Josiah V - Ancestry



Josiah V. Thompson

Uniontown, Pa

Family Record Book

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Oak Hill May 18, 1924 8:44 PM

Mrs Nellie T. Burns & her son, Robert, came Friday the 16th, a little before noon accompanied by their relative Mrs Bert M. Laird of Claysville Pa & they left at 7 PM, this evening for Claysville Pa, expecting to go on home to Senecaville O in the morning. Mrs Burns tells me that my good friend, Robert S. Thompson & Mr Gregg, the husband of Cynthia both died about two weeks ago & also that Milton Finley had died last year. I think I visited all of these people when in Guernsey Co in July 1922.

We were out at Cousin Thomas W. Finley's for dinner yesterday, a very sumptuous & good one, from 1 to 3 PM. We had gone first to the home of Miss Jane Huston Moore born 1843 & her sister Mrs Margery Core born 1841 & both of them said it was the old James Thompson home & the old house had stood just beyond the garden & an old decaying pear tree standing just beyond the garden fence was growing or standing in the old foundation. The present frame house was built in 1844 by their father, John A. Moore. We walked up in the field where Elizabeth Brown, sister (& her husband, James Brown) & Ann Downard Thompson, mother of James Thompson are buried & I told Mrs Core I would help

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pay for building a fence around it, the burial plot. We then went around by Saml H. Moore & "Jinny" Moore's to Thos W. Finley's where we met their minister, Rev Bamford, an Irishman from New Salem & also Tom's daughters Ruth, wife of Charles Gray, bookkeeper at the Nat Bk of Fay Co & son of Lewis W. Gray & Margaret whose husband Rev Moser is pastor of the Pres Ch at Pine Plains NY & who is son of J. Franks Moser. Also met Margaret's two year old son Finley Moser a sturdy boy. We then drove to Dunlap's

Creek g.y where Mrs Burn's says [are] the graves of her great grandfather, Ebenezer Finley & his four wives. We then drove to New Salem & turning to the left, north drove to Mrs Elizabeth Jane Beal born Sept 28, 1838, which is on the right hand side beyond an alley & next house beyond the one opposite a church there. She is widow of Benj. F. Beal & daughter of Jane (Finley) Hibbs & John Hibbs. She said her father was brother of Samuel C. Hibbs & Davis Hibbs (father of Jeff W.) She said her brother, Lacy Hibbs got her parents bible & his daughter Violet, wife of Wm T. McClellen living in Uniontown Pa got it & I could get the record from her. Her half sister, Olive lives with Mrs McC. Mrs Beal said she had her own bible record, which she would let me get whenever I called.

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Talking at the dinner table yesterday at Tom's, Mrs Burns showed a wonderful familiarity with the scripture & I told her about the "Thoughts on Daniel" which upon looking it over briefly this evening, she dubbed to be a Russellite publication by Cyrus. She said that was in accordance with God's prophecies 200 yrs before & referred me to Isaiah, last verse in 44th chapter & 1st verse in 45th chapter & to 11th chapter of Daniel.

Tom W. Finley had visited Mrs Burns, then Nellie Thompson 53 yrs ago when he spent a vacation there while attending Wooster College in 1871 & had not seen her since. We had a very delightful visit & she was much gratified at getting the Finley information I gave her & visiting as well the graves of three of her ancestors. We drove over to Addison Pa yesterday evening & had dinner at Jim W. Rush's at the Rush Hotel JVT

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Oak Hill May 22, 1924 10:15 PM

Last Friday night, when cousin Winnie C. Baird was here for dinner with Cousins Nellie Burns & her son Robert Burns of Senecaville O who were visiting me, she gave me the address of her sister Margaret who is now in Ohio, viz: Mrs Dr Wm McClure No 30 E. Lorain St, Oberlin O.

She also brought out a 6 inch by almost four, closely & finely printed two leaf four page leaflet or tract bearing on the front page the photograph of Martha Finley, author of the "Elsie" books & signed at the end by her, the writing of her signature being practically identical with that of her mother Cousin Margery (Finley) Baird, so Winnie said. When looking again, I see the leaflet is paged 35, 36, 37 & 38 & the photo is on 2d or 36th page & only it & the two following pages relate to her & I copy below. Winnie said Cousin Ruth E. Van Kirk gave her this, probably 30 yrs ago before she, Ruth was married & while Winnie was still living on the farm. The photo is that of a very handsome well groomed middle aged woman wearing glasses, distinguishable on close inspection with even features & a beautiful countenance. I should have it to insert in my Finley History. I copy:

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"Martha Finley The Author of the "Elsie Books" on her life & life's work.

When Martha Finley, whose life of pure unselfish devotion is a standard worthy the following of all womankind, was asked to name her ideal woman, she answered with sweet simplicity: "I really have no ideal woman; at least I can think of none, just now". Her replay brings her characters in fiction very plainly before us, for Miss Finley has made a great name for herself, and won a place in our hearts, not from her conception & portrayal of the ideal, but in her sweet sympathy, her gracious patience, and unfailing encouragement for the death faulty, well-loved girls & women whom we all know & love, and meet & speak with everyday of our lives. Of herself, her history & work, Miss Finley writes:

"I come of Scotch-Irish stock - almost entirely - though my

maternal grandmother, Eleanor Butler was of Anglo-Irish descent. Four or

five of her brothers were prominent in the battles of the Revolution; two

of them serving on Washington's staff, two prominent among Morgan's men

at the battle of Saratoga etc. My Finley ancestors were in America years

before the Revolution, my great great grandparents coming over with a

large family, some of whom were grown up. One of the sons was Dr Samuel

Finley, an early President of Princeton College; another, Rev James

Finley, the first Presbyterian Minister of this place, (she probably

means Elkton Md). He afterwards removed to West Pennsylvania. Still

another was my great grandfather John Finley. He had a large family of

whom my paternal grandfather, Samuel, named for & educated by his Uncle,

the President of Princeton College,

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was the youngest. (My record makes him next to the youngest) He was twenty three when the Revolutionary War began & at once volunteered his services to the country, as did his brother John, two years his senior (This is the one I thought younger, but she is no doubt right). Grandpa was soon promoted to a Captaincy, but was taken prisoner at the Surrender of Fort Washington on the Hudson; had three years of dreadful captivity, was then exchanged, went South & took part in other engagements; was with Morgan in the battle of the Cowpens, having charge of the artillery, only one cannon, if my memory serves me right. Appointed by President Washington, collector of Public Monies for the Northwestern Territory, Grandpa Finley became one of the first settlers at Chillicothe O. Both he, though by that time sixty years old, and his eldest son, my father, then only eighteen, volunteered their services in the War of 1812, and were at Detroit under General Hull when he made his inglorious, disgraceful surrender to the British. Years afterward, my father, Dr James B. Finley, married his cousin, Maria Theresa Brown, daughter of James Brown & Eleanor Butler. I was their sixth child; was eight years old when they removed to South Bend, Ind. Two years later, we children were left motherless. In a little less than two years, the last one of which his daughters had spent in Philadelphia with an Aunt, my father married again and took most of us back to our Western home. I was twenty three when my father died. An earnest, Christian, always far more concerned

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about the things of the next world than those of this, he had little property to leave his children, & though in very poor health, I had to exert myself for a support. I did so by teaching and writing, beginning the latter with Sunday School books & short articles for the religious papers. That work was very poorly paid (a royalty was absolutely refused & I had always to sell out at a low figure) so that though I could readily dispose of what I wrote, I wielded the pen for sixteen years before I could gain a full support from it. I asked help of God to write something that would yield me an income & in answer to my prayer, the Story of Elsie Dinsmore was suggested, written & offered to private publishers with the stipulation that I should receive a royalty upon it. The publisher replied with an amused laugh, that a book generally died in about eighteen months, but accepted my terms and published the first half, afterwards the latter part as its sequel. Elsie Dinsmore has now been out twenty-eight years and still has large sales; for which I am truly thankful to the Giver of All Good. There are now twenty one volumes in the series & the twenty second is urgently called for. sickness has prevented me thus far from getting to work upon it, but I hope to do so very soon. The Mildred Series & my novels, Wanted, A Pedigree; Signing the Contract; Cassella; Thorn in the Nest; etc have now been out a good many years some of them more than twenty, and still sell."

Very truly yours,

Martha Finley"

See Book 1 Pages 400 & 401

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[Descendant Chart]

George Carrothers married Jane Workman, were old residents of Washington Co Pa & came to this country before the Revolution. Get & see Hist of Richland Co O page 695 by A.A. Graham & Co 1885. See also Book 8 p 325, Book 9 ps 85 to 89. Look up will or settlement of estate at Washington Pa. Reported to have had but one son. See about daughters.

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Samuel Carrothers born in Washington Co Pa in 1780. Married in Wash Co Pa 1802 to Miss Mary Dye who was born 1781. They removed to Richland Co Ohio in 1815. He died abt 1864.

Susan Carrothers, B. 1807 ob. M.1. Dye, m.2. Lake. In 1880 was a resident of Linn Co Iowa. Had issue by Lake & also others by Dye.

Col Wm McE. Dye, B in Wash Co Pa 1831

Elizabeth Carrothers, B Jany 24, 1809 ob about 1880 m. 1834 at Mansfield O Edwin Grant who was born Fairfield Conn 1797 & died 1845 Mt Carmel Ills. He had a tannery. In 1880, she lived on 4th St, Mansfield O. Left but one child. She had a wonderful memory sd there had not been a death in family for 74 yrs.

Esther Grant, B. M. 1858 to R.R. Smith

Jane Workman Carrothers, B 1811 ob. M. Jacob Hoffman or Huffman. Had a descendant located in San Diego Calif who was an officer in the U.S. army

Rebecca Carrothers B (1811) or 1813 ob Oct or Nov 5, 1879 at Olney Ills. M. John McCollough. Had a big family, marked "my line" by the California party who sent this to Mrs Manley (see book 8 p 325) a cousin of Frank L. Carrothers, Kansas City, MO, my informant. See book 9 P 88 bottom.

George Washington Carrothers, M.D.,, Born Jany 3, 1815 in Harrison Co Ohio. ob Nov 8, 1892 at 11 PM at Olney Ills at Fairfield Ills & buried at Olney Ills. M. Dec 8, 1836 in Richland Co O to Catherine Hales who was born Dec 27, 1818 in Richland CO O & died Apr 5, 1898 at 4 AM in Fairfield Ills. See Book 9 Pages 86 & 87. Their first four children born in Mansfield O, the next, or fifth, in Wayne Co Ohio & the last two at Olney Ills. The five sons listed below all died at Olney Ills.

Samuel Hales, B Oct 3, 1837 ob Mch 12, 1863

Mary Elizabeth, B Nov 9, 1839 m. June 24, 1868 to to Allen Humes Baker & had two children born at Olney Ills

Geo Carrothers Baker, B Dec 16, 1869 m.1. Apr 8, 1891 to Miss Callie Borah, sister of U.S. Senator Borah of Idaho. She died in 1891 on July 30, aged 22 yrs. m. 2d in Carthage MO, a Fleming. He lives in Omaha Neb.

Katie Baker, Born Mch 30, 1874 m. Law N. Manley & live at 4227 Locust St Kansas City Mo. He is in R.E. business.

John K., B Aug 10, 1841 ob Dec 23, 1861

Geo Washington, B Oct 4, 1844 ob May 13, 1857

Lake Ware, B Nov 22, 1847 ob July 1, 1867

William Gaylord, B June 9, 1851 m. Sept 28, 1871 at Olney Ills to Sarah Rebecca Walker & had 8 children all born at Fairfield Ills. Their 3 chil died at Fairfield Ills. Sarah

R. Walker was born Aug 23, 1851 in Mt Carmel Ills dau of Ebenezer Walker & his wife Abigail Reed.

Frank L. B Nov 29, 1872 m. 1st Oct 1, 1896 at Kinmundy Ills Margaret Hollister. She died Mch 26, 1906? M.2d Nov 10, 1909 at Fairfield Ills Anna Jessop dau of Robt N. Jessop & wife Joe [sic] Hand who was born Apr 21, 1874. No issue by 2d wife. Lives Kansas City Mo & is mgr for A.C. McClung & Co

William Gaylord Carrothers, Born Aug 4, 1900

Jennie Hale, B May 26, 1875 m. Jany 10, 1906 at Fairfield Ills Clyde F. Stanley

Mary Belle, B Sept 5, 1877 m. Nov 1906 at Boulder Colorado Theo L. Strawn.

Susie Reed, B Aug 26, 1879 m. Mch 11, 1900 at Fairfield Ills Chas H. Archibald

William, B Mch 11, 1882 ob Oct 18, 1884

Lizzie Baker, B Oct 13, 1884 ob Apr 30, 1899

Robert Donald, B May 25, 1887

Ethyl Catharine, B Dec 28, 1893 ob Aug 7, 1894

Hugh Edmund, B Sept 12, 1853 ob Sept 12, 1857

Mary (or Polly) Carrothers [dau of Samuel] born 1817 m. Dr Edwin Ridgway & lived at Olney Ills.

George Carrothers Ridgway, oculist. Lives Evansville Ind. Is a fiend for genealogy.

Samuel Leet Carrothers, youngest son, b 1819 m. Hannah. They lived at Mansfield O where he was a builder & contractor & where descendants still live. He had a dau Emma married Le(Emminger)? [sic]

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Oak Hill Pa June 8, 1924 9:40 AM

I have letter dated Mch 21, 1924 from Mr & Mrs Luke P. Welsh Portland Oregon, Genl Delivery & I cannot locate them & have not time to look through my records. Think the connection comes through Mrs Welsh & in the letter they speak of coming west when very young (meaning, I think Mrs Welsh) & says "my parents died, the family separated - my grandparents died before I was born" & then gives record on a separate sheet as follows:

"1. Date of marriage Sept 1, 1918

2. Date & place of Mr Welsh's birth Mch 17, 1866 Octonagon, Michigan

Father: James Welsh

Mother: Mary Kennedy

3. No children"

Later June 10, 1924 See Book 5 page 379

A letter dated Jany 31, 1924 from Mrs Katherine Markle Follmer Noll RD No 2 Milton Pa says she wants a book. She says too that she has an old sheep skin deed dated Nov 16, 1751 from Christian Merkle (my great great grandfather) of Richmond Tp, Phila Pa wheelwright to Peter Merkle of the same place, his son for 196 A part of 350 A tract (1745 Recorded in patent Book A vol 12 page 217 etc) This deed recorded Dec 8, 1758 at Reading, Berks Co Pa in Book A vol 1 Pages 301-303. I am writing her that I will want to get it & make a photostatic copy.

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Oak Hill, June 9, 1924 7:30 PM

I have just returned from a 70 mile drive in our auto with Pallini driving. We left town at 9:20 AM & detoured by New Salem, Republic, & Allison to Brownsville, arriving at Natl Dep Bank, now first in the U.S. on the roll of Honor with Seven million deposits & met Saml E. Taylor, the Prest who recently returned from Europe where he waited a week to get an audience with the Pope, talked with Mussolini, Premier, who is ruling Italy wisely & has it under absolute control. Says France is bitter at us, growing out of Prest Wilson going over & getting the armistice signed up, whereas if they had gone on, they would have carried the war into Germany give them some of their own medicine & been done with them instead of having now to impoverish themselves maintaining a standing army of one million men. England too is bitter at us because they must deny themselves living as they used to, in order to raise money to pay America on their four billion dollar debt. E.G. Smith of Clarksburg WVA & at 11 AM, Allen D. Williams & Andrew came in & I gave evidence in the suit of Nelson Rogers vs Jas R. Barnes in their effort to recover back the $10,000 & int paid out of

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I.W. Semans collateral on the J.R. Barnes note of Oct 27, 1914 given to lift the A.J. Cochran note. A.D. Williams appeared ostensibly as Atty for Barnes, but told me that he actually represented his brother-in-law, Harry Whyel & John Husband, to whom J.R. Barnes conveyed all his WVA coal subject to the liens against it. I then got shaved & at 12:05 PM met W.V. Winans opposite the bank & talked 10 minutes & told him of his descent from the Indiana Co Pa Thompsons. Pallini & I then started for West Newton Pa detouring at Fayette City & arriving at West Newton at 1:30, got our lunch at Angelo's Rest. just across the bridge & across the street from Cousin John C. Carothers of John's old Hotel site & at 2 PM went to the Chapel in West Newton Cem & met Geo W. Brown & wife & Alva Rothermel who had just arrived in an auto, also Sallie Brown, her son & two grandsons & Emily B. Brown her daughter. Mrs A.B. Rothermel of No 326 27th St 11th Ward, McKeesport Pa & her son & daughter Mrs Clark, whose husband is a photographer at McKeesport. I told Mrs Rothermel I was expecting to call to see her next month. Also met Tom Frease, Millard F. & Allieann Scholl, Hannah E. Lawther & her Evalyn, Luther Keck & wife & her sister & mother & many others. By reason of

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the lack of initiative or dumbness of the sexton, the grave was not dug, so they had services & left the body in the chapel & Tom Frease, her old neighbor, promised to see to the burial tomorrow. The trouble was that they commenced digging the grave immediately above the monument & came on a rough box & stopped. It developed that two of Cousin Kate's sisters were buried just above the monument & her father Andrew Smith 1793-1875 immediately below & her mother Julianna Smith 1804-1875 just below him & another sister just below the mother, so the only place left to bury Cousin Kate was at the extreme upper edge of the lot & the men were digging at it when we left at 3:30 PM to bury Miss Catharine Smith born in West Newton Pa Jany 3, 1832 & died in Dormont Pa June 6, 1924.

Asking Emily if Cousin Kate had ever taken her letter from the Pres Ch West Newton, she said she had not & that she was the oldest member of the church. I spoke to Hannah E. Lawther & she said she wd have the church records looked up & let me know the date she joined. They both spoke of her lovely disposition & her usefulness & faithfulness as a nurse, or to help the sick or dying in their distress. Hannah sd that her mother's mother died when she, her mother, was two yrs old & when she was 7 yrs old, she had the diptheria? very bad & Cousin Kate nursed her & pulled her through.

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Hannah said that her father, Harry H. Markle had softening of the brain just as Cousin Kate had & that once he never spoke for four months. Tom Frease said his mother who recently celebrated her 91st birthday was at the funeral, but I forgot to look her up & speak to her. Millard & I walked up the center walk & on the left saw a Scholl monument with a marker for Harry. He sd it was that of his younger brother, Fremont Scholl who lives in Allegheny Co Pa & has two sons living. We went up to his lot & he says he got his monument just before prices rose for $600 & it would now cost $3000. He has a big lot, he owning the west half & his son, Jasper T. owning the east half. Hannah sd the sexton had given her the number of the Lindsey Carnahan lot & she would look up the inscription & write me. Millard F. said when Lindsey got drunk, he always talked religion. We then drove to Andrew Brown's in Washington Tp, Fayette Co Pa to see abt the chart Mrs Brown wrote me about & which she could not cipher out. I met him & her & their two daughters. Andrew says he has 1200 acres there & sold the Freeport coal, that area, to some Pgh people for $100 per acre. I wonder if it was Emil Winter's son. The chart Mrs Brown has was the Francis H. Power Chart of 1856 pub-

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lished in 1877 by David P. Power & is the same that I have in the top of my old trunk in my room & was sent to her by the widow & daughter of Henry Power who live in Narberth Pa & have another copy & allowed her to keep it. Mrs Brown had a penciled sheet with information Calvin B. Power gave her which said that John Power, his grandfather, who married Margaret, dau of Rev James Finley was a brother of Rev James Power, the early Pres minister out here, who he said, had six daughters & I told her there were eight & on referring to the chart, found I was right & the chart gave record of who five of them married. She spoke of Miss Lucy Hemphill who seems to be in charge at the Washington Female Sem & wondered if she was one of our Hemphills. I will write her tomorrow. I should too, take the chart in my trunk & make up tables from it & ck them off & then go after date record etc. Andrew Brown sd his young orchard contained 40 A of apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. I spoke to him about buying W.C. McKean's & Kate L. Markle's coal, but he made no promise to buy. We reached home 7:15 PM. It is now 9 PM

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Oak Hill June 12, 1924 8:46 AM

I have a letter dated May 22, 1924 from Geo S. Pooley, husband of Susan Cope, decd, dated Sherborne, Dorsetshire, Eng c/o John Polley Esq where he had gone to visit his father who was very ill with double pneumonia & 76 yrs old. He gives their immediate family record which I record below:

Susan F. Cope & Geo S. Pooley were married June 23, 1914

George S. Pooley was born June 18, 1873 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire Eng, son of John Pooley & his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Minchinton. Their children were:

1. Ruth Elizabeth Pooley born July 26, 1915 died Aug 1915

2. Georgina Cope Pooley born Jany 26, 1917

Susan Cope Pooley died Feby 18, 1924 buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena Calif.

I have also, a letter, small envelope, dated Aug 11, 1923 from Mrs Sarah B. McCune 2nd ST Elizabeth Pa, which I cannot place, but I think she is the Sarah Brown Power McCune named below. She wrote me saying her Father had written her that I wanted some information. She says:

"Mr McCune's Father's name was Thomas & Mrs McCune's maiden name was Sarah Speer. William C. McCune born Nov 25, 1861 died Jany 15, 1918.

Sarah Brown Power McCune born Oct 5, 1864

My daughter Harriet McCune Lloyd born Sept 21, 1886.

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My son Wm C. McCune Jr born Nov 28, 1893

Grandmother Wycoff's maiden name was Gertrude Van Kirk.

My father did not ask about my daughter's children."

Sarah B. McCune

I will try to go see her next month & am so writing her today June 19, 1924. She is daughter of C.B. Power see this book page 32.

A card letter recd today from Cousin Sallie M. Finley aged 86, from 1921 Binney St Omaha Neb says her mother, Mrs Burchinal was born Jany 26, 1810 & died Nov 4, 1904 & that she was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, not far from New Geneva Pa & has a marker.

Oak Hill June 14, 1924 6:42 AM

This is Amerigo Pallini's birthday anniversary, seventh, I believe. Going to Pgh yesterday morning, on the 6:35 PRR train, I sat with Mrs Eugenia H. Robinson to Connellsville where her daughter, Mrs Dick got out. She said the maiden name of her mother, Jane Mary McCormick of Cumberland Md, no 94 yrs old, I believe a $4800 creditor of mine who I am trying to get money enough to pay, was Row, & she thought she was from Westmoreland Co Pa & I asked her, but she didn't know if she was related to Hannah Rugh Rowe 1793-1886, who was a granddaughter of Michael Rugh & his

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wife, Anna Francina Markle, who married Peter Rowe. In 881, J.C. Rugh had an interview with her, when she was 88, see the Rugh book I have borrowed & from which I see that her daughter Mary Rowe married I.N. Hodge & was the mother of Peter Markle Hodge who I saw in Blairsville Pa in Sept, I think 1921.

Answering this morning letter of Miss Estelle Finley, 309 W. 9th St, Columbia Tenn & three others of Jany following in which she sent me a magazine "The Outlook of Chattanooga Tenn of July 28, 1923 Vol XXX No 23" which I am returning today in which on first reading page is an article: "Early social events in Chattanooga Society" is a writing by Gen Francis Marion Walker a veteran of the Mexican War dated Dec 27, 1856 his diary describing & listing the attendants at a surprise party at his home that day in which there was in attendance a Miss Rachella Finley, who was a visitor in Chattanooga Tenn from Abingdon VA who was a sister of Mrs French, who with her husband were prominent residents of Chattanooga. Another one at the party was James Jack. Look up this Jack & Rachella.

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[Descendant Chart]

Levi Henry X. Welch, son of Charlotte Welch, who was daughter of Abraham Airgood & his wife Leah Markle, was born at Tamaqua Pa Oct 18, 1850 & died at Hazleton Pa Nov 6, 1923 see Book 10 p 475 & book 11 p 15. m.1. May 18, 1871 in Black Creek Tp at home of Rev J.E. Shellhamer to Mary Catherine Totten, daughter of John Totten & his 1st wife Sarah Cowley who was born at Beaver Meadows Pa Mch 16, 1848 & died at Nequehoning Pa Apr 25, 1922. M.2. Apr 24, 1899 at Hazleton Pa by Squire Fallon (see book 10 p 275 & 6) to Mrs Eve Michael, widow of Frank Michael & daughter of Aaron Sager & his wife Sarah Snider who was born in Black Creek Tp, Luzerne Co Pa June 5, 1863 by whom he has had two children. She is still living at Hazleton Pa. He was a carpenter.

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Oliver Franklin Welch, B Apr 10, 1872 at Hazleton Pa. M. Apr 13, 1894 at Andenried Pa to Martha Davis who was born at Winton Park, England Aug 3, 1876 & died at Tomhickon Pa Mch 3, 1918, dau of George Davis & wife Eliza Williams. For births of their 10 chil see book 11 p 15. He is a carpenter.

Marvin Lamar, B Nov 11, 1894 ob Dec 20, 1905

Hildred Viola, B Nov 10, 1895 m. Jany 16, 1911 in Berwick Pa to Benj Henry Miller who was born at Shenandoah Pa Apr 1, 1888 son of Jeremiah Miller & wife Sarah Baukes & have had 6 chil all born in

Tomhicken Pa.

Charles Franklin, B July 29, 1911

Edith Helen, B Jany 29, 1913

Pearl Caroline, B Dec 31, 1914

Martha Elizabeth, B May 24, 1917 ob Nov 21, 1919

Raymond Walter, B Jany 20, 1919

Velma Lillian, B Mch 28, 1922

George Franklin, B Apr 17, 1897 m.1. Esther Virginia Kelsey who died of "Flu" one week later. M.2. Mrs Jessie Wagner, divorced nee Corse. He lives 223 10th St Sunbury Pa

Doris May, B May 1922 in Sunbury Pa

Leonard DeWitt, B Oct 29, 1899 m. May 30, 1918 to Nanticoke Pa to Minnie Isabella Shultz dau of Harris Shultz & wife Emma E. Moharte, born June 19, 1900

Leonard Harry, B July 1, 1919

Howard Oliver, B Apr 1922 on Good Friday

Walter Henry, B May 31, 1901 m. Jany 1, 1920 at Gowan Pa to Freda Beatrice Kirchdoefer, born Feby 27, 1904

Glenn Franklin, B Aug 16, 1919

Elizabeth, B Jany 1, 1904 at home single

Arthur Rolland, B May 26, 1906 at home single

Lillian Lovanda, B Aug 16, 1908 at home single bright & beautiful

Russell Oliver, B Apr 6, 1912, at home

Stillborn boy, B Jany 1915.

Eli Norman Welch, B July 10, 1874, m.1. Nov 28, 1903 at Mahanoy City Pa Florence Haldeman, dau of Charles Haldeman & wife Wihelmia [sic] born at Mahanoy City Pa Aug 2, 1877 ob at Reading Pa Nov 6, 1911 & had 2 chil born at Reading Pa. M.2. June 20, 1920 at Hazleton Pa to Kathern M. Krapht, dau of Otto & Margaret Krapht who was born Feby 6, 1890 & live 734 McKnight St Reading Pa.

Alvernia C., B Sept 8, 1904

Esther H. B May 14, 1906

Ida Alvernia Welch, B Apr 24, 1877 at Freeland Pa m. at Freeland Pa Feby 25, 1902 to Wm Medinger born Mch 8, 1866 at Neiffer Pa, son of Wm T. Medinger & wife Wilhelmina Regina Winter. Have one child born at Birdsboro Pa.

Charles, B Feby 6, 1906

Grace Doretta Welch, B Apr 27, 1881 at Drifton Pa, m. June 24, 1903 at Gibraltar Pa to Wm M. Williams who was born at Minersville Pa July 16, 1873, son of Abe & Mary Williams. Have six sons all born in Neaquehoning, Pa.

William M. Jr, B Oct 9, 1904

Kenneth, B Oct 1, 1906

Theodore, B July 5, 1908

Alvin, B Nov 11, 1911

Warren, B Feby 2, 1913

Luther, B may 8, 1915

Flora Viola Welch, B May 29, 1883 at Drifton Pa m.1. to Otto E. Best of Conyngham Pa who died at White Hall NY. Had 5 or 6 chil. m.2. to Connie Yonstson & live 189 Railroad ST, Bloomsburg Pa.

Silas Henry Welch, B Sept 12, 1886 at Sugarloaf Pa ob June 9, 1923 at Easton Pa of inward troubles. m.1. to Clara Shimer dau of Nathan & Amelia of Philipsburg NJ who died Aug 3, 1908 at Philipsburg. No issue. M.2. 1913 to Cora B. Shimer a cousin of Clara & had 5 chil by her. She & children cared for by Moose Orphan Home Easton Pa

Arthur Roland Welch, B Apr 9, 1889 at Sugarloaf Pa. m.1. to Lillian A. Steel of Philipsburg NJ born Aug 16, 1891, dau of Henry Steel & wife Eliza. They live at 740 Milton Ave Easton Pa

Mildred

Edna

Roy Raymond Welch, B Aug 21, 1892 at Hazleton Pa ob July 18, 1919 of injuries received at his work. m. to Ethel Dalton of Easton Pa who has since married ______. No issue.

Elmira Welch (by 2d wife) B Oct 6, 1899 ob May 8, 1900

Ira Bruce Welch, (by 2d wife) B Feby 5, 1902. At home, single.

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[Descendant Chart]

Matthew Clark Brownlee born Feby 14, 1845 ob Aug 7, 1919 see pages 124 & 230. m. Nov 15, 1871 Etta L. Sharp, born Nov 15, 1851 ob June 26, 1913 see pages 124 & 230.

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William, B Sept 25, 1872 ob Nov 18, 1872

Lillie May Brownlee, B May 27, 1874 my informant by mail for this record. m. May 12, 1897 to Pleasant Rice born at Columbus Mo Sept 3, 1868 son of Chas Cobb Rice & wife Drucilla Bradley & have 2 children born at Columbus Mo. They live now at Centerview, Mo Route 35.

Melvin P. B Aug 2, 1897

Mary Agnes Rice, B May 20, 1901

Archie Melvin, B Jany 31, 1877 at Aledo, Ills. m. Feby 4, 1902 in North Dakota to Edith Estella Overton dau of N.W. Overton & wife Amanda Shrayer Have had 4 chil first two born at New Rockford N.D. & last two at Downey Idaho.

Clark, B Mch 3, 1906 ob Jany 21, 1925

Melvin, B Apr 29, 1908

Marjorie, B July 29, 1911 ob Aug 10, 1911

Virgil, B Aug 29, 1912, ob Sept 1, 1912

Frank Sharp, B Nov 11, 1879 near Monmouth Ills m. Oct 11, 1905 near Wayside Kan to Alice Glendolin Parks born Feby 12, 1884 at Silver Springs Mo dau of Alfred E. Parks & wife Lida May Ellington. Have 3 chil born at Independence Kan.

Clifford Thornton, B Apr 9, 1910

Mildred Bernice, B Jany 27, 1913

Mary Helen, B July 27, 1916

Roy Finley, B Feby 1883 m. Feby 21, 1906 at Warrensburg Mo to Anna Taylor dau of John W. Taylor & wife Julia Ann Potts. Have 2 chil born at Columbus Mo

Ancel Wayne, B Dec 25, 1910

Ruby Fern, B Feby 7, 1914

Caroline Agnes, B Feby 13, 1886 m. Oct 5, 1910 in Sedalia Mo to Ross Marion Lowry son of Andrew Lowry & wife Caroline Stone who died at Denver Col May 20, 1924

George Wilson, B Nov 2, 1888 ob Apr 19, 1912 in Warrensburg MO

Clark Talmadge, B July 7, 1891 ob July 27, 1918 in Warrensburg MO

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John Thompson (son of James 1758-1835) Born May 7, 1788 ob July 3, 1856 married 4 times see book 8 pages 413 & 486-487 & book 9 p 146 & 147 where is shown record of his 4 marriages & reliable listing of his 9 children 5 by 1st wife & 4 by 2d wife. No issue by 3d & 4th wives. He went with the Dollisons to Jasper Co Mo in the Spring of 1850 & he died there.

Ann Thompson, born in Guernsey Co O & died in Jasper Co Mo Oct 10, 1859 m. 1846 James Dollison, son of John Dollison & his 1st wife Elizabeth Funk who was born Sept 8? & died May 30, 1876 at Lore City O. They had 5 children, two sons born in Ohio & three daughters born in Jasper Co Mo. After her death, he took the children back to Ohio where he remarried.

Edward Solsbery Dollison, Born in Senecaville O 1847 m. Martha Ann Secrest & is living in Coshocton O. Had one child.

Iona Dollison, m. to Thomas Cayton.

Charles

Grace

John Ivan Dollison, Born in Summerfield, Noble Co O Dec 1848 m. to Mary Steel. Live at no 46 Poplar Ave, Newart O. Have 2 children.

Anna Eliza, B June 2, 1871, at home, single

Orthella Venela Dollison, B Aug 10, 1873 near Old Washington O. m. Sept 15, 1893 to Harriet Elizabeth Paxton, born Sept 20, 1880 dau of Steven Paxton & wife Margaret Hutchinson. They live in Caldwell, Kansas & have 3 children.

Nancy Sovina, B Dec 25, 1850 m. Sept 25, 1870 to Alexander W. Laughlin & lives near Lore City O. She has her father's bible see Laughlin Hist Pages 17, 34 & 35 for his record & that of their 9 children. See Book 8 p 488.

Algus Odell, B Oct 27, 1871 m. Jany 31, 1901 to Carrie E. Schott B Dec 15, 1872 Roscoe O dau of Martin J. Schott & wife Mary Clark, children all at home.

Leah Waneita [sic] B Aug 2, 1904 ob Dec 28, 1904

Mary Lavina, B May 5, 1906

Gwendolyn Alexandria, Mch 12, 1909

Algus Wilson, B Dec 28, 1911

Cora Stella, B Dec 30, 1872 m. Dec 28, 1903 to Jerry Drake. No issue.

James Rowland, B Nov 1874 m. Oct 18, 1899 to Lulu Dell Peddycord, dau of William F. Peddycord & wife Mary Elnora Vaughn. Have 3 children.

Lucile Vaughn, B Aug 19, 1900 m. Oct 28, 1920 to Gale Block Jr born Sept 13, 1897 son of Gale Block & wife Lucile Hamilton.

Gale Block III, B Apr 27, 1923

Blair Roderic, B Dec 20, 1901

James Rowland Jr, B Dec 29, 1909

Myrta, B Oct 25, 1876. At home single

Lily Alfaretta, B Sept 6, 1879. At home single

Clarence Leard [sic] B Feby 6, 1882 m. Nov 8, 1917 Bessie Atwood of Chicago Ills born Dec 9, 1884 dau of Philo Atwood & wife Annabell Pertrie. No issue. Bessie was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Florence Ethel, B Mch 2, 1884. At home, single

Wm Edward Ivan, B Sept 24, 1887 unmarried. Lives Little Rock Ark.

Belva Blanche, B May 1, 1890

Athalena Armintha, Born Feby 24, 1855. Lives in Clay City, Clay Co Ind M. Sept 19, 1878 to Jno Wm Spelbring born Sept 14, 1855 son of Geo Spelbring & wife Elizabeth Emricks. He was born at Poland Clay Co, Ind.

Dora Veta B Aug 29, 1879 m. Aug 8, 1897 to Paris White (& have 3 children) son of John Albert White & wife Margaret Ann Nicholson. Children born at Clay City Ind.

Lela Edyhel, B May 20, 1898

Ruth, Born Feby 5, 1901 (twin)

Ralph, Born Feby 5, 1901 (twin)

Lilly Manna, B Jany 31, 1883 ob Nov 4, 1884 at Poland Ind.

Ernest Odell, B July 31, 1887 m. July 7, 1907 to Viola Anna Steeves who was born Oct 10, 1884 dau of Abner E. Steeves & wife Emma B. Kennard & had 2 chil.

Mary Armintha, B May 4, 1908

Infant Son, B Sept 19, 1911 ob Sept 19, 1911

Martha Rebecca, Born July 8, 1858 Lives in Clay City Clay Co Ind M. July 18, 1890 to William Royer born Apr 7, 1864 son of Daniel Royer & wife Funk. Live in Clay Co Ind or at Cary Putnam Co Ind. P.O. Bainbridge, Ind.

Harry Orville, B May 26, 1891 in Clay City Ind m. Dec 25, 1914 to Elsie F. Gumrie born Apr 6, 1896 dau of Gumrie & wife Della Rodgers.

Ernest H., B Mch 17, 1915

Mildred M., B Dec 20, 1919

William A., B Sept 26, 1921

James Herbert, B Aug 2, 1894 in Clay City Ind m. Jany 15, 1916 to Leah Swank born Jany 20, 1892 dau of Swank & wife Tillie Congleton.

Irma Lorraine, B Apr 11, 1917

Verne Dale, B Aug 11, 1918

James H. Jr, B Nov 4, 1920

Olive May, B June 23, 1924

Herschel Otter Verne, B May 3, 1896 near Saline City Ind m. Sept 1, 1921 to Bertha Killion born May 18, 1901 dau of Killion & wife Sallie Miller.

Hervey Erastus, B Oct 28, 1898 near Saline City Ind m. Mch 31, 1920 to Hildred H. Adkins born Dec 5, 1902 dau of Adkins & wife Minnie Kimerlee.

Darwin H. Royer, B Feby 5, 1922

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Oak Hill June 16, 1924 9:11 PM

I was up at the Recorder's office this afternoon looking at the will of Capt John McClelland which Miss Eleanor R. Ray of Blairsville Pa wrote about. I found it in Will Book 1 P 193 made Sept 17, 1818 proven Feby 1819 in which he states he is of Union Tp & James Finley Esq signs as one of the witnesses.

I also noticed:

Will of John McWilliams of German Tp (whose wife was Ann, daughter of Alexander Wilson 1727-1815) Will Book 2 p 16 dated Dec 24, 1831 probated Sept 18, 1834 & witnessed by Robt Allender & Alex A. Wilson (the latter his wife's brother). In which he makes bequests to his sons & daughters as follows:

1. To my daughter Sarah Messmore $5

2. To my daughter Mary McKean $5 & all my interest in tan yard, dwelling house & lot.

3. To my son Saml G. McWilliams $5

4. To my daughter Eleanor Messmore $5

5. To my son John McWilliams $300

6. To my daughter Ann Grove $300

7. To my son James McWilliams $300

8. To my 3 sons etc Abraham Wilson McWilliams, Levi Thomas McWilliams, Isaiah McWilliams & Hannah Black, the balance of the proceeds of my real estate. Appoint John McKean, my son-in-law & Alex A. Wilson (his brother-in-law) Exrs. Alex A. Wilson renounced Sept 12, 1834 & letters issued to John McKean

See Book 5 Page 157 this book pages 38 to 40

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In Will Book 4 p 253 is will of John McKean dated Apr 1, 1868 & probated Nov 9, 1868.

Tonight I recd a letter from Cousin Hannah E. Lawther enclosing two slips, the one showing that:

"Miss Kate Smith United with the Presbyterian Church (West Newton Pa) on Feby 15, 1901." although she had always attended the church.

The other slip:

"Lindsay Carnathan [sic] Dec 9, 1903 Lot 164-C"

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Calvin Blythe Power, 15th & youngest child of Dr James Power, see book 10 page 5 was born Mch 26, 1838 in Elizabeth Tp, Allegheny Co Pa. M.1. May 9, 1861 to Gertrude Wycoff born 1840 & died Sept 5, 1865 dau of Isaac Wycoff & wife Gertrude Van Kirk. Had 2 children. M.2. [1] _#J_(_(at the

to Mary McKee born Dec 3rd, 1843 & died Dec 24, 1874, dau & 4 child of Francis McKee & wife Joanne Allen dau of Joseph Allen. Had 3 children.

M.3. June 20, 1877 to Elizabeth Shields born Oct 5, 1851 & still living,

lu Hurst, m. Alfred Somers. Have 2 children. They live in Elyria, Ohio

Sarah Brown Power, B Oct 5, 1864 2 miles east of Elizabeth Pa & lives at 2nd St Elizabeth Pa see page 18. m. 1880? to William C. McCune born Nov 25, 1861 & died Jany 15, 1918 son of Thos McCune & wife Sarah Speer.

Harriet McCune, B Sept 21, 1886 m. Alfred Lloyd

William, B Dec 1, 1911

Alfred, B July 5, 1914

Sarah, B Dec 30, 1918

Wm C. McCune Jr, B Nov 28, 1893

Eva McKee Power, B Aug 28, 1868 at Santa Rosa, Calif ob June 7, 1894 at Fayette City Pa, unmarried.

Frank McKee Power, B Mch 2, 1870 in Hamilton, Nevada m. Mch 23, 1891 at Leisenning No 2 to Esther Clark born Dec 13, 1875 at Brinman Wales, daughter of Benjamin Clark & wife Esther Williams. They live at Boswell, Somerset Co Pa & have one child. He wants a copy of my Jack book.

Calvin Blythe Power Jr, Born Dec 13, 1918 at Boswell Pa

J. Perlee Power, B Mch 22, 1872 in Fayette City Pa & he died Dec 27, 1902 in Brownsville Pa, smothered by gas in the Bar House. J. is just an initial which he added. Unmarried.

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Isabella Power, 8th youngest child of Col John Power & wife Margaret Finley see book 10 P 5 was born June 19, 1803. She married Isaac McConnell Irwin, son of Alexander Irwin & his wife McConnell who was born June 8, 1798 & died May 16, 1879. His wife, Isabella Power Irwin died Jany 23, 1873. Both are buried at Round Hill g.y.

[children]

James Irwin, B 1836 ob July 7? 1872 buried at Round Hill g.y.

Elizabeth Irwin, B 1827 ob Feby 1908 in Uniontown Pa & is buried at Round Hill. Unmarried.

Margaret Irwin, B Dec 18, 1825 m. Dec 22, 1846 to John Blackburn born in Westd Co Pa Nov 25, 1822 & died in Wash Tp, Fayette Co Pa 1890. Both buried at Rehoboth. Had 7 chil. See Nelsons big 1900 Fay Co Hist p 919

Isabella Blackburn, ob. m. Jany 5, 1871 to Noah Gillett Lutz born Feby 10, 1840 in Wash Tp, Fay Co Pa & died. Had 4 children

Edna May. B June 26, 1872 ob Mch 23, 1899 mar 1895 to Hallett Gillett Hough

Russell B. Hough

Curtis, B Dec 12, 1876 Runs the farm

Loyal Graham, B Jany 6, 1880. Educated at W&J

Carl Lawrence, B July 6, 1884

Mary Elizabeth, ob. M. to Geo Washington Lutz son of Geo Lutz & wife Martha Patton & bro of Noah G. He lives with his dau Ethel on Donora Pa. 2 children.

Walter

Ethel, Lives in Donora Pa with her father.

Loraine, ob & buried at Rehoboth. M. Adam H. Wycoff, ob in the far west & buried there. No issue.

Hester Rebecca, ob Mch 20, 1923 mar to J.P. Sloterbeck of Fayette City Pa. Think she got Blackburn bible

William

Edgar, a doctor at Monessen Pa

Charles

Dr James Power, ob Feby 1922 m. Emma Menke. Lives on Jenny Lind & McK Pa.

Bernice

Margaret

Anna Marguerite, B 1861? ob Oct 1911 m. Nov 1887 on Thanksgiving to Joseph Finley, son of Thos Finley & wife Elizabeth Turner McClure. He was born Apr 10, 1852 & lives at Donora Pa & is a carpenter. She buried at Rehoboth Pa see book 13 p 176.

Lawrence, B 1891 on Easter Sunday

Lois, B Mch 1898

John, B July 1896

Margaret, B Mch 1900

Rev John Irwin D.D. ob m. Celia Murphy. No issue.

Isaac Irwin, ob Dec 1836 in 6th yr. Buried at Round Hill Ch g.y. [son of Isabella Power & Isaac McC Irwin]

Susannah Irwin, ob Dec 1836 in 2nd yr Buried at Round Hill Ch g.y.

Rebecca Irwin, Born Aug 1, 1829 at Old Irwin home in Elizabeth Tp, Allegheny Co Pa. She died in Rostraver Tp Apr 13, 1901 & is buried in West Newton Cem. M. Dec 12, 1850 to Andrew Robertson born in Sewickly Tp may 4, 1824 & ob Apr 12, 1917 in Rostraver Tp & buried W.N. Cem Had 20 children born in Rostraver. See book 10 pages 40 & 41.

James, B May 31, 1852 ob Mch 1910 Bur W.N. Cem. Unmarried.

Isaac Irwin Robertson, B Dec 12, 1853 ob Nov 1, 1918 m. June 30, 1897 to Josephine Bank Neel born Oct 19, 1868 see book 10 P 53. Have two children

Margaret Rebecca, B June 22, 1898. unm

Elizabeth Marie, B Apr 9, 1900, unm

Thomas, B Nov 1, 1855, unmarried.

Isabella, B Nov 28, 1857 unmarried

Oliver Patterson, B Dec 24, 1859 m. Nov 1, 1892 to Anna Belle Esplen born Apr 14, 1868 dau of Henry Esplen & wife Isabella M. Thompson. They live at Crafton Pa & he is a Pgh lawyer. She died Dec 1, 1925.

Donald Esplen, Born Oct 2, 1893 in Crafton Pa

Andrew Knox, Born Sept 10, 1910 in Crafton Pa

Alexander McConnell, B Mch 6, 1862. Is at home, unmarried.

Charles William, B Sept 12, 1864, Unmarried

Rebecca Jane, B Jany 6, 1867 unmarried my joint informant with her sister Isabella

Elizabeth Florence, B Oct 22, 1869. Unmarried.

Calvin Knox, B Aug 28, 1872. Unmarried.

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[Descendant Chart]

Sarah Hannah Power 7th child of Dr James Power. See book 10 Page 4 & book 6 page 170 was born on May 19, 1820 in Elizabeth, Allegheny Co Pa & died Apr 12, 1900 in Washington Tp, Fayette Co Pa. Mar Dec 12, 1844 John Brown born Apr 1, 1805 in Washington Tp, Fayette Co Pa & died Apr 15, 1872 in Wash Tp Fayette Co Pa. He was son of Andrew Brown & his wife Jane Biggam. They had five children all born in Wash Tp, Fayette Co Pa.

[children]

Mary Emma Brown, B Sept 25, 1845 ob July 15, 1925 m. Oct 10, 1869 to Matthew McKinstry Willson born Nov 8, 1839 on the Smithton Road 3 ms fr Belle Vernon Pa in Rostraver Tp, Westnd Co Pa, son of James H. Willson & his wife Margaret Patterson. They had three children, all sons & all born on the same farm on which he was born. He died Jany 12, 1926 in Columbus O from amputation of his foot for gangrene & is being buried tomorrow Jany 15/26 from his Rostraver home. He was a member of Rehoboth Church for over 60 yrs, an Elder for 30 yrs & clerk of the Session for abt 18 yrs.

2. Andrew Brown Willson, B Aug 20, 1877 m. Jany 22, 1903 at West Bridgewater Pa to Louise Cartwright born July 20, 1878 near Parnassus Pa, dau of Richard Cartwright & wife Louisa Sinsabaugh. Live at 2461 Bexford Place, Columbus O where he is a construction engineer.

Eleanor C. Willson, B July 9, 1904 unmarried.

3. Earl Francis Willson, B Oct 5, 1883 m. Dec 14, 1905 at Belle Vernon Pa to Cleo Jones born Sept 4, 1882 in Belle Vernon Pa dau of Ephraim Jones & his wife Ella Guiler. Live at No 721 Broad Ave, Belle Vernon Pa where he is a salesman. Have three children born in Belle Vernon Pa.

John Matthew, B Feby 14, 1907

Mary Louise, B Oct 12, 1909

Andrew Brown, B Apr 20, 1913

1. Edgar Brown, B Aug 21, 1870 ob Sept 6, 1876

Andrew Brown, B Oct 15, 1848 m. Oct 13, 1897 to May Naomi Patterson born May 7, 1876 in Rostraver Tp, Westnd Co Pa dau of John Stephens Patterson & his wife Cora Harris. They have four children born in Washington Tp, Fay Co Pa.

John Andrew Brown, B Dec 19, 1898

Clark Power Brown, B Oct 26, 1900 m. Sept 1, 1924 at Washington Pa to Grace Elizabeth Allen born Mch 5, 1900 in Wash Tp dau of William Allen & his wife Bessie Stephens

Sarah Brown, B July 27, 1903 m. Sept 1, 1925 to Herbert Layport, B Dec 15, 1900 at Pataskala, O. son of Rev Dr Wm Layport of Cincinnati, O & wife Finney Lee.

Mary Jane Brown, B May 8, 1905

Mary Jane Brown, B Apr 8, 1852 ob June 14, 1872 unmarried.

Ada Brown, B Nov 24, 1855 (twin) ob Jany 29, 1858

Anna Brown, B Nov 24, 1855 (twin) ob Jany 27, 1858

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Oak Hill June 19, 1924 8:22 PM

Dr Wm R. Van Buskirk called this evening while I was eating supper to see Minnie L. Redburn who was out at Andrew's & Mrs Chilton said she forgot to ask him if hen knew the new Moderator of the General Assembly, Dr Clarence E. McCartney who she nursed from a babe, saying that the McCartney told Mr Elliott who belonged to the Mission working in the south to bring them a young nurse girl from the south. She said her mother told Mr Elliott if the McCartneys would promise to train her right & keep her in at nights, & not let her run about, she would let her go, so she went in Sept 1880, when Clarence was but abt two weeks old, being she said, but a month older than Andrew. She was then 15 yrs old & came to them at Northwood, Logan Co O the then seat of Geneva College which 6 yrs later was moved to beaver Falls Pa where she remained with them three yrs longer & then went to Pittsburgh Pa with Wm H. Barclay U.S. Pension Agt since dead & an old Uniontown man. She says Clarence for whom she became sole nurse, comes here to see her about every two years & is a friend of Dr Chas H. Smith with whom he stops.

Referring to Will of John McWilliams whose will I saw Monday at the Court House, see notation on page 30, I looked

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up at Minnie's this evening in the John W. Jordan & James Hadden & found in the 3d Vol Page 759 under the Messmore ancestry the names of the Messmores who married Sarah & Eleanor McWilliams which history recites that the original John Messmore (Johanne Misfrmore) the emigrant born in Basle, Switzerland in 1733 came to Virginia & joined Washington in the Braddock campaign in 1755 & remaining west of the mountains settled in German Tp & married Susan Wise & died Feby 14, 1813. They had 12 children but I do not think named in the order of their ages, but as named in that history.

No 7. Joseph Messmore married Sarah McWilliams & lived & died in Fayette Co Pa. See W.C. McKean & see if he can tell who their descendants are, or perhaps better see Louisa R. Hoover, widow of Jas H. Hoover

9th George Messmore, youngest son of the emigrant married Nellie McWilliams & moved to Wayne Co O where they lived & died. He was a sergeant in Capt Jas A. McClelland's Co of 12 mos vol Light Dragoons in the War of 1812 in which Co his brother Solomon was a private.

8th Isaac Messmore was born in Fayette Co Pa May 7, 1777. He married Martha Dunlap born in Fay Co Pa Mch 27, 1776 ob June 12, 1856 daughter of John Dunlap who was born in County Antrim, Ireland 1761? & died Sept 5, 1798 whose wife Rachel born 1763 ob May 30,

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1815. They had three children viz:

1. Samuel Dunlap married Hannah Lecky & had six children:

I. & II. Samuel & John died in boyhood see Lecky's g.y. for tombstone inscriptions June 10, 1921?

III. Mary Dunlap mar Harvey? Henderson

IV. Hannah Dunlap mar Isaac Henderson

V Alexander Dunlap moved to Greene Co Pa

VI Andrew Dunlap moved to Greene Co Pa

2. see history

3. see history

See also in same history the McWilliams article in which it states that John McWilliams married Ann Wilson & had nine children & mar 2d Mary Huston & had one child. See page 30 this book & also book 5 p 157.

A letter of Estelle Finley, Columbia Tenn dated June 17, 1924 encloses a letter from Alma Finley Barrett (Mrs J.M. Barrett) Napton, Mo, which she wants rtd & I am copying.

"Finley Data, Irish Descent

Patrick Finley b. m. Miss Black probably Sarah Ann, issue Thos

Thomas Finley b. m. issue Thos

Thomas Finley b. m. Mary Reeder. Lived in S.C. He was known as Thomas or J.T. Finley as he was sometimes called. Lived in Warren or Simpson Co Ky & here he married Miss Reeder & in later years moved to Henry Co Tenn. Issue:

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Joshuah Finley b. m. Lucy Darnell

Lewis Finley b. m. Nancy Darnell

Elizabeth Finley b. m. Willoughby m. Landis m. Sinclair or St Clair

Haven Finley b. m.

Jonathan Finley b. m.

Austin Reeder Finley b. 1810 m. Carolina Siron. Issue.

Henry Lycurgus Finley who married Rachel Logan & live in Charleston & his daughter is as below:

Alma Finley Barrett, Napton, Mo"

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Hannah Finley daughter of Samuel Finley of Rev Robert Wilkes Finley, see book 11 page 400 was born Feby 4, 1814 & died Oct 10, 1884. She was born in Shelby Co Indiana. Married Oct 20, 1831 near Shelbyville Ind to Wiley Wray born Sept 23,1809 in North Carolina, Warren Co & died at Beloit Kan Feby 20, 1895. He was son of James Wray & his wife Tabitha _____. They had 11 children all born near Shelbyville Ind & the four daughters who died in infancy died there & Mary E. who died when 16, died at Oskaloosa Iowa as did also Wm H. & Hester. Nelly Wray writes July 17, 1924 large env that they were married Dec 31, 1830, but I favor the date first mentioned.

[children]

Evaline Wray, B Feby 6, 1833 ob July 30, 1834

Lusinda Wray B Dec 21, 1834 ob Aug 26, 1837

William Harvey Wray, B Apr 29, 1837 ob Nov 24, 1920 m. Oct 5, 1858 at Shelbyville Ind to Frances Jane Montgomery who was born at Shelbyville Ind Apr 1, 1838 & died at Oskaloosa Iowa Sept 18, 1890 daughter of Joseph P. Montgomery & wife Elizabeth Steers. They had five children all born in Oskaloosa Iowa & two sons d.y. there.

Eddy Wray, B Nov 25, 1859 ob Dec 28, 1863.

Walter L. B. Dec 23, 1860 m. may 4, 1897 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Kittie Montgomery born Oct 16, 1867 dau of John Montgomery & wife Francis Jack Live No 5 Alexander Apmts Orlando Fla.

Vincent Montgomery Wray, B Sept 2, 1900 at Nevada, Iowa m. Jany 27, 1924 at Orlando Fla to Minnie Wettstein.

Cooper E. (letter only) B May 18, 1862 ob Jany 3, 1864

Joseph Wiley, B Oct 7, 1864 m. Apr 9, 1890 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Ione Henderson born June 29, 1866 at Bel[unreadable] dau of Richard Henderson & wife Anna Marie Shanklin.

Fred Henderson Wray, B Mch 3, 1893 at Oskaloosa Iowa & m. there Oct 16, 1916 to Mildred Johnson born Nov 7, 1893 dau of Charles Johnson & wife Francis Baker.

Nellie Wray, B Jany 13, 1871. Unmarried, my good informant for this record. She wants a book & should have one with my compliments.

Frances M. Wray, B Mch 4, 1839 ob Sept 4, 1839

Tabitha Jane Wray, B Aug 6, 1840 ob Dec 24, 1874 at Fremont Iowa M. Sept 10, 1857 near Oskaloosa Iowa to William Morgan Heinzman born in Kentucky Apr 5, 1834 & died near New Sharon Iowa Mch 8, 1907. They had six children, the first two born near Oskaloosa Iowa, the next two near Fremont Iowa, the next one near Nevada Iowa & the last one at Fremont Iowa. He was son of John Heinzman & Catherine Burns.

Hannah Retta, B Feby 21, 1859 m. Nov 26, 1881 to Jasper H. Phillips now of New Sharon Iowa. 2 chil born near New Sharon, Iowa

Porter W., B June 28, 1885 m. May 22, 1907 at Gilman, Iowa to Viola M. Clay.

Guy G., B Mch 8, 1888 m. May 20, 1914 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Elsie E. Bowser.

Emma Catherine, B Feby 5, 1861 m. Mch 25, 1880 to Melvin S. Freeman at Oskaloosa Iowa. The live at Oskaloosa Iowa. First five chil born near & last one at Oskaloosa Iowa.

Etta L., B Apr 7, 1881 M. June 1899 at Oskaloosa William L. Brantner, died Aug 1921 in Arizona.

Bessie L., B Aug 16, 1884 m. Nov 1900 Geo L. Johnson

Bertie E., B Mch 28, 1888 ob Feby 8, 1892 at Oskaloosa

Cecil C., B Apr 18, 1894 ob Oct 5, 1918 at Camp Taylor Ky

Harold O. B Jany 2, 1898 m. Dec 1920 to Stella Baker

Irene, B Apr 2, 1904

Jessie Ida, B Oct 17, 1863 m. Dec 10, 1885 to DR Marion Davis Carter, at Waverly Ills, born July 26, 1857 son of Nathan Carter & wife Nancy Masters. He died Apr 9, 1913 in Los Angeles Calif & she lives at NO 511 N. Heliotrope Drive, L.A. Had three children all born at Tobias Neb & Ray A. was mar at Denver Col & the girls at Los Angeles Calif.

Ray Alden, B Nov 10, 1886 m. Sept 1st, 1923 to Floy Bitting born Sept 12, 1895 dau of Wm Lepeaux Bitting & wife Eugenia Bitting. Floy born in Texas.

Eugenia Bitting, B. Sept 3, 1924 at Los A.

Jessie Merle, B Aug 23, 1891 mar Aug 30, 1914 to Thos Henry Davis born Oct 17, 1889 in Kansas, son of Wm Davis & wife Mary Walker.

Thomas Marion, B Apr 1, 1921 at Los A. Calif.

Dorothy Eileen, B Sept 29, 1897 m. Mar 31, 1922 to Paul Burt Miller B. in Ohio June 23, 1895 son of Frederick Miller & wife Margaret Slagel. No issue yet.

Frank A. (A is but a letter) B. Apr 6, 1866 m. Sept 6, 1887 to Emma Noel at New Sharon Iowa. She was born near Falls City Neb Jany 19, 1868 dau of Josiah Noel & wife Susannah Bacon. They have 3 chil, the first & last born near New Sharon Iowa & the middle one, Mabel, near Palisade Neb. They live at New Sharon, Iowa.

Irma Marie, B Nov 9, 1888 m. Jany 19, 1910 to Gerritt E. Verstugh B June 11, 1888 son of Hubert Verstugh & wife Dena Beyer. Gerritt Everett Verstugh above born at Sully Iowa. Their 2 oldest chil born New Sharon Iowa & 3d one at What Cheer Ia.

Jessie Marie, B Nov 12, 1910

Harold Frank, B July 21, 1912

Leslie Hubert, B Dec 18, 1916

Mabel, B Oct 30, 1892 m. Sept 6, 1917 to Dr Robert Lloyd Borland, B Dec 26, 1892 at Oil City Pa, son of Dr Everett Clark Borland & wife Lauretta Cummings. Their 2 child born at Vinton Iowa. He is Dentist at 1113 C.C. Chapman Bldg Los Angeles Calif.

Dorothy Jean, B Oct 27, 1920

Robert Lloyd, B Oct 14, 1921

Marjorie, B Jany 7, 1908

Louella Heinzman, B Oct 15, 1868 m. Oct 6, 1888 to Chas William Phillips bro of Jasper H. who was born near New Sharon Ia Oct 23, 1867 son of Phineas Wells Phillips & wife Ellen Williams. Live at

New Sharon Iowa. Have two children born near New Sharon Iowa.

Tracy R, B Feby 24 1890 mar Nov 30, 1918 to Marjorie Meade Hebner at Washington Iowa born July 29, 1895 dau of Charles Hebner & wife Blanche Meade

Lillian Madge, B Feby 5, 1897 m. Sept 17, 1916 to Tracy Glenn Garner B near Taintor Ia Nov 18, 1894 son of Lewis W. Garner & wife Abby Elizabeth Shroyer.

Myrtle, B Nov 24, 1874 ob May 9, 1875 Mary E. Wray, B Jany 5, 1843 ob Jany 1, 1859

Irena E. Wray, B Dec 29, 1844 ob July 22, 1847

Cherry Eliza Wray, B Apr 26, 1847 ob Jany 2, 1909 at Lincoln Neb m. Sept 20, 1870 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Wm Alden Lindly. See book 11 p 400.

Wray Alden Lindly, B Aug 17, 1884 mar Sept 9, 1908 at Lincoln Neb to Bonnie Barnett Adams. Their daughter was born & died at Lincoln Neb.

Bonnie Lindly, B Jany 2, 1911 ob Aug 18, 1816

Hester Ann Wray, B Dec 13, 1849 ob Mch 21, 1903 m. Sept 21, 1870 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Charles Leighton see book 11 p 400. Children both died in infancy.

Ida

Harry

Elazana Wray, B Nov 3, 1852 m. Feby 22, 1877 at Oskaloosa Iowa to Samuel Parker Finley son of Wm McKendree Finley & wife Mary Bangs. Both living at Beloit, Kan

Mary Bangs Finley, B Sept 11, 1882 at Bloomfield Iowa & died Feby 25, 1917 at Beloit Kan. M. May 10, 1905 at Beloit Kan to Roland Max Anderson B June 8, 1879 & have 3 chil.

Park Findley, B Aug 4, 1906

Roland Max, B June 6, 1911

Rosemary, B Aug 23, 1914

Charles W. Wray, B Oct 10, 1855. Living in Oskaloosa Iowa m. Sept 27, 1881 at Oskaloosa Iowa Henrietta Herbig born Mch 22, 1859 dau of Philip Christian Herbig & his wife Jacobina Gotthold. Have 2 sons born in Oskaloosa Iowa.

Phillip Park Wray, B Nov 20, 1882 m. Dec 6, 1o06 to Charlotte Krizer born May 15, 1881 dau of Jacob Krizer & wife Reason. Married at Ogden Utah. Now live at 1803 Mondamin Ave, Des Moines Iowa.

Ernest Wiley Wray, B Dec 26, 1886 m. Dec 28, 1909 to Celia Husson born July 12, 1885 dau of Alfred Husson & wife Jennie Lafabore. Live 3823 Fourth St Des Moines, Iowa

Lucille Lynn, B Apr 25, 1919 at Marshalltown, Iowa

Charlotte Virginia, B Nov 20, 1922 at Des Moines, Iowa

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[Descendant Chart]

John Rothermel, great great grandfather, see book 7 p 582 born at Wachbach Jany 2, 1722, died 1785 in Berks Co Pa.

[his son]

Jacob Rothermel born 1751 see book 7 p 582

[his son]

Joseph Rothermel Born 1781 see book 7 p 582 & 498 m. Christina Kaller moved fr Fleetwood Pa to Alvira, now Allenwood, Union Co Pa.

[children]

Hannah Rothermel, Born in Richmond Tp, Berks Co Pa Dec 24, 1816 died Feby 5, 1880. She was before her marriage the family weaver. An old lady told her fortune & from discription given, picked out & on March 11, 1838 married Carl or Charles Heffner who was born Oct 4, 1813 & died May 4, 1879. He was a farmer & Lutheran & lived at Lyons, Berks Co Pa. He was son of Anthony Heffner & his wife Catherine Elizabeth Moll. I find 10 children in the record sent me by Irvin R. Heffner 237 North St Emans Pa from which I am making this table. See his letter May 19, 1924 large env.

Anthony R. B June 26, 1838 ob May 17, 1847

Jacob R. B Dec 12, 1839 ob Sept 2, 1914 m.1. June 9, 1866 to Carolina Herbein Born Feby 25, 1843 ob Feby 9, 1889 m.2. Matilda Ziegler born Feby 24, 1840 married Mch 12, 1892. She of Dryville Pa.

Clara Heffner, B Oct 28, 1866 ob Sept 19, 1875

Annie Herbein. B Apr 14, 1874 m. Jany 15 to Henry Schmeck who was born Jany 15, 1870 son of Henry Schmeck & wife. He is a laborer & lives at Reading Pa. No issue.

Edward Heffner, B Dec 21, 1876. Single. Yeoman. Lives Reading Pa.

Henrich R., B Aug 20, 1814 ob Feby 24, 1844

Charles R., B May 14, 1843 ob Oct 28, 1918 m. May 14, 1866 to Emma Leiss, born July 23, 1842 ob Jany 10, 1916 dau of Peter Leiss & wife Mollie Heffner. He was a Lutheran & was a farmer at Lyons Sta Pa.

Kate Heffner, B Aug 2, 1866 m. Nov 16, 1889 to Alvin Guinther B Apr 12, 1866 son of Jonas Guinther & wife Mary Crowvalle. Farmer at Fleetwood Pa.

Mabel Edna, B June 15, 1892

Earl H., B Feby 11, 1895

Geo Harold, B Mch 24, 1901

William L. Heffner, B May 17, 1870 m. May 7, 1904 Sallie Behm B May 13, 1886 dau of Samuel Behm & wife Amanda Augstadt. Farmer Lyons Pa on old Carl Heffner farm. Children & they all Lutherans

Grace Amanda B. B. June 7, 1904 m. Dec 30, 1922 to Harrison M. Schaeffer born Jany 17, 1894, son of Daniel Schaeffer & wife Lydia Merkel. Farmer Lyons Sta.

Mary Alice, B Apr 18, 1923

Pauline Emma, B Mch 29, 1906

Howard B., B Aug 2, 1909

Warren B., B Aug 2, 1909

Florence B., B Jany 10, 1912 George Leiss, B Jany 31, 1873 m. Mch 14, 1894 to Rosa Hammes born Aug 30, 1872 & died June 18, 1923 dau of Jacob Hammes & wife Amanda Augstadt. Stone cutter Lyons Pa.

Mollie Heffner, B Sept 17, 1894 ob Dec 13, 1918 mar Aug 17, 1914 to Floyd Brumbaugh Born Apr 21, 1893 son of Edwin Brumbaugh & wife Mary Herbein.

Mary Brumbaugh, B Nov 13, 1915

George Brumbaugh, B. Dec 23, 1917

Wade Clarence, B Jany 28, 1896 ob May 21, 1907

Paul Wm H., B Aug 28, 1897 ob Nov 28, 1907

Charles H., B Sept 19, 1906 ob June 22, 1907

Verna Marie H. B Mch 4, 1908. Lutheran.

Harry L., B. May 23, 1877. Lutheran & laborer at Boyertown Pa m. June 1904 to Zenia Nestor born Jany 19, 1885 dau of Jacob Nestor & wife.

Annie N. B Oct 10, 1904, Lutheran

Eva Edna N., B June 16, 1907, Lutheran.

Isaac R. [son of Hannah Rothermel & Charles Heffner] B Oct 26, 1846 Lutheran. Retired farmer, Lyons Sta Pa m. May 27, 1871 to Emma Gaby, B Jany 17, 1848 ob Feby 12, 1914 dau of Danl Gaby & wife Anna Ahn.

Milton Irvin G., B Feby 27, 1873 ob July 10, 1878

William Alvin G., B Jany 16, 1877 ob Dec 10, 1908. Lutheran Farmer at Lyons Pa.

Charles G. Heffner, Preacher at Lutheran Mohnton Pa. B Feby 4, 1880 m. May 3, 1910 Bernice Carson, born July 28, 1886. Live Mohnton Pa.

Emerson C. Heffner, B Apr 19, 1917

Eva G. Heffner, B July 8, 1882 ob Nov 20, 1918 m. Jany 25, 1908 to Raymond Hoch B Nov 26, 1887 ob Dec 12, 1918, son of Daniel Hoch & wife Mary Davidheiser. He was a plumber at Lyons Sta.

Ralph Hoch, B July 2, 1908

Hannah R., B Mch 25, 1848 ob July 15, 1881, m. June 22, 1869 to Joseph M. Frederick B May 7, 1847 ob Jany 15, 1907. He was a farmer at New Jerusalem Pa.

Joseph H., B Apr 5, 1870 ob May 27, 1903 was Hotelkeeper at Fredericksville Pa. M. June 22, 1889 to Catherine Brintzeghoffer born Nov 23, 1873 ob May 23, 1893 dau of Frank & wife Sarah Kutz.

Vesta Ida Frederick, B Mch 14, 1890. Lutheran M. Sept 19, 1906 at Dryville Pa to Irvin S. Shade born Apr 14, 1885 farmer Dryville Pa son of James Shade & wife Louisa Schaeffer.

Verna F., B Aug 17, 1907. Knitter, Dryville Pa

Ellen F., B Oct 5, 1872 m. June 20, 1894 top Wilson Moyer B Apr 17, 1872 Farmer Boyertown Pa son of Samuel Moyer & wife Sallie Falk.

William Astor F., B June 14, 1894

Eva F. B Oct 20, 1895

Lizzie Sarah Frederick, B Sept 5, 1878 m. Feby 20, 1904 to Dewalt K. Bieber. Farmer Oley Pa born July 18, 1878 son of Abraham Bieber & wife Mary Keller.

Clarence F. B Feby 18, 1905

Charles H. Frederick, B Apr 3, 1881 B&O engine man at Willard O m. June 23, 1900 to Clara Heist born Jany 18, 1881 dau of Israel Heist & wife Sarah Kramer. Their three children live at Kutztown Pa. All Lutherans, parents, children.

Paul H., B Oct 28, 1900

Martha H., B Oct 28, 1900

Mabel H. Frederick, B Nov 21, 1901

Daniel R. [son of Hannah Rothermel & Charles Heffner] B Mch 9, 1852 Farmer living at Dryville Pa m. Oct 28, 1876 at Dryville Pa to Amelia Reider born July 24, 1849 & died Aug 26, 1922 dau of John S. Reider & his wife Sarah Bast. See page 48.

Louisa Heffner, B Apr 16, 1853 m. June 8, 1879 at Kutztown Pa to Joshua Augstadt, B Dec 15, 1850 ob Apr 9, 1924 son of Peter Augstadt & wife Magdalena Leiss. He was a farmer. They & all their children Lutherans

Lizzie, Born Oct 8, 1879 m. May 1903 to Samuel Menard B Apr 22, 1879 son of Jacob Menard & wife Amanda Schweyer cigar maker Reading Pa.

Solon, B Feby 25, 1883 ob Feby 5, 1906, moulder

Odella Augstadt, B Sept 21, 1886 m May 27, 1923 to Earl Peiffer B. Sept 19, 1890 cigar maker Reading Pa son of Daniel Peiffer & wife Mary Greismer.

Leroy Augstadt, B May 16, 1894 Farmer Kutztown Pa m. June 1917 to Elsie Mengel, b June 18, 1896 dau of Samuel Mengel & wife Clara Dietrich.

William R., B Nov 25, 1855 ob May 17, 1923 in insane Asylum at Harrisburg Pa. Carpenter

Mahlon R. Heffner, B Sept 16, 1857. Farmer Mertztown Pa RD no 2 M Nov 25, 1882 5o Catherine L. Beitler born Sept 16, 1858 dau of Jonas Beitler & wife Elizabeth Leiss. Lutherans. Both living. See page 49.

Elizabeth R., B Nov 18, 1859 ob July 16, 1866.

Esther [dau of Joseph Rothermel] m. a Dewalt

Dau m. a Noll

Dau, m. a Baker

Ella Baker, m. H.H. Kennedy see book 10 p 559

Marcus Rothermel

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[Descendant Chart]

Daniel Rothermel Heffner born March 9, 1852 see page 47 other side.

[children]

Sadie R., Born At Dryville Pa Sept 4, 1878. Lutheran m. may 1906 to W. Joseph Hupac born in Bohemia. Catholic. Live at 2108 W. Fulton St Chicago Ills. Their three sons all Catholics.

Joseph H., B Feby 3, 1908

Francis H. B Mch 25, 1910

Daniel H. B Jany 14, 1912

Samuel R., B Mch 10, 1881. Lutheran Blacksmith at Lyons Sta Pa M. June 14, 1906 to Octavo W. Barto, Lutheran born Sept 20, 1887. No issue. Dau of Wilson M. Barton & wife Amanda Wanner.

Irvin Reidel Heffner, B July 21, 1883. Towerman & telegrapher at Emans Pa, my informant for this Heffner record. m. Aug 29, 1908 to Mary A. Stern born Dec 4, 1888. They & their oldest daughter Lutherans.

Miriam V., B Feby 16, 1909

Leon R., B July 31, 1912

Myron I., B June 20, 1918 ob May 10, 1919

Bernice Marie, B May 13, 1920

Jennie Heffner, B Oct 28, 1885 m. Mch 28, 1907 to Joseph B. Conrad b Mch 18, 1881. He is a silk weaver at Fleetwood Pa. Both Lutherans.

Helen Amelia, B Nov 24, 1908, knitter

Ruth Naomi, B July 8, 1912

Anna, B Apr 17, 1920

Cyrus R. Heffner, B June 16,1887. Sta Agt & P.M. at Pine Forge Pa m. Nov 11, 1905 to Annie R. Stoudt B Nov 18, 1888 dau of William Stoudt & wife Amanda Rothermel. Both Lutherans as are their 3 oldest children.

Clarence E.S., B Apr 15, 1906

Alma, B Mch 23, 1908

Paul D., B Mch 19, 1909

Earl, B Aug 16, 1910

Lester, B Sept 19, 1918

Elda Heffner, B May 17, 1920

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[Descendant Chart]

Mahlon R. Heffner born Sept 16, 1857 see page 47.

[children]

Agnes B., B Aug 8, 1883 m. July 4, 1906 to Milton W. Herbein, B Sept 9, 1882 son of David Herbein & wife Hannah Weidner. Farmer Dryville Pa. They & their 2 oldest children are Lutherans

Anna H., B June 12, 1907

Verna H., B Aug 14, 1908

Homer, B Sept 29, 1909

Blanche Catherine, B July 7, 1912

Clara B., B Dec 10, 1884 m. Nov 16, 1907 to Charles M. Hilbert B May 7, 1881 son of William Hilbert & wife Catharine Moyer. Farmer, Dryville Pa.

Carrie Catherine H., B Nov 28, 1909. Lutheran

John Supheres B., B. June 19, 1886 m. Sept 8, 1906 to Agnes R. Heffner born Sept 15, 1885 dau of Chas H. Heffner & wife Mary Readinger. Moulder, Lyons Sta Pa. Both Lutherans.

Mary Minerva H. Heffern [sic] B Nov 4, 1906 Lutheran

John, B May 19, 1920

Annie B., B Feby 28, 1890 m. Apr 18, 1907 to Chas K. Augstadt Born Feby 22, 1889 son of Jacob Augstadt & wife Louisa Keischner. Farmer Oley Line Pa. Lutherans

Luther, B June 29, 1908

Helen, B Oct 29, 1910

Raymond, B Oct 8, 1913

Albert B., B Aug 16, 1891 m. Apr 18, 1913 to Ellen Eidel born May 18, 1893 dau of Elam Jackson Eidel & wife Mary Folk. Moulder, Kutztown Pa.

Catharine E., B Sept 8, 1913

Mahlon E., B Jany 4, 1915

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[Descendant Chart]

James Thompson Born Apr 20, 1790 & died 1869 see pages 52 & 53. m. Nancy Dodson Cotton born July 8, 1793 & died______. They had 8 children, the first four & possibly the fifth born in Menallen Tp Fay Co Pa & the last three & possibly the fifth born in Knox Co O near Mt Liberty.

[children]

William Thompson, B Nov 10, 1813 ob 1897 at Tacoma Wash. He was a Col in the Civil War in the U.S. Army & a member of Congress fr Iowa. Thinks had a son who graduated from West Point.

Harris, B 1815 ob 1855

Elizabeth, B Mch 25, 1818 ob 1892 m. Wm Conway ob Greensburg Ind.

John, B Dec 25, 1821, ob. Mar.

Serena, B 1823 ob. m. Joseph Bailey of Richmond O

Mary Jane, B July 27, 1824 ob 1889 at Mt Liberty O. M. to John D. Austen

Ann, B Apr 22, 1832 ob m. Wash. Duval.

Berthena, B Dec 29, 1837 ob Nov 7, 1873 m. John Snyder

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[Descendant Chart]

William Thompson of Menallen Tp died October, 1813, see his will for list of his children Will Book 1 Page 108 & my book 5 p 170. He married Hannah_____ & she died say abt 1840 see her will same page my book & book 2 p 171 Court Record.

[children]

James Thompson, Willed $100 Born Apr 20, 1790 in Menallen Tp, Fay Co Pa & died 1869 near Mt Liberty Knox Co O whither he had removed in 1823 with his widowed mother-in-law Margaret Cotton. He married in Fay Co Pa Nancy Dodson Cotton born July 8, 1793 in Frederick Co Va dau of Harris W. Cotton, his oldest child & his wife Margaret. Harris W. was a native of Frederick Co VA & moved fr there in 1803 to Uniontown Pa where he died in 1815 while serving as Co Com see page 51.

Martha Jane, Got $150. She was still unmarried in 1834 when her mother made her Exrx & residuary legatee. B. Mch 23, 1785. Martha Jane died 1876.

Elizabeth, Got $150 B Oct 20, 1795

Nancy, Got $150 m. Randolph prior to 1834 got $50 from her mother B. Dec 1, 1799

Peggy, B Mch 27, 1803 got $150 B Nov 1759 (I think this yr wrong) in Co Down Ireland. She died in Fay Co Pa 1851. Married Francis Duff born in Co Down Ireland May 10, 1758 died in Fay Co Pa Aug 7, 1827 Came to America & Fay Co in 1810 because "two of his wife's brothers were here".

James Duff, B Nov 12, 1791 ob 1845 on way to Oregon with an ox team.

Margaret Duff, m. Mch 20, 1826 to John McCray of Menallen Tp

Francis Duff, born in Co Down Feby 21, 1805 ob Sept 4, 1857 in Fay Co. See the Jordan-Hadden 1912 3 Vol Hist of Fay Co Pa P 798-799.

Hugh Thompson, Born in County Down Ireland, Belfast Ireland. Moved to Winchester Va in 1795 m.1. T.O.F. Randolph. Record says he was born July 3, 1792. M.2. Margaret Sproat. Got home farm 300 A & was Exr.

Hugh Thompson, Born Nov 30, 1807 near Uniontown Pa. M. Lucretia Baily in Uniontown Pa on Apr 10, 1833 & moved to Sidney O in 1831 where he died Mch 25, 1889 & was merchant lawyer, judge & member of Ohio Constitutional Assembly. Lucretia Baily, daughter of Silas & Margaret Baily was born in Frederick Co Md say Apr 14, 1804 as she died in Sidney O Jany 22, 1881 aged 76 yrs 9 mos & 8 days. Moved to Uniontown Pa abt 1812.

George Murray, B Feb 12, 1842 in Sidney O & died Dec [best guess] 12, 1869 at San Francisco Calif unmarried.

Elizabeth, B. in Sidney O on July 4, 1844 m. John H. Mathers Oct 14, 1863 in Sidney O. She died May 29, 1921 in Sidney O.

2. Jane H. B May 23, 1868 m.1. June 22, 1887 to Frank M. McCaslin & divorced. M.2. Jany 10, 1910 to Edwd W. Laughlin both in Sidney O.

John Mathers McCaslin B Oct 9, 1889 m. July 19, 1919 to Sue Towles Bagley of Henderson Ky.

John Mathers McCaslin Jr, Born Apr 29, 1920

Robert Bagley, B Nov 19, 1922

3. Lucretia Thompson, B Feby 13, 1872 ob Sept 15, 1918 m. Oct 1897 to Henry Baldwin.

Elizabeth Mathers Baldwin, B Feby 22, 1899

Lyttleton Mathers Baldwin, B Oct 1, 1904

1. Judge Hugh T. B May 20, 1866 m. Feby 1888 in Uniontown Pa Louisa C. Beeson.

Hugh Mathers, Born Nov 2, 1891 in Sidney O. died 1915 in Sidney O.

Jeannette Mathers, Born Oct 14, 1901 in Sidney O. Single.

Hugh William [son of Hugh Thompson & Lucretia Baily] m. Mary Yager. Lived in Sidney O. He born in Sidney O May 18, 1846 & died there July 15, 1908. Was merchant & druggist. Mar in Sidney O on June 24, 1868. She was born in Warsaw Ind Aug 18, 1847 & died in Sidney O July 8, 1904.

Elizabeth Ellen, Born Mch 8, 1870 in Quincy O. m. June 27, 1900 James Bark White. Live 813 W. Berry St Fort Wayne, Ind.

William Thompson White, Graduated fr College 1924 My informant for this record. B. Feby 7, 1902 in Ft Wayne Ind.

Margaret Baily, B Aug 1, 1872 in Sidney O & mar in Sidney O Oct 24, 1894 to Wm Knox Van De Grift.

Hugh William, B July 22, 1902 in Toledo O & died in Ft Wayne Ind Mch 23, 1923.

Mary Lucretia, B Apr 29, 1884 in Sidney O m. June 19, 1907 in Sidney O to Thomas DeMondt Van Etten. Their two older children born in Sidney O & the next two in Ft Wayne, Ind.

Margaret Elizabeth, B Mch 20, 1908

Infant Son, B Jany 9, 1910, ob.

Thomas DeMondt jr B Oct 26, 1917

Elizabeth Ruth, B Jany 11, 1919

3 chil [children of Hugh Thompson & Lucretia Baily] d.y. of an epidemic.

Elizabeth, [dau of Hugh Thompson b. 1792 & one of his two wives] of Upper Middletown Va. Unmarried.

James Thompson

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The dates of Wm Thompson's children as recorded on preceding page are from an undated letter on letterhead as follows:

"Thomas House R.H. Thomas Prop, Lacon, Ills 189

Record of

1. William Thompson family

1. Martha born March 23, 1786 died 1876

2. Jane born March 18, 1785

3. James born Apr 20, 1790

4. Hugh born July 3, 1792 see item 5 p 603

5. Elizabeth born Oct 20, 1795

6. Hannah born Nov 28, 1797

7. Nancy born Dec 1, 1799

8. Margaret born Mar 27, 1803

To the best of my knowledge, William Thompson was the son of James Thompson, County Tyrone, Ireland where he was born, was the son of a very wealthy Dust? Linen mfg. His father presented him with a large quantity of goods, came to America and sold and received Continental money, which became worthless on his hands. Bought a farm in Fayette Co Penn, where he married. He wished to return to Ireland on his father's death and claim his inheritance, but his wife would not permit him to do so. The home farm was located near Searight's Place on the Pike (National Road) between Uniontown & Brownville, Fayette Co Penna. His son, Hugh Thompson, married & moved to Richmond Union Co Ohio. Kindly inform me whether this family is in anyway connected with that of your own & oblige. Respectfully,

T.O.F. Randolph, 922 W. High St, Piqua Ohio"

The above letter fr Wm Thompson White who wrote Oct 24/24 that he had recently acquired it & to return it.

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[Descendant Chart]

Josephus Fordyce lived in the Grampian Hills of Scotland. The record following was sent by Mrs Anna Baker Goff on June 24, 1924 wife of Guy Despard Goff of Clarksburgh WVA, small env from a record they have always had. Married Mathilde MacDonald.

[children]

James

Jason

John Fordyce, m in 1688 Dorothea Newgate. He sailed to Boston, Mass with wife & children. Had eight sons & four daughters.

John Fordyce, m. 1721 Clarissa Gregory & moved to Wash Co Pa six of the ten sons named below were killed in Rev. War.

Jared

Josephus

Isaac

Lemuel

[2]h Pallini(V_#IW_#H___(driving.

Justus, m. Amanda Garrison

John Fordyce, B 1806 ob 1882 m 2nd 1837 to Mary Houseman born 1817 daughter of Christopher Houseman 1788-1821 & his wife Sarah Myers 1791-1849. She died. His first wife was Ruth Gregg.

James Harvey, B 1838, ob 1842

Samuel Wesley, B 1840 ob 1919?

Ruth Amanda, B 1842 ob 1907, m. Lewis C? Baker & lived at Wheeling WVA

Anna Baker, my informant for this record married Guy Despard Goff Clarksburgh WVA.

William Houseman B 1844 ob 1844

Justus Garard, B 1845 ob 1846

Homer Garard B 1847 ob 1908

Joseph Benson, B 1849

Thomas Melville, B 1851 ob 1856

Sarah Alice, B 1853 ob 1856

Nancy Maria, b 1855 ob 1903?

John Addison, B 1857

James Harvey, m. Nancy Bowers [son of John & Jane Leasure Fordyce]

Abner m. Priscilla Murdock

Samuel, unmarried

Joseph, m. Eleanor Ann Bailey

Corbley, m. Jane Bailey

Benson, B Elizabeth Fuller

Rebecca or Rachel, m. Thomas Bowen

Hetty, m. Thomas Evans

Nancy, m. Geo Rose.

Gregory, [son of John & Clarissa Gregory Fordyce]

Harvey

Samuel [see footnote. John who m. Jane Leasure is his son]

David

Benson

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[Descendant Chart]

Patrick Jack see book 5 page 194 & 195 by his second wife who was widow of David Watson he had one child, Anna Jack see below. See History of the Henderson family by Jno N. McCue 1915 which I have.

[his daughter]

Anna Jack, mar John Henderson see book 5 p 195. They had eleven children listed below with dates as given by Dr L. Henderson, Marysville O in his letter of June 14, 1921 small envelope.

[children]

Margaret Henderson, B Dec 21, 1805 ob 1867

James Henderson, b Sept 29, 1807 ob 1828 aged 21 yrs

John Jack Henderson, B Sept 16, 1809 ob 1877

Sarah Ann Henderson, B Aug 17, 1811 ob 1848

Joseph Washington Henderson, B Aug 27, 1814 ob 1878

Jane Henderson, B May 13, 1816 ob Mch 1916

Samuel Henderson, B Sept 24, 1818 ob 1883

Lavina Henderson, B Feby 8, 1820 ob Feby 1897 m. Woodburn

David Watson Henderson, M.D., B Oct 4, 1823 ob 1910 named for his grandmother Jack's first husband

Wm Clark Henderson, B Oct 28, 1825 ob Apr 21, 1898

Mary E. Henderson, B Sept 18, 1828 ob Sept 2, 1921 at Youngstown O & is buried at Middletown Ind. See book 5 P 237. M. McCampbell

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Oak Hill June 29, 1924 7:44 PM

In going through my old mail, I find a letter dated Aug 25, 1922 from Mrs Isabella D. Thompson Box 225 Newville Pa enclosing pencil mem on back of sample ballots handed her by John Reed who she says is a great historian with them. He heads it as if taken from the Swope book which I have but I record it here to have it in my record books & being culled is desirable.

"Swope Book

Person admitted into the Pres - Rev Wilson Pastor

June 8, 1790 - Hugh Thompson

Oct 1790 - Alexander Thompson

Oct 1790 - Peggy Thompson.

Marriages by Rev Samuel Wilson

Scroggs, Allan & Peggy Craig Sept 22, 1795

Persons admitted by Rev Joshua Williams

Robert Thompson - May 19, 1805

Elizabeth Thompson - May 1818

Mary Thompson - Oct 1818

Ellis Thompson - May 26, 1826

Baptisms by Rev Joshua Williams

Marriages by Rev Joshua Williams

McBride, Robt & Jane Scroggs May 15, 1817

Scroggs, Moses & Peggy Thompson Dec 10, 1807

Thompson, Hugh, & Elizabeth Scroggs Jany 19, 1815

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Silver Spring - This was so called in honor of the Silvers, one of the first settlers of that region. The first occasion (preaching) was by Rev Dr Craighead & then by Rev Bertram, Thomas Craighead & Goldston. Rev Samuel Thompson from 1739 to 1745. His resignation was on account of bodily illness.

Page 332 - Epitaph

Here lys ye body of Jane Thompson, wife of ye Rev Samuel Thompson deceased Sept ye 29, 1774 aged 33 years.

Page 521 - Mary, wife of Alex Thompson in James McCullough's family history.

Page 31 Co History - on the glebes [sic] belonging to the Congregation of Upper Pennsborough about two miles north-west from Carlisle, was the Rev Samuel Thompson (1738) near which were lands belonging to John Davis Esq & further up the creek were Wm Dunbar & Andrew Forbes near whom a mill was afterwards erected by William Thompson.

Page 208 - In Apr 1735, however, Rev John Thompson was appointed to aid Mr Craighead in the instruction of the people of Conodoquinet or beyond the Susquehanna, as the settlement near Carlisle was known.

Page 208 - 1734 to 1744, four regular congregations were established in Cumberland Co viz Meeting House Springs, Silver Springs

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Big Spring & Middle Spring

Rev Thos Craighead was installed at Big Spring Nov 17, 1737 & preached also for Middle Spring. The second regular Pastor was Rev Samuel Thompson who began his charge of Meeting House Springs and Silver Springs Nov 14, 1739.

Marriages by Rev Robert McCachran

Hugh Thompson & Jane Kennedy Apr 1, 1841

Baptisms by Rev Robert McCachran

Thompson, Alexander, son of Alexander Dec 19, 1834

Thompson, Alexander, son of John & Sarah July 30, 1836

Inscriptions on tombstones of those born prior to 1800"

& here it stopped.

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[Descendant Chart]

Ann Jack posthumous daughter of John Jack of Jeremiah born Oct 1757 & died in Fayette Co Pa in Bullskin Tp on Mounts Creek. She was from Mill Creek, Berkeley Co Va. Married William Boyd whose home was in the Shenandoah Valley near Winchester Va where he owned slaves. He came out to Fayette Co Pa just after the county was formed in 1784 & selected land on Mounts Creek, then Springhill Tp, now Bullskin & in 1786 got a patent from the Gov & in that year moved his family out bringing several slaves with him. See the Jordan-Hadden 1912 3 Vol Hist of Fay Co Pa in Vol 2 pages 612 et seq. He took up 350 A on Mounts Creek where he died in 1812 & is buried on the farm. See if g.y. is kept up & whether there are markers for him & his wife. The farm passed to his eldest son Thomas & from him to his youngest son Richard Boyd, whom I knew well. His son Charles S. Boyd lives in Dawson Pa. There is a list of his children in above history but I am taking list sent me by Hon Randolph Boyd of Galva Ills in his letter, small Env of Jany 20, 1922 see book 13 p 178 for order of ages. William Boyd was son of Thomas Boyd & his wife Jane Hillis & when 20 yrs old emigrated fr Co Antrim Ireland to near Winchester Va see p 74.

[children]

1. Thomas Boyd, oldest B Apr 8, 1777 near Winchester Va ob Feby 8, 1856 in Fay Co Pa. m.1. to Nancy Rist [best guess]. m.2. Ann Herstein. No issue by her.

Eliza Boyd, [daughter of Thomas Boyd, b. 1777] B 1808 ob unmarried.

William Boyd, [son of Thomas Boyd b. 1777] B 1810 ob see in above Hist. m.1. Mary Long m.2. Lydia Cober see page 198.

John Boyd, [son of Thomas Boyd b. 1777] B Mch 9, 1812 ob Oct 14, 1888 m.2. to Rebecca Stuart Rogers who was born Aug 8, 1820 & died Nov 28, 1896. Had six children. He went to Illinois Mr F. thinks to near Galva. m.1. to Nany [sic] Clark. No issue.

J. Frank Boyd, Is a judge at Neligh Neb. m. Mabel Dolph

James Boyd, of Galva Ills. Is this Randolph?

Mary Boyd, unmarried.

Ellen Boyd, unmarried

Sadie Boyd, m. to Peterson

Thomas Boyd, never married.

Thomas Boyd, [son of Thomas Boyd b. 1777] ob unmarried.

Ann Boyd, [daughter of Thomas Boyd, b. 1777] ob. M. George Clarks Blocher Had 2 chil Eliza & Clark, both dead.

Caroline Boyd, [daughter of Thomas Boyd, b. 1777] ob died in childbirth

Randolph Boyd, [son of Thomas Boyd b. 1777] married in Kansas & had 2 sons.

Thomas Boyd

Eugene Boyd

Rice Boyd, [son fo Thomas Boyd, b. 1777] ob M. Elizabeth Overholt. Last survivor of the family. No issue.

Richard Boyd, [son of Thomas Boyd b. 1777] B Sept 8, 1829 ob Mch 27, 1899 youngest m. Maria W. Strickler owned old orig home see page 297 & 206.

Charles Boyd. Lives at Dawson Pa.

John Boyd [son of Ann Jack & William Boyd]

B Sept? 12, 1779 ob Mch 30, 1857 see book 8 p 432. See Book 12 p 213 item 14.

Robert Boyd, B Dec 10, 1782 ob. See Book 5 p 358 & 359

James Boyd, B Jany 7, 1792 ob Jany 17, 1842 He died in his 50th yr. M. Fanny Long who died aged 80 yrs. See page 68. She was sister of Jeremiah's wife & dau of Alex Long & wife Mary Strickler.

William Boyd, ob went to Ohio to Circleville 1841 m. Elizabeth Stevens & had 8 sons & 1 dau

Mary Boyd, B Dec 12, 1787 ob May 16, 1856 mar Joseph Barnett. Mrs Pugh says she died young. See next name. See page 68

Nancy Boyd, ob. probably Nancy who d.y.

Jeremiah Boyd M.D. the youngest B Dec 31, 1797 ob Mch 1871 m. Apr 16, 1820 in Fay Co Pa to Elizabeth Long born May 10, 1801 ob June 15, 1871 daughter of Alexander Long & wife Mary Strickler. See page 69.

Sarah Boyd ob. M. Stuart H. Whitehill of Little York Pa see pages 453-459.

Nancy Whitehill

John Whitehill

Eliza Whitehill

Stuart Whitehill

William Whitehill

Sarah Whitehill

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[Descendant Chart]

William Boyd & Ann Jack Page 66 & 67

[children]

Mary Boyd mar Joseph Barnett see page 146. He died of cholera in Pgh in 1832.

Clarissa Barnett

William Barnett

Hamilton Barnett

Joseph Barnett

James Boyd, see page 66 m. Nov 9, 1815 to Fannie Long who was born May 1, 1799 & died Aug 28, 1879 aged 80 yrs see pages 424 & 425. He was born Jany 7, 1792 & died Jany 17, 1842

1. Alexander Boyd B Nov 23, 1817 ob Mch 8, 1863

2. Mary Ann Boyd

3. George Boyd, see pages 420-421

4. Martha Boyd

5. Robert Boyd

6. Elizabeth Boyd

7. Thomas Boyd, B Mch 2, 1823 ob Apr 1825

8. Sarah Boyd, B Sept 13, 1839 ob July 13, 1880 unmarried.

9. Fanny Boyd

10. Henry Boyd

11. Isabella Boyd, B June 13, 1836 ob Mch 26, 1842.

12. Caroline Boyd

Dr Jeremiah Boyd, see pages 67 & 76

James Boyd, Born Mch 29, 1821 ob Oct 16, 1904 m. June 1, 1846 in Norristown Pa to Sarah Jamison born say 1824 as she died Oct 1, 1876 in her 53d yr see book 10 p 516.

Robert J. Boyd, B say 1848 as he died Sept 6, 1853 in his 6th yr.

Wallace J. Boyd, B say 1852 as he died Dec 21, 1880 in his 29th yr.

Howard Boyd, B Jany 1, 1855 ob Aug 21, 1903 m. Sept 1882 to Mary Slingluff.

James S., B Aug 1883 m. Apr 19, 1906 to Marguerite L. Burnes of St Joe Mo. He lives at 819 W. Main St Norristown Pa.

A son, B July 1910

John Howard Boyd, B July 8, 1886 ob Feby 4, 1887

Alexander Hamilton Boyd [son of Jeremiah Boyd] B Apr 30, 1823 ob July 1901 m. Feby 1847 in Westnd Co Pa to Ann Overholt. Had 5 girls & 1 boy. She died in June 1894. He died in Illinois of softening of the brain. Ann Overholt was dau of John D. Overholt & his wife Elizabeth Stauffer see L.H. Everts Co Hist of Westnd Co Pa Page 686

Isabella Long Boyd, B Apr 3, 1825 ob Oct 27, 1890 m. May 6, 1845 in Fay Co Pa to Joseph H. Boyd of Fayette Co Pa. had 8 children see book 8 p 432

George Washington Boyd, B Feby 22, 1827 ob Jany 19, 1906 at Smithfield Pa aged 79? M. Nov 9, 1853 in Tronton [Fronton?] O to Anne Songer. Had 5 sons. She died Jany 11, 1901 aged 67 yrs at Waynesboro, Tenn. He died at Waynesboro, Tenn.

Albert Gallatin Boyd, B Mch 4, 1829 ob Mch 1891 aged 62 yrs m.1. Jany 24, 1856 in Western Missouri to Lizzie Beagle. M.2. Had 3 children. He died at Topeka Ills.

Elizabeth Boyd, B Dec 24, 1834 ob Dec 16, 1881 m. Nov 4, 1861 in Norristown Pa to Wm H. Ewing of Fay Co Pa & had one daughter. He was son of James Ewing & wife. He mar 2d Jany 16, 1886 H.M. Torrence. He died Mch 19, 1906 buried Chester Valley Pa Pres Church g.y.

Helen Ewing, m. June 26, 1888 to Chas E. Dunbar of LaSalle Co Ills.

Elizabeth Helen Dunbar, B Apr 1889

Mary Natala Dunbar, B July 7, 1892

Dorothy Dunbar, B Dec 25, 1896

H.W.C. Harold Dunbar B. Apr 1899

Mary Boyd, B May 16, 1839 ob Aug 11, 1916 m. Oct 1, 1873 in Pres Ch Grand Ridge Ills to Charles Pugh of Delaware Co Pa who was born Sept 3, 1836 son of Edward Pugh & wife Martha Williamson. He died Sept 18, 1916.

Chas Edward Pugh, B Dec 19, 1874 at Bridgeport, Mont Co Pa M.1. Sept 5, 1901 to Jessie Erp dau of Dr Webb of Phila. Divorced Feby 27, 1919 m. 2d Mch 23, 1911 to Henriette B. Smyser. Her full name is Henrietta Bahn Smyser born Marietta Pa Dec 17, 1882 dau of Zachariah Smyser & wife Anna Mary Frame. Jessie Webb Erp was born Feby 11, 1876 at Nassau B.I. dau of Dr Edward Y. Erp & wife Emma Highes & is still living

Chas Edward Pugh Jr B Apr 5, 1903 in Phila Pa ob Nov 26, 1904 in Phila Pa ob acute indigestion.

James Boyd Pugh, B July 28, 1875 in Delaware Co Pa ob July 15, 1912. M. July 10, 1902 at NY to Margaret Elizabeth Jackson of Reading Pa born Feby 18, 1877 & still living dau of Geo W. & Elizabeth Jackson of Reading Pa.

Mary Boyd Chuda [sic] B Nov 11, 1903 in Chicago Ills ob July 30, 1904 in NY of cholera infantum.

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Oak Hill Nov 7, 1924 1:30 PM

Through Mrs Benton Boyd of Trotter Pa see page 362 to 363, she sent me record that her niece, Lenevieve [sic] L. had at Omaha Neb see page 207 sent, ie the original, by Mrs A.B. Richardson who asks for its return. I have made some extensions thereon pages 66 & 67 & noted too that William is the 2d child of Wm Boyd & Ann Jack. This paper gives wrong date for Ann Jack's birth. I am copying it verbatim.

"Wm Boyd born 1750, Scotch Irish, Anna Jack, wife born 1755 Huguenot, came to Virginia about the year 1775, when he came over the mountains to seek cheap land, took up the old homestead of 360 acres perhaps more. He came on & settled on it in Summer 1780 and was to build a house an go after his wife and two children (both boys) in fall but took fever and laid for weeks. Letters were written but never reached their destination. After winter opened, she concluded to go and see what was wrong, taking all her belongings - two boys and two pack horses. After travelling for seven days, on the top of mountains, she met her Beloved, who was as much alarmed from not hearing from her.

They came on to their home, a rough log cabin consisting of two rooms, and commenced work. The two boys were Thomas and William, afterwards had Robert, Jerry, James and John two daughters Pollie and Ann.

Thomas married Nancy Rice only child of a German family who took up land about the same time adjoining the Boyd homestead. Their children were Eliza who never married born in eighteen eight, Wm Boyd in eighteen ten married twice, first to Mary Long to which three children were born, then married Lydia______

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which thence came four boys & two girls (she means in all) (see page 198) James, Robert, Kate 2d (ie by 2d wife) Hiram, Frank & Elizabeth.

Next came John Boyd, Judge's father married Nancy Clark. No children born, wife living only a short time & then later married Rebecca Rodgers to which six children were born:

Six children

Frank who married Mabel Dolph

James of Galva

Mary & Ellen who never married

Sadie married Peterson

& Thomas who never married

Ann married George Blusher, two children, Eliza & Clark but dead.

Randolph married in Kansas, had two sons Thomas & Eugene

Rice, married Elizabeth Overholt. No children

Richard married Maria W. Strickler and raised six children:

Charles who married Ella Hankins

Edgar who married Mollie Chalfant

Mary Lou who married W.R. McCoy

Herbert who married Rebecca Kough

Benton who married Nora Edna Lewis

George who married Mable Richardson

(on the back by an elderly person)

Am sending the original, written by my niece, is this copy, for Lenevieve. The original is dim, so I asked to do it for us. One word or two, she was not quite sure of. Perhaps you can make it out in the original.

Mrs A.B. Richardson"

I am mailing these tomorrow to Mrs Benton Boyd Connellsville Pa RD 1.

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[Descendant Chart]

Rev Robert Graham Thompson see pages 184 & 219

[children]

Mary Elizabeth Thompson 3rd child see page 219 B June 9, 1849 in Richland Co O mar Apr 2, 1872 to David George Wright born in Carroll Co O May 19, 1847 & died Oct 25, 1894. They had 5 children, the first three born in Jewell Co Kansas, the 4th in Otto Co Neb & the 5th in Phelps Co Kansas. She lives with her son Walter Scott Wright who has furnished this record at 3721 Main St Kansas City Mo. He was won of James Wright & wife Mary Bettie [best guess]

Letla Ida, B May 27, 1873, ob June 1, 1874

Walter Scott Wright, B Feby 4, 1875. M.1. Sept 3, 1908 to Emily Hembd [Hemod?] born near Brownsville, Missouri [best guess] July 13, 1874 & died Aug 25, 1913 dau of (don't know). M.2. June 27, 1919 to Amy Viola McEvoy born in Winnebago Co Ills Apr 7, 1871 dau of James S. McEvoy & wife Louise Merryfield. He lives at 3721 Main St Kansas City Mo & is my informant for this record.

Ernest Raymond Wright, B Oct 30, 1909 in Everett, Washington.

