JOSIAH THOMPSON
UNIONTOWN, PA
VOLUME 3
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At James Edgar Cunningham's, Oneida, Knox Co., Illinois on Prospect St just adjoining the Presbyterian Church
Sept 26, 1919, 12 o'clock noon my time.
I arrived in Oneida at 10:44 AM my time coming from Peoria which I left at 8 AM entering Knox Co at Yates
City which is on the Eastern Edge of the county & continuing on through Knoxville where I saw riper & better
corn than I had yet seen this year. Was in Galesburg where my beloved Mary went to college in the fifties, but
was only there two minutes changing cars. The depot was the best I had seen this trip in the state & the town had
the air of business but I could not see the college or seminary from the train. At Wataga, the first station north of
Galesburg, I commenced seeing some plowed fields half a dozen which showed the blackest soil I had ever seen,
black as coal & from the show of the crops, certainly very rich & the farms layed nicely just perceptibly rolling
enough to not be flat or swampy. I made inquiry at Sta. abt trains & where Mr Cunningham lived & garages for
hiring automobile & walked up here carrying my heavy satchel with the three record books about four or five
squares from the station & Mr Cunningham's son met me at the door & he called his grandmother who is in her
90th yr & who was at work in the kitchen. She said her son's daughter
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had graduated at the high school & wanted to fit herself for greater usefulness with the hope to make something
out of herself, so she was going, in fact had just recently entered a seminary for college down in Missouri. She
could not recall the name or town. Her brother had also graduated here at the high school. She said she had her
husband's Bible & also her father's & her son James Edgar Cunningham a tall fine frank countenanced man
coming in, she had him get the Bibles after I had introduced myself to him. The Bible of her father, Thomas
Jack, is undated, but very old & was printed at Philadelphia & sold by Kimber & Sharpless at their Book Store
No 8 South 4th St. The family record being in handwriting of a young person & finding a sheet of writing on one
page of note paper with same record found it was a letter from Mrs Neilson stating she had copied same from the
Sampler which she showed me Sept 4th at Corny [Cormy?] Pa, worked by her mother & which she asked them to
copy in her Father's Bible as it was the only record. In the letter she says "Mother had put the sampler and a
bottle of ink away together, the ink leaked and the sampler spoiled". James E. Cunningham & his mother said
Thomas Jack died at Oskaloosa, Iowa & is buried there, was 84 yrs old & his widow survived him & died back in
Pennsylvania at Mrs Neilson's & is buried
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where Dr Neilson is buried at old Unity. Mrs Neilson had it fixed up & walled up. She said her son James E.
married a McCulloch, a farmer's daughter in this county who was a fine housekeeper that they had but two
children & she died 10 yrs after their marriage just as her husband had died 10 yrs after they were married. She
said they & she were Presbyterians & the church next door was her church, that a "Jack wouldn't think of being
anything but a Presbyterian". Said her grandson had gone to a school industrial one of self help down South, had
taken care of the horses & farm to work his way through & they wanted him to come & take charge of the farm.
Said they were going to move south in about a month, but that Mrs Neilson did not know it to Tennessee, the
place she thought Connalsville? that her son had been down there weeks ago & before to look at it & after he
gathered his crop in two or three gardens he has out they thought it wouldn't be too late to go. They do not own
any farm or home here, renting this house & owning only the furniture & a team with wagons & buggy & they
hire out & work for other farmers both her son & grandson leaving shortly after I came to go & haul some hay.
The grandson is the housekeeper & has the washing out on the line & she helped him this morning by washing
the dishes for him. The family Bible of Mrs Cun-
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ningham & her husband bears the imprint of "Philadelphia Jesper Harding & Son 1858" & is a fine copy with
handsome illustrations. Mrs Cunningham says James Cunningham taught school at the brick school house below
the Joseph Jack farm near or on the Weaver farm between the farms of Joseph Jack & her father Thomas Jack's
farm & she went to school to him & there was where she first got acquainted with him, but were not married for
five years thereafter & in the meantime, he studied medicine with old Dr Cummins in the town of Ligonier &
later went into partnership with him. He broke up & came west & there never was a settlement between him &
her husband of the partnership. He had a son Mathias Cummins of Ligonier who married a Sterrett. She thinks
he moved west & that his father old Dr Cummins died at his house. She said she thinks it was Kansas he went
to. She said too that her husband, James Cunningham, was six years older than her & was practicing medicine
when they were married & she thinks his father's name was Michael, a farmer near Ligonier who was living when
they were married, but that James' mother & sister were dead before their marriage, but he had one brother,
David, living. They practiced with old Dr Cummins two or three years & Mathias Cummins also a M.D.
injecting himself. Dr Cunningham became dissatisfied after about three yrs & moved
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down the Ohio River beyond the Pgh. While at Ligonier, their two oldest children, Frank & Eliza, were born &
were baptized by Rev Harbison who was then & for some yrs Presbyterian minister at Ligonier. They bought out
the practice of Dr Scroggs who was practicing in a small town on the Ohio River, the name she can't recall, but
says it was nine miles below Beaver Pa. Dr Scroggs lived there with his father Rev Scroggs & when I asked her
if they were related, she thought not & when I told her that her grandfather's sister Nellie Jack, had a son or two
who were preachers, she recalled that they did claim to be related. She cannot recall anything about their
families as her husband having bought the practice & home from them, they had moved away. Mathias Cummins
then came dishonorably & commenced to practice in the same field his father, the old Dr, having bought coal
lands there & her husband had an offer from a Doctor in Saltburgh Pa who wanted to sell his practice so after
about two years on the Ohio River, he moved to Saltsburg where he practiced until he died & there the two
younger children were born. Of the transcript from the Bible, the date of marriage & the first three births are in
the handwriting of Dr Cunningham in a bold flowing hand & good penmanship. Mrs C. does not remember who
wrote in the last birth & the deaths of which follow on next page.
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[Bible Record of James Cunningham]
James Cunningham married to Martha G. Jack March 21st, 1854
1. Frank Jack Cunningham born the 11th of Febuary [sic], 1855
2. Eliza Anna Cunningham born the 3rd of February, 1857
3. Emma Bell Cunningham born April the 27th, 1861
4. Albert Miller Cunningham born Nov 3rd, 1862.
Emma Bell Cunningham died January the 13th, 1862 aged 8 months & 16 days.
Albert Miller Cunningham died July 20th, 1863 aged 8 mos & 17 days
Doct James Cunningham born 19th Oct 1821, Died July 7, 1863.
Mrs C. said he died from inflammation of the lungs. He is buried in the large cemetery in Saltsburg, Pa the edge
of which comes to the river & it is "high up" on an elevation. Mrs C. got the name Grier from her mother's
mother whose name was Grier. She says Mrs Anna Grier Jack, whom I saw last night in Peoria, says she thinks
they are or the same family she is.
Mrs C. says her son, Frank J., went as a RR telegraph operator to Opva [Opera?] Ills & was recommended to go
to Mrs Gamble who was a widow with one child to room & board & becoming thus acquainted, they were
married & she has made him a good wife & raised him six sons & two daughters, one of the sons, Harry, having
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been abroad to France in the war & he is now back in NY. James' daughter Bernice corresponded with him, but
she has not seen him since his return & she is now at Park College, Park Place, Mo as Mrs C now recalls. The
names & dates of birth of the children of Frank J. & Mrs Adamson are listed on Page 132 Book 2.
Of Frank J's children, Mrs C. says James Wirt is unmarried & on the farm. His father's mother went to live with
him as he had no housekeeper. He had taken up land & bought more & took his father & mother & one of
Mathia's children with him. He lives at Big Horn, Montana. Frank Grier is married & has one child, a boy & he
lives in Minneapolis in RR business. Does not know of Orville, says Martha's husband is living & has one or two
of the children. Does not know his name. James E. Cunningham who has just come in says Jessie May,
daughter of Frank, married a Holmes & lives at Big Horn, Montana & have three children. He says Orville is
married & lives near Big Horn, Mon. Says Samuel, Harry & Arthur are unmarried. Samuel is on a farm near Big
Horn & Arthur is a RR. Frank J. Cunningham's address is Big Horn, Montana care of J.W. & his brother says he
is sure he will gladly give me such information as I seek. James E. Cunningham has given me the names of his
sister's grandchildren, his wife's record etc which I have entered in this colored ink on page Page 337. Mrs C.
says her Uncle James
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Jack's farm was facing Joseph's & across Sewickly Creek from Joseph's but not in the same direction as her father
Thomas Jack's farm. Mrs C. never heard of the Coopers or Clarks & knows nothing of them & does not know of
any Carnahans being related. She heard of it being talked of a relationship with the Kilgores who went to the
same church, but they, the Kilgores, never claimed it, nor did the Jack cultivate it. Mr J.E. Cunningham said the
Cunninghams came from the north of Ireland, but he did not know from what county (11:17 Pm Sept 26). I left
about 3:45 PM & could not get a car at either Metcalf Bowman's or Adam's garage, so went into a harness shop
& induced the harness man to drive me over. In talking, I learned he was Frank Anderson see Page 13 & from
him, learned of his Aunts whom I went to see (see Page 9 et Seq) & they said that the uncle John Groscup that he
referred to as a '49er had died in Northern California three years ago last Feby (say Feby 1916) at which time he
would have been in his 90th year. We got in about 4:50 Pm & I found I could get no favorable connections for
Knoxville, Iowa until 3:53 AM tonight, so I went over to the Hotel Custer, got a room No 103 until that time as I
could get no assurance of a reservation & as I had only gotten a little over an hour's sleep last night.
see Page [no page number given]
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At residence of Frances Ellen & Margaret Melvina Groscup No 163 Laurel Ave Galesburg, Ills. Sept 26, 1919
6:55 PM
Frances E. Says her father & mother came from Germany in 1832 from about Hesse Cassel landing in NY Aug 8,
1832 with two sons, John, a sons of first wife & Henry, a son of second wife, their mother. The oldest child,
Elizabeth, by the first wife, had died before they sailed. The family Bible was published in 1848 by the
American Bible Society in NY & the record of births & deaths was written in by Charles, brother of the girls
from slips of paper written out & preserved by their father. Margaret has written down in a small book facts &
data given her by her Father & mother, some of it by her father when on his death bed viz:
"Family Record"
Father was born in Germany. Helmonshouson was the name of the city.
Helmonshouson was about six miles from Leopold's Barrick.
Mother was born in Leopold's Barrick on the River Weser near the City Boemen. Leopold's Barrick was a little
village. It was in the northwestern part of Germany. They were married as near as can be traced in 1829.
Mother was an only child. Her Father was a cooper. After her father's death, she lived with an uncle. Father's
father was married twice. Father had two brothers, one a half brother, who was in Bonaparte's army.
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They came from Germany in 1832, landed in York State August 8th, 1832, came to Illinois the fall of 1838 in
October, settled on the Essex Place owned by Jesse Gum now know as Soperville, then called Henderson Grove,
then to the McInlean place, then from there to the Colony farm. Mother's maiden name was Mary Louise
Frederika Rhemhoff. Father was a widower with one child when mother married him. John, who was born in
Helmonshousen and came with them from Germany, he also had a daughter Elizabeth who died in Germany
before Mother married him. Mother's father's name was Heronemous Rhemhoff. Father was born Dec 19th,
1801. Mother was born July 30th, 1805.
From Bible 1. Elizabeth Groscup born the 17th of April, 1825.
2. John Groscup born Sept 29th, 1826 in the Evening at 9 o'clock.
3. Henry Groscup born April the 10th, 1830 in the afternoon at 2 o'clock.
4. Charles Ludwick Groscup born Aug 11th, 1832 in the morning at 8 o'clock.
5. Elizabeth Grace and Phillip Harrison Groscup born December the 27th, 6. 1833 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
7. Francis Ellen Groscup born Aug 13th, 1835 in the afternoon at 3 o'clock.
8. Mary Groscup born Dec 25th, 1836 at 5 o'clock in the morning.
9. Malinda Groscup } born August 15th, 1840 at
10. Lucinda Groscup } 12 o'clock noon.
11. Marietta Groscup born Dec 23, 1842 at 12 o'clock noon.
12. Sarietta Groscup born Apr 22d, 1844 at 5 o'clock in the morning.
13. Aaron Heronemous Groscup born Dec 16, 1847 at 12 o'clock in the night.
14. Margaret Melvina Groscup born May 11, 1849 at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
15. Henry Groscup born Dec 29th, 1851.
Elizabeth Groscup died Aug 17th, 1827 at 6 o'clock in the morning.
Henry Groscup died Dec 19th, 1832 at 8 o'clock in the morning.
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Mary Groscup died Nov 15, 1837 at 11 o'clock in the evening.
Malinda Groscup died Aug 29th, 1840 at 7 o'clock in the evening.
Lucinda Groscup died Sept 1, 1840 at 5 o'clock in the morning.
Aaron Heronemous Groscup died Mch 2, 1848 at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Henry Groscup died March 18, 1852.
Here the Bible record ends & what follows is from Margaret M's book record:
Henry Groscup died June 27, 1890 at Log City, Henderson Grove four miles north of Galesburg buried in the
family lot at Galesburg.
Mother Mary Louise Frederika Groscup was born in Leopold's Barricks Germany July 30, 1805, died May 31,
1867 at Log City Henderson Grove four miles north of Galesburg buried in the family lot at Galesburg.
The first child Henry was buried in NY State.
Malinda & Lucinda buried in Germ Cem near Henderson.
Mary Jane was born in York State, Montgomery Co, Pleasant Valley, & was buried there.
Aaron was born on the Colony farm & died there & was buried in the Gum Cemetery Just a few weeks old when
he died.
Henry the last child was born on the Colony farm, died when 7 weeks old & buried in Galesburg, Hope Cemetery
in family lot.
Philip & Elizabeth was born in Pleasant Valley, York Sate, Montgomery Co. Philip died Sept 10, 1878 & is
buried at Bedrod Iowa where he died.
Charles was born in NY three days after our people landed in America. Died June 7, 1909, buried in Saint
Joseph, Mo.
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Marietta Groscup Anderson was born on the Essex place at Henderson Grove now called Soperville 6 miles north
of Galesburg, Ill. Died Oct 28, 1896 at Oneida buried at Galesburg in Hope Cemetery in the family lot.
Sarietta Groscup was born on the Essex place etc. Died Sept 4, 1900 buried in Hope Cemetery.
Frances Ellen Grosscup [sic] was born in Pleasant Valley, Montgomery Co, York State.
Margaret Melvina Groscup was born in Log City Henderson Grove on the Colony farm four miles north of
Galesburg, Ill.
Our folks came from Ohio, Mansfield was the name of the place in 1838 in the month of October, settled in
Henderson Grove, now called Soperville on the Essex place so called. They lived there 5 years. Father worked
at his trade in town. He was a stone cutter. "Frank" was three years old when they came from Ohio.
Lite [best guess] was 19 yrs old when she united with the Church in '52. Frank & mother came in the same time.
Father united before they did. Frank thinks in 1848.
The girls say they are poor, but own this little home & poor help has brought them to want almost & they could
not get along except for the help the church gives them, their church being the Central[sor?] a Congregational
Church. Frank, as Frances Ellen is called
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was for 30 yrs a nurse here in Galesburg & nursed for the best families. She is now well preserved, but a little
stooped & suffers with rheumatism. Margaret is very thin & taller & is 70. I learned of them through their
nephew Frank Anderson who drove me down from Oneida in his machine & who says he has lived in Oneida 53
yrs going there from here where he was born Dec 29, 1865 when a year old. He has a sister, Mary Anderson, &
his father Reuben Anderson lives on the East Coast of Florida is 86 yrs old & says he feels like a boy. James
Edgar Cunningham s'd a man near Oneida sold his 80 A farm for $500 per acre & Frank says he knows people
who have refused $600 to $700 per acre & knows of 14 A out from Galesburg selling at $850. Says they get 80
to 100 bushels (or barrels?) of corn to the acre & the land rents for $25 per acre per year & he has known last
year when the price of wheat was up, of landlord & tenant each getting $50 per acre out of the land in one year.
The soil, he says, is 3 ft thick & the county is the best in the State, if not the best for farming in the U.S. James E.
Cunningham s'd prices were too high for him to get land here, so he was going to Brookfield, Mississippi (not
Tennessee as his mother thought) in the north eastern part of the state where he can buy land at $75 per acre. It is
now 9 o'clock my time & pitch dart, so I will make the girls a present of five dollars & get a street car a square
over for the Hotel.
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I then waled out the street two blocks & turned to the left two blocks walking across the Court House grounds &
came to Knox College, a large brick building with three high stories & occupying almost a whole block. I went in
following a dozen or two young boys & girls & went to the "Information" room where I found a handsome
sweetfaced young girl in charge & asked from whom I would inquire about earlier students & she said from the
Registrar across the Hall & then asked of whom I wished information about & I said: "Mary Anderson"
whereupon she replied "oh I was just going to write you today as I only got it looked up this morning", & then
handed out my letter of July 21, 1919 from the Waldorf Astoria. She then got a book of all the old Catalogues
bound together & said they had but one catalogue of each year including that in which my dear Mary was there
which she s'd was but one year '58-'59 from the fall of 1858 to the Spring of 1859 in which her name was th
second one of a list of 88 ladies & was entered as "M. Anderson, Geneseo), there not being a first name given in
a single instance, just the initials. They had a card index system of every student who has entered the school
which is co-ed, her card being as follows. She being the 2658th student enrolled.
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S-2658
Geneseo, Ill.
Anderson, M.
'58-59 Acad.
which meant that she was a student in the Academy of this class which did not graduate until 1865
was Celia Bronson White (now Mrs C.T. Edwards) 485 S. West St, Galesburg, Ills. Student in the Academy
1858-59, graduated in 1865. I gave the lady in charge who said her name was Miss Ferris, the additional
information that she was married to J.V. Thompson at Geneseo Ill, Dec 11, 1879 & died at Uniontown, Pa Aug
8th, 1896 leaving two sons, Andrew A. Thompson & John R. Thompson of Uniontown, Pa. Miss Ferris said the college started in 1842, but the catalogue was marked on the
outside 18th
annual catalogue & also 9th annual ladies commencement which she explained by showing from the
catalogue that girls were not admitted until in 1849 & it was first called Galesburg or Knox Manual Labor
College which name continued until 1857 when it was changed to "Knox College". A tall fine looking smooth
faced young man stepped up & Miss Ferris introduced him as Mr McConaughey, President of the college who
said his people were from Gettysburg, Pa. He introduced Mr or Rev Whipple who asked about the Crows of
Uniontown who had gone to school with him there at Knox viz: Arthur E. & later in 1901-2 J. Benton Crow. It is
now 12:11 Am & I will quit & go to bed as I am to be called at 4 AM.
[margin note reads:] The catalogue showed 88 scholars in the class a year with Mary. She first name was not
given in a single instance, just the initials.
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Room 250, Seventh Ave Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa Monday, Sept 29th, 1919 10 AM
I left Galesburg, Ill on Saturday morning 27th inst at 4:53 AM my time 3:53 their time & changed cars at
Albia, Iowa (on C.B.& T. RR) & after waiting there about an hour got a train to Knoxville, Iowa where I arrived
at 10:57 their time. Dr W.R. Garretson met me at the train with his old Hudson still a good going car which he
has used since 1911 & drove me around to his residence 720 (or 716) Robinson St on a corner where I met his
year old boy Walter Raymond Garretson Jr. their only child as Mrs Garretson later said after sixteen years of
married life. His wife came in too. She having been before her marriage Lucretia Emily Donley, daughter of
B.F. & Hester A. Donley of Mt Morris Pa. She s'd later that her grandmother was a Morris, a collateral relative
of Robert Morris of Phila financier of the Revolutionary Army to whom the Government gave all the coal in
Aleppo & Springhill Tps, Green Co Pa as part payt for his services & money advanced the government, but from
which she said neither he nor his family ever realized anything & she did not know how it got away from the
family. Dr Garretson, who is a skilled dentist & is practicing with his father, also a dentist 80 yrs old, but lithe &
active, said he had had an office in Des Moines & had a good business built up by hard work when he was
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threatened with tuberculosis & had to pull up & go to Colorado for his health & was several years in Denver &
then came back to Knoxville, Iowa where he was born & went into practice with his father who is a native of
Ohio, coming to Knoxville, Iowa 52 yrs ago from Waynesville, Ohio, which is not far from Cincinnati, O. The
Doctor then drove over town to get from the bank his wife's box ctg her business papers & I got shaved, the
Doctor introducing me in the barber shop to Mayor Gamble who said his mother was an O'Neill from Ky, but he
did not know who his father's mother was. He was a rather short, well built man with good face, intelligent &
affable. We then drove over to the Dr's office, a brick building opposite the Court House & I was there
introduced to "Lafe" Collins, Pres't of Citizens NBK, Knoxville, Iowa, who had heard of my troubles & agreed
with me that Jno Skelton Williams was totally unfitted for the position of Comptroller for s'd he "I know. He is
simply a wild man or a crazy man". Dr Garretson s'd Collins was making a hundred thousand dollars a year in the
oil business. Did not have any wells, simply bought it when ready for market & had distributing stations. Went
back to the house, had lunch & Angilene Chloe, whom I had met before she was married, sister of Mrs G. came
in & also Miss Lovene Donley, a cousin of Mrs. G. & daughter of Oliver Donley, a brother of B.F. who came to
Iowa in 1857 & a young girl from Connecticut, a niece, I believe, (Baker) & who is married being a Mrs Collins,
her husband being son of a brother of "Lafe" Collins
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Later Mrs Baker, sister of Lovene & after she had gone, her husband, Mr Baker came in. Louvene seems to be
the business woman of the family, worked 15 yrs in one of the Banks, owns 1,000A of good land in Colorado at
the foot of one of the mountains there & Mrs G. says she successfully loans money & gets 8% for it safely by
reason of her knowledge of business & Real Estate values. She was appointed financial guardian & Trustee by
Hester A. Miles. (Mrs G. youngest sister) of her two baby children & J. Patrick Donley of Green Co Pa brother of
Hester was made Amdis of the estate in Penna. We agreed on price of $500 per acre for the Pgh vein of coal for
the three purpants [sic] of Lucretia, Angilene & Hester in the Cumb Tp Coal. I to pay Mrs G's judgment to F &
M NBK Mt Morris as a secret private consideration & we went over to the office of
, joint owner of the
building with Dr Garretson, he taking the lower floor & paying all the taxes & the Dr the upper where we had one
of his employees, Miss Lyle Ghrist draw up the agreement in duplicate with two extra carbons & going back to
the house, we had supper & then had the agreements signed up (in which Mrs Margaret Bodley, the other sister
of Elm Grove W.K. is included if she chooses to join) by Mrs & Dr Garretson, Angilene Chloe, & Lovene
Donley & I paid them $500 each on their respective purparts & only had time to get to the 8 o'clock PM train (9
by my time) for Albia & did not get time to see James E. Wilson
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who lives on Robinson St third house from Dr Garretson's & who is a son of William Wilson & a brother of Mrs
Whittaker & Juliet H. Wilson of Uniontown, Pa. I had to wait more than an hour at Albia, Iowa & got the train
east at midnight, but there was no lowers to be had, so I took a chair seat in one of their coaches, reaching
Chicago 7 AM or 8 Am our time at the Union Depot & finding I could get no lowers on any but the midnight
train concluded as it was very early & a Sunday morning, I would not call my relative Mrs Caterine Stockley
living 15 1051 Columbus Ave, Chicago, Ills Telephone Roger Park 53 as given to me over the phone when at
Mrs. W.W. Hartman's Berwyn, Ill by her sister Mrs Grace Culver for one day would not be sufficient with her, so
I bought my ticket & a chair on the Pgh Ft Wayne & Chicago RR 8:45 AM their time for Pgh & went in Merkle's
Restaurant Union Sta where I had eaten before & got as good if not the best breakfast I ever had at a restaurant or
hotel viz: cantaloupe, calf liver with bacon & sauts [best guess] potatoes, boiled eggs, wheat cakes, rolls & tea.
Asking the waiter about Mr Merkle He referred me to the manager nearby & he was most courteous & kind &
said Mr Peter Merkle, the founder, had been killed abt six yrs ago in undertaking to board a street car at
Columbus Ohio, I think, when it was going & he missed his step or slipped & was dragged 50 feet or more &
killed. He thought he was about 70 yrs old. He said that they lived at
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Columbus, Ohio & the two sons living there E.J. & W.J. Merkle ran the business. When I told him of one of my
ancestors being a Peter Merkle, he wanted me to go that way home & gave me the address of Edward J. Merkle,
Union Station, Rotamant, Columbus, O & said he knew he would be glad to give me all the information he could.
I see the slip he gave me names Chas G. Gedrig, manager & he is no doubt the party I talked to when in Peoria,
Ills. Walking out to the Isaac Walker G Hardware Store, I saw high up on Adams St or near there "Merkel
Monuments, but I did not have time to go see them. I got in here at 11 PM last night, have had a good night's
sleep, got my breakfast & will now call up to see if Mrs Olive J. Barnes is ready to see me. I find that H. Swift
Scott with whom she is visiting in Allegheny City (Pgh N.S.) lives at 1213 Arch St telephone Cedar 1420-J &
will call her. It is now 11:20 AM.
JVT
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At residence of H. Swift Scott's No 1213 Arch St Pittsburgh Northside (old Allegheny City) Pa Sept 29 th, 1919
2:06 PM.
