna died May 9, 1885 aged 45 yrs & a few months. Both are buried at Pomfret Manor Cem here. She thinks she was born in June & was either 44 or 45 yrs & 11 mos old. She was daughter of Gideon Markle see page 409 & mar 1. Horation [sic] Wolverton. Don't think he was related to her sister's husband. They had one daughter:
1. Mary Wolverton, who died young
Mar 2. Genl Geo B. Cadwallader who served 4 yrs in the Civil War. He enlisted first at Shamokin Pa for 3 mos service & then re-enlisted & was on the staff of Gen Sherman on his march to the sea & then with Sheridan & was with Meade & at the Battle of Gettysburgh Pa was a Capt a Quarter Master Genl, a Colonel & was brevette Genl. In the loyal legion was known as Col. The fine building on lot adjoining is where Miss C's mother was reared. This old property
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has been in the Robins family since they got it from the Penns, & the original title papers were to Zachariah Robins who she thinks was the father of her grandmother Polly Robins who married Gideon Markle. She survived her husband some years, but died before Miss C. was born. They are buried here in the old graveyard called Sunbury Cemetery at Lower end of 4th St.
(It is 11:11 Am & I must go in town). (It is 6:09 PM & I am back & continuing)
Their son, John G. Markle & Mrs Cadwallader were moved from there & buried in the new cemetery established before 1893 (Mother dead 38 yrs was not buried there) She thinks there is a flat stone with inscription. Mrs C. had by her second husband:
3. Mary Markle Cadwallader born Oct 10, 1875 in Sunbury Pa, my informant.
4. Anna Jones Cadwallader born Mch 23, 1879
2. A son born prematurely & died same day oldest by 2nd husband.
4. Anna Jones Cadwallader m.1. Simon P. Wolverton Jr on Oct 10, 1906 at Sunbury Pa, son of Simon P. Wolverton Sr & his wife Elizabeth Hendricks. He was born Oct 21, 18__ & died Nov 10, 1915. No issue. He was State Senator several terms. He is buried in the Wolverton mausoleum in the cemetery which is away out Market St & the Catawissa Road on the outskirts of the town & is called the Pomfret Manor cem. M.2. Aug 29? 1921 in Phila Pa to Wm Rockefeller Rohrbach son of Lloyd T. Rohrbach & his wife Jennie Haas who was born
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in Sunbury Pa Mch 8? 1876. No issue. He was a widower with children & he is the owner of the Water Co which has the old home adjg Miss C. rented for their office.
Miss M. says her mother had a brother Christian Markle who went off from home when 18 yrs old & they never heard from him after except that her & his brother Dr John Markle (a doctor who never practiced) heard in Phila Pa through someone in one of the lodges that he had died in the west. She says her Uncle John Markle died unmarried when she was about a year old. See item 38 P 335.
Leaving 8:20 PM
At residence or rooms of Guy Emmett Rothermel 820 Market St 2d floor rear Oct 5, 1923 8:55 PM
Mr R. is the father of John Howard Evans Rothermel whose wife I saw here last Saturday forenoon. He, Guy Emmet was born Dec 14, 1886 at Dalmatia Pa (then Georgetown) the son of Arisman Oscar Rothermel who is a son of Andrew Rothermel, who lives now in Dalmatia Pa right down along the RR below the depot. He is 83 yrs old & works every day on the State Highway & would likely have to see him about supper time. He is road supervisor & during butchering season does all the butchering. He, Andrew, has a brother living in Shamokin Pa whose name is Isaac, a bricklayer living out by Edgewood Park. Geo L. & Chas E. who I saw last week are brothers of Mr R's father
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A. Oscar Rothermel, his father, was born, he thinks in 1863 & married Lucy Annetta Spotts, daughter of Emanuel Spotts & his wife Elizabeth Wirt she died Feby 1911 (buried Feby 22d) & he lives at No 149 N 2d St. He works for the Penna RR Co. Had but two children:
1. Guy Emmet Rothermel, my informant
2. Clyde Arisman Rothermel, born Feby 2, 1890? who lives in Northumberland Pa & is a barber.
He mar Dec 31, 1920 Kate Morganstern. His address is 81 Duke St, Northumberland Pa & had 3 children:
1. Vaugh [sic] Morganstern Rothermel born say Nov 1907 before marriage & who died of sugar diabetes aged 15 yrs 10 mos & days & was buried on Sept 26, 1923.
2. Anna Elizabeth Rothermel
3. Margery May Rothermel 6 mos. All three born in Northumberland Pa the last two since marriage.
Guy Emmet, my informant was mar 1st Nov 26, 1903 at Sunbury Pa to Cora Meiser, daughter of Benj Meiser of Meiserville Snyder Co Pa & his wife Anna ________ & who he divorced in July 1911 "for laying too much on her back". she has been married three times since, all of whom have divorced her & she is living now with her 4th since. Their son don't recognize her when he meets her on the streets. They had two children viz:
1. John Howard Evans Rothermel born Apr 10, 1904 see page 356
2. Arisman Oscar Rothermel born Oct 17, 1906. he died aged 2 yrs 8 mos & 11 days say June 28, 1909.
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Mar 2d Aug 10, 1922 at Sunbury Pa by Rev S.P. Erisman of United Evangelical Church to Agnes Minerva Dock daughter of Wm Dock & his wife, Sarah Keister. She was born in Dry Valley Union Co Pa Dec 7, 1886. Mr R is a member of St Johns Reformed Church. No issue by 2d wife. He works as a gas fitter for the Penna Power & Light Co. Says his grandmother can give more information than his grandfather, but talks Dutch mostly. He says his Aunt, a sister of his father, Annie, married to Frank Zerbe, both living in Dalmatia just across from the church (Reformed & Lutheran) have a big family. He also has an Uncle Adam Elmer Rothermel living in Lancaster Pa where he runs a haberdasher store.
Leaving 5:40 PM
Zions Evangelical Lutheran Church cor Market & 5th St & opposite Miss Mary M. Cadwallader's is a fine stone church & very large & is said to have cost near half a million dollars. The first street car to be run by electricity was run in Sunbury 40 yrs ago, for two blocks, is in the town & used now for a work shop.
At 10:30 PM, Chas F. Markle of 1304 Market St, who I had been out again to see & found to be out, phoned & said he could give his ancestry back to his grandfather & wd call at the Neff in the morning to see me between 6 & 7 o'c (It is 9:40 PM & I will quit for tonight. Howard W. Showalter of Fairmont WVA & J. Fred Beatty of Mannington called at 6:15 PM & remained until 8 Pm this 9th). (Resuming at 8:08 AM 10th)
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The Neff Room 508 Sunbury Pa Oct 6, 1923 6:05 AM
Charles Fenton Markel of 1304 Market St came in here at 6 AM as arranged. He was automobiling this summer to Harrisburg Pa & on making a detour between Selinsgrove & Liverpool, he passed through a small village called East Salem, Juniata Co Pa where a Mr Markel, owner of "Markels Variety Store, East Salem Pa was having travelers sign in his book & when he signed his name, he said his name was also Markel & he had been located at East Salem Pa for 35 yrs. He was a man in his 50s. Try to see him.
Charles F. says his grandfather, was Martin Markle who died rather young, aged he thought 40 or 42. His home was back of Herndon Pa where he was a farmer. His widow, Betsy Markle never remarried & survived him many years & lived to be 84 yrs & some months & died abt 1895, or when C.F. was abt 16 yrs old. She was a grand old lady. Her husband Martin had been a strict disciplinarian. She died on the old homestead that had been her husband's. Her son, John Markel or Merkel (see item 41 page 336) lived there with her & later bought the place. They each kept separate tables until her very last years when she was not able to continue cooking. He never heard of any brothers or sisters of his grandfather. His grandmother's name before marriage was Elizabeth Shadle She had the family bible of her husband & her son John got it & when he died in Jany 1923
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he thinks it went to his sister, Mrs David Engel, who with her husband are living adjoining the old home farm where he is a farmer. They have four boys. Their home is 6 or 7 miles east of Dalmatia Pa. Go see them. Go on a Friday to Dalmatia & get H. Myers Bohner to drive me out. Betsy Merkel is buried at Urban 3 miles fr her home at Schwartz's Church. Martin & Betsy had the following children:
1. Benjamin, died a young man unmarried (see item 39 page 335, which shows that Martin was son of this Benjamin there mentioned)
2. Gideon Markel, Father of my informant. He died Apr 4, 1914 (see item 36 page 335) aged 64 or 65 yrs. He Mar 1st Kate Bitterman. She died when my present informant Charles F. was 9 mos old leaving two children:
1. Calvin, died aged 8 yrs
2. Charles Fenton born July 31, 1879 at the Fairmont Hotel, Sunbury Pa.
Mar 2d Emma Reed who died 6 yrs before he did & by her he had three children:
3. William Grover
4. Ralph Montgomery who is a doctor in Carlisle Pa
5. Nellie Grace.
Gideon's 2d wife had a child, Ida May, when he married her. Ida may married a man named Espenschade.
Charles F., my informant, was married when 18 in the Spring Mch or Apr 1879 at Sunbury Pa by Rev C.H. Mutschler to his eldest daughter Clara Martha Mutschler who was born say 1877, daughter of above & have had two children both born in Sunbury Pa.
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A. Elsie May, died aged 9 mos
B. Gideon Henry Born Sept 1900 & who is single, living in Phila Pa where he is an accountant.
Charles F. is a general blacksmith. We conclude that Martin Merkel at No 41 Page 336 is his grandfather as he recalls the names of Schwartz & Shaffer as familiar, see also item 39.
Wm G. Markle mar Margaret Kimble who died abt 3 yrs ago & he is now a widower. No issue. He is a chemist & lives at Elmira NY.
Ralph M. Markel, married Louise Keiter & lives in Carlisle Pa. No issue.
Nellie Grace Markel mar Benj Mantz & they live at Williamsport Pa where he has a good job with the Penna RR Co. Have 3 children, all young viz Lois, Robert & Benjamin.
3. John Markel married Anna Lenker. He died in Jany last & she in March last & are buried at Urban, Schwartz Church & had 2 children:
1. Urban Markel mar Wert [West?] & live at Lykens Valley, Dauphin Co Pa P.O. Millersburg Pa RFD 2 a happy free going farmer & have "a plump dozen children" mostly grown up. See him & get record.
2. Minnie Markel married John Leffler & lives in Shamokin Pa where he is a miner & have two girls both married.
(It is 9:33 Am 10th & I must go in town) (It is 6:20 PM 10th & I resume transcribing) (However, first will note that with Pallini, driving I started with Cousins C. Abigail Van Kirk (in her 89th yr) & her niece Beryl Robinson at 10:30 AM & drove us through Fairchance & Smithfield Pa to
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the graves of Jennie M. Showalter & J. Robinson Showalter & found no marker had ever been put up at either grave. We then drove from there to Uncle Samuel Robinson's old home in Nicholson Tp where Some lived for so many years & she & Beryl spent over an hour in the house until 1 PM. The house & 85 A of the old farm is now occupied & owned by Moses & Samuel Clark, brothers & in the orchard above the house, I found a tree of leather coat or Roman stem apples which were picked & piled on the ground & I bought them 2 bus for $200 & brought them along. Going past the David M. Johnson farm now owned by Wm Moser, I bough half a bushel of good quinces for $1.50 & we then drove to Old Frame G.Y. & found Uncle Samuel's monument but no marker to his grave, but one to his first wife Emma Louise nee Bedford who died Mch 1850 aged 33. John T. Smith's wife buried adjoining was her sister. Uncle Samuel was born 1803 & died 1892 & his father John Robinson buried near died in 1864 aged 88 born 1776 & James Robinson buried to his left born 1778 was, we thought his brother & to his left is henry Robinson & wife who were Uncle Samuel's grandparents from which it appears Henry's wife was a Core & Abb said that Col James Robinson would never have anything to do with the Core family claiming differences had arisen in settlement of some estate. Near John Robinson's grave was that of John M. Robinson, son of Uncle Samuel died 1839 aged 2 yrs & Abb sd his first child was a boy, this John M. that died & he then had five daughters, one of whom, Allie, wife of David Gans is buried further down in g.y. We then drove home through High House & Continentals 3 & 2 & got to 161 Union St at 2:15 PM)
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4. Kate Markel married John Eabling. He is dead. At last reports she was living at Haven Kansas, where she went many yrs ago. She was the oldest of the family & if living is away up in years. He was a farmer. Had 3 daughters all married & one son dead.
5. Christiana Markle mar Samuel Dubendorf. Both dead. Lived back of Millersburg Pa. Route 1. She had 3 children & was his 2d wife.
1. Mary E., married
2. William, married
3. Grant, married,
6. Ann Markle, the youngest married David Engel. Both living adjoining the home farm & have 4 boys all married viz Wilson, Oscar, Charles & Dewey.
I then got my breakfast & took the PRR train for Dalmatia Pa where I went to seen Andrew Rothermel & arranged to see him in the evening & also went to the Farmers State Bank & arranged with the cashier to see his mother-in-law, Mrs WM Rothermel when I got back in the evening. After considerable effort, I got H. Myers Bohner to take me in his auto over in Snyder Co which necessitated crossing the Susquehanna River just above Dalmatia where the river is a mile wide & by reason of shallow water & rocks, it took us two hours to get over. We then drove out through Mt Pleasant Mills & came to the farm house:
Residence of John Adam Sierer Perry Tp Snyder Co Pa Oct 6, 1923 12:05 PM
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I found all the children & Mrs Sierer in the uninviting frame house which I entered from the rear. Mrs Sierer is the daughter of Daniel Rothermel of Urban Pa who is a half brother of Aaron & son of Charles. Her name was Ida Rothermel, born in Schuylkill Co Pa Aug 10, 1881 & was married Sept 17, 1910 at Red Cross by Rev G.W. Kopenhaver to John A. Sierer, son of Geo W. Sierer & his wife Sophia Mengel who was born near Mt Pleasant Mills Pa July 26, 1878 & have 7 children, the first three born in Sunbury Pa & the others in this house & have lost none.
1. Margaret Evelyn Sierer born Apr 10, 1911
2. Elsie Irene Sierer born June 13, 1912
3. Lester Melvin Sierer born Mch 19, 1914
4. Russell Edgar Sierer born Apr 19, 1916
5. Helen Mae Sierer born May 24, 1918
6. Robert Albert Sierer born Feby 10, 1920
7. Marlin Tony Sierer born June 20, 1922
Leaving 12:20 PM
We then drove to the second house beyond & was at the
Residence of Fred H. Mengels, West Perry Tp Snyder Co Pa Oct 6, 1923 12:26 PM
Went to the back door & found Aaron Rothermel, black eyed but enfeebled with asthma, who is living here with his son-in-law & daughter. He says he is the son of Charles & the grandson of Abraham (see item 47 page 339) but he can't tell what Abraham's father's name
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was, but says they came from about Kutztown, Berks Co Pa & are descended from John who came from Holland & was buried at sea coming over & he thinks he is 7th in descent from him, but is not sure. He got this from his father Charles, who knew the generations clear back but as his, Aaron's mother, died when he was young, he left home & didn't get much or any of it. Said his father said he was 2nd cousin of Peter Rothermel at Phila Pa who painted the Battle of Gettysburgh. He said his father called Peter the painter's father John & he wd be first cousin of Abraham. His grandfather Abraham came from Kutztown Pa when his son Charles was a small boy & settled at Greenbriar Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa.
Another Abraham Rothermel came also from Berks Co Pa at Mahanoy (Red Cross) Northumberland Co Pa. He was first cousin of Aaron's grandfather Abraham.
Aaron's grandfather Abraham married a Yeager. The other Abraham married her sister. His grandfather, Abraham Rothermel is buried at Himmels Church which is up above Red Cross. The other Abraham Rothermel he thinks was buried at Hunter's Sta. This Abraham had sons William, Lewis, & Reuben and William was the father of Saml Hunter Rotharmel, the coal man of Phila. Aaron's grandfather was 83 & his grandmother was nearly 94 when they died & both are buried at Himmels Church, & they think they have tombstones & knows his
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father Charles has. He remembers his grandparents & says he was grown when his grandfather died & was married when his grandmother died. His grandfather's children were:
1. Martin, the oldest. He went to Illinois with his family, thinks to Ogle Co. Had children Amos, Louri & others.
2. Charles, next
3. Amos, moved with his family consisting of but one child, a girl to near the same place in Ills & were neighbors.
4. Isaac Rothermel went to Klingerstown Pa & of his sons are Abraham, Lazarus, Manassas, Monroe, etc.
5. Katie, married Charles Botcher
6. Hannah married Michael Emerick
7. A daughter married Jacob Hoffman
8. a daughter married Kohler & moved up State to Brush Valley Centre Co Pa.
2. Charles Rothermel mar 1st Elizabeth Bowers & had 5 children. mar 2d Harriet Beistel & had 8 children viz: Killian, Joseph, Aaron, Harriet, & Amanda and Abraham, Daniel, Frank, Mary, Lana, Sara, Katie & Lewis.
Don't know where his grandfather's bible went unless his half brother Dan got it.
Aaron Rothermel says he was born in Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa Jany 10, 1840. He went in front room to get his own family bible which is a large one published by W.W. Harding Phila 1870.
(It is 9:10 PM & I am getting sleepy & will quit) (It is 5:15 PM 11th & I will resume transcribing having just rtd from Pgh Pa.)
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Record from his bible is as follows:
Marriages
Aaron Rothermel & Barbara Alice Gass June 13, 1869 in Northumberland Co Pa by Rev J. Fritzinger.
Their children:
1. Minnie Rothermel born Nov 1, 1869
2. Richard Harrison Rothermel born Aug 17, 1872
3. James Monroe Rothermel born Oct 14, 1874
4. Ira Joseph Rothermel born Sept 28, 1876
5. John Barton Rothermel born May 22, 1880
6. unnamed daughter Rothermel born & died July 27, 1882
7. Adella Rothermel born Jany 6, 1885
Birth of their mother:
Barbara Alice daughter of Joseph Gass & his wife Maria Raker was born in Lower Augusta Tp, Northumberland Co Pa Feby 24, 1847 & her death:
Barbara Alice Rothermel died in West Perry Tp Snyder Co Pa Apr 2, 1904
Deaths
Ira Joseph Rothermel died June 6, 1880
Mr R. said the line between Perry & West Perry Tps was just between here & the John A. Sierer residence.
He also said his grandfather Abraham Rothermel was a double Rothermel, his mother having been a Rothermel, a first cousin of her husband. A line pinned in back of bible said:
"Mother died Oct 25, 1874"
I found a two column newspaper clipping having news item dates of Aug 15, but don't know
(The Aug 15 articles refers to finding a bag of jewels in the manufacturers building, St Louis which had been hidden there 2 yrs before so I think the year is 1906.)
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what year but was an article giving a sketch of John H. Rothermel & the family when he was nominated for Congress. He is the man I went last year to Reading to see & when I arrived Sept 7, 1922 found he had just died. I brought the article with me, but am to return it so am making note of the salient points of family genealogy.
The article is from the Reading Eagle & is headed with a picture of the stone house in Maidencreek Tp where he was reared & which has been a Rothermel home it says for more than a century. He, however, was born in Richmond Tp, but his parents moved to the other house when he was quite young.
The article traces ancestry to John Rothermel who it says was born in Wachbach a Dutch province in 1688 & in 1708 married Sybilla Zimmerman, a native of the same province & after the birth of six children, he decided to come to America owing to unsettled political conditions. He sailed with his wife & children & a large number of other emigrants, but dying on the voyage, was buried at sea, the family reaching Phila Pa Aug 29, 1730 & during the following year located in what is now Berks Co then Phila Co. The six children were Anna Maria, Lawrence, Paul, Peter, John & Christian.
1. Anna Maria was born in Feby 1712 & was the eldest child & was married in 1729 prior to coming to this country to Peter Fetterolf. They located in Macungie Tp, Lehigh Co Pa where he bought 150 A & where he died Aug 15, 1784 & she a few yrs later. Both buried on the farm which is still in the family.
2. Lawrence Rothermel bought 150 A in Windsor Tp in 1738 & became a leading citizen there. In 1746, he married Miss Kuhns, daughter of David Kuhns of Alburtis by whom he
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had two children, Leonard, & Maria who married John C. Romig. From this branch are descended the many Rothermels of that section (see his will book 1 page 130)
3. Should be Paul Rothermel purchased 250 A in 1737 in Maidencreek Tp & resided on it during life. He married Catharine Maurer in 1747 & had six children, Peter, Leonard, Paul, John, Jacob & Barbara.
4. Peter Rothermel the great grandfather of the nominee was the 4th child, married & had several children some of whom went west & became founders of homes in Ohio, Indian & Illinois. The names of his children were Daniel, Peter, the grandfather of the nominee, Abraham & Margaret. (See Book 1 pages 127 & 128, I think this is his will, although the newspaper article does not name all the children & the brother Daniel he refers to is omitted from his father's children in the newspaper article)
Peter, the grandfather of the Congressional Candidate was born on the old homestead Sept 1, 1773 & resided during his entire life, a farmer. He was a prominent Democrat & assisted in the nomination of Thomas Jefferson for Pres of the U.S. He died Feby 1, 1856 & is buried on the old homestead which remained in the family until recently. He married on Feby 11, 1795 to Magdalena Iager & was the father of these children: Maria, Catharine, Daniel, Susanna, Peter, Sarah, Anna, Esther Jacob, John, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sybilla, & Abraham. Two of these daughters must have died young & unmarried before their father as he only names 12 children in his will (see Book 1 Page 131)
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John, the father of Candidate Rothermel was born Apr 8, 1812 in Richmond Tp where he was reared on the farm. After residing there some years, he removed to Maidencreek Tp, where he died Aug 1890. He married Louisa Hoover of Cumrn [best guess] who was born Dec 11, 1827. Thirteen children were born to them viz: Peter, Israel, John H. Katie, Moses, Cyrus, Mary, Lydia, Esther, Wilson H. Annie, Alice & Joseph M..
Dr Wilson H., a brother was coroner of Berks Co & Democratic chairman of 12th ward Reading Pa.
Israel H. now decd another brother was District Atty of Berks Co Pa
Jno H. the candidate has been an active Democrat & delegate to many state & Co conventions & is now chairman of 4th ward, Reading Pa. AT age of 16, he began work in the Blandon Rolling Mills, studied at nights, worked in the Mill barns & was advanced so as to quit manual labor.
5. John Rothermel (this was my great great grandfather) was born in Wachbach, Jany 21, 1722 & purchased a tract of land adjoining his brother Lawrence in 1747, where he lived until his death in 1785. He was married to Mary Sigfried by whom he had the following children: Abraham, Jacob, Daniel & John (there were six more children) Mrs Rothermel passed away in 1809 & was laid to rest with her husband upon the land now owned by Lewis Schaeffer.
6. Christian Rothermel purchased 250 A in 1742 in Maidencreek Tp adjoining the property of his brother Paul. He was the father of these children: Margaret, Sybilla, Magdalena, Amanda Peter & John. (see book 1 Pages 128 & 129 the sill of his widow which shows they have omitted Catharine (if Amanda is Maria) & given John instead of Martin. This Christian is cousin Kate Smith's great grandfather.
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Aaron Rothermel's youngest child, Mrs Mengel with whom he lives is getting her bible for her record. It is well preserved but undated printed at NY by the International Bible Agency.
Adella Rothermel born Jany 6, 1885 married June 29, 1907 at Beaver Springs Pa by Rev F.W. Brown (Reformed) to Fred H. Mengel, who was born Feby 22, 1887, son of Philip Mengel & his wife Emma Hackenburg & have 5 children living & one dead:
1. Stanton Elwood Mengel, born Jany 24, 1908
2. Archie Mengel born July 9, 1912 ob July 15, 19[cut off]
3. Woodrow Myron Mengel born May 30, 1913
4. Robert Ryan Mengel born June 26, 1917
5. Olive Lenora Mengel born Jany 10, 1920
6. Glenn Mengel born Sept 4, 1923
Her older sister Minnie Rothermel was married in Oct or Nov to Reuben Peter Markley & have three children:
1. Iva Markley born Jany 31
2. William Markley
3. Elsie Markley
Mr R's brother Killian Rothermel has a daughter Alice who married Stewart Hall & lives on the river road from Liverpool to McKees or back to Dalmatia. Both living, but without issue. He didn't know whether she would have her father's bible record or not. Killian had children John, Hannah, Charles, Sam, Rob & Alice
Leaving 1:54 PM
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At residence of Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Snyder Main St Liverpool, Perry Co Pa Oct 6, 1923 2:46 PM
Mrs Snyder says that Elizabeth Rothermel, Aunt of Andrew Rothermel
married George Snyder (she said old spelling was Schneider) & both are
buried in the cemetery at the lower end of the town (see below). Mrs
Snyder (my informant) sons got the stones & put them up. She says George
& Elizabeth had 5 chil & thinks a boy & girl in addition died young. She
gives them as she remembers viz:
1. Sawarra Sybiscus Snyder married his cousin, a daughter of Isaac
Rothermel & had five children. They are both dead. One son & one
daughter are dead & one lives in California & one in West VA.
2. died young
3. died young
4. Silas Williamson Snyder born Oct 2, 1842 in Liverpool Tp & died Jany 13, 1923. He married Sept 27, 1876 (she gave it wrong, should be 1866) Sarah Elizabeth Strauser, my good informant, who was born in Freeburg, Snyder Co Pa on Sept 27, 1850?, the daughter of Nicholas Strauser & Catherine Hosterman. They were married here in Liverpool Pa by Wm Lenhart, J.P. & have had seven children only three of them living.
1. Harry Claude Snyder born Mch 27, 1867 died Sept 10, 1906
2. Jacob Pearl Snyder born Feby 6, 1869 died Dec 2, 1898
3. Jennie Estella Snyder born July 28, 1871 living mar & a grass widow. No issue.
4. Katie Dorothea Snyder born July25, 1873 died Aug 5, 1884 aged 10 yrs 11 mos & 11 days
5. James Lower Snyder born Sept 5, 1875, living
6. Arthur Wenner Snyder born Aug 19, 1879, died Nov 25, 1896
7. Roscoe Markwood Snyder born Aug 10, 1881 youngest, living.
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5. Benjamin Snyder married & both death at Shamokin Pa & have a boy & couple of girls living there.
6. Sarah Emma Snyder married John Steinman & both living at Steelton Pa abt 3 miles below Harrisburg. She thinks she or George would get the old bible. Says most of their mother's belongings were taken away before she died.
7. George W. Snyder, living back of Kings Mills which is three miles back of Duncannon Pa in Perry Co. She thinks he would be most likely to have gotten the old bible & would have it. Thinks he is a farmer. He married Mary Trimmer & had 7 or 8 children & are now separated & he is living with his sons. Have six grown up boys & one girl living. Go see him.
Mrs Snyder says her husband served four yrs in the Civil War & his mother had a girl picked out for him to marry when he came back, but he married my informant & his mother didn't like this infraction of her plans & consequently never liked my informant, who had no live for her. Leaving 3:15 PM
Her house was a frame newly painted white & most attractive in the town.
We then drove down to the lower end of the town & in through the cemetery &
At Liverpool Pa Cemetery Oct 6, 1923 3:33 PM we found: 1. George Snyder born Nov 13, 1812 died may 26, 1855
Elizabeth, wife of George Snyder, mother Born Sept 16, 1816 died Dec 29, 1902 aged 86 yrs 3 mos & 13 days
(See page 442)
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Catharine, daughter of Geo & Elizabeth Snyder born July 18, 1837, died Jany 31, 1851 aged 13 yrs 6 mos & 13 days
Did not have time to look further.
Leaving 3:37 PM
We drove back & came to:
Residence of Charles Stewart Hall, Chapman Tp, Snyder Co Pa Oct 6, 1923 4 PM
This was attractive farm residence & I found Mrs Hall & their adopted daughter, with her little girl on the porch. Mrs Hall is a daughter of Killian Rothermel & had his bible which she went in & got & the room being dark we brought it out on the front porch in the light & I copied therefrom as follows:
Marriages Kilian Rothermel & Catharine Snyder were married by J.F. Fitzinger Aug 21, 1859.
Jacob Masser & Mrs Catharine Rothermel were married by Rev A.R. Hottenstine Jany 2, 1892
Births
Kilian Rothermel was born Dec 29, 1836 in Jackson Tp, Northumberland Co Pa.
Catharine Snyder born Nov 14, 1840 in same Tp
Their children:
1. Hannah Rothermel, born May 1860 in Lower Mahanoy Tp
2. Charles Rothermel, born Nov 25, 1861 in Lower Mahanoy Tp
3. Robert Rothermel, born Apr 7, 1865 in Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa
4. Perry Rothermel, born Apr 22, 1867 in Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa
5. Samuel Rothermel born Oct 17, 1868 in Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa
6. Alice Rothermel born Mch 12, 1872 in West Perry Tp, Snyder Co Pa
7. Ammon Rothermel born Nov 18, 1874 in West Perry Tp, Snyder Co Pa
& died June 14, 1881
8. Franklin Rothermel, born Sept 18, 1878 & died Oct 13, 1878
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Deaths
Kilian Rothermel died Mch 6, 1882
Catharine Masser died Apr 22, 1900
Alice Rothermel married Apr 15, 1900 at Port Treworton by Rev W.E. Brilhart, United Evangelical minister to Charles Stewart Hall, son of Jeremiah Hall & his wife Lavina Shurman, who was born in this Chapman Tp, Dec 2, 1876. Both living here. No issue, but they legally adopted.