Jessie May, B. Dec 25, 1876 ob Sept 20, 1893

James Garfield, B Nov 19, 1881 m. Nov 12, 1908 to Bessie M. Perry who was born in Illinois Sept 21, 1885 the daughter of Luther Perry & wife Sarah Lisbarger. They have 7 children the oldest born in Norton Co Kansas & the other six in Leavenworth Co Kan

Rollin Perry, B Nov 8, 1909

James Elvern, B Nov 25, 1912

Lois Marie, B Apr 14, 1915

Jessie Bernice, B Apr 22, 1917

Earl Scott, B Aug 22, 1919 (twin)

Merle Mina, B Aug 22, 1919 (twin)

Esther Gene, B Apr 21, 1921

George LeRoy Wright, B May 19, 1885 m. Aug 9, 1914 to Clemma Olive Merryfield born in Ottawa Co Kan Oct 26, 1887 daughter of Samuel J. Merryfield & his wife Mary Hast. They have had 4 children, the first two born in Ottawa Co Kan the 3rd in Hassington Kansas & the 4th in Dickinson Co Kan

Celia Audra, Born & died Dec 1, 1916

Donna Clair, B Nov 2, 1918

Norman LeRoy, B Feby 4, 1921

Clemma Lucile, B Oct 11, 1922

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Oak Hill July 1, 1924 11:11 PM

I am copying here Mrs Mary Boyd Pugh's Book of the Boyd family which her son Charles Edward Pugh loaned me on Feby 16, past when at his home in Newtown Pa see book 11 pages 377 & 378. She was born May 16, 1839 & was the youngest child of Dr Jeremiah Boyd, see page 67 who was the youngest child of William Boyd & his wife Ann Jack pages 66-67. I am leaving six blank pages to continue genealogical tables of their descendants.

"A Transcript from a book of my Uncle Robert Boyd of Fayette Co Pa of the genealogy of the Boyd family copied at Vesuvius Furnace, Lawrence Co O (the most southern Co in the State) July 22, 1858 By Mary Boyd of Montgomery Co Pa.

Recopied January 1902 at "Springbrook" Bucks Co Pa by Mary B. Pugh (who is the identical Mary Boyd above)

My great grandfather, Thomas Boyd lived in the County Antram, [sic] Ireland. his wife's name was Jane Hilles. He had three sons, Robert, William & John & two sisters (does she mean daughters?)

My grandfather William emigrated to America when he was 20 years

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old & settled near Winchester VA. He married Ann Jack, granddaughter of Jeremiah Jack, who lived near Mill Creek, Berkeley Co Virginia.

My grandfather moved to Fayette Co Pa had nine children, Thomas, John, Robert, Sarah, Mary (who died young) Nancy, William, James & Jeremiah, my father.

Thomas resided on the home farm in Fayette Co Pa. He married Nancy Rice & had nine children, William John, Eliza, Thomas, Ann, Randolph, Rice & Richard, who now lives on the old Boyd homestead (1902) (Richard had died in 1899 & she omitted Caroline who died in childhood).

Robert married Rebecka Work & had nine children, Samuel W., Nancy, Mary, Eliza, William, Joseph, Robert, Thomas & Dempsey (see book 5 pages 358 & 359). Robert was associate judge at Uniontown Pa for a number of years.

Sarah married Stuart Whitehill of Little York Pa & had six children, Nancy, John, Eliza, Stuart, William & Sarah.

Mary married Joseph Barnet & had four children, Clarissa, William, Hamilton & Joseph. Uncle Barnet died in Pittsburg in 1832 with cholera.

William married Dr Stephens (Stevens) daughter Elizabeth & had nine children, eight sons. He moved to Circleville Ohio in the year 1841.

James married Fanny Long & had twelve children:

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Alexander, Mary Ann, George, Martha, Robert, Elizabeth, Thomas, Sarah, Fanny, Henry, Isabella, & Caroline. Uncle James died in the 50th year of his age. Aunt Fanny died at the age of 80 yrs.

Jeremiah, my father, married Elizabeth Long & had seven children, James, Hamilton, Isabella L. George Washington, Albert G., Elizabeth & Mary (preserver of this record)

Jeremiah & Elizabeth Long were married at the Long homestead "White Hall" in Fayette Co Pa Apr 16, 1820. Moved to Smithfield Pa. Kept store, was Post Master in 1828, moved to Baltimore Md. Had a wholesale Drugstore on Market St No 221 in 1835. Went to Philadelphia Pa in the same business on Fourth & Market Sts.

Robert, my grandfather's brother came to America five years after my grandfather & settled at Winchester VA. He married Hester McConnell of Mill Creek Va. They had six children, Abram, John, James, Mary, William & Hester.

Abram never married. John married & had eight children.

James & William died a number of years ago. Jane (she had not named a Jane) married James Hackney & had several children, lived at Green Spring Frederick Co Va. Mary married James McQuerter (or McWhorter) & had one son.

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Hester married James Kidd had several children. Lived on Patterson Creek Va

Robert & his wife lived to advanced age on a farm called "Bobs Marsh" near Winchester Va.

Grandfather's brother John died in Ireland. Had a family.

Grandfather's sister married a Mr Hogsett, one of her sons, James came to this country & married a girl name of Phoebe Jackson of Fayette Co Pa (these were the parents of Robert Hogsett)

Thomas Boyd, my great grandfather had several brothers, three of whom came to America, settled at Boston. One of them was a Major in the War of 1812. The Boyds were known for their strong voices, all were tall.

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Grandmother Boyd's name was Ann Jack. Her father (grandfather?) was one of the first settlers on the Potomac River. Her father, John Jack was killed by the Indians in April 13, 1857. At that time, his father, Jeremiah (Jack) was taken prisoner & remained with the Indians 8 or 9 yrs. My grandmother was born 6 months after her father was killed. She had two brothers & one sister. Her brother:

1. Jeremiah Jack was born Nov 18, 1750

2. John Jack was born Dec 14, 1752

3. Catherine Jack was born Dec 16, 1754

4. Ann Jack was born Oct 1757

1. Jeremiah married in Va & moved to Tennessee near Knoxville, had a large family 10 or 12 nearly

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all boys. He lived to between 80 & 90 years.

2. John, his brother lived near Martinsburg Va married late in life had no children.

3. Catherine, his sister married Mr Rose. They afterwards moved to Greene Co Pa.

Grandmother's mother (she interlined "Long" here when I am satisfied from my knowledge that it should be "Jack" & not Long) married the second time to George Paull. Had two children:

5. William Paull born Feby 6, 1764

6. George Paull born July 2, 1766

They lived near Connellsville Pa.

An account of the Long family.

My great great grandfather, Andrew Long & his wife Mary settled in Warwick Tp, Bucks Co Pa between the years 1720 & 1730. They came from Ireland, he had three children. He died 1760. His son Andrew married Mary Smith, had four children, John, Isabella, Andrew & William, my great grandfather (would be her grandfather if her fist statement is correct).

He married Betty Henderson of Montgomery Co Pa & lived on a farm his father gave him on the Neshaminy Creek Bucks Co Pa. He had six children.

Andrew, William Alexander my grandfather (the first then named on line 16 wd be her great great great grandfather) John, Isabella & Hugh.

Alexander when young, took a body servant ("Charlie") & went to Fayette Co Pa. Settled on a large

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farm called "White Hall" near Connellsville Pa. He married Mary Strickler of Fayette Co Pa. He came to his father's in Bucks Co Pa on his bridal trip of three hundred miles on horseback. He had six children. Fanny, Elizabeth, my mother, Sarah, Isabella, Alexander & Mary.

Fanny married James Boyd (see page 66) & had 12 children.

Elizabeth, my mother married Jeremiah Boyd (see page 67) & had seven children viz:

James married Sarah Jamison had three children: Robert who died at the age of seven (see page 69), Wallace who died at Norristown Pa Dec 22, 1880 30 years of age. He had been elected to the Assembly & died suddenly with Brights disease (see page 69). Howard, the youngest one is living at the present time. He married Mary Slinghuff Sept 1882 had one son James S.

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Alexander Hamilton 2d son married Ann Overholt of Westmoreland Co Pa, had six children five girls & one son.

George Washington 3d son married Ann Songer of Virginia, had five sons, one of his sons is a lawyer, was elected Attorney General of Tennessee, youngest one a doctor of medicine at Waynesboro, Tenn.

Albert G. 4th son married Lizzie Beal. After a few years, she died. He married again. Had 3 children.

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Isabella L., oldest daughter married Joseph H. Boyd of Fayette Co Pa. Had eight children.

Lizzie 2d daughter married W.H. Ewing of Fayette Co Pa. Had one daughter Helen.

Mary 3d daughter (& author of this record) married Charles Pugh of Delaware Co Pa, had two sons Charles Edward & James Boyd.

Isabella Long (her mother's sister) married Joseph Hurst of Fayette Co Pa & had one son, Joseph.

Mary Long married James Hurst of Fayette Co Pa. Had 3 children. After his death, she married James Cunningham of Fayette Co Pa & had two children. She was married at 16. These two sisters married brothers

And Fannie & Elizabeth (my mother) married brothers. Elizabeth was 19 yrs old when she married. Fannie was 16. Fannie lived to be 80 yrs old.

My grandfather Long died very suddenly in the 52d yr of his age.

My great grandfather, Jacob Strickler married Fannie Stuart of Little York Pa. My great grandfather went from Lancaster Co Pa & settled in Fayette Co Pa had eight children viz:

Elizabeth, Fannie, Mary, my grandmother, Rachel, Sarah, Rebeckah, Jacob & David.

Elizabeth married Captain Moses Vance

Fannie married Richard Mason

Rachel married Mr Bricen (Bryson)

Rebecka married John Moreland

Jacob married Nellie Harding

David married Nancy Smith

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The 27th of May 1735, Goodson conveyed 400 A to Andrew Long. The land lay along the Neshaming Creek. The farm of the present Andrew Long on the S.W. side of the Bristol Road is a part of it. Of the old families of the Tp, the Longs still occupy their ancestral homestead.

Andrew Long came to Warwick between 1720 & 1730. He & his wife Mary, were both from Ireland. He had three children & died 1760. His son, Andrew married Mary Smith & had four children: John, Isabel, Andrew & William, grandfather of the present Andrew Long, Mary, Margaret, Lillie & Esther.

Margaret & Esther married two brothers William & (Harman) Haram Yerkes.

Margaret was the grandmother of Judge Yerkes of Doylestown Pa, Bucks Co.

The present Long Homestead on the Bristol Road was built between 1760 & 1765. The N.W. room was used as a hospital at one time during the Revolutionary War. Andrew Long, the second was a Capt in Col Miles Regiment of the Rev Army.

Copied from W.W.H. Davis History of Bucks Co Pa in 1876.

William Boyd's son Jeremiah's son Col G.W. Boyd's Frank was Attorney General of Tenn for 3 yrs. Then he was elected State Senator of Tenn.

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Incidents connected with my father's & my own family from the year 1852.

We moved from Fayette Co Pa 22d of Sept 1852 to Montgomery Co Pa near Jarrettown Pa. Moved from there May 1, 1853 to Lower Merion Mont. Co Pa to a farm belonging to brother James. My father at that time held a position in Washington D.C. Sister Isabella & her husband made us a visit Sept 1853.

Brother Albert came to see us Oct 1853.

Brother Hamilton came to see us Sept 1855

Mother paid a visit to Illinois June 1856, returned home Aug 1856

Brother Hamilton & sister Isabella lived their [sic] at that time.

I made a visit to brother Wash's at Vesuvius Furnace, Lawrence Co Ohio Apr 22, 1858 returned home Sept & brother's wife & two children came with me. (This was the time, see page 784, that she copied this record "from a book of my Uncle Robert Boyd" so that his nephew then had it & it is evidently in the South now with his sons). Brother Wash made us a visit Oct 1858. I made a visit to Fayette Co Pa 1858.

Sister Lizzie went to Illinois on a visit Apr 3, 1860, returned home Dec 15, 1860. We moved from Lower Merion Sept 23, 1861. Went to brother James's in Norristown. We stayed there till Lizzie was married

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Nov 4, 1861 to Wm H. Ewing of LaSalle Co Illinois, she was married by the Rev Job Halsey, Pres min. We all started for the West. Mother & I stopped at Fayette Co Pa on a visit. Stayed till Dec 15th. The Civil War between the north & the south broke out Apr 1861, my father owned property in the south & he went there to protect it.

Mother & I went to Illinois & boarded with Lizzie Ewing until June 1862, then we moved in our own house & lived there until mother's death June 14, 1871. I then went & made my home with Lizzie.

I made a visit to Cousins in Iowa December 1871 & came back Mch 1872. I started on a visit to brother James at Norristown Pa Oct 2, 1872. Spent the winter, met Charles Pugh. We became engaged to be married in March 1873. I started for home Apr 10, 1873, Stopped in Fayette Co Pa, stayed till June, on my way west. Stopped at Tyrone, Pa to visit a cousin Mrs George Wilkins. Stayed a week, Stopped at Johnstown Pa to see Cousin Martha Wakefield. Went from there to Aunt Fannie Boyd's. Went from there to Uniontown Pa, visited Cousin A.D. Boyd Esqr from there I went to Brownsville Pa to visit Cousin Sammy Boyd, made a visit to Annie Ewing from there, then went to Pittsburgh Pa & visited Cousin Henry Blackstone. I went from there

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to Wooster O. Stayed overnight on the 25th June Thomas Boyd graduated with honor from there went home got there June 26, 1873.

Brother Wash's wife & son Harry made a visit Sept 3, 1873

Cousin Robert Boyd was married to Mary Aral (Arrel?) June 16, 1873 see page

Charles Pugh came to Illinois Sept 27, & we were married Wednesday evening 7 o'clock Oct 1, 1873 in the Farm Ridge Pres Ch by the Rev Thomas Gune. At the same time, Cousin Joseph Vance & Annie Jones were married.

After the ceremony had a reception at Sister Lizzie Ewing's. The next day, we went to sister Isabella's & brother Hamilton's, stayed till Monday the 6th. Came back to Lizzie's & stayed till the 20th of Oct, then started for Penna. Stopped in Chicago at Cousin Will & Robert Boyd's. Stayed there until Monday eve, arrived at Charlie's mother's Oct 24th. She was living at Bridgeport, Pa. We stayed there until Nov 25, then we went to Phila. Charlie was in the coal business with John Lidom? on 9th St near Columbus Ave, we boarded at W.H. Hart's on 11th St No 1952 near Norris St. In Apr 1874 Charlie went out of the coal business. Then we went to Bridgeport Pa, went to housekeeping. C. Edward

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was born Dec 19, 1874. On Mch 3, 1875, we moved to the Eagle Store in Delaware Co Pa, commenced storekeeping.

In 1876, Centennial year, we had a number of visitors: Sister Isabella Boyd, Lizzie Ewing & her daughter Helen came the last of April & stayed till June.

On July 28, 1876, Boyd was born, on Friday. In Sept, Katie Read from Ill came & boarded with us seven weeks.

Sept 10, Annie & Maggie Ewing, Annie made us a long visit. Stayed till Feby 1877. The other Centennial visitors were W.H. Ewing, Dr J.B. Ewing & wife, Mr & Mrs Hayes, Mr & Mrs Miller, Mary Beck, Moses Vance, Nellie & John Essick. Mr & Mrs Baldan? Mr & Mrs Jackson, Cousin Harry Boyd & wife & her sister. The Centennial was opened in May & closed in Nov.

I united with the Presbyterian Church at Wayne by cft in Sept 1877

Edward & Boyd were baptized Sept 1877 by Rev G.T. Purves.

Brother James' wife died very suddenly with heart disease Oct 1, 1876 in 54th yr of her age.

Cousin Belle C. Earnest died Aug 1879 very suddenly.

In Sept (16th) 1878, I took a trip to Ills, took both of the boys. My friend, Martha Conner went with me. Came back in Oct. Boyd was bow legged & we had to put braces on him. He wore them 8 mos. He was 2 yrs old when they were put on.

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Aunt Fannie Boyd died in Spring of 1879 at the age of 80 (see page 68). In the fall of 1880, Cousin Rev Thomas Boyd came to see us & to attend the Pres Alliance Council that met in Phila. The Church at Wayne made him out a call, but his congregation at Wooster Ohio would not let him off. Edward commenced going to school in Apr 1881 (she means 1880) to the Radnor School, Delaware Co Pa. Miss Mary Durr, teacher, he was 5 yrs & 5 mos old.

Boyd commenced to go to the same school in May 1881. He was 4 yrs & 10 mos old.

Charles was elected school director Apr 1881 for 3 yrs.

Cousin Bell Ruckman died Apr 1880

Brother James' son Wallace J. Boyd died Dec 22, 1880 aged 30

My friend Mattie Conner's daughter Anna was married to Thomas Weaks Dec 1880

Dec 16, 1881, my sister Lizzie Ewing died from heart trouble. She was only sick a week in her 45th year. She was buried by mother in the Episcopalian g.y. at Farm Ridge, LaSalle Co, Illinois. Left one daughter. Her husband W.H. Ewing & daughter Helen came to make their home with us Feby 1882.

Brother's son, Howard was married to Mary Slingluff [sic] of Norristown Pa Sept 1882. Had one son born Aug 1883 James S. Boyd.

Nellie Knox (a cousin) came to board with us Oct 1883, taught the Radnor School

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Charles' brother All's [sic] wife lost her mind & had to be sent to Asylum. She recovered for a time, then she became so bad, that she had to be kept there altogether.

W.H. Ewing went in partnership with Charlie in the store Feby 1883.

Sister Isabel's daughter Belle married 1882 to Mr Barrett of Indiana.

Her second daughter, Rose, died 1881

Brother Hamilton's oldest daughter Bettie McFadden died Aug 1884

Harry Boyd, Isabel's son died 1885.

We bought the store property from Mr Biddle June 1885, paid $7000 for it.

Mr Biddle's daughter, Mrs Hough died Mch 1885.

W.H. Ewing was married Jany 16, 1886 to H.M. Torrence of Radnor, Del. Co Pa. In Mch, the moved to Berwyn, Pa & commenced keeping store.

Miss Lizzie Bornan, teacher, came to board with us Aug 1886.

Millard commenced tending store for us Apr 1886

Helen Ewing went on a visit to Illinois June 24, 1887

Charlie was again elected school director for 3 yrs Feby 1888.

Mother Pugh & the girls moved to Norristown in a house they bought on Aery St near Bainbridge Oct 1888. John & his family moved in with them.

Cousin Samuel Pugh married his second wife a Miss Davis on July 1888.

Helen Ewing came home from the west

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Apr 1888 & was married June 26, 1888 to Charles E. Dunbar of LaSalle Co Ills went there to live, was married in the Wayne Pres Church by the Rev G.T. Purves.

Cousin Joseph Barnet paid us a visit May 1888, he was almost blind, lost his sight in the army.

Annie Ewing made us a visit in the summer of 1888.

Cousin Samuel Pugh died July 1889

Helen's baby Elizabeth Helen Ewing was born Apr 1889

Harrison was inaugurated President Mch 4, 1889

Rev G.T. Purvis [sic] left the Wayne Church, accepted a call to the Middletown Pres Ch Del Co Pa Nov 1889.

Edward put on long pants at 14 years old. He weighed 107 lbs, was 5 ft 2 in.

The new school house at Wayne was built the fall of 1889. Charlie was one of the building committee. Tryon Lewis & Will Park were the others.

It was completed & school was commenced Jany 2, 1890

Edward accepted a position in the Wayne Title & Trust Co July 10, 1890

Nellie Knox was married to Robert Cameron of Bryn Mawr Pa July 7, 1890

Rev. W.A. Patton was installed at the Wayne Pres Ch Apr 1, 1890

Sister Isabella Boyd died Oct 29, 1890 at her home near Otis, Colorado.

Charley was unfortunate in business & the store was closed for a time, opened again & continued until Apr 1891.

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Charley's brother, John Pugh got a position in the Phila Post office Nov 1890.

C. Cousin Theo Ramsey died of consumption Sept 1890 at Wayne.

Boyd put on long pants Dec 1890, was 14 yrs old 4 ft 10 1/2 in high weighed 88 lbs.

Our neighbor, Mr Biddle was found dead near his house on Thanksgiving day Nov 28, 1890

1890 has been a year of misfortunes & financial trouble to many, unusual stringency in the money markets caused many failures & we unfortunately were among the number

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1891

We sold out our store in 1891 & moved to Newtown, Bucks Co Pa. Charles took charge of a large farm (227 acres) belonging to my brother James Boyd of Norristown Pa.

Edward left the Trust & came with us.

Boyd commenced going to school to Newtown in Sept. He was 15 yrs old.

Brother Albert Boyd died at Topeka Ills in Mch 1891 - 62 years of his age.

The new barn was built in May 1891.

I united with the Newtown Pres Church by letter Sept, joined the Missionary Society in June, had been a member at Wayne 9 years, was treasurer of the Society that long.

Helen's second daughter "Mary Natila" was born July 7, 1892.

Charley joined the G.A.R. Post at Newtown Pa No 427 Wyncoop Post

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1892 & 1893

Edward got a position in the Reading RR office 3 & Berks St Phila June 8, 1892.

Howard's wife broke her leg in June.

Edd Matlick & his daughter made us a visit in Sept. In Oct Boyd & I made a visit to Radnor, Delaware Co Pa.

Charles' mother died Oct 7, was buried the 11th at Radnor Friends Meetinghouse, was 86 yrs old. We attended the wedding of Helen Chambers a neighbor. She married Mr Roberts Dec 27, 1892. Charles went to Washington D.C. Sept to the reunion of the G.A.R.

Cousin Edd Pugh died Jany 11, 1893 63 yrs old

Edward bough a pony (Maud P.)

Had a great deal of snow & the weather was the coldest for 30 years.

Grover Cleveland was elected the second time. He ran against Benjamin Harrison.

1894

I was taken sick with the Grippe the last of January, rheumatism set in & I was not out of the house until April. Martha came the first of Feby & stayed till April, had to have a nurse to take care of me.

William Pugh & Sallie Ramsey, Ida Pugh, Mrs Conner & her son Harry, John Pugh, Dewitt Pugh & Ellen & Caddie Pugh were to see us in the summer.

Boyd had a party of his young friends in August

I went as a delegate for our Missionary Society to Abington Pa. I had the Ladies of the Mis. Society for tea in June, there were 12. Edward went to board with Mr Charles M. Trago 1709 Venango St Phila Pa in Oct.

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Edward was taken sick with typhoid fever Nov 30, was in bed five weeks. I was with him four weeks, the 16 Dec, Edward came a few weeks after & was home until the middle of March. He went to the office & was there until the first of April, he was so run down, he was obliged to stay home until the last of June.

Boyd commenced going to the George School near Newtown Pa Nov 7, 1894

Brother Hamilton's wife died in June very suddenly with heart disease.

Annie Ewing made us a visit. I had a tea party in Sept (3rd). Annie & I went to see Nellie Cameron living at Ambler Pa.

Boyd started on his second year at George School in Sept. I took for 5 shares in the Newtown Building & Loan Association commenced June 1894.

1894 & 1895

Charlie was elected Judge of the election of Newtown Tp in Feby. He was appointed Committeeman of this same Tp in 1893.

Had a visit from Ida Pugh & John & Nina Pugh. Dr Angle's daughter Norah was married in June to Mr Task.

Jackson Knox died in Nov 1894.

Cousin A.D. Boyd of Uniontown made us a visit. Had a pleasant lawn picnic July 13.

Edward bought Floss in April. We bought our buggy Apr 22. A heavy wind storm blew down a large oak tree said to be 150 yrs old.

Edward & Boyd made a visit to Uniontown Pa in July.

Nellie Cameron & family with her brother James Knox made us a visit

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1895

Boyd started to the Spencerian Business College 1520-22 Chestnut St Phila Nov 1st.

Brother James met with an accident on a train. The car was over turned & his side & shoulder were hurt.

Edward's 21st birthday was the 19th Dec 1895. His papa gave him a gold watch.

Cousin George Boyd of Mt Pleasant Pa died in December

The weight & size of the boys:

Edward

14 yrs 107 lbs, 5 ft & 2 inches

17 yrs 135 lbs, 5 ft & 6 inches

19 yrs 145 lbs, 5 ft & 8 inches

Boyd

14 yrs 88 lbs, 4 ft & 10 1/2 inches

15 yrs 105 lbs, 5 ft & 3 inches

18 yrs 147 lbs, 5 ft & 9 1/2 inches

1896

Boyd finished his business course Feby 1896. The 16 Apr, he took a position as Asst Station Agt at Newtown Pa with RR Co.

Ida Pugh made us a visit in July. Had a tea party Sept 3d. The Far & Near Social had a dance in July, the boys both belonged.

Edward took a trip to Niagara Falls in July.

Charles's cousin Samuel Hart of Phila died Dec.

Helen's third daughter "Dorothy" was born Christmas

Hamilton's daughter was married, Maggie, to Mr Swift of Munster, Ills.

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1897

Howard Boyd went to Europe in June 27, came home in Sept. Boyd was 21 yrs old July 28, 1897. We gave him a gold watch. Edward was elected town clerk.

This was an unusual wet season, rained at harvest time, that a great deal of the wheat was spoiled.

The trolley was finished to Newtown from Langhorne Pa in December.

The boys had a picnic dance in August.

1898

Boyd went from the Newtown Sta into the Real Estate Office Foulke & Montgomery in Phila cor Broad & Germantown Ave.

Edward took a trip to Virginia with Chas Foulke, visited a town called Boydton. It was named for Thomas Boyd. I have no doubt they are a connection of my family.

The year brought death to several of my Illinois friends, Anna Vance, Cousin Joseph's wife died. They were married at the same time I was in the Pres Church, Grand Ridge Ills.

Joe died a few years before, both with consumption, left three children. Two Elders of our Church at Grand Ridge died: Evans Finley & Mr Essick.

Edward was elected Inspector of Elections of Newtown Tp. The Spanish-American War commenced in May.

1899

Feby 12, was the fiercest blizzard 16 below zero, snow the depth of 4 ft on the level, it drifted so it stopped travel

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on the RR for a week, it was two weeks before the public roads were opened to Newtown. Papa was elected Squire & Auditor & Edward was elected Judge of Elections & town clerk.

The Grand Army encampment wash held in Phila Sept 3d. My niece, Annie Patterson of Ills & her husband paid us a visit.

Millard Pugh paid us a visit in Aug.

Sept 15, Boyd took a position with the Thackara Mfg Co 1606 Chestnut St Nov 27, Edward was promoted in the RR office at Port Richmond, he went to the city to board at the Washington Hotel, T. & Dauphine St Phila

Boyd commenced to board in the city with Edward Jany 1st. Edd Matlick & Charles Pugh of Radnor paid us a visit.

Helen's baby boy, H.W.C. Harold was born in Apr.

We attended the wedding of Nellie Nelson to Eager Hall in the Episcopal Church in Newtown Pa.

The Trollies were extended to Doylestown from Newtown Pa.

1900

Annie Ewing paid us a visit on her way home from Europe in Sept. Edward was promoted to a higher position at Pt Richmond.

My intimate friend, Mrs Samuel Berckman died in Feby.

Harry Conner was married in Nov.

James S. Boyd entered the University of Penna in Sept age 17.

Harry Pigott of Rochester NY paid us a visit & his brother "Will" was here too.

We attended the wedding of Mary Pickering in Oct in the Newtown Episcopal Church.

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Boyd left Thackara Co to accept a position as traveling salesman with the Gibson Gas Fixture works 1426 Callowhill St Phila

Boyd had quite a bad spell of Rheumatism the last of Dec.

Our neighbors Mrs Slack left their farm.

1901

Brother Wash's wife died Jany 11th at Waynesboro Tenn, 67 years old.

Boyd started out on his first trip as salesman Monday Jany 7. Went South as far as Norfolk Va. In July, took a trip as far west as Omaha Neb, took another trip South in Oct, went as far south as Mississippi. Papa had rheumatism (muscular) had it for five months.

Cousin Dr Rob Boyd from Chicago Ills paid us a visit in May on his way to Europe. I took 20 shares of oil stock of the Sand Fork Petroleum Co in Jany 10

Brother Hamilton died of softening of the brain in July in Ill in the 78th year of his age.

Edward was married to Jessie Erpe, daughter of Dr Webb of 540 Lehigh Ave Phila on Thursday Sept 5, in Phila. Went on a trip to Akron O. Were gone over a week, then they commenced to board at Dr Webb's. Ida Pugh made us a visit in July. Oct 1st the 28th anniversary of our wedding. We held a reception for Edward & his wife, had quite a number of our friends & had a pleasant time. Wm McKinley was inaugurated Prest for the 2d time & was assassinated at Buffalo NY in Sept, died from the wound. Theo Roosevelt was made Prest. Charles Dunbar sold his farm. Edward & wife & Boyd spent Christmas at home.

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1902

Boyd accepted a position with a NY firm Cassidy & son Mfg Co 23d Dist

Had the heaviest sleet & snow, the limbs of the trees were broken by the weight of the ice & snow. Helen Dunbar moved in March to Grand Ridge, Ills. Sold their farm & went in Real Estate business. Papa took 40 shares of the Ohio & California Refining Oil Co Dec 31, 1901. He took 20 more shares Feby 28, 1902.

Edward accepted a position with A.W. Nostal Apr 1st, he & his wife came home May 10 to spend the summer.

Boyd was married July 10, 1902 to Margaret Elizabeth Jackson of Reading Pa married in NY by Rev Thomas Harlene.

We had visiting us through the summer, Dr Webb & wife, Mabel Craft, Jane Pugh, Mather Pugh, Ada Ramsey, Mr & Mrs Will Long, Mrs Bessie Custer's daughter Florence from Seattle Wash.

Boyd was taken sick at Reading, was in the hospital, came home Aug 27, was home quite a long time before he was fit for business.

Edward went to housekeeping Oct 12, in Germantown, 622 Rittenhouse St.

We took Thanksgiving dinner with them Nov 27. They took Christmas dinner with us at Springbrook farm, Bucks Co Pa

I took out 5 shares of the Newtown Building & Loan June 1903.

1903

Apr 5, Palm Sunday. Charles Edward Pugh Jr was born in Phila Pa. Boyd & his wife went to Chicago Ills Apr 27. Traveled in Wisconsin

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Iowa & Illinois. He paid Helen a visit in Sept at Grand Ridge. He returned to Chicago Ills & remained there until he came east. Edward's family paid a visit, came in July & stayed till Sept 3d. Had visiting us in the summer, Mrs Martha Conner from Radnor Pa, Mr & Mrs Charles Mason of Germantown, Julia & Grace Pugh, Mrs I. Shaw, Miss Fredia & Jessie Webb, Nena & Jane Pugh. Dr Webb & nephew Webb Wright from Akron O. Brother James's son Howard Boyd died Aug 21st Friday, was in poor health from epileptic fits, in a moment of temporary insanity, he shot himself, buried on Wednesday 26th in Montgomery Cemetery.

Boyd's daughter, Mary Boyd Chuda was born Nov 11, 1903 in Chicago Ills.

1904

Boyd & his wife & baby made us a visit.

He accepted a position Apr 1st with Enos Co 317 Fifth Ave, NY. They lost their little baby in July 30th with cholera infantum, was buried July 31, in Kensico cemetery NY.

Edward's family came the latter part of July & stayed until Sept.

Boyd & his wife spent a few weeks in August.

Nena & Jane Pugh, Ida & John Pugh & wife made us a visit. Brother James Boyd was taken sick at Atlantic City the later part of August, was brought home, was never able to leave his room. He died Oct 16 & was buried the 19th in Montgomery Cem, Norristown Pa in the 83d year of his age. His death was caused from old age.

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Brother G.W. Boyd of Waynesboro Tenn made us a visit in Sept. He has five boys.

Oct 1st "Boyd" went to Toronto, Canada on business with the same firm in a branch office.

On Nov 4 (it was Nov 8) Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, was elected President. Edward's little boy died "Charles Edward" 19 mos old on Saturday Nov 26, of acute indigestion, was buried the 28th at Greenwood Cem Phila Pa.

1905

Margaret (Boyd's wife) made us a visit Jany first. Spent a week. Had one of the worst blizzards Jany 24. Snowed 36 hours, the snow was drifted 6 inches (she no doubt means feet) in some places. Papa (& I) went to Phila Pa spent six weeks with Edward, he lived 242 N. Rittenhouse St, Germantown in April. Edward & wife spent several weeks in May. Edward took charge of a Gas & Electric plant (was with the Union Railway Supply Co Phila Pa No 1633-1634 Real Estate Bldg) at Lewisburg Pa.

His wife made a visit to Chicago Ills in June. Went to Lewisburg to live in the fall. Boyd & his wife made us a visit in July, also Ida Pugh & her father & mother. In Oct 24, we attended the wedding of Ada Ramsey of Wayne Pa. Made a visit there, had a very pleasant [time]

Millard Pugh took sick the last of Nov

(July 3, 1924 11 AM going in town to office)

(July 3, 1924 6:22 PM resuming)

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1906

The winter of 1906 was the mildest ever known. Brother Wash died suddenly at his home in Waynesboro, Tenn in his 79th year. Boyd accepted a position with a gas fixture Co in Cleveland O (the Morrean Gas Fixture Co) he & his wife spent Christmas with Edward, then made us a visit.

My brother-in-law, W.H. Ewing died Mch 19th buried at the Chester Valley Pa Pres Ch g.y., left one child "Helen".

My grand nephew, James S. Boyd married Apr 19th to Margrete L. Burnes of ST Joe, MO.

Edward went to Boyertown Pa in July is engineering the putting in of a gas plant.

In August, Boyd & Margaret came home to spend their vacation.

Ida Pugh made us a visit. Fanny Boyd from Munster Ills came to see us & Nellie Cameron from Norristown. The Rich girls were here the month of July.

Edward made us several visits. DeWitt Pugh & Annie Ramsey were here in Sept. John Pugh & Jane were here in Oct. Emily, John's wife died Oct 18 very suddenly, had a stroke.

Boyd accepted a position with Tiffany Co NY on Sept 22.

In November, we bought a house in Newtown Pa NO 111 North Chancellor St. Had a telephone put in Apr 30.

Helen Dunbar moved to Toledo O in Sept.

1907

Boyd started on a tour of the largest cities, fifteen, for Tiffany Stayton Co NY. Was very successful in selling goods.

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While on his trip, his knee became very sore & by the time he got to Phil Pa in Mch, he had to give up & come home. Commenced doctoring, was forced to get a brace. Stayed home until the first of June. Then he & Margaret went to NY. The later part of July, his knee began to trouble him again. He began to doctor again & it got so bad, the doctors decided to operate. On Nov 12, he went to the General Memorial Hospital NY. He got out of the hospital, he came home. He improves slow, for his nervous system went through such a long strain.

The 1st of May, I had a fall on the stone walk & injured my left leg so bad I could not walk. In July I commenced to use crutches, began to improve slowly. In March 1908, I got to walking with one crutch. Martha Connor made a short visit in May. Ida Pugh came to see us in Sept. In October, Sallie Ramsey died. Nov, Edward was home about six weeks.

April 1908

Boyd & Margaret are still home.

Boyd's knee improves slowly. I am still using one crutch. Am well & very thankful that I have gotten along so well. We are expecting to move to our home No 111 North Chancellor St, Newtown Pa

Moved to Newtown May.

Edward made us a visit. All like our new home.

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Boyd's knee no better. Went to University Hospital, Phila Pa, was there a week, came home & began to use the Baird treatment, using a rubber bandage, was benefited by that treatment for awhile, the trouble returned. In Dec, began doctoring with Dr Allen of Trenton NY.

Edward engineered the construction of a water works at Mountville Pa near Lancaster Pa, was very successful & a credit to him. Started the Construction of a gas plant at Elizabeth Pa in Sept.

Edward had an attack of tonsilitis.

John Pugh was to see us in Sept. His son DeWitt Pugh was married to Anna Ramsey Oct 7. Helen Dunbar's oldest daughter graduated (Helen Jr) from the High School of Toledo O. Popa (Papa) joined the Friends Meeting. Boyd does not seem to get much better. Ida Pugh & her mother made us a visit in Aug.

1909

Uncle Millard paid us a visit in Feby. On Mch 4, Taft was inaugurated President. He was from Cincinnati, O.

Nell Cameron & her husband made us a visit in April. Boyd commenced to Doctor with Dr Brinckman.

In June, Papa went to Gettysburg Pa as Rep to the G.A.R. Encampment, was a delegate from his Posts, Newtown, Pa.

Stopped to see Mary Rue (or Rice) at Harrisburg Pa. Stopped to see Edward at Elizabethtown (Lancaster Co) Pa

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Papa was elected Chief Burgess of Newtown, Bucks Co Pa in Feby to serve three years. Ida Pugh was to see us in July. Boyd grew worse & walks with great trouble, so he went to bed the last of July. Uncle John was to see us. Was very proud of his grandson, John R. Pugh.

My friend Martha Connor was to see us. I made a visit to Cousin Belle Long at Hartsville Pa, Boyd & Margaret's friend, Mr Coles, Mrs Snead of New York, Mrs Mamie Turner of Chicago Ills, Mr Fisher of Florida.

I still use my crutch & always will.

1910

Had a very cold winter. So much snow. Feby 8, the Young Dr Leo Brinckman of Phila came to see Boyd & advised going to the hospital for treatment. He had been in bed seven months. He went to St Agnes Hospital [unreadable street name] & Mifflin Sts, Phila on Tuesday Feby 15, had to be taken on a cot.

Helen's daughter Natalie underwent an operation for appendicitis at Toledo O.

Boyd came home Apr 12, not much better, used his crutches, did not walk much, rode out in carriage some.

Uncle John Pugh & DeWitt made us a visit.

Boyd's friends, Mr Cole, Mr Tustel? Mr Rich, Mr Fisher. The last of Apr, Dr Hamilton commenced treating Boyd.

Apr 16, Grace Pugh was married to Charles Mann of Bridgeport.

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Helen Dunbar & family moved to Chicago Ills from Toledo O

In Sept, Annie Patterson, my niece died in Streator Ills.

Ida Pugh made us a visit in July.

About Oct 1st, Boyd & Margaret went to Wernersville Sanitarium in Montgomery Co Pa, was not benefited any. Stopped on his way home to see Dr Roe in Phila.

Boyd got along very comfortably, did not suffer so much, only by times.

In July a son was born to my grand nephew James S. Boyd.

1911

Helen Dunbar's daughter Helen fell & broke her arm.

Boyd commenced using the beaker [baker? caker? leaker? have no idea what this could be] for his trouble with the hopes it might benefit him, had used it two months.

The last of Feby, Edward got his divorce. Was married Mch 23, to Henrietta B. Smyser of Newport, Lancaster Co Pa in Baltimore by Rev L.M. Zimmermann. Edward was manager of a gas plant in Elizabethtown, Lan Co Pa. Called a minister to our church Presbyterian, Apr Rev W.M. Bone of WVA. James S. Boyd sold the farm (Boyd farm 2 miles from Newtown, Bucks Co Pa) to Mrs Barbara Amison of Phila. In July Boyd had a spell of fever, was sick six weeks. Had Dr Hamilton. On Sept 7, the doctor died very suddenly. Boyd was better for a time. In about 3 mos, he seemed to go down & did not walk even with crutches.

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Edward was down to see him in Dec. Has been so mild, no cold weather.

Papa & I made a visit to Edward's at Elizabethtown Pa. Went Nov 11, came home Dec 16. Edward is Supt of a Gas Plant. In Oct, he & his wife were confirmed in the Episcopal Church (the St Elizabeth Mission) by Bishop Darlington of Harrisburg. Edward was made Treasurer & Asst Vestryman. There is a very extensive Masonic Home started at Elizabethtown. We made a visit to Cousin Charley's at Moores, Del Co Pa. My grand nephew James S. Boyd started on a trip around the world Dec 30. Still unable to walk. Cousin Ballie Long died in Oct.

1912

Boyd went up & downstairs, had a pleasant Christmas. In January, Boyd quit coming down, in bed most of the time, seemed to be worse & Dr Shepard of Trenton, all he did for him done no good. Margaret doctored with him. Toward, Spring, Boyd took Asthma, nothing seemed to do any good, he was so distressed when the weather grew hot, he failed & we had to give him up. On Monday afternoon, July 15, he left us for a better world. Oh how hard it was. We buried him at Newtown Cem, Newtown Pa July 17 (Thursday) afternoon. Edward & Nellie went home the 24. They decided

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to move to Newtown. Edward had accepted a position with a gas firm in Phila. They moved July 21 & shipped their goods. Made a visit to Newport, Pa, Nellie's home, made us a visit on our 35 wedding anniversary (it wd be their 39th). Edward took his first trip for his firm with Mr Kemmerle Oct 29th went to Boston, took a trip to Henderson NC, also to Charleston SC on Nov 26.

I unfortunately slipped & fell on Aug 30, & broke my wrist, had it bandaged six weeks, it got along very well, a long time getting strong. The first Sunday in Aug, our old Pastor W.T. Krush from Elwin Del Co Pa spent Sunday with us & preached. How we did enjoy his visit. He is a Godly man. Edward & Netta went to Newport, spent New Years, spent their Christmas with us, had a pleasant time.

January 1913

Edward went again to Henderson NC Jany 1st. In Feby, Nettie went to see Edward, was there until May, came home for a short time. Then she & Edward came home together, I think in July. Feby, Margaret went to the Hospital, was there 3 weeks, had an operation was successful. Went from there to Reading Pa. Got entirely well, made us a visit. Her friend, Mrs Howard Boose was with her. Jane Pugh came

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& stayed with me a month or more. I had a severe spell of indigestion. Jane took care of me. I did appreciate it. In June, I had a nervous breakdown, was confined to my room a week, had a nurse.

Mrs Ida Cary, Maggie Burns was with us. I was quite awhile before I was myself. The year of 1912 & 13 was very mild. Gas was put in Newtown, the fall of 1912. Had a visit from Aunt Martha & Aunt Emm [sic] the last of August, Helen Dunbar was to see us on her way to Bellville NJ to take a position of teacher of Art in a school at that place. She spent Thanksgiving & Christmas with us. Edward & Nettie made a visit to Newport, Pa, Nettie's home. Edward & Nettie's friend, Mrs Copland of NC brought her son Francis Leroy & entered him in George School Pa. E & N went to Newport Pa Oct 11. Edward went to Georgia Oct 23. Papa went to the reunion of Tremont Seminary Norristown Pa Oct 23. He went there in 1857.

Edward came home with a very sore throat Oct 29. Went south as far as Atlanta Ga Nov 3. Went to Waterville, Maine, came home Nov 28.

Edward & Nettie went to Newport Pa Dec 27th

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1914 January

Edward went South to Wilson NC, came back Feby 7.

Papa had quite a sick spell. Got over it in a short time. In March, I was taken with a sudden attack, the Dr termed a stroke. Was quite a long time I could not use my pen, so I have left out a good deal what has happened. Margaret & her friend, Mrs Bort maid [sic] us a visit in Apr.

Edward was successful in getting gas franchise at Wilson NC, was one of the largest in the summer of this year. There was a change in the Co & he took charge of the Newtown Pa gas plant, was manager & control of it. Made considerable improvements to the house, new heater, new piping for a better flow of water, had the house newly painted in Nov (17). An outbuilding turned in a garage & back yard much. [sic]

1915 January

A mild winter. Had an Evangelist, Mr Asher, meetings held. There was a good attendance. There has joined the Presbyterian Church 90, the Methodist about the same. It has done our town a good deal of good. Mr Boen was our preacher [previously spelled Bone] In Sept, Charley & (I) went to Norristown, stayed four weeks, had a very nice time. Edward was elected to Council of Newtown Pa. He is Secretary of the O&N Club. He takes a

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great interest (in) it. Margaret made us a visit.

Helen Dunbar's second daughter is engaged to a Mr Gregory of Oklahoma. His parents live in New York. Natalie is the second daughter. The farm has been sold to Wm Rose of Trenton.

1916 January

Nothing written. Here the record stops.

Further back in the book, she has written a page each of Births, Marriages, & Deaths of her father & mother's family as follows:

(Births)

Family record of Dr J. & Elizabeth Boyd copied from the old family bible

Jeremiah Boyd was born Dec 31, 1797

Elizabeth Long was born May 10, 1801

Their children:

1. James Boyd was born Mch 29, 1821

3. Isabella L. Boyd was born Apr 3, 1825

2. Alexander Hamilton Boyd was born Apr 30, 1823

4. George Washington Boyd was born Feby 18, 1827

5. Albert G. Boyd was born (Mch 4, 1829)

6. Elizabeth Boyd was born Dec 24, 1834

7. Mary Boyd was born May 16, 1839.

Charles Pugh was born Sept 3, (1836)

C. Edward Pugh was born Dec 19, 1874

James Boyd Pugh was born July 28, 1876

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Marriages

Jeremiah Boyd & Elizabeth Long Apr 16, 1820 in Fayette Co Pa

Isabella Boyd & Joseph H. Boyd May 6, 1845 in Fayette Co Pa

Alexander H. Boyd & Ann Overholt, Feby 1847 in Westnd Co, Pa

James Boyd & Sarah Jamison, June 1, 1846 in Norristown Pa

G.W. Boyd & Anne Songer, Nov 9, 1853 in Trenton O

Albert G. Boyd & Lizzie Beagle, Jany 24, 1856 in MO

Lizzie Boyd & W.H. Ewing, Nov 4, 1861 in Norristown Pa

Mary Boyd & Chas Pugh, Oct 1 [?] 1873 in Grand Ridge Ills

C. Edward Pugh & Jessie Erpe, Sept 5, 1901 in Phila Pa

J. Boyd Pugh & Margt Eliz Jackson, July 10, 1902 in NY

James S. Pugh [Boyd?] & M.L. Burnes, Apr 1906 in St Joe, MO

C. Edward Pugh & Henrietta B. Smyser, Mch 23, 1911 in Balto Md

Deaths

Jeremiah Boyd died Mch 1871 aged 75 yrs.

Elizabeth Boyd died June 15, 1871 aged 70 yrs

Lizzie B. Ewing died Dec 16, 1881

Isabella L. Boyd died Oct 27, 1890

Albert G. Boyd died Mch 1891

A. Hamilton Boyd died July 1901

James Boyd died Oct 16, 1904, 83 yrs

G. Washington Boyd died Jany 19, 1906, 79 yrs

James Boyd Pugh died July 15, 1912 32 yrs (36)

July 4, 1924, 12:03 AM, I will now quit & go to bed.)

(July 4, 1924, 7:30 AM, resuming)

Mrs Pugh's son J. Boyd Pugh in his twenties wrote some very creditable verses of poetry, some of which she has copied in the book. I will copy two or three of them. Remember he was then a traveling salesman.

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"The Traveler's Mother"

Here's to the traveler's mother alone

Who wishes so much for her son to be home.

She counts the minutes, the hours, the days

And pictures him having the hardest of ways.

2.

In a little Hotel, with not much to eat,

Tired from travel, almost dead for sleep,

If she could only be with him to make some tea,

She'd be oh as happy as happy could be.

3.

He has written no letter for quite a long time

And this to her is a very bad sign

Surely he's sick and unable to write

Oh! Why can't he be here this very night.

4.

She reads the paper to try & forget

But sees to her dismay an account of a wreck

"Hark" Who knocks at the outside gate

Why it is my boy as sure as fate

5.

Boys don't forget to write to mother

For when she's gone, you'll ne'er get another

She cheers you boys when business is bad

And always speaks kindly when you are sad.

March 1902 J. Boyd Pugh

Evening on the Farm

The sun is moving slowly down

leasting [sic] beautiful shadows all around

The cows are restless at the barnyard gate

'Tis harvest time, the men are late.

2.

The men and horses leave the field of wheat

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Tired so tired from head to feet

Down the lane & to the barn

Disgusted indeed from work on the farm.

3.

The cows are milked, to supper they go

Now, they do not walk so slow.

Like hungry wolves, they devour their food

And soon they change from their tiresome mood

4.

To bed they go exactly at nine

Up early next morning feeling very fine

A good way to spend this short life

Far better than the business man's strife

"Boyd Farm" July 11, 1902

"Sleep"

The night is dark & long

All is quiet save the crickets song

Oh! peaceful night, 'tis then we rest

Thanks oh! thanks with sleep we are blessed.

2.

All must sleep, either sound or light

And be prepared for the next days fight

Mind and body must stop their work

O'er in time all duties they'll shirk

3.

Sleep, yes sleep, yet we know not how long

Our bodies will continue to be as strong

For a higher power regulates it all

So sleep, yes sleep until we hear Him call.

July 25, 1902 J.B.P.

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Valentine

(To be sent with candy in a heart-shaped box)

By James S. Boyd.

This is a typed sheet in front folds of the "Cropper"

I would send a valentine

Unto you, Dear Heart of mine

Shall it be a red, red rose

That kindles passion as it grows?

Shall it be the violet blue?

That breathes a calmer love, though true?

Or shall forget-me-nots be best

To set your fluttering heart at rest?

Indeed the thoughts that flowers speak

Though beautiful, are far too weak

Nor do I find in poet's art

Words that can express my heart

Express my heart: That's what I'll do -

Express my heart and love to you

"The Cropper and Other Poems" by Frank Boyd

(A son of Geo Washington Boyd)

Waynesboro, Tennessee, 1907

This is a 99 page 5 by 7 1/2 in little book & the copy loaned me was inscribed "To Aunt Mary, From the Author"

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In the back of the Book of her records on the last two leaves is:

This is a list of the nephews & nieces living at the time of Col James Boyd's death (which was Oct 16, 1904 - I was then on the Pacific Ocean, sailing homeward)

1. A. Hamilton Boyd's family

Belle Weaver, Simpson, Kansas

Christofer C. Boyd, Fremont, Iowa

Ann Patterson, Streator, Illinois

Fannie Boyd, Streator, Illinois

Margaret B. Swift, Streator, Illinois

2. Isabella Boyd's family

Mrs Belle Barrett, Howell, Indiana

Edward & Frank & Walter, do not know addresses.

3. G. Washington Boyd's family

Frank Boyd Esq, (Waynesboro, Tennessee)

Dr Harry Boyd, Waynesboro, Tennessee

George Boyd, Waynesboro, Tennessee

Charlie Boyd, Quinter, Indian Territory

Albert Boyd, Do not know address

4. Albert G. Boyd's family

James Boyd, don't know address

George Boyd, don't know address

Will Boyd, don't know address

Anna Boyd, don't know address

Laura Boyd, don't know address

Ella B. Graham, 367 N. Compton Ave, St Louis, MO

5. Lizzie B. Ewing's family

Helen E. Dunbar, Toledo Ohio

6. Mary B. Pugh's family

Chas Edward Pugh, Newtown, Bucks Co Pa

J. Boyd Pugh, Newtown, Bucks Co Pa

Finished transcribing July 4, 1924 9:30 AM Oak Hill. JVT

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Oak Hill July 5, 1924 7:44 AM

I cannot at the moment turn to the record I got at the Fred R. Carothers home on Irwin St, probably two years ago, but I am noting here from the obituary of his son-in-law Percy D. Hagan in the Morning Herald of July 3d (there had been one in 2d, both filed) & who is to be buried today from the First Pres Ch of which he was a member that his full name was Percy Dillingham Hagan & he died at his mountain home near Braddock's grave [grove?] Tuesday July 1, 1924 at 11:45 PM

He has been here 35 yrs coming first to Oliver Pa where he was with the Fayette Supply Co. He was born in Shala Tp, Allegheny Co Pa Mch 1, 1866 son of Nathan & L. Josephine Hagan. He married Laura Carothers, daughter of the late Fred R & Geneva Carothers & is survived by her & their two daughters, Gertrude & Bertha Mae. He has been a member of the First Pres Ch here ever since coming to Uniontown & is to be buried from the church at 2:30 this afternoon. Rev Dr Wm R. Van Buskirk officiating. Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.

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Oak Hill, July 6, 1924 6:15 AM

I got up an hour ago at 5:15 AM. Last night, about nine o'clock, Western Union Tel Co phoned out to me a message from Lyons, Kansas from Mr J.C. Caruthers, stating that her husband, my double cousin, Jasper Markle Caruthers, had died there yesterday July 5, 1924.

I was there to see them Nov 29, 1922 See Book 9 Page 3.

I am expecting to drive over in the morning to Cokeburg Pa to see if I can find Miss Pearl W. Messmore who I want to see on business & will take with me the Fulton blue print Family tree roll of the Fulton family with over 1000 names on it, descendants of Abraham Fulton, the elder which Cousin Rebecca E. Linn loaned me on June 15, 1922 see Book 7 pages 24 et seq & will go on to Monongahela City Pa & return it to her. It is in the original tube, old with age, in which it was sent to her by William Jewett Fulton of Keokuk, Iowa, whose widow & sister I saw Sept 21, 1921 at 712 High St Keokuk, Iowa, see Book 5 Page 375 & from records gotten there then at the Library from Mrs Nannie P. Fulton, I made a table on pages 372 & 373 of some of the descendants of Elisha Peairs & his wife Elizabeth Jack. In my table page 372, their granddaughter, Nancy Peairs born Oct 1, 1791 died Feby 22, 1882, daughter of Joseph, became the wife of Wm Fulton No 59 on blue print chart.

He, Wm, was son of Robert Fulton, No 9, 1751-1820 & his wife Nancy Sloan, who lived 8 miles west of Mt Pleasant Pa & is buried at Sewickly Church g.y. He was bro then of

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Abraham Fulton 17-- - 1835, who lived S.W. of Ligonier & is buried at Salem Ch g.y. & who married Jane Coe (they are 7 & 8 on chart) & were the parents of Uncle Henry Fulton (35?) 1785-1867. They, Abraham & Robert seem to have been the two youngest children of a senior Abraham Fulton No 1 & his wife Margaret Guthrie No 2. who came from Attalane [best guess, very faded] Co Londonderry, Ireland to Westmoreland Co Pa June 26, 1772. Robert, above 1751-1820 was a Revolutionary soldier. He had seven children:

1. Margaret 53, m. Cathcart 54

2. Mary 55, m. McClintock 56

3. Abraham 57, m. Jane Turner 58

4. William 59, m. Nancy Peairs 60 see below

5. Hannah 61, m. Hartley 62

6. Sarah 63, single

7. Robert 64, m. Crow 66

William Fulton & Nancy Peairs had six children viz:

1. Joseph P. Fulton 282

2. Susan P. Fulton 283

3. Elizabeth P. Fulton 284

4. William Fulton 285?

5. Nancy H. Fulton 286

6. Robert Fulton 287, see below.

It is not clear to me from the chart whether Lizzie Dalzell who had five children 669 -673 was the wife of William or the first wife of Robert, but as she is numbered 288, I infer from that, that she is the wife of Robert & it is clear from the extensions that Harriet Scott? Trussell No 289 is the wife of Robert to whom she had ten children Nos 675 to 688, so I am listing below the entire 15 children as Robert's viz:

1. William Dalzell Fulton 669

2. Nannie P. Fulton 670 who I think is the one I saw at Keokuk, Iowa Sept 21, 1921 see Book 5 page 372 & 375 who I must see & get the record with dates of her grandmother Nancy Peairs Fulton's descendants

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3. Robert Dalzell Fulton 671 married & had:

Raymond Fulton 995

Hazel Fulton 996

4. James M. Fulton 672 married & had:

Jas M. Fulton Jr 997

5. Mary Elizabeth Fulton 673 mar Patterson 674 & had:

Earl Dalzell Patterson 998

Elizabeth Fulton Patterson 999

6. Wm Jewett Fulton 675, mar Jessie Fisher 676 & had:

Willis McQuean Fulton, decd 1000

Alice Rinoland Fulton Decd 1001

William Jewett Fulton Jr, 1002

Marshall Naime Fulton 1003

7. Laura Pears Fulton 677 mar Reed 678 & had:

Harriet S. Reed, 1004

Harry Reed, Decd, 1005

Clara Emma Reed, 1006

Frank Reed, 1007

Jessie May Reed, 1008

Gratia Jewett Reed, 1009

Laura Fulton Reed, 1010

Robert Wallace Reed, 1011

8. Mary Emma Fulton 679

9. Harriet Shara [best guess, very faded] Fulton 680

10. Robt Henry Fulton Decd 681

11. Perry Allen Fulton 682, Keokuk, mar Lulu Chandler 688 & had:

Guy Chandler Fulton 1012

Robt Jewett Fulton 1013

Howard Trussell Fulton 1014

12. Frank Taylor Fulton 684 M.D. Providence R.I.

13. Charles Edgar Fulton 685 More, Minn, mar Esther Goodell 686 & had:

Grace Fulton 1015

Hubert Fulton 1016

Willard Fulton 1017

Ralph Fulton 1018

Gladys Fulton 1019

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14. Hannie Fulton Dec no 687

15. Ralph Trussell Fulton 688 Oakes N.D. mar Harriet Spencer 689 & had:

Margaret Vail Fulton 1020

Ruth Trussell Fulton 1021

Jean Spencer Fulton 1022

There are numerous descendants of Uncle Henry Fulton, many of whom I have listed, by reason of which & the hope of getting a chart, I will not list them here this morning.

Uncle Henry is the son of Abraham, the second, above, whose children are listed as:

1. Benjamin Fulton No 29 Ohio 8 chil given, Ancestor of Mrs H.S. Milholland No so. See page 120.

2. Abraham Fulton No 30, Ohio

3. Joseph Fulton No 31, Ohio 5 children give.

4. Elizabeth Fulton NO 32 mar 1. Shields 2 children, mar 2 Elder 2 children

5. Henry (1785-1869) No 35 West Newton Pa mar four times:

1. to Rebecca Jack 4 children, no 36

2. to Taylor 2 children, no 37

3. to Chapin 4 children, no 38

4. to Smith 5 children, no 39

6. Moses Allen Fulton 1800-1878 NO 40 mar Eliz Barnes 41 & had:

8 children. His 6th child, Eliz E. Fulton on June 11, 1868 mar James M. Jack see book 5 p 194 & had 5 children as shown on my book 5 page 195, Fulton Jack of Beatrice Neb being the oldest.

7. James Fulton, Latrobe Pa no 42 mar Elizabeth Thompson & had:

Thompson Fulton 209 m. Sarah Burleigh 4 chil

Jane Fulton 211 m. Fleming, 10 chil

Henry Fulton 213 m. Houseman 3 chil

Alexander Fulton no 215

Maria Fulton no 216 m. Sterling 2 chil

James T. Fulton 218 m. L. Gilson 1 chil

Elizabeth Fulton 220 m. Tyler, 2 chil

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8. Robert Fulton no 44 mar 1. Rosanna McCaskey, 4 chil mar 2 Hannah Bovard, 7 chil. His 3d child by 1st wife, Dr Henry W. Fulton whose photo I have, mar Jennie Nichols who gave me the photo & their record. I have also the story of his father sending him out to get a wife & of his being introduced to Hannah Bovard & his youngest child by her being his 12th child Eleanor Jane Fulton 239 married Robt Pitcairn 240 & had five children.

9. Margaret Fulton No 47 mar Shaw & had 4 chil

10. Jane Fulton No 49 mar McConaghy & had 3 chil

As I recall Cousin Eleanor Jack Niccolls told me 30 yrs ago in Iowa that either her father, Henry Fulton, or her grandfather, Abraham Fulton, were first cousin of Robert Fulton 1765-1815, the inventor, whatever my former deductions, her father could not have been his first cousin as the inventor's father was Robert who died in 1768 & Uncle Henry's Uncle Robert died in 1820 & we have his line on the chart.

Likewise the inventor's Uncle James, but two yrs older than himself 1763-18-- who married Agnes Thompson 1762-184- is an entirely different man from Uncle Henry Fulton's Uncle James 1749-1834, No 5 who married, as the chart shows, Sarah Cochrane no 6, settled in Derry Tp, Westnd Co Pa & had 8 children as follows:

1. Abraham Fulton no 17 mar Annie Smith 18 & had:

I. James Fulton 104 mar 1. Dunbar 105, no issue, mar 2. Mahon 106 shown.

II. Robert Fulton 107 m.1. Scott 108} 7 m.2. Haddon 109 } children

III. Abraham Fulton 110 mar 1. Elizabeth Taylor, 111 7 children, mar 2 Ann Fulton 112. No issue.

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IV. David Fulton 113 mar Sarah Craig 114 Had 7 chil

V. John Fulton 115 mar Sarah Egbert 116 had 8 chil

VI. Dr Cochran Fulton 117 mar E.A. Davis 118, had 2 chil. His oldest child, Anna Z. Fulton, 409, mar Rev Dr A.S. Milholland 410 my deduction on page 118 line 14 was wrong.

VII. Andrew Fulton 119 mar Lizzie Scott 120 had 4 chil

2. John Fulton No 19, single

3. Robert Fulton No 20 mar Letitia Running? & had 9 chil

4. Cochran Fulton no 22 mar Mary Forgason 23. No issue

5. Benjamin Fulton no 24 mar Jane Ayres 25 & had 3 chil

6. Esther Fulton no 26 mar Craig & had 3 chil

7. Polly Fulton no 27, single

8. Sarah Fulton no 28, single

From which then it seems clear (however investigate & prove) that Robert Fulton, the father of the inventor & James, who married Agnes Thompson, first cousin of grandfather Andrew Finley Thompson were brothers of the original Abraham Fulton no 1 who came from Articlare, Ireland June 26, 1772, see page 116 line 6 to 9 & this would make Abraham Fulton his son (the grandfather of Eleanor Jack Niccolls) a first cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor, which may be what Mrs Niccolls told me & then she was in a measure a little uncertain as to what degree of consinship it was.

When I went into church this morning, I wired Cousin Mrs J.M. Caruthers my great regrets that business engagements prevented my going to funeral & going to P.O., I got a letter from Jasper, written July 4, saying his breath was a little short & he had to work slow, which is probably the last letter he ever wrote as he died the next day July 5, 1924 see page 115 top. I have just phoned & a notice of his death to the Morning Herald, Forke [best guess] Kennedy at the phone.

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It is now 2:22 PM & I will get from the flap compartment of the top (lid) of my old college trunk under the desk in my room, the Power-Jack-Finley printed family tree sheet, recd forty yrs or so ago from Wm Jack Power of McKeesport Pa & which has reposed there in its original C.O.D. $3 wrapper ever since. This chart was founded in the year 1856 by Rev Francis Herron Power 1829-1863, son of Dr James Power & his 2d wife Nancy Jack, see pages 4 & 5 of my book 10. It was transcribed into a different form & was printed by David P. Power in 1877. I wish I had the original form as this form is not one easy to understand & without full knowledge of all the families, it is difficult to properly place some of the names given.

Mrs Andrew Brown of Washington Tp wrote me abt 3 mos ago that she had just recd one & could not understand, so on June 9th last, returning from Cousin Kate Smith's funeral, I stopped to see her & in view of my knowledge of many of the families, I am making a genealogical table in my favored form so as to locate & place as many of them as I can. Rev F.H. Power is descended from all of the three families viz: Power, Jack, & Finley, his grandfather Col John Power having married Margaret Finley, dau of Rev James Finley. There are only two dates given & you have to supply Rev James Finley's name to make meaning out of one of them. It is printed on white paper which is not tough or durable & it is torn on right hand side for two inches & does not admit of much handling. It is 35 1/4 inches wide & 22 inches deep, contains 20 vertical columns, some long & some short & lists 1207 names

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by counting the unknown & blanks as names & twins unnamed as two. There are some errors, but I will put them down as they are but where I know the names are spelled wrong, I will use the correct spelling for instance:

Nicholls should be Niccolls, Thom shld be Thompson, Blane - Blaine, McColister - McCallister, Peoples - Peebles, Riche - Richey, Stopher - Stouffer, Niel, - Neel, Keer - Kerr, More - Moore, Lutes - Lutz, McCrackin - McCracken, Housman - Houseman, Hostler - Hosler, Bezell - Beazell, Dolber - Dolbear, Bennet - Bennett, Summeral - Simeral, Ekart - Eckart, McElbaine - McIlwaine, Robison - Robertson or 22 in all. Nolan - Newlon.

It will be necesary to make a tree for each of the three families & I will just make it in skeleton now, as printed by David P. Power, son of Wm J. Power above & not undertake to compare or make corrections from my records. I will leave the next three pages for remarks & notations if need be abt placing of the different limbs of the trees & will commence on the left hand side of the chart with the Jack family & move to the right, taking the Power & Finley family in order as listed. Will commence on page 126 with great great grandfather, John Jack but will necessary have to pick out & arrange them as best I can as his children are listed under his name in 4th Col. To the right of John Jack, he lists Mr Kilgore & Margaret Jack, James Jack & Jane Carnahan, saying brother & sister. It should be James Kilgore see book 1 p 186 & Elizabeth Jack see book 1 p 207 & John Jack, James Jack & said Elizabeth Jack are brothers & sister. I am changing & supplying names & also adding John Jack's wife's name which they didn't know. The paper is like blotting paper & will not admit of writing with ink.

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Sunday 6:44 PM July 6th 1924

I have just returned from Andrew's where I went at 5 o'c for dinner. Lida says her sister, Pearl Moorhead who was with her a few days ago, having returned from Florida says that brother James Anderson is in a pitiable condition there & has lost his money & told her that his favorite son, James Richard Anderson living in S.E. Kansas had died & that he did not like Victor's wife. Strange that I had recd no notice of his death. Lida showed me a small floral album of my dear Mary's mother, Sarah Frances Anderson with much interesting writing which when I have time, I must read, several verses from her brother, A.J. Redburn, one, the finest legible writing I believe that ever saw, several from her sister Desdemona Poundstone & two pages at the end of the book in immaculate plain writing by her sister, Mary Redburn dated Aug 4? 1849, Ashland (O) see Book 1 p 289. The lines on pages 126-129 are not near complete only giving parts of many families & then it was probably only brought up to 1856 or 1863 when Rev F.H. Power died.

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[Descendant Chart]

Margaret Finley see page 230, daughter of James Finley was born Dec 24, 1819 & died Dec 5, 1852 married Sept 30, 1841 William Brownlee born June 4, 1819. They had 5 children. He married again on Nov 17, 1853 to Rachel Danley & had 3 sons, Martin A. William S. & Chester M. Nov 30, 1924 Mrs Knox writes Nov 27, 1924 that there was no death record in the family bible.

[children]

Finley Brownlee, B Sept 20, 1842 ob m. to Tillie who lives at Lane, Kan.

Matthew Clark Brownlee, B Feby 1845 at Wash Pa ob Aug 7, 1919 at Leavenworth Kan mar Nov 15, 1871 at Uniontown Pa to Ethel [Etta L.?] Sharp born at Uniontown Pa Nov 15, 1851 (dau of Wm Sharp & wife Caroline Harrow) & died June 26, 1913 at Warrensburg Mo. Had 8 children the first two born near Barnett Kansas & last four at Columbus Mo. See pages 24 & 230. [twin]

Thomas Wilson Brownlee [twin] B Feby 14, 1845 at Washington Pa ob Oct 15, 1920. m. Oct 27, 1869 to Helen Jane Barnes my informant by mail, small env for this record who was born at Springfield Ills Aug 5, 1851 dau of George Clark Barnes & wife Susane [sic] Hutton & now lives at 714 N. 10th St Independence, Kan. Her first two children born at Berea Kan next nine at Richmond Kan & the last & youngest at Coffeyville Kan.

Clara Vienna Brownlee, B Aug 26, 1870 m. June 21, 1895 to Albert A. Augustine, born July 26, 1871 in Labette Co Kan son of John H. Augustine & wife Phoebe Smith

Eva Dale Brownlee, B Dec 22, 1871 m. Oct 1898 to Lewis Chance jr Born Aug 24, 1860 at Brazil, Ind, son of Lewis Chance & wife Margaret Lines.

Harry Brownlee B Oct 23, 1873 m. Dec 26, 1897 to Etta F. Augustine born Apr 14, 1878 at Coffeyville Kan, dau of John H. & wife Phoebe Smith.

Charles Arthur Brownlee, B Jany 24, 1876 m. May 14, 1902 to Emma Standiford B Dec 10, 1881 at Homewood Kan dau of Jno M. Standiford & wife Flora E. Wyatt.

Grace Brownlee, B Oct 4, 1877 m. Feby 22, 1899 to John Wesley Patchett born Nov 6, 1874 at Dearing Kan son of Enos Patchett & wife Avarilla Stephens

Susan Blanche Brownlee, B Dec 11, 1879 (the date of my marriage) m. Aug 27, 1902 to William C. Farlow born Oct 10, 1876 at Paoli Ind, Son of Nathan Farlow & wife Martha Cloud.

Ada Pearl Brownlee, Born Dec 28, 1881 m. Jany 2, 1918 to Warren Frazier Whitmer born Apr 22, 1879 at Mound City Mo son of Peter E. Whitmer & wife Cynthia Cable.

George Clark Brownlee, B May 31, 1884 m. Apr 16, 1924 to Mrs Flora Mattison, widow of ______ Mattison & dau of George Currier & wife Annie Boyington. Flora was born Mch 11, 1895 at Montville Maine

Mabel Alice Brownlee, B June 26, 1886 m. Oct 27, 1909 to W. Lee Brown, b Apr 20, 1887 at Mt Vernon Mo, son of Wm James Brown & wife Martha Jennings.

Nina Margaret, B Sept 27, 1888

Harriet Jane Brownlee, B June 5, 1891 m. July 23, 1924 to Wm H. Metzger born Oct 1, 1872 at Ottumwa Iowa, son of Chris Metzger & wife Anna Metzger.

Ralph Wilson Brownlee, B Mch 4, 1894 m. Feby 25, 1913 to Emeline Dixon born Feby 21, 1895 at Havana, Kan, dau of Edward Dixon & wife Cora Dowell.

Floravana Brownlee, B Apr 3, 1848 at Washington Pa m. at Washington Pa May 9, 1872 James Ralston Knox, living at Mt Ayr Iowa. He was born at Claysville Pa Sept 15, 1843, son of Thomas Knox & wife Esther Ralston, oldest child born Washington Pa, other two at Mt Ayr Iowa. See pages 230 & 231.

Margaret Jane, B Aug 1, 1849, ob

Colans, B May 5, 1852

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[Descendant Chart]

John Jack [brother of Elizabeth & James Jack, see following pages] m. Eleanor Stevenson.

[children]

Jane Jack, m. James Clark

John Clark

Joseph

William, m. Rosanna Hurst

Lydia, m. Robt Snodgrass

Jane, m. Mr Hull

Nathaniel

James

Andrew

Thomas

Robert

Frank Clark

Anna Jack, m. John Robertson

Andrew, m. Matilda Leasure

Anna

Sarah, m. Wm Plumer

Joseph

Ellen, m. Boyd

William, m. Nancy Kilgore

Anna

Mrs Finley, m. Andrew Finley

John Finley

Jane Finley

Nancy Finley

Mrs Logan, m.1. Wm Thompson, m.2. John Logan

Mr Thompson

Miss Thompson

Andrew Finley Thompson, m. Leah Markle

Mary M. m. J.P. Crothers

Jasper Markle, m. Eliza Caruthers

Lizzie Jack, m. John Markle

Maria Markle, M. Micajah Smith

Harmer D.

Amanda

Elizabeth

Ebenezer

Amzi

Markle

Ellen

Mary, m. Henry Drum

Samuel Drum

Eliza

Maria

John

Micajah

William

Mary

Harmer

Davis

Gasper, m. Orr

Elizabeth Markle

Bettsy (or Bettie)

Martha

Mary

Elizabeth

David Markle

John, m. unknown

David,

H.D.S.

H.D.

Nelly

Elvira

Lucinda Markle

Rebecca Jack, m. Henry Fulton

Abraham Fulton, m. Newlon

Jane, m. John Power

Eleanor, m.1. Dr Isett, m.2. J.A. Niccolls

John Fulton

Patrick Jack

Stinson Jack

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[Descendant Chart]

Elizabeth Jack [sister of John & James see pages]

m. James Kilgore

[her brother] James Jack m. Jane Carnahan

[children]

Patrick Jack

James, m. unknown

Anna, m. Jno Henderson

John, m. Nancy McCoy

Jane Jack

James, m.1. Mary Kerr m.2. Jane Fleming

John K. Jack, (1st wife)

Lavina, (1st wife)

Maria, (1st wife)

Harriet, (2nd wife) m. Clark Warden see book 2 p 30

Mary Jane (2nd wife)

Thomas, m. Miller

Caroline

Sarah

John, shd be Thos

Nancy

Martha

Eliza Jane, B May 19, 1833 living, mar Dr Robt Neilson

Emma

Margaret, m. James Richey

John

Keziah

Elizabeth Richey

Ruth, m. Sam Neel

Lucinda Neel

Nancy

Rev John Neel Cynthia, m. Samuel Sloan

Keziah

John

Fullerton

Lavina

Carnahan

Nancy

Francis

Calvin

Nancy, m. Dr James Power Susan, m. Presly Hurst see p 504

James P. m. Anderson

Edward B.

John

Sally A.

Nancy

Frank H.

Samuel C.

Thomas Hurst

Sarah, m. John Brown

Mary E. Brown, m. Mathew Willson

Edgar Willson

Andrew

Nannie

Ada Brown

Ann Brown

James, m. Mary Hines [best guess]

William J., m. Mary J. Pollock

Anna Power

Henry J.

Wilkins B.

David P. Power, printer of this chart

Emma B. Power

Samuel T.

Thos J.

Rev Francis H., author of this chart

Carnahan N. m. Mary Maple

Earnest

Grace

Nancy J., m. Joseph Scott

Calvin B., B Mch 26, 1838 living. m.1. Gertrude Wycoff, m.2. Mary McKee see p 32

Hattie, 1st wife

Sadie Power, 1st wife

Eva Power, 2d wife

Frank M., 2d wife

J. Parlee Power, 2d wife

Keziah [dau of John & Nancy McCoy]

Elizabeth, m. Wm Todd Niccolls

Rev Saml Jack Niccolls

Mary, m. Nathaniel Hurst

John, m. Elizabeth Arnold

Sarah

James, m. Stouffer

Joseph

Braden, unknown

Nancy, m. Wm Neel

John Neel

Francis Hurst

John, m. Susan Dennison

Nancy J.

Martha

Thomas

Albert

John Jr

Josephine Jack

Joseph, m.1. Sarah Sloan, m.2. Hannah Herron, Samuel S. by 1st wife other five by 2d wife.

Samuel S.

William

Elizabeth

Frank

Anna

John Jack

William Jack, m. Caroline Howard

William

Jennie

Belle

Nellie, [dau of James Jack & Jane Carnahan] m. Scroggs

Elizabeth

Margaret

Mary

Jane

Cynthia

Nancy

Jemima

James

Hannah

Andrew Jack

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[Descendant Chart]

James Jack & Jane Carnahan, from preceding page.

[children]

Patrick, page 127

John, p 127

Nellie, p 127

Elizabeth Jack, m. Wm McFarland

John McFarland, unknown

William, m. Cynthia Wills

Elizabeth, m. Bell

Margaret Jack, m. William Clark, went to Kentucky

Jane

Cynthia

Mary Jack, m. John Herron

Rev Francis Herron, m. Elizabeth Blaine, Pastor 1st Pres Ch Pgh 50 yrs.

Mary, m. Rev Jno Smith

Francis Smith

John

Jane, m. Rev Aaron Williams

Francis, unknown

Eliza

Ada

Mary

L. Halsey

Eliza, m. Geo Shiras

Francis Shiras

George

Oliver

Rebecca

Bell, m. Hoge

William Hoge

Jane, m. Rev Jno? Kennedy

John Kennedy

Anna

George

Robert

Francis H.

Elmer

Sarah, m. Jas Brice

James

Francis

Keziah, m. Robt Peebles

Robert

John Peebles

Mary, d.y.

Margaret, m. Wm Culbertson

Mary J., m. Rob Robison

Sarah

Samuel

Frank

Robert

Belle Robison

Margaret, m. Dillon

Mary Dillon

John

David

Eliza Herron

Jane Jack [dau of James & Jane Carnahan Jack] m. James Cooper

James Cooper

Robert

John

William

Jane

Sarah, M. David Campbell

Andrew

Margaret, m. Wm Carnahan

Jane Carnahan

William

Mary

Sarah

John

Mathew Cooper

Cynthia Jack, m. Jos Hemphill

Nancy Hemphill

Jane

Julia

Caroline

Margaret Hemphill, m. John Maclay

Jane Maclay

James Maclay

Moses Hemphill, m. Margery Clark

Elizabeth Hemphill

Jane, m. James Quigley, might be her aunt

Joseph S.

Anna M. Mary B.

Cynthia, m. David Quigley

Thomas M.

Robert C.

Mary

Caroline

James

Robert

William

Charles

Sharp

Maggie Hemphill

Jack Hemphill [son of Cynthia Jack & Jos Hemphill]

Nancy Jack [dau of James & Jane Carnahan Jack] m. Gen James McComb. He born say 1758 in Ireland ob July 13, 1814 aged 56. She born say 1764 & died July 21, 1833 aged 69 see book 5 p 187

George McComb, m. Marshall

James, m. McLaughlin

Jane, m. McKnight 2 chil, went to Texas

John

David

Mary, m. Henderson, see pages 466-477

Andrew

Joseph

Nancy, B 1800? ob Apr 1889 in 89th yr Mar Nov 24, 1851 to James McKee, his 3d wife & he survived her. see page 474 & 5

Jemima Jack, m. Thomas Dunlap Jane Dunlap

Daniel

James

Jemima

Thomas Dunlap

James Jack, m. Baird. This is wrong, he mar a McKinney

Lydia Jack

Jane

Cynthia

Lavina, m. John McAllister

John

Martha

Mary, m. Thos Harper

Lizzie

Luther

Anna

Nancy Jack, m. Robt Fairman

Margaret

Robert

William

John

Thomas

Theodore

Hannah Jack [dau of James & Jane Carnahan Jack] m. James Wills

Dr David Wills

Jane, m. Francis Herron.

Hannah, m. Joseph Jack

William

John

Nancy

David

James, m. Ruth Wilson

David

Ruth

John

Mary Wills

Cynthia Wills

Andrew Jack, m. Elizabeth McCoy

James

John

Thomas

Margaret

Jane Jack

It is now 1 Am 7th July & I will quit for tonight having finished the Jack line practically on these four pages. JVT

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[Descendant Chart]

Patrick & Jeannette Power see Book 10 page 4

[children]

Rev James Power D.D. born 1745 died Aug 5, 1830 aged 85 Mar Mary Tanner see book 10 page 4.

Elizabeth Power, m. James Kerr

James

Mary

James

John

Elizabeth

William

Jane, m. William Swan

Rachel, m. John Kerr

Mary

Rebecca, m. Rev James Smith

Rev Joseph Smith, m. Elizabeth Bell author of "Old Ralston" [best guess]

Lizzie

John

Maria

Rebecca

James

Joseph

Frank

James, unknown

David

Dr Thomas

Rev Power Smith

Eliza

David Smith

Isabel, m. John Carothers

James Power Carothers, m. Jane K. Moore

Mary

Elizabeth, m. Rev Joseph McKee

Mary, m. John Finley son of Clement 1735-1775 of John of Michael see book 11 page 318-400. See will book 2 page 275 item 32. John was born May 18, 1766 & died Sept 9, 1813 See books No 14, p 212 no 13, p 466, no 6 p 145, no 15 p 353-4, no 11 p 318.

1. James Power Finley, There is a James shown as married Eliz. Williams & having chil, but I don't know whether it is these James or Joseph's son July 8/24. I conclude it is Joseph's son Oct 28/24 pages 529 & 133. This is not the one that mar Eliz Williams. Born Aug 6, 1792.

2. Jane, m. & moved to near Steubenville. B July 16, 1794 m. Robertson.

4. Mary, b Jany 28, 1799

3. Clement, B Nov 17, 1796 ob Aug 30, 1813 unmarried

8. Rebecca Finley, youngest

5. William, see book 2 p 275 item 32 & Book 13 p 446 B Oct 31, 1800 ob abt Mch 18, 1885.

6. Elizabeth, m. Jno Bray

7. Rachel

Hannah [dau of Rev James Power] m. Amzi Chapin

Mary Chapin, m. Henry Fulton, his 3d wife

Rev. James P., m. Shouse

Hannah

Rebecca, shd be Margaret Book 7 p 37.

Eunice

Jane

Power

Amzi

Rebecca

Hannah

Margaret Power, m. Nathaniel Hurst being his first wife see book 2 page 30.

Power Hurst, m. Phebe Rogers

Rogers

Nathaniel

Aaron

Lydia

Mary

Nathaniel

John, mar Mary Cunningham

Robert

Bronson

Lydia

Britie

4 [children], d.y.

Col John Power [son of Patrick] m. Margaret Finley see book 10 page 5. He was born June 6, 1757 & died July 21, 1805

Dr James Power, m.1. Susannah Torrance 5 chil. m.2. Nancy Jack Page 127 10 chil

John

Martha, m. John Allen, see page 508

Mary

Susan, m. John Wilson

Sarah M., m. Andrew McKinley

Hugh W.

Jennie

David, m. Maggie Peairs. Lived in Texas

William

McK

Hor.

Francis

Joseph

James

Elizabeth

Anna

Clarissa, m. Simeral

Perry

Maggie

Walton

William

John Allen

Joseph [son of Dr James of Col John Power], single

Mary, mar John Westbay see book 10 p 4 & 3. See book 12 p 502

Henry

James

Joseph

Elizabeth

Sarah

William

Marietta

Martha

Calvin

Frank

Thomas

Nannie

Power

Mary

Steward

Harry

Hattie

Laurie

John

Eliza [dau of Dr James of Col John Power]

Jane [dau of Col John Power]

Patrick, m. Nancy Gallaher

John Power, m. Jane Fulton

James, m. Cynthia A. Wood

Ebenezer

William, m. Rebecca Fulton

James P.

Robert?

John

Jane

Elizabeth

Mary Power

Samuel, m. Belinda Hosler

Ada

Homer

Dessa

May

Calvin

Mary, m. Hamil Smith

Mary

Evans, m. Beazell

Joseph

Harriet

Hannah [dau of Col John Power] m. Robert Thompson, one child

Margaret, m. Rev James Woods

John Woods

Samuel

Elizabeth

James

William

John F., m. Mary Starret

James Power, m. Mary Bennett

John

Mary

Britty

Finley, m.1. Francis Finley, m.2. Martha Drennan

Joseph W. 1st wife

Anna M., 2d wife

Evans, m.1. Lucinda Applegate m.2. Emma Coldren

Linden, 1st wife

Jessie, 1st wife

Anna, 2d wife

William, m. Elizabeth Moore,

Mary A.

John M.

Jane, m. Thos Thomas,

John Thomas

Albert

Mary

M. Jennis

Margaret, m. Jacob Speer

James

Noah

Nancy

Hannah, m. Jacob Fry

Harriet

Mary

Frances, m. Bela S. Houseman

Frances

Ellen

Bela?

George

Homer Houseman

Lavina Power

Mary Power [dau of Col John Power] m. John Torrence

Samuel

James

Power

Jane, m. Hiram Gamble

Hezekiah

Power

William

Isabella Power, m. Isaac Irwin

Margaret Irwin, m. John Blackburn

Belle Blackburn, m. Noah Lutz

Edward Lutz

Lizzie, m. George Lutz

John

Reva

Hester

Maggie

James Blackburn

Elizabeth

Rebecca Irwin, m. Andrew Robertson

Isaac

James

Thomas

Isabel Robertson

Isaac

James

Susannah Irwin

Jane Power [dau of Patrick Power]. m. Robt Moore See Book 14 p 412. She was born Dec 23, 1752 & died Apr 11, 1832.

Ebenezer Moore, youngest son see Grand [unreadable] page m. Hurst.

Jas H.

Robt B.

J.W. [unreadable]

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[Descendant Chart]

Thomas McCoy lived in Mt Pleasant Tp, Westmd Co Pa & gave the ground for the g.y. at the old Pres Middle Church. See will at Gbg & book______. Married Margaret Edgar

[children]

Nancy McCoy, m. John Jack see page 127

Ruth, m. John Martin

Margaret Martin, m. Johnson

Dr Hugh, m. Anna Wilson

Ruth

Dr John, m. Anna Wilson

Jane, m. unknown

Elizabeth, m. unknown

Keziah

Thomas Martin, m. unknown

Margaret, m. John Gurner

Mary

Margaret

Joseph, m. Jane Gibson

Thomas

Joseph

Thomas, m. Margaret Martin

Elizabeth McCoy, m. Andrew Jack see page 129

[Descendant Chart]

[Finley]

[children]

Rev Samuel Finley 1715-1766 Prest Princeton College

James

William

Michael

Ebenezer

Unknown

Rev James Finley 1725-1795, Pastor at Rehoboth, m. Hannah Evans

Rev John E. Finley, m. unknown

Ebenezer, m. unknown (m. 4 times)

Ebenezer

Samuel

Margaret

Joseph, m.1., m.2. see page 549

Hannah

Robt R. m. Mary Foy

one, d.y.

Elizabeth

Edward

Joseph

George

Samuel, m. unknown

Ebenezer

Joseph

Jane

Thomas, m. Elizabeth McClure

Francis

David

Margaret

James Finley, by 1st wife, oldest, see page 130 m. Elizabeth Williams

Williams Finley

Joseph

Margaret

Evans

Francis

Robert

John

Mary

Alfred Finley

Hannah, [dau of Rev James Finley 1725-1795] m. John F. Robison

Martha

Margaret, m. John McConnell

Rosanna

Nancy

Mary

Nancy

Elizabeth

Alexander

James, m. Matilda Elliott

Thomas

William, m. Sarah Patterson

Michael Finley, m. Ellen Elliott

James, m. Hester Smith

Evans, m.1. Gardner m.2. Rebecca Patton

Elliott, m. Davis. Had issue

Ebenezer, m. unknown

Michael, m. unknown

Robert

Sarah

Nancy

Hannah

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Oak Hill July 8, 1924 8:33 PM

Yesterday, Monday morning, I started at 7:44 AM in our car for Cokeburg, Washington Co Pa to see Pearl W. Messmore & I took with me the Fulton family tree blueprint descendants of Abraham Fulton the elder & the immigrant of June 22, 1772 to return to Mrs Rebecca E. Linn in the original tube, in which she loaned it to me June 15, 1922.

I wanted to see my former ward, Sara J. Thornton about her Greene Co coal stock & stopped at her home in Redstone Tp & was there about 20 minutes & she was very glad by the opportunity to sell at $275 per acre & said she had her cft up at the Monon NBK, Brownsville Pa on a $6000 loan. As I was leaving, she called her Aunt, Miss "Tude" Barnett, her mother's sister & I asked her if her Barnetts were not from Connellsville Pa & she said they were & her father was Hamilton Barnett who went to Pgh in early life & married there. I said "Wasn't he a son of Joseph Barnett & Mary Boyd, daughter of Wm Boyd & his wife Ann Jack" & she said "yes". She then said to see J. Leslie Francis of down about Star Junction or Perryopolis & his son Victor who takes more interest in family matters of that kind than his father & that he probably had the records of his maiden aunt, Mary Francis who died but two years ago & who was greatly interested in preserving

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family papers & who she thought wd have her parents bible record. Ask if she had the Wm Boyd bible record. Go see them. Victor probably got her records. She says the mother of Mary & J. Leslie Francis was a sister of her father. Go see them. I then drove to the Monongahela Natl Bank, Brownsville Pa & stopped & saw Capt W.A. Edmiston about it at 9 AM. Driving on, we reached Beallsville Pa & at 9:45 AM, stopped at the bank to see Jess P. Miller. He knew David Carlisle Jenkins, grandfather of Florence & referred me to W.H. Cleaver or his sister Mrs Jones, both living at Centerville Pa. He said Mrs Flick was living in the old home. I then drove to Scenery Hill & turning to the right at the old stone tavern, now the Century Inn, arrived at Cokeburg at 10:10 AM. Enquiring at the P.O., was told that Pearl Messmore was attending summer school at California Pa retracing to Beallsville Pa turned to the left in Center of the town at the edge of which we were soon at the fine big brick house home of:

Mrs W.B. Flick, Beallsville Pa July 7, 1924 10:44 Am &

Found Mrs Flick & her daughter, Mrs Smith in the yard, They got out

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the old well preserved Flick Bible which was printed in Phila Pa in 1851 by Lippincott, Grambo & Co from which I copied the record, which follows to which was added from their memory, some additions. They said the old Daniel Flick home in Greene Co was now the Pratt farm between Waynesburg & Jefferson on the south branch of Ten Mile Creek.

Susannah Brown born Sept 9, 1803 (she was daughter of William Brown who was son of James Brown & his wife Elizabeth Thompson see book 9 page 541) She married on Aug 22, 1822 Daniel Flick being his first wife

Daniel Flick born Apr 28, 1802 (in Fayette Co Pa Mrs Flick thinks), the son of Daniel & Susannah Flick both natives of Germany, where this elder Daniel stole his wife & came to America settling first in the Ligonier Valley Pa & coming thence to Fayette Co Pa where this son Daniel learned to be a weaver. (See commemorative biographical records of Wash Co Pa J.H. Beers & Co Chicago 1893 14863 pages on page 243 on article on William B. Flick)

After the death of his first wife, Susannah Brown, the said Daniel the younger married four more wives, the record of which shown in the bible is as follows:

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M.2. May 3, 1836 Sarah Stewart, born July 4, 1800 ob June 25, 1837

M.3. May 13, 1838 Nancy Haldeman born Apr 19, 1799 ob Nov 8, 1853

M.4. Nov 16, 1854 Jane E. Cleaver born July 1, 1819 ob Oct 7, 1855

M.5. Nov 6, 1856 Mrs Eleanor Freeman born Mch 7, 1809 ob Jany 12, 1881. She was daughter of David & Hannah Mitchell & widow of Louis Freeman. His 4th wife was daughter of Isaac & Elizabeth Cleaver

Daniel Flick died Mch 18, 1871. His first wife Susannah Brown died Feby 23, 1835 aged 31 yrs 5 mos & 14 days. They had four children all born in Greene Co Pa as follows:

1. Mary Flick born Dec 25, 1823 ob Aug 4, 1852

2. Eliza Ann Flick born May 17, 1826 ob June 14, 1838

3. William Brown Flick born June 15, 1830 ob Mch 30, 1914

4. Samuel Flick born June 28, 1834 ob Apr 4, 1838

5. John Franklin Flick born Sept 25, 1855 ob Oct 26, 1855.

1. Mary Flick married Robt Zimmerman of Waynesburg Pa who Mrs Flick feels sure was son of Henry Zimmerman. Robert Zimmerman is dead. Had several children among them:

I. a daughter married a Rose

II. Daniel Zimmerman

& other children for which see will of Daniel Flick at Washington Pa in which they are named.

3. William Brown Flick mar 1. Nov 10, 1850 Mary Berryhill who died Nov 5, 1851 when her son Willie was a month old & is buried in Greene Co Pa. She was daughter of Berryhill who came to Greene Co from Pittsburgh Pa. Had one child.

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mar 2. Maria Rinehart, daughter of Simon Rinehart & his wife Hannah Morris. They were divorced & she took the two children, Oscar & Mary Emma.

mar 3. May 17, 1866 Gobitha [sic] Irwin dau of James Irwin & his wife Mary Flenniken who was born Apr 6, 1826 & died Sept 23, 1895. No issue.

mar 4. Mary Eleanor Sullivan, my good informant who heretofore had not told her age, which I guessed to be 60, born in West Middletown, Guernsey Co Ohio Dec 11, 1844. Widow of James Patrick Sullivan who died in Pittsburgh Pa, and daughter of William Henry Stoy & his wife Margaret Malinda Biggs. She & Mr Flick were married at Pgh Pa by Rev Wallace U.P. preacher on Dec 30, 1896. No issue. Mrs Flick had two children by her first husband viz:

1. William Henry Sullivan

2. Kathleen Gertrude Sullivan my joint informant who makes her home with her mother & whose husband who came in just as I was leaving is Harry Speer Smith Secy of their local country club, who says his sister is the widow of my late friend J. Harvey Evans, late treasurer of the Union Trust Co Pgh Pa who recently died so suddenly.

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Wm B. Flick's children were:

I. William Flick born in Waynesburg Pa Oct 16, 1851 & died Nov 5, 1890 being a RR engineer & was killed at his post, refusing to jump in the hope of saving his train in a B&O wreck at Claysville Pa. He was unmarried.

II. Oscar Flick married & living in Pgh Pa Mrs F. thinks. She is going to try to get me his & his sister's address.

III. Mary Emma Flick, married a Wolf of Wash Pa

Their mother after her divorce married a Hartzell & has since died.

Left 12:12 PM

We then drove on through Bentleyville to Monongahela Pa & I went to Dr C.F. Linn's office cor Chess & 3d sts at 1 o'clock & left at 1:30 PM. He said his mother was out at the country home & was well. I gave him the tube with Fulton Family blueprint which he had never seen & didn't know she had & which he said he would give to her that evening. His recollection was that his mother's grandfather, Abraham Fulton the younger, was first cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor.

We then drove back through Beallsville to Centerville & W.H. Cleaver was not at home, but I found his sister, Mrs Jones, widow out by the barn nailing

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up her paling fence. She could give no information about Samuel Jenkins Dr Linn called up Alderman Jenkins at Monongahela, who said his father came from Ireland, but his grandfather remained there but had 8 or 9 brothers who came to America. Then went to California Pa & learned that the pupils had not returned from their 4th of July vacation & that Pearl W. Messmore was not in her room No 64 in the North wing. The matron said the trains were just coming in so I sat down on the front porch a half hour & she not coming, I left word for her to telephone me & left at 4:10 PM & arrived at Brownsville Pa at 5:05 PM & saw Chas L. Snowdon at his 3d floor office about the Sara J.T. West stock. He was cleaning up his office & said he was going to burn up all of his old checks prior to two yrs ago & old stubs & other papers. I stopped again to see Sallie J.T. West 5:20 to 5:30 PM & told her about my conferences with her bankers. She said there was a Dempsey Boyd, cousin to the Uniontown Boyds who has a store in Merrittstown Pa, Redstone Tp side on left hand side as you go west near the bridge abt opposite Ira Hess's. Reached the Holler 6:11 PM & got my dinner, came out & worked on the Power & Finley charts 130 & 131 till 2 AM. Covered 98 miles in our drive.

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Tuesday morning, I got up at 5:50 AM & worked up the McCoy & Finley 132 & 133. Going into my office at 9 AM, I phoned H.M. Johnson who said he had been in NY Friday 4th & had been instructed to not buy any more Wayne Tp Coal. Left at 1:40 PM for California Pa saw Pearl W. Messmore for 50 minutes at her room no 64. She says she left Uniontown Pa in 1912 & knew nothing about the coal sale until 6 mos or so after when a friend asked her what Sarah & she were going to do with their money since they had sold their coal. She said she had kept Sarah & the family for 11 yrs before she left & said Sarah & her brothers were an ungrateful bunch & that Sarah had no sense, which is pretty well proven by her handing back the $6000, second Div ck which was payable to her & Frank to H.S. Dumbauld & they have never been able to get a cent on it from him. Said McKean charged 10% $1200 on the 1st div ck he got, & on the 2d one which Sarah gave Dumbauld & gave her 1/5 of the balance of $4800 say $960. Keeping Frank's 1/5 for settlement of his estate which Sarah administered on. Pearl sd she had told no one abt me paying her the $3000 which she still has invested along with abt $4000 to $5000 additional. Says her mother told her after the last time I saw here that I would settle up her affairs & for them all to do whatever I told them to do. It is now 11 PM [unreadable] I must get up at 5.

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At residence of John Leslie Francis Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa July 12, 1924 9:50 AM

I arrived here ten minutes ago & the housekeeper sd Mr Francis had just walked up the lane & going up by the truck patch, I found his son, Victor hoeing corn. He said he had the records of his Aunt Mary Francis & had written down much of the family history just as she had told him. He came to the house with me got out the large bible of his grandfather James W. Francis which was published at Hartford by Reed & Barber, but it was without date, the front cover & leaves to 19th page are gone, but the back board cover almost loose save three slender threads has a three column Barnett written record pasted on the inside of said cover which Victor assures me is authentic. He says it ha been there to his certain knowledge for 30 yrs & which was written by one of the Barnetts, but not his father or Grandfather. He thinks it was written by his great grandfather, Joseph Barnett who graduated from Princeton College early in the 19th century. I will copy same later. In the family record pages between the old & new testament, three of them are written on ie 6 columns & I copy part of it is

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written by James W. Francis & part by John Leslie Francis

Marriages James W. Francis & Clarissa Torrence Barnett were married Oct 15, 1839.

Joseph B. Francis & Alice Porter were married Mch 28, 1877

J.L. Francis & Kate R. Thomas Nov 16, 1871

A.J. Hill & Josephine Francis Jany 23, 1883

Births

1. John Leslie Francis was born May 16, 1840

2. Josephine Francis was born Sept 3, 1841

3. Sarah Davidson Francis was born Feby 27, 1843

4. Mary Ann Blackstone Francis was born Mch 10, 1845

5. Joseph Barnett Francis was born Oct 2, 1847

6. Walker Espey Francis was born July 14, 1850

7. Isabella Long Francis was born Jany 9, 1853

8. Unnamed boy Francis was born Nov 19, 1854

9. Unnamed boy Francis stillborn Nov 19, 1854

James Francis Hill was born Sept 21, 1885 (the only child of Alex J. Hill by his second wife Josephine Francis. He has charge of sales Dept of Jordan Motor Co & travels all over the U.S. Married Margaret Carson of the Fayette Co Carsons)

I make entries of some of these in place in tables 66-69 & 146-147.

See page 154.

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[Descendant Chart]

See P 68 Mary Boyd daughter of William Boyd & his wife Ann Jack was born Dec 12, 1787 & died May 16, 1856. Married Aug 27, 1809 to Joseph Barnett a graduate of Princeton College, who was born Aug 27, 1784 & died June 27, 1833. He was son of Joseph Barnett Senr & his wife Sarah Allen, daughter of Ethan Allen.

[children]

1. William Boyd Barnett, born Sept 5, 1810 & died in San Francisco Calif. He was a merchant in Pittsburg Pa, St Louis Mo & Warden in California. Married Mary Freeman.

Albert Barnett, ob. Last heard of at Columbus O

Edgar Barnett, ob Also lives at Columbus O

Josephine, ob. mar.

2. A. Hamilton Barnett, born June 3, 1811 ob Mch 1870 mar Sept 6, 1836 to Ann M. Closey, a Catholic. He a Pres. She was born in Pgh & died there Dec 15 & is buried in St Mary's g.y. She was daughter of Webb Closey & his wife Rosanna McFall. They had but four children all born in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Julia Rose Barnett, B Mch 16, 1845 ob Jany 18, 1922 m. Apr 10, 1867 to John Russell Thornton born in Luzerne Tp, June 6, 1843 & died in this house Jany 21, 1918, son of Wm S. Thornton & his wife Delilah M. Ramsey. Their daughters were born in Pittsburgh Pa.

Delilah Madison Thornton, B Oct 31, 1869 in Pgh Pa, m. Jany 14, 1892 to Alonzo Camden Hagan born July 27, 1853 son of Robert Hagan & his wife Mary Ann Wood. He was born in South Union Tp & she is his 2d wife. No issue.

Sarah Jane Thornton, B Dec 18, 1872 in Pgh Pa m. June 17, 1903 to George Higinbotham West B July 12, 1871 in Merrittstown Pa son of James West & his wife Nancy J. Higinbotham. Have two children born in this house.

Joseph Thornton West, B Oct 21, 1904 Running the Thornton Garage

Julia Delilah West, B July 17, 1907

John Russell Thornton Jr, B Aug 25, 1885, adopted. Never knew who his parents were. M. to Ada Crawford dau of Pierce Crawford.

Sarah Elizabeth, B June 21, 1910

John Russell III, B Aug 6, 1914

Eliza Lancaster [dau of A. Hamilton Barnett] B June 3, 1852 unmarried, my joint informant

Webb Closey Barnett, B Nov 15, 1855 ob June 19, 1917 m. Oct 12, 1892 Alcinda Linn who now lives at the Girard House, Brownsville Pa, daughter of James Madison Linn & his wife Mary Linn his cousin. She was born in Redstone Tp, Oct 14, 1855. Their only child, a daughter died in infancy Apr 20, 1926. She died in Brownsville Pa Apr 16, 1926 & was buried on Sunday 18th in Redstone Cem there.

Ann Closey Barnett, B July 2, 1860 unmarried my joint informant

5. Joseph Barnett, [son of Joseph & Mary Boyd Barnett] B May 14, 1823 ob 1904 at Connellsville Pa m.1. Apr 3, 1849 Sarah Stewart, m.2. Apr 14, 1868 Harriet Barnett his cousin. Sarah 1st wife died Jany 2d 1861 aged 42 yrs 7 mos born say June 2, 1818. Her children born at Dayton O.

Joseph Martin, B June 8, 1850, ob Aug 21, 1850

John Stewart, B Aug 19, 1851 disappeared see page 158

Anna, B June 22, 1854 ob Aug 31, 1855

William, B Oct 11, 1856 ob Nov 20, 1858.

4. Edward Barnett, B Sept 13, 1816 ob Sept 26, 1817

3. Clarissa Barnett, Born Apr 27, 1814 at Connellsville Pa & died in Perry Tp Fay Co Pa Dec 26, 1886 married Oct 15, 1839 James W. Francis (son of John Francis & his wife Margarette Walker) who was born in Braxton Co WVA on Feby 1805 & died in Perry Tp, Fayette Co Pa Mch 19, 1888. He was adopted by John Leslie who brought him to Fayette Co Pa to Vanderbilt. Nine children all born in Connellsville Pa. Clarissa was thrown from a frightened horse & Jno Leslie, her son, was born prematurely the next day & at the end of 3 wks weighed but 3 lbs.

John Leslie Francis, Born May 16, 1840 m. Nov 16, 1871 at Dunbar Pa to Catherine Thomas born Mch 15, 1845 & died Dec 19, 1899 daughter of Rev John Evans Thomas & his wife Roxanna Estep. See Jordan-Hadden Hist of Fay Co Vol 3 P 868-9

Anna Dorcas, B Feby 14, 1873 ob Aug 8, 1895, unmarried.

Victor, B July 2, 1879 in Perry Tp, Fay Co Pa unmarried at home.

Edgar, B Sept 15, 1881 m. to Winifred Curren dau of John & Harriet Carson Curren. She died several yrs ago.

Mary Margaret

Joseph, B July 25, 1882 unmarried at home

Donald Joseph, B May 29, 1877 ob Oct 26, 1879, d.y.