I arrived here about 12:30 PM & have been talking with Mrs Scott & her aunt Olive Jack Barnes about the
connections. Mrs Barnes tells me the following family history or lore which was given to her by her father John
Jack & her older brother Johnston Jack. She said they told her that her great grandfather James Jack was
Captain of the Militia in North of Ireland in County Down at time of the persecution of the Protestants & the
Catholics were very bitter against him by reason of his marshalling the militia against them After the wars had
quieted down, he went back to his old home in Scotland & later returned to Ireland. He had raised a Catholic boy
who had acquired land near or adjoining him & it is not clear where this land was in Ireland or Scotland (in fact, I
think, it relates to earlier members of the family in France) & when he returned from the wars, supposing his
lands would have been confiscated & taken, he found this young man whom he had taken in & befriended, after
he had failed to get any recognition from his Catholic friends (& relatives?) had taken charge of his lands as if
they were his own & when Capt James Jack wanted to recompense him, but he would take nothing but asked
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him that if he had any more children born in America to which he was fleeing, he would call the first son Patrick
& use his influence to have it continued in future generations. This Catholic's name was Patrick Mrs Barnes s'd
& he wanted a name sake, but she does not know what his last name was. Mrs Barnes said her father had always
told her that his grandfather James Jack had a large family children, but he could not name them all. Mrs Barne's
grandfather, Andrew Jack came from Big Springs, Cumb Co Pa (where she says he was born) when he was, she
thought, 20 or 21 yrs old as he was a young man. There was a party of 12 or 15 men came out from Cumb Co &
when they got to this side of the mountains, they heard what they thought was cannonading & believed it might
be some army they all fled & went back to Cumb Co except Andrew Jack, Akey? Miller, & Ezekiel Howe who
came on to where Federal Jt [best guess] Allegheny now is, Mr Miller wanting a location where he could have a
mill asked some hunters, white men who came down the River in a canoe who told him that there was a creek 20
miles up the river emptying in the river called Bull Creek named for an Indian Chief where Tarentum now is, so
they went there & about five miles up the creek, Miller took up 400 Acres & built a mill & the mill is still in
existence. Howe took up 400 Acres a mile further down the creek & Andrew Jack took up 400 Acres a mile
above Miller's but not on the creek being off from
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the creek & running to the site of Bull creek Church. Mrs Barnes thinks it is East Deer Tp. James Jack, his son
got a part of the farm next to Bull Creek Church on which he lived until he went west when he sold it to a man
named Newill. John Jack (father of Mrs B) another son bought the other heirs out & owned & lived on the farm
until he sold it in 1857 & moved to the Safe Harbor Home & farm on the southside of Ohio River in Beaver Co
Pa opposite Industry & in connection with it, a ferry which he hired a man to run & which was considered the
best Harbor between Pa & Cincinnati. He lived on this farm until 1863 when he bought a farm on the North side
of Ohio River extending to the River two miles above Industry where he died. Jack, Miller & Howe erected
cabins on their lands, each 400 A. & their only tools being axes which they carried out from Cumb Co as they
came by foot & burning holes put hinges on the doors & tied the hinges fast with hickory withes [sic] & then
went back east & came back the next Spring early in order to put in their crops (their first visit having been in the
fall before). They walked leading their horses loaded with pack saddles, salt Etc. They were the first settlers
north of the Allegheny River when they returned, they found the cabins of Howe & Miller all right, but when
Jack went to his cabin, he found it occupied by a man named Frank Anderson who claimed it & proposed to Jack
that they fight it out & after they fought it out to shake
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hands & the best man should own the land. So they threw off their coats & went at it, Andrew jack having the
large Jack frame soon worsted Anderson who cried enough & they shook hands & went down to Miller's & ate
together & were friends ever after. Mrs B says all three of these men died on the land they took up. She also
says Capt Sam Brady was related to the Jacks & the Indians having killed his entire family, he vowed vengeance
on the Red men & once he was out with a party of 12 or 13 on Brush Run about 6 miles from Beaver Falls, they
spied a light from a fire kindled by the Indians. Capt Brady crawled on his hands & knees until he came close
enough to the fire to count the Indians gathered around the fire & then crawled back & told his men it is life or
death there is just a man for each of us & each man must kill his Indian, so they crawled up about 10 o'clock at
night after the Indians had gone to sleep, their habit being to lay with their heads to the fire. Brady & his men
crept up on their hands & knees & each man killed his Indian massacreeing the whole party & the place to this
day is called "Bloody Spring". She says that when the Indians were so closely pursuing him, he made what is
known as the famous Brady's Leap over the Beaver River. The Indians as they came up shouted "Some turkey"
indicating he could fly across. Mrs Barnes says that once
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the Indians were going to burn some white prisoners when Brady, who could speak the Indian language shouted
across the River from the other side saying he had a lot of prisoners & for them to wait until the next night & he
w'd bring them over & they w'd burn them all together. The Indians said all right, so Brady collected his men,
massacreed the Indians & rescued the prisoners. Mrs B says Thomas Miller, a grandson of Akey Miller married
her sister Maria Jack & that Mary Boyd, her mother's youngest sister married Joseph Miller, the oldest grandson
of Akey Miller. Andrew Jack's oldest daughter married Frank Anderson's oldest son Frank. Her name was
Margaret, but she chose to be known as "Peggy". Mrs B. says her grandfather Andrew Jack married a McCoy of
Allegheny Co & he is buried at Bull Creek graveyard & the name of his first wife McCoy is on the monument.
(Mrs B. thinks her name is Elizabeth, but is not sure.)
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[Descendant Chart]
Andrew Jack (son of Capt James Jack was born near Big Spring, Cumb Co Pa about 1764 or 1765 as near as
Mrs. B. can estimate & she thinks he died about 1847 when her brother Johnston was 4 yrs old as he crawled
under the bed when told his grandfather was dying. He married first in Allegheny Co a Miss
McCoy & 2d
Miss
Carnahan also from Allegheny Co. Mrs B. does not know the names of father, brothers or sisters of
either of his wives, but knows that his second wife had a relative named Robert Carnahan. His second wife died
before he did & his daughter by his first wife, Jane Smith came & kept house for him until he died at the age of
82 or 83 yrs. Mrs B. says her father didn't have Andrew Jack's Bible, but she thinks Jane Smith got it & it would
have passed from her to her son McCoy Smith who at last account was living at Monmouth Tps, a farmer, but
living in the town. He had owned a farm at LeClaire, Iowa & after he got old, quit farm & went to Monmouth to
educate his boys in the Monmouth College. She thinks he went to live with one of his sons who she thought was
preaching somewhere up the Allegheny.
[Children of Andrew Jack & 1st wife McCoy]
James Jack, Married Eliza Crawford in 1823. He died Sept 20, 1873 aged 72 yrs in LeClaire, Iowa. He united
with Bull Creek Church in 1824. She was daughter of John Crawford, an early settler of Allegheny Co Pa. He
walked out to Iowa in abt 4 weeks & then walked back as far as Steubenville, O. & took boat there in 1838 for
which exercise he was remarkable until 10 days before his death. He moved to Iowa next yr 1839. J.W. Smith
says he went in 1846 JVT May 30, 1921 [last sentence apparently added]
Thomas, Died unmarried when a young man. Was attending some college
in the East
Andrew, m. Martha ______ "an awful nice woman"
Andrew, a nice boy took a cold & pneumonia & died. Was engaged to be
married. Died aged 21 yrs. Name was Jno Andrew.
A dau, m. Joseph Coe & died in abt a yr along with her 4 wks old
baby. He married again, but Mr Jack
helped him to get started. A
son, Joe Coe, lives at Moose Jaw, Canada.
4 other children, all died young & unmarried.
Margaret Jack, Mar Frank Anderson of Butler Co. She went by name of Peggy. She died on the Anderson
farm in Butler Co at home of her son Robt John
1. Cyrus [Anderson], m.
in west where he went to teach school. Thinks it is Iowa. Thinks he
has a family 5/30/21 JWS says he lived at Washington, Iowa
2. William, m.
He lives in Tarentum Pa where he has a home. He is a widower & spends his
winters in Florida. Has 3 children 2 daus & 1 son. Is well off
3. Eli, m.
has 2 daus, one mar to Geo Kirk. He is a widower &
lives alone in Florida.
5. Elizabeth Jane, died unm. when a young girl abt 16.
6. Robert John, m.
& lives in Butler Co. Has children 5/30/21 JWS says he lives 3 miles fr
Deer Creek Ch which is 7 miles from Tarentum Pa
4. Harrison, enlisted in Civil War. Fought thru war where he contracted chronic diarrhoea & died
unm at home in Butler Co & is buried at Bull Creek which was abt 12 miles distant
John Jack, b Jany 11, 1805 & in Sept 26, 1826 mar Margaret Boyd, Dau of Robt & Hannah Mitchell Boyd &
lived together 51 yrs & 12 when she died Oct 3, 1877 & he died Oct 3, 1887 both on the farm near Industry, He
was born in West Deer Tp See Pages 28, & 29.
Thomas Jack, he went out one morning before breakfast to feed the horses & pulled up a turnip & ate it & went
back to the house with cramps & they put his feet in hot water & he died almost instantly. He was aged abt 17
yrs. Buried at Bull Creek.
Jane Jack, m.
Smith. He died shortly after leaving 2 small children. She never married again & died at
her son McCoy Smith's at LeClaire, Iowa in 1871 & is buried there.
A girl, died young when a few weeks old in 1841 of small pox
Andrew McCoy Smith B Dec 2, 1838 Oldest, M. Catharine Duncan in Iowa (at Princeton,
Iowa), a nice wife & her two fine boys. One is a Pres preacher. She was born at Deer Creek
Allegheny Co near Bull Creek. She died May 24, 1919 at Monmouth, Ills & is buried there. Born
Feby 14, 1847
James Wilson Smith B May 2, 1867 m. Marguerite Laichliter of
Normmerville [best guess] Pa.
Francis Eugene B June 5, 1905
Frank Duncan, Born Nov 2, 1869 Pastor Pres Ch Holyoke, Mass
m. Unibelle Wright of Butler
Pa
Eva, b Dec 20, 1872 Prof of Hist State College Idaho, unm.
Grace May, b July 31, 1881 m. John Hugh Gould
Walter Ray, b Mch 1, 1886 Prof Mathematics in University of
Minnesota
[children of Andrew Jack & 2nd wife Carnahan]
Leslie Jack, m Jennie ______. Lived near LeClaire, Iowa. He died there prior to 1887. Had several children
Elizabeth (Betsy), m. Robt Fleming of Allegheny Co & settled on a farm 3 miles fr Bull Creek. Both died there.
Were U.Ps
Sarah Agnes, M. Wm Hill Live out on old Fleming farm. Both dead
buried at Bull Creek
Robert [Hill] b abt 1871 married, is undertaker Seattle Wash
Jennie b. abt 1874
William
Son, b say 1884
Anna Eliza, m McDarrell has several children did live at New Castle
Pa. Both dead.
Margaret, m. Graham & lives at Cleveland, O. Has one son &
perhaps other children.
Nettie, m. James Patterson Gibson, a minister & on her death bed
requested that her husband marry
Maggie or Janice McCool which he
did. Don't know about children. He married Maggie McCool
Mary Ann, m. John Fleming, brother of Robt & lived on adjoining farm a part of his patrimony. Both dead.
Were U.Ps
Andrew [Fleming], was in Civil War
Eliza, m.
Shaffer, lives at head of Arch St above engine house
Lyelia
Other boys
Sarah Belle [Jack], m. William Leslie of Allegheny Co Pa. They lived near Bull Cr Ch, a farmer & buried there.
Were Presbyterians. He married after her death a widow Betsy Ingram, but had no children by her.
Agnes,
m.
Mary Louise, died age abt 14
George, m.
William, is a Pres. min.
Annie, teacher
Lydia Jack, m. Wm McCool, a farmer. Lived near Bull Cr Ch & moved West from there. Both died in the west.
Mrs McCool dying first. There may have been other children
Lydia, M. Anderson, an editor in Iowa, Both dead in Iowa
Margaret, m. Rev Jas P. Gibson No issue, Both dead at Tarkis, Mo &
buried there.
Jennie
Samuel Jack, m. He moved to the western part of Iowa & died there before 1880. They had three sons &
perhaps more & probably daughters.
Andrew, lived in western part of Iowa & corresponded with Mrs B. He
married.
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[Descendant Chart]
John Jack & Margaret Boyd. Mrs Barnes thinks her brother Johnston's youngest son Luther has her father's
family Bible & he was in charge of State farm in Centre Co Pa. She thinks he moved a month ago, but she dont
know where he went. She says all that when she got married, she copied in a Bible her father had given her, the
record of all the births of her father's children & their marriages.
[children of John & Margaret (Boyd) Jack]
Julia Ann, b. 1827, died aged 9 yrs
Elizabeth Jane, b.
died aged 3 yrs
Andrew Herron, b. died aged 3 mos.
Robert Boyd, b.
graduated at Wash College in 1853 & died in 1854 at Glade Run, near Wash, Pa where he
took charge of the Academy at request of the college professors. Took pneumonia & died on 9th day in Jany
1854, the year of the deep snow. Brought body & trunk home in a sleigh.
Hannah Maria, m. Thomas Miller of Millerstown (the old Mill site) Allegheny Co. She was b May 24, 1836.
They lived on a farm not far from Bull Cr ch & then moved to Tarentum where they lived until the time of
their deaths. She was for 51 yrs the wife of Thos Miller, an Elder in the Bull Creek Ch for 50 yrs & a leader of
the choir, dying in 1906. She died Aug 3, 1910 in 75th yr of her age having been a member for 50 yrs of Bull Cr
Ch. where both are buried. He was born Apr 9, 1831 & died Mch 2, 1906. They were married July 10, 1855.
Boyd Jack [Miller], b May 2, 1856 ob Mch 12, 1884 mar Florence Moore of LeClaire, Iowa.
Died Jany 30, 1901 at LeClaire, Iowa & buried in Jack Cemetery ground for which was given by
James Jack. Have children (widow living) 2 sons & 1 daughter.
Ezekiel Culbertson, named for his grandfather Ezekiel Miller son of
"Aker" b Oct 1, 1857 ob June 9,
1860 of Scarlet fever.
Elizabeth Jane, b Jany 9, 1859 m. May 9, 1878 to William Canning, a farmer of near
Bakerstown, Allegheny Co Pa. He is dead. Died suddenly of apoplexy on the old Canning farm
where he was born & raised. Mrs B. will get family record of children etc for Mrs Canning & sent
to me.
Maggie Olive, b Sept 17, 1860 ob Dec 3, 1871 of Neuralgia of the
heart.
Annie Iola, b Apr 27, 1862, ob Nov 10, 1863 of diptheria.
John Andrew, b Oct 16, 1864 m. Lottie Sangree Dec 25, 1890 of near Sharpsburg, Pa. He is
dead from pneumonia. Left no issue Died abt 2 yrs after marriage.
Thomas Culbertson, b Mch 24, 1866, m. on Apr 19, 1891 to Mary Sefton of Tarentum. He has
charge of 1st NBK? Bldg in Tarentum a very fine man. He has 3 children.
Julia Anna, b July 27, 1868 ob July 5, 1893 of La Grippe unmarried.
Mary Alberta, b July 18, 1872 m. Dec 23, 1897 to John Staley of Cheswick Pa. They live in
New Castle Pa, is an insurance agt. Have 3 children.
Benjamin Washington, b Aug 19, 1875 mar Apr 20, 1899 to Nettie
Allison of near
Bakerstown, Pa. He is a farmer & lives on father's old farm 4 miles north of Tarentum near Bull Cr
Ch has 4 children.
John Watson Johnston [Jack], named for minister who was supplying Bull Cr ch when child was born & he
asked for the name. He always went by name of "Johnston Jack". b. Mar Margaret Noss in Van Port, Pa
formerly, but living at Freedom, Pa when married. She died may 5, 1911 in the room I am now writing in
instantly throwing up her hands & dying when here on a visit to Mrs Scott. She was born in Beaver Co in 1843.
He went to Centre Co to visit his son Luther & died suddenly & was brought back & buried by his wife in
Freedom Cemetery who had died 4 or 5 yrs before. Was steward of Beaver Co home for six yrs & then moved in
to Rochester where he lived 11 yrs or more before his death.
Boyd Shields Jack, He is an undertaker in New Brighton, Pa & is a
noble young man. Mar Mary [May?]
Conway of Van Port, Pa.
Mabel Jack, married to Harold Phillips of New Brighton. Was
in France in war.
Martin Luther Jack, m.1. Ula Maxwell of Bellborosville, Pa. She died of pneumonia. M.2.
Sarah McClure of Beaver, Pa a sister of J.B. McClure, Atty.
Helen, 1st wife
Andrew, 1st wife
Martin Luther Jr., 2d wife
Margaret, 2d wife
Harold Jack, died aged 7 mos born with hernia of the spine
Julia Anna, b Jany 6, 1843, mar Stewart Scott. He was a contractor. He lived & died at this house, then 167
now 1213 Arch St in 65th yr of his age in 1894. He was born near Apollo, Armstrong Co. Was in the Civil
War. Married May 11, 1865 by Rev James M. Shields. He died Apr 23, 1894. He was born Aug 17, 1829. She
died May 1, 1912.
Marion Hall Scott, b May 22, 1866 at his grandfather Jack's in Beaver Co, Pa mar Minnie A.
Darling of Pomeroy Co on June 23, 1891. He died Jany 1, 1913 of enlargement of the heart. Was
financial man for "Leader" No issue. Took a boy to raise, but did not adopt him.
Herron Swift Scott, b Oct 26, 1870 on 269 Gen'l Robinson St Allegheny, Pa Mar May 11, 1905
by Rev C.F. Swift to Miss Edith Cooper Pugh of Beaver Falls, Pa, Dau of Benj S. Pugh. Mr Scott is
in the fire Ins business with office in Anoth [best guess] Bldg No 407. No issue.
Joseph Mitchell Jack b.
died in 1854 when abt 18. His father had bought a scholarship in Wash College
expecting to send him for graduation & to prepare for the ministry & he died before entering form
consumption of the blood, succeeding a cold contracted in Jany.
Margaret Jane Jack, b. died in 1858 was delicate. Had spinal trouble. Took a cold & died.
Olive Annisetta, b Apr 7, 1848 in Tarentum in her father's home. Started to school at Brimstone Corner near
Cull Creek church & later went to Beaver College, but did not graduate. Married May 20 th, 1880 to Albert C.
Barnes from Black Hawk, Beaver Co, Pa. (He was educated at Hanover College of State of Indiana) by Rev
James M. Shields of Millvale, a classmate in college of her brother Boyd. He, Shields, was a Presbyterian
minister. Mr Barnes was then a farmer, but later had a variety store in Beaver Falls, Pa, where he died May 14,
1904? Mrs Barnes moved to Chicago the next year.
John Peter Barnes, b Mch 15, 1881 on Barnes homestead near Black Hawk in Beaver Co, Pa 12
miles north west of Beaver. Married Dec 26, 1906 to Sarah Darr of Beaver Pa, dau of Rufus Darr,
who owned the farm where the Darr mine explosion occurred
John Peter
J. Rufus, aged 7
Darr
Sarah
Louise
Catharine Olive
Paul T. Barnes, his grandmother Barnes' mother was a Turner from that came the initial. b Sept
29, 1882 on farm same as John. He is unmarried & lives at 2003 Gidding St, Chicago, Ills which he
owns, is on a corner in good neighborhood. His mother keeps house for him.
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Room 250 7th Ave Hotel Pgh Sept 29th, 1919 8:50 PM
I went over to Allegheny just after noon today to see Olive Jack Barnes at the Herron Swift Scott residence &
made records commencing on Page 21 & when listing the ten children of her Father on preceding page, was
working on Mrs Scott's record seventh child when Mrs Barnes s'd she had a dinner engagement in East Liberty
with a number of people invited to meet her & the hour set was 6:30 PM & it being 6:05 then, I had to excuse
here & she had appointments her for two days, Rochester or somewhere for Thursday, New Castle Friday & she
accordingly appointed Saturday of this week at 9:30 AM to finish up with me. I then thought I would go to see
Jno A. Fairman at No 11 Marshall St Pgh (Perrysville) Tel Cedar 672 for his mother's records of the family, but
on phoning him, he said he did not have them, that his brother Robert being the oldest got them including the
family Bible & he thought Robert's son Harry T. Fairman, now living at Rochester, Pa had them. I find by
reference to "PM Suburban" that he lives at 485 Case St, Rochester, Pa Tel Rochester 181-R, so I have now 9:05
PM. Just put in a call for him, Jno A Fairman thought that Mary Harper, daughter of his Aunt Lavinia McAllister
would know more about it & that she was living with her son Ira C. Harper at 22 S. Harrison Ave, Bellevue (or
Ben Avon) Tel Neville 697-R & that
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her daughter Nettie? who gave attention to such matters also lived with her. I called her & she said her daughter
was out to some society meeting of which she was Secy tonight & she did not have access to her papers & it w'd
be better to come another time. I then got my supper, read the papers, & am writing this record. Mrs Barnes said
her Uncle James Jack who moved to Iowa in 1839 was a very godly man & always good to the poor & his house
was open to the preachers of any denomination & that Rev Dr Francis Herron , who was his first cousin, visited
him at his farm near LeClaire, Iowa & held services at his house to which James Jack had invited his neighbors
all to come. I also learned from her that it was to her father John Jack of Industry, Pa I had written in 1876 upon
seeing notice of his golden wedding anniversary in the Pres Banner & she had at his request answered the letter
for him at his dictation. She further said that at his death in 1887, he was the oldest subscriber to the Pres Banner
having been taking it for over 60 yrs. Mrs Scott said that her mother-in-law who seems to have been the family
lore representative of the family had had her send many records to Mrs Barnes at Chicago & she s'd her son Paul
had them in his possession & when she went home, they would copy & send to me or send them to me to copy &
return. Mrs Scott let me bring over with me a book in which Mother Scott had pasted or filed many clippings of
obituaries & other family matters to make note of such things as I desired & return the book next Saturday, so I
commence on following page to make entries from s'd record
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Various Resolutions on the death of Mrs Julie A. Scott. Show her to have been the Acting President of the
Ladies Bible Society, a life long member of the Presbyterial Society from the time it was organized & as having
led a life of singular beauty, purity & service for the Master. She died May 1, 1912 at her home 1213 Arch St
Allegheny & when I come to note her picture, I recall that I served the notices of her death. She was in her 70th
year. Her husband Stewart Scott, who died Apr 23, 1894 served in Co E 123d Reg Pa Vol. Mrs Scott died of
pneumonia.
John Jack's obituary notice stated that he was born Jany 11, 1805 in West Deer Tp, Allegheny Co, Pa "within
one half mile of Bull Creek Church" when 17 yrs old United with the Bull Creek Church, then under the ministry
of Rev Abraham Boyd, & when aged 22 was elected Ruling Elder & served for over 60 yrs. Also states he was
of Scotch-Irish birth & at the time of the persecution in Scotland in 17th century, his ancestors were obliged to
leave their estate in Scotland & flee to the north of Ireland. A Clipping refers to him as John Jack of
Bellowsville, Pa states that he paid his 60th annual subscription to the Pres Banner, that he was then 82 yrs old &
read the Banner without the aid of glasses.
I recall that Mrs Barnes this afternoon in speaking of her great grandfather James Jack, who was Captain of the
Militia with the Protestants in Ireland said he was so hunted by the Catholics that he had to be smuggled on
board ship
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encased in a whiskey cask or in a store box & that he had one child which had to be left behind for fear of its
crying & revealing his hiding. She thought this child was brought over afterward which too is evidence of his
having married in Ireland. Some of his brothers came over at the same time.
I find in reading the obituary of James Jack of LeClaire, Iowa that it was at the Cross Roads section in this
vicinity to which he removed in 1826, that his friend & cousin Dr Francis Herron held services with him at his
house there (& not in Iowa) which resulted in the organization the next year 1827 of the Presbyterian Church at
Cross Road & ordaining of James Jack as Ruling Elder which position he sustained for 44 yrs removing in 1839
to LeClaire, Scott Co, Iowa where he on Jany 1, 1841 was mainly instrumental in organizing the Presbyterian
Church of LeClaire, Iowa in his own house in which since their arrival in 1839 he & his wife had been holding
Sunday School & for a time the new formed Church in their house served all denominations. Of seven children,
three little boys died in Penna & in Iowa their Eldest son & 2 daughters, leaving but one son. The widow Eliza
Crawford Jack died at residence of her son at LeClaire Jany 1st, 1877. Stating that her husband had died about 5
yrs before, which from his dying at 72 & serving from 1827 for 44 yrs an Elder w'd make date of his birth 1799 &
his death Sept 20, 1871 & on Dec 29th say also 1871 Jane Smith
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a widowed sister of Father Jack died. Mrs Eliza Crawford Jack suffered greatly for two or three years, but was
eventually carried off over New Year's day from congestion of the lungs, her only grandchild having died two or
three years before & this James Jack's family became extinct.
Say
1. On Dec 29, 1886 at her residence No 10 Vermont St, Allegheny City, Mrs Lavinia McAllister in the 85th year
of her age. Resolutions by the W.M.S. of the 6th UP Church of Allegheny of which she was a member
stated she was the oldest member of the Society & an active worker since its organization nearly 40 yrs ago.
2. Here are two definitions of home in her book: (a) The golden setting in which the brightest jewel is
"mother". (b) The father's Kingdom, the children's paradise, the Mother's world.
3. Died Aug 19th, 1879 in Apollo, Armstrong Co, Pa Ethel, youngest child of Daniel & E.A. Jack aged 2 yrs &
6 mos. States she had parents, sisters, & brother surviving
4. As part of the obituary of Dr Francis Herron, stating he was born near Shippensburg, Pa June 28, 1774 &
died Dec 6, 1860, Pastor of First Church Pgh from May 1811 to 1850. Extract from manuscript of Mr
Dickson gives recital of his preaching when a young man at Unity Congregation when he preached from the
text "Zaccheus come down for today I must abide at thy house."
5. In an envelope from Wm Fulton, Keokuk, Iowa, Agt there of the Home Ins Co of NY mailed (& received in
Apr 1887) to Mrs Julia A. Scott was a cft as copied below:
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"Whereas Abraham Fulton with his wife & family are now removing from this country to the continent of
America - this is to inform whom it may concern that they were born & lived until the date hereof in parish
and behaved in a Sober & Christian manner and now leaves us free from any publick Scandall or censure.
Certified at Artielan in the Kingdom of Ireland this 26th day of May 1772 by Wm Knox V.D.M.
Wm Caldwell }
Robert Gulburg} Elders
[Gulfry?]
6. Obituary or "In Memoriam" of Mrs Thomas Miller of Tarentum speaks of hers as a character rare &
beautiful & as one who excelled in character even among good women. "In wisdom, strength, gentleness,
graciousness, saintliness, she excelled and yet so plain & humble that she never seemed conscious of the fact
that she was an extraordinary woman." "But such was the truth".
7. May 5th, 1911 at her sister-in-law's home, Allegheny City, Pa Margaret Irwin Jack, wife of Johnston W. Jack
of Rochester, Pa in her 68th yr etc.
8. In memoriam The Herron family. Recites the death of Mrs Mary Blaine Smith at Shields, Pa Sept 29th,
1896, the last survivor of the immediate family of Dr Francis Herron passed from Earth. Mrs Smith was the
Eldest daughter, born in 1802 presumably at Rocky Spring, Cumb Co Pa where Mr Herron was first settled.
Her mother Elizabeth Blaine, was a native of Carlisle & the first born child was named Mary Blaine,
doubtless after her maternal aunt, who became the
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wife of Rev Matthew Brown, a classmate of Mr Herron's in Dickinson college. Dr Herron removed to Pgh in
1810 & his home is indicated as a little house at corner of Penn & Wayne Sts was a center of social influence
where five daughters & one son constituted with their parents a family circle of exceptional brilliancy. The
oldest daughter was married in 1839 to the Rev John McNulty Smith, a native of Canonsburg, Pa. He was
pastor at Mingo from 1839 to 1844 during which period two children were born, both dying at a tender age.