Della May Smeigh of Harrisburg Pa daughter of William Smeigh & his wife Mary Comp who was born Aug 10, 1898 & who was married May 24, 1921 to Lester Freed Lenhart of Liverpool Pa, son of John Wesley Lenhart & his wife Anne Freed, who was born Aug 6, 1900 & have one child:
1. Annie Eleanor Lenhart born Jany 5, 1922
Mrs Hall's brother Perry Rothermel lives at Port Trevorton in Union Tp, Snyder Co Pa 6 miles above here, is married & has two married girls, but I did not have time to stop.
Her brother Rob, is an invalid & lives at Milton Pa with his sister Hannah Daubert who has one child living & one dead.
Leaving 4:22 PM
We then got to the River & waiting & crossing took more than an hours valuable time. I had Mr Bohner let me out at the Station where I got my ticket & satchel & walked down half a block along the RR to the National Hotel where I got my supper at 6 Pm & then went on down to:
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Residence of Andrew Rothermel, Main St Dalmatia Pa Oct 6, 1923 6:18 PM
Mr R says he owns this home & that he is son of Isaac & grandson of Daniel. Says his grandfather Daniel had a brother "Jake" who his father called "Uncle Jake" but he don't know where he lived as he never saw him.
His grandfather, Daniel Rothermel lived 4 miles below here in Lower Mahanoy Tp, Northumberland Co Pa. He remembers both him & his wife . He was about 15 yrs old when they died pretty close together. They are buried at Stone Valley Church, two miles from here on the other side of Hickory Corners. Are inscriptions on tombstones. Her name was Elizabeth Stonebraker before marriage. He was nearly 80 yrs old. Don't know where he came from. He had 3 boys & 3 girls viz: (see items 51, 52 & 54 pages 340 & 341 for wills)
1. Abraham Rothermel oldest. He married 1st Eva Alleman & lived here in Dalmatia Pa & kept a hotel. He was high in his 70s when he died. Had but two girls, one to each wife. Mar 2d Hetty Witmer. His children:
1. Sarah, oldest by 1st wife, married Washington Arbogast. He has been long dead & she died a yr ago at Sunbury Pa. Two of the boys are in Sunbury Pa & the girls:
A. Mary, married Frank Smith
B. Melissa married Daniel Williard & lived in Sunbury Pa see them.
2. Kate Rothermel by 2d wife, married Phil Moccart up in Sunbury Pa & had a "whole row of children" (see item 46 page 339 for his will)
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3. Jacob Rothermel married Chutie [sic] Daniels. Both dead & buried at Stone Valley Church. Thinks he has a marker. He was 4 yrs in the civil War & was 70 or 72 when he died. Had boys & girls, about all dead, some left descendants, see him again & get trace of them. See bottom page 444.
4. Kate Rothermel married Philip Zerbe & lived in Lower Mahanoy Tp. Both buried at Stone Valley Church & have markers. Had children viz:
1. Isaac Zerbe, married & had issue
2. Levi Zerbe, married & had issue now a widower
3. Riley Zerbe, Lives in Sunbury Pa aged abt 70
4. Joel Zerbe, married & had issue. Used to be in Hbg
5. Susann Zerbe, married Isaac Macener
6. Elizabeth Zerbe, married Henry Secrist.
5. Elizabeth Rothermel born Sept 16, 1816 ob Dec 29, 1902 married George Snyder see page 437 to 439
6. Barbara Rothermel called "Bevy" died unmarried (see items 52 & 54 page 341 for wills of her parents)
2. Isaac Rothermel was in his 70s when he died. Is buried here in Dalmatia Pa at Lutheran Reformed Church (see item 68 page 344 for his will). M. 1st Katie Snyder from Upper Mahanoy. No relation to George. She is buried at Stone Valley Ch & has a marker. M.2. Elizabeth Seal who is buried here in Dalmatia Pa with him. Had by 1st wife 2 boys & 3 girls. Had by 2d wife no boys & 3 girls.
1. Andrew Rothermel, my informant see next page.
2. Mary ("Polly") Rothermel, married Sewalla S. Snyder her 1st cousin. Both dead & buried at Sunbury Pa. Had 2 girls & 4 boys, William lives in Sunbury Pa see him. Some are in California, some in Virginia.
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3. Susanna Rothermel married Eli Fegley Both died at Upper Mahanoy & buried at Urban. Don't know abt markers. No issue.
4. Elizabeth Rothermel, married Isaac Dreibelbiss. Both dead here in Dalmatia Pa & buried at Church here. Had 2 girls & 4 boys all dead. see him again or his wife & see if there are any descendants.
5. Isaac Rothermel m.1st Kate Wagner m.2d Louisa Wagner, a sister of Kate. He & she both living in Shamokin Pa or did, but live now at Wayscalen Station as you go in to Shamokin Pa. He is a bricklayer. By 1st wife, he had a boy. By 2d wife he has 2 boys & one girl. The girl's name is Lulu & one of the boys is George. See Isaac & get full record.
6. Emma Rothermel mar Joe Wingert & had 2 boys
7. Clara Rothermel mar at Shamokin & died long ago
8. Alice Rothermel mar Peter Campbell. Don't know about family. Ask Isaac abt these three half sisters' records.
Andrew Rothermel, my informant the eldest of the 8 children was born Oct 20, 1842 in Lower Mahanoy Tp, Northumberland Co Pa. Sarah Zartman was born Apr 5, 1845 in Jackson Tp, Northumberland Co Pa. They were married by J. Fritzinger Feby 26, 1863 & have had nine children as follows:
1. George Linton Rothermel born Oct 15, 1863 page 329
2. Lilly Ida Rothermel born Apr 10, 1865 page 328 & 329
3. Arisman Oscar Rothermel born July 5, 1866 page 422
4. Annabella Rothermel born Jany 12, 1868
5. Charles Ellsworth Rothermel born Apr 22, 1869 page 330
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6. Daisy Melinda Rothermel born Dec 7, 1870
7. Mary Anna Rothermel born July 10, 1872
8. Martha Alice Rothermel born July 27, 1874
9. Adam Elmer Rothermel born Jany 22, 1877
Deaths
Mary Ann Rothermel died Apr 30, 1918, unmarried
Martha Alice died Mch 5, 1905
The above names & dates were taken from their bible record.
4. Annabella Rothermel mar Frank Zerbe. Both living here in Dalmatia Pa & have two girls & three boys, see them & get their record.
6. Daisy Melinda Rothermel married Calvin Fenstermacher. He is dead & she lives in Phila Pa, get address. Had 3 girls & a boy.
8. Martha Alice Rothermel married Addison Snyder & died 4 mos after marriage. No issue.
9. Adam Elmer Rothermel married Florence Miller & live in Lancaster Pa. Have a boy & a girl.
Mr Rothermel insists that the bible his Aunt Elizabeth Snyder got had the record of his grandfather in it & says it belongs to him & he thinks now that Geo W. Snyder at Duncannon Pa, who he says is about his own age, has it. Go see him & get that record. He says Wm Rothermel, the father of Mrs Tresler was a son of his father's brother Jacob, above mentioned, see top of page 442 & hence a first cousin of my informant. Mr R. belongs to the Lutheran Reformed Church.
Leaving 7:40 PM
I then walked in the darkness up to the top of the hill & was at:
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Residence of Mrs Mary Rothermel on the hill in Dalmatia Northumberland Co Pa Oct 6, 1923 7:55 PM
Mrs R. says her husband William Rothermel was the son of Jacob who was the son of Daniel. Wm her husband was first cousin of Andrew & Isaac. She has gone to get what records she has. She said her husband Wm had brothers:
1. Solomon who died of cancer, married & had 9 or 10 children. Get record
2. Daniel, a Civil War veteran & an old bachelor. Hung himself at Klingerstown Pa
3. Abraham, got killed in Civil War was unmarried, was only 18 when he went to war. Solomon died across the line in Dauphin Co Pa & some of his children live there & some at Millersburg Pa.
Her husband Wm had these sisters:
4. Mary, married Tobias T. Heckert
5. Harriet married Jacob Schroyer
6. Lizzie married John Clark
7. Sarah married Daniel Radle
She produced her marriage cft showing that on Feby 13, 1873 William Rothermel of Lower Mahanoy Tp & Mary Zerbe of same place were married by B.M. Bubb J.P. Her bible record showed:
Births
William Rothermel, father born Jany 14, 1851
Mary Rothermel (Zerbe) mother born May 26, 1857
Their children:
(see order on next page)
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1. Grant Morris Rothermel born May 4, 1873 page 352
2. Eve Minnie Rothermel born Jany 3, 1879
3. Charles Lee Rothermel born Nov 22, 1881 page 355
4. Jacob Francis Rothermel born Oct 6, 1883
5. Frank Clarence Rothermel born Mch 14, 1887 page 351
6. Ceil Jerome Rothermel born Jany 8, 1889 page 353
Eve Minnie married Ray E. Tresler.
Leaving 8:30 PM
She now says as I was leaving that her husband's father was the Jacob who was a brother of Abraham & Isaac, they being her husband's Uncles & he was not the son of the elder Jacob who was Uncle of Abraham & Isaac.
Andrew was not able to tell what relation he was to Aaron & in fact could not define his relationship to any other Rothermels except as above given.
I walked down the hill, got my satchel at the hotel & went over to the waiting room
Waiting Room of Penna RR Co Dalmatia Pa Oct 6, 1923 9 PM
While waiting for the train to come, Ray Ellsworth Tressler came in & said he was born Dec 13, 1879 in Washington Tp, Northumberland Co Pa son of Cornelius Tressler & his wife Louisa Ferster & on Dec 12, 1903, he married Eva Minnie Rothermel who was born Jany 3, 1879 & have one child:
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1. Allen Cornel Tressler, born Dec 22, 1906 at Hickory corners Pa
Finished 9:11 PM
We then went across to the other side, he to mail some letters & I to board the 9:24 PM train for home. I could get nothing but an upper berth, but reached Greensburgh Pa next morning Sunday abt 6:30 AM walked up town & got the 7 AM street car for home & arrived in Uniontown at 9:30 AM, called Pallini & came out home read the papers & opened my mail 183 letters & did not get to bed at all that night & have been very busy since & it is now 2:40 AM 12th & I am written up to date except my cash acct book.
JVT
On the foregoing trip of 21 days from Sept 17, to Oct 27, 1923, I traveled 2274 miles & had 92 conferences commencing Sept 18, & ending Oct 6, 1923 with 214 people as follows: ie concerning:
The Finley Family 5 conferences with 12 people
The Markle Family 48 conferences with 119 people
The Jack Family 6 conferences with 11 people
The Caruthers Fam. 2 conferences with 2 people
The Rothermel Fam. 31 conferences with _70 people
Total 92 conferences with 214 people JVT
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Oak Hill Oct 15, 1923 9:52 AM
Refer to page 67 to reference to the small book Mrs Wm McFarland loaned me on June 26th last & a letter from her of Sept 29th asking its return was in my mail on my return home on 7th inst so I am copying below such of the record as I want & returning the little book by registered mail today:
"Scroggs Family Origin of Name
In Scotland, a low Scrubby vegetation is called Scroggs. When the Scottish chiefs were killing each other off, Sir William Murry & his brother James were opposing each other & Sir William came of victorious. Sir James & all of his family were supposed to be killed. After the battle, when they were plundering the dead, a babe wrapped in the Murray Plaid was found among the "Scroggs". When it was brought to Sir William, he recognized it as his brother's child and saved its life to rear it with his own children.
It was nicknamed Scroggs & the name stuck to him. The soldiers declaring he should be called for the place in which he was found. So says tradition. Mrs Royce of New Castle Pa says her Uncle Genl Scroggs "looked up" the above in Carnegie Library in Schenley Park Pittsburgh Pa & found it to be true. He also found th descent from Sir William Scroggs & made a note of it; but at his death, the executor burned the papers with others thinking it of no value. Probably it can be traced or found in Scottish Peerage or English Peearge. Sir William Scroggs was a Scotch Judge and one Jefferies was English. The two judges had a legal tussle & Sir William won. He was a notable man. Alexander, Allen, John & James Scroggs were grandsons of Sir William Scroggs and came
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from Edinburg, Scotland about the year 1743 & located in Cumberland Co Pa at Big Springs, now called Newville. John went to State of New York. Alexander stayed in Big Springs and after Allen's death, his son John went to Baltimore Md & his (Allen's) widow & rest of family went to Westmoreland Co Pa. James went back to Scotland & married a Miss Jack. Alexander, James' only child went to Kentucky. His son John was a Seceder minister in the State of New York.
Alexander Scroggs was married twice & was the father of 21 children; ten by the first wife, eleven by the second wife. His second wife was 19 yrs old & he 76 yrs old when they were married. (other records I have proves his age to be less). Alexander Scroggs died in the year 1796.
The children of Alexander Scroggs & Rachel Leith (his first wife)
1. James, father of Joseph Scroggs D.D.
2. Sarah
3. Alexander Jr
4. Ebenezer
5. Rachel born 1756 died 1780 married John Stevenson
6. Jeannette married Joseph McElwain
7. Ann married Hugh McElroy
8,9, & 10 Three others, names not known
Children of Alexander Scroggs & his second wife Rachel Ireland:
11. Allen Scroggs married 1st Margaret Craig 2d Mary Porter
12. Miriam Scroggs born 1775
13. Gen John A. Scroggs born 1776 died June 26, 1844 married 1st Isabella Walker 2d Anna White.
14. Aaron Scroggs born 1778 married Sarah White
15. Moses Scroggs born 1780 died 1838 married Margaret Thompson
16. Rachel Scroggs born 1781 married William Connelly
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17. Sarah Scroggs born 1783 died 1856 married Alexander Thompson
18. Elijah Scroggs born 1786 died 1851 married Margaret Imbrue
19. Mary Ireland Scroggs born 1788 died 1845 married Robert Thompson
20. Name not known
21. Tabitha Elizabeth Scroggs born 1790 died 1870 married Hugh Thompson (see the Scroggs records I got from her descendant W.H. Thompson Cadiz O last yr but which I have not had time to examine)
Capt Allen Scroggs was in the 1812 War
Allen, Dr John, Hon George, Elizabeth & Francis Scroggs.
Alexander Scroggs was in the Revolutionary War as also was his brother Allen. They both helped to start the U.P. Church in Newville (or Big Springs) Pa. Allen Scroggs came to Cumberland Co Pa with his brothers Alexander, John & James (all of whom were grandsons of Sir William Scroggs). They came in 1743. Allen Scroggs became the owner of a considerable tract of land situated on the Big Spring, near the present site of Newville.
His will was executed Feby 17, 1777 & probated May 14, 1777 so that he died in 1777. He divided his estate equally among the following children: Allen, John, Janet, Alexander, Mary and Daniel or Ann
Allen Scroggs married Mary Gibson & their children were:
1. Allen Scroggs married Mary Grimes (Graham)
2. Elisha Scroggs, married
3. John Scroggs, married
4. Janet Scroggs, married James Gageby
5. Mary Scroggs, married James Crawford
6. Ann Scroggs, married Robert Hamil
James Gageby married Jeannetta Scroggs & their children were:
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1. Allen Gageby married Elizabeth Brown Aug 25, 1819
2. John Gageby married Sarah Trimble
3. David Gageby married Malinda Wood
4. Niel Gageby married Mary Daniels
5. Jane Gageby married Joseph Elder
6. James Gageby married Lucy Warriner
7. Robert Brown Gageby born Oct 5, 1807 died July 7, 1880 married Rebecca Scott Douglass Nov 11, 1834. Their children were:
A. James H. Gageby born 1835 Sept 5, died July 13, 1896 married Matilda Fend & had one daughter Emma F. Gageby.
B. Jane Elizabeth Gageby born Apr 28, 1837 died Sept 2d, 1838
C. George W. Gageby married Rose Pisel
D. Helenora Malinda Gageby born July 4
E. Mary Eliza Gageby
F. Jemima D. Gageby died May 31, 1889 married Alexander White
G. Anabella Teed Gageby born Dec 11, 1848 married Cousn [sic] McClure
H. Sarah Jane born Nov, died May 31, 1889, was drowned in the Johnstown flood.
I. Joseph Scroggs Gageby born Jany 7, 1853
J. John Scott Gageby born May 16, 1856 mar Lizzie Petrie
Ann Scroggs married Robert Hamil. Their children were:
A. Allen
B. Elizabeth who married John Pollock
C. Mary who married Alexander
D. David who married Mary
Robert Hamil's 2d wife, their children were: Ann, Rachel, Robert, Ebenezer, Joseph & Hugh.
The family of Allen Scroggs moved to Westmoreland Co Pa instead of Baltimore Md - excepting his son John Scroggs who went to Baltimore Md.
John Scroggs Jr, son of John Scroggs, son of Allen Scroggs came to Columbia Co Ohio & located near New Lisbon where he spent his life. His son Jacob located in Bucyrus O. He was an attorney as was also
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his son Charles J. Scroggs with whom he was in partnership until his death.
Charles J. Scroggs at Bucyrus O says his father's ancestor was John Scroggs born June 25, 1766 & married May 18, 1787 to Frances Hook of Balto Md. He states that Allen Scroggs was the father of John, but was not sure.
There can be no doubt that Allen Scroggs is the ancestor of Miss Gageby & brother of Alexander, the ancestor of Mr Thompson. T.A.L. Thompson, Steubenville O has a full history of James Scroggs together with his war record. They were a family of physicians "Joseph Scroggs married Mary Hanna"
Allen Scroggs was in the Revolutionary War.
All of Allen Scroggs' descendants became noted. One of them belongs (at present 1889) to the Maryland Legislature. They were great soldiers & full of martial spirit.
Robert Brown married Allen Scrogg's widow after they came to Westmoreland Co. Their children were:
1. Nancy Brown married Graham
2. Robert Brown married Ann Hutchinson
3. George Brown married Nancy Deckins
4. John Brown
The children of Nancy Brown Graham were:
1. Elizabeth Brown Graham married Mr Lowman
2. Mary Brown Graham married Mr Lewis
3. Jane Wallace Graham married 1st Edward Huston who died in Greensburg Md & 2d Israel Warrimer
JVT Oct 15, 1923 12:05 PM
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Oak Hill Oct 15, 1923 6:55 PM
This afternoon at 3:35, A.A. Carmack came in my office No 522 & was there until 5:05 PM & I explained the situation regarding the Wheeling Creek T.H. Patton coal deal. His 2d & 3d wives, both having been cousins of mine, I wanted his family record which he gave me from memory & which I wrote down & am now copying here. He said two of his grandparents lived to be up in their 80s & one was 95 yrs old. Also that two of his brothers lived to be 82 1/2, two others to be 83 1/2 & one to 85 1/2 & died fr blood poisoning. Has two sisters living, one 79 & the other 81 & said he was the youngest of eleven children. He said a full sketch of his life with dates etc complete big History of Fayette Co in which he said was Father's picture & my own published abt 20 yrs ago & in which his picture appears. He said his full name was Amariah Andrews Carmack, son of Abraham Carmack & his wife Susann Wickham, both natives of Maryland & who came from there to Monongahela City Pa in 1832 & where he was born Mch 13[10]*, 1849. He has been married three times, all three of them marrying when 22 yrs old & he is 22 yrs older than his present wife.
M. 1st Nov 18, 1874 Lucy Sabina Virginia Wood, daughter of Samuel Wood, lumber merchant of Brownsville Pa. She was born Nov 18, 1852 & died Oct 22, 1876 & had one child:
1. Allen Beaumont Carmack born Oct 1, 1876 died July 12, 1906 was married & lost his wife. No issue.
M.2d Sept 14, 1880 Caroline A. Finley, daughter of Evans Finley & his 2d wife Rebecca Patton, a
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sister of Dr R.J. Patton & Finley Patton. Caroline had older half brothers Michael & James who had good farms in Rehoboth section & full brothers Thomas, living in Chicago. William died years ago & Albert. She was born Oct 30, 1857 & died Jany 28, 1892 & is buried in Redstone Cem Brownsville Pa in A.A.'s lot. His first wife & son are buried in same cem, but in her father's lot. He had 3 children by Caroline:
2. Myrtle Rebecca Carmack born June 26, 1881 died Sept 21, 1917 at a sanitarium at Guelph, Ontario from a nervous break-down. She was unmarried.
3. Lucy Wood Carmack, born Dec 23, 1882. She married Oct 12, 1905 Acheson Smith aged now 44 yrs son of Wm A. Smith of Pgh Pa & his wife Acheson, a sister of Judge, the late Marcus W. Acheson of Pgh Pa. Mr Acheson Smith is a 33d degree Mason after a membership of less than 15 yrs. He has charge of 9 carborundum plants, mostly operated on patents of his Uncle Edward C. Acheson aged 72 yrs Prest of the Co & Mr Smith is in fact the acting President. He gets a salary of $25,000 a year & the company recently insured his life for half a million dollars. They live at 327 Buffalo Ave, Niagara Falls, NY. No issue, but they have a nine yr old adopted daughter.
4. Mary Edna Carmack, married Apr 26, 1903 Wm Birney Mason, a son of Greeley Mason (nephew of my old friend Harrison Mason) & his wife Horner (sister of Alice A. Horner of the Uniontown Public Schools). Both living in Brownsville Pa where he is an official of the Monongahela RR Co with whom he has been many years. He was born _________ & have 3 boys & a girl & have not lost any.
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1. Amariah Carmack Mason born June 11, 1904 aged abt 20
2. Dorothy Mason born Sept 26, 1905 aged abt 18
3. William Birney Mason Jr born Feby 27, 1909 aged 14
4. Mark Finley Mason born Oct 18, 1911 aged 12
These dates & that of marriage handed in Oct 27, 1923 by A.A. Carmack.
M 3d Apr 11, 1894, in Luzerne Tp Fayette Co Pa at her father's. Ruth Steele Craft, daughter of Capt Wm S. Craft & his wife Margaret Graham who was born Oct 30, 1871 & they now live at No 516 Magnolia Ave, Orlando Florida & have had but two children ten yrs between & lost none.
5. William Graham Carmack born Dec 13, 1896 & died Aug 9, 1918 as I think he said it was but 3 mos before the war closed, unmarried at Lucerne France from the fall of an airoplane [sic] He was an aviator in the U.S. Service & was a buddy of Quentin Roosevelt who was killed also in the Aviation Service a few days before Graham & their graves over there were but 28 ft apart. He had been up continuously every day for twelve days & after coming down the 12th day in the afternoon, his Capt asked him to go up again which he did, the Captain taking the front & Graham the back seat. The plane came down nose foremost & the Captain was terribly mangled, but Graham didn't have a scratch, but two Brownsville boys arrived just as it lit & said Graham gave four or five gasps before he died. His mother did not remove him until Mch 1922 when she had his remains brought over & he is buried in the officers section of the Soldiers near the Lincoln memorial at Arlington Cemetery Washington D.C.
6. Grace Wickham Carmack born Nov 26, 1906 at Brownsville Pa where Graham too was born. Her parents took her last month to Rogers Hall, Lowell Mass where she entered the select school there.
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Oak Hill Oct 17, 1923 9:26 AM
The two Meighen letters which give this record hark back to Book 8 Page 384 for R. Vista & Page 377 for J. William which see. The letters both small envelopes are filed:
R.V's dated Sept 20, 1923 Family Record Rio Vista Meighen, born Athens Co O Aug 24, 1875
Fleta Velma Campbell born at Princeton Mo Mch 4, 1880, daughter of Willis Campbell & his wife Lucinda Hoskins. They were married at Topsy Mo Feby 14, 1896.
Their children:
1. J. McK Meighen born 7 m. NW of Galt MO Nov 25, 1896
2. Infant Son Meighen born 7 m NW of Galt MO June 27, 1899 ob July 3, 1899
3. Frieva Velma Meighen born 6 m NW of Galt MO Jany 16, 1914
4. Hansel Vista Meighen born 6 m NW of Galt Mo Aug 11, 1917.
1. J. McK (just initials no names) Meighen was married Dec 3, 1920 at Cincinnati O to Dorothea Elizabeth Standley who was born May 25, 1903 at Gods Bible School 1810 Young St Cincinnati O, daughter of Meredith Gosling Standley, Presidence of the above Bible school & his wife Bessie Queen. He is at present attending Lane's Seminary Presbyterian preparing for the ministry.
The letter of James William Meighen family is from his wife Allie Meighen & is dated Oct 13, 1923 Refer to Book 8 Page 377.
James William Meighen born Guernsey Co O Nov 12, 1861
Allie Root was born Athens Co O Mch 23, 1864, daughter of J.W. Root & his wife Anna Liza Moore. They were married June 30, 1887.
Their children:
1. Gayla Meighen born at Galt MO May 14, 1889 & married Jany 21, 1910 to Arthur Lee Rhoades who was born June 5, 1888 at Harris, Sullivan Co MO, son of William Rhoades & his wife Lucy Jane Snapp.
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Their children
1. Virginia Rhoades born at Harris Mo May 11, 1913
2. Maxine Rhoades born at Harris Mo Feby 6, 1922
2. Merle Meighen was born in Grundy Co Mo May 4, 1892 & married Dec 10, 1912 to June Daniels who was born Jany 3, 1891 in Grundy Co Mo daughter of H.D. Daniels & his wife Maggie Koon.
Their Children:
1. Hudson Meighen born Gal Mo Feby 15, 1915
2. Marjorie Meighen born Galt Mo Apr 28, 1918
3. Russell Meighen born July 25, 1920
4. Margaret Meighen born Nov 3, 1922
See Book 8 page 384 & book 12 P 352
5. Daniel D. Meighen writes Oct 25, 1923 fr El Dorado Springs Mo that his parents had seven children of which he was fifth & was born Mch 29, 1870 & was married Dec 24, 1890 1st to Harriet Williams at Trenton Mo who died May 28, 1902 & had 3 chil. She was born & was reared by James Everett Moden.
1. Ethel Harriet Meighen born Aug 24, 1892
2. Frank Earl Meighen born June 2, 1894 ob Nov 28, 1895
3. Sylvan Leo Meighen born Apr 3, 1899.
He mar 2d Aug 28, 1904 Mrs Mary M. Shipman who was dau of James H. Rose & Damaris G. Greenleaf & have 8 children:
4. Susana Gertrude Meighen born May 22, 1905
5. Mary Elizabeth Meighen born Mch 9, 1907 ob Jany 25, 1908
6. Mildred Irene Meighen born Apr 1, 1908
7. Harold Daniel Meighen born Apr 30, 1910
8. Infant twins Meighen born June 20, 1911 died same day
9. Infant twins Meighen born June 20, 1911 died same day
10. Lottie Eula Meighen born Jany 17, 1913
11. Clyde Myron Meighen born Sept 22, 1914
1. Ethel Harriett Meighen was married Aug 24, 1910 to Rex Robert Ambler who was born July 20, 1888 carried to Page 479
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[Descendant Chart]
Abraham Markle see pages 258 & 388 married Susannah Saunders of Phila Pa.
[children]
William Markle, oldest
Elizabeth Markle, m. July 10, 1861 to Henry Henninger. Had 11 children, 4 dead & other 7 married.
Susan Henninger, lives Pine City NY M.1. Edwin Danks Oct 27, 188-. He was born _____ & died ______, son of Uriah Danks & wife Irene Dexter. Had 5 children m.2. June 18, 1906 to George Gasper son of Peter Smith Gasper & his wife Frances Jane Drake. No issue by him. Her children born in Elmira NY.
Minnie Danks m. May 24, 1902 to Schlock.
George Danks m. June 14, 1906
Anna Danks m. Mch 17, 191- to Swayze
Harry Danks m. Jany 24, 1917
Jennie Danks aged 36 yrs at home, single.
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[Descendant Chart]
John Carruthers b Oct 29, 1817 in Parish Jonston [best guess] of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, died in Massillon O. on Nov 18, 1869. Married Sept 6, 1839 in Scotland to Sarah Gillespie, who was born Nov 28, 1820 in Hurlet Parish of Abbey Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland. She died Aug 8, 1886 at Wakefield Neb. They had 13 children, the first five born in Scotland, the next five in Penna & the last three in Ohio. He came first to Penna & then to new Waterford Ohio & thence to Massillon O.
[children]
Christiana, B May 24, 1840 ob May 30, 1842
James, B Feby 16, 1842 ob Oct 16, 1842
James G., B Oct 25, 1843 M. Jany 14, 1868 at Wilmington Illinois. He is dead.
Thomas Gillespie, B Jany 14, 1846 ob 1921 at Johnstown Pa. He was married in Scotland.