Clarissa Barnett, B Apr 24, 1875 ob Feby 4, 1876 d.y.

Josephine, B Sept 3, 1841 ob 1888 m. Alex J. Hill son of Col Alex M. Hill.

Sarah, B Feby 27, 1843, ob Feby 2, 1849 d.y.

Mary Ann B., B Mch 10, 1845 ob Mch 4, 1922 unmarried.

Joseph B., B. Oct 2, 1847 ob Apr 14, 1880 was killed in RR wreck near Denver Colorado. m. Mch 28, 1877 to Alice Porter dau of John Porter & wife Margaret. She was married & moved to Ills & died. No issue to Francis, but had a child to her 2d husband.

Walker E., B July 4, 1850 ob Nov 23, 1853, d.y.

Isabella, B Jany 9, 1853 ob Nov 6, 1853

Unnamed son, B Nov 19, 1854 stillborn

Unnamed son, B Nov 19, 1854 ob Nov 20, 1854.

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[Descendant Chart]

Rebecca Markel, see book 1 p 126 & book 6 pages 1 & 2 evidently the youngest of the five daughters of George Markle brother of great grandfather Casper Markle was born in Berks Co Pa July 8, 1773 & died May 30, 1850, no doubt in Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa. Married Mch 19, 1793 to Frederick Shearer who was born Mch 24, 1770 & died Feby 16, 1846 I think in Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa.

[children]

Elizabeth Shearer, B June 4, 1794 ob Aug 22, 1854

Sarah Shearer, m. Jany 27, 1796 ob m. Hassler

Samuel Shearer, B Nov 7, 1797 ob May 30, 1815, unmarried.

Rebecca Shearer, B Jany 12, 1800 ob Mch 7, 1863 m. Power Whiting & lived at Ashland O

Benjamin Shearer, B Apr 21, 1802 ob Dec 27, 1872

David Shearer, B Nov 17, 1804 ob Nov 23, 1870. He was a cripple, was married

Daniel Markle Shearer, B Dec 23, 1806 ob Oct 27, 1883 m. June 4, 1835 5o Emily Brown born Jany 19, 1814 & died Mch 15, 1879 dau of Samuel Brown & his wife Beulah Taylor. They are buried in lower side of Baptist g.y. at Mill Run Pa, have marker. W.W. says their first seven children were born near Flatwoods Pa. in ______ Tp & he himself was born in Jeff Co O near Steubenville O. He moved fr Ohio to Mill Run Pa in 1859 the year of the big frost & built the tan yard there & made his home thereafter.

Jacob Shearer, B Mch 10, 1836 ob Dec 8, 1851

Samuel Brown, B Dec 8, 1838 ob Mch 11, 1842 drowned in vat at tan yards.

Frederick, b July 4, 1841 ob Oct 23, 1918 m. 1865 to Mary Elizabeth Sherbondy ob Jany 23, 1903 aged 63 yrs daughter of John W. Sherbondy J.P. of Tyrone Tp & his wife Christiana Lowry. Had but two children, both born in Dawson Pa. He died on 8th ST West side C'ville & is buried up on the hill in Hill Grove Cem. Was a [unreadable] from beginning to end ie 1861 to 1865.

John Markle Shearer, B Dec 23? 1866. Have not heard from him since abt 1912 when he left home & was then single. Think he is dead.

Harriet Frances Shearer, B May 16, 1869 m.1. Jany 18, 1890 to Harry Miller born 1855 ob Mch 1895 son of Nehemiah Miller & wife Sarah. No issue. M.2. June 29, 1918 to Grover Lee Minnick born June 13, 1885 son of Wallace B. Minnick & wife Sarah Dobe. No issue. He has a blacksmith & auto repair shop adjoining. Her father & mother left her a house on 8th St which she sold, bought this lot & built this house & the blacksmith shop & garage. Mrs M. was very kind & asked me to come back. They live at 137 N. 10th St West side C'ville Pa where I was today Nov 5, 1924 fr 11:55 AM to 12:26 PM.

Joseph Markle, B Aug 8, 1844, ob. M. They had but two chil.

Daniel Markle

Ettie, ob of fever aged 13 to 15 yrs.

Stanley, B June 1, 1848 living near Loyal, Okla where he is a tenant farmer & has 8 or 10 children. M. King, sister of Pat King janitor 2 NBK C'ville Pa one armed man.

Winfield Scott, B Mch 29, 1851 ob Mch 7, 1852

Albert, B May 21, 1853 ob Jany 10, 1911 see pages 393 to 398 incl & 408 to 410.

William Woods, B Oct 1, 1855 living at 302 E. Fairview Ave Connellsville Pa see pages 220 & 221.

Jacob Shearer [son of Joseph Shearer] B Jany 30, 1809 ob June 27, 1884 m. Mch 27, 1838 to Emily Shotwell who was born Feby 21, 1813 & died July 30, 1889 see page 159-162 & 232-235

Christina Shearer, B Feby 3, 1811 ob married Samuel Brown

Mary Shearer, B Mch 15, 1813, ob married John Bortner

Malinda Shearer, B June 20, 1818 ob. M. Chads Chalfant

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Deaths

Sarah Davidson Francis died Feby 2, 1849

Walker Espey Francis died Nov 23, 1853

Isabella Long Francis died Nov 6, 1853

Twins, boy, stillborn died Nov 19, 1854

Twin, boy Francis died Nov 20, 1854

Joseph Barnett Francis died Apr 14, 1880

Clarissa Torrence Francis died Dec 26, 1886

James Walker Francis died Mch 19, 1888

Mary Ann Blackstone Francis died Mch 4, 1922

The record pasted on the back cover, Mr J. Leslie Francis, says was written by his Uncle William Barnett who when he died was warden of the State Penitentiary at San Francisco, Calif.

Marriages

Joseph Barnett & Mary Boyd Aug 27, 1809

Hamilton Barnett & Ann M. Closey Sept 6, 1836

James W. Francis & Clarissa Barnett Oct 15, 1839

William Boyd Barnett & Mary Freeman

Joseph Barnett & Sarah Stewart Apr 3rd, 1849

Joseph Barnett & Harriet Barnett Apr 14, 1868

Births

1. William Boyd Barnett born Sept 5, 1810

2. Hamilton Barnett born June 3, 1811

3. Clarissa Barnett born Apr 27, 1814

4. Edwin Barnett born Sept 13, 1816

5. Joseph Barnett Jr born May 14, 1823

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Births of the parents of the above five children:

Joseph Barnett Jr was born Aug 27, 1734 (& Mr J. Leslie Francis says it was in Bedford Co Pa & his father was also Joseph Francis.)

Mary Barnett (nee Boyd) was born Dec 12, 1787.

Births of the children of Joseph & Sarah (Stewart) Barnett all born in Dayton O

1. Joseph Martin Barnett born June 8, 1850

2. John Stewart Barnett born Aug 19, 1851

3. Anna Barnett born June 22, 1854

4. William Barnett born Oct 11, 1856

Death in Joseph Barnett Jr's family

(He was the third Joseph in succession).

Joseph Martin Barnett died Aug 21, 1850

Ann Barnett died Aug 31, 1855

Willie Barnett died Nov 20, 1858

Sarah Barnett, wife & mother died Jany 21, 1861 aged 42 yrs & 7 mos

Mary Barnett (daughter of Wm Boyd & Ann Jack) died May 10, 1856 aged 69 yrs & 5 mos. Mr Francis remembers her very well & says she lived at Connellsville Pa on the north edge of the Bor on what was known as the old Gibson property (not Gibson Sta) on Mountz Creek, in a stone house to the right of the B&O RR as you go down & which is still standing & died there. This property was owned 51 A by James W. Francis, her son-in-law & she died at his home. She was rather tall 5 ft 8 in & rather slim, with very beautiful blue eyes. She died from a stroke of paralysis.

He says his great Uncle, Judge Robert Boyd who

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he knew & who visited them, died of phthysic [sic], now asthma.

Edwin Barnett died Sept 26, 1817

Joseph Barnett Senr died June 3, 1812 aged 52 yrs

His son who married Mary Boyd also Joseph Barnett Senr died June 27, 1833 aged 49 yrs & 4 mos? (not carried out right)

William Boyd Senr died Feby 28, 1812 aged 60 yrs

Nancy Boyd died Oct 8, 1797, aged 61 yrs

It does not say here who Nancy Boyd was, but some records that Victor has written says she was the wife of William Boyd, when Victor & his father both agree that his wife was Ann Jack & Not Nancy Dick.

Mr Francis says the old Wm Boyd home in Bullskin Tp is a large narrow long brick house with a porch in front & borders the S.W. RR rpo, which went through the Souther Edge of the 500 A & which was on the left hand or north side of Mountz Creek as you go toward Scottdale Pa & on which on a knoll to the left of the Tp road as you go toward the house fr C'ville is a graveyard, which was started as the family g.y., probably a quarter of a mile before you reached the house. Go see the g.y. & get tombstone records. Mr F. used to be scared to pass the g.y. when a young child going to visit his Uncle Thomas of whom he

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has a vivid recollection, who he says was a medium sized man, with considerable flesh. He thinks he was buried in the g.y. on the farm but is not sure. Thinks his son Richard would have gotten his father's bible record which would probably go to Charles at Dawson Pa.

Victor has a number of penciled sheet records which he wrote down as dictated to him by his Aunt, Miss Mary A.B. Francis about two yrs before her death. He reads & I copy:

William Boyd & Nancy Dick (it should be Ann Jack)emigrated from the Shenandoah Valley to Bullskin Tp, Fayette Co Pa.

Their children:

Speaking of the wife of Thos Boyd, they have it Nancy Rist not Rice & think that she was an Aunt of John Rist who married Roxie Whitsett, sister of Dr J.E. Whitsett & a first cousin of Victor's mother. She wasn't. Her name was Rice. [This last added later]

Mr F. says the 2d wife, Ann Herstein died before his Uncle Thomas.

Joseph Barnett (say 1760-1812) married Sarah Allen, daughter of Gen Ethan Allen, a Vermonter. Both at first resided after marriage at Chambersburg Pa & from there emigrated to Fayette Co Pa & from there to Pittsburg Pa & owned

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40 A on Squirrel Hill E.E.

their children were:

Joseph Barnett married Mary Boyd

Sarah Barnett married Mr Duke

______ Barnett married Mr Irwin

Maria Barnett married Mr Burchfield from whom Congressman Burchfield descends.

John Stewart Barnett, son of Joseph Barnett Jr, disappeared & has not been heard of. Think he was lost in San Francisco Earthquake.

Leaving 2:11 PM

Mr Francis was very glad I called & said to come back any time, that the latch string was always out for me.

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At residence of Rufus Fleming, Franklin Tp, Fayette Co Pa (Smock RFD 1 P.O.) July 12, 1924 3:33 PM

Mrs Fleming, the daughter of Jacob Shearer, says her grandmother, his mother, was Rebecca Markle who was the daughter of George Markle, bro of great grandfather Casper & who married Frederick Shearer. She don't know the name of his, Frederick's parents, nor where he was born, nor when he came to Fayette Co. She does not know of any other Shearer marrying a Markle. Says she does not have her father's bible record, but that her brother Emanuel Shearer has it & he lives at No 510 East Bean St, Washington Pa.

1. She says her Aunt Elizabeth died unmarried, an old maid

2. Sarah married a Hosler & he died & she survived him many years. She

remembers her as Aunt Sallie Hosler"

4. Rebecca married a Whiting

5. Benjamin. Don't know where he went

6. David, went to Iowa

7. Daniel went to Mill Run Pa

9. Christina mar Samuel Brown

10. Mary mar John Bortner

11. Malinda mar Chads Chalfant

8. Jacob Shearer, my informant's father married Emily Shotwell, daughter of John Shotwell & his wife, Sarah Shanks or (Shanklin)

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She says her father was raised at the Robert Boyd farm, now the George Boyd chicken farm, the fine big brick house thereon being built by his father, Frederick Shearer, she thinks. This farm is in Jefferson Tp, facing the J. Leslie Francis farm I just came from. Her father had seven children in order of ages as follows:

1. John Frederick Shearer

2. Rebecca Markle Shearer

3. Emanuel Shearer

4. Sarah Catherine Shearer, herself

5. LeRoy Norton Shearer

6. Susan Elizabeth Shearer

7. Emily Caroline Shearer

4. Sarah Catherine Shearer, my informant, was born in this Tp at Home place on Aug 23, 1847 & was married Jany 20, 1874 at the old home place by Rev Wesley Larimer to Rufus Fleming who was born Nov 19, 1851 in Dunbar Tp, the son of Robert Quincey Fleming & his wife Esther Johns Cochran (dau of Mordecai). They have four children all born in this Tp & all living, viz:

1. John Frederick Fleming born Oct 27, 1874

2. Guy Shearer Fleming born Oct 6, 1877

3. Emma Esther Fleming born Sept 2, 1881

4. Ray Quincy Fleming born May 17, 1888

1. John Frederick Fleming married Dec 23, 1897 Georgia Mae Brown, daughter or Richard H. Brown & his wife Louisiana

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Hagerty, who was born Nov 10, 1878 & they live at Waltersburg Pa where he is section foreman on PRR & have two children living & one dead viz:

I. Samuel Tilden Robert Brown Fleming B Feby 13, 1899

See table next page.

Leaving 5:11 PM

The home of Mrs Fleming's father, Jacob Shearer was back over the hill a short distance from this, her present home & the home of her mother's father, John Shotwell was the brick house just above this & this which is a frame house, is on a part of his, John Shotwell's farm, which Mrs Fleming got from or through her mother. Mr Fleming did not come in until I was about to leave & was very kind, glad I came, & asked me to come again. Their son Ray Q. assisted with the records as did his wife & a large woman, his Aunt, sister of his father. Mrs Fleming is a medium sized modest woman, but is somewhat hard of hearing. We followed up the Pittsburg Road nine miles to Uniontown, passing Richard H. Brown's fine home in Waltersburg & passing just before reaching Upper Middletown, the Elizabeth Thompson brick house, on the left now painted lead colored & passed our back gate. I left a record with Ray Q. of eleven questions which he said he wd get & send me to fill in dates on table on next page July 29. got answer fr Ray Q. giving dates & he writes that he wants a book.

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[Descendant Chart]

Sarah Catherine Shearer married Rufus Fleming see page 160

[children]

John Frederick Fleming, B Oct 27, 1874 mar Dec 23, 1897 Georgia Mae Brown who was born Nov 10, 1878

Samuel T.R.B. Fleming B Feby 13, 1899 m. Mch 27, 1919 Anna Grace McBurney born July 5, 1903, dau of Wm McBurney & his wife Mary Cooper dau of Joel. Have 4 children all born in Franklin Tp

Emma Grace, B July 21, 1919

Wm Robert, B June 21, 1921

John Allen, B Aug 12, 1922

Willis Earl, B Mch 1, 1924

Roy Brown Fleming, B July 3, 1903 ob Feby 14, 1909 d.y.

John Davis, B Aug 29, 1911

Guy Shearer Fleming, B Oct 6, 1877 m. Oct 16, 1901 to Caroline Carson Rittenhouse, dau of James H. Rittenhouse & wife Dorcas Hazen. Has 2 children born in Franklin Tp. He is a H.C. Frick Coke Co carpenter foreman. She born Mch 28, 1883.

James Rufus, B July 24, 1902 m. Nov 18, 1922 to Laverna Allen B Sept 26, 1904 dau of John Addison Allen & wife Lou Woodward (dau of John W. Woodward)

John Shearer, B Dec 6, 1923

Harry Rittenhouse, B Sept 18, 1911

Emma Esther, B Sept 2, 1881 m. Sept 25, 1907 to James Howard Dunn, son of S. Watson Dunn & his wife Clarissa Henshaw who was born Apr 12, 1882. They live at Buena Vista, Vanderbilt Pa where he is a farmer on his father's home place.

2. Clarissa Catherine, B May 25, 1909

1. Willard Dunn, B Sept 25, 1907

3. Jesse Shearer Dunn, B Jany 3, 1917

4. J. Howard Dunn Jr, B May 26, 1919

Ray Quincy, B May 17, 1888 m. Aug 7, 1918 to Vesta Mae Robinson born Feby 15, 1890 at Connellsville Pa dau of Frank Robinson & his wife Katharine Riffle, sister of Marion B. Riffle. Have 2 chil born in this house & Tp.

Kathryn Nelle, B Jany 28, 1919

Jacob Ray, B Aug 11, 1923

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Oak Hill, July 13, 1924 12:25 PM

On Friday night, we drove A.T. Secrest out to the Lecky g.y. where I made note of one marker viz:

Mary Ann, wife of William Lecky died Apr 18, 1850, aged 29 yrs & 3 days

We drove home through New Salem Pa & I showed Mr Secrest where the old home of his great great great grandmother Ann Thompson had been & where she died. He says James Thompson, the father of Hezekiah Y. Thompson was a miller at Greenwood, a part of Senecaville O & not Zanesville O as reported in Book 9 page 416-419 by H.P. widow.

A.T.S. says that Geo W. Taylor of Columbus O recently told him that Susannah Thompson, see book 7 p 254, who married Robert Rounds, is not living together with her husband at Irving on the Hudson NY & if he can get their full address will send it to me. Robert Rounds had been postmaster at Columbus O. A.T.S. says Rev Roscoe McVicker, book 7 p 293 line 29, moved from Sonora O to Cambridge O where he now lives & he should have his parents bible record.

Referring to book 7 page 284 line 14.

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to record of Nellie Secrest, I am told by Abraham T. Secrest to leave her out, as there is not Thompson blood in her as she was born 4 mos & 10 days after her mother was married to his father & was not his father's child, but her father was a man named Jackson, who has always openly claimed her. I told him that being born after his father married her mother legitimized her as a Secrest.

A.T. Secrest has Mrs Burn's record same as mine at Book 7 p 202 giving a John as one of six children of John 1788-1856 whereas Mrs Hart missed John evidently & only gave five in book 9.

P 146. A.T.S. says too that Robert Sproat Thompson told him that John's (see book 9 p 146) oldest daughter Elizabeth had a son Robert which Mrs Hart does not give but does give Phebe & John T.

A.T. Secrest says there is a David Frame living near San Antonio Texas who is 90 yrs old, but he knows but little abt his line. His address is Van Orma? Texas. He says too that Roland S. Frame has a brother Pinzon Frame, both living at Old Washington O. He is either two yrs older or younger than Roland. He says he thinks the descendants of James Frame & Mary Thompson book 7 p202 are about Spencer Sta between there & Lore City O.

A.T.S. says that the father of Wm Rose who married

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[fermata mark appears here upper left hand corner]

Mary Ann Thompson book 7 p 200 was Benjamin Rose, who was born in Penna May 2, 1789 & died near Senecaville O July 18, 1825. His wife was Hannah Dilley born June 20, 1787 & died Mch 14, 1865. Their children were:

1. William who married Mary A.T. Thompson

2. Ayers

3. Elizabeth mar Joseph Witter

4. Benjmain Jr

5. Washington

6. Anna mar Samuel Reed.

Mary A.T. Thompson & Wm Rose had the following children so A.T.S. says:

1. Alvina Rose mar James Dollison

2. Hannah Susannah Rose born Feby 29, 1834 & died June 20, 1879 married Feby 1, 1855 to Henry G. Secrest See Spaid Book p 146 to 152 for descendants.

3. Mary Emily Rose mar Nelson Connett

4. John Calvin Rose mar Emily Lowery

5. Benjamin Franklin Rose born Jany 28, 1840 still living mar on Dec 18, 1866 Elizabeth Millhone born Mch 23, 1844 & still living. These are the parents of Mrs C. Jacob Finley.

6. Thomas Jefferson Rose married Mary Umstott

7. Thompson Rose unmarried, was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, Civil War.

8. Catherine Rose born Jany 22, 1848 mar John D. Rowland See book 7 p 212.

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Cumberland Presbyterian Church Graveyard at Pleasant View, Redstone Tp, Fayette Co Pa erected 1859 or 1839 Repaired 1898. July 12, 1924 7:33 AM

I commenced at the left hand corner by the church as you go in & went across & across back & forth to the farther end on the hill.

1. Samuel Brown, born Aug 14, 1814 died May 31, 1883.

Louisa H. Brown born Sept 1823, died Oct 23, 1915

2. Mary W. Henderson wife of Isaac Henderson died Mch 20, 1882 aged 73 yrs 5 mos 9 days

Isaac Henderson died Feby 27, 1906, aged 92 yrs 1 mo 4 days

Samuel Henderson born Apr 24, 1843 died Mch 2, 1895

Elizabeth, his wife born June 10, 1854 died Mch 16, 1905

Mary H. daughter of S&E Henderson born Sept 23, 1877 died Apr 28, 1893

Infant son died June 6, 1876

Infant son died Nov 1, 1888

Infant son died Sept 19, 1890

Children of S&E Henderson

3. John C. McCormick died May 31, 1875 aged 80 yrs

Hannah, wife of John C. McCormick died Apr 19, 1874 aged 78 yrs

4. Joseph Ellsworth Beal Oct 30, 1862, Apr 10, 1911

5. Father & Mother

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Sylvester Duff Dec 31, 1849, May 13, 1914

Malinda M., his wife June 4, 1854 ______ living.

6. Alex Henderson Born Nov 22, 1816, died Aug 6, 1897

Phebe, wife of Alex Henderson born May 6, 1818, died Aug 26, 1894

7. Ira Vane, son of M.B. & L.J. Porter Born May 26, 1894, died Apr 8, 1896

8. Andrew Eli Lynn 1857-1922

Eliza, wife of A.E. Lynn 1858-1914

Olive Blanche 1886-1903

9. Roy Brown Fleming died Feby 14, 1909 aged 5 yrs 7 mos 11 days

10. Lewis P. Hess Born Sept 13, 1843 died Jany 2, 1917

Jane A. Hess Feby 20, 1839, Dec 26, 1913

Archie L. son of L.E. & L.A. Hess Dec 13, 1905, Dec 23, 1905

Leaving 8:50 AM

We then drove on to John Leslie Francis, see page 144 et seq & from there, we drove to Rufus Fleming's see pages 159 to 162 incl. It is now 4:30 PM & I am invited over to Andrew's for dinner at 5 PM

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Oak Hill, July 18, 1924 8 PM

Minnie S. Thorndell, in answer to my recent letter to her phoned me last night that the key to the old Methodist Episcopal g.y. was at Lewis Armstead's, so we drove there at 8:50 this morning & got it from Geo Stanard, colored, who has charge of mowing the g.y. Pallini then drove me to the head of Morgantown Street & I was:

AT Old Baptist Church graveyard head of Morgantown St Uniontown Pa July 18, 1924 9:11 AM

I commenced at corner of church & worked south along the street back & forth & noted the following:

1. Rev William Brownfield died Jany 18, 1859 in his 86th yr.

Sarah, consort of Rev Wm Brownfield died Dec 29, 1856 aged 83 yrs 4 mos 14 days.

2. Jonathan Gray died Oct 15, 1864 aged 85 yrs 6 mos 3 days

Hannah Gray died Aug 18, 1882 aged 88 yrs 3 mos 5 days

Lilly A. wife of Hezekiah Riner died Sept 25, 1855 aged 82 yrs

3. Rebecca Brown, wife of W.W. Williams born Feby 29, 1812 died Nov 13, 1876

Willie S., son of W.W. Rebecca Williams born Sept 9, 1856 died Feby 27, 1872.

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4. Nathaniel H. Jaquett died Feby 13, 1874 aged 81 yrs 10 mos & 16 days.

5. John Brownfield died Oct 4, 1854 aged 83 yrs & 5 mos

6. Amelia Carter died June 22, 1898 aged 93 yrs

7. Elizabeth, wife of John Vorhees died May 2, 1805 aged 35 yrs

John Vorhees died Feby 9, 1828 in his 59th yr

8. In memory of William Thompson Winship (flat) died Sept 13, 1832 aged 1 yr 3 mos 21 days (2 verses)

9. Sacred to the memory of Samuel Cooley died Dec 11, 1840 aged 70 yrs 6 mos 15 days. Tis but at best a narrow bound that heaven allows to men. And pains & sins run through the round of three score years & ten.

Elizabeth Cooley, also horizontal half as high, died Jany 31, 1867 aged 87 yrs 8 mos 30 days Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints Psalm 110th 15 (or 45) verse.

10. Levi Gaddis died Aug 9, 1850 aged 26 yrs

Sarah Gaddis died July 31, 1819 in 59 yrs (barely possible might be 1849)

John Gaddis died Feby 2, 1868 aged 79 yrs 4 mos 27 days

Sarah, widow of Robert Gaddis died Dec 25, 1818 (or 1848) aged 93 yrs

Ruth, consort of William Gaddis died Apr 6, 1850 aged 41 yrs 4 mos.

11. Jacob Johnston died Aug 6, 1846 aged 70 yrs 3 mos 14 days.

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12. Samuel Minor (among the Clement graves) died Jany 19, 1826 aged 86 yrs 1 mo 29 days

Ann Minor, consort of Samuel Minor died Feby 6, 1830 aged 81 yrs 9 mos etc.

13. Sarah, wife of Eli Finley died Nov 22, 1876 in her 65th yr

14. Joseph P. McClelland died Jany 28, 1866 in his 64th yr

Amanda, wife of Joseph P. McClelland died Aug 22, 1881 (or 1887) in her 71st yr.

15. Enos West, Sen, died Aug 8, 1864 in his 78th yr

Margaret, wife of Enos West died Aug 2, 1867 in h34 7th yr

16. Priscilla Littell, consort of Alonzo L. Littell & daughter of William & Priscilla Morris died Oct 4, 1840 aged 31 yrs & 3 days.

Priscilla Elenor, infant dau of Alonzo L & Priscilla died Jany 1, 1841 aged 4 mos 19 days.

17. Dennis Springer died Apr 6, 1823 aged 75 (or 73) yrs

Elizabeth Springer, wife of Dennis springer Sen died May 24, 1832 aged 75 yrs 27 days

Dennis Springer, died Nov 23, 1827 aged 88 yrs etc (fading)

18. Jacob Gaddis born Sept 7? 1778 died Aug 27, 1859

Sarah, wife of Jacob Gaddis died Aug 20, 1887 aged 82 yrs

Robert Gaddis died Feby 7, 1834 aged 85 yrs

Ansley Gaddis (to right of Robt) died June 2, 1842 aged 29 yrs

James Gaddis (to left of Robt & down) died May 23, 1833 aged 22 yrs

& just back of these is:

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John Gaddis died Apr 12, 1827 in his 87th yr

Hannah Ann Mar---- Gaddis (to John's right) died May 7th 1832 aged 11 or 15 mos & 13 days.

James Gaddis (to John's left) died Aug 17? 1843 aged 14 yrs 1 mo 23 days

Sarah Gaddis died Jany 7, 1802 aged 50 yrs

Anna Gaddis died Mch 29, 1799 aged 17 yrs

19. Jonathan G. Allen died Dec 1, 1867 aged 73 yrs etc

Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan G. Allen died Aug 22, 1884 aged 87 yrs 11 mos 4 days

James P. Allen died Apr 16, 1841 (or '44) aged 11 yrs 6 mos 7? days

20. Jacob Prichard died May 10, 1864 aged 72 yrs

Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Prichard died Dec 26, 1868 in her 77th yr

Calvin G. son of C.G. & M.F. Prichard died July 10, 1858 aged 7 yrs

Charles G. Prichard died May 26, 1868 in his 47th yr, under a haw tree, lower end of lot.

21. James Allen, born Sept 18, 1771 died Apr 8? 1809 aged 37 yrs 5 mos 11 days.

Mary, consort of James Allen Born Mch 22, 1776 died June 8, 1859 aged 83 yrs 2 mos & 17 days

Sutiann Allen, died Jany 6, 1831 aged 2 yrs 3 mos 1 day

Sally Allen Dau of James & May Allen Died Feby 17, 1801 aged 1 yr

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22. Priscilla Gaddis (earliest burial found) died Feby 17, 1796 aged 78 yrs

23. Levi Springer died Mch 26, 1823 aged 80 yrs

Sarah Springer died Oct 25, 1832 in her 77th yr

24. Mary McClary, consort of Jas H. McClary died Mch 16, 1842 in her 36th yr

Leaving 11:30 AM

I then walked down street & was:

AT Old Methodist Episcopal Church graveyard West end of Peter St, Uniontown Pa July 18, 1924 11:44 AM

I commenced along the street back of front end of church & worked east, back & forth:

25. James L. Bugh died Nov 23, 1874 in his 80th yr

Ann Grant, wife of James L. Bugh died Oct 1851 in her 49th yr

Elizabeth Grant died Oct 5, 1849 in her 86th yr. The above 3 in a lot enclosed with iron bars abt 12 by 15 ft.

26. Benjamin Hellen, born in Calvert Co Md Oct 7, 1779, died Jany 3, 1864

Priscilla Hook Hellen born in Uniontown Pa Jany 11, 1786 died Nov 10, 1858

27. James Boyle born in Calvert Co, Md Born July 13, 1780 died May 11, 1845 in 65th yr

Margaret, wife of James Boyle, died July 28, 1862, aged 78 yrs 5 mos 21 days

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Mary, daughter of James & Margaretta Boyle died Oct 17, 1844 aged 22 yrs 9 days

28. Alexander Turner (one time owner of this Oak Hill) died May 22, 1851 aged 62 yrs

Jane, wife of Alexander Turner died Jany 12, 1846 aged 64 yrs.

29. Rebecca Carey died Sept 26, 1903 aged about 100 yrs born black & a slave "Aunt Becky" died redeemed a white soul washed in the blood of the Lamb.

29 1/2. Elizabeth, wife of Abner Springer died May 3, 1855 in her 71st yr

Abner Springer (Father of Jane E. Johnson) died Mch 4, 1846 aged 76 yrs 11 mos 19 days

30. Elijah Crossland died Oct 3, 1860 aged 78 yrs 2 mos 17 days

Catharine, wife of Elijah Crossland died Feby 6, 1868 aged 84 yrs 10 mos 18 days

John Kithcart (grandfather I think of Jno A.) Born Dec 5, 1799 died Aug 1, 1850

Mary, consort of John Kithcart born Dec 11, 1801 died July 29, 1850 Both evidently carried off by the cholera

31. Richard Barry (big horizontal slab 18 inches high) Died Sept 8, 1836 aged 70 yrs 9 mos 19 days

George son of Robert L & Juliet Barry died Sept 21, 1848 aged 3 yrs 6 mos 8 days

32. This is right up next to the St back of Crosslands. In memory of Rachel Crothers, consort of John Crothers died July 17, 1840 in her 33d yr.

33. Capt Hugh Gorley died Sept 10, 1864 (or 61) in his 72d yr

Matilda, wife of Hugh Gorley (my mother) [?] died June 19, 1874 aged 84 yrs.

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Louisa A. Gorley died Apr 25, 1854 aged 23 yrs 2 mos 27 days

Jane Eliza Gorley died Apr 14, 1839 aged 17 yrs 7 mos 27 days

34. Sacred to memory of Jacob Downard w.d.t.l. Apr 7, 1820 aged 72 yrs

35. Mrs Margaret Kincaid died Apr 19, 1841 aged 67 yrs

36. Rev Thornton Fleming died Nov 20, 1846 aged 82 yrs 1 mo2 8 days, a traveling preacher in M.E. Church for 61 yrs.

Sarah Fleming, consort of Rev Thornton Fleming died Dec 10, 1837 in her 60th yr.

37. Wm B. Roberts born in Fayette Co Pa Jany 21, 1809. At the call of his country, he raised a company of volunteer infantry for the war with Mexico, was elected its Captain, joined 2nd Pa Reg & was elected its Colonel. Cerro Gordo attested his skill & bravery. He surrendered his life to disease in the captured Capital of the enemy whence his remains were brought & here interred, died in the City of Mexico Oct 3, 1847. A successful mechanic, a generous friend, an honest man, beloved by his family, honored by his fellow citizens. (The Roberts Building West Main St built by him when a young man, four stories high remained the tallest building in town for about 60 yrs until I build our Bank Bldg 11 stores high in 1901-1903)

38. Nobel McCormick died Mch 29, 1850 aged 61 yrs 6 mos 17 days

Sarah J. McCormick died Aug 23, 1854 aged 37 yrs 1 mos 14 days

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39. Sarah Wood born Apr 3, 1766 died Jany 23, 1865

40. John Grant died Feby 27, 1841 aged 76 yrs

Hester Grant died May 20, 1857 aged 78 yrs

41. Gabriel Deselms died Feby 11, 1869 aged 84 yrs 9 mos 11 days

Kesiah Desellems wife of Gabriel died Apr 5, 1840 age gone [variations in spelling noted.]

42. Thomas Brownfield died Apr 27, 1829 in his 63d yr

Elizabeth Brownfield died Aug 3, 1835 in her 63d yr

Catharine Hart (their daughter) died Mch 6, 1834 aged 40 yrs 2 mos 4 days

Ewing McCleary (her 1st husband, father of Wm) died Feby 3, 1823 aged 45 yrs & 7 mos

Thomas McCleary died Aug 25, 1825 aged 13 yrs 8 mos 8 days

Elizabeth McCleary dau of Ewing & Catharine died June 30, 1833 aged_____ & 1 mo

James Searight born Oct 14, 1832 died Aug 7, 1833

James Thair died Nov 26, 1835 aged 6 yrs 1 mos 26 days

43. Ann Catlin died Dec 5, 1826 aged 45 yrs

44. Thomas Darlington died May 5, 1856 aged 86 yrs 2 mos

45. Benjamin Price Esq died Dec 17, 1853 aged 77 yrs 1 mo 7 days

46. Mary Tiernan died Dec 30, 1830 aged 36 yrs 9 mos 23 days

47. Jacob Murphy died Mch 13, 1813 aged 53 yrs

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48. Susann Rowland died Dec 4, 1798 aged 44 yrs

49. James Gregg died Apr 25, 1810 aged 53 yrs

Nacca [sic] Gregg died Nov 11, 1847 aged 87 yrs

50. Here lies the body of the Rev Thomas H. Daughaday, minister of the gospel who finished his course on the 12 of October in the year of our Lord 1810 (not sure of year) Aetatis 33 (This is a firm stone being in but one piece the undressed base being buried. This is Mrs Mary Will C. Conaway's ancestor or forbear & I wrote her today of finding his resting place.

51. George Ebert, died Sept 16, 1827 aged 73 yrs

52. Garrett T. Greenland, born Apr 2, 1819, died Apr 7, 1853

Jane Greenland, died Feby 20, 1860 in her 73d yr

Abner Greenland died Apr 23, 1830 aged 46 yrs 9 mos 16 days

53. Eli M. Gregg died June 5, 1866 aged 62 yrs & 26 days

54. Suky Young (earliest burial found) died Sept 20, 1790 aged 2 yrs 1 mo 20 days

55. Matilda, consort of Dr John Patrick died Oct 30, 1852 aged 48 yrs

56. Daniel Bunting born Feby 14, 1777, died Dec 2, 1852 aged 75 yrs 9 mos 18 days. Then down along back fence is:

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57. John Van Kirk died Sept 10, 1843 aged 78 yrs 3 mos 21 days. He owned the triangle bounded by South St Morgantown & Arch Sts

Abigail Van Kirk born June 1, 1768 died Apr 3, 1859 aged 90 yrs 10 mos & 2 days

Leaving 2:02 PM

It is now 11:15 PM & I have finished transcribing & will get ready for bed.

[Descendant Chart]

William Fulton born Aug 10, 1835 died July 19, 1924 son of James of James & Agnes see pages 346 & 347. Had six children, the first two born in Allegheny Pa & the last four in Washington Iowa.

[children]

Jane Hays Fulton, B Dec 2, 1866 ob Dec 3, 1897 at Washington Iowa m. Nov 27, 1890 to John C. Miller. Had 2 children born in Washington Ia.

Mary Lucile, B Mch 3, 1894 ob Aug 12, 1914

Helena Matilda, B Sept 22, 1896 ob Apr 2, 1897

William Howard, B Sept 3, 1868 m. Dec 9, 1891 to Alice Josephine Greer born Feby 20, 1869. Have had 3 children born at Washington Iowa

William Earl, B Feby 27, 1897 m. July 20, 1920 to Verlee Reese born June 23, 1899.

James Donald, B Sept 8, 1900 ob July 11, 1918

Alfred Stewart, B July 8, 1908

James Carson, B Mary 20, 1872

Walter Rowe, B Mar 4, 1875 m Oct 8, 1902 to Ella Dahl b Aug 10, 1879

Maria Betty, B Mch 10, 1878 m. Sept 5, 1905 to Edmund M. McConnaughy B May 23, 1869. Have 4 children born in Washington Iowa

William Fulton, B Sept 9, 1907

Mary Jeannette, B July 9, 1909

Margaret Catherine, B Jany 23, 1911

Helen Carson, B Oct 22, 1912

Helen Jeannette, B Nov 4, 1881, unmarried. Bookkeeper at Washington Iowa. My good informant for this record & the births of her father's brothers & sisters page 347 large env.

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[Descendant Chart]

[Finley]

[children]

John M. Finley born probably in Hollymonet? Ireland in 1805. He was an Episcopalian & came to Phila Pa in 1847. He married Margaret Martin. They moved to Illinois & were farmers, struck oil & had big income while it lasted.

Pierce Butler Finley, Born in Hollymonet or Hollymonut, Ireland 1837. Came with his parents to Phila when 10 yrs old, moved to Scranton when 19 say 1856. m.1. 1860 in Scranton Pa Jane Leech, a Pennsylvanian of Yankee descent & had 1 child. m.1. 1900 Mary O'Malley who died in 1905 without issue. He then lived last 8 yrs with his daughter. He was the founder of the Finley Drygoods Store at Scranton Pa & is buried there.

Margaret Finley, only child, Born 1864. m. 1894 Harry W. Adams of Maine, who raised Hereford cattle in New Mexico & is since 1917 a retired cattleman, both living at 1928 South Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles Calif & she in her favor of June 30th 1924, small envelope is my informant for this record. Have but one child.

Jane Louise Adams, born 1900 m. 1923 to Glenn D. Blair

Margaret, m. J. Edwin Black

Ella, m. J. Edwin Black

William Finley, at last accts lived at Bridgeport, Illinois & was the father of ten children.

A son, He was a baker in Phila Pa as I take it when John M. came.

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Oak Hill, July 28, 1824 10 PM

I am copying below a letter which cousin Miss Lucy E. Wesner sent me in her letter of July 16, 1924 which I am returning to her at 701 S 4th St, Burlington Iowa. See book 8 pages 264. The letter was sent to Lucy's father, Wm M. Wesner.

Reading Pa Aug 23, 1896

Dear Nephew:

It has been two years since I received your letter & photographs. From your photograph, I would not have known you, as it does not look like you did when you left, but 45 yrs brings great changes to ones appearance. I amas well as can be expected for being 90 yrs old. was sorry to hear you lost the sight of one eye.

Of the relatives & friends you asked about, I will tell you now.

Rebecca Rhoadarmer has been dead thirty two years and Malinda about fourteen years. The Geigers are all dead? The Harbolds also with the exception of Franklin, William & Moses Yocum are still living. You did not ask about Wagners, but the sons are dead with the exception of Henry, who is undertaker at Amityville.

Now I have told you all about these people & friends & hope to hear from you soon as I am old. Hoping you & your family are enjoying health. I will close sending love to all,

Your Loving Aunt, Mary Ann Rhoadarmer

(She was a daughter of John Rhoadarmer see book 8 pages 262 & 264)

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The person writing this letter is Esther Geissenheiner a great great niece of Aunt Mary (A.) Rhoadarmer & a granddaughter of Josiah Dunlap, as my mother is married to Augustus Geissenhainer, whose first wife was your cousin Rebecca Rhoadarmer. In answering, please address: Mary Ann Rhoadarmer 715 Washington St, Reading, Berks Co Pa.

I am returning the letter. See book 11 p 402

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[Descendant Chart]

John Thompson born 1777 & died Jany 18, 1849, lived at Butler Pa & raised his family there & his grandson John Pressley Thompson of Santa Ana Calif thinks he & his wife were both buried there & have markers. Either he & his wife or his parents came, one from Ireland & the other from Scotland. Jno Pressly [sic] Thompson writes that he heard his grandmother Thompson was scalped by the Indians. He says there were 7 chil, but I add Mrs Bell Book 8 p 425 making eight. I put her first, then follow the order in which he named them. Writes July 25, that he has heard his father speak of the Bells.

[children]

Nancy Jane Thompson, see book 8 p 425

Rev Robert Graham Thompson, see book 8 p 425, studied under his Uncle Samuel Findley at Antrim O. See page 219. He was born in Butler Pa & died in Santa Ana, Calif.

Maria Graham Thompson, see book 8 p 425. M. William Park who was born at Londonderry, Ireland Oct 1, 1844 & died at Harper Ks, May 3, 1921, the son of James Park & his wife Martha Calhoun. Their 3 oldest children born at Kingsville Mo & the other 4 including the triplets at Welda Kansas. He was born in Greene Co at DeKalb, a small town near Xenia O. see p 219.

Martha Leland Park, B Jany 29, 1881. M. Mch 11, 1908 to Chalip [sic] A. Threet, born Mch 24, 1878 at Cloverdale, Ark, son of Wm Threet & wife Margaret Dean. No issue.

Carrie Viola Park, B May 24, 1883 my good informant by letter small env fr this record. m. Mch 26, 1913 to Paul Monroe Hoover born Aug 16, 1873 at Stonerstown Pa, son of Amon Hoover & wife Elizabeth Kinsinger. No issue.

Mary Ella Park, B Oct 31, 1886, unmarried. Lived on home farm with bro Robt R. P.O. Duquoin Ks RR2

Robert Ray Park, B Sept 1, 1889. He lives at Duquoin Kansas RR2 & has his mother's bible. Unmarried m. Sept 1, 1924 to Leon [may be Leona] Kans B Mch 24, 1897

Ottie May Park, B Sept 1, 1889 m. Dec 25, 1912 to Wm Albert Gramling, born May 1, 1889 son of Alex Gramling & wife Jennie Elizabeth Garrett. Have 2 chil born at Rogers Ark.

Grace Graham, B May 29, 1916

Wilma Elizabeth, B Feby 3, 1919

Olive Thompson Park, B Sept 1, 1889 died at home near Hooper Kan Nov 25, 1921. Unmarried.

Maria Grace Park, B July 18, 1891 m. Nov 20, 1918 to Ray Richard Hodge born Apr 1, 1894 at Fairfield Illinois, son of ______ Hodge & wife Elizabeth Diggle. Maria Gertrude, B Nov 7, 1919 at Norwick, Kan

Samuel Findley [son of Rev Robert Graham Thompson]

John Pressley, his first four children died, born in Orange Co Calif. His wife's (P 219) father was Joseph Torrence born in Ireland, Pa. He born in Indiana. His last 3 chil born in Santa Ana Calif.

Joseph Pressly B Nov 13, 1875 m.1. Nov 8, 1898 to Orppie [sic] Maria Matthews ob Feby 10, 1908. M.2. Jany 22, 1912 to J. Winifred Reid.

Adelbert Reid, B Apr 23, 1915

Robert Graham, B Apr 25, 1877 ob Apr 30, 1877

Jennie Leland, Born May 20, 1878 [twin] m. June 18, 1902 to John J. Mathews who ob Dec 14, 1923. 3 chil

Jennie Bernice, B Mch 27, 1903 M. Oct 27, 1923 to Melvin F. Crocker

Elaine Faith, B Oct 12, 1924 at San Bernardino, Calif

Thomas Pressly, B July 11, 1904

John Gerald, B Apr 24, 1908

Lizzie Ida, B May 20, 1878 [twin] m. Jany 2? 1900 to Clarence G. White, B Dec 5, 1878 at Newell Iowa. Have 2 chil

Howard Thompson, B Sept 12, 1902 at Anaheim Calif

Willard Elmer, B Aug 8, 1908 at Santa Ana Calif

Wilsie Adelbert Scott, B Aug 30, 1880 m. July 24, 1919 to Caroline Augusta Bowen born May 20, 1886.

Caroline Sarah, B Oct 22, 1883 m. Oct 17, 1906 to Thomas H. Sherril B Jany 25, 1883 son of Thos V. Sherrill & wife Sinia E. He born at Atkins Ark. Have 2 chil born at Santa Ana Calif.

Willis Homer, B Dec 17, 1907

Evelyn Jane, B Feby 16, 1910

Elmer Findley, B Aug 27, 1885, m. Sept 1, 1915 to Mary Margaret Beaty born Sept 24, 1894 in Oklahoma strip.

Samuel Findley Thompson [son of John Thompson] m. & lived near Antrim O & went in early mining timed to Nevada City, Calif & died & is buried there. Had several children.

Rebecca Elizabeth, ob, buried at Nevada, Calif

Elizabeth

Margaret

Anna, m. Mathews & lived near Mulberry MO

William, ob. Lived up the Yazoo river, Mississippi & when war broke out left for the north & wife & family except him & one daughter were drowned. They rtd to Ohio.

David Thompson, ob 1882 went to Mo in 1866. Left his old bible & loom at his bro R.G.'s when he went. He died in Rawlins Co Kansas. No issue. He died at the County Home as his bro R.G. learned later. No marker.

John Thompson, ob went to Iowa.

Elizabeth, ob, m Love

Mary Thompson, ob

J. Pressley Thompson don't know anything more about these three [above]

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Oak Hill July 30, 1924 7:11 PM

Lloyd E. Pollock was in 522 this afternoon & said his great grandfather John Pollock never lived in Greene Co Pa, but lived near Elizabeth Pa & he thought in Rostraver Tp & that Greensburgh Pa would be the place to learn about him. He said one of his wives was Elizabeth Day Stephenson Pollock & he thought she was a widow & the daughter of Moses Day & that she was probably the mother of Stephenson Pollock who married Rosanna Greer. See book 11 p 389 & book 10 p 130.

Oak Hill Aug 2, 1924 7:15 PM

In letter of July 26, 1924, small envelope from Chas E. Pugh, Newtown Pa, he sends an obituary of his Uncle Col George Washington Boyd, bro of his mother from a Clifton, Tenn newspaper dated Friday Jany 26, 1906, stating that "The Mirror" was pained to announce Col Boyd's death last Friday say Jany 19, 1906 at his home in Waynesboro, Tenn & shows a vignette likeness showing large stern strong face, with moustache. He died shortly after noon Friday very suddenly & was buried Saturday afternoon in the family cemetery near his residence.

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Says he was born Feby 22, 1827 in Smithfield Pa & lived successively with his parents at Baltimore Md, Phila Pa, Morristown Pa (I think it should be Norristown) & at 13 was taken from school & put in a store at $35 a year & board himself. In 1850, he moved to the Hanging Rock Dist, near Ironton O & was bookkeeper for an iron Co. He made a close study of iron ores & in 1853, was made Supt of the Furnace at Ironton O. In 1868, he moved to Wayne Co, Tenn & run the old Wayne Furnace for the Gaylords until the panic of 1873 shut it down. Was wonderfully well posted & able iron man. His wife had died several years before, survived by five sons, Hon Frank Boyd, ex atty Genl of the dist, Dr H.C. Boyd & G.W. Boyd of Waynesboro & two sons living in the west. By Mr Pugh's direction, I am putting the clipping with his mother's record book which he loaned me Feby 16, last & I am now ready to take back.

In tonight's Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph on the front page is an admirable likeness of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Shiras Jr, my fourth cousin who died at 9;20 this morning in the Homeopathic Hospital Pgh Pa of hypostatic Pneumonia. He fell & broke his hip on June 15th last at his son Winfield K's 4841 Ellsworth Ave & had been in the Hospital since. He was born in Pgh Jany 26, 1832 & was aged 92 yrs 6 mos & 7 days. Was grandson Rev Francis Herron. Appointed to Supreme Bench in 1892 by Benj Harrison. Am filing paper & have sent Pallini in town to get Pgh Phila & NY Sunday papers to see what notice they have of his death this Sunday morning 10 Am Aug 3, 1924. JVT

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[Descendant Chart]

Anna Francina Merckle, daughter of Christian Merckle 1678-1766 married Michael Rugh whose father came from Holland to Lehigh Co Pa. Michael & his wife Anna Francina settled on a farm which is now partly covered by Greensburgh Pa & on which he built "old Fort Rugh" south of Greensburgh Pa. it was to this fort (he being purchasing agent of the government at the time) that he came to report the capture & destruction of Hannastown a few miles distant by the Indians. His son Michael's wife & three children were then captured by the Indians, but Michael through help of British military officers found his son's wife. He was coroner & commissioner of Westmoreland Co Pa & a member of the Legislature.

[children]

Michael Rugh, m. Elizabeth Raymer now spelled Reamer. She & three children were captured at the destruction of Hannastown & carried to Quebec. One of the boys died while in captivity & the family returned to Westmoreland.

Mary Rugh was captured by the Indians at the destruction of Hannastown Pa. Mar Haymaker, Westmoreland Co Pa.

Jacob Rugh, born 1761 died 1845 m. Sybilla Mechling. Lived at Greensburgh Pa.

Michael Rugh, m. Sybilla Mechling. Lived at Blairsville Pa [yes, both entries give wife's name as shown.]

Benjamin, m. Steck Westmoreland Co

John, West. Co.

Susan, m. Jacob Shaner

Sarah, m. Bash

Hannah Rugh, Born 1793 died 1886 m. Peter Rowe Blairsville Pa.

Josiah Rowe

William Rowe

Jacob Rowe

Oliver Rowe

Mary Rowe, m. I.N. Hodge, Blairsville

Jemima H. unmarried Lives at Gbg

Margaret, m. J.R. Eisaman of 1st NBK Gbg

Peter Markle Hodge, Blairsville Pa

Sybilla Rowe, m. Miller

Caleb Rowe

Sarah Rowe

Simeon Rowe

Paul Rowe

Peter Rugh [son of Michael & Anna F. Merckle Rugh] born 1747 ob 1828 m. Margaret Keister & lived at Greensburg Pa. Had sixteen children, 5 boys & 11 girls.

Anna Christena Rugh, m. Peter Castner & lived in Wash Co Pa. Had 3 children.

John

Michael

Mary, m. William Jones

Mary Rugh, m.1. Dewald Mechling, m.2. Bose & lived at Fairfield Ohio. Had 4 children.

Dewald, 1778 m. Mary Rugh Fairfield Co Ohio

Peter, B 1780 m. Mary Byers

Jacob, b 1782 m. Catherine Foster

Mary Mechling, B 1789 m. Thos Anderson

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At residence of Jane Mary McCormick No 133 Union St Corner of George St Cumberland Md Aug 5, 1924 2:55 PM

Mrs Jennie N. Allen, daughter of Mrs McCormick says her mother has lived here since 1865, being the widow of Dr Wm Hampton McCormick son of James McCormick whom I well know. Mrs McCormick is not descended from Peter Row [sic] & his wife Hannah Rugh named on page 188 & whose ten children are listed on the two preceding pages, but is a daughter of Jonathan Row who was a brother of the aforesaid Peter (Peter living as she said four miles from Greensburgh Pa) & her father was a printer & editor of the Greensburgh Register or Sentinel. He lived in Adamsburg Westd Co Pa where she was born Nov 27, 1830 being one of his twelve children of whom one little boy died young of small pox & the other eleven all grew to man & womanhood. Her mother was Maria Christina Minium, being one of twelve children of George Minium all daughters, he being of French descent & a Waldensian Christian & a silk merchant or his father of Lyons France was. His father's family excepting himself were all killed by the Indians. The children in her father's family were:

Samuel, Martha (Emery), Elizabeth (Benfore) Simon Bolivar, Kate (Woods) Dr Hermann Augustus, Jane Mary (McCormick, my informant)

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George, Amos, Frank, d.y. & Charles. Samuel had a daughter Grace who married James Mitchell of Clearfield Pa a lumberman, who is now officially connected with the First Nl Bank, Clearfield Pa. They are both living, he is probably 70 & they can give information about the Rows.

Miss Jennie H. Hodges formerly a milliner of Gbg & now living there is a daughter of I.N. Hodges & his wife Mary Row, daughter of Peter Row & his wife Hannah Rugh. See page 188. Her sister Margaret married an J.R. Eisaman & their back lots adjoin. Another sister of Jennie, viz Julia, mar Craighead & live at 729 Hill Ave, Wilkinsburg Va, both living. Mrs Eisaman is dead, but her husband is cashier of 1st NBK Greensburg Pa lived at 423 N. Maple Ave. Mrs McCormick's youngest brother Chas H. Row was auditor of NY Central & Hudson River RR at Grand Central Sta got up a manuscript hist of the Row family, not printed, but he died at Bridgeport Conn, a few yrs ago aged abt 80 & he had but one child, Agnes, a beautiful girl who married James A. Stevenson a civil engineer & appraiser of RR properties & they are both living in Bridgeport Conn on Main ST, think No 2821 & she would have the manuscript history of the Rows which her father prepared Mrs Wilson thinks. See Jennie H. Hodges. She is sister of Peter Markle Hodges of Blairsville Pa.

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10:15 PM

Mrs Allen has brought out the old bible of David Allen the father of her husband printed & sold by Morgan & Sanxay, Cincinnati O 1833 in which there is one page of records marriages & births as follows:

David Allen & Sutia Ann Kerr married Nov 20, 1824 Wheeling VA.

Sutia Ann Kerr Allen (wife of D.A.) died at Warronton, Jefferson Co Ohio July 4, 1825.

David Allen born in Fayette Co Penna July 10, 1796 died Oct 23, 1872

Ann Steel Allen born in Kirkwood (Belmont Co) Ohio Feby 28, 1812 died at Alliance Ohio Nov 3, 1887

David Allen (aged 32) & Ann Steel Kirkwood (aged 16) married Nov 13, 1828 Belmont Co O.

Births

1. Sutia Ann Kerr Allen born Aug 25, 1829 married to A.B. Rice Sept 17, 1850

2. Mary Boyer Allen born Sept 13, 1831 married to J.F. Whetsel May 1852 (Mrs Allen thinks he was son of Lewis Whetsel the Indian fighter)

3. Robert Kirkwood Allen born Sept 15, 1835

4. James Power Allen born Dec 25, 1837 was killed June 14, 1842 by a pile of joists falling on him.

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5. Margaret Emily Allen born July 10, 1841 in Kirkwood.

6. David Kerr Allen born June 5, 1844 in Kirkwood

7. a son (not named) born Aug 28, 1846 & died on 30th same month - 2 days old.

8. Jonathan Gaddis Allen born July 26, 1847 at Kirkwood

9. Joseph Kirkwood Allen born Apr 30, 1850 at St Clairsville O

10. James Power Allen (2nd) born Mch 21, 1853 St Clairsville O

11. George Gillespie Allen born July 21, 1855 in a Kirkwood House

Ann Steele Kirkwood was the daughter of Joseph Kirkwood & his wife Margaret Gillespie.

James Power Allen & Jennie Louise McCormick were married Aug 2, 1893 by Rev J.E. Moffatt's Pres in this house where her three children were born viz:

1. William Kirkwood Allen born July 15, 1894

2. James Gillespie Allen born May 16, 1897

3. Eugenia McCormick Allen born June 16, 1899

William Kirkwood Allen died Aug 30, 1904 of diptheria

Eugenia Robinson Allen died Aug 29, 1904 of diptheria

both died at Mountain Lake Park Md.

James Power Allen died in this house Nov 16, 1921

Jennie Louise McCormick born Feby 28, 1861

Eugenia Hampton McCormick born Feby 18, 1863

both at Grantsville Md, daughters of Dr Wm H. McCormick & his wife Jane Mary Row.

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On a piece of paper yellow with age is written on one side by pencil probably by J. Power Allen the following family tree apparently each Allen being of a succeeding generation: David Allen & Susanna White} John Allen & Mary Power} James Allen & Mary Gaddis, the latter couple having children: David, James & Jonathan, this David being the one noted above as the father of James Power Allen & others.

Mrs Allen say her husband J. Power Allen had a cousin still living, viz: Miss Mattie T. Allen 428 Burton Ave, Washington Pa at least that was her address a few years ago.

Over at Mrs Josie Wilson's where we had a sumptuous dinner, she got out of her bookcase & showed me the Family Record and Biography (of the McCormick Family) compiled by Leander Joseph McCormick Chicago 1896. where on pages 431 to 477 inclusive the Sandersons & Elliotts are treated. She says the McCormicks of Chicago gave it to her & told her it was the last copy they had, it being printed privately for the family [faded word.]

Midnight 6th, I left Cumberland Md 4:15 Am 6th reached C'ville 7 AM have been busy all day, see pages 195 to 207 incl & I will put down my other efforts of the day commencing page 208.

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At residence of Miss Eva May Boyd 236 E. Apple St, Connellsville Pa 11 AM Aug 6, 1924

I arrived here from Hill Grove Cemetery half an hour ago. She is

the daughter of Robert L. Boyd & he was son of William Boyd, a brother of Richard who were sons of Thomas Boyd, the oldest son of Wm Boyd & Ann Jack. She says Richard Boyd sold the old Boyd farm & moved to Morgantown WVA where he died. His widow moved to Scottdale & died there. Both brought here for burial. Richard's brother Thomas never married, but lived with Richard & is buried in his lot in Hill Grove Cem. Richard's children are Charles, the oldest at Dawson, Edgar 2d son delivers milk along her daily & lives abt a mile fr here in C'ville Tp, Herbert 3d son lives near Perryopolis, Supt of Coalworks, Louise married & lived in Colorado where she died, Benton 4th son is Supt of Rick Works at Trotter & George 5th son & youngest child died in Colorado thinks close to Denver.

Ann Boyd, sister of William, Thomas & Richard, married Geo C. Blocher & another sister older than Ann, Eliza Boyd lived with Ann & died there unmarried. Miss Boyd says that the old Boyd g.y. on the farm is a half mile this side of the old brick house & is just near

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Mrs Horner's who lives a short distance beyond Bellevue School house. Miss Boyd has gone to the attic & got the old dilapidated big bible of her grandfather William Boyd from which I am entering his record & the births of his children in a genealogical table commencing on page 198. She thinks the bible of her father Robert L. Boyd is with her sister, Mrs D.H. Lemon (Mary Eliz) 856 Mt Pleasant St, Greensburg Pa. Going from here via Mt Pleasant Pa on the half hour car from C'ville get off at Raymer St Gbg. Her grandfather's bible was published by Reed & Barber Hartford, no date given.

Leaving 12:33 PM

At residence of Rice M. Boyd NO 230 East Apple St Connellsville Pa Aug 6, 1924 1:08 PM

Mr Boyd is the son of James L. Boyd shown on page 198 & says he does not have his father's bible. He says there was one but he does not know who got it. He however, is able to give the names of his father's nine children, the first two being born in Westmoreland Co Pa near West Overton & in East Huntingdon Tp & the other seven born

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on the farm in Bullskin Tp, Fayette Co Pa near Bellevue School house in the order of their ages. Mr Boyd is janitor of West side school bldg. Mr & Mrs Boyd are both members of the First Baptist Church of Connellsville Pa of which Mr Boyd is a deacon. He is a Republican. See pages 200 & 201.

Leaving 2:22 PM

At residence of Louis Boyd No 210 N. Cottage Ave Connellsville Pa Aug 6, 1924 2:33 PM

This is just around the corner from Rice M's. He & his wife gave their records see page 201.

At residence of Barbara E. Crossland Bullskin Tp Dist No 1 Aug 6, 1924 4:44 PM (P.O. Connellsville RFD2)

This property belongs to the Boyd heirs & contains abt 8 acres. Warren W & Cora Grace were born at the old stone house on the farm, since sold to the Mariettas for a county home. Mrs C. married again May 4, 1898 to Wm Montgomery Crossland & has had six children to him, four living & two dead. Franklin ROBBINS is a son of Andrew Robbins & wife Susan Zimmerman. Hiram has a little farm abt 7 miles from Wooster O. See page 198.

Leaving 5:22 PM

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[Descendant Chart]

William Boyd & Ann Jack

[their son]

Thomas Boyd

[his son]

William Boyd, died July 3, 1866. Miss Boyd says he is buried in Hill Grove Cem near his brother Richard's lot, but she could never find a marker. He had a farm in Bullskin Tp near the present country club where he died. He married 1st Apr 3, 1834 Mary Long who died June 5, 1849. She was daughter of Robert Long & his wife Katharine Foster. Had three children. He married 2d Sept 25, 1855 Lydia Cofer who is buried with him in Hill Grove Cem. She survived him. Had three children. All their children were born on his farm near Mt Olive Ch, United Brethren where there is a g.y. The farm has been bought by the Mariettas for their summer house. See Wilsons Hist of Fayette Co 1900 pages 509 & 949.

[children]

Catharine Boyd B Feby 5, 1835 ob unmarried at her brother James L's in Bullskin Tp aged 52 or 53 yrs.

James Long Boyd, B Mch 4, 1837 ob June 26, 1900. He died on the farm in Bullskin Tp & is buried at Mt Olive Church graveyard but there is no marker. m.1. to Ann Eliza Myers who died Nov 7, 1894 buried at same place but no marker, daughter of Michael Myers & his wife Nancy Fretts. m.2. Jany 1899 to Lydia Melissa Bowman, daughter of Henry Bowman of Mexican War & wife Susan Kelly. She was born Apr 4, 1854 & has since mar John Wilton & both living near H. Sm[unreadable] Mill this Co see p 200 & 202.

Robert Long Boyd, B July 6, 1845 ob July 17, 1907 & is buried in Hill Grove Cem along the lower road & has a marker. m.1. to Amanda B. Beidler who was born May 8, 1848 & died Oct 12, 1881 & had 5 chil. She was daughter of Joseph Beidler & his wife Elizabeth Freed. m.2. Alice Newcomer, daughter of Benj Newcomer & wife Elizabeth Anderson. She was born Nov 25, & had one child. See item 2 p 368.

Mary Elizabeth, B Aug 14, 1870 m. Apr 7 to Dr Lemon & live at Gbg.

Eva Mae Boyd, B Oct 23, 1872 unmarried, my good informant of the day.

William Joseph, B Oct 4, 1874 m. Feby 14, to Della Caverty & they live at No 1400 Floral Drive, Los Angeles Calif.

Albert Arthur, B Apr 25, 1879 ob Apr 10, 1882 aged 43 yrs

Amanda B., B Oct 9, 1881 m. to S.B. Myers, living at Akron O.

Robert Harold, B Nov 24, 1896? m. to Mary Rusnbaugh [sic] & live at Gbg Pa near Mrs Lemon

Hiram Boyd, B Mch 27, 1857. He is unmarried & lives in Ohio

Franklin Roger Boyd, B July 25, 1862 ob Feby 13, 1896 m. Dec 11, 1889 Barbara Raymond who has since mar Montgomery Crossland & lives on a part of the old home farm which her 1st husband got from his father. Had 3 chil, one a girl mar & lives in Connellsville Pa. She was Barbara Ellen Raymond born in Salt Lick Tp, June 2, 1868 dau of Saml A. Rayman [sic] & his wife Hannah Pritts.

Warren Windom Boyd, B Sept 9, 1890 m. Dec 1921 to Mabel Light. They live at Coraoplis [sic] Pa & works in an oil factory there.

Eugene Nelson, B June 24, 1923 at Pgh Pa

Cora Grace Boyd, B July 4, 1892 m. Dec 4, 1913 to Rolla [sic] John Shirey son of John Shirey & wife Kathryn Leightliter born 1877 at Moyer Pa. They live at 1108 Fayette St N.S. Pgh Pa where he works for Mr A.D. Miller oil works. Have only one child born in Pgh Pa. Now May 17, 1925 live at Los Angeles Calif, Genl Delivery.

Raymond Boyd Shirey, Born Oct 22, 1915

Ira Raymond Boyd, B Feby 27, 1894 in this house. He is single & when last heard from, he was living in Phila working for a printing firm.

Mary Elizabeth, B Mch 5, 1867 m. Dec? 1892 Frank Robbins & both living & he is 7th Day Adventist preacher & move fr place to place. Have 2 or 3 children.

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[Descendant Chart]

James Long Boyd see page 195 had nine children all by his first wife.

[children]

1. Mary Boyd, B Jany 1861 ob Nov 1876 died unmarried aged 15 yrs & has a marker at Mt Olive g.y.

2. Rice Myers Boyd, B Oct 13, 1863 m. Dec 25, 1894 to Minnie Taylor B Mch 13, 1875 near Martins Ferry O & is living, daughter of William Taylor & his wife Sarah Busey. Their two children were born at Moyer Pa & died there.

Thomas J. Boyd, B Feby 22, 1898 ob Aug 6, 1898. Has a marker at Mt Olive g.y.

Frank Taylor Boyd, B Jany 22, 1903, ob Nov 11, 1913

3. Emma Boyd, Born Oct 6, 1865 at Bellview, m. Sept 19, 1888 at Gbg Pa to Humbert Long son of Samuel Norris Long & wife Jemima Humbert who was born Feby 27, 1848 on the Narrows & died Oct 26, 1914 at Scottdale Pa. She lives in Scottdale Pa at 927 Mulberry St & has 3 chil living & 4 dead. Humbert Long was first cousin of his father-in-law James Long Boyd. For places of children's birth, see page 437.

Boyd Long, B July 9, 1889 ob Aug 20, 1889

Mary Long, B Nov 1, 1890 ob Jany 5, 1895

Edna Ruth Long, B Aug 4, 1892 ob July 21, 1918 unmarried

Lucy Long, B Jany 12, 1894 ob Dec 30, 1896

Hannah Long, Born Sept 5, 1896 m. Mch 30, 1922 to John Coontz born Apr 18, 1893 son of Benj Coontz & wife Ida Philipp. He is a cabinet maker & they live in Scottdale Pa on Homestead Ave where their child was born.

Mari Lucile, B Oct 22, 1922

James Humbert Long, B Oct 29, 1900 m. Oct 12, 1919 to Angeline Martin born in California Pa July 28, 1894 daughter of Chas S. Martin & his wife Elizabeth Shallenberger. They live at 207 Cottage Ave, Connellsville Pa where he is a street car conductor. They have two children both born at 927 Mulberry St Scottdale Pa.

Charles Humbert, B July 1, 1920

Boyd Martin, B Mch 25, 1922

Samuel Norris Long, B May 18, 1906, at home with his mother, unmarried.

4. Harry Paul, B Apr 6, 1869 ob July 31, 1907 on west side & is buried at Hill Grove cem. M. Oct 19, 1897 to Myrtle Anna Turner who lives on west side near Robert. Had 4 children, 1 dead. Mrs Boyd was born in Smithfield Pa Nov 28, 1876, the daughter of Jno H. Turner & his wife Sarah Elizabeth Stumm, whose mother Candace Stumm, daughter of James McCormick.

Elizabeth Gertrude, B July 17, 1899 ob Aug 1, 1922 m. Sept 3, 1916 to John Ridgeway, son of John Ridgeway & wife Catharine. He was born May 16, 1899. He is married again & lives at Smock Pa where he is stable boss.

Martha Catherina Ridgeway, B Mch 27, 1919 at Connellsville Pa a beautiful child & her father won't give her up to her grandmother.

John James, B Mch 25, 1904, home, single, machinist at B&O, excellent boy.

Janet Eliza, B Feby 9, 1906

Harriet Pauline, B Nov 20, 1907

6. Myers Boyd, B June 8, 1873 ob Dec 25, 1910 m. June 12, 1901 to Miss Ray Stillwagon, b Oct 14, 1873 at C'ville, dau of Joseph W. Stillwagon & wife Anna M. Gilmore. She lives in Greensburg Pa (& had but one child which died) where her No is 190 W. Pgh St.

Merle Quay Stillwagon Boyd, Born in Connellsville Pa June 27, 1902 & died Feby 11, 1919 of Flu when a senior in high school at Gbg Pa where he died. He was 6 ft 1 in tall.

8. Lyman Boyd, B. Oct _____ m. Luressa Hough. They live at 601 11th St N.E. Canton O. Have one child living & 2 dead. He is janitor in McKinley High School.

5. Jennie Boyd, B say 1871 ob Feby 2, 1898, unmarried & is buried at Mt Olive g.y. no marker. Mrs Long says she was 26 yrs old.

9. Louis Boyd, B Oct 8, 1882 m. Jany 10, 1906 to Hazel Stafford born Jany 18, 1885 at Topeka Kansas daughter of John Stafford of Topeka Kansas & his wife Irene Sisley. Have 3 children. He is a painter & paper hanger.

Thelma Ruth, B Oct 22, 1906

Donald LeRoy, B Feby 15, 1908

Robert Glade Boyd, B July 29, 1921

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At residence of John Wiltrout Bullskin Tp, Dist No 2 (P.O. Connellsville RD2) Aug 6, 1924 6:15 PM

Mr Wiltrout says this is 6 miles from Connellsville. Mrs Wiltrout's name was Lydia Melissa Bowman dau of Henry Bowman, a veteran of the Mexican War & his wife Susan Kelly. She married to Mr Wiltrout, on Aug 27, 1901. Mrs W. has had no children by either husband.

Alma Lillian Provence of Hopwood VA is here on a visit, dau of Theron Spencer Provence & his wife Susan Overholt Bowman, a sister of Mrs Wiltrout. She says her sister, Rachel Belle Provence born at Hopwood Mch 12, 1897 married Jany 26, 1915 to Kenneth Dempsey Boyd son of Joseph Boyd & his wife Carrie Hornbeck. He, Joseph, is dead, but his widow lives on Church St, Uniontown Pa first house before you come to the corner of Jefferson St. They had 4 boys & 1 girl, the two oldest Boyd being dead. Kenneth D. & his wife have one child Kenneth Dempsey Boyd Jr born in Uniontown Pa Mch 1, 1916. He lives with his mother & is a baker by trade.

Leaving 6:35 PM

Joseph was a brother, I believe of Col A.D. Boyd.

See Book 20 Page 542

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At residence of Edgar Lyman Boyd, Connellsville Tp, Fayette Co Pa Aug 6, 1924 8 PM

Mr Boyd says his father, Richard Boyd rented the old Boyd farm & moved with his wife to Morgantown WVA in 1897 where he died in 1899, his widow then moved to Scottdale where she died in 1918. Mr Boyd remembers seeing a very old bible about his father's home & thinks it was worn out. His mother lived by herself in Scottdale & after her death, the children divided the effects, but did not get a bible. Says there were many papers boxed up & in the attic at the old home but a fire burned some of them. Their grandchild says there is a big box of papers in the attic now of the old Wm Boyd big brick house.

Mrs Boyd says Mrs Ann Blocher's daughter, Mrs Moreland now dead might have some of the old papers. Mrs Boyd says Eliza Boyd was the oldest of Thomas Boyd's children & was born in 1808 & was 21 yrs older than her brother Richard Boyd. E.L. says she lived at the old home until his father was married & she then went to live with her sister Ann Blocher & might have taken some of the old records with her. Mrs Moreland had two daughters

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Sallie, who teaches school in Connellsville & Stella who is a nurse. They would probably have the Blocher records. Mrs Boyd says her mother-in-law told her that Richard Boyd was only 7 yrs old when his mother Nancy died & his sister Eliza raised him. She was the mother of all of Thomas's children. There were no children by Thomas' second wife. They say that Mary Long, the wife of Thomas Boyd's son William, see page 198 was the sister of Samuel N. Long, their neighbor.

E.L. says Henry Boyd's family live on New Haven side of Connellsville Pa.

Leaving 10:40 PM

As I was leaving, Mrs Edgar L. Boyd who is a fine woman & who gave the dates on pages 206 & 207 from memory, said that P.S. Louck's of Scottdale had married Mary Boyd a daughter of George Boyd, who was a brother of Henry, whose wife was Rosa of Greensburgh who died, she said a few yrs ago & they had no issue & a different Henry from the one mentioned above by E.L. This George was a son of James of Wm & Ann & he, George, had a sister Mrs Wakefield, see page 68.

Sept 16, 1924, from last week's Connellsville Courier, I clip obituary of Mrs Mary A. Loucks, widow of Peter S. Loucks who died at Scottdale Pa Aug 30,

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1924 aged 69 yrs & she was buried Tuesday Sept 2, 1924 from her North Chestnut St Home. She was a member of the Meth Epis Ch & left 3 sons & 1 dau: Arthur B., E. Ralph, & Preston Loucks of Scottdale & Mrs Irene Loucks Rodgers of Wilkinsburg Pa. In the same "Grim Reaper Record" is noted death of William Boyd, 60 yrs old on Monday Sept 1, 1924 at home of his sister, Mrs Mary Burke near Hunker.

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[Descendant Chart]

William Boyd & Ann Jack

[their son]

Thomas Boyd m. Nancy Rice who was born down the hill below here. M. Ann____. All of his children were born at the old home in Bullskin Tp.

[children]

Eliza Boyd, b 1805 ob 1885, unmarried

William Boyd, B 1810 ob July 3, 1886

John Boyd, b 1812

Thomas Boyd, B Oct 22, 1814 ob Feby 21, 1895 unmarried.

Caroline Boyd, B 1816 ob died young & is buried in old Boyd g.y.

Ann Boyd, B 1818 ob mar Geo C. Blocher

Randolph, ob married & went to Louisiana. Had 2 boys perhaps more. He was the engineer for building Sand Patch tunnel on the B&O

Rice Boyd, next to youngest ob m. Elizabeth Overholt

Richard Boyd, B Sept 8, 1829 ob March 27, 1899 m. Sept 23 or 26 1861 to Maria Wade Strickler, who was born on the Jimtown farm near Dawson Apr 8, 1841 & died Sept 20, 1918 at Scottdale Pa. Both buried at Hill Grove Cem, Connellsville Pa. Their seven children were all born in the old home, the big brick see page 67.

Charles Strickler, B June 18, 1862 m. to Ella M. Hankins, daughter of John Hankins & wife Rachel Foster. Both living on Bridge St Dawson. Have one child.

Raymond Hankins, B Feby 22, 1892, unmarried.

Edgar Lyman, B Oct 8, 1863 m. Mch 10, 1886 to Mollie Elizabeth Chalfant born May 1, 1861 at Bolivar Fairfield Tp Westnd Co Pa dau of Wm Bowman Chalfant & wife Ellen Fowler. Have had five children the two boys born near the old Boyd g.y. where the Horner's now live which is in Bullskin Tp, the Randolph Boyd part of the old Wm Boyd farm & the 3 girls born in this house.

Earl Richard, B Dec 22, 1886 ob Mch 18, 1894

Carroll Chalfant, B Mch 19, 1889 m. Mch 10, 1912 to Jennie Maud Yothers who was born Oct 30, 1888 in Bullskin Tp near Wooddale dau of Frank Yothers, present owner of 120 A incl big brick house of Wm Boyd farm & his wife Mary Kern.

Mary Caryl, B Dec 23, 1912

Edgar Francis, B Mch 17, 1914 ob Apr 13, 1914

Beryl, a boy B Oct 24, 1917 ob Nov 30, 1917

Betty Jane, B June 15, 1921

Ellen Chalfant, B Nov 6, 1891. At home & unmarried.

Pauline Mae, B May 31, 1894 m. Apr 12, 1916 to John Franklin Myers born Mch 12, 1895 in Upper Tyrone Tp at Morgan Sta son of John C. Myers & his wife Mollie Leeper. The 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th born in this house, the 2d in C'ville & the 6th in Masontown Pa.

John Boyd, B Apr 27, 1917

Dorothy Ellen, B June 21, 1918

Wm Paul, B Aug 29, 1919

Robert Merle, B Dec 25, 1920

Boyd James, B July 31, 1922

Eugene, B May 23, 1924 ob May 24, 1924.

Anna Mary, B Aug 20, 1899. At home unmarried.

Unnamed Girl, B June 1865 died aged 2 days [dau of Richard Boyd]

Mary Lou, B July 23, 1869 ob Nov 1907 or 1908 & is buried at Colorado Springs Sol. M. Aug 4, 1897 to Wm Robinson McCoy, son of Hiram McCoy & wife Julia Walters. Two chil born at Colorado Springs.

Richard Boyd, B June 21, 1898, m.

Maria Louise, B June 8, 1900 unmarried.

Herbert, B Jany 19, 1871 m. Sept 21, 1900 Rebecca Caroline Kough born June 5, 1871 dau of Jacob Kough & wife Mary Coffman. Both living at Brownfield Pa where he is Supt of H.C. Frick Coke Co.

Ruth, B Feby 17, 1902 at Scottdale Pa, now at Carnegie Tech

Herbert Jr, B Mch 8, 1907 Adelaide Pa.

Benton, B Apr 1, 1873 m. Aug 31st 1898 to [3]rancis.)ê _#▒__#3_(_(M July 22, 1872 dau of I.N. Lewis & wife Esther Thuma. Both living at Trotter Pa where he is Supt for H.C. Frick Coke Co & have 7 chil.

Donald Lewis, B June 11, 1899 at Stonega, Va m. Nov 1921 to Anna Fay Thompson from Ohio, dau of Harry Thompson & wife Ruth Lura Hunt. Anne [sic] born born Jany 16, 1901 at Bellaire O.

Donald Thompson Boyd, B Feby 17, 1923 in Bellaire O

Esther Lou, B Jany 15, 1901 at Scottdale Pa M. July 23, 1924 to George Mosher [Moshen] Vail fr NY born at Lansing Mich on Aug 17, 1897 son of Mr & Mrs J.C. Vail

Richard Kermit, B June 1906

Helen Virginia, B Nov 13, 1907

Harold Herbert, B Sept 3, 1909

Martha Maria, B Aug 28, 1911

Benton Jr, B Aug 29, 1913

George Frank, B Feby 5, 1876 ob July 7, 1911 & is buried in the Alverton Cem. M.1. Mollie Sherrick dau of Abr H. Sherrick & wife Mary Dilliner. She was born 1876 & died. No issue. m.2. *Mabel Elma Richardson of Omaha Neb & had one child born in Neb at Oakdale. He was a lawyer.

Lenevieve Lou, B Dec 14, 1910 Lives at no 5116 Underwood Ave, Omaha, Neb.

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At Adam McGrew Montgomery's No 215 W. Fayette St Connellsville Pa Aug 6, 1924 7:55 AM

Arriving here, I found from his daughters that Mr Montgomery had boarded the train I got off of 7:05 AM going to attend the Hayden reunion at Olympia Park [unreadable word starts with P]. His daughters give me a card for 13th reunion, also at Olympia Park on Aug 21, 1924 as announced by card from Miss L.C. McGrew Secy 3334 Ward St of N.S. Ave Pgh Pa. Mr M's daughters do not know that their father who is treas has any of the McGrew manuscript family hist. From the tel, I took the following:

Thomas Boyd 223 S 9th St New Haven Tel 310-J

Chas Boyd 104 Tender [best guess] Av 424-W

Miss May Boyd [unreadable word begins Tu] attends First Baptist Church where Adam is a deacon & lives on East Apple ST. as does Rice Boyd, also & his brother Lewis on cottage Ave. Rice & Louis [sic] are cousins of May.

Adam M. Montgomery's family consists of Viola & Grace my informants, another daughter who went this morning with her father & a son who is working. Their mother died last Sept.

by their direction, I found Eva May Boyd see pages 195 to 199.

Left 8:23 AM

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Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville Pa Aug 6th, 1924 8:44 AM

I took the 8:30 Am street car & went up the hill east & was within a square of Hill Grove Cem & walked over & found:

1. Joseph Paull ob Feby 14, 1880 aged 71 yrs 3 mos

Eliza Paull born Jany 13, 1809 ob Apr 12, 1888

James Lea Paull, 1846-1920

Elizabeth Galloway, wife of James Lee Paul 1847-1917 2. Mrs Margaret Taylor, wife of Rev Ross Stephenson died July 19, 1849 in her 20th year.

3. David Cummings, Major 14 Reg U.S. Infy in the War of 1812 born Apr 26, 1777, ob Feby 5, 1848 at Lewistown Pa.

Elizabeth, wife of Maj David Cummings born June 20, 1783, ob June 24, 1827 at Connellsville Pa

James C. Cummings (M.D.) born Jany 8, 1802 at Rising Sun Md died July 28, 1872 at Connellsville Pa

David P. Cummings born June 15, 1815 at Rising Sun Md Killed Mch 6, 1836 at the fall of the Alamo, Texas

John A. Cummings, veteran of the Santa Fe expedition & Mexican War 1823-1893

Hannah M., wife of Thos McKee born July 27, 1804 at Rising Sun Md died Apr 4, 1888 at Connellsville Pa

Mary Cummings Patterson 1819-1905

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Margaret E., wife of Thos McLaughlin born Mch 23, 1808 at Rising Sun Md died Jany 5, 1889 at Connellsville Pa.

4. R.T. Galloway, my husband born 1809, died 1885

Ellen Cummings wife of R.T. Galloway 1821-1913

R.T. Galloway Jr 1847-1914

5. Robert W. Allen Nov 2, 1859 - _______

Anne E., his wife Oct 4, 1858, Apr 12, 1915

6. Joseph Milton Lytle born Dec 25, 1820, died Aug 29, 1911

Margaret Gregg Lytle born Oct 18, 1825 died Feby 2, 1917

7. Richard Boyd, Sept 8, 1829 Mar 27, 1899

Maria W. Apr 8, 1841, Sept 20, 1918

Thomas, Oct 22, 1814 Feby 21, 1895

8. Provance McCormick July 29, 1799, June 16, 1887

Susan McCormick Dec 16, 1800, Mar 8, 1868

Nora Jean Scott March 25, 1883, July 25, 1890

Joseph T. McCormick Nov 23, 1830 May 2, 1904

Susan McCormick Aug 31, 1833 Oct 5, 1915

Mary C. McCormick Oct 24, 1858, Mch 4, 1891

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Christian Snyder 1818 - 1904

Jane M. (wife of Christian Snyder) 1825 - 1886

Mary B. 1858 - 1919

George B. 1862 - 1909

Henry P. Snyder "Mizpah" 1856 - 1916

Katharine McIntyre Snyder 1875 - 1922

J.H. S. Stimmell "BAS" 1850 - 1914

Elizabeth McCormick 1820 - 1906

9. Rockwell Marietta, Father 1849 - 1922

Rodger G. 1891 - 1911

10. James Allen Oct 18, 1818, July 24, 1905

Mary M. wife of J. Allen Mch 27, 1827, Apr 16, 1895

This is on upper side of cemetery just below the fence & driveway & is the highest point in the cemetery, with a commanding view westward overlooking the town & a wonderful view of the fields & mountain eastward.

11. William P. Stillwagon 1848 - 1893

Mary 1846 - 1908

Ruth J. Crow 1892 - 1918

Rockwell 1889 - 1919

Leaving 10:10 AM

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At Mt Olivet graveyard Bullskin Tp, Aug 6, 1924 3:47 PM After finishing with Eva May Boyd, Rice M. Boyd & Louis Boyd, I walked down the steep east Apple St to Oppman's taxi on W. Apple opposite the P.O. & engaged a taxi to take me to the country & came over to the Yough House & engaged room 8 where I am now transcribing & going out to near the Country Club, was soon at above g.y. & made notations as follows:

12. William M. Crossland 1859 -

Barbara E., his wife 1868 -

Harry A. 1900 - 1916

Infant son 1909

13. Henry Bowman (Jno Wiltrout says he was "Breaneck Henry" died Dec 2, 1875 in his 89th yr.

He was not the father of James L. Boyd's 2d wife Page 198 who was know as "Mexican Henry"

Leaving 4:22 PM

We then drove around to home of W. Montgomery Crossland who is hard of hearing, see page 197, but his wife is intelligent & virile. She gave her record ps 198 & 199.

After leaving her, we detoured a way around through Pennsville & Prittstown to Henningers Mills now Wooddale to residence of John Wiltrout to see his wife, see page 202. He is an old virile Dutchman. We then drove away back & were (She gave her own record noted page 198)

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At the Old William Boyd graveyard in Bullskin Tp Aug 6, 1924 7:07 PM This old g.y. is an expansive plot with small trees, briars, alders & weeds growing in it & is in middle of a big oats field on Mrs Horner's farm. She too is Penna Dutch speaking. AS we came back from the g.y., she was penning up her little chickens & said there were nine tombstones up there all Boyds. I think we only found six & they were all down except the first one, here listed, that of Thomas Boyd. The g.y. is on an elevation but the big brick house is across the fields on a higher elevation & as Edgar L. said later was built by his grandfather Thomas or possibly by his father William 1752-1812. Edgar L. says the Horner farm was the part of the old Wm Boyd farm taken by his Uncle Randolph Boyd & bought from him when he moved away, by Edgar L's father, Richard.

14. Thomas Boyd died Feby 8, 1856? aged 77 yrs 9 mos & 18 days

John Boyd died Mch 30, 1857 aged 77 yrs 6 mos & 18 days

Anne, wife of Thos Boyd (his 2d wife) died Dec 3, 1863 aged 61 yrs 6 mos 2 days

Nancy, wife of Thomas Boyd died broken & pale [he means the stone]

To the memory of Nancy Boyd, consort of Thomas Boyd w.d.t.l. Sept 5, 1843 in the 55 yr of her age.

15. To the memory of William Boyd Esq w.d.t.l. Feby 25, 1812 in 60th yr of his age

also (over) & (on same stone)

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To the memory of Ann Boyd, consort of Wm Boyd w.d.t.l. Oct 8, 1796 in the 40th yr of her age & who is interred at Tyrone Meeting house. This stone too is down.

In the gathering shadows & heavy underbrush, we didn't find the others & will have to go back when the leaves are gone.

Leaving 7:44 PM

We then drove to Edgar L. Boyd's see pages 203 204, 206 & 207.

Leaving there at 11 Pm, we reached town at 11:15 & I went to the American Restaurant on Pgh St got my supper & got to the Yough Housr at 11:54 PM. Wrote until 1:20 AM 7th & being too sleepy, see page 208, I went to bed at 1:30 & got up at 5:30 AM & commencing at 5:50 AM have written from 209 to here & am up to date with transcribing & it is now 7:55 AM the 7th & I will go to breakfast.

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At Mrs Harry P. Boyd's (Myrtle) No 1114 Samson St, Greenwood, West side Connellsville Pa Aug 7, 1924 10:50 AM

Mrs Boyd, a fine woman, says Henry Boyd was a B&O engineer & died several years ago & one of the younger daughters, Emeline married Rev Cunningham, Christian denomination now a missionary in Japan where both are. Another daughter married Ralph Porter & both are living on Isabella Road & have several children. Another daughter, the oldest, Gertrude died in childbirth & Mrs B. thinks her child, Helen was adopted by her grandfather Henry Boyd & probably married a Schwartzwelder.

Myers Boyd's widow Ray is now with her widowed sister, Mrs Maranda on Chestnut St. Get off South C'ville St car at Washington Av, Ray can tell abt the Henry Boyd family.

Mrs Boyd says Lyman Boyd of Canton O & wife were visiting his brother Robert & may be with him to the picnic today if they haven't gone home. Mrs Boyd gave me her own, her husband's & her children's record entered on page 200. Her husband thought his brother Rice had their father's bible but she thinks Emma Long at Scottdale may have it.

Leaving 11:46

Says she, Rice & Louis all own their own homes. Mrs Boyd wants a book.

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At residence of Mrs Josephine Meranda 1230 Chestnut St Connellsville South side Aug 7, 1924 12:55 PM

Mrs Meranda's sister, Mrs Ray Boyd of No 109 W. Pittsburgh St, Greensburgh Pa is here now with Mrs Meranda. Mrs Boyd lived in Uniontown Pa in our new Thompson Ruby Hackney building east of the Court House when her husband died of pneumonia. She thinks Mrs Emma Long of Scottdale Pa may have gotten her father's bible. Mrs Boyd says her grandfather, Henry Stillwagon was brother of Claire's grandfather whose name was Peter Stillwagon, whose father was Peter Stillwagon who emigrated to America from along the Rhine in the 1760s, first located at or near Balto from where he went in the Rev War & came to this section after the war & who died in Connellsville & is buried there.

Mrs Boyd says that Jennie was older than her husband Myers Boyd. I find that Mrs Porter lives a few squares above here on Isabella Road.

Leaving 1:36 PM

Mrs Boyd called in her father, Joseph W. Stillwagon who was there & he gave the record of the Stillwagon ancestry above noted.

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At residence of Mrs Ralph E. Porter No 525 Isabella Road, Connellsville Pa Aug 7, 1924 2:10 PM

I came up here through the high weeds & got my pants legs wet after the heavy rain we had while I was talking to Ray Boyd. Miss Elizabeth met me at the door & said her mother had just left for town to attend a church meeting & would not be back until 5 o'c. She says however, that she can give the dates of birth of her mother's six children.

1. John Ralph Porter born Feby 6, 1908

2. Henry Boyd Porter born Feby 1, 1909

3. Carolyn Marie Porter born May 27, 1910

4. Jean Elizabeth Porter born Sept 7, 1911

5. Myrtle Mae Porter born Apr 23, 1914

6. Emilie Blackstone Porter born Oct 18, 1919

Their mother, Olive Blanche Boyd, daughter of Henry Boyd was born July 6.

Her husband Ralph E. Porter was born Apr 28. He is son of John Ralph Porter.

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At residence of William Woods Shearer 302 E. Fairview Ave Connellsville Pa Aug 7, 1924 4:07 PM

Mrs Shearer has brought out their big well preserved bible put out by the historical pub Co St Louis Mo, but no date is given. She says they have the bible of Mr Shearer's father Daniel Shearer, but it is boxed up with some other books at Mill Run twelve miles from here where they once owned a small farm & lived & is in the care of her sister, Mrs D.L. Steyer living in the edge of town. She says she has nine children, 38 grandchildren & eight great grandchildren. I am making a table of them beginning page 220, the births of their children being taken from their bible

5:22 PM Mr Shearer has come in & he is of the typical Markle build being 5 ft 4 in tall. Mr Shearer says there were 8 children in his father's family & he the youngest & Stanley in Colorado are the only ones living.

Leaving 5:33 PM

Mrs Shearer has a telephone No 750-W Tri State, Connellsville Pa.

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[Descendant Chart]

Rev Robert Graham Thompson see page 184 & book 8 p 425 born May 31, 1816 & died Aug 7, 1895. He taught school near Forks of York & through a portion of Ky adjacent was at West Theo Seminary, Allegheny Pa under Rev Dr John T. Pressly, licensed in the Presbytery of Mansfield O & settled over Congregations of Auburn, DeKalb & Upper Sandusky O. Auburn was 3 m S.W. of Plymouth O & DeKalb was 6 miles west of Shelby O about a miles east of the present town of Tiro. He married 1. May 9, 1844 Sarah Leland Brown born Apr 24, 1817 in Rutland Co Vermont & lived in Richland Co O. 4 miles S.W. of Plymouth O. she was dau of Joseph Brown of Vt & his wife Julia Horr[4]son died Feby 27, 1906, aged 92 yrs 1 mo 4 daysSU_# U_#A_( Union Army as Chaplain of 64th Ohio vol Inf in July 1863 until mustered out in Dec 1865. This was John Sherman's Reg & he participated in many sanguinary battles & served on the Mexican border at time of French Invasion of Mexico. His wife died Aug 15, 1859. He married 2d July 11, 1861 Martha Thompson Scott born Mch 12, 1830 in Brooke Co Va & died Jany 10, 1918 in Santa Ana Calif, daughter of William Scott & wife Catherine Thompson. After his return from the war, he bought a farm & moved to Kingsville Johnston Co Mo. Had 7 children by first wife & one by second. First seven born in Richland Co O & Robert G. was born in Johnston Co Mo. He spoke of a first cousin David D. Christy. Catherine Thompson was born in Red Stone Fayette Co Pa.

[children]

Julia F., B Mch 25, 1845 m. Jany 14, 1871 to Wm A. Skiles son of Henry A. Skiles. She died Feby 17, 1896, moved abt 1873 to Loveland Colorado where he was & is an Elder in U.P. Ch. Had 5 chil born at Loveland Col, two living.

2. Maud Graham, B Jany 6, 1878 ob May 9, 1896 unmarried.

3. Laura Waukina, B Nov 3, 1879 ob Oct 10, 1895 unmarried.

1. Lillie Colorado, B apr 11, 1876 m. Jany 5, 1903 to Ernest Eddy B Dec 16, 1872 son of James Romaine Eddy & wife Julia Adalaide Totten Live at Los Angeles Calif R.D. 2 Box 172 Now 9/19/25 R.D. 1 Riverside Calif

Laura Helen Skiles, B Dec 29, 1907 at Loveland Colorado

5. Lois Fern, B July 12, 1887 m. May 29, 1919 to Frank Munro

Leah Jane, B Mch 23, 1923 at South Bend Ind.

4. Carrie Phebe B Oct 8, 1884 ob Aug 1, 1892.

John Pressly, B July 9, 1847 enlisted when 16 in 64th Ohio Vol Inf & served until war closed emigrated fr Mo to Colorado in 1873. m. Jany 14, 1875 at Evans Colorado to Sarah Jennie Torrence & moved to Calif. She was born Jany 14, 1856 near Coultersville Ills. See pages 184 & 185.

Mary Elizabeth, B June 9, 1849 m. Apr 2, 1872 to David G. Wright B. May 19, 1847 ob Oct 25, 1894. She lives with son in Kansas City Mo at 3721 Main St.

Walter Scott, see page 73 for correct & enlarged record.

Roy, see page 73 for correct & enlarged record

James, see page 73 for correct & enlarged record.

Sarah Margaret, B Mch 15, 1851 m. Aug 15, 1871 to Henry Arnott Skiles son of Henry A. Skiles. Both now living at Santa Ana Calif. He is a carpenter. Have 7 children. He was born July 9, 1848 in Jefferson Co Ind. His mother, Jane Andrews, Robt H. & Earl born at Kinsville Mo & other 5 at Santa Ana Calif.

Robt Henry, B May 30, 1872 m. 1895 to Rena Brown

Dorothy Skiles, B 1896 or Sept 13, 1907

Corinne, B 1900? or Sept 1910?

Jessie Leland, B Apr 30, 1875 m. Sept 22, 1896 Earnest Bear B May 3, 1869 in Va son of M.H. Bear & wife Sarah Fisebaugh. Children born in Santa Ana Calif.

Ralston, B. June 18, 1901 m. May 4, 1922 to Doris Conden B June 23, 1899 dau of Seymour W. Condon & wife Mary Dorris

Marcia Lois, B Apr 7, 1923

Lois, B June 3, 1903

Jennie Edna, B Aug 8, 1878 m. Dec 20, 1898 to Asa Cox B Oct 26, 1874. Chil born Santa Ana

Carmen, B May 17, 1900 m. to Harold Baker b June 14, 1899 son of Abraham Loval Baker & wife Kate.

Elwood, B Dec 25, 1906

Leslie A. B May 3, 1881 m. Jany 18, 1915 to Frances Elizabeth Armstrong B Mch 9, 1897 at Minneapolis Minn.

Denton Armstrong, B May 1, 1920 in Huntington Park, Calif

Ralph Arnott, B Feby 4, 1922

Ira Thompson Skiles, B Apr 10, 1883 m. Aug 5, 19198 to Leah Lucille Snider B Mch 3, 1891 at Salt Lake City Utah. Live 455 Michigan Ave, Pasadena Calif.

Earl, B Aug 3, 1885 m. Apr 5, 1911 to Adeline Louise Riley born Sept 19, 1885 in Cherokee Calif dau of Dr L.K. Riley & wife Mary E. Lawson. Have 2 chil born in Glendale Calif.

Mary Margaret, B May 19, 1913

June Riley, B June 9, 1916

Bruce Edwin, B Sept 8, 1891 m. 1912 to Grace Doty.

Helen, B Sept 1916

Maria Graham, [dau of Rev Robert Graham Thompson] B June 27, 1853 see p 184 & book 8 0 425

Samuel Findley, B Feby 3, 1856 m. May 17, 1888 to Jennie Brown & live at Roosevelt Okla. She was born at Norwood Ills Apr 23, 1853 dau of Wm Brown & wife Isabelle Vance both from Ireland.

Glen Thompson, B July 30, 1890 at Caddell Col see page 226

Robert Graham, B Sept 30, 1893 at Santa Ana Calif

Carrie G., B May 21, 1858 m. June 10, 1889 to Sydney Flinn. She is dead leaving 3 chil Robt, Clara & Myron & he lives at Las Animas Col. Am writing him July 18, 1925.

Robert Scott, B Sept 12, 1868 m. May 10, 1919 to Ada Bertha Borland No issue. Live at Santa Ana Calif. Say not of our Kilgore Borlands. She was born June 12, 1880 dau of Jas Crawford Borland, a native of Pa & wife Martha Elizabeth Anderson.

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[Descendant Chart]

William Woods Shearer, son of Daniel M. Shearer & his wife Emily Brown, was born in Ohio in Jefferson Co near Steubenville Oct 1, 1855. He is a carpenter by trade. See page 150 & 151. M. Mch 21, 1880 at Mill Run Pa to Kate Growall who was born in Lower Turkey Foot Tp, Somerset Co Pa June 21, 1862 the daughter of Eli Growall & his wife Harriet King. Their nine children were all born on their farm in Springfield Tp near Mill Run Pa & are all living. The initials are simply initials & do not stand for any name.

[children]

Lillian Estella Shearer, B Aug 6, 1880 m. May 22, 1896 to Jesse C. Johnson born at Mill Run Pa Mch 26, 1872, son of Samuel Johnson & wife Margaret Critchfield. Both living at Mill Run where their 10 children were born & where he is a farmer ie in Springfield Tp.

Ada Lenora, B Aug 1, 1896 m.1. Apr 1916 to Harry Horner, bro of Wm, Ruth's husband born in 1893, a railroader & was killed on RR at Youngwood Pa July 1, 1919. Had 2 chil born at Youngwood Pa M.2. Jesse Johnston, no relation at Normalville & born there 1897, son of Andrew Johnston & wife. Live at Normalville Pa where he is a mail carrier. Have 2 chil born at Normalville Pa m. 2d on abt Nov 1921

Chas Jacob Horner, B Mch 1917

Donald Horner, B June 3, 1919

Hilde Marie Johnston, B Sept 27, 1922

Virginia Mae, B Apr 1924.

Goldie, B Apr 23, 1898 m. Sept 1914 to Lewis Krepps B abt Aug 1896 born in this Tp, son of Frank Krepps & wife Dorothy Felicia Lynch. Live at Hazlewood Pa & works in B&O shop & have 3 chil all born there.

Goldie Eleanor, B Nov 1915 ob same day

Lois Virginia, B May 30? 1918

Martha Mae, B July 27, 1922

Sadie, B Mch 6, 1901 m. Sept 27, 1921 to Geo A. Johnson, son of Andrew Johnson & wife Frances Roebuck. He was born in Connellsville Pa. Live in Morgantown WVA in coal trade. No issue. He was born June 4, 1895

Joseph, Feby 19, 1903

Olive Mae, B Nov 2, 1906 ob Nov 13, 1922 m. May 1922 to George W. Williams, son of George Williams & his wife Ella Miller.

John Robert Williams, B Nov 11, 1922 in Mill Run Pa

Elva Pearl, a girl B July 15, 1909

Kenneth Earl, B Mch 22, 1912

Florence Maria, A girl B Jany 9, 1916 ob Jany 11, 1917

Iris Louise, B Jany 7, 1918

Willetta, B Apr 6, 1922

Goldy E. Shearer, [dau of William Woods Shearer] b Oct 21, 1882, m. Jany 8, 1906 to Ralph O. Prinkey born near Normalville Pa June 24, 1886, son of John Prinkey & wife Mary Tedrow. Both living in Springhill Tp where he is pit boss for Conado [sic] Their 6 children were all born at Mill Run.

Kenneth Earl, B May 25, 1906 ob Feby 7, 1923

Emery Howard, B Aug 22, 1908

Mildred Augusta, B Dec 24, 1910

John William, B Mch 12, 1913

Paul Devon, B Apr 14, 1915

Madlyn Ruby, B Mch 27, 1918

Hattie B., b. Apr 29, 1885 m. Oct 18, 1903 to Charles D. Dull born at Mill run Feby 16, 1883, son of John Dull & wife Jane Baily. Both living near Mill Run where he is a farmer & where their 8 chil were born in Springfield Tp. He was born on this, his parents farm. None of the children are married.

Lester Dull, B Mch 10, 1904

Edna Dull, B Oct 12, 1905

Bertha Levada, B Mch 12, 1908

Genova Ruth, B Dec 16, 1909

Rush Gale, B Mch 7, 1912

John Sidmon, B June 19, 1914

Martha Jane, B Mch 10, 1906

Betty Beryl, B Aug 12, 1923

Ida May Shearer, B May 11, 1888 unmarried & at home

Lena D. Shearer, B May 5, 1891 m. July 6, 1914 to Dennis Whipkey born near Mill Run Pa Sept 8, 1889 son of Albert Whipkey & wife Mary Johnson. Both living in Morgantown WVA where he is a coal digger. Have 5 sons, the first & third born at Mill, the second born at Broadford, the 4th born in Somerset Co Pa & the 5th at Morgantown WVA.

Robert, B Aug 5, 1915

Dwane, B Apr 11, 1917

Eugene, B Sept 4, 1919

Wendell, B Oct 24, 1921

Lester, B Mch 16, 1924

Daniel L. Shearer, B Apr 16, 1894 m. June 30, 1915 to Lillie Pearl Prinkey, born near Normalville Pa Sept 16, 1890 dau of John Prinkey & wife Mary Tedrow. Both living in Springhill Tp where he is store mgr for Cox[unreadable]. Have 3 children first two born at Mill Run & last one in Springhill Tp.

Merritt Dale, a boy B June 18, 1917 ob Sept 8, 1918

Willma Arlene, B Feby 9, 1919

Daniel L. Jr, B June 24, 1921

Ruth L. Shearer, B Nov 7, 1896 m. May 31, 1915 to William Horner born at Glassport Pa Dec 23,1894 son of John Horner & wife Anna Prinkey, cousin of John. Both living at Dilliner Pa where he is a coal miner. Have 5 children, 3 born at Mill Run Pa one in Springhill Tp & the last one at Dilliner Pa

Hughey, B Aug 1, 1915

Verna, B Oct 5, 1917

Catharine Maria, B Oct 3, 1919

William, B Nov 3, 1921

Deloris, B Mch 1, 1924

William Woods Shearer, B Dec 6, 1899 m. Dec 23, 1923 to Hulda Cunningham born at Mill Run Pa Mch 21, 1896, dau of Coston Cunningham & wife Mary Skinner. Both living in this house & he is a carpenter. Have one child born in this house.

Ivanore, B July 15, 1924

Catharine M. Shearer, B Jany 23, 1903, at home unmarried.