Rev Smith died in 1872. She was childless for 50 yrs, but made her home with her nieces, Mrs Stewart &
Miss Williams, daughters of her sister Jane, who married Rev Aaron Williams D.D. so prominent as a teacher
at Jefferson College & Edgeworth Seminary. Circumstances familiar to all the friends of Dr Herron's family
led two of Mrs Smith's sisters to the Sewickly Valley viz Miss Rebecca Herron & Mrs Isabella Hoge. The
youngest died first, the oldest last. All buried in a well filled lot in Allegheny cemetery. Refers to John
Herron, the only son as he went out at the head of the Duquesne Greys to the Mexican War. Speaks of her
Father as the foremost man in the religious advance of the period so far as western Penna was concerned, a
leader in every good work & a pioneer in many. He started the first regular prayer meeting in Pgh & organized
the first Sunday School in the city of which Miss Mary Herron
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was a member. He was the father of the Western Theological Seminary. His daughter was a member of the
first female missionary society & its sweet singer. This tribute to his deceased kins woman is gladly paid etc
by M.B. Riddle
9. Scott, suddenly of heart trouble on Wednesday, Jany 1, 1913 at 10 AM Marion Hall Scott, beloved husband
of Minnie Darling Scott in his 46th year. States he was born in Beaver Co son of Stewart & Julia A. Scott, but
soon after came to Allegheny City & in Jun 1891 married Miss Minnie Darling of Pomeroy, O, who with one
son Reid Darling Scott survive. He lived at 113 North Sprague Ave Bellevue. Was with the Leader over 25
yrs in the business office was widely popular & a wonderfully pleasing personality. His picture, a large cut
shows a strikingly handsome man.
10. A poem from top to bottom of page captioned "Two years in Heaven" dated Oct 3, 1879 & signed Mrs.
Julia A. Scott, has signal merit & Christian faith
11. Appears a half page entitled "Presbyterian Sacramental Scene in the woods in early times" & in pencil
marked "at Bull Creek". Shows the trees & hundreds of people. Evidently seated on benches. I must have
a copy of this picture for my book & also one of Julia A. Scott & Marion Hall Scott.
12. Died at family res 167 Arch St, Allegheny Pa Apr 23, 1894 Stewart Scott in 65 yr of his age. United
with 1st Pres Ch Allegheny then under the care of Rev Dr E.P. Swift soon after coming to city when 17
Was an active consistent supporting member for 47 yrs.
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Oak Hill, Oct 6, 1919 8:48 PM
I learned last Wednesday morning, Oct 1st that sister Sarah F. Ainsworth had arrived that morning at cousin
Minnie L. Redburn's & sister Emilie A Bickel who was visiting her son Karl in NY arrived in Connelsville
Saturday morning on the 7 AM B&O train & I went down on the 5:30 Am street car to meet her & just as the
train pulled in, Sarah arrived in a taxi also to meet her. I went on to Pgh on the train she got off of & went to F.L.
Kahle's office & signed the papers for reviewing the Jdgt R.A.J. Cochran in Was & Fayette Cos. I then went over
to H. Swift Scott's residence No 1213 Arch St, Allegheny City to continue my interview with Olive Jack Barnes.
On last Monday, we had gotten as far as her sister, Mrs Scott's 7th child of her father when she had to go, so on
Saturday, we completed listing them, wherein I see her name is Olive A. Barnes & also listing the descendants as
shown on Pages 28 & 29 of such of said ten children as had issue. There is much data lacking in said listing as
well as of the descendants on the two preceding pages 26 & 27 of her grandfather's descendants which she s'd she
w'd gather up & write to me about. Mrs Scott who before her marriage was Miss Edith C. Pugh said she was a
trained nurse in the Allegheny General Hospital & at the instance of some doctor at McClellandtown was called
to nurse the young son of a Mr Franks who lived on the farm of Ben B. Baird & who I think she s'd had typhoid
fever & pneumonia & which she pulled through successfully. She said Mr Franks was
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a very nice man, but his wife was not his equal. She went out on a street car.
Mrs Barnes told of the death of Mr Canning who married her niece Elizabeth Jane Miller so suddenly from
apoplexy. His daughter, Ethel, was baking some bread or biscuits & they were sitting down to table & the
daughter brought in her baking & he raised a piece to his mouth & died instantly, the undertaker who came at
once having to take the bread from between his teeth. She said her father John Jack was the first in his section or
county to sign the Temperance Pledge & all his friends & neighbors told him he had made a great mistake, that
he would never get his harvest put up without liquor. However, when harvest came, he offered a "levy" (12 1/2
cts) more per day than his neighbors & told the men they could drink if they wanted to, but not on his premises as
he w'd not allow liquor to be brought on his farm. He was the first man to get his harvest in. And his grandfather
had to be smuggled on shipboard in a whiskey barrel to get him away from the Catholics in Ireland. She said the
Barnes came from Scotland & her husband's father was Peter Barnes. His father (it might have been his
father-in-law Grimes) (at any rate, it was her husband's grandfather) fought under Anthony Wayne in the Rev
War. There was Marcus Barnes who, I think, was a brother of Peter who served through the Civil War & went
somewhere to NY State where he died rich, but childless leaving $100,000 to his wife Ella, $30,000 & the home
farm up the Yough River above West Newton, Pa to Rufus Barnes, a brother? $50,000 to the Church.
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Her son John Peter Barnes was named for his two grandfathers. She spoke of her nephew, Martin Luther Jack,
son of her brother Johnston, breaking his father up so there is an estrangement between him & Boyd, his brother
who is a very fine man, but who got nothing from his father. Luther had a number of notes signed in blank by his
father, which he filled up as he pleased. Luther, she said, got in with the wrong kind of associates & particularly
with Tom Fry (who married Carrie Beeson & is now, I guess, in the Gotham NBK, NY) for whom he filled some
of the notes for large am'ts on his promise to pay him back, which he never did. Johnston went to Centre Co to
visit his son Luther, took sick & died there & Boyd went on & prepared the body for burial & took it home.
Luther has left Centre Co leaving no word as to where he went, but Mrs B. thinks he has gone to NY & is with
Fry. She told about having given Luther $100 to pay on a note she owed & months or a year afterwards, she
learned he had not p'd it & she came on to see about it & spoke of it at the breakfast table whereat Luther excused
himself, got in Auto, went to the man & brought the note back, with the $100 credit on it, the ink for same being
scarcely dry. The man had written in answer to her letter of inquiry telling her he had not been paid. That night,
she sat by her brother's bed until 1 AM asking him to look into his business, but he had such implicit faith in
Luther that he didn't, & later he came to Chicago for a two mos visit with her, but at end of six weeks, got word
that took him home at once & matters had gone so
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far there was no chance to save anything, which there w'd have been if he had taken her advice before. She said
there was a Dr Scroggs somewhere about Beaver or Beaver Co & she w'd try & get his address & inquire if he is
descended from Nellie Jack, sister of her grandfather. Mrs Scott gave me to copy & return three letters her
mother-in-law, Julia A. Scott had received & several pages of Jack history she had written, all of which I copy
here:
1.
Economy, Augst 9th 1895
Cousin Julia,
According to promise, I send you the list I have as told to me by Mother and Aunt Cynthia, the female
portion of the tribe who did not arrive at years of maturity or were not married. I have no record of and now here
be the generations of the Jacks.
Great Grandfather James Jack had four sons, namely Patrick, John, James & Andrew. Patrick and John were
both Captains in the Revolutionary Army. Great Grandfather was drafted and Grandfather James Jack went in his
place at the age of 17, served his time out, reenlisted, served through the war, coming out with the rank of Lieut.
Great Grandfather had also 11 daughters, their names after marriage were:
1. Nellie Scroggs
2. Jane Cooper, went to Ohio when married
3. Polly Herron (mother of the Rev Francis Herron)
5. Peggy Clark located in Kentucky
4. Betty McFarland
6. Nancy McCombs 7. Cynthia Hemphill
8. Jemima Dunlap
9. Hannah Wills
[These 9 are the only ones of the 11 daughters listed]
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It will devolve on you and Sam McCallister to find out where the descendants of these members of the clan are,
and you will have a job, for if they kept up the pace set them by Great Great? Grandpap, there must be an army of
them. I wish you could find if Aunt Peggy Clark was not the mother of Gen'l Clark of Kentucky. You will find
an account of him in the book "Exploration of the Head Waters of the Missouri & Collumbia Rivers by Lewis
and Clark". Grandfather James Jack had five? daughters whose names after marriage were:
1. Jane Galbraith
2. Lydia McAllister
3. Cynthia Black
4. Lavinia McAllister
5. Nancy Fairman
Uncle Andrew also begat sons & daughters, but you will have to count them up. And now you & Sam, having
little else to do, can set about making a family tree, to which other trees in comparison will be mere srubs [sic].
Your loving cousin J.B. McAllister
The above is written in pencil & much is now faint. The hand is that of an old man, but not nervous. He has
named the boys in the order of their ages & so far as I know, the daughters of Capt James Jack, his great
grandfather. He does not, however, give (as he s'd in the start he wouldn't) the names of the children that died.
2. Dear Mrs Scott, Have you any records of the History of the Jack Family? or do you know where I can find any.
I see many allusions
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to them in the History of Cumberland County. My great grandfather, John Herron, married Mary Jack of
Cumberland, then part of Lancaster Co in 1773 (in this he is wrong as Cumb was cut off of Lancaster in 1750).
Her father must have been our common ancestor. Do you know what his first name was. I think it was James
Jack, but have no documents to prove it. If you can help me to any source of information as to the "Jack"
pedigree, I shall be obliged indeed. Aunt Mary Smith still lives - is well, but at times very weak - do come down
and see her when you can.
Sincerely yours,
Addison Williams
Jany 18, 1896
Shields, Allegheny Co, Pa
This is written in a very good plain hand & is evidently from a son of Rev Aaron Williams D.D., who married a
daughter of Rev Dr Francis Herron.
3 Cousin Julia Scott, Harper, Bellevue, April 21, '98
I have copied everything pertaining to the chronology of the Jacks contained in the letters. I find a serious
mistake in the list of the sons and daughters of great Grandfather Jack, their names with the names of their
husbands & wives are correct, but the writer mistakes the James Jack in the list "who is our grandfather" and your
father's Uncle" and describes another James Jack who lived in Indiana Co, Pa and only died in 1861, his wife's
name was Alcorn, while grandfather Jack's wife, our grandmother's name was McKinney. The James Jack
mentioned in the letter came across the mountains in boyhood & married in Indiana Co and our James Jack was
married in Cumberland Co, so it is evidently a mistake & does not belong in this history. Yours, Thos Harper
It is now midnight & I will stop & go to bed
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JVT
Oct 7, 1919 8:18 PM Oak Hill
History of the Jack Family
4. James Jack, brother of old Patrick Jack of Mecklenburg - lived & died in Cumberland Co. He married a Lady
named Jane Carnahan1*1. They both lived & died & were buried near Newville, Cumberland Co. They had
thirteen children, nine daughters & four sons. The daughters names & the names of their husbands are as
follows:
Jane who married John Cooper
Ellen who married James Scroggs
Polly who married John Herron
Betsy who married Wm McFarland
Peggy who married Wm Clark
Nancy who married James McCombs
Cynthia who married James Hemphill
Hannah who married James Wills
Jemima who married Thomas Dunlap The sons were Patrick, James, John & Andrew. Patrick was born &
married his first wife in Cumberland Co & in 1786 moved to Indiana Co & settled on a farm near Allman's Run
where he spent the balance of his days. He (or rather they) had but one child, a son, called James, for his
grandfather. Patrick Jack was a very prominent man in the community in which he lived. Upright in his dealings,
a wise counselor, a prominent man in the church, being the first ruling Elder in the Ebenezer Congregation. He
died on the 17th of Feby, 1817 in the 72d year of his age & was buried at Ebenezer where his last two wives had
been laid before, having had three wives. His son James who was born on Xmas night 1779 lived & died on the
same farm having come there with his father when a boy 6 or 8
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years old. He died in Augt, 1861 in the 81 (it w'd be 82d) year of his age & was buried with his father at
Ebenezer. His widow still survives him at the ripe old age of 86. Her maiden name was Mary Alcorn. She still
remembers the circumstance of her mother having been carried away by the Indians while out digging potatoes in
a patch some distance from the cabin in which the family resided - Somewhere on the Allegheny mountains,
although she was only four years of age at the time. Their family (ie the family of James & Mary Alcorn Jack)
consisted of five daughters & three sons who came to the years of maturity. The daughters were:
1.1. Margaret who married Marshall Shields. She died in 1865 leaving a son & daughter. The son enlisted with
his father in the 105 Reg of Pa Vol & was wounded in his leg below the knee. This occurred at the battle of Fair
Oaks & the rebels held from Saturday till Monday. Consequently, the boy lay on the field from Saturday till
Tuesday morning where his father found him & had his wound dressed. He was then taken & placed on board
the Steamer Vanderbilt & conveyed to David Island NJ. His wound not being dressed for six or seven days
during the voyage, when they landed at the Island, gangrene had set it & amputation was necessary - at the thigh,
& he lingered for some weeks & finally died & was buried at Cypress hill Cemetery, NJ.
2. James Jack's daughter (name not given) Married Samuel Hazlete [sic] a farmer. Their family consisted of
three sons & one daughter. Two of the sons are eminent lawyers, one resides in Greensburgh where he married a
daughter of Hon Ed. Cowan (This evidently was James Jack Hazlett)
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The other son remains at home with his father & mother. He carries out the character of the Jack family in
respect that he still lives a bachelor. The only daughter married a farmer by the name of John Welsh near
*1[margin note reads:] It was, it seems his son James who mar Jane C.
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Latrobe, where they still reside with two children, a son & daughter.
3. James Jack's 3rd child, daughter, Esther Kennedy, married a farmer named Wm Marshall whose farm is situated
on Blacklegs Creeck [sic] adjoining the village of Clarksburg, Indiana Co. They have only two sons & two
daughters. The sons were in the Union Army. The Eldest in the 11 Pa Reserve, was in every battle the Reg't was
engaged in, never being sick a day & never wounded, although several bullet holes in his clothing. He was
mustered out of service with his regiment and only a few weeks afterwards was killed on the P.RR near Latrobe.
The 2nd son died of wounds rec'd at the first battle of Fredericksburg - he was wounded in four or five different
parts of his body, all at the same time. He was taken back to Washington DC where he died a short time
afterwards. The Eldest daughter married Mr Reed. They reside in Hiawatha, Kansas. The third son served all
through the war, although wounded twice, is still a stout hearty man & married a lady named Ashbaugh & lives
near the village of Clarksburg. (This is different from statement on line 11. Perhaps there is another daughter see
line 24.)2*2 4 & 5. James Jack's fourth & fifth children were sons & reside on the old farm on Allman's Run.
Their names are as follows: James McCombs & John Henderson. James M. was twice married. The first wife
was a lady from the
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State of Maine named Emma Noyes. - She had been a music teacher in Blairsville Female Seminary for some
years previous to her marriage. There was no children. His second wife was Lizzie Fulton, a daughter of Moses
Fulton of Westmoreland Co. The resided near the village of Livermore, Indiana Co. The had five children, four
sons & one daughter. John H. was married a short time ago to Miss Mary Reed, a teacher in the public school at
Greensburg, another instance of marrying late in life - he being 50 yrs old when first married.
6 & 7. The next two children were daughters Mary A. and Eliza. Mary resided with the mother on the old
homestead & Eliza died in 1876.
8. The youngest of the family was a son called William who resides in Allegheny City. He is a physician &
surgeon. Served three years in the late war, then located in the village of Jacksonville, Indiana Co near his birth
place where he married a lady by the name of Mary Bruce. In 1875 he moved to Allegheny City. The had four
children, two sons & two daughters. The Eldest a son called for his grandfather Wm Bruce died when quite
young. Blanch died at the age of two years. Emma still lives & married a man by the name of
[blank]
Patrick Jack's 2nd child Anna, married John Henderson & they had five sons & four daughters, viz Joseph, John,
Samuel, David, who is a physician & William. The daughters were Margaret, Sarah Ann, Levina & Mary. They
lost a son, Andrew when quite young. John
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moved from Pa many years ago to what was then called the far west & settled on a farm near Marysville Co seat
of Union Co, Ohio. Wm, the youngest son still lives on the old farm & David, the Dr, still practices medicine in
Murrysville, Ohio. Some two of the daughters reside in the same state. The balance of the family are scattered
through the west. The mother, Anna, died at the age of 82. She had been an invalid for many years having lost
her legs from Elephantions asis. [sic]
John McCallister's Account
James Jack, our great grandfather had four sons, Patrick, John, James & Andrew (note that he names them in the
order of their ages.) Patrick & John were both Capts in the Revolutionary Army. Great Grandfather James Jack
was drafted, and Grandfather James Jack went in his place at the age of 17 years, served his time, then reenlisted,
served till the close of the war coming out with the rank of Lieut. Great grandfather James Jack had nine
*2 [line 11 reads "only two sons & two daughters."
"The eldest daughter married Mr Reed."]
line 24 reads
daughters.
My grandfather James (Jack) had nine daughters. Only five came to years of maturity, viz. Jane Galbreath, Lydia
McCallister, Cynthia Black, Levina McCallister, & Nancy Fairman. Peggy Clark located in Kentucky. I think
she was the mother of Gen'l Clark of Ky. We find an account of him in the book on the Exploration of the
headwaters of MO & Columbia Rivers by Lewis & Clark.
The above was all written by Julia A. Scott in seven pages of an account book, now brown with age, but there
is no date given. The date can be arrived at by getting date of birth of Mary Alcorn Jack. It is now 11:50 Pm & I
will go to bed.
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Oak Hill, Saturday, Oct 11, 1919 8:40 PM
Was at Pgh today with W.C. McKean to attend a Stockholder's meeting of Greene Co Coal Co which we
learned was put off because A.E. Braun had to be absent on the deal to be closed by 15th inst for sale of Farmer's
Deposit Natl Bank to Union Trust Co. We then arranged to hold the meeting on Nov 1st. I delivered a lot of
abstracts & deeds to W.A. Seifert & C.F. Farren, got some papers from John S. Weller, talked with Joe H.
Kennedy over phone about my conference at Washington Pa on 9th with Ethelind C. Reed. Saw A.W. Mellon &
arranged for meeting week after next to take up actively the closing of deal for 14,000 A. Coal lands. Saw T.F.
Barrett & he out lined status of his RR & is to write me from NY on Monday where he goes tomorrow night
giving the figures for acquisition of his RR. His two handsome & attractive young girls & his more attractive
young wife, a niece of the late Senator Roscoe Conkling came in his office & were introduced to me. When I left
his office, H.R. Worthington accosted me on 4th Ave & as it was raining, I asked him if I could get a taxi near &
he s'd where do you want to go & I said to No 1213 Arch St, Allegheny & he s'd I will take you in my car, which
he did & I delivered about 2 PM there to Herron Swift Scott, the Jack History papers which his mother Julia A.
Scott had written out & which his wife had let me bring with me last Saturday to copy. I asked him if he knew
where his mother had gotten the information with which the sketch started out that her ancestor James Jack of
Cumb Co was a brother of old Patrick Jack of Mecklenburg. He did not know. I told him my information was
the same, but I was seeking to learn what corroboration I could get from his branch. I asked
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W.C. McKean what Asbury Struble's mother's name was before she married Frederick Struble & he said Lilley &
I said yes, a sister of Jemima, the wife of Caleb Dean & mother of Henry Clay Dean & he s'd yes, she was Lilley
& went crazy shortly after Henry Clay Dean was born & W.C.'s grandmother McKean took him to raise, suckling
him & her daughter Ann at her breast at the same time, putting him in one end of the cradle, & Ann in the other.
He said when Ann grew up, she fell in love with Thomas Renshaw, a brother of Araminta, but the match was
opposed by her father & his father James Renshaw. One day, James Renshaw came to John McKean's house &
said "John, I believe my Tom has gone off with your Ann for both my horses are gone from my stable" to which
John replied "Where do you think they have gone. I have two horses in the stable". Renshaw s'd "To
Masontown, of course". So they got out the horses & on arriving at Masontown, found them just coming out
from being married. W.C. ie "Cook" s'd his great grandfather Wm McKean's wife was a Hadden. Mary, he
thought, & when I asked him if she was a sister of Thos Hadden, he thought she was as Armstrong Hadden called
his grandfather McKean cousin & when I told him Anna Maria Huston's (nee King) mother was a sister of Thos
Hadden, he said, "yes, she called him cousin too". & when he came to town, she came to see him stating her
relationship. He said his grandmother McKean was a McWilliams & her mother was a Wilson, but he could not
today recall her first name. Asking him if she was a daughter of Alex WilV3 Page 51
son, he thought not, but was a daughter, he thought, of a brother of his as they spoke of him as "Uncle Alex
Wilson". Now as to whether it was his grandmother or great grandmother that called him uncle (or it might have
been great uncle) was not clear. His great grandmother might have been a niece or a sister of Alex. He did not
know of Samuel Wilson being the father of Asbury Struble, but said the Wilson's had an active record of
breaking into other's pastures or browsing round with young girls as one of them had a child to a Brown girl that
was known as William Wilson. Also that Geo Porter, whose mother was a sister of John Wilson Esq, later Mrs
Eleazer Robinson, had several children out about McClellandtown two or three by Harriett Ann or Hester? Ann,
wife of old Jacob Hostetter & one a daughter, was the very image of Lizzie Porter Hogg & another Ed Hostetter
bore a striking resemblance to Ed T. Porter. George Porter had put on Jacob Hostetter's [This name may be
Hostetler] tombstone "He was an honest man" to which someone there who was familiar with occurrences s'd "he
ought to after being the father of two or three of his wife's children". Cook s'd Squire John Wilson had no title to
the farm by Edenton where he lived which belonged to a man named Green who was a Tory & who they ran out
of the county & took his property. I recall that the Squire had an illegitimate child by Melissa A. Gutland
[Gutbrnd? best guess] (or that was Luke Patterson, I guess) or a woman up by Gibbon's Glade named Wheeler. I
wonder if the Lilleys above referred to were of the same Lilleys as the mother of Henry Lilley Redburn & they
and
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James T. Redburn Sr drifted out her together. If this were true, it would be interesting because of the friendly
relations spoken of to me about 25 yrs ago by Rev John Redburn at Moulton, Iowa between him & Henry Clay
Dean,living in the adjoining county "across in the red brush of Missouri". Cook said his great great grandfather
McWilliams name was Abraham & from what he told me, I make the subjoined genealogical tree. He said this
McWilliams had a square mile or more of land which took in Luckey's graveyard & that five generations from his
own generation back, are buried there. He said his mother has told him that Izard McWilliams pleaded with his
mother for a day or so to call him Izard, but the name was too much for her.
Abraham McWilliams
William McKean
John McWilliams
Married Mary? Hadden
Married Wilson
sister of Thomas
a sister? or niece of Alex
Hadden Atty of Uniontown, Pa
Wilson he thinks.
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John McKean
Married to Mary Elizabeth Samuel
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Ann
Thos a. McKean
Eliza J.
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M. Thos Renshaw m. Ache
unmarried
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son of James
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I guess it was
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Renshaw
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Ellen & not Eliza | |
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Izard John
Huston Jesse Evans | ------------------------------------------------------------------Wm Cook McKean "Mollie" E. Hugh B.
several
m. Johnston
daughters
Cook said he had had a family record book made which he was going to write up & which being a family record,
would be proof in county, even unsigned. It is now 10:10 PM
JV Thompson
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Room 522, Uniontown, Pa Oct 18, 1919, 1:50 Pm
I have just rt'd fr Connellsville Pa. I got up at 7 AM this morning, having retired at 2 AM, telephoned Wards
at the old McClain Ferry back of Masontown & they told me the River was still too high to cross. Got my
breakfast & phoned Mrs R.F. Downey Waynesburgh, Pa & told her about the River & that I could not be over at
1 PM today to accept her invitation to lunch with Ex Prest Wm H. Taft who lectured their [sic] last night at their
home. Also phoned Geo B. Moredock's residence notifying Elma to tell her father I could not get over. Then rtd
"The Bard Family" book I had given Betty Semans & had borrowed from her father Frank M. Semans Jr,
handing it in at the front door to a young colored man servant. I then went to Wm E. Crow's office, but he being
out, I asked his secretary H.A. Barton Hager whether the Senator was entertaining Ex Prest Taft who delivers an
address this evening in the German Tp High School Bldg, who it was announced in the morning Herald would be
in town over Sunday. He thought not, whereupon I told him as he was of our family I w'd entertain him if other
arrangements were not made. I then went to Connellsville on the 9:30 AM street car & went into see E.T.
Norton, Prest 1st NBK there about selling 46 shares each in his bank & the Yough Trust Co belonging to the
Margaret J. McClelland Estate. I left at 10:45, he asking me to return at 11:45 AM & he would
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try to communicate in the meantime with his prospective purchaser. I then went to the office of the Connellsville
News where I was told that Joseph J. Thompson was not with them any more, but was still living in C'ville on
Cedar St, I believe, but was in Uniontown most of the time on political work & that I could reach him at office of
Bruce F. Sterling. I then phoned Margaret M. Callaghan to know if the priest she was dealing with had interested
his purchasers in the Bank stock above referred to. She s'd she saw him yesterday, but he had accomplished
nothing as many of his clientele being foreigners were returning to Europe, but she had another party she w'd see
in two or three days. I told her to keep up her efforts, but that I was also trying to sell & she s'd for me to sell if I
could without regard to her negotiations.