John Carruthers, B Dec 4, 1847 m.1. Jany 27, 1870 at Massillon O. M.2. Mch 22, 1883 at Denver Col
Sarah Roper, B Feby 9, 1850 m. Sept 6, 1867 at Massillon O
Alexander, B Apr 29, 1852 ob Jany 19, 1892 in Pa M. June 11, 1877 at Massillon O
Andrew Gillespie, B July 20, 1854, ob Sept 20, 1855 in Penna
Peter Houston, B July 20, 1854 ob Sept 21, 1855 in Penna
Duncan, B Aug 7, 1856 m. Oct 11, 1887 at Omaha Neb
Rebecca Ann, B. Oct 31, 1858 m. July 1, 1879 at Decatur Neb
Samuel Sillivan, B July 2, 1861, m. Feby 3, 1887 at Denver Col my informant married Luella Eva Baker daughter of David Baker & his wife Emily Vance. Both living at Dillon Montana. They have nine children all living.
Clyde A
Earl R
Roy M
Verna F
Hazel M
David B
Zelma F
Samuel S
Ruby S, my informant by letter from 921 Main ST Alton Ills where she is visiting.
William Stevenson, B Aug 15, 1863, ob Sept 30, 1865 at Massillon O
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Transcribed at Oak Hill Oct 27, 10:50 PM
At residence of Mrs Lydia E. Woodward No 9 Jefferson St Uniontown Pa Oct 27, 1923 3:33 PM
Coming around here this afternoon I met Chads Chalfant, Lulu's husband, who told me they had heard from Clara, that her sister Susan Cope Pooley was very low with consumption & they thought could not live three weeks. I told him to write Clara saying if she would make the discount sufficient for my funds to reach it, that I would buy her Lackey mtge with Ruth V. Ewing's estate funds just after Jany 1st. Met Richd (Dick) Randolph cor Iowa St & had a talk with him. Mrs Woodward's house is a brick with several steps up & is the first house on left hand side from Church St. She showed me the deed from the DeFord Heirs to Davis her husband made abt 50 yrs ago. She had her son Davis Edgar the youngest of her nine children bring out the old bible of his great grandfather John Woodward from which both covers are gone & which was published by H.C. Carey & I Lea Phila Pa 1823 I copied part of the record but not all, as I had gone expecting to get her father David Brown's bible. she said he had a bible with record but she never got it, but thought her sister Amanda Keener, widow of Oliver M. Keener had gotten it.
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Marriages John Woodward & Mary Carter married Aug 23, 1798
Richard Woodward & Nancy Roberts married Nov 17, 1822
Thomas Stewart & Hannah Woodward married Feby 8, 1825
Joseph Woodward & Louesa Kahle? married Sept 25, 1826
Amos Woodward & Mary Malaby married Aug 23, 1827
Henry Wiggins & Mary Woodward married Sept 16, 1827
Abraham Newcomer & Mary Stewart married Feby 5, 1847
Thomas Brownfield & Elizabeth Woodward married Dec 3, 1829
John Woodward & Mary Ann Wilson married July 3, 1836 (These were the parents of Davis & he, John seems to have gotten his father's bible & continued his own record therein as follows:)
John Woodward born Apr 10, 1815
Mary Ann Woodward (Wilson) born Mch 15, 1816
Their Children:
1. Elizabeth Woodward born July 22, 1837
2. Richard Taylor Woodward born Apr 20, 1840
3. Davis Woodward born Aug 15, 1843
4. Harriet A. (mar Jos Newcomer) Woodward born Apr 2, 1846
5. Joseph (mar Mary Carothers) Woodward born Jany 31, 1848
6. Mary Eliza Woodward born Jany 15, 1850
7. Austin (died young) Woodward born Jany 21, 1852
8. Lyda F. (mar Richd Thistlethwaite) Woodward born Mch 13, 1854
Then on next page the record of the first John, grandfather of Davis continues viz:
John Woodward was born Jany 17, 1776
Mary Woodward (Carter) wife of John was born Aug 7, 1778
Their children:
1. Richard Woodward born Feby 5, 1800
2. Amos Woodward born Dec 7, 1801
3. Joseph Woodward born July 22, 1803
4. Caleb (Curly Cale) Woodward born May 31, 1805
5. Hannah Woodward born Feby 27, 1807
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6. Amy Woodward born Feby 17, 1810
7. Elizabeth Woodward born Sept 3, 1812
8. John Woodward born Apr 30, 1815
9. Ann Woodward born May 17, 1819
Then gives Richard's family
Then gives Thos Stewart's family
Then gives Abraham Newcomer's family
Then gives Joseph Woodward's family
Then comes the
Deaths
Mary Woodward, consort of John, died Nov 29, 1854
John Woodward (grandfather of Davis) died Mch 2, 1856
John Woodward (father of Davis) died Aug 3, 1872
Mary A. Woodward (mother of Davis) died Apr 10, 1891
Davis Woodward married on June 20th, 1869 Lydia Ellen Brown, daughter of David Brown & his wife Elizabeth Knotts, who was born in Redstone Tp Sept 4, 1854 (she was not quite 15 yrs old) as she states. She then had her son Davis E. get their own family record which she had written in a back of a book & from which I took down as he read:
Davis Woodward died Oct 31, 1899
They had nine children all born, she said, in Uniontown Pa viz:
1. Alice Woodward, born June 5, 1870 died Aug 1, 1872
2. Wm Albert Woodward, born July 23, 1872, died Aug 17, 1872
3. Laura Frances Woodward, born Nov 20, 1873, living
4. Alverda May Woodward born Sept 16, 1876 died May 24, 1911
5. James Watson Woodward born July 11, 1879, living
6. Julia Edna Woodward born Oct 7, 1883, living
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7. Louis Crawford Woodward born Mch 27, 1888, living
8. Frank D. (initial only) Woodward born Jany 13, 1891, living
9. Davis Edgar Woodward born May 2, 1896, living
Mrs Woodward & her son Davis E., joint informants then gave me from memory the following about the other members of the family:
3. Laura Frances married Albert Woodfill of Washington Co Pa nephew of John B. of High House. Both living in Morgantown WVA & have four children:
1. Clayton Woodfill born Jany 13, married
2. DeRoy Woodfill
3. Hazel Kirke Woodfill, married
4. Eva Woodfill
4. Alverda May married Christopher Shaw from Homestead Pa. Both dead without issue.
5. James Watson married Miss Rose Nelson, daughter of Wm A. Nelson of near Farmington Pa. Both living in Hopwood Pa. No issue.
6. Julia Edna Woodward m.1 David Winebrenner of Connellsville Pa & divorced. M.2. Albert Green both living next door. No issue by Green had 3 children by Winebrenner:
1. Raymond Winebrenner, married
2. Mary Winebrenner, married
3. William Winebrenner
7. Louis Crawford Woodward married Miss Margaret Crossland of Connellsville Pa. Both living at Ambridge Pa where he is City Fire Chief. Have but one child:
1. Kathryn Woodward, school girl 14 or 15 yrs old
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6. Frank D. Woodward married recently to Hazel Catherine Duckworth of Uniontown Pa both living at Connellsville Pa where he is a moulder at Kapstan Glass Works. South Connellsville Pa. No issue.
9. Davis Edgar Woodward, my joint informant who says he is in his 28th year & single & intends to so remain. He is a chunky heavy set young man not as tall as I am & says he weighs 213 lbs & has never used liquor. Says he was 5 yrs in the U.S. Army & it made a man of him. Was abroad in the World War, but was in the medical dept & hence not in any battles. Says he now works for Harry B. Gans.
Mrs Woodward said she did not know about Abe Nelson who married her sister, but said they only had one child, a boy who died aged 17 yrs. She said Mrs Matilda Ann Phillips who died while she was in the hospital, was her oldest sister & she thought she was 80 yrs old. Mrs Woodward just returned this week from the Uniontown hospital where she had had a tumor weighing 50 lbs removed. She recovered nicely & was sitting up & Mrs Asa J. Rogers, sister of J. Harry Johnston, was there calling on her when I arrived.
Left at 4:55 PM
It is now 12:20 AM 28th & I will get ready for bed as it was 3:55 AM last night when I retired & I got up at 6:55 AM JVT
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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City Room 555 2:44 PM Nov 1, 1923
Chas A. Hanna of 15 Rockledge Road, Montclair NJ with office at 77 Cedar St NY City & formerly of Cadiz O was here yesterday afternoon fr 4 to 5:50 PM to see me. He says he is descended from Ann Reynolds, daughter of Mary, the daughter of John Finley of Lurgan Tp & sister of Uncle Squire Andrew Finley of South Huntingdon Tp Westnd Co Pa. She, Mary, married first John T. Thompson, & then Wm Reynolds. Her daughter Ann married John Hanna who was the great grandfather of Chas A. Hanna & was the son of another John Hanna. John & Ann had a son John who lived to be 89, I think & his son Neri, the father of Chas A. lived to be 94 I think evidencing the Finley longevity. I gave him my Anjou Finley family book to look over & return. He spoke of being in Uniontown & Washington Pa early in August looking up the Dickerson genealogy. He said Joshua of Fayette Co was not Pres Harding's ancestor & that it was not Wm but Isaac H. Dickerson who married Charity Van Kirk & that Isaac H. was a son of Joseph, but he had not been able to place Joseph definitely. He said a Dickerson, Thomas, I believe married a daughter of Isaac Pearce of Allegheny Co Pa, son of Elisha of Fayette Co Pa & they had a son Isaac Pearce Dickerson. He has invited me out to his home over some week-end.
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Gustave Anjou came in this morning at 9:30 & was here until 10:15. He brought me the papers of Mrs Virginia Smith of Winchester VA which she loaned him in 1921 & which, she had given me an order for. He also brought & gave me two papers relating to the Mechlenburg NC Jacks, one a certified copy of Patrick Jack's will 1780, Charlotte NC & other papers abt a Samuel Jack there & others. He thought he could give me the line of the Finleys mentioned in the post script of his letter of Oct 20th last & will send it to Uniontown. Asking him about the bible from which he says he got the record of the birth of Michael Finley's children, he said he was in Donough Parish, Glasslough P.O. County Monaghan Ireland & was looking for a cemetery which he thought was near & a lady asked him what he was hunting & he replied he was hunting the g.y. She asked what family he was looking up & he told her the Finley family & she said step in the house, I have an old bible that will interest you & he did & it was there he got the Michael Finley record. He spoke of the lady as Mrs James O'Neill a Protestant, but that her home was at the town of Armagh. This, he sd was in 1900. He could not recall that he got the Finley data for any person in particular, but just took it down for himself & consequently did not work it up so completely. He said he was born Dec 1, 1863 3:25 PM
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No 17 E 42 St Tel Murray Hill 7249 at office of W.P. Bonbright & Co New York City Nov 1, 1923 3:45 PM
The young lady said Mr Bonbright was out of town, but thought he would be back in three weeks. JVT
I then took the coach again & walked down to:
Residence of Mrs N.M. Campbell No 158 E 55th St Tel Plaza 4050 New York City Nov 1, 1923 4:10 PM
Mrs Campbell answered from her door, end of hall, first floor & said Mrs Sanderson was bedfast at the Park Ave Hotel where she was stopping with her daughter Mrs Junius who had recently returned from Denver Col. She didn't think she had anything about the Markles, that it was only the McCullough line she ran back. Mrs Campbell is a niece of Mrs Sanderson, but it is on the McCullonde [best guess] side & she is no relation to the Markles. JVT
I then walked up to the:
Hotel Essex, New York City, Cor Madison Ave & 56th ST Nov 1, 1923 4;25 PM
The clerk said Mr & Mrs Drew had left the hotel a month
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& gone west, their lease having expired. Asking for their address, he turned to his book & sd it was: Mr & Mrs John G. Drew, Railway Express Bldg, St Louis, MO
I left at 4:28 PM & took the St car in front down Madison Ave & was soon at:
Park Ave Hotel cor Park Ave & 33d St New York City, Nov 1, 1923 4:44 PM
The clerk called up Mrs Junius room & got no answer. I then had him page Mrs Junius & she appeared at once from a dining hall where she was having tea with some friends. She took me upstairs on 2d floor to room 259 where her mother, a heavy set fleshy woman was in bed from the effects of a fall she had a few days ago. She doesn't have a wrinkle & has a young looking face.
Mrs Junius then excused herself & said she would go & get rid of her company & come back which she soon did. I then questioned her mother & both of them when she came back & the results of the interview follows. Mrs Junius said she had the family records at her home in Germany & could give some of the dates. She took my address & sd she wd sent them.
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Mrs Sanderson said her grandmother Deborah Markle, daughter of Uncle Abraham Markle died when she, Mrs S. was 17 yrs old & is buried at East Springfield O which is 16 miles west of Steubenville O. She married 1st Brice Edgington of a Virginia family. He died quite young from injuries received by being jerked by a horse & died from a hemorrhage, aged she thinks 31 yrs. She had four children by him all small & young when he died. Married 2d John McCullough of Virginia (they didn't know his father's name). He was a first cousin to John McCullough who became the husband of her daughter Rachael. She had two children by him.
1. Rachael Edgington, her mother
2. Nancy Edgington
3. Abraham Edgington
4. Martha Edgington
5. Frank McCullough
6. Jennie McCullough
1. Rachael Edgington died in the Autumn, thinks Nov of 1846 or 1847 aged but 19 yrs having married when she was 17 yrs old at East Springfield O & was buried there, but later was moved to the Steubenville G.y. & laid beside her husband John McCullough who was born in East Springfield O in Sept 1808 & died at Beaver Pa May 8,
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1876 & is buried at the Steubenville Co cemetery. He was son of John McCullough & his wife Margaret Richey & was married at East Springfield O when his wife Rachael was 17 yrs old. They had two children:
1. Margaret Ada McCullough born in East Springfield O July 2, 1845, my informant, along with her daughter. She was named for her grandmother Margaret Richey & for Lord Byron's daughter Ada. She married after the close of the Civil War which delayed earlier contemplated marriage at Beaver Pa by Dr Bollard Rector of Epis Ch at Rochester Pa Charles Rollin Sanderson, who was born in Mesopotamia O May 19, 1826 son of Elisha Sanderson from Woodstock, Vermont & his wife Sarah Grosvenor of Pomfret Coun. He died at Ashtabula O Aug 9, 1899 & is buried in Mesopotamia O beside his mother. He was a physician & surgeon & was in the Civil War in hospital service, thinks in Columbus O. They had two boys & two girls:
I. Rachael Edgington Beulah Sanderson born Mch 13, 1869 in Beaver Pa, my joint informant of the afternoon, with her mother. She is a large strong fine formed woman. She married Apr 17, 1911 here in New York City Gustav Edward Junius of Dahlhausen, Ruhr
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Germany, son of Henry William Junius & his wife Magdalena Koepe, who was born at Unna, Germany June 13, 1868. Both are living Post office Dahlhausen, Rhur, German, she saying "we are Dahlhausen". No issue. He is managing Director of the Dr Otto Co (coking). Their company is Independent of Krupps who have assiduously tried to buy them out, but she says "we are too smart to sell". Asking her abt the troubles with the French army of occupation, she said they were having none, that they had a Socialist Democrat manager of the plant who is smart & intelligent & the French are afraid of that Class & let them alone. Their manager is smart enough to handle them. She graduated at Vassar in 1890. She says they never heard of Mrs Chas Mater.
II. Francis Bennett Bernard Sanderson, born in Beaver Pa 1875 died young, aged 18 mos
III. Adrienne Gwendolen Grosvenor Sanderson born Feby 5, 1879 at Sewickley Pa, died Aug 8, 1914 in London, England married Sept 1903 in Colorado Springs Col to James Thomas Macey & had one child. I got this record by letter from Mr Macey from Denver Col.
IV. John Chauncey McCullough Sanderson born Nov 1883 in St Louis Mo, died Nov 1884 in St Louis Mo.
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2. Brice Edgington McCullough born at East Springfield O. Think he was 2 yrs younger than Mrs Sanderson & died when 2 or 3 months old.
2. Nancy Edgington died unmarried & is buried at Springfield O & thinks has a tombstone. She was engaged to Wm Johnston who was a 49er to California. He had been in Calif for several years & was in business (banking) with her brother Abraham. He came back to be married, took the typhoid fever & died at her, Mrs Sanderson's grandmother's in East Springfield O two weeks before the time set for them to be married.
3. Abraham Edgington was also a 49er. He married when an old bachelor, Mrs Mary Bailey a widow from Alton, Ills whose first husband was a lawyer. No issue. He died of tuberculosis at Virginia City, Nev. He had a large country place outside of the city, which was his home & where he lived for many years. He was very wealthy. He made a will & gave Mrs Huscroft $10,000 & Jennie Hambleton $10,000 & his wife got two or three million dollars. She was extravagant, went to Europe, took her own relations with her & spent it. Thinks he died abt 1876 & is buried at Virginia City. If there, look up his will & tombstone.
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4. Martha M. Edington married Huscroft. I got her record from Mrs McCauslen Oct 21? 1921.
5. Frank McCullough married in Virginia City Nevada Miss Hattie Cobb & lived at Carson City Nev & both died either there or at Virginia City & had but one child, a son who was being prepared for Harvard College, but never went. He is an engineer & Mrs Junius thinks he is married & has headquarters at Carson City Nev.
6. Jennie McCullough mar Charles Hambleton from Smithfield O who was a prominent official being a colonel in the northern army during the Civil War. He died in Kansas & is buried there & she went west to live with her brother Frank. She died near Carson City Nev near 1902. Had but one child:
1. Harry Hambleton, died thinks about 1876 aged abt 10 yrs
Leaving 6:06 PM
It is now 4:06 AM Nov 2d & I will finish working up my itinerary.
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Registers office Montgomery Co Pa, Norristown Pa Nov 2, 1923 1:44 PM
Will Index
Tp Proven Book
*Thompson, Abraham Lower Merion
*Thomson, Charles Lower Merion Sept 13, 1824 Vol 6 P 23
*Thomson, John Gwynedd June 12, 1790 Vol 1 P 22
*Thompson, John Plymouth May 23, 1825 Vol 6 P 27
Thomson, Margaret Gwynedd Sept 15, 1808 Vol 3 P 71
*Thomson, Thomas Chettenham Jany 17, 1826 Vol 6 P 33
Boyd, Jacob Moreland Jany 25, 1864 Vol 11 P 8
Boyd, James Norristown Oct 20, 1904 Vol 31 P 21
Boyd, William Plymouth Jany 10, 1817 Vol 4 P 31
*Elliott, John Lower Merion Jany 11, 1827 Vol 6 P 400
Finley, Norris M. Norristown July 3, 1922 Vol 56 P 28
Jack, Frank R. Schwenksville Aug 28, 1916 Vol 46 P 99
Jack, Robert Pottsgrove Dec 6, 1875 Vol 14 P 318
*Markley, Abraham Upper Salford Oct 26, 1829 Vol 6 P 576
Markley, Benjamin Esq Upper Hanover July 20, 1819 Vol 5 P 153
*Markley, Jacob Skip & Perk Jany 24, 1785 Vol 1 P 19
no Macklein, John New Hanover Nov 14, 1785 Vol 1 P 60
Markley, John New Hanover May 16, 1820 Vol 5 P 212
*Meckline, Jacob Upper Hanover Feby 14, 1823 Vol 6 P 116
Markley, John Esq Norristown Sept 19, 1834 Vol 7 P 356
Markley, Jacob Perkiomen Apr 13, 1874 Vol 13 P 597
Markley, Jacob K. Perkiomen Oct 30, 1884 Vol 17 P 218
Markley, John Norristown Apr 23, 1895 Vol 23 P 427
Markee, John Lower Merion Apr 28, 1910 Vol 37 P 672
Markley, John H. Lansdale Oct 4, 1916 Vol 46 P 180
Markley, Lydia Towamencin Dec 29, 1901 Vol 33 P 702
Markley, Mary Northern Liberties Dec 29, 1831 Vol 7 P 104
Markley, Martin Lower Salford Apr 26, 1847 Vol 8 P 534
Markley, Mary Perkiomen Aug 3, 1888 Vol 19 P 115
Markley, Margaret Rogersford July 26, 1906 Vol 33 P 349
Markley, Philip Norristown Apr 14, 1800 Vol 2 P 153
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Markley, Samuel Norristown Nov 15, 1849 Vol 9 P 97
Markley, Samuel W. Norristown Apr 6, 1891 Vol 20 P 45
Markley, Sarah A. Moreland Jany 5, 1899 Vol 26 P 80
Markley, Samuel M. Upper Providence Dec 17, 1901 Vol 31 P 2
Markley, Sue H. Norristown June 26, 1920 Vol 51 P 40
Markley, Sarah Jane Frederick Mch 3, 1921 Vol 53 P 46
Markley, William Norristown July 23, 1921 Vol 54 P 18
Rothermel, Louisa C. Lower Merion Feby 17, 1897 Vol 28 P 23
Rothermel, Lewis McDowell Duluth Minn Vol 52 P 54
Rothermel, P.F. Limerick Aug 29, 1895 Vol 23 P 62
Rothermel, Samuel H. Narberth Jany 25, 1897 Vol 24 P 68
[The page numbers listed on Page 477 are probably wrong. It looks as if some of them may have been cut off when copy was made. CW]
No Callis, Caruthers, & Redburns. This county was organized in 1784 out of Phila Co where the earlier records will be.
Administration Index
Thompson, Abraham Whitemarsh Jany 3, 1828 Vol 3 P 24
Thompson, Hannah Norriton Mch 23, 1790 Vol P
Thompson, James Whitemarsh Oct 9, 1842 Vol 7 P 27
Thompson, James Whitemarsh Dec 23, 1843 Vol 7 P 129
Thompson, Margaret Gwynedd Sept 16, 1808 Vol P
Thompson, Mark Abington June 28, 1838 Vol 6 P 93
Thompson, Robert Mch 18, 1801 Vol 1 P 56
Thompson, Robert Upper Dublin Sept 24, 1851 Vol 9 P 138
Thompson, Robert Whitemarsh Nov 20, 1888 Vol 24 P 35
Thompson, Dr Samuel C. Frederick Oct 8, 1857 Vol 11 P 53
Thomson, William Upper Merion Aug 19, 1805 Vol 1 P 202
Thompson, William Pottstown Nov 14, 1823
Boyd, Ann Whitemarsh June 12, 1847 Vol 8 P 57
Boyd, Benjamin Conshohosken June 26, 1856 Vol 10 P 278
Boyd, Charles S. Lower Merion Dec 3, 1857 Vol 11 P 69
Boyd, Elizabeth Cheltenham Mch 31, 1896 Vol 28 P 32
Boyd, Francis Whitemarsh May 7, 1878 Vol 19 P 127
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Boyd, Howard Norristown Aug 28, 1903 died Aug 21 190-
Boyd, Mary A. Marlborough Jany 27, 1914 Vol 39 P 376
Boyd, Matilda W. Cheltenham Dec 1, 1918 Vol 44 P 89
Boyd, Thomas Douglass Jany 21, 1824 Vol P
Boyd, Wallace J. Norristown Jany 3, 1881 Vol 20 P 179
Elliott, Charles J. Upper Merion Died Dec 21, 1880 Nov 20, 1818 Vol 2 P 464
Elliott, John Lower Merion May 28, 1828
Elliott, Robert Lower Merion Sept 15, 1808 Vol 1 P 313
Elliott, William A. Norristown May 12, 1880 Vol 20 P 88
Finley, Nelson H. Norristown Oct 18, 1918 Vol 43 P 279
Finley, Phoebe T. Norristown July 21, 1880 Vol 20 P 107
Finley, Tacy Ann Moreland Feby 26, 1855 Vol 10 P 133
Jack, Elizabeth Pottsgrove Jany 16, 1827 Vol 3 P 164
Jack, James Pottstown Sept 18, 1841 Vol P
Jack, James P. Upper Merion July 20, 1865 Vol 14 P 130
Jack, Michael A. Norristown Oct 1, 1890 Vol 25 P 43
Markley, Abraham Skip & Perk Apr 7, 1800 Vol 1 P 28
Markley, Isaac Hatfield June 15, 1812 Vol 2 P 73
Markley, Isaac Norriton Nov 27, 1817 Vol 2 P 362
Markley, Jacob Perkiomen Feby 6, 1864 Vol 13 P 20
Markley, Philip Sr Skip & Perk Feby 18, 1845 Vol 7 P 269
Rhoadarmer, John G. Norristown Mch 11, 1893 Vol 26 P 224
Rothermel, Louisa C. Lower Merion May 2, 1892 Vol 26 P 11
Rothermel, Louisa C. Lower Merion Feby 17, 1897 Vol 28 P 230
Found no names of Collis, Caruthers, Kilgore, Markle, or Redburn
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From Page 457
Their children are:
1. Adena Agnes Ambler born May 12, 1912
2. Cecil James Ambler born Sept 5, 1913
3. Daniel Richard Ambler born Nov 4, 1915 ob Nov 7, 1915
4. John Ambler born Dec 31, 1916
5. Opal May Ambler born Sept 27, 1918
6. Anna Lee Ambler born July 24, 1920 ob Feby 14, 1921
7. Jack Wilson Ambler born Dec 29, 1922
3. Sylvan Leo Meighen was married Nov 5, 1917 to Mollie Katherine Price who was born Nov 10, 1897. Their children are:
1. Virginia Catherine Meighen born Sept 10, 1918 ob Oct 17, 1919
2. Leo James Meighen born Jany 1, 1921 ob Mch 2, 1921
3. Goldie Neoma Meighen born June 12, 1923
4. Crystal Leona Meighen born June 12, 1923
4. Susanna Gertrude Meighen was married Sept 14, 1921 to John Robert Stone who was born Oct 9, 1893 & have issue:
1. Francis Daniel Stone born Aug 14, 1922 ob Jany 19, 1923
He says his sister Mrs M.L. Davis, Mercer Mo, has his father's family bible.
See book 12 P 353
Mrs Milton Davis writes July 27, 1924 from Mercer Mo that her brother Daniel DeWitt Meighen died June 22, 1924
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Hotel Hamilton 1201 West Main St Norristown Pa Room 111 Nov 2, 1923 6:44 PM
I worked all night last night & finished my itinerary at 8:15 AM & I think I have it well mapped out to cover the 104 towns from Allentown to Zion extending as far east as Hellerstown & Phila, west to Altoona North to Lock Haven & Williamsport & South to Harrisburg & Steelton all in Penna without much doubling of routes. I got my breakfast, paid my bill & left on the PRR 10 AM train for Phila where I arrived at 12 o'c noon & took the 12:30 PM train on same road for here, arriving at 1:17 PM. Got a taxi & came out here twelve blocks, got this talismanic room, left my satchel & was driven back to the Court House, went right to the Registers office & went over the will indexes each letter a separate volume & made the notations on pages 476 & 477 when it came 4 o'c, their closing time. As they were still working, I finished the letter T of the Adms Index by 4:22 PM when they were ready to go. I took a St car on Main St in front of the C.H. & came out here & went all through the Norristown Dist Bell Tel book by the time supper or dinner was ready at 6 o'c. The register sd I could get in in the morning at 7:45 AM
I will now note what family names I find in the telephone book:
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Conshohocken
Markel, L. Frank r 109 E 4th St Tel 246-R
Markle, Mrs Joseph W. r Hammond Tel 272-R
Merkel, J.A. cigars, Hector & Poplar Tel 336-W
Norristown
*Boyd, Geo P. r 111 W. Fornance Tel 2377
*Boyd, Mrs Howard r 1121 W. Main Tel 1704
*Boyd, James S. r 819 W. Main Tel 2663
*Finley, Edith V. chiropodist 320 DeKalb Tel 182-J
*Finley, Miss Edith V. r 102 W. Wood Tel 663-J
*Finley, James H. r 1300 Markley Tel 2250-M
*Finley, Mark H. r 634 Noble Tel 691-W
Markel, Frank fctry Black Hrse Tel 941-R-4
Markel Loan office 114 E. Main Tel 2547
Markley, John W r Chestnut & Jeffersonville Tel 829-R-1
Pennsburg
Merkel, Frk S. r 3 Ave E. Greenville Tel 45-R-12
Do not find any Callis's, Caruthers, Finleys, Jacks, Kilgores, Markles, Redburns, or Rothermels other than there & none of any of the above family names in the following towns in the book.
Bally, Birdsboro, Boyertown, Center Point, Chester Springs, Collegeville, Emans, Hatfield, Lansdale, Linfield. North Wales, Phoenixville, Plymouth Meeting, Port Kennedy, Pottstown, Pughtown, Royersford, Sassamansville, Schwenkville, & Yellow House
7:55 PM
It is now 9:55 PM & I have just com. to feel sleepy & will go to bed.
Mrs Junius sd yesterday that she never ran the Markle line back & had nothing on the families early history, that it was the McCullough line she ran back. JVT
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see page 349
No 87. Will of Charles Thomson. States he wishes to be buried at Harrington where I now live & gives entire estate to his nephew John Thomson of New Castle Co Del, subject to the payments of the rents, issues, profits & interest thereof to my aged sister, Mary Thomson for & during her life. Appoints said nephew sole Exr. Dated Jany 29, 1822 Charles Thomson (seal) Charles Thomson (seal) [sic] Witnesses Jos C. Morgan, John Matheys. Proven Sept 13, 1824 before John Markley Reg.