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AT residence of Mrs Ralph Ewing Porter No 525 Isabella Road Connellsville S.S. Pa Aug 7, 1824 7:44 PM

I arrived here at 7 PM. Mrs Porter says her brother, Harry Thomas Boyd living at Rosedale, between Uniontown & Oliphant Furnace, the latter being his P.O. address, the street car stop being just by his home, has the family bible of their father, Henry Blackstone Boyd. He is master mechanic for the H.C. Frick Coke Co. His, Henry Blackstone Boyd's father Thomas H. Boyd married first a Newcomer, who was a sister of John Newcomer, Pres of the Yough Bank & also of Jacob Newcomer, the father of Dr Geo W. Newcomer & of Mrs Dr S.S. Stahl, living on the S.S.> of South Pgh St, opp the new church building there, who Mrs Porter thinks will be able to give more information about the earlier Boyds. Go see her. This wife died young, leaving six small children four boys & two girls. I am recording their names in a table commencing on page 224. He later married for his second wife, Maria McGiffin from Washington Co Pa, but their [sic] was no issue. She died before he did. Mrs Porter says her Uncle Joseph's birth caused his

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mother's death & he was raised by a Mrs Porter, not related to her husband, who had lost a baby & who for some time thought he was her baby. They, however raised him & remembered him in their will. They moved from this Co to Grand Ridge Ills.

Mrs Porter says her grandfather's brother, Joseph Heister Boyd forged his brother Thomas's name to a note & it broke Thomas up.

Leaving 9 PM

She says her husband was given his middle name for Judge Ewing. She thought the last Judge, Nathaniel.

Sept 11, 1924. Sarah A. Newcomer, wife of Thos H. Boyd. See top of next page was daughter of John Newcomer Jr & his wife Barbara Snyder & her father had served six years in the Revolutionary War. See article on John Newcomer in the Jordan & Him Hadden 3 Vol 1912 Hist of Fay Co. Also Page 359 to 360 this book.

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[Descendant Chart]

[Boyd]

[children]

Thomas H. Boyd, ob 1894, m.1. Sarah Newcomer see page 223, ob 1849. m.2. Maria McGiffen. He owned a farm at what is now Gilmore Mills, then Boyds Mill, reached from head of Main St & just beyond the Frisbee farm. His first wife is buried at Bethel g.y. near Dawson & he & his 2d wife are buried beside Mrs P's oldest sister Gertrude Crouse, who has a marker, but they have none. Hers is above the drive road just after entering Cem ie Hill Grove Cem. See Nelson 1900 Big Fay Co Hist P 855 & 6 see book 12 P 359.

Lester Boyd, He died in Colfax Was in recent years. Had a large family 6 to 8 chil. All married.

John Newcomer Boyd, He was in Civil War & lost an arm by his sleeve catching in a mill. He died at Clinton Iowa abt a yr ago unmarried Born Sept 12, 1841

Mary Ann, M. Anselm Springer who has died & she lives in Clinton Iowa, well up in yrs. Had 4 girls.

Harriet, m. Stevens & lived in Nebraska. She killed in a cyclone in Neb. Had 3 children.

Henry Blackstone Boyd, B Apr 13, 1847 ob Sept 14, 1909. He died in Sept 1909 aged 62 yrs in West side C'ville & is buried in Hill Grove Cem away back over the hill & has a marker. He mar Elizabeth Bowl Shaffer B July 15, 1848 ob Nov 4, 1910 Item 5 p 368. See pages 805 & 806 Nelson 1900 Big Hist Fay Co.

Ada Gertrude, B Mch 9, 1871 ob Feby 5, 1893 ob Feby 5, 1893 aged 21 yrs 1 mo 26 days. M. James Malcom Crouse who is living & remarried.

Helen Gertrude, Born Jany 29, 1893 at Dawson Pa Page 371

Emily Blackstone, B Feby 22, 1873 m. June 2, 1898 to Rev Wm Dayton Cunningham of Tokio [sic] Japan born July 19, 1864 at Dawson Pa, Have 3 girls & a boy, all unmarried see page 371

Jean Eloise, B Sept 4, 1899

Doris Elaine, B Aug 29, 1902 at Karieizwan, Japan

Marian Ruth, B May 7, 1906 at Tokyo Japan

William Dayton, B Apr 12, 1912 at Tokio Japan

Harry Thomas, B June 29, 1875 m. Nov 28, 1900 to Anna Naomi Young. Has his father's bible. Lives near Oliphant Furnace.

Elizabeth Naomi, Born Nov 19, 1901 in New Haven Pa

Harry Nicholson Boyd, B Aug 24, 1918 legally adopted.

Olive Blanche, B July 6, 1877 m. Apr 15, 1907 to Ralph Ewing Porter see page 217

Harriet Florence, B July 22, 1882 m. June 25, 1908 to Burton Miller Swartzwelder & they live at 711 Blackstone Ave East Park & have but one child. He was born at Buffalo Mills Pa Jany 14, 1883. He is son of Daniel Morgan Swartzwelder & wife Amanda Miller.

Jean Eleanor, Born Mar 12, 1912 at Connellsville Pa

Joseph Porter [son of Thomas H. Boyd] B June 2, 1849. His mother died when he was born. m. a Poundstone & lived & died at Grandridge Ills had 4 children see book 5 p 445.

Minnie May, B June 28, 1877

Lewis Wm, B July 25, 1879

Elizabeth Rebecca, B Mch 2, 1882

John Lester, B Apr 13, 1886

Joseph Heister Boyd [son of original Boyd] m. Isabella Boyd

Jeremiah Edward Boyd, Lives Topeka Kansas see Nov 7, 1922 book 8 p 432

William, in Civil War, unmarried.

Elizabeth Ann, M. Henry Blackstone. Mrs P. thinks they died in Pgh.

Carolynn, M. Alex J. Johnston of Connellsville Pa. He dead & she lives in Pgh & Mrs P. will get her address. She boards at No 411 South Highland Ave Pgh Pa. Has two daughters.

Mary Elizabeth, married

Eleanor, married.

James

Emily

Sarah

Sarah Boyd, married Zadok Walker. He died near Dunbar Pa. Thinks she died in NY.

John, died in NY married, but no issue.

Mattie, married. Ask Carolynn Johnston.

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At residence of Robert R. Boyd 607 Morrell Ave Connellsville Pa, west side Aug 7, 1924 9:45 PM

Mr & Mrs Boyd have given me from memory, the data to complete their record entered in the table on page 200. He says he was next younger than Myers & Mrs Boyd says her recollection is that Emma told her that she had her parents old Bible. Mr Boyd has been with the West Penn Co as blacksmith most of the time since June 1, 1901

Leaving 10:20 PM

[Descendant Chart]

Rev Robert Graham Thompson see page 219

[children]

Samuel Findley Thompson, Born Feby 3, 1856

Francis Glenn Thompson, B July 30, 1890 m. May 12, 1913 to Lotta Page born Feby 24, 1892 dau of E.F. Page & wife

Lois Janette, B Aug 3, 1915

Francis Rex, B Nov 19, 1916

Beulah Viola, B June 2, 1918

Roberta Joyce, B May 22, 1924

Robert Graham Thompson, B Sept 30, 1893 m. Aug 19, 1915 to Hattie F. Randol born Nov 6, 1894 at Peoria City, Iowa dau of Chas Randol & wife.

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At residence of Wm H. Miller No 924 Allison Ave, Washington Pa Aug 8, 1924 2:50 PM

I arrived here at 2:30 PM & met Miss Mary Jane Finley who makes her home here. She says the old bible of her father, James Finley is here, but it belongs to her brother H.J.A. Finley & is locked up in his trunk. He lives in Pittsburgh at 1310 & 1312 Beaver Ave, N.S. Pgh Pa & his telephone is 5517 Cedars. She does not know of the bible of her grandfather, James Finley, nor whether her brother has it or not. She remembers her grandmother, Mary Finley, widow of James Finley who lived with & died at her father's. Her maiden name was Alexander & she was born in County Tyrone, Ireland & was brought to America when two yrs old. Thinks she died just after harvest in 1863 aged 72 & is buried in the old g.y. in Claysville Pa next to the Methodist Church. She was at the funeral, but is not sure whether she has a marker. She was the mother of all of James Finley's children who she thinks had but one wife & Mrs Finley says that John was the oldest child & her father, James, was the youngest & that there were six girls in between, whose record she is giving, naming them, she believes in the order of their ages & which I am

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making into a table commencing on page 230.

She says that her father, when a young boy, lived at Gastonville, near Finleyville Pa & from there, moved to near Taylorstown Pa, Wash Co on a farm in a brick house & he & his mother moved from there to the farm where she was born 3 miles south east of Claysville Pa & one mile from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, the farm being in East Finley Tp, East & West Finley Tps were named for her Finleys. She never knew any of her father's sisters, but says they were Presbyterians. Miss Finley thought her people came from Westmoreland Co or at least, had relatives living there.

Leaving 4:30 PM

After leaving, Miss Finley who was very kind, & helpful, I walked down a block to Jefferson St & took the street car into 2d St & going up it, one block at corner of Allison, I found the Wm C. Leonard came to the door. She died not think her husband had any Leonard records & said he had been 7 miles down the county all week & that his father, William Leonard was from Jefferson Greene Co Pa, so it does not look as if of interest to us.

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I then took the street car in & went out Maiden St to Rosewood Ave where on the S.E. corner of East Maiden & Rosewood, I found Wilson Myers & found he was my old associate coal owner, David Wilson Myers & instead of him having married a niece of David Carlisle Jenkins, he himself was his nephew, his mother Luciah Jenkins being a sister of David C. & his father was Stephen Myers. He said he was born in 1846 & named for his Uncle David C. & his father was Stephen Myers. She said he was born in 1846 & named for his Uncle David C. Jenkins & their family physician, Dr Wilson of Beallsville, this is our relative, who was there [sic] family doctor. I was there 10 minutes from 5:30 to 5:40 PM. He said he remembered him ie Dr Wilson, when he was abt 7 yrs old, but thinks he died within a few years afterwards. He said he knew nothing of Samuel Jenkins & his wife Mary, but said there were some Jenkins about Scenery Hill who were not related to them. Said there was an old lady Jenkins there, a widow, he thought who died abt the time he reached his majority & was well up in years. Had a son Harrison. He says Jacob Gayman, an old surveyor at Scenery Hill, older than him might know something of them.

Left 5:40 PM

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[Descendant Chart]

James Finley, born Nov 6, 1787 died Jany 6, 1849. They were married Feby 28, 1809. m. Jane Alexander who was born Apr 1, 1790 in Co Tyrone Ireland & came to America 1793 & died in East Finley Tp Oct 13th, 1863.

[children]

1. John Finley, B May 7, 1810 ob Feby 17, 1908 mar Jany 28, 1841

3. Mary Finley, B July 9, 1813 m. Wm Woods on Oct 12, 1837 a mechanic or painter & lived at Aledo, Ills where they died either both at Aledo or one at Monmouth Ills. Had 3 chil born in Ills

Joseph, preacher

Lavina

Caroline

2. Sarah Finley, m. Apr 5, 1832, B. Oct 26, 1811 ob. M. Robert Woods a brother of Wm. Thinks he too was a mechanic or painter. They moved to Aledo Ills. They had 7 children.

Robert

William

James, Rollstin

A. Mack H.J.A.F. says he moved to Fort Collins Col.

Sarah, m.

Hannah, never married

Mary

5. Hannah Finley, B Sept 23, 1817 ob May 11, 1853 m. Mch 13, 1838 Robert Sawhill & moved to Ohio & lived in town & had 4 children, to Cambridge O.

James Finley, B, ob. m. Lulu

Sarah

Mary, H.J.A. thinks was oldest

Margaret, youngest, H.J.A. thinks she married an Oyster. Look up Carrie F. Carothers record

6. Margaret Finley, born Dec 24, 1819 ob Dec 5, 1852 m. William Brownlee of she thinks Franklin Tp. He was a farmer & lived in Wash Co. Had 5 chil. Lived in Franklin Tp. They were married Sept 30, 1841. See pages 124 & 125.

Finley, went to Aledo Ills & thinks died unm

Clark [twin] married. Thinks went to Illinois. He died in 1916 & left 7 chil. A dau, Lilly Rice lives Centerview MO Route 35 JVT 11/8/24

Wilson, [twin] went to MO & is a farmer & living. He is dead. Left 12 children. His widow Helen J. lives 714 N 10th ST, his youngest dau Mrs W.Y. Metzger at 524 S 11th ST both Independence Kansas w. 9/6/28. See pages 124 & 125.

Florariana, B Apr 3, 1848 see page 124. M. James R. Knox & lived in Franklin Tp. Both living. Moved to Iowa Sept 6/24. She lives at Mt Ayr Iowa. Has 2 daughters living & one dead.

Mary Esther Knox, Born May 21, 1874 m. Oct 24, 1900 to Clinton James Harvey, born Sept 23, 1871 son of James Milton & Rachel Jane Harvey. Have two children, twins born at Clearfield Iowa. Both single

James Gerald Harvey, B July 23, 1901

Vera Arlene Harvey, Born July 23, 1901

Eva Mattie, B Jany 12, 1877 ob July 31, 1878

Ada Grace Knox, Born June 6, 1879 m. June 15, 1910 to Milton Martin McFarland born Nov 27, 1874 at Pacific Jc, Iowa, son of Ellen McFarland. No issue.

Margaret Jane, Thinks she died young, made her home with John G. Clark, born Aug 1, 1849 at Washington Pa

7. Eliza Finley, B June 5, 1822 ob Jany 28, 1856 m. John Ralston of South Buffalo Tp a farmer. Had but 2 children. There were married on Mch 5, 1842.

Nancy Jane, M. John Allender of Ohio, also of Cambridge O

Martha, married a lawyer & went to the far west, possibly to Iowa where Jim Knox went.

4. Jane Finley, B Sept 29, 1815 ob Jany 10, 1856 aged 30 yrs unmarried. She was aged over 40 I find.

8. James Finley, B Apr 1, 1825 ob Oct 12, 1912 in his 88th yr. M. May 5, 1853 to Margaret Elizabeth Campsey when she was 17. She was a sister of J.D. Campsey & daughter of James Campsey & his wife. She was born in Donegal Tp, 2 miles north of Claysville Pa May 18, 1835 & she died on the farm in East Finley Tp Sept 13, 1857 aged 21 yrs & is buried in the old g.y. in Claysville beside the Methodist Church & has a tombstone. He never remarried, but he died at No 13, Hagy Place Pgh Pa & is buried in the Allegheny Cem. They had but two children, born on the farm in East Finley Tp.

Hamilton James Alexander Finley, B June 23, 1854. He lives at 1310 & 1312 Beaver Ave N.S. Pgh Pa Tel Cedar 5517. He is Asst Secy of the Superior Fire Ins Co at the above number. He lives at No 1233 Buena Vista St N.S. Pgh Pa where he will see me after 6 PM next Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. He says he has both his father's & grandfather's bibles there as we just talked to him by phone. He has never married.

Mary Jane Finley, B July 1, 1856 & was raised on the old farm & lives now at this number 924 Allison Ave with Mrs Miller & has never married.

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At residence of Emanuel Shearer No 510 E. Bean St, Washington Pa Aug 8, 1924 7:40 PM

I arrived here by taxi 20 minutes ago & found Mr Shearer sitting on the porch. He has a note size sheet of paper on our side of which is written the births & deaths of his grandparents, the births of all their children & the deaths of a few of them, all as shown on pages 150 & 151 hereof & showing the deaths of Rebecca, Benjamin & David that I did not have. Mr Shearer's daughter has gone to the attic & brought down the old bible of her grandfather Jacob Shearer printed in NY in 1834 by B. Waugh & Mason with the old record therein from which I copy. Mr Shearer has a newer big bible printed by J.B. Lippincott & Co Phila in 1861 in which both of the above named family records are copied. I am copying from both bibles.

Jacob Shearer & Emily Shotwell were married Mch 27, 1838. Their children

1. John Frederic Shearer born July 25, 1839

2. Rebecca Markle Shearer born May 19, 1841

3. Emanuel Shearer born Jany 1, 1843

4. Sarah Catharine Shearer born Aug 23, 1845

5. LeRoy Norton Shearer born Jany 9, 1851

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6. Susan Elizabeth Shearer born Sept 28, 1853

7. Emily Caroline Shearer born Dec 1, 1855

Deaths

Rebecca Markle Shearer died Jany 16, 1849

LeRoy Norton Shearer died Oct 9, 1854

Emily Caroline Shearer died Mch 8, 1856

John Frederic Shearer died Oct 2, 1861

Susan Elizabeth Shearer died Oct 3, 1861

Rebecca M. died of some kind of fever

LeRoy N. died of dysentery

Emily Caroline died of whooping cough

John Frederic died of diptheria

Susan Elizabeth died of diptheria

John Frederic was engaged to marry Hattie Riggs & was buried on the day he was to have been married. She was from California Pa & afterwards married Dr W.H? Phillips there. The above children were all buried at Franklin Church in Franklin Tp, Fayette Co Pa

Emanuel Shearer was married Nov 29, 1864 to Elizabeth Cook, who was born Apr 22, 1842 in Jefferson Tp & died Oct 7, 1916 in this house. She was daughter of Henry Cook & his first wife Esther Deyarmon. They had five children all born in Franklin Tp Fayette Co Pa as follows:

1. Esther Emily Shearer born Oct 13, 1865

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2. Fred Orville Shearer born Aug 14, 1868

3. Harry Jacob Shearer born Apr 5, 1872

4. Jessie Mae Shearer born

5. John Cook Shearer born Feby 8, 1882

1. Esther Emily is at home unmarried.

2. Fred O. was married Sept 24, 1894 to Ella Hazen who was born Feby 10, 1872 in Franklin Tp, Fayette Co Pa, daughter of Benjamin Hazen & his wife Edith Piersol. Fred O. died at Eighty-four Pa Nov 16, 1914 & she lives there with her four children, the first two being born in Franklin Tp Fayette Co Pa & the fourth in the village of Eighty-four in Somerset Tp Wash Co Pa. The children are as follows:

I. Benjamin Hazen Shearer born Mch 30, 1896

II. Emanuel Eugene Shearer born July 22, 1898. He married June 14, 1924 Gladys Ballantyne, born May 1902, daughter of Mrs Flora Ballantyne, her father being dead.

III. Frederic Jacob Shearer born Dec 1, 1905

IV. Homer Shearer born Aug 6, 1911 Benj H. & Frederic J. are single.

3. Harry Jacob died unmarried July 27, 1903

4. Jessie Mae is at home unmarried.

5. John Cook is married Aug 12, 1914 to Kathleen Laughlin born Apr 14, 1892, daughter of Rev John Clark Laughlin & his wife Minnie P. Lawrence. They both living at No 1217 Mississippi Ave Dormont Pa.

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& he works in the Fidelity Title & Trust Co, Pgh, Pa where he has been 6 yrs & is in the Trust Dept. Have but one child, born at Eighty-four Pa viz:

I. John Laughlin Shearer born Dec 13, 1916

Mr Shearer says Fred Philip Bortner & his sister, Flora, both unmarried children of his Aunt Mary, see page 151, are living at the old home in Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa. He says there was a Daniel Shearer a carpenter, lived down by Little Redstone Church who, he says, was a cousin of his father. He had three sons, William John & Eli. Miss Shearer says there were a couple daughters also.

Leaving 9:30 PM

Mr Shearer is pretty hard of hearing & does not have much mind left & aside from the records, cannot help any. He knew nothing of a sister of his grandmother Shearer marrying another Shearer.

Mch 1, 1925. Emanuel Shearer as per notice in Connellsville Courier died at his home in Washington Pa Feby 1925 aged 82 yrs & was buried Monday afternoon Feby say 23, 1925

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At registers office, Washington Pa Aug 9, 1924 9:36 AM

Refer to Book 6 pages 228 & 229.

1. Will of James Clark of Washington Co Pa, recorded Will Book 3 page 527 is dated Dec 28, 1822 & states he is expecting death. Wills as follows:

2d To wife Margaret 1/3 of persona etc

4 To David Bowman who mar his dau now dead $1

5 To Robert Welch who mar his dau now dead $1

6. To Margaret Welch, granddaughter $100

7. To my children James, Sarah, Elizabeth, Thomas, Matthew, William, Joseph & Samuel each one share & to John two shares.

Lastly appoints friends David L. Archer & James Boyd Exrs signed

James Clark (seal) Witnessed James Mulholon, William Irwin.

Probated Jany 6, 1823

There is now will of Wm Carnahan recorded here.

2. Will of James Hunter of West Finley Tp. Will Book 8 P 121 dated Dec 23, 1858 wills:

To wife Jane, certain personal prop & int on 1/3

To children other 2/3 equally except that Sarah Ann married to Warren Parker gets but the int for life & at her death prin goes to other heirs signed James Hunter (seal)

Probated Mch 23, 1859

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3. Will of William Carothers of Hopewell Tp will book 2 p 302 dated Feby 4, 1811 wills:

1. To wife Jane Carothers 1/3 of personal & real during widowhood

2. To two sons John & David Carothers my plantation by them giving to my grandson Eldsy Carothers one horse, saddle & Bridle to the value of $65 & personal estate to go equally to my four children, Sarah Miller, John Carothers, Ann Baker & David Carothers.

Appoints trusty friend John Buchanan & son John Carothers Exrs signed Wm Carothers (seal)

Probated Mch 18, 1811

I notice that Will of John Strain will book 2 p 303 of Smith Tp dated Feby 25, 1811 is witness by Thos Thompson & John Riddle who appear Mch 18, 1811 & prove the will

4. Will of Wm E. Caruthers of North Strabane Tp, Will Book 13 P 221 dated May 23, 1889 wills:

To wife Caroline Caruthers books household & kitchen furniture, grain & livestock & fr sons Robert T. $125 annually charged on his land

fr sons John R, $350 annually charged on his land

Fr son Charles E. $450 annually charged on his land

To son John R, the Veech farm 204 A in South Union Tp, Fay Co Pa during his natural life

To son Robt T. the Upper Tyrone Tp farm proceeds of Hague farm & $5000 to be pd by Chas E.

To son Samuel E. $2000 to be pd by John R.

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To son Charles E. the Quail farm of 276 A in North Strabane Tp

Appoints sons John R & Charles E exrs. Witness Wm Mac A. Quail, Huston A. Quail, R.D. Wylie. signed William E. Caruthers (seal) made a codicil May

17, 1890. Probated July 4, 1890. He died May 30, 1890

5. Will of Daniel Flick of the Borough of Beallsville, will book 9 p 591 dated Dec 10, 1862 wills:

To wife Eleanor $100 & notes she holds vs him to be pd etc.

To my grandson Wm Flick, son of my son Wm $600 & to Daniel Zimmerman, son of my daughter Mary $600 & to Elizabeth, Susan, Eliza and Henry Zimmerman, children of my daughter Mary $200 each.

5. To my son William all the residue charging same with the aforesaid bequests.

7th Appoints son Wm Exr signed Daniel Flick (L.S.) Witnesses W.A. Mickey, John Ewart. He made a codicil on Mch 9, 1870 signing, Daniel (his mark) Flick (seal) Witnesses James M. Miller, H. Winnett.

Probated Mch 21, 1871

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6. Will of James McRory of Chartiers, late Cecil Tp, will book 1 p 250 dated Aug 11, 1789

Mention a wife, but does not name her & provides that she bring up my two daughters not named & directs that his sister-in-law, Sarah, live with his widow, daughters to get what is left after widow dies.

Appoints Cousin David McRory & trusty friends Craig Ritchie & Isaac Weaver exrs. signed, James (his mark) McRory (S.S.) Witness: A. Baird, John Boys, John Johnston.

Proven June 23, 1794

7. Will of James McCrory of Findley Tp will book 2 p 411 dated Mch 21, 1813 wills:

To beloved wife, Sarah 1/3 of personal estate during widowhood

To my daughter Elizabeth $20

To my son John $20

To my sons Samuel & Seneca equally my plantation after wife's death or widowhood, property to be sold & divided equally ie her 1/3, among my children John, William, Thomas, James, Samuel, Seneca, Margaret, Elizabeth & Sarah provided James gets but 1/2 a share, Wm $2 & my daughter Hester to have an equal share. Another share to go to daughter Peggy & her daughter Nancy.

Appoints

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Samuel England, son John & son-in-law Joshua Allen exrs, signed James McCrory (seal)

Probated May 1, 1813

8. Will of John Moss of Fallowfield Tp, will book 9 p 337 dated May 19, 1865 (see book 9 p 520) wills:

To wife everything for life

To son Elie Moss, the farm I now live on in Fallowfield Tp

To my daughter Sarah $1 to be pd by Elie

To my son William $1 to be pd by Elie

To my daughter Mary $1 to be pd by Elie

To my son Jennings Moss $1 to be pd by Elie

To my son Robert G. Moss $1 to be pd by Elie

To James R. Moss $1 to be pd by Elie

To my sons Thomas, an equal sh of what remains out of 1/2 R.E. after paying debts.

To my sons Griffith Moss, an equal sh of what remains out of 1/2 R.E. after paying debts

To my sons Finley Moss, an equal sh of what remains out of 1/2 R.E. after paying debts.

Appoints son Elie Moss & Job Johnson Exrs John Moss (seal) witness:Timothy Stilwell, Jacob Bedall.

Proven Aug 7, 1869 letters issued to E.A. Moss & Job Johnson.

9. Will of William VanKirk of Wash Co, will book 4 p 172 dated Jany 11, 1826 wills:

2. To wife Deborah, all furniture except what belongs to my 3 youngest daughters viz Sarah, Charity & Clarissa

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3. To my son Henry, all my R.E. consisting of the farm on which I live & speaks of taking care of my son Walters who is now insane.

4. To each of my children, viz: Foster VanKirk, Johnson VanKirk, William VanKirk, Waters [sic] VanKirk, Phebe Parkeson, Mary, wife of Luther Day, Eliza, wife of Thomas Willson, Priscilla, wife of Isaac Miller, Sarah VanKirk, Charity VanKirk, & Clarissa VanKirk two dollars each

Lastly appoints Henry VanKirk & Johnson VanKirk, my sons, Exrs. William VanKirk (L.S.) Witness Isaac H. Dickenson, Jacob Myers

On Feby 23, 1826 the above witnesses prove will

Johnson VanKirk renounced his right on Mch 15, 1826 & on Mch 20, 1826 letter issued to Henry VanKirk.

Leaving 12:07 PM

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At Recorders office Washington Pa Aug 9, 1924 12:40 PM

The young lady in charge here had kindly brought me deed books with deeds in from which I wish to make notations:

10 Deed Book 1 G Page 90 from John Wilkinson to George Carrothers. Deed is dated Mch 9, 1790 between John Wilkinson & wife Agness of Wash Co Pa & George Carrothers of same place recites a tract of land called "Pentateuch" on the waters of Buffalo Creek adjg Davis & Thos McKee, Chambers McBride & the aforesaid John Wilkinson ctg 110 A 2 R 28 P for £10 conveys & warrants sd land.

Recorded Apr 28, 1790

11. Deed Book 1 G Page 92 from William McComb to Robert Johnson Dated Feby 8, 1790 between William McComb, farmer & Mary his wife of Strabane Tp, & Robert Johnson of Little Brittain Tp, Lancaster Co Pa for £147, convey tract of land in Tp named, adjg other land of said McComb ctg 103 A & 3/4 granted to Wm McComb by patent dated at Phila May 4, 1780. William McComb (L.S.), Mary (her mark) McComb (L.S. Witnesses David McComb, Susanna Baird Ackd same day before A. Baird J.P.

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12. Hugh McNaught to Robert & Thomas Thompson Deed Book 1 G page 99 This deed is dated Feby 24, 1790 from Hugh McNaught of Wash Co & Mary his wife to Robert & Thomas Thompson of said Co for £20, conveys land on North Fork of Shirtee [sic] (for Chartiers) Creek adjg Samuel McBride, Hugh McNaught & others including a Water Mill, a horse Mill with the dam & head & tale races. Hugh McNaught, Mary (her mark) McNight [sic] Witnesses: Robert Montgomery, James Miller, David Shearer.

Ackd May 15, 1790 before Thos Stokley, Justice of the Court.

13. Thomas & Margret Pollock to Robert Fulton, deed book 1 C Page 56. Deed from Pollocks of Hopewell Tp dated May 6, 1786 for the sum of £80 convey to Robert Fulton miniature painter of the city of Phila Pa a tract of land on the waters of Cross Creek being part of tract granted by the Com Dec 12, 1785 to the record Joseph Smith adjg other lands of said Joseph Smith ctg 84 3/4 A. (Before signing & delivery of the above instrument the lands described above were conveyed by Joseph Smith & Mrs Esther Smith, his wife to Thomas Polke on May 3.) Thomas Pollock, Margaret (her mark) Pollock, witness J. Marshall, Mary Marshall, Thomas Marquis, Recd of Robert Fulton £47.12.6 Pa cy & obligations for £32.7.6. in full. Thomas Pollock

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14. Abraham Fulton to Peyton Cook Book 1-C Page 58. Deed from Abraham Fulton of Wash Co Pa yeoman for a tract of land on waters of Potato garden & Monture Runs adjg Charles Morgan & others ctg 400 A on which a warrant to survey was issued Aug 6, 1784 now for £400 specie pd by Peyton Cook of Wash Co Pa conveys same to Peyton Cook Dated Jany 28, 1786 Abraham Fulton (seal)

Witness Robert Fulton, Thos Smith. Recorded May 8, 1786

15. Edward Cook to Peydon [sic] Cook Book 1-C page 60 States application has been made by Edward Cook of Wash? Pa for a grant of land on Potato garden Run adjg David Cook & others in Wash Co ctg 400 A & same surveyed for me Aug 6, 1784 now for £400 specie pd by Peyton Cook of Wash Co sells same to Peyton Cook dated Feby 14, 1786, Edward Cook (seal) Witness Robert Fulton, Polly Fulton. Recd £400 the within contents. Test Robert Fulton, Edward Cook

16. George Crothers to James Espey, deed book 1 B Page 203 Dated Mch 9, 1779 recites that George Crothers of Ohio Co Province of Virginia

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wheelwright, has sold to James Espy [sic] of the same place a parcel of land ctg 100 A or one half that which I now live on being the with part or side of a tract adjg the Nicholases & Downings for £500. George Crothers (seal) Witness Isaac Taylor, James Gillespy, Jean Crothers etc.

17. Samuel Jinkins to William McComms deed boon 1 B Page 26. Dated Apr 1781 wherein Samuel Jinkins exchanges or trades with Wm McComms & for consideration of two tracts of land lying on the waters of Dus Creek in Harford Co Md on ctg 100 A & the other 25 A & for an entry for vacant land contiguous & all put into my actual possession, hereby put into the possession of Wm McComms of the settlement aforesaid the plantation by sd Jinkins purchased from Robt McCrory & whereon I now live on the waters of Pidgion [sic] Creek on the south side thereof adjg David McBory et al ctg 282 A. Saml Jinkins (seal) Ackd by Jinkins before Edward Cook Justice for Westnd Co Pa Aug 8, 1781 Edward Cook

18. David Clark trustee to Nicholas Bearly Esq, Deed Book 3 A P 533 Dated Apr 9, 1842. Sets forth that on petition of Samuel A.

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Carothers in the orphans Court of Wash Co Pa at the Feby Term 1841 setting forth that Samuel Carothers, late of Buffalo Tp decd died intestate leaving a widow to wit, Hannah Carothers resident in Mt Pleasant O & the following heirs to wit:

Samuel I. Carothers the petitioner

Jane, intermarried with Robt A. Kerhin of Mt Pleasant O

Mary Carothers of the same place

Hugh W. Carothers of Washington Pa

William F. Carothers of Mt Pleasant O

Barbary Ann Carothers of Mt Pleasant O

Johnston F. Carothers of Mt Pleasant O

& heirs of John Carothers decd.

States that he died seized of a tract of land in Buffalo Tp which was appraised at $24.16 1/2 per acre amounting to $4,833. & the court appointed David Clark trustee to sell it & he sold it at public sale to Nicholas Bearly for $21.20/100 per acre making 4,240 now for that consideration conveyance is made of sd tr beginning at or near land of James Thompson & ctg 200 A.

19. George Carothers to James Carothers Deed book 1 R p 390 Dated Nov 23, 1802 between George Carothers & his wife Rachel of Wash Co Pa & James Carothers, son of the said George of same place for consideration of $400, convey to sd James a tract of land on the waters of Buffalo Creek ctg 57 A 3 R 12 P it being part of a tract of land granted to John Wilkinson, Assignee of Isaac Taylor. George Carrothers (seal), Rachel Carrothers (seal) Witness, Matthew Gillespie, William Waugh, Samuel Carrothers

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20. John Thompson et al to Wm Thompson Deed book 1 R p 392 Dated May 31, 1802 wherein John Thompson of the Northwestern Territory & Jean his wife, conveys to William Thompson of Smith Tp, Wash Co Pa for £204, a tract of land on waters of Raccoon Creek in Smith Tp, Wash Co Pa ctg 102 1/4 A being part of a 301 A & 82 p tract granted to John Thompson by the com of Pa Dec 31, 1801 conveys by special warranty John Thompson (seal), Jean Thompson (seal) Ackd same day before James Dunlap, J.P. for Ross Co Territory of North of the Ohio, Edwin Tiffin, Prothy certifies that Dunlap is a J.P.

21. First, conveyance from Peden Cook is Jany 5, 1782 to Hugh Scott, witness Josiah Scott Deed book 1 A P 212 signed Peden Cook

Second Book 1 B P 150 two negroes, Phillis & Poll for £100 dated July 1, 1785 to Capt Jno Hughes signed Peyton Cook

Third book 1 B 361 to James Cook of Lancaster Co Pa dated Jany 20, 1786 recites he is of the town of Wash Pa & conveys for £40, 28 ft front on Market St of the lot No 91 for which he had made application to David Hoge Prop of sd town signed Petyon Cook, Witnessed John Hoge & Danel [sic] Cook

Fourth, book 1 C P 262 to William Wiley dated Aug 15, 1786 recites that application had been made by Abraham Fulton of Wash Co Pa for a tract of land on waters of Montures Run & Potatoe Garden adjg lands of Chas Morgan ctg 400 A etc. which sd Fulton for £400 conveyed to Peyden Cook, Gent.

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& it appearing there is not such land he sells his right to Wiley for £23.

Fifth In Book 1 D P 78 to John Beverington dated July 5, 1787 recites that he is of Strabane Tp, yeoman, & had made application for 400 A on South Fork of Raccoon Creek adjg Josiah Scott which right he now sells for £37.10S. signed Peyton Cook

Sixth In Book 1 D P 122 to Arther [sic] Vance dated Nov 29, 1787 recites that application has been lately made by John Cook of Wash Co Pa for a tract of land on Potato Garden Run adjoining lands of James Crawford, Patrick McCormick & others ctg 400 A for £52.10s. sells same to Arther Vance signed Peyton Cook.

Seventh In Book 1 I Page 165, to James Ross Esq atty at Law, dated Jany 18, 1788 wherein Peyton Cook & Isabella, his wife of the town of Washington Pa convey to James Ross Esq attorney at Law of the same place convey for £262.12s the tract of land called "Sugar tree flat" on the waters of Chartiers Creek ctg 378 A. Peyton Cook (seal) Isabella Cook (seal) Ackd same day before Thos Scott J.P.

22. Isabella Cook to Philip Overshiner Deed Book 1X Part 2 Page 496 to 498

First recites an indenture made Nov 5, 1796 between John Hoge, Elizabeth, his wife & Wm Hoge of Wash Pa of the one part

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& Isabella Cook of the Co of Fayette Pa of the other part, states the said Hoges for £6 a lot of ground in Washington Pa fronting 60 ft on Market St & running back 240 ft by Spruce Alley. She to pay $1 each year on Oct 1, signed by all. Jno Hoge (seal) Elizabeth Hoge (seal) Wm Hoge (seal) Witness G. Henry Keppele. Isabella Cook (seal signed & ack same day before Wm Meatkerke

I, Isabella Cook assign & make same over to Philip Overshiner of Wash Pa for con of $150 on Feby 9, 1811 Isabella Cook (seal) witness George Moore

Erie Co S.S.

Personally appeared before me Isabella Cook & ackd same, this Feby 9, 1811

George Moore J.P.

Washington Co S.S. personally appeared before me Isabella Cook & ackd the above assignment this Sept 6, 1813 James Gordon J.P. (seal) Recorded same day.

Leaving 5:22 PM

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At Geo Washington Hotel, Washington Pa Aug 9, 1924 10 PM

This morning at 8:18 AM, I walked up to 180 N. Main St & knocked at door of Emmett McGrew but got no response.

I then stopped at 186 N. Main St, the grocery store of T.W. Hanna & found him at work with his wares on the sidewalk a fine young man, handsome & intelligent. Asking him if his mother was Margaret Hunter & she daughter of Margaret Boyd & she daughter of Mary Waltz etc, he said she was & that she had gone a few days ago to Westmoreland Co Pa for a visit & would not be back for ten days or two weeks. Asking if his Hannas were from Westmoreland Co, he said they were. He is going to write me what records his mother has & I told him I wd come back. I arrived at 8:20 & left at 8:33 AM. I then walked down West Chestnut St to No 325 & came to the residence office:

Of Mrs Minnie B. McGrew No 325 W. Chestnut St Aug 9, 1924 8:50 AM

A short heavy set dumpy young woman, Miss Bell, sister of Mrs McGrew recd me & was very kind & said her sister availed herself of a chance

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to go by auto to Akron O & left with friends yesterday at 4 PM. My informant sd she was Miss Martha Bell of Crafton Pa. She said Mr McGrew died abt six yrs ago. She showed me a card of the McGrew reunion to be on Aug 21 which gave me the name of Dr F.R. McGrew Prest No 101 E. Main St, Carnegie Pa who she said had the manuscript history of their line being Prest of the McGrew reunion & was best able to give information. She thinks he is abt 60 yrs old & Miss L.C. McGrew Sec is his older sister. His telephone number is Carnegie 783-R

Left 9 AM

I then took a street car to the court house & was there continuously at work until 5:33 PM see pages 236 to 249 inclusive. It is now 10:35 PM & I will go to bed.

I went down to 20 East Wheeling St at 8:10 & called on Mrs Chad Brownlee until 9:40 PM

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At office & residence of Dr Finley R. McGrew No 101 East Main St Carnegie Pa Aug 10, 1924 9 AM (Pgh time)

I got up at 5:25 this morning, got my breakfast at the Geo Washington Hotel Coffee shop, walked down Main St & took the 6:55 PRR train to Carnegie where I arrived 7:54 AM RR time & walked out to East Main, two squares & found Dr & Mrs McGrew & her brother, Mr Snyder formerly of Vanderbilt Pa. Dr McGrew said he did not have the McGrew records, but that Miss Elizabeth McGrew, known as Lizzie Case McGrew 3334 Ward ST, Oakland, Pgh Pa aged near 80 yrs had them & could tell about the whole tribe from the beginning. She is not his sister, but his first cousin, her father Archibald & his father Nathan looking so much alike, that many people could not tell them apart. She keeps house there for her nephew Elmer McGrew, who is Asst P.M. or holds some position in the P.O. at Oakland. He said he sent the records which are written manuscripts to her. I am arranging to go out tomorrow morning to see her. They said she would not even write a letter on Sunday & said it would not be best to go today.

Left 9:30 AM

Took a street car at 9:45 AM & got to Wm Penn Hotel at 10:27 AM Pgh time.

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At residence of Miss Elizabeth Case McGrew No 3334 Ward St Oakland Pittsburgh Pa Aug 11, 1924 9:22 AM

I arrived here ten minutes ago, & was recd by Miss McGrew who had just gotten up in her wrapper. She is a slender, rather tall, gray haired intelligent woman & when I said I was seeking to find the name of the McGrew who had married Mary Thompson, she said "That was John" & went & brought in the parlor the manuscript history of the McGrew family which is enclosed in pasteboard covers each side being an inch longer than this book & the leaves same size as this are each pierced with three holes like loose leaf binding & can be easily removed. On the 5th leaf is the record of John McGrew & wife Mary Thompson's children from which I copy as follows: It being the first family record given following the first four leaves, eight pages of index.

John McGrew of William, grandson of Robert, born Nov 9, 1766 ob July 23, 1848 married Mary Thompson 1788 at Greensburg Pa, moved the same year to near Georgetown, Ky. In 1790, he joined in a campaign against the Indians of the Maumee Valley. He was in the bloody & disastrous battle at the Maumee Ford, near the present site

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of Fort Wayne.

In 1796, he moved his family to Montgomery Co Ohio, five miles south of Dayton. Mary Thompson McGrew died & he married again.

Their children:

1. William McGrew born Mch 16, 1789 married Dec 1809 Charlotte Chivilier

2. Samuel T. McGrew born Mch 24, 1790 died July 28, 1853 married Mary Stebbins

3. Archibald McGrew born Aug 24, 1792 married Mary Thompson who was born Oct 30, 1793.

4. James McGrew born Aug 7, 1794 died Apr 27, 1804

5. John McGrew born July 18, 18796 married Phebe Stebbins

6. Margaret McGrew born Nov 3, 1798 married Wall died Dec 23, 1817

7. Bracken McGrew born May 11, 1801, died Feby 19, 1813

8. Mary McGrew born July 20, 1803, died Dec 11, 1873, married Barton R. Keep who was born Aug 20, 1797 & died Feby 7, 1877

9. Milton McGrew born Dec 5, 1805 died Oct 27, 1868 married Feby 5, 1829 Anna Russell who was born July 15, 1807 & died Mch 28, 1890

10. Rebecca McGrew born July 29, 1808 married Edwin Corlis

By the 2d wife were three children not desired by me viz:

11. Elizabeth McGrew born June 12, 1818 died Mch 6, 1892 married Logan Sleeper

12. James McGrew born May 5, 1820 mar Mary A. Binhtey [best guess]

13. Esther Jane McGrew born Mch 15, 1822 married Samuel Neibel

See book 18 P 586-593

See book 12 P 373, 381-3

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Elizabeth Blackford born Dec 30, 1782 was married to Elijah Stebbins Nov 19, 1799

Their children were: Mary, Phebe, Jeremiah, Levi & Elijah

The husband, Elijah Sr died Oct 29, 1809. May 8, 1817 she married John McGrew. He had ten children & she had five (and I might add they had three more).

Samuel T. McGrew married Mary Stebbins & his brother John married Mary's sister Phoebe, so the mother & two daughters married the father & two sons.

I find among the records that a Rebecca McGrew married a Simeral & Martha McGrew married Alexander Simeral, they being apparently sisters numbered 8 & 10 on page 21.

Miss McGrew has given me the address of Samuel McGrew, Delroy, Palm Beach Co, Florida who she says is a descendant of John McGrew & his wife Mary Thompson.

She has also given me to look over several letters from Charles Thompson McGrew written mainly by his wife, whose address seems to be 2502 East 4th, Long Beach Calif. The letters are:

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1st one of Mar 14, 1924 to Dr McGrew states that they have the hist prepared by James McGrew of Kankakee Ills to which I will refer below: Wants McGrew Rev. service for their daughter June to join D.A.R.

2d letter dated Mch 24, 1924 to Miss L.C. McGrew says he has been referred to her by Dr H.E. McGrew of Penn College Oskaloosa, Iowa & says his name is Charles Thompson McGrew born 1867, Logansport Ind. Says he is the son of Milton McGrew 1826-1888 born near Dayton Ohio. Milton McGrew was the son of Samuel Thompson McGrew born 1790, Georgetown Ky died at Logansport Ind 1853. Samuel T. McGrew was the son of John McGrew born 1766 York Co Pa died near Dayton O 1848.

He then gives their line giving the information above & some below that I will copy from the Kankakee book & continues stating that Milton McGrew married Nancy Caroline James of Indiana & that Charles Thompson McGrew married Ruth Wallace of Nebraska. (She is the writer in her husband's name) Says may be in Penna this summer.

3d letter, dated Apr 3, 1924 in two parts one sheet signed Chas T. & the other Ruth McGrew but all written by her. They are concerned in having the history published & refers to having written to Thos W. Fleming, Shelbyville, Illinois & to J.F.

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McGrew, Springfield Ill

She says she has three sons & a daughter & two McGrew grandsons. Their names:

1. Wallace Milton McGrew aged 28 to be married Apr 26, 1924

2. Horace Harold aged 26 & he has two sons: Charles Malcolm 2 yrs & Robert Gordon 8 mos

3. David Donald aged 19 in Preparatory school, NY

4. Ruth June aged 17, graduates in June.

4th letter, dated Apr 11, 1924, wants to interest the McGrews in getting the history published. Says she is 55 & is copying the letters she has for her four children. Speaks of a letter from Attorney Biggs & one from Charles Fremont McGrew of Omaha Neb who she says is now in Chicago.

Speaks again of the loose leaf which was sent her & rtd & which I copied above & which they copied.

5th letter dated Apr 29, 1924 says her son Milton was married Apr 26, 1924 to Miss Dorothy Rominger, daughter of State Senator Rominger. Says Kenneth McGrew, grandson of James McGrew of Kankakee Ills came to see us ten days ago. He is an architect in Evanston Ills. Says she was raised in Chester Co. Says a Mrs Smalley living in Long Beach is a daughter of James McGrew of Kansas City & granddaughter of Archibald McGrew. She said

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her father's brothers were William, John, Harvey, Alexander, Leander & one sister Marie. Says Mrs Smalley is quite old & very deaf. She was Josephine E. McGrew

6th letter, dated June 19, 1924 speaks of Mrs Grace McGrew Clark of Kansas City, Kansas who is writing a history of her McGrew line. She is a daughter of James McGrew, who was Lieut Gov of Kansas in 1865 or 1867. Says she comes from John & Elizabeth (York & Adams Co) whose children were

1. James mar Catharine (1 son, Isaac)

2. Izabel, mar John Maxwell (3 sons, James, Robert & John)

3. Margaret mar Mitchell

4. Mary, mar Wm Dodds

5. Archibald mar Martha (These are Grace's ancestors)

6. William mar Mary Bracken at St James Church June 21, 1756 Lancaster Pa (Episcopal) several other McGrews married there.

7. Catherine m. William Boyd (Miss McGrew think the Emigrant granddaughter Catharine who lived to be 104 & was the first burial at the Friends meeting house in 1828 was married to a Boyd) Says they, Chas T. & wife are planning coming to this year's reunion

7th A. card to Miss Martha E. Ehin of 3904 Forbes St Pgh Pa dated July 16, 1924 says she has recd the Wm McGrew Sr line from Samuel McGrew since we went to Florida. Says, tell Miss McGrew they still expect to come to the reunion.

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Miss McGrew's own line is through Archibald who was a son of Samuel & Deborah McGrew. Both McGrews as follows:

Robert & Isabella Robert & Isabella

Both buried in Chestnut Hill Burying Ground, Adams Co Pa

══════════╬═════════════ ════════╬═════════════════════

Finley McGrew mar Elizabeth James McGrew mar Mary_________

Died a middle aged man & is Mar 2d Mary Ridgway. He lived to

buried in Friends Burying be 86 & is buried in Friends Bur. Gr

Ground, Menallen Tp, Adams Menallen Tp, Adams Co Pa

Co. Pa

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Nathan McGrew 2d child James B. McGrew B June 25, 1750

Born Sept 26, 1746, ob Nov ob June 11th, 1818 m. 1773 Elizabeth

1828. m. Martha Hendricks McFerran, Nov 1, 1755, Feby 10, 1823

who died May 12, 1821. Both buried in Sewickly Friends Bury-

Died of broken limb. Bur at ing ground

Friends Bur Ground, Sewickly ═════════════╬═══════════════════════

Tp, Westnd Co Pa Deborah McGrew

════════════╬═════════════ B. Oct 5, 1783

Samuel McGrew, B Feby 4, 1781 ob July 16, 1855

ob Mch 15, 1864 They were married Dec 1, 1803

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Nathan (6th) B Oct 18, 1815 Archibald B. McGrew (8th) B. Nov 15, 1820 ob Oct 14, 1887 Mar Jany 6, 1848 to Hannah Case born Apr 10, 1827 ob Oct 28, 1889

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Elizabeth Case McGrew Butler Case McGrew (3d) B Mch 21, 1854

my informant & oldest m.1. Della M. Foster, m.2. Minnie M.

Born Feby 14, 1849 Bell. It was at his widow, Minnie's,

She has been very kind, but I called Saturday PM

is overwhelmed with all the

data piled in on & thrust

upon her.

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Her brother's widow, Minnie M. has prepared copybook pamphlets of each separated line & I counted thirty of them. Miss McGrew shows me two letters from James McGrew, Kankakee Ills one dated Aug 19, 1894 both written to her brother, B.C. McGrew & this being a letter of condolence on the death of B.C.'s wife & says he is suffering greatly from sciatica, speaks of her, his wife following three little daughters to the grave one in 1849 & two in 1851. The other letter dated Kankakee Ills Dec 17, 1896 says that since his former letter, he has passed through sore adversity, viz: the panic & unprecedented droughts of 1894 & 1895 & the black way in which his son ran the milling business & the loss of his dear wife broke him down. Says for one "nearing four score years as he is & to see the largest part of the accumulations of a lifetime swept away in two short years & no way to prevent it is a "sore trial", but he is thankful to have $16000 to $18000 left for his seven children, all of whom are grown & battling for themselves. He is evidently a fine Christian man from the tenor of his letter & the handwriting is the same as in the McGrew family history he wrote & which Miss McGrew is allowing me to take with me to copy & which she says for me to return to Mrs Minnie M.

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McGrew at No 325 W. Chestnut St Washington Pa & I said I would give her a couple carbon copies with it. She says this James McGrew is a son of John McGrew who married Mary Thompson by his second wife & I have noted his two letters above which from dates & age mentioned help to lead that she is right in thus locating him. Fortunate at last to get trace of my McGrew relatives.

Leaving 2:22 PM

I walked up to the street above Ward St & waiting 5 minutes got the car at 2:45 PM, came to my room walked down to the Fulton Building & on 7th floor in Board of Education office, was told that Robt M. Sherrard was in New England. I then walked around to the Sailor Bldg No 432 Wood St at Room 605, Geo Allen & Sons Boiler Fittings & was told by the young lady that Howard J. Wilson, their mgr was out, would not return until 5 PM. I then walked around to the Vandergrift Bldg see next page & from there to the Westinghouse Bldg where I was told J.R. Paull was out of town, his room being 410 where I was at 4:25 PM & going up to 10th floor found the door No 1005 of Dr J. Clyde Markel & others locked up. Then walked back to see Mr Wilson & he had phoned that he could not get back until after five.

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At J. Howard Steen's office rooms 98 & 99, Vandergrift Bldg No 323 Fourth Ave, Pittsburgh Pa Aug 11, 1924 4 PM

Marion M. Steen was out, but his brother, J. Howard Steen was in. He is a fine looking middle aged smooth faced man & said his mother, the daughter of Marion H. Markle is still living at No 126 N. Dithridge St E.E. where she has lived for over 30 yrs. When I asked him if she had her father's bible record, he said she was able to give all dates without the help of a bible. I told him I would go out to see her as soon as I could after going in the morning to the N.E. Pa counties. To get there, he said to take at Cor Wood st & 5th Ave, car 71 or 73 which goes up 4th Ave & get off at Craig & 5th Ave & come back one block on 5th to Dithridge St which is parallel to Craig & their house is 3d one from the corner.

Left 4:11 PM

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At No 1233 Buena Vista St Pittsburgh Northside where H.J.A. Finley lives with Mrs Shive Aug 11, 1924 7:11 PM

Mr Finley says his recollection is that his grandfather, James Finley went from Westmoreland Co Pa to Donegal Tp, Wash Co Pa & about the same time his brothers Robert, David & John continued farther west, locating in Morgan Co O near Malta. He says to see the Finleys there. Mr Finley has the old bible with record of his grandfather James Finley which was printed in Phila by Kimber & Sharpless but no date is given. The record is as follows:

Marriages James Finley & Jane Alexander were married Feby 28, 1809

John Finley & Mary Ann Post were married Jany 28, 1841

Sarah Finley & Robert Woods Apr 5, 1832

Mary Finley & William Woods Oct 12, 1837

Hannah Finley & Robert Sawhill Mch 13, 1838

Margaret Finley & William Brownlee Sept 30, 1841

Eliza Finley & John Rollstin Mch 5, 1842

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James Finley & Margaret E. Campsey May 5, 1853

Births

James Finley was born Nov 6, 1787

Jane Alexander was born Apr 1, 1790

Their children:

1. John Finley was born May 7, 1810

2. Sarah Finley was born Oct 26, 1811

3. Mary Finley was born July 9, 1813

4. Jane Finley was born Sept 29, 1815

5. Hannah Finley was born Sept 23, 1817

6. Margaret Finley was born Dec 24, 1819

7. Eliza Finley was born June 5, 1822

8. James Finley was born Apr 1, 1825

Birth of the children of James who was born Apr 1, 1825:

1. H. James Alexander Finley was born June 23, 1854

2. Mary Jane Finley was born July 1, 1856

Deaths

James Finley died Jany 6, 1849

Margaret Brownlee died Dec 5, 1852

Hannah Sawhill died May 11, 1853

Jane Finley died Jany 10, 1856

Eliza Rollstin died Jany 28, 1856

Jane Finley died Oct 13, 1863, this was the widow of James Finley Sr

John Finley died Feby 17, 1908

James Finley died Oct 12, 1912

He, James, had typhoid fever when 72 yrs old, but lived 15 yrs thereafter but with enfeebled health. He H.J.A. has roomed with Mr & Mrs Shive since his father died.

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H.J.A. thinks Maggie Sawhill married an Oyster. He also says he was in Aledo Ills a year ago, but could not find any trace of the Woods. Think they moved to Colorado. A Mack Woods moved to Fort Collins, Colorado

A daughter of James Finley Woods, Clara by name, married Horace Hibbard & live now in Lincoln Neb. Says write to her & she will give record.

Says he has often heard his father say that they came from Westmoreland Co. Further says that some 30 or more years ago, he knew a Samuel Finley, he thought from abt McKeesport who told him that his H.J.A.'s family were the same as that in Westnd Co. He says Rev Reimund [sic] Clay Wolf, my classmate married a Finley. He thought I had great patience.

Left 9 PM

At residence of Mrs Jennie Rebecca Fulton No 453 Freeport St, Parnassus Westnd Co Pa Aug 12, 1924 6:25 AM

Calling at this early hour, she did not admit me, but talked to me at the front door. She was the third wife of Leslie Todhunter Fulton. Says she was Jennie Rebecca Stewart born in Burrell Tp, Westnd Co Pa Jany 28, 1845, daughter of Robert Stewart & his wife Rebecca Ferguson. She & Mr Fulton were married Jany 17, 1900 & he died here at this house Nov 1, 1913 & is buried at the Round Hill, one acre plat cemetery here in Parnassus. She says he gave his bible to his son William John Fulton who lives across the street. His son Al lives at Ridge Ave, New Kensington Pa

Leaving 6:30 AM

At residence of William John Fulton No 470 Freeport St, Parnassus Pa Aug 12, 1924 6:40 AM (His P.O. address is Box 905 New Kensington Pa)

When I rapped, Mrs Fulton came to the head of the stairs & called her husband who is a tall virile fine looking man. He says his brother Al, living at 242 Ridge St, New Kensington Pa takes

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great interest in such matters & he has 7 children. He has agreed to let his work go today & I offered to pay him for his time to go with me today & go first to his daughter's where he has his father's bible locked up. He has had his breakfast at the table where I am writing & he has gone to shave himself.

The present Mrs Fulton is his second wife. She is a large fleshy woman of medium height. She says her maiden name was Effie Odessa MacPherson dau of Eli Ackley MacPherson & his wife Joanna Williams & she was born in Phillipston, Clarion Co Pa Apr 8, 1881 & was first married on Aug 15, 1907 to Jacob Rudolph Bissell of Freeport Pa. he died Oct 23, 1918 & on Nov 8, 1922, she was married to Wm John Fulton. No issue to Mr Fulton, but had to her first husband.

At Residence of Albert J. Crusan NO 1204 Second Ave New Kensington Pa Aug 12, 1924 8:40 AM

Wm John Fulton has come here to his daughter Mrs Crusan's & has got out the old bible of his grandfather, Jesse Fulton & father Leslie T. Fulton which was printed at Phila Pa by Jasper Harding in 1854 & in which

the record of his great grandfather was copied, he says by his father or grandfather from an old bible

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that James Fulton (son of James & Agnes Thompson Fulton) had & from which Bible record I am starting a genealogical table on page 270.

The old bible records that James Brown died Sept 11, 1859 aged 83 yrs 1 mo. Leslie T. Fulton was in 212 (Independent Battery) Pa Reg Co A 6th Reg Heavy Artillery. He enlisted a second time.

Will J. said that the wife of Chris Friedley at Russellton was daughter of James Brown Fulton the oldest of his grandfather Jesse Fulton's children, see the "Brown Book"

He also said that at or near Deer Creek Church to see Mrs Lizzie Allison aged over 60 who is a daughter of Jno Nelson Fulton who was the only child of John Fulton the oldest son of James & Agnes. She can tell too where the descendants of James, son of James & Agnes are. Ask her about Samuel's descendants & the Clendennins.

Will J. took me in the First Natl Bank & introduced me to his nephew Cecil L. who is a clerk there, see page 270 on our way from his daughter DeVera Drusan's where we left about 11:30 Am & where I had been almost three hours making up the start of the table on pages 270 & 271 from the

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old bible & from their information of their immediate family & others. He there showed me the Brown Family Book prepared by his relative W.H. Taylor on the Brown side of Pgh Pa & which he loaned me to get records from tonight if possible, which is entitled:

"Our Family Records, A genealogical Record of William Brown and descendants of America, Complied by W.H. Taylor great grandson of William Brown of the First Generation, Pittsburgh Pa Dermitt Printing Co 1905"

We then went to Baxter & 2d & here I made arrangements with Jacob & Ray Seibert for an auto for the afternoon at $2 per hour. We then got lunch at the Allegheny Valley Rest & going to Seiberts Studebaker Garage & learned that Clarence G. Hough is on 6th ST back of the Seibert Garage. We started then at 1 PM & drove across the River to Springdale Pa & saw Will J's brother Matthew B. Fulton, his wife & daughter-in-law & got their record, see next page & left at 2:30 PM. We then drove to Russellton Pa & stopping at P.O. at 2:50 PM, learned that Mrs Dr McMaster's had been there a month ago, but was now at her son Frank's at 705 Pierce Ave, Gary Ind & her daughter Mrs John C. Collier lives at No 4 Jewett Drive, Zanesville O.

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[Descendant Chart]

James Fulton was born Mch 19, 1763. Nov 30, 1925, Mrs S.C. Duncan, Saxonsburg Pa see page 464 writes Nov 12/125 that he was born in Ireland & died in 1823. Agnes Thompson born Jany 8, 1762 & died Mch 15, 1843. They were married Monday Mch 8, 1784.

[children]

Mary Fulton, B Mch 6, 1785 on Sunday. mar to Wm Clendennin

John Fulton, B Wednesday may 25, 1787 see page 304

Samuel Fulton, B Saturday Feby 6, 1790

William Fulton, B Saturday Dec 8, 1792 a half hour older than Robt, Born in Allegheny Co on East side of Allegheny River at Logans Ferry

Robert Fulton, B Dec 8, 1792. Born in Allegheny Co Pa on East bank of Allegheny River at Logans Ferry see pages 279 & 280.

James Fulton, B Sunday May 17, 1795 ob May 10, 1858 m. Jane Hayes (dau of John) born July 2, 1794 ob Sept 12, 1865 see item 44 p 312 see page 346.

Jesse Fulton, B Wednesday Nov 15, 1797 m. Aug 29, 1833 to Margaret Brown, who was born May 16, 1800. She died Sept 15, 1870 was daughter of James Brown & his wife Hannah Harbison. He died Aug 5, 1870 aged 72 yrs 8 mos 20 days.

Jane Fulton, B Monday May 26, 1834 ob Dec 16, 1837 aged 3 yrs 7 mos

James Brown Fulton, B Monday Dec 28, 1835 ob Oct 13, 1901 m. Jany 8, 1857 Nancy McKibben born July 28, 1827 see page 272.

Samuel Thompson Fulton, B Wednesday June 7, 1837 see pages 315 & 316.

Matthew Fulton, B Saturday July 13, 1839 ob Oct 19, 1839 aged 1 yr 4 mos

Leslie T. Fulton, B Monday Mch 22, 1841 ob Nov 1, 1913 m.2. June 1867 to Rebecca Matilda Bicket born June 1842 ob Nov 1, 1884 dau of Mathew Bicket & wife Jane Sefton. M.2. Apr 1888 to Agnes Leslie dau of Wm Leslie & wife. She was born 1843 7 died Nov 15, 1897. No issue by her. M.3. Jany 17, 1900 to Jennie Rebecca Stewart born Jany 28, 1845 & living at Parnassus Pa 2d wife, Agnes buried at Bull Creek Cem. see page 266.

Mary Ellen Fulton, B Wednesday Oct 14, 1868 ob Apr 11, 1869

William John Fulton, B Sunday Mch 27, 1870 m.2. Jennie Bell Skillen who was born in Upper Burrell Tp Westnd Co Pa Sept 20, 1869 & died in McKeesport Pa Nov 18, 1919, was dau of Joseph Skillen 1802-1884 & wife Martha Steele. M.2. Nov 8, 1922 to Effie Odessa Bissell widow of Jacob Rudolph Bissell & dau of Eli A. MacPherson & wife Joanna Williams. She was born Apr 8, 1881. No issue by her. His first marriage was Jany 18, 1893. Had 3 children. Howard born in Parnassus Pa & the other two in McKeesport Pa.

Howard Allen, B Nov 21, 1893 ob June 19, 1919 m. Feby 20, 1915 to Laura Olson, widow of Chas Olson & dau of Frank Hardman & wife Nellie Heasley. She is now wife of Paul Flora.

Beverly Jane Fulton, B Oct 16, 1915 at McKeesport Pa & is living with her mother in McKeesport Pa.

DeVera Bell, B June 28, 1898 m. June 17, 1918 to Albert Joseph Crusan born June 2, 1885 in Allegheny Pa, son of John Crusan & wife Margaret Shannon. He is Asst Foreman at National Lead & Oil works. Have 2 chil oldest born in McKeesport & youngest here.

Ralph Fulton, B Nov 5? 1919

Wm Irving, B Oct 23, 1921

Lois Jane, B Aug 30, 1924 at New Kensington Pa weighs 9 1/4 lbs

William Ralph, B July 24, 1903 single, works in McKeesport for the Firth Sterling Steel Co.

Jesse Allen Fulton, B Friday Mch 1, 1872 m. Apr 1, 1903 to Bertha Jacobus, dau of Philip J. Jacobus & wife Mary Weidler who was born in Pgh Pa Apr 13, 1880. Have 8 chil 1st two born in Port Allegheny Pa the 5th in Sandusky O & the other 5 in New Kensington Pa. Children all at home unmarried & all living but one. Both living here & is a window glass blower.

Mary Matilda, B June 5, 1904

Delbert Philip, B Jany 5, 1906

Bertha Louise, B Oct 21, 1907

Jessie Allene, B Mch 21, 1913 ob Feby 2, 1924

Paul Jacobus, B Mch 26, 1915

Ada Leslie, B Apr 25, 1918

Alice Weidler, B Apr 25, 1918

James Nelson, B Mch 12, 1923

Jennie Elvira Fulton, B Saturday Nov 15, 1873 m. Aug 29, 1906 to Zenas E. Campbell. Both living at Harmonsburg Pa & have 3 chil living 1 dead P.O. Harmonsburg Pa See page 273.

Mathew Bicket Fulton B Wednesday Feby 24, 1875 m. July 2, 1894 to Rebecca Victoria Black born May 29, 1877 in Tarentum Pa dau of Wm Byron Black & wife Mary Eurich. Their 1st, 2d, & 5th chil born in New Kensington Pa, the 3d in Hazelhurst & 4th in Mt Jewett Pa. Live now in the Glades at Springdale, Allegheny Co Pa.

Mildred Lucile, B Sept 5, 1895 m. July 1, 1914 to Chas B. Davis born May 17, 1891 son of James B. Davis & wife Viola. Oldest child born in Conneautville Pa & 2d in Butler Pa. Moving to West Dunburg Pa.

Unnamed boy, B Dec 4, 1915 died same day

Unnamed dau, B Nov 11, 1917 died same day

Albert James, adopted B Aug 19, 1918

Wm Byron, B Dec 15, 1897 ob Dec 21, 1897

Matthew Allen, B Apr 7, 1899 & died same day 3 hours later.

Cecil Leroy, B Apr 16, 1900 m. Dec 27, 1922 to Alta [best guess, blotted] Fay Duncan born Aug 20, 1898 at Swissvale Pa dau of Pressley Carroll Duncan & wife Ella Elizabeth George. He is receiving teller 1st N. Bk New Kensington Pa. No issue.

Wanda Murdell, B Sept 14, 1902 m. Jany 31, 1920 to Geo Allen Carnahan born Sept 8, 1897 son of Blair Carnahan & wife Ella Moore Have two children all [sic] They live in Cheswick Pa. He born at Lewis Pa.

Wanita Murdell, B Feby 11, 1921

Mildred Audean, B Apr 20, 1923

Thompson Smalley Fulton, [son of Leslie T. Fulton] B Sunday Oct 22, 1876 m. Dec 22, 1904 to Georgia Isenberg dau of Wm Isenberg & his wife Esther Lidia Coates. She was born Oct 23, 1879. Have 3 chil liv. & 1 dead. He lives at Drywood where he is a pumper for Bessamer & LE RR P.O. Saxonburg Pa Rd 1 children all born at Drywood or Saxonburg Pa.

2. William Isenberg, B Apr 14, 1909 in Jefferson Tp, Butler Co Pa

3. Leslie Todhunter, B Jany 11, 1911 in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa

1. Unnamed boy, born in Butler Pa June 25, 1907, ob July 1, 1907

4. Thompson Smalley Jr, B May 10, 1919 in Clinton tp, Butler Co Pa.

Rebecca Matilda Fulton, B. Friday Apr 4, 1878, m. to William Rossell. Oldest child born in Connellsville Pa & the others in New Kensington. They & children live in Follansbee WVA

Alva Elizabeth, B Apr 5, 1898 m. May 14, 1924 to Jones

Ira Fulton, B Feby 5, 1900 ob May 11, 1902

Matilda Gail, B Jany 2, 1902. m.

Nancy McCarrell

Harvey McCarrell Fulton, B Friday Oct 15, 1880 now living at Huntington WVA. m.1. to Cornelia Weipper & divorced. No issue. M.2.

Nancy Ellen Fulton, [dau of Jesse Fulton] B Wednesday Apr 12, 1843 ob Apr 17, 1896 mar Wm F. Thompson see page 308 & page 464

John Fulton, B Saturday Mch 20, 1847 ob Mch 21, 1851 aged 4 yrs 1 day.

Agnes Fulton, [dau of James & Agnes (Thompson) Fulton) B Jany 25, 1801 ob Aug 29, 1801

Elizabeth Fulton, B Feby 16, 1803

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[Descendant Chart]

Jesse Fulton mar Margaret Brown see page 271

[children]

John Thompson, B Feby 11, 1858 unmarried, living at Cooperstown Pa

Melissa, B Dec 23, 1859 ob June 15, 1920, unmarried

Annie Ellen, B Aug 16, 1862 m. Jany 1, 1890 Christopher Henry Fredley born Oct 26, 1859 son of John Fredley & wife Mary Leetz. His address is RD 3 Gibsonia Pa. He was born in Reserve Tp, Allegheny Co Pa. She was born in Middlesex Tp Butler Co Pa

Alice Adele Fredley, B Nov 16, 1890 in Hampton Tp, Allegheny Co Pa m. Nov 20, 1918 to Earl O. Ekes born Nov 16, 1894 in West Deer Tp Allegheny Co Pa son of Harry W. Ekes & wife Rachel L. Norris. Have 2 chil born in West Deer Tp

Sara Jane, B Sept 25, 1920

Harry Henry, B Oct 9, 1923

Paul Ancel Fredley, B Oct 8, 1892 in Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa, unmarried.

Donald Edgar Fredley, B Apr 15, 1894 in Penn Tp, Butler Co Pa m. Sept 20, 1920 to Erla Mae Thompson born Feby 17, 1902 dau of Chas Thompson & wife Susie Allison.

Jane Thompson, B May 15, 1922

Aleen Mae, B Apr 1, 1924 in West [unreadable] Tp

Joseph Gordon Fredley, B July 26, 1896 in Penn Tp, Butler Co Pa m. Feby 21, 1921 to Florence Shepard born May 12, 1895 dau of Robert Shepard & wife Lulu Boyd.

Anna Mae, B June 9, 1921

Dorothy Louise, B Dec 27, 1922 in Richland Tp, Allghy Co Pa

James Andrew Fredley, B Aug 27, 1898 ih Penn Tp, Butler Co Pa, unmarried.

Martha Lillian Fredley, B Sept 29, 1902 in Buffalo Tp, Butler Co Pa, unmarried.

Margaret Agnes, B July 18, 1865 m. Nov 1893 John M. Hartung born Feby 8, 1864 son of John Hartung & wife Annie Horenffer P.O. Valencia Pa RD 2. He was born in Forward Tp, Butler Co Pa. Have 2 children both born in Butler Co Pa. P.O. now is Mass Pa RD2

Harry M. Hartung, B Aug 26, 1894

Helen E. Hartung, B Aug 23, 1899

Eliza Catharine, B Nov 2, 1867 m. Dec 28, 1887 Harry M. Park, son of William Park & wife Clarinda Morris see page 298 P.O. Valencia Pa RD2

Sarah Jessie, B Sept 20, 1870 m. Oct 30, 1901 Wm J. Fredley born May 9, 1863 son of John Fredley & wife Mary Leety P.O. now No 1418 Ellis H. Bellingham, Wash. He died in 1919

Mary Luella, B June 11, 1815 m. Jany 24, 1894. Harry Ferguson born Mch 20, 1871 son of John Ferguson & his wife Ellen Crawford P.O. Valencia Pa RD1. Have four sons.

Wayne James Ferguson, B Jany 19, 1896 m. June 29, 1922 to Burdella May King born June 10, 1902 dau of Harry P. King & wife Anna May Richey.

Wendell King Ferguson, B Apr 11, 1923

Loyal John, B Dec 19, 1897

Mark Crawford, B Aug 3, 1902

Harry Edgar, Dec 19, 1912

Edgar McKibben, B Sept 27, 1878 m. Sept 14, 1904 Lillian A. Metz born Nov 12, 1882 in Pgh Pa dau of Henry W. Metz & wife Christine Lotz. He died Apr 19, 1909. She living, one child. She is married to a Boggs & Buhl Mail Order [word difficult to read, looks like dept?] She married 2d Aug 17, 1917 Wm Lawrence Mack Robert Edgar Fulton, Aged 19 born in Pgh Pa Apr 15, 1905

[Descendant Chart]

See page 270. Jennie Elvira Fulton born Nov 15, 1873 dau of Leslie T. Fulton m. Aug 29, 1906 Zenas Ellsworth Campbell at Saxonburg Pa who was son of Luther Martin Campbell & his wife Achsah Jane Neyman (see book 3 p 219). They live at Harmonsburg Pa P. O. Box 111, Crawford Pa. The first 3 children born at Saxonburg Pa & the 4th at Harmonsburg, Pa. She wants a book.

[children]

Unnamed dau, born & died June 10, 1907

Rex Fulton, B Dec 22, 1909

Marion Ellsworth, B May 11, 1911

Edmund Eugene, B Jany 31, 1919

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At residence of Benjamin Washington Miller, Frazer Tp, Allegheny Co Pa (P.O. Tarentum RD 2) Aug 12, 1924 5:11 PM

Mr Miller is the son of Thomas Miller & his wife Hannah Maria Jack. He was son of Ezekiel Miller who died aged 98 & his wife Elizabeth McConnell. She was daughter of John Jack & his wife Margaret Boyd. Mr B.W. Miller was born Aug 19, 1875 on this farm which was then East Deer Tp. He was married Apr 20, 1899 to Nettie Roy Allison born Dec 28, 1878 in West Deer Tp, dau of William Andrew Allison & his wife Elizabeth Louira Fulton. Have three children living & one dead all born in this house viz:

1. Thomas Clarence Miller born Feby 10, 1900 mar Sept 5, 1923 to Myra Jean Hill born July 24, 1899 in Pine Tp, Allegheny Co, Pa dau of Joseph Hill & his wife Alice Virginia Moon. No issue yet.

2. William Herbert Miller born Oct 26, 1901

3. Russell Fulton Miller born Nov 21, 1903

4. Hazel Annie Fulton born Nov 21, 1903 & she died Nov 7, 1904

William & Russell are at home unmarried & Thomas is also here with his wife.

Mr Miller does not have his father's bible, but thinks his sister,

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Mrs Mary Staley, wife of John M. Staley has it. She lives at 407 W. Washington St, New Castle, Pa where he is agt for the Prudential Ins Co. He further says that McCoy Fleming & his sister Lydia Fleming both unmarried & children of John Fleming & his wife Mary Ann Jack a half sister of John Jack, live in the town of Butler Pa, thinks they are both over 60. Says she was John Jack's full sister. Says that "Peggy" (Margaret) married an Anderson & had children Robt, Eli, William, Cyrus, James Young & a girl. This Robert Anderson lives in New Kensington Pa & can give record. He is about 80 yrs old.

His brother, William lives in Tarentum Pa. Mr Thos C. Miller has retired from the janitorship but lives on east 9th Ave. Had 3 chil. He says his sister Elizabeth Canning died July 15? 1922. Her son George Canning has left McKeesport Pa & moved to Eustis? Florida. Two of her sons, Charles R & Thomas Canning run a grocery store on corner of Leavington St & Lincoln Ave.

A half sister of his grandfather Jack married Wm Leslie & had children George G., Annie & Agnes, the wife of Leslie T. Fulton. Geo G. has a son in New Kensington, George, another Harper, Leslie, Garver Pa, a daughter married to James Halstead, Drywood Pa & one daughter

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married to Robert Morton lives on E 10th Ave Tarentum Pa.

Robert Fleming's family (his wife was Betsy Jack) he had a daughter married a Hill & had children Bob & Jennie.

Mrs Fulton's mother, Elizabeth Allison has a son Robert running the Deer Creek Garage on the Bakerstown & Culmersville Road, can give her address. She is daughter of Jno Nelson Fulton son of John of James & Agnes. She has eleven children & can give record. Bull Creek Church is in West Deer Tp, Pleasant Unity Church is in Fawn Tp. Deer Creek Church is in West Deer Tp abt 2 1/2 miles from Bakerstown, Pa. Mr Miller has been an elder in Bull Creek Ch for 19 yrs. Has been in dairy business 25 yrs. Has 110 A. Farm.

Leaving 6:11 PM

As I was leaving, Mr Miller said there was an Andrew Jack first cousin he thought of his grandfather, John Jack, but much younger, being abt the age of Mr Miller's mother, who lived at LeClaire Iowa & who was married, but had no children. Says ask his brother in Tarentum as he visited him. He said Mrs Linduff was out 2 wks ago to Bull Creek Ch hunting grave of her great grandfather James Jack who he thinks is buried at Upper Byrd Creek or Westminster Church which is in Butler Co or he may be buried at Deer Creek Church g.y.

Left 6:33 PM

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At residence of Jesse Allen Fulton (Called "Al") No 242 Ridge Ave, New Kensington Pa, Aug 12, 1924 8:17 PM

Mrs Fulton says his great grandfather, James Fulton & wife Agnes are buried at the Middlesex Pres Church on a cement road formerly the Butler Plank road about 7 miles south of Butler which formerly was called the Ogden Church from the name of an old Pastor & had markers. It is only 5 yrs ago that he learned this from an old Aunt the wife of James B. Fulton, a brother of his father. She died abt 3 yrs ago aged abt 82 yrs. Says his cousin, John Fulton, son of James B., living at Cooperstown 4 miles this side of Middlesex Church could help. He says he will take me out 4:30 PM tomorrow. he says Samuel Fulton, son of James & Agnes died near Bakerstown Pa & might be buried at Glade Run U.P. Church. His children, Jesse & Jim, Mary, Jane & Nancy & Lee Ann (a girl) of whom Nancy married a Mahan & lived in Butler Co. Le Ann married Geo Hayes & lived in Butler Co & Mary & Jane never married. Jesse married Margaret Hoey & moved to Des Moines Iowa where descendants are. See Joe Henry

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who married a Hoey sister of his wife, who lives on Victoria Ave just east of here & he can tell about that family. Jim was married & moved to Pgh & had 3 girls & one boy.

James, son of James & Agnes married a Hayes & lived in Butler Co Pa & had children George, William, Robert & Nancy & Bennington & Eliza & James the oldest. George & Bennington were never married. William married a Carson & went to Washington Iowa. Robert married & died in Washington Iowa.

Nancy married Robert Fleming & went to Washington Iowa & had 3 or 4 children.

Eliza married a brother of Robt Anderson & moved to Iowa. Ask Robt Anderson see page 290.

James married twice & went to Lucas Co Iowa & had about 8 or 10 children. J. "Al" says he will get their line. Had one daughter to 1st wife & all the others were to 2d wife. The daughter by 1st wife married a man named Young in 65 to 70 & could give record. She lives at Huniston Iowa where her husband is a well to do farmer.

Mary Fulton oldest child of James & Agnes married a Clendenning

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& one of their daughters married a Boone & had about six children thinks 3 boys & 3 girls. One daughter married & went to Bellevue. One daughter married a Brown & went to Pgh, One daughter married & went to Pgh. One son, John Boone, lives at Valencia Butler Co Pa & married. One son, William died unmarried. One son Albert went to Kansas & is in the oil fields.

Will J. says there were four girls, Ida & Ella & two older ones.

He also says a Clendennin [sic] girl, sister of Mrs Boone married a Baker

J. "Al" says Robert Anderson lives on East on this Ave abt 4 blocks beyond & on left hand side of street.

J. "Al" has given me from his bible the record of the births of his own children entered in the table on page 270 & 271 & also gave me on same pages some of the record of his sister Jennie Alvira & his brothers Thompson Smalley & Harvey M.

John Fulton, son of James & Agnes married Annie Hayes, a sister of Jane Hayes who married his brother James. J. "Al" says his father told him that his grandparents came to Butler Co in 1792 crossing the Allegheny river at Logans Ferry one station below Parnassus Pa & there the twins were born

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on the east side of the river just across the line in Allegheny Co Pa. The Indians were so bad that she was taken in a small boat down the river to the block house at the point in Pgh & kept there until spring until her husband had finished the erection of his log cabin for them to live in. They were members of the Seceders or Covenanter Church.

J. Nelson Fulton told J. "Al" that his grandfather, James Fulton, took up altogether about 800 A in Butler & Allegheny Cos Pa, the line running through his farm. The only one of the descendants yet owning part of the land is the grandchildren of Nancy Mahan & they ought to have some of the old deeds. Wm or Glenn Marshall lives on the original homestead.

Leaving 11 PM

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Hotel Howard, New Kensington Pa Room 404, Aug 12, 1924 11:44 PM

I have just gotten in & will now undertake to write up what I have gathered in today to transcribe & will enter the records got at the two cemeteries using hours when there.

At Pleasant Unity Church graveyard Fawn Tp, Allegheny Co Pa Aug 12, 1924 3:07 PM

1. Robert Elliott May 4, 1831, Apr 3, 1902

Effie Elliott Apr 10, 1834, May 12, 1904

Father & Mother

Adam N. Elliott died Oct 30, 1908 aged 49 yrs 11 m 18 days

Annie E., wife of A.N. Elliott died Nov 3, 1898 aged 36 yrs 13 days

2. Deborah Clendennin Jany 5, 1833, Nov 17, 1890

Left 3:15 PM

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Bull Creek Pres Church graveyard, West Deer Tp, Allegheny Co Pa Aug 12, 1914 3:40 PM

The inscription in the gable front on this church is:

Bull Creek Presbyterian Church built 1801 rebuilt 1853"

3. Thomas Miller (see page 332) Apr 9, 1831, Mch 2, 1906

Maria H. his wife, May 24, 1836, Aug 3, 1910

John A. Miller Oct 16, 1864, Sept 24, 1891

Maggie O. daughter of Thos & Maria died Dec 13, 1871 aged 11 yrs 3 mos

Annie Iola, daughter of Thos & Maria ob Nov 10, 1853 aged 1 yr 6 mos

Culbertson E., son of Thos & Maria ob June 9, 1860 aged 2 yrs 8 mos

Annie Julia Miller July 7, 1868, July 5, 1893

Joseph Miller 1818 - 1894

Mary J., his wife 1823 - 1893

Elizabeth 1843 - 1846

Thomas McC 1856 - 1876

Ella 1856 - 1876

Ezekiel Miller died Nov 12, 1882 aged 98 yrs

Elizabeth Miller ob Oct 16, 1857 in her 64th yr

Ivian, son of McConnell & Mary A. Miller ob Sept 8, 1862 aged 6 days

Ezekiel C., son of Mc & M.A. Miller born July 28, 1861, ob Nov 4, 1883

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Ezekiel Miller ob Feby 20, 1828, aged 56 yrs

Jane, wife of Ezekiel Miller ob Apr 18, 1820?

4. John Boyd died 1817

Mary Fulton Boyd 1825 erected by their descendants 1917

Samuel Boyd ob Nov 17, 1828 aged 20 yrs

Robert Boyd Senior ob Jany 25, 1859 aged 59 yrs

Hannah Boyd Born Dec 2, 1785 ob Apr 30, 1865 in 80 yr

5. Margaret Jane Jack died Oct 16, 1854 in 9th yr

Elizabeth J. Jack ob Aug 7, 1837 in 4th yr

Andrew Herron Jack born Aug 3, & died Oct 23, 1831

Julia A. Jack ob July 7, 1837 in 10th yr

Robt Boyd Jack, Principal of Glade Run Academy, & Student of Theology died Feby 18, 1855 in his 26th yr

Joseph Mitchell Jack ob July 22, 1855 in 15th yr

Andrew Jack died Oct 8, 1844 aged 80 yrs

Elizabeth Jack died Oct 17, 1810 aged 40 yrs.

John Jack Born Jany 11, 1805 ob Oct 3, 1887

Margaret Jack ob Oct 3, 1877 in 72d yr

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6. William Leslie, 1820 - 1868

Sarah Belle Leslie 1818 - 1860

Mary Louise Leslie 1844 - 1857 or 9

Agnes Leslie Fulton 1843 - 1897

Annie E. Leslie 1849 - 1898

George G. Leslie 1847 - 1909

Sarah B. Leslie 1873 - 1902 } Children

Milton A. Leslie 1871 - 1890 } of

S. Bliss Leslie 1877 - 1885 } Geo G.

S. Howard Leslie 1875 - 1880 }

7. John Carnahan, ob Mch 28, 1852 aged 31 yrs 11 mos

Sarah Ellen, dau of J & V Carnahan ob May 17, 1861 aged 13 yrs 9 mos 15 days

John Carnahan ob May 11, 1830 in 66th yr

Martha Carnahan ob July 17, 1833 in 56th yr

Margaret Carnahan ob July 31, 1880 in 71st yr

8. Rebecka Fleming, consort of Thos Fleming decd ob Mch 26, 1856 aged 72

9. Daniel Gravat died July 28, 1829 aged 33 yrs 1 mo 18 days

10. James Carnahan Jun ob Nov 3, 1832 in 51st yr

11. Samuel Elliott ob Oct 3, 1828 aged 27 yrs

Robert Elliott. down ob in 82d yr

Jane Elliott, down, ob Jany 7, 1815 aged 79 yrs

12. John Hazlett ob July 14, 1881 aged 73 yrs

13. James Y. Fleming born Nov 7, 1843 ob Mch 29, 1877

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Sarah J., wife of J.Y. Fleming born Aug 31, 1846 ob Jany 20, 1878

14. Miller Hill ob Aug 25, 1859 aged 23 yrs 9 mos 25 days

15. William Hill died Dec 27, 1865 aged 83 yrs

16. Wm S. Canning, ob Feby 18, 1878 aged 67 yrs 8 mos 19 days

Rebecca R. wife of Wm S. Canning died May 22, 1888 in 77th yr

Leaving 4:55 PM

At residence of Geo Clarence Hough No 541 Fifth Ave Parnassus (P.O. New Kensington Pa ) Aug 13, 1924 8:05 AM

Mrs Hough is Mary, daughter of Harvey J. Steele & was married - on Oct 22, 1908 to George Clarence Hough, born Dec 13, 1869 in Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa son of George Fisher Hough & his wife Elizabeth Weaver. She was sister of Jacob Weaver of Smithfield Pa. Geo Fisher Hough was son of William Hough & his wife Catharine Fisher. William was a brother of Abraham Hough who married a Waltz. Elizabeth Weaver's mother was a Waltz. Mary had one child by Mr Hough viz an unnamed child born prematurely & died.

Leaving 8:30 AM

Back at 8:40 PM

Elizabeth Weaver, the mother of Mr Hough had the following sisters & but one brother:

1. Jacob Weaver of Smithfield Pa

2. Kate Weaver mar Brown & had Cornelia mar J. Seaton Collier, "Seth" Pore (John husband) No issue., Lou mar Noah Smith near Beatty Sta & they had one son Percy. Noah & wife are living in Gbg over by hospital is retired, Seward Brown lives in Gbg & has a daughter Lizzie lives also near hospital.

3. Hannah Weaver mar John McCurdy

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& lived in Indiana Co about 4 miles from Livermore Pa a farmer. Both dead. Had 4 boys & 1 girl

1. Ewing, oldest, dead at Ebenezer Ch left one boy, Earl in Akron O a civil engineer

2. John married & lives in Glenwood at 404 Johnson Ave Glenwood. No issue.

3. Ida, married a Code in Livermore. He dead, she living & has one dau Helen

4. Frank, married & lives in Cuba. No issue

5. Melvin, single lives at Ebenezer.

4. Mary Weaver mar John Herr. Both dead on a farm 3 miles fr Beatty Sta. Had 4 boys & 2 girls

1. Edgar mar Mary Sloan. She living at Andover O & he dead, 4 chil, Clarence, Mary & Walter. [all that are named]

2. Elmer, died unm

3. Lizzie mar her cousin John McCurdy. No issue

4. Ida mar Ransom Roderman she dead & he living near Bloomington Ills a farmer. Had one daughter.

5. Ewing, mar & dead. Had a boy & girl Ewing & Mary

6. Charles mar & both living in Ohio near to Andover, a farmer. Have children

5. Elizabeth Weaver, the youngest born at Weaver's Mill near Smithfield Pa Apr 12, 1837 & was married Feby 12, 1862 to George Fisher Hough who was born Dec 12, 1839 & had four children. See page 292.

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At residence of Alva Clark Anderson No 609 Ridge Ave New Kensington Pa Aug 13, 1924. 9:20 AM

Mr Robert Anderson who lives two squares below at No 421 Ridge Ave said he had given his parents bible to his son & he walked up here with me & his son's wife has brought the old bible downstairs & from it & what he can tell me, I am making up a table on page 290. He says his brother, Wm Anderson of Tarentum Pa who was over to see him yesterday is 83 yrs old & can tell more than he can being 6 yrs older. The bible is a big old one with front back loose & was printed at Auburn by John E. Beardsley but no date is given. They think he lives on East 9th St Tarentum Pa. Sarah Belle Jack was the youngest of Andrew Jack's children & mar Wm Leslie by whom she had four children: Agnes, oldest, Mary Louisa 2d, George G. 3d & Annie youngest. Mary Louisa & Annie never married. All dead. Mahaleth [sic] Anderson, mother of Francis, died Apr 13, 1862 aged 82 years.

Left 11:30 AM

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At residence of Robert J. Anderson No 421 Ridge Ave, New Kensington Pa Aug 13, 1924 11:44 AM

Mr Anderson has walked back with me & has gotten out his big bible printed by John E. Potter & Co Phila but no date given. I am entering on pages 290 & 291 in this colored ink, the names & dates of birth of Mr A's children.

Leaving 12:20 PM

[Descendant Chart]

Cyrus Jack Anderson born July 15, 1834 see next page 290.

[children]

William Howard, see page 290

Etta Floy, B Aug 18, 1889 m. Mch 26, 1911 to Fred J. Riley son of John Riley & wife Mary P. Korter who was born June 22, 1892 at Corning Iowa. They have 3 children born at Lenox, Iowa & now live at Lenox, Iowa.

Walter Lavene, B June 14, 1913

Jennie Leatha, B Mch 26, 1916

Wilber Howard, B June 16, 1924

Laura Blanche, B Dec 8, 1891 ob Dec 4, 1895

Lula May, B July 25, 1894, unmarried.

George Mitchell, B Oct 27, 1902 m. Feby 12, 1923 to Genava Morris, dau of Ezekiel Morris & wife Myrtle Shiveley who was born Feby 15, 1901 at Kent, Iowa. They now live at 1505 16th St Des Moines Iowa.

Frederick Meade, Born Apr 23, 1879 at Washington Iowa, m. May 10, 1904 at Gravity Iowa to Nellie Margaret McColm born Mch 20, 1876 at Gravity Iowa dau of Dr J.T. McColm & his wife Lottie S. Johnson. See page 290. They have two children born at Saxmanks [sic] both unmarried.

Bernice Lucille, B July 20, 1907

C.J., B Sept 4, 1909. He has no names, just the initials.

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[Descendant Chart]

Andrew Jack m.1. Elizabeth McCoy & by her had 2 sons & 2 daus. He m.2. & by her had 1 son & 3 daughters.

[children]

James Jack, oldest, went to LeClaire Iowa & died there

John Jack, B Jany 11, 1805 ob Oct 3, 1887 at Industry Pa

Margaret Jack, Born May 24, 1807 ob Oct 27, 1883 m. Oct 22, 1833 to Francis Anderson born Mch 27, 1810 & died July 18, 1875. He was son of Robert Anderson & his wife Mahala Thomas. Their children were all born on the farm in West Deer Tp & my informant was the youngest.

Cyrus Jack, B July 15, 1834 ob in Adams Co Iowa Nov 25, 1899 m. Jany 29, 1857 Eliza Fulton dau of James Fulton, bro of Jesse & Samuel etc. Had 7 chil see page 278 see page 347.

1. Wm Howard, Lives 1621 30th ST Des Moines Iowa. B Oct 2, 1857 in Butler Co Pa m. Mch 26, 1884 to Narinna Jennie Mitchell born Sept 28, 1863 in Warren Co Ills dau of James B. Mitchell & wife Martha J. Rosa. Had 4 children all born at Lenox Iowa. See page 289.

2. James Harrison, B June 29, 1862. Lives Seattle Wash No 309 32d Ave Born in Butler Co Pa. M. May 3, 1887 at Madison Neb to Rose Sterner born Jany 28, 1864 at Monmouth Ills dau of Wm David Sterner & wife Agnes Jane Kirk.

Lois Lucile Anderson, B Aug 15, 1892 in Corning Iowa ob Sept 1, 1893 in Corning Iowa.

3. Frank Hayes, Lives 5043 Ewing Ave S. Minneapolis Minn

4. Josiah George, B July 8, 1866 ob May 30, 1899 m. June 2, 1895 to Cora O. Cooper b Dec 19, 1874 at Corning Iowa dau of James M. Cooper (who was a son of Henry Cooper) & wife Ruth Wilson. She married 2d Mch 29, 1904 to Francis A. Outhier & live at Prescott Iowa.

Gladys Olivia, B Dec 28, 1896 at Rouse Col. M. June 10, 1916 to M. Earle Britton son of Albert Herman Britton & his wife Minerva Mosella Packard. He was born Sept 26, 1894 in Washington Tp, Johnson Co Iowa.

Ronald Earle, born Apr 7, 1917 at Prescott Iowa

Robert George, B May 12, 1920 at Atlantic Iowa

5. Margaret Jane Jennie, B June 10, 1870 m. Feby 9, 1892 to Irwin B. Ferguson. Lives Tarkis Mo born Apr 10, 1869 in Middletown Iowa, son of Geo Christy Ferguson & wife Mary G. Irwin. His name is Irwin Balle [best guess on last word]

Faye Harrietta, Born at Lenox Iowa Nov 26, 1902 single See B 27 P 2.

7. Frederick Meade, a Dr in Sterling Ks Sept 6/24 he writes as "F.M.A. M.D. from Nickerson Ks see page 289.

6. Cyrus Everett, chiropractor in Sterling Kan, married..

Eli Andrew, [son of Margaret Jack & Francis Anderson] B Feby 7, 1836 ob Apr 4, 1919 in Florida at Eustis. m.1. Sept 26, 1862 to Sarah Jane Christy, dau of John Christy & wife Sarah Jane Christy. But one child. M.2. Margaret Kennedy & had 5 chil by her. Sarah J. died July 8, 1865 see page 527.

Amelia Etta Anderson, by 1st wife, B Oct 21, 1863 m.1. June 21, 1888 to Harry Denny, son of George Denny & wife Mary Ann Frazier, born Apr 1, 1859 ob June 27, 1893. M.2. Aug 8, 1917 to Wm Boyd Thom[5]6. Thomas Jefferson Rose married Mary Umst at Ocalla Florida. No issue by him. One son by Denny. Their number is 215 Watula St Ocala Fla.

Unnamed Son, Died at birth Apr 27, 1889

Harry Andrew Denny, Born Dec 24, 1891 at Creighton Pa & died Nov 13, 1915 at Eustis Fla, unmarried.

Elizabeth, m. Kirk & lives at Ellwood City Pa

Alzina, twin, m. Melvin Lelliss & live at Denver Colo

Harry, twin m. Flick

Mary, m. Joseph Campbell

Thomas, died unmarried. Josiah James [son of Margaret Jack & Francis Anderson] B Apr 30, 1838 ob Oct 1867 died in Tarentum unmarried. He was a blacksmith & his bro Wm T. learned his trade with him.

Harrison Henry, B Oct 29, 1840 ob Nov 28, 1862 fr fever contracted in Civil War. He was Lieut in 63d Pa Vol. unmarried.

William Thomas, B Feby 20, 1842. He is living in Tarentum. M. Oct 10, 1867 to Charlotte Leslie, dau of Capt William Leslie & wife Harriet Hunt & who was not related to William that married his mother's half sister. See page 295.

Elizabeth Jane, B Jany 25, 1845 ob Feby 11, 1866 m. June 15, 1865 Hugh Williamson son of Johnson Williamson & his wife Mary Ann Stephenson. No issue.

Robert John, B July 28, 1848 my informant m. Oct 11, 1871 near Saxonburg Pa to Mary Elizabeth Logan. Born Aug 5, 1853 dau of Joseph Logan & his wife Margaret McCandless. Both living at No 421 Ridge Ave. New Kensington Pa. Have had 9 children all born on the farm in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa near Saxonburgh Pa 4 living & 5 dead.

1. Joseph Francis Anderson, Born Nov 15, 1872 ob Mch 17, 1916 mar to Susie Bowers dau of Martin Bowers & wife. She living at Turtle Creek Pa in the suburbs with her dau Ida Harbison.

Ida Anderson, m. Arthur Harbison a RR conductor frt.

Frances, unmarried.

2. Maggie May, B Feby 20, 1875 m. Aug 7, 1893 W. Clarence Sheppard son of Wm Sheppard & wife Jane Holstead. He was born Feby 8, 1872. Both living abt 2 miles fr Bakerstown & have 7 chil living & 3 dead. Oldest born in West Deer Tp & all the others in Middlesex Tp.

Clara Bell, B Aug 28, 1894 m. June 9, 1914 to Walter H. Allison see page 304

Unnamed son, B July 30, 1896 ob Aug 21, 1896

Elizabeth Jane, B Dec 25, 1897 m. Oct 12, 1920 to Charles Patton born Jany 1, son of Ross Patton & wife Ella Cunningham. No issue.

Unnamed Dau, B Dec 31, 1900 ob Jany 3, 1901

Howard Anderson, B Mch 12, 1902

Frank Eugene, B Dec 22, 1904

Edwin Clarence, B Jany 1, 1909

Infant Son, Born & died Sept 2, 1914

Margery May Halstead, B Sept 26, 1915

Lois Eleanor, B Mch 20, 1918

4. Alva Clark, B Aug 11, 1878 m. Jany 9, 1913 to Augusta Amelia Demmler born Apr 21, 1885 in Allegheny Pa dau of Nicholas Frederick Demmler & wife Amelia Schell. Children born at this house, 421.

Samuel Demmler, B Jany 8, 1915

Anna Margaret, B Apr 7, 1916

5. Clorinda Belle, B Jany 17, 1880 ob June 28, 1903 unmarried.

6. Robert Preston, B Aug 16, 1884 unmarried. Is in a home.

3. George Love, B Apr 10, 1877 ob Apr 25, 1877

7. Bessie, B Aug 26, 1885 ob Jany 22, 1886

8. William Andrew, B July 24, 1890 ob Mch 30, 1891

9. Emmett Claire, B Oct 13, 1894 at home unmarried.

Jane Jack, [dau of Andrew Jack]. Wm T. Anderson says she was a widow when he was born & was teaching school. m. James G. Smith.

Andrew McCoy Smith, see book 6 p 514-519

Elizabeth Jack, born 1814 ob 1900 m. Robert Fleming born 1813 & died 1877 [last numeral a guess] & both buried at Deer Creek son of James Fleming.

Mary Ann, m. John Fleming, a brother of Robert. Both buried at Pres Ch 4 miles south of Butler Pa

Leslie, m. went to LeClaire Iowa & died at Fort Dodge Iowa where he was living & where his children are.

Andrew[6]rs 8 mos 30 days Pre Sarah Belle, B 1818 ob 1860 m. to William Leslie & was his first wife. He born 1820 & died 1868.

1. Agnes Leslie, B 1843 ob 1897 m. Leslie T. Fulton his 2d wife

3. George G., B 1847 ob 1909

2. Mary L. B 1844 ob 1857

4. Anna E., B 1849 ob 1898.

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From page 287

all born in Jefferson Tp, Fayette Co Pa

1. Ashbel Fairchild Hough born Nov 14, 1862

2. Minnie Vanora Hough born May 4, 1864

3. George Clarence Hough born Dec 13, 1869

4. Clyde Howard Hough born Jany 1, 1880.

1. Ashbel F. married Belle Duvall. Both living in Rostraver Tp where he is a farmer & have 4 chil living & one dead

2. Minnie V. mar Wm H. Phillips. She is dead & he lives on the Norcross farm in Redstone Tp. 2 chil

4. Clyde Howard mar Pearl Morefield & both living in Jefferson Tp where he is a stationary engineer. Have two children. They were married Jany 17, 1901.

Elizabeth Weaver's mother was a sister of David Waltz of Uniontown Pa & of Catharine the wife of Abraham Hough of near Fayette City & of Susanna Highberger, the mother of T.J. of West Newton Pa.

Leaving 9:30 PM

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At residence of Joseph Henry, No 1118 Victoria Ave New Kensington Pa Aug 13, 1924 12:25 PM

I walked down here from Mr Anderson's & met Mr Henry & his daughters. Says his wife, Mary Ann Thompson, born 1839 & who has died was daughter of Capt Robt Thompson & her sister Catherine, wife of John H. Montgomery P.O. Evans City Pa Route 2 living on the Harmony Route 4 miles out, get off at Conoquenessing stop, can give that Thompson line. Ask her the name of the brother of Capt Robert Thompson who was a lawyer. Mr Henry says he gave her the Capt Robt Thompson bible after his wife died. Miss Henry said her mother helped W.H. Taylor get up the Brown book.

Left 12:17 PM

I then walked downtown, got a street car to Tarentum Pa & after asking many people, I found Mr Anderson & was:

At Residence of William T. Anderson No 617 East 9th St Tarentum Pa Aug 13, 1924 2:07 PM

Mr Anderson gave me information to fill in the blanks in his own record

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which I am entering in the table on page 290 & carried to page 295. he enlisted in 1862 in the Civil War & served 9 mos, was in 123 Pa Reg Co F.

Leaving 2:44 PM

Going out, I called at No 504 East 9th St at residence of Thomas Culbertson Miller, but his wife said he had gone out to get shaved.

I walked back to the Bridge where I got a street car at 3 PM back to New Kensington arriving at 3:30 & walked up, on the hill to 242 Ridge Ave & found Jesse Allen Fulton had just got in from his work. He drove the Auto of his mother-in-law, Mrs Jacobus, starting at 4 PM with her, Mrs Fulton, Bertha, Ada, Alice & James accompanying & drove out through Springdale & Bakerstown to (see page 296)

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[Descendant Chart]

William Thomas Anderson Born Feby 20, 1842. Living at 617 East 9th St Tarentum Pa M. Oct 10, 1867 Charlotte Elvira Leslie daughter of Capt Wm Leslie & his wife Harriet Hunter. She was born Apr 24, 1843 & died Mch 8, 1908. They have 4 children living & two died in infancy. First two children born Petroleum Center Pa next two in Clarion Co Pa & the 5th at Tarentum Pa.

[children]

Alice Elvira, B Feby 8, 1869 m. to Ford W. Felinley son of John Felinley. They live at Jeannette Pa at 115 So 2d St where he is Asst master Mechanic for Amer. Window Glass Co.

Mildred

Charlotte

Wesley

Charles Wesley, B Apr 22, 1876, m. Annie Boulton. They live at 804 Dohrman ST West Park Pa Stowe Tp & he works on the Pgh Post. No issue.

Charlotte Leslie, B July 30, 1871 ob May 30, 1872

William Thomas, B Sept 30, 1873. Live at Freeport Pa but he is abt to move to Harmarville Pa where he is Agt of Penn RR Co. Have 7 children.

Raymond Leslie,

Kenneth

A son

LeRoy

Marian, a girl

Russell

Robert

Hattie Jane, B June 19, 1875 ob Sept 4, 1875

Frank Willard, Born Apr 15, 1877 in Columbus Junction, Louisa Co Iowa, m. June 24, 1903 Daisy Bartholia dau of A. Frank Bartholia & wife Sarah E. Hay, who was born June 24, 1878 & live here at 111 Lock St Tarentum Pa. He is a painter. No issue.

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Middlesex Presbyterian Church graveyard, Butler Co Pa Aug 13, 1922 5:22 PM

Where I made note of the following. We came here expecting to find the graves of James Fulton & his wife Agnes Thompson as Mr Fulton had been told 5 yrs ago by one of his aged relatives that he had been buried here. The finding of these Campbell graves & a Thompson Campbell & Margaret Campbell of proper age leads me to question whether this Margaret buried where her sister Agnes is buried, but we found no marker or the Margaret Campbell at Dick Ch g.y. is the daughter of Dr Samuel Thompson.