I then went down Water St to near B&O Sta to drug store of J.C. Moore & saw him & asked for Miss Hettie
Brown, my 2d cousin who lives with him, his wife being a cousin, their mothers being Logans of Salem Westnd
Co Pa. Mr Moore took me in at door adjoining & just above the drug store where they live & introduced me to
Miss Hettie Brown. She is a delicate woman, about five ft in heighth & a little hard of hearing. She is a daughter
of Dr Robert Brown of Greensburgh, Pa who died in 1874 when she was young & he was a son of Dr Samuel
Potter Brown of Gbg who in turn was a son of Robert Brown & his wife Anna Potter Brown who was one
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of the daughters of Samuel Potter, son of Lieut John Potter. She said she had had two or three nervous
breakdowns & had been in the Hospital in July. I explained what I wanted & that we were related & she was
very considerate, but said she did not have any records, that the Brown's never had done anything for them & she
had not mingled with them, except her cousin druggist Sam'l Potter Brown of Gbg & his wife & boys, of all of
whom she spoke most highly. She s'd she had just rtd from Pgh where she had been to see her sister Mrs Atwell
& they had torn up & thrown away a lot of old papers. (She thought most of them referred to the Logans & not
the Browns) preparatory to her moving to Butler Pa where she went yesterday. She s'd her Father's Bible was a
big book & it only had the record of his own family & being so unwieldy, her sister had gotten a smaller Bible &
she didn't know what became of the big one. I asked her to give me the names of the family, with births & she s'd
she couldn't, that the Doctor had forbidden her even to write, but she w'd write to her sister at Butler Pa as soon
as she got her address & she was sure she w'd be glad to write me giving the information. She s'd her Aunt Lizzie
Brown, who was taken in & cared for by her sister, Mrs Atwell knew considerable about the family & her sister
may have gotten some information from her. She was at Mrs Atwell's the last three or four years of her life. She
s'd to see Druggist S.P. Brown of Gbg & she was sure he could
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& w'd give me much information. She also s'd Mrs Dr Henry W. Fulton, widow, past seventy, living at the
"Kenmawr" East End Pgh or Shady Ave, could probably give me more information as she had lived in the family
of her Uncle Dr S.P. Brown (grandfather of Hettie) when a young girl. Mrs Fulton was Jennie Niccolls before
her marriage. Miss Hettie s'd to address her as Mrs Henry W. as Mrs Jacob Turney of Gbg when a widow told
her she wanted to be addressed as Mrs Jacob Turney as long as she remained his widow & she always
remembered it. I will write to Mrs Fulton today & arrange for an appointment. I bid Miss Hettie goodbye at
11:20 Am & went up to First NBK & saw Roth [Rott?] Norris, V.Pr who told me of their selling 378 A of coal @
$345 per acre to Pgh Coal Co, whose man had come up to C'ville & closed the deal with Atty Mathews. They
were getting other coal, so it w'd not average over $330. It was located in Wash Co, Pa about 5 miles South West
of Scenery Hill. I talked with him abt the McClelland bank stock as he s'd he had bought some a few days ago. I
offered him the 46 shares for $11,000. Then saw E.T. Norton at 12:05 Pm & offered it to him at that & s'd I w'd
give him $5 per share if he concludes the sale as he told me if I sold some Pgh West Co bonds at $95, he w'd let
me have them at $90. He s'd his purchaser was away today & he himself w'd be away Monday, but he w'd see
him on his return Tuesday & write to me. I came back on the street car
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leaving there at 12:30 PM arriving at 1:30. About two, Andrew, who had just rtd this morning from NY after a
week's absence there, came in with a plat of Brooklyn NY & talked about the Sheepshead Bay entanglements &
other business matters until almost four o'clock. I have written this record from where I left off when he came in,
since & it is now 5:11 PM
JV Thompson
Oak Hill Oct 21, 1919 12:42 PM
Yesterday, from 10 Am to 2 PM, I spent in the Recorder's office & made following memoranda from the old
records.
Fayette County, Pa Records
Will of Frederick Shearer of Jefferson Tp.
Will Book 2 Page 354 dated Apr 12, 1841 witnessed by Eli Cope, Joel C. Strawn (both of whom I well knew) &
Sam'l Cope Jr & probated Feby 25, 1846 before Joseph Gadd, Register provides for wife (not named) & after
certain provisions for son Daniel & daughter Elizabeth leaves residue to "all my
children" viz
"Elizabeth Shearer
Sarah Hostler
Rebecca Whiting
Benjamin Shearer
David Shearer
Daniel Shearer
Jacob Shearer
Christena Brown
Mary Bortner
Malinda Chalfant"
David & Daniel Exrs
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Frederick Struble of German Tp will. Will Book 2 Page 344, Dated Dec 20, 1833, Probated Oct 21, 1845.
Everything to wife Sarah & son Asbury.
Sarah Struble, German Tp will Will Book 3 Page 142, Dated Jany 15, 1848, Probated Sept 9, 1854, leaves
property to granddaughter Sarah Jane Struble & grandson Joseph Struble & residue to son Asbury, who is made
Exr.
Refer to will of Caleb Dean & his wife Jemima Dean Jemima Dean & Mrs Sarah Struble above were sisters,
their maiden name being Lillie or Lilly.
Bazaleel Wiggins made his will Nov 10, 1829 probated Nov 23, 1829 (recites he is of Menallen [best guess] Tp)
Recorded Will Book 1 Page 309 names following children, Isaac, William, Sarah Ann, John, Thomas, Eli, Amos
& Mary Ann, wife Margaret Appoints son Isaac Wiggins & Levi Springer Excs
See my redbacked3*3 record book Pages 102 & 103 & information given me there in 1892 by
Joseph Harrison Wiggins, born in 1812 & nephew of Bazaleel above. Joseph Harrison Wiggins son Henry
Harrison Wiggins died at his home at Chalk Hill Sunday morning 6 AM of paralysis aged 78 (born say 1841) &
is being buried at 3 o'clock this afternoon. James B. Wiggins, veteran of the Civil War & son of Isaac above is
dying, very sick at his home in South Union Tp near Hayne's School House.
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Col Edward Cook's Will Will Book 1 Page 124 recites he is "of the County of Fayette" & leaves "to beloved
wife" 1/3 real & personal Estate during natural life & residue to my son James subject to payt of debts &
following bequests: to Joseph Bryan who married my granddaughter Mary Cook and to Dorcas Cook and Eliza
Cook, my granddaughters $150 each; to my grandson Edward Cook, the plantation on which his father lived &
$150 subject to his mother's dower of 1/3 during her natural life. Appoints James Ross of Pgh, Thomas Meason
of Fayette Co, Andrew Brown, Michael Finley, Joseph Downer & my son James Excs & my wife Martha Exix.
Dated Sept 17, 1808. Witnessed by Joseph Downer, Andrew Brown & James Cook. Probated with a short codicil
Dec 8, 1808 before Alex McClean, Reg.
Will of John White of Georges Tp of whom Mrs Margaret J. McClelland has spoken to me is in Will Book 1
Page 124, names Benjamin Brownfield as natural half brother & recites seven sons & several daughters Dated
May 19, 1809
Will of William Robertson of Bullskin Tp Will Book 1 Page 286 dated Sept 14, 1827, probated Nov 2, 1827
in which the Excs & witnesses are all from Mt Pleasant & I think he may be of the John & Joanna Jack Robertson
line.
Will of James Wilson German Tp, Will Book 2 Page 286 or transcribed records is dated Aug 10, 1837. He
is the father of Squire John Wilson who was one of our Directors.
At 2:30 PM yesterday, by appointment, Joseph J. Thompson, living
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on Cedar St Connellsville, Pa came in. He was formerly with the C'ville News, but is now at office of Sterling
Higbee & Mathews doing political work for them I am told. He said his father, grandfather & great grandfather
as well as himself & his son were all named Joseph & that either his father or grandfather (I don't certainly recall)
which had four brothers & among the names were William, Hugh & Thomas, the Hugh being Hugh Alexander
Thompson for many years Cashier of the First Natl Bank, Indiana, Pa. He said Horace J. Thompson Pt of Marion
Center NBK at Marion Center, Indiana Co, Pa was distantly related to his family. He said his aunt in Indiana
past 80 yrs of age is Mrs Mary Ray, Water Street, Indiana Pa, that she is remarkably well informed on the lore of
their family & has a remarkable family tree which she has often told him she was going to give to him. He says
he will be going to Indiana in two or three weeks & will bring it along with her scrap book full of data over with
him & allow me to have them for making records. It is now 2 PM. JV Thompson
*3 [Redbacked book referred to must predate Volume I as information entered was done in 1892.
with 1897. Where is this book?]
Volume I begins
Oak Hill, Oct 23d, 1919 9:30 AM
I started yesterday morning at 9:09 Am with Pallini driving our little Maxwell car for Wheeling WVA,
stopping at 11 AM at the Reed residence to see Miss Ethelind, who was out & I left the copy of the Ontario Gas
Coal Co mtge, some of which bonds I had asked her to take for her mortgage or a part of it for her perusal until
my return in the afternoon. We then continued on
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to Wheeling finding it necessary to make a six mile detour to the right beyond West Alexander Pa coming back
on the Pike this side of Trindelphia, WVA only two miles beyond where we turned off. Reached Highland Park
to the right one mile beyond Elm Grove WVA & found Mrs Margaret Morris Bodley there at their residence
handsomely located at the head of the street on a two acre plat they own. Mr T. Edward Bodley, her husband,
was in Wheeling WVA on the Federal Jury in Judge Alston G. Dayton's Court, so we drove in there arriving at
1:30 PM & finding Mr Bodley at the office of Mitchell Stevenson & Co, Inc, Brokers on 12th St just off Market in
the Smulbath Bldg opposite the McLure House where Mrs Bodley s'd he would be. I talked over the agreement
with him as I had with his wife before coming in & felt I had his approval by adding clause for removing oil, gas,
coal & other minerals which they still retained. We then went to the Federal Bldg adjoining on 12 th St Ctg Post
Office & Courtroom above where we waited for an hour as the clerk told him he thought the Jury would be
excused for the afternoon. I had asked him who Stevenson was (& he introduced me). The said John E.
Stevenson & that he was an excellent young man, tall, erect, with good face & address, a fine type of an active
energetic business man. I then asked him if he was a son of Tom Stevenson & he said yes & that his father was a
fine man & had been with the B&O RR for several years, but he thought was now in business for himself,
probably a broker also. I then at 3 o'clock went down & talked with John C. & he called for Thos G? Stevenson
& his father came over. He is tall & slender also, the very picture of health & virility. His son thought he was 62
or 64 yrs old & I believe he is even a little
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older for when I saw him in Phila where he was then living in July 1876, I thought he was certainly as old as I
was. He spoke of the Elliotts & their hauteur, his grandfather John C. Plumer of West Newton, Pa, having
married Maria Elliott, sister of my grandmother Caruthers, for his second wife & whose first wife (mother of
Tom's mother) was a daughter of Joseph Peairs who was a son of Elisha Peairs of Fayette Co Pa & his wife
Elizabeth Jack, daughter of Jeremiah Jack (see Jack History, Vol 2 by G Anjou) & thus related to me. He said
Jonathan Plumer had two sons by a first wife & came out to Fort Cumberland & there married again from which
union came George & John & the two older boys later settled on Mt Washington & he had recently found from
the records that one of them or the son or one of them had owned the ground where the cathedral stood & where
the present Frick Bldg stands. He said the Peairs or Pearce's had owned a good part of Harlem, but that he had
corresponded with a hundred members of the family & failed to establish the necessary connection, but had
traced them back to the Percy's of England & somewhere had the Story of one branch changing the spelling to
Peairs to distinguish them from the other family. He said he had married an Elliott & when I asked him where
from, he said Newark, Ohio, that she was a daughter of John Elliott & she had a brother Jesse Duncan Elliott,
with whose family that they, the Commodore's, were related, s'd they had the characteristic of our Elliott branch
& many of the same names such as Robert Etc. He said Com Jesse Duncan Elliott had challenged Perry to a duel
& Perry wouldn't fight. I then read him a letter I had
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just gotten yesterday morning from Wm J. Campbell, Phila, Pa saying he was mailing me the address with
biography of Com J.D. Elliott, which I had ordered. He is quite a genealogist & has a daughter Elizabeth of
whom he spoke & he says he is able to go to their library in Wheeling & trace almost any one of consequence.
He said the attic of the old frame house on the Yonghispring [best guess] River at West Newton Pa, the home of
his grandfather John C. Plumer where I used to visit, was crammed full of papers, settlements of estates largely &
he had gone through them all & they were all gone or thrown away just as Cousin Ruth E.P. Andrews, his aunt,
had told me years ago when I asked her about the Patrick Jack papers whose estate her father had settled in
1833. Mr Bodley then came in, the Jury having been excused for the afternoon & at 4 PM taking him on my knee
& his youngest daughter Hester Donley Bodley, in school in Wheeling in 5t grade on elevated perch back of
Pallini, we drove out to his home at Highland Park near Elm Grove WVA & finally got them to sign the
agreement (with changes of an increased payt to Mrs Bodley on Nov 1) we had drawn on Sept 27 th last at
Knoxville, Iowa. Saw their Mrs Hester Ann Donley who had come over to have young Doctor Fawcett found for
his skill as an eye specialist treat her eyes, also Mrs Garretson & Miss Lou Em Donley, who had only yesterday
arrived from Iowa. A couple of young boys came in with two or three young girls to see Hester & I learned the
boys were Lee Paull Jr & Glessner Paul, sons of Lee Paul (who had married a daughter of Glessner of the
Whittaker Glessner Cos) a son of my old college mate Alfred Paull. They told me the
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house just below & adjoining theirs on the East was the Jacob Grier or Greer home, occupied by the widow,
daughter & son of my old college mate Jake Greer who died 3 or 4 mos ago about the same time his brother
Bishop David N? Greer died in NY. Jake's oldest son is married & is with the Hazel Atlas Glass Co,
Washington, Pa where he lives. Jake's father had with Lang established the grocery firm of Green & Lang & Jake
succeeded & continued after his father's death. We left for home at 5:30 PM & at &, I stopped to see Ethelind C.
Reed. Her brother Alex s'd she was at dinner, but called her out & I explained the mtge to her & left it with her
as she had not yet had time to go over & s'd Dr Dickey & Dr Jepson of the Wheelings were there at dinner &
asked me to join them which I declined & it just then occurred to me having escaped me for the nonce, that Dr
Samuel Charles Black was then being inaugurated President of W.& J. College. We continued on arriving at the
"Holler" at 9:15 Pm & got my dinner, not having eaten since 8 Am. Coming out home at 10 PM, got telegram
which Andrew had left from A. Anson saying Belloni was writing me last night & to await receipt of letter before
coming to NY. Andrew went to Pgh to see McClay Wirt & others today. JV Thompson
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AT Mrs J.L. Atwell's, No 730 Summerlea St E.E. Pittsburgh, Pa Oct 24, 1919 1 PM
I make the following record from her father's family Bible, a large book printed in Phila & no date by D.W.
Clarke 806 Spring Garden St.
Robert Brown was born February 29th 1832. Mary E. Logan was born July 28th, 1841
Robert Brown was married to Mary E. Logan Tuesday evening, January 14th, 1862.
1. Mary Logan Brown was born October 23d, 1862
2. Anna Eliza Brown was born March 1st, 1865.
3. Samuel Potter Brown was born March 10th, 1867.
4. Hetty Moore Brown was born July 13th, 1869.
5. James Reed Logan Brown was born February 10th, 1872.
6. Kate Millicent Brown was born July 4th, 1874.
Anna Eliza Brown died on the 30th of November, 1869 aged four years and nine months from an attack of
Malignant Scarlet Fever.
Robert Brown died June 23d, 1874.
Mary E. Brown died Febuary [sic] 24th, 1885 in the forty fifth year of her age.
Eliza H. Logan died on the 7th day of May, 1881 aged eighty one years eleven months & twenty-five days from
paralysis.
All of the above written by her Father, Mrs Atwell says, in a fine plain perpendicular hand Except the birth of
Mrs Atwell which was after his death & the death records of Mr Brown himself, his widow & that of Eliza H.
Logan.
Kate Millicent Brown was married to John Lilburn Atwell Nov 12th, 1895 in Pgh, Pa, by Dr W.M. Moorhead,
Presbyterian minister of Greensburgh, Pa.
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who had baptized her. She told me at Mrs Fulton's that her husband was born Dec 10, 1870.
John Lilburn Atwell Jr was born May 10th, 1897
Robert Brown Atwell was born Dec 4th, 1899.
Both born in Pgh.
Mrs Atwell thinks her father died from heart trouble & he was buried in the old St Clair (Presbyterian) graveyard
in Gbg, but the bodies have been moved to the new cemetery.
Eliza H. Logan was Mrs Brown's mother. Mrs Brown's name was Mary Eliza Logan.
Room 666 Wm Penn Hotel Pgh Pa Oct 24/19 4:30 PM
I was at Mrs Atwell's one hour until 2 Pm & met there Mrs Netting, a fine looking woman, a sister of Mr
Atwell, who she said was the youngest of the family. She said her father was James Atwell & that his mother
was an Oliver, a sister of Henry W. Oliver Sr whose wife was Margaret Brown & they came to this county, she
thought, about 68 yrs ago from County Tyrone, Ireland & she thought she might be of the same family as Robt
Brown of Gbg who came from the adjoining Co of Donegal. She s'd they had the Oliver family record & that
Henry W. James, B, & Geo T, all now dead & David B. Oliver still living 85 yrs old were first cousins of her
father James Atwell. I came back on a street car. Saw W.A. Seifert, about some legal matters, talked with
Andrew who is in the City by phone & have called up James C. Clow Tel Cedar 1243 who lives at 705 Sandusky
St North Side & he said he w'd
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come right over here to see me 5:30 PM
Mr James Culbertson Clow has just left after a talk of three quarters of an hour. He has a good strong face & is a
very wholesome capable man. He is going to write to Wm Patterson & his sister Reba & have them send me
information about their families. He is also going to send me what records he has. He says the Clows came from
Scotland before the Rev War & his ancestor was in the war & was presented with a suit of clothes at Valley
Forge by Gen Washington. Another of his ancestors was the first Elder of the First Presbyterian Church here.
He was named for his Uncle James Culbertson Clow who was lost at sea on a steamer coming from San
Francisco to NY. He invited me to come over & meet his wife & little girls. He says he is often in Uniontown
selling goods or materials to the architects & plumbers.
Kenmawr Hotel E.E. Pgh Oct 24, 1919 8:46 PM at Room 48, Mrs Henry W. Fulton's
In reading over the list of Dr Samuel Potter Brown's children copied from the letter his daughter Elizabeth
wrote where she just calls herself Elizabeth, Mrs Fulton says her name was Elizabeth Wright, just as Mrs Gill
told me. She says she always wrote it Elizabeth W. Brown. Mrs Fulton says Kate Riddle was named for Dr
David H. Riddle or his wife & the youngest
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was named Sarah Anna Sparks for the wife of Rev Dr Sparks, a Presbyterian minister of Pgh, who was a Herron
of the Herron hill family. She said the Dr Riddle & Dr Sparks used to come out to Gbg to visit her Father James
Nichols & her uncle Dr Sam'l Potter Brown & they joined the New School Pres. movement & built a New
Church in Gbg & they also built the Unity Church near Latrobe, Pa both are now gone & they went back into the
fold. Mrs Fulton says Gov John W. Geary married a sister of Sibby Logan, the first wife of James Brown, son of
Robert Brown senr. Mrs Fulton says Dr Sam'l Potter Brown was a small man, very dressy with black hair & very
heavy black eyebrows & his daughter looked very much like him having very heavy black eyebrows. Mrs Fulton
says her grandmother Mary Hunter who married John Nichols in Ireland was a first cousin of Geo H. Stuart. Mrs
Fulton asked me what relation I was to the Browns & when I told her, she said I looked very much like Dr Robert
Brown & his brother William, sons of Dr Sam'l Potter Brown, but more like Will who was fair, Rob being more
dark complected like his father's & particularly in the expression about my eyes when I smiled.
Wm Penn Hotel Room 666, Oct 25th, 1919 12:55 AM
This is Andrew's 39th birthday anniversary. I have just returned from the Kenmawr Hotel, Shady Ave, East
End, where I arrived
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at 7:45 PM to see Mrs Jennie B. Fulton nee Nichols, widow of Dr Henry W. Fulton. Mr J.L. Atwell was there
when I arrived. Her brother-in-law, Calvin Dewalt to whom she introduced me, surviving husband of her
deceased sister, called & she left with him at 8:30. He is a tall, large boned, strong man. Mrs Fulton said her
husband was 6 feet 1 inch tall & that he went into the army from Elder's Ridge where he was going to school.
She told me about William Baldridge who had married a sister of Gen'l St Clair building a big stone house with
very think walls & columns extending to the roof on the road from Latrobe to Youngstown nine miles from Gbg.
He & wife were very proud & opinionated & her father James Nichols was his Atty. One day, Baldridge came
to her father about some trouble he had gotten in & asked him what to do. Her father told him their [sic] was
only one thing to do viz leave the country which he did, going west, selling his fine mansion with 500 acres to Mr
Nichols who closed his house in town & moved out. He was opposed to liquor & said there should be no
whiskey brought into his harvest field. His neighbors told him he would never get his wheat harvested
whereupon he said it could rot in the field. He at once commenced delivering Temperance addresses in the
School House at night aft rtg fr Gbg with the result that three strapping farmer boys, sons of a widow woman
whose name commenced with M came forward with her boys who were drinking men & they all three signed the
pledge & took charge of his work & cut his harvest. When a young girl, she, Mrs Fulton, went from this home
(to Page 72)
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[Descendant Chart]
Robert Fulton, son of Abram Fulton, see page 288, Book 2 married first
& second to Hannah Bovard,
Daughter of Oliver Bovard. One of her sisters, Jane, married a Ryall, the father of O.B. Ryall. After his first
wife died, he was a widower at home with two sons, James & John & his father Abram also a widower came in
one evening & said "Robert, you must get married" to which Robert parried, saying "oh no" & his father replied,
"We need a woman about the house & if you don't strike out & get one, I will". Accordingly, Robert got on his
horse & went to West Newton to see his Uncle Henry Fulton (who had married Rebecca Jack) & he said, "I will
take you to see the girl you need" & he took him to Liver Bovard's & introduced him to Hannah & the second or
third time he came back, they were married & Mrs Fulton says she was one of the best women that ever lived.
Robert Fulton died a short time after Mrs Fulton & his son were married. Hannah, his widow, died several years
thereafter & died in Latrobe, her husband having died on the farm.
[Children of Robert Fulton & his first wife, name unknown]
James Fulton, m. Martha Morrison. He died a couple of years ago in East Liberty. She had died before.
Harry
Rose
Edward
Alice
Robert
All alive & living in East Liberty
John, Died unmarried
[Children of Robert Fulton & Hannah Bovard]
Oliver B, He is dead, died at Latrobe, M. Nancy Morrison, a sister of his brother James' wife. She is also dead.
Jennie } Live in
Robert } East Liberty
Daniel, Dead?
Rosanna, called "Rosy", m. Rev William P. Moore, Presbyterian preacher. Both dead some years ago.
Robert, a doctor married & have children
Paul, in Bank at Wilkinsburg, unmarried
Laura, unm
Elder Moore, M. Brown
Thomas, unmarried
A number of children died of tuberculosis
Abram, is dead at Latrobe, married Elizabeth Barnes
Ella, mar Dr Hartman of Latrobe
Elizabeth, m. Joe Barnett, Banker at Latrobe
Martha, m. Chas Bankerd & lives in west.
William, married
George, married.
Henry W. Fulton, born Nov 5, 1838, m. Dec 22, 1864 to Jennie B. Nichols. He died June 23, 1907, No issue. Se
sketch of their lives in Encyclopedia of Biography of Pennsylvania by John W. Jordan LLD Prnt by Lewis Hist
Pub Co NY 1914 in Vol III at Pages 770-772.
Robert, m. Jennie Smith of Plymouth, Indiana. He died there. She is still living.
Rena, married & living
Florence, married & living
Margaret, m. John Alexander, both lost in the Johnstown flood.
A dau, died Mabel
Robert, living
Jennie, m. Edward Pitcairn. He is dead, she living. He was a cousin of Robt Pitcairn
Robert, married
Georgia, unm
Jean, married
Edward, married
Helen Jane, married
George Hill Fulton, m. a widow but have no issue. Living in Wilkinsburgh was on RR for years & has retired.
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to Latrobe to singing school where Mr Fulton saw her & was smitten with her with the result that he applied to
teach their school & got it & came while she was away to school to her mother's asking to board with them until
he could find some place. Mrs Nichols refused, but her older daughter persuaded her to take him as there were
no men in the house & in less than a week, they both fell in love with him by reason of his being so
companionable & always being in at nights & would read to them. She would come home often for over
Sundays, but she held him off & after the school had closed & they became engaged before he left for the war,
but only their mothers knew it & he told her to go out all she could & have a good time, which she did. After his
return from the war, they were married & he went into the W.U. Tel Co office as cashier & manager giving such
good service that Mr. T.B.A. David raised his salary several times. She bought two big medical books on time,
brought them home & pushed him into reading medicine & when he got far enough along, went with him to Phil a
where they lived on Filbert St. They had nothing except what he earned. She had had a considerable sum which
she got from home, which she drew out of James T. Brady's Co's Bank & gave it all to her husband to invest in
mining stock, which they did & lost it all. He took the highest honors at graduation & he made it a matter of
prayer with her as to where he should commence to practice, & felt directed to East Liberty where
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they opened his office at corner of Penn Ave & Highland & he was at once made a Ruling Elder in the East
Liberty Presbyterian Church which he held until his death. She thinks that her Father over exerted himself in the
Temperance work & he had a stroke & never spoke afterwards dying in less than a week, when 52 yrs old. He
was a young boy going to school when his parents came with him from Ireland. She was a very young girl & can
just remember the burial of her grandfather John Nichols & her youngest sister (there were two younger than Mrs
Fulton) was about two yrs old when their father died. She said her father-in-law Robert Fulton, lead the singing
in Unity Church & that all the Fultons were good singers. She spoke of Geo P. Fulton, son of my gg Uncle Henry
Fulton, having a son who some years ago, when probably 8 to 10 yrs old created a furore in Pgh by the wonderful
sweetness of his voice. Mrs Fulton gave me from memory the record of the descendants of her father-in-law or
Pages 70-71. It is now 2 AM & I will quit & go to bed as I have left a call for 6:30 so as to get my breakfast &
leave on the 8 AM train for home
JVT
Oak Hill, Oct 25th, 1919 8:55 PM
I recall that Mrs Fulton said last night that her uncle Dr Samuel Potter Brown lived in the biggest house in
town up North Main St about where the RR tracks are now tunneled under, the house having been built by a man
named Wells (I asked her if he was related to the Coulters & she said "yes, she
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thought so" - possibly Lucinda Wells Cottoms'4*4 grandfather) & that her father lived just third house from them
& three of the Marchands, lawyers, lived across the street near & several other of Gbg's best families lived
neighbors.
JVT
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At Margaret L. Markle's Corner Main & 6th St West Newton, Pa Nov 4th, 1919 11:22 AM
Maggie says that Miss Kate Smith who lived just across Sixth St from her & fell there & broke her hips can
tell more about the connection than anyone else. She thinks she is 87 yrs old. Her mother was a Rothermel.
After she was hurt, her niece, Sallie Brown, a widow living on Virginia St, Mt Washington, Pr [best guess] Pa
came & took her & she is now there with her. She says another niece, Mrs Emily Foote, nee Smith, her father
being a brother of Kate, living here on 4th St can give address of her cousin, Sallie Brown. Maggie says the
record of her father's family was in Scott's Commentaries, about six volumes & that her brother George got them,
but that Mary Boyd tore it out because she didn't want her age known & her Father was very mad about it. She
says she asked George's daughter Margaret about it when she was here recently from Greensburg & she told her
this. Margaret teaches school in Gbg & plays the organ in Westminster Pres Church & lives at home on Oakland
Ave near 200 Greensburgh with her mother who was a Boyd (niece of Mary's husband) & has her sister Alice .
Another daughter living is married to a Hunter & two boys living & one boy dead. She says there were four
children of her father by 1st wife & twelve by second, Lafayette being oldest & she the youngest.
*4
[the names Coulters & Cottoms appear as typed.
I have no explanation for the discrepancy.