No 88. Will of John Thomson directs body be interred in Friends Burying Ground at Plymouth meeting.
Wills: Priscilla Peterman $50, wife of Joseph Peterman
Wills: Episcopal Church Norristown $50
Appoints Daniel Davis Preceptor Exr Dated Apr 3, 1824 John Thompson (seal) Proven May 23, 1825.
No 89. Will of Thomas Thomson provides for wife Jane Thomson provides for the support & maintenance of my minor children, then directs estate to be divided amongst my six children, Ann Thomson, Hannah Thomson, Catharine Thomson, Sarah Thomson, John Thomson & Abigal [sic] Thomson equally Dated Nov 11, 1825 Thomas Thomson Witness Thos Shoemaker Proven Jany 17, 1826
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90. Will of John Elliott wills everything equally to wife Margaretta Elliott & brother James Elliott, Dated Dec 13, 1818 John Elliott (seal) Will Proven & letters to Margaretta Elliott Jany 11, 1827
91. Will of Abraham Markley wills son Martin a horse & mare, wagons, farming implements etc. Enjoins wife Elizabeth to have care of his daughters Polly & Catherine & directs exrs to put out "my minor sons" (not named) to learn trades. Appoints son Martin Markley & friend Isaac Hollerman Exrs Dated Sept 22, 1829
Abraham Markley (seal) Proven Oct 26, 1829
92. Will of Jacob Mecklen
Wife is Catherina Mecklen for whom he provides & after her death one half to be paid to her son John Foust & then gives 1/3 of remainder to John Adelman & then to Conrad Mechlen son of Philip Mechlen 1/2 of 1/3 etc. Dated Oct 22, 1822. Jacob Mecklen (seal) Proven Feby 14, 1823.
92. Will of John Thomson
Gives wife Margret one feather bed, oval table etc.
Gives daughter Ganor Thomson one feather bed etc
Appoints son-in-law Joseph Wood & friend Thos Shoemaker Exrs whom he directs to sell the 123 A farm on which he lives & divide money as follows:
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To my son Jonah Thomson £20
To my son John Thomson £20
To my daughter Ganor Thomson £60
To my daughter Rachel Wood £40
To my daughter Tacy Haycock £35
Balance to be put at interest for his wife & at her death to be divided equally between my five children Jonah, John, Ganor, Rachel & Tace. Appoints Jonah & John in trust. Dated May 9, 1790 John Thomson (seal)
Proven June 12, 1790
94. Will of Jacob Merkley recites he is of the Tp of Skippach & Perkioming in the County of Phila Pa.
To wife Barbara, her bed & bedding etc & int of £150.
Son-in-law Jacob Brutzman to farm the place during her life & orders Exrs to sell his farm.
5th to my daughter Elianor wife of Tobias Boganer 5 shillings & then orders estate to be divided into eleven equal parts which he wills as follows:
one share to son Abraham
one share to son Philip
one share to son Isaac
one share to the 5 children of my daughter Veronica
one share to my daughter Christianna wife of William Antis
one share to my daughter Elizabeth Bemer
one share to my daughter Barbarah, wife of John Smith
one share to my daughter Rebekah, wife of Frederick Isaac
one share to my daughter Hannah, wife of Jacob Brutzman
one share to my daughter Caterine
one share to sons Abraham & Isaac in trust for daughter Elianor Boganer, she to get the int & if her husband died to get the principal which otherwise is to go to her children & if anyone die before he does, the share to go to his or her children. Dated June 10, 1779 Jacob Markley (seal Witnesses: William Pennebacer, Jacob Markley Coadwaner?
Proven Jany 24, 1785.
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First will was that of Hannah Rees Oct 20, 1784
at residence of Mark Hunter Finley 634 Noble St Norristown Pa Nov 3, 1923 8:25 PM
Mr Finley has brought out the bibles of his grandfather John Finley Sr printed at Phila by Kimber & Sharpless but undated & I am copying from the record which is on two detached leaves four pages.
Marriages John Finley, son of David Finley & Ruth his wife, was born Oct 15, 1813 & married Mch 28, 1839 to Phebe Rhoads, daughter of Peter & Hannah Rhoads his wife, who was born Aug 30, 1817.
Births
Their children:
1. David McKenzie Finley born December 29, 1839
2. Rebecca Ann Finley born Oct 28, 1841
3. Charles Henry Finley born Jany 11, 1844
4. John Ellwood Finley born Oct 21, 1846
5. Samuel Rhoads Finley born Oct 7, 1848
6. William Anderson Finley born May 13, 1853
7. James Harrison Finley born Mch 9, 1855
8. Albert Vernon Finley born Feby 8, 1860
Deaths
Rebecca Ann Finley died Oct 7, 1849 aged 7 yrs 11 m 21 days
Charles Henry Finley died Sept 2, 1875 aged 31 yrs 7 m 22 days
Phebe the wife of John Finley died July 10, 1878 aged 61 yrs 10 m 11 days
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John E. Finley's bible is a fine big one & well preserved & was published by Baird & Dillon NY but no date. It only gives the births of his three children viz:
Births
1. Ellwood Graham Finley born Mch 21, 1885
2. Mark Hunter Finley born Oct 27, 1892
3. Nelson Hammond Finley born Apr 15, 1896
Mark says he & Nelson were born here in Norristown Pa & is not sure whether Ellwood G. was born here or in Conshohocken Pa. Elwood also born in Norristown [this added later CW]
Mark H. says that John E. Finley married Eliza Jane Graham Oct 16, 1883 a native of Co Tyrone, Ireland where she was born _______ & died in Norristown Pa Nov 24, 1914.
John E. Finley died Norristown Pa Jany 13, 1920
Nelson H. Finley died Norristown Pa Oct 10, 1918 on the flu. All three are buried in the Riverside cemetery here.
Ellwood G. Finley is unmarried & lives here at the Hartrauft Hotel & is in the grocery business.
Mark H. Finley is in the lumber business & was married Aug 28, 1917 at Petersburg VA by Rev F.W. Moore (Baptist) to Ida Mae Avent daughter of Roger William Avent & his wife Ella Mae Halloway, who was born in Dinwiddie Co VA Sept 3, 1890 & have two children both born in Norristown Pa viz:
1. Ida Mae Finley born Dec 17, 1919
2. John Roger Finley born Nov 10, 1922
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Death notice cards:
John Finley Sr died June 17, 1891 in the 78th yr of his age, Mark's grandfather.
Leaving 9:15 PM
Mark gives me the address of some Finleys in Delaware Co who he has met in the lumber trade:
J.A. Finley Phila office address Fuller Bldg abt 15 S 18th St, Home address: Media, Delaware Co Pa
Also:
J.J. Finley, mgr of the H.M. Bickford Co Greensboro NC
Also:
Dr Mark F. Finley Grand Master (mason) of D.C. Washington D.C.
Jany 27, 1924 Mark H. Finley writes Dec 20, 1923 that his mother was 56 when she died, see line 18 preceding page.
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Hotel Hamilton, Norristown Pa Room 111 Nov 3, 1923 11:40 PM
This is the 81st anniversary of my dear Mary's birth. I went at 8 o'c this morning to the Register's office & finished the Admr Index B to R of the desired letters Pages 477 & 478 & then took abstracts fr 8 of the wills examined pages 482 to 484 inclusive when it came 12 o'c noon at which hour they closed. I then came to the hotel, got lunch & looked over my book & went across the St to 1121 W. Main, the home of Mrs Howard Boyd, but could raise no one. Then walked on to 819 W. Main to Jas S. Boyd's & the woman who came to the door sd he was Mrs Howard Boyd's son but would not be in until 6:30 PM. I then came back to the Hotel & made inquiries of several locations & finding Noble St was but two squares down Main walked down there & turned to the left & walked up abt 3 blocks to Mark H. Finley's at 634 Noble St & met him & wife & baby son. He was having some work done on his auto & had to give it attention & directed me how to reach his Uncle James H. Finley & sd he wd see me later & said he had two old bibles which proved to be those of his father & grandfather which I got this evening see pages 485 & 487 inclusive. I went up fr his home two doors to Oak St & turning to the right, walked about 8 or 10 blocks & was soon:
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At Residence of James Harrison Finley No 1301 Markley St Norristown Pa abt 3 PM
Mr Finley lives here with his daughter Mrs Land who called for me to come upstairs & I found him laying on the lounge. He told me to see Mrs Elizabeth McGlathery his first cousin, living on Cherry St, near the Armory, who he thought could tell about the family. Mr Finley said his name was James Harrison Finley born Mch 9, 1855 at Norristown Pa son of John Finley & Phoebe Rhoades. He was married Mch 15, 1879 to Margaret Jane Mitchell, daughter of John Mitchell & his wife Margaret NeikelJohn, who was born at Port Kennedy Pa this county Dec 28, 1858. Both living here & have had two children viz: both born in Norristown Pa.
1. Maud Mitchell Finley born Oct 25, 1885
2. Charles Vernon Finley born Feby 10, 1895 ob Feby 12, 189-
Maud M. Finley was married Oct 23, 1922 at Norristown Pa by Rev Jesse M. Corum Jr Pres minister to Herbert Swanger Land, who was born Nov 7, 1855 the son of Jacob Land & his wife Susan Swanger. No issue.
Mr Finley's older brother Charles Henry Finley has a son Charles Vernon Finley who lives at No 102 W Wood St near here & he is father of Edith V. Mr Finley says that his Uncle David Finley has a daughter Ruth Anna Finley who married Aaron Corson who has died
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& she lives at 2443 Oxford St Phila Pa (see later address) by herself who he thought was over 80 yrs old & took great interest in everything relating to the Finley family. She has but one child, Lulu who is married & "has a flock of children".
His daughter Maud M. Land is a remarkably handsome woman. She is of medium large build & has a remarkably handsome face of regular even features of great intelligence. He has been an invalid for three yrs & has taken on flesh since being laid up. He said they would want a book.
Left 4:22 PM
I walked up West Woods St two squares & was:
At residence of Charles Vernon Finley No 102 W. Wood St Norristown Pa Nov 3, 192 4:25 PM
Mr Finley is a tall fine looking able virile man & says his sister Anna, the widow of Thomas Rochelle, an Englishman, lives in the 1700 odd block on Orthodox St Phila Pa but his other sister, Phoebe Finley who mar 1. Clarence V. Robbins & 2d Wm H. Bucke & who is a widow lives on East Main St opposite the court house has the bible of their father as she told him when he called her on the phone & he arranged for me to see her at 9 o'clock tonight. She
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runs a hair dressing store over Saladays Jewelry Store on 2d floor in the name of Robbins her first husband, where she lives.
Mr Finley's father, Charles Henry Finley was in the Civil War in Capt S.C. Smith's Independent Co of Pa Vol, Engineer Corp. He was enrolled about the 3d or 4th enlistment Feby 10, 1865 to serve for one yr & was discharged July 11, 1865 at Harpers Ferry VA (he had 2 or 3 former discharges). His discharge says he was born in Norristown Pa is 21 yrs of age 5 ft 8 in high, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark hair, occupation when he volunteered was a puddler. This discharge is dated at Harpers Ferry Va July 11, 1865 & is signed by Lewis Dietz 5th Reg N.Y.V.A.
Charles Vernon Finley was born Sept 10, 1865 & was a Corporal in Co F 6th Reg Pa Vol Inf enrolled Apr 28, 1898 to serve 2 yrs. His discharge says he was born in Norristown Pa 32 yrs old 5 ft 9 1/2 in high light complexion blue eyes, brown hair & by occupation was an engineer. Dated Norristown Pa Oct 17, 1898 & signed by Henry Jacobs, Capt 6 P.V.I. wounds none, remarks: services honest & faithful. He was married Jany 1, 1884 at Phila Pa by Rev S.W. Thomas to Ella Catherine Bolton who was born at Norristown Pa Apr 21, 1866, daughter of Levi Bolton & his wife Elizabeth Hayworth. Have had five children all born in Norristown Pa viz:
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1. Edith Vernon Finley born Mch 10, 1885 single
2. Charles Vernon Finley Jr born July 27, 1889 ob Aug 21 1891
3. Elizabeth Josephine Finley born July 27, 1889 & married
4. Josephine Finley born July 23, 1891
5. Margaret Jane Finley born Sept 6, 1899 who was married Apr 16, 1921 to John Charles Ehinger (pronounced Inger) from Chester Pa, son of John Charles Ehinger & his wife Annie Robinson, who was born Apr 16, 1896 & have one child born at Montgomery Hospital Norris-
(It is now 2 AM 4th & the room is getting cold & I will go to bed)
(Resuming transcribing at 7 AM)
town Pa Oct 30, 1923 a boy not named yet.
3. Elizabeth J. Finley, the surviving twin married 1915, Charles Nelson Frantz, son of Howard C. Frantz & live here at Corner of Green & Oak Sts. He is in the grocery business. They have three children all born in Norristown Pa.
1. Charles Finley Frantz born July 14, 1916
2. Mary Rita Frantz born May 23? 1918
3. John Howard Frantz born Aug 3, 1919
4. Josephine Finley was married Oct 22, 1912 to John Dale son of George Nimmo Dale & his wife Annie Cowie Gilmour & have had but one child viz:
1. Horace Moyer Dale born May 30, 1913 in Norristown Pa & died Nov 5, 1916.
Mr Finley's mother was Josephine Burton Asholder who was born Apr 6 _____
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in the suburbs of Phoenixville, Chester Co Pa. They said they would want a book. Mr Finley said his great Aunt Sarah Ann Anderson, mother of Mrs McGlathery who lived to be 94, often told him about the Finley family history & wanted him to write it down but he didn't. She was full of the family lore & once took him to the grave in Tremont Cemetery here of her father David Mck Finley, where he saw the inscription on his tombstone & told him it was a shame that he didn't even know who he was or where he was buried. He said he was once down on the Eastern shore of Maryland where the man he was with told him there had been a family of seven or eight Finley brothers had ruled that section at an early day with an iron hand & were charged even with horse stealing among other crimes. When a small boy down at Cape May NJ, where he was in the soldiers Orphan School he learned to play on the violin I believe & played his best & other Finleys, many of them coming up asked him the names in his family & he told them John, James, William, George, David, Martha etc & they said those same names were in their family & they were no doubt of the same line & they took him to their homes, the best people & homes in the neighborhood. He had his son-in-law John C.
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Ehinger who had gone for Edith V. to bring her home in the auto come back & take me to Mrs McGlathery's, she went along so I left at 5:30 PM & we were soon:
At residence of Mrs Mary Elizabeth McGlathery No 524 Cherry St Norristown Pa Nov 3, 1923 5:46 PM
Mrs McGlathery came to the door & Mr Finley introduced me. She took me back to her sitting room & said she was in her 88th year, born Apr 7, 1836 right across the street from where she now lives. She is a slender woman with gray hair is about my height & was not at all feeble, in fact was awaiting the arrival of a friend with whom she was going to some Lodge meeting.
She is the daughter of Abraham Griffith Anderson (son of Alexander Anderson & his wife Mary Griffith) and his wife Sarah Ann Finley who was born Sept 21, 1810 at Penns Grove, Salem Co NJ & died here Feby 21, 1904 in her 94th year. She was the daughter of David McKenstry Finley who is buried in the Tremont Cem here & has a marker. He died when she was a child. She says her cousin, Mrs Ruth Anna Corson has his family bible & also that she sold the Oxford St house this fall & moved
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to West Phila Pa. She says she is only about 70 yrs old, but knows more than she does about the Finley family. She don't know the name of the father of her grandfather David McKenstry Finley, but thinks he died at Penns Grove NJ. Says David was an old or elderly man when he came here in 1828. Of his brothers & sisters, she recalled:
Tamzan who married a Strutch
Rebecca who married a Camp
Sarah who married a Fogg
Mary Casper who married
Andrew Finley, brother who lived in Phila Pa
Rushie Finley brother who lived in Phila Pa both married & had children
She went upstairs & brought down the old bible of her grandfather Alexander Anderson which was published in NY in 1813 by Evert Duyckinck & from it I copied part of the record:
Births
see book 16 p 532
1. Richard Anderson son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Dec 29, 1795
2. Thomas Anderson son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Mch 19, 1797
3. Rachel Harrison Anderson dau of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Apr 5, 1799
4. John Anderson son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Apr 20, 1803
5. Louis Griffith Anderson son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Sept 14, 1808
6. Abraham Griffith Anderson son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Jany 1, 1810
7. Alexander Anderson Jr son of Alxr & Mary Anderson born Nov 2, 1813
Mary Anderson, the mother of above children & daughter of Abraham Griffith & Barbara, his wife was born June 6, 1770
Rachel Harrison daughter of Alex & Mary Anderson died Dec 7, 1820 aged 21 yrs 8 mos 2 days
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Alexander Anderson Sr died July 1, 1842 in his 95th year
Mary Anderson, his wife died June 19, 1860 aged 90 years & 13 days
The children of Mrs McGlathery's parents, Abraham G. & Sarah Ann Finley Anderson as given to me by her from memory were:
1. John Alexander Anderson born May 7, 1834
2. Mary Elizabeth Anderson (my informant) born Apr 7, 1836
(It is 8:30 AM & I am going to breakfast)
(It is 9:04 AM & I am resuming)
5. Thomas Jefferson Anderson
4. David Finley Anderson born Oct 26, 1839
3. Alice Amanda Anderson born say Jany 10, 1838 died Aug 15, 1838 aged 7 mos & 5 days buried at Tremont Cem.
6. Samuel Aaron Anderson born Oct & ob 185[cut off]
7. Ellwood Davis Anderson born Oct & ob 185[cut off]
these last two were twins & she said were the youngest & died when one month old. She thought her parents had nine children, but was a little confused at the expectancy of going out & my calling unheralded. She is a dear old lady. She said she was married July 4th, 1854 to Charles Snyder McGlathery who was born in Plymouth Tp this Co Sept 9, 1831 the son of Franklin McGlathery & his wife Eliza Hallman. He died on Dec 26, 1901 & is buried in Riverside Cem here & have had 7 children all born here record of which she & her son harry W. gave me from memory. Her daughter Sarah A. was there also.
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1. Alice Amanda McGlathery born July 4, 1855 & died from a heavy cold Nov 11, 1866 aged 11 yrs.
2. Sarah Alexcina McGlathery born Aug 7, 1857, living here single
3. Edward Schall McGlathery born Mch 1, 1860 & died of the measles Apr?: 1864 aged 4 yrs.
4. Grant Richmond McGlathery born Apr 3, 1856 & died unmarried Apr 16, 1916. Born & named at time of Lee's surrender to Gen Grant at Richmond VA
(It is 9:27 AM & Mrs Boyd has come into breakfast & I will go down to see her) (It is 9:48 Am & I just saw & spoke to Mrs Boyd, a large tall almost 6 ft woman, large build, who was uncivil & sd she had no time to talk as she was going to church & would not be home after church.)
5. Maggie Bell McGlathery born Jany ___ between Grant & George & died Jany 7, was just a year old, buried at Tremont Cem
6. George Neiman McGlathery born Oct 26, 1875 married to Lide McAfee & both living in Balto Md. No issue
7. Harry Wilmont McGlathery born Jany 7, 1879 unmarried & living here, a fine able bodied strong man, my joint informant. He said Mrs Ruth Ann Corson goes by name of Mrs Annie Corson & lives now at NO 5305 Christian St West Phila Pa where she has bought property. I must go there & see her.
Leaving 6:50 PM
Aug 21/26 Mrs McGlathery died about Mch 22, 1926 see book 16 P 526 et seq.
I then came out to the Hamilton got my dinner & Mrs Howard Boyd wd not wait to see me saying she was dressed to go out. I then walked down St & was soon at:
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Residence of James S. Boyd No 819 West Main St Norristown Pa Nov 3, 1923 7:46 PM
Mr Boyd a fine will built husky young man came to the door & said he was expecting company, some being already there but he took me inside & we talked for 20 minutes or so & he was very kind & excused himself by saying he saying he was working night & day making speeches & interviewing people in their work to elect the Republican ticket next Tuesday. I would guess him to weigh 200 lbs or over. He said that he was the only child of his parents & that neither he nor his father, Howard, nor his grandfather James S. Boyd, a Penna RR lawyer who built many of the small RRs out of Phila to Newton etc, cared 5 cts for the family genealogy & had no records & if anything, contributing thereto came in, they threw it away. He sd he was with his grandfather once to a lawyer's Banquet in Phila Pa & met a lawyer there who was a noted genealogist who talked to his grandfather about their genealogy & who prepared a record for his grandfather, but he cared nothing for it & didn't preserve it, their idea being that it was not your forebears but what you could do yourselves that counted. Telling him that his great grandfather, Dr Jeremiah Boyd & his
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parents William & Ann Jack Boyd were from Fayette Co Pa, he said that he so understood but didn't know that any of the Boyds were of sufficient consequence to be written up, but said there was an elaborate sketch of his grandfather in the History of Montgomery Co Pa prepared by a NY firm which could be seen in the public library here - in said History which his grandfather presented to the library, he said his great Aunt Mary Pugh who died several yrs ago was one of the thirteen children of Dr Jeremiah Boyd & having leisure had prepared a history of the Boyds which is now in the possession of her son Ed Pugh of Newtown, Bucks Co Pa an intelligent able well known man there who was once, if not now, Secy of the Auto Assn there & who was a poor man & he thought would sell the Hist for a small sum as he didn't care for it & had once asked him if he didn't want to buy it. He said he wouldn't give 5 cts for it & thought Ed wd entertain an offer of $50 for it. He said there was a tradition in the family that they were descended from Mary, Queen of Scots. He said his Boyds were buried in Montgomery Cem to the left of the west end of W Main St. He sd his mother was a Slingluff [best guess] & might be able to give some records.
Left 8:11 PM & walked up to 634 Nobel St & got fr Mark H. Finley the records on pages 485 to 487 incl. Then walked back to W. Main & took St car to:
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Residence of Phoebe Rhoades Bucke No 16 E. Main St Norristown Pa Nov 3, 1923 9:50 PM
Mrs Bucke has the bible of her father Charles Henry Finley which was published by John Smith Phila Pa in 1867. A folder of two leaves together but detached from the bible had family records on the first three pages as follows:
Marriages On June 29, 1862, Chas H. Finley to Josephine Burton Asholter both of Phoenixville Pa.
Their children all born in Norristown Pa.
Births
1. John Rapp Finley born Mch 21, 1863 ob Aug 30, 1866
2. Charles Vernon Finley born Sept 10, 1865 got his record above.
3. Phoebe Rhoades Finley born May 28, 1868
4. Anne Rapp Finley born Nov 3, 1869
5. David Asholter Finley born Sept 13, 1874 ob Jany 3, 1879
3. Phoebe Rhoades Finley was m.1st Dec 19, 1887 in Camden NJ eloping couple, handsome & attractive as the officiating minister Rev Geo Bagley Episcopalian said, to Clarence Vincent Robbins of Wash. D.C. son of Adgt Lieut Nathan Hale Robbins & his wife Barbara Ellinda ______ who was born Nov 2, 1868 in Wash D.C. & died here May 12, 1899. They had two children both born here:
1. Anna Barbara Robbins born Oct 25, 1888
2. Lola Estelle Robbins born Apr 28, 1893
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She died Aug 19? 1913 aged abt 20 yrs & is buried at Riverside Cem here & has a marker. She married Oct or Nov 1911 at Elkton Md Lewis Warren Sherrick. No issue. He is married again & lives in Conshohocken Pa & has a son Lewis W. Jr.
1. Annie Barbara Robbins married on Oct 23? 1906 in NY City by Rev B.C. Warren (Methodist) to John Clyde Plotts, son of Wheeler H. Plotts & his wife Annette McBride. He was born in Sullivan Co Pa near NY state line Sept 10, 1881. Both living at 1037 Swede ST Norristown Pa where he is train masters clerk for the P&R RR employed at Bridgeport Pa across the river & has had but one child who was here with her mother & were joint informants viz:
1. Barbara Robbins Plotts born in Norristown Pa at 1037 Swede St Dec 26, 1912.
Phoebe Rhoades Robbins m 2d Feby 14, 1911 at Elkton Md by Rev Wolfe (Methodist) to William Luff Bucke son of James Hyzer Bucke & his wife Mary Kroberger, who was born July 3, 1872 & died Sept 4, 1920 & had but one child born in Norristown Pa at No 713 Swede St.
3. Mary Luff Bucke born May 30, 1914 a wonderfully beautiful young slender girl decorated in honor of her birthday with most attractive fascinating eyes & her mother sd a man from Hollywood Calif a few days ago had remarked
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about her eyes & said he wanted her by reason thereof & her personality for the movies. She already plays the piano & fiddle. I told her she would be a racer for Mary Pickford & when she wanted to go, I would give her a letter to my cousin Clara Williams at Hollywood. She was joint informant with her mother, sister & niece.
4. Anne Rapp Finley married Thomas Rochelle an Englishman I think he is dead & she lives in Frankford Phila Pa at 1730 odd (abt opposite 1726 where they used to live) Orthodox St & runs an ice cream & candy store under name of Cunningham (formerly Smith & Cunningham) they have six children. See her & get her record
See Book 16 P 583-5
Mrs Bucke's oldest Uncle David McKenzie Finley see page 485 had a son Elmer Finley who lives on Chain St just off W. Main St south, who would have, she thought his father's bible record. Abraham Finley lives just near Elmer on chain St. He is son of Thomas McKenzie Finley. Mrs Bucke's great Uncle, brother of her grandfather John Finley. He can tell more than Elmer. I will go now to see them & to the three cemeteries.
I had a very nice visit at Mrs Bucke's & she cordially asked me to come back. Told them some of my trip in India. Mark H. Finley asked if I was the coal man.
Leaving 10:55 PM
It is now just 12 o'c noon 4th
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At residence of Abraham Finley No 222 Chain St Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 12:44 PM
I left the hotel at 12:15 PM & seeing no street car in sight, walked down here six blocks & passing this number, came back & rung the bell & a fine lithe active matronly woman opened the door & upon asking her in which house Abraham Finley lived said in this one & she was his wife, but he was at the Prison by the C.H. as Sunday warden, but upon asking her if he was not son of Thomas McKenzie Finley, she sd he was & they had his old bible which his sister gave him to keep but said she wanted it back. She went upstairs & brought it down, a medium large leather backed book well preserved except that it is split clear in two just between the old & new testament & the 4 pages of records are on two combined leaves which are entirely detached from the bible which was published by Kimber & Sharpless Phila Pa but without date.
Instead, however of being his father's bible, it is a much greater find being the bible of his grandfather David McKenzie Finley, who in starting it says he is the son of David Finley & Sarah his wife. I copy from the said bible record:
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Marriages
David Finley, son of David Finley and Sarah his wife, was born Feby 10, 1781 & was married January 9th, 1809 to Ruth Mills, daughter of Maskell Mills & Phebe his wife who was born Aug 26, 1789.
Their children:
1. Mary Finley was born Jany 19, 1809 ob Sept 15, 1809 aged 7 mos 27 days
2. Ruth Finley was born Apr 30, 1810 died same day she was born
3. Hope Finley was born Apr 30, 1810 died same day she was born
4. Sarah Ann Finley was born Sept 21, 1811
5. John Simms Finley was born Oct 15, 1813
6. Richard Finley was born Dec 15, 1815
7. Mary Finley was born Aug 10, 1817 ob Sept 12, 1817 aged 4 weeks & 5 days
8. Thomas McKenzie Finley was born Mch 14, 1819
9. Susan Iseral [sic] Finley was born June 5, 1821
10. David Finley was born Dec 5, 1823 ob Dec 3, 1824 aged 11 mos & 28 days
11. Job Finley was born Nov 28, 1824
12. Phebe Finley was born May 27, 1828 ob May 27, 1828 aged one day.
Deaths
I am noting those of the children opposite their births.
Ruth Finley, wife of David Finley died Jany 29, 1850 aged 61 yrs 5 months & 7 days.
David Finley died July 23, 1863 aged 82 yrs 5 mos & 13 days.
Abraham S. Finley was born Sept 12, 1851 at Norristown Pa son of Thomas McKenzie Finley & his wife Sarah Louisa Seaman was married in Phila Pa by Rev Seybold on July 30, 1896 to Sarah Elizabeth Charles daughter
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of Daniel Charles & his wife Christiana Snyder who was born in Norristown Pa Feby 16, 1852 & have never had any children.
She thinks Mrs Anna Corson who she visited Saturday week ago lives at 5343 she thinks & on Catherine St not Christian West Phila Pa, has the bible of her father Thos McKenzie Finley. She is a sister of Abraham S. & not a daughter of David. She & A.S. are the only ones living. A sister here was burned to death & is buried at Riverside Cem. Her name was Sherilla Finley & Norris Finley, a brother died a yr ago & Mrs F. says his widow told her the tombstone would be up in abt two weeks. Her name Ella Finley & she lives in Germantown Pa at No 2060 65th Ave as per her letter of Oct 10, 1923. No issue. She says Elmer Finley lives five doors from here south.