17. James Campbell ob Jany 1, 1836 aged 74

Margaret, wife of James Campbell ob Jany 12, 1811 in 69th yr (might be 1841)

Sarah Campbell 1796-1881

ohn [sic] Campbell (scaling off & split in two) ob Oct 1, 1830 aged 77

Margaret Campbell ob Oct 2, 1853 aged 92 yrs

Thompson Campbell who died at San Francisco Calif Dec 6, 1868 aged 57 yrs.

This last Margaret would be abt the right age to be next older than Agnes.

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18. James C. Thompson ob June 23, 1857 aged 31 yrs 3 mos 21 days

Margaret C., wife of R. Thompson ob July 6, 1830 aged 35 yrs 10 mos

John Thompson ob Nov 9, 1884 aged 90 yrs

Hetty Thompson ob Nov 24, 1896 aged 78 yrs

Harriet K. daughter of John & Henrietta ob Oct 4, 1864 aged 11 yrs 17 days

Mary, consort of Wm Thompson ob Oct 23, 1858 in her 88th yr

Martha Thompson, ob Nov 12, 1878 in her 77th yr.

19. William Campbell ob Dec 13, 1863 aged 85 yrs

Sarah, wife of Wm Campbell ob Sept 17, 1867 in her 85th yr

Leaving 5:50 PM

J. Al Fulton said he wanted a book when published even if it cost as much as $25. We left the church at 6 PM & drove back through Cooperstown Pa stopping there:

At residence of H.M. Park, Cooperstown Pa Aug 13, 1924 6:11 Pm Butler Co Pa

Mr Fulton introduced me to Mrs Parks [sic] who is a daughter of James B. Fulton, the oldest son of Jesse & to her oldest brother

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John Thompson Fulton, her oldest brother, an old bachelor, who brought out his father's bible printed at Pittsburgh Pa by Joseph Horner, but without date & from which I copy, but note they are the same dates copied this morning from the Brown book pages 272 & 3.

Children of James B. Fulton 1. John Thompson Fulton born Feby 11, 1858

2. Melissa Jane Fulton born Dec 23, 1859

3. Annie Ellen Fulton born Aug 16, 1862

4. Margaret A. Fulton born July 18, 1865

5. Eliza C. Fulton born Nov 2, 1867

6. Sarah J. Fulton born Sept 20, 1870

7. Mary L. Fulton born June 11, 1874

8. Edgar M. Fulton born Sept 27, 1878

James B. Fulton born Dec 28, 1835

Nancy McKibben born July 28, 1837

Married Jany 8, 1857

Marriages

Eliza C. Fulton and H.M. Park Dec 28, 1887

Annie E. Fulton and C.H. Fredley Jany 1, 1890

Margaret A. Fulton and J.M. Hartung Nov 9, 1893

Mary L. Fulton and Harry Ferguson Jany 24, 1894

Sarah J. Fulton and Wm J. Fredley Oct 30, 1901

Edgar M. Fulton died Apr 19, 1909 aged 31

Ethele Fern Park, dau of H.M. & C.E. Park Mch 4, 1911 in her 20th yr

Deaths

James B. Fulton died Oct 13, 1901

Melissa Jane Fulton died June 15, 1920, unm

Nancy Fulton (mother) died Aug 2, 1922

Nancy McKibben was dau of Moses McKibben & his wife Margaret Prussian?

Leaving 6:33 PM

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At residence of Georgianna Conwell Gummert No 600 E 6th Ave Tarentum Pa Aug 14, 1924 11:17 AM

Mrs Gummert's son-in-law says she has been in Los Angeles Calif for a month visiting Katherine & Martha Elliott. His wife has gone up to get her grandfather Elliott's bible & call her brother James S. She has brought down James Stokeley Elliott's big bible which is in good condition & has a clasp on it & was printed in Phil by Wm W. Harding in 1869 & the record therein is as follows:

James Stokeley Elliott was born Dec 16, 1836 & died at his farm Luzerne Tp Fay Co Pa Aug 24, 1905.

Jane Wood was born Jany 22, 1838 & died Jany 14, 1914 in this house. They were married.

they had but one child viz:

Georgiana Elliott was born July 27, 1862. She was married at Seventh Ave Hotel Pittsburgh Pa Apr 4, 1892 to Thomas Newton Gummert who was born in Brownsville Pa Sept 8, 1862 son of Thomas Christian Gummert & his wife Amanda Clemmer & he died in this house Jany 27, 1923. Jane says her father was a 2d cousin of Jeff Davis through the Clemmers or Count Gummert who lived in see book 7 p 20

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Mississippi

Georgiana & Thos N. had two children viz:

1. Jane Amelia Gummert born Feby 19, 1893

2. James Stokeley Gummert born Nov 1, 1895. Jane was born in Brownsville Pa & James in Luzerne Tp, Fayette Co Pa.

1. Jane Amelia Gummert married Aug 28, 1919 Carlos Porfirio Echeverria (pronounce E-Chev'-e-ri-a) who was born in Buena Vista, San Luis Potosi, Mexico Sept 15, 1888 son of Francesco E. Echeverria & his wife Petra Lopez & grandson of Javier (or Xavier) Echeverria who was Mexican Ambassador to France & in 1849 was President of Mexico. He founded the Free Art School & Museum at Mexico City which Carlos says is the only free art school now extant. They have one child:

I. Juanita (pro Wanita) Echeverria born Nov 12, 1922 in this house.

2. James Stokeley Gummert married on Dec 26, 1921 Mildred Almeda Buck born Feby 3, 1898 at Nationa Pa dau of John Frederick Buck & his wife Amanda Humphreys. No issue.

See Elliott History in:

1. Ellis Hist of Fayette Co 1882

2. Gresham Hist of Fayette Co 1889

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At residence of Chas W. Baxter 268 Ridge Ave New Kensington Pa Aug 14, 1924 9:44 AM

Mrs Baxter, a fine looking matronly woman in her 60s says her father, Hiram Shearer died 2 yrs ago in his 95th year, & his father was Peter Shearer & his mother a Snell & she never heard of any Markle connection. Says there are Shearers at Verona Pa, one named Peter & one Hiram she thinks.

I then walked down the hill, hired a taxi & went out the ridge east a mile or two to the home of Howard Mahan's where I arrived at 10:17 AM & found the house locked up. He lived in the McKean Plan on the East of the town. A neighbor woman said he had left in his auto this morning going to the country in the neighborhood of his wife's people for berries.

Peter Shearer above might be a son of the other daughter of George Markle & named for him. Am writing Mrs Baxter today Aug 26, 1924.

Sept 22, 1924 am writing her again see book 1 p 402.

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At residence of Wm Andrew Allison West Deer Tp, Allegheny Co Pa (P.O. Gibsonia RFD 3 Pa) Aug 14, 1924 5:05 PM

Mrs Allison is a daughter of J. Nelson Fulton & he a son of John Fulton being his only child. She don't have her grandfather's bible & thinks her step-mother has her father's bible. The J. Nelson Fulton home is about 2 miles beyond here, but his widow his 2d wife is now visiting either her two daughters Gertrude, wife of Bert Bean & Margaret Matilda Walters, wife of Coston Walters who live together over a mile beyond Russellton, turning to the right of Russellton at the middle of the town, on the Saner's farm, or she might be at her sister's, Mrs Frank Kennedy on 1133 Highland Ave, Tarentum. Mrs Allison is giving me the family record which I am tabling see page 304. Mrs Allison gave the dates on pages 304 & 305 from memory. She is a very intelligent, fine virile woman.

Leaving 7 PM

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At residence of Anna Mary Mahan, Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa (P.O. Valencia RFD 1) Aug 14, 1924 7:22 PM

Mrs Mahan's husband, (9.) James A. Mahan was son of Wm A. Mahan & his wife Nancy Fulton, she being a daughter of Samuel Fulton. She has the record of Nancy's family on a piece of paper which I am tabling on page 306. Mrs Mahan remembers the names of these additional children of Samuel Fulton viz:

1. James, who lived & died in Pgh leaving two girls & a boy, both girls living in Pgh viz Margaret Jane Telfer & Ann Eliza Frazier, living at 311 E. Lacock St N.W. Pgh Pa

2. Allison went west

3. Jesse went west

4. Peggy Ann married James Harvey a farmer in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa

5. Lee Ann, married George Hayes & lived where Donaldsons now live. Both dead without issue.

6. Jane, never married buried at Deer Creek

7. Mary never married buried at Deer Creek

8. Sarah, died when a young lady, buried at Deer Creek.

Leaving 8:46 PM

At James Lee McCredie's, West Deer Tp (P.O. Gibsonia RD 3) Aug 14, 1924 9-10 PM

Mrs McCredie has given me the dates for the family which I have entered on page 304 in the table.

Leaving 9:30 PM

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[Descendant Chart]

John Fulton, son of James & Agnes Thompson Fulton born May 25, 1787 & Mrs Allison says he died in the latter part & feels sure it was Dec 1856 near the holiday. She recalls it from having been told that he died within the month preceding the marriage of her father which was on Jany 1, 1857 & they consequently had a quiet wedding. He was buried at the Deer Creek g.y. but there is no marker. There was a stone with his initials on, but recently when she hunted for it, she couldn't find it. He married Ann Hayes, daughter of John Hayes, twelve years before their only child was born which would make it 1822. She died in Feby 1861 was old, but don't know her age but remembers her even if only 3 yrs old. She is buried beside her husband in Deer Cr g.y. See page 271 for her sister Jane, wife of his brother, James.

[Their only child was:]

John Nelson Fulton only child was born in Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa Dec 28, 1834 & died on another farm in same Tp 2 miles from here June 22, 1915 & is buried at Deer Creek g.y. He married Jany 1, 1857, Sarah Jane Murray, born Sept 21, 1837 at Millerstown Pa near here & died June 30, 1888, daughter of John W. Murray & his wife Elizabeth Weir. Had 4 children. He married 2d Aug 28, 1890 Mrs Sarah Jane Cunningham born in this house May 2, 1852 & still living. She was widow of Samuel Meriel Cunningham & daughter of Samuel Allison & his wife Elizabeth McGowan. She had two children by Mr Fulton, all of whose children were born in Middlesex Tp. The second wife is a sister of the husband of my informant.

[his children]

1. Elizabeth Louisa Fulton, B Jany 22, 1858, my good informant of the day. M. Dec 19, 1877 to Wm Andrew Allison, born in this house July 27, 1854, son of Samuel Allison & his wife Elizabeth McGowan. Have 11 children all born on this farm & in this Tp.

Nettie Roy, B Dec 28, 1878 m. B.W. Miller. Have her record see page 274.

Samuel Cunningham, B July 19, 1880 m. Apr 27, 1910 to Anna Belle Lefevre Born Jany 10, 1886 dau of David Lefevre & wife Mary Montgomery. He is a farmer in Middlesex Tp & have 2 chil. P.O. Valencia RFD 1. Have 2 chil born in that Tp.

Bessie Eleanor, B Feby 3, 1913

David Wesley, B Jany 11, 1920

Joseph Murray, B July 23, 1882 ob May 8, 1901, unmarried.

Anna Louisa, B Aug 23, 1884 m. Oct 26, 1904 Lester Moore Born Apr 1884 son of Saml C. Moore & wife Rebecca Gibson. Live in Butler Pa, was Co Comm. He died Sept 30, 1912. Chil born in Middlesex Tp

Andrew Crayton

Bertha Elizabeth

George Kenneth

Mary Emma, B Aug 4, 1888, ob Aug 10, 1888

Flora May, B Sept 15, 1889 ob May 3, 1922. M. Dec 17, 1914 to Howard Fredley, son of Daniel Fredley & wife Agnes Leslie. Chil born in West Deer Tp.

Flora Agnes, B July 4, 1915

Margaret Moore [twin] born Jany 7, 1918

Eva Marian, [twin] born Jany 7, 1918

William Nelson Fulton, B Sept 27, 1891 ob Sept 25, 1895

Walter Howard, B Sept 27, 1891 mar June 9, 1914 to Clara Belle Shepard born Aug 28, 1894 dau of Wm Clarence Shepard & wife Margaret Anderson see page 291. Both living in Richland Tp, a farmer. P.O. Gibsonia RFD 3 Have 3 chil born in Richland Tp.

Howard Orin, B June 7, 1915

Willis Irwin, B Jany 3, 1921

Jean Isabel, B Dec 3, 1923

George Patterson, B Sept 15, 1894 ob Dec 7, 1909

Robert McClintock, B Aug 20, 1899 m. Mch 29, 1921 to Gladys Graham born Mch 1, 1903 dau of Chas Graham & wife Florence, also Graham. He runs the garage at Deer Creek & have 2 chil born in West Deer Tp.

William Charles, B Apr 6, 1923

Florence Elizabeth, B May 20, 1924

Sarah Eva, B Feby 13, 1902 m. Apr 27, 1921 to Wm Earl Marshall born July 23, 1894 son of Wm Marshall & wife Sarah Griffith. Lives on this farm & have one child born in Middlesex Tp.

Mildred May, B May 23, 1922

2. Ann Jane Fulton, B Jany 11, 1861, ob May 8, 1875

4. Mary Elizina Fulton, B Oct 6, 1864 ob June 30, 1907 m. Mch 30, 1887 to James L. McCredie, a native of Pgh Pa. He married 2d the widow of his wife's bro Wm Nelson Fulton. Her 6 chil born in West Deer Tp. He was born Oct 5, 1859 m. 2d May 24, 1910

Lee Campbell, B Jany 17, 1888, single

Mary Jane, B Mch 20, 1892, single

James Witherspoon, B Dec 18, 1893, m. Jany 24, 1923 Helen Gibson & live on the farm. No issue. Dau of Robert & wife Mary Shoals & born Apr 2, 1900

Mildred, B July 15, 1897 m. June 27, 1922 to James Norris born July 1898 son of George Norris & his wife Rachel McIntyre. No issue. Live at Culmerville Pa & runs the bus.

Beulah Fulton, B July 17, 1896, ob June 15, 1901

Elma Lamont, B Mch 22, 1901, single

5. William Nelson Fulton, B Oct 23, 1867 ob Dec 22, 1889 m. July 17, 1888 to Mary Emma Thomas, daughter of Christopher Thomas & Jeanette Scott, his wife born Aug 26, 1864. He had no issue. She was older than him.

3. Sarah J., B Jany 11, 1861 ob May 7, 1874 twin of Ann J. see 308 item 29.

6. Anna Gertrude Fulton, B Feby 8, 1892 m. Dec 28, 1910 to Burdell Beam born Oct 3, son of George Beam & wife Matilda McClelland. He is a teamster & lives here & she has gone to a picnic this morning. Has 7 children, first 4 born in Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa & last 3 in this West Deer Tp.

Florence Matilda, B June 17, 1912

Sarah Alice, B Jany 24, 1914

Lawrence Burdell, B June 4,1916

John LeRoy Fulton, B May 1, 1918

Margaret, B June 1920

Elizabeth Ellen, B June 28, 1922

James William, B May 23, 1923

7. Margaret Matilda Fulton, born July 2, 1895. m. Aug 3, 1917 to Coston Parker Walters born Jany 17, 1892 in Versailles Co Mo, son of Coston Walters & wife Mary Parker. He is a laborer & truck driver & lives here in West Deer Tp & have 5 children, first two born in West Middlesex Tp & the last three in this West Deer Tp. Her oldest child was born before she was married.

Robt John Dickson B Sept 21, 1912 son of Geo Russell Dickson so she said when I asked her the name of the father.

Richard Walters, B Dec 2, 1918

Coston Glenn, B Feby 26, 1920

Grace Louise, B Oct 3, 1922

Mildred Jane, B July 2, 1924.

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[Descendant Chart]

Nancy Fulton, daughter of Samuel Fulton was born Oct 20, 1833 & died Aug 26, 1905 & is buried at Deer Creek g.y. m. 1857 William Alexander Mahan who was born Oct 4, 1835 & died Apr 11, 1910 & is buried also at Deer Creek g.y. They had ten children all growing up maturity except one. The seven oldest born in Richland Tp, Allegheny Co Pa & the three youngest born in Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa. See Book 7 Pages 112 & 118

[children]

Robert John, B July 12, 1858 m.1.

Samuel Fulton, B Sept 30, 1859 m. to Sarah McCall & lives at Valencia Pa & has 4 children

Sarah Jane, B Mch 1, 1861, m. James Frazier who has died & she lives in Butler Pa. No issue. Thinks she has her parents bible. No 442 East Pearl St.

James Allison, B Sept 29, 1862 ob July 7, 1914 m. Sept 4, 1890 to Anna Mary Mower born Feby 2, 1869 in this Tp, dau of Jacob Mower & wife Rachel McClelland & have had nine children all living & all born on this farm at next house.

Floyd Alexander, B Jany 5, 1891, at home unmarried.

Howard Wesley, B Apr 4, 1895 m. June 27, 1913 to Adda Jane McCall born July 7, 1895 dau of Saml McCall & wife Grace Burton. He lives in New Kensington.

Guy Wesley, B Dec 14, 1913

Paul Edwin, B Jany 3, 1916

Samuel, B Aug 27, 1921

Raymond Mower, B Sept 21, 1895, m. Apr 22, 1916 to Clara Jane Trimble born Jany 25, 1897 dau of Wm Trimble & wife "Allie" Wood. Have 2 boys divorced Sept 1922. He lives at New Kensington Pa. She has the children.

Harold Keith, B Feby 25, 1917

Francis Eugene, B Aug 28, 1918

Ethel Mary, B Dec 1897 m. May 4, 1921 to Eugene Albert Heasley born Aug 25, 1899 in Clearfield Tp, Butler Co Pa., son of Frank Heasley & wife Catharine Leibler. She is at home & is a ravishing beauty & gave much of the record.

Elsie May, B June 16, 1924 in Butler Pa

Marvel Lucile, B Nov 19, 1900 m. Jany 20, 1920 to John Verner Chatham born May 2, 1901 ob Dec 25, 1922 son of Howard Chatham & wife Margaret Critchlow. Have one child born in Pgh Pa. At home & handsome.

James Howard, B Apr 28, 1920

James Carl, B Dec 15, 1902, unmarried, works at Springdale for Duquesne Light & Heat Co.

Clarence Glenn, B June 24, 1906 at home, single

Ruby Romaine, B Aug 15, 1908 at home, single

Kenneth Lamont, Feby 9, 1910 at home

Nancy Belle, B July 27, 1864 m. Nov 6, 1885 William Oliver Hay & lives in Pgh Pa at 109 Jarbola ST where he is a lather. Have 2 boys & 2 girls living N.S. Pgh Pa & 2 chil dead.

William Barr, B Feby 9, 1866, ob June 16, 1866

Anna Mary, B Sept 29, 1867 ob Sept 22, 1895 m. to Lafayette Kelly. Had 2 children & they are both dead & thinks he too is dead.

Lydia Emma, B May 6, 1869 m.1. Feby 24, 1895 at Pgh Chas A. Klingensmith born Oct 16, 1868 & divorced (1 child) in 1910. M.2. Jerry D. Smail at Covington Pa Mch 5, 1912 & live at Newport Ky. He was born Jany 17, 1876 at Kittanning Pa. No issue by him. He was son of Geo Smail & wife Priscilla Baker 1st husband son of Abraham Klingensmith & Esther Kiefer

Charles M. Klingensmith, Born Feby 7, 1896. His mother has not heard from him since 1909. Her address now is Mrs Jerry D. Smail No 514 W. 10th St, Newport KY.

Jessie Hood, B Feby 25, 1872 ob Jany 26, 1916 m. Stephen Donaldson who lives on adjoining farm. He was born Apr 4, 1863 son of John Donaldson & wife Sarah Sefton. Have 2 chil born in this Tp.

Sarah Gladys, B Jany 26, 1899 at home single

Wm Alexander, B Feby 27, 1907 at home single

Wilda Park, B Mch 14, 1875 ob Jany 16, 1904 m. John Dawson, son of John Dawson & his wife Isabel McIntyre. Had one child born in Pgh Pa

William Dawson, B Jany 7, 1904. He was abt a week or ten days old when she died.

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At Associate Reformed Church of Deer Creek, Built 1837 rebuilt 1853. Deer Creek Cemetery Aug 14, 1924 2:33 PM 20. John N. Fulton (see pages 304 & 305) 1834 - 1915

Sarah J., wife of J. N. Fulton born Sept 28, 1837 ob June 27, 1888

Annie J. daughter of J.N. Fulton

Sarah J. daughter of J.N. Fulton born Jany 11, 1861, ob May 7, 1874

Wm N. Fulton born Oct 6, 1867 ob Dec 19, 1888

Geo W. Fulton 1826 - 1899

Williamson H. and William Harper sons of Robt & M. Fulton died

Nov 12, 1866? Mch 15, 1864 aged 2 yrs 1 mo aged 2 yrs 11 mos

Jane Fulton, our sister (see page 303 & 308 under item 46 p 313 born Oct 24, 1823 ob Sept 4, 1892

Mary Fulton born Jany 29, 1829 ob Dec 20, 1894

Jesse Fulton ob Aug 5, 1870 aged 72 yrs 8 mos 20 days

Margaret, wife of Jesse Fulton ob Sept 15, 1870 aged 70 yrs 3 mos 29 days

21. Nancy E., wife of Wm F. Thompson Born Apr 12, 1843 ob Apr 17, 1896.

Our children

Robert H. 1874 - 1875

Jennie E. 1882 - 1886

Alice I. 1885 - 1887

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22. Wm A. Mahan see pages 306 & 307 1835 - 1910

Nancy, his wife, 1833 - 1905

23. John Hugh Carnahan 1885 - 1912

Mary Emma, Mother 1853 - 1915

24. Sarah Mahan ob July 28, 1868 aged 75 yrs

Robert Mahan ob Mch 27, 1866 in 75 yr

25. Jane, wife of Alex Fleming & daughter of J.& S. Sefton ob Apr 22, 1877 aged 27 yrs & 22 days

26. Samuel Galbreath, ob Aug 20, 1854 aged 64 yrs

Jane Jack wife of Samuel Galbreath born Jany 28, 1790 ob Apr 14, 1872.

27. Ross Clendenning Sept 24, 1826, Mch 23, 1910

Margaret D. Hazlett, wife of Ross Clendenning Feby 7, 1835, Feby 25, 1897

Geo Wilson, son of WR & Margaret Clendenning ob Apr 26, 1860 aged 1 yr 5 days

Charles Clendenning, father Born May 23, 1788, ob May 22, 1889 aged 101

Martha Ross Porter mother, wife of Chas Clendenning, born 1795 died 1862

John Clendenning, son Born 1823, died 1901

Margaret Clendenning, daughter 1835 - 1852

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28. James Leslie born Nov 1828 ob Oct 25, 1891

Margaret Leslie born Aug 20, 1817 ob Aug 22, 1901

Mary Leslie born Nov 10, 1791 ob July 9, 1867

James Leslie died Oct 12, 1865 aged 78 yrs 9 mos 10 days

29. Samuel G. son of A&S Fleming ob July 24, 1865 aged 3 mos 7 days

30. Amanda Canning Jany 22, 1847, Mch 30, 1904

Geo Canning Senr native of Co Derry, Ireland ob Dec 27, 1850 aged 81 yrs

31. James Fleming ob Apr 3, 1872 aged 72 yrs

Jane, wife of James Fleming ob May 16, 1864, aged 68 yrs 4 mos

John, son of James & Jane Fleming ob Feby 10, 1835 aged 3 yrs

Barbary, wife of Samuel Fleming ob Apr 14, 1852 aged 20 yrs

Robert, son of J&J Fleming ob Feby 18, 1838 aged 5? yrs

Sarah E., dau of S&R Fleming ob Jany 23, 1864 aged 3 yrs 9 mos

Samuel H.M. Son of S&R Fleming ob Feby 8, 1864 aged 1 yr 9 mos

Sarah M. dau of S&R Fleming ob Feby 15, 1857 aged 2 yrs 2 mos 13 days

32. Martha, wife of Saml R. Shannon ob Apr 24, 1843 aged 19 yrs

33. Robert Fleming, 1813 - 1877

Elizabeth, wife of R. Fleming 1814 - 1900. The word of God was her delight.

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34. John Carnahan born July 29, 1814 ob May 27, 1898

Eliza J.C., consort of John Carnahan ob May 13, 1855 aged 41 yrs 1 mo 17 days

Martha, dau of J&E.J. Carnahan ob May 11, 1848 aged 4 yrs 1 mo 14 days

Lawrence B., son of John & Nancy Carnahan Born Jany 29, 1861 ob Feby 12, 1861

Robert C. son of J&E.J. Carnahan ob Apr 21, 1863 aged 20 yrs 1 mo 18 days

Samuel K., son of J&E.J. Carnahan erected by G.A.R. ob Sept 1, 1864 aged 23 yrs 11 days

Elizabeth J., dau of J & E.J. Carnahan ob Mch 13, 1866 aged 19 yrs 6 mos 23 days

Sarah, daughter of John & Nancy Carnahan ob May 30, 1881 aged 16 yrs 5 mos 20 days

35. Sample Crawford, son of Samuel G. & Elizabeth J. McAllister Oct 24, 1863, Aug 10, 1890

Frances A., wife of Samuel G. McCallister died Jany 29, 1860 aged 35 yrs

Mary Irene and James Dale, children of James & Annie Briney

Aug 12, 1881 Aug 31, 1882

May 3, 1884 May 16, 1884

36. Henry Jack ob Jany 5, 1836 aged 78 yrs

Jane Jack ob Jany 25, 1842 aged 84 yrs

Robert Jack ob Nov 25, 1839 aged 36 yrs 3 mos 21 days

William Jack (down) born Sept 13, 1795 ob Sept 19, 1841 aged 46 yrs 6

days.

37. John Thompson ob Mch 7, 1829, aged 48 yrs

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Hector G. Thompson ob May 7, 1837 aged 26 yrs 4 mos 1 day

38. John M. Allison, my husband 1860 - 1917

39. James A. Mahan 1862 - 1914

40. Rev W.T. Brownlee 1869 - 1922

Olive C., wife of Rev W.T. Brownlee 1877 - 1917

41. Flora Mae Fredley 1889 - 1922

42. James B. Fulton born Dec 28, 1835 ob Oct 13, 1901

Nancy, his wife 1837 - 1922

43. Samuel T. Fulton (fence around this family) ob Feby 16, 1892 aged 54 yrs 8 mos 9 days

Louise, wife of Samuel T. Fulton ob Oct 13, 1895, aged 53 yrs 7 mos 8 days

Howard T., son of Harry & Anna Fulton Born Aug 28, 1896 ob Aug 3, 1899

44. James Fulton ob May 10, 1858 aged 62 yrs 11 mos 23 days

Jane, wife of James Fulton ob Sept 12, 1868 aged 74 yrs 2 mos 10 days

Sarah J. daughter of James & Jane Fulton ob Apr 15, 1846 aged 18 yrs 4 mos 2 days

45. John, son of Jesse Fulton & Margaret ob Mch 21, 1851 aged 4 yrs

Mathew, son of Jesse & Margaret Fulton ob Oct 19, 1839 aged 1 yr 4 mos

Jane, dau of Jesse & Margaret Fulton ob Dec 16, 1837 aged 3 yrs 7 mos see page 271

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46. See page 303 & under item 20 page 308. Samuel Fulton our father Born Feby 6, 1790 ob Jany 23, 1858

Nancy, wife of Samuel Fulton our mother born May 5, 1796 ob Jany 14, 1864

Sarah Fulton our sister born Aug 27, 1820 ob Aug 23, 1869

47. Agness Carnahan ob Aug 24, 1836 aged 46 yrs 11 mos 11 days

48. Martha Thompson ob May 27, 1838 aged 17 yrs 9 mos 17 days

Sarah E. Thompson ob Nov 12, 1839 aged 1 yr 4 mos

49. James McBride ob June 22, 1851 in 80th yr

50. John M. Allison 1830 - 1909

Mary A. wife of John M. Allison 1853 - 1873

Sarah J. wife of John M. Allison 1841 - 1876

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At residence of Burdell Beam & Coston A. Walters West Deer Tp, Allegheny Co Pa (P.O. Russellton Pa Aug 15, 1924 10:14 AM)

We find Mrs Walters & her mother, Mrs Fulton here with a house full of young children. Mrs Beam & the older children have gone to a picnic & the husbands are away at their work. Mrs Walters is a beautiful sandy complectioned buxom & ravishly appealing woman of fine form medium build. She, assisted by her mother, has given me the record of her own & Mrs Beam's children as entered in the table on page 305. Mrs Fulton says John Boone, son of Joseph Boone & Harriet Clendenning lives in Valencia Pa & is a blacksmith. Three of John Boone's sisters live abt Pgh, Sarah Ann Boone mar Wm Brown & lives in Ellwood City Pa. She is the oldest, Mrs F. thinks & is abt her age. Ella Boone mar West Greer abt Pgh. Lide Boone mar Brown bro of Wm, Mary Boone mar Kilpatrick. William Boone, Albert Boone. She says there are a lot of Jacks live abt Ivywood, one named William, John, Albert & Robt who died recently. His wife may have sold & left the farm & moved to Butler

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At residence of Thompson Smalley Fulton, Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa Aug 15, 1924 1:15 PM (P.O. Saxonburg Pa RD 1)

Mrs Fulton has given me the dates to complete here record entered on page 271. Mr Fulton had just left for his work & I missed seeing him. Mrs Fulton does not know abt the children of her husband's Uncle Samuel Thompson Fulton page 271 but thinks possibly Jesse Fulton who lived at Pgh & moved to Chicago & died of pneumonia & was brought to New Texas Cem for burial was one. He had no issue, but his widow survives.

Leaving 1:40 PM

While I was here, his brother, Mathew B. Fulton & family drove in & I asked him about the children of his Uncle Samuel Thompson Fulton born June 7, 1837 see page 271 & he said there were but four as follows:

1. Lizzie Halstead living at Wyandotte Mich

2. Harry Fulton, Detroit Mich

3. Jesse Fulton died 3 yrs ago without issue & his widow is at her sister Mrs Clemens at New Texas, Allegheny Co Pa

4. Jake Fulton lives or did in Homestead or Braddock. Mrs Halstead thought at Monongahela Pa & has a family. The wife of the father Samuel Thompson Finley was Louie Huey.

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At residence of James G. Halstead, Clinton Tp adjg Ivywood P.O. Saxonburg RD2 Butler Co Pa Aug 15, 1924 2:10 PM

Mr Halstead's brother, Joseph Clarence Halstead married Lizzie Fulton, daughter of Samuel Thompson Fulton who was son of Jesse, see page 271. J.C. Halstead is son of Henry H. Halstead & his wife Sarah Griffith Joseph Clarence Halstead was born in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa on Sept 13, 1872. They had three children, two living, viz:

1. Marian Elizabeth, single

2. Mildred, killed instantly in an auto accident aged abt 15

3. Harold

They live at 90 Vine St Wyandotte Mich where he is bookkeeper for the Michigan Alkali people & are expected here on a visit next week & Lizzie & Marian are now at Toronto O. Mrs H. will ask them to write me giving such records of the family as they can. We have just phoned Mrs S.C. Duncan, P.O. Saxonburg Pa RD 1 who says her mother was Nancy Ellen Fulton, dau of Jesse Fulton & she will give me their record if I write her.

Leaving 2:37 PM

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At residence of James Albert & Martha Jane Jack, Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa (P.O. Saxonburg Pa RD2) Aug 15, 1924 3:11 PM

Miss Jack says her father, Thomas Jack came over from Ireland when 10 yrs old which we figure wd make his coming 1796. Her brother, John, said they came from Co Derry with his parents & brothers & sisters. She thinks he was the oldest of the family. Her grandfather was Henry Jack & she has his old bible which is very old but the front leaves are gone so I can't get its date. It does not give the dates of his children's birth only giving his own & wife's death & that of four of his children viz:

Henry Jack died Jany 5, 1836

Jane Jack died Jany 25, 1842

Their children:

Mary Fullen died Sept 18, 1818

Robert Jack died Nov 25, 1839 aged 35 yrs

William Jack died Dec 19, 1841

Thomas Jack died Jany 8, 1875

All buried at Deer Creek except Thomas the father of Miss Jack who is buried at Middlesex Meth Ch 1 1/2 miles from here in Middlesex Tp

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John Jack & Ruth Dodds were married June 1, 1882. This is her brother. She says her father was 59 yrs old when he married Eliza Redet McCausland who was 22 yrs old & he lived with her 30 yrs until he died in 1875 aged 89 yrs & had nine children.

Her grandfather had these children:

1. Thomas, see below

2. Henry, died & buried at Blairsville, married twice & by first wife had Harry, William & a daughter. By second wife had two daughters, Nan, who married Joseph Lee Hurst & have six sons living in McKeesport & 2 daughters died and Letitia

3. Mary Fullen, dropped dead at the dinner table shortly after she was married. No issue.

4. William was a coppersmith at Chillicothe O & came back to the old farm & died of consumption when aged 46. His widow survived him many years & died in Chillicothe O. He had $40,000 on his books. His children Lucy, Fannie, Emily all died unmarried & young.

5. Nancy married Squire Duncan of Bakertown Pa. No issue. She was 10 yrs younger than Thomas & died aged 78.

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6. Robert, dropped dead of apoplexy from heart trouble aged 35 unmarried. He was the youngest.

Her father was married in Mch? or Apr 1845. Rode horseback to her, his wife's, sister's in Ohio passing through Pittsburgh about the time of the big fire. She, his wife, was born in Dec 10, 1821 & died on Feby 16, 1894. She was born in Rockingham Co Va daughter of James McCausland & his wife Eliza Redet. James McC's sister is the ancestress of Mrs John L. Robinson.

Thomas Children were all born in Middlesex Tp

1. Stillborn son born 1846

2. stillborn dau born 1848

3. Martha Jane Jack born Mch 10, 1850

4. William Henry Jack born Mch 7, 1852

5. John Franklin Jack born Mch 22, 1854

6. 7 mos child was to have been called Mathew if he had lived

7. Robert Jack born Mch 22, 1856 died last year & left two daughters & a widow. Widow & one dau living in Butler Pa. The other dau Ida May Jack married Chas Love & lives in Tarentum Pa

8. Mary Latichey (Letitia) born May 18, 1858 died aged 1 yr ob Apr 14, 1859

9. James Albert Jack born June 18, 1861 was unmarried & his sister Martha Jane unmarried lives here. The father left this farm to them.

Leaving 4:30 PM

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At residence of Wm Clarence Shepard, Middlesex Tp, Butler Co Pa (P.O. Valencia Pa RD1) Aug 15, 1924 5:15 PM

Mrs Shepard has given me from her bible the records of her immediate family all entered on page 290 & 291

Leaving 5:37 PM

At residence of Robert John Boone Valencia Allegheny Co side Pa Aug 15, 1924 Richland Tp 6:11 PM

Mr Boone is the son of Joseph Alexander Boone & his wife Harriet Clendennin. She being a daughter of Mary Fulton & her husband William Clendennin. Thinks his grandfather was dead before he was born but remembers seeing his grandmother when he was aged about ten. They were buried at Deer Creek Church but does not believe they had tombstones. She had seven daughters & no son all born in West Deer Tp & were named as follows:

1. Eliza Jane died unm aged abt 75 & is buried at Deer Creek. Don't know about marker.

2. Margaret married Alex Fulton

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her first cousin. He had a brother Robert that he knew of who lived at Irwin Pa. Margaret & Alexander lived at Irwin Pa also & had children: William, Mary & Homer.

3. Belle, married John Boone, a brother of the father of my informant, who was son of Joseph Boone & his wife Boyle. They lived in West Deer Creek Tp & are buried at Deer Creek Ch g.y. They had 2 boys & 4 girls viz: James, Humphrey, Mary, Margaret & Lide & Ella

4. Maria, mar Amos Woodward & lived in Buffalo Tp, Butler Co Pa a farmer & had 4 chil. Thinks they are buried at Sarversville Pa Their chil: Samuel, William, James & Scott.

5. Lou married Richard Newlon & lived in Westd Co Pa 5 miles below Irwin Pa. had children

6. (Nancy) married (a Snyder)

7. Harriet married Joseph Alexander Boone & had seven children.

The oldest, Sarah A. married Snyder Brown now dead & she is a widow living with her son Harry Brown on Orchard Ave, Ellwood City Pa, just across the bridge. Mr Boone has to go to his work, but has given me

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his father's bible which has the names of his first four children & dates of their birth & he has given me the other three viz:

1. Sarah A. Boone born Oct 10, 1850 2. William Wilson Boone born July 27, 1853

3. Mary Jane Boone born Feby 16, 1857

4. Robert John Boone born Aug 27, 1860

5. Eliza Boone

6. Ella Boone

7. Albert Boone

Marriages

Robert J. Boone & Julia A. Wills Dec 5, 1895

Forrest W. Sutton & Grace A. Boone Nov 25, 1920

Frank J. Boone & Margaret Sommers Nov 29, 1923

Robert John Boone, my informant, had five children, 3 living & 2 dead viz:

I. Francis Raymond Boone born Jany 27, 1897

II. Grace Adela Boone born Sept 19, 1898

III. Alice Gertrude Boone born Sept 30, 1900

IV Lila May Boone born Oct 20, 1903

V Wayne Udell Boone born July 10, 1908

grandchildren

Dale Richard Sutton born Aug 25, 1921

Dean Laverna Sutton born Mch 19, 1923

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Deaths

Joseph Boone died Nov 2nd 1898

the rather of Robert John Boone

Alice Gertrude died July 24, 1902

Lila May died Mch 29, 1907

Julia A. Wills is a daughter of Michael Wills & his wife Mary Auld & she was born in Allegheny Co Pa Mch 22, 1872

Forrest W. Sutton was born in Bruin Pa, the son of O.D. Sutton & his wife Kelley

Margaret Sommers (correct spelling) was born in Sheraden

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Westminster Presbyterian Church built 1852 & rebuilt 1911 also known as Upper Bull Creek, Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa Aug 15, 1924 12:05 PM 50. James C. Staley 1858 - 1915

51. James G. Elliott 1860 - living

Mary J. Elliott 1866 - 1919

52. Wm M. Thompson May 29, 1836 - June 19, 1915

Susann Thompson Aug 18, 1840 - Feby 22, 1921

J.H. Thompson Nov 15, 1873 - Mar 26, 1913

J.M. Thompson Oct 6, 1875 - Mar 19, 1910

Cyrus L. son of W & S Thompson ob June 24, 1885 aged 1 yr 2 mos & 24 days

Infant daughter of W & S Thompson ob Aug 9, 1877 aged 1 mo 5 days

Robert Thompson our father ob July 20, 18780 aged 88 yrs 4 mos 3 days

Mary, wife of Robert Thompson our mother ob Apr 10, 1881 aged 82 yrs 9 mos 12 days

53. John M. Anderson ob June 21, 1896 aged 42 yrs 11 mos 7 days

Francis Anderson, father ob Nov 3, 1908 aged 83 yrs 4 mos

Maria wife of Francis Anderson mother ob Feby 18, 1894 aged 65 yrs 3 mos

54. Williams Lecky, father May 10, 1813 - Nov 4, 1901

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Mary Lecky, mother June 5, 1821 - Apr 9, 1881

Mary, daughter of Wm & Mary Leckey

2 m & other children had gone [sic]

Apr 5, 1881 - Sept 9

ob Mch 9, 1870 aged 22 yrs 3 mos 20 days

[above entered as written in the notebook]

55. James Elliott ob Sept 14, 1888 aged 82 yrs 4 mos

Elizabeth, wife of James Elliott ob Oct 15, 1891 aged 90 yrs 11 mos 8 days

56. John Thompson ob Apr 3, 1853 aged 50 yrs 10 mos 7 days

Janet, wife of John Thompson ob Aug 5, 1875 aged 67 yrs of her age

Janet, dau of John & Janet Thompson ob May 5, 1843 aged 14 yrs 10 mos 20 days

David Thompson ob Oct 29, 1907 aged 65 yrs

Mary Jane, wife of David Thompson ob Oct 15, 1918 aged 68 yrs

Nancy, consort of John Thompson ob Feby 4, 1849 aged 37 yrs 2 mos 3 days

Leaving 12:46 PM

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At residence of John Jack, Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa Aug 15, 1924 2:50 PM

Found Mr Jack in the hay mow & his son, John, was on the wagon pitching the hay in the mow. They were both strong virile men. He said his father was Thomas Jack & his grandfather Henry Jack came from County Derry Ireland & settled in Middlesex Tp Butler Co Pa

Thomas had a brother Henry whose dau Ann Jack married a Hurst & lived & died at McKeesport Pa & she has 2 daughters who died & six stalwart sons living there.

John's sister, Martha Jane, named for her two grandmothers said John had five daughters all married & one (or two) son John, married & living at home with his father. Martha Jane Jack tall & very spare & with a pleasant smile was churning in the yard when I called & when I told my name, she said "Oh, you are the Mr Thompson who wrote me 3 yrs ago". When I sd she didn't answer, she said she was too busy & hardly knew where to commence, but one of John's daughters then working in a bank in Tarentum said she would answer, but she got too much occupied by beaux

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& then got married. Martha Jane said she had been attending a golden wedding where she met John L. Robinson & he gave me her address. She said the mother of Mrs John L. Robinson was a McCauslen, her first cousin & married a Jack who was not related to them. She said her father, Thomas Jack did not marry until 59 yrs old, his wife being but 22 & he lived with her 30 yrs until his death aged 89 & had nine children. He is buried at the Methodist Middlesex Church a mile & a half further on beyond her brother William's & has a big monument. Her brother William has one child. I did not have time to stop to see him.

At residence & office of Dr Samuel Forbes McComb 211 E 6th Ave Tarentum Pa Aug 15, 1924 9:35 PM

Doctor McComb is a tall man of medium build ie rather spare. He said his grandfather Geo McComb married a Marshall & there was a Marshall book published which gave a full record of the family & I asked if it took in Geo's bros & sisters. He thought it did, but I hardly think that likely. He said the book was

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for sale by a man at Rural Valley from whom he bought a copy for two or three dollars. He loaned it to his brother & he lost it. He said his brother Augustus Calvin McComb Atty at Clarion Pa & later at Pgh & who died 15 yrs ago had written out a manuscript History of the McComb family & gave it to him for his son Walter years ago & he put it in his safe in the office. He promised to look through the safe tomorrow morning & loan it to me & to be rtd with two carbon copies & I am to call for it tomorrow forenoon. He said his grandfather, Geo McComb lived at Glade Run Armstrong Co Pa one mile from Dayton Pa & had 3 sons & 10 daughters.

He says he has a cousin at Ashland O 82 yrs old viz: Samuel Hazlett Sloan a Civil War veteran, whose wife was also a Sloan & who is a Jack descendant, who is best posted about family matters of anyone he knows & who has a lot of material collected. See him. His wife is a sister of Dr McComb's mother.

Also, his brother J. Carnahan Sloan, a great big handsome man, a Republican, but elected continu-

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ously for 40 yrs to some office there in a district which is Democratic & who has written over 100 wills, all of which have stood in the courts, although one he told us about was contested. Also their sister, Mrs Frank Wick, lives there "all within a stones throw of each other" where they have all been for 40 yrs & he said he came to Tarentum 40 yrs ago. Asking about the descendants of his great Aunts Mrs McKnight & Mrs Henderson, he said there was a relative, a Dr McKnight & a good doctor at Brookville Pa, but he had died 40 yrs ago. Was also an Associate Judge Henderson there some yrs ago.

The doctor says he was born in Dayton Pa Aug 8, 1852 & when he was 1 yr old, his father, John C. McComb who was a tanner & harness maker, moved from Dayton Pa to Corsica Jefferson Co Pa & when aged 75 yrs after his wife died, he came to live with doctor until his death 10 yrs later aged 85 yrs. He says for me to see Mrs Dr Weamer on 4th Ave who has one of the Marshall books which she will show me & will tell me the name of the party in Rural Valley who is selling them. She is a 1st Cousin of the doctor, her mother being one of the

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thirteen children (one of the ten daughters) of Geo McComb

Left 10:45 PM

Cousin Carlos P. Echeverria walked up to Dr McComb's office with me & said his father married for his second wife, a young woman 30 yrs younger than his father & but a year older than himself & not getting on pleasantly, he left home & had a struggle to get a start, but finally earned one thousand dollars & then increased his savings to five, ten, twenty & to thirty five thousand dollars. Coming back to the home, 600 E. 6th Ave, where I am now writing in the dining room since 11 PM, he pointed out an old building he had bought corner of Corbett & 5th Ave for which he paid $35,000 & which he has leased to some firm for a rental of $1600 per month net or 22% the renter paying all taxes & repairs etc. It was 8:30 PM when I got in fr Valencia Pa & his wife, Jane, gave me my supper, saved from their 6 o'c meal to which her brother Jim & his wife Mildred came to have dinner or supper with me. It is now 1:36 Am & I am written up to date & I will go to bed. I wrote until 3:11 AM last night. JVT.

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At residence of Robert Plummer Morton No 714 E. 10th Ave Tarentum Pa Aug 16, 1924 9:22 AM

Mrs Morton says she does not have any of the old bibles of her parents or grandparents, but says her brother Harper Fulton Leslie, living on a farm at the edge of Ekastown [sic] abt 10 miles north west of here has the bible or bibles. She says too that her mother Sarah Jane Leslie widow of Geo G. Leslie, nee Hutchman, lives with him. Mrs Morton was:

Mary Florence Leslie born Mch 5, 1883 in West Deer Tp on the old Homestead. She was married May 27, 1914 to Robert Plummer Morton born Nov 1, 1882 in Allegheny Pa the son of Robt Clark Morton & his wife Eva McCune. They have but two children, the oldest born at Culmerville Pa & the youngest in Tarentum. They are:

1. Ruth Leslie Morton born June 5, 1915

2. Robert Glenn Morton born Apr 28, 1920

Mr Morton is a civil mining engineer & both living here. Go see her brother & mother.

Leaving 9:33 AM

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At residence of Thomas Culbertson Miller 504 E 9th Ave Tarentum Pa Aug 16, 1924 9:46 AM

Mrs Miller says her husband has just stepped out. His full name is Thomas Culbertson Miller born Mch 24, 1866 in East Deer Tp, the son of Thomas Miller born Apr 9, 1831 & died Mch 2, 1906 and his wife Hannah Maria Jack born in 1836 daughter of John Jack of Andrew. Thomas Miller was son of Ezekiel Miller. See page 282, item 3

Thomas C. Miller married Apr 14, 1891 Mary Sefton born Feby 20, 1866 in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa dau of John Bryson Sefton & his wife Martha Ferguson. Have had three children, the oldest born in Tarentum the next in Ellwood City Pa & the next at the old home in East Deer Tp. They are:

1. Arthur Pitcairn Miller born Apr 8, 1894 & died Sept 25, 1918 unmarried

2. Sefton Boyd Miller born June 1, 1897, married Jany 29, 1920 to Louise A. Stanton born Aug 20? 1899 daughter of George A? Stanton & his wife Mary Baum. Have one child. He lives at Brentwoods, Carrick Pa where he is an accountant

I. Mary Louise Miller born June 26, 1921

3. Edna Isabel Miller born Sept 25, 1902 at home unmarried but working says Mrs Staley at New Castle Pa has old bible

Leaving 10:10 AM

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At office & residence of Dr John A. Weamer No 324 3d Ave Tarentum Pa Aug 16, 1924 11 AM

Mrs Weamer has some data necessary in getting out her D.A.R. papers her number being 139260. The data states that James McComb was born near Belfast, Ireland 1758 & died in 1813 was married in 1781 to Nancy Jack who was born 1764 & died in 1833 & both are buried at Bethel Church near Jacksonville, Indiana Co Pa. James McComb was a Private in Capt Joseph Brady's Co 1st Battalion Cumb Co militia 1778 Abram Smith Colonel. see page 39 Vol 6 Penna archives 5th series. His children were:

1. James married Jane Laughlin

2. George B 1783 married Elizabeth Marshall

3. John married Margaret Calhoun

4. David married 1. Ellen Laird, married 2 Martha Rainey

5. Joseph unmarried

6. Andrew drowned when small

7. Jane married 1. Sandusky, married 2 McKnight

8. Mary married Joseph Henderson

9. Nancy married James McKee

Mrs Weamer says she got the above list from Mrs Gibson of Freeport Pa now dead, who was a daughter of one of Geo McComb's brothers & was a first

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cousin of Mrs Weamer's mother, Miss Ida Gibson teacher at Freeport & Mrs Magill & Mrs Miller daughters of Mrs Gibson all live at Freeport Pa & might have a lot of papers & the old bible of James McComb. See them.

Mrs Nancy Hood, aged 87 is a daughter of Mary & Joseph Henderson above & can give a lot of valuable information. She lives in Indiana Pa thinks Corner Maple St & Wayne Ave. Ask at the Point store. She lives upstairs in an apartment in a yellow brick house with her single daughter Gretta. Ask at Point Store

Mrs Weamer says the party selling the Marshall Family Book is O.S. Marshall Rural Valley Pa. This book was prepared by O.S. Marshall has 245 pages printed at Kittanning Pa 1884 by steam press of Reichert Bros. Mrs Weamer's mother's record is as follows: Geo McComb 2d son of James & Nancy was born Oct 1, 1783 & died Feby 17, 1859 married 1809 to Elizabeth Marshall born 1785 & died May 26, 1857 & are buried at Glade Run Armstrong Co Pa. His youngest child (of 13 chil) was Cynthia McComb born Mch 10, 1830 & died Sept 17, 1902 mar Oct 23, 1860 to Rev Barclay Shields Sloan born Apr 16, 1831 near Rural Valley, Armstrong Co & died Feby 4, 1904 & buried at Indiana Pa

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They had three children:

1. Dr James Harvey Sloan born May 9, 1862 Pittsburg Pa & died Oct 31, 1917 in Los Angeles Calif. He married Dola Arvilla Roderick of South Bend Indiana. No issue. She remarried C.H. Gehlke (pro Gelkey) & lives at No 1628 Van Ness Ave Los Angeles Calif. Dentist.

2. Barclay Shields Sloan Jr born Dec 31, 1865 & died Jany 26, 1919 at Indiana Pa. He married June 7, 1892 Emma Louisa Prothero daughter of John Prothero & wife Sara Clark. She lives, a widow at 141 RR Ave Indiana Pa. Had one daughter Cynthia Sloan born Oct 22, 1894 & was married Aug 28, 1919 to Jacob Clyde Stayer see next page, a prof in Juniata College & live at Huntingdon Pa & have one child born there, Louise Sloan Stayer born Dec 13, 1923.

Louise Emma Prothero was born at Kellysburg Indiana Co Pa

3. Grace Helen Sloan born Sept 3, 1874 at Greenville Ind Co Pa & married Nov 3, 1897 to Dr John Andrew Weamer born Sept 23, 1868 at Pharmville Ind Co Pa son of William Weamer & wife Mary E. Forrester. No issue.

Rev Barclay Shields Sloan was son of William Sloan of near Rural Valley & his wife Thomas

She says her mother's sister, Martha McComb married John Cochran of Dayton Pa & had but one child, Camden C. Cochran, who lives at Dayton Pa & could give good information.

John C. McComb of Dormont Pa son of Robert, a bro of Mrs Weamer's mother

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can give information also. He is with the PRR Co. His sister is Mrs George Kiner at Derry Pa

Leaving 11:55 AM

Jacob Clyde Stayer was born Sept 25, 1890 at Woodbury, Bedford Co Pa son of Jacob Clyde Stayer & wife Lydia Jane Brown.

At residence of Mrs Lillie Stiles Markle Steen, widow of James T. Steen, 126 N. Dithridge St, Pittsburgh Pa E.E. Aug 16, 1924 5:14 PM (Pgh time)

Mrs Steen has been talking about family matters for a half hour & I am now making a table commencing on Page 338. Mrs Steen said her grandmother had been reading the life of Francis Marion & gave him, Mrs Steen's father, the name of Marion saying she wasn't going to give him one of the old Markle names. His middle name Hubbard was from the maiden name of his mother's mother. She says her father was always immaculate in his dress, always wore a dress shirt, never a negligee, & kept his linen & clothes spotless. He would talk but little about his family & consequently gave them but little information. Her grandmother, Maria Cowan Markle Morgan was equally reticent in her talk of the family records & didn't tell them much, saying they "might think she wasn't decent if she did" (How it does come out) Her husband Uncle David Markle died

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in 1828, see his tombstone & Maria's son Marion H. Markle was born in 1832 according to his daughter Mrs Steen who I think is ignorant of the facts.

She has brought out a Steen book a very creditably prepared book of 562 pages well printed & well bound entitled:

"The Steen Family in Europe & America, A genealogical, historical, biographical record of nearly 300 yrs from the 17th to 20th century by the Rev Moses D.A. Steen D.D. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Woodbridge Calif. Cincinnati O, Montfort & Co 1900"

Mr Dickson is 6 ft 3 in tall & his father who was a Colonel in India for 20 yrs was also 6 ft 3 in.

Rev Philip Doddridge had a son who was married to a sister of the mother of James T. Steen.

Caroline McMasters married Robt E. Stewart of Braddock Pa & she now lives with her different children viz:

2. John McMasters Stewart a doctor at Munhall

1. Margaret, wife of A.C. Dinkey living in NY

3. Harry, living in Duquesne with Carnegie Steel Co

4. Leonora mar to Ed Williams living at Regent Place, Swissvale Pa

5. Caroline mar to Dr S. Harris Johnson living in an apartment on 316 Gross St Tel Fisk 2359

6 Robert died unm when a young boy

7. James, married.

Leaving 10 PM

See page 341.

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[Descendant Chart]

David Markle was the youngest son of Casper Markle by his second wife, Mary Rothermel, was born at the old home, but she don't know the date. He married Maria Cowan, who was born Apr 15, 1805 at West Newton Pa & died in Cleveland O at her daughter's Mrs Albert M. Watson in her 79th yr & is buried in the Allegheny Cemetery in the lot of her son-in-law John H. McMasters. Her oldest child was born before she was seventeen & consequently she was probably married in 1821. She married for her second husband, a man named Morgan who was a druggist in Warren O & she had by him one child, Lucy Morgan who married Albert M. Wilson, a lawyer & it was at their home that her mother died. David Markle was born Oct 21, 1795 & died Aug 16, 1828 aged 32 yrs 9 mos & 26 days see book 4 page 21 item 159.

[children]

Caroline W. Markle, B say Nov 30, 1822 died in infancy on Aug 4, 1830 aged 7 yrs 8 mos 4 days see B 4 p 20 item 155.

Leonora Markle, B Sept 22, 1824 in West Newton Pa ob Nov 7, 1912 in Braddock Pa m. Oct 12, 1843 in Warren O to John Huey McMasters, brother of Thomas McMasters & son of John McMasters & his wife Rachel Huey. He was born 1810 in Turtle Creek Pa & died 1858 in East Liberty Pa & both are buried in his lot & also her mother in the Allegheny Cem. Had 5 children all born in Pittsburgh Pa.

Caroline Markle, B July 9, 1844 m. July 2, 1868 in Turtle Creek Pa to Robert Eakin Stewart born Apr 2, 1841 in Stewart Sta now Trafford City Westnd Co Pa & died Mch 30, 1910 son of John Stewart & wife Margaret Shaw. He enlisted Aug 1862 as a private in the Civil War on Mch 15, 1865. He was Com Major in 24th Reg of U.S. troops & served until Oct 1865. He was admitted to the Allegheny Co Bar in 1903, was Dist Atty. He was Pres of Braddock Natl Bank. Had 8 children the first 3 born in Turtle Cr & the last five in Braddock Pa. He was Pres of Bank fr 1882 to 1890 see book 16 p 317 & 428.

John Huey, B July 14, 1846 ob May 8, 1906 m. July 18, 1867 to Fannie Osborne born Dec 20, 1846 & died June 10, 1896 in Braddock Pa as did he & both buried in Allegheny Cem. She dau of Rev Joseph Osborne & wife Jane McMasters. They were first cousins. Had 4 chil all born in East Liberty Pa. See book 16P 315 - 6 & 429.

Dr David Markle, See b 16 page 316 ob m.1.

Rachel Huey, B Nov 23? 1850 ob Sept 14, 1910 m. Nov 24, 1870 to Dr Wm Lightcap Hunter born Feby 8, 1844 & died Jany 8, 1907 son of James Hunter & wife Annice Lightcap. Both buried in Monongahela Cem at Braddock Pa. Had two daughters born in Turtle Creek Pa.

Leonora Markle, B May 23, 1872, m. Feby 7, 1892 to James Grant Anderson B May 26, 1865 in Pgh & died May 4, 1913 in Pgh son of Joseph N. Anderson & wife Eliza Bell. Have 3 chil. She lives at La Marquis Hotel NY but gives address on letterhead as 12 E. 31st NY. Her 3 children were born at Braddock Pa. See book 16 page 489.

Annice Gail Hunter, B Aug 12, 1881 m. June 16, 1903 in Turtle Creek to Francis Fleming Slick born Mch 30, 1875 in Johnstown Pa, son of Wm Asbury Slick & wife Laura Marshall great granddaughter of Chief Just John Marshall, tolling the Liberty Bell at his death cracked it. Have 2 chil born in Braddock. He is Genl Supt of the Edgar Thompson steel works.

John Hunter, B May 3, 1908 } Live at 809 Kirkpatrick

Martha Gail, B July 6, 1911 } Ave, Braddock Pa

Leonora Markle, B Mch 2, 1857 ob Aug 1895 never married buried in Allegheny Cem.

Florilla B. Markle, B Mch 13, 1827 ob Aug 19, 1836 aged 9 yrs 5 mos 6 days in infancy. See book 4 page 20 item 155.

Marion Hubbard Markle, Born in West Newton Pa May 20, 1832 being a posthumous child & died on Locust St Pittsburg Pa following an operation for inward cancer on Mch 4, 1897 the day McKinley was inaugurated & is buried in Homewood Cem Pgh Pa. He was the first messenger boy & was a telegrapher for 50 yrs & was Mgr of the W.U. Tel Co when he died. He was married in Pgh Pa May 23, 1854 to Mary Frances Whitmore, who was born Aug 21, 1835 in Chambersburg Pa, the daughter of Jacob Whitmore & his wife Mary Diffendeuffer. She died Nov 26, 1900 in Pgh & is buried in Homewood Cem. They had seven children of whom two died in infancy & all born in Pittsburgh Pa.

Lillie Stiles, B Mch 13, 1855 m. Nov 10, 1880 James Thompson Steen born Dec 20, 1844 at Wellsburg VA no WVA. Son of Isaiah Steen & wife Theresa M. Klein. He died in the East Liberty Pa Apr 17, 1923 where he dropped dead & is buried in Homewood Cem. Have had 4 children all born in Pgh the three oldest on Duquesne Heights & the youngest in this house. See next page 340.

Charles Whitmore, B Mch 25, 1857 m. Oct 8, 1885 to Mary Catharine Adams born Jany 30, 1867, dau of John Quincey Adams & wife Frances Laura Cuddy. Both living on Duquesne Heights. He works for the Miller Saw Co Have 2 children born in Pgh.

Claire Clifton Markle, B Aug 3, 1886 in Pgh m. Aug 20, 1913 to Cecelia McDonald Born Jany 31, 1885 in Pgh, dau of Thos McDonald & wife Bridget Dowd. Live on Duquesne Heights & has been with Bell Tel Co 21 yrs

Kathryn Estella Markle, B June 14, 1914

Frances Markle, B Mch 17, 1889 m. June 9, 1917 to Roswell Ramsey Reno, son of Samuel Reno. They live on Duquesne Heights & is paymaster for Carnegie Steel Co. He born Apr 3, 1882. His mother Margaret Rebecca Sloan.

1. & 2. Had twins born one night abt 1920 & they died next day. Linton Reno born Dec 23, 1918 Charles Reno born Dec 23, 1918 & both died Dec 24, 1918

3. Roswell Markle Reno, B Feby 25, 1923

Mary Elizabeth, B Sept 25, 1860 m. Feby 4, 1891 to John H. Hollis who was born in Allegheny Pa Sept 5, 1856 son of George Hollis & wife Elizabeth Green natives of England. He died Apr 1, 1900. Had 2 girls, living wonders, & all live together at Elmetta Apt corner Kelton & Dell Aves, Dormont Pa, children both born at Avalon Pa Bessie is paymaster for Frank & Seder & Dorothy is stenographer for Carnegie Steel Co in a room of one of the officials. Girls both single.

Bessie Markle, B Nov 25, 1891

Dorothy Markle, B Aug 24, 1894

Florilla, B Oct 28, 1862 & died 12 hrs later

Bessie Maria, B May 12, 1864 is unmarried & has been with the Western Union fr 38 yrs & is erect & would pass for 40 yrs of age or younger anywhere.

Leonora Jeannette, B July 13, 1870 m. Nov 21, 1895 to Alfred Dickson born Mch 24, 1870 in Dungannon or Belfast, Ireland, son of James Dickson & wife Mary Davidson. Have been separated for 8 yrs & she lives here with her sister. Have had 5 children, 3 living & 2 dead, all born in Pgh & none married.

Alfred Marion, B July 10, 1897. He is a fine big boy 6 ft 2 1/2 in. He is in machinist supply Co.

Amy Leonora, B Oct 28, 1900 ob May 4, 1906

Howard Alden, B Sept 27, 1904 ob Apr 17, 1921

Harry Clifton, B Dec 1, 1906

Edwin Norman, B Feby 5, 1911

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[descendant Chart]

Lillie Stiles Markle married James Thompson Steen page 339

[children]

Frank Leslie, B Nov 9, 1881 m. Mch 12, 1904 to Edith Bryan born July 10, 1884 at Port Perry Pa dau of Thos B. Bryan & wife Hannah Margaret Johnson Both living at No 3565 Beechwood Blvd. He is a Brokes [sic] Saleman's [sic] & has one child born in this house.

Dorothy Lynn, B May 19, 1905, unmarried.

James Howard, B June 18, 1883, unmarried & lives here. An architect of firm of J.T. Steen & Sons, Vandergrift Bldg Pgh Pa. It is he that I saw on Monday last 11th inst.

Marion Markle, B May 16, 1886 M. Sept 14, 1916 to Elizabeth Voight Ash, born Jany 22, 1893 Dau of John Emerson Ash & wife Effie Voight. He is an architect of firm of J.T. Steen & sons & lives on Delafield Ave Aspinwall. Have 3 children born in Pgh in the hospital.

Courtland Voight, B July 14, 1918

James Thompson, B May 30, 1920

Robert Doddridge, B June 25, 1924

Charles Fredrick Steen, B Nov 11, 1892 m. June 28, 1922 to Marguerite Ruch (pro Rook) born Sept 26, 1898, daughter of James R. Ruch & wife Annie Deer. They have one child born in Pgh Pa. They live at 345 Stratford Ave. He is salesman for the Eddy Press.

James Frederick B Oct 25, 1923 very much in evidence this afternoon.

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From Page 337

They say that their father Marion H. Markle was taken out of the University of Pgh when 13 yrs old & went to work for the Summer vacation & he proved so efficient that they would not let him leave them to go back to school. His step-father Morgan had died long before this & Maria had come to Pgh to live with her daughter Leonora. Mrs Steen says that Andrew Carnegie was the second messenger boy & then Robt Pitcairn, J.D. Laing & David McCargo. Mrs Steen says the Stiles in her name came from "Aunty Stiles" a sister of Mr Morgan, the second husband of Maria. Aunty Stiles adored Marion & was very kind to him. He, Marion was the first telegraph messenger boy in Pgh.

Leaving 10:15 PM

Mrs Steen spoke of having recd a letter from Carsonette Porter & of sending her the 1844 Uncle Joe Markle campaign history, which Carsonette later rtd by registered letter. She spoke of her father having been a posthumous child (she didn't know how much) & I told her my grandfather Thompson & also Carsonette Porter were posthumous. She said her father always wore the small neck bow tie which he hooked on & tucked the ends of the tie under the collar in variably. She said he was born in the log cabin home of his grandmother Hubbard. The boys used to call the "Grandmother Hubbard" ditty to him & he changed his middle name to "Herbert"

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At residence of Robert A. Jack 122 E. 7th Ave, Tarentum Pa, Aug 16, 1924 10:22 AM

Mrs Jack said her husband was at work at the mills & that there had been three brothers, Thomas, George, & Alexander who came from Armstrong Co Pa. She said her husband and Robert A. Jack was 42 yrs old, born say 1882 & was son of Thomas above who died 8 yrs ago aged 71 born say 1845. His widow Christina Jack aged 71 yrs now lives at Ford City Pa at present with her daughter Mrs Frank Burdette at No 631 5th Ave Ford City Pa.

Leaving 10:30 AM

I then went around the corner to 715 Ross St & saw Joseph K. Fulton aged about 83 who says his father was Rev Andrew S. Fulton who was the son of James, an early merchant of Pgh.

At Dr S.F. McComb's Auto in front of 211 E. 6th Ave, Tarentum Pa Aug 16, 1924 12:04 PM

I saw Dr McComb here again & he said he did not get time to look through his safe

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for the McComb manuscript prepared by his brother "Gus". I gave him my address & he said he would hunt it up & send it to me.

Left 12:10 PM

I then walked back to 600 E. 6th Ave, got my grip, bade Jane goodbye, went to the PRR Sta & took the 12:48 PM train which was half an hour late & got into Pittsburgh at 2:22 PM. Got room 1117 Wm Penn Hotel where I am now writing & took car No 71 on Wood St corner 5th Ave & went out to see my second cousin, Mrs James T. Steen & her sister Leonora & they gave me the records pages 336 to 341 incl. Mrs Steen & her sister were very kind & asked me to have dinner with them which I did & met Leonora's three sons & while I was there, Mrs Steen's three sons, Frank, Marion, & Fred with their wives came in & I had a pleasant visit with them. I have been asleep on this job & it is now 2:15 AM in the 17th & I will go to bed.

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At residence of Alex S. Guffey, Joseph F. Guffey & their sisters No 5050 Warwick Terrace E.E. Pittsburgh Pa Sunday Aug 17, 1924 4 PM

I reached here by taxi abt 1:15 PM & have had a fine luncheon with Messr Guffey & their sisters Ida & Paulette, all third cousins

Alex S. Guffey got out the century magazine of Sept 1908 in which on page 780 et sea is an article written by Mrs A.T. Stucliffe of 151 E. 82d St NY City who in 1922 was well up in years & about past corresponding so that a personal call would be necessary to learn about her ancestor Robert Fulton's forbears about whom she wrote.

I had them call Dr S. Harris Johnson Fisk 2359 for Mrs R.E. Stewart & they said to call Mrs Ed Williams the other daughters at Franklin 0827-J which Alex S. did & Mrs Williams reported that her mother Mrs R.E. Stewart was visiting in Phila Pa with her son & would not be back to Pittsburgh for a month.

Alex S. Guffey read a letter from an old Cook relative in Lancaster Co Pa which said that Col Edward Cook's father was James Cook & that Peyton Cook was a nephew of Col Edwd Cook & not a younger half brother as Marcus had told me. Mrs Wachob had told me of the

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great predilection of her mother for music & how as a child she would sing & sing & the Guffey relatives particularly Ida & Alex spoke of the great musical voices of the Cooks but said that John B. Cook & Wm E. Cook Crothers, grandsons of Col Edwd Cook both large men over 6 ft were great singers & particularly John B. who always sang at Rehoboth Church where Rev Loyal Young Graham was pastor for many years & who went from there to one of the large Pres congregations in Phila (Mt Olivet if I remember right). One Jno B. went to Phila to visit his son Robt J. Cook once the noted Yale stroke & later a newspaper man & going with his sons family went in & was seated unobserved by the pastor, when the hymn was announced & the singing commenced, John B. Cook joined in & Rev Graham half rising & craning his neck, looked where the voice was located & saw him & said after the service that he knew John B. Cook was there because there was not another voice equal to or like his anywhere. Alex S. has a large collection of rare & valuable old books & rare editions in his library on the second floor.

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[Descendant Chart]

James Fulton married Agnes Thompson see page 270. He was born Mch 19, 1763

[their son]

James Fulton, 6th child, see page 271 & 278 also Book 7 p 119. He was born May 17, 1795 & died May 10, 1850. He was inventor of many things, evidently having the inventive grains like his first cousin Robert Fulton 1765-1815. m. Jane Hayes born July 2, 1795 ob Sept 12, 1869 dau of John Hayes.

[children]

2. James Fulton, Born Jany 5, 1825 & died June 13, 1888 & is buried in Goshen Cemetery, Lucas Co Iowa. M.1. Nov 1, 1853 Sarah Yost born Oct 27, 1835 & died 31, 1854 daughter of Peter Yost & his wife Temperance Swim. m.2. Aug 20, 1856 Sinah Sinney born Apr 12, 1837 still living at home place in Lucas to Iowa. Had one child by first wife & eleven by second wife. The first nine children were born in Davis Co Iowa & the last three were born in Union Tp, Lucas Co Iowa. This & record below sent my by Miss Sarah Young of Humeston Iowa, granddaughter of this James noted Dec 28/24.

Sarah Jane Fulton, B Nov 18, 1854 m. Sept 26, 1878 to James K. Young born Sept 27, 181 at Portersville Pa, son of William Young & wife Sarah Graham. James Kennedy Young was a farmer & died June 7, 1920.

William Blaine, B Sept 7, 1879 m. Nov 19, 1906 to Bessie O'Connor, B Apr 1, 1883 dau of Edwd O'Connor & wife Mary Courtney. Have six children born the 1st three born near Urbana Kan & last three born in Chanute Kan.

Mary Elizabeth, B Dec 29, 1907

Margaret, B Oct 30, 1910

Sara, B June 14, 1912

James Kenneth, B May 12, 1916

Billie Blaine, B Oct 27, 1919

Helen, B Aug 31, 1921.

Sarah Ann, B Nov 6, 1880 unmarried, my good informant for this record by mail RDF 1 Humeston Iowa

Nancy Almira Fulton, B Oct 3, 1857 m. Sept 28, 1880 to Alexander Jones born May 10, 1853 in Coles Co Ills, son of Lewis Jones & wife Catherine Ornduff. Her children, nine, born all in Lucas Co Iowa on a farm on which both are living he being a farmer.

James Kary, B Oct 24, 1882 unmarried

Mary Grace, B May 10, 1884 m. Sept 9, 1911 Roy Vinton Mitchell born Apr 15, 1886 son of Alex W. Mitchell & wife Mary Ann McBeth. Have 3 chil born in Lucas Co Iowa, the first two near Derby & the last near Chariton Iowa

Maurice Alex, B Sept 20, 1912

Bernard, B Jany 31, 1914

Roscoe Wendell B Sept 25, 1921

George Washington, B Mar 25, 1886 m. Mar 3, 1916 to Belva Lee born Aug 30, 1895 dau of Thos Lee & wife Clara Garrett. No issue. He is a farmer. Both living in Lucas Co Iowa

Harry William, B Mar 25, 1888 m. Nov 1, 1920 to Ambert Pim B Nov 27, 1895 dau of William Henry Pim & wife Mary Alice Bevard. No issue. He is a farmer. Both living in Lucas Co Iowa. His name is Wm Harrison Jones.

Blanche Catherine, B Mar 19, 1890, M. Sept 26? 1915 to Walter Clarence Mitchell born May 9, 1888 & died Feby 20, 1923 son of Samuel Mitchell & wife Sarah Parkin. Have two children born in Lucas Co Iowa. She & her children live at home with her parents & she teaches school.

Marian Louise, B Mar 17, 1917

Warren Walter, B June 5, 1920

Ralph Fulton, B June 24, 1892 m. Feby 25, 1919 to Lena Morris b Mar 23, 1895 dau of Robert Morris & his wife Flora Pollard. They have one child born in Clark Co Iowa. Both living in Clark Co Iowa where he is a farmer.

Doris Kathleen, B Dec 13, 1921

Sinah, B July 5, 1894 ob Mar 12, 1895

Robert Eldon, B July 7, 1896 unmarried M. May 2, 1925 to Leota Zean Roberts born May 1, 1904, dau of James Robert & wife Ella Anderson. Robert Eldon is a farmer

John Alexander, B July 23, 1898 m. Oct 12, 1921 to Ellen Fellows born Aug 15, 1896 dau of Frank Fellows & wife Lydia Clark. They have one child born in Lucas Co, Iowa two children where he is a farmer & both are living.

Frances Louise, B Apr 25, 1922

Mary Fellows, B Feby 3, 1925

William Fulton [son of James Fulton b. 1825] B Aug 27, 1859 mar Mch 12, 1889 to Flora Powers, born Dec 11, 1864 in Genton Tp, Lucas O. dau of James Powers & wife Charity Hopkins. Have 4 children born in Lucas Co Iowa where he is a farmer & both live.

Clell Harrison Fulton, B Feby 8, 1890 m. May 23, 1920 to Nellie Champlin born Sept 27, 1887 dau of George Champlin & wife Sarah Culbertson. Have one child born in Derby, Lucas Co Iowa where both are living & he is cashier of 1st Natl Bank there.

Eleanor Jean, B Apr 27, 1921

Claire McKinley Fulton, B March 6, 1894 m. Sept 30, 1917 to Loy Henry George B May 20, 1894, son of John George & wife Sarah Dunn & have one child born in Derby Iowa. Both living with her parents, he being in ill health & is an ex mail carrier.

Virginia Louise, B Mar 27, 1920

James Powers Fulton, Born Nov 2, 1895 m. Jany 29, 1920 to Frances Parkin born Sept 30, 1897 dau of George Parkin & wife Laura Sprott. Have two children born in Lucas Co Iowa. Both living on a farm in Lucas Co Iowa, he being a farmer.

Frances Janet, B Sept 22, 1920

Wm Dean, B Sept 28, 1922

Wessie Moore Fulton, B May 25, 1899 m. Sept 4, 1919 to Glenn Connor born July 25, 1897 son of Chas Connor & wife Celia George. Have one child born in Wayne Co Iowa where he is a farmer & both are living.

Robert Keith, B Feby 4, 1922

Mary Ann Fulton, B Sept 25, 1861 ob Aug 23, 1904 m. Nov 27, 1890 to Newton McNay born Oct 6, 1860 in Wash Co Pa son of John McNay & wife Susan Jane Morford. No issue. He is a farmer now living hear Fort Worth, Texas

Eliza Ellen Fulton, B Nov 16, 1863 m. Feby 16, 1888 to Chas E. McCullough born in Green Co Pa Nov 10, 1868 son of Thomas McCullough & wife Elizabeth Webster. Have one child born in Lucas Co Iowa. Chas E. died July 19, 1919 He a farmer she lives in Chariton Iowa.

Harman F. McCullough (F an initial only) born Oct 2, 1889, m.1. Nov 25, 1913 Ethel Rachel Johnson B Sept 17, 1891 & died Apr 9, 1917 dau of Joe Johnson & wife Sophia Johnson. Had one child born in Lucas Co Iowa. M.2. Mar 30, 1919 Cassandra Jane Melvin born May 6, 1885 dau of James Melvin & Margaret Linesay, his wife. Have two children born, oldest born in Lucas Co Iowa, youngest born in Wayne Co Iowa. Both living in Wayne Co Iowa where he is a farmer, was formerly county agent.

Clarence Ellsworth, B Dec 3, 1916

Charles Melvin, B May 27, 1920

Margaret Ellen, B May 3, 1924

Frances Lillian, B Feby 15, 1866 m. Feby 13, 1891 to Calvin Brown B Feby 16, 1868 in Lucas Co Iowa, on of Geo Washington Brown & wife Sarah Jane Harris. Have had 7 children born in Lucas Co Iowa. Both living in Craig Colorado where he is a farmer.

George Fulton, B June 5, 1892 ob Sept 13, 1894

Bruce Dean, B Dec 2, 1894 ob Oct 14, 1918 in the World War at Haut Marne, France

Howard (twin) B Oct 14, 1896, ob Feby 15, 1898

Harold (twin) B Oct 14, 1896, ob Nov 14, 1896

Robt Fulton, B Dec 8, 1898

James Calvin, B June 5, 1900

Ralph Owen, B Jany 10, 1908

James Fulton, B Feby 22, 1868, unmarried

Rachel Matilda, B May 11, 1870 m. June 28, 1899 to Wm Chas Rodney born Nov 16, 1857 [best guess. not real sure about the third digit] in Berlin, Wis, son of Matthew Rodney & wife Mary Ann Leigh. Have 3 children. He died in Jany 1919 & was a plumber.

James Rodney, B June 9, 1900 born in Humeston, Iowa. Their mother lives in Carroll Iowa

John Leonard Rodney, B Jany 9, 1903 born in Humeston Iowa

Mary Rodney, B July 12, 1908 in Marilla Iowa

Robert H. Fulton, B Feby 17, 1873, unmarried.

George B. Fulton, B May 29, 1876 ob Feby 10, 1877

John Fulton (twin) B Sept 17, 1879 unmarried

Jessie Fulton (twin) B Sept 17, 1879, unmarried.

4. Sarah Jane Fulton [dau of James Fulton b. 1795] B. Dec 13, 1827 ob Apr 15, 1846 aged 18 yrs 4 mos 2 days see item 44 p 312

3. George W. Fulton, B Sept 10, 1826 ob 1899 see item 20 p 308 unmarried

8. William Fulton, B Aug 10, 1835 in Butler Co Pa ob July 14, 1924 in Washington Iowa. m. Nov 3, 1864 to Matilda Carson born in Allegheny Pa July 9, 1843. see page 178

5. Robert Fulton, B Aug 13, 1829 ob Oct 26, 1913 m. May 5, 1859 see book 13 p 78 see book 7 p 119 This book 12 p 347

6. Nancy Fulton, B Sept 30, 1831 m. ob

1. Bennington Fulton, B Aug 30, 1818 ob May 5, 1898 at Washington Iowa unmarried.

9. Eliza Fulton, B Sept 25, 1837 in Butler Co Pa ob Oct 25, 1913 m. Jany 29, 1857 to Cyrus J. Anderson see page 290

7. Mary Ann Fulton, B Oct 19, 1933 ob m. to William Cook. Both died near Washington Iowa. No issue. see book 7 p 119.

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At residence of Thomas W. Finley Redstone Tp, Fayette Co Pa Aug 18, 1924 2:40 PM

Tom's daughter Ruth Gray has given me the leaf from her grandfather Robert Finley's bible which is as follows:

Robert Finley was born Apr 4, 1809

Catherine Finley was born She died June 9, 1842

They were married Jany 23, 1833

Their children:

1. Ruth Finley was born Mch 19, 1834 & died Nov 2, 1834

2. Mary M. Finley was born Oct 25, 1835

3. Samuel Elliott Finley born May 15, 1838

4. Ebenezer Finley born Sept 6, 1841 & died Nov 1, 1842

Anne Finley was born Nov 20, 1814, married May 13, 1845.

Her children by Robt Finley:

5. William Hurford Finley was born Aug 22, 1846 & died Oct 10, 1855

6. Thomas Wilson Finley was born June 18, 1848

7. John Evans Finley was born Sept 23, 1849

8. Margaret Ann Finley was born Mch 29, 1851

9. Naomi Catherine Finley was born Feby 17, 1852

Thomas W. Finley was married Aug 28, 1884 to Jennie May Smiley born Dec 23, 1862 in Georges Tp, daughter of Samuel Smiley, who had died a month before her birth & his wife Rachel Means

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who was a sister of S. Wesley Means of Percy Pa. They had 3 children all born in this house:

1. William Custer Finley born July 14, 1885. He married 1908 to Amy Elizabeth Warfield born Jany 26, 1889 & died Dec 21, 1923, daughter of Wm Warfield & wife Luella Geldmacher. He lives at 2414 N. Broadway Los Angeles Calif but is moving soon to Glendale Calif. Has one child born in Los Angeles viz:

I. Virginia Finley born Oct 5, 1916

2. Ruther Amelia Finley born May 20, 1897 & married June 6, 1921 to Charles Morgan Gray born in German Tp June 21, 1894 son of Lewis W. Gray & wife Ida Funk. No issue. He is clerk in the National Bank of Fayette Co Pa.

3. Anna Margaret Finley born Sept 20, 1898 & married June 1, 1921 to Charles Marshall Moser born Feby 14, 1897 in German Tp son of J. Frank Moser & his wife Laura B.? Dearth & have one child born in Vassar Hospital Poughkeepsie NY

I. Marshall Finley Moser born Feby 13, 1922

Leaving 3:22 PM

When I got home last night at 10:30 PM, I found Justus Riggs of Senecaville O here & took him out this afternoon to Tom's to the old home of his great grandfather Ebenezer Finley's & then to Dunlaps Creek g.y. where he & his ex wives are buried. & then to Mrs Beal's whose mother Jane Hibbs was a half sister of Justus'' grandfather James Finley.

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At residence of Mrs Elizabeth W. Beal, New Salem Pa Aug 18, 1924 4:22 PM

Mrs Beal has brought out her bible, a big one & well preserved & published in Phila by A.J. Holman & Co in 1880 from which I copy:

Benjamin Franklin Beal of Menallen Tp and Elizabeth Wilson Hibbs of Redstone Tp were married Dec 14, 1865 at Dunlaps Creek Parsonage by Rev Samuel Wilson, witnesses Robert Hibbs & Samuel Porter.

Births

1. Violet Jane Beal born May 21, 1867

2. Edna Lizzie Beal born June 16, 1878

Benjamin F. Beal was born Jany 11, 1837

Elizabeth Hibbs was born Sept 28, 1838

Benjamin F. Beal died Nov 23, 1893

Edna E. Beal died Apr 20, 1901. She was unmarried.

Violet Jane Beal was married Oct 22, 1895 to Iden Vail son of James Vail & his wife Bute. They have three children living & two dead all born in German Tp.

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1. Elizabeth Jane Vail born Aug 4, 1897

2. Edward Hibbs Vail born May 27, 1900

3. Edna Mabel Vail born Nov 4, 1901

James Vail

(son) Vail

The last two children died

Benj F. Beal was born in Menallen Tp son of Benjamin Beal & his wife.

Elizabeth W. Hibbs was born in Redstone Tp, the daughter of John Hibbs & his wife Jane Finley who was daughter of Ebenezer Finley by his second wife Violet Lowry. She says her grandfather, Ebenezer died in the old stone house down where Thos W. Finley lives. She thinks his 4th wife died a year or so before he did. She does not remember her grandmother, but does remember her grandfather. She says her grandfather was broad shouldered & rather fleshy & heavy set, but not very tall. She says her mother had 8 children & her old bible is either at Lacy's daughter's, Mrs W.T. McClelland's or with Debbie Wheeler wife of Albert Wheeler who lives with her mother well up Morgantown St, Uniontown Pa adjoining Sallie A. Campbell.

Leaving 5 PM

Justus Riggs went with me Tuesday morning 19th to Pgh & I took him to the B&O Sta in the afternoon where he took the 1:30 PM train to Lore City O 4 miles fr Senecaville O.

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Susannah Riggs daughter of Jane Finley Riggs was born July 3, 1837 daughter of Daniel Riggs & his wife Jane Fulton Finley. James Meighen was born Nov 16, 1838 son of Peter Meighen. They were married Nov 21, 1858 see book 8 Page 377.

[children]

Mary Anne Campsadell Meighen, Born Jany 22, 1859 called "Della", my informant for this record by letter of July 27, 1924 s. env fr Mercer MO m.1. Oct 6, 1880 Jerry Carey Bartlett Larr B July 16, 1855 ob June 10, 1891. He was born at Jasonville Ind & married at Eureka Kan. m.2. Milton L. Davis on Oct 25, 1899 at Galt Mo son of Jesse B. Davis & wife Jennie Hays who was born Jany 21, 1866 in Whiteley Co Ky near

Williamsburg. Both living at Mercer MO

James Henry Larr B July 11, 1881 in Bethany Mo m. June 21, 1906 to Helena Cramer born Dec 5, 1884 at Morrison Mo dau of Justin Cramer & wife Wilhelmina Aufderhar. No issue. They live at 3940 Lafayette Ave St Louise Mo & he is a retail coal merchant at 825 S 23d ST.

John Emery Larr, B May 8, 1884 in Hale City Mo m. Nov 19, 1911 to Matilda Granneman B Nov 1, 1884 at Morrison Mo dau of Daniel S. Granneman & wife Malinda Thee. Both living. He is working in RR shops at Goodland Kan No 15906 Clark St.

Lady Elsa Larr, Born Feby 20, 1913 in Mercer Mo

Anna Laura Larr, Born in Elwood Neb Feby 23, 1886 ob June 10, 1890

James William Meighen, B Nov 12, 1861 in Guernsey Co O see book 10 p 456 & 7 & book 8 p 377

Hugh Ebbert Meighen, B Dec 16, 1865 at Athens O see books 8 p 377 & 10 p 125 & 359

Sherman Meighen (twin) B Feby 2, 1868 ob Mch 19, 1909 see book 10 pages 124 & 125

Sheridan Meighen (twin) B Feby 2, 1868 see book 8 p 377 born in Athens O. m.1. Feby 4, 1900 Florence E. Lowman born Feby 2, 1879 in Walton Ind & died Feby 6, 1906 dau of Leroy B. Lowman & wife Lidia Stephenson. m.2. Jany 31, 1909 to Mrs Susan Davis Underwood, widow of William H. Underwood & dau of Jesse B. Davis & wife Jane Hays. Both living at Mercer Mo. Susan was born in Mercer Co Mo Apr 24, 1881. Her two children born in Mercer Co MO

Two stillborn children by 1st wife

Jesse Eva, Born & died June 16, 1911 by 2d wife

Gala Margaret, by 2d wife, B Aug 11, 1916 ob Oct 28, 1916

Daniel Dewitt Meighen, B Mch 29, 1870 see book 10 p 457 & 479 ob June 22, 1924

Rio Vista Meighen, B Aug 24, 1875 see book 8 p 384 & book 10 p 456.

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Oak Hill Aug 21, 1924 8 PM

A letter of 19th inst fr Dr S.F. McComb No 211 E 6th Ave, Tarentum Pa small envelope, says the only paper he found in his safe was a newspaper clipping announcing the Golden wedding anniversary in 1904 of Carnahan M. Sloan & wife. From what he said, the Hist of the McComb family prepared by his brother Augustus is no doubt in his safe, but he has not made a thorough search. He wants the clipping returned & I am noting some dates etc.

Carnahan M. Sloan & Penniah Wilson were married Dec 5, 1854 at the home of the bride's father David Wilson at Leatherwood, Clarion Co Pa by Rev James Montgomery. They celebrated their golden wedding Dec 5, 1904 at their homestead near Limestone, Clarion Co Pa, being on land that had been taken up by his grandfather, Capt John Sloan 6 ft 2 in tall, who served 8 yrs in the Rev War & by reason of his large feet & his wonderful skill as an Indian fighter on Western Pa frontier Westmoreland & Armstrong Cos he was called "Big Moccasin" by the Indians.

At the time of the golden wedding, there were five children:

Lizzie, wife of J.K Campbell

Jennie, wife of Edward M. Walters

Love, wife of A.W. Craig

Miss Nannie Sloan at home with parents

David Wilson Sloan at home with parents & eight grandchildren

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He went to housekeeping & has ever since lived on the homestead farm where he was born Dec 13, 1828. His father, Samuel C. Sloan was born Mch 11, 1789 on his father's farm now built over by Latrobe Pa.

His mother (wife of Samuel C.) was Cynthia Jack daughter of Capt John Jack & his wife Nancy McCoy born on her father's farm near New Alexandra Pa Aug 12, 1792 & died at her home near Greenville Pa May 7, 1856. It states her father, Capt John Jack also served 8 yrs in the Rev War. Her mother Nancy McCoy Jack who lived to be 95 rode horseback when 93 yrs old from her home to visit her daughter, Mrs Sloan & rode back home alone.

Penninah Wilson Sloan was born Feby 14, 1830 on her father's farm near Leatherwood Pa, daughter of David Wilson & his wife Elizabeth Goheen. They are Presbyterians & Republicans.

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Uniontown Pa Aug 27, 1924 Room 522 2 PM

At the above hour, Mrs O.E. Hewitt of Monongahela Tp, Greene Co Pa came in with her sister, Mrs Elizan A. Black now of 106 Washington St Masontown Pa. to see about getting a payment on the note she holds of mine. I had her give me her record as follows:

She was Elizan (more properly Ellazana) Riffle daughter of William Henry Riffle & his wife Mary Jane Crago ( who was a daughter of Peter Crago & his wife Jane Flenniken & a sister of J. Flenniken Crago who married Elizabeth Brown, she buried at Canton Ills. see book 11 Apr abt 16th) who says she was born in German Tp on Dec 14, 1861 & was married Dec 24, 1908 to Charles Henry Black recently of Scottdale Pa, a son of Taylor Black who she says was born Sept 4, 1878. They were divorced May 28, 1923 (she said she would send me the date) [date added later] No issue. She said he married her for her money & while she spent money on & for him liberally & made the Scottdale home over to him which he later sold for $2600 he was not satisfied because she wouldn't turn her Thompson C'ville Coke Co bonds over to him, hence a divorce resulted. The left at 2:40 PM

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Oak Hill Aug 30, 1924 7:11 AM

This is the 102d anniversary of Father's birth. I have a letter dated June 19, 1924 from Miss Marietta D. Finley. The Altheas 614 East 32d St, Indianapolis Ind, her permanent address, daughter of the late Lieut Leighton Finley, stating that her mother, Mrs Ida Davis Finley was born in Jeffersonville Ind April 17, 1869 & died in Indianapolis Ind Sept 18, 1923. She wants a copy of the book when published & says she knows the two other branches will want it also. She must have a copy with my compliments. JVT

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At residence of Charles S. McClintock, Pittsburg St across from the P.O. Borough of South Connellsville Pa Sept 10, 1924 9:20 AM

I left home this morning on the 8 o'clock street car & on arrival at Connellsville Pa got the street car to South Connellsville & arrived here five minutes ago. Mr McC says his name is Charles Sullivan McClintock born at Rossville Allamakee Co Iowa, then a Fort, June 26, 1859 son of Robert S. McClintock & his wife Charlotte Burgers of Somerset Co Pa. He was married at Pittsburgh Pa by Rev Westfall Methodist minister E.E. Pgh Pa say in Oct 1886 to Catharine or Kate McKee Rohland (named by & for Rev McKee) dau of Geo C. Rohland & his wife Orr, who was then 18 yrs old & is now 56, born in West Newton Pa May 13, 1868, she being the youngest of ten children. See book 11 page 339. Mrs McClintock's sister Olivia, wife of Thos Means, a newspaper pressman, living in Bellevue Pittsburgh Pa could, they think, give some of the records of the family. Mrs McC said today that the leaf she tore from her father's bible has the dates of birth of all of his children & the record of the marriage of two or three of them. He says it is in his safe deposit box at Colonial Natl

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bank & that he will get it & send me a copy soon. I could not persuade either of them to go in to the bank with me today & let me copy it.

Left 10:10 AM

& taking the street car into S. Pgh St C'ville was soon:

At residence of Dr S.S. Stahl NO 416 South Pittsburgh St Connellsville Pa Sept 10, 1924 10:30 AM

I was admitted by Miss Stahl & she called her mother, Mrs S.S. Stahl nee Ella Newcomer born 1851, daughter of Jacob Newcomer & sister of Dr Geo W. Newcomer decd. She is a large handsome heavy set woman & says her Aunt Sarah Boyd wife of Thos H. Boyd see page 224 was daughter of John Newcomer, as she recalls that her brother John Chas was named for his grandfather & her Uncle John Newcomer early Pres of Yough Bank was named for his father.

She says her brother, Dr Geo W. Newcomer had his grandfather Newcomer's bible & that Geo May, atty, office in Title & Trust Co of W. Pa settled his estate & she thinks the Schells living at Ambridge Pa got his, the doctor's books. They are children of Edwin Schell who married Mrs Stahl's niece.

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She thinks her father Jacob would have gotten his father's bible. She left her old Country home in Tyrone Tp near Tyrone Church she sd 53 yrs ago & said there were some books stored in the attic the only entrance to which was through a trap door hole in the ceiling. Referring to page 207, she says Richard Boyd's wife, Maria Wade Strickler was the daughter of Stewart Strickler & her mother was a Newcomer called "Aunt Polly", a sister of Mrs Thos H. Boyd & of her father Jacob & her Uncle John. She says Mrs Springer is still living in Clinton Iowa see page 224. She was Mary Ann Boyd & Mrs S. says that after the death of her Aunt Sarah Boyd, this Mary Ann was taken by her, Mrs Stahl's mother until Thos H. Boyd married his second wife Maria McGiffen. Mrs Stahl says she knew the 2d wife Maria McGiffen. She does not know address of the children of Harriet Stevens page 224 but says to ask Mrs Springer. She said Alice Newcomer dau of Benj 2d wife of Robt L. Boyd was not of their family.

I then walked across to Isabel N. Evans & saw her & Charles both of whom looked fine. Isabel having gained 11 lbs on her 2 mos trip abroad to France, Switzerland & England. They sailed June 6, & rtd Aug 12th. She says Mrs Cochran's mother was a Boyd, her name being Sarah Boyd Cochran, but I don't think it our Boyds. Charles then drove me in the rain to:

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Residence of Miss Sallie H. Moreland 410 North Pittsburgh ST Connellsville Pa Sept 10, 1924 12:10 PM

Miss Moreland says her Uncle Geo Clark Blocher had the bible of his father Geo Clark Blocher & after he died, his widow, who was a second wife, moved to Cleveland O but before going, gave the old bible to Mrs Mary Elizabeth Lemon, wife of Dr Harry Lemon & daughter of Robt L. Boyd see page 198 & who lives at NO 857 Mt Pleasant St Greensburg Pa. Miss Moreland had to go back to school & she said to come back 4 to 5 o'clock

Left 12:30 PM I then took a street car to Trotter Pa & got off at the 2d stop, the store & almost in front of NO 141, the home of Benton Boyd at 1 PM. He had just left for his office & his wife was at the church preparing for some function. Their son, Richard Kermit, 18 yrs old drove me through the rain around to his office 3/4 of a mile & I was:

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At H.C. Frick Coke Co office of the Supt Benton Boyd, Trotter Pa Sept 10, 1924 1:15 PM

Mr Boyd is a tall man of medium build & a strong character. He gave me some data which I filled in in different colored ink on pages 207 & 206 & made note of a number of things he would get for me & write me. He said his son Donald was married Thanksgiving Day 1921 & that his wife Anna Fay Thompson was daughter of Harry A. Thompson & his wife of Bellaine [best guess] O where Donald L. now lives being in charge of the job work of the Wheeling Intelligencer.

The name of his daughter Esther L's husband is George Mosher Vail who lives in Brooklyn NY where he is with the Geo E. Merrill Pub Co see sketch in Fayette Co Hist of Stewart Strickler's wife Mary or Polly for her parentage, she being sister of John & Jacob Newcomer & of Sarah Boyd wife of Thos H. Benton says his Uncle John Boyd born 1812 see page 206 is the father of Randolph Boyd of Galva Ills with whom I corresponded & also of J. Frank Boyd who is a judge in Neligh Nebraska. Benton's brother George

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Frank Boyd made some money in Omaha & his widow having died, it goes to their daughter Lenevieve Lou who is a wonderful bright, capable young girl & Judge J. Frank Boyd is taking care of her fortune for her.

Benton & his wife visited her last year. Benton's mother was a daughter of Stewart Stickler, see above.

He says his Uncle Thomas died unmarried & further that his Uncle Randolph Boyd had but two children, sons. He don't know their address, but thinks Judge Boyd can give it or Randolph.

He says his Uncle Rice Boyd did not have any issue, but raised a boy but did not adopt him. Rice died in Colorado in a town, he thinks between Boulder & Greeley. His wife preceded him in death & Benton thinks she was daughter of Jacob Overholt by his first wife. C.C. Overholt at McKeesport Pa is a half brother, much younger.

Leaving 2:11 PM

I then walked back to Sta & took street car into C'ville & then took another to Snyder St & walked out to:

carried to page 368.

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At residence of Miss Sarah H. Moreland No 410 N. Pittsburg St Connellsville Pa Sept 10, 1924 5:11 PM

Miss Moreland says her grandfather, George Clark Blocher died in Bullskin Tp of typhoid fever aged abt 27 yrs & was buried on the farm & removed to Hill Grove Cem where his widow nee Ann Boyd who survived until she was 82 yrs old is buried. She died in Sept or Oct 1900. They had but two children both born on the farm in Bullskin Tp. The farm was known as Brotherhood farm.

1. Eliza Boyd Blocher born May 5, 1846

2. George Clark Blocher born 1848?

1. Eliza Boyd Blocher was married in Bullskin Tp Jany 1, 1872 to Daniel Rogers Moreland who was born Mch 17, 1844 in Dunbar Tp & died Sept 3, 1906. She died Dec 3, 1907, both buried in Hill Grove Cem here. He was son of John Moreland & his wife Priscilla Rogers. They had seven children all born on the farm & of whom five survive as follows:

1. George John Moreland born Jany 6, 1873 & died Aug 29, 1873

2. Anna Priscilla Moreland (born Oct 21, 1874 & died Oct 20, 1880)

Both named for their grandparents

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3. Henry Lazier Moreland born Mch 8, 1877

4. Lewis Hunter Moreland born June 29, 1879

5. Sarah Hunter Moreland born Nov 26, 1881

6. Stella Blanche Moreland born Aug 5, 1886

7. Charles Eugene Moreland born July 29, 1889

3. Henry L. was married Sept 2, 1906 to Bertha Zilliken born in Wellsburg WVA in 1884. They have but one child:

I. Daniel Rogers Moreland born Sept 2, 1907

4. Lewis H. was married Apr 10, 1924 to Mrs Rixie May Brown who had divorced her first husband George Brown & who is daughter of Robert W. Brownfield & his wife Laura Collier. They are living at 25 Maple ST Uniontown Pa. He is sale mgr for Shff Adams Central Auto Co

5. Sarah H. is unmarried & is teaching in the Connellsville Public School. Has been teaching 19 yrs

6. Stella B. is unmarried & is a registered nurse, employed by the H.C. Frick Coke Co C'ville Pa

7. Charles Eugene was married

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Dec 1918 to Nan Wright. Both living in Brownsville Pa where he is coal inspector for the Monongahela RR. No issue.

2. Geo C. Blocher was married 1st to Elsie Hickman dau of Rev Wm W. Hickman & his wife Eccles. Elsie died, see tombstone in Oak Grove Cem or learn from her sister Mrs Frank M. Bowie, N.P. Cooper or Mrs S.W. Hickman. They had four children:

I. Mary, died of diptheria abt 1880 & she & Clarence are likely buried at old Pennsoil Baptist Ch

II. Clarence died

III. William W. died

IV. Donald died

Last two buried in Oak Grove Cem at Uniontown Pa. Get record

m. 2. abt 1904 married Miss Dollie McGee from Ohio & he died in 1907 in December abt a week before Christmas.

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She has not remarried but is still living in the State of Calif.

Miss Moreland says Joseph Barnett of Joseph & Mary see page 147 died at the Wyman Hotel here & thinks was taken to Dayton O for burial. Says his son used to come here about once a year to see. This evidently is the one surviving child John Stewart Barnett. Joseph, the father was blind.

Miss M. says her relative Louise Blackstone, daughter of James Blackstone was here last night & is the wife of Wm K. Hoffman & they live at 82 High St Morgantown WVA.

Leaving 6:40 PM

MIss Moreland is going to get data & write me to fill in as many of above blanks as possible. Just as I was leaving, her sister, Stella B. came in accompanied by Mrs Chas DeMuth (he a son of late P.R. DeMuth) who I had met years ago, she being a daughter of my old friend Joseph M. Work & a very handsome black eyed woman. I walked to the street car Sta, took the 7 PM car & got home at 8 PM

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From page 363

Connellsville Hill Grove Cemetery Sept 10, 1924 3:15 PM Going in just after entrance & above lower driveway, under first maple tree is a small monument to:

1. Ada Gertrude, wife of J.M. Crouse died Feby 5, 1893 aged 21 yrs 10 mos 26 days, beloved one farewell see page 224.

Then still above the lower driveway a short distance beyond the cate cornered walk up the hill:

2. Robert Boyd July 5, 1844, July 18, 1907

Amanda B. wife of Robt L. Boyd born May 8, 1848 died Oct 12, 1881

Another grave west of his but no marker. These dates differ from those given by their dau Mae on page 198.

3. John Hoop 1847 - 1919 } see book 7

Sarah A. Hoop 1850 - } page

James C. Hoop 1873-1907 } 109

4. John W. Boyd 1859 - 1914

5. Henry B. Boyd 1847 - 1909

Elizabeth Boyd 1848 - 1910 see page 224

6. Karl Victor Shearer 1910 - 1916

Ila Meryline Shearer 1915 - 1922

&. There is a Hurst & Torrence & Rodgers monument

Torrence - Rodgers

Aaron Torrence M.D. Born Apr 18, 1802 died Aug 14, 1835

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Mary C. Torrence Born Aug 27, 1805 died Oct 20, 1840

Daniel G. Rodgers Born Apr 16, 1818 died July 21, 1848 at Vera Cruz, Mexico

Joseph R. Torrence died Apr 20, 1827 aged 7 mos 21 days

Hurst Monument

South side a verse all center eroded

North side a few letters to right left

East side Thomas a few letters to left remain

West side Hurst in Oak leaves wreath

& just above:

John T. Hurst born June 2, 1818 died Mch 4, 1867

Sallie Ann Hurst wife of J.T. Hurst died Sept 10? 1865 aged 44 yrs

Elizabeth Rogers died Dec 9, 1872 in the 88th yr of her age

8. Thomas Gibson died Feby 4, 1814 aged 91 yrs

Hannah Gibson consort of Thos Gibson died Jany 2, 1817 aged 84 yrs

Phebe Gibson ob July 24, 1809 aged 35 yrs

James L. Gibson ob May 21, 1817 aged 29 yrs

Just east of these are five others also big flat stones all Gibsons

Leaving 4:30 PM

I walked then to Mrs Kate Shearer's 302 E. Fairview Ave see pages 218 to 221, arriving at 4:33 PM & arranged to take her to Mill Run next week. Her telephone is 750-W on Tri State

Left 4:37 PM

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At residence of Harry T. Boyd Rosedale, Fayette Co Pa Sept 13, 1924 12:33 PM (P.O. Oliphant Furnace Pa)

This is the first station on the street railway before you come to Oliphant & this is a large frame house painted green. Mr Boyd see page 224 is at his work at Wynn where he is electrician & his wife a slender woman has brought out the family bible of his father, Henry Blackstone Boyd, a big well preserved book published in Phila by the Quaker City Pub Co in 1871. Their daughter, a fine intelligent girl, has also come in. Under Births, it gives: Henry B. Boyd born Apr 13, 1847

Lizzie Boyd born June 15, 1848

John N. Boyd born Sept 12, 1841, this is not doubt the brother of Henry B.