CW]
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[Descendant Chart]
Joseph Markle, born Feby 15, 1777, Died March 15, 1867. He married Elizabeth Painter first, & was born May
14, 1782 & died Dec 6, 1815 aged 33 yrs 6 mos 22 days. Were mar Jany 17, 1805. She was daughter of Jacob
Painter & wife, & second Elizabeth Lloyd of the Willow tree out Pike abt two miles this side of Mendon. Her
father was Joseph Lloyd, an associate Judge & she thinks he owned the Willow Tree property which was a
"pretty home".
[children of Joseph Markle & Elizabeth Painter]
Shepherd Brown Markle, Born Nov 3, 1805
Cyrus Painter Markle, Born Apr 18, 1810
Elias Rodermel Markle, born Nov 1, 1807, He died Sept 6, 1822 aged 14 yrs 10 mos 6 days
Mary E. Markle, born June 6, 1812, m. John Boyd
[children of Joseph Markle & Elizabeth Lloyd]
Lafayette, Eldest
Joseph
Some infants
Roxanna
Sidney
Ariadne, pulled coffee pot over on her when abt 2 or 3 & scalded to death.
Hannah, died when 16 or 17 unmarried
Some infants?
George Washington
Margaret Lloyd, youngest, named for her grandmother Lloyd.
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At residence of Mrs Philip Neth (Philip Neth having died Oct 15, 1919) in Rostraver Tp, Nov 4, 1919 2 PM
Joe Markle brought me out here an hour ago & George Edward Neth, the oldest son, received me & called in
his mother who said she was born in 1848 & was named for her father's sister Susannah Poe, but was not named
Poe, but Susan Jane. She says her grandfather, Doctor Mathew McClanahan came from Ireland & she produced
an old medical dictionary printed in London in 1785, the author being G. Motherby M.D. The record in
handwriting of Dr Mathew McClanahan except the record of his death is as follows:
I married in th 44th year of my age on the 21st day of November AD 1803.
Eliza McClanahan, my daughter, was born July 25, 1804.
Matthew McClanahan, my son was born Jany 2d, 1806.
Susanna Poe McClanahan, my 2d daughter, was born January 31st, 1809.
Catarine McClanahan, my wife, departed this life at one o'clock in the morning of the 29 th day of July anno
domini 1812, aged 44 years and 6 months.
Mattw P. McClanahan, my son, married Sarah Watson on the 22d day of May anno domini 1834.
Martha, my second wife departed this life
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27th day of June A.D. 1836 being 78 yrs of age.
Doctor Matthew McClanahan departed this life on the 23d day of April A.D. 1839, about half after three o'clock
in the morning being 80 years of age.
Mrs Neth also produces her Father Matthew P. McClanahan's family Bible printed in 1838 at Phil a Pa by
Haswell Harrington & Haswell, 293 market St from which I copy:
Matthew P. McClanahan and Sarah Watson were married on the 22d day of May in the year of our Lord 1834. I
married Sarah Watson in the year 1834, and in the 29th year of my age - and in the 27th year of my w's [wife's].
Robert Watson McClanahan was born Feby 26th, AD 1835.
William Elliott McClanahan was born the 17th day of March AD 1837.
John Carnahan McClanahan was born the 28th day of May AD 1839.
Aramintha McClanahan was born the 8th day of December AD 1841.
Eliza Clarissa McClanahan was born on the 14th day of march at one o'clock AM AD 1845.
Susan Jane McClanahan was born the 20th February AD 1848 about 8 o'clock PM.
McClanahan, (a boy) was born 10th day of Nov 1852
Deaths
Robert Watson McClanahan departed this
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life on the 13th day of October AD 1838 being 3 years, 7 months, and 17 days old.
Aramintha McClanahan departed this life on the 5th day of September AD 1847 being 5 years & 9 months old
save 3 days.
McClanahan (the baby boy) departed this life on the 12th day of Nov 1852.
Sarah McClanahan departed this life on the 21st day of December at 6 o'clock AM 1852 being 44 years, 9 months,
15 days old.
Matthew P. McClanahan died Jany 3d 1881 in the 76th year of his age.
John C. McClanahan died Nov 5th, 1863 in a prison hospital at Richmond, VA 25th year of his age.
William E. McClanahan died Aug 5th, 1898 in the 63d year of his age.
Emeline McClanahan died Dec 29th, 1893 in the 73d year of her age.
This was the 2d wife of Judge M.P. McClanahan. She was Emeline Willett & they were married three weeks
before Mrs Neth, say on Feby 2, 1869.
Mrs Neth also produces the family Bible of her husband & herself printed by A.J. Johnson 276 & 278
Mulberry St NY in 1871, the most of which Mrs Neth says was in her own handwriting:
Marriages
Mr Phillip Neth and Miss Susan Jane McClanahan were married at the home of the bride's parents by the Revd
Matthew McKristy at West Newton Westnd Co Pa on Feby 23d, 1869.
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Births
Mr Phillip Neth, son of Mr Jacob Neth and his wife Anna Maria, was born August 19th, 1843 in South
Huntingdon Tp, Westd Co Pa.
Mrs Susan Jane Neth, wife of Mr Phillip Neth & daughter of Mr Matthew P. McClanahan and his wife Sarah,
was born Feby 20, 1848 in South Huntingdon Tp Westd Co Pa (Mrs Neth says this is a mistake that she was born
in Sewickly Tp on Sewickly Creek where Luellen5*5 Biggs used to live in an old house right on the creek, out
toward the Quaker settlement)
1. George Edward Neth, son of Phillip & Susan J. Neth was born December 1th, 1869 in West Newton Westd,
*5
This name may be crossed out, it appears to have a line through it.
Pa.
2. Frank McClanahan Neth, son of Phillip & Susan Jane Neth was born October 9th, 1871 in West Newton,
Westd, Pa
3. Jacob Clarence Neth, son of Phillip & Susan Jane Neth was born Jany 28, 1874 in West Newton, Westd, Pa
4. Philip Orton Neth, son of Philip & Susan Jane Neth was born Nov 12, 1877 in West Newton, West d, Pa
5. Matthew Elliott Neth, son of Philip & Susan Jane Neth, was born May 15th, 1880 in Rostraver Tp, Westd, Pa
(in this house)
6. John Watson Neth, son of Philip & Susan Jane Neth was born July 24th, 1882 in Rostraver Tp, Westd Pa.
7. Caroline B. Armstrong Neth, daughter of Philip & Susan Jane Neth, was born Jany 15, 1885 in Rostraver Tp,
Westd, Pa.
8. Elma Jane Neth, daughter of Philip & Susan
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Jane Neth was born Apr 8, 1887 in Rostraver Tp, Westd Co Pa (on Good Friday, her mother says.)
9. Mary Emmaline Neth daughter of Philip & Susan Jane Neth, was born November 11th, 1889 in Rostraver Tp,
Westd Co, Pa.
Deaths
Philip Orton Neth died January 24th, 1887 aged 9 yrs 2 mos 12 days.
Philip Neth died in this house on Oct 15th, 1919 Wednesday evening about 9:30 Pm from hardening of the
arteries.
Eliza McClanahan (page 78) sister of M.P. McC. married Robert McMahon who was a brother of Judge Riddle's
wife (Judge Riddle lived near Delmont & was an associate Judge at the time M.P. McC was) & went to Ohio
shortly after their marriage & lived in Williams Co in the northwestern part of Ohio. Mrs Neth says the poorest
part of Ohio as she was there for a year when a girl & has never wanted to go back. They lived near West
Jefferson, O., a small town, he being a farmer. They both died there. They had nine children viz Margaret, was
the oldest, Elizabeth, Susan, Matthew, Wilson, Thomas, Mary Ann, Lida & Normanda, the first three were in
order of their ages & the last two (girls) were twins & married brothers Isaac & Nathan Haycock. Margaret
married a man named Jeremiah Gilbert & she died about 10 yrs ago & lived in West Jefferson, O. & after he
died, she moved to Bryan, O. She had three daughters.
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Susan married Stephen Gilbert, a brother of Jeremiah & lived near West Jefferson, O. Susan had no children.
Elizabeth was married & left one daughter. She lived in Toledo.
Mary Ann married James McKee & lived many places & left one daughter.
Matthew married & left two boys near West Jefferson. He was in the Civil War.
Wilson was married. He had been living in Montana before Mrs Neth was out there & came home & married,
but don't know whether he left a family or not. Thomas was in the Civil War, but never married.
Lida lived near Alliance O, but moved to the state of Indiana where she died leaving six children, one a babe
which they brought back to Normanda to care for.
Normanda lived near Alliance, O, & Mrs Neth thinks her husband was Isaac, thinks left some children. She was
living the last Mrs Neth heard from her probably ten yrs ago.
Susanna Poe McClanahan (Page 78) married Samuel Wilson, a farmer & they lived on a farm near Elizabeth,
Allegheny Co, Pa. He died first. They raised Clara, Mrs Neth's sister, as she was only abt 8 yrs old when her
mother died. Mrs Neth was only abt 5 & she went to old Mr Warden's at Mt Pleasant, the father of Sam'l & Clark
(Old Mrs Warden was a cousin of Judge McC) to live where she stayed abt 4 yrs until Mrs Warden got sick, then
went
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a short time to Jacob Greenawalts & then for a year to Eli Suter's, Suters Sta, when she was 9 yrs old & from
there to Ellen Gardner's near North Washington in Northern End of Westnd Co, she being a dau of Samuel Hill by
his first wife. He had been in the Legislature before she went there & died of apoplexy, dropped dead at the gate
at his home while Mrs Neth lived at his daughter's which was three or four years. Mrs Gardner died & Mrs Neth
then went to live at William Guthrie's, whose wife was a sister of Samuel Hill above mentioned. Another sister,
Jane Hill, had married Jeremiah Wilson, a brother of Samuel Wilson referred to on the other side as marrying
Susanna Poe McClanahan. When going over the record in Judge McClanahan's Bible, I asked her where they got
the name William Elliott for her brother & she said Mrs Elliott, the mother of Squire John C. Plumer's wife, had
attended her mother when he was born & asked her to call him William Elliott, which was her husband who had
been dead 32 yrs & she herself, my great grandmother, must then have been fully 80 yrs old, as I recall. This is
the first I knew she had acted as a midwife. She said her oldest brother was named for his grandfather Watson;
the third son was named for her father's half brother, John Carnahan, who left Westnd Co & went Co Cincinnati,
O. to live & after a time, they heard no more from him. She said her father tried in many ways to get trace of him
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but never could. She said he was married & had a family, she thought. She did not know for whom Aramintha
was named. Said her sister Clara, who is now out with Mrs Neth's daughter Mrs Martin is Rostraver Tp near
Webster was named for her father's oldest sister Eliza McC McMahon, & she herself was named for her Father's
sister Susanna Poe Wilson. She said her brother William Elliott McClanahan, whom they always called "Elliott",
died at Douglas Station on the "Pernicky" [Pennicky?] Road. l Elma, who from the death notice, is Mrs Weise,
had a very bright faced boy of, I would say, 12 & a girl of 9 or 10. Came in from school. Mrs Neth thought
Wilson McMahon died when he was 30 or 33 yrs old. An obituary notice which I did not get to read said
Susanna Poe Wilson was 87 when she died. She survived her husband. She said the children did not now live
on the farm, had gone West. I told them I would come back again to see the obituary notices & get such other
information as they could. They asked me to come when Clara was there.
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[Chart]
Theobald Metzger, a ship owner & general of the Stronghold of Mannheim
Miss Smith says that King William The Third came to his funeral & took all the gold & silver valuables off the
table. Genl Theobald Metzger wasn't married. He willed a good deal to his servants, but they didn't get it. He
was immensely wealthy & left a great fortune. Barbara Steinman
Yohan (German for John)
Sarah Zimmerman
Sabilla, married John Rothermel of Germany. 8 or 9 sons & 1 daughter were born to them. They all came to
America, but one, & he left a large fortune. He married a very rich man's daughter & she willed it all to him, her
husband, & they had no children. This brother wrote to his brother, Paul Rothermel, then in America to come or
send for the fortune. Accordingly, one of the brothers of the seven that came over was started & got to New York
to where he took sick & came back to Berks Co & died. Had he have sailed, he would not have been more than
half way across, when the brother in Germany died. Miss Smith says that "Uncle" Paul Rothermel, brother of her
great grandfather Christian Rothermel & the last survivor of the seven brothers, told her grandmother Rothermel
(nee Stenger) the above facts & also that he had the last two letters his brother in Germany wrote him. He, the
brother in Germany, wrote a last letter to his brothers in America bidding them goodbye & this was sent by his
business agt, there along with the copy of the will which Paul told Mrs Peter, he "had to this day" meaning at the
time he was talking to her. They had considerable possessions, in fact, were wealthy & were Lutherans &
because of the wars of the Catholics vs the Protestants, they fled to America, only bringing with them such
property as they could gather up & all owned or bought (rather bought & owned) farms in Berks Co. One of the
brothers died on the ship coming over. Christian Rothermel died when his son Peter (Miss Smith's grandfather)
was seven yrs old. The sons that arrived, were all unmarried when they came & all married here. Miss Smith is
not sure whether their sister was married there or here. Miss Smith said her Uncle Benjamin Rothermel, who
attended a meeting at Allentown, told her when he came back, that they had stated at the meeting that Christian
Rothermel, her great grandfather, had cut the first road across the "Oley" Mountains, & further, that Jim Brown, a
Phila man, her niece's first husband s'd it was the "Lone" Mountain because it stood alone. Christian, one of the
brothers, had seven children & another, John, had nine, & the Markles are the descendants of John. The
Rothermels here are descended from Christian. Peter Rotharmel was one of Christian's sons & he was the father
of Juliana Rotharmel, Benjamin, & Daniel. Juliana is the mother of Miss Katy Smith, my informant of tonight
now in her 88th year. Sabilla & John, the parents of the 8 or 9 sons & 1 daughter, never came to America. Miss
Smith's brother Sam, had an article that John McMasters, husband of Lenora & brother of Thomas who married
Maggie Markle, had gotten from some paper saying that a Mr Bauer (or Bower), not Bowers, came over on the
ship with the Rothermels and with him was his little daughter Sabilla. She later became the wife of Christian
Rotharmel. Miss Smith says a man named Furrier from Berks Co was paid $1000 due to go over to Ger
[note reads "refer back to page 86, & record is continued there]
from page 87
many for the fortune & when he came back, he would not give up the papers & a David Rotharmel, nephew of
great grandmother Markle threatened to take a club & take them from him. Later, a Scholl from Berks Co (dont
know whether related to our Westnd Co Scholls) whose mother was a Rothermel heir, but not Rotharmel by name,
bought the papers from Furrier & collected some money to go for the fortune & after being gone all winter, came
back with these thirty year old papers & it was thought he never had gone abroad, but spent the money living in
New York through the winter. Miss Smith calls him Furney, not Furrier. Her mother sent $5 to Scholl & got one
book & by much effort, her Uncle Benjamin Rotharmel, got the other book from Scholl & her brother Sam & her
Uncle Benjamin gave the two books to Henry D. Foster of Greensburgh Pa, who had been employed to try to get
the fortune & they never got either of them back. Great Grandfather Casper Markle's farm in Berks Co lay
between the two farms of Paul Rotharmel, aforementioned, & he used to go through Casper's yard going from one
farm to the other. He sold this farm to Miss Smith's great grandfather, Capt Conrad Stenger, father of Anna
Catharine Stenger who married Peter Rotharmel in Berks Co Pa. Great grandfather, Casper Markle's first wife
came with him to Westnd Co & after she died there, he went back to Berks Co & married Maria, daughter of John
Rothermel, & they came out on horseback & in Gbg (I had thought it Pgh), the met her father & he asked her to
go back with him. Her daughter, Mrs Miller, in talking to her mother about his s'd "why didn't you go" & she
answered, "why, I was married." Miss Smith says Leah Robb told her it was in Gbg they met & that she, the
bride, was then 23 yrs old. This was in 1776. Miss Smith says her Uncle Sam Rothermel when she was a little
girl, say abt 75 yrs ago, was at their house on his return from a trip to Ohio & told her mother he had sought
lodging one night when traveling in Ohio & upon telling his host that his name was Sam'l Rotharmel, his host had
said "why we are related. My name is Fedoroff". Her Uncle Ben, when at Allentown met a Mrs Hefner who was
a Federoff before marriage & an heir.
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[Descendant Chart]
John Rotharmel & Sabilla Zimmerman, his wife [Their Children]
John, m.
Maria, M. Casper Markle. She w'd be born say in 1753.
A dau, m. Baughman, lived in Berks Co.
Corley Baughman, m. a Miss Hefner whose mother was a sister
of Peter Rothermel. He
visited at Mill Grove.
A dau, m. Hayes, lived in Berks Co
John, married. He lived at Braddock, Pa & moved away west beyond Ohio & Peter Rothermel
was there much of the time for 7 yrs prior to 1813 & was abt buying 1300 A Gov land there, but his
wife wouldn't move there, so he sold what he had.
Daniel, had a farm & lived in Berks Co.
5 other children as g.g. mother Markle always s'd there were ten in
her family.
Christian, m. Sabilla Bauer. He died when his son Peter was 7 yrs old, see page 89.
Leonard, married
Peter?, Juliana Smith thought there was a Peter.
Paul, the last one to died, married.
Paul, visited at Mill Grove with Baughman.
Leonard
A dau, m. Weyand? who was a drunkard & got after them with a butcher knife & the climbed
in an apple tree & stayed all night in a cold winter night & died from the exposure. This was in
1813. Her grandfather met a funeral the day he was moving here & on asking whose it was, the man
s'd it was "Mrs Weyand's sons & he buried her last week & the devil killed them both." Referring to
the incident recited above. This occurred in Westnd Co, the Weyand's having moved to out near the
Fultons beyond Robertsons. Marcrate Rothermel, m.
Fedoroff
Don't know the names of the other sons. There would be 3 or 4 more sons Aug 9/21 I guess but one or two more
sons.
[Descendant Chart]
Christian Rothermel & Sabilla Bauer, his wife. After he died, she went to live with her daughter Mrs Grosscup.
The first five were grown up when last two were born.
[Their Children]
Martin, had consumption, married Hannah Leasure & lived in Berks co. Had two sons All of his children died
before he died.
Sam, d. aged 20 unm of consumption before his father.
Jacob, m. & died of consumption before his father & left six children. Last report, all were
married, but one that lived with her mother.
A dau, m. Sam Smeck. Left one boy. Martin took her to raise the
boy's name was Sam Smeck
A dau, m. left two little girls. The father's mother took them to
raise 8/9/21 Kate now says it was a girl
& a boy
A dau, see page 193 lines 34 & 356*6. m. Paul Grosscup. Her name was Sabilla.
Paul, See page 194, line 17*7. m. Shearer, a relation of the Markles & lived across the Ridge from
West Newton in Rostraver Tp. She says he was a nephew of her grandfather Peter Rothermel's.
Jacob, died in Westnd Co. See book 5 page 67.
Large family of children
A dau, Aunt "Mag" (say Margaret8*8) m Conrad Stenger, a brother of Peter's wife. He had a whole raft of
boys & two girls. Sons were spendthrift.
*6
[lines
read:]
Grandfather
Paul
Grosscup
married
Sabilla
Rotharmel & Peter Stenger married "Tinie"
(Christina) Shearer.
*7 [line reads] who was a sister of Rebecca Shearer.
*8 July 7, 1920 8:15 PM, Kate says her mother s'd her name was Magdalena
See Book 5 Page 42.
Peter, See Page 193, line 35 m. Shearer [refer to footnote *6]
George
Wm S. Stenger, who was Secy of Com. Died recently in Phila.
Hannah }One married A Shearer & the other a Harshey. Their "Betsey"9*9 }father was rich & gave
them a fortune & one of them }came back & he gave her $7000 more. Thinks they both }moved to
California.
A dau, m. Long. He was no good & they had to take her home where a son was born & she died very soon
thereafter.
Jacob Long, called "Lying Jacob". Her grandfather & his brother fought with him in Berks Co
& w'd have nothing to do with him. He came out to Westnd before 1813, & g.g. Markle also had
differences with him. He died out near Mendon. Had a great big family, but they never went
together.
A dau, m. Fegley, lived in Berks Co.
Samuel Fegley. He was a carpenter & fell off a building & broke his neck. He left a son who
she thinks died without issue. His mother w'd not allow him to go with the Rothermels. See Book 5
page 69.
Peter, see over Page 90
Sabilla, 2 yrs younger than Peter, m. Hepner, lived in Berks Co.
A dau, m. Corley Baughman. Her name was Maria Hepner. Lived in
Berks Co with her parents.
A dau
A dau
Other children.
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[Descendant Chart]
Peter Rothermel, Died in Apr, 1823 on the Rothermel farm in South Huntingdon Tp of Consumption aged 65 yrs
& hadn't a gray hair in his head. Born say 1758, when he was 28 yrs old, he married Anna Catharine Stenger
who was 18 yrs old & went to housekeeping in Berks Co "Straight across the creek from his brother". This
would be say in 1786. Her Uncle Peter was 6 mos old when they moved from Berks Co to Franklin Co Pa where
he, Peter Sr, bought two or three farms & the s'd son Peter was 21 yrs old when they moved to Westnd Co in 1813
so they must have gone to Franklin Co in about 1792. He had had [sic] gone west to where John Rothermel lived
& bought a farm there, but his wife w'd not go there. On his return, from one of those trips, he stopped at Mill
Grove & the Markles persuaded him to locate there, so he bought the Clemons Finley farm of 300 acres there in
South Huntingdon which Miss Smith says he, Finley, bought from the government according to some old papers
she found in a rug bag. His, Clemons, son John Finley had been living on it & it had run down & the fences were
down & he had run it debt & died & it had to be sold. She said Squire Andrew Finley used often to come to his
grandfather's & would always say when he did "Well I am coming home again". She said that his daughter in law,
wife of his son John Finley, who was a Stokely, sister of Nehemiah used always to speak of Clemons Finley as
"Uncle Clemons" so she thinks he was a brother of Andrew. Mrs Peter Rothermel lived abt 30 yrs after her
husband died & was 92 when she died. They were buried on the place & later moved into the Markle Cemetery.
According to above, his wife, Anna Catharine Stenger would be born 1768 & died in 1860 which w'd be 37 yrs
after her husband died.
Aug 9, 1921 9:30 PM Kate says this sh'd be Catherine as given on Page 42 Book 5.
[Their children]
Thomas Moorhead, only lived a few days
Maria, see Page 272, unmarried. Her name was Maria Catharine, called "Polly".
Elizabeth, m. Barney Wagner or Waggoner, no issue. See Page 272. She died of typhus fever. The doctor was
no good. Her name was Catherine Elizabeth called "Betsy".
Peter, Born say 1792, never married, stayed at home see page 272.
Catharine Anna, died in West Newton, Pa Dec 23, 1876 in her 80th yr. Buried Dec 26, 1876 in West Newton
Cemetery across the river. M. George Brush. He was a great deal younger than her, was from out about
Jacksonville & "was nothing worst kind of an old drunkard". No issue. He died long after her at the Soldiers
Home, Dayton Ohio & is buried there. No stone to her grave. Had no issue Called "Katy." Sarah, died in
Franklin Co Pa of typhus fever when 9 yrs old. Had been bit on the ankle by a snake when 4 yrs old. Buried in
Franklin Co on Uncle Stenger's farm. Benjamin, b. Oct 1801 ob say in 1882 as he was aged 81 in Fayette Co.
married Eliza Louganester after his sister Juliana's marriage. She was daughter of Jacob Louganester who lived
to the left as you go to Mill Grove on the old Clark farm. See page 278.
Juliana, Born Feby 27, 1804, Died May 4, 1875, married Andrew Smith. He was born Nov 30, 1793 & died
July 16, 1878 in his 85 yr. They both died in the old brick house on Main St corner of 6th were all the children
were born but Peter. Andrew built this house in 1829 & moved in that fall. See Page 282.
Daniel, born abt 1806 or 1807 & m.1. Hannah Newlon, dau of William Newlon & his wife Keziah Robbins.
m.2. Hannah Rippey, a widow whose maiden name was Turney of Greensburgh Pa where she had 3 bros John,
Adam, & George & 9 sisters of whom 3 died when little. One of these sisters was the mother of Geo Krepps of
the Times-Sun at West Newton, Pa see Page 286. Jacob, born June 21, 1809. He left this part of the country
before he was married when aged 26 yrs & never came back. He was a drover & quarreled with his brother
Dan. Geo Boush s'd a Westmoreland County farmer riding out of St Louis the year of the cholera met Jacob
Rotharmel riding in & told him not to go in as everyone was dying of the cholera, but he s'd he must go to the
Bank & no one here ever heard of him afterwards.
Samuel, the youngest. He died unmarried from typhoid fever aged 37. He was born in 1811 & died abt 1848
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Wm Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh Pa. Room 720 Nov 5th, 1919, 3 AM.
I got up at 6:30 Am 4th, got my breakfast & went to the North Union Tp polls to vote & found them just
swearing in the Election Board & voted at 8 AM, the first ballot cast which was a straight Republican one. Left at
8:42 Am after leaving my watch which for the first time had stopped at Hant's for fixing & where W.S. Roden
gave me his own to use in the meantime. Arrived at West Newton, Pa at 10:30 Am & went straight up Main St to
Sixth to the home of Cousin Margaret L. Markle (first cousin of my father, who I believe is the only survivor of
that generation) which is on South East corner of Main & Sixth St. She is frail, having been sick with bowel
trouble for several months. She would not tell her age, but I w'd say she was Past 80. Her memory was very poor
& she never did have any bent for family lore or records, & could tell me very little. What she did tell me is
recorded on Pages 75, 76, & 77. But she did certainly put me on a good "lead" & tell the truth when she said
Miss Kate Smith, who had lived on the South West corner across 6th St from her could tell more than anyone else.