Leaving 1:50 PM
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At residence of Elmer Ellwood Finley No 214 Chain St Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 2 PM
Mr Finley is the son of David McKenzie Finley & his wife Susan Longaker & was born in Norristown Pa Sept 22, 1864 & was married Sept 16, 1891 at Norristown Pa by Rev Hiram Peters, Lutheran to Emma Mary Fischer daughter of William Louis Fischer & his wife Jacobina Lindauer, who was born in New York City Oct 27, 1866 & have had but two children viz:
1. Carrie Ina Finley born June 28, 1892
2. Elmer George Finley born Oct 12, 1894 both born in Norristown Pa.
1. Carrie Ina Finley was married Sept 4, 1917 at Norristown Pa by Rev Aden B. MacIntosh, Lutheran to Isaac Ralph March who was born in Reading Pa Dec 20, 1891 the son of Isaac Livengood March & his wife Annie Louise Nagle & have but one child born in Norristown Pa viz:
1. Ina Emma March born Mch 27, 1920
2. Elmer George Finley was married June 28, 1922 in Washington D.C. by Rev Diffenderffer, Lutheran to Hulda Joanna? Pletzer dau of Mr & Mrs Eldridge Hewes Pletzer & live on Burke Ave Abingdon, Alexandria Va. He is a salesman. Mr Finley is a meat cutter & Mr March is foreman in a lumber yard. Mr Finley says
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that his sister Mrs Laura McCracken, widow, living at 707 or 709 Arch St north of Main has their father's bible with the record.
Leaving 2:27 PM
back at Abraham Seaman Finley 222 Chain St Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 6:05 PM. He has given me the dates of his birth & marriage which I have entered on page 504 & also corrected the name of his mother. Referring to Page 495, Mr Finley says as follows about the brothers & sisters of his grandfather mentioned last night by his cousin Mrs McGlathery viz:
1. Tamzan Strutch lived & died at Salem NJ. Had children, one daughter he thinks married Thomas Dunn, an undertaker. Thinks another married a Patterson, but to ask his sister Mrs Corson who lives at 5403 Catherine ST, West Phila across the street from the Chamber memorial Methodist church. He thinks his grandfather came here in 1827 instead of 1828. Says his father Thomas McKenzie Finley was born Mch 14, 1819 at Christiana Hundred, Delaware.
2. Rebecca Camp lived in Phila at one child & had children says ask Mrs Corson. [entered as written CW]
3. Sarah Fogg lived at Salem or Penns Grove NJ. Had children, ask Mr Corson.
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4. Mary Casper was married but don't know to whom but says Annie Corson knows.
5 & 6. Don't know about Andrew & Rushie
Says there was a William Finley who lived in Phila all his life & who was abt the age of his father, who might have been the son of one of them. Annie Corson has his & her father's bible. He, his father, in 1899 in his 81st yr & his sister Louisa Charilla Finley died in 1900 in Apr & his mother died in 1901 in her 80th yr. Mr Finley says his father told him that his, Thos, grandfather came to the U.S. from the North of Ireland, but didn't know when or whether any relatives came with him or not. He don't know where he was really located & says his own grandfather, David McKenzie Finley located in Penns Grove NJ where he ran a hotel. Don't know where he was born.
Mr F. speaks of the Griscoms who were related on the Finley side but he don't know how, but says his sister, Anna Corson will as she visited with them.
see page 504.
Richard Finley born Dec 15, 1815 married & lived in Phila but died at Cornwall, Bucks Co Pa. He had a son Richard, a daughter Martha who married Chas Artz, a daughter ______, who married Chas Pretzman & a son John who he thinks never married. & a daughter Hallie who he thinks never married. Ask Annie.
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Susana Iseral married James Knox & lived on Lancaster Ave Phila once. Both died in Phila. Had a son Charles, a son William d.y. abt close of Civil War & a son David. Charles & David both married & lived in Phila. David died there, but Chas lives there, he thinks at Lancaster Ave. David has a son who is in the P.O. Ask Annie.
Job Finley married & lived at Phoenixville Pa where he died. His wife's name was Wilhelmina & she is living yet he thinks. No issue, but they adopted a daughter Nora. Ask Annie.
Mr Finley's brother Norris Montgomery Finley died abt June 22, 1922 & his widow is living in Germantown Pa. No issue.
Leaving 6:55 PM
Mr Finley says Howard Boyd's wife is a daughter of John Slingluff who was pres of the Montgomery NBK & her brother Will Slingluff is the present cashier of the bank. Says her son, James S. Boyd was State Senator from here for two terms 8 yrs. Says he is large build like his grandfather James Boyd whose wife Sarah Jamison, daughter of Samuel Jamison who owned the Jamison Mills.
Mr & Mrs Finley are members of the Lutheran Church as are also the Elmer Finleys.
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At residence of Mrs Laura Louisa McCracken No 709 Arch St, Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 8:22 PM
I arrived here ten minutes ago & was admitted by Mrs McC who seems to be alone. She went upstairs & brought down her mother's bible with variegated red back covers & binding all broken which was published by Whilt & Yost Phila in 1857 & there are three columns of records on two pages from which I copy:
Marriages David McKenzie Finley, son of John & Phoebe Finley was born Dec 29, 1839 and Susan Longaker daughter of John & Susan Longaker was born ______
They were married Sept 27, 1860 at Port Providence, Mont. Co Pa.
Their children were all born in Norristown Pa except Mrs McC, my informant who was born in Phoenixville Pa. The names & dates are as follows:
1. Laura Louisa Finley born July 12, 1861
2. Eliza Phebe Finley born Mch 27, 1863
3. Elmer Ellwood Finley born Sept 22, 1864
4. George Elton Finley born Feby 5, 1868
5. David Schall Finley born June 23, 1870
6. John Essick Finley born Jany 28, 1874
Deaths
Susan L. Finley wife of David M. Finley
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died Aug 3, 1890 aged 54 years.
David Schall Finley died Jany 18, 1892 in the 22d yr of his age.
David McKenzie Finley son of John & Phoebe Finley died June 1st, 1901 in his 62d yr.
John Essick Finley died Oct 6, 1907 in his 34th year. His sister says he was unmarried. All four are buried in Montgomery Cem.
1. Laura Louisa Finley was married April 1886 in Norristown Pa by Rev ___ Methodist to Richard McCracken who was born in Phila Pa Oct 4, 1860, the son of James McCracken & his wife Hannah Vile. He died in Norristown Pa Aug 13, 1920 & is buried in Riverside Cem. Have had but one child who was born in Norristown Pa viz:
1. Albert McCracken born Mch 27, 1887. He married Apr 27, 1907 at Bridgeport Pa just across the river where he now lives by Father Gately to Miss Margaret Brown of Bridgeport Pa. They have four children all born in Bridgeport Pa viz:
I. John McCracken born Aug 28, 1907
II. Albert McCracken Jr born Sept 10, 1908
III. Harold McCracken born Oct 1910
IV. Margaret McCracken born Aug 1912
Albert is a moulder. His wife is a Catholic.
2. Eliza Phebe Finley married when about 18 say in 1881 1st to Frederick Allcock an Englishman who died
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in Phila. She married 2d Thomas Gill in Norristown Pa & they are both living here at NO 1207 Arch St. She had three children by Allcock & has three by Gill. Mr Gill works down on Main St at the Mills children all born in Norristown Pa & their all born in Norristown Pa & their names are follows:
1. Louisa Allcock born May 23, 1883?
2. Laura Allcock born Jany 10, 1885
3. William Allcock born Mch 13, 1887
4. Ethel Gill born Feby 28, 1896
5. Walter Harry Gill born June 2, 1898
6. Florence Finley Gill born Sept 10, 1904
1. Louisa Allcock mar 1st Albert Gaunt. He died & she mar 2d Harry Shull & they are both living at Newport Pa where he has a poultry store. No issue.
2. Laura Allcock mar Dec 24, 1906 at Norristown Pa to Lester Hauser son of George Hauser & his wife Laura ______. They live at 211 Noble St. He works for the County Gas Co. No issue
3. William Allcock lives at Atlantic City where he clerks in a meat store. Married & divorced. Had a daughter who is married.
4. Ethel Gill was married in Norristown Pa to Charles Rhoades. Both living in Plymouth Tp where he is employed at the chemical works. No issue.
5 & 6 Walter Harry & Florence F. both single
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3. Elmer Ellwood Finley got his record this afternoon see page 506
4. George Elton Finley is unmarried & lives here with my informant, Mrs McCracken. He works in the lumber yard.
Page 485. Mrs McC says her Uncle Saml R. Finley was never married.
Her Uncle Wm A. Finley married Bella Capstick & both are living at Germantown Pa. Have but one child, a daughter Isabella who married James Bell & both living in Italy, thinks Genoa, but not sure. He is with the White Star Steamship line & have three children, all young viz: George the oldest, Virginia, the youngest & a girl in between.
Her Uncle Albert Vernon Finley married Lydia Raynor & both are living at Logan Pa near Phila Pa where he works along the wharf for a commission house. They have three children:
1. William Finley, married
2. Albert Finley, was single
3. Florence, married
Mrs McCracken has given most of the above record from memory & has been very kind.
Leaving 10 PM
Allentown Pa [cut off]:30 AM [cut off]
As I was leaving, Mrs McCracken
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said "For goodness sakes, be sure to see Anna Corson. She told me she had the family traced back to the 16th century & she is one after your kind on family matters."
Tremont Cemetery, Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 3:17 PM 1. The John Finley graves are in a lot enclosed by iron railing along right hand side of main walk or drive way & takes in first tree along the walk.
John Finley, our Father born Oct 15, 1813 died June 17, 1891 aged 77 yrs 8 mos 2 days
Phoebe, wife of John Finley, our mother born Aug 30, 1817 died July 10, 1878 aged 60 yrs 10 mos 11 days
Rebecca Ann, daughter of John & Phoebe Finley Born Oct 28, 1811, died Oct 7, 1819 aged 7 yr 11 mos 10 days
Samuel R. Finley (Oct 7) 1848 - 1923 (Mch?)
Charles H. Finley born Jany 11, 1844 died Sept 2, 1875 Indpt Co Pa Engineers.
John Rapp, son of John & Josephine Finley died Aug 31, 1866 aged 3 yrs 5 mos & 10 days.
2. Alexander Anderson died July 1st A.D. 1842 in his 95th year.
Alice Amanda, dau of Abraham & Sarah Anderson died Aug 15, 1838 aged 7 mos 5 days
Abraham G. Anderson born Jany 1, 1810 died Sept 14, 1867 aged 57 yrs 8 mos 14 days
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Sarah A. Anderson 1811 - 1904
David Finley Anderson Private Co C 138 Reg Pa Vol Genl S.K. Zook Post No 11 G.A.R. Born Oct 26, 1839 died Oct 8, 1885 aged 46 yrs
Ruth Finley, wife of David Finley died Jany 29, 1850, aged 61 yrs 5 mos 7 days.
3. Charles F. Robbins 1863 - 1907
Louis W. son of C.F. Robbins died Nov 27, 1907 erected by his mother.
Leaving 4 PM
Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown Pa Nov 4, 1923 4:44 PM
4. Samuel M Markley Apr 10, 1826, Mch 12, 1891
Harriet P. Markley Jany 16, 1832, Dec 17, 1891
Hannah P, Kirkbride 1848 - 1915
The above is a triangular lot enclosed with iron railing to the right as you go in front.
5. Abraham Markley born June 3, 1796 died Feby 11, 1872
Mary Ann, wife of Abraham Markley & daughter of Archibald & Sarah Darrah. Born Feby 20, 1798 died Apr 3, 1868
6. Mark Thompson died July 27, 1859 in his 85th yr
Ann, wife of Mark Thompson died Feby 5, 1835 in her 60th yr
Abraham Thompson Markley 1830 - 1912
See letter of Apr 28, 1924, large env fr Albert H. [bottom line cut off]
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Elizabeth M. Markley 1832 - 1893
& many others
7. Carrie Cantier Corson 1870 - 1903
8. Catherine, wife of Charles Slingluff died Apr 22, 1900 aged 88 yrs
9. Went in the office & found that James Boyd's lots were 41 & 42 in section S. which is away off along the left hand edge of the cemetery. The man went with me in the darkness, which had fallen & by striking matches, he read me the following inscriptions all on sarcophagus graves on the ground:
Robert J., son of James & Sarah Boyd died Sept 6, 1853 in his 6th yr
Sarah, wife of James Boyd died Oct 1, 1876 in her 53d year
James Boyd Mch 29, 1821, Oct 16, 1904
Wallace J. son of James & Sarah Boyd (my husband) died Dec 21, 1880 in his 29th yr
John Howard Boyd infant son of Howard & Mary S. Boyd born July 8, 1886 died Feby 4, 1887
Howard Boyd Jany 1, 1855, Aug 21, 1903
Left 5:50 PM
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American House, Allentown Pa Room 54 Nov 5, 1923 2:52 AM
I had a strenuous day at Norristown. I got up at 6:30 & wrote up what I had penciled down Saturday. See page 503. After leaving Elmer E. Finley's, I went to the county jail at 2:50, but Abraham S. Finley was on duty with Sunday services on & said he could see me at his home between 6 & 7 PM. I then walked up to Tremont Cem a full mile & then walked back to Arch & Main & waited 20 minutes for a street car & went to Selma St & took the first road to the left beyond & walked out to Montgomery Cem & hurriedly went pretty much over it, but could not find any Boyds. I then went in the office, see page 516. I then went again to residence of Abraham S. Finley & had an hour with him & his wife, see Pages 507 to 509 inclusive. Mr Finley is a tall slender man with good memory & the picture of health as is his wife. who however is stout & plump. Then arrived back at the Hotel at 7:20 PM & got my dinner finding the big unwholesome Mrs Boyd eating. Then took a St Car to Arch St & walked up 5 blocks to Mrs McCracken's see page 510 to 514. Then went back to the hotel, paid my bill & went to Swede St & took the 11:21 PM trolley for here where I arrived 12:57 AM have written up to date & will go to bed. It is 3:11 AM JVT
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Registers office Lehigh Co Allentown Pa Nov 5, 1923 8:55 AM
Will Index
* Merckel, Christopher Macungie Tp July 31, 1813 Vol 1 P 25
*Merkel, Charles U. Macungie Tp Dec 2, 1905 Vol 12 P 685
*Merkel, David Allentown ob Oct 31, 1905 June 1, 1922 Vol 21 P 681
*Merkel, Esther Upper Mucungie ob May 12, 1922 Nov 14, 1898 Vol 9 P 317
*Merkel, Edwin C. Allentown ob Nov 5, 1898 Nov 27, 1912 Vol 16 P 373
*Merkel, Henry S. Whitehall ob Nov 22, 1912 Feby 28, 1921 Vol 21 P 162
*Merkel, Jacob Macungie ob Feby 5, 1921 Sept 18, 1819 Vol 1 P 242
Merkel, John Weisenberg Tp Apr 29, 1851
Merkel, Lydia Allentown ob Feby 11, 1905 June 14, 1905 Vol 2 P 393
*Merkel, Margaret Allentown ob Dec 15, 1914 Jany 26, 1915 Vol 17 P 507
*Markle, Reuben Salisbury Tp ob Aug 14, 1889 Aug 30, 1889 Vol 6 P 524
*Merkel, Solomon L. Milford Tp ob Apr 3, 1908 Apr 20, 1907 Vol 13 P 504
Rodearmel, Wm S. Cementon ob Sept 2, 1904 Sept 9, 1904 Vol 2 P 336
No Caruthers, Finley, Jack, or Redburn but there are Fetterolfs & Romigs & Romichs galore.
The first will recorded is that of Daniel Schmyer of Macungie Tp recorded Sept 17, 1812.
See page 484
95. Will of Christopher Merckel of Macungie Tp Northampton Co (2 full pages in German)
Gives to wife Anna Christina 2 beds & bedding etc
Gives to son Jacob Merkel his plantation of 200 A in Macungie Tp & 2 hired men, as indentured. He to pay £50 in one yr.
Gives Magdalena his sister wife of Peter Barr
Gives Catherine his sister wife of Peter Barr
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To Maria, wife of Michael Porter.
To Salome, still unmarried
Appoints son Jacob & Peter Barr Sr, son-in-law to be Exrs Dated Oct 25, 1806. Christopher Merckel (Christofel Merkel) Witnesses: Jonathan Krauss Johannes Lichtenwallner. Above read to me by Mr Weaver.
On Jany 21, 1809, he makes a codicil in English & recites that he is of Macungie Tp., still Northampton Co.
Gives to his "two grant children" children of my daughter Catherine intermarried with Peter Barr, the younger £200 ie £2l00 to be pd to my oldest grant daughter Mary Barr in 17 yrs after May 27, 1809 & £100 to the youngest of my grant daughters Judick Barr to be pd in 9 yrs after above date, but if they should die without issue, same to go to his son Jacob Markel. States that Catherine's husband Peter Barr is since deceased.
On Nov 28, 1809, he makes another codicil, still giving residence as same & naming himself as Christopher Merckel this codicil also in English states that in his will he had given to his three daughters to wit:
To my daughter Magdalena wife of Peter Barr £450
To my daughter Mariah, wife of Michael Peter £450
To my daughter Salome now wife of John Kiestler £450
Provides lighter liquidation for his son. Jacob Merckel signed in German Proven July 31, 1813.
96. Estate of Jacob Merckel of Macungie Tp. Letters of Admr
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to Salome Marckel Sept 18, 1819 with Geo Smith of Maxetany, Berks Co & Henry Laros of Macungie, Lehigh Co on bond for $5000 Estate net was $1900 odd.
97. Will of Charles Merkel gives entire estate to wife Angeline Merkel & appoints his three sons, John Merkel, George Merkel & Charles Merkle Exrs. Dated Nov 3, 1903. Charles Merkel (seal) Probated Dec 2, 1905
98. Will of David Merkel:
To son Geo A. Merkel & daughter Jennie R. Fluck, household effects
To son Geo A. Merkel watch chain & studs & life estate in lots
To dau Jennie R. Fluck No 1133 Hamilton St & 4 other lots
Gives her $2000 due him fr her husband Chas R. Fluck. Appoints son Geo A. Merkel & dau Julia R. Fluck (who are his residuary legatees) Exrs. Dated July 8, 1920 David Merkel (seal) Probated June 1, 1922.
99. Will of Henry Merkel of South Whitehall Tp To my granddaughter Lilly Kehm $125 & balance of estate to be divided equally between his six children, Frank, Henry, Peter & Edwin Merkle & Hattie, wife of George Stettler & Eliza, wife of Lucingus Sell. Appoints sons Edwin & Peter Exrs. Dated Jany 10, 1921. Henry (his mark) Merkle (seal) Probated Feby 26, 1921
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100. Will of Esther Merkel Directs her clothing & household goods be divided between her brothers & sisters, the children of brother John to have his share.
To my brother Henry $1000 of the $1100 he owes me.
Residue after paying for tombstone to be divided equally between my brothers & sisters.
Appoints brother Henry sole Exr. Dated June 25, 1887 signed in German Esther Merkel (seal) Probated Nov 14, 1898.
101. Will of Edwin C. Merkel To Fairview Cem Asscn of Allentown Pa $50 to keep grave in condition.
Estate to be divided into 5 shares & gives:
To sister Tevilla Kuhns wife of Wm Kuhns Fogelsville Pa 1 sh
To sister Anna Heiberger, wife of Adam Heiberger of Bethlehem Pa 1 sh
To sister Alice George, wife of Daniel George of Allentown Pa 1 sh
To decd sister Rosa Oswald's two chil John & Samuel 1 sh
To brother John Markel absolutely 1 sh
Appoints Adam Heiberger Exr. Dated Nov 17, 1912. Edwin C. (his mark) Merkel Probated Nov 27, 1912.
102. Will of Margaret Merkel States that she is a widow. Directs body be interred with rites of Lutheran Ch in Union Cem, Allentown Pa & order a tombstone similar to that at grave of her husband in same lot.
Bequeaths estate to her Exrs in trust to care
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for invalid daughter Ida A. Merkel.
After her death if anything is left it is to be divided between my three remaining daughters, Ella, Flora & Gertrude equally.
Appoints daughter Flora married to Preston Young Exrx. Dated June 6, 1912 Margaret (her mark) Merkel Probated Jany 26, 1915.
103. Will of Reuben Markel Gives wife Lavina C. income of estate for life & after her death estate to be divided in three equal shares.
To my son Wm H. Markel one share
To my daughter Emma L. married to Edwin Larble 1 sh
To the 2 children of my lamented daughter Ida Jane decd late the wife of Preston Lambat one share.
Appoints wife Lavinia C. & son Wm H. Markel Exrs Dated May 31, 1888 Reuben Markle (seal) Probated Aug 30, 1889 [variations in wife's name noted]
104. Will of Solomon Merkel Gives to wife Molly Ellemanda Merkel $500 & what law give her.
Bals estate to be divided share & share alike between my four sons Henry A. Merkel, Charles D. Merkel, George H. Merkel & Franklin S. Merkel & my four girls viz Ellen L. Rummel, Manda A. Rothenberger, Annie M. Yoder, & Emma K. Taggert.
Appoints wife sole Exrx Dated Sept 2, 1903 Solomon Merkel (seal) Probated Apr 20, 1907
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Directory of Allentown, Catasauqua & Lehigh Co for 1923
Allentown
Jacks, Andrew K. yeoman Res 714 Union Remetia
Jacks, David H. job printer 16 S 6th Res 1346 Turner, Mary
Jacks, Elizabeth, student h 1346 Turner
Jacks, Thomas A. student h 1346 Turner
*Markle, George S. R.E. Agt Res 625 Turner Mary C.
Markels 18
Merkle 23
of these Chas F. Bartholomew, the register says the best ones to see are:
*Merkle, Henry G. unmarried r 342 N 8th
*Merkle, Hannah A. unmarried r 342 N 8th
*Merkle, Mary H. unmarried r 342 N 8th
*Merkle, Ellen F. unmarried r 342 N 8th
*Merkle, Gustave A. married r 137 N 8th Mary E.
All with & owners of Merkle & Co Dry Goods & Groceries at 247 N 8th
*Merkle, William John, Furnaces, Stoves, Ranges & tinware 250-252 N 8th Res S. Bethlehem Pa
Romig 68
Rothermel, Benjamin W. Machinist Res 502 E. Court Eva H.
Rothermel, Cora R. (widow Robert) Res 815 Turner
Rothermel, Dorothy h 29 S 11th
Rothermel, Edna J. h 704 St John Silk worker
Rothermel, Ethel L. h 298 11th
Rothermel, Geo B. Jr h 704 St John, laborer
Rothermel, Geo B. Sr h 704 St John, plumber Alice M.
Rothermel, Helen M. h 704 ST John, silk worker
Rothermel, Lorene A. h 29 s 11 Saleswoman
Rothermel, Roland R. h 815 Turner Meter inspector Agnes V.
Rothermel, William T. res 298 11th clerk Daisy I.
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Catasauqua Pa
Finley, Ella, seamstress h 1030 3d
Finley, Wm M.C. Horse shoe worker r 114 S 3d Ruth C.
Lehigh County Pa
Finley, Annie hwf Hokendauqua
Finley, Robert, laborer Hokendauqua
Finley, John foreman Stiles
Finley, John A. Hokendauqua
Finley, Thomas, laborer Hokendauqua
Markle, Elmer lab Macungie
Markle, Etta hwf Allentown R5
Markle, Harry lab Allentown R5
Markle, Harvey lab Macungie
Markle, Henry lab Macungie
Markle, Howard loom fixer, Allentown RD5
Merkels galore
Merkle galore
Romigs galore
Rothermel, Bertha A. hwf Allentown R3
Rothermel, Chas E. stenog Allentown R3
Rothermel, Ed agent Macungie R2
Rothermel, Emma E. hwf Allentown R3
Rothermel, Geo E. lab Allentown R3
Rothermel, Harvey E. lab Allentown R3
Rothermel, Savanna hwf Macungie R2
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American Hotel Allentown Pa Room 54 Nov 5, 1923 8:42 PM
I went to the court house this morning & worked in the registers office from 8:55 AM to 3:20 PM. See the seven pages preceding.
Chas F. Bartholomew, the register, who is hoping to be reelected tomorrow gave me the city & county directory to look over & the addresses on the two pages preceding were taken from it. He thought the Merkles at 8th & Chew St of the Merkle & Co store would be the best to see. He said their father was a soap mfr here in Allentown Pa. He recalled a David Merkle who is dead & a Jim Merkle an old man who died 25 yrs ago.
He said Dr Geo M. Romig who was up in his 70s lived at 1324 Hamilton St as did his brother John I. Romig who was blind & a musician.
Coming back to the Hotel, I called up Muhlenberg College abt 4 PM & they said Prof J.R. Merkel had left the college abt 15 yrs ago & was now living at Kingston Pa near Wilkes-Barre where he was teaching & where I should go & see him.
I then walked up to 342 N 8th ST & a gray haired lady said she could tell nothing abt the Merkles but to go to the store up on the corner of 8th & Chew Sts
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There, a pleasant elderly woman said that her father came to America abt 60 yrs ago from Stuttgart, Wittenberg, so that eliminates that large family viz Henry G., Hannah A. Mary H. Ellen F. Gustave A. & Wm John as not in our line.
I then walked to 815 Turner St & was told that Cora Rothermel had moved to 130 S 8th St.
I then walked to 625 Turner & while standing at the door Geo S. Markle Real Estate Agt drove up in an auto & asked me in. He said his father was Wm Markle from Shamokin Pa & that he had brothers George and Amandus S. & that his grandfather, Martin D. Markle died in Shamokin abt 15 yrs ago aged 71 yrs. He said he had come from Germany when he was a young man & he was sure that he had so emigrated so that eliminates item 33 p 334 & 42 pages 336 & 337.
I then walked around to court & 5th St expecting to find 502 E. Court but some residents there sd it was 5 squares away. I then walked to No 130 S 8th St & found Mrs Cora Rothermel all torn up just having moved in & she said to come back & see her son Roland R. who could tell about the family who came from Berks Co Pa.
I then walked around to 714 Union St where I found he lived upstairs
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& the woman on the first floor said they were out but sd to come at 9 o'c in the morning. I then came to the hotel, got my dinner & took the street car out Hamilton to 13th St & was soon at:
Residence of John I. Romig & Dr Geo M. Romig No 1323 Hamilton Allentown Pa Nov 5, 1923 7:05 PM
I was admitted by Dr Geo M., a small homely man who immediately settled the matter in his own mind by saying they were not descended from John C. Romig & Mary Rothermel & saying that his father John Romig was born in 1804 but he fortunately asked me to sit down in the parlor until his blind brother in the room back who was talking to a caller came in. Dr then brought him in & introduced me to a wonderfully handsome man, immaculate in his dress, with a big head reminding you of a bishop, a smooth youthful appearing face without a wrinkle large frame but not tall & with a very attractive personality. They both thought that J.H. Romig No 223 N 10th St a tombstone marble cutter could tell me more that anyone else as he had given some attention to gathering such records. John I. said their grandfather's name was John as well as their father's & I doubt not that their great grandfather
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was the John C. Romig who married Mary, the daughter of Leonard Rothermel & had twelve children as John I. said they were related in some way to the Rothermels & spoke of th effort many years ago to recover the Holland fortune & of his telling one of his Romig relatives that they wouldn't get more than 25 cts apiece as there were so many to divide it among. Telling him where I was from, he said that is near Blaine's old home. He said Blaine was his teacher for over a year when he, Blaine, returned from KY & taught in the blind school in Phila 1852 to 1854. He said his father had told him that his father (grandfather of my informant) had six brothers & six sisters which looks like the John C. Romig family who must have married a second wife & had one child as John I. sd a Mrs Newhart who lived here in the county was only a half sister of his grandfather which wd make of Mary Rothermel's children 7 boys & 5 girls. Asking him for the names of the brothers & sisters of his grandfather, he said he could give some & named the following:
Samuel Romig died in NY state
Peter Romig died at Whitehall this Co
Mrs Eschback lived up abt Milton Pa
Mrs Annie Windt husband Joseph? died in Allentown
Mrs Catherine Erdman lived & died in this Co
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The above five & his grandfather John Romig were full brothers & sisters & Mr Romig remembers seeing them all but Samuel. He remembers Peter & John in their last illness when he was a boy & they were well advanced in years. He suggested that I see the Moravian records which he said like the Friends were very complete. He said Benj Romig was a Pa Moravian Bishop & was some sort of a cousin of his father. He says there is a Rev John Romig now in charge of the Moravian Church Phil Pa who he advises me to see. He said some of the family went west, but he did not know where. He said his full name was:
John Isaiah Romig born Jany 18, 1837
Just as I was leaving, a very charming handsome & stockily built old lady came from the back room & the doctor introduced her as his sister Mrs Hunt who in the course of our conversation said she was the eighteenth child of her mother who had nineteen children. She is the picture of health. I told her my grandmother was the youngest of 22 children of her father.
left at 7:50 PM
I then walked to No 29 S 11th St & Mrs Rothermel sd her husband was out & I arranged to go there at 8 o'c in the morning. I then walked to 130 S 8th & found Roland R. Rothermel had gone out to keep an appt with the doctor. Then came here:
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At residence of William Thomas Rothermel No 29 S 11th ST Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 8 AM
Mr Rothermel says he is a brother of Mrs Sloyer of Hellerstown Pa & a son of Marcus Rothermel whose father Joseph was son of Jacob who was son of John my ancestor.