Above Henry B. Boyd's name is penciled "Died Sept 14, 1910"

& just below Lizzie Boyd's name is penciled: "Died Nov 4, 1911"

These dates are a year later than what Mrs Porter gave me on page 224 & what the tombstone record says at item 5 page 368.

Their daughter says the penciling is her father's writing & is evidently a year wrong & she will speak to him about correcting it.

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Children of Henry B. & Elizabeth Boyd

1. Gertrude Ada Boyd born Mch 9, 1871

2. Emily Blackstone Boyd born Feby 22, 1873

3. Thomas H. Boyd born June 29, 1875

4. Olive Blanch Boyd born July 6, 1877

5. Harriet Florence Boyd born July 22, 1882

Elizabeth Spencer born Oct 7, 1807. They say she remarried & is no doubt identical with Elizabeth Byers below

Deaths

Elizabeth Byers died Feby 5, 1893

Mrs Boyd's maiden name was Anna Naomi Young born in Pittsburgh Pa on Mch 30, 1877 daughter of Joseph Thomas Young & his wife Hebe [sic] Ann Lowery

Mrs & Miss Boyd say that Helen Gertrude Crouse see page 224 married Richard Rutter of Uniontown Pa & live now at Cusinsville [best guess], Clearfield Co Pa where he is in advertising & illustrating business. They have three children, Eloise, Richard Glenn & Donald Russell

Mrs Cunningham's address is Mrs Rev W.D. Cunningham 6 Nikachop, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan. Mrs Schwartwelder's address is Mrs B.M. Schwartzwelder No 711 Blackstone Ave Connellsville Pa. The boy they adopted was Harry Nicholson whose mother died of the "Flu"

Leaving 2 PM

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At H.C. Frick Coke Co, Brownfield Pa office of Supt Herbert Boyd Sept 13, 1924 3:10 PM

I walked down here from Rosedale by the County road & finding no one at home at the residence, came down here & find his office just next door to store entrance. He is a tall well built man & says his brother Charles S. Boyd at Dawson Pa has the old receipt for £50 sterling that his ancestor Wm Boyd paid the squatter for the land where he later made his home. He does not recall the name of the squatter.

Mr Boyd says the oldest tombstone in the old Boyd g.y. bears date of 1799 & is that of a female child & is over along the north side of the g.y. toward the old Boyd home & was leaning against a tree. He says his brother George Francis's second wife got up a history of the Boyds written from what Mr Boyd's father & mother told her & she wrote it down & he thinks their daughter would have it. He says his mother, who was a daughter of Stewart Strickler knew more about the Boyd family than his father did. Mr Boyd says he is 5 ft 11 1/2 inches & weighs 190. He says there was an old German bible dated 1772 but there was no record in it. He

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says there was another old bible at the old home bound in red leather about 12 inches square which he thinks was his father's but he don't know who got it. He says there was some rebuilding at the old home in 1882 & at that time, much of the old stuff in the attic including old papers were carried out. He said his youngest brother, George F. bought the old home a few years after his father's death.

Leaving 4:11 PM

Mr Boyd says he is starting in on his 33d yr with the H.C. Frick Coke Co. Says he used to weigh 240 lbs. He says his father didn't know how the old German bible came in their family. He says the old Tyrone meeting house is but 1 1/2 miles out of Dawson & the g.y. is well kept.

Benton says that his Aunt Eliza & his Uncle Thomas never used glasses & he had often seen his Uncle Thos when 80 yrs old reading the newspaper without glasses.

He says one of the sons of his Uncle Randolph was within the past ten yrs in the employ of the Government at Washington D.C.

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John McGrew was born in Adams Co Pa in 1766 or more probably in York Co Pa. His youngest son James McGrew born May 5, 1820 concluded Mch 7, 1898 in a letter written from his home in Kankakee Ills to Susan R. Blackburn at West Newton Pa that he was the son of William McGrew who moved from York Co Pa to Westmoreland Co Pa where he died. He came as a young man or boy in 1726 to York Co Pa from County Tyrone Ireland with his parents Robert & Isabella McGrew & his (page 387[7]. Eliza Boone__#4¿_#__(_(6. El

older than himself & Alexander & James, younger accompanied also with his brother John's two children Catherine & Archibald. Catherine was then 2 yrs old. Married & was buried in Friends g.y. Sewickly Tp, Westnd Co Pa Oct 26, 1828 aged 104. See McGrew Hist. John McGrew died in Montgomery Co O 5 miles south of Dayton O July 23, 1848 aged 82 yrs. At the age of 16, he went with a party say in 1782 to Ohio & Kentucky to select a place to settle. He rtd to Westnd Co & remained with his father until 1788. He married 1st in 1788 at Greensburgh Pa Mary Thompson & moved same year to near Georgetown Ky. In 1790 he joined the expedition under Genl Harmar against the Indians of the Maumee Valley & was in the bloody & disastrous battle at the "Maumee Ford" near the present site of Fort Wayne, Ind & later was engaged in forwarding supplies to the army under Capt Harrison, afterwards, Genl & President W.H. Harrison. In 1796, he moved his family to Hole Creek Valley 5 miles south of Dayton O in the Montgomery Co. His old farm in 1892 was owned by Abner Harris or was owned by him in 1848 when he died. He engaged in the War of 1812 entering the supply train for forwarding supplies to the army on the route to Fort Wayne Ind in which he continued to the end & then returned to his agricultural pursuits. Soon after his return, his wife, Mary Thompson, who was daughter of Uncle Dr Samuel Thompson of North Huntingdon Tp, Westnd Co Pa died after having borne him ten children, seven sons & three daughters as listed below. Mary Thompson was born Jany 23, 1767 & died July 29, 1816 see B 18 p 591. After a few years, he married again. He joined the Regular Baptist Church when 30 yrs old. He married 2nd May 8, 1817 Mrs Elizabeth Stebbins born Dec 30, 1782 in NJ, daughter of Jeremiah Blackford & his wife Mary Kelly & widow of Elijah Stebbins SR, who she had married Nov 19, 1799 & who died Oct 29, 1809 & to whom she bore five children, Mary, Phebe, Jeremiah, Levi & Elijah. Her two daughters, note below married two of her 2d husband's sons. She bore John McGrew two daughters & one son & she survived him. Of the 13 children, the 5 oldest were probably born near Georgetown Ky in Scott Co & the 8 youngest near Centerville Ohio in Montgomery Co.

[children]

William McGrew B March 16, 1789 ob June 1851 m. Dec 1809 in Dayton O Charlotte Chivalier ob June 1851. In 1820 moved to a farm 4 ms east of Milton, Wayne Co Indiana. Had 14 children, say 6 born in O & 8 in Indiana. Both died o cholera in Iowa while on a visit there.

Lewis T. McGrew, B Sept 9, 1810 ob 1864, m. Ann Highfield. Moved to a farm 5 m west of Muscatine Iowa where in 1892 she was living with her son Holland. Married Was U.B. minister.

Charlotte, m. Williams

Lizzie B. Williams, only child

Holland, living on farm in 1892

Viola, m. Vanetta. Live at Nortonville Kansas

Rebecca, m. Cilley Live at What Cheer Iowa

Isabell McGrew, B Oct 19, 1811 m. Charles Myers, Hamilton Co Ind

Allen Myers, m. Lives Mapleton Ind

Lewis, m., Wheeling Ind.

Amanda, m. Nutt, Carmel Ind

Charlotte, m. Nutt, Mooresburg, Ind

Naomi, m. Wise Mattsville Ind

Mary, m. Eller Mattsville Ind

Mary McGrew, B Aug 7, 1813 m. John Scott, went to Hamilton Co Ind

Anderson, B At Sheridan Ind

William, B At Sheridan Ind

George, B at Sheridan Ind

Charles, B Noblesville Ind

Malinda, m. Newby at Carmel Ind

Lucy, m. Clevinger at Windsor Ind

Meliga [sic] m. Pressnall. At Atlantic Iowa

John McGrew, B Feby 6, 1815 ob July 1889 in Muscatine Iowa in a runaway. m.1. Lydia W. Willets, m.2. Ida L. Willetts. m.3. 3d wife living in 1892.

2 chil to 1st wife d.y.

Almyra Miller,

Lydia Kerr

Arminta Vanetta

These three [above] by first wife & all living Muscatine Iowa

A dau, by 2d wife at New Boston, Ill

Charles N. McGrew, B Jany 9, 1817 ob 1877 m. Melinda Hurst.

Six children died in infancy

Miranda McGrew, m. Abner Dailey

Charles Dailey

Ida J. McGrew m. Albert Wilson & in 1892 lived with her mother on old homestead 6 ms S.E. of Milton Ind.

Rachel McGrew, B Nov 26, 1818 m. Bigger H. Scott ob 1890 settled in Knox Co Ill

A child, died prior to 1892

Charles M. Scott, At Gibson (City) Ill in 1892

Milton Scott

Elizabeth McGrew, B Nov 17, 1820 m. Dr Benj M. Witmer. Lived at Milton Ind.

2 children, dead before 1892

Elder W.W. Witmer, Pastor 1888 - 1892 at Troy NY

Dr C.M. Witmer, At Marble Hill Mo

Elnora, m. Greesby. At Milton Ind

Alpha Witmer, At Milton Ind.

Melinda McGrew, B Apr 1, 1822 ob Nov 8, 1891 m. to Jonah Festig & settled in Hamilton Co Ind 3 ms fr Carmel

5 children, dead prior to 1892

Walter R. Festig, m. Jennie Ross is an Atty at Noblesville Ind

Helen

Emma Festig

Unnamed twin, [doesn't give birth date, twin of which sibling?]

died in infancy.

Letitia McGrew, B Feby 26, 1825 m. to James Morris. Moved to Grant Co Ind where both died. No issue.

James B. McGrew, B Jany 5, 1827 m. Hulda Welliver & lived at Dublin Ind where he was P.M. 1869 to 1881 & both living 1892. He gave the above record of his father's family & evidently had his bible.

Gifford H.G. McGrew, graduated from Harvard College in 1874. Lecturer for Masons & in 1892 lived at 71 Wallace St Cambridge Mass. Married in 1874 LaDelia Chapman of NJ

Clarence A.

Ruth Esther

Mary Edith

Hannah McGrew, B Jany 4, 1829 m. to John Ewing. Lived at Wabash Ind. Had 2 children, both dead.

Lindsay McGrew, B May 20, 1831 ob June 1882. m.1. Sarah Sealock. m.2. Sarah Yell. He & both wives died of consumption.

A child, by 1st wife, died

William M., by 1st wife. m. Eliza Crull. Lived at Milton Ind.

Elmar

Dau

Dau

Ada McGrew by 2d wife m. Scott Mechenen & live at Connersville Ind

A child, by 2d wife, died

Samuel T. McGrew [son of John McGrew b. 1766] B May 24, 1790 ob July 28, 1853 near Logansport Ind. M. Aug 1, 1817 near Dayton O Mary Stebbins born in 1800 ob Jany 15, 1865 at Chatfield Minn dau of Elijah Stebbins & wife Elizabeth Blackford. see pg 376.

Archibald McGrew, B Aug 24, 1792 m. to Mary Thompson born Oct 30, 1793. See page 377

James McGrew, B Aug 7, 1794 ob Apr 27, 1804

John McGrew, B July 18, 1796 m. Phebe Stebbins born in O 180- & died & buried near Peru Neb, dau of Elijah Stebbins & Elizabeth Blackford. He died in Whitley Co Ind. see page 379 & 378

Margaret McGrew, B Nov 3, 1798 ob Dec 23, 1817

Brackin McGrew, B May 11, 1801, ob Feby 19, 1813

Mary McGrew, B July 20, 1803 ob Dec 11, 1873 m. to Barton R. Keep born Aug 20, 1797 ob Feby 7, 1877 see page 380.

Milton McGrew, B Dec 5, 1805 ob Oct 27, 1868 m. Feby 5, 1829 to Ann Russell born July 15, 1807 ob Mch 28, 1890 dau of James Russell & wife Nancy McKee see page 381

Rebecca McGrew, B July 29, 1808 m. to Edwin Corliss see page 382

Elizabeth McGrew, by 2d wife, B June 12, 1818 ob Mch 6, 1892 m. Logan Sleeper & had ten children. See page 383

James McGrew, by 2d wife B May 5? 1820, to whom we are indebted for this record. He lived in 1898 at Kankakee Ills M. Aug 3, 1841 Mary A. Binkley

See pages 384 & 385

Esther Jane McGrew by 2d wife, b March 15, 1822 m. Samuel Niebel see pages 386 & 387. She lived in 1892 at Peru, Neb.

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[Descendant Chart]

Samuel T. McGrew & Mary Stebbins see page 374

[children]

Margaret McGrew, B Feby 15, 1819 m. Jany 28, 1839 to Gilbert Watson Wall at Noblesville Ind who was born Oct 28, 1817 & died at Winslow Ark Mch 5, 1889. In Spring of 1855 moved fr near Logansport Ind to Chatfield, Fillmore Co Minn. Ter [sic] their six children born near Logansport Ind

Philander Perry, B Aug 11, 1841 m. Sept 23, 1884 at Chamberlain S.Dak to Mary McDonald

Oscar Garrett, B June 25, 1844 m. Jany 26, 1870 at Caledonia Minn Marie L. Walker. Lived at Lanesboro Minn Mch 14, 1892 sent this page of record to James at Kankakee, Ill

Hattie Lucretia, B apr 18, 1847 m. Mch 17, 1866 at Chatfield Minn Jas K. Johnson

Caroline Elizabeth, B Mch 1, 1850 m. July 28, 1874 at Chatfield Minn John Nelson Wilson

Samuel Wilkes, B Jany 21, 1852 of June 29, 1882 m. at Hokah Minn July 1876 Lillie V. Adams

William Warren, B Aug 16,1854 m. Oct 11, 1875 at McGregor Iowa Helen S. Henry.

John McGrew, B Feby 22, 1821 ob Mch 20, 1870 m. Jany 1847 near Logansport Indiana & in spring of 1855 moved to near Chatfield Minn. His wife Emily Clark ob Mch 23, 1870. Both died near Chatfield Minn.

Albert M., B 1848

Alonzo Hoyle, B Sept 1850

Anna E., B Dec 1852

Laura E., ob 1861 in the spring

Horace G., ob 1885 or 1886 killed in a RR accident

Elijah McGrew, B Nov 19, 1823 m. 1852 near Logansport Ind Clarissa Voglesong ob Chatfield Minn Feby 1890 having moved there in spring of 1855 1st 2 children born in Ind & last 3 in Minn.

Matilda M., B 1853

James W., B 1854

Samuel Thompson, B 1856

Perry, B 1861

Lizzie, B 1866 ob 1884.

Milton McGrew, B July 12, 1826 ob Apr 1826 at his home at Plum Creek Neb m. 1853 near Logansport Ind Nancy James B Apr 1, 1831 & died Jany 24, 1898. moved to Chatfield Minn 1855 see book 13 p 154.

William Perry, B July 2, 1854 in Indiana ob Apr 19, 1920 in Calif. See book 13 p 154

Mary M. Minnesota, B May 8, 1856 see book 13 p 154 & 5

Horace M., B July 2, 1858 see book 13 p 155

May, B May 21, 1861 see book 13 p 155

Charles Thompson, B Sept 5, 1867 m. Dec 27, 1891 Ruth Wallace of Neb see page 256 & book 12 p 155 [does he mean book 13?]

Elizabeth McGrew, B Dec 5, 1828 m. Jany 1847 at Logansport Ind Wm P. Louthain. Lived on old farm 2 1/2 ms fr Logansport.

Benjamin F. B Dec 28, 1847 at Logansport Ind owner & editor of the Pharos & Worlds Fair Com fr Indiana

Marilyn, B Jany 3, 1849

William N. McGrew, B Feby 2, 1831 ob Dec 1848 unmarried at his father's home near Logansport Indiana

James G. McGrew, B Dec 23, 1833 m. Apr 1867 at Chatfield Minn, Mary Ide. Their home was at Crookston Minn.

Inez McGrew, B Mch 23, 1868

George Gordon, B Dec 20, 1869

Edith, B Sept 1872

Wilberforce, B Jany 1876

Mamie, B 1880 ob Dec 1888 at their home Crookston Minn

David Perry McGrew, B Jany 4, 1837 ob Nov 1850 at the old homestead near Logansport Indiana

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[Descendant Chart]

Archibald McGrew & Mary Thompson see page 374

[children]

James McGrew, B May 20, 1814 m. & moved to Missouri suffered border raids uncompromising Republican. Died after close of Civil War & widow & 2 sons moved to Calif.

Sally Ann, B Nov 17, 1815 ob Sept 17, 1870

John McGrew, B Sept 24, 1818 ob in California

Moses T., B Oct 7, 1820 ob Mch 12, 1891 went to Chatfield Minn in 1855 To Kansas abt 1866. Last heard of was in Kansas Soldiers home. m. & had two children.

Elizabeth, B Nov 30, 1825 m. Hambert & living in Sedgwick Kansas in 1892

Mary, B Oct 2, 1827 m. Hewert, living in 1892 at Logansport Ind

Archibald, B Nov 16, 1833 ob Feby 5, 1889 to Chatfield Minn in 1855 To Kansas in 1858 unmarried & died there.

William McGrew, B Oct 4, 1837. To Chatfield Minn in 1855. In 1858 joined James in Mo. Living 1892 at Chetopa Kansas

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John McGrew & Phebe Stebbins, see page 374. They had 13 children of whom & were living in 1892 when James McGrew of Kankakee Ills made his record book.

[children]

Martha McGrew, B Mch 22, 1820

Terah S. McGrew, B Oct 28, 1821 ob March 31, 1839

Mary Jane McGrew, B Nov 18, 1823 ob June 4, 1849

Leah McGrew, B Sept 13, 1825 ob May 6, 1846

Elizabeth B. McGrew, B May 31, 1827 m. Watkins. Living 1892 at Glen Rock Neb.

Levi Stoddard, B Sept 30, 1829. AT Glen Rock Neb in 1892

Cynthia Ann, B Apr 11, 1831. At Glen Rock Neb. m. Gill

Archibald M., B Feby 6, 1833. At Live Oak Calif in 1892

John Worley, B Aug 30, 1834, At Live Oak Calif in 1892

Sarah Isabell, B June 10, 1838. m. Green. AT Peru, Neb 1892

Jason Bunyan, B June 1, 1840, At Live Oak Calif in 1892

Myram Morgan, B March 10, 1843 ob Sept 14, 1849

Phebe Almena McGrew, Born March 1, 1845 died Aug 20, 1845

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[Descendant Chart]

Mary McGrew & Barton R. Keep see page 375

[children]

Milton J., B Nov 18, 1821 ob Dec 23, 1861

Elizabeth J., B Apr 4, 1825

Leonard, B Jany 7, 1826 ob 1854 in California

Rebecca, B May 31, 1830 ob July 1851 m. Had 4 children all died in infancy.

Barton C. B Aug 4, 1834 ob Sept 7, 1890. m.

Jerry, married & has 4 children

Elerado, has 2 children

Barton

Jesse

Elmor

Elizabeth

Maud

Edna, married in Mexico

William C., B Nov 14, 1836

Perry C. McGrew, B Jany 4, 1841 ob Jany 15, 1859

Mary McGrew Keep's Grandchildren are:

Melissa J. Richardson born July 28, 1845 & died July 5, 1848

Mary E. Wolfe born Aug 19, 1855 & died Nov 15, 1860

Julia Ann born July 22, 1857

William K. born Oct 2, 1862

Bell R. born Feby 28, 1866

Mrs Julia Lowe lives in Moline Kan & has 2 children. W.R. Wolfe married & lives in Knoxville, Tenn. Bell Cline lives with me at Logansport Ind.

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[Descendant Chart]

Milton McGrew & Ann Russell see page 375.

[children]

James R. McGrew, Born Oct 27, 1827 ob Mch 28, 1880 unmarried Bur in Centerville Cem.

John Fulton McGrew, Born Aug 07 [sic] 1835 ob Jany 28, 1899 married Sept 30, 1858 to Emma C. Clary born Aug 10, 1835 at Logansport Ind & died Feby 10, 1917 at Spring Valley O, dau of Isaac Clary & wife Eliza Barnett. He lived near Waynesville, Warren Co O in 1892. He died in West Wayne Tp, Warren Co O.

Nettie E., B Nov 15, 1860 ob Sept 26, 1891 m. Henry Benton Eagle, born Dec 9, 1860 son of Orris Eagle & wife Kate Hully. He remarried Nov 27, 1895 & on Oct 21, 1926 lived at No 129 Alberta St, Dayton O where he is a carpenter. She had 4 children.

Ray Eagle (twin) B May 15, 1884 m. June 8, 1908 Kate Anaby, dau of Daniel Anaby & wife Sarah Hiatt who was born Apr 3, 1885. Have 2 chil born in Spring Valley O where they live.

Ralph, B Mch 3, 1909

Grace Elizabeth, B Feby 18, 1911

Roy (twin) B May 15, 1884, ob June 1889

Clarence, B Jany 31, 1886 m. Jany 6, 1911 Mildred Sims born July 1891 dau of Jedediah Sims & wife Nancy Fox. Have 4 chil, the 2 oldest born in Spring Valley Tp, other two in Alexandersville O where they now, 1926, live.

Helen Marie, B Apr 24, 1911

Alice Katherine, B Aug 1917

Earl Lawrence, B Apr 2, 1922

Donald Henry, B Dec 27, 1925

Nellie, B June 3, 1890 ob June 20, 1905, unmarried.

Robert C., B Nov 19, 1863 unmarried & living in Spring Valley O Oct 13, 1926

Ida May, B Dec 5, 1865 m. Albert Brown son of Miss Rebecca Ann Brown & lived at Alexandersville O. Ida May died Sept 17, 1894 & buried in old g.y. at Centerville O. He died & bur at Miamisburg O. Had 4 children.

Pearl, B Oct 14, 1890 m. Feby 23, 1911 Thomas Dillon B Jany 30, 1890 son of John Calvin Dillon & wife Sarah Plyborn. Have 3 children born in Perry Tp, Mont Co O where they are living.

Hazel Geneva, B Jany 28, 1912

Pauline Vedio, B Oct 8, 1914

Lawrence Calvin, B Sept 21, 1915

Norman, B Oct 1891 In insane asylum at Marion O

Infant

Infant

Milton Wilmer, B Feby 14, 1868 ob Mch 24, 1908 m. Mch 9, 1898 Orillia Creighton dau of Wm Creighton & wife Mary Sears. Have 3 children oldest born in Wayne Tp & other two in Spring Valley Tp.

William J., B Nov 29, 1898 ob Dec 2, 1898

Baby, B & died Sept 6, 1901

Lonnie McGrew, B June 28, 1905 single. Living 1926 on farm with his mother in Wash Tp.

John Perry, B Nov 25, 1869 unmarried & living in Spring Valley O Oct 13, 1926

Nannie, B Aug 7, 1873 ob Mch 9, 1893 unmarried Bur in old g.y. at Centerville O.

Nannie McGrew, Born Apr 16, 1843. She is living on Oct 22, 1926 in Beavertown O. married Oct 13, 1869 to James Cook born Sept 1832 & died Mch 8, 1918 son of William Cook & wife Elizabeth Nailor. Lived at the old home place near Centerville O. He was born at Sharon, Lincolnshire England. Had 3 children born on the old farm. See book 18 pages 586-593

Milton Wilmer Cook, B July 26, 1870 ob Feby 1, 1909. unmarried.

Anna Marian Cook, B Jany 23, 1872 m. Nov 7, 1889 Benj Franklin Tizzard. Born May 6, 1860 in Eaton O, son of William Tizzard & wife Amelia Hile. Live in Dayton O 15 1358 Arbor Ave.

Hazel Lenora, B Jany 7, 1892 in Dayton O. M. July 14, 1914. Harry Egbert B June 21, 1891 at Custar O, son of Wm Egbert & wife Adda Place, living with her parents & have one child born in Dayton O.

Hollis Delano, B Nov 3, 1915

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[Descendant Chart]

Rebecca McGrew & Edwin Corliss, see page 375.

[children]

Samuel Corliss, B March 11, 1837 ob Lived near Lebanon Ohio in 1892

John Corliss, B Aug 3, 1839 ob Lived near Lebanon Ohio in 1892

Mary Ann Corliss, B Sept 9, 1841 ob May 26, 1843

Catharine Corliss, B Dec 19, 1843 ob June 15, 1871 unmarried.

Asher Corliss, B Aug 24, 1847 ob March 19, 1855

The only grandchild living in 1892 was George Samuel, but I don't know whose child he was. The above completes the record of Mary Thompson McGrew's children so far as given, 7 of them, but by reason of James of 2d wife's children in the wonderful service in preserving, I am listing his own & his

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two full sister's records so far as he gave it, but will not follow up getting record of their descendants.

[Descendant Chart]

Elizabeth McGrew, by 2nd wife & Logan Sleeper see page 375. Am listing places where survivors in 1892 were living.

[children]

Sarah Jane, B Jany 30, 1837 m. Williams. Lived Johnstown Pa in 1892 & children then as stated below:

Morris L., B Feby 13, 1859 ob Feby 23, 1861

DeForest C. B Sept 2, 1860 Lived in Johnstown Pa

Nellie Jane, B July 6, 1862 lived in Johnstown Pa

Harvey Daniel, B Feby 24, 1864. Lived at Ithaca NY

Carrie Elizabeth, B Oct 16, 1869 drowned May 31, in Johnstown Flood

Harriet N., B Feby 1, 1839, ob

Susie H., B Nov 16, 1840 ob Lived St Louis MO

Caroline M. May 10, 1843 m. Browning

Robert F. B May 22, 1861

Walter S., B Feby 7, 1863 married

Laura Carrie, B July 15, 1886

Eunice R. B Aug 31, 1888

Walter S. Jr, B Oct 8, 1890

Laura A. Browning, b June 24, 1867 m. Gross.

Edith M. Gross, B Sept 13, 1888 Eunice R B June 18, 1846 m. Klepper lived St Louis MO

Logan M., B Dec 18, 1848 Lived St Louis Mo M. Janette G. ______. B Oct 15, 1847.

Curtis L. B Jany 8, 1880

Willie Milton, B Jany 25, 1882

Geo Logan, B Dec 4, 1884

Elizabeth C., B Jany 13, 1887

George W., B June 25, 1851 lived St Louis MO

Cornelia, B Dec 13, 1853

Addia E., B May 19, 1856 m. Weightman lived Council Bluffs Iowa

Robert George, B May 15, 1886

James C. Sleeper, B Sept 9, 1861 lived St Louis Mo

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[Descendant Chart]

James McGrew, born May 5, 1820, see page 375, compiler of this McGrew record, married Mary A. Binkley & had ten children living in 1892 at places listed below. She was born in Lancaster Co Pa, married at Dayton O & they moved to Kankakee Ills in 1865. She died aged 76.

[children]

Harriet M., B May 29, 1842 living in Chicago Ills. M Kenaga. Son George lives in Kankakee Ill, the next four in Chicago.

George C., married

Herman C.

Herman F., married

Walter B.

Benjamin

Harriet

Samuel

Emma, ob aged 16

Two children, died in infancy

Kate Elizabeth McGrew, B July 4, 1844 living in Chicago Ills m. Hathaway

William Hathaway, lived in Chicago 1892

Mary Emma, B July 28, 1846, ob

Loucretia C., B Sept 12, 1848, ob

Ann Eliza, B Oct 24, 1850, ob

William H. McGrew, B Feby 27, 1852. Living in Missouri unmarried in 1892

James B. McGrew, B May 12, 1854 living in Kankakee Ills married

Ethel

William

Charles E., B July 12, 1856, living in Farmer City Ills, married

Arthur, lived at Orleans Neb

Pearl, lived at Farmer City, Ills

John Frank, B Oct 24, 1858, living in Kankakee Ills

Samuel B., B March 30, 1861 living in Kankakee Ills married

Lois McGrew

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Esther Jane McGrew born Mch 15, 1822 youngest & 13th child of John McGrew see page 375 married Saml Niebel & had 13 children of whom the 6 that were living in 1892 lived at places noted under their names.

[children]

Julius C., B Oct 23, 1841

Franklin, B June 27, 1843, lived Pasadena Calif, married

Milton

Ira

Charles L., B Nov 14, 1844, lived Pasadena Calif

James H., B Feby 17, 1846

Newton H., B Sept 2, 1847

John S., B Sept 5, 1849 lived St Joseph Mo, married

Dewitt

Elizabeth J Niebel, B Mch 2, 1851. Lived in Ohio

Albert P., B Dec 26, 1853

Margaret I. B Jany 2, 1855, m Burrows

Mary E., B Dec 1, 1856

Ann A., B Dec 9, 1858 lived Peru, Neb m. Conme?

Mable

Ray

Margaret

Henry M. B Sept 4, 1860

Kate E. Niebel, B Oct 30, 1861 Lived S. Pasadena Calif

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Oak Hill Sept 18, 1924 10:46 PM

This is the 51st anniversary of the failure of Jay Cooke & Co which precipitated the panic of 1873, which lasted until the resumption of specie payments by John Sherman, Secy of the Treasury on Jany 1, 1879.

I was at the recorder's office at the Court House on Monday, the 15th inst looking up records for Miss Elizabeth Naomi Boyd, Rosedale Pa see page 224 & 370 & found that the name of her great great great grandfather was John Snider (Snyder) of Tyrone Tp, see his will book 1 p 318 & in looking it up, came across some other records which I am noting below:

Will Book 4 Page 160. Will of Catharine Long of Connellsville Tp, who left equally:

To her daughter Sarah Herbert

To her son John Long

To her son James M. Long

to her son Samuel Long

To her 3 grandchildren, Catharine Boyd, James Boyd, & Robert Boyd, 1 share. See page 198 this book

She made her son, James M. Long Exr. Dated Aug 17, 1866 Catharine (her mark) Long (seal)

Probated Nov 7, 1866.

Her husband was Robert Long, see Nelson's Big Fayette Co Hist 1900 Page 559 so that Wm Boyd wife Mary Long was a sister of James M. Long

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Will Book 1 Page 141, Will of Benjamin Stevens, yeoman of Fay Co gives: To beloved wife Elizabeth 1/2 of R.E. for life, a negro boy, Chas, a negro girl Nell etc.

To son, Harry, 5 shillings

To daughter, Sisson Dorsey £100

To granddaughter Rebecca Dorsey, sorrell mare, Sportly

to daughter Elizabeth Fisher £200 & to hold land he live on, on East side of Peairs Run, until same is paid & then sd land to fall to his son Benj Stevens Jr

To grandson Wm Cullen Stevens, one sorrel colt named Boneparth [sic] also

To son Benjamin Jr after paying above legacies & after death of self & wife, all balance of estate real, personal & mixed except household furniture which is to be divided equally between my four children.

Appoints Benj Jr Exr Dated Jany 28, 1803 Benjamin (his mark) Stevens. Witnessed by Benj Roberts, Elisha Peairs Jr, Benjamin Murphey,

Proven Mch 25, 1814 by Benj Murphey & on Mch 28, 1814 by Benj Roberts before Alexr McClean.

His wife, Elizabeth was a Murphey, see book 6 p 324

His dau, Sisson Dorsey was afterwards Sisson Gaddis see book 6 p 326

His son Harry married Nancy, dau of Elisha Peairs & his wife Elizabeth Jack see book 6 p 325 & book 4 p 257 & had 5 children.

His son Benj M. (Jr) married Sophia, dau of Elisha Peairs & wife Elizabeth Jack see book 4 p 257.

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Will Book 1 P 318

Will of Ruth Elliott, of Washington Tp (my great grandmother) Gives son James Elliott a note she holds vs her brother Edward Crawford. Gives bank stock in Monongahela Bank to daughter Charlotte & also all household goods to be hers as long as she remains single & at her death or marriage to be divided among all my children equally.

To my daughter Ruth, daughter of son James, my saddle.

Appoints my son James Exr. Dated June 26, 1830

Ruth (her II mark) Elliott. Witnesses: Wm E. Patterson, Michael Finley Proven Oct 26, 1830 before Alexr McClean

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At residence of Wm W. Shearer No 302 E. Fairview Ave, Connellsville Pa Sept 19, 1924 9:20 AM

We left town at 8:50 AM with Pallini driving & have just reached here & find Mrs D.O. Steyer of Mill Run, sister of Mrs Shearer & looking much like her in build & appearance, here on a visit. They both say now that the old Shearer bible (AT this point Mrs Shearer & her sister were ready to go with us to Mill Run Pa so we started at 10:25 AM) 10:22 Finishing at Oak Hill 6:46 PM

is not at Mrs Steyer's nor with either of Mrs Shearer's daughters there, ie at Mill Run, but that her daughter Goldy was last at the houses did the packing & Mrs S. has written her to Cheat Haven Pa to know what she did with it. Mrs S. gave me dates of marriage of several of her children that she had not given before & dates of birth of some of the in-laws & names & dates of birth of the children of Wm W. Jr, Ruth L. & Lena D. & the names of Daniel M's (& sd she wd get & send dates) see pages 220 & 221 & stalling on Hattie's & Lillian's, we started to Mill Run 392-395 incl & page 398.

Going to her daughter, Mrs Johnson's, we let Mrs Steyer out at her home & Mrs Shearer said Mrs Steyer was the oldest & she, Mrs Shearer, the youngest of 8 children & pointed out across the ravine on the hillside to the left of the capacious farm house, her father's home where they had been raised. Turning in the lane, going into her daughter, Mrs Dull's, she showed us on the right, just after we turned off the main road, a rather high frame house which she sd was the home of Geo Dull J.P. grandfather of Hattie's husband & who she sd had married her & Mr Shearer in that house. Their home was across the road, almost opposite Lillian's.

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At residence of Jesse C. Johnson Springfield Tp (Mill Run P.O.) Fayette Co Pa Sept 19, 1924 11:42 AM

Have just arrived here & Mrs Johnson has gotten out a slip of paper on which is the record of her children which I am recording on pages 220 & 221. She has given me the record of her family with her mother's help & I have entered same on pages 220 & 221.

Leaving 12:42 PM

At residence of Charles Dana Dull, Springfield Tp (Mill Run P.O.) Fayette Co Pa Sept 19, 1924 1 PM

Have just arrived here & Mrs Dull has gotten out her bible & is reading the names & births of her children therefrom & I am entering them in the record on page 221.

Mrs Dull says her Uncle, All Shearer lived about here & his widow, Rebecca Shearer lives in C'ville with her son Charles Shearer at Murphy's siding & his daughter Effa, wife of Ira Showman, also lives there & is abt moving to Pennsville & Emma, wife of Wm Whipkey & sons John & Samuel live near here. Her Uncle Joe & wife died here & their son Dan is in Pgh.

Leaving 1:39 PM

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At residence of Samuel Shearer, Springfield Tp, Fayette Co Pa (P.O. Mill Run) Sept 19, 1924 1:44 PM

Their daughter Ethel Ruth recd Mrs W.W. Shearer & myself & says her father & mother are out the road at Friends. She has gone upstairs to find the record, which she brought down written on a slip of paper & I have recorded same in a table on next page. Friends are threshing wheat, oats & buckwheat today & Mr & Mrs Shearer went to help them.

Leaving 2 PM

At residence of Ira C. Showman, Springfield Tp (Mill Run P.O.) Sept 19, 1924 2:11 PM

Mrs Showman says they are expecting to move to Pennsville Pa next week & also that her mother has her father's bible with her, where she lives at Murphy's siding, Connellsville. Mrs Showman is giving her own record, see page 395.

Leaving 2:22 PM

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[Descendant Chart]

Samuel ____ Shearer son of Albert Shearer was born Mch 5, 1886 in this Tp & was married Jany 20, 1906 to Mary Ellen Hutton, born May 9, 1887 daughter of Douglass Hutton & wife Rowena Emeline Sayers. They have had eight children, the two oldest born near Jacob's Creek on the Yough & the other six in this Tp. Mrs Whipkey says the two older children were born at Layton Sta.

[children]

Ernest Lindley, B Mch 18, 1906

Ethel Ruth, B Oct 12, 1907

William Reed, B Mch 25, 1910

Roy, B Nov 20, 1912

Randall Wilbur, B Dec 27, 1915

Cora Besse, [sic] B Apr 5, 1917

Samuel Jr, B Jany 2, 1920

Eugene Robert, B July 20, 1922 ob same day

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[Descendant Chart]

[Shearer]

Effa Gladys Shearer, was born in this Tp at Mill Run June 21, 1898 m. June 10, 1917 to Ira C. Showman born Feby 22, 1896 in this Tp, son of Albert Showman & his wife Mary Conn. Have had but two children both born in this Tp.

Archal Russell, B July 14, 1919

Lorella Mayne, B Mch 20, 1921

Emma Shearer was born in this Tp May 21, 1878 m. Oct 15, 1896 to William Whipkey born Aug 17, 1870 near Mill Run, this Tp, son of Harrison Whipkey & his wife Adaline Hall. Have had five children, the third one born at Smithton Pa & the other four in this Tp.

Harry (single) B June 3, 1897 ob Oct 19, 1918

Ida Mae, B July 18, 1899 m. Aug 23, 1915 to Stanton Hyatt born Sept 25, 1894 in Stewart Tp, son of Robert E. Hyatt & his wife Alice Hall. Has but two children born in this Tp. Mr Hyatt is a laborer & has a small home adjoining.

Elaine Meryl, B May 23, 1917

Kathlyn, B Apr 23, 1919

Unnamed son, B Jany 28, 1904 ob same day

Earl Franklin, B Feby 17, 1909

William Dean, B July 27, 1915

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[Descendant Chart]

Albert Shearer, son of Daniel Shearer & grandson of Frederick Shearer & his wife Rebecca Markle was born May 21, 1853 in Jefferson Co O & died Jany 10, 1911 in Springfield Tp, Fay Co Pa. He married Feby 25, 1875 to Rebecca White Bailey, dau of James Riley Bailey & his wife Polly White, who was born in Springfield Tp, Fay Co Pa Mch 19, 1857 & is my informant of this afternoon. Their children all born in Springfield Tp.

[children]

James Daniel Shearer, for his two grandfathers B Apr 1, 1876 m.1. Margaret Grim, dau of ______ Grim & wife Mary Ercl. M.2. Mary Ellen Harland, dau of George Harland. Has but two children both to 1st wife, both born in Springfield Tp. No issue to 2d wife. They now live at Dickerson Run & works for P&LE RR Co

Ettie, B Apr, m.

Albert, B Mch 19, m.

Emma Shearer, B May 21, 1878 see page 395 for record

John Bailey Shearer, B Sept 6, 1880 m. Anna Fullem B July 17, 1879 at Mill Run Pa dau of Samuel Fullem & wife Elizabeth Ritenour. They have five children all born in Springfield Tp, where they live near Mill Run, married Oct 9, 1904

Raymond (twin) B June 6, 1905

Marie (twin) B Jun 6, 1905 m. June 4, 1924 to Wesley Hall born Oct 11, 1901 at Bidwell Pa, son of Josiah Hall & wife Elenora Lytle

Warden, B Dec 20, 1910

Lindley, B Oct 29, 1914

Lasen, B Apr 5, 1918

Lindley Shearer, Feby 11, 1883 m. June 27, 1906 to Eva Colborn born May 9, 1884 dau of Walter Colborn & wife Sue Kern. They have 3 children living & 1 dead. They lives in Glassport Pa where he runs a confectionery store at 613 Vernart Ave.

1. Rebecca Sue, B Dec 2, 1907 at Smithton Pa

3. Leora Jane, B Mch 17, 1912 at Rowlesburg WVA

2. Dorpha Nell, B Aug 27, 1909 at West Newton ob Jany 23, 1911 at Rowlesburgh WVA

4. Winona Lynne, B Sept 13, 1916 at Glassport Pa

Samuel Shearer, B Mch 5, 1886 see page 394 for record

Harmer Dennie Shearer, named for Annie Blythe's husband B July 24, 1888 m. July 3, 1908 to Florence Prinkey born Mch 16, 1887 dau of John Henry Prinkey & wife Mary Jane Tedrow. She was born in Springfield Tp. The first two children born in Connellsville Pa & the last three in Connellsville Tp.

Howard Dennie, B Apr 18, 1909

Karl Victor, B Nov 14, 1910 ob Nov 10, 1916

Ila Meryline, B July 29, 1912 ob Apr 11, 1922

Paul Ashley, B Apr 13, 1915

Richard Eugene, B Dec 30, 1919

Charles Russell Shearer, B Aug 14, 1892 unmarried & lives here with his mother. He works for the West Penn Rwys Co at the car barns. Is a carpenter.

Effa Shearer, B June 21, 1898 see page 395 for record.

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At residence of William Whipkey, Springfield Tp (P.O. Mill Run) Fayette Co Pa Sept 19, 1924 2:36 PM

We have just arrived here & Mrs Whipkey is a daughter of Albert Shearer & says his children were in the order of their ages as follows:

James Daniel, living at Dickerson Run on RR

Emma, mar Wm Whipkey, my informant

John B., living near here

Lindley, living Glassport Pa & has a store

Samuel, living near here

Harmar Denny living Poplar Grove near C'ville

Charles, living Murphy's Siding with his mother

Effa mar Ira C. Showman from whom we have just come. Mrs W. is giving me her own record which I am entering on page 395.

Leaving 3:05 PM

We drove up to the church & turned to the left & drove to the home of John B. Shearer, who Mrs Dull said had five children, but no one was at home, which is a small frame house. We then started back at 3:33 PM & Mrs Shearer pointed out the small frame house next to the P.O. in Mill Run where W.B. Conwell & wife live, driving on back, crossed Indian Creek at the Reservoir supplying Connellsville & Greensburg, passed through Normalville, reached C'ville at 4:30 PM & left Mrs Shearer at her home & got to Uniontown at 5:20 got our dinners at St Charles & reached Oak Hill 6:30 PM having traveled 54 miles.

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Oak Hill, Sept 21, 1924 12:55 PM

In one of last week's Morning Heralds, under head of Klondike Happenings, by Jno W. Williard dated Masontown Pa Sept 16, 1924 reporting the funeral of:

Samuel Fretts

He has this to say about him:

He was buried Saturday Sept 13, 1924 from home of his daughter, Mrs A.B. Walters, Masontown Pa interment in St Jacob's Lutheran Cem, German Tp.

His grandparents, Jacob & Mary Murran [best guess] Fretts came to Fayette Co Pa in 1806 & buried on the Hoover farm near McClellandtown, he dying in 1853 & she in 1869 aged 89. Their son, John Fretts was born in 1814 & died in 1876. I knew him. He married Mary Magdalena Johnson. I knew her. Their son, Samuel Fretts was born Oct 20, 1843 & died Sept 11, 1924

He married 1st Elizabeth (or Eliza?) Jane Hostetler who died in 1878 & to them were born:

1. John J. Fretts, died aged 4 yrs

2. A. Lindsey Fretts, now of Uniontown Pa

3. Jasper Fretts now of McClellandtown Pa

4. Mrs A.B. Walters now of Masontown Pa

He married 2d in 1879, Susannah Newcomer who survives him & to her were born:

5. George Fretts, died in infancy

6. Mrs Evans Harn of McClellandtown Pa, see book 5 page 430 & also look up my conference with Matilda Hostetler at her room in the skyscraper which I have not been able to find this morning.

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Among the Death Roll notices in Pgh Chron Tel 19th inst, was that of Geo T. Lewis of Sharpsburg Pa 75 yrs old, Prest & Genl mgr of the Penn Iron & Steel Co of Creighton Pa who died of pneumonia & who is reported as of the pioneer iron family of the U.S. saying he was a grandson of George Lewis who came from Pennydarren at Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, South Wales, who at Plumsock now upper Middletown Pa in my native Tp of Menallen, Fayette Co Pa, built the first rolling mill in America as well as rolled the first bar of iron. His son, L.W. Lewis was father of Geo T. The above rolling mill was that of Jeremiah Peairs (or in which he was heavily interested) son of Elisha Peairs & his wife Elizabeth Jack.

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At residence of Dempsey B. Boyd, Merrittstown Pa, Sept 22nd, 1924 11:42 AM

Mr Boyd says he is a son of Geo W. Boyd & a grandson of James Boyd, who was a son of William Boyd & Ann Jack. He says Mrs P.S. Loucks who died at Scottdale Pa Aug 30th last, was his sister. He says his father was married twice & when he, my informant returned from the west where he was homesteading 30 yrs ago, he found the framed family record of his father's eight children among a lot of rubbish in the attic & saved it. He says his wife who teaches school, knows where it is, but he is not able to find it. He thinks he has the old bible of his grandfather, James Boyd & has gone upstairs to hunt for it. He shows me an old flap pocket book of his grandfather, James Boyd, with his name in gold letters under the flap. He also shows me a likeness of his father in a case silver outline of his form on a black back ground. He has brought down three old bibles, one printed in NY in 1818 by American Bible Society, evidently his grandfather's but there is no record in it. It is small abt 10 x 5 inches. The other two were his step-mother's, the larger one printed in Phila by Kimber & Sharpless but without date & it has the Scott record, she having been Mary

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Elizabeth Scott, born June 17, 1838 in Mt Pleasant Tp, Westmoreland Co Pa the daughter of Thomas Scott born Feby 15, 1808 in Westnd Co Pa & died July 11, 1842 & his wife Sarah Scott born Aug 22, 1807 in Uity Tp Westd Co Pa & died Aug 8, 1859. Her maiden name was Sarah Lose & she remarried after Thomas Scott's death & died as Sarah McMasters. Mr Boyd will undertake to get date of her marriage to his father, date of her death. She had three children to him, two stillborn & one, a boy, lived but a day. He has produced a 271 page History of the Galley Family published in 1908 by the Phil Printing & Pub Co which is No 173 out of an issue of 350, not to be had any more, he buying this from estate of T.E. Oglevee. Mr Boyd's mother, Martha Smith's mother was a Galley. He says Albert M. Boyd who lives in Uniontown Pa & has a Bell phone. Thinks he lives on Pegg St near the car barn, where he is a traveling salesman for a Pgh Hardware Co in which he is interested. His mother is a sister of Harry T. Detwiler & lives at Wichita Kans. Her husband, James Boyd having died abt a year ago. Mr Boyd is loaning me the Galley book which I am to return. He is also giving me information about his Uncles & Aunts & his grandfather's family which I am recording below.

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He says his grandfather, James Boyd died in the forties and is buried in upper Tyrone Tp in a private burying ground on the John Tinstman farm, then known as the Holmes farm, & he thinks she, his wife, was buried there too. She died in 1879, see page 68. This farm is now owned by Nat King or his heirs. He thinks that the James Fretts people, two miles west of Scottdale Pa on the old Fretts farm would be more likely to have the record of his grandfather's family than any other.

1. Alexander mar & lived & died on the old James Boyd homestead of over 300 A of which he bought about 100 A. Had but one child, Belle Boyd who never married. Solomon Kiester bought the farm from the widow & she had $45,000 which her second husband, John G. White of C'ville got away with. She was Fannie Tuman.

2. Mary Ann, d.y. unm buried same place

3. George Washington Boyd, father of my informant was 6 ft 2 in & weighed 240 lbs. Mr Boyd shows me a couple of framed wall liknesses of him showing a strong face. He bought 84 A of his father's farm & had 8 children by 1st wife see page 37 Galley book & 3 by second.

4. Martha married Rev John Wakefield son of Rev Samuel Wakefield & lived at Latrobe, was a Methodist preacher. Had several children, some living in Pgh see Fretts.

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5. Robert was killed on RR at Pennsville Pa, unmarried Probably buried at same place.

6. Elizabeth mar Joseph Shallenberger & lived in Pueblo, Colorado. Had 6 or 8 children, Thinks several dead, but some probably living there yet.

7. Thomas, thinks he died young unmarried.

8. Sarah, never married. Thinks buried same place, died probably in the '70s made her home with the Fretts.

9. Fanny married Abraham Fretts. Their son James & two daughters are living near together abt 2 miles west of Scottdale & can best give family records & Mr Boyd will go over with me someday soon to see them & also the Loucks.

10. Henry mar Rose Ann Miller. Both dead without issue. Fretts can give record.

11. Isabella thinks d.y. never saw her

12. Caroline mar Frank Newcomer & moved to Tennessee. Had one or two daughters. Ask Fretts.

Mr Boyd has his father's old clock at the head of the stairs & old chest that was his grandfather James Boyd's in a back room, that is over 100 yrs old. He, Dempsey B. was mgr of stone quarry for Andrew when they built the second lot of ovens at Thompson No 1 says Andrew gave him 80 men & 12 teams & told him to go to it. Mr Boyd says he will go with me to Tyrone Tp & Scottdale & pilot me around with his relatives.

Leaving 1:40 PM

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At residence of Eliza Lancaster Barnett & Ann Closey Barnett, sisters, Redstone Tp, Fayette Co Pa Sept 22, 2:20 PM

I arrived here at 2 PM & am in an upstairs room front window facing the Pike writing. Miss Eliza says her father at the time of the big fire in Pgh, had torn the record leaves out of the bible, having the names & dates on & she had kept it rolled up for years, but says in their moving, it got lost & probably burned up. They say that their father Alexander Hamilton Barnett died from being trampled on by a horse when he slipped & fell in a March, of the year following Delilah M. Thornton's birth in Oct. Think he was 43 yrs old. Ann C. says she was 11 yrs old at the time. Their mother died on Dec 15, of the year that Delilah M. Thornton, the grandmother, died earlier in the same year in the summer & was 53 yrs old. She died 10 or 12 yrs after her husband & on the S.S. Pgh & is buried in St Mary's cemetery adjg Allegheny Cem & her husband, who became a Catholic is buried there too. Thinks there are markers to both graves. They say Shff Saml W. Boyd's only daughter, Harriet Boyd Gaskell, lives at No 2014 Sarah St, S.S. wife of David Gaskell. She had but two brothers, James, married, but left no issue & Thomas who had 4 girls & 2 boys. Mrs Gaskell does not have any

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issue. They will write her for her father's family record. Eliza now says that Jim Boyd had one son. Eliza L. says she was born on Fourth Ave adjg the old bank of Pgh where her parents lived at the time of the great fire, when they lost many of their effects. Ann C. was born on Wylie Ave. Eliza says she is 7 yrs younger than Julia & that Webb C. Is 4 yrs younger than she is & Ann C. says she is 5 yrs younger than Webb C & is the youngest of the family. They say that while their Uncle Joseph Barnett page 147 died in Connellsville Pa, his son John, took his remains back to Dayton O & he was buried in the Soldiers Home there. Get record of his death there & inquire for his son, John.

They say he became blind from his service in the Civil War & drew a big pension, the biggest granted except for the loss of both arms & both feet. See Bk 19 Page 29. they say that he left each of them $300 by his will, which is recorded at Uniontown Pa.

They say Shff S.W. Boyd's brother Robert went to Louisville Ky & they will ask Mrs Gaskill to send their record.

They say that Shff Boyd had a family tree of the Boyd family & when they were in the Shffs office in Uniontown Pa, it disappeared & they think Sade [sic] Boyd who was visiting them, took it. She later married Zadok Walker, see page 225 & her daughter might have it. They say their grandmother Barnett took a bath at the old bath house down the road below Uncle Theodore's & took the pneumonia from doing so & died. Leaving 3:50 PM

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At residence of Sara J. Thornton West, Redstone Tp, Fayette Co Pa Sept 22, 1924 4 PM

This is the old Thornton home & Sallie has gone to look for her father's record which is on page 623 of the Jim Hadden 3 vol Hist of Fayette Co & from it & Webb C. Barnett's Hist on page 777 & from Sallie's memory, I have made up the record of her family on page 146.

Leaving 4:40 PM

At residence of Delilah T. Hagan No 102 N. Gallatin Ave Uniontown Pa Sept 23, 1924 5:22 PM

Delilah is giving me her record which I am entering in the table on page 146. Alonzo has come in. He has been paralyzed since Jany 1923, a year after Mrs Thornton died. Delilah says her mother was born the year of the big fire in Pgh, was a young babe when it occurred, so I have entered 1845 as the year of her birth & extended her sister's years in accordance with what they said yesterday.

Leaving 5:44 PM

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At residence of Mrs Rebecca Shearer, Murphy's Siding, Bullskin Tp (P.O. Pennsville Pa) Sept 23, 1924 2:22 PM

Mrs Shearer is a fine large matronly woman with gray hair & has gotten out their large flat bible in which an excellent record is written by A.E. Harbaugh & I have embodied the record in a table on pages 296 & 397 which gives all the births. Mrs Shearer is giving me from memory as far as she can, the record of her children's marriages & their children.

Mrs Shearer says her husband Albert shearer requested the bible from his father & got it & she cared for it for years, but that his brother, Wm W. later got it from them. Her son-in-law, Ira C. Showman who is here says he thinks it is at Goldie's at Cheat Haven Pa. Mrs Shearer says it had all the record of the Daniel Shearer family in it & that his children were:

1. Frederick

2. Jacob

3. Joseph M.

4. Stanley 5. Winfield

6. Samuel

7. Albert

8. William W.

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1. Frederick married Mary Sherbondy, dau of John W. Sherbondy & had two children viz John & Hattie, Hattie is married, twice, first to a Miller who got killed & then married again. Thinks lives in McKeesport. John was a reckless fellow & has been missing since he was a young man.

2. Jacob took typhoid fever & died aged abt 14 to 16 yrs

3. Joseph M. mar Barbara Harbaugh. Both dead. He died at Mill Run & she died later at her son, Daniel's in Pgh. Had but two children, Dan, a B&O gateman at Pgh & Ettie, who died aged 16 yrs of typhoid fever.

4. Stanley married Alice King dau of George King of Springfield Tp. He is a laborer. He went west following his mother's death & was last heard from Oklahoma. Had eight children.

5. Winfield, died aged 2 yrs

6. Samuel, fell in a tan vat when a child & was drowned down Fayette City way.

7. Albert, got his record Friday & today see pages 393-398

8. Wm W. see pages 220-221 for records gotten last month & also some gotten last Friday 19th.

Mrs S. says her mother-in-law died when Emma was 11 mos old which wd be Apr 1879 & her husband died later. He had a tannery.

Leaving 3:44 PM

Telling her of Peter & Frederick Shearer marrying Markle sisters, she says she has heard mother Shearer speak of that.

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At residence of Harmar Denny Shearer Poplar Grove (P.O. Connellsville RD2) Sept 23, 1924 4 PM, Connellsville Tp

Mrs Shearer & her husband who came in a few minutes after my arrival, have given me their family record which I have recorded on page 397. Mr S. reading the names & record of their children from their family bible. Mr Shearer is a Republican. Mr Shearer is a Deacon in the First Baptists Church & his wife & oldest son are also members of the church & Ila M. who died also was.

Leaving 4:30 PM

Mrs Shearer is a handsome woman under medium height & I should say was an excellent housekeeper & wife.

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Oak Hill, Sept 24, 1924 8:40 PM

I left home this morning on the 6:30 AM St car for Brownsville Pa where I arrived at 7:30 & took J.W. White's Auto Bus for Washington Pa. Reaching the old Dr W. Cotton home, the driver called out Elliotts & upon asking him, I learned it was now owned by Cousin Thomas Elliott, who lives there & whose record I must stop & get. Reaching Hillsboro, or Scenery Hill, a large, aged man, walking with two canes got in & sat in the seat behind me. Getting into conversation with him, I learned that he was Jacob Gayman, the old surveyor, born in West Bethlehem Tp Jany 2, 1843 near Mariana Pa to whom I was referred by David Wilson Myers of Washington Pa for information of the Jenkins & I have a slip made to see him. He said he has lived in Scenery Hill 49 yrs & knew three Jenkins, sisters & their two brothers, none of whom were married except James. Their names were Rebecca, Sarah & Lavina, Harvey & James

1. Harvey died there 48 yrs ago & thinks is buried there

2. "Becky" born in 1814 died there 1899 & is buried there

3. Sarah died there before "Becky" & he thinks was well up in years

4. Lavina died well up in years before Either of her sisters, "Becky" being the last to die. Lavina had a natural son Harrison Jenkins by a man named Howden.

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Harrison moved to Charleroi Pa & died there 2 yrs ago well up in the seventies & was brought to Scenery Hill for burial where the others are all buried in the graveyard there which is on the south side of the pike on the highest point, back of the Lutheran Church. Harrison left a son Frank a drummer who he thinks lives in Charleroi Pa and also a daughter who married Joseph Hill, a son of old Squire Hill & lived in Beallsville Pa where Joseph was a J.P. himself for many years. Both are dead, but left one son, Manson Hill living probably in Charleroi Pa

5. James Jenkins, the other brother was in the Civil War & died of disease while in the service. He belonged to the Ringgold Cavalry & the Co he was in was recruited by Capt A.J. Barn as the Ringgold Battalion.

He married Eliza Stickel a native of Greene Co Pa who went back to Greene Co to live & he thought in Morgan Tp. She had to Jenkins, two or three children, two sons & a daughter, he thought. One boy was William & he has forgotten the name of the other. Is not sure abt a daughter, but thinks there was one. He thinks the widow died in Greene Co Pa. At 9:11 AM, reached Washington Pa & bade him goodbye having had a half hours talk with him. I then walked down Chestnut St & was see page 453 & 454.

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At residence of Mrs B.C. McGrew 325 W. Chestnut St, Washington Pa Sept 24, 1924 9:33 AM (Minnie B. McGrew)

Mrs McGrew is a heavy set woman of under average height, but was very kindly & accommodating. I returned to her the book of John McGrew's family & descendants, together with a carbon copy of its contents, which was loaned me Aug 11, 1924 at Oakland Pgh Pa by Miss L.C. McGrew see page 260. She confirmed the line of descent of John, who married Mary Thompson as son of William of John of Robert & Isabella as given me by letter from Saml McGrew of Delroy, Florida see page 387. When I told her that he had sd William's wife was Mary Bracken, she said her husband B.C. had penciled in their records that Wm's wife was Esther, but she says he was not certain whether that was her name & didn't feel sure enough to write it in the record in ink. Minnie B. said her sister-in-law, Miss L.C. McGrew of Oakland Pgh was not well enough to attend the recent McGrew reunion a month ago & evidently then Chas T. McGrew & wife from Calif see pages 255 to 258 did not get my spec. del. letter of Aug 11, inviting them to come & see them. Mrs McGrew said they had not recd a letter she had written them & evidently they had left

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before receiving my letter.

They went from the reunion to WVA or VA to put their daughter in school. Mrs McGrew said she had much data of the later descendants of John & Mary T. & wd write me giving data. She said the forepart of the History of John McGrew & Mary Thompson giving the early McGrew records & descent was written to & for James McGrew of Kankakee Ills by her husband's grandfather, Samuel McGrew. She gave her husband's descent as follows: generations back:

Butler Case McGrew, son of

Archibald B. (B is only an initial) McGrew, son of

Samuel McGrew, son of Jas Finley McGrew, son of Robert & Isabella McGrew.

I asked her how the name Finley came in the family & she didn't know & didn't know Isabella's maiden name, but sd that Robert & her came from Co Tyrone, North of Ireland.

Left 9:55 AM

I then took a street car to Main St & walked up to 186 N. Main St & found Thos W. Hanna in his grocery store. He drove me around in his wagon to the:

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Residence of Mrs Margaret Hunter Hanna, (his mother's) No 237 E. Hallam St Washington Pa Sept 234, 1924 10:30 AM

Mrs Hunter is a fine woman of gray hair & says she was born July 7, 1853 in South Huntingdon Tp, Westd Co Pa. See my record Book 8 p 303 & the Oliver-McDowell book or small pamphlet of Frank Cowan 1895 page 11 where is noted her marriage on Feby 8, 1872 to Thomas Hanna, who was born May 29, 1846 in South Huntingdon Tp, Westd Co Pa & died Aug 13, 1914 in Greensburg Pa, but is buried in the West Newton Cem. He was son of Henry Trout Hanna & his wife Mary Steel (Mary was daughter of John Steele & Henry T. was son of Thomas Hanna) [variations in Steel/Steele spelling noted]. They had five children, the oldest born in South Huntingdon Tp, the next three in Pleasant Unity & the fifth & youngest in Greensburg Pa viz:

1. Mary Alice Hanna born Aug 18, 1874

2. Henry Hunter Hanna born June 7, 1879

3. Margaret Lillian Hanna born Jany 13, 1883 4. John Steel Hanna born Mch 27, 1886

5. Thomas Weimer Hanna born Aug 26, 1890

1. Mary Alice is unmarried & living in Youngstown O where she is a stenographer & office girl.

2. Henry H. married Aug 14, 1922 Emma Nancy Peacock born Dec 1888 out by McDonald or Hickory Pa near Cross Roads Church, daughter of Robert Peacock & wife Ellen Jane Miller. They now live

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at 3240 Brownsville Road, Brentwood, Pgh Pa on the Brownsville Road S.S. near the Country Club. No issue.

3. Margaret L. married Mch 25, 1915 to Henry McElroy Wilson born July 17, 1883 at Waynesboro Pa & died May 5, 1924 at Alliance O, but buried in West Newton Cem, son of Major Selden Wilson & his wife Mary McElroy. No issue. She is teaching in Sewickley, Allegheny Co Pa P.O. Box 197.

4. John S. was married June 9, 1914 to Tressa Shook who was born in Pgh Pa the latter part of June 19, 1894 & both are living at No 324 Hammond St P.O. Corliss Sta Pittsburgh Pa. He has the Henry T. Hanna bible with record. He is in the mail service. She is daughter of Henry J. Shook & his wife Elizabeth Born [sic] & they think Tressa was born about Pittsburgh. Have two children, the oldest born at her father's home in Pittsburgh Pa viz:

I. Henry Thomas Hanna born Mch 19, 1915

II. John Steel Hanna Jr born Aug 20, 1919 at Brentwood Pgh Pa

John S. Hanna was born Mch 27, 1886

5. Thomas Weimer (his name is wrong in the pamphlet) was married Jany 13, 1916 to Matilda Ross Scott born at Vanceville, Washington Co Pa Feby 25, 1889 daughter of Joseph Losiah Scott & wife Matilda Ross. Both are living here. No issue. He runs the grocery store at No 186 N. Main St. Mrs Hanna Senr says they moved here from Greensburgh Pa in 1900 & her husband bought & conducted the grocery store until

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his death & his youngest son Thomas succeeded him.

He was a member of the Third Pres Ch here & was a Republican.

Mrs Hanna's older sister, Mary Jane Sloan died 3 yrs ago last Dec & her husband is also dead. They had but one child, Edgar who she thinks is living at Youngstown O selling goods for Orriksbank Co.

She says Mrs Laura Belle, half sister of his father, living on Alwine Ave, Greensburg Pa can give his address & perhaps record.

Her twin sister, Lucetta, married J. Frank Hough who is dead & she lives at 1616 Hilger Ave Detroit Mich & has three daughters, all married & all living there in Detroit Mich.

Grace has two children

Jennie has three children

Lavina has one child. She married a Brandt & her address is: Mrs Lavina Brandt 1616 Hilger Ave, Detroit Mich. She says to write to her.

Her youngest sister, Emina Florence Bell died in less than a year after her marriage when her child was born or rather children as she had twins, one a dead born girl & a son Charles Hunter Bell who when last heard from was working for Sears Roebuck & Co but hasn't been heard from for a long time.

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Mrs Hanna is loaning me the Frank Cowan 1895 pamphlet of the Oliver-MacDowell family & the record of the Thomas Hanna family by his son Henry T. Hanna which I am to return.

Her grandmother, Mary Waltz who married Archibald Boyd, had a sister Esther Waltz who married Michael Myers & their daughter Hettie (Esther) married Joseph Null out by Ruffsdale & Frank M. Null was their son, one of a large family of children. Says Mrs Null often visited them & called her grandmother Aunt Mary. Says her grandmother died when she was 10 yrs old, say 1863.

She says John Nicholls youngest brother of Arch B. (who was the oldest & last to die) see book 8 p 303 always wrote down all he would learn or hear of the family & his widow who was Lidie Bamford from about Madison lives now at the Highberger or Leah Robb home with her daughter Lizzie, who mar Lee Painter of the M&F Bank, West Newton Pa. See her for records John gathered. John died abt 4 yrs ago last Apr. Sallie Bennett also called her grandparents Uncle Arch & Aunt Mary. Thinks she was daughter of Joseph & Polly Hough & sister of old Daniel who lived out above Port Royal.

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Her husband's name was David Bennett & he had son Joseph. Thinks were grandparents of Mrs Will L. Scholl & of S. Florence Hunter who she says is now very sick. see book 8 p 303.

Leaving 11:25 AM

See below for H.T. Hanna's bible record.

I then walked over to the College & was at Trustees meeting 11:30 Am to 12:30 PM & met Pres S.S. Baker & 15 trustees & left on 12:40 PM street car of Pgh where I arrived at 2:30 - 3:30 PM Pgh time, went to W.H. Clingerman's office & found he was not in the city today, then went & saw J.C. Boyer, Park Bldg, Saml McClay & W.A. Seifert, Union Trust Bldg & also met Wm Gates there & then to A. Leo Weil's office, Frick Bldg & saw the White marble bust of Henry Clay Frick in the rotunda & got the 4:45 B&O train home.

H.T. Hanna's bible record now in hands of his son John S. Hanna 324 Hammond St Corliss Pa:

Marriages

Henry Trout Hanna & Mary Jane Steel were married Oct 17, 1844

Thomas Hanna & Margaret Hunter were married Feby 8, 1872

Josie M. Hanna & F.M. Williams were married Mch 17, 1886

Births

Henry Trout Hanna was born Aug 12, 1818

Mary Jane Hanna (Steel) was born Sept 28, 1826

Their children:

1. Thomas Hanna was born May 29, 1846

2. Martha Elizabeth Hanna was born May 11, 1848

3. Esther Lucetta Hanna was born May 5, 1850

4. Mary Hanna was born date not given

5. Josie Margaret Hanna was born Feby 12, 1857

Deaths

Esther Lucetta Hanna died Dec 8, 1880

Henry Trout Hanna died Mch 30, 1908

Mary Jane Hanna died Apr 24, 1908

Thomas Hanna died Aug 13, 1914

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[Descendant Chart]

James Boyd, son of William Boyd & his wife Ann Jack was born Jany 7, 1792 in Towne Tp & is buried in Upper Tyrone Tp on the John Tinstman now the Nat King heirs farm. He married Nov 9, 1815 Fannie Long who was born May 1st 1799 & died Aug 28, 1879 in Upper Tyrone Tp, daughter of Alexander Long & his wife Mary Strickler & is buried on the John Tinstman, now the Nat King heirs farm. They had 12 children see page 68.

[children]

Alexander Boyd, m. Fannie Tuman.

Mary Ann Boyd, buried in upper Tyrone Tp

George Washington Boyd, Born May 30, 1821 in Tyrone Tp, died Dec 20, 1895 in Mt Pleasant Pa m.1. Martha Smith on Feby 18, 1846 daughter of Jacob Smith & his wife Catherine Galley. She was born Feby 14, 1824 in Connellsville Tp & died Sept 9, 1865 in Tyrone Tp. They had 8 children. m.2. June 27, 1866 Mary Elizabeth Scott daughter of Thomas Scott & wife Sarah Lose. She was born June 17, 1838 in Mt Pleasant Tp, Westnd Co Pa & died Sept 6, 1915 in Merrittstown Pa. They had 3 children two stillborn & the other one lived, but a day. He was mar 1st by Rev Saml Wakefield in Connellsville Tp. He was mar 2d by Rev John S. Wakefield, son of Rev Samuel Wakefield. His 8 children by 1st wife were all born in Tyrone Tp as were also the three by his 2d wife.

James Boyd, B Dec 23, 1846 m. May 1871 to Susan Catharine Detwiler, daughter of Samuel Detwiler & wife Elizabeth Fretts. She was born Jany 13, 1852 & is living Wichita Ks RD 1. He died Aug 30, 1923.

7. John Clyde, B Oct 22, 1885 ob Oct 1885

2. Henry Ellsworth, B Oct 3, 1875 m. Apr 1898 Della Crom.

3. Frank Hanby, B Jany 3, 1878 near Pennsville Pa in Bullskin Tp, mar Dec 25, 1908 at Gallatin Hotel, Uniontown Pa by Rev Jno B. Reed, Pres to Laura Florence Humphries born July 26, 1885 in Blair Co Pa dau of Reuben James Humphries & wife Mary Jane Bates. They live at 62 Iowa St, Uniontown Pa & he is truck foreman of the State Highway Dept. Have 3 chil record given me Mch 5, 1925 on B&O train by Mrs Boyd.

Reuben James, B Jany 26, 1910 at Vances Mill Pa in Menallen Tp.

Emma Humphries, B Aug 31, 1912 in Waltersburg Pa in Franklin Tp

Frank Detweiler, B Jany 20, 1916 in Waltersburg Pa in Franklin Tp.

4. Bessie Maria, B July 2, 1879 m. Jany 1900 Ed Anderson

6. Ruth Van Gundy, B Oct 14, 1884

5. Samuel Detwiler, B Oct 31, 1881

8. Anne Josephine, B Sept 12, 1886 m. Nov 1905 Mark Bohrer

10. Azalia Belle, B Apr 1, 1893

9. Ralph Harper, B Oct 31, 1890

11. Max Dewey, B May 15, 1896

1. Albert Mason, B Aug 18, 1874 m. Sept 19, 1907 Melissa McBurney B Dec 31, 1885 in Franklin Tp, dau of Robt McBurney & wife Susan Bute, dau of Joseph. Both living 38 Thomas Ave Uniontown Pa. In mining supply business 2 girls born Elm Grove Pa & 2 boys in Uniontown Pa see book 13 p 22.

Susan Mildred, B Sept 15, 1908

Grace Antoinette, B Nov 7, 1911

Donald McBurney, B Sept 20, 1914

Albert Mason Jr, B July 23, 1923

Catherine Boyd [dau of George Washington Boyd] B. Oct 24, 1848 m. Dec 4, 1873 G.W. Shrader.

Catherine, B Jany 8, 1875 m. July 4, 1898 Scott Van Winkle

Louise, B July 12, 1876

George B., B Jany 31, 1881

Blaine W., B Feby 8, 1884

Daughter, died in infancy

Carl Jacob Shrader, B Sept 5, 1888 Emily Boyd [dau of George Washington Boyd] B Mch 3, 1851 ob May 26, 1892 m. Jany 1871 to John Mauk

Lawrence Mauk, m. Oct 1902 to Minnie Jones

Ralph J.

Herman, ob

Elroy, m. 1898 to Rosell Burns

Elmer

Mabel

George J.

Lillie, m. Emanuel Kile

Gretta Mae

Maude

Clinton

Russell

Mary Mauk

Smith Boyd [son of George Washington Boyd] B Apr 24, 1853

Mary Boyd, B Mch 11, 1855 ob Aug 30, 1924 m. May 29, 1878 to Peter Stauffer Loucks born May 3, 1841 & died Nov 6, 1897 son of Martin Loucks & his wife Nancy Stauffer. Had 5 children born in Scottdale Pa see page 438 & 439.

Arthur Boyd Loucks, B June 18, 1880

Edwin Ralph Loucks, B Sept 19, 1882

Martha Grace Loucks, B Aug 17, 1888

Nancy Irene Loucks, B Aug 10, 1890, m.

Preston Stauffer Loucks, B Aug 13, 1894

Dempsey B. Boyd, B Aug 17, 1857 m. 1898 to Mae Gardner born Mch 8, dau of William Gardner & his wife Sarah Scott. Live at Merrittstown Pa where he has a store. My informant & helper. no issue. She is a niece of his step-mother.

Martha Boyd, B Feby 7, 1860 m. James C. Metcalf. He died Dec 4, 1924 & she lives in Lawrence Kansas. He was born in Quincey Ills 1860. Have 2 sons born in K.C. Mo

Earl Boyd Metcalf, B Oct 6, 1894. M. to Madgelne [sic]

Martha Earline Metcalf, B Mch 11, 1922

James Leon Metcalf, B Jany 23, 1896

George Washington Boyd, B Dec 24, 1861 ob May 15, 1903

Stillborn child, B Dec 1867

Stillborn child, B Dec 1865

Unnamed son, lived but one day B Dec 1869.

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At residence of Albert G. Fretts East Huntingdon Tp Westnd Co Pa (P.O. Scottdale RFD 1 Pa) Sept 26, 1924 12:22 PM

Mrs Fretts has recd us & says they bought the big bible of her husband's Uncle Harry Boyd at his sale for $1 but it did not have any record. He didn't have any issue. The book was published by Hubbard Bros Phila but has not date. Her husband, Albert Gallagher Fretts was born in this Tp Nov 3, 1872 & was married Dec 29, 1898 to Margaret Alverda Nicholls born Apr 10, 1878 at Madison Westnd Co Pa dau of Archibald B. Nicholls & his wife Elizabeth Williams. See book 8 p 305. They have had nine children all born in East Huntingdon Tp, the last six in this house. Their names & births as written in the old bible is as follows:

1. Mildred Elizabeth Fretts born Jany 7, 1900

2. Merle Boyd Fretts born July 16, 1901

3. Carl Abram Fretts born Mch 19, 1904

4. Clara Francis Fretts born Dec 24, 1906

5. Albert Glenn Fretts born Dec 20, 1908

6. Emma Genevieve Fretts born Sept 26, 1911

7. James Stanley Fretts born Feby 7, 1913

8. George Claton Fretts born Nov 1, 1914

9. Betty Lorraine Fretts born Nov 1, 1921

All living.

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1. Mildred Elizabeth was married Aug 24, 1918 to Dewey Hough born July 25, 1897 at Jacobs Creek in Westd Co, son of Jacob Hough (who was son of David who was a first cousin of Elizabeth Nicholls & bro of Wm of Wash Pa) & his wife Mollie Aspey. They live adjoining here & have four children all born in this Tp viz:

I. Arthilla June Hough born June 21, 1919

II. Wendell Glenn Hough born Aug 8, 1920

III. Garnet Hough born July 19, 1922

IV Jacob Dewey Hough born Sept 1, 1923

2. Merle is farming in Bateman, Saskatchewan Canada.

The others are all at home single. Mrs Fretts says her mother returned from Mo Aug 10, 1923 & is making her home with Mrs Taylor, but is now visiting her sons about Smithton.

Leaving 1:30 PM

Carl A. is now in junior year at Pitt College Pgh, having taught 3 yrs after finishing high school. Mrs Fretts was a Pres, but has joined the United Brethren Church with her husband. They are Republicans.

Apr 29, 1926, the Connellsville Courier of today announces the death of Albert G. Fretts aged 53 on Apr 26, 1926 at his home near Mt Nebo Church at 7:30 AM. Clara is mentioned as Mrs Claire Farnsworth.

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At residence of George Washington Newcomer East Huntingdon Tp Westnd Co Pa Sept 26, 1924 2 PM

Mrs Newcomer recd me & says she has the bibles of her grandfather James Boyd, her mother Fannie Boyd Fretts & her father Abraham S. Fretts. She has brought down the old bible of her grandfather James Boyd & her mother. It was printed at Hartford by R.W. White & Co 1833 with back leather cover, but front cover gone.

It is about 14 by 11 inches. The records are as follows: See page 68.

Marriages

James Boyd to Frances Long eldest daughter of Alexander Long decd Nov 9, 1815

John Strickler to Mary Ann Boyd Sept 16, 1841

John S. Wakefield to Martha W. Boyd May 29, 1845

George W. Boyd to Martha Smith Feby 18, 1846

Joseph Shallenberger to Elizabeth Boyd Nov 17, 1846

Abraham S. Fretts to Fanny Boyd May 26, 1853

Alexander L. Boyd to Frances Tooman May 17, 1855

Clark Newcomer to Carrie Boyd Feby 22, 1865

Henry C. Boyd to Rose G. Miller Oct 25, 1865

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Births

Alexander Boyd born Nov 23, 1817

Mary Ann Boyd born May 20, 1819

George Washington Boyd born May 30, 1821

Thomas Jefferson Boyd born Mch 2, 1823

Martha Boyd born Aug 13, 1824

Robert Boyd born May 31, 1826

Elizabeth Boyd born Apr 11, 1828

Sarah Boyd born Sept 7, 1829

Fanny Boyd born Aug 19, 1832

Henry Clay Boyd born Apr 26, 1834

Isabella Boyd born June 13, 1836

Caroline Boyd born June 1, 1838

Frances Long, eldest daughter of Alexander & Mary Long was born May 1, 1799.

Deaths

Henry Clay Boyd died Mch 15, 1904

Frances Long Fretts died Aug 25, 1905

Thos Jefferson Boyd died Apr 1, 1825

James Boyd died Jany 17, 1842

Isabella Boyd died Mch 26, 1842

Mary Ann Strickler died Oct 12, 1844

Alexander Boyd died Mch 8, 1863

Frances Boyd died Aug 28, 1879

Caroline Newcomer died Dec 3, 1879

Sarah Boyd died July 13, 1885

Robert Boyd died Apr 23, 1891

George W. Boyd died Dec 20, 1895

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Miss Caroline Fretts gives me penciled slip with following data.

Frances, wife of James Boyd born May 1st 1799 died Aug 28? 1879

In mem of James Boyd died Jany 17, 1842 aged 50 yrs & 10 days

Obituary notice:

Show that Carrie B. Newcomer died in Merrick Co Neb. She left one child Cora, who was born Dec 4, 1865. She married George Baker in Merrick Co Neb & lives there now. H.G. May can give her address. She has 6 or 7 children or more.

James Smith Boyd, oldest brother of my pilot was born Dec 23, 1846 near Owensdale Pa & died July 30, 1923 near Wichita Kansas. States he has 2 bros living, Dempsey Boyd of Merrittstown Pa

Smith Boyd of Clarksburg WVA & 2 sisters

Mary A. Loucks of Scottdale Pa

Mrs J.C. Metcalf, Lawrence Kan

& 11 of his 12 children were living. Stating that John Clyde died in infancy. He was a member of Bethel Pres Ch.

Mrs Frances Boyd joined the Tyrone Pres Ch when 46 yrs old.

Mrs Rose G. Boyd, widow of Henry C. Boyd died. Her will dated May 14, 1907 & a codicil is dated Jany 19, 1909. Probated at Greensburg Pa

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Mrs Frances Fretts died at her home on Grove St Scottdale Pa Aug 25, 1905 from heart trouble. Interment in Scottdale Cem. She was a member of Jacob's Creek, Meth Epis Ch.

Mrs Newcomer's father, Abraham Shallenberger Fretts was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church & unquestionably was its staunchest supporter, financially & spiritually & conducted the prayer meetings regularly whether anyone else was in attendance or not.

From the "Fretts Family History" by Rev A.J. Fretz, Milton NJ published in 1890 by the Mennonite Pub Co, Elkhart Ind on page 444 begins his record as follows:

"V. Abraham S. Fretts born in Westmoreland Co Pa Dec 9, 1827, mar Fannie Boyd May 26, 1853, farmer Methodists children, John, James, Martha, Emma, Dempsey, Carry, Olive, Albert & Lizzie.

1. John Wesley Fretts born Oct 10, 1855 ob Apr 22, 1858

2. James Boyd Fretts born Sept 17, 1857

3. Martha Belle Fretts born Oct 31, 1859

4. Emma Frances Fretts born Jany 13, 1862

5. Dempsey D. Fretts born May 22, 1864

6. Carrie Boyd Fretts born Dec 17, 1866

7. Olive Oatman Fretts born Mch 21, 1869

8. Albert Gallagher Fretts born Nov 3, 1872 .

9. Lizzie Luella Fretts born Mch 2, 1875

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2. James B. got his record, see page 448-449

3. Martha Belle mar Oct 30, 1888 to James L. Stauffer born Apr 15, 1854 & died Jany 2, 1919 son of John T. Stauffer & his wife Susan Stacy. He was a farmer & coke man & member of U.B. Church. Have two children born at Stauffer Sta, Bullskin Tp, Fay Co Pa viz:

1. Ernest Elmer Stauffer born May 22, 1895 mar Apr 11, 1923 to Bessie Sanner born Jany 5, 1897 dau of Francis Sanner & wife Anna Mary Enos. No issue.

2. Frances Stauffer born Sept 24, 1901 mar Oct 1, 1917 to [8]at this Wm McGrew Senioræ__#B(_#L_B_((father of John who mar Ma

Pleasant Pa

I. Gertrude Marie McBeth born June 28, 1918

II. Burrell Jr McBeth born June 27, 1922

3. Olive Pearl born Nov 13, 1903 & died June 2, 1904

4. Emma Frances, mar June 14, 1883 to Moses Bidas Porter born Jany 16, 1861 son of James Dennis Porter born Jany 16, 1861 son of James Dennis Porter & his 1st wife Catharine Williams dau of Thomas Williams. He is a Methodist & owns a store in Scottdale along with his brother & have had ten children the first seven born in Owensdale & the others in Scottdale Pa.

I. Helen Edna Porter born Apr 14, 1884

II. Harry Pendleton Porter born June 14, 1886

III. Benjamin Franklin Porter born Aug 9, 1888

IV John Donald Porter born Sept 4, 1890

V. Frances Ruth Porter born July 16, 1893 ob Aug 28, 1894 aged 1 yr 1 mo

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VI. Raymond Earl born June 25, 1895 single

VII. Percy Alfred born Feby 1, 1902, single VIII. Amy Lucile born Aug 2, 1897

IX. Caroline Louise born Nov 4, 1903

X. Walton Kenneth born Mch 14, 1906, single

I. Helen Edna mar Feby 8, 1905 to Chas Andrew Tuit of Uniontown Pa born Feby 24, 1833 son of Belford J. Tuit & his wife Margaret Mary Frankenberry. They have 2 children living & one dead. All born in Uniontown Pa.

2. Frank Earl Tuit, born Feby 6, 1910

3. Helen Celestia born July 18, 1912

Mazie Ethel Thompson, oldest, born Aug 10, 1906 & died Aug 11, 1906

II. Harry Pendleton mar June 8, 1910 Margaret B. Percy (won't give her age) dau of John D. Percy & wife Lida Chain. Henry clerks in his father's store. Have one child born in Scottdale Pa.

A. Harry Percy born Nov 6, 1916

III. Benj Franklin mar Clara Estep. Have one child born in Oakland Calif.

A. Mary Barbara born Dec 28, 1919

He works for H.J. Heinz Co

IV. J. Donald mar Oct 10, 1916 Lulu Gallentine dau of Thos Gallentine & his wife Harriet Miller. Have 2 children born in Scottdale Pa.

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A. Jannette Savern born Feby 28, 1921

B. Patricia Ruth born Aug 21, 1924

VIII. Lucile mar Mch 6, 1923 Russell Dewey Ware born Nov 7, 1899 son of Jacob Harrison Ware & wife Sarah Kiefer & had one child born in Scottdale.

A. Stillborn daughter born May 2, 1924

IX. Caroline Louise mar Mch 14, 1920 Carl G. Strickler born Sept 17, 1903, son of Hugh Strickler & his wife Rose Gault & has one child born in Scottdale Pa

A. Dorothy Jane Born Aug 24, 1924

5. Dempsey D. mar Sept 26, 1883 Alice Anderson born Feby 27, 1867 dau of Andrew Jackson Anderson & wife Anna Belle Burnworth & have 3 children living & 1 dead. They were all born in Scottdale Pa.

2. Chas Abram born Aug 11, 1886

3. William Harrison June 12, 1888

4. Ida Belle born Sept 18, 1890

6. Eugene McKinley born June 13, 1894

See page 433 for 1st & 5th children

2. Chas Abram was killed in the Argonne battle Sept 26, 1918

3. Wm H. mar May 30, 1922 to Jeanne Bowser from Kittanning Pa born July 29, 1902 dau of Chame S. Bowser & his wife Minnie Bowser. Have one child born in Kittanning, Pa

A. Betty Louise born Mch 20, 1923

See page 590

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4. Ida Belle mar Sept 1, 1912 to Charles Lawrence Ellenberger born 1890 son of Stewart Ellenberger & wife Alice Lavinia Crabtree & have 3 or 4 children born in Connellsville & Phila

A. Charles L. Jr born May 1913, Connellsville

B. Rita Lucile born Oct 1914, Connellsville

C. Alice Lavina born Nov 1916, Connellsville

D. Jeanne Lorraine born Dec 23, 1919 Tamaqua Pa

6. Carrie B., single & living here

7. Olive O. mar June 12, 1913 Jacob Smith Detwiler born Nov 26, 1865 son of Samuel Detwiler & his wife Elizabeth Fretts No issue. Both living at Connellsville Pa where he is travelling salesman.

8. Albert G. got his record, see page 422 & 423

9. Lizzie Luella mar May 20, 1909 to George Washington Newcomer born Apr 27, 1874 son of Albert Newcomer (bro of Dr Geo W.) & wife Catharine Null (dau of Jonathan) & have two children born in Lower Tyrone Tp near Dawson Pa

I. Robert Fretts Newcomer born Sept 25, 1910

II. Dorothy Jane Newcomer born Nov 17, 1913

See Mrs M.B. Porter in Scottdale for the Shallenbergers who went to Colorado. The children were Mary, George, Belle, Ada, Carrie, Lydia, Charles & Sallie.

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Two of the Wakefield girls live in Canton O & their names are:

Luella, wife of John Brothers who has a big hardware store known as Conton Hdw Co

Gertrude, wife of Harry Daily who used to be in R.E business

Another is

Mrs Carrie Cadman living at Hollywood Calif who is expected here on a visit soon & may be in Uniontown. her son Charles Wakefield Cadman is a world famous musician & composer.

Another Wakefield is:

Mrs Elizabeth Overholt, widow of Hudson Overholt, who had two children, one dead & one living. She is generally with Mrs Cadman.

Charles Wakefield, dead, unmarried

Frank Wakefield dead, one child named Martin

Mary Bossart dead, had 2 daughters

Isabel burned to death when a child.

Mr Abram S. Fretts wrote a letter to Jacob Kiester of NY on May 29, 1898 when 71 yrs old & died July 16, 1898, remarkable for its fine firm hand in which he says he has belonged to the church 51 yrs & 9 mos & has not missed a Sunday in attending 2 or 3 services each Sunday in all that time.

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& in 51 yrs & 9 mos, I have been to 7554 services & traveled 15,000 miles in doing so.

Leaving 5 PM

At Dempsey David Fretts NO 213 E. Crawford Ave, Connellsville Pa Nov 5, 1924 11 AM

Mrs Fretts says she has had six children, the first four born in Scottdale & the last two in Connellsville Pa. The oldest:

1. Ralph David Fretts born Feby 6, 1885 ob Aug 27, 1886

5. Harry Fretts born Oct 13, 1892 ob Oct 13, 1892

Leaving 11:22 PM

Mrs Fretts said she & her son Eugene would like to drive up someday & I asked her to come. JVT

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At residence of Moses Bida Porter NO 215 Market St. Scottdale Pa Corner of Chestnut Sept 26, 1924 5:50 PM

Mr Porter's son Kenneth is giving me data from their family bible & the dates of marriage therein & from their memory other dates have been given in this kind of ink & recorded in the blank pages 428 to 430.

Mrs Porter is giving the addresses of some of the relatives as follow:

Mrs Lydia Palmer (nee Shallenberger) lived in Greeley Col & died abt 2 yrs ago, her husband Frank? Palmer lives there. No issue.

Mrs Allie Yontsey (nee Shallenberger) widow of Dr Yountsey & an invalid lives 5443 4th St Loveland Colorado. Mrs Mary Krauskop (nee Shallenberger) the oldest. lives corner Ash & 5th St, San Diego Calif. Her husband, an old old man is living & they have a boarding house. He is her 2d husband. Her first husband was George Rist of near Broadford Pa. He died a long time ago. She had but one child, Geo Rist who married, but has died leaving a widow & a daughter.

Another daughter, Sallie Shallenberger mar 1. Walker No issue

mar 2., no issue & lives in Denver Col on Milwaukee ST.

Leaving 6:30 PM

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Mrs Carrie Cadman lives 2220 Canyon Drive, Hollywood, Calif.

At residence of Mrs Emma Boyd Long, 927 Mulberry St Scottdale Pa Sept 26, 1924 7 PM

Mrs Long says she never got the bible of her father James Long Boyd, see page 198 & thought her brother Rice got it. She wasn't at home when they apportioned the things, but after receiving my letter of Aug 25, 1924, they made up such record as they could. She says just the dates of birth of Mary, Rice, Harry & herself were all that were given. The letter they have partly written I have used & entered dates on page 200. Mrs Long says her sister Mary has a marker at Mt Olive g.y. Says she is buried below the driveway about half way down to the road & nearer or at the end next the church. From Mrs Long's recollections, we have arrived at dates of birth & death of her sister, Mary, who says she died when she, Mrs L., was 11 yrs old & was born in Jany & was over 15 when she died & was buried on Thanksgiving day. She says her sister Jennie was 26 when she died.

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Mrs Long says her mother's father Michael Myers had sixteen children, of which her mother Ann Eliza Myers was about the third. His wife, Nancy Fretts was sister of John Fretts, she thinks & says her mother's brother Abraham Myers living a little below here could tell. He is next to youngest & only him & the youngest, Emma, wife of Joe Hixson at West Overton, near the Distillery & his brother Mahlon are living. Mahlon lives at Greensburg Pa. Don't know who would have gotten the Michael Myers Bible. I am taking the letter they have commenced & Mrs Long & her son Samuel N. are giving me the record of the two oldest living children who are married viz:

I. Hannah Long born Sept 5, 1896 m. Mch 30, 1922 to John Coontz born Apr 18, 1893 son of Benjamin Coontz & wife Ida Philipp. They live here on Homestead Ave & he is a cabinet maker & have one child born here.

I. Marie Lucile Coontz born Oct 22, 1922

2. James Humbert Long born Oct 29, 1900 mar Oct 12, 1919 to Angeline Martin born July 28, 1894 of Donora Pa born in California Pa dau of Charles S. Martin & his wife Elizabeth Shallenberger from about Vanderbilt Pa. They live at 207 Cottage Ave Connellsville Pa where he is

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a street car conductor. They have two children both born in this house

1. Charles Humbert Long born July 1, 1920

2. Boyd Martin Long born Mch 25, 1922

Mrs Long says her children were born as follows:

The oldest in Upper Tyrone Tp

The next three at Broadford Pa

The other three at Scottdale Pa in this house

3. Samuel Norris Long is not married & is living here with his mother & is going with us to his great Uncles Abraham Myers.

Leaving 8 PM

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At office of E. Ralph Loucks No Pittsburgh St Rear End of Scottdale Trust Co Scottdale Pa Sept 26, 1924 8:20 PM

Mr Loucks says his father, Peter Stauffer Loucks was brother of Jacob S. Loucks who I well knew & son of Martin Loucks & his wife Nancy Stauffer. Peter S. Loucks was born on the homestead farm in East Huntingdon Tp & this site & part of Scottdale is spread over said farm. Mr L. has given me the full names & dates of birth etc see page 421 & their children's marriages are as follows as given by E. Ralph viz:

1. Arthur B. was mar Jany 1, 1906 to Nellie M. Irwin born May 2, 1885 daughter of Judge Robt W. Irwin & Carrie Nettie Fowler. Have four children all born in Scottdale Pa.

I. Arthur Boyd Loucks Jr born June 7, 1908

II. Nellie Virginia Loucks born Mch 25, 1913

III. Robert Irwin Loucks born Sept 26, 1915

IV. Richard Vincent Loucks born Feby 21, 1921. He graduated at W&J in 1903

2. E. Ralph is unmarried & entered W&J College in Sept 1901

3. Martha Grace was married June 19, 1910 to Joseph Harold Hobbs born Feby 22, 1885 at North Hampton NH, son of Joseph O. Hobbs & wife. He is living, she died Jany 21, 1917. No issue.

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4. Nancy Irene was mar Sept 12, 1918 to Donald Spencer Rogers born Dec 27, 1889 at Port Norris NJ son of Jonathan Spencer Rogers & wife Carrie Hartman Dateman. Have two children born in Wilkinsburg Pa

I. Donald Morton Rogers Sept 19, 1920

II. Ralph Loucks Rogers Feby 2, 1922

They live at 1309 North Ave Wilkinsburg Pa where he is a certified public accountant.

5. Preston S. is unmarried & he & E. Ralph live at the old Homestead here No 527 Chestnut St here E. Ralph is Vice Pt of the Scottdale Trust Co.

Leaving 9:15 PM

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At residence of Abraham Fretts Myers No 809 Mulberry St Scottsdale [sic] Pa Sept 26, 1924 9:55 PM

We came here at 8:15 PM & Mrs Myers said her husband was at the church, Meth Epis at a Trustee's meeting & he hasn't come back, but she has gotten out Vol 3 of Jno W. Jordan's History of Westnd Co published 1906 by the Lewis Pub Co on page 55 on an article on Abraham F. Myers which states that he is a grandson of Michael Myers who was born & reared in Somerset Co Pa later, moving to Westd Co Pa where he passed his life as a farmer, near Alverton Pa & had the following children viz:

Alexander, Jacob, Samuel, Michael, Dina, & Eliza who became the wife of Christian Fretz.

Michael, son of Michael was born Mch 22, 1816 in Somerset Co & was a carpenter by trade & later a farmer in East Huntingdon Tp & was a Republican & a member of United Brethren Church of Mount Nebo. He married Nov 9, 1837 Nancy, daughter of Henry Fretz & Nancy Fretz & their children were:

1. Agnes born July 30, 1838 mar D.D. Hixson

2. Susanna born Jany 17, 1840 mar Martin Detweiler

3. Ann Eliza born Mch 13, 1841 mar James L. Boyd.

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4. Catherine born Sept 23, 1842 mar E.M. Stantz

5. Henry E. born May 8, 1844 mar Sarah Rice

6. Hannah born Oct 16, 1845 mar Hilance Kelly

7. Mahlon born Dec 14, 1846 mar Eliza Gault

8. Elizabeth born May 6, 1848 mar Jesse Oglevee

9. John Lyman born Dec 12, 1849 ob Apr 22, 1850

10. Frances born Feby 21, 1851 mar Saml Ellenberger

11. Amzi born June 8, 1852 ob Apr 27, 1858

13. Abraham F. born June 16, 1856 mar Laura Bell Sherbondy

14. Mary Ellen born Oct 25, 1858 mar Frank Deretine & died Dec 1892

15. Emma born Nov 9, 1861 mar Joseph Hixson who was the youngest.

16. Unnamed daughter died very young.

Mr Myers was married May 29, 1890 & his wife is the daughter of Philip Alexander Sherbondy & his wife Catherine McClelland, was born in South Huntingdon Tp near Mendon Mch 21, 1860 & have two daughters both born in this house viz:

1. Hazel Mildred born Aug 30, 1894

2. Edith Catherine born Sept 3, 1897. Both single. Edith C. is a graduate nurse & Hazel M. is a school teacher. Mr Myers says his father was raised about Turkeyfoot, Somerset Co.

They say Joe Hixson who married his youngest sister, Emma had 13 children both living at West Overton Pa where they have a little home & they both say Mrs Hixson got their parents bible with the record, her mother having died at her house then in Fayette Co.

Leaving 10:40 PM JVT

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Sept 27, 1924 6:50 PM transcribing data penciled down yesterday.

Upper Tyrone Tp, Sept 26, 1924

Driving through Bullskin & Upper Tyrone Tps this forenoon Dempsey B. Boyd pointed out an old frame house across a field to the right of the road where Godfrey Kiefer used to live & who married Amy Ann Whipkey & she had long whiskers fully a foot long coming down on her chest & bore several children also. He said people would come from long distances to see her. Just there, we turned to the right & just ahead of us & to our left, after turning was the old Sallie Rist (later she was Sarah Murray) farm, which John G. White who married Alex Boyd's widow, bought & it broke him up. He pointed out to the right the old farm of his father, Geo W. Boyd, where were born the eight children by his first wife & the three by his second wife. This was a part of the 300 A farm of Geo W's father James whose widow apportioned it nearly equally between Geo W. Alexander & another son with whom she lived. We then drove into Owensdale Pa where we stopped & D.B.B. went in a store & came out with a medium sized middle aged man Nelson King, son of the late Nathaniel H. King who ie N.H. had bought the old John Tinstman farm, the father of A.O. Tinstman. We turned to the right at Owensdale & driving up were soon:

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At old Graveyard on the old John Tinstman now Nat H. King heirs farm Sept 26, 1924 9 AM

We walked back through the orchard where the peach & quince trees where well laden & back of & above the far end of the orchard we came to the old G.y. enclosed by a fence, but grown up full of elder bushes, weeds & briers, & came first to grave of:

1. Robert Boyd, Uncle of Dempsey who was killed on the RR. In thus identifying him I evidently failed to get the inscription.

2. Sarah Boyd (unmarried sister of Geo W.) Born Sept 13, 1839 died July 13, 1880.

3. Alexander Boyd (oldest brother of Geo W.) died Mch 8, 1863 aged 45 yrs 6 mos 15 days. His daughter Belle Boyd removed his remains to Scottdale cemetery. Nelson King son of late Nat H. King says four bodies were removed & that Frank Chain, a great big man aged 72 or 73 living near here can tell about them. He is well versed in early history of the neighborhood.

4. Isabella Boyd (sister of G.W.) ob Mch 26, 1842 aged 5 yrs 9 mos 12 days

5. Frances Boyd, wife of James Boyd born May 1, 1799 ob Aug 28, 1879

In memory of James Boyd w.d.t.l. Jany 17, 1842 aged 50 yrs & 10 days Big fine flat slab 6 ft by 3 ft standing 3 1/2 ft high.

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6. James Clark, son of James M. Cunningham died Oct 30, 1855 aged 3 yrs 10 mos 16 days

7. Alexander Hurst died July 16, 1838 in 8th yr of his age

8. Thomas J. Boyd (brother of G.W.) died Apr 1, 1825 aged 2 yrs & 1 mo

9. James B. Hurst died Oct 23, 1843 in his 45th yr

10. Alexander Long died Sept 26, 1811 in the 35th yr of his age

Mary Long died Mch 1, 1842 in the 65th yr of her age

11. Martha Boyd, wife of Geo W. Boyd died Sept 9, 1865 aged 41 yrs 6 mos 25 days

12. John Hurst died Mch 22, 1839 in 34th yr of his age.

Isabella Hurst consort of John Hurst died July 16, 1837 in 30th yr of her age.

This graveyard is in upper Tyrone Tp, No 2, on farm of about 108 A owned by the heirs of Nathl H. King & occupied now by his daughter Katharine Steakelbeck, wife of Herman Steakelbeck. It is a brick house, built I believe they said by an Overholt & formerly the John Tinstman farm & still earlier known as the Holmes farm. Just east of here was farm of Harry Boyd, brother of Geo W. & being part of the farm of their father, James Boyd, which was divided into three farms & the widow who divided it got this 1/3 & which went to her son Harry. The part Alex got was adjg on the east & what Geo W. got was just

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east of May's or rather South of Henry's. Dempsey said this was formerly the Holmes farm. I wonder if he could be mistaken & if it might have been the Hurst farm.

13. H.L. Hurst aged 3 mos no dates.

Nelson King said they found on this farm, the bones of 40 bodies which his father told him were the bones of slaves which had been the burying ground for slaves when the farmers here abouts kept slaves. Nelson showed us on the hillside to the north across a stream the old home farm & house of Ebenezer Moore, father of James H., John Wm, Rev Robt B & Presley H. with the orchard running up the hillside back of the barn, where he said in the upper left corner of the orchard were two black graves (it proved to be Blackiston) & on beyond the orchard was the summit of the hill, a fine vantage point of observation & defense & down the hillside to the left, in farming or digging, they came a few years ago, on the graves or skeletons of 14 bodies buried face down, an Indian custom & covered all over with large heavy limestone. They were only 22 to 24 inches below the surface. Nelson King said his grandfather was David King & his wife was

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Eliza Graft (J. Vance Graft is of same family) & she died 13 yrs ago aged 97 yrs 11 mos & 13 days from the effects of a fall breaking her hip & shoulder except for which there was every reason to believe she would have lived to be over a hundred as at 95 she danced a jig with great agility. She was but abt 4 ft 6 in tall & was small. She smoked but once a day & that was all the time. Her children were:

Irvin King, died aged 90 yrs 10? days

Charles King

Nathl H. King born May 10, 1835, died Nov 2, 1922

Graft King

Geo King

Jerry King

John King

Polly King

Hannah King

Larah? King

Alice King

We then drove back through Owensdale Pa, got some gasoline & oil & then drove over to the Moore farm & were soon:

At the Old Ebenezer Moore Farm Orchard Sept 26, 1924 10:16 AM

14. James Blackston d.t.l. Nov 16, 1822 aged 75 yrs

Priscilla Blackiston d.t.l. March 1, 1796 aged 49 yrs.

We walked up on the hill & left 10:25 AM

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At Tyrone Meeting House, Upper Tyrone Tp, Sept 26, 1924 10:40 AM Presbyterian

15. Hugh Espey ob Dec 14, 1831 in 74th yr

Isabella Espey ob Nov 10, 1809 in 48th yr

16. Jacob Hough ob Aug 2, 1867 aged 69 yrs 9 mos 12 days

Jane, wife of Jacob Hough ob Jany 4, 1867 aged 66 yrs 2 mos 25 days

17. Martha Love ob June 15, 1877 aged 83 yrs 11 mos 25 days

John Love ob Apr 26, 1872 aged 71 yrs 8 mos 19 days

Margaret Love ob Dec 21, 1858 aged 67 yrs & 6 mos

Annie Love ob Jany 7, 1857 aged 66 yrs 7 mos 5 days

Margaret Love ob Mch 9, 1848 aged 101 years

18. Robert Chain ob Dec 17, 1844 aged 59 yrs 2 mos 15 days

19. Lewis Findley Sergt Co F 105 Reg Pa Inf Vol ob Jany 26, 1884 aged 44? yrs

Franklin B. son of Lewis & Magdelena Findley born Apr 19, 1860 ob June 19, 1911

Minnie Findley ob Jany 20, 1880 aged 8 yrs 4 mos 11 days

Lily Findley ob Jany 10, 1880 aged 10 yrs 3 mos 5 days

Bertha Findley ob June 26, 1878 aged 2

20. Samuel Quay ob Feby 22, 1855 in 69th yr

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21. Nancy, wife of D.M. Torrence ob Sept 17, 1869 in 59th yr

David M. Torrence died June 22, 1884

Martha B. Torrence died Mch 4, 1859

Leaving 11:05 AM

We then drove across Jacobs Creek into Westnd Co Pa & were soon:

At residence of James Boyd Fretts East Huntingdon Tp, Westmoreland Co Pa Sept 26, 1924 11:33 AM

Mr Fretts is son of Abraham S. Fretts & his wife Fanny Long Boyd (she dau of James of Wm & Ann) both buried at Scottdale Cem. had nine children, all living but Westley who died young & all born in this Tp at the old stone house below: 2 boys living & five girls.