About two yrs ago, when Maggie was coming home from prayer meeting one Wednesday night, she heard her
calling & found her in her yard where she had fallen & had broken both of her hips &her niece Sallie Brown,
who lived on Virginia St, Mt Washington had come & taken her to her home. She said
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Mrs Brown was a daughter of a brother of Miss Smith & her husband Brown had died leaving her two children,
one of whom Emma, she said was very flip & had charge of a store in Pgh. After Brown died, she married again,
the second husband not being much good, so when he died, she resumed the name of Brown. I find by reference
the telephone is in the name of the daughter viz "Emily B. Brown Res 228 Virginia, Hill 640-r". She then
pointed down the street 6th, a few doors below her on same side of street to where Shep & Bell's daughter Emma
was living, the wife of Tom Parker who is in the R.E. business. I walked down & Mr Parker came to the door &
Emma came right in & also a young son & daughter, probably 10 to 12. In a short time, her brother, Joe, came in
& while doctoring a sick horse for his brother, volunteered to take me out to Neth's in Rostraver where I
concluded to go as it was raining right lively, instead of going out to Mill Grove & the old Markle & Rotharmel
graveyards. I then thought in view of Miss Smith's great age, I w'd go on to Pgh instead of staying over night
there. Accordingly, Mr Parker pointed me the way from his front window, to the home of Mrs Emily Foote on 4th
St just opposite the lower corner of the Public School Bldg toward Vine St below. Joe Markle then drove me
over there in the rain & I met Mrs Foote who was very kind & with a winning smile, gave me the address of
Sallie Brown as 228 Virginia Ave Mt W. Pgh Pa. She then called her aged mother-in-law & introduced me to her
& I went
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with Joe across the bridge straight away for about one mile to the old toll gate & turned to the right, passing a
frame house on the right where Joe sd a Neth lived & a schoolhouse on the left as the road circled round to the
right toward the Youghisgheny River again passing a frame house or two on the right & then an old brick house
also on the right, the Orr home & just beyond it turned in at first gate & went up a road through the fields to a
larger brick house to the Philip Neth home. where his wife & daughter Elma said they moved May 24, 1879 &
where they celebrated their golden wedding on Feby 23d last & where Mr Neth died Oct 15th last. Their son
George, the oldest child opened the door & I told him who I was. He is a plain sensible, hard working farmer &
his right cheek was enlarged to the size of a large hen egg & looked as if swollen, but it may be a growth. He
said his father made a will leaving everything to his wife for life & appointing her sole executor & after her
death, to be divided equally between all of the children. George called his mother in & introduced me. She has a
remarkably good sweet & strong face, a Perfect type of a christian woman & the same can be said of her daughter
Elma who came in later & who are relatives I am proud of & anyone might well be. Mrs Neth went upstairs & in
different places, found the family records of her grandfather's father & husband, the first in medical dictionary
about the length & width of this book or I w'd
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think a half inch longer & a half inch wider. The two last in Bibles. The records & what she told me is on Pages
78 to 83 inclusive & to line 11 on Page 84, where I was when the car came for me at 4:40 Pm, they thinking I
wanted to go to Uniontown on the 5 train instead of to Pgh on the 5:22. Joe had left me there in the rain at 1 & I
told him to come back for me in 2 or 3 hours. He came at 3:30 PM & s'd he had called up his mother & she urged
me to come to stay over night with with them, but I told Joe I must go to Pgh on that train & had him see
Chambers Garage & send out for me. It is about a miles from the Pike or old toll gate to the Neth home, say two
miles from town. I have just now written from 11th line on page 84 to & including 25th line on Page 85 from what
she told me that I did not at the time get written down. When I got on the B&O at 5:22 PM, I found a dining car,
so got my dinner. Arriving at 6:30 Pm took a st car to Wm Penn Hotel, secured rooms 720 & 722 & after inquiry
of the Porter, went to Wood St & took Car No 40 for Virginia Ave, Mt Washington, where I arrived at 7:44 PM
& Mrs Brown coming to the door, I told her my name & that I wanted to see her Aunt, Miss Smith, & when I told
her about seeing her sister, Mrs Foote in West Newton, she said she was not her sister, but was her cousin, a
daughter of another brother of Miss Smith. Her next door neighbor, who is also their landlord, they having
rented 228 from
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them for 17 yrs, came in to say good bye before leaving for Florida with her husband, but I don't recall her name.
I was then taken upstairs front over the parlor meeting Mrs Brown's daughter Emily as i was starting up the stairs
& Miss Kate Smith seated in her chair, who Mrs Brown s'd, w'd be 88 in Feby? She is a bright faced smiling
cheery little old woman & did no show her age. She is a wonder. Her memory is certainly like Henry Clay Dean
told Rev John Redburn out at Moulton, Iowa about his own "Everything that touched it stuck to it." I asked her
about the Rotharmel burying ground & she said Dan Williams who bought it, got to plowing right through them
& they removed all of their people who were buried in the graveyard up on the Hill to the Markle Cemetery with
the markers or tombstones. She said Mr & Mrs Jack were buried in a plot with a paling fence around it down in
the meadow, they having lived on the adjoining farm & the Rothermel farm adjoining the Markle farm. She s'd
her mother or grandmother s'd there were only three persons buried in that plot in the meadow viz John Jack &
his wife "Nellie" & "Andy" Thompson, which causes me to wonder if someone told father wrong, or whether he
removed the remains to the Markle graveyard where the Markle's monument is which I think he must have had
erected. Miss Smith
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s'd her brother, or some of the Rothermel relatives told William Robertson to have the Jack remains removed to
the Markle Cem. as they were his grandparents, but he didn't have it done. She spoke of Uncle Wm Logan
Thompson & s'd her mother or grandmother told her he had died rich. I told her yes it was for a young man for
those days, but his partner, or someone out in Missouri stole it all. Speaking of the Jacks brought to her mind
something I had never heard of & which she said both the Jack & Markle families hushed up & never mentioned
to the other children who generally never knew of it. She s'd there were seven Jack girls (there must have been
eight as I know of six without these two). She said a bad man came there. His name was Barrett & tried to steal
one of Casper Markle's daughters & two of John Jack's daughters. It was thought he drugged them. Markle &
Jack each locked their daughters up in their rooms upstairs. Markle & a trusty hired man lay in wait for him &
he appeared at the Markle's about midnight & Markle shot at him, but he got away & the Jack girls were hilarious
& singing until about two o'clock in the morning when the singing ceased & as their windows were nailed down,
it was thought they had gone to sleep, but the next morning, a ladder was up at the window & the two girls were
gone
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Barrett took them to an adjoining farm where he set up some posts & built a tent & kept them there for two weeks
& everybody was afraid to go near. He then took the two girls away with him to Ohio where he lived with them
& one of them had nine children & the other one seven & Barrett also stole a man's wife out there away from him
or at any rate, she had five children to him. There was something about someone living on one side of a River &
someone on the other, but at any rate, the husband above referred to finally got Barrett, shooting him from
ambush & Barrett fell dead from his horse & nobody ever did anything with the husband for killing him. she did
not know what part of Ohio it was, nor did she know which of the Markle girls it was, but she s'd the Markle girls
was not well for months thereafter from the effects of the drug. I didn't try to have her fix the date, thinking I s'd
ask her at another time as Mrs Brown & her "flip" Emily were sitting there. Mrs Brown is a fine, good woman,
with a good sympathetic & in every way worthy face, but her daughter has a bad face & worse ideas, views &
manners.
She gave me the genealogy of the Rothermel family back to the old country to John Rothermel, grandfather of my
great
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grandmother Maria Rotharmel, wife of Casper Markle. She said her mother & grandmother told her that Casper
could speak very little & very poor English, but talked German (or, I think, Pennsylvania Dutch) altogether. Said
his wife's name was not Mary, but Maria & he called it Ma-ree'-ah, always when he spoke to her. She spoke of
the many efforts of the Rotharmels to get the Gen'l Theobald Metzger fortune through their descent from Sabilla
Zimmerman, his niece, a daughter of one of his two sisters Mrs Sarah Zimmerman. The other sister, Barbara
Steinman, fought in the Courts for the fortune, until all of her means were gone. Then, after a few years, she had
gathered some more means & went into the Courts again, fighting until it was all gone. She s'd a man here in
Pittsburgh, a Mr Cook tells her he is a descendant of Barbara Steinman. I asked her where the Weurtz fortune
came in & she said: "Oh that is the Markle fortune. That is another one." She did not recall that she knew what
Casper Markle's first wife's name was, but had been told it was Deer, but Maggie Markle told her that it wasn't. I
then told her it was Elizabeth Grimm. Speaking of the sister Marcrate Federoff, she said her grandmother, who
was there Anna Catharine Stenger, dau of Capt Conrad Stenger & then living on the farm her father bought from
great grandfather
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Casper Markle, about 1768 (the yr she was born) or a yr or so thereafter, told Miss Smith that she remembered
seeing George & Paul Rotharmel, sons of Paul (one of the seven brothers) going through their yard (which they
did in passing from one farm to the other) once when she was a young girl with a very frail little old woman &
they seemed to be almost carrying her & she thought it was their Aunt Marcrate Federoff they were helping or
escorting.
Miss Smith said she had always been told that gg father Casper Markle had ten children by his first wife &
eleven by his second wife & that David was the youngest of them all & Leah, my grandmother, next to the
youngest. She being the youngest daughter & next to the youngest child. I told her I thought there were 22
children, but she thought it was 21, & I incline to think she is right, from some previous records I have made.
Casper Markle lived on the farm in Berks Co he sold to Conrad Stenger (get date from record) until he came to
Westnd Co, so there then were born most, if not all, of his children by his first wife. If great grandmother Maria
Rotharmel Markle was 23 when she married Casper Markle, which was in 1776, she w'd be born in 1753. The
party Benj Rotharmel saw at Allentown as an heir was Hefner & the party who married Sabilla, youngest child of
Christian Rothermel was Hepner, another name,
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Peter Stenger, mentioned on Page 89 & who married a Shearer is the one that Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup, born
Feby 15, 1853 was named for.
It was midnight when the flip daughter Emily, came up the second time (she did not come in until about a quarter
of twelve & I heard her talking downstairs to a man whose overcoat I saw lying on the dining room table when I
went out) & impertinently said I must not work her aunt to death & that she wanted to go to bed. I had thought a
little after eleven that she, Miss Smith, was becoming wearied & I then s'd to her & Mrs Brown I had better stop
& they both s'd to go on although Miss Smith's usual bed time was nine o'clock. I then quit at 12:11 Am having
gotten from Miss Smith all that is recorded on pages 86 to 91 inclusive & also practically all I have just written
from top of page 96 to here on bottom of page 101. Mrs Brown put on her shawl & kindly walked just beyond
their house to the next street & pointed me up to the next, which was Sycamore St where I arrived at 12:15, got a
car which took me only to the tunnel & there I waited until abt 12:45, when I got a car No 39 marked Brookline,
which brought me up Smithfield to Oliver & I reached the Wm Penn at 1 AM, read over the day's records until 3
AM & have been busy since then writing from top of page 92 to here, ten pages & it is 7:07 Am & I will go to
bed as I arranged at 7:15 this evening to have breakfast at 8 AM with Col N.H. Conaway who is here.
JVT
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Wm Penn Hotel Pgh Pa Room 720 Nov 5, 1919, 1:11 PM
When leaving Miss Smith & Mrs Brown just after midnight last night I made arrangements to come back to
see them in a couple of weeks, but at 10 AM, so as to get through without running into the night. They said last
night that someone had insisted that the Rotharmels came from Russia, but we all were inclined to think that a
mistake as we thought they came from some of the German provinces along the Rhine. W.H. Conaway phoned
me at 7:50 this morning so I was only 30 minutes in bed. Went into breakfast with him at 8:05 & came out at 9
Am & while talking with him in the lobby J.D. Easter came up & said T.F. Barrett wanted to see me, so I went
around & was with him from 9:30 to 10 AM & told him of Col J.M. Schoonmaker knocking his RR proposition
telling my man it wasn't worth anything. He then told me of the Col's unprincipled tactics at Washington DC
before R.S. Lovett of the RR Board & of losing his temper & acting with wild unreason. Barrett got A.C.
Bedford of the Standard Oil Co to go to Wash & talk the matter over privately with Lovett, with the result that
the Board "sat down on Schoonmaker & his proposition".
Having in view last night's talk from Miss Smith, about the bad man Barrett & of T.F.'s telling me he was born
down near Marietta, O, which is on a River (the Ohio). I asked him again & he said he was born at
Williamstown, Ohio, opposite the Island
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& Parkersburgh WVA. Asking if his father was born in same neighborhood he said he was & asking his age &
when he died, he said he was 60 yrs old when he died or rather got killed, as he was a Contractor & in erecting a
building, a girder fell & struck him & he died two or three yrs after from an Epithalsan? [sic] Cancer that
developed from it. He s'd that was 27 yrs ago, which would make him born in 1832. His name was John Barrett
& his father was also John Barrett coming from North of Ireland from a farm adjoining or near to that of Pre'st
Wm McKinley's father's farm. He said he had been there. He said he never knew his grandfather or any of his
grandparents as they were all dead before he was born. He s'd his grandfather went to that part of Ohio at a very
early day, possibly in the twenties or earlier. This seems too late to make out the Case [a squiggle looks like N
with a question mark after it:] N? his grandfather, but his haziness of the time leaves it an open question to be
solved later. It is now 1:44 Pm & as I have four or five places to go before taking the 4 PM B&O to Clarksburgh
WVA, one of them the Dermitt Printing Co to order three more books like this, I will hustle along.
JVT
Oak Hill 9:33 AM Nov 7, 1919
I went on 5th at 2 Am to see Wm Gates of the H.C. Frick Coke Co about the surveys & then went to Mfrs
Bldg 530 Duquesne way to see the Dermitt Printing Co which is now owned by J.E. Dermitt, a nephew of W.V.
Dermitt from whom
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I got this & Book No 2 in 1901 & for whom J.E. then worked. I ordered three Books like this with abt 20 pages
more of Index for which he estimated the cost for the three at $50. I then went to First NBK Bldg to see John
McCartney Kennedy about the WVA Coal & find he is atty for & speaking for J.A. Paisley of Cleveland, O. I
then went to the B&O Sta & took the $ PM train for Clarksburgh WVA, got my dinner on train & Joseph W Ray
Sr got on at Uniontown, Pa to represent John H. O'Neil instead of D.W. McDonald. Reached Clarksburgh at
11:45 PM & a Mr Winn kindly moved in with a friend & gave me his room No 501. Waited until 9:55 AM for
Joe W. Ray Jr who stopped off the night before at Fairmont & went around to office of Geo M. Hofheimer in
Goff Bldg adjoining Court House. Ray came in in half an hour during which I arranged for Mr G.M. H. to send
me Apris [sic] of the claims of Alice G. Bassel & John Bassell, V.A.J. Cochran & J.R. Banner which I had
guaranteed. We then went upstairs to office of Lafayette C. Crile who was the party before whom the claims V
John S. Douglas were being proven & gave my testimony in behalf of John H. O'Neil on the notes of mine he had
lost & which Douglas had guaranteed. They introduced an Atty Johnson for whom I proved Douglas Signature to
three letters he had written J. Lyle Clark at Cadiz, O., also a note of H.W. Frank, & J.S. Douglas for $1,100?
dollars to W.H. Miller now decd for Harry Downs atty for Jas T. Miller Exr & a note of H.W. Frank's guaranteed
by Douglas to the Bor. of Uniontown. I then went across to the Savings Bank & had a short conference with R.J.
Sowndes & Mr Duncan, whom he called in, then called
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in & saw V.L. Highland & L.B. Deisen at the Empire Natl & took the 12:35 PM St Car for Fairmont, reaching
there at 2 Pm & went around to the home of my old friend Jacob Springer Hayden who says he is 88 & he hasn't a
wrinkle & I expressed the hope & belief that he would round out a century which he confidently expected he
would saying his Father Benjamin Hayden was 98 & his mother 96 & that his grandfather was John Hayden who
came out to Fayette Co & he thought his father was John. Said two brothers came over from England about time
the Mayflower came, one settling in Conn & one in Mass & that he was descended from Mass family. Saw W.K.
Hatfield on train, having seen him at Waldo in morning & told him I w'd pay him in 3 mos the $51 on Vance
mtge to which he agreed & told me on train he had wired Sml Williamson, his atty to accept Ck & satisfy mtge.
Reached Uniontown at 5:40 Pm. Met Mary E. Shepler in Po [Post office?], got my dinner at Holler & came out
home at 7 Pm last night
JVT
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At 228 Virginia Av, Mt Washington to see Miss Kate Smith at home of her niece Mrs Sadie Brown Nov 12, 1919
10:55 AM
Asking Miss Smith abt Mrs Milligan, a granddaughter of Great grandfather James Caruthers' second wife,
the widow Simeral, by her first husband. She s'd a brother of Andrew Robertson ( she thinks, his name William)
took a little Simeral girl when two week old to raise & she afterwards married a Baughman & moved west.
These Robertsons were sons of old Thomas Robertson who she didn't think was any relation of Uncle John
Robertson at least her mother never said so. Andrew, above, was the father of Isaac I. Robertson, late Pt of FVM
BK. She said there was a Mrs Milligan who was a Simeral who lived "back of us & Markles, toward Bells over
by Sewickly Ch". She was buried the day Miss Smith's mother died (which was in the morning of May 4th, 1875).
She said A. Cooper Hamilton, who lived next house below her on Main St West Newton, was a first cousin of
Alex Simeral, below. Hamilton's mother being a Simeral, but the Hamiltons would never tell you or own that
Alex Simeral was a cousin, as he was very low & trashy. He was an uncle of the little girl above named who was
a daughter of "Coop", say Cooper Simeral. A son of the little girl lives now in West Newton. His father Joseph
Baughman owned lands in Iowa & left considerable money to this boy & Mrs Fritchman got $2000
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for keeping him, but soon as he got this money, he ran through with it & is now poor. The wife of the Robertson
who took her to raise was a Mitchell. Alex Simeral, the uncle of the little girl, lived up above the Rothermels &
married Joann Finley, one of the six or seven daughters of John Finley, son of Uncle Andrew. Alex Simeral was
run over by the cars & killed & they lived very low. He had two or three girls, but nobody would have anything
to do with them as two & some said all three had children & were unmarried, one had three & one two children,
but she dont know about the third. She dont know anything about any sons. He worked for the Smiths making
garden, fixing steps & chores generally. They both died after Miss Smith's mother died. They lived near them in
West Newton at the time & thinks she, Joann died of a cancer in the arm & were buried in West Newton
cemetery across the River. She was a member of the UP Church, but he wasn't. Kate thinks Mrs Milligan was a
sister of Alex Simeral as he went to the funeral. When I asked her about what she know about the Connection of
the Old Carnahan families, she told me about a man named Carnahan falling on some Scythes near their old
home & her grandmother Rothermel, her mother & Aunt Katy ran to him & found him bleeding terribly & they
took him over to his home near the Bell's, her Aunt Katy holding his head on her lap on a sled or in a wagon, but
he died before he got there. He made a fearful outcry when cut. Thinks his wife was A Simeral, as sister of Mrs
Milligan, as she went there after Carnahan's death to live & died there, at Milligan's.
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[Descendant Chart]
John Finley, son of Andrew Finley & he married a sister of Nehemiah Stokeley. Miss Smith's mother called her
Polly. She used to say shortly after she was married that "she had been a lady 20 yrs & John Finley's slave seven
yrs". They lived just above Smiths in West Newton & Mrs Finley lived to be very old & used to come down often
to the Smiths & Mrs Smith (Kate's mother) would lead her home or part way. Joseph Stokeley, who married
Matilda Martha, daughter of John C. Carothers, who kept a hotel on the corner in West Newton was a brother of
Nehemiah & Mrs John Finley. He was 40 yrs or more older than his wife & used to nurse her when a baby &
little girl on his knee. He went once to see Miss Smith's aunt Katy & she was scrubbing the hall & left the bucket
of water standing in the front door when she saw him coming & run upstairs & he stayed several hours & she
wouldn't come down which led him to remark that some girls wouldn't marry a gentleman, but would go & marry
someone that didn't know enough to lead a horse to water. He went everywhere to see the girls before he got one
to marry him. The Bells - Polly & Nancy didn't like him & would have nothing to do with him. He would get
money from everybody & never pay it back. He got all of his Father-in-law John C. Caruthers' money,
considerable of it being stuck in the Bridge there & put it in his wife's name, so that the other children got, one,
little John C. Carothers, had 3 or 4 houses in his yard that he let to people & Greenlees, a poor family lived in one
of them, no carpet on the floor & little furniture & he lay sick there & died in Greenlee's house. Miss Smith s'd
her mother sent her to the funeral (she thought she was then abt 14) & she met a Miss Robb there who afterwards
married Geo Bennett & when they heard Mrs Stokely crying loudly. Miss Robb sd to Miss Smith "She is not
crying because her Father is dead, but because he died in Greenlees'". John C. Carothers was a drinking man &
none of them could live with him. His daughter, Mrs Brenneman tried to stay, but did not remain long. Mrs
Brenneman died many yrs ago & is buried in West Newton Cemetery. She had a son "Lute" Brenneman who was
living in Pgh & wd be 75 yrs old if still living. All the other children are dead. All of Mrs Stokeley's children are
dead but a daughter living in Pgh named Harriet Stokely. She told Miss Smith 4 or 5 yrs ago that she was in the
sixties. She made way with a nephew's money & her father & brothers all being Freemasons, she has
continuously & persistently lied to get money from the order. Two brothers weren't married. The youngest bro
was father of the nephew above named. Mr & Mrs Stokely & their two sons & a daughter from Phil a who had
her life insured are all buried in the cemetery at West Newton. Morgan, John, I think, married. Married a
daughter of John C. Carothers & had a daughter by her & then later married Maria Markle nee Oliver, widow of
David Markle of Casper & moved to Ohio where a daughter was born to them.
[children of John Finley & Polly Stokley]
Nehemihah [sic], called "Mi", m. Josephine Kerr. She didn't live long. He had a bad name & kept a girl in the
house with him for a year. The girls run off & got married. The girl's name was "Betsy" Coughanour.
Dau, m. McMichaels
Dau, m. Coughanour
Stokely, m & lived in wilderness up back of Scholl's. Dont know anything abt them.
A dau, m. Bennett, went west away off & many yrs after, both came back. West west right away when married.
Susan, m. Sam Patterson, I. was at her house in Nov 1878.
A Dau, Nancy, m. Albert Miller, bro of Leah Robb.
Maggie, m. Alfred Markle, son of Sheppard of Gasper (wife Lobingier) &
he a son of Casper, my gg
father.
Nellie, youngest, say Eleanor, m. Joseph Budd
Mack
John, m Alvira Markle, dau of Gasper the butcher who weighed over 300 lbs. Her mind
wasn't right. Had 3 girls & 2 boys & more. She was crazy.
A big lot more children, I think 13 in all.
Joann, m. Alex Simeral. She knew the 3 girls.
Polly, m. John Pollock, had a whole string of children. Lived over by West Newton
A dau, m.1. Jesse Carothers, son of John C. C. m.2. Thos Sampson
Josephine Carothers, m. Jesse? Stoneman, farm in Rostraver.
A dau to Sampson
maybe another dau, but can't recall.
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Seventh Ave Hotel, Room 153, Nov 12, 1919, 8:17 PM
I left home this morning on 6:52 Am PRR train. Andrew & Judge Umbel were also on the train coming to
Pgh. I took a taxi with my satchel ctg my three record books to Wood st, Corner 5th Av where at 22 minutes of
ten o'clock No 40 Street car viz tunnel to Mt Washington arriving at 9:55 Am at corner Shiloh & Virginia Ave.
Walked down Virginia Ave to No 228 arriving at 10 AM & was admitted by cousin Sallie Brown who talked for
half an hour about her Aunt's business matters & how J.M. Shaver of West Newton, who had her complete
confidence lost one thousand dollars of her money through a loan to Douglas. (H.A. Douglas, I think, brother of
John S.). Said she only got $1,700 out of sale of the old home in West Newton, corner Main St & 6th St which
had gotten too sadly out of repairs to live in without fixing up. She sent an ambulance up which cost $15 &
brought her home & later this afternoon, cousin Kate (as I will designate Miss Smith) said she threw away a lot
of papers & records of family matters that she had in her drawers & cupboards.
I then went upstairs at 10:30 AM & commenced taking down what cousin Kate said, as recorded on pages 106 to
109 inclusive, but found I was exhausting too much time & took down 16 pages of skeleton mem. on note heads.
I had to write up here tonight. I kept at this until 4:30 until Mrs Brown came up & insisted cousin Kate was
getting too tired & asked me to quit for today as her Aunt's habit had been to lie down in
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the afternoon for a sleep. Cousin Kate insisted she was all right & wanted me to keep on, but I thought best to
quit for the day. Mrs Brown had told me when I went in the morning that her dau Emily had left word to not tax
her with more than a two hour conference at a time. Mrs Brown's two grandsons, sons of her son Charles who
lives a few blocks above them came in for the afternoon & they are both remarkably handsome boys with fine
faces. George born May 25, 1912 & Charles born May 12, 1914, both are going to school. Cousin Kate had lain
down & I bid her goodbye at 4:44 PM & she insisted that I come back sure as arranged on Saturday of this week
15th at 1 PM. I then walked up Kearsarge St to Sycamore St where I took a st car at 5 Pm which took me to
Union Sta where I got a taxi & whisked off to Mfrs Bldg on Duquesne Way arriving at 5:30 Pm just in time to get
J.E. Dermitt of the Dermitt Printing Co to whom I gave data for division of the 140 Pages of Index10*1 each in
the tree record books like this he is making: the Crane paper with 1919 watermark for same just having come in
today. I also asked him to make an estimate for a genealogical record book 11 by 17 by time I got back with this
book to show the binder who was gone for the day at 9 Am Saturday 15th. I then came up to 7th Ave, got this
room, got shaved, eat my dinner, & am now ready to go to work writing down elaborately my recollection of
what she s'd form the 16 pages of notes I took. I should know shorthand.
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Cousin Kate said "Uncle Paul" Rothermel, one of the seven brothers who came to America died when her Aunt
Polly (who was born in 1788) was 4 yrs old making 1792 the year of his death. They came & called her
grandfather early in the morning & told him his Uncle Paul was dead. Her Aunt Polly told her this. Nehemiah
Stokely & his brother & sisters came from away off some place & they were poor, but he plied the lead of getting
*1
[Where is this index?
Has anyone ever seen it?]
pensions for Revolutionary soldiers & kept the money largely, & became rich. His own sister "Polly" Finley told
cousin Kate's mother this.
She said Ed Cowan's (U.S. Senator) mother was Willie Ann Cowan & his father was a Cooper (he being an
illegitimate child). Maria Cowan, she said, a sister of Cowan's mother, married Uncle David Markle, youngest
child of Casper, by whom she had several children & they all died but Lenora who married John McMasters bro
of Thomas M. McMasters. After David's death, she had a natural son, Marion Markle by old Jimmy Bell (Judge
Bell) who had come from out on the Ridge beyond Gbg & was no relation of William & Walter who married
Nancy & Polly Finley. Once when Cousin Kate was a young girl, she was across the street at Mrs Drum's (who
was a Markle) on a visit. When Wesley Douglas, who was some relation of Micajah Smith, brought a young man
in & introduced him as Marion Markle, who was then a telegraph operator. She saw notice of his death in the
papers, since her mother died.
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After Marion was born, his Mother, Maria Markle married John Morgan, being his second wife, his first wife
being a daughter of John C. Carothers as above reported & went away to Ohio. He & his first wife had a
daughter "Britty" Morgan who was entitled to some money from the Estate of her grandfather John C. Carothers.
Ed Cowan made a fight with the Carothers & recovered the money & then as an illustration that "blood is thicker
than water", he cheated "Britty" out of it & gave it to Morgan's daughter by his second wife, Maria Markle,
Cowan's aunt, they having had but this one child. I suppose the father was entitled to a life estate in the money &
took it & then turned it over to his younger daughter.