Mr Rothermel was born Oct 21, 1868 in Copley, Lehigh Co Pa & was married Sept 3, 1891 at Allentown Pa by Rev C.E. Hay Lutheran to Daisy Irene Cole who was born June 11, 1872 at Allentown Pa the daughter of Henry W. Cole & his wife Adaline Schaffer. They have had seven children all born in Allentown.
1. Grace Cole Rothermel born Nov 11, 1893
2. Ruth Catherine Rothermel born Jany 18, 1895 & died Nov 1902
3. Marion Sarah Rothermel born May 4, 1896
4. Dorothy Rothermel born Sept 30, 1899
5. Ethel Lucetta Rothermel born July 14, 1902
6. Lorene Adaline Rothermel born Mch 28, 1904
7. Jean Louise Rothermel born Jany 15, 1911
1. Grace C. Rothermel mar Oct 2, 1915 in Allentown Pa by Rev J. Swindell & C.F. Seitz Meth & Reformed to John James Swindell, son of Rev J. Swindell & his wife Mary McCormick Watt, who was born Jany 7, 1880. They live at 1801 Union St Allentown Pa where he is a civil engineer. Have one child born in Allentown viz:
1. John James Swindell Jr born Apr 21, 1917
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3. Marion S. Rothermel was married Jany 25, 1923 in Allentown Pa by Rev Jeremiah Shindel Lutheran to J. Thomas Rees son of John Rees & his wife Margaret Buckland, native of Yuiscedwyn, South Wales who was born Feby 17, 1885 in Hokendauqua, Lehigh Co Pa. No issue yet.
he is a civil engineer but at present in bakery business with his brother in Washington D.C. where they live.
The four younger girls are at home single
Mr Rothermel is with the Lehigh & new England RR Co at Bethlehem. Mrs Rothermel told me there was a Miss Daniels working for Koch Bros, big clothing store corner of Hamilton & 7th Sts whose mother was Mary Rothermel.
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At residence of Andrew Knox Jacks No 714 Union St Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 9:35 AM
Mr Jacks is a jovial heavy set pleasant man & says he is son of Thomas Jacks but he doesn't know the name of his father but says they used to spell it Jacques & his wife calls in, saying they were French Huguenots. he has a record on a slip of paper which he says he copied from his father's bible which is now in the hands of his brother-in-law John G. Spidle on Main St Hummelstown Pa in Dauphin Co whose deceased wife was Jane Lucinda Jacks. He says his brother Thomas Jacks lives near Mr Spidle in Hummelstown. Also his sister Sarah Buser (pro Boozer) at 2305 N 5th ST Harrisburg Pa widow living with her son Geo Bertram Buser born in 1842 can tell more about the family than anyone else. The record he took, shows that his father:
Thomas Jacks was born in 1818 & died Feby 18, 1896 at Hummelstown Pa & is buried there. he married Joanna DeWitt who died at Hummelstown Pa Mch 1, 1889 aged 71 yrs 3 mos & 4 days. He had a
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farm on the west edge of Hummelstown Pa Derry Church. They had been located at Paxtang, a Pres district there to Derry Church & from there in to Hummelstown when they became Lutherans but his mother had ten children born at Paxtang.
1. Mary Elizabeth Jacks born 1836
2. Levi Jacks born 1840
3. Sarah Ann Jacks born 1842
4. Thomas Jacks born 1844
5. William Jacks born 1845
6. James Jacks born 1847 or '52
7. Jane Lucinda Jacks born 1850
8. Anna Amelia Jacks born 1855
9. Andrew Knox Jacks born May 19, 1857
10. Franklin Jacks born 1859 & died in infancy.
Mr Jacks states that his father had but one brother James who was older than him & died a bachelor in Hummelstown Pa about 1879, aged 73 yrs. Never heard of any sisters, but their mother after her husband Jacks' death married a Lewis & had a son Levi who moved to Ohio. The family moved fr Paxtang to Derry Church in 1858 & to Hummelstown in 1861.
Mr Jacks was married Apr 20, 1882 at Hummelstown Pa by Rev J.H. Leeser to Rebetia G. Shoemaker, daughter of Chas H. Shoemaker & his wife Caroline
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Yeager & have had three children:
1. Helen Priscilla Jacks born Mch 13, 1883
2. Charles Thomas Jacks born Mch 7, 1887
3. Carolyn Jacks born Mch 31, 1899 & died July 1, 1900.
Helen was born Lickdale Lebanon Co Pa & Charles & Carolyn were both born in Allentown Pa.
1. Helen P. Jacks married July 3, 1903 at Allentown Pa by Rev J.A. Singmaster to J. Arthur Singmaster son of Rev J.A. Singmaster the officiating clergyman & his wife Caroline Hoopes. They live at Bronxville NY where he is technical engineer of the New Jersey zinc Co. they have one son:
1. James Arthur Singmaster born at Palmerton Pa 1908
Mr Jacks has been a merchant in the wholesale & retail china glass & Queensware business which however he sold out two years ago.
Leaving 10:22 AM
Mrs Jack from just around a thin partition tried to dissuade her good natured sensible husband from giving me any data & when he didn't heed her injunction, she called out "Don't you give my birth to a stranger who comes without credentials. What business is our family records of his? I am not such a nut as to fall for that."
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At residence of John Harvey Romig No 223 N Tenth St Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 1:11 PM
Mr Romig says his father was Augustus, his grandfather John & his great grandfather was John Christian Romig who married Mary Rothermel. He was son of Frederick whose father John Adam was the founder of the family in America. He says Wm H. Romig No 630 Camp St Harrisburg Pa has more Romig records than anyone else.
He says Charles R. Roberts now working in the P.O. here has valuable information on most old families having helped compile the Lehigh Co History. He lives at 520 N 6th St
He also says that Wm J. Dietrich who also helped compile the Lehigh Co Hist moved here from Reading & now lives here & he thinks it was he who prepared the Rothermel genealogical chart which he gave me to take along & copy & return along with other papers. He says Dietrich's wife has died. The Lehigh Co Hist 3d Vol gives a long article on the Romig family which shows that John I. Romig's great grandfather John Adam Romig was a bro of John Christian Romig both being sons of Frederick Romig & his wife Catharine Siegfried who he thinks may have been a sister of Mary the wife of my great great grandfather Jno Rothermel. W.J. Dietrich lives at 32 N 12th ST
Leaving 2:44 PM
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At residence of Wm Joseph Dietrich No 32 N 12th ST Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 4:44 PM
Mr Dietrich says that Joel Dreibelbiss aged (born Dec 27, 1826) 97 still lives at Virginville Berks Co Pa with his son George, right below the town & are royal entertainers & excellent cooks. He has gotten out M.S. Montgomery 2 Vol Hist of Berks Co & in Vol 1 Page 496 is an article on the Driebelbiss family which he wrote himself & the correctness of which he vouches for. Mr D. says that the big Hist of Northumberland Co some of which he wrote treats of one branch of the Dreibelbiss family.
Joel Dreibelbiss is a great grandson of the pioneer John Jacob Dreibelbiss whose wife was a daughter of George Merkel. Jno Jacob emigrated in 1732 & died in 1761. His son Jacob was born in 1754 & died in 1831. His son Jacob was born 1785 & died 1857 & his son Joel above mentioned born Dec 27, 1826 is still living & I must go & see him.
Mr Dietrich's wife was Sarah Matilda Merkel. See page 882 & 883 on Vol 3 of Lehigh Co Hist. She was a great great granddaughter of Ludwig Merkel 1723-1808 buried at Trexlertown.
Mrs Donat aged 90 used to tell Mr D. that the Richmond Tp & the Macungie Tp Merkels used to visit
[margin note reads:] was Jacob Dreibelbiss born 1754 son of the original John Jacob who mar Magdalena Merkle see book 11 page 236 JVT May 2, 1924
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each other every year. She was 88 when she told Mr D. She was wife of Aaron Donat & daughter of John Deitrich.
Mr Dietrich thinks he gave the genealogical chart of the Rothermel family to the Berks Co Historical Society in their own building on 5th St Reading.
Some of the families who settled in Richmond Tp were Jews viz Dreibelbiss, Wanner, Beaver, & one branch of the Merkel family
Mr D. thinks Mary Siegfried who married John Rothermel was a sister of Catherine who married Frederick Romig but refers me to Rev John Baer Stoudt who lives here at Allentown at NO 1054 Tilghman Street who wrote a book on Col John Siegfried & Rothermel live & which he says he has for sale & says I must see him before I leave.
Leaving 6:11 PM
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At Room 54 American Hotel Allentown Nov 6, 1923 11:36 PM
I will now make record of today's work & transcribe as of the time of conferences such of my work as I penciled down at the time. From Mr Jacks, I walked up to Koch Bros big clothing store & a red headed girl said there was no Miss Daniels working there. I insisted there was & asked her to take me to the party who employed the help. She said it was the owner of the store who employed them & she called on the phone & was told she, Miss Daniel was employed in the work shop which she said was on the 3d floor on the far side of the first alley east. Going there it proved to be an alley in everything but name & it is N. Church St going upstairs through an unoccupied 2d floor room I found a lot of girls, women & men at work:
At Koch Bros Work Shop N. Church St 3d Floor Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 abt 11:20 AM
Asking for Miss Daniels they called a pleasant faced medium sized fine faced woman with a large goitre [sic] on her front neck who proved to be a good find by reason of her wonderful memory in giving dates for practically all of her family connections & I felt rewarded in persisting she was there. She told me that she
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Miss Anna Lucetta Daniel says her mother Mary Susanna Rothermel is a daughter of Reuben Rothermel who died at Rocky Hill between Weaversville & Shanersville Pa, this Co abt 28 yrs ago aged 61 or 62 yrs. He was a native of Fleetwood, Berks Co Pa & came from there but she don't know his father's name. His sister, Mrs Elizabeth Reeser living at No 620 N 2d St Reading Pa aged abt 77 can tell. Go see her. She is a widow & lives with her married daughter, Mrs Emma Brown wife of Alonzo Brown.
Reuben had not brother but had two other sisters, both dead, one of them Susan? married a Huey & lived abt Fleetwood Pa & another
Kitty married John Rothermel (no relation that they knew of) They lived at St Louis Mo & both died & are buried there. They had two children both living in St Louis Mo.
Lizzie, the girl. is unmarried & she don't know the boys name.
Mrs Huey had two boys viz:
1. David Huey living in Phila
2. Isaac Huey who died when a young boy
Mary Susannah Rothermel was born at Catasauqua Pa Mch 18, 1856. She had no brothers but had two sisters both dead. Sarah Catharine Rothermel oldest born Mch 27, 1854, married Cornelius Young. Both died at Northampton Pa Northampton Pa, Northampton Co & had four
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children as follows:
1. Clifford Young living in Catasauqua Pa on 3d St near Arch St can give record
2. Stella Young, living
3. Harvey Young, living
4. Katie Young, dead
5 & 6 Two others, dead
The other daughter of Reuben Rothermel, Amanda Rothermel married James Mussellman & both are dead. She at Altanah Pa, a small place between Bethlehem & Nazareth Pa & he is Allentown Pa. She had two children, both dead, but married viz:
1. Minnie Mussellman, mar Eck & she had 4 children. He lives here in Allentown Pa with his daughter who is married.
2. William Mussellman married & died in Allentown Pa & had one boy.
Mary Susannah Rothermel married Apr 17, 1875 at Shanerville Pa by Rev Becker of Reformed Church to John Adam Daniel, who was born at Shanerville Pa Dec 13, 1842 the son of Robert Daniel & his wife Lucetta Snyder. He died at Catasauqua Pa Oct 11, 1922. She is living at Catasauqua Pa where her daughter my informant lives with her, going home at nights. She is going to ask her for name of Reuben's father & write me. She had nine children, the first three
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born at Shanersville, the 4th at Catasauqua, the next two at Rittersville Pa, the next one at Bath Pa & the last two at Catasauqua Pa.
1. Ada Sabina born Apr 1875 & died unm Dec 19, 1889
2. Anna Lucetta born Sept 20, 1876 unm my wonderful informant
3. William Thomas born Apr 20, 1878 unm living with his mother
4. Camilla Agnes born Sept 22, 1881 ob Jany 29, 1885
5. Alice Elizabeth born Aug 9, 1883, married
6. Edmund Allen born Sept 23, 1885, married
7. Florence Amanda born June 14, 1890, married
8. John Pierce born Sept 29, 1892, married
9. Helen Mary born Oct 23, 1897, married
5. Alice Elizabeth mar in Catasauqua Pa Nov 16, 1901 by Rev James Lambert Lutheran to John Petrie who was born Mch 27, 1880 son of Matthew Petrie & his wife Anna Steitz and live at Catasauqua Pa where he is a moulder & have ten living children & two dead, all born in Catasauqua Pa & all at home single.
1. George Daniel born Feby 12, 1902 ob Dec 1904
2. Edward Matthew born July 26, 1903
3. Helen Anna born Dec 9, 1904
4. Franklin Mervin born Dec 23, 1906
5. Edith Mary born Sept 10, 1908
6. Eugene Wilson born Nov 5, 1910
7. Woodrow Marshall born Aug 17, 1912
8. John Pierce born Oct 23, 1914
9. Matthew James born Feby 3, 1917 10. Alta _____ born Oct 16, 1918, ob Oct 16, 1918
11. Jeannette Elizabeth born Oct 7, 1920
12. Alice Lucetta born Aug 16, 1922
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6. Edmund Allen mar Dec 16, 1911 at Allentown Pa by Rev Simon Sipples Reformed to Anna Fox widow of Levi Fox & daughter of ______ Romig & his wife Clara Horst who was born Sept 1, 1879 at Annville Pa & have one child:
1. Mildred Edwina born Apr 19, 1912.
Both living at Catasauqua where he is a carpenter.
7. Florence Amanda mar Apr 3, 1911 at Wilmington Del (a runaway match) by the Lutheran minister to Edwin Loch, who was born Aug 17, 1891. Both living at Northampton Pa where he is a barber & have two children both born at Northampton Pa.
1. Carl Daniel born May 6, 1912
2. Mary Fianna born May 19, 1914
8. John Pierce mar Sept 8, 1923 at Phila Pa to Anna Gonzales a Spaniard who was born at Long Island NY & is older than he is. Both living at Phila Pa where he works for the U.G.I.
9. Helen Mary mar Apr 6, 1921 at Catasauqua Pa by Rev James Lambert, Lutheran to Myron Moyer who was born Sept 26, 1897 at Reading Pa son of Fred Moyer & his wife Mary Reeser. They live at Reading Pa. He is a clerk & organist & have one child born in Reading Pa.
1. Mary Elizabeth born Sept 1, 1922.
Miss Daniel says her father was Lutheran & her mother Reformed.
Leaving 12:55 PM
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I then went to the residence of John Harvey Romig where I learned that I was wrong in my deductions that John I. Romig was descended from John Christian Romig but from his brother John Adam Romig, so that I am still proud to claim him & his wonderful sister Mrs Hunt as relatives by descent from Catharina Siegfried sister of Mary Elizabeth Siegfried my ggg mother the wife of John Rothermel 1722-1785 see pages 535 & _____
I then walked out Turner St to 1346 the residence of David H. Jacks
but got no response. Then walked back to No 32 N 12th St at 3:15 PM & found fr Mrs Dietrich that her husband was not in but was expected back momentarily. I then took a street car across the Lehigh River to 502 East Court St but found the house locked up but a neighbor woman burning rubbish said Benj W. Rothermel & wife were both out at their work & would return 5 to 6 PM. I then took a St Car back to 12th St & going to 32 N 12th St found Wm J. Dietrich a young looking compactly built man of 49 who is remarkably well up in hist which he left to go in the contracting business for a living. I bought some books from him. See pages 536 & 537. I then came to the hotel
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& at 6:40 PM sat down to dinner leaving at 7:10 by st car & was soon:
At residence of Roland Robert Wilson Rothermel & his mother Cora at No 130 S 8th St Allentown Pa Nov 6, 1923 7;20 PM
Roland R.W. says he is son of Robert Roland who was son of Silas (& he a son of Marcus) see Lehigh Valley Hist vol 2 by Jno W. Jordan, Lewis Pub Co NY 1905 Page 510 et seq on an article on his father Robert R. who was a soldier in the Spanish American War & was born in Allentown Pa Oct 28, 1876. The article is devoted largely to the Guth descent & says that Silas Rothermel married Jennie Guth eldest child of Ephraim Guth was descended from Lorendzo [sic] Guth, the founder of that family in America. Silas & Jennie had 3 chil. (there were 5) viz:
George B., Robert Roland & Nellie, George B. married Alice Stauffer & has 4 children (there are 5) Harry, George, Wallace & Helen.
Nellie E. is wife of Arthur Rupert & has two daughters, Pauline & Evelyn. Nellie is dead but Mr Rupert is living in Phila at 2520 S. Robinson St West Phila with Pauline, single &
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Evelyn who is married to Henry Zucker.
Robert Roland Rothermel enlisted for 3 yrs in Co B 8th reg U.S. inf for Spanish-American war & saw service in Cuba & was later in the Indian service in the Dakotas. He was twice promoted and retired as sergeant. Returning home, he went back to the hotel business & was with the LaFayette Hotel here.
On Nov 22, 1902, he married Cora Rebecca Strauss, daughter of Wilson Henry Strauss & his wife Sarah Ann Reichard, who was born in Allentown PA Apr 2, 1880 & have had but one child, Mr. Robert R. died Sept 7, 1920 & is buried here in Allentown PA. His son:
1. Roland Robert Wilson Rothermel was born in Allentown PA on June 8, 1903 & on June 30, 1921 at Allentown PA was married by Rev Father Murphy, a priest, to Agnes Veronica Donahue, daughter of Edward Thomas Donahue & his wife, Mary Ann Sexton, who was born in Washington NJ Aug 2, 1901 & they have one child born in Allentown PA viz:
I. Emily Jean Rothermel born Oct 28, 1921.
Mr. R. works for the Allentown & Bethlehem Gas Co & lives here having just recently moved in.
Leaving 7:55 PM
Then took car to:
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Residence of George Benjamin Rothermel no 704 St John St, Allentown PA Nov 6, 1923 8:11 PM
Mr. R. says his father, Silas Rothermel left his first wife when she was a sick invalid with her young children & went off with a woman, Mollie, who survives him & lives in Germantown PA. According to him, he married 1st Jennie Haas, daughter of Moses Haas & his wife Tulare Guth, who was born in Allentown PA & died here Apr 1, 1894 aged 36 yrs & is buried in the Allentown Cem. She had 5 children. This is fuller than record given on two previous pages, viz:
(Nov 7, 1923 7:54 PM. I quit here at 6:05 Am this morning after writing all night & took the 6:15 car to 502 E. Court St arriving at 6:30 AM only to find Benj W. Rothermel had left for his work at 6 AM. Resuming transcribing now.)
1. George Benjamin Rothermel, my informant born Dec 24, 1873
2. Robert Roland Rothermel born Oct 28, 1876
3. Henry Rothermel died aged a few ms born say 1879
4. Sarah Tulare Rothermel died aged a few ms born say 1881
5. Nellie Agnes Rothermel born say 1884
She died Sept 6, 1923 in Phila Pa aged 39 yrs. Her husband Garfield Arthur Ruppert lives at 2520 S. Robinson Av West Phila Pa
Silas Rothermel left his first wife & children when she was sick & married
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Mollie ______ from up in the coal region & she as Mollie Rothermel lives in Germantown Pa never having remarried & wd have his bible record & the family data he prepared. He died in Phila in 1922.
George B. Rothermel married Dec 28, 1894 at Allentown Pa by Rev Dr G.A. Richards Reformed Alice Matilda Stauffer daughter of John Stauffer & his wife Charlotte Amanda Zimmerman who was born at Schnecksville Pa Dec 27, 1873 & have had five children all born in Allentown Pa viz:
1. Harry Edgar Rothermel born Nov 20, 1895
2. George Benjamin Rothermel Jr born Feby 28, 1898
3. Wallace Livingston Rothermel Sept 11, 1900
4. Helen Mae Rothermel May 8, 1903
5. Edna Jennie Rothermel Apr 30, 1906
1. Harry E. was in Co B. of the National Guards here & went abroad in the World War & was transferred to Co M 109th Inf & died in 1918 & (they think July 15). He was in the first Champagne-Marne drive in which he was killed. He was not married.
2. Geo B. Jr is a laborer & single
3. Wallace L. married Mch 28, 1923 at Bethlehem Pa by Rev G.A. Butz Florence Etta Wagner, dau of Chas Henry Wagner & his wife Mary Kerter, who was born at Phila Pa July 30, 1900. He is a machinist.
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4 & 5. Helen M. & Edna J. are at Home single Geo B. Sr is a plumber.
Leaving 8:44 PM
AT Residence of Chas Rhoads Robert NO 520 N 6th St Allentown Nov 6th, 1923 9:42 PM
Mr Roberts says that when in Phila in 1922 he saw a Metzgar Book copyrighted by John Jacob Scholl,with a green board cover printed in Allentown Pa in 1868 in the Historical Soc of Pa 13th & Locust Sts in a 4 story bldg at Phila Pa where I can be seen, and it gives the basis of the Rothermel genealogy. See book 17 page 1 to 4.
He thinks the historical Soc of Berks Co Pa wd have some data. Mr R. has a chart of the Siegfried family on which he says he worked & has made a chart as follows:
John Siegfried died abt 1748 married Elizabeth _____. His will dated 1747 might be recorded Phila Bucks or Berks Co as he died in what is now Berks Co then Phila as Berks was organized he thought in 1752.
Their children:
1. Joseph Siegfried born Feby 2, 1727 ob Sept 3, 1795 m. July 3, 1745 to Annie Maria Romig dau of John Adam Romig who was born June 12, 1724 & died Dec 10, 1806
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2. John Siegfried b. ______ ob 1766 or 1776 m. Catharine ______
3. Catharine Siegfried b Nov 14, 1719 ob Oct 7, 1793 m. Dec 25, 1737 to Frederick Romig 1713-1783 son of John Adam Romig & bro of Anna Maria above.
4. Susanna Siegfried b_______ died_______ mar Daniel Levan who died 1777
5. Mary Elizabeth Siegfried b_______ ob Nov 8, 1809 mar John Rothermel, my gggfather B Jany 24, 1722 & died Nov 24, 1785
6. Magdalena Siegfried m. Anthony Fischer
7. Anna Siegfried m. Jacob Fischer
8. Margaret Siegfried m. Jacob Moser see pages 1229 Vol 3 Lehigh Co Hist
Some early church records from "Moselem" Church Berks Co gives viz:
Peter Rothermel & wife Sybilla maiden name Koch had sons, might have been twins & birth dates might be different
Daniel born Mch 13, 1741
Peter born July 13 1741
both baptized June 12, 1744
John Rothermel was sponsor for Peter.
This could not have been any other than John my gggf & Peter the father was evidently his elder brother as there was then no other Peter old enough to be a father.
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Then comes child of Lorenz Rothermel & his wife Maria (also an immigrant brother) viz: John, born Mch 20, & baptized June 12, 1744 (same day)
The Jordan Lutheran Church S. Whitehall Tp, Lehigh Co Pa shows baptism of children of John & Anna Catharine Merckel viz:
John born Dec 5, 1744 baptized Feby 3, 1745
Catherine Elizabeth born Feby 6, 1747, baptized June 7, 1747
Maria Agatha born Nov 13,1749 baptized May 6, 1750
I paid Mr Roberts two dollars for which he was copying some early Rothermel records to be mailed to me.
Left 10:33 PM
I recall that in the afternoon, when at John Harvey Romig's, he said that John Jacob Scholl, whom he knew was his first cousin, his mother being a sister of Jno Harvey's father. He said John J. Scholl went to Texas & died at Houston Tex only about 3 yrs ago. A sister of John J. Scholl's who Jno Harvey Romig also knew, died only a year or two ago.
I then walked back to Hamilton St, got a cup of tea at a restaurant, came to my room at the hotel & wrote all night.
At 6:15 AM, this morning, I took the car across the Lehigh River & was:
At residence of Benj W. Rothermel No 502 E. Court St Allentown Pa Nov 7, 1923 6:30 AM
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Mrs Rothermel, a large stocky even featured & good looking young woman came to the front door & said her husband had left at 6 o'c for his work. In the five minutes I talked to her at the front door, I learned that her husband, Benj W. Rothermel was born Dec 9, 1895 & came from Hamburg, Berks Co Pa & on Sept 1, 1917, he married Eva Fallstich, my informant who was born in East Allentown Pa on Nov 6, 1899, the daughter of George Fallstich & his wife Catharine Ethline No issue. She said she would have him answer my letter of inquiry, so I am now writing him.
Left 6:37 AM
I then took a street car to 12th St & walked around to:
Residence of David Hummel Jacks No 1346 Turner St Allentown Pa Nov 7, 1923 7:07 AM
I was admitted by Mrs Jacks who said her husband was not dressed yet & I am waiting for him to come down. He is heavy set & much the build of his Uncle Andrew K. Jacks see pages 532 & 533. He says his father Thomas Jacks, bro of Andrew K. lives at Hummelstown Pa & is 79 yrs old & on next Friday, Nov 9
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is celebrating his golden wedding anniversary, his wife who was a Hummel being 73 yrs old. His address is 134 E. Main ST Hummelstown Pa. D.H. is going to the anniversary & I asked him to get fr his father, the names of his gf & ggf & write to me at Uniontown Pa. David H. Jacks says he was born in Hummelstown Pa Aug 25, 1874 & was married 1st Sept 2, 1902 to Minnie V. Seip who was daughter of Henry H. Seip & his wife Elizabeth Holben. She died Apr 1911 aged 34 yrs & had two children:
1. Elizabeth born at Allentown Pa Aug 11, 1903 single
2. Thomas Andrew born Allentown Pa Dec 1, 1905. He is in Muhlenberg College.
M. 2d Mch 1, 1912 at Mt Joy Pa to Mary Sabina Rex daughter of Joseph Rex & his wife Elmira Koons who was born at Manch Chunk Pa Apr 21, 1881. No issue.
Leaving 7:33 AM
I then walked up to Hamilton St & got a street car to the hotel, got my breakfast, got shaved & took the 9:15 AM car at 8th St to Macungie & finding that Ed Rothermel was 3 miles beyond at Alburtis Sta & I hired a car at the Rothenberger garage & went there through the rain & was:
At Alburtis Sta P&R RR Co Nov 7, 1923 10:44 AM
I found Mr Rothermel
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in the office here, he being in the employ of the RR. He was very kind & is intelligent & gave me more than an hour in which I learned that his full name is:
John Edwin Rothermel born in Rockland Tp, Berks Co Pa Jany 4, 1880 son of John Michael Rothermel who was born June 10? 1839 at Fleetwood Pa & died there Dec 26, 1912 aged 73. He was son of Jacob Rothermel, who died 40 yrs ago say 1883 to 1884 probably in his 70s. He was a farmer near Fleetwood Pa. J. Ed don't recall any brothers or sisters of Jacob, his grandfather.
John M., his father, had the following brothers & sisters viz:
Samuel, Aaron, Jonas, Sarah & Mary
1. Samuel Rothermel lived on the old homestead & married Hettie Hoch. Both dead, leaving one son Jacob Hoch Rothermel living on the Hoch farm. He married Hettie Rothermel, daughter of John Rothermel. This Jacob H. will have the best Rothermel records extant. He lives on the Hoch farm right in the Bor of Fleetwood. He is abt 55. Samuel had one daughter d.y. see if this Jacob H. is the man I saw Sept 8, 1922.
2. Aaron lived close to Pricetown Berks Co Pa & died there. He married Hannah
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Keller. Both dead. Had two sons Joseph & Aaron & one daughter thinks her name was Hannah who is married to a Snyder. Joseph lives in Bor of Fleetwood & Aaron lives between New Jerusalem & Lobachsville.
3. Jonas Rothermel married a Readinger & lived 1/2 mile south of Fleetwood, a farmer. Both dead. No issue. Says to ask Jacob H. about Sarah & Mary.
John M. Rothermel married Caroline Boyer, who too is dead. They had five boys & 1 girl, the first three born in Fleetwood & the last three in Rockland Tp Berks Co Pa viz:
Charles, Milton, & Mahlon, twins, John Edwin, my informant, William & Sadie.
1. Charles is married & lives north of Bowers Berks Co Pa 3/4 of a mile. A farmer. He has his father's bible record unless Sadie got it.