James B. Fretts was born Sept 17, 1857 & was married June 29, 1910 to Mrs Emma Viola Miller, widow of Bradford Miller who died Dec 5, 1905 & daughter of James Murtland & his wife Mary Storey & was born in Armstrong Co Pa Sept 26, 1865. No issue.

Albert Gallagher Fretts is a brother of Mr Fretts & lives half a mile or more beyond in this Tp. Mr Fretts remembers a great big old bible that came from his mother's home.

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Mrs Fretts says when Mr F's mother & his sisters moved from here to Scottdale they took all the books & bibles with them.

Leaving 11:50 AM

We then drove on to A.G. Fretts see 422 & 423 & then to his sister's G.W. Newcomer's see pages 424-433 & then at next door was at

Residence of George B. Taylor East Huntingdon Tp Westd Co Pa at edge of Scottdale Pa Sept 26, 1924 5:14 PM

Mrs Taylor has gotten out her parents' big bible & is reading the record which I am entering in the blanks left for same Oct 25, 1922 in Book 8 pages 304 & 305. Her sister, Gretta A. married about the time she became of age & died abt a year afterward in a March. Her only child Naomi, mar Dr James McCartney & live at Minneapolis, Minn & has two children.

Gretta A's husband was Jacob L. Hough son of William. He lives now in Washington Co Pa abt 15 miles out of Washington Pa. He is a farmer is married again & has one boy.

Olive Edna, my informant, mar June 20, 1906, when a little past 21 yrs. George B. Taylor born Mch 15, 1882 in this Tp son of Henry Taylor & wife Amanda Hough (dau of David Hough who is buried at Barren Run) & have had three children 2 living

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& one dead all born in this Tp & in this house. I have entered the record of their births in table book 8 page 305. Mr Taylor is a Democrat & works for the Casket Co. Are Methodist Episcopals.

Leaving 5:37 PM

We then went to:

Moses B. Porter's see pages 434 & 435 & to Emma Boyd Long's see pages 435 to 437 then to E. Ralph Loucks see pages 438 to 439 then to Abraham F. Myers see pages 440 & 441.

Leaving there, at 10:42 Pm, we got to Uniontown at 11:40 PM & the last street car for Merrittstown had gone at 11:30 so we went to my office & called up Mrs Boyd & told her & Mr Boyd came to Oak Hill arriving at midnight & stayed over night with me.

Saturday morning, Sept 27, I took him home & met his wife & then drove back to:

Residence of J.D. Van Kirk, Merrittstown Pa Sept 27, 1924 10:06 AM

I arrived here half an hour ago & met Mr & Mrs Van Kirk, their daughter & their granddaughter & grandson & Mrs V's sister, an invalid in a wheel chair

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Mrs J.V. (Fannie) McCullough of 402 N. Pine St, Lexington Ills who had written me on 23d that she wanted to see me about the Moores.

Her great grandfather Rev Thos Moore came to Redstone Pres in 1793 as a licentiate of Bristol Association State of Mass & then went to Ten Mile in Pres of Ohio, which relation was dissolved in 1803 & he then accepted a call to Salem in Redstone, Pres. Left there, 1809. In 1814, removed to State of Ohio, dismissed to Pres of Lancaster O. Mrs McC thinks it was about Coshocton O

He died Aug 24, 1840 73 yrs old, preached 52 yrs. He was licensed Aug 21, 1794 by Pres of Redstone to be pastor of Ten Mile Church.

Mrs McC & her sister Mrs Van Kirk say their father was James Moore & that Jane K. Crothers was his youngest sister. His father, who they first said was Wm & who Mrs McC later thought was Robert, was married twice & their father & Mrs Crothers were children of first wife who was a Kerr. He married 2d the widow Dorcas? Lecky who had three children by Lecky:

1. David Lecky who died in West Newton Pa & left several children & one of them Florence married Biddle McKinney & both are living in Elizabeth Pa.

2. Mary Jane Lecky mar Saml King in Uncle of Mrs McC. They are both dead & their only child, a daughter died also.

3. Lutitia Lecky died unmarried in Monon City.

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Mrs McCullough says her step son Linden McCulloch [sic] of Dillon, Montana, President of the college there, has six children. His mother was Albina Power, daughter of John Power of Rostraver Tp & he & his sister, who married Jacob Speers all moved to Cooksville Ills & their descendants are still about there.

Another sister of above, married James Torrence & they both moved to same place. They have passed away but their children & grand children are living there. Says they were Cousins of the Finleys. She now say her father James Moore was first cousin to Ebenezer Moore's children.

Andrew Moore was also. Cousin of Ebenezer's children & of her father James Moore.

Left 10:55 AM

Mr Van Kirk gave me an old session book of Redstone Presbytery which when I get time to read through I am to return to him.

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Oct 21/24, slips made to here

Oak Hill Oct 5, 1924 7:55 PM

Today, I walked down from church with Judge J.C. Work, & upon inquiring of him, he said Mrs Elizabeth D. Whitehill of Marengo, Iowa, who I knew 45 yrs ago, was the only sister of his mother. He said she had four sons, living still a few miles out of Marengo, one of them being Clarence? Whitehill, the noted singer. See this book page 67. He said her husband was William Whitehill who he thought lived out about Smithfield Pa but he did not know his father's name nor whether his mother was a Boyd. Looks like this might be the party I am hunting as a Jeremiah Boyd was practicing in & postmaster of Smithfield Pa in 1827 or 1828. Look up at Court House for will of or deeds to Stuart H. Whitehill or any other Whitehill.

I have a letter, small env, dated Sept 28, 1924 from Jacob Gayman, aged 81 yrs of Scenery Hill Pa, correcting part of the statements he made to me Sept 24, 1924, see pages 411 & 412 on information recd from an elderly lady there, a Mrs Craft, who was born & raised there & has always resided there who says the Jenkins sisters did not have a brother James, he being of another family, & not related, but had the

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brother Harvey, mentioned on page 411 & also a brother William neither of whom ever married. William entered the army in 1862 enlisting in a company recruited at Zollarsville Pa by Capt A.J. Barr which Co afterwards formed part of the "Ringgold Battalion", a cavalry organization. He was taken prisoner near Moorefield VA Sept 3, 1863. Mr Gayman thinks he died in the service & that his remains were never brought home.

Harvey Jenkins did not enlist in the army. He died in 1876 or 1877. The only markers Mr Gayman could find in the cemetery were those of Harrison Jenkins & his wife, the inscriptions being brief:

"Harrison Jenkins 1851 - 1923

"Elizabeth M. Jenkins 1851 - 1919"

"Harrison Jenkins was a natural son of Lavina Jenkins & none of Harrison's Uncles or Aunts was ever married."

"Harrison's daughter, Grace (Mrs Manson Hills) lives in Charleroi & his son Frank lives in Pittsburgh. Mrs Craft says there was a sister Ruth who died in Washington years ago & who also had a son born to her out of wedlock. The family then must have comprised the following individuals: Rebecca, Lavina, Sarah, Ruth, William & Harvey

Very truly, Jacob Gayman"

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Oak Hill, Oct 7, 1924 7:20 PM

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Recorders office at the Court House & examined the letter "W" of the Will Index through & found no will by Stewart H. Whitehill or by any Whitehill. There were, however, several deeds to & from him viz:

To Stewart H. Whitehill

from location

Abraham Baldwin in et all Book K. page 336

Elisha Clayton et ux Book K page 337 Connellsville

James McMullen et ux Book L page 69 Connellsville

John Stauffer et ux Book N page 127 Dunbar Tp

Com of Penna Book O Page 250

John Stauffer et ux Book 4 page 396 Dunbar Tp

Jesse Mounts et al Book E page 353 Bullskin

& deeds

From Stewart H. Whitehill to

John Stauffer book O page 127 Connellsville

Thomas Irwin book O page 458 Bullskin

John Stauffer book Q page 44 Connellsville

Isaac Meason, trustee Book M page 509 Bullskin Tp

and from

William Whitehill et al to Wm A. Stone Book 267 page 422 Franklin Tp

made rough notes fr above as follows:

Deed Book E P 253 where in Jesse Mounts, Asa Mounts & Abner Mounts on May 7, 1805 convey 264 A. in Bullskin Tp for $4,716 to Stewart Herbert Whitehill. Witnessed by Alexander McClean, Wm Boyd

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Deed Book K page 336 wherein on Jany 1, 1815 Abraham Baldwin & wife Sarah & Danl S. Norton & wife Mary of C'ville convey to Stewart H. Whitehill of same place for $186.25, land ctg 3 A 116 P being land first parties got fr Hiram Connell. Ack before Geo Mathiot. J.P. witnessed by Geo Mathiot, & Jeremiah Boyd.

Deed Book K p 337 wherein on Apr 8, 1819 Elisha Clayton & Sarah his wife of Bullskin Tp convey to Stewart H. Whitehill of sd Tp for $2000 lot No 109 in Zachariah Connell's Plan of lots in C'ville ctg 1/4 A. It was one of nine lots he had sold to Samuel & Caleb Trevor. Ack before Jas Francis J.P. witnessed by Joseph Barnett, Jas Francis.

Deed Book L P 67 wherein James McMullin & Mary, his wife of the Borough of C'ville, convey to Stewart H. Whitehill merchant of same place, on Nov 13, 1816 for $291, a lot on S.S. of Spring St adjg lands of heirs of Joseph Kathcart (Kithcart) decd, Jonas Colestock & heirs of Zachariah Connell decd same having been sold by Morris Morris, Shff [sic]

Deed Book N p 127 wherein on Sept 24, 1818, John Stauffer & Catherine, his wife of East Huntingdon Tp, Westd Co Pa

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convey to Stewart H. Whitesell of Bullskin Tp for consideration of two houses & lots in C'ville & $150 in money, certain land in Dunbar Tp, beginning on banks of Yough River adjg Wm Miller & Henry Smith ctg 45 A.

Deed Book O p 250

This is commission fr Com of Penna dated Aug 12, 1823 signed by the governor, Andrew Gregg Secy to Stewart H. Whitehill appointing him Justice of the Peace for District eleven, composed of the Tps of Bullskin, Tyrone, & Connellsville.

Deed Book O p 127 wherein on Aug 21, 1819 Stewart H. Whitehill of C'ville Pa & Sarah, his wife convey to John Stauffer of East Huntingdon Tp Westd Co Pa for consideration of a mill lot 109 in C'ville ctg 1/4 A ack before Geo Mathiot J.P. witnessed by John Boyd & Robert Boyd

Deed Book O P 458 recites judgt vs Stewart H. Whitehill for $144.20 at Sept 2, 1819 & reports that George Craft, Shff seized 260 A of land in Bullskin & Connellsville Tps & on Oct 26th sold same to Thos Irwin Esq for $3000.

Deed Book M p 509 wherein Stewart H. Whitehill of Dunbar Tp on Mch 3, 1820 for $2,223 conveyed to

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Isaac Meason Esq Pres of Connellsville Navigation Co in Trust 262 A & allowance of 6% for roads, being in Bullskin Tp & the same land conveyed by the Com of Pa on Oct 31, 1807 to the sd Stewart H. Whitehill & called "Rich Hill" signed

Stewart H. Whitehill. No wife joining.

Deed Book 257 P 422. This recites property of the estate of Chas McLaughlin & says that his daughter, Elizabeth D. Whitehill died intestate leaving to survive her the following children, her next of kin:

Sarah B. Whitehill

Charles M. Whitehill

William Whitehill

George H. Whitehill

Henry W. Whitehill

Thomas J.C. Whitehill

Clarence E. Whitehill

Luella W. Gates intermarried with Merritt J. Gates & on Jany 14, 1907, they join with Saml McLaughlin, the Works et all from which it appears that Sarah B. Whitehill unmarried,

Charles M. Whitehill & Sarah E. his wife

William, Henry W., Thomas J.C. & Luella W. Gates & Merritt J. Gates, her husband, all of Marengo, Iowa, Geo H. Whitehill & Lottie his wife of Burlington Kansas & Clarence E. Whitehill & Dora his wife

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of Cologne Germany, convey to Wm A. Stone of North Union Tp for $71,514.30 two tracts of land in Franklin Tp described as one ctg 55011 A see page 67 this book.

At residence of Daniel Wesley Graham, Blairsville Intersection Westnd Pa (Torrence P.O.) Oct 8, 1924 9:30 AM

I walked down here from the station, a five minutes walk & Mr Graham says his parents bible with the old Graham records is with Mrs Fannie Graham 2 miles from here in this Derry Tp who lives in the town of Cokeville, she is widow of Mr G's oldest brother Joseph A. Graham (P.O. Cokeville). She has 2 boys & 2 girls & one girl dead. Mr G. is giving his mother's record in a table which I am beginning on next page

Leaving 10:12 AM

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[Descendant Chart]

Jemima Dunlap was daughter of Daniel Dunlap & he a son of Thomas Dunlap & his wife Jemima Jack. She was born Apr 4, 1830 & died Oct 10, 1878. She married 1 to Thomas Graham. She married 2d Oct 28, 1826 Christopher Hill who was born July 14, 1802, the son of Joseph Hill & his wife Catharine. He died Dec 31, 1882 in this Tp at the old Homestead about a mile below here where he had moved with his parents about 1806 to 1811. He was first buried on the farm here & later moved to the cemetery at Blairsville Pa. He built this house while his first wife was living about 1850 probably Mrs B. does not know where he was born nor the name of his grandparents.

[children]

Clara Graham, m. Jacob Gray. They are separated & she lives with her son in Pgh, John T. Gray.

Joseph A. Graham, ob m. Fannie Hoge. She lives at Cokeville Pa

Deborah Graham, m. Chas Stouffer. He is dead & she lives with her daughter Ida Bostick, Ft Wayne, Ind.

4. Daniel Wesley Graham, B Dec 12, 1857 in this Tp m. June 30, 1892 in this Tp to Nettie Bell Jones born Aug 30, 1872 in Ligonier Tp dau of Wm Denny Jones & his wife Jane Wellshons. Have had but two children both born in this Tp.

Clyde Wm Graham, B Jany 14, 1893 is unmarried & Frt Agt of PRR Co here at Blairsville Intersection. Married Oct 13, 1924 at Mt Pleasant Pa by Rev H.B. Clawson, Uncle of the bride to Nellie Mae Clawson born Aug 8, 1897 in Young Tp, Ind Co Pa dau of David Marion Clawson & wife Alice M. Smith [this obviously added later.]

Idella May Graham, B Mch 23, 1895 ob Nov 28, 1921 m. Sept 22, 1915 to Paul Captain Walter born Mch 2, 1892 son of Wm Captain Walter & his wife Elizabeth Singer. He lives in Blairsville Pa. Had but one child born in this house.

Clyde Raymond Walter, B May 22, 1916

6. Annie Jemima Hill B May 12, 1865 m. Harvey E. Hartman. Both living in Derry Pa. He is a RR engineer, retired. Have 5 children. Go see them

8. Elizabeth Lowry Hill. B June 24, 1869 m. Harry P. Rhoads. She died May 1898. He is Cash? of Blairsville NBK, 3 children, 2 living, See him. She is buried in Rhoads lot Blairsville Cem.

9. Catharine Belle Hill, B June 22, 1872 m. Chas L. Burnett both living just below & abt 5 minutes walk P.O. Torrence Pa & in this Co. He is foreman of a stone quarry just across the Conemaugh River. Have 3 children living & 3 dead. She has a lot of records of the family & I will have to come back to see her. Married Nov 21, 1893 Mr Burnett was born Oct 31, 1870 in Greene Co near Carmichaels Pa son of Smith Crago Burnett & wife Margaret McMinn. Two oldest children born at Long Bridge near Ligonier Pa & the other four in this house.

Margaret Kahn, B May 24, 1895 m. Oct 21, 1922 to Geo Henry Ongley born Mch 8, 1896 in England near London, youngest son of John Edward Ongley & his wife Catharine. Both living at 241 N 5th St Martins Ferry O where he is a mechanic. Have one child born in Wheeling WVa.

John Charles Ongley, B Aug 12, 1923

Olive Crago, B Dec 1st, 1896. Teaches in Blairsville Public School unmarried.

Ida Belle, B Mch 1, 1898 ob Feby 5, 1903

Mary Katherine, B Dec 7, 1900 ob Feby 5, 1903

Garnett Jane, B Sept 22, 1902. Graduate nurse fr Allegheny Genl Hospital, unmarried.

Charles Hill, B May 13, 1906 ob Aug 10, 1914

7. Isaac Baxter Hill, B Jany 15, 1867 ob Dec 1916 at Gbg Pa. M. Had 2 children. He was next after Annie. He is buried in the Hill heirs lot in Blairsville Pa Cem & has a marker. His wife was Miss Margaret Dodson who has since married Duff & both are living at Edgewood Pgh Pa.

Agnes Hill, m.

Emma L. Hill, m.

10. Mary Ida Hill, B Apr 8, 1875 m. Hiram Smith. Both living in Ohio. Have 1 child. Live near Atwater O where he is a farmer.

5. An infant, born probably in 1863 that did not survive.

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[Descendant Chart]

Nancy Ellen Fulton Born Apr 12, 1843 ob Apr 17, 1896 see page 271, dau of Jesse Fulton (son of James & Agnes) & his wife Margaret Brown, see also pages 42 & 43. Wm Brown & his descendants 228 by W.H. Taylor, Dermitt Pbg Co Pgh Pa 1905 from which in part, but principally from letter of Nov 12, 1925 fr Mrs S.C. Duncan, Saxonburg Pa see below small envelope filed, this record is made. Mar Aug 31, 1871 William Flick Thompson. He was son of Robert Thompson born Apr 27, 1813 & died Feby 18, 1880 & his wife Eleanor Flick born 1815 & died Mch 25, 1889. Robert 1813-1850 was son of Robert Thompson born 1767 & died 1843, a Revolutionary soldier & his wife Esther born 1791 & died Feby 7, 1856. All of their children were born in Middlesex Tp, Butler CO PA & Robert H. & Jennie E. died there.

[children]

Jesse Elmer Thompson, B May 14, 1872 m. June 20, 1894 to Eva Estella Fair dau of Geo Fair & wife Elizabeth Emerick who was born Oct 15, 1872. Have had 4 children born, oldest at Flick Pa, Butler Co next two at Tarentum Pa & the youngest at Salem WVA. Live at Okmulgee Okla P.O. Box 232.

2. William Cairns, B July 6, 1897 m. Jany 19, 1920 Sarah Margaret Smith born Jany 14, 1896 dau of Wm Thomas Smith & wife Grace Hele [sic] Pritchard. Have one child born Clarksburgh WVA where Sarah M. was born. Live Okmulgee Okla P.O. Box 232.

William Howard, B Dec 6, 1920

1. Elizabeth, B July 21, 1895 m. Aug 4, 1917 Earl L. Rogers B Jany 1, 1889 son of James Lee Rogers & wife Rebecca Davis. Have 3 children born in Clarksburgh WVA. Live 235 Fairview Ave, Clarksburgh WVA

Elmer Thompson, B July 11, 1919

Esther Alice, B Jany 13, 1921

Harry Howard, B Apr 15, 1924

Howard Leroy, B July 4, 1899 ob Dec 13, 1922 unmarried.

Alice Helen, B Aug 22, 1901 m. Sept 15, 1923 Smith Wade Richardson B Oct 6, 1902 in Jollytown Pa son of Eugene Wiley Richardson & wife Anna Matilda Wade. Live Okmulgee Okla P.O. Box 232.

Margaret Edna, B Apr 19, 1876 m. Nov 25, 1909 to Sample C. Duncan son of James Duncan & wife Elizabeth Gilland. Have had 6 children. Live Saxonburg Pa. She my good informant for this record.

Alice E., B. Oct 8, 1910

Daughter, Born & died Mch 1, 1912

Sample Claire, B Feby 2, 1913

Homer W., B Nov 25, 1914

James Elmer, B Dec 17, 1916, ob Jany 12, 1917

Earl F., B Feby 5, 1918

Kathryn Ellen, B Oct 15, 1877 m. Mch 25, 1909 to Chas H. Norris born in Clinton Tp, Butler Co Pa, son of John C. Norris a native of Butler Co Pa & his wife Jane Kay a native of Scotland. They have 4 children. Their address is Sarver Pa RD 2

William Charles, B Sept 13, 1910

Ethel A. B Sept 8, 1912

Rachel E. B Feby 28, 1914

Jessie K., B May 28, 1916

Jennie Esther, B Oct 20, 1882 ob Feby 3, 1885

Alice Inize, B June 1, 1884 ob Feby 3, 1886 at Tarentum Pa

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At residence of Mrs Nancy Jack McComb Henderson Hood No 710 Locust St (house on corner Wayne Ave) Indiana Pa Oct 8, 1924 1:46 PM

I arrived here 15 minutes ago & have been talking to Mrs Hood, her daughter being out. She says the above is her full name, but she goes by Nancy Jack Hood. She says she does not have her parents bible, but that her unmarried sister, Mary Ann Henderson got it. She died at her sister's Mrs Lucy McKee at Aledo Ills & she, Mrs McKee has since died & she does not know who got the bible. She thinks probably the bible was left with some of the friends in this county down about Jacksonville Pa but says they are all gone now. Says it was 30 or 40 or possibly more years ago that she went west. Thinks possibly Mrs H.B. McIntyre, a widow nee Hannah Marie McKee about Mrs Hood's age, daughter of James McKee an elder in Bethel Ch & who built the Jacksonville Church by she thinks his 1st wife, Elizabeth McFarland, some relation of old Uncle Wm McFarland (her mother's Uncle) & the same McKee who married for his 3d wife Nancy McComb for whom my informant was named (& her mother) who was a sister of Mrs Hood's mother

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but she had no children. Jane M. Lowman, who died at her full sister's, Mrs McIntyre's in Jacksonville Pa a few yrs ago was a daughter of James McKee, also by his second wife. She thinks Mrs McIntyre might know from living down there might know who got her parents bible or whether her sister took it west.

James McKee by his 1st wife Elizabeth McFarland above named had just a boy & a girl & both are dead, daughter was Ann.

His 2d wife was "Aunt Betsey" Ramsey & had several children 6 or 8 some dying in infancy, the oldest, Thomas Lucas McKee married my informant's sister Lucy Henderson then John Calvin McKee, a Civil War soldier, dead, the "Billy" the youngest boy. Jane mar Scott Lowman & died without issue. Hannah Maria mar H.B. McIntyre & she a widow lives in the town of Jacksonville Pa probably a year younger than my informant, then Eleanor Elizabeth mar to Henry Christman & had one daughter & about 3 sons. Mrs McIntyre had but one child, a daughter Jennie McIntyre unmarried, postmistress at Jacksonville which is Kent P.O. Pa

Mrs Hood says she never heard of the

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Coopers, see page 128, children of her grandmother, Nancy Jack's sister, Jane.

Says her niece, Mrs Nancy Lucinda Robinson wife of Alex Walter Robinson & daughter of Mrs Hood's oldest sister Jane Hosack, lives here on 13th St between Washington & School St in a new house & can give information.

I am making a table on page 470. Says to ask Mrs Robinson abt the old bible. Thinks her sister, Mary Ann left it with Ella Hosack who married a Fulton & died.

Page 128. She says Rev Scroggs was related to her mother, but she didn't know they were first cousins. She didn't think Long Billy McFarland who married Cynthia Wills was a son of "Uncle Billy". She says the Elizabeth McFarland who married a Bell was not a sister of Long Billy, but of the "other Billy" (Does she mean Uncle Billy). Her daughter came in abt 4:22 PM just as I was writing her name & she hunted up a binder note size sheet with the names of the eight children of Joseph Henderson & Mary McComb penciled down & the dates of their birth, which she says was written off & given to her by her cousin Ella Fulton dau of Jane Hosack & evidently taken from their bible record & which I have entered in place on pages 470 & 471. Miss Gretta thinks as does her mother that the old bible may have gone

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to Sallie McKee, youngest child of Jane Hosack, widow of Robert McKee, a farmer who now lives in the town of Slickville, Westd Co, a new mining town abt 5 miles from Saltsburg Pa. She lives with her two boys & one girl, two other girls are married.

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Mrs Hood knows of a Frank Dunlap who was their cousin now dead & says his mother was Jemima. Look at my 1921 Sept record & see if Thomas & Jemima had a son Frank, younger that those listed on page 129.

Page 129. Says her Aunt Jane McKnight's two children were both married & went to Texas & have died, but never heard of them having any children.

See page 528. Her Uncle John died at Jacksonville Pa & had children, one boy, James who died abt Pgh & had children, & Margaret mar Rev Wm D. Ewing, both dead & buried at Oakland Cem here leaving children: see page 529 Alex, Will, John & Birdie. Alex is on old farm on the old McComb farm near McComb School House.

See page 528. Mary mar out west to a Shane

Jane mar John Gibson both dead but daughters Melissa Magill, Ida, a teacher & Mrs Millser, a widow all live in Freeport Pa

Her Uncle David died abt 2 miles beyond Jacksonville Pa & had children viz: see page 472

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Mary McComb, daughter of Genl James McComb & his wife Nancy Jack see page 129 was born she thinks on the farm about a mile above Jacksonville Pa where she, my informant says she was born. She was born 1794 & died Sept 12, 1871 aged 77, after my informant was married & is buried with her husband, are buried at Bethel Ch. G.y. She married Joseph Henderson a native of Ireland born there 1780 & died Aug 27, 1844 aged 64 yrs & is buried at Bethel Ch g.y. He was brought to this country when 3 yrs old by his parents who she thinks settled near Clarksburg this CO, but she don't know their names. She never knew of any brothers & sisters of her father except Robert Henderson who owned a good farm near Saltsburg Pa & Uncle James Henderson, a farmer in Westnd Co between New Alexandria & Blairsville Pa. Mrs Margaret Love, a granddaughter of James, live on Turmin Ave N.S. old Allegheny. Robert's only living is Mrs Sarah Longwill aged 91, a widow, living with her son Harry in Dixonville Ind Co Pa abt 20 miles from here. Says her parents had but 8 children, 4 boys & 4 girls all born in this Co, but not all on the same farm.

[children]

Robert Ralston Henderson, B Oct 24, 1819 ob in Aledo Ills & buried there. M. in Illinois to Elizabeth Carter. Had 2 boys & 1 girls. She dead & one of the boys is living in Illinois.

James Ralston, m.

Mary Elizabeth, ob unmarried.

Charles, living but don't know where.

Jane McKnight, B Aug 23, 1821 ob Oct 17, 1895 near Kent Pa aged 74 yrs [unreadable] mo 25 days. Named for her Aunt. M. 1852 to David Hosack Born July 25, 1820 son of John Hosack & wife Sarah Russell. Had one boy & three girls born in Derry Tp, Westnd Co Pa see page 496. He died in Sept 1894.

James McComb Henderson, B Apr 5, 1824 ob Aug 17 1868, m. Oct 18, 1848 in Marion O. to Susan Huggins, born Oct 14, 1828 at Liverpool Pa dau of Simon Huggins & wife Susan Jones. He is buried in Marion O. Was a carpenter. had but two children, girls.

Mary E., B Apr 17, 1851 at Marion O. She was Mrs H's first niece & is abt 10 yrs younger than her. M. July 25, 1870 to John Wesley Hanna. He is dead. Living in Seattle, Wash. 2 or 3 children at No 1608 E. Republican St. He was born at Freeport O Dec 2, 1848 & died at Seattle Wash Jany 18, 1918 son of Wm Hanna & wife Jane Caldwell. 4 children all born at Mattoon Ills see page 490.

Gertrude, B Dec 12, 1872 ob Feby 10, 1916 at Seattle Wash. unmarried.

Ethel Hanna, B Jany 7, 1875 m. Dec 12, 1894 to James Doster Hoge born Sept 21, 1871 at Zanesville O, son of James D. Hoge & wife Anna Mary Slack. He is a capitalist & lives at Seattle Wash. see page 490.

Wm Henderson, B Feby 5, 1877 m. June 19, 1905 to Edith Waltz born Aug 28, 1870 at Green Castle Ind dau of Dr J.H. Waltz & wife Carrie Black, see page 490

Clara Mary Hanna, B Aug 24, 1883 m. Nov 4, 1903 at Muskogee Okla to Archibald Coleman DeVoe Born Mch 14, 1881 at Indiana Pa son of Dr Arthur DeVoe & wife Alice Coleman. See page 490.

Laura, B Aug 30, 1854 at Marion O. m. Sept 20, 1877 to John Milton Maris born May 12, 1838 at Annapolis Md. He died Mch 19, 1922. Living in Seattle Wash. Has but 1 child. He was son of William Maris & wife Abigail Hunt. Lives 819 North 13th Tacoma Wash.

Sue Midas Maris, B July 23, 1881 at Tuscola Ills. m. June 18, 1908 to Richard Lane Woodland in Decatur Ills. He is a wholesale leather merchant. He was born May 6, 1882 at McCauley Minn son of A.W.L. Woodland & wife Anne Clellnd [sic]

John Fullerton Henderson [son of Mary McC & Joseph Henderson] B June 29, 1826 ob in Washington Iowa m.1. in this Co to Ursula Dickie dau of Wm Dickie & wife Jane? Allison. She died leaving two boys both Doctors. M.2. in this Co to Malinda Nesbit. She died. She had two girls.

William Dickie M.D., m. practicing in Biggsville Ills. Has issue.

Joseph George M.D., m. practicing in West Chester, Iowa. No issue. Write to him.

Jennie, ob, unmarried.

Anna, single & is a teacher at Ames Iowa

Dickie, B Oct 24, 1909

Susanne, B July 12, 1912

David Laird Henderson B Aug 16, 1829 ob. m. in Jacksonville Pa Cecelia Atkinson dau of Anthony Atkinson & wife. He died in Armour S.Dak. He changed his middle name to M. for McComb. Had one son & 4 girls, all born in this Co most of them in Jacksonville Pa.

Rhoda, m.1. Black, divorced. m.2. Miller. He died & she lives at Armour S.Dak. Has child by 1st husband.

Cecelia Black, m. & has issue

Charles Black

Harry, ob m. & had 3 boys in 1902. She died since he did.

Fannie, m. Edgar Cline. Both living. Have a son Howard & a girl at 304 Emmitt St Ypsilanti Mich. Write to her.

Neta, ob m. Ames

Lue, m.

Dan, [dau?] m.

Lue, m. Rev Lucas. Both living in the Black Hills S.Dak. Think has 3 girls all married.

Mary Ann Henderson, B June 5, 1832 ob Dec 20, 1906 at Aledo Ills & is buried at Bethel Ch g.y & has a marker umarried.

Lucinda Smith Henderson, B Aug 22, 1834 ob In Aledo Ills & is buried in the cem there. m. to Thomas Lucas McKee who died at Aledo Ills & is buried there. He was son of James McKee & his 2d wife Elizabeth Ramsey. He was a farmer. They had 2 girls born in this Co & 4 boys born on the farm 2 1/3 to 3 ms from Aledo Ills.

Elizabeth, unmarried, living

Jennie, m. Leslie George. He dead. She is living with daughter P.O. Davenport Iowa.

James Orr, ob in Des Moines Iowa Hospital. M. Maggie. She living Has two daus & living in Aledo Ills

Thomas

Harry, unmarried & living in Aledo? with his sister Elizabeth at the old homestead.

John, m. in Montana

Louis, m. in Montana

Nancy Jack McComb Henderson, B Feby 16, 1837 in Black Lick Tp, Ind Co Pa near to & adjoining Jacksonville Pa. m. Nov 20, 1865 in Jacksonville Pa by Rev Franklin Orr Pres (says she & they all are Presbyterians) to Thomas B. Hood born July 12, 1839 in White Tp, Ind Co Pa 2 1/2 miles fr here & died July 25, 1913 & is buried in Oakland Cem here. He was a farmer & after going to Pgh Pa was a street car conductor. He was in Co B 11th Reg, Col Porter's Regiment 3 yrs fr 1862 until war closed. He was in battles of Bull Run. He was son of James Hood & wife Margaret Trimble.

James Ambert, B Sept 8, 1866 m. Apr 29, 1891 to Clara Greenhouse B Mch 30, 1874 dau of John Greenhouse & his wife.

Clyde Ambert Hood, B May 12, 1892 in Pgh Pa mar June 4, 1913 to Bessie McCuean B. July 1892. Live in Hazlewood Pa & works for Duquesne Light Co. Children born in Hazlewood.

Ethel Clara, B Mch 10, 1914

Thos Clyde, B May 11, 1916

James McCutcheon, B in Kittanning Pa July 14, 1894. was in World War & was abroad. unmarried.

Mary Margrett, B Aug 17, 1869 at home unmarried & a joint informant

Anna Luella, B May 21, 1872 ob Oct 8, 1878 6 yrs 4 mos 17 days.

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From page 469.

Rainey went to army & served his time.

Harvey went to Civil War & died in Libby prison unm

Amanda mar James Irwin & had no children. Went to Minton, Neb.

Only had the 3 children thinks Rainey mar after he came back from the war, but don't know whether he had any children.

Never heard anything about her Uncles, Andrew & Joseph. Her Aunt Nancy mar James McKee for his 3d wife but had no issue.

Leaving 5:55 PM

Mrs Hood is a fine, well preserved intelligent woman of medium height & weight & was very kind & asked me if ever in Indiana again to call & see her. She has a black wart on her right cheek about half way up & abt 1 1/2 inches from her nose & about the size of the average or medium sized chestnut.

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At residence Alexander Walter Robinson No 252 S 13th St, Indiana Pa Oct 8, 1924 7:16 PM

Mrs Robinson is a daughter of Jane McKnight Henderson who married David Hosack. She has brought out their own big Bible, but says her sister Ella Fulton got their parents bible & her Aunt Mary Ann Henderson gave her hers that is the bible of Mary Ann's parents, Joseph & Mary Henderson. Mrs R. says these bibles either went to her sister Sarah Jane McKee, living at Slickville, Bell? Tp, Westd Co Pa or to her own daughter Ida May Fulton living here on S. 5th St No 316 where she says she saw an old bible in the attic. Mrs R. is giving me her mother & father's record which I am filling in on page 470 & in a new table on page 476.

Harry A. Robinson was in 110th Reg 28th Div. He was in 6 battles viz Champagne Marne, Aisne Marne, Oise-Aisne, Mense Argonne, and defensive sector was twice struck with shrapnel & twice severely gassed, was honorably discharged May 23, 1919, was abroad near two years & was a fine grand boy. It is now

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nine o'clock, & Mr Robinson, who had said he would go with me to his daughter's, Mrs Fulton about a mile from here says they would be in bed & he says he will go & see if the old bible is there & will send me the record if it is.

Page 469. Mr & Mrs R. say that Alex Ewing named on line 25, lives near the coal town of Aultman, Ind, Co Pa (P.O. Indiana RFD Pa) & is aged abt 55 to 60 yrs & could give record of that branch. He is married & has 5 or 6 children. Birdie is unmarried & is teaching school in Pgh. John is married & lives in Clarksburg sector near Conemaugh Church, married, has two or more children.

Mrs Lottie Hine, wife of Samuel Hine, both living on a farm near the coal town of Iselin, Indiana Co Pa & the town of Elders Ridge are bright & could give information. Lottie is a daughter of James McComb, bro of Margaret, the wife of Rev W.D. Ewing. Felt sure Alex Ewing wd have his parents bible. Mrs Robinson produces obituary of her mother's Aunt Nancy McComb McKee, showing she died at Jacksonville Pa Apr 18, 1889 in her 89th yr. She was a daughter of Gen James McComb one of the first Elders of Bethel Church. She lived most of her life on the farm on which she was

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born & on Nov 24, 1851, married Capt James McKee who survived her. She was a communicant for almost 70 yrs.

Mr Robinson says it is most likely that the Gen James McComb bible was handed down to Rev W.D. Ewing & his wife & would now be in hands of their son, Alex Ewing who lives in what they think is the old Gen McComb farm.

Neither of them know anything about Jane Shadle. Mr R. says "Mark" Hodges is still living at Blairsville Pa.

Leaving 9:55 PM

They were both very kind as were his son Lawrence F., his wife & their daughter who were just leaving when I arrived.

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Jane McKnight Henderson mar David Hosack. They both died in Young Tp this Co, & are buried in Union Cemetery, Armstrong Tp, this Co. He was a farmer & a Presbyterian.

[children]

John Calvin Hosack, B Nov 25, 1853 ob Sept 14, 1903 near West Lebanon, Ind Co Pa. m. to Jennie Lowry who was dau of Jesse Lowrey [sic] & wife Margaret Hanna. She died & think are buried in Blairsville Cem as they died there. They had three children all born in Young Tp & a baby d.y.

Arlie Hosack, m. Lives in this Co north of town, farmer Has 4 boys.

Orive Hosack, unmarried, a farmer north of town.

Paul Hosack, m. lives near Dayton Pa & thinks is farming. Have one child.

Grace Hosack, ob aged under 1 yr?

Mary Ellen Hosack, B Oct 23, 1855 ob Mch 12, 1919 near Slickville Pa & is buried in Union Cem, Armstrong Tp, m. June 13, 1900 near Slickville Pa to Joseph Alexr Fulton born near West Lebanon Pa, son of Silas C. Fulton & wife Mary E. He died. She was his 2d wife & died without issue.

Nancy Lucinda Hosack, B Mch 12, 1858, my informant of tonight m. May 14, 1885 to Alexr Walter Robinson, born Nov 5, 1855 in Armstrong Tp, this Co son of John Lewis Robinson & his wife, Catharine Margaret McMullen. He is a retired farmer. Have had 6 children all born in Armstrong Tp, this Co.

Lawrence Franklin Robinson, Born Apr 21, 1886 m. Mch 12, 1913 to Rose Pearl Miller, B Mch 21, 1888 dau of Moses Miller & wife Rachel Mangus. Have had two children born in Armstrong Tp, this Co. He is a merchant & lives here at No 343? S. 6th St. He is a Pres & Republican. He is an Elder & the four generations of Robinsons in direct line have been Elders.

Virginia Margaret, B Mch 26, 1914

Elizabeth Abi Jane, B Nov 9, 1917 ob Mch 17, 1919

Ida Mae Robinson, B Jany 13, 1889 m. Mch 10, 1910 to John Hamilton Fulton B Aug 25, 1880 near West Lebanon Pa, son of Joseph Alexr Fulton & his 1st wife Maria McClelland[9]*. Have two children born in Young Tp, this Co. He was a farmer, now a carpenter. Live here No 316 S. 5th St.

Nancy Ruth, B Oct 26, 1911

Alice Mae, B May 30, 1916

Harry Alexander, B Oct 14, 1891 ob Feby 27, 1921 in Indiana Hospital. He was abroad in World War & twice gassed. M. Aug 30, 1920 to Ethel Claire Nelson, who is living, dau of Grant Nelson.

Stillborn son, B July 3, 1921

Arthur D., B May 1, 1893, is in the coal business at Norfold Va & is single.

Clark Lewis, B Jany 7, 1896 ob Sept 6, 1898

Unnamed daughter, B Mch 29, 1903 ob Mch 29, 1903

Sarah Jane Hosack, B Sept 18, 1860 m. May 14, 1890 to Robt McQuilken McKee born in Westd Co Pa near Saltsburg Pa, son of Thomas McKee & his wife. He died Aug 2, 1921. She lives at Slickville Pa. Have had 7 children, 5 living, all born near Slickville Pa.

Stillborn son Mary Jane, B Dec 24, 1891? m. James L. Patterson, son of James Patterson & wife Johnson. Both living a mile N.E. of Apollo where he is a farmer & have two children born there.

Sarah Jane, B Aug 8? 1921

James McKee

Martha Helen, B Mch, at home, single

Estella, B June, m. Rev Deane Walters & live New Geneva Pa where he is pastor of Pres Ch. No issue.

Leroy, B Apr 23, 1903, at home, single

Ray McQuilken, the youngest

Unnamed daughter born between Helen & Estella & lived abt two days.

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At Residence of Frank Oliver Leasure. No 107 W. 2nd St, Greensburg Pa Oct 10, 1924 9:25 PM

I arrived here half an hour ago. Mr Leasure's mother was Elizabeth Oliver, only child of her mother Salome Markle (sometimes nicknamed Sarah, instead of Salome) daughter of great grandfather Casper Markle & his 2d wife Mary Rothermel. He has his parents bible printed in 1871 in New York by A.J. Johnson with record which I am copying below. He says his mother was always delicate & he was her only child. She suffered from Brights disease & it at last went to her lungs. He says she often spoke of father as "Gasper Thompson", who she esteemed as her favorite cousin. He knows nothing about who got the bible record if there was one, of his grandfather Samuel Oliver, who married Salome Markle for his 3d wife & whose first wife Henderson, left two daughters & whose second wife Pinkerton left two daughters & whose third wife Markle left but one daughter, his mother, & he had no sons, nor does he know of any older bible records of the Olivers nor of any Oliver marrying Elizabeth Thompson. The bible record of his parents follows on next page.

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John Gamble Leasure born Jany 12, 1824

Elizabeth Oliver born Jany 24, 1828

Franklin Oliver, son of J.G. & Elizabeth O. Leasure born Aug 9, 1849

Mary Elizabeth Andrews born Sept 1st, 1854

Mary Hannah, daughter of F.O. & M.E. Leasure born Aug 2, 1880

Elizabeth Jane, daughter of F.O. & M.E. Leasure born Aug 23, 1883

Marriages

On October 26th, 1848 by Rev Richard Gaily Mr J.G. Leasure & Miss Elizabeth Oliver.

On Feby 25, 1879 by Rev R.B. Taggart, Mr F.O. Leasure & Miss M.E. Andrews

Deaths

On Feby 6, 1887 Elizabeth Oliver, wife of J.G. Leasure aged 59 yrs & 13 days.

On Apr 6, 1909, John G. Leasure aged 85 yrs 2 mos & 24 days

On Jany 15, 1906, Jane Oliver aged 95 yrs 4 mos & 2 days. She was born Sept 13, 1810 in Hempfield Tp abt 9 miles west of Gbg on the same farm on which all the five children of Saml Oliver was born. Mr Leasure, my informant was born also in Hempfield Tp about a mile west of above farm & on which his father too was born.

A paper written by Mr Leasure's mother, gives the above dates of her marriage & her son's birth & also that he "was baptized in the Reformed Presbyterian Church Nov 4, 1850" & by Rev Miller

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The bible also states that my informant's daughters were baptized as follows:

"Miscellaneous"

Mary H. Leasure baptized Oct 9, 1880 by Rev Josie Stevenson

Elizabeth J. Leasure Baptized May 1884 by Rev J.G. Garvin

Mr Leasure says he is a member of the First U.P. Church here & in which he has been an elder for abt 20 yrs. His wife & daughters are also members.

Mr Lawrence says his grandfather, Samuel Oliver died in 1855, when he himself was but 6 yrs old & that he had been blind for a few yrs before his death & he drew him to himself & held him in his arms, being then blind. His 3d wife Salome, had died in 1852. My informant had seen her in his childhood, but does not remember her. They both died on the farm in Hempfield Tp & are buried at Dick Church.

Mr Leasure says that when his mother was a young girl & prior to the Pgh fire of 1845, her Uncle Joseph Oliver, an older brother of her father, Samuel, visited his brother Samuel (Joseph being then a resident of Pgh ) & proposed taking her, his niece, Elizabeth Oliver, home with him to Pgh & give her an education, but her older half sister, Jane Oliver, above named, strenuously objected because she herself had not gotten an education. Joseph Oliver was burned out in the great Pgh fire of 1845, his residence being burned

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& he losing all of his household goods. Mr L. does not recall anything of his wife (whether it was Elizabeth Thompson) nor of any of his family except an unmarried daughter Emily Oliver who lived to be 96 yrs old & who was much older than Jane, her cousin above named. She died many years before Jane did, dying in Pgh as did her father. Search record there for wills or deeds of either & also here for deeds to or from him & will of their father Andrew Oliver.

My informant's father, John G. Leasure, was son of Abram Leasure & his wife Barbara Lobingier. He does not know the names of her parents, but she had a brother Christopher whom his father called "Uncle Stophel Lobingier". He says also that Col Israel Painter's mother was a sister of his grandmother, who he used to call "Aunt Barbara". He has also heard his father speaking of David Waltz being related to him. His Uncle Stophel may have been named for Stophel Hepler. He says his great grandfather, Daniel Leasure, was a Rev soldier, the family coming to America in 1624 & were French Huguenots, the name having been "DeLeasure". William Leasure a brother of Abram lived up by Pleasant Unity & was 85 yrs old when he died & his daughter Sarah Jane married David Markle & is now living here with her widowed daughter Tillie Bortz & is about 90 yrs old.

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Mr L's wife, Mary Elizabeth Andrews is a fine good countenanced, gray haired large woman of medium height & is the daughter of William Andrews (whose brother, John, married Hannah Carnahan, daughter of Aunt Betsey) & his wife Hannah Hunter. She being daughter of John Hunter & his wife Ann Graham, who were of Mt Pleasant Tp & Mrs L. thinks they were of a different family from the Daniel Hunter family of South Huntingdon Tp.

Mr L's daughter Mary H. is unmarried & is Asst Trust officer of the Union Trust Co corner Main & Otterman St here where she has been employed since it started & had formerly been with the Westmoreland Trust Co & then with the Barclay? Westmoreland Trust Co. She is a Notary Public.

His second daughter, Elizabeth Jane, was married in Greensburgh Pa by Rev Dr Wm J. McMichael, their present pastor, on June 1912 to Clyde Bennett Moore born in Hempfield Tp on the old Saml Oliver farm in Nov 1, 1880, grandson of James Moore & his wife Susannah Shuey. See page 498. He is Asst cashier of the Merchants & Farmers Natl Bank here with which he has been connected since the spring of 1904. He lives on Arch street here in the Klingensmith Apartments. They have had but two children both born in Gbg, one dead & one living viz:

1. Robert Leasure Moore born Sept 18, 1913 & died Jany 26, 1916 aged 2 yrs & 4 mos & 8 days.

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2. Mary Elizabeth Moore born Oct 17, 1922

Mrs Leasure says widow Irwin, living here, aged upwards of 60 is a granddaughter of James B. Oliver.

Mr L. says his grandfather's sister, Jane Oliver married a Hunter & lived in South Huntingdon Tp & their son was David the father of Arch B. who married S. Florence Bell who they tell me was buried yesterday at the Sewickly Pres Stone church. Mr L. now tells me that James Moore was Clyde's grandfather & that Clyde's father was John A. Moore whose wife was Popsey D. Keefer, whose mother was a Bell, sister of S. Florence Hunter's father. He knows nothing about Sarah & Elizabeth Oliver, sisters of his grandfather Samuel. He says his grandfather's children were:

1. Margaret Oliver by 1st wife Henderson, mar a Brenneman & thinks they lived at Freeport Pa & only had one child a son Oliver who died when young, unmarried.

2. Mary Oliver by 1st wife married Wm Cochran & lived at Leechburg Pa. She came to West Newton to visit her Uncle James B. Oliver took sick & died there & had but one child, a son Richard Cochran, who married & lived at Foxburg, Venango Co Pa, both dead leaving 3 daus & one son, but don't know whether they are at old home or not. The son is in Ohio in RR business.

3. Jane Oliver, unmarried see above. She got her father's bible, but there was no record in it. She gave it to the Taylors before she died.

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4. Sarah Oliver, married David Stewart Taylor & lived in Smith Tp, Wash Co Pa 1 1/2 miles N.E. of Burgettstown Pa & both died there leaving 7 boys & 2 girls:

1. Joseph, lived & died in California at San Jose, married & had 3 daughters.

2. Oliver, lived & died in Wheeling WVA, was a lawyer. Left 2 or 3 daughters.

3. Mary Ann (oldest of family) married & lived & died at Burgettstown Pa leaving one son.

4. Henry G. Taylor, living yet on a farm 3 miles west of Burgettstown Pa, married & had one daughter. He is a director in the Washington Bank, Burgettstown Pa.

5. William Pinkerton Taylor, a doctor living & practicing in Noblestown, Allegheny Co Pa & wd be abt 80 if living. Has sons David, a Doctor, & Wm.

6. David Stewart Taylor Jr, living on the old home farm, unmarried.

7. Jane Oliver Taylor also at home unm on old farm.

8. James Buchanan Taylor, at home unm on old farm & who is Pres of the Washington Bank at Burgettstown Pa & is a yr younger than Mr Leasure. He is the one to write to at Burgettstown, Pa

5. Elizabeth Oliver by 3d wife, got record above

Leaving 12:15 PM

Mr Leasure sd that U.S. Senator Edgar Cowan married a daughter of James Brison Oliver.

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At residence of Mrs Mary Delnora Corbett No 451 N. Pennsylvania Ave Greensburg Pa Oct 10, 1924 1:11 PM

Mrs Corbett is a daughter of Samuel Bell who was son of Walter & Polly Bell. She says her cousin, Mrs M.F. Null, has the history Rev Emmons wrote of her grandmother, Polly Bell. Rev Emmons gave it to Polly's son Wm T.N. Bell & he gave it to his daughter Mrs Col. Null.

I am questioning her to fill in the blanks in the family table in book 10 pages 58 & 59. Mrs C. says her grandfather, Walter Bell is buried at Sewickly Church & has a tombstone. See my record Oct 1920 book 4 front & get dates & fill in book 10 p 58. She says he & his brother came from East of the mountains, don't know what county & settled in Old Derry, this County. Emmons Hist says they came from Shippensburg.

2. Her Aunt Rosanna Milligan is buried at Dick g.y & no doubt has a marker. Look at my record & see if I got it. Her children were: Walter, Margaret, John, Elizabeth, & Albert. Her husband, William Milligan was a brother of John Milligan, the father of Mrs Bruner. The above five children are all buried at Dick Cem. Walter, Margaret & John never married & wd have markers, knows Margaret & John have.

Elizabeth, mar Joseph Hamilton also dead & buried at Dick g.y. Had but one child, Anna Bell, who married Thomas Smouse

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& lived at Mill Bell or Sewickly, close to cem where he is a farmer & have three children viz? Walter, Harry & Ruth, all at home unmarried. Mrs C. saw her at the funeral yesterday.

Albert married Mary McGuffey, dau of Robert McGuffey & wife Catharine Weaver from near Suterville Pa. Albert is dead, but she is living in about Pgh with one of her sons, Wm Milligan. Her only other child was Hays Milligan who died aged abt 4 yrs. William married a girl off from here but have no issue.

3. William T.N. Bell is Mrs Null's father & I will see her for his record.

4. Jane F. Bell, Mrs C. says her grandmother told her that she died of typhoid fever 3 or 4 mos after she was married, is buried at Sewickly g.y. & has a tombstone. He married again here & went west died there. Don;t know his father's name. Look up Book 10 page 302 & see if he was one of Joseph Hough's children.

5. John R. Bell & his wife lived at Bells Mills near or at Sewickly Church & both are buried there & have markers. They had a baby that died in infancy & two children that lived, Clara & William. They both died unmarried. She, when a young lady & he when 21 yrs old. She is buried in Sewickly g.y. & has a tombstone & he died in Pgh & is buried in West Newton Cem & is in his Uncle David Bell's lot where the names are on the monument.

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6. Samuel Bell. This is my informant's father. She has gone to look up date of his death. Says she used to remember all the dates, but can't any more. She doesn't know whether Mrs Painter or her brother's widow at Scottdale Pa got her father's bible. Both buried at Sewickly g.y. & have markers. She can't recall dates of their death, says to ask Mrs Painter. Says her sister, Maggie Clara Bell is buried at Sewickly g.y. & dates are on her tombstone. She says she spells her name with one L viz: Delnora.

7. Mary Ann Bell married John Keefer & she had six children. Both buried at the new St Clair Cem here & have markers. Clyde B. Moore, their grandson can get records.

9. David P. Bell had 12 children. Mrs Wm L. Scholl, being the oldest & see her for bals of record. They are both buried in the West Newton Cem.

11. Lydia O. Bell, married Henry B. Keefer a brother of John & he is buried in Colorado & she survived him & went further west. Thinks they had 5 children, oldest James & Samuel, Arthur, Samantha, & Lulu & Albert, the youngest.

Arthur died aged 2 yrs when here on a visit & is buried at Sewickly Ch & has a marker. Samantha died aged 6 or 7 & is buried in Iowa. She thinks at Knoxville. Samuel died when a young man at Big Bend Kan & is buried there. Lulu mar-

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ried in the west & thinks Clyde B. Moore will know whether she, James & Albert are living & where.

12. Nancy Bell married William Pollock an older half brother of Stephenson Pollock & she died without issue at Bells Mills & is buried at Sewickly g.y. & thinks she has a marker.

14. Walter Bell. Says he died Young & is buried at Sewickly g.y. & says has a marker as she understands they all had.

Oct 26/24 have not hunted out tombstones records yet.

Mrs Corbett says her husband was 25 yrs older than she was.

Says since I mention it, she remembers that her grandmother, Polly Bell did speak of a couple of her Aunts being carried off, but it seems like a dream to her & she can't recall the story or where they went.

Mrs Corbett is a member of Westminster Pres Church. Says the Bells are all Democrats

Leaving 3:33 PM

I then walked around to 318 Walnut St & made arrangements with Miss Jane H. Hodge to call after dinner about 8 o'clock. I then walked down to Court House & took Bunker Hill car & got off at Hospital stop & was soon:

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At residence of Charlotte Bell Null No 450 W. Pittsburgh St, Greensburgh Pa Oct 10, 1924 4:40 PM

Mrs Null has loaned me the sermon preached by Rev A.W. Emmons at the funeral of her grandmother, Polly Bell which I am to copy & return the original to her with a carbon copy & am to send a copy to Mrs Corbett.

She thinks her mother died in 1881 & is sure it was on the 19th Nov which is her birthday. She says S. Florence Hunter buried yesterday (she died Oct 7, 1924 Tuesday) was the oldest of her parents' children, Mary was next & she is 3d two sisters, one living with her, never married, two children died in infancy & the other seven of the eleven children married & raised families. I am starting a table on page 492. Mrs Null & her husband, oldest son & two youngest daughters have given me the record on pages 492 & 493 & the daughters are going to gather the records to complete the data covering the descendants of Wm T. N. Bell Col Null is a brother of Minerva N. Hough, Josephine N. Boyd & Edwina N. Work of our town. The family are all Presby-

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terians, members of the 1st Pres Ch here.

Leaving 6:22 PM

Genevieve very kindly called a taxi for me & paid him for taking me to Mrs Painter's which was very kind as it was a long ways & hard to find. See page 494. Col Null said that Francis Marion Null who was active in Green Co coal operations about 24 yrs ago, was his first cousin. I was given an ovation practically everywhere & all cordially invited me back.

Going out to Mrs Corbett's, I noticed in the building corner Penna Ave the name of Carroll Caruthers Atty at Law in an upstairs window.

[Descendant Chart]

Mary E. Henderson married John Wesley Hanna, see page 470.

[children]

Ethel Hanna, m. James D. Hoge, two children born at Seattle, Wash.

Mary Louise, B. Aug 16, 1896 m. Sept 4, 1919 to James Colbert Sullivan. Have one son born in Seattle, Wash.

James Hoge, B Jany 18, 1921

Anna Roberta, B Mch 21, 1899 m. June 1, 1922 to Hamilton Cawley Rolfe. Have two sons born in Seattle, Wash.

Hamilton Cawley Jr, B Mch 15, 1923

James Doster, B Apr 2, 1924 William Henderson Hanna, He is credit man for wholesale plumbing & supply Co Seattle, Wash, see page 470. Apparently no issue.

Clara Mary, M. Archibald Coleman DeVoe who is in the wholesale plumbing & supply Co business at Seattle, Wash see page 470 Have two children born in Seattle, Wash.

Alice Elizabeth, B Sept 30, 1904

James Archibald, B Sept 16, 1909

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[Descendant Chart]

William T.N. Bell mar Frances Ann Bennett, both buried at Sewickly Ch, all born in South Huntingdon Tp except Harrison Laird Bell was born here in Gbg Pa while his father was Shff during his 3 yr term in the '60s. Mrs Bell died Nov 19, 1881 aged 54 yrs 8 mos 8 days see book 4 page 69 item 25. He was born Jany 12, 1817 & died Dec 24, 1888 see book 4 page 69 item 25 & book 10 page 58. She was born Mch 11, 1827.

[children]

Sarah Florence, B Oct 2, 1851 ob Oct 7, 1924 m. A.B. Hunter see book 4 p 1 on Sept 15, 1874

Mary Bell, B Apr 19, 1853 ob Jany 14, 1916 unmarried & is buried at Sewickly Ch

Charlotte Bennett, B Nov 19, 1854 m. Mch 29, 1877 to Col Millard Fillmore Null, born Apr 5, 1854 in East Huntingdon Tp at McKean's old stand, son of Henry Harrison Null & his wife Ellen Dom [Dorn?]. Both living here at 450 W. Pgh St. Have had 7 children all born at Ruffsdale, East Huntingdon Tp, Westd Co except Walter who was born here in Gbg Pa.

Charles McCulley, B July 20, 1878, at home single

Walter Bennett, B Oct 13, 1880 m. June 11, 1913 to Mary Durstine born Sept 21. Both living in Scottdale Pa & is an accountant & with the American Sheet Steel Co.

Walter Bennett Jr, B Mch 13, 1914 at Gbg Pa

Eleanor Dom, B Feby 22, 1883 m. June 28, 1911 to Edgar Fries Lawrence born June 20, 1885 at West Newton Pa son of Rev Chas Lawrence & wife Selia Fries (dau of Harriet Fries) 2 children at Coraopolis.

Millard Null. B Aug 1, 1912

Edgar Fries Jr, B July 14, 1914

Genevieve, B Aug 23, 1885, at home, single

Millard Fillmore Jr, B June 18, 1888 m. June 22, 1921 Allameda Lewis born Oct 9, 1900 in Jeannette Pa dau of John R. Lewis & his wife Ida Swartzendruber. Both living in Tampico Mexico where he has been for 5 yrs in the oil business. No issue. He was in World War enlisting also Sept 7, 1917 & was a First Lieut. Went 1st to Georgia in a base hospital & fr there to Peoria Ill & there to Kenosha, Wis & then to Aberdeen Md serving till war closed & was abt to sail abroad fr Raritan N.J. when the war closed.

Galia Minota, B Feby 16, 1891, at home unmarried.

Henry Harrison II, B Oct 3, 1893 ob July 30, 1918, Killed in action in the World War at Courmont, France. He was with headquarters Co 10th Inf 28th Div & went abroad May 3, 1918 entd service Sept 7, 1917. He was unmarried. He was in the 2d battle of the Marne from July 14, until he was killed.

John Breckenridge [son of William T.N. Bell] B Oct 22, 1856 ob Nov 22, 1922 in Sewickly Tp & is buried at Sewickly g.y. He mar Mary Henry. She is living in Pgh. Have 4 children, 2 boys & 2 girls.

David Bennett, B Mch 4, 1858 ob June 5, 1916 m. Nov 22, 1885 to Laura E. Reynolds dau of Henry Reynolds & wife (3d wife). She lives here in Gbg & has 2 children, a boy & girl both mar.

Walter Bell, B Oct 21, 1859 m. Nov 1880 to Vina Hough dau of Paul Hough & wife. He is a farmer in South Huntingdon Tp, both living & have a boy & girl both mar.

Joseph Bennett, B Feby 1, 1862 ob Apr 21, 1868 in infancy see book 4 p 69 item 25.

Harrison Laird, B Oct 4, 1864, m. Oct 1888 to Sarah Wineman. Both living at Scottdale where he is a RR eng & have 4 boys & 2 girls living & one boy dead.

Anna Cora, B Aug 22, 1866 ob Aug 22, 1868 in infancy

Alma Etta, B Jany 27, 1868 single lives here & at Mrs Hunter's.

Albert Milligan, B Jany 4, 1871 m. to Anna McCall. Have five girls, one of them married, all born here in Gbg where both are No ___ Alexander ST. he is engineer at the ice plant being an electrician.

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At residence of Anna Lydia Painter No 818 Sidney St (corner of Alexander St) Greensburgh Pa Oct 10, 1924 6:44 PM

Mrs Painter is the daughter of Samuel Bell who was son of Walter & Polly Bell & widow of Morris Lobingier Painter. I am making note of data in table in book 10 p 58.

She says her mother, Susan Boyd was a first cousin of David Waltz who married a McMasters. Referring to her son, Samuel B's wife whose mother was a Byerly, she says she has heard her mother say that the Byerlys were related on the Bell side. Samuel's wife, Harriet C. has come in & says her mother's father was John Byerly & he was son of Michael whose wife was a Herren [sic]. Harriet says her grandfather, John Byerly's sister, Mary Stairs, aged 86 & mind clear & good lives in Wilkinsburg Pa with her son Clarence Stairs on Trenton Ave & she is now visiting here in Gbg. She will consult with her & let me know. Clare says she will look through some old papers & if she finds additional data will send it to me.

Leaving 8:05 PM

Clare very kindly arranged for her brother Walter M. to take me to the Penn Albert.

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Mrs Painter said that Maria Dunkle was the maiden name of her husband's mother, who was the natural son of Col Israel Painter & was born she said in Lancaster City, Pa. See book 10 page 58. She said Elizabeth Painter, first wife of Uncle Joseph Markle, was a sister of Israel Painter.

Sarah Jane Markle aged about 90, widow of David Markle lives with her widowed daughter, Mrs Bortz, who has two daughters. I intended to go to see her, but did not have time to do so.

Mrs Painter remembered my calling at her father, Samuel Bell's to see her grandmother Polly Bell about 46 to 48 yrs ago, when she was in her teens & said she always asked Mr Painter when he came to Uniontown whether he had seen me.

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[Descendant Chart]

Anna Lydia Bell, mar Morris L. Painter, see book 10 page 58. He was son of Col Israel Painter & Maria Dunkle. Col Israel Painter was son of Hon Jacob Painter & his wife Lobingier. Mrs Painter has had four children, 3 living & one dead, the oldest born in East End Pgh Pa & 2 & 3d born in West Newton & the youngest here in Gbg.

[children]

1. Samuel Bell Painter, B Oct 16, 1882, M. June 2, 1921 to Harriet Charlotte Wible, born Apr 15, 1885, daughter of Thos E. Wible & his wife Margaret Byerly. Both living just above this house on Alexander St. He is now mgr of the Peerless Dye Works. Have but one child born in Pgh Pa.

William Morris Painter, B Nov 1, 1921

3. Walter Morris Painter, B Feby 15, 1887 m. July 1, 1922 to Pearl Hayes born July 27, 1893 in Hempfield Tp, dau of Henry Samuel Hayes & his wife Mary Myers, dau of John Myers. Both living in this house & he is an Automobile salesman. No issue.

4. Clare Bell Painter, B June 27, 1888 at Home unmarried & acted as Secy for her Father for several years

2. Henry Painter, B Feby 14, 1885, ob Oct 14? 1885 aged 8 mos

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At residence of the Misses Jane H. Hodge, Julia Sybilla Hodge, Elizabeth Sarah Hodge & Mary Belle Hodge, No 318 Walnut St, Greensburgh Pa Oct 10, 1924 9 PM

I arrived here half an hour ago coming from the Penn Albert Hotel where Walter M. Painter drove me & where I left book 10 & took a taxi over here. I penciled down some data & am transcribing it here. Miss Jane says she came to Greensburgh Pa in 1882 & that her grandmother, Hannah Rugh Row had died the year before & was only 84 yrs old. This conflicts with J.C. Rugh's statement see page 188 & I incline to think she is wrong. Miss Jane was christened Hannah Jane. She did not like Hannah & put the Jane first. She spoke of a fine large man, John Rugh who lived over at South Gbg where the Kelly Jones Co Plant now is who had married below his station, preventing him from rising to the station he should have reached. He lived to be old & had two old unmarried daughters, one of whom died a year or so ago, but the other, Miss Joanna Rugh, lives at No 525 Plymouth St, South Greensburgh Pa Tel 1600-J. Take a street car & get off at Plymouth St. She lives a short distance up from that stop. Her father to page 499

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Merchants & Farmers Natl Bank Greensburgh Pa Oct 10, 1924 12:25 PM

I came here to see Clyde B. Moore Asst Cash who is a son-in-law of F.O. Leasure. He says he was born Nov 1, 1880 & says his son:

Robert Leasure Moore was born Sept 18, 1913 & died Jany 26, 1916 & his daughter:

Mary Elizabeth Moore was born Oct 17, 1922 & that he was married June 19, 1912. See page 482. He said his father was John Alexander Moore & says further that Ebenezer Moore, the father of Jno William Moore was a cousin of William Moore (the great grandfather of Clyde B.) who married a Mellon sister of Judge Thomas Mellon or his father. He said he would send me the record of his mother's family & when he found I was J.V. Thompson, he was much more cordial & invited me in & introduced Mr Brandon, their cashier who soon came in. He directed me what street cars to take to reach Mrs Corbett & Mrs Null & how to reach Miss Hodge see page 482.

Left 12:58 PM

I then took the Jeannette St car, got off at O'Hara St & was soon at Mrs Corbett's see page 485.

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From Page 497

John Rugh, was first cousin of Misses Hodge's mother & she thinks was son of John (possibly of Michael). Miss Hodge says he was not son of Benj Rugh. Joanna is 75 or over. She says two Rughs, Jacob & John, brothers & both first cousin to her mother & also first cousins of Joanna's father, John. They were brothers of Mrs Ruff.

Their father, Isaac N. Hodge was from NY State, who himself was proud, said Jacob? Rugh was proud, but his sons, above named married common Dutch women.

Miss Jane phoned to Mrs Reamer Potts living in Gbg who is daughter of the widow who married Jacob Rugh above, when he was well up in years (her mother being the widow Cordelia Walthour who had three daughters) & Mrs Potts says she has the bible of her step-father Jacob Rugh & says she will give it to Miss Hodge. It no doubt would be the bible of his father. She will get record & send to me. Their sister, Margaret, married J.R. Eisaman V.Pt & Cashier of the First Natl Bank Gbg Pa. She is dead & her oldest child, a daughter is dead also, but she left two sons who are living. Another sister, Grace M., the youngest, was here today on a visit from Wilkinsburg Pa, her home. Her husband, George Van Kirk

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Craighead was named by his father who about that time conducted the Academy at Merrittstown Pa for two of his friends, Geo E. Hogg & a Van Kirk. They knew of the insanity in the Rev T.D. Ewing family.

Miss Elizabeth S. (christened Sarah Elizabeth & she too inverted her name) was a classmate at Blairsville Academy of Jennie M. Williams, the first wife of O.P. Markle, who they did not know had married again.

Leaving 10:05 PM

Left 10:40 PM

I then walked down to Penn Albert & got my supper 11 to 11:30 PM the first bite I had tasted to eat or drink since 6 Am this morning. I have written this up to date & will get ready for bed as it is 2:35 AM the 11th & I am to be called at 5:45 Am so I can get my breakfast at the coffee shop here at 6 AM & leave on the 6:44 AM train for home. Have had a very strenuous & satisfactory & successful day.

Franklin O. Leasure did not know of his grandmother going to Ky & nursing my grandmother for a year.

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The Misses Hodge gave me two pages & an article about the loss of Lafayette's watch to look over & return. They met Mrs Stockley & Mrs Prince when they were here holding the reunion. Miss Jennie is stern, but very businesslike. Miss Julia is the handsomest of the three & a lovely woman. Elizabeth is educated & was very kind & talkative. I did not see Mary Belle.

Frank O. Leasure is of medium build, delicate, wears glasses & is hard of hearing. Mrs Null is also slightly hard of hearing, but a very lovely character, reminding me of her sister S. Florence Hunter.

Mrs Painter is a larger woman of smiling & pleasant demeanor & very warmly asked me to come back & see them. Her sister Mary Delnora Corbett was gray haired, kind & lovely & much regretted that she had not made record of many things when they could have gotten them from her grandmother.

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At residence of Calvin B. Power Fairhope Fayette Co Pa (P.O. Fayette City Pa RFD 1) Oct 14, 1924 9:44 AM

I arrived here just two hours ago 7:44 Am having left home at 6:46 Am & having been going over the old Power Chart with Mr Power & Mrs Ray Hurst, widow of Frank H. Hurst, his nephew. Mr Power says that John Westbay, who married his half sister Mary, was a farmer & was son of Henry Westbay, an early settler in Elizabeth Tp about a mile out of Elizabeth Pa, toward the Power home. Henry's wife was a Pollock sister of Henry & John Pollock, farmers. Henry Pollock's dau, Mary married Mr Powers bro Wm J. Power. He says that several of the children of his sister, Mary & John Westbay, were born before he, C.B. was, viz: Henry, James, Joseph, d.y., Eliza Jane, not Elizabeth, Sarah, d.y. & William was about a year younger than C.B., my informant, then came Marietta & Martha, who probably died young all born on the old Henry Westbay farm in Elizabeth Tp, which John got, he being the only son. He rented this farm & moved to Duncans Falls O on the Muskingum River 8 or 10 miles from Zanesville O. She died at

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Duncans Falls O after bearing him 19 children & is probably buried in Pres g.y. there as they were Pres there, but U.P's here. Nineteen yrs after he went to Ohio, he came back to his 200 A farm which he had rented all these years (he ha sold the other 200 A to Wycoff) & married a 2d wife, a Moore from Ohio who he brought back with him. (not of the Moore family here) & had 4 or 5 children or perhaps more by her, some boys of his children:

Henry was not married, died in Ohio

James, mar but no children in Ills where he was a banker.

Eliza Jane married a pilot on the river & lived at Cincinnati, have forgotten his name. Two of their daughters came to live with their grandfather after he came back to Pa.

William mar a Moore, in Ohio & came into Pa & rented the John Power's farm in Elizabeth Tp & died in McKeesport Pa. Had two or 3 children. If any descendants thinks wd be about McKeesport. Pa.

Calvin died as a boy here after his father came back, unmarried.

John's 2d wife's children were born in Elizabeth Tp. Calvin came to school to C.B. Power. To Page 506

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[Descendant Chart]

Susan Power, oldest full sister of C.B. Power was 19 1/2 yrs older than C.B. She mar Presley Hurst, son of James Hurst & his wife Sarah Blackiston. see bottom page 446 item 14 evidently her parents. Ebenezer Moore's wife Nancy Hurst was a daughter of James & sister of Presley. James brother Thomas Hurst married a Blackiston, also sister of Sarah. Their brother Nathaniel Hurst mar Margaret Power, dau of Rev James Power & 2d Jane Jack, dau of John Jack & Nancy McCoy. His nephew, Nathl Hurst, son of James & bro of Presley mar Mary Jack & were parents of Braden Hurst & others. Rachel Margaret Hurst, my joint informant with Mr Power, who is here on a visit, lives on Smithfield St, Mt Pleasant Pa where she has the bible of her father-in-law, Presley Hurst with record. The bible of James Hurst was taken late in the 70s or early in the 80s by Will Leasure, then living in the house now dead & by his nephew Rev McCoy or McCloy, no Hurst relative who was pastor of the Pres Ch McKeesport Pa where he died in recent years. She will transcribe & send me the entries record see page 127 & 126 for children.

[children]

James Power Hurst, m. Amanda Anderson, dau of Cunningham Anderson. Both dead & buried at Canton, O. Had 4 children.

Maude, m. Leonard Miller. Both living in Canton, O but separated. Robert, a boy, in school with his mother

Susan, d.y.

Mary, m. Harry Archinal. Both living on Yale Ave, Canton, O. 2 children.

Catharine

Gertrude

Gertrude, m. Ray Raff both living in Canton, O.

Edward Braden, ob killed in battle at Gettysburgh Pa July 3, 1863, unmarried.

John Hurst, m. Orilla _____ at Magnolia, O. He died at Magnolia, O & his widow lives on W 14th St, Cleveland, O.

John, m.

Harry, m.

Edward, m.

Ona, m.

Margaret, ob unmarried.

Mary, living with her mother, unmarried.

Sarah Ann, m.1. Thomas Hurst, son of J. Blackstone Hurst. M.2. Chas Avery. All dead.

Edward Hurst, ob. m. died thinks in NY without issue

A child, d.y. by Hurst

Frank Hurst Avery, B at Cincinnati, O. Disappeared when a young man under age.

Nancy Hurst, ob at the Hurst home near Mt P. unmarried & is buried in Middle Ch g.y. there & thinks has a marker, but is not positive.

Francis Herron Hurst, B May 22, 1854 in Mt P. Tp ob Dec 19, 1921 at Mt P & is buried at Middle Church. m. Dec 28, 1881 at Mt P. to Rachel Margaret Shields born Mch 28, 1854, my informant for this record, dau of Wilson Shields & wife Ruth Neel (dau of Saml Neel by his 2d wife Rachel Borland) Have had six children all born in Mt Pleasant Pa.

Ruth Shields, B Jany 24, 1884, ob Sept 7, 1884

Presley Herron, B Sept 27, 1885 m. Aug to Bessie Murray Bailey, b in Mt P. Tp, dau of John Bailey & wife Mary Ann Griffith. Both living in Mt P. where he is a conductor. Have one child born in Mt Pleasant Pa.

Mary Bailey

Wilson Shields, B Aug 8, 1889 ob Dec 1889

Margaret Neel, B Sept 23, 1891 m. June 30, 1920 to Clark B. McKeown born Claysville Pa, son of McKeown & wife Effie Brenner. Both living at No 205 Biddle Ave, Wilkinsburg Pa, where he travels for an advertising house. Have one child born in Wilkinsburg Pa.

Margaret Ray, B June 29, 1922

William Power, B May 4, ob May 20, aged 5 yrs & is buried at Middle Ch g.y.

Elizabeth Wilson, B June 17, 1897 is unmarried pharmacist at Marine Hospital Pgh & lives there with her sister Margaret.

Samuel Carnahan Hurst, m. to Isadore Simpson dau of B. Simpson & wife Ruff. Both living at Youngwood Pa where he is in hardware & plumbing business with his son. Had 3 or 4 children d.y. & only one grew up.

Francis Edwin, m.

Thomas Jack? Hurst, ob. m., no issue. His widow remarried.

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Frank married Anny Wycoff dau of Jonathan Wycoff & his wife Miss Rine from Uniontown Pa. she had a bro Nat Rine who made his home with them until he went to Calif. Had but one child, a daughter & when she was young, her father, Frank, shot & killed himself in the corn crib. Frank's wife died shortly after & the daughter was raised in the family of Andrew McKinley who had married her sister. Thinks she is living among the McKinleys, is married & living, but don't know her name, or where she lives.

Power Westbay married, but has no children. Thinks both are living about McKeesport Pa.

Jonathan Wycoff was a bro of Mr C.B.P's first wife & a son of Isaac. James, a bro of Isaac was father of Adam H. Wycoff. Adam H's mother was a Scott, the oldest child of Col James Scott of Round Hill. She was James Wycoff's second wife. His, C.B.P's, son-in-law Harry Hurst mar 2d time & lives at Elyria, O. His mother was one of the Gbg Jacks see page 32 this book.

Leaving 12:35 PM

AT Oak Hill 10 PM 14th, transcribing

C.B. said his brother, Carnahan N. Power had been on a trip to Old

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Mexico on business & died on his way back to his home, when at San Diego Calif. His home was in San Francisco Calif where his widow who was Mary Maple of Iowa, still lives with the unmarried daughter Grace, or youngest daughter Jane. He had a son Ernest who is dead.

C.B. thinks he had been married.

In the Power chart, 8th Col from left, almost half way down, it seems to show that Robt Moore had married Jane Power, the daughter of John Power & Margaret Finley, while I think & C.B. thinks this dau, sister of his father, died young & the Jane that Robt mar was sister of John Power as shown on page 131, this book, taken from Gresham's 1889 Hist of Fay Co. In same Col, just below Robt's son Ebenezer, C.B. could not place the nine Moores there listed nor could he locate as I was hoping he could, the Joseph Finley immediately below & the 11 children following his name. I have it right. He was son of Rev James. He says Martha Power, who mar to John Allen listed 4th Col fr left 3d see fr top is his oldest half sister & the ten children following her name are hers. He couldn't place Mary Power who mar John Allen at head of 5th Col fr left where she is shown to have 3 sons.

Referring to his sister, Martha Allen's 10 children, he says:

1. Mary Allen died unmarried.

2. Susan Allen mar John Wilson & lived in

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Ohio & had two children, Sarah M. & Jennie. He sd Jennie did not marry but Sarah M. married Andrew McKinley see chart & had one child, Hugh W. McKinley.

3. David Allen was not married

4. Joseph Allen was not married

5. James Allen

6. John Allen

7. William Allen, youngest, had no children

8. Eliza Jane, not Elizabeth as in chart was never married

9. Clarissa married a Somers & lived in Monon City Pa

10. Anna, he could not recall about her.

C.B. said his nephew, Power Westbay was in McKeesport Pa 10 or 12 yrs ago where he & his wife were living with Henry J. Power, son of Wm J. (bro of C.B.) but had no children. Henry's widow is now living with a daughter at Narberth Pa. her other daughter Minnie mar Rev Frank Collier & they live in Los Angeles calif. C.B. & Mrs Frank H. Hurst gave the first seven lines on pages 504 & 505 & she gave practically all of the balance on those two pages & is going to send me data to fill in the blanks. She is a fine looking gray haired woman & was very kind. Mr P. wanted me to stay for dinner, but I drove on via Fells Church & was soon:

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At Round Hill Cemetery in connection with the Round Hill Pres Church (The Farmer's church) Elizabeth Tp, Allegheny Co Pa Oct 14, 1924 1:33 PM

I commenced at the back lower corner S.E. & worked back & forth from East & West until I came to church at top of hill & made note of the following inscriptions from the tombstones & monuments.

[fermata mark appears in here in left margin]

1. Arthur Henderson Esq for may years a ruling Elder, the Associate Reformed U.P. Congregation at Bethesda. Died Dec 25, 1863 in 66 yr

Nancy S. Henderson 1814 - 1890

Jennie M. Henderson 1848 - 1897

Willie, son of Arthur & Nancy S. Henderson died Nov 8, 1865 in 13 yr

Matthew Henderson, Born Nov 14, 1827 ob July 2, 1914

Emily, wife of Matthew Henderson born 1841 ob 1891

Matthew Henderson Jr born June 25, 1871 ob Apr 25, 1895

Infant son of Matthew & Emily Henderson born & died Jany 16, 1882

2. Thomas E. Finley 1862 -

Elizabeth D., his wife 1873 - 1913

3. John L. McConnell 1898 - 1918

4. Rev John Crozier 1801 - 1890

Annie Fletcher, his wife 1819 - 1844. My flesh also shall rest in hope June 12, 1844.

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5. Elisha P. Peairs M.D. ob July 22, 1890 in 39 yr

Lizzie E. Peairs wife of J.H. Scott Nov 29, 1855?, May 19, 1896

Nannie E. Peairs, sister, Feby 16, 1854, Apr 14, 1899 "until the daybreak & the shadows flee away"

Joseph Peairs Aug 7, 1815, June 12, 1897

Margaret Fife,wife of Joseph Peairs Sept 12, 1822, Mch 4, 1902

Elisha A. Peairs, 1828 - 1906

6. see book 10 P 5. Mary Power, wife of John Torrence ob Mch 15, 1865, aged 66 yrs 11 mos

John Torrence ob Sept 3, 1864 aged 71 yrs 5 mos 15 days

Samuel Torrence, Born Feby 26, 1820, ob Jany 14, 1896

James Torrence, born June 16, 1821, ob Jany 23, 1901

7. Susanna A. Peairs ob Mch 15, 1838 in 13 yr

See page 544

Elisha Peairs (an old stone) ob Feby 26, 1844 in 59 yr

Sarah Peairs, consort of Elisha Peairs ob Nov 11, 1831 aged 40 yrs 8 mos 5 days

Mary Peairs ob Oct 26, 1817 in 11th yr

James Peairs ob Jany 22, 1807 aged 19 yrs

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Joseph Peairs ob Apr 3, 1807 aged 47 yrs. This is son of Elisha & his wife Elizabeth Jack.

Susannah Peairs, wife of Joseph Peairs ob Jany 23, 1821 aged 56 yrs.

8. Jonathan Wycoff ob Jany 17, 1845 in 81 yr

Catherine Wycoff, consort of Jonathan ob May 19, 1842 in 81 yr

Lewis Wycoff ob Nov 20, 1831 aged 32 yrs 3 mos 1 day

9. Andrew McKinley ob Aug 4, 1844 in 79th yr

Susanna McKinley ob Sept 7, 1842 in 60 yr

Barbara McKinley ob Feby 18, 1842 in 72 yr

Isabella McKinley ob May 20, 1885, aged 89 yrs

10. Tallest shaft in cem (abt 20 ft high)

S.S. James Power, M.D.

E.S. Rev F.H. Power

N.S. Thos J. Power born Sept 3, 1827 ob Sept 9, 1857

Mrs Wm Power

W.S. Mrs Dr Power

Markers:

Mary Jane, wife of Wm J. Power born Sept 9, 1829 ob Dec 17, 1862

Susannah Power, wife of James Power Oct? 20, 1815, aged 31 yrs

11. Benjamin Davis (taken because all scaled off & in pieces) ob Jany 28, 1804 in 67 yr

Elizabeth Davis ob Dec 31, 1803 in 50 yr

Elizabeth Davis, dau of Benj & Elizabeth Davis Feby 2, 1788 aged 4 mos

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12. T.J. Power on rim.

13. James McKinley ob Dec 23, 1872 in 18 yr

James S., son of A&M McKinley ob Sept 22, 1847 aged 5 yrs 4 mos 11 days

Joseph, son of A&M McKinley ob Sept 15, 1847 aged 1 yr 9 mos 8 days

Catherine McKinley ob May 18, 1880? in 29 yr

Maria, wife of A. McKinley ob May 26, 1847 in 30 yr

Martha Jane, wife of A. McKinley ob May 11, 1863 in 38th yr

Andrew McKinley 1811 - 1892

Mary E. McKinley Aug 11, 1839, Nov 26, 1914

Andrew R. McKinley 1883 - 1887

Clara E. McKinley 1886 - 1887

Mother & Father

Sarah M. McKinley 1854 - 1889

Andrew McKinley 1838 - 1913

14. David F. Nicholls 1868 - 1922

Elmer J. Nicholls 1916 - 1923

James W. Nicholls 1912 - 1922

15. Bradford Allen 1815 - 1900

Mary J. Allen 1813 - 1856

Milton E. Allen 1854 - 1862

Alvin J. Allen Born Mch 20, 1846 ob July 10, 1863

Elma Lauretta, dau of Geo W. & Eliza G. Allen ob Mch 6, 1854 aged 57 yrs 10 mos 10 days

Edith Florilla, dau of _____ & G. Allen ob June 9, 1853 aged 1 mo 6 days

Josiah Allen 1792 - 1842

Rebecca Allen 1792 - 1840

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Lucinda Allen 1822 - 1835

Milton Allen, M.D. 1828 - 1856

16. Robert McConnell ob Feby 25, 1844 aged 38 yrs 2 mo [indecipherable word looks like yerber_t]

Dinah, wife of Robt McConnell Aug 9, 1807, Feby 11, 1891

James McConnell B Nov 2- 1853 in 70 yr [sic]

17. Elizabeth Irwin ob Mch 6, 1818 in 40 yr

see page 33 this book

Isaac, son of Isaac & Isabella Irwin ob Dec 1836 in 6 yr

Susannah, dau of Isaac & Isabella Irwin ob Dec 1836 in 2 yr

18. Salome Shrader mar Benj Stoner 4 Strong [scribbles]

19. Eliza, wife of James Pierce ob Jany 13, 1836 in 41 yr

20. Saml W. Howell, ob July 20, 1820 in 25 yr

Lewellen Howell ob Jany 24, 1851 in 52 yr

Philip Howell ob May 25, 1854 in 52 yr

Lewellen Howell ob July 25, 1823 in 60 yr

Mary, wife of Lewellen Howell ob Feby 25, 1853 in 82 yr

21. Joseph Smith, our father, ob Jany 10, 1863 aged 60 yrs 10 mos 16 days

Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Smith, our mother ob Dec 7, 1866? aged 61 yrs mos & 4 days

Dr Joseph Smith born June 20, 1842 ob Apr 11, 1869

William Smith our brother, ob Sept 25, 1876 aged 44 yrs 3 mos 21 days

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Philip Smith, member of Co G. 2d Iowa Cav wounded on Dec 5, 1862 & died on Dec 15, at Grenada Miss aged 32 yrs 7 mo 6 days.

22. David Allen ob Dec 20, 1820 aged 50 yrs 7 mos 2 days, long verse of 16 lines.

Mary, wife of D. Allen ob July 1, 1837 aged 67 yrs 9 mos 20 days

Sarah, wife of David Lecky ob June 15, 1844 aged 25 yrs

Joseph Allen son of D&M Allen ob Sept 4, 1800 aged 11 mos

Maria Allen dau of D&M Allen ob Mch 15, 1802 in 5 yr

23. George E.W. Elliott ob May 24, 1806 aged 37 yrs

24. Rev Matthew Henderson, Born Jany 10, 1762, licensed June 28, 1784, ob July 21, 1835 aged 73 yrs 6 mos 11 days

Mary Patterson Henderson 1st wife of Arthur Henderson & mother of Matthew Henderson born 1803 ob 1838 (see item 1 p 509)

Rebecca Henderson, daughter of late Rev Matthew Henderson ob Feby 20, 1844 in 39 yr

Mrs Rebeckah Henderson ob June 14, 1829 aged 65 yrs 5 mos 8 days

25. Henry Westbay Esq ob Feby 19, 1824, aged 84 yrs

Jane Westbay ob May 3, 1807 aged 73 yrs

Mary Westbay ob Aug 23, 1798 in 22 yr

26. Sampson, there are 9 markers up

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27. see page 544. John W. Peairs ob Oct 10, 1884 aged 67 yrs 4 mos 3 days.

Dinah Boyd, wife of Jno W. Peairs ob Apr 13, 1905 aged 78 yrs 8 mos & 14 days

28. Daniel W. Weddell 1854 - 1910

Sarah C. Weddell, wife 1860 - 1911

Florence L. Weddell 1891 - 1909

29. Andrew W. Boyd, Born May 20, 1824 ob Jany 28, 1889

30. John L. Peairs June 25, 1909, Feby 25, 1911

M. Grace Peairs Mch 30, 1809, Jany 7, 1919

31. Wm Douglass 1831 - 1912

Elizabeth Douglass 1833 - 1909

32. J. Boyd Peairs 1850 - 1911

Maria J., his wife Peairs 1851 - 19--

Floyd Peairs 1890 - 1912

33. Chas A. McGrew [blank box]

Maude Peairs, wife of Chas A. McGrew 1873 - 1908

34. Loressa Jane Irwin, Nov 29, 1839, Aug 7, 1909

Findley D. (or O) Irwin Born Mch 26, 1838 ob Nov 15, 1903

35. Andrew E. Peairs May 7, 1854, Feby 19, 1900

36. Alexander Thompson born Mch 23, 1824, ob Dec 10, 1890

Anne Elizabeth Thompson 1833 - 1908

Jane Thompson B Jany 23, 1826 ob Aug 27, 1886

37. James Nicholls 1828 - 1914 2 children

38. Joseph T. Allen 1833 - 1892

39. James Stevenson ob Oct 2, 1861 in 92nd yr

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Isabella, wife of James Stevenson ob Mch 28, 1868 in 90th yr

40. Rankins galore

41. John Gamble ob Nov 7, 1875 in 92 yr

Sarah, wife of John Gamble ob Mch 27, 1848 in 58 yr

Oliver P. Gamble ob Feby 5, 1848 in 25 yr

Hezekiah H.D. Gamble ob Aug 21, 1851 in 43 yr

Harriet Gamble June 19, 1812, Feby 19, 1904

42. Andrew Brown B Aug 9, 1819 ob May 2, 1889

James Brown ob Apr 4, 1850 aged 28 yrs 6 mos 16 days

William Brown ob Nov 10, 1853 aged 27 yrs & 7 days

Nancy M, wife of Andrew Brown ob Oct 1, 1839 aged 36 yrs & 7 mos

43. John Kelly, born in 1809 ob Dec 4, 1875

44. John Elliott ob Jany 31, 1833 aged 63 yrs

Wm C. Elliott ob Nov 6, 1832 in 29 yr

45. John Allen ob May 15, 1868 aged 73 yrs 5 mos 8 days

Martha C., wife of John Allen ob May 11, 1867 aged 60 yrs & 11 mos

Mary dau of J&M Allen ob May 17, 1846 aged 18 yrs 11 mos 2 days

Ann Sarah, dau of J&M.G. Allen ob Oct 17, 1865 aged 21 yrs 2 mos & 15 days

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46. J. Calvin, won of John M. & M.F. Westbay ob May 17, 1864 aged 46 yrs 11 mos 17 days

Sarah H. dau of J.W. & M.F. Westbay ob Aug 3, 1835 aged 1 yr 2 mos 5 days

47. Andrew Boyd ob Apr 27, 1850 aged 72 yrs 2 mos & 8 days

Lieut J.W. Boyd Co C 2d WVA Cav

Sarah Boyd B Oct 12, 1775 ob June 20, 1852 aged 76 yrs

48. John Boyd ob Mch 18, 1863 aged 76 yrs 3 mos 22 days

Mary, wife of John Boyd ob Aug 16, 1874 in 77 yr

49. Col Philip Howell Nov 19, 1837, in 79 yr

Margaret Howell (wife of Col Philip) Nov 1, 1852 in 83 yr

John P. Howell Jany 29, 1869 in 75 yr

Jane Howell Jany 10, 1880 in 82 yr

50. Mary J. Dau of W & Elizabeth J. Douglass ob June 22, 1857 (in the ground)

Isabella, dau of James & Mary Douglass ob Oct 10, 1836 in 4th yr

John Douglass ob Dec 23, 1829 in 44 yr

Samuel Douglass ob Mch 23, 1844 in 49 yr

Isabella, wife of Robt Douglass ob Jany 18, 1848 in 94th yr

Susannah, wife of Robt Douglass ob Nov 2, 1849 in 47 yr

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51. Margaret Irwin ob Jany 12, 1833 aged 73 yrs

Rebeckah A., dau of W.S. Irwin ob Nov 29, 1826 aged 2 yrs

Charity E. dau of J&S Irwin ob May 1, 1828 aged 11 yrs

Henry Irwin Ob June 18, 1826 aged 40 yr 4 mos 6 days

John Irwin ob Jany 24, 1879 aged 99 yrs 9 mos 21 days

Sarah, consort of John Irwin ob Dec 14, 1832 aged 39 yrs

52. Susannah W., consort of Robt Douglass ob Aug 26, 1818 in 52 yr

Robert Douglass ob Aug 31, 1850 in 62 yr.

51. ctd. Nancy Diann, dau of J&A Irwin ob Dec 9, 1856 aged 20 yrs 6 mos 22 days

Ann, wife of John Irwin ob Jany 1883 aged 30?? yrs

2 more children

53. James Nicholls ob Oct 11, 1848 aged 62 yrs 5 mos 20 days

James, son of J&R Nicholls ob Mch 4, 1825, aged 1 yr 1 mos 6 days

Harvey Nicholls ob Feby 20, 1848 aged 22? yrs

2 more children

54. Thos D. Douglass Jany 18, 1822, June 6, 1896 see page 545

Lydia C. Douglass Mch 22, 1830, Apr 4, 1912

Jas D. Douglass Dec 25, 1861, Oct 19, 1866

55. Bella Wall, wife of T.J. Weddell ob May 11, 1874 aged 27 yrs 10 mos 19 days

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56. Wm Pierce ob Dec 6, 1881, aged 65 yrs 3 mos 1 day

John Y. Pierce 1857 - 1914 & Hannah J. on monument & 5 other stones

57. Barbaretta, wife of John Guffey & daughter of J&M Peairs ob Sept 26, 1859 aged 21 yrs 7 mos 27 days

58. Dorcas L. wife of R. Moore ob Feby 6, 1884, aged 87 yrs 10 mos

59. Letitia S. Lecky 1824 - 1907

Fannie Lecky Hough 1860 - 1883

60. John W. Westbay, Father 1811 - 1896

This is he who mar C.B. Power's sister

Maria Moore wife of Jno W. Westbay 1835 - 1878

Stewart S. Westbay 1861 - 1887

Lavenia McNary, wife of Jno W. Westbay 1835 - 1909

Sarah Barron, wife of Harry R. Westbay 1872 - 1909

61. John Power, B July 2, 1806 ob Jany 12, 1880

Mary C. wife of John Power ob May 25, 1868 in 63 yr

Nancy Jack, dau of John & Mary Power ob May 10, 1873 aged 28 yrs

James F., son of John & Mary C. Power ob Apr 24, 1857 in 10 yr

Margaretta J. dau of John & Mary C. Power ob Mch 2, 1843 in 4 yr

62. Hiram Gamble ob June 8, 1898 aged 73 yrs 1 mo 2 days

Mary Jane Gamble ob Oct 15, 1844 aged 52 yrs 7 mos 9 days

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Elliott A., their son ob Mch 5, 1888 aged 28 yrs 4 mos

John Gamble Jr, ob Apr 21, 1883, aged 73 yrs 2 mos 19 days

Mary B. Gamble ob Dec 6, 1897 aged 76 yrs 11 mos 2 days

63. Minerva, wife of Jacob R. Byerly ob Feby 27, 1873 in 37 yr

64. James Irwin, 1836 - 1871

see this book page 33 & book 10 p 5

Margaret M. Irwin 1839 - 1918

Elizabeth Irwin 1827 - 1908

Isabella Power, wife of Isaac Irwin ob Jany 23, 1873 in 70th yr

Isaac Irwin ob May 16, 1879 aged 80 yrs 11 mos & 8 days

This is away up on top of the hill just below the church

65. Philip L. Howell Apr 2, 1838 - Sept 23, 1901

Eliza J. Howell Nov 24, 1839, June 6, 1899

66. John Peairs B Sept 16, 1843 ob Sept 25, 1893

David H. Peairs B Dec 10, 1841 ob June 28, 1901

Mary J. wife of Jos C. Peairs ob June 9, 1888 aged 33 yrs & 15 days

Frank, son of Jos C. & Mary J. Peairs ob July 11, 1888 aged 5 mos

Leaving 6 PM

Just as it was almost dark, drove then down the road east to the 1st brick house on the left & was:

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[fermata mark appears here in upper left margin]

At residence of Andrew F. Peairs & his two sisters, Oct 14, 1924 6:10 PM in Elizabeth Tp, P.O. Elizabeth Pa

I saw the two Misses Peairs & their niece. They were very kind & wanted me to stay all night. I told them I would probably next week & they gave me their Tel number "Elizabeth 87 Ring 3 Andrew F. Peairs" & said if I wd phone saying what train I was coming on their nice wd meet me at Elizabeth. They loaned me 3 pages of the History of the Peairs family which I am to return. They said that Rev N.H.G. Fife was a brother of their mother & was still living in Phila Pa 85 yrs old & playing 18 holes of golf per day. They said his & their mother's mother was a Henry & that Pres James Buchanan's mother was a Henry, they thought of same family.

Left 6:20 PM

Pallini drove down to Suterville up to West Newton & through Fayette City & almost wrecked his car, 17 miles fr here, but Russell Cope & another young man coming along, helped us get it on road, reached home 8:44 & by 9:44 PM I had finished a small repast Mrs P. got me & it is now 4:44 AM 15th & I will go to bed but I am written up to date on today's work. JVT

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Fairview Cemetery near Masontown Pa Oct 20, 1920 10:40 AM

I was here today on my return from J. Will Keene's in Greene Co Pa & note the following inscriptions:

67. Catherine Fordyce died Mch 15, 1887 aged 83 yrs

Benson B. Fordyce no dates

2. [sic] Jane Harden died Nov 7, 1914 age 85 yrs

Martha Harden died Sept 6, 1885 aged 88 yrs 10 mos & 2 days

Jane's grave is a little below that of her mother, being in the McCann lot. McCann was in this afternoon from Fairchance Pa & said there was not room to bury her beside her mother, so he buried her in his own lot.

Left 11:11 AM

I made a mem of what Lloyd E. Pollock told me in my office. I think on Sept 25th last, which I have just come across. He said Stephenson Pollock's father was David Pollock who lived in West Newton & is buried there. He married for his second wife, (who was mother of Stephenson) Mrs Elizabeth Day Stephenson, widow of John Stephenson & dau of Moses Day who had located about West Newton & went to Wbg

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Stephenson Pollock's granddaughter is Mrs Fulmer at West Newton. I think he said Mrs Geo C. Baker of Morgantown WVA is also a granddaughter.

A letter dated Oct 9, 1924, small envelope from Jacob Gayman, says that he has had a talk with Mr I.C. Wherry of Scenery Hill, long resident there & an old man, who says that the Jennings sisters, had a brother James who was married & lived in Greene Co & died there. His wife was Eliza Stickle, daughter of Peter Stickle who owned a small farm on Castile Run, 3 miles from Clarksville & probably 4 miles from Jefferson. He had sons William & "Newt". He thinks the son William might still be living about Jefferson Pa.

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At residence of Charles Luther Burnett Derry Tp (Torrence P.O.) Westmoreland Co Pa Oct 22, 1924 9:44 AM

I arrived here 15 minutes ago. Mrs Burnett's daughter, Mrs Margaret Ongley, wife of Geo Henry Ongley, who lives at Martins Ferry, O at No 241 N. 5th ST says there was an E.E. Jack aged abt 56 died there about a yr ago & she thinks was taken to Pgh for burial & she thinks a son & daughter married, live at Martins Ferry O. E.E. was Secy & Cash & ran the Valley Finance Co in the Elks Bldg on N 4th St. There is also an Attorney there named McComb aged probably around 50. Mrs Burnett says her father Christopher Hill was the youngest son of Joseph Hill & his wife Catharine. She was named for this grandmother, but she does not know her maiden name. Don't know the name of Joseph's father or mother but she thinks her oldest sister Anna now the wife of Harvey Hartman whose permanent home is at Derry Pa but who is now out in Ohio where they own a farm visiting where there son Hill Hartman lives.

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P.O. Moultrie, O Columbiana Co. Their sister, Ida, wife of Hiram Smith, lives on a big farm near Atwater, O abt 2 miles out. They have one son. Anna has 3 girls & 2 boys.

Leaving 10:[unreadable] AM

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[The following pages are additions to the JVT notebooks. All but one page is from Volume 12, the missing pages.]

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At residence of Alexander Ewing Center Tp, Indiana Co, Pa (P.O. Indiana RD 5) Oct 22, 1924 1:10 PM

I arrived here half an hour ago & find Mrs Ewing & two of their sons James Paul & Wm Hamilton at home, their father is at Robt Cunningham's helping to bail hay. Neither Mrs Ewing or the boys know anything of the Bible of Gen James McComb, which I had hoped to find here in his old home. Mrs Ewing says she knows nothing of any older bible about the house with a record.

They have a big well preserved Bible published by the National Pub Co, Phila Chicago & St Louis, but without date which has the record of Rev Wm D. Ewing & his family giving dates of birth of himself & wife & children & date of his marriage which I am incorporating in a genealogical table commencing on page 528 & giving his line of descent as shown on pages 662 & 663 Vol 1 of Prof J.T. Stewart's History of Indiana Co, Pa published by J.H. Been & Co Chicago Ills in 1893.

Leaving 2:33 PM

Mrs Ewing says the old Genl James McComb home was a log house across the road & beyond the small stream & just about opposite the house.

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[descendant chart]

Eli Andrew Anderson born Feby 7, 1836 ob Apr 4, 1919 see page 290 this book married 1 Sept 26, 1862 Sarah Jane Christy died July 8, 1865. Had one child. Married 2 Nov 1868 Margaret Kennedy born Feby 16, 1852 died Mch 3, 1882 had five children. She was daughter of Thomas Kennedy & wife Margaret Logan. Children all born in Butler Co, Pa. Last 4 children who married all married in Tarentum, Pa.

[children]

Amelia Etta Anderson b Oct 21, 1863 ob May 24, 1926 see page 290

Elizabeth Jane Anderson [twin] b Feby 11, 1871 married Sept 9, 1902 Wm J. Kirk died Oct 24, 1923. Had one stillborn child. Lives 417 Spring Ave, Ellwood City, Pa

Stillborn

Alzina Flick Anderson [twin] b Feby 11, 1873, my informant for this record, married Sept 9, 1897 E. Melvin Lelless. Have had 2 children born in Tarentum, Pa. Both living at 1345 Jackson St, Denver Colo.

Helen Margaret Lelless b Apr 1, 1900 married Jany 24, 1920 in Denver Col to Clarence B. Evans

Theodore Lelless b Nov 26, 1903 ob Mch 24, 1925 single

Harry Harrison Anderson b Feby 11, 1873 married Oct 31, 1902 Ella Flick. Had 4 children all born in Youngstown, O. His P.O. is Struthers, Ohio

Thomas Edward Anderson

Jane Anderson

Margaret Anderson

Harry Anderson

Mary Ewing Anderson b June 15, 1876 ob Jany 3, 1919 married June 30, 1898 Joseph G. Campbell born July 31, 1867 son of Joseph Q. Campbell & wife Isabelle Irwin. Had one child born in Tarentum, Pa.

Mary Elizabeth Campbell b Mch 14, 1904 now in Tarentum, Pa

Thomas Kennedy Anderson b Apr 1, 1879 ob Sept 30, 1899 unmarried

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[descendant chart]

Gen James McComb married Nancy Jack. He was a native of Ireland, coming to America when 18 & served through the Revolutionary War & in War of 1812. He settled on this farm of 190 A & Mrs Ewing says the old log house, his home was just opposite on the other side of the road [faded] ravine where he died in 1814 as stated by sd history aged 56 yrs. His widow died in 1833 aged 69 yrs & had the nine children listed on page 129.

[children]

John McComb born in Center Tp, Ind. Co, Pa & died no doubt on this farm. He was a farmer all of his life & bought the John Dean farm in Center Tp. He was a member of the U.P. Church at Jacksonville, Pa & one of its trustees. He married Margaret Calhoun. She died in Freeport Pa & is buried beside her husband at Jacksonville, Pa. They had five children. They have markers, which see.

1. Jane McComb b Feby 8, 1828 on the Genl McComb farm at Jacksonville Pa ob Apr 30, 1916, married Apr 12, 1849 to John Gibson of Freeport, Pa. See page 298 who was born in Black Lick Tp, Ind Co, Pa Dec 16, 1825 & died here on Stewart St Nov 4, 1912, son of John Gibson & wife Margaret Blakeley. He was a RR foreman.