Cousin Kate told me in great confidence on the pledge to never tell it, about my grandfather A.F. Thompson,
after grandmother's death, bringing Aunt Mary & Father up from Kentucky to their grandmother Markle's where
he stayed until the last week before his death. He had a purse with $500 in it in his pocket which he put under his
pillow every night when he went to bed & great grandmother Markle wanted him to give it to her to keep, but he
would not (a mistake he made). His Aunt & sister-in-law "Betsy" Markle, wife of John, coaxed him to go over
with them in the stone house which he did about a week before he died. He would always put it under his pillow
at night when he went to bed, but as he was found one
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morning sitting on his chair dead. Cousin Kate's Uncle Barney Wagner, a good man, big & strong & a man
named Sowash were called in to lay him out & in doing so, Sowash found the purse & handed it to Wagner & he
handed it to Mrs "Betsy" Markle in Sowash's presence. She then denied getting it from Wagner, who was greatly
perturbed & s'd he would call Sowash who witnessed his handing it to her. She persisted that she could not
remember receiving it. Cousin Kate's grandmother asked great grandmother Markle about it & she told Mrs
Rothermel that the children never got any of it. She said her mother s'd grandfather was buried in the Rotharmel
burying ground in the enclosure in the meadow where there were but three graves that could be seen viz his & his
grandfather & grandmother Jack. Cousin Kate's Aunt Katy said the same thing. After Peter Rothermel died in
1823, his widow lived 37 years, remaining on the farm & then Cousin Kate's Uncle Peter got the half of the farm
with the buildings on & her Uncle Benjamin, the other half & her Aunt Polly had her interest in it. It was on the
part that Peter got, on which the Jacks were buried which was an old old graveyard before the one at Sewickly
Church was started. There was a fence around the graves, but no tombstones or markers & Dan Williams who
bought it plowed right over them. Cousin Kate
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said the Jack farm did not join the Rothermel farm, but was some two miles off beyond Col Painter's. The tent
Barrett put up was on an adjoining farm, but she did not know whose. Boyd bought the Jack farm. He was the
father of John Boyd who married Mary E. Boyd, sister of cousin Cyrus P. Markle. Cousin Kate said her mother
told her that Eleanor Jack drew a dower from Boyds as long as she lived, which would be about 22 yrs from 1808
to 1830. Look up & see if records discloses who Boyd paid the principal to & in this way might find who the
Jack heirs were, which should also be disclosed in J.C. Plumer's settlement of Patrick Jack's estate. The episode
about the Jack girls, cousin Kate said, was told to her grandmother Anna Catharine (Stenger) Rotharmel, with
Kate's own mother, then a little girl, sitting on the floor beside her in 1813 one week after she arrived in
Westmoreland Co by Susan Scholl, mother of Christian Scholl & daughter of Casper Markle. She said Mrs
Scholl was always telling it, but that her mother, great grandmother Markle always tried, but unsuccessfully to
keep her from talking of it & when referring to it herself, simply said: "that beautiful bad wicked man". Barrett
was a very handsome man. He kept on of the Jack girls on one side of the River & one on the other side so they
did not get together. One had five
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children to him & the other one had seven children to him (not seven & nine as noted last week). He was taking
a man's wife away from her home on horseback & he on another horse, both riding up the lane leading from the
house & in a turn of the lane where the husband was watching in ambush, he the husband, shot Barrett through
the neck & killed him dead. Cousin Kate said her father was in Pgh once in the store of Scott & Barrett where he
dealt & when he returned, the folks at home, or her mother asked him if "Barrett was a beautiful man" thinking he
might have been a son. "They were young girls & nice girls & good girls" as old Mrs Ross, a neighbor often said
as they had very often been at her house. Mrs Ross's granddaughter, Ann Ross, used to spin for Aunt "Betsy"
Markle & she told what she had heard from her grandmother about it so that one day Maria Markle (Smith) came
in & said to Aunt Betsy: "Mother didn't I have an Aunt ________" & her mother gave her a severe look &
stamped her foot, so that it wasn't broached again to her. Ann Ross gave the girl's names, but Cousin Kate didn't
know it. This Ann Ross married a man by name of Hoy & moved to Ohio, where Cousin Kate's Uncle Wagner in
one of his Ohio trips stayed over night with them once. The Markle girl Barrett tried to get was one of the first
wife's children. At the time he was here, Mrs Neyman ie
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Magdalena or "Molly" was married & was living in a little old log house near the turnpike that is still standing &
near the Susan Patterson home, where I was in Nov 1878, & which house you can see or almost see from the
turnpike & she was out on the front porch scrubbing it with her dress tied up about her hips when Barrett rode by
& dropped a beautiful apple to her which she put in her dress & when she got through her work & went in, she
looked at the apple & thought there was something peculiar about it & on close inspection, found it was pierced
all over with pinholes which she thought suspicious, so she tossed it in the hog lot where was a sow with a lot of
little pigs. The sow ate it & in a short time was tearing up & down the fence inside the lot like mad & getting
worse. They killed her fearing she was going mad. This house was later the home of James Carothers, brother of
grandfather Samuel Carothers, who owned it & from whom it went to his son John Carothers who married
Martha Markle, a school teacher who was the daughter of Uncle John's Gasper, & John's daughters still living
now own it. One of the daughters, she thought Agnes, married a preacher a "way off missionary" & a sister of
Mrs Carothers married a Fritchman & lives in West Newton. One, whose name she cant recall is unmarried.
John's wife Martha made him move to town where he built a house. She wanted to live in town to educate the
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children, but as soon as she died, John moved back on the farm. Will Gant, who married Mary Scholl lived on
the farm for a time as tenant, but he has now bought a place in town above Cousin Kate's old home.
Asking her about Wm Clark, son of Aunt Jane Clark, who lived on the Longanecker farm, she said her mother
had told her about Maria Markle (afterwards the wife of Micajah Smith) daughter of Aunt Betsy Markle going
there to visit (she was his first cousin) quite often & would stay all night, & one night she asked for a drink & as
they were not in the habit of bringing a bucket of drinking water at night, so they said they would give her a drink
of buttermilk & she said" "if I cant have water to drink, I wont drink at all". To this incident, we are indebted for
Mrs Clark telling the story. Clark sold the farm to Jacob Longanecker whose daughter Eliza was the wife of
cousin Kate's uncle Benjamin Rotharmel. The story about the Jack girls was "throwed up" to Harman D. Smith
at school & he spoke to his mother Maria Smith, daughter of Aunt "Betsy" Markle about it. Maria went to old
Mrs Van Kirk who lived across the river on the hill to the right of the Pike back of where C. C. Markle used to
live & she told Maria the whole story & she posted over to her sister's Jane Drum who lived in West Newton,
across the street from Cousin Kate's & sent for her mother
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who went over & they told her the story & she said why I have known that since I was so high, holding her hand
about three feet high, whereupon Maria & Jane said "why you never told it" to which she replied "I was told not
to."
Stephen Pollock, brother of John, who married Polly, daughter of John Finley, see page 108, married Rose Ann
Bell, daughter of Billy Bell. When the Bennetts, see Page 108, came back from the West very poor, they saw
cousin Kate's brother Sam Smith & asking who he was, were told that he was the son of Julia Ann Rotharmel.
"What", said they, "the son of that little run jumper" & then related that when children going to school, her
mother would always run & jump the runs & creeks landing on the clear grass on the other side & never getting
her feet wet while all the other girls & boys, would generally land in the water or mud, not being able to clear the
streams as was her mother. Cousin Kate said her father was a soldier for 9 years in the German Army & was one
year with Bonaparte's army prior thereto. Polly & Nancy Bell had a brother in the west who lived to be very old.
Said
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she was often told that the Finleys didn't like to work, but wanted to fish & hunt all the time. Told once of some
people going fishing & they only caught a couple little bit of fish & John Finley, father of "Mi" & "Stoke" Page
108 had gone with them & they bewailed their luck to him whereupon he took the tackle & soon gigged a 40 lb
fish which they brought to their house one night about midnight & cut off its head to clean. She said old Bill Bell
was much older than Nancy, he being an older brother of Walter, & they were married "after grandpap moved
there". Nancy did not want to marry him at all, but her mother "Ginsey", made her marry him. She got a strong
girl, who helped her mother to dress her for the wedding & each took hold of an arm & forced her to the altar.
Of Nancy's children by Bill Bell, Ginsey married Jim Milligan, "thrasher Jim" & Rose Ann married Stephen
Pollock above mentioned & two boys, one of whom was named Todd Bell & he died unmarried in West Newton.
Cousin Kate's brother Sam Smith married Lizzie, daughter of Rose Ann & Steve Pollock. After Bill Bell's
death, his widow, Nancy, married old Joe Hough by whom she had one daughter, Josephine, whom Nancy so
named to be as near her husband's name as possible. Josephine is dead long ago, but she had married a Brown
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by whom she had one child. Dont know what became of it.
George Brush, Cousin Kate's uncle, told her about A. Cooper Hamilton's mother being a Simeral. Mother had
told me the same. Cousin Kate didn't know what was the name of the first wife of George Markle, oldest son of
Casper, but said that after his second wife died, he came back to West nd Co & wanted to marry her Aunt Polly
who wouldn't marry, saying she was going to stay single to take care of her mother which she did. Told her of
David Scholl, telling me in 1876 or 1878 time Mrs McCracken died, that grandfather A.F. Thompson was buried
in the upper right hand corner of the Markle Cemetery under a peach tree & not where the headstone or marker
was & cousin Kate said:"mother tells a different tale, who is right? Uncle Ben would have known." Nancy Bell's
daughter was Rose Ann & not Esther as I have noted in my talk with Polly Bell in 1878 & she also had a daughter
Evaline who married David Markle, youngest child of Gasper the butcher. David is dead, but Evaline lives in
West Newton now & cousin Kate thinks she would have the record Polly Bell said her sister Nancy, grandmother
of Evaline, prepared. Thinks she lives on about 2d St. She is probably 56 as she thinks she is a yr older than her
niece Sally with whom she lives who was 55 yrs old yesterday. Rose Ann's first husband was
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a Grier or Greer & as soon as they were married he took her right off west to near St Louis, & he died there
leaving children William, John & George. They came back with their mother & John went back west, but later
returning here took sick & died at Smiths. The other two died in the West. Rose Ann went home to her mother
where she stayed until she married Stephen Pollock. Mrs Milligan had a son Pollock & another son named Bell,
who was tax collector for years & died abt two years ago in West Newton, & other of the children sought refuge
in a home at or near Pgh.
Cousin Kate told about all of the children of great grandfather Casper Markle when they would come home to
visit their father, that is his first wife's children would come to visit her grandfather Peter Rothermel & once, one
of the first wife's children, a daughter, was home on a visit & Peter heard of it & he thought more of her than of
any of them & had his folks send word to her b Bob Johnson to come & visit them the day after tomorrow & they
killed a turnkey & got a big dinner & she didn't come & when Peter made inquiry about it, neither Casper, nor his
wife Mary, had heard of the word or invitation & it developed that Bob ad told the girls & they sd nothing about
it because as Cousin Kate s'd, she had had a child after her husband's death & the girls by reason thereof were
ashamed to
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have her go & had not told her or their parents. She thought she was from Butler Co & that the child was a boy.
Said her mother spoke of a Mrs Means being a dau of Casper Markle & also of Mrs Burgett & said a Miss
Means visited Cousin Kate's father & mother with Lucinda Scholl, a sister of Christian Scholl. She thought they
were from about Butler. Her father went to their place once to buy sheep, when I told her of Rosina Burgett, the
oldest daughter having had a son known as Andrew Burgett, before she was married, of which she had never
heard, she thought then it might have been Mrs Burgett who I told her was from Washington Co. I think the
Means must be a grandchild. Speaking of the daughter who married Aaman, she s'd her mother called it Am' - end
girls & he told cousin Kate's father about someone having married another of the girls & of having treated her
most dreadfully & outrageously which resulted in her death. He was from away out somewhere. She was young
& cant mind much about it. Cousin Kate knows nothing about the Kemps or DeCamps. She spoke of some man
being out at old Jimmy Bell's & saw a nice young girl in the yard & s'd to him, you cant deny that child, for it
looks just like you & he sd "no, it is Mrs Markle's"
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& was there on a visit. It was born before David died & was the girl that died young. No doubt was Bell's. Just
as Marion was. Maggie L. Markle's grandfather Lloyd rented the Willow Tree farm from Carnahans. Then
Brinton Newlon & Abram Fulton, son of Uncle Henry got it. Abram married Rachel Newlon & cousin Kate's
Uncle Dan Rothermel married Hannah Newlon & older sister. They were daughters of William Newlon (called
Nolan), John? Fulton, the brother of Abram married Eliza Jane Linn of West Newton & a good while afterwards
went to California. Telling Cousin Kate about Rosina Burgett having had a child before, she was married, she
said "there was another Mary, Mrs Miller, did you never hear of it" I said "no". She then went on to tell me after
first saying she ought not to, but I said it was all right to go ahead. She said Israel Miller was two weeks old
when his mother Mary was married. Said she fooled them all at home, said she had the dropsy & was doctoring
with Dr Marchand & had my grandmother, her sister Leah, going to the Doctor for medicine. The Doctor was
wise to the situation & s'd enough to put grandmother wise, but she was unsophisticated & evidently like Eleanor
Jack Niccolls told me about herself, a great big girl before she knew anything about those things. One day, the
girls came running to the others
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to come upstairs, that Mary was dying. She was in bed, wailing & crying that she was dying & the family all
came in & among them her brother John & shortly, a baby cried & someone taking it up, the girls said what is
that & John said I feel like kicking you all out for being so dumb & said she isn't dying at all & will be all right.
When the baby was one week old, her father cruelly put her out of the house with the baby in a pouring rain &
shortly, Susan Scholl, her sister came in the heavy rain on horseback for her. They put Mary on the horse &
grandmother held her on, another of the girls led the hose & Mrs Scholl carried the baby. One of the girls s'd it
would kill the baby to be out in such a heavy rain, but Mrs Scholl said the baby would be all right, but she was
afraid it would kill Mary. Cousin Kate's Uncle Peter saw them passing their place, but hid in some bushes,saying
in his excuse for not helping them, that he thought it would embarrass them for him to offer to do so. Kate's
grandfather went up & offered to help them. One week after this, Squire Andrew Finley stopped in the
Rotharmels & said he had just married Mary Markle. Peter Rothermel s'd "I must go up & see Her". She was at
Susan Scholl's where she was married & where grandmother was married later. Squire Finley s'd "no, she is not
well enough to see you", could only sit up on edge of bed long enough to be married. The baby was then two
weeks old.
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Peter then said he knew Casper Markle was a hard taskmaster & if anything of that kind happened to any of his,
he would thank anyone for help extended, so he waited a week & took his daughter Julia Ann, then 13 yrs old.
Cousin Kate's mother & went up to Scholl's, but she wasn't there. They had moved into a little house on the
place, so he went there, was just in time to see her jump into a closet & pull the door shut. He called to her
"Mary, come out of there" & she came out & he asked her what she wanted him to send Her & she said "we dont
need anything" whereas they were most starving with only a little buckwheat flour Peter had sent in. He sent
them some provisions & thus Cousin Kate's grandfather & her mother were the first persons to enter Mary
Miller's house after they were married.
It certainly was a trying experience. When Dr Isett & Eleanor Jack Fulton were married, they went to
housekeeping in a little old brick house on south east corner of Main & 6th Sts where Maggie L. Markle now lives
& which was torn down to make room for the present frame house now on it & which was just across the street
from the Smith home. It is now 2:55 AM 13th & as I have given a call for four o'clock in order to get ready for
the 520 AM train for Wooster, O, I will go to bed for an hour's sleep being 15 pages or recollections of today's
interview.
JV Thompson
At Clinton W. Markle's, Harrisville Tp Medina Co, Ohio Nov 13th, 1919 9:22 PM
Augustus Markle, was in the Mexican War between one & two years. He was under age, but smuggled
himself in as a drummer boy. On Oct 11, 1849, he was married to Miss Lovina Smith, both of Wayne Co, Ohio,
by Charles Thomas, minister of the Gospel as shown by marriage cft shown me in presence of E.B. Culbertson &
M.J. Tullaytson who, she, Mary Jane Tullaytson, was the wife of her, Louvina Smith's half brothers. In a
discharge from the Civil War dated Nov 15, 1862, states he was in Co commanded by Capt Jos H. Robinson 102
Reg, Ohio Vol. Inf. commanded by Col Wm Given (whose monument in back North Corner of Cem at Wooster
O, states he was born in Newville Pa). States he enlisted on July 30th, 1862 for 3 yrs & was discharged at
Bowling Green on Nov 25, 1862 (Clinton's wife said he got sick & was sent home) by reason of surgeon's cft.
He was just saying to Clinton's wife, that his name was Frederick Augustus Markle & they called him "Fritz" at
school & when he went home, he told his mother he wouldn't be called Fred any more. In cft discharge from his
100 days service, it states that he enlisted on May 2, 1864 & discharged Sept 4, 1864 at Camp Cleveland Ohio by
reason of expiration of term ( he says he reenlisted again & was at or near Appomattox when peace treaty was
signed.) which states that he was born in York Co. Pa, is 35 yrs of age & is 5 ft 8 in high. He thinks he was born
in Chain? Tp, York Co Pa. Augustus says that there was none of the Markle relations
Carried to Page
132.
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[Descendant Chart]
George Markle [his children]
George Markle, ob Jany 2, 1840, m.1. Sarah Horne, m.2. Margaret Horne. Perry O. Van Meter in his letter of
Aug 22/22 refers to her as Eve Horn
Peter, only child by 1st wife. He got the family Bible & took it
with him to Ashland O, See Page 130.
Magdalene, "Lena", m. George Webster of Vermont, a smart man,
confectionary merchant. Lived &
died in Indianapolis, Ind.
Phoebe, 3rd
Tillie, oldest
Harvey, dead 2d
Chester, 4th
Susan
Helen, youngest
See page 367
Tillie, m. William Webster fr Vermont, schoolteacher, lived in Circleville, Ohio. Dont know abt
family. No children.
Elizabeth, m. Amos Kistler, lived & died in Wooster, Ohio
Joseph, killed in Civil War, Thinks unmarried
James, married & has a lot of children.
Mary, m.1. Joe McKelvy who was killed in Civil War, m.2. Rezin
Eberhart, No issue by
either.
George, m. Warfle, & has two or more children.
Will
Mary
Clinton, m Berry, & have issue a plenty.
Barbara, m.1. Russel Kenyon, died, left 3 or 4 children at
least 2 girls & 2 boys
Ann, m. Frank Cassidy & had two children
John, youngest, m. Addie Brinkerhoff & has children, 3 girls &
2 boys.
George, died a young man, unmarried
Augustus, born Aug 8, 1827, m. Louvina Smith, a twin sister of Lovona
Smith. See Page 131.
Sarah, m.1.
Jacobs, m.2. John Craven, m.3. Jacob Wells. No issue
by last two.
Amos Jacobs, unmarried? Both dead [presume this means Amos &
sister below.]
Mary Jacobs, m. Wm H. Harrison & had 3 or 4 or more children
Constant O, m.1. Samantha Hindman m.2. Pleasant Ann ______, Clinton thinks she had
been 1st married to a Bensniger & parted Thinks Roy " ". [two ditto marks follow Roy, means
Roy thinks so too?]
George
John
Robert
Mary
Edward
Willis, dead These six children were all married. Phoebe Catherine, youngest dau, m.
Morgan Van Meter on Oct 25, 1855. had 8 children. She born Mch 31, 1837 & died
Sept 23, 1916. He born May 3, 1830 & died Sep 16, 1905.
William H, Overton Wooster, O. B.
Charles M, Lodi, O. B.
Mary H, B. m. Rhoades. Wooster, O. RFD
John E, B.
Homerville, O.
Perry O, B.
Spencer, O. R2
Jessie M, B.______, ob Feby 12, 1897, m. Brinker No issue.
Bert G, B._______, ob Apr 25, 1910. left no children.
Artie E, a girl, youngest, B._____, ob July 16, 1899, m.
Packard on____________, who was
born_______, son of_______
Packard & wife _______________-Edith M. Packard, B._________, m. Handley live
Spencer, O.
A dau, died young
John Markle, B. Oct 17, 1839, the youngest, m. Katherine France, No
issue. Married 54 yrs. She is
81.
See Book 6 Page 367
Adam Markle
Lucas Markle, stayed in Penna, was a lawyer.
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[Descendant Chart]
Peter Markle, see page 128. Augustus says he got their father's Bible & took it to Ashland, O. He married
Sallie________. Can't recall maiden name.
Peter was in the Civil War, was a common rammer & got right hand blowed off & died shortly after he came
home from war abt 1864 as Clinton says he was 8 yrs old. [meaning presumably that Clinton was 8 yrs old.]
[their children]
Mary, oldest, m.
Franks & lived in Elyria, O. Thinks both dead, but have children. Clinton met 3 boys at
Markle reunion. 2 live in Elyria & 1 in Madsworth?, O.
Charles, went off to South
Imogene, m. McMurray & lives in Ashland, O. Mrs Clinton Markle thinks she would have the family Bible
of her grandfather that was taken by her Father.
A dau, married
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[Descendant Chart]
Augustus Markle, see page 128, born in York Co Pa at Little York, Chain? Tp (Chanieford Tp) & came to Ohio
with his father when 3 yrs old which would be in 1831 as he was born Aug 8, 1828 & came to Wooster, O, before
it was a town being a "duck pond". He says some other families came with his father, but he can't recall their
names. He remembers hearing of the Recheys & of Port Royal. Said his father never went back to York Co or
Pa for a visit after he came to Ohio. He said that on a New Year's day, which according to his brother John,
would be Jany 1, 1841 went hunting with some others & the dogs ran a rabbit in a tree that had a hole below &
one further up. His father set his gun against the tree & reached his arm in the upper hole & accidently, the gun
went off striking him in the side & going through his body killing him. He says he was in his sixties & he thinks
he was 68 yrs old. His daughter, Sabrina, got the family Bible of her father Augustus when her mother died. She
died & her husband who couldn't write was going to burn it, but a nephew, David Troutman was there & he got
the record part, the Bible being burned & the nephew gave it to his great Aunt Lovona Bason nee Smith), now
living in Ashland, O. 88 yrs old, a widow, who was poor & moved to Illinois in Crawford Co & bought a poor 50
A farm on which oil was struck & they got $100 a day & are now rich. Clinton & his wife are going Sunday to
Ashland to see her & will get the record or a copy of it & send it to me.
[Children of Augustus Markle & Louvina Smith]
Imogene Markle, B. 1851, m.1. George Troutman, who Clinton thinks was a Pennsylvania or his ancestor.
M.2. Melvin Warner. She & both husbands dead in Wooster, O.
David Augustus Troutman, m. Lulu Eicher
Myrtle
David George
Guy Ohio Troutman, m.1. Goldie Jacobs, Divorced. m.2. Lottie _______, divorced. She
had been divorced before. M.3. Mary Ozmant from Oklahoma, a fine good little woman.
Leroy, by 3rd
Robert, by 3rd
Sebrina Markle, b. 1854, m. David Mootersbaugh. she died abt 12 yrs ago No issue.
Clinton Webster Markle, born May 19, 1857, m. Clara Barnhart who was born Mch 4, 1866. Married in Apr 9,
1885 at Wooster, O. No issue.
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from page 127
came to Ohio with his father except his own Father & his family. His father's father remained in the East. He
said when he went to war, 100 or them took train at Wooster, O, & went through Pgh & on through Penn & the
wheels of the cars got hot & they stopped at a town & he saw the sign of his Uncle Samuel Markle's store & he
went in & saw him. He said they lived on a farm near Wooster & when his father was killed, his mother moved
into Wooster, O. & while living there & while Augustus was a boy in school, his Uncle Adam, coming from the
east on his way west stopped with them for a visit & had $9,000 in gold in his satchel & he gave his mother $5
gold piece which she kept for years, but at last had to take it to pay rent. Adam went west, Augustus said, to
Williams Co Ohio. He was unmarried. When they later heard of his death, they sent a lawyer out, but got no
trace of the money, but got evidence that he had died. Augustus's mother lived with him & Clinton thinks she
died when he was 14 or 15, say 1870 or 1871. She was buried in the cemetery at Wooster, O. in Kistler's lot. His
father was buried out in the country at the Lutheran Church.
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Wm Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa, Friday Nov 14, 1919 8:28 PM
I got to bed yesterday morning at 7th Ave Hotel at 3:15 Am, but the steam had gone down two hours before
& my feet were so cold I could not sleep. Got up at 4 AM & took a hot bath to get warm & then took a very cold
one to close the pores & it is well I did considering what I went through during the day & night. I took the 5:20
AM PRR train which was 10 minutes late in starting & one hour & ten minutes in arriving at Wooster, O. at
10:33. I was awfully sick with diarrhoea on the train, but a couple passages brought me around all right. When
the train stopped, the chair car being back, we did not seem to be in Station & I got up, but could not find porter
& while walking front through several cars, the train started & by the time the train man got it stopped, we were a
mile beyond the station & in walking back, I asked a laborer who was also walking along the track & with a
foreign accent he pointed back & showed me where among the trees was the Presbyterian Cemetery, the only one
except the Catholic one further out on the hill. Accordingly, I turned back again & walked out to the cemetery
arriving a little before eleven AM & the first monument I wished to make note of was the Slemmons one which,
with the others, I was interested to take, being mostly relatives, with connections & noteworthy ones follow on
Pages 138 to 143 or this Book. It was stinging cold with a biting wind & although the sun was shining brightly,
before I had written a half hour, my fingers got cold & numb so that I could hardly hold the pencil
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as I was writing the records down on notehead sheets to be copied here at this, my first opportunity. The
caretakers were raking up the leaves & burning them & more than a dozen times, I warmed my hands at the
burning piles of leaves, but as I got further back, they were not at work there, so there was no opportunity to warn
them & my fingers got so cold I could not hold the pencil & had to grip it with my hand. I covered the cemetery
thoroughly & there is fully thirty acres of it & it took me six hours as I did not get through until just five. I found
the tombstone or monument of Uncle & Aunt Richey early & along about 4 o'clock, found that of the wife of
Augustus Markle & noticed the inscription did not show he was dead, but born in 1828 u upon asking three
different workmen on my way out, learned that John Markle, now over 80, who had been a cooper, but was now
retired lived at No 228 South Market St, which I found on my way to the hotel (I had taken note of over a
hundred items to record) His house was apparently older than him, a frame house, needing paint badly. It is well
located on an alley about two squares below the Court house. I knocked & he came to the door, a slender man
over 80, born, he said, Oct 17, 1839 near Wooster O. Said his father came from Pennsylvania & the thought it
was from on or near the Susquehanna River & his name was George, but he did not know the name of his
grandfather as his father had died when he, the youngest & eleventh child was a year, two months & a half old.