2. Milton lives on the old homestead in Rockland Tp near New Jerusalem. Married & has 5 chil
3. Mahlon lives 2 miles west of New Jerusalem P.O. a farmer married.
5. William lives 1/2 m east of New Jerusalem, a farmer married, but has no issue.
6. Sallie married George Keller & lives
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in Fleetwood. He works for Metal Bridge works Co & have 5 children Thinks she may have her father's bible record.
4. J. Edwin Rothermel, my informant married Nov 24, 1903 in Easton Pa by Rev Stump, Lutheran to Sovanna A. Jacobs, who was born June 10, 1880 at Lower Macungie Tp, Lehigh Co Pa dau of John H. Jacobs & his wife Elizabeth Heinley & both are living in Lower Macungie Tp. Have three children all born there:
1. Perma S. Rothermel, a girl b Apr 4, 1904 single
2. Charles H. Rothermel born Sept 9, 1905, single
3. Arlene N. Rothermel born Dec 30, 1906 single
Mr R. works for the P&R RR Co at Alburtis Sta.
He introduced me to a Miss Kramer living near the Sta who sd that Geo E. Rothermel lived at Greenawalt Pa which was reached by taking the
Statington trolley car out of Allentown.
Leaving 11:30 AM
We then drove back in the rain & was:
At residence of Harvey Merkel, Macungie Pa Nov 7, 1923 11:55 AM
He was out back of the house doing some chores in the rain, a strapping big six foot black
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eyed swarthy man. He says his father was henry Merkel, who was son of Charles Merkel. Charles died at Foglesville, Lehigh Co Pa. Mr M. remembers seeing him & thinks he was abt 10 yrs old when he died which would make it abt 1873. he had a brother John who lived in Seipstown, this Co. He left sons & daughters, but don't know what became of the. He says his name is Merkel, not Markle as appears in the directory.
He says he only had one Uncle David Merkel who married & lived at Allentown Pa & died there abt 4 yrs ago aged about 70 yrs & had children:
1. George, living in Allentown Pa. Don't know of any other sons or daughters.
His father had but one sister, Sallie, who married a Warmkessel. Both dead leaving children.
His father, Henry Merkel died 8 yrs ago aged 73 yrs at Allentown Pa M.1. Cassina Steininger who died 5 yrs ago aged 73 yrs. He went off & left her & they were divorced. M.2d Mary Swoyel. She is living yet in Allentown Pa.
Mr Merkel was the only child by first wife & there were two daughters by second wife, one named Dora.
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Mr M's full name is Harvey Wesley Merkel born in Upper Macungie Tp Mch 29, 1863 & married July 18, 1885 at Bowers Berks Co Pa by the Rev David K. Humbert, Lutheran to Massie Ann Romig, my joint informant & a fine clean heavy set housewife, who was born in Long Swamps Tp Berks Co Pa Jany 17, 1867 daughter of Jonas Wm Romig & his wife Eliza Ann Merkel who was daughter of Daniel Merkel of Berks Co Pa & he in turn was son of John.
She says her father told her she was related to Dr Romig & also to some in Phila Pa. Her grandfather Daniel Merkel had a brother Charles & also one John. Says that Milton Romig at Shamrock Berks Co Pa a brother of her father has her Romig family record & the old bible of her grandfather Abraham Romig (thinks Abraham's father was also Abraham). Milton is 70 or 73. They have six children living & one dead, the two oldest born in Long Swamps Tp, Berks Co Pa & the others in Upper Milford Tp Lehigh Co viz:
1. Henry Merkel born Aug 31, 1885
2. Eliza Merkel born Oct 3, 1889 ob Jany 1892
3. Oscar Merkel born Nov 16, 1892
4. Elmer Merkel born June 11, 1894
5. Ida Merkel born Jany 24, 1896
6. Howard Merkel born May 9, 1897
7. Minnie Merkel born Dec 27, 1899
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1 & 4 Henry & Elmer are single
3. Oscar married Pauline Beidler & live at Northampton Pa. No issue
5. Ida married Wm Adams & live in Long Swamps Tp & have 4 children
6. Howard married Perma Seidle & lives in upper Macungie Tp where he is a farmer & has one child, a boy.
7. Minnie married Clinton Geier & live at Walnutport Pa. No issue.
Leaving 12:40 PM
It was still raining & I was driven to the P&R Sta where I waited for the 1:16 PM train & went on it to Emans & walked up to:
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Residence of Irwin Reidel Heffner No 237 North St Emans Pa Nov 7, 1923 2:13 PM
Mr H. is medium heavy set build as is his wife. He recd me & was very glad to see me & both he & his wife were kind & wanted me to stay all night. He is telegrapher for the P&R RR at Emans Junct. on shift now 4 PM to midnight. He says his father Daniel R. Heffner is still living at Dryville Berks Co Pa on a farm 2 miles from Lyons Sta. he was born Mch 9, 1852, but Wm L. Heffner son of Chas Heffner Jr got his grandfather Charles Heffner's bible
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He lives 1 mile west of Lyons Sta, a farmer. Charles Heffner, the grandfather born Oct 4, 1813 & died May 4, 1879 on Mch 11, 1838 married Hannah Rothermel, sister of Marcus Rothermel. Mr H. says that Mrs H.H. (Elle) Kennedy No 1115 Elmira St, Williamsport Pa can give more Rothermel history than Mr H. can. She was Ella Baker before marriage & was raised at Alvira, Union Co Pa. She is a first cousin of Mr H's father, Daniel R. Heffner, her mother being a Rothermel, sister to Hannah & Marcus above mentioned. Sol Noll's mother was also a sister of Marcus & Hannah. His people went fr about Fleetwood Pa. Mr Heffner would like to get a book. He has a rather complete compact record of his grandfather's descendants with many dates which he devoted much time to gathering up, but it was not in good shape for a stranger to understand, so he is going to rearrange it & write it off & send it to me.
Left at 3 PM
& walked down two blocks & took the 3:14 PM St car into Allentown arriving at 3:40 & waited until 4 PM & took the Slatington car out to:
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At residence of Henry Atkins Markle Allentown RD3 at Greenawalt Nov 7, 1923 4:40 PM
Mr Markle works for the International Motor Co Mack truck, is foreman & was expected home at 5:15 PM, but had not come at 5:55 PM so I had to go. While waiting the hour for him, however, I got the record herewith from his wife & 2 sons. His father, they said was George Markle of the Accord NY family, a brother of Mrs Perry & son of Calvin Markle. Harry Atkins Markle was born At Accord NY Oct 8, 1884 & was married Oct 19, 1905 at Allentown Pa by Rev Samuel Wagner, very aged Reformed to Miriam May Biery (pro Beery) who was born in Allentown Pa May 18, 1884, daughter of Jacob George Biery & his wife Annie Haines Esser & have two children:
1. Harry Atkins Markle Jr born Mch 28, 1907
2. Joseph George Biery Markle born Oct 10, 1913. His birthday is the same as his grandfather & great grandfather Markle & his father's is Oct 8. They are five boys. Harry is a senior in the high school. They own a fine brick home.
Left at 5:55 PM
& walked to the:
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Residence of George Emanuel Rothermel, Allentown Pa RD 3 at Greenawalt Nov 7, 1923 6 PM
Mr R. also works for the International Motor Co & was expected on the car due at 6:15 PM in the meantime, Mrs R, her daughter & son-in-law gave me the information below until he came.
George E. Rothermel was born in Greenwich Tp, Berks Co Pa on Aug 6, 1865 son of William Rothermel. William had a brother John & a sister Katie who married Benj George & is living now in Reading Pa, a widow, he having died. His brother John Rothermel lived in Michigan & died there.
Geo E. Rothermel married May 19, 1894 in Berks Co Pa by Rev Wise Reformed, Emma Billig, my informant who was born in Greenwich Tp Berks Co Pa Sept 3, 1869, daughter of Wm Billig & his wife Eliza Spohn & have 3 children living & one dead, all born in Lehigh Co, the oldest in Lowell Tp & the others in S. Whitehall Tp viz:
1. Harvey Edgar Rothermel born Feby 19, 1895
2. Charles Eugene Rothermel born Sept 4, 1896
3. Hilda Edna Rothermel born Dec 13, 1899
4. Haddie Eliza Rothermel born Nov 9, 1904 & died Apr 8, 1906
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1. Harvey E. married when in the U.S. service in the army in Florida on
Apr 7 or 9th 1918 to Bertha Greitz & lives here & have one child:
1. Harold Rothermel born Dec 13, 1919
2. Charles E. is at home single
3. Hilda Edna mar Oct 4, 1919 at Orrville? Pa by Rev Good Reformed Maurice Leaser who was born in Macungie Tp Lehigh Co Pa Feby 9, 1893 son of Harwin Leaser & his wife Mary Alice Haff & have one child who was born in this house & was present viz:
1. Earl Robert Leaser born Dec 15, 1920
They have a fine home an imposing big brick house.
Mr R. just got in at 6:25 PM & he is a very large man, not as tall as I am but big & will weigh I should think 220 lbs. He has very regular good features & a pleasing face, smooth shaven & iron gray hair.
He said his grandfather was Lorenz Rothermel who died in Hamburg Berks Co Pa before his time. he did not know the name of his, Lorenz's father, but said his children were:
Elias, William, his father, John, Kate, Rebecca, Mathiddy, Sarah, Matilda & a daughter that married a Snyder.
Some members of this family are now living in Hamburg Pa among others his own brother Oscar &
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another brother I think he said Henry. Methiddy married Chas Schappel & they had a daughter who married but I didn't catch the name as I had to hurry off to catch the car at 6:40 PM as there was not another until an hour later.
Left at 6:33 PM
walked up to the corner, got in at 6:55 PM got my dinner & came right up here to write this up & now up to date having written tonight from page 546 & it is now 4:33 Am 8th being two nights I have not had my clothes off & as I left a call for 5:30 AM I will not go to bed but pack up my satchel & be ready to leave on an early car for Bethlehem Pa.
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At residence of Oliver Hontz No 323 E. Broad St Bethlehem Pa Nov 8, 1923 8:48 AM
Mrs Rose, the mother of Mr Hontz, admitted me. She is the daughter of Jonas Markle & her full name was: Missouri Markle born May 9, 1851 in Quakake Valley. m.1. about 1860 to Chas Henry Barrin. He died at Tamaqua Pa. M.2. Nathan Hontz. He died in Slocum Tp when Oliver was 8 to 9 mos old. M.3. Adam Rose when Oliver was 5 to 6 yrs old. He died at Weatherly Pa & is buried in the Luzerne Cem there & has a marker.
She had one child to Mr Barrin born in Quakake Valley & one to Mr Hontz born in Slocum? Tp & two boys to Mr Rose both born in Silver Brook. Children are:
1. Hannah Jane Barrin. She married Fred Kelmer who lives in Hazleton Pa. She died in Hazleton the week before Xmas 1920. No issue.
2. Oliver Hontz born Feby 21, 1883 & mar Oct 21, 1908 to Mabel Blanche Sloyer who was born July 14, 1887 in Bethlehem Pa daughter of Geo Henry Sloyer & his wife Sarah Koffel & have two girls born in Bethlehem Pa viz:
1. Annette Adelaide born Oct 17, 1909
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2. Elsie Viola born Nov 23, 1913
3. John Henry Rose born Feby 12, 1887 he is single & works around.
4. Thomas Rose left home before his father died & have not heard from him since.
Mr Hontz was a widower with seven boys when Missouri married him & one of them, Ben Hontz in Freeland might give his record. He never had any daughter.
Mr Rose was a widower with three living daughters when she married him. Two of them live in Weatherly Pa viz: Tracer wife of Cheek Presser & Emma, widow of Sam West & they could give their father's record.
Left 9:30 AM
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At residence of Mrs Kate Markle No 506 Cherokee ST So Bethlehem Pa Nov 8, 1923 10:50 AM
Mrs Markle has brought out Mr Markle's baptismal cft which shows that:
Harry Daniel Markle, child of Abraham Markle & his wife Elizabeth was born Sept 16, 1868 in Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co Pa & was baptized Jany 8, 1869, signed J.T. Bayer.
He was married June 7, 1888 at Delano Pa by Conrad Kocher to Kate Koch who was born in Reynolds Tp Schuylkill Co Pa on May 3, 1863 the daughter of Louis Koch & his wife Sarah Heddinger.
Mrs M. presents cfts of D.G. Gerberich pastor showing that she & her son Harry joined Zions Evan-Lutheran Church on Nov 12, 1899. Earl joined the same day & the others are also members. Have had 9 children, the first seven born in Delano & the last two in Weatherly Pa. Their births as taken from her big bible well preserved, but undated are as follows:
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1. Jennie Elizabeth born Oct 2, 1888
2. Florence Matilda born Dec 24, 1889
3. Howard Clinton born Oct 12, 1891
4. Elsie May born Feby 6, 1894
5. Edna Ellen born Apr 20, 1895
6. Victor Horace born Feby 11, 1897
7. Russel Edward born Oct 31, 1898
8. Earl Winfield born May 10, 1900
9. Harry Daniel Jr born Apr 5, 1903
Deaths
Edna Ellen died Dec 12, 1895
All the others were baptized in the Lutheran Church
Mr Markle's mother was Elizabeth Moyer.
1. Jennie Elizabeth married George Younger. Both living in Weatherly Pa where he is a RR fireman, lives in the town & have 6 children.
2. Florence M. is unmarried & living in New York
3. Howard C. married Edna Kenyon & both living near Emans where his father has been with him since Mch 1920. Have 5 chil living & one dead viz: Ada, Ruth, Dorothy, a girl d.y., William & an unnamed baby girl.
4. Elsie M. mar Charles Butts & both living in Balto Md where he is a tool sharpener. Have but one child, Avis
6. Victor H. mar Gladys Desh
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& both living at Emans Pa where he works in the silk mill. Have had but one child, a boy that died shortly after birth.
7. Russel E. is single & lives here
8. Earl W. is single & lives here
9. Harry D. Jr is single & lives here
Leaving 11:30 AM
At residence of Mrs J. Adam Sloyer No 750 Easton Road Hellertown Pa Nov 8, 1923 2:44 PM
Incredible as it may seem, I have been here since 2 PM talking with Mrs Sloyer & her sister Mary Ott, who lives in Bethlehem & came to town for a visit with her sister. They both say that the bible of their father, Marcus Rothermel was given by him in his later days to his grandson Frank Dilliard, son of Elmira Mantana, the oldest daughter of Marcus. He lives at Macada Northampton Co Pa abt 3 miles fr Bethlehem north, toward Nazareth. The bible is in German, but the family record is in English. Mrs Sloyer says that on June 4 & 5th, 1862 there was a great freshet at their old home near or at Lobaughville this Co & her father, mother, her sister Elmira M. her brother B. Frank, Laura Ann & the baby Henry Frederick who died shortly after were all up in a cherry tree
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from 10 or 11 o'clock the night of the 4th until 11 AM the 5th.
They say that Esther, the sister of her father Marcus married a Dewalt & her son John is still living up about where she died & they think it is Uniontown up north about Union, Lycoming or Northumberland Co. Mrs Ott says she has the address of her brother Silas' widow at home & will get it for me. It is, she says Garfield ST Germantown Pa. One of the Dewalts, a son of Esther lived in Reading Pa his name Augustus. He is dead but might have children there. Hiram also dead was a son. Mrs Sloyer produces a letter dated Apr 18, 1923 from Mary S. Daniel (see page 539) & she says her father always said that Mary Daniel's father Reuben was a first cousin of Marcus (himself) & that Reuben's mother, Betty, was his Aunt. Note Elizabeth the 9th & youngest child of Jacob see his will 1833 when she was 21 & not yet married & this is the party that Marcus said was his Aunt. Mrs Sloyer says that the father of Prof A.C. Rothermel of Kutztown Pa was a cousin (she now says 1st or 2d of her father)
Mrs Sloyer says she never knew any of the brothers & sisters families of her father, but the Heffners, Nolls & Dewalts, never even met any of them, so I can't get the full lines from her that I expected.
Of the families of her brothers & sisters they say as follows:
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1. Silas A. had 3 children. His widow Mollie Rothermel is 77 E. Garfield St Germantown Phil
2. Elmina Mantana [Elmira Montana?] mar Geo Dilliard & had 2 boys & a girl. Says she gave me that record. When 7 yrs old she went to live with a family named Mrs Geo Herman who adopted her.
3. Ben Franklin, living in Denver Col 5 living & 1 dead
4. Laura, mar Geo Groves. She dead & he lives at Tamaqua Pa & have 5 chil living & one dead. see him & get his record.
5. Hannah Rebecca Born May 7, 1859 was mar Nov 6, 1886 at Philipsburg NJ by Rev J. Zestner Lutheran to John Adam Sloyer who was born at Springtown, Bucks Co Pa Nov 30, 1857 the son of John Ruth Sloyer & his wife Sophia Emery. Have four children all born in Springtown Pa viz:
1. Marcus John Sloyer born Jany 30, 1888
2. Oliver Stewart Sloyer born Mch 14, 1889
3. Calvin Rothermel Sloyer born Mch 2, 1894
4. Emma Sophia Sloyer born Mch 10, 1902
1. Marcus John Sloyer was married Apr 15, 1916 at Bethlehem Pa by Rev Erb. Reformed to Lottie May Heft who was born Sept 8, 1892 at Friedensville Pa daughter of Robert Heft & his wife Susana Stein. Both living at Colesville Route 3 Pa where he is an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel works & have one child born at Colesville
I. Robert John Sloyer born Oct 16, 1923
2. Oliver Stewart was married Jany 26, 1920 at Coopersburg Pa to Elsie Dimmich who was born at Spring Valley Pa
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the daughter of Benjamin Dimmich & his wife Sarah Hile. No issue. He is a moulder at the Bethlehem Foundry.
3 & 4. are both single.
6. Henry Frederick Rothermel was born Nov 14, 1861 & died Aug 27, 1863
7. Minnie Maria Rothermel was born Feby 18, 1864. She died of consumption at the age of 15. She died May 13.
8. Mary Matilda Rothermel born Aug 21, 1866 at Copley Pa & married Aug 21, 1896 at Atlantic City NJ to James William Ott who was born at Bethlehem Pa Apr 12, 1871 the son of William James Ott & his wife ______ Lightcap. He died at South Bethlehem Pa May 1918. No issue.
9. I got his record see pages 530 to 531
10. Ada Savilla Rothermel was born Aug 20, 1871 & died Mch 27, 1922. She married Nov _____ at Allentown Pa by Rev J.D. Schindel to Samuel Cyrus Drake. No issue. She died in Germantown Pa & he lives at No 2009 Eastburn Ave Germantown Phila Pa. He is a printer.
Mrs Sloyer has given me letters of Mary C. Daniels Catasauqua Pa & of her cousin Miss Diana Noll aged 84 sisters of Solomon of Ida [best guess] Grove Iowa where she lives in the town by herself to copy & return. It is now 5 o'c & getting dark & I will quit. Am staying for supper. JVT
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At residence of Horace Albert Rothermel NO 431 N 3d St Lehighton Pa Nov 9, 1923 9:40 AM
Mr R is the son of Wm W. Rothermel who died Apr 28, 1923 aged 89 yrs 5 mos & 7 days in this house & is buried at Union Hill Cem, Weissport Pa just across the river in this Carbon Co. He was born at Pricetown Berks Co Pa & Mr H.A.R. gave his old German bible with the family record in it to his sister Sarah Hottenstein who lives at Weissport, a widow, living with one of her sons there on Franklin St, a frame house just across the central RR tracks. His sister Louisa & her husband Harvey Swartz live just beyond & below here at Jamestown. Horace Albert Rothermel was born in Broad Mountain above East Manch Chunk Pa Sept 23, 1880, the youngest of the family & was never married & works for the Lehigh Valley RR Co here.
Leaving 10 AM
Just as I was leaving, Mrs Nicholas the housekeeper said there was an old large scroll up in the trunk in the attic which Mr R went up & got & it was written he said by his one armed brother Dan & shows that his grandfather was Charles Rothermel & gives the following record:
Grandparents
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Father's parents Mother's parents
Charles Rothermel Daniel Weidner
Bevora Rothermel Sarah Weidner
Parents Born Married Died
Wm Wilson Rothermel Nov 21, 1833 Sept 4, 1855 Apr 28, 1923
Matilda Rothermel Dec 17, 1836 Sept 4, 1855 Dec 19, 1917
She too is buried at Union Hill Cem Weissport Pa
Their children:
Chas Edward Apr 24, 1856 Mch 20, 1879 Oct 29, 1920
James Henry May 17, 1857
Daniel Jefferson Aug 25, 1858
William A. July 25, 1860 Oct 18, 1860
Sarah Emma Nov 20, 1861
Frank Lewis Feby 10, 1866
George Elias Dec 10, 1868
Thomas J. Nov 8, 1871
William Wilson Jr Dec 29, 1873
Maurice Milton Jany 27, 1864 Nov 8, 1911
Hannah Louisa Nov 28, 1875
Horace Albert Sept 23, 1880
Wm A. d.y., Frank L. died unm. Wm W. Jr is a widower living with his sister Mrs Swartz, Morris Milton [variation in spelling noted] was killed in a RR accident at Plattsburg NY was supervisor of tracks for the Delaware & Hudson RR Co & left a large family eight children at least. His widow at last reports was living at Plattsburg NY
Mrs Nicholas presents wedding cft of Wm W. Jr which shows that he was married in Lehighton May 13, 1899 by Rev John H. Kuder Pastor of the Trinity Ev Lutheran Ch here to Emma M. Shive, daughter of Mahlon Shive & his wife Hattie Winterstern. She died May 3, 1919 without issue.
Leaving now 10:35 AM
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At residence of Hannah Louisa Swartz No 146 Jamestown St Jamestown Lehighton Pa Nov 9, 1923 11:14 AM
Mrs Swartz has the names & dates of birth etc of her brothers & sisters copied she said from the family bible now with Mrs Hottenstein he sister in Weissport. I am entering them on the preceding page on the uncompleted scroll I saw at H.A's
Hannah Louisa Rothermel was married Sept 26, 1896 at Lehighton Pa by Rev Jno H. Kuder Lutheran to Harvey Edgar Swartz who was born at Lehighton Pa June 15, 1876 the son of John Swartz & his wife Amelia Hunsicker & she has had three children viz:
1. George Raymond Arner born Jany 23, 1894 at Lehighton Pa at 431 N 3d ST where she says her father lived for 31 yrs born before her marriage.
2. Minnie Irene Swartz born Feby 16, 1897 at same place
3. Ralph Wilbur Swartz born Oct 4, 1900 on 3d St at another house.
2. Minnie Irene mar June 27, 1916 at Lehighton Pa by Rev J.H Kuder to Charles Wesley Lynn, who was born Jany 1, 1893, the son of Charles Lynn & his wife Laura. They live at the Mansion House, Manch Chunk Pa. He is a railroader. Have 2 children the oldest born here & the youngest at Manch Chunk Pa viz:
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1. Ralph Swartz Lynn born Jany 10, 1917
2. Donald Richard Lynn born Dec 23, 1922
3. Ralph W. was married Jany 17, 1923 at Hazleton Pa to Florence Steckroth who was born Aug 1, 1902 at Hazleton Pa & are living at Hazleton Pa where he works at the mines now. They have one child born at Hazleton Pa viz:
1. Paul Wilbur born May 20, 1923
When I first called here, I got not response & a neighbor told me Mrs Swartz had gone down to her son's & telling me what house I was soon at:
Residence of George Raymond Arner No 709 Packerton Road Jamestown or Lehighton Pa Nov 9, 1923 10:55 AM
Was admitted by Mrs Swartz & she took me back & introduced me to her son's wife who gave me this record:
George Raymond Arner mar on July 31, 1920 at Palmerton Pa by Rev Wm J. Scheifley Evangelical to Margaret Caley Born July 1, 1896 at Wanamie Luzerne Co Pa, daughter of Samuel Caley & his wife Ada Leggett & have one child born at Palmerton Pa.
1. Jane Ruth Arner born May 19, 1922
Left 11 AM
& Mrs Swartz came up here with me carrying Jane Ruth. Mr Swartz has just come in & I am leaving at 12:05 PM
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Registers office Carbon Co Pa Manch Chunk Nov 9, 1923 3:55 PM
General Index
Rothermel, Clyde Nov 7, 1918 Adm Dock 4 P 153
Rothermel, Henry July 19, 1918 Will Book 9 P 349
Rothermel, Hannah A. Apr 19, 1919 Will Book 9 P 630
page 532
105. Will of Henry Rothermel states he is of Lehighton. Wills everything absolutely to his wife Hannah Ann Rothermel & appoints her sole exrx. Dated Sept 4, 1894 Henry Rothermel Probated July 19, 1918
106. Will of Hannah Ann Rothermel of Lehighton Pa
To Emma Schaope [best guess] $100
To Matilda Stansbery $100
To my half sister Melizza Washburn of Wilkes-Barre Pa $10
All bals of estate to esteemed friend Pompeo Mercuzzi of Lehighton absolutely & appoints him sole exr. Dated Aug 2, 1918. Hannah Ann (her mark) Rothermel Filed Apr 19, 1919. No witness nor evidence of probate.
107. Estate of Clyde Rothermel
Letters to Mary M. Rothermel Nov 7, 1918 bond in $3000
Carbon Co was formed in 1848 from Northampton Co.
Left 4:30 PM
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At residence of James Henry Rothermel Hill Road opposite the Opera House Manch Chunk Pa Nov 9, 1923 7 PM
Mr Rothermel says his Aunt Rebecca Manviller lives at Pricetown, a small village in Berks Co Pa & he thinks she would have her father's family bible as she was the youngest of the family. She lived with her mother after her father died & it was late in life before she mar 1st & then married 2d John Manviller who died this year in August & was buried on the 15th at Pricetown. She has never had any children & is abt 75 yrs old. Her sister Mary married & lived in Oley & then in Reading. Of the brothers in the family, Charles was in the Civil War & was shot in the head & killed by a Rebel who was up in a tree. Thinks he was single. Another brother, Henry lived in Lehighton & died in 1918 in Lehighton. He married Hannah Ann Savage from Ashfield, this Co was raised by old Daniel Reimer. They never had any children & she died in 1919. Both buried at Lehighton. Another brother, Amos Rothermel, lived in Friedensburg & was married & died there & had a large family, some living there. His son, Ezra lives
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at Stony Creek, a suburb of Reading toward Friedensburg. Don't remember any other Uncles or Aunts, but says to see Rebecca who can tell. He says his mother was a Weidner from Montgomery Co born at Boyertown Pa & his grandfather Rothermel's wife was Barbara Weidner & his great grand Rothermel's (whose name he thinks was Wm but is not sure) wife was also Barbara Weidner. Says they were related to P.F. Rothermel the artist.
James Henry Rothermel, my informant was born in Friedensburg, Berks Co Pa May 17, 1857 & was married at Lehighton Pa by Rev Abraham Bartholomew Reformed, May 15, 1880 to Emma Priscilla Kern who was born in Lower Towamensing Tp Carbon Co Pa Jany 30, 1859 the daughter of Levi Kern & his wife Polly Rex. They have had seven children, two sons dead all born at Weissport Pa as follows:
1. Clinton Emanuel Rothermel born Nov 14, 1880
2. Ellsworth Lee Rothermel born July 19, 1882
3. Bella Florence Rothermel born May 1, 1884
4. Dennis Alvin Rothermel born Jany 22, 1886
5. Mary Matilda Rothermel born May 20, 1888
6. Clyde Wills Rothermel born Apr 9, 1890
7. Clifford Rothermel born Apr 18, 1892
1. Clinton Emanuel died Mch 26, 1906 unmarried.
2. Ellsworth Lee is unmarried & was living in Lehighton at last reports.
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3. Bella Florence mar Dec 24, 1904 at Weissport Pa by Rev Heimer to Franklin Edgar Arner, who was born May 1, 1883 the son of Daniel Arner & his wife Saraette [sic] Stemler. He died June 14, 1919 & she lives at Lehighton Pa. Has two children.
1. Mildred Emma born in Manch Chuck Pa Mch 12, 1905
2. Norman Daniel born in Weissport Pa May 24, 1910
Both single & at home with their mother.
4. Dennis Alvin is single & lives at Weissport Pa, working with a plumber.
5. Mary Matilda was present when I came in & is at home single a very short girl
6. Clyde Wills was in the World War & went abroad may 17, 1918 & was killed by a high explosive shell when acting as chauffeur carrying ammunition to the Battery in Orvilla? France Aug 17, 1918. He was unmarried. His sister Mary M. administered on his estate.
7. Clifford lives at home & is unmarried. He was in the World War, but was in service in chopping timber about Vancouver Washington.
James H. Rothermel was elected Sheriff of Carbon Co on the Republican Ticket in Nov 1903 & served 3 yrs fr Jany 1904 to Jany 1907
He says now that the Uncle mentioned on page 577 was Amos & not Ephraim.