2. Mary McComb b 1830 ob. Was next to oldest of the family. Married Thomas Shane

3. Nancy Jack McComb b Sept 8, 1832 ob Mch 30, 1924 unmarried

4. Ella McComb died when a baby

5. Margaret McComb b June 23? 1837 in Center Tp, Indiana Co, Pa ob Mch 18, 1916 aged 78 yrs 8 mos & 25 days. Married Aug 30, 1864 to Rev Wm D. Ewing who was born Sept 3, 1836 in Penn Tp, Westd Co, Pa & died in this house Jany 14, 1922. He was son of William Ewing & his wife Nancy Currie, this sd William being brought when 12 yrs old from Ireland by his father Alexander Ewing a native of Ireland & settled in Penn Tp Westd Co, Pa. They are not of the same family that Rev J.C.R. Ewing comes from. Their oldest child was born at Freeport, Pa & the others in Centerville, Butler Co, Pa

Margaret Currie Ewing b July 17, 1868 ob July 31, 1877

Roberta Mary Ewing b Feby 21, 1871 she is unmarried & is living in Pgh, Pa where she teaches school.

Alexander Ewing b Mch 26, 1873 married Dec 10, 1902 to Effie Belle Hamilton born May 5, 1878 at South Mahoning Tp, Ind Co, Pa daughter of Allen Hamilton & his wife Jane Hastings. Both living here where he is a farmer. Have five children all born in this house & all living.

William Hamilton Ewing b Aug 25, 1904, unmarried

James Paul Ewing b May 3, 1906 unmarried

John Currie Ewing b Aug 30, 1908, in school

Ralph Alexander Ewing b Jany 27, 1915, in school

Mary Elizabeth Ewing b Sept 29, 1916, in school

William McComb Ewing b Mch 25, 1875 married Aug 1908 to Flora Belle Eagley. No issue. He is an Atty & lives at Duquesne, Pa

John Samuel Ewing b June 4, 1878 married Feby 22, 1906 to Nannie Emma Hart born May 7, 1885 daughter of Alex Hart & wife Amanda Henry. Both living in Conemah Tp this Co (P.O. Livermore, Pa) where he is a farmer & have two children born in that Tp.

James Logan Ewing b Mch 4, 1909, in school

Margaret Amanda Ewing b Jany 13, 1913 in school aged 13.

6. Salina McComb [daughter of John McComb of James] ob married David Farnsworth

7. James McComb b Feby 14, 1847 ob Dec 26, 1921 married Feby 2, 1872 to Clara Elizabeth Lowman born Nov 13, 1854 & died June 21, 1917 aged 63 yrs. She was daughter of Scott Lowman & his wife Rebecca McFarland, who was a Jack descendant. Jane M. Lowman was the stepmother of Mrs Hine's mother. She having married Scott Lowman three months before he died. Mrs McComb lived with her daughter Mrs Sarah Johnston in Saltsburg, Pa where she died. They had 6 children all born on the old Gen McComb farm in Center Tp.

Lottie Belle McComb b Apr 26, 1872 married Sept 6, 1893 to Samuel W. Hine born Feby 8, 1855 son of Peter Hine & wife Maria Ringle. Have had 8 children all born on this the old Hine farm.

Mary Elizabeth Hine b Aug 6, 1894 ob Sept 19, 1906

Clara Belle Hine b May 24, 1897 married Mch 18, 1920 to Clarence McBride Coleman born Apr 11, 1890 son of [unreadable] Coleman & wife Sarah [unreadable name begins Geo or Seo]

Alice Belle Coleman b Nov 24, 1922 at Elders Ridge Pa where her father is a farmer

Emma Edith Hine b Mch 22, 1901 married Oct 7, 1922 to Virtue Chas Townsend b May 23 1894 son of Frank Townsend & wife Belle Virtue. Both living on farm near [cut off] no issue

Anna Lois Hine b Apr 2, 1903 trained nurse, single

Samuel Raymond Hine b Feby 26, 1905 ob May 26, 1917

Ruth Alice Hine b July 5, 1908 graduates this yr in high school

Martha Edna Hine b June 14, 1913

Esther Jane Hine b Mch 22, 1915

John Gibson McComb [son of James b 1847] b May 14, 1874

Sarah Sylvania McComb b Aug 5, 1876

Harry Lee McComb b Dec 7, 1878 ob Dec 31, 1902

Nannie Edith Lois McComb b Aug 14, 1883

Roberta McComb b Aug 11, 1888 unmarried & lives in Jeannette, Pa a grand girl

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At Residence of Samuel Ringle Hine & his wife Lottie Belle Hine, Young Tp, Indiana Co, Pa (P.O. Saltsburg, Pa RD 1) Oct 22, 1924 5:11 PM

Mrs Hine does not have any old McComb family bible. Thinks her father's bible record is probably with her sisters [sic] Miss Roberta McComb a buyer for W.J. Offatt & Co & his Wm J. Shearer living together in Jeannette Pa at No 2 Good St. Thinks the bible record of her grandfather, John McComb is likely with Mrs Melissa Magill & her sister Ida Gibson living together on Stewart St, Freeport, Pa. Their sister, Mrs Miller also lives there & their brother John Gibson lives at Dawson Pa where he is with a coal Co. & his son is in the bank there.

Says Robt McComb who lived at Lewisville, this Co died & his daughter, Mrs Kiner lives in Derry & might have the Gen James McComb bible record. She says to ask the Gibsons for records of Salina, Mary, Nancy & their own. Her father James McComb died at his daughter's Mrs W.J. Shearer in Jeannette, Pa

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but is buried with his wife in Edgewood Cem., Saltsburg, Pa. He was a member of the U.P. Church at Jacksonville & was a trustee as was his father. He lived here in this home & house with his daughter, Mrs Hine the last 7 yrs of his life. Mrs Hine's brother, John Gibson McComb is a widower & has three sons, Sarah Sylvania married Charles Johnston & both are living at Saltsburgh, Pa without issue. sold his farm recently for $18,000. Harry was married & left on child, Charles who is married & lives at Saltsburg, Pa

Nannie Edith Lois married Wm J. Shearer & lives at Jeannette & has five daughters living & one dead. Ask her & Roberta for record of above brothers & sisters.

Leaving 6:30 PM

She says Miss Hannah Jane McComb who will be 95 or 96 on Nov 11 next lives a half mile from Elders Ridge with her niece Mrs John Hart, a daughter of a John McComb. Mr Hine says Hannah Jane above is daughter of Charles McComb. Mrs Hine says they have a wonderful & extended history of the McComb family. They insisted on us staying for dinner & we did & had a very good one.

Left at 7:55 PM

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Transcribing at Moore Hotel 10:50 PM Oct 22, 1924

Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Elders Ridge, Indiana Co, Pa Oct 22, 1924 3 PM

68. Martha J. Thompson ob June 25, 1866 in 36th yr

69. Daniel Shearer ob Dec 21, 1871 aged 70 yrs 4 mos 12 days

Isabella C., wife of Daniel Shearer ob Mch 3, 1879 aged 79 yrs 2 mos 9 days

Anna E. Shearer 1835-1909

Mary B. Shearer 1831-1911

George Shearer ob Oct 9, 1839 aged 66 yrs 8 mos

Sarah, wife of George Shearer ob July 25, 1853 aged 84 yrs 1 mo 12 days

Wm M. Shearer of Co D. 11 Reg P.R.V. ob Sept 4, 1862 in 23d yr

70. Letitia, wife of Samuel Ewing (our mother) ob Oct 18, 1880 aged 105 yrs 25 days

71. Findley monument

Margaret Findley, wife of Wm Thompson b Apr 10, 1833 ob Jany 23, 1864

Harriet A. Findley born Dec 3, 1845 ob Oct 24, 1854

Mary C. Findley, wife of John Baxter born Sept 7, 1836 ob Jany 9, 1874

James C. Findley born Oct 28, 1854 ob Aug 6, 1855

David Findley, our father, ob June 15, 1883 aged 75 yrs 11 mos 20 days

Anna Kerr wife of David Findley born July 17, 1807 ob July 19, 1882

David Findley, infant son of D & A.K. Findley born Jany 15, 1851 ob Jany 18, 1851

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& on markers:

Maria J. Findley, wife of J.B. Stewart Feby 19, 1844, Oct 10, 1897

Alexander D. Finley May 26, 1848, Jany 13, 1893

Margaret, daughter of D & A Finley wife of Wm Thompson

72. John Wherry ob Mch 10, 1880 aged 75 yrs 10 mos

Mrs Jemima Wherry, also on monument but no dates

Samuel A. son of J & J Wherry born Aug 5, 1850 ob Feby 11, 1875

John Newton son of John & Jemima Wherry ob Aug 16, 1847 aged 2 yrs 10 mos

James Alexander Wherry born Dec 11, 1838 ob Dec 3, 1862 graduated at Jefferson College Aug 1862

Maria Louise Wherry born Dec 30, 1842 ob July 30, 1863

Jemima D. wife of J.L. Townsend ob July 19, 1868 aged 21 yrs 5 mos 13 days

Nancy M. daughter of J & J Wherry ob Nov 16, 1869 aged 17 yrs & 17 days

I took down record of 20 different McComb, but am not transcribing because Mrs Hart, see later, says that none of them are descended from Gen James McComb, nor even related so far as they could learn.

I was about to leave at 4:30 PM when a large heavy set man viz Mr S.V. Reeves came to me when taking the Wherry inscriptions & called in a young man

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of slender build & good countenance & introduced as Mr William Henry Wilson who said he was born in the old Rev Dr Alexr Donaldson house above here on Apr 18, 1902 son of Prof William Steele Armstrong Wilson and & wife Anna Margaret Townsend, both living, daughter of John L. Townsend, by his first wife Jemima D. Wherry (see no 72 preceding page) (& she daughter of John Wherry & his wife Jemima Dunlap) being her only child, her mother dying when she was 8 months old. Mr Wilson tells me his mother has four children & he will send me the full record of their family. He also tells me that Jane C. Shadle, his mother's aunt, is living at Kittanning, Pa with their unmarried daughter, Miss Laura Shadle who is somewhat in politics. He says Mrs Shadle is 88 yrs old. I must go to see her next week.

Leaving 4:44 PM

We then drove to Mrs Hine's a grand woman & Mr Hine is a fine man & after dinner & telling them somewhat about my affairs, we went back by Elders Ridge in the darkness to:

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Residence of Mrs John Hart, Young Tp, Ind Co Pa (P.O. Edri [sic] RD Pa) Oct 22, 1924 8:33 PM

Mrs Hart received us & also her Aunt, Miss Hannah Jane McComb, tall & well preserved & not feeble who said she was born Nov 11, 1828 on this farm. Mrs Hart's father, John McComb was her brother & her sister married Andrew Ewing see item 70 page 532 who lived to be 105 yrs old.

Hannah Jane is daughter of Chas McComb, buried in the cem just above their home & who died July 29, 1868 aged 81 yrs 9 mos 22 days. William McComb & David McComb buried here & Allen McComb buried in Westnd Co were all brothers of Charles. Their father was Allen McComb being Hannah Jane's grandfather. He fought in the Revolutionary War & Mrs Hart said he was from Cumberland Co, Pa. She says too that his Allen's father, was married twice in the old country & had issue by both wifes [sic]. They thought they came from Scotland. Mrs Hart said all of the McComb name buried at the Elders Ridge Cem are her relatives & not related to Gen James McComb, so I didn't want the inscriptions as they have never even been able to fix any relationship between the two families.

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Hannah Jane's grandfather Allen McComb is buried at Lewisville, this Co above Clarksburg. He was 80 when he died. This farm contains 170 A. (I believe he is buried at Ebenezer)

In the Hist of the Presbytery of Kittanning by Rev D.H. Sloan published in 1888 at Pgh, Pa on pages 176 & 177 at the organization of the Presbyterian Church at Elders Ridge at their meeting at Congruity on June 5, 1830 to the Pres of Redstone was presented a memorial from certain inhabitants of Conemaugh Tp, now Young Tp praying to be formed into a congregation to be called Elder's Ridge at which Joseph Harbison Esq & David McComb were elected elders but as the father of the latter ie. Allen McComb lay in his coffin that day ordination was deferred, & effected in Dec following by the same minister. The only minister formally named is Rev Thomas Davis who was appointed to fill this charge & reported Aug 30, 1830. Hannah Jane said he was 80 when he died. R.H. Carothers, John Carothers, Rev James E. Caruthers, R.B. Jack, S.M. Jack & others are mentioned in the book.

Leaving 9:05 PM

It is now 12:33 Am 23d & I will go to bed though not sleepy notwithstanding I did not go to bed last night until 3:30 AM & got up at 5 AM & must be called at 4:45 AM in order to get my breakfast & leave on 5:55 AM train.

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At residence of Chas L. Burnett again, Derry Tp Westd Co, Pa Oct 23, 1924 see page 524 7:33 AM

I arrived here just half an hour ago & met Mrs Burnett & her second daughter who was just starting to school. Mrs Burnett has just got out the big bible of her father Christopher Hill which she says was through the Johnstown flood which swelled the Conemaugh River when they lived just below here filling the first floor to the ceiling when they were away for a day on a visit. There is no date to the bible & it shows that Christopher Hill was first married on Feby 6, 1838 to Margaret Wilkins & had no issue & after her death he married second, after being a widower for some years, on Oct 28, 1862 Mrs Jemima Graham, he being her second husband & she his second wife. I am entering in table pages 461 & 462 this record & the dates of their own & children's births. The mother of Mr Burnett's father was a sister of Jacky Crago the father of Wm H. Crago the blind man. I have entered on page 461 in table the dates of birth of Mrs Burnett's children & deaths, copied from her small bible where she had written it down. She says her two daughters died only five minutes apart

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of cerebro [sic] spinal meningitis. Her son was drowned in the Conemaugh River he having gone in for a swim with a little playfellow, Chas Rhoads. It was Olive C. I met as I came in.

Mrs Ongley says there is a Peter? Jack who is principal now of the public schools at Ligonier Pa. She spoke of getting a book

Leaving 9:22 AM

PRR Sta Blairsville Intersection Westd Co, Pa Oct 23, 1924 10 AM

As I was leaving Mrs Burnett's, she said she had always been told that her great grandfather, Thomas Dunlap (possibly his father, but she don't think so) "came from County Derry, Ireland". See what her Aunt Martha told me in Sept 1921. She said they were out to her Aunt Martha's a few days ago helping her when they had the threshers. She reports her as being very well. On my way up to Sta, I stopped at Danl W. Graham & rang bells both down & up & got no response, they evidently having gone to the bride's home as the Agt here tells me Clyde & his bride got back on the train this morning & were now at her father's home. When at Elders Ridge yesterday evening Grant drove me up past the Elders Ridge big substantial fine building which is located on a commanding elevation.

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At Residence of Andrew Fife Peairs, Elizabeth Tp, Allegheny Co, Pa Oct 23, 1924 9:09 PM

I arrived here at 6 PM have had a fine supper & have been talking & have taken up the "History of the Peairs Family" which they loaned me last week & which was prepared by Miss Mary J. Peairs of Pgh, Pa. None of them know anything of the whereabouts of any of the descendants of the eleven brothers & sisters of their great grandfather Joseph Peairs except James Allen born 1818 grandson of Mary Peairs who married James Allen who has often visited here.

Of the succeeding generation ie the children of Joseph Peairs 1760-1807, their great grandfather, the oldest No 27 Elisha Peairs 1785-1844 was their grandfather. They say the next one No 28 David 1786 who married Elizabeth McAllen of Ohio went to Muskingum Co O near Duncan Falls & had 3 children Jane, Joseph & George.

Jane married a Crooks who after being widowed lived with her brother Joseph. Had no issue.

Joseph married in Ohio & had some sons & a daughter Hattie who married a Mercer but had no children.

George married in Ohio & had a son who was married.

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No 29 James died unmarried & is buried at Round Hill.

No 30 Joseph married Nancy Byers from up near Brownsville, & went to Muskingum Co, O see list of their children. Andrew F. says his daughter Martha who married a Kelly & lived at Cambridge, O

No 31 John 1797-1887 married Mary Westbay a daughter of Henry Westbay & went to Zanesville, O, had nine children & one of them Rev Henry R. was the father of Miss Mary J. Peairs of Pgh. Susan J. who married McChord lived at Zanesville & had (don't know)

David A. went to Kansas. Ask Mary J. about this family.

No 32. Allen married Mary McKinley daughter of Andrew McKinley & moved to Zanesville, O had 2 sons & one daughter Ann Eliza who married an Atchison & had 2 daughters who were unmarried & lived in Zanesville.

No 33. William married Jane Mahon probably from Ohio. He went to Ohio & died there. His three daughters settled on farms in Illinois P.O. Warsaw opposite Keokuk. He went to Morgan Co, O.

No 34. Isaac 1802 married Elizabeth Davis fr Ohio & settled in Morgan Co O. None of them ever saw any of his children but have seen him. He was a little man & wore a wig.

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No 35 Mary never married & is buried at Round Hill.

No 36 Elizabeth married John Plummer I have this record

No 37 Nancy married Wm Fulton. Think I got their record at Keokuk in Sept 1921

No 38 Susannah married John Wycoff who A.F. thinks was a brother of Isaac & of James (the father of Adam H.) They moved to Ohio abt Zanesville. Had a lot of children. Not well to do.

No 27 Elisha Peairs, grandfather of my three informants married Sarah Wycoff 1791-1831, who was a sister of Isaac, James & John above named & was daughter of Jonathan Wycoff & his wife Catherine see item 8 page 511

A.F. thinks his grandfather was born here, having come here he thinks prior to 1778, the date of the organization of Round Hill Church

In bucks Theological Dictionary, a medium sized book 25 x 17 lines printed in Phila by Wm W. Woodward 1825 615 pages is written the record of the births of Joseph Peairs children which A.F. thinks is in the handwriting of Andrew McKinley. I am starting a table on page 544 & incorporating the names & dates of birth there given.

A.F. says that Dan Allen a

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son of Bradford Allen lives now in Monongahela, Pa & might be able to give line.

The bible of Elisha Peairs, grandfather of my informants was sent to the binders to be bound & when returned, the family record had been lost out & they were never able to find it.

We conclude it is about time to go to bed as it is 12:55 AM 24th Joseph Peairs 1760-1807 gave the ground to the congregation for the church & cemetery. He was one of the organizers of the Round Hill Church & was one of the original elders. Talked until 1:30 AM & retired at 1:44 & got up at 7 AM. Margaret M. thought John Westbay had 36 children by his first two wives, but Andrew F. says it was only 26 & that he had no children by his 3d wife. He said that Steward Westbay listed on page 131, was by second wife & not by Mary Power as were also those named after him viz: Harry, Hattie, Laurie & John & others not named.

After a good breakfast with Mary Belle, Andrew F. & Margaret M. we talked & Andrew F. was delightfully kind & glad I came & asked me to come back & I asked them all to come up & see me. Andrew F. said the niece there,

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Sarah, was a Beazell & had been legally adopted as a niece by his younger sister Margaret M. We left in their new Hudson car viz Mary Belle, Margaret M. & myself with Sarah driving, at 10 AM & going through Elizabeth Pa stopped at see top page 548.

Andrew F. Peairs said that Rev James Finley was a red headed fiery little man.

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[descendant chart]

Joseph Peairs was born Apr 10, 1760. Miss Mary Belle says they had settled in New Jersey & from there went to Manck [sic] Chunk Pa & after a moderate sojourn there came to Fayette Co, Pa, so Wm Wycoff, son of Isaac Wycoff, great Uncle said. He said the Wycoffs & Peairs came over from Holland in the same ship & both families settled in New Jersey. They think it would be Jonathan's father ie Jonathan Wycoff's. Married Susannah Allen born June 30, 1764. They don't know where she was born nor her parentage see book 5 pages 372-373.

[children]

Elisha Peairs b Sept 30, 1785 ob Feby 26, 1844 married Sarah Wycoff b Mch 6, 1791 ob Nov 11, 1831. His children were all born in a log home which stood on this site. He built this house in 1838 see page 510 item 11.

Catharine Peairs ob married Robert Cunningham. He died at Fredericksburg, Wayne Co O. Had 8 children of whom John lives at Shrove [best guess] O, Jesse at Mayville, O, Elmer, Valpairaiso Ind. Both buried at Fredericsburgh, O.

Jane Peairs ob married Robt Cooper Howell son of Lewellen Howell Both buried in Elizabeth Pa Cem & have markers. Had 3 girls & 4 boys born in Elizabeth Tp. Elisha P. living in Elizabeth Tp, farmer & Flora C. McCune widow in McKeesport living with her daughter Grace Caughey.

Joseph Peairs b Aug 7, 1816 ob June 12, 1897 married May 1, 1845 in this Tp to Margaret Fife born Sept 12, 1822 & died Mch 4, 1902 daughter of Andrew Fife & his wife Sarah Robinson. Both buried at Round Hill had 9 children all born in this house. See page 546. They were married by Rev Audley Calhoun

Susanna A. Peairs b June 22, 1822 ob July 30, 1895 died unmarried & buried at Round Hill

John W. Peairs b June 7, 1817 ob Oct 10, 1884 married to Dinah Boyd b July 30, 1826 ob Apr 13, 195 daughter of John Boyd & wife Mary. Both buried at Round Hill had 3 boys & 2 girls all born near Mendon Westd Co Pa only one viz Dr W.F. Peairs Sisterville, Pa is living, see item 27 p 515.

William F. Peairs

John B. Peairs ob

Andrew E. Peairs, ob

Mary J. Peairs ob married Moore

Sarah Peairs ob married Weddell

Nancy Peairs ob married John McHenry & lived in Rostraver Tp & both buried in West Newton Cem & have marker. Had 7 children all born in Elizabeth Tp 5 living, Frank at old home Rostraver Tp Nora married Wm Irwin. She lives in Boston this Tp 5 children, Mary Bell married John Cunningham is widow with 3 children & lives Versailles, Pa Caroline married Andrew Budd is a widow 3 children. Jennie married Jacob Nair & live Millsboro, Pa 4 children.

Elisha Peairs ob unmarried buried at Round Hill

Sarah A. Peairs b 182- ob Mch 15, 1838 in her 13th year d.y. & is buried at Round Hill & has a marker.

Lydia C. Peairs b Mch 22, 1830 ob Apr 4, 1912 married Thos D. Douglass & both buried at Round Hill. Had 5 children 3 living. David P. in Elizabeth Tp, farmer 1 child, Mary Ellen single living in McKeesport, Jane, married James B. Bittick, both living McKeesport 5 children, Elisha P. married Elvira Weddell. He dead & she living in McKeesport, Pa & has 2 children viz Judge Howard W. Douglass in McKeesport & Rev Earl Douglass of Buffalo NY. Sarah. He was born Jany 18, 1822 & died June 6, 1896 see page 518 item 54 Sept 11, 1925 Judge Howard W. Douglass died on Aug 30, 1925 aged 44 see Mor Her of Aug 31, survived by a widow & two sons.

David Peairs [son of Joseph b 1760] b Nov 24, 1786 ob

James Peairs b Aug 25, 1788 ob Jany 2, 1807 unmarried

Elizabeth Peairs b Jany 18, 1790 ob Oct 16, 1827

Nancy Peairs b Oct 1, 1791 ob Feby 22, 1882

Susannah Peairs b Sept 18, 1793 ob 188-

Joseph Peairs b July 12, 1795 ob

John Peairs b Feby 8, 1797 ob July 31, 1887 see book 5 p 373 see book 13 p 350

Allen Peairs b Oct 16, 1798 ob May 5, 1832

William Peairs b Oct 6, 1800 ob May 2, 1873

Isaac Peairs b Dec 22, 1802 ob

Mary Peairs b Nov 17, 1804 ob Dec 26, 1817 unmarried

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[descendant chart]

Joseph Peairs & Margaret Fife

[children]

Sarah Catharine Peairs b Jany 16, 1846 ob Jany 17, 1916 married Dec 25, 1867 to Haville [best guess] Edmundson born June 5, 1839 & ob June 9, 1878 son of Levi Edmundson & wife Elizabeth Gamble sister of Hiram Gamble. He was a business mgr. Had 5 children born in Lincoln Tp, Allegheny Co, Pa

Alberta Edmundson b Dec 23, 1868 married Mch 1901 to Wm C. McConnell son of Adam McConnell & wife Sarah Gamble (daughter of James & niece of Hiram. Both living in McKeesport where their 2 sons were born.

Wm Minard McConnell

Geo Haville McConnell

Joseph Edwin Edmundson b Apr 1, 1870 married Margaret Hultz daughter of John Hultz & wife. Have 4 children born in McKeesport where he is a merchant.

Sarah Catharine Edmundson married Overholt

John Hultz Edmundson

Margaret Peairs Edmundson

Jane Eleanor Edmundson

George Levi Edmundson b Nov 14, 1871 married Mary Harrison daughter of Jack Jarrison & wife Mary. Live in McKeesport, Pa is an undertaker.

Helen Edmundson

Elizabeth Douthette [sic] Edmundson b Mch 13, 1873 ob Feby 20, 1913 married May 17, 1905 to Thomas E. Finley attorney who was born Dec 22, 1826 son of Thomas C. Finley & wife Elizabeth Turner McClure. He lives at Otto Pa. All children born in 10t ward McKeesport, Pa see book 13 page 175-6

Robert Rankin Finley b Feby 26, 1906

Joseph Edmundson Finley b Feby 19, 1907

Thomas McClure Finley b Aug 19, 1910

Margaret Peairs Edmundson b Feby 4, 1875 lives with sister Alberta in McKeesport, is unmarried.

Mary Belle Peairs [daughter of Joseph & Margaret Fife Peairs] b May 15, 1848 at home, unmarried one of my informants

Andrew Fife Peairs b Feby 2, 1850 at home unmarried & one of my informants

Elisha Plumer Peairs b Dec 23, 1851 ob July 22, 1890 buried at Round Hill was a doctor never married

Nancy Fulton Peairs b Feby 15, 1853 ob Apr 14, 1899 buried at Round Hill never married.

Elizabeth Ella Peairs b Nov 29, 1855 ob May 19, 1895 buried at Round Hill married Sept 5, 1883 to James Harvey Scott b Jany 4, 1851 & lives at Mediapolis, Iowa, son of John Van Kirk Scott & wife Nancy Ann Nicholls. Have but one child born at Mediapolis, Iowa

Walter Brice Scott b Jany 27, 1889 married Nov 20, 1916 to Charlotte Slagle Shaffer b Apr 12, 1888 daughter of Dr Chas H. Shaffer & wife Mary McBain & have one child born in this Tp. He is a farmer on this farm where he has always lived graduate of Wooster.

Margery Belle Scott b Mch 26, 1919

Addaletta Peairs b Mch 30, 1858 married Oct 5, 1881 to James Wallace McKinney born May 22, 1851 in Forward Tp son of Robt McKinney & wife Nancy Marshall. Both living in Forward Tp where he is a farmer. Have 2 children born in Forward Tp

Ethel May McKinney b Mch 6, 1890 at home single

Frank Lee McKinney b Sept 18, 1892 married Dec 26, 1917 to Marie Kelly b July 31, 1891 daughter of John Kelly & wife Annie McClure both living in Forward Tp where he is a farmer. No issue. P.O. Elizabeth Pa

Margaret Melzina Peairs b Jany 22, 1860 at home unmarried one of my informants

Anna Martha Peairs b Oct 30, 1862 married June 14, 1896 to John Barr Nicholls born Sept 17, 1864 son of James Nicholls & wife Elizabeth Barr. He was a brother of William who married Archibald Boyd's daughter. Both living in Elizabeth Tp. No issue. His P.O. address is Elizabeth Pa RD No 3

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Residence of R.B. McKinney 2d St Elizabeth Pa Oct 24, 1924 10:15 AM

transcribing Wm Penn Hotel 1:15 to 2:35 PM

[fermata mark appears here]

Miss Mary Belle getting out with introduced me to Mrs Fickes, a middle aged even featured buxom woman who was working in the yard, a daughter of Mrs McKinney, who is a daughter of David Lecky by his 2d wife, her name having been Florence Lecky. She sd her father & mother had gone over to West Newton, Pa to visit her ie her mother's full brother Jesse Lecky. She also said her mother's older half sister, Mrs Sarah Peairs aged abt 80 is now at the Soldiers Home, Brookville, Pa but she did not think she would be able to give much information, but to see her mother who had a penchant for family lore & could much better give me the genealogy. She said the father of David Lecky was Wm Lecky & that he was buried in First Pres Ch g.y. in Pgh on 6th Ave. His wife was Dorcas Allen who after Mr Lecky died married a Moore.

Mary Belle Peairs says Dorcas Allen was some relation to her great grandmother Susannah Allen wife of Joseph Peairs but "don't know how much".

We then drove down the east side of the Monongahela River & were at

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Residence of Thomas Ebenezer Finley Esq No 522 Monongahela Ave Otto Pa a part of the Bor of Glassport (P.O. McKeesport, Pa) Oct 24, 1924 10:44 AM

Here I was introduced to Mrs Robert A. Rankin widow, & sister of Mr Finley who keeps house for him. She says that Rev James Finley's son Joseph Finley see page 131, who was in his 97th year when he died was a J.P. for many years & they showed me the old record of his office which he used 1825, 1826 etc & I also sat in his old chair a comfortable substantial one with a large writing table at your right hand in which I sat & wrote this record. He was her grandfather and married 1st a Veech & had by her but one child viz:

1. James Finley who married Elizabeth Williams see list of his children on page 133. She says his children & descendants live at Milford Center O near Marysville, O. He moved out there, where he died. Joseph married 2nd Frances Moore who was a sister of John Moore & of Ebenezer Moore, the latter being the father of J. William, James H., Rev Robert B. & Pressley H. Moore. By her he had a number of children:

2. Rev Robert R. who had a charge at Wooster O where he died. He was the oldest of her children. Said his son Joseph is dead & thinks his son

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Ed is dead & says his son George is living at Detroit, Mich or some Mich RR town. He is in RR service. Joe was car inspector at Wooster, O & thinks died there. Was not married.

Elizabeth married a Routson also a RR man. She died & left on son living probably about Wooster, O. George was married.

3. Samuel Finley married Hannah but had no issue. died in Rostraver Tp & buried at Rehoboth

Continuing transcribing at Oak Hill 10 PM

4. Ebenezer married Mary Rogers, no issue. He died in West Newton, Pa & buried in West Newton cem there.

5. Joseph died aged 18 had been one yr in college. He was a little boy when Lafayette passed their home in 1825 & he ran out the lane to see him & Lafayette said to him "whose tow headed boy are you?" 6. Jane Finley married John Woods a brother of James F. Woods of Gbg, Pa. They moved to Milford Center, O or Marysville, O & died there. Had 4 children that Mrs Rankin knew of viz 3 sons & 1 daughter. Her descendants live there. One of the sons Joseph Finley Woods has a daughter Nellie, who has visited at Gbg, Pa.

7. Thomas Finley married Elizabeth McClure & are both buried away up in the upper corner at Fells Church g.y. They are the parents of Mrs Rankins my informant. They had seven children viz:

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A. Frances Moore

B. Joseph

C. George Turner

D. Nancy Jane

E. Mary Elizabeth

F. Margaret Belle, my informant

G. Thomas Ebenezer Finley

F. Margaret Belle was born Dec 4, 1860 in Rostraver Tp on the old farm of her Grandfather Joseph Finley where all of her father's children above were born & in the gable of the old house was a stone inscribed "J. Finley 1805". She was married June 20, 1889 to Robert Alexander Rankin who was born May 8, 1857 in Elizabeth Tp & died May 4, 1908 & is buried in St Clair Cem, Greensburgh, Pa. He was son of John Rankin Jr & his wife Eliza Jane Kelly. No issue.

8. Frances, not Francis married John Finley Power son she thought of

Dr Power & lived near Rankins in Rostraver Tp. Their children all died young except Joe, who was married & lived to be 77 yrs old & died at Belle Vernon, Pa without issue & is buried in a mausoleum at Washington, Pa. His wife's sister lived over there. His wife was Elizabeth Menk Hageman,[sic] a widow, nee Menk Mrs Dr Jim Blackburn of McKeesport, Pa was her sister.

9. David married Martha McClure sister of Elizabeth & daughter of George McClure

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& his wife Nancy Turner. They lived near the old home in Rostraver Tp near Webster, Pa & had 7 children. The oldest child was Joe Z. Finley (Saw Mill Joe) lives now at Donora, Pa is married & has one son. He can best give record of his family & his father's.

10. Margaret died aged 4 yrs & is buried at Rehoboth.

Mrs Rankin says a lawyer a Finley descendant from Ft Wayne, Ind was in to see her brother Thos E. Finley in the Berger Bldg 2 or 3 mos ago descended from oldest brother of her grandfather.

Leaving 11:40 AM

Quitting 11:15 PM

Continuing at Oak Hill [cut off]:44 AM 25th

Robert (son of Thos E. Finley) thinks Homer Houseman has the Rev James Finley bible. He is janitor at Rehoboth Church. I know he has the record copied from the old Col John Power bible & he may be confused with this.

12:11 PM

In Lincoln Tp. In car while waiting for street car 56 at West end of bridge over the Youghiogheny from McKeesport I spoke to the Misses Peairs saying that my father & mother were married in McKeesport, Pa on Feby 26, 1846 by Rev Audley Calhoun & they then said that their parents, Joseph Peairs & Margaret Fife were also married by him on May 1, 1845. Mary Belle

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said he never had a charge & was not ordained, but had served as a supply at Round Hill & died young, unmarried shortly thereafter. They said their father used to tease their mother saying she could easily get rid of him as the preacher who married them had never been ordained.

The three sons of Thomas E. Finley all came in viz: Robert, Joseph & Thomas, fine boys & Thomas particularly has a fine face. Their mother, deceased, was a niece of my hostesses Mary Belle & Margaret M. Peairs.

I then took the street car at 12 o'c noon & arrived in Pgh at 3d Ave & Smithfield St at 1 Pm went to the Wm Penn Hotel & transcribed in the lobby pages 548-550. Then went to H.M. Johnson's & got H.A. Phillips ck for coms on James L. Rush, Ida M. Clark & Joe R. Nutt Coal. Going in Mellon Natl Bank to deposit same found Geo S. Baton & Bert W. Lewis talking at 2:50 PM at one of the center desks & G.S. was about to introduce me to Bert, who spoke up & said I sent him down there 32 yrs ago, saying that in Mch 1892 when I was buying a ticket from him at Uniontown to go to Pgh on the B&O, I asked him how he would like to go to Pgh to work in a Bank & he said he wd like it & in May 1892 he came down & took position as a clerk rising years ago to the cashiership. I then went up & saw W.W. McAdams & then walked around & was at:

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Office of Thos E. Finley Atty No 901 Burger Bldg Pittsburgh, Pa Oct 24, 1924 3:11 PM

Telling him I had just come from his home at Otto Pa where his sister had told me about a Finley descendant from the West calling in to see him, he said he just heard from him yesterday & produced a letter from Finley A. McNutt Ft Wayne, Ind senior partner of a 4 name law firm of McNutt etc. I did not bring the letter, but Mr Finley loaned me to copy & return with a carbon copy, an eleven page Finley record, the first four pages being of the family generally & the last seven being a record of descendants of Rev John E. Finley, oldest son of Rev James & from whom Mr McNutt descends.

Those E. then said that Judge James R. MacFarlane of their courts had recently accosted him & said he guessed they were related. The Judge resides on Woodland Road Hazle 1233 & has his rooms in 7th floor of City county bldg. Mr Finley proposed going over to see him & introduce me so we

Left at 3:33 PM

& went to Judge Macfarlane's rooms on 7th floor as above & the man in charge of his rooms told us he was at Chambers Court in the court house so we went over & were soon:

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At Chambers Court in the Court House Pittsburgh, Pa Oct 24, 1924 3:46 PM

Thos E. Finley introduced me & the judge said yes he knew me & knew I had done more toward the progress & advancement of Fayette Co, Pa than any other one man. When he was told I was a Finley descendant he asked us to sit down & taking off his gown or robe, we had three quarters of an hour of interesting talk until I had to say goodbye & rush to the B&O 4:45 PM train for home. He was very cordial & said he was a descendant of Clement Finley (a brother of Rev James) (in this I think he is mistaken as I feel Clement was a son of Rev James's oldest brother John) of South Huntingdon Tp Westd Co, Pa. He said Clement came to Westnd Co, Pa before Rev James did, coming five years before the county of Westnd was organized, which wd be 1768. I told him he was born 1735 & died 1775. He said he came out to Westnd Co (it was then Cumb) from Big Spring Pres Church vicinity & left part of his children & perhaps wife, back there. His daughter, Elizabeth Finley married in Cumb Co, Pa James Macfarlane who was the great grandfather of Judge James R, my informant. They had a son John Finley MacFarlane, who had a son James who was the father of Judge James R.

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my informant. He said he had a letter from a Swan to his great grandmother Elizabeth Macfarlane [sic] apprising her of the death of her brother John Finley & some children, which he will send me & which I promised to return after getting a photostatic copy of it. Thus I have today run on unexpectedly the chance to get Rev John E. Finley & Clement Finley's lines. I told the Judge that Rev Wm Swan the probable author of the letter & John Finley had both married daughters of Rev James Power. He said some of the early Macfarlanes, I believe perhaps his great grandfather James or his grandfather John F. had gone to Pickaway O which he thought was a town, but it is a county & Circleville O is the county seat.

The judge is a tall man abt 5 ft 10 in. neither spare nor fleshy. He spoke of a reference to a Finley genealogy in two books at the Carnegie library at Pgh which he sd he wd give me a reference to when he wrote me, but he thought they were Harrison Co O books & I told him they were perhaps the ones C.A. Hanna wrote.

Left 4:40 PM

I recall that the Judge asked me if I had ever seen the portrait of Rev Samuel Finley at Princeton College & he said none of us got our good looks from him as he was very homely.

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He said Rev Dr John H. Finley had talked to him about the advisability of having a Finley reunion in W. Pa. He also spoke of Judge John Stewart of Chambersburgh being given him a packet of old Macfarlane letters surveys etc which had been given to him by an old Macfarlane bachelor which leads me to inquire whether Judge Stewart is a Macfarlane & perhaps a Finley descendant.

Finished 9:55 PM 25th

Nov 16, 1927. He is a Finley desct. See book 17 Aug 1926 when in Chambersburg, seeing his brother Geo. H.

Oct 28, 1924 9:42 PM have made slips to here JVT

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Alexander Hotel, Kittanning Pa Lobby writing room Oct 30, 1924 8:46 AM

The Kittanning Tel Co directory for July 1924 gives:

*Jack, Geo W. r 374 N. Jefferson 767-L

*Jack & Miller Book & Stationery 330

*Jack, Milton r 126 Allegheny 663 W

*Jack, W.A. r RD 5 exchgs 496-W-4

*Jack, William r N. Jefferson 722-L

*Markle, T.W. r 416 Highland 291-L

*Shadle, Mrs Jane r 140 N. Grant 484-4

____________________________________________________________________

Shearer, Adam r Arthur 323-L

Shearer, Clarence r Worthington RD 2 Rural 24-R-6

Shearer, M.P. r 225 Garfield 627-J

Ford City Pa

Jack, Harvey Kittanning RD 5 Rural 6-W-3

Apollo Pa

Carnahan, J.B. r Paulton rural 8-R-6

Carnahan, R.W. r Penna 266-L

Jack, Daniel r S. Fourth 4

Jack, Howard S. N. Sixth 295-l

Orr. There are 8 listed

Dayton, Pa

Cochran, C.C. r Dayton Pa 20

Leechsburg, Pa

Carothers, W.D r Floral 160-J

Jack, Mrs H.E. r Floral 89-J

Jack, Harold J. r Wallace 293-W

Jack, James A. r RD 1 rural 5-H

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Jack, J.L. r Kirkpatrick 97

Jack Meat Market 231

Jack, John M. r Market 347

Jack, R.E. r Third 10-W

Kilgore, H.S. r S. Lgh, Rural 14-R-3

Shearer, J.F. rural 14-W-2

Vandergrift

Carothers, John W. res Kepple Hill 682 Y

Jack, Harry C. res 418 Emerson St, 329 J

Jack, Chas S. res 154 Washington Ave 462 J

Jack, Glen res 169 A. Columbia Ave 732 A

Markell, Geo A. res 119 East Harrison Ave 428 L

Markell, Geo A. motor Co garage 194-6 Lincoln Ave 736

Shearer, Clarence S. plumber 704 Wallace St 597 L

Shearer, Rev J. Walter Res 714 Wallace St 767 L

Finished 9:37 AM

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At residence of Mrs Jane C. Shadle No 140 N. Grant St, Kittanning Pa Oct 30, 1924 10 AM

I arrived here ten minutes ago & met Mrs Shadle who is a remarkably well preserved & active woman for her years. Speaking of her grandmother's oldest brother Patrick Jack being born in 1745 she told of the story told to her by her mother of how the name Patrick came in the family & said that one of her Jack ancestors was in the siege of Derry & when they had to flee from their farm which they owned & a hired man who worked on the farm for them named Patrick (& she has a faint recollection that his name was Doyle. He has it O. Doyle on a paper, but is not sure) took charge of it & when the owner Jack, came back after the siege was over, he found the farm intact & in charge of Patrick & when he proposed recompensing him, he would take nothing, but made the request that "if their first child was a boy it should be called Patrick, if a girl Bridget". It was a boy & hence the name Patrick in the Jack family. She says her mother told her that her grandfather James Jack was born in Ireland, but she

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does not recall ever hearing how old he was when he came to America. She thought his daughter Jemima Jack (Mrs Shadle's grandmother) was born in 1760, but I think it would be 1766. See page 129, but says she was born in Cumberland Co, Pa. Mrs Shadle does not recall anything about where the Coopers went. She has heard her mother speak of the Kilgores being related but did not know how. She speaks of relatives over by Jacksonville, Pa named Hemphills, Anderson & McCurdys all cousins of her mother coming once a carriage load of them, to visit her mother. She thinks the bible record of her grandparents, Thomas & Jemima Dunlap went to their oldest son, Archibald who was not sick but complained of being sick from the time she was married until she died. Thinks they are buried at Salem Church which they always attended. They had but two children, Thomas & James. Thomas when about 20 started off to work for himself, stepped off a moving train, missed his footing, fell under the train & was killed dying at his father's residence & thinks buried at Salem Ch. James married a teacher & she

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Says her name was Miss Elwood (Sarah she thinks). Thinks he lost the property he inherited from his father, died & probably buried at Salem Church. After his death she went to Leechburgh, Pa where 30 yrs ago she was running a hotel. Thinks they had three children. Don't know whether the widow is living or not but says she has a right to be as she wouldn't be any older than she is & says she was born in 1840. She says her parents bible was in the family of her brother Thomas T. wherry & while he died before his mother, she lived with his widow after John Wherry died but Mrs Shadle has heard that at that time there was no bible in the house. Says Thomas T's widow used the old furniture that John & Jemima Wherry went to housekeeping with for kindling wood & gave their dishes to the children to play with. This widow whose maiden name was Ida Armstrong, daughter of James Armstrong of About Parnassus & his wife ______ Cowan of Parnassus neighborhood. She is about 17 yrs younger than my informant & is now aged 67 yrs & lives about a mile from South Bend Indiana Co Pa in a shack living alone having too

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much temper to live with anyone. Her daughter, who is more communicative, lives in Vandergrift Pa & her name is Margaret Gross, wife of Frederick William Gross, working for Vandergrift Mill where he is a wood carver & a foreman.

Mrs Shadle says she can give the record of her mother's family from memory & I am starting a table on page 566 reinforcing her memory by dates gathered from the tombstones at Elders Ridge noted on page 533.

She says her grandfather Thomas Dunlap came from the North of Ireland To America just after the Revolutionary War closed. He kept a little store this side of Pack Saddle, she thinks perhaps near Altoona & thinks he married Jemima Jack at or about Brush Valley which she thinks is near where Bolivar Westnd Co, Pa now is. She don't know from whose home. Believes it was about 1795 as she thinks their oldest child Jane who married Moses Culbertson was born in 1796 & was married when she was 18. She has in this her dining room, large pictures of Jane with a white cap & her husband hanging on the wall. Does not know the name of Thomas Dunlap's parents but says his mother's name was Jennie Anderson who

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once visited here with her son John & saw corn on the ear for the first time & said to her son: "Jan would it be carrots". Says her grandparents are buried at Salem Church.

Says her Uncle & Aunt Moses & Jane Culbertson are buried in the Cem at Steubenville, O where they lived their latter years. He died there first & she died not longer after & before the death of her mother & more than 70 yrs ago as Mrs Shadle thinks she was abt 8 yrs old. No issue. They had lived in their younger days at Chillicothe O. He was in good Circumstances. Look for his will. Says Moses Culbertson was from near Salem & attended the same church & had a brother Alexander but don't know the name of his parents.

Her father, John Wherry was born May 10, 1804 in County Derry, Ireland & came when six yrs old to America with his parents settling in Brush Valley Ind Co Pa near Centerville, Pa son of James Wherry & his wife Mary McCleary widow of Thomas McCleary & whose maiden name was Mary Dick.

I have been writing South Bend Tp as Indiana Co, Pa but Mrs Shadle now tells me it is Armstrong Co & that Olivet where her niece Mrs

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Wilson was born & still lives is in South Bend Tp. She inherited this farm from her father, John L. Armstrong being his only child.

Mrs Shadle has written off for her grandson the record given her by S.S. Jack & one incident he wrote about Mrs McComb I copy viz: (This incident is not fr S.S. but was told Mrs S. by her mother

"6" Nancy married Gen James McComb of near Kent P.O. [sic] Their descendants are still in that neighborhood or were at last reports. Nancy was said to be a very beautiful girl when she was at home & a splendid horseback rider. This accomplishment saved her life at one time. Her husband & she were not very devoted & it is thought he conspired to have her killed so he could marry another woman he became enamored with while away at war. He sent Col Dunbar of his regiment with a horse for her to visit the camp. This horse, unknown to Mrs McComb was unmanageable for most people. After she was started on her journey, someone in her escort whistled & the horse took the bit in his teeth & started on the road & off it, through brush & marsh, doing everything to unseat her, but she kept her seat till the horse ran into a farm yard & a farmer caught him & took her off. It is needless to say, her husband was in for a bad time. On her terms, he was allowed to keep his commission as General & I think they continued together the balance of their lives. It is known the horse wd take the bit upon the whistle signal which shows conspiracy. To page 568.

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Jemima Dunlap daughter of Thomas Dunlap & his wife Jemima Jack was born Aug 10, 1810 & died Apr 10, 1888 at the home of her son [rest of line smeared & unreadable] Residence as long as she lived & is buried at Pres g.y. at Elders Ridge Pa. She married Jany 1, 1831 at her home in Derry Tp Westd Co, Pa where she was born & they rode horseback in mid-winter to the home in South Bend Tp, Ind Co, Pa of her husband John Wherry who was born May 10, 1804 in Co Derry Ireland son of James Wherry & his wife Mrs Mary (Dick) McCleary. He died Mch 10, 1880 in South Bend Tp, Ind Co, Pa & is buried at Elders Ridge Pa. They had 8 children all born on the homestead farm in South Bend Tp Ind. Co, Pa

[children]

James Alexander Wherry b Dec 11, 1838 ob Dec 3, 1862 unmarried graduated at Jefferson College Aug 1862 died of consumption

Jane Culbertson Wherry b Nov 10, 1840 married May 16, 1867 at home by Rev Alex Donaldson who had baptized her to Christopher Columbus Shadle born Oct 17, 1844 in Clarion Co, Pa & died here in Kittanning Pa in this house Aug 3, 1904 son of Isaac Shadle & wife Mary Shively. Have had four children, 3 living & one dead, oldest born in Tarentum, Pa second born in South Bend Tp Armstrong Co Pa at her mother's where she went for the purpose & the other two born here in this house.

Charles Hamilton Shadle b Feby 19, 1868 ob July 24, 1913 in this house & is buried at the cemetery here. He graduated at the University of Penna Phila & practiced medicine in Saltsburg, West Winfield & Templeton Pa. Married Oct 24, 1912 to Miss Ella Henry born 1877 in Kittanning Pa adopted by his Uncle Jim Henry his sister Ella having eloped with a man named Light Cap. [sic] No issue. His name was Vincent Lightcap. Chas H. graduated at W&J College in 1890.

Helen Mima Shadle b June 16, 1870 she is unmarried is a graduate nurse & makes her home in Buffalo NY graduated 1890 fr Wash [unreadable line]

Laura Mary Shadle b Sept 24, 1875 at home unmarried & is Asst in office of Dr McClister here.

John Wherry Shadle b June 5, 1876 married Feby 9, 1899 to Grace Gamble Kirkendall b July 18, 1882 in Saltsburg, Pa daughter of Thomas Kirkendall & his wife Nancy Gamble. Both living here in Kittanning Pa where he is in the hardware business being the Co in firm of McConnell Watterson Co. Have but one child born in Saltsburg, Pa.

John Wherry Shadle Jr born May 3, 1901. He is a medical student at the University of Penna at Phila Pa unmarried

Maria Louisa Wherry [daughter of John Wherry b 1804] b Dec 30, 1842 ob July 30, 1863 unmarried died of consumption

John Newton Wherry b Oct 16, 1844 ob Aug 16, 1847 of dysentery

Jemima Dick Wherry b 1847 & ob July 19, 1868 aged 21 yrs 5 mos & 18 days. She never recovered after the birth of her child. Married Nov 17, 1864 to John L. Townsend son of Henry Townsend & wife Elizabeth Turney. He died. He married for his second wife Mrs Mary Jane Robertson, widow of Wm Robertson & daughter of Chas Ba[unreadable] but had no issue by her.

Annie Lovinia Townsend born at Olivet Pa b July 21, 1867 married to Wm Steele Armstrong Wilson son of William Wilson Irish Covenanter & wife Laney Ann Armstrong. Have 4 children all at home unmarried. He is a county school teacher

Beatrice Wilson

William Henry Wilson b Apr 18, 1902

John Wilson

Margaret Lillian Wilson

Thomas T. Wherry b Nov 17, 1848 ob 1884 of pneumonia caused by exposure. He died in Indiana Pa & is buried i the cemetery there. Thinks has a marker. Two children born in South Bend Tp. Married to Ida B. Armstrong daughter of James Armstrong & wife _____ Cowan. She lives now in South Bend Tp Armstrong Co, Pa "T" is just an initial.

Margaret Ethel? Wherry married to Frederick William Gross. Both living at Vandergrift Pa where he is a foreman in Vandergrift Planing Mill. Have three children all born in Vandergrift Pa. None of the children are married.

Paul Walter Leroy Gross

Blythe Gross a girl

Ida Jane Gross

Paul Armstrong? Wherry died in his 20th yr of typhoid fever & is buried by his father in Indiana Pa. Unmarried.

Samuel Albert Wherry b Aug 5, 1850 ob Feby 11, 1875 at home of consumption & unmarried

Nancy Margaret Wherry b Oct 29, 1852 ob Nov 16, 1869

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From page 565

This is a fine large substantial brick house & was built 53 yrs ago by Mrs Shadle & her husband & they still own it & have lived in it ever since except four years they lived in Saltsburg, Pa.

In a letter of Hon S.S. Jack to Mrs Shadle dated Decatur, Ills Apr 21, 1897 he says his "great grandfather James Jack came from County Down Ireland 1725 to 1735. He married Jane Carnahan in 1744.

Mrs Shadle says her Uncle James Dunlap lived on a small farm near West Lebanon, Young Tp, Ind Co Pa & but two miles from her home but she never saw him. He married Kate something, she thinks Rogers, but her Mrs Shadle's mother was much dissatisfied as she considered that he married beneath himself. She only knew of their son Eugene who was studying for the ministry & died. Says they had moved away from West Lebanon & she thinks to Wash Co, Pa. She thinks Thomas, the oldest son of her Uncle Daniel moved to Ohio & that he had a daughter Millicent. Says she always understood that her Uncle Daniel was older than Archibald but was rather slow & not so good a business man.

Mrs Shadle's great grandfather James Jack bought a man, Andrew Peirce for 3 yrs indenture to pay his passage to this country.

Leaving 3:45 PM

Apr 2, 1926 7:46 PM Yesterday's Easter Number of Pres Banner has an "in Memoriam fr Com of the Woman for Mis Soc of 1st Pres Ch Kittanning Pa to Mrs Jane Wherry Shadle & w others who for over 50 yrs were prom. mem of the Soc & were taken by death within a few months of each other. JVT.

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At Residence of Turney Wilson Markle No 416 Highland Ave Kittanning Pa Oct 30, 1924 9:09 PM

Mr Markle says his father was Elias Markle & his grandfather Moses Markle & he does not know the name of Moses' father, but he says Moses came from East of the Mountains & his wife says that she has often heard his, Turney W's mother say they came from Lancaster Co, Pa. He thinks Moses Markle's wife was a Shaffer & that they were married before they came out here. Also thinks his father who was next to the youngest of the 6 or 7 children (shows later there were nine) ie 2 or 3 (were four) girls & 4 (were five) boys. Thinks all the children were born here in this Co probably or surely on the farm of over 100 A which he bought in Red Bank Tp this Co. Moses & his wife moved to Missouri shortly after his son Elias was married & took his daughters with him who Mrs M. thinks were not married at that time. Does not think any of the sons went with him & two of them, named, he thought, Moses & George (their names were David Samuel & Lewis) went in the Civil War from about here & were both killed on the same night, a raid being made on their camp, so they have been told by Elias. Mrs Markle

See book 7 p 393 Jany 12/26

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says her mother-in-law has told her that Jacob Markle, younger than his brother Elias, was also in the Civil War & when he went in was married & had one child, who came & lived with Elias & his family while Jacob was in the war. He got back from the war & lived at Oak Ridge, Pa in this county, where he died & his wife died later two yrs ago. He had a large family. Mrs Markle thinks the two who were killed in the Civil War were unmarried. In the Spring of 1905 they bought this lot & built this house where they have ever since lived.

Mr Markle has gone upstairs & hunted up some old papers, one of which is a commission from Gov Wm F. Johnston signed by A.L. Russell Dept Secy of the Com, father of my college mate Wm King Russell dated Apr 3, 1849 stating that by reason of his having been elected J.P. for Red Bank Tp, he was commissioned for 5 yrs.

They produce a letter from Owen A. Bassett, an attorney dated Lawrence, Kansas Apr 19, 1867 to Elias Markle, Pierce Pa) Pierce being the P.O. for the old farm) in which he refers to the case of the Markle boys which he says has not been settled yet by reason that Sarah, Catherine & Mary Ann had made an application for settlement

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of the cases more than a year before they employed him & in that application their then Atty W.O.K. Cone represented in the case, that the three sisters above mentioned swore that they three were the only sisters left surviving the soldiers & that no brothers were left surviving, when in fact there was then living, in addition, one sister Rosanna & three brothers, Elias, John & Jacob. They did not intend to do this but no doubt signed through ignorance not knowing what they were signing. She states that he then presented an affidavit with all the brothers & sisters signing except Catherine who had died & left no children there was a discrepancy which must be accounted for & explained. According by the second auditor in a letter dated Apr 8, 1867 stated that the applications in the cases of David Samuel & Lewis Markle are suspended until affidavits of two disinterested witnesses can be obtained blanks for which were enclosed to Elias Markle for him to obtain, so that my informant was wrong as giving the names as Moses & George as they are David Samuel & Lewis, & these are unquestionably the Markle boys that Jesse Bowman Markle told me in Littleton Colorado, he had seen an account in the paper of being killed as my informant

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Moses Markle came from East of the mountains & settled in Red Bank Tp, Armstrong Co, Pa after his marriage. T.W. thinks where also ie in Red Bank, he thinks all of his children were born [smeared word] son Elias was married in 1849 & shortly thereafter he, Moses & his wife & daughters went to Mo where he died not so very long after he went out there. He seems to have had nine children ie five boys & four girls see b 9 page 210 genealogical table & book 11 p 43-47 etc. He was first married in Penna to Elizabeth Shaffer 2nd in Mo to Mrs Halterman Milo thinks he had 9 boys & 4 girls. See book 15 p 596.

[children]

Rosanna Markle thinks oldest married here to Edward Shoefstall moved to Clarence Iowa & in Mch 15, 1870 wrote of moving to Rocky Mountains. Had several children Milo M. thinks she was living in Michigan. See b 15 p 596.

George Markle oldest, b Feby 4, 1827 married, ob Dec 8, 1853

Jacob Franklin Markle called "Rich Jake" b June 2, 1849 married ______ who was rich. He was the only child. His wife is dead but he lives in Summerville, Pa aged 70 or over. His wife had the wealth. He died Aug 8, 1925.

Milo Merwin Markle aged abt 40 married & lives at Oak Ridge Pa. He lives no Jany 15/26 at New Bethlehem Pa

Earl Markle, married

Edna Markle, married

Edith Markle married

A son married ob abt 1922

Sarah Smith Markle b July 31, 1843 married to Hutchinson was living 5 yrs ago in Kansas. Ask Milo. Think she wd have her father's bible. Had several children. She had the bible Milo M. writes & was living at Wakarusa Kan with her daughter Nettie Carroll. Sarah youngest see b 15 p 596.

Catharine Markle b June 5, 1839 ob 1864 no issue in early part of year, unmarried b 15 p 597

Mary Ann Markle ob Feb 7, 1919 married & went to Kansas might have gotten old bible. She married a Penny & in 1909 lived at Napa, Calif then suffering fr a 2d stroke of paralysis. See b 15 p 597 see b 20 p 584.

David Markle killed in Civil War unmarried. B July 19, 1837. Killed in the Lawrence Kan raid Aug 21, 1863 was U.S. enlisted soldier in Uniform see book 15 pages 592-601

Samuel Markle killed in Civil War unmarried b Sept 13, 1841 Killed in the Lawrence Kan raid Aug 21, 1863 was U.S. enlisted soldier in Uniform see book 15 pages 592-601

Lewis C. Markle b Mch 31, 1847 killed in Civil War Aug 21, 1863 unmarried

Elias Markle born in Red Bank Tp Oct 20, 1829 & died at Mossgrove this Co Jany 14, 1904 & is buried at Mud Lick Ch Evangelical out from Oak Ridge about 2 miles. He married Jany 20, 1849 Elizabeth Dibler who was born in this Co Nov 6, 1831 daughter of Henry Dibler & his wife. She died at Little Mud Lick this Co Nov 1910 the ground being covered with the first snow of the yr or season. They had 13 children all born in Armstrong Co on the old Dibler farm in Red Bank Tp, he buying the other heirs out. See page 574 & 575. He was a farmer all his life & a member of the Baptist Church. He was a Republican. See next page see b 15 p 596.

Jacob Markle, the youngest of the family born May 9, 1835 or 1830 ob abt 8 or 9 yrs ago at Oak Ridge, Pa & is buried at Mt Zion Ch Evangelical on top of the hill above Oak Ridge Pa aged probably 80 to 85 yrs. Married Sarah Kunselman before the war & she survived him & she died 2 or 3 yrs ago aged about 85 & lived by her husband. He was a carpenter & had 5 boys & 4 girls. See b 15 p 596 see b 23 p 387.

Edward Markle married live in New Bethlehem Pa no issue

John Markle married lives in New Bethlehem Pa has 4 or 5 children

George Markle ob married no issue

May Markle married Hall lives at Oak Ridge have issue see b 20 page 486 ob July 6, 1931 aged 64 at Oak Ridge Pa

Linna Markle married Hockenberry lives at New Bethlehem have issue

Ollie Markle married Campbell ob thinks no issue

A daughter married & living

Kirk Markle living & thinks single at Oak Ridge

Jacob Markle Jr youngest married & lives at Oak Ridge Pa did work in the mines.

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Elias Markle see page 573

[children]

John Lewis Markle b Oct 6, 1850 married June 18, 1874 Miranda Minich. Both living at Brookville, Pa where he is a retired farmer. Had 13 children 2 or 3 dead & the bals all married living & have families except the youngest.

Peggy Ann Markle b May 30, 1852 ob Feby 23, 1853

William Henry Markle b May 11, 1854 ob June 1924 married 1 Mch 1, 1879 Sarah Hindlider daughter of George Hindlider & wife. She died a good many yrs ago. Had 6 children. Married 2 1909 to Hannah Lloyd widow Sf _____ Lloyd & daughter of ____ Hulbon & wife. No issue to him. she is living at Ringgold Pa this Co. His 4 children living are girls & all married. Dora married Leroy Green & has one child. One lives at Ringgold Pa her name is Blanche married to Lloyd.

Mary Jane Markle b Aug 20, 1856 ob Feby 14, 1857

Elizabeth Markle b Jany 31, 1858 married Oct 1, 1878 Jacob Kunselman son of Daniel Kunselman & wife Sarah Shannon. He died Oct 1923. She lives at Little Mud Lick Pa on a farm adjg the village. Have 4 children.

Samuel Wesley Markle b July 31, 1860 married 1 Sarah Arbogast of Clay Co WVA daughter of Nicholas Arbogast & wife. She died leaving 5 children. Married 2 to Nancy Pierson. Both living in Clay Co WVA P.O. Elkhurst WVA. No issue by her.

George Washington Markle b May 26, 1862 married to Betty Pierson of Clay Co WVA but no relation to Nancy. Daughter of John Pierson & wife Sarah. Both living in Clay Co WVA P.O. Elkhurst WVa where he is a farmer. Have 3 children.

David Lincoln Markle b July 13, 1864 married Catharine Nult of this Co daughter of Peter Nult & wife. Both living at Little Mud Lick Pa where he is a miner. Have 2 children.

Elias Grant Markle b July 14, 1866 married 1 to Eliza Jeffries daughter of _____ Jeffries & wife Margaret. No issue. Married 2 to _____ Kline of Clay Co WVA P.O. Elkhurst WVA daughter of Geo Kline & wife. She died Nov 1922. Had abt 5 children living down there.

Turney Wilson Markle b Sept 2, 1868 married Sept 14, 1899 in Kittanning Pa by Rev Geo W. Spiggte, Lutheran to Grace Sieralone Mechling born Aug 13, 1881 in Raeburn Tp this Co daughter of Geo Reynolds Mechling & his wife Lydia Davis. Have had 4 children 3 living & one dead. First two born in Raeburn Tp & last two in Kittanning Pa. Are Lutherans & Republicans.

Minnie Gertrude Markle b Sept 17, 1900 married May 1918 to Harry C. Shannon son of Clark Shannon & wife Cora. both living at Vandergrift Pa where he is a coal miner. Have but one child.

Leona Irene Shannon b Sept 9, 1914 in this house. She is here tonight

Charles Wilson Markle b Nov 9, 1902 at home unmarried & just came in 2 AM 31st

Iva Irene Markle b Jany 14, 1905 at home unmarried, large heavy young lady

Ottie Emberson Markle b Mch 13, 1907 ob Aug 1, 1907 a boy

Charles Albert Markle b Sept 4, 1870 married Elizabeth Wolfe. Both living at Friedenham Pa this Co where he is a farmer. No issue. It is spelled Freidenheim

Seely Sarah Markle b Aug 27, 1873 married to Francis Arbogast of Clay Co WVA son of Nicholas Arbogast & wife. Both living in Clay Co WVA P.O. Elkhurst WVA farmer & have had 8 or 9 children.

Anna May Markle b Jany 15, 1875 married to Edward King. Both living in Clay Co WVA P.O. Elkhurst WVA where he is farming but a blacksmith by trade. Have 7 or 8 children.

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From page 571

T.W. says they were killed in camp in a raid.

T.W. says his father was appointed Admr to settle his father's estate & went out there to do it & they drove him away, giving a few days to leave if he wanted to get away alive. He inclines to think it was in Kansas where this occurred. Thinks this was before he was born, which was in 1868. Is not sure whether his grandfather Moses Markle died in Mo or Kansas but thinks he died before his wife Mrs M. says Elias always talked of going to Mo to settle his father's estate. They produce a letter dated Clarence Iowa Mch 15, 1870 to Elias Markle from his sister Rosan Shoefstall & her husband Edward Shoefstall who Mr Markle thinks was from this section, but he don't know his parents names. They ask in the letter Elias what he had done about their father's land in Missouri & also ask for the address of their sisters Sarah & Mary Ann in Kansas as they had lost their address. T.W. says they both married & went to Kansas, but he don't know the names of their husbands or where in Kansas they went. He has never heard from any of them since 1870 except that about 5 yrs ago, one of his cousins Milo

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Markle of Oak Ridge went out there & found Sarah & her children Rosan Shoefstall in this letter says they expect to move that summer to "Groose, the Rock Mountain" where they don't have to feed cattle 12 mos in the year. Mr T.W. thinks neither of the boys who were killed in the war were married. Says his father Elias went to Pgh two or three times to try to get in the army but he was always refused because 2d or long finger on his right hand was off at second joint & the 3d one was off at 1st joint being chopped off when a boy by one of his brothers when they were splitting wood & Elias who was holding the stick reached in for another stick when the ax was raised & it came down severing these fingers. He does not know the order of the births of his grandfather's children except that his father & Jacob were the two youngest. Never heard of his grandfather's bible & thinks he would have taken it with him & that Sarah or Mary Ann would have gotten it. Milo Markle's address is Oak Ridge. He is abt 40 yrs old & is a son of "Rich Jake" who he thinks is a son of his Uncle John. He thinks John also went to Civil War. Of the children of Elias Markle there were eight sons & five daughters of whom the second & fourth died young & all the other eleven married

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& raised families & the first one of them died a few months ago & the other ten are living. The dates of birth of all the 13 children of Elias Markle, the death of the two girls & the marriage of the three oldest living children are all taken from the family record on three pages of 3 loose leaves from Elias Markles bible which was printed in NY by the American bible society in 1869 all written by Elias Markle & T.W. my informant says he had it written on a piece of paper before, from which he copied it, in the bible.

About the time T.W. was 9 yrs old in 1877 his father moved to Clay Co, Co seat Claytown WVA on a farm & lived there for over 20 yrs. T.W. came back in 1894 & his father about 1902 to Armstrong Co, Pa. Charles says when in Chambersburg, Pa 5 or 6 yrs ago he found a lot of Markles there one of them in one of the banks there.

T.W. says there is a George Markle living near to Oakland, Pa this Co, P.O. Charles says Disston Pa (Rand McNally says New Bethlehem Pa) who is married & has a family & is a farmer aged 60 odd & whose father was Abraham Markle who moved from up there to Clay Co WVa where he died abt 15 yrs ago aged abt 80. Does not know the name of Abraham's father or of his brothers, but he has sons Daniel,

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John & Jacob living down in Clay Co WVA. T.W. says his father knew Abraham but they couldn't figure but just how they were related but knew they were related. Says Abraham came here from East of the mountains.

Leaving 2:30 PM

Charles proposed driving me down to the hotel in his car which was very kind, the distance was much greater than I anticipated, having gone out in the dark on the street car. T.W. says he is in the coal business operating a 4 1/2 foot vein here. He also became interested in a tract of timber 17 miles east of Uniontown on the National Road, some of the people buying it inducing him to go in because they wanted the use of his trucks. Charles was over at Uniontown, Pa yesterday. Just as I reached their house, looking for their number in the darkness, I ran into an iron stake on the inner edge of the side walk 1 1/2 ft high & 1 1/2 inches thick, which skinned my left leg & shinbone just below my knee & brought blood which still 2 PM Sunday 2d shows. It three me flat on the ground & my book, this one went flying from my hands.

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Alexander Hotel Room 22 Oct 31, 1924 3 AM transcribing:

Jack & Millers Book & Stationery Store Kittanning Pa Oct 30, 1924 about 4 PM

I walked from Mrs Shadle's back to the hotel & after making inquiry about the leaving of trains in the morning, I walked down to this store which is across the street abt half a block from the post office & found Mr Milton Jack of 126 Allegheny St, Senior partner in the back end of the store sitting down working with some toys. He has a fine head & face & shows strength & virility.. He said his father had been left an orphan when young, or he was & they had not much information about their family. He says Mrs W.C. King living across the river 2 miles out P.O. Kittanning Pa RFD 4 could give information. Her mother was a sister of Mr Jack's father. Milton says his Uncle Wm A. Jack died 2 yrs ago & his two maiden daughters live at the old homestead at Slate Lick, Pa are bright, well informed school teachers & can give good information & their married sister lives with them. Their home right in Slate Lick Pa is 9 miles from here

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& their names are:

Laura Jack & Ada Jack & Mrs Van Dyke. Milton's father was James Stoten Jack born in 1844 or 1845 & died in 1904 from the effects of a kick by a horse, enlisted in the Civil War & served 2 yrs. Slate Lick is 6 miles this side of Freeport, Pa & the above sisters could give more information than Mrs King & would have the old bible he thinks of their father & perhaps further back. They are staunch Presbyterian & good bright women. However very silly & touch I found. [this added later]. Milton says a few yrs ago about 1890 a man wrote history of many families about Slate Lick & Wm A. Jack got one of the books which cost $20 each & caused much dissatisfaction. It was this I think made the daughters fearful of [unreadable word]. Milton says his sister, Mrs Charles Stepp lives in Slate Lick & his mother lives with her & has one of these books. She, his mother is here visiting. Also see B.S. Robinson son-in-law of old Shff Geo Sloan who raised his father. Says his father & mother died when he was young & the father married again. Says there is a large bunch of distant relatives over int Gilpin Tp Armstrong Co near & in Leechburg. John Jack has a butcher shop in Leechburg & his father also John Jack

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lives there. He says T.W. Markle is a coal operator & is younger than my informant who says he was born at Slate Lick Pa in 1874 (his guess was wrong)

Leaving 4:30 PM

I then walked north & going west one block was soon at:

Residence of Geo W. Jack & his brother James H. Jack No 374 N. Jefferson St, Kittanning Pa Oct 30, 1924 4:44 PM

Where I found a slender delicate man sitting on the porch & asking if he was Mr Jack, he smiled pleasantly & said he was & when I said my name was Thompson, he asked if I was from Uniontown & saying that I was, asked him how he knew that & he said I had written them several years ago & they had answered me giving their record. He took me in the house & saying he was very hard of hearing went back & brought in his brother George Wilson Jack who had been working in the garden with some lima bean poles he was putting away. He is larger & more vigorous, the picture of health & said he was 9 yrs older

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than his brother James Houseman Jack, but really looks that much younger. He explained that his brother had had two operations recently by reason of the stoppage of his urine & five doctors said he couldn't survive them but he did & is cheerful, though using a catheter continually to draw his water.

Geo W. says his grandfather was Andrew Jack who came from Scotland there being four or five brothers who came together viz: Matthew, Samuel, Andrew & he thought possibly James, but could name no more & took up land on the hill a mile & a half above White Rock Sta now known as Johnetta Pa through which I passed when coming up this morning & the land is now owned by Johnetta Brick Co. Mr Jack's father Wm H. Jack died here in Aug 25, 1907 aged 85 yrs & 1 day having been born Aug 24, 1822 (which is just 6 days before father's birth). Wm H's youngest brother Simon Wilson Jack who married Linnie Herald died in Washington Pa July 4, two or 3 yrs ago last 4th of July aged 84 yrs being the last survivor of the family. Simon W's son John M. Jack was burgess of Wash Pa 2 or 3 terms & lives there yet, living in West Washington Pa. My informant says he is called "Wilse" his name

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being Geo Wilson Jack but he does not know why or how Wilson came in the family as a name. Says his father had a wonderful fund of information about the family & he did not write down what he could have told him as he should. He says his own oldest brother is Thomas Benton Jack, living at Wellsville, O & then his brother William Andrew lives at Grand Rapids, Mich, James Houseman & himself here & his youngest brother Harry Edgar has lived in San Diego Calif since 1913. Thomas Benton aged say 75 is a shoe merchant at Wellsville, O & works actively in the store.

William Andrew is genl mgr of a paper box mill at Grand Rapids Mich the plant covering 32 A & their output of paper boxes etc being 130 tons a day & they are now mfg mens & womens wool & silk union suits. He is worth one & a half million dollars & in 1916 built a home on 4 acres to which he later bought 5 a more, which is said to be the handsomest home in Mich & is known far & wide as the "House that Jack built". (there is a stone one near Mammoth Pa built by James Jack with like designation see my record in book 1 Sept 7, 1897) People flock there to see & there are often two dozen autos parked

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there at a time, all sightseers. He spoke of a couple from San Francisco, Calif saying they had nothing equal to it in Calif. Wm A. has a wife but no child. He went to Paris and secured an organist for one of the churches who he has been paying $12,000 a year for the past ten yrs. Also gave $50,000 for an organ for a church or another denomination & built the Jack Hospital for the Poor of Grand Rapids which cost $350,000 dedicated to said poor. He showed me fine large cabinet size photos of Wm A. & harry Edgar who is a banker in San Diego Calif, connected with the First Natl Bank there which show fine strong faces. Harry E. has but one child, Sarah Dennison Jack who married Earl Irwin McClintock, nephew of Oliver McClintock, the carpet man of Pgh Pa & they live not in NY & he showed me a photo of her & her two children & she is a beautiful girl. He did live in San Diego which induced his father-in-law to move there. Through A. Mitchell Palmer he was favored when the German Aspirin establishment was sold & he became interested in taking it over at Washington DC. McClintock is a Democrat & all the Jacks Republicans & he got six of them to vote for Woodrow Wilson, the first time he ran for President. Palmer sent for him to come to NY & he is now Gen mgr

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of the plant on a salary of $15,000 a year.

Thomas B. had but one child, a son, Wm H. Jack who died aged 37 of pneumonia taking sick on a Saturday & dying on the next Tuesday. He married Sue, daughter of Mayor Wilson of East Liverpool, O. He died in 1920. Geo W's sister Jennie Elizabeth Jack got injured in an auto accident when this nephew was driving & she was the third of those injured to die, dying Apr 27, 1919 aged 62 yrs. He sd now you will know how old I am she being my twin sister ( he had smilingly told me earlier when I asked his age that like the women he didn't tell). This nephew Wm H. left two boys. Wm H. 4 yrs old when his father died & Thomas 14 mos old when his father died. Wm H. then said to his mother "you must not call me Willie any more, I am head of the house now & you must call me Bill". When his brother was was born he went to the phone & called up his grandfather & said "I have a new brother now". His grandfather said what is his name & he promptly answered "Tom", not Thomas & Tom it was. Geo W. said his sister Mary Bell Jack died Nov 3, 1865 aged 1 yr born Nov 1, or 2d 1864 & was the first or second one buried in the cemetery here.

His oldest sister, the oldest of the

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family Violet Elder Jack died Oct 7, 1900 being older than Thomas B. Geo W. Jack said he was born Nov 23, 1857 & James H. Jack was born Dec 6, 1866. Giving his father's brothers & sisters he said:

Geo W. Jack was killed at Battle of Gettysburg unmarried & was then his mother's only support.

Nancy Jane Jack, his youngest sister married John Girt & lived at Madison Ind & left one daughter Nellie Girt.

Another sister lived in Kansas City Mo

Evelyn Jack, an older sister married Levi Klingensmith & lived at Lake City Mich & died a year ago at house in Grand Rapids. They had twelve children all married

James Morrison Jack married Susan Klingensmith, sister of Levi & lived near Leechburg. He had 3 sons, no girls via: James Morrison Jr, Hiram & Henry all living in Kansas City Mo.

Susan Jack another sister married John McIntyre & lived with her father & mother Andrew Jack & wife & took care of them until they died which he says was 30 yrs ago (their deaths were not far apart) & both are buried he thinks at Forks Church about 6 or 7 miles from their home. Both deaths were in winter very cold & when they got to the grave with his grandfather's casket the hole was not big enough for the casket & they had to go in the church & build a fire while it was being enlarged

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He says his grandfather died first & there was a marker put up at his grave at the time. He was 84 yrs old, a large man, crippled during this later years with rheumatism & walked with one crutch & a cane. He has never been back to the g.y. since his grandmother died to see if she has a marker. He says there are now living in Leechburg, Pa four brothers viz: Daniel, Harry, Jim & A.X. Jack who he says are sons of Matthew Jack, one of the brothers of Andrew, his grandfather. He says Dan is older than he is & that he is the one for me to see.

He says John Jack butcher & his son John Jack also butcher at Leechburg are of a different family from Dan, but related.

He says that James S. Jack, father of Milton & Wm A & his, James S's brother Wm A. father of the 3 sisters at Slate Lick were first cousins of my informant's father Wm H. Jack & James S. often visited his father but he can't give the name of their father. I think Andrew's bible would be with Mrs McIntrye who I think he said moved into Leechburg, Apollo, Vandergrift or one of those near towns. Geo W. says his father's bible was burned up in a fire they had here 2 yrs ago. This bible had records of his father's father

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& his Wm H's grandfather with dates as his father Wm H. always put everything down at the time. He says in the two letters he wrote me he sent all of this data to me & says it was not as much as ten yrs ago. They answered my first letter & also my second letter that I wrote but got no response from me ackg the 2d letter which leads me to wonder if it is still snowed under as I always aim to ack even if often delayed. Says his brother hard of hearing reads all the time & is a wonderful encyclopedia as he himself used to be. His brother is their cook & G.W. is dishwasher. He says his brother, Wm A. has invited him to go with him within the coming year to Scotland to look up the Jack family records there & I asked them to come to Oak Hill a few days on their way & I could give them some data.

Left at 6:30 PM

I then walked in to the George Cafe on the Market St & got my dinner at 7 to 7:30 not having eaten a bite since 5:30 this morning. Then walked out the the post office & Mr Walters there told me Wm H. Fretts lived next door to him on Maple Street 5 squares away but that he had the "Kiddie Shop" on N. Jefferson St just off Market. He gave me the tel NO 266-J in name of

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his sister-in-law Miss Bertha Bowaer & when I called him he said he would come right down. I then called T.W. Markle on the phone & told him I wd be up on the street car as soon as I finished my conference with Mr Fretts. While waiting for Mr Fretts to come 70 to 100 men filed out of the hotel being the Kiwanis Club which meets there every

Thursday night. Mr Fretts soon came in, a young alert & very handsome young man & I was in conference with him.

At Alexander Hotel Kittanning Pa Oct 30, 1922 7:55 PM

He, Wm H. Fretts lives at 213 E. Crawford Ave Connellsville Pa. He thinks he was married in 1884 to Alice Anderson, daughter of Jack Anderson (or wasn't it Jake) schoolteacher at Dunbar Pa who was a cripple & a tall man & his wife. He himself was married on May 30, 1922 at Wellsburgh WVA see page 430 of Sept 26/24 & insert to Jeanne Bowser born July 29, 1902 in Kittanning Pa daughter of Chame [sic] S. Bowser & his wife Minnie Bowser. Mr Fretts himself was born on

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June 12, 1888 & their daughter Betty *Louise was born in Kittanning Pa Mch 20, 1923. Chas A. Fretts, his brother was killed in the Argonne battle Sept 26, 1918. Mr Fretts says that he himself went abroad in the World War with his brother Chas A. leaving Augusta Ga by train Apr 26, 1918 & sailed from NY May e, 1918 was in the same battles in which his brother Chas A. was including the one in which he, Chas A. was killed having been exactly 365 days in the service in France landing back in Phila, Pa May 3, 1919.

*It is now 7:22 AM 31st & I have written all night & must go get my breakfast & get read for 8 AM bus to Slate Lick. 1:30 PM 31st Central Hotel Lobby Freeport, Pa continuing

He, W.H. covered the Mense-Argonne Oise & Ainse Great battles of the Marne & the Treacourtle Sector & escaped without a scratch, served with 28th division. Eugene was in several battles. He is at home in Connellsville Pa & can give his own record. He was in 138 machine Gun battalion from Ohio originally the Ohio National Guards. He says the First Natl mortgage Co at 210 4th Ave Pittsburgh Pa sold him some stock in their Co saying I was interested in the Co & had stock in it & that influenced him to buy, he saying to them if it was good enough for me to buy it was good enough for him. He says he has a circular that they gave him which used my name

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so I went with him down to the Kiddie Shop of which he is mgr at No 150 N. Jefferson St & he hunted up the circular book 21x10 lines in size with twelve inside pages which names Wm W. Pershall as a director but does not use my name, but he says they used it in their talk. He let me bring the circular book with me to read & to ask Will Parshall about James J. Canlley & Wm J. Stewart of Brownsville Pa were named as directors. He showed me cft for 20 shares of Pfd stock for which he paid $200 & cft for 2 shares of common stock thrown in as a bonus all dated Jany 27, 1921

I then went & got the street car to Highland Ave & reached the residence of T.W. Markle see pages 569 to 579 inclusive where I did not get away until about 2:50 AM but found out about the Markle boys who were killed during the war out at Lawrence Kansas that Jesse Bowman Markle told me about, about Jany 10, 1923 see book 9 that date. Mr Markle is a heavy set good natured man & was very kind as was his wife who is of medium average build & I should say a model housewife. I arrived at the Alexander Hotel & transcribed continually from 3 AM to 7:22 AM see pages 580 to 591 when I had to go pay my bill get a cup of tea & 2 cheese sandwiches, which I took with me got the 7:45 bus for Slate Lick & ate the sandwiches on the way arriving at Slate Lick at 8:25 AM, I

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walked up on the hill to the residence of the Jack sisters see pages 594 & 595 & found Laura & Sadie unreasonably foolish & insulting. Then walked down to Mrs Maud R. Stepps & found her much of a lady & very kind see pages 595 to 597. I then walked up to the garage & Shrader's store & Mr Shrader introduced me to James Beale who kindly drove me to this hotel Central, Freeport, Pa where I asked about trains to Pgh & then went up to the fine residence of brick of Mrs Melissa Magill & Ida Gibson & the nurse said Mrs Magill was seriously ill in bed & was not allowed to see anyone & Ida would not be home until 6 PM she teaching school at Natrona. I then walked down to the residence of their sister Mrs Mary Jane Miller corner 4th & Buffalo Sts & found her & her youngest daughter Doris, who came in just as I was leaving, very kind & helpful. I made up the genealogical table on page 598 from information she gave me & also made record of the information about her father which she gave me from his obituary notice on page 528. I arrived there at 12:02 PM & left at 1:17 PM walked down to this hotel Central & have written up from 591 to 593 am up to date & it is 2:55 PM & I am waiting for dining room to open at 6 PM to get my supper & then go back to see Miss Gibson & then take the 8:34 PM train on the west Penna RW lines for Pgh. JVT

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At residence of the Misses Laura & Ada Jack Slate Lick (P.O. Kittanning Pa RD No 5) South Buffalo Tp Armstrong Co Pa Oct 31, 1924 8:54 AM

Miss Ada Jack recd me & called in her sister Miss Laura from the adjoining room who says their sister has moved in with them & they are busy cleaning house. They say that the only bible record they have is that of their father Wm A. Jack (his name was just Wm & he put the initial "A" in to distinguish from other) They say the name of their grandfather's name so far as they know was just James Jack & his bible is in the home of Mrs Chas Stepp near here, she being a sister of Milton Jack & a daughter of James S. Jack whose widow now living with her daughter, Mrs Stepp but who yesterday was visiting her children in Kittanning was Elizabeth Bruner, daughter of Samuel B. Bruner & his wife Nancy Jack. They don't know of their father claiming relationship with any other Jacks. Have however heard him speak of Matthew & Andrew. They say their father's bible is stored in the attic & they won't get it. Their father Wm A. Jack was born June 6, 1835 & died Aug 26, 1919 & is buried here in Slate Lick Cem. He was married Dec 15, 1859 a short distance below here to Isabel Ralston born here near Slate Lick Pa Feby 1, 1832 & died here Mch 2, 1918

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& is buried here by her husband. They had four children all born here in Slate Lick Pa

1. Laura

2. Ada

3. Lizzie ob Feby 17, 1923

4. Sadie

Lizzie married J.K. Wilson on Oct 18, 1892 & had 5 children all living & he too is living in Kittanning Pa.

Sadie is married but says she is not going to give her name & is "not going to have it written up about her either". The above dates were given by Ada when Laura called from the other room that she was not to give any further dates.

Leaving 9:22 AM

At residence of Mrs Maude R. Stepp on State road Slate Lick Pa Oct 31, 1924 10:07 AM

I walked down here from Ada Jack's & Mrs Stepp's mother is in Kittanning still & will be for two weeks. Mrs S. has looked for her grandfather's bible & thinks her mother at the time of the death of her Uncle Wm A. Jack gave it to his & her husband's sister, Mrs Sarah Ann Gould who has since died & it would have gone to Mrs Minnie King, wife of Wm King near Kittanning Pa or to Ford Gould 2 miles from Kittanning.

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She has gotten out the history her brother spoke of yesterday which is "Cyclopedia of Indiana & Armstrong Co by Jno M. Gresham & Co managed by Samuel T. Wiley & published in Phila in 1891, 632 pages & on page 599 is an article on Mrs Steppe's father James S. Jack a stockdealer & farmer of North Buffalo Tp son of James & Sarah Douze Jack who was born in North Buffalo Tp Apr 25, 1846. It says the family is of Irish origin & that his grandfather James Jack Sr came to Armstrong Co about 1800 who took up land in Sugar Creek Tp married & had 3 children, Samuel, James Jr & Washington all dead. James Jack, father was born 1811 in North Buffalo Tp married Sarah Douze of French descent & had 7 children 4 sons & 3 daughters, George, Wm A. Morris, Margaret Sarah A. (Mrs Gould) Emma & James S., Margaret & Emma both died young. Morris had a large family 9 or 10 or 12, many of whom are living in or near Tarentum Pa. Ida the oldest of the family married Wm Thompson & both live in Tarentum, some of the sons are James, living at Clinton Pa Albert at Templeton, Pa Frank, George, Harry & Roy at Tarentum Pa. Mrs Jack died in 1847 & in 1849 Mr James Jack married Sarah Wilson for his second wife but had no children by her. She survived him & died 1901 aged abt 92 or 94. Mr Jack died in Oct 1865. See page 342. James S. Jack served

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in Civil War as did Morris.

On Dec 2, 1869 he married Mary Elizabeth Bruner, daughter of Saml R. Bruner & his wife Nancy Jack & had 9 children of whom 6 are living.

Clara E. married to Grant Claypole 6 children

Harvey S. married to Mary A. Hodgson 6 children

Milton married to Margaret Rea 4 children

William H. married to Nina Campbell 4 children

Chas N. d.y.

Anna M. married to Orlo Bruner 1 child

Curtis E. d.y.

Nannie B. d.y.

Maud Ruth married to Chas Stepp 2 children

Mrs Mary Elizabeth Bruner Jack was born Aug 28, 1852

On page 404 is an article on Samuel Jack of Apollo Pa born in Allegheny Tp Armstrong Co Pa Apr 26, 1820 son of John & Mary Ann Smith Jack grandson of James Jack who was born on ship board when his great grandfather Wm Jack was coming to America. James married Mattie Morrison & had 8 children & died at age of 90.

John Jack, father was born near White Rock Eddy Apr 27, 1788 & died Oct 27, 1858 his wife was Mary Ann daughter of Archibald Smith & wife Molly Anderson. Had 7 children. On Apr 14, 1840 Samuel married Catharine daughter of Daniel Beck & had 10 children 6 living viz: Daniel, S.S. Matthew A., Mary Jane, David R. & Henry F.

On page 609 is an article on Wm T. Carothers.

Leaving 10:55 AM

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[descendant chart]

Jane McComb see page 528 married John Gibson

[children]

Melissa Gibson b June 5, 1580 married Oct 1876 to John Ross Magill who died, son of John Magill & his wife Martha Cunningham. No issue. She died Dec 2, 1924.

John Wilson Gibson b June 21, 1856 married Apr 1884 to Mary Welshons daughter of Joseph Welshons & wife Ann Cassidy. Both living in Dawson where he is bookkeeper for Washington Coal & Coke Co. They have 7 children 2 oldest born in Connellsville, Pa next born in Jimtown, Pa & last 4 born in Dawson, Pa

Ralph Clyde Gibson b June 8, 1885 ob Jany 1

Lucile Gibson

James McComb Gibson

Melissa Elizabeth Gibson

Jane Ann Gibson

Ida Jack Gibson married to Thomas Fritz. Both living in Uniontown, Pa where he is with the Renff Studio. No issue.

Eleanor Gibson b Feby 8

Margaret Ida Gibson b Dec 1, 1859 teaching in Harrison Tp Allegheny Co, Pa at Natu on a building. [sic]

Mary Jane Gibson b Apr 2, 1862 married Oct 16, 1888 to Joseph Henry Wilson Miller b in Freeport Pa May 15, 1888 [sic] & died Nov 9, 1914 in this house son of Joseph Brown Miller & his wife Martha Hazlett. He was a merchant here. Mrs Miller lives corner of 4th & Buffalo St. Have had 4 children. The two oldest born in Lima Montana, the 3d born in Pocatello Idaho & the last one in this house.

Harry Arthur Miller b Aug 17, 1889 ob Oct 19, 1891

Ralph Reno Miller b Nov 13, 1891 married June 9, 1917 to Margaret Jeannette Smith born July 8, 1894 daughter of Ett S. Smith & wife Jane Crow. Both living in Youngstown, O where he is an atty. Have 2 children born in Youngstown, O.

Ralph Reno Miller Jr b July 26, 1918

Jane Ett Miller b Dec 29, 1919

Margaret Lois Miller b Aug 6, 1894 married June 9, 1920 to Samuel Robertson Harper born May 1895 son of Edwd R. Harper & wife Mary Evalyn Fay. Both living in Homewood Pgh Pa where he is a civil engineer. Have 2 children the oldest born in Sharpsville Pa the youngest in Altoona, Pa

Mary Evelyn Harper b May 1, 1921

Samuel Robertson Harper Jr B Sept 3, 1923

Doris Miller b May 19, 1901 married June 9, 1923 George Ellsworth Malcolm born Aug 19, 1900 son of Elmer Ellsworth Malcolm & wife Elizabeth Pierce. Both living in this house. No issue.

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At residence of M. Ida Gibson & Melissa Magill, Stewart St, Freeport Pa Oct 31, 1924 6:30 PM

Miss Gibson says the bible of her parents is all she has & that her mother always told them that the bible of their grandfather John McComb was lost, but don't know how or rather the page that had the record on was lost & further says that the Alex Ewing home where I was last week was his, John McComb's home & not his father's that the old home of his father Genl James McComb was just by the edge of Jacksonville, Pa on the Indiana turnpike toward Indiana & now belongs to the Buffalo & Rochester coal Co. She says her mother's aunt Nancy was the last one at the old home & got her father's bible record. She became the 3d wife of James McKee & lived to be 89 or 90 yrs old & Miss Gibson thinks likely that her stepdaughter Hannah McIntyre, widow of Barclay N. McIntyre & daughter of Jas McKee by his second wife would most likely have gotten it. She lives in her home in Jacksonville aged I think about 87 & her daughter Jennie unmarried lives with her. Miss Gibson has gone upstairs to get her parents bible from which to get the dates

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for the table on page 528. She says her brother John W. Gibson lives at Dawson Pa & as Mrs Miller said this afternoon works for the Washington Coal & coke Co but Miss Ida says she cannot give the dates of birth of his children. Ida says her sister, Mrs Magill has been sick since June but has only been bedfast since the last week or two. Mary McComb Shane lived on a farm out from Dahlgren, Ill & is buried in a cemetery there dying without issue. He survived her & married again Salina McComb Farnsworth lived in Iowa & died out west & is buried in a cemetery & Miss G. thinks that her cousin Miss Roberta M. Ewing teaching in the Soho school Pgh could give the town where she lived & died she died without issue.

Page 472 thinks Amanda Irwin is living at Minton Neb & if her brother is living she would know where. Write her.

Page 472 her great Uncle Andrew McComb was drowned in the Susquehanna river when a young man, unmarried

Page 472, her great uncle Joseph McComb was a doctor in Ohio possibly Massillon was married & had two girls & she thinks a boy.

page 129 her great Uncle James McComb married Jane Laughlin. Thinks the Smittens came in this line. His children were George, John Mary, Elizabeth, Nancy & Thomas

Nancy of this family married John Smitten

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of Pittsburgh, where he used to work on the street railways. She had sons Hunter & George Smitten & a daughter Flo & they might be found about Pgh. Look up tel directory & city directory.

Line 30 above Miss G. says one of the girls of Joseph McComb M.d. Martha married Wm Heiser who used to have a brass factory but thinks they live in Cleveland, O. The daughters of Dr Joseph were Nancy & Sarah & Mrs Heiser is the daughter of one of them & a Mrs McClain also living in Cleveland is a daughter of the other & if found can give that line.

Leaving at 7:55 PM

Left at 8:05 PM

Miss Gibson said to write to Charles Shields Ebensburgh, Pa for address of Leonce S. Shields who some yrs ago was gathering Jack data he being related. Look up Sept 5 & 6th records 1921 book 5.

Ida is without a wrinkle fine smooth red cheeks & would pass for 50 she didn't know of Nancy Jack her great grandmother having any brothers & I told her of Patrick & John being officers & James a private & she said being lineal blood relatives she could get an extra D.A.R. bar for each. Walking down 5th St to the Sta it was filled with Halloweeners & at the sta two handsome young girls with attractive costumes, Frances Cooper & Beatrice Armour entertained me until train came at 9:35 PM

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Laurel Hill Pres. Ch G.Y. Nov 1, 1924 9:44 AM

No 1. Our Mother Rebecca, wife of David Allen died Aug 18, 1868 in 74th year

Nancy Smith born Feby 9, 1791 ob Oct 29, 1874

John P. Allen died July 21, 1840 aged 59 yrs 6 mos 27 days

Mary Allen ob Apr 28, 1821 aged 74 yrs}

John Allen ob May 8, 1802 aged 59 yrs }

James Allen ob Feby 26, 1840 aged 81 yrs 6 mos? 6 days

David Allen ob May 7, 1828 aged 11 yrs (might be 41 yrs)

Mary Allen (I think was Mary Peairs) ob Jany 24, 1795 aged 29 yrs

James Allen ob Jany 20, 1818 aged 2 mos 19 days

David H. Allen son of D & R Allen ob Sept 7, 1857 aged 31 yrs 11 mos 7 days

William S. Allen born Oct 25, 1819 ob Jany 6, 1875

2. Eliza J. wife of Samuel W. Boyd ob Jany 27, 1835 aged 24 yrs 10 mos 9 days might be 21 or 27 yrs

3. Sarah J. wife of James Allen ob Sept 3, 1853 aged 32 yrs 11 mos 23 days

James Guthrie, son of J & S.J. Allen ob Mch 21, 1851 (or 54) aged 2 yrs 1 mos (or 4) & 21 days

William son of James & Sarah J. Allen ob Aug 1, 1857 aged 4 yrs 2 mos 22 days

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Rebecca A. daughter of J & S.J. Allen ob Apr 20, 1861 aged 9 yrs 8 mos 1 day

Sarah L. wife of James Allen ob Mch 1, 1860 in 35th yr

The above are on five headstones & on the monument are:

on one side:

Sarah J. wife of James Allen born Sept 10, 1821 ob Sept 3, 1853

Sarah L. wife of James Allen born May 22, 1825 ob Mch 1, 1860

on another side:

David M. born May 8, 1845 ob June 1, 1845

James G. born Oct 31, 1846 ob Mch 21, 1854

William S. born May 9, 1853 ob Aug 1, 1857

Rebecca A. born Aug 19, 1851 ob Apr 20, 1861

Children of James & Sarah J. Allen

Leaving 10:37 AM

United Pres Ch. G.Y. Laurel Hill, Pa Nov 1, 1924 10:44 AM

4. Nancy Heslit Junk June 23, 1818, July 11, 1910

Robert Junk 1818-1916

Rebecca J. Junk 1825-1890

David Junk May 15, 1839, May 7, 1921

5. In memory of:

Jane M. Thompson Rebecca Thompson

ob Aug 1, 1805 dates gone

aged 13 mos aged 17 mos

Rebecca Thompson consort of Hugh Thompson ob Aug 24, 1835 in 55th yr

Hugh Thompson ob Nov 27, 1861 in 89th yr. This certainly should be 69th yr & not 89th. See this book pages 52 or 53. Is inscription wrong or made mistake in a [unreadable] JVT

Elizabeth Thompson b June 2, 1819 ob May 1, 1890

Mary J. Dubb born June 2, 1835 ob May 10, 1908

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6. John Richey born in the year 1732 deceased in yr 1814 aged 82.

7. John & Mary Patton who died on Saturday Apr 27, 1816 within 2 hrs & 25 minutes of each other aged 68 yrs

8. Alexander Work died Nov 29, 1813 in his 44th yr The man of business rests in dust, survivors feel the loss, widow & orphans citizens alas must bear the cross.

9. Robert Jackson, ob Aug 10, 1808 aged 77 yrs

Catherine Jackson ob Feby 9, 1803 aged 65 yrs

Samuel Jackson ob June 29, 1806 aged 43 yrs (or 1800)

John Jackson ob Aug 6, 1830 in 72d yr

10. James Finley a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette Co for many years a Ruling elder of the Presbyterian church. Born in Ireland ob Feby 29, 1828 aged 72 yrs

Mary Finley, consort of James Finley ob Feby 1, 1817 aged 62 yrs and in between them is a taller wider sandstone marker viz:

Hannah Paull ob July 9, 1822 in 38th yr.

11. This is the biggest monument in the cemetery

John Calvin Core Born Oct 26, 1829 died June 13, 1910

Mary Ann Core died Apr 29, 1917 born Apr 14, 1835.

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12. Ruth A., wife of George Finley ob Feby 17, 1865 in her 40th yr

Mary, wife of George Finley ob Apr 23, 1855 in her 44th yr

13. Gideon McLaughlin our father ob Aug 26, 1881 aged 86 yrs 3 mos 20 days

14. Mary Henderson, consort of Steward Henderson ob Apr 25, 1845 aged 39 yrs 4 mos & 13 days

15. James M. Long born July 5, 1819 ob June 9, 1904

Sarah Long born Sept 16, 1821 ob July 10, 1904

Leaving 11:37 AM

Oak Hill Nov 1, 1924 9:56 PM

Mrs Shadle said her mother disliked her name of Jemima, so that she would not let her, Mrs Shadle, call her daughter Helen, Jemima & she gave Mima for her middle name instead of Jemima. See page 566.

Nov 2, 1924

Turney W. Markle is a typical Markle, a little under medium height, heavy set, happy, hopeful & cordial, strong & untiring.

At Geo W. Jack's, pages 582 to 589, he is a fine well preserved specimen & a great talker & rattled on at a rapid rate but I think I got the bulk of the pertinent data that he spoke of.

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pages 594 & 595, when I asked for names of the children of Mrs Wilson, their sister, Laura & Sadie flew into a tantrum & sd that was going too far, that they were not Jacks & without reason & sillily [sic] construed it as ungentlemanly for me to ask & acted accordingly. I think they feared I would next ask their ages & got insulting to avoid refusing. Sadie sd she wouldn't give her name or allow it in the book, but I see on page 587, it is Van Dyke. They were afraid & foolish enough to say that giving their record would commit them to buying a book which I told them I was not asking them to take. Their Statement of their grandfather being James Jack, coupled with Geo W.'s statement & the History in the Gresham book places him as brother of Matthew, Samuel & Andrew & all four sons of James Jack Sr.

See page 595 where it is most probably that the old bible was given to Mrs Gould on abt Aug 30 or 31st as Laura & Ada said Mrs Nancy Jack who had it on May 30, 1919 wanted to give it to them or their father, but they didn't want it & didn't take it.

Page 596, Greshams Hist gives 3 children of James Jack Sr viz Samuel, James Jr (father of James G.) & Washington, which with Matthew & Andrew makes the five brothers Geo W. thought there were.

All slips made to here JVT Nov 2/24

Nov 5, 1924 was at W.W. Shearer's C'ville 9:44 to 10:35 AM & got record from Danl M. Shearer's old bible printed in NY 1834 for M.E. Ch of his own & wife's birth, mar & death, births of their 8 children & deaths of the 3 that died in infancy all entered in table on page 151. I then went to D.D. Fretts see page 433 & then to Mrs Hattie F. Minnick's see page 151 & then back to my office room 522 where I arrived 1 PM. JVT

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*1 Tombstone says she died Dec 21, 1875 see book 7 p 83 item 74.

*2 A letter small env dated Sept 10, 1924 says the old record was wrong & she says she found with the help of Prof A.J. Waychoff, the graves of her great grandparents & others at Garard's Fort & Whiteley Greene Co Pa & that her great Grandfather, John Fordyce's will is on record at Waynesburg Pa & Wheeling WVA & he had the 8 sons & 3 daughters as named here. He was born in 1776 & died in 1848. His wife was Elizabeth Garard born in 1778 & died 1838. The mother of John Fordyce was Elizabeth born 1737 & died 1814 & her husband the father of John was Samuel, not John

*1Nora Edna Boyd wife of Benton Boyd born at Johnsville O dau of Isaac N. Trotter Pa Nov 25, 1927 Dec page 362 & 70. JVT Dec 2/27

*2Sept 19, 1925. Carrie E. Cranston of Odebolt, Iowa, Granddaughter writes 9/16/25 small env that her name was Julia Horr? JVT.

*3 Mr Thom is son of Craig Thom & wife Martha Hill

*4 This entry is scratched out & the following notations are made. He too went to LeClaire Iowa. Wm T. Anderson says this was a son of James, oldest son.

*2 [written on page 387] Sept 20, 1924, see page 374 where the deduction of James McGrew of Kankakee Ills is evidently wrong & I thought at the time it was not right. Instead of being the grandson of Robert & Isabella, the John McGrew who married Mary Thompson was his great grandson, his father, William, being the son of John, the oldest son of Robert & was then born also in this Country a brother of Catharine & Archibald, who came over with the family. Samuel McGrew, Box 512, Delroy Florida wrote Aug 28, 1924 s. env that this Wm McGrew Senior (father of John who mar Mary Thompson) bought land from his, Samuel's great grandfather near Rillton, formerly McGrew's Sta in Sewickly Tp, Westd Co Pa adjg Samuel Thompson's farm & he further says this Wm Sr was the son of John (who was the son of Robert) & a brother of Archibald McGrew who served under Genl Forbes when he took Fort Duquesne. This Wm McGrew Senior, the father of our John, married Mary Bracken.

*3 son of Samuel McBeth & wife Anna Stiltenpole

*1 Joseph Alexander Fulton was born Dec 6, 1847 & died Nov 5, 1900. His wife Hannah Maria Fulton (nee McClelland) was born Feby 12, 1842 & died Dec 6, 1898. Joseph A's parents were Silas Fulton & wife Anne Harbison. JVT

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