Left 8:42 PM
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At residence of Mrs Sarah Emma Hottenstein, Weissport Pa abt 1 PM Nov 9, 1923
I got the 12:25 PM bus over in Lehighton Pa near the Exchange Hotel & arrived in Weissport near the Franklin Hotel at 12:37 & went up back of & above the hotel to a small two story frame cottage house with the sign "Beware of the Dog" on the gate. Going in, I knocked front & back & got no response except from the dogs. The cemetery was just above & I went out to a big barracks of a house with doors & window shutters all closed & which looked unoccupied, but knocking, a man answered from within, evidently from a bed, & sd she lived at the cottage above named, but worked out some times at John Heller's sometimes at Mrs Reichart's & to ask at Snyders Store. Going there, they sent me to Mrs Reichart & she pointed out the home of her niece where she thought Mrs Hottenstein might be today. Going there, the niece sd she was not well & was laying down. I had her call her & she went over to her home with me & had me sit down on the bench outside while she went in, appeased the dogs & brought out two big bibles. She is a small slender woman, like her sister Mrs Swartz. The biggest book was the old German Bible of her father Wm W. Rothermel in German printed at Phila Pa by I. Kohler in 1868 & while it is a repetition, I give the record in full:
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Wm W. Rothermel was married to Matilda Weidner Sept 4, 1855
Wm W. Rothermel was born Nov 21, 1833
Matilda Weidner was born Dec 17, 1836
Their children:
1. Charles Edwin Rothermel born Apr 24, 1856
2. James Henry Rothermel born Apr 17, 1857
3. Daniel Jonathan Rothermel born Aug 25, 1858
4. William Alfred Rothermel born July 25, 1860
5. Sarah Emma Rothermel born Nov 20, 1861
6. Moras Milton Rothermel born Jany 27, 1864
7. Franklin Luis Rothermel born Feby 10, 1866
8. George Elias Rothermel born Dec 10, 1868
9. Tomas [sic] Jefferson Rothermel born Nov 8, 1871
10. William Wilson Rothermel born Dec 29, 1873
11. Hannah Louisa Rothermel born Nov 28, 1875
12. Horas Albert Rothermel born Sept 23, 1880
1. Charles Edwin m.1. Carrie Lord, divorced & she is now living in Scranton Pa but was remarried. had two sons by her, Howard & Roy.
M.2. ______ could not recall her name but said she was living in Pittsburg Pa.
4. Wm Alfred died Oct 18, 1860
5. Sarah Emma Rothermel was mar Jany 27, 1883 at Weissport Pa by Rev A.A. DeLong of the Ebenezer Evangelical Church to William Wallace Hottenstein who was born at Chestnut Hill, Phila Pa but don't know date, son of Jacob Hottenstein & his wife Eliza. He died 9 yrs ago. She had parted from
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him 26 yrs before that, as he was a drinking man & she had to work to care for their three children who were all born in Weissport Pa & when I called her attention to the date of her oldest son's birth, she said he was born before she was married, but her three children were all to Hottenstein & were as follows:
1. Charles Edward Hottenstein born Sept 25, 1882
2. William Wallace Hottenstein Jr born Nov 8, 1885
3. Gertrude May Hottenstein born Jany 27, 1889 see page 584.
1. Chas E. mar & she sd had 8 chil of which 6 were living but she was wrong.
2. Wm Wallace Jr married Jany 22, 1910 Bessie Dreher who was born Nov 21, 1892 daughter of Wilson R. Dreher & his wife Alice Hawks, from whom he is separated & she lives in Pittsburgh Pa. They had one child:
I. Gordon Wallace born Oct 4, 1914 in Lehighton Pa who is with her & is 9 yrs old. He lives on First St Lehighton & is a shoemaker.
3. Gertrude May married Raymond Heilman from Lehighton & they live up in Jamestown near Mrs Swartz. He is a railroader for Lehigh Valley. Have 6 children.
She directed me to her son's home & I walked out White St after leaving her yard conference & was soon at:
Residence of Chas E. Hottenstein on White St 2d house beyond Lutheran Church Weissport Pa Nov 9, 1923 abt 1:40 PM
This was the dirtiest, most untidy house, I had seen
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so much so that I kept my hat on. She was a rather fleshy large good natured woman & was there with her three youngest children & unbuttoned her dress & took out a very large luscious left breast to suckle the baby who was fretting. Charles Edward Hottenstein was married Dec 23, 1909 in the house I had just left, where his mother now lives by Rev Sylvester Leopold? to Quilla Donner, my informant who was born in this county Oct 8, 1891, the daughter of Wilson Harry Donner & his wife Mary Elizabeth Arner, but she didn't know whether she was related to the father of Mrs Swartz oldest son. Her husband is material man at the Packerton car repairing shops of the Lehigh V RR. They have had but six children, five living, the first one born at Long Run Pa, the 2d & 6th born in Weissport Pa & the other three in Lehighton Pa.
1. Florence Evalyn Hottenstein born June 8, 1910
2. Leroy Wilson Hottenstein born Apr 15, 1913
3. Emma Matilda Hottenstein born Oct 5, 1916 & died Nov 22, 1920
4. James Irvin Hottenstein born July 21, 1919
5. Albert Alvin Hottenstein born Dec 19, 1920
6. Harold Henry Hottenstein born Feby 16, 1923
The first two were at school & I saw the last three. She said she had not lost any but Emma M.
Left 1:55 PM
I then walked down to Nan Steeles Restaurant near the Sta called a taxi & drove to:
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Residence of Raymond Royal Heilman back of Jamestown St Jamestown Nov 9, 1923 2:22 PM
I was admitted by Mrs H. who was there with her pretty baby Beatrice. She bore the face of a good, but suffering woman & said that her husband's treatment of her was harsh & he wouldn't let her go home to see her mother. She said that Sophia Nicholson who keeps house for her Uncle Horace A. Rothermel in Lehighton, where I was this morning & who she sd had two or three children whether married or not, had thrown the Wm W. Rothermel fine big German Bible out on the ash heap from which it was recovered & taken to her mother.
Gertrude May, my informant, says she was born Feby 27, 1887 (not Jany 27, 1889 as reported by her mother) at Weissport Pa & was married May 17, 1907 at Weissport Pa by Rev Miller of the Ebenezer Evangelical Ch to Raymond Royal Heilman who was born Sept 14, 1887 in Lehighton Pa the son of George Washington Heilman & his wife Mary Drayer. He is a carpenter & they have had the following children in addition to "two misses" she had between Harry & Hattie. Her first child was born on 2d St Lehighton & the last four were born in this house.
1. Unnamed son born & died Nov 29, 1907
2. George William Heilman born Mch 14, 1909 & died Mch 30, 1910 aged 1 yr & 16 days
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3. Harry LeRoy Heilman born Mch 24, 1910
4. Hattie Irene Heilman born Apr 24, 1918
5. Beatrice Louise Heilman born Sept 16, 1921
She is very proud of Harry who she says is small for his age, very small, but is wonderfully bright & is in the 8th grade at school.
Leaving 2:35 PM
I then drove to "Wm Hottensteins Shoe Repairing" Shop, but it was locked up, so I waited at the curb for the 3 o'clock bus which drove over the Clear Mountain Range to Manch Chunk got this room at the New American Hotel No 29, where I am writing & went to the Court House adjoining see page 576 & found only the three references named there being no Caruthers, Finleys, Jacks, Markles or Redburns.
I then got a taxi & drove out around & up on the hill from the back noting the incline RR which the driver says is part of an 18 mile sight seeing system which is dubbed the Switzerland of America & which was closed last week but every summer is patronized by thousands of people. I was then at:
Manch Chunk Pa Hill Cemetery Nov 9, 1923 4:44 PM & found the following:
1. John Leisenring born Feby 7, 1793 died July 9, 1853
Anna Maria his wife born Feby 9, 1794 died Sept 26, 1858
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Chas E.W. Leisenring born Sept 28, 1883 died Dec 9, 1873
Rebecca B. Leisenring born Oct 15, 1833 died Nov 7, 1919
2. Asa Packer born at Mystic Conn Dec 29, 1805 died May 17, 1879
Sarah M., his wife born Mch 12, 1807 died Nov 17, 1882
then back in the east corner is a private cemetery for the Leisenrings, Kemmerers etc from which I noted:
3. John Leisenring born June 3, 1853 died Jany 19, 1901
Mary S. Leisenring born Oct 15, 1857 died Sept 25, 1904
4. John Leisenring born Feby 5, 1819 died Aug 22, 1884
Caroline Leisenring born May 1, 1825 died Sept 20, 1879
We could not find the graves of Charles Whitehead & wife Hannah. The sexton James Redline referred us to: Left 5:10 PM
Store of J.W. Heberling & Co opp this hotel Nov 9, 1923 5:30 PM
Mr Heberling looked up his books, he being secy of the cem & found that Charles Whitehead bought lot 581 section 1 bought Mch 2, 1872 & he bot lot 581 1/2 in Sec 1 in 1891. I then came over to the hotel, got my dinner & went to J.H. Rothermel's see page 577 to 579, came back & have written up the 7 pages & it is now 1:22 AM 10th & I will go to bed.
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At residence of George William Younker No 124 Hudsondale St Weatherly Pa Nov 10, 1923 10:05 AM
Mrs Younker was Jennie Elizabeth Markle daughter of Harry & Kate Markle & was born at Reynolds Pa Oct 2, 1888 & was married Feby 21, 1910 at Weatherly Pa by Rev Wm Penn Barr Lutheran to Geo Wm Younker who was born at Hetlerville Pa Dec 13, 1885 the son of Benjamin Younker & his wife Sarah Catharine Nuss & have six children living & one dead all born in this house.
1. Anna Catharine Younker born Nov 23, 1910
2. stillborn son Younker born Nov 22, 1911
3. George William Younker Jr born June 26, 1913
4. Harry Benjamin Younker born Apr 27, 1915
5. Annetta Elizabeth Younker born Apr 21, 1919
6. Marguerite Gladys Younker born June 2, 1921
7. William Markle Younker born Feby 28, 1923
Mr Younker is a qualified engineer but is now a fireman on the Lehigh Valley RR Co. Mrs Y. says that when she had her children baptized, the preacher, Lutheran Rev E.E. Stuckert said his grandmother was a Markle. Geo Wm Jr is going with me to his home. Mrs Younker says her sister Elsie Markle see pages 566 & 567 mar Mch 31, 1917 at Bethlehem Pa to Charles Butts & have one child:
1. Avis Butts born Mch 21, 1918 at Bethlehem Pa
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Her brother Victor H. was married Apr 1921 to Gladys Desh & had one child a boy, unnamed born & died July 3, 1921
Her brother Howard C. married in Mch 1915 to Etta Kenyon & her mother, Mrs Miller, lives here & can probably give dates. Geo W. Jr is going with me to see her.
Leaving 10:33 AM
New American Hotel Room 29 Manch Chunk Pa Nov 10, 1923 6:33 PM
I left this morning on the 9:14 AM Lehigh Valley train from East Manch Chunk for Weatherly Pa & arrived there about 9:40 AM & will now record in order of conferences there except the one above which I wrote in my book, the others necessarily being penciled. The boy with a delivery wagon at the station pointed out the residence of Mrs Younker across Black Creek & that of Mrs Jacob Presser just across the street & a little above the station where I walked across the lot to the back end & was:
At residence of Mrs Jacob Presser Carbon St Weatherly Pa Nov 10, 1923 9:44 AM
Mrs Presser is a daughter of Adam Rose by his first wife & by his second marriage to Missouri Hontz
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(nee Markle, dau of Jonas) he became her third husband. Mrs Presser said that he, her father, Adam Rose was born Dec 24, 1849 in Germany & came to America when a young man, with some friends who were coming over because of his unhappy home life by reason of his father's drinking. He died here Feby 6, 1915. She didn't know the name of his parents nor the date of his marriage to Missouri. Missouri Rose's father, Jonas Markle & her brother Daniel lived on adjoining farm out in the Quakake Valley (9 miles out where I was this PM) but Mrs Presser said they had sold out & gone.
Leaving 9:50 AM
I then walked over to Mrs Younker's & what she told me is noted on pages 587 & 588.
She sent her son Geo Wm with me to find the places & we walked up to:
Residence of Engratia (Grace) Miller No 312 3d St Weatherly Pa Nov 10, 1923 10:46 AM
Mrs Miller was up on a step ladder on her front porch washing windows, is black eyed & handsome of the Spanish type & distinctive Mexican (which she is) features. Her daughter by her former husband viz:
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Etta Kenyon married Mch 27, 1913 Howard C. Markle, brother of Mrs Younkin (see page 567) at Lehighton Pa. She was born at Hazleton Pa Jany 17, 1893, the daughter of Joseph Kenyon & his wife Engricia (Grace) Lopez, Mexican, my informant, now the wife of Henry D. Miller. They have five children living & one dead of whom Ada, Doris & Pearl were born here in Weatherly. Ruth in Bethlehem & the other two in Emans Pa as follows:
1. Ada Catherine Markle born Oct 20, 1913
2. Ruth Engrise Markle born Feby 16, 1915
3. Doris Violet Markle born Mch 11, 1917
4. Pearl Markle born Apr 21, 1919 & died Oct 1919 aged 6 mos
5. William Markle born Jany 15, 1921
6. Grace Markle born June 12, 1923
Leaving 11:05 AM
We then walked up the same street & crossed over & were at the house adjoining & immediately below the Lutheran Church at;
Residence of Rev Edward E. Stuckert, its pastor Nov 10, 1923 11:11 AM
His wife admitted us & he said his mother's mother was a Markle from Hesse Germany, but he didn't know the name of his mother's mother nor of her father. He said his mother's name was Wolf & she came to this
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country with her mother when 12 yrs old & was 76 when she died 4 yrs ago which would fix her coming at about 1855. He said her mother had some Markle relatives in Phila but they are not of our line.
We then went over to the next 2d St & were:
At residence of Ed Warner, 2d St Weatherly Pa Nov 10, 1923 11:30 AM
His daughter admitted us & called her father & he called in a Mr Hum. They knew of no Markles about there but said Joel Markle lived 9 miles out in the Quakake Valley so I concluded to get an auto & go out.
Left 11:38 AM
We walked down & across Black Creek at the Upper bridge above the depot to garage of C.L. Nuss where we found L.C. Nuss a black eyed virile man & when I asked him what the big brick bldg on the hill at the head of the street that runs up from the upper bridge was, he said it was the public school bldg presented to the town by Mrs C.M. Schwab who was raised here, the sister of A.D. Dinkey of the U.s. Steel Corp. both of whom with their brother & mother lived
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in a house on the lot I had walked across two hours before to see Mrs Tracer Presser. He thought their mother must have been a widow as he never remembered their having any father here. Their mother opened a small store on 2d St which she ran for some years. The school building is a fine big one. I bid Mr Nuss goodbye at 11:55 AM on the arrival of Will Doney in a closed auto & hired him to take me out to Joel Markle's. We started at 12 noon & arrived there 12:45 AM only to find he had gone to McAdoo on the milk wagon with Victor Lint? a neighbor. We then drove on 4 miles further to McAdoo but looked over the town without finding him & came back & Victor's wife sd he had gone also to Hazleton but she expected him back any minute so he came right away & Mr Markle got out of his truck & unlocking his little shack we were at:
The home of Joel Markle near Stewarts Water Plug Rush Tp Schuylkill Co Pa Nov 10, 1923 2:25 PM
Mr Markle is a medium tall, slender man with a moustache no whiskers & is active & virile for 79 yrs. He lives in about the most unpretentious
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shack & worse excuse of a house I have seen, but he has a small egg stove in it & it was comfortable. He has a lounge for a bed, with everything in a jumble in approved bachelor style. I asked him how much he owned & he said he didn't own anything that it was built on two farms & the Tp road & is about 15 ft square. He explained that the line between the two farms run by the stove & he told them that it would take but little off of each & they agreed to let him build on it & occupy it as long as he lived.
He said he was born in the 2d house down the road toward McAdoo in his father's old home, where he had settled when it was all forest about there & built his home & Joel remembered when it was woodland between the house & the barn, in this Rush Tp on Nov 16, 1844, the son of Jonas Markle & his wife Juliann Stewart. He produced a sheet giving his name & theirs as his parents but it was in German.
[margin note reads:] Joel Markle died in Jany or Feby 1926. See book 16 P 570.
He said his father died when he, Joel, was about 50 to 55 yrs old & was 77 yrs old & is buried in Quakake Cem, but does not have a tombstone. Says his mother died around 2 yrs later but he does not recall how old she was. He says
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his sister Hannah Maria Markle bought a bible & wrote everything in it of when her father & mother were born & died etc. She was not married but had a son to Jim Swartz named Edward Oliver Swartz, who got the bible from his mother after her death. See Book 16 P 615 JVT
She lived with her father & mother when they both died just across the road from here in the frame house he built & then owned, where a "Hunkie" named Valatine Czerilsky (Cherilsky) now lives with a wife & several children.
He says his sister Hannah Maria got everything. She died two to four yrs ago in Phila Pa & her son lives about there somewhere & did work for the Reading RR. He was married but his wife died.
Joel just about remembers his grandmother & says she was a short stout woman as he was young when she died. He is not sure but thinks his grandfather Markle's name was "Abe or Gede" (ie Abraham or Gideon). He gives the names of his grandfather Markle's children as follows: Gideon, Abraham, Jonas & Reuben (he called them Gede, Abe, Jonas & Rube) & Rachel "Lao"
He said Rachel married Lewis Hontz & lived in Scranton Pa. They only had
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one boy Abe Hontz & he has been dead a long time. She & her husband & son used to come to visit her brother Jonas Markle here & would stay one or two weeks.
He gave the names of his father's children as follows:
Benneville, the oldest was either born dead or died when quite young most likely the latter, then Elizabeth & "Gede" (Gideon) Joel, himself, Daniel, Jacob, Missouri, Amy, Amanda, Hannah Maria, Albert & Ellen the youngest & whose 3d husband Tighlman Driesbach is dead & she lives in Reading Pa with a daughter. His Uncle Gideon went west He thinks to the state of Indiana but don't know what town or Co. He says his father Jonas always said that he himself was born in Berks Co Pa.
Joel's P.O. address is Route 2 Tamaqua Pa. Mrs Moser, eldest daughter of his brother Daniel lives at Quakake Junct where she ha a little patch. Her husband is an engineer & she is abt equidistant from McAdoo & here. Her P.O. wd be Quakake Pa. He says he never saw his grandfather Markle & don't know whether he died in Berks Co or not. He thinks his father, Jonas Markle came here about the time he got
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married. Thinks the children were all born here with the possible exception of Benneville, but all the others were born in Rush Tp. His father sold the farm & kept a half acre across the road & built the house, now standing there & he & his wife both died there. Dan lived in the next house below where he had 33 acres & built all of the buildings there.
He says a Jim Long who had a store lived at St Nicholas Pa near Mahanoy City whose wife was a Markle from Berks Co Pa. He was older than Joel. Thinks he was 45 to 50 yrs old thirty odd yrs ago. Don't know where he went. He says there are Markles at Lewistown Pa.
Left at 3:17 PM
Driving home, we came past the Quakake Church & Cemetery where the Markles are buried but could find no tombstones.
At Quakake Cemetery Nov 10, 1923 3:33 PM 5. Benjamin Romig born Aug 29, 1795 died may 13, 1864 aged 68 yrs 8 mos 14 days
Judith, wife of Benj Romich [sic] born Sept 8, 1794 died Dec 13, 1885 aged 19 yrs 3 mos 5 days
Look Records in Lehigh Co History & see if
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this isn't the 12th child of John Christian Romig & Maria Rothermel. Jany 25, 1924 2 AM. Yes he is & 14th child of his father who was married before he married Maria Rothermel. See printed 3 pages of records gotten Nov 6, 1923 from John Harvey Romig, Allentown Pa see page 535 JVT
Left 3:42 PM
It is now 10:07 PM & I have finished transcribing. The clerk downstairs said there were no hotels at Tamaqua that I could stay at with any comfort so I concluded to stay here tonight.
At residence of Wm Ivan Price No 406 W. Bertsch St Lansford Carbon Co Pa Nov 11, 1923 9:30 AM
Mr Price is son of Emma Markle a daughter of Reuben, who was a brother of Jonas.
Reuben's children were:
1. Elizabeth, m. Reuben Haldeman see Eli at Altoona Pa
2. Sybilla, m. Albert Moyer get fr their dau Mattie Yost at Sugarloaf
3. Abraham, get fr Emma Hauser Tamaqua
4. Hannah, m. Chas Whitehead, see Harry at Altoona Pa
5. Violet m. Frank Fritz, Delano. Got her record
6. Emaline M. Chas Price, she the youngest.
Emaline Markle born Mch 1, 1855 and died July 3, 1910 & is buried in Odd Fellows Cem in Tamaqua Pa & has marker. She was born in Tamaqua Pa & was married July 4, 1872 to Charles Henry Price who was born at what was then Greenwood on the outskirts of Tamaqua Pa on Feby 28, 1853 (see book 11 P 9) (one was born Feby 28 & the other Mch 1) & he died [11]*May 25, 1903 at Hazleton & buried at Tamaqua Pa.
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the son of Thompson Price & his wife Susannah Raught. They had four children, the first three born in East Manch Chuck Pa & the last in Delano Pa as follows:
1. William Ivan Price born Dec 29, 1872
2. George Thompson Price born Mch 19, 1874
3. Charles Eli Price born Sept 13? 1876
4. Audrey Louisa Price born Jany 4, 1886
1. Wm Ivan Price was married Mch 30, 1893 in Mahanoy City Pa by Rev J.P. Zimmerman Lutheran to Julia Ann Derr who was born at Cressona Pa July 11, 1872 the daughter of Sylvester Carl Derr & his wife Sarah Lord. They have had seven children: Floyd & Kenneth born in Delano Pa, Leonard in Quakake Pa, Wm Lincoln & Marshall in Mt Carmel Pa Audrey Louise & George Cameron in Hazleton Pa.
1. Floyd Ivan Price born Feby 12, 1894
2. Leonard Price born Aug 15, 1895
3. Kenneth Leroy Price born May 18, 1897
4. William Lincoln Price born Feby 12, 1900
5. Marshall Price born May 7, 1901
6. Audrey Louise Price born Apr 28, 1907
7. George Cameron Price born Nov 4, 1908
1. Floyd Ivan Price mar Aug 9, 1921 at Tamaqua Pa by Father Baker to Elizabeth Kennedy a Catholic girl who was born in July 7, 1900 daughter Emmett Kennedy & his wife Annie Barry & have one child born in Tamaqua Pa viz:
I. Helen Price born in Sept 6th 1922
He is a motorman on the E.P Railways & lives at Tamaqua Pa on Arlington St. He was on the Tuscania that was torpedoes off the coast of Ireland & was abroad in the World War fr Jany 1918 to Feby 1919. Enlisted Nov 21, 1917. Was in the air service.
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a mechanic. He was a member of the 158th Aero Pursuit Squadron A.E.F. & rtd to the U.S.A. a Corporal.
2. Leonard Price mar Feby 28, 1914 at Lansford Pa by Rev. ______ English Congregationalist to Winifred Cunning, who was born Sept 27, 1899 at Lansford Pa, daughter of William Cunning & his wife Sarah Griffith. They have four children all born in Lansford Pa viz:
I. Eleanor Louise Price born Apr 22, 1914
II. Julia Ann Price born Mch 28, 1916
III. Thelma Floyd Price born Dec 13, 1918
IV. William Leonard Price born Mch 7, 1922
Leonard is a shaft carpenter & lives here in Lansford Pa at 444 W. Abbot St.
3. Kenneth Leroy mar May 3rd 1919 at Lansford Pa by Rev Paul Kunzman Lutheran to Alberta Lou Penberth who was born Sept 1898 at Nesquehoning Pa, the dau of Richard Penberth & his wife. Have one child born in Lansford Pa viz:
He was a Private Battery A 11th Reg F.A.R.D. Camp Jackson Columbia SC
I. Marion Audrey born Dec 17, 1919
Kenneth was inducted into the war service & sent to Carnegie Tech Pgh for instruction in construction of automobiles & then sent to Camp Jackson North Carolina where he served in the motor artillery service. He lives in Lansford Pa on West Patterson St. & is a blacksmith. [note: one reference gives Camp Jackson in SC & one spells out the location as North Carolina]
4. Wm Lincoln died at Delano Pa Aug 28, 1900
5. Marshall died at Mt Carmel Pa July 1901 aged abt 6 weeks
6. Audrey Louise died Hazleton Pa Apr 30, 1907
7. George Cameron is at home & admitted me is in high school, his second year.
3. Charles Eli Price lives in Phila Pa & is a doctor, his office & residence being at
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No 316 N 52 St & his brother Geo Thompson Price, weak minded, lives with him & is unmarried of course.
See book 16 p 550.
Chas E. married Elizabeth Butler & have three children living & one dead. The oldest was stillborn & the children Helen born in a Mch, Ruth born in June & Chas born in a Mch. See Chas E. he might have some records.
4. Audrey Louisa Price mar Raymond Nelson Wear who died of the "Flu" & had two children both born in Hazleton Pa.
I. Charles Nelson Wear born Sept 29, 1910
II. Gladys Audrey Wear born July 28, 1912
She lives in Middletown NY where I saw her Oct 2, 1923 see page 374. Mrs Price is an engineer Lehigh & New Eng RR
Leaving 10:55 AM
June 1, 1924 a letter s env of Feby 18, 1924 from Audrey L. Wear caused me to change name & dates on Pages 597 & 598 & fill in her husband name & her children's names & dates of birth on this page. She says they were married by Rev John Wagner at Hazleton Pa Nov 24, 1909 & that her husband was born Jany 14, 1885 & died Nov 20, 1918 being son of Charles H. Wear & his wife Lillian May Greene. She wants me to send her a book when completed.
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A letter dated Feby 7, 1927 in answer to mine from Mrs Laura Croll Welch widow of Howard J. Welch see page 266 this book says she went to Hazleton Pa & got copy of the Reuben Welch (her father-in-law) bible & took the entire record which is as follows: She spells Airgood as used by me Page 257 et seq as:
Reuben Welch & Charlotte Ehrgood was married Oct 14, 1849 (Their children)
1. Levi Xavier Henry Welch born in Tamaqua Pa Oct 18, 1850
2. Grim Joel Ambrose Welch born in Tamaqua Pa June 20, 1853
3. John Franklin Welch born in Tamaqua Pa Jany 18, 1855
4. Elias Welch born in Germania Potter Co Pa Oct 5, 1857
5. Elmira Elizabeth Welch born Apr 22, 1860
6. Howard Johnson Welch born Jany 2, 1863
(Deaths)
Grim Joel Ambrose Welch died Apr 3, 1854 age 9 mos 14 days
Leah Ehrgood died Feby 18, 1855 aged 45 years 10 mos 9 days
Elias William Welch died May 16, 1860 aged 2 yrs 7 mos & 10 days
Reuben Welch died July 18, 1864 in the Soldiers Hospital New York aged 38 yrs having served his country during the rebellion.
John Welch father of Reuben Welch died July 6, 1865 aged 75 yrs
John Franklin Welch died Sept 9, 1902 aged 47 yrs 8 mos & 5 days
Levi Xavier Henry Welch died Nov 3, 1923 aged 75 yrs & 13 days (not properly calculated as are others)
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Charlotte Ehrgood Welch wife of Reuben Welch died Apr 19, 1915 aged 81 yrs 8 mos & 12 days
Howard Johnson Welch died Apr 22, 1924 aged 61 yrs 3 mos 21 days
End of bible record.
My father's name was Mark Mendenhall Croll born Dec 18, died Dec 18, 1910 [sic]
My mother's maiden name was Sarah Ann Wood born Nov 8th & died Mch 8, 1900.
My name is Laura Croll Welch born Jany 1st 1867.
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*1 See Book 9 p 530
*2 [margin note reads:] Fred Sesler says it is Farm Ridge, LaSalle Co Ills 6 miles fr Grand Ridge.
*3 [This numbering is as JVT has it, I wonder if he made a mistake. The dates of birth are evenly spaced & doesn't look as if two children were left out. CW]
*4 [margin note reads:] May 7, 1924, Capt A.J.T. writes 5/1/24 s. env that the home of the Newburys is Taunton, Mass & that his eldest sister who had the family Hist died in 1903 & she may have given the Hist to their sister Mary who died in 1922. Her niece who is settling the estate lives in Calif with her mother aged 87, Capt's only surviving sister. An additional elder sister died prior to 1922.
*June 7, 1924. Her address is Mrs Harry Walton Adams 1928 S. Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles Calif.
*2 Mrs Kline says this date is correct, born abt 6 mos after marriage.
*3 From here at Room 200
*4 She died in spring of 1925 see bk 16 p 572
*1 wrong, see page 443
*Nelson Hist of Fay Co Oct 27, 1923 the 1850 date confirmed by A.A.C. says 1850 JVT who says it was entered wrong in the bible.
*2 Tombstone record says 1904 & Audrey L. Wear writing 2/18/24 copying fr her mother's bible say 1903.
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