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I asked if he was related to Augustus Markle & he said he was his brother, now over 91 yrs old & living in the
adjoining County of Medina, a few miles out from Lodi. I told him I would go up to the American House, a
square & a half further up & get my supper & come back. At the hotel, I learned a street car left at 6:35 Pm for
Lodi, so I got my supper & walked back to see John Markle again & met his wife also 81 yrs old, a nice bright
cheerful motherly old soul, although childless, who said they had been married 54 yrs. He showed me a picture
on the wall of his mother who he said was a Horne & was German or Dutch. He gave me further directions & I
went to the Street Car station under the Court House & took the 6:35 Pm car & a man going also on same said
Lodi was wild with excitement from their having struck oil there & the town was overrun with prospectors,
drillers & oil men. Arriving there at 8:20 PM, I went to the Taylor Inn, which my street car friend had
recommended & found the manager, Mr Frank Reardon, a very handsome & accommodating man. He sent me
across the Court in front of the Inn to a lunch room where I found a man who said he would take me out & that it
was 4 or 5 miles. We started & on questioning him, found his name was George Keener, son of Hiram Keener
whose father John Keener had come to Ohio abt a hundred years ago from Fayette Co Pa. Before we got out of
town, he drove in a ditch & overturned us & he had to phone back & have another Auto come & pull him out.
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tinuing on, we reached the house a little after nine, & found it dark. Augustus is living with his son Clinton W.
who came to the door & asked us in. They had all gone to bed. I told him what I wanted & he called to his wife
& father to get up. He is a medium sized man, had been abt twelve years in Oklahoma & came back a year or
two ago & bought the farm where he now lives which is in Harrisville Tp. He is a plain farmer & with very
heavy Black eyebrows that almost meet. His father was clean shaven & without any whiskers, much stooped or
bowed down with age, & I should Judge, had been a strong man in his prime. After talking awhile, things in the
distant past would be recalled. He is very proud of his Civil War record & had also been in the Mexican War, the
last survivor thereof in that section. He said a copy of his grandfather's will had been sent him & that he had let
Imogene, daughter of his half brother Peter Markle, have it & she never brought it back. I got from them the
record I have made on Pages 127 to 1832 & it was then 1 AM this morning without once feeling sleepy,
notwithstanding, I got no sleep the night before & did not sleep on the train. We got to the Taylor Inn at 1:30
AM & I went to room 210 in which I saw later from register was R.B. Curn, Colo, O. (Columbus, O), but who
was still asleep when I got up at 6 AM, got my breakfast learned from Mr Reardon that the oil business
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was most active out at Chatham, took street car at 7:25 Am, reached Cleveland, O. at 9:15, walked to Hotel
Statler, a clear cold biting morning, got shaved, a shine, a pot of tea & toast & at 10:30, went over to Citizen's
Sav & Trust Co & met J.R. Nutt & at 11 Pm convened the Tower Hill CcG Board meeting. Mr Andrew Squire,
L.W. Frogg & G.S. Harsh having come in. At twelve, we were through & at 12:30 PM, Joe R.N. took we three
Uniontown people to Union Club for lunch. Mr Squire having gone for a conference with a rich Mr Snyder, a
Frenchman. I went across to the Statler, got this book which I had checked, took a taxi to Erie Sta & left at 2 Pm
arriving in Pgh at 5:40 PM at Wm Penn Hotel 6 Pm went over to 7th Ave Hotel & got my satchel with other two
record books which I had checked there, got my dinner & have written this, being very sleepy an hour ago, but
not now at 11:07 PM. When I came out from dinner, found card in my box from Isa & Margaret saying they
would phone me after the theater, so I am now to the point of copying off the inscriptions I took down in the cold
yesterday, over 100, from the monuments, tombstones & markers in the Presbyterian Cemetery, covering fully 30
Acres at Wooster Ohio, Viz: Just to right of entrance near Soldier's monument is a large neat black or parian
Marble Slemmons monument with markers for: 1. Julia A. Armstrong, wife of J. Slemmons May 19, 1841, Nov
3, 1901.
2. John Slemmons, Dec 30, 1834, Apr 4, 1916.
3. Mary A. Armstrong wife of D.I. Slemmons, June 21, 1851, July 23, 1919.
4. David I. Slemmons, June 21, 1839, Still living
& just between big monument & Soldier's mon: Baby Frick, daughter of CW & L Frick Mar 30, 1909. Main
Slemmons Mon is 7 ft long, 4 feet wide & abt 4 ft high.
Continuing on along bank is an Overholt monument of fine Westerley granite with markers:
5. Christian S.R 1834-19 (evidently living)
6. Elisabeth S. 1831-1915
& just adjoining also on bank overlooking meadow is Springer monument 1/2 dressed 1/2 rough granite.
7. Henry
1848-1917
8. Sevilla
1855-1915.
& just to its left & near the Welker mausoleum is the Frick monument of granite.
9. John W. Frick ( his autograph initial on top mon) died Aug 31, 1888 aged 66 yrs, 6 mos, 9 days. This is H.C.
Frick's father & his age at death was but 6 days less than Father's. the one following is H.C.'s mother.
10. Elizabeth O. Frick, died Oct 1, 1905 aged 86 years 3 mos 29 days
11. Mary M. Frick died Jany 3, 1891 aged 49 yrs 5 mos 7 days. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of
his saints.
12. George W. Frick, died Nov 22, 1883 aged 64 yrs 2 mos. All from Scroll markers.
In the upper circle beyond, is another taller Frick mon & adjoining it taller Overholt monument.
13. Jacob Frick Died Nov 17, 1901 aged 67 yrs 2 mos.
14. Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Frick died Nov 25, 1885, aged 53 yrs 3 mo 5 days. At Rest.
15. Daniel Frick
1796-1855
16. Harry A. Imgard
1859-1911
17. Alice Frick Imgard 1863-1911
18. Grace M. Overholt 1894 in her 22d year
19. Lucy
20. 1876 Jay Overholt.
Just beyond the Welker Mausoleum, & on edge of bank is Smurr monument
21. J.P. Smurr, born Apr 25, 1805, died Oct 5, 1882
22. Eliza Smurr born Aug 14, 1813, died Mch 9, 1882
In a plot beyond, in about the nicest commanding view overlooking the town is the Ritchey monument (so
spelled) about 20 ft or more high with these inscriptions on the mon:
23. John Ritchey, died in the year of our Lord 1828 aged 65 years
24. Jane Ritchey, died in the year of our Lord 1829 aged 57 years
25. Samuel Ritchey, died June 12, 1832, aged 28 years.
26. Sarah, wife of Jesse Ritchey, died July 27, 1832 aged 29 yrs.
27. Wm F. Smurr, died Jany 9, 1839 aged 38 years.
& around the mon markers of John Ritchey, Jane Ritchey, Samuel Ritchey, Sarah Ritchey 3 very old
markers, letters not distinguishable, then W.F. Smurr, Elizabeth Smurr, our little Charlie M.J.S. In same
plot [plat?] with & near Ritchey's mon is a Johnson monument in corner facing Ritchey's
28. Thomas Power, born Dec 31, 1807, died July 15, 1881 (or 7)
29. Belinda Power, born Jany 28, 1815, died Oct 15, 1882
30. Sarah J., daughter of Thomas & Belinda Power, died June 11, 1842 aged 4 yrs
31. Henry, son of T&B Power, died July 12, 1848, aged 1 mo & on red granite in another section,
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32. Eli Thompson, May 17, 1826, Apr 16, 1908.
33. Mariah, his wife, Apr 24, 1829, Oct 4, 1915.
Eli Thompson Co C (or G) 16 (or 76) O.V.I.
In next plot farther up is McBride Monument 34. Alexander McBride was born in Westnd Co Pa July 24,
1785, died Aug 19, 1869.
35. Anne J. wife of Alexr McBride was born in Lancaster Co Pa Sept 18, 1788, died May 31, 1863 & on
reverse side, Alexander McBride, wife & 3 children came to Wooster Apr 18, 1814 from West nd Co Pa.
Other inscriptions Hoffstat, Robb & 16 markers & just near adjoining Wiley mausoleum is other Power
Mon with markers:
36. Neal Power, born Feby 8, 1815, died Apr 14, 1869.
37. Sarah Power, born Aug 14, 1824, died Sept 14, 1916.
38. Charles W. Power, born Mch 13, 1860 died Mch 24, 1909.
39. John Gaut, died Oct 23, 1856 aged 69 yrs 20 days.
40. Elizabeth, wife of John Gaut, died May 14, 1896 aged 87 yrs 5 mos.
In next plot:
41. Wm Duffield, died Dec 11, 1841, aged 45 years.
42. Elizabeth Duffield, his wife, born 1804 died 1832 or 3 aged 28 yrs 8 mos & 26 days.
43. Philip, son, died May 19, 1832.
44. William Slemmons, died Mch 31, 1875 aged 81 yrs 3 mos 23 days
45. Phebe, his wife died Dec 25, 1842 aged 46 yrs 2 mos 3 days
46. Sarah, his wife died Apr 10, 1876 aged 78 yrs.
47. In memory of John Woods, died Apr 1814 or 34, aged 41? yrs
48. Nancy Woods, died Aug 28, 1869 aged 75 yrs 6 mos 6 days
49. Samuel Woods died Oct 4, 1891.
50. Margaret, wife of Samuel Woods, died Feby 15, 1876.
51. Amanda M., dau of S&M Woods, died Jany 20, 1848 aged 2 yrs 10 mos 11 days
52. Nancy F., dau of S&M Woods, died Mch 3, 1848 aged 2 mos 1 day.
53. John Woods Power
1877-1903.
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54. William McComb, born Feby 8, 1784 died May 26, 1844. 55. Thomas McComb died Dec 21, 1839 aged 57
yrs
56. In Larwill Enclosure is Nancy Q., wife of Jos H. Larwill born May 19, 1793 died July 23, 1893, aged
100 yrs 2 mos 14 days. Joseph H & parents were English.
Just adjoining, on a good elevation is a host of Robison, the relatives I think that Aunt Jane used to visit.
57. Thomas Robison, born Apr 8, 1791, died Sept 14, 1857 aged [crossed out]
58. Thos Robison, born Feby 2, 1822 died Oct 28, 1851.
59. Wm Robison, born Nov 7, 1818, died Apr 12, 1819
60. Margery E. Robinson, born Dec 22, 1832, died Jany 18, 1856
61. Mina V. Robinson 1867-1888.
62. James Robison, died Sept 9, 1853 aged 65 yrs.
63. Margaret, wife of James Robison died May 1, 1866 aged 69 yrs.
64. William Robison, died Nov 4, 1825 aged 6 yrs 1 mo 15 days.
65. Elizabeth Robison died July 22, 1830 aged 13 days
66. David W. Robison died Feby 21, 1842 aged 20 yrs.
67. Joseph Robison died Dubuque Iowa Apr 6, 1863 aged 28 yrs 10 M 21 D
68. Isabella, his wife died Apr 11, 1863 aged 28 yrs.
69. W.H. Robison 1840-1910 70. David Robison, born July 12, 1793, Franklin Co Pa died Mch 1, 1870.
71. Elizabeth Robison born in Franklin Co Pa May 8, 1797, died Aug 17, 1874 in her 78th year
72. James N. Robison died June 23, 1867 aged 40 yrs 3 mo 3 days
73. Many names on other mon.
74. David Thompson, (Father) born Apr 12, 1796, died Mch 14, 1880.
75. Maria G., wife of David Thompson (Mother) born Nov 27, 1797 died May 27, 1866.
76. R.B. Thompson, born Sept 14, 1823, died Jany 4, 1916.
77. Elizabeth R., wife of R.B.T. born Apr 12, 1824, Dec 20 1899.
78. Maria E. Yoder Oct 13, 1852, May 19, 1916
79. John M. Yoder, Apr 21, 1849,
80. Robert A. Yoder Aug 9, 1876, Aug 25, 1902.
81. Dr John Cunningham May 19, 1792-Jany 20, 1892
Just below the Yoder's & Thompson's mon. is a Plumer
mon with 11 markers:
82. Margaret L.P.
1828-1896
83. George
1826-1906
84. Catherine E.
1828-1893
85. George E. Jr
1859-1914
86. Maria E.
1852-1854
87. John C.
1863-1864
88. In memory on mon of Benjamin Thomson, born in Fairford, Gloucestershire,
England Apr 10, AD 1772
died Nov 26 ,1834 in lots 361-362 marker was____
89. In farthest back corner lots 407-408 Rev T.P. Speer, born Aug 9, 1825, died Mch 7, 1896 & recent
cutting on same mon is Elizabeth V. Stonewall 1836-1915.
90. James Beard died Apr 16, 1841 aged 72 yrs
91. Margaret, wife of James Beard born in Dauphin Co Pa Dec 26, 1773 died Aug 3, 1864 aged 90 yrs 7 mos 7
days in lot 432-433 way back & 20 other Beards
92. Charles Merkel 1847-1915 Biffle on back of mon, away back. [what's Biffle]
93. Back of low whitish brick chapel is Rev John Herron, Presbyterian minister 1851-1910 Mary Agnes
Johnston, his wife 1855-19
94. Constant O. Markel 1837-1908 Co I 102 O.V.I. Pleasant Ann, his wife 1855-19
95. Robert Latimer Nov 1, 1823-Mar 16, 1891
96. Lydia A., his wife Oct 13, 1832 Mch 11, 1909
97. J. Clark Latimer 1854-1915
98. William Elliott, war of 1812 Died Jany 31, 1855 aged 75 yrs 7 days.
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99. Elizabeth, wife of Wm Elliott died May 11, 1859 aged 67 yrs 1 mo 11 days
100. John Elliott, Co A 169, Ohio Infantry, Veteran '61-'65.
101. Just south of Red brick chapel is Markle monument Augustus Co I 102 O.V.I. 1828Lovina, his wife 1831-1905
102. Zachariah Potter 1832-1904 also his wife & in front of Larwill vault is
Thompson monument
103. John Thompson 1825-1907
104. Martha Thompson 1838-1903
105. Mary A Thompson 1856-1888
106. Edward Thompson 1861-1882
107. Ebenezer Finley11*2 died Dec 23, 1888 aged 64 yrs 5 days 108. Nancy Ann, wife of E. Finley died Sept 4,
1876 aged 68 yrs 6 mos & 22
days.
It is now 4:30 AM & I am very sleepy & will go to bed having finished transcribing the cemetery sheets.
JVT
Oak Hill Saturday night Nov 15, 1919, 11:17 PM
I got up this morning at eight o'clock & got my breakfast & reached the Mfrs Bldg Duquesne Way at 9:15 &
found Mr Dermitt had the binder from Turner Bros I believe there to see the binding & make up of this book &
get instructions & also for the binding of the book I ordered of 600 pages for genealogical tables, which Mr
Dermitt s'd would cost $17.50. I then went to 1204 Park Bldg & saw J.C. Boyer about the sale of Mrs Margaret
M. Rush Decd in Green Co Coal advertised for this day week Nov 22 & about which
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I made arrangements with J.R. Nutt yesterday, He s'd a Dr Linhart, dentist I think at Jeannette Pa who had
married a granddaughter of Mrs Rush was going to pay the Lincoln NBK claim & take an assignment of the Jdgt
& stop the sale & in mention Sterritt & Acheson as concerned in it. I asked what relation Sterret was to Judge
Sterrett & he said he was a nephew. He said Judge Sterrett had no children, but that his life with his wife &
home life was a poem. He spoke of John C. Newmyer, a Pgh atty as I understand, had occasion to go out to the
Allegheny Cemetery one cold stormy day in December in a blinding snow storm. The supreme court had
adjourned & the other Judges were returning to Phila, but Judge Sterrett had gone out to his wife's grave & was
standing bowed over it & the scene was so touching that Newmyer s'd it almost brought tears to his own eyes
seeing his tall form bowed over his wife's grave in such a storm. The nephew's name is James Ralston Sterritt. I
then went to the Mellon Natl Bk & saw A.W. Mellon & made arrangements to see him Monday next on the coal
deal. Then went to Reed, Smith Shaw & Beal & Mr McClay told me of his talk last Saturday with Estelle
Howard about the Barnes claim, then saw W.A. Seifert & made arrangements to see him about next Wednesday
abt the B.A.T. Trust matter, & saw T.R. [best guess, may be F.B.] Farren about some abstracts & deeds. Went
over to Wm Penn Hotel, paid my bill finished reading the paper & went to Wood St & took
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Car 40 to Mt Washington, going around to corner Grand View Av (overlooking Monongahela River) &
Kearsarge St & walked down the Hill to 228 Virginia Av to Sally Brown's, who told me her real name was
Murkle, bur as her second husband only lived 16 mos after marriage to her & everybody knew her as Mrs Brown,
she just ctd the Brown. She s'd Mr Murkle had a son by a former marriage who he asked her to look after & he
*2 This was son of Uncle Michael Finley, see Leighton Finley Vol
1, Page 327.
was living with them & was "a nice good kid". He was 17 mos in their service most of the time in Texas, but
didn't get across to France. He had come in before I left & she introduced me. He had a good intelligent face &
impressed me favorably. By the time I got upstairs to see Cousin Kate Smith, it was 1:40 PM & I took down
quickly & in outline what she told me which I will now transcribe & elaborate on to conform with her statements.
I recall that when leaving Wednesday Evening, they marvelled at my not using glasses & I told them no one
need, if they would commence after they were forty to massage their eyes & I told them of my practice
whereupon Kate s'd her brother Sam had told her once that one of the Earlier Presidents had done that & I then
told he it was John Quincy Adams & I commenced doing it on the strength of its having been practiced
successfully by him. When I s'd Adams, she nodded assent & s'd "yes, thats right".
Today, when I spoke of Aunt Esther who married Geo Aarman having a daughter
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who married a Brinker. She said she had heard her mother speak of the Brinkers. She thinks another daughter
married a Means & s'd today there was a Means girl visited Lucinda Scholl & she thinks was of this Aunt Esther's
family. She s'd a William Thompson visited the Simerals. S'd he stayed among them was one of them & their
place was part of his home. I told her about Samuel Thompson's nine daughters & I see now that his daughter
Sara married a Simeral. This William Thompson owned the farm in Allegheny Co where the old County Home
was & run through with it. This Wm Thompson's daughter, Lucy Hood is living in West Newton, aged 70 yrs
last fall or this, & her daughter Mrs Ross, I believe, lives near them, at any rate, she s'd she would have Sallie
Brown see her next Sunday, tomorrow at church & get some information for me when I call next week.
Kate s'd John Markle, son of Casper, lived in the log house by the Run in the hollow when her grandfather Peter
Rothermel moved here in 1813. Soon after Peter R came to Westnd, they changed the road & built the new
Turnpike through his farm necessitating the cutting down of many big trees. Peter R took $500 stock in the
Turnpike Co. John Markle got the trees to use in building the stone house which he built about this time & in
which later my grandfather A.F.T. died. John Markle
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was to return a like am't of trees to Peter R who was thinking of building a new house himself, but Markle never
did return them. Mrs Scholl called to see her grandmother (ie Kate's grandmother) the week after they came in
1813 & that is when at the first interview, she told of the Jack girls & Barrett. Kate says her Uncle Benj
Rotharmel was at Gbg with a wagon when John Markle's trunk came & he handed it home. She said John Markle
went off with some woman & died & she says her mother told her it was in the upper part of NY state, but she
cant recall the town. Also said there was a man with him when he died, who reported there was no woman with
him then. Says John Markle was a very large big strong man. She said there was a big stone pile in Jake
Markle's field along the Turnpike (the farm, she says is now owned by Boyds) as high as a house & no one knew
how it came to be there, which they concluded to use in building the new turnpike & John Markle by reason of
his strength was active in taking down the stones for hauling away. They got a ladder to get up on them & when
a great number had been removed & away down in the heart of the pile, John Markle found a massive head &
shoulders of a man's remains. The neck was big enough to slip over his head & massive as he was it came down
over his head & shoulders & extended over his shoulders
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& arms coming to his wrists being so much bigger than he was. He walked down the road, with it over his head
& shoulders, about which his mother reproved him after she heard of it. Said face was there, but not the eyes. It
was just the upper part, from navel up, as she indicated. They buried it deep, there along the road, by the fence.
(It is now 1 Am 16th & steam is going down, so I will quit & go to bed.) (6:40 PM 16th) Kate said that Jacob
Markle, younger full brother of Uncle Joe, was the father of Mrs E.C. Leightly & of W.H. Markle of Gbg Pa.
He went to see her grandmother when she lay sick & said to her "I guess you dont know me". Her grandmother
replied: "Oh yes, you are Mr Markle". Kate said "Sallie" Oliver (Sarah Salome) lived a year with her mother, my
great grandmother Markle when Aunt Hannah was keeping house for her brother, Uncle Joe, which she did
during the time he was a widower, after first wife's death & before he had marred his second wife. When Mrs
Oliver would have to go home or be away temporarily, Kate's mother would go over & stay with g.g.m. Markle.
Kate said Mrs Oliver was a very large woman, as was her mother & that Oliver was very cross & mean to her as
he had been to his two former wifes [sic]. Ed Cowan, U.S. Senator, married Lucetta Oliver, daughter of old
Jimmy Oliver & Kate says her mother told her Jimmy & Jimmy Oliver were brothers. Lucy Hood's mother was a
daughter of old Jimmy Oliver & her father was William
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Thompson. Mrs Hood is 70 or 71.
Speaking of William Miller, who married Aunt Mary Markle & his family, Kate said the last time her mother was
to see Uncle Joe (Gen'l) Markle a year or two before his death, say in 1865 when he was 88 yrs old along with
her aunt Eliza (wife of her Uncle Benj) they stayed all night & the General told them that his aunt "Polly" Rugh,
sister of his father Casper had been stolen by the Indians along with a little girl five years old & was held by the
Indians for five years when she escaped & came home in the night clad in nothing but rags torn & bleeding &
barefooted & when she knocked at the door her sons who came to the door were frightened & did not know her
She also had daughters. She was faint from hunger & fatigue & almost dead. They sent for the Doctors that
same night & they worked with her for several days before she was able to speak. She got well & lived years
after. Kate said William Miller, husband of Mary Markle had a sister. When Kate's Aunt Kate lay sick, Geo
Brush, who had married her Aunt, said there would soon be only two of the old stock left, by the tree he meant
"Aunt Kate", (who did die in a week or two) Blind Gasper Markle & her Uncle Benjamin Rotharmel. She said
Mary Miller, sister of blind Gasper above named also went blind & her mother told her that "Mary Miller's hands
were burned hard & crisp from after catching hold of the hot stove in walking about the house.
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Gasper Markle, the butcher who weighed over 350 lbs, was son of John Markle & "Betsy" Jack Kate says my
grandmother died in Ky & that Aunt Mary & Father were often over at her mother's & grandmother's. Says Leah
(my grandmother) borrowed a cap (rather two caps) from Kate's Aunt Wagner to get married in, a cap those days
being one of the requisites to be married in. She says they were married up at Scholl's by Squire Andrew Finley,
who married almost everyone about there & had also married all of his own children. Kate told of Polly Bell
telling her of Brothers (Joshua Brothers, who married her sister Jenny) being very bad with dropsy & "they" told
him to go out into the blackberry patch & eat blackberries until the season was over, by which time he was well,
cured of the dropsy. Kate said Mary Miller was a very heavy woman & great big around the stomach. Uncle
David Markle, before he married Maria Cowan & immediately after the Rotharmels came there in 1813 would go
every week to see Kate's Aunt Katy whom he wanted to marry. Kate said Hannah Scholl & her brother John
Lavinas Scholl, always called "Lavinas" died with consumption as died several others of the family. Said they
had a Doctor Kiefer, who didn't know anything & would be doctoring them for something else.
Kate said there was a disease in Pgh
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once from which so many people died & that Albert Bell died of it & they would not let them bring the body
home. Albert & his wife Adaline had a son James Bell named for his grandfather Judge Jimmy Bell & when
Adaline died, Judge Bell took the boy which only lived two yrs & Mrs E.E. Leightly, Adaline's sister took the girl
Adaline. Judge Bell later took her away from Mrs Leightly & later, his daughter Josephine living in Phil a took
her & kept her until she died & then Mrs Leighty took her again. She, Adaline, now Mrs Goldsmith, is living in
West Newton aged probably 70 yrs. I think her Aunt Josephine in Phila was married to a Weimer.
Mrs Adaline Bell died in Pgh & was brought to Genl Markle's where she was kept over night & buried in Markle
Cemetery. Albert Bell afterwards married in Pgh, a woman, not Oliver by name, but of the Oliver family or
connection.
The sister of William Miller above mentioned had a natural son by Jacob Markle. Jacob Markle had financial
reverses & broke up & lost everything & had a very hard time to get along. For a time, he stayed at his sister
Mary Miller's & then at the Scholl's, another sister's. The Miller woman married a man named Spencer & lived
down the River or at some small town, it was Jacksonville, where Kate's uncle Geo Brush lived & when her Aunt
Katy was visiting Brush's, she went to see Mrs Spencer who told her Jacob Markle had a son (meaning the one
she had had to him) who would keep him & further that she had sent him that word. Kate dont know what name
the boy went by.
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Kate says Leah Robb never spoke to her about her mother having the child before marriage & evidently didn't
know of it until late in life, when someone evidently told her, as she was seen one day going crying & screaming
across the fields to her brother Albert Miller's to see him about it & tell him & Kate's mother said she need not go
to tell him, for Susan Patterson, his mother-in-law knew it, & thought from that from that Albert would have
heard it from his wife. Leah Robb was married long before John N. Robb, her husband went to California where
she later went to him & had many glowing rosy stories of the hundreds of dollars she made while there. Kate
says they lived in Gbg when first married, then in West Newton & later on the farm, where they were when I first
knew them & it was when living there that she first learned of her mother's early mishap. Samuel Patterson,
husband of Susan, had a brother, Elijah who died in West Newton & a sister also. When Jacob Markle got a
pension, they all wanted to take him & keep him, but his son W.H., took him to his home at Gbg. He & William
Miller, his brother-in-law, both got pensions for their services in the War of 1812, but Uncle Joe Markle, the
Gen'l, would never apply for one.
Miss Jennie Boyd, sister of Mrs Duff & daughter of Louisa Miller Boyd (Leah Robb's sister) has a house of her
own Wilkinsburgh, Pa & lives there alone, unmarried, her nephews Duff, however, sometimes staying with her.
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Is well up in years "close, mean & stingy is no name for 'em".
John L. Markle of Gasper (Page 31 No 1) married a girl that lived & worked at Chris Scholl's. Julia Lewis, by
name.
Kate says her own mother was at great great grandmother "Nellie" Jack's the night she died & that she & Nellie
Markle (daughter of John & Betsy Jack Markle) got the supper for the people that were there & those that sat
down to the first table ate everything up & there was nothing left for the second table & nothing in the house
from which to prepare anything more. This was at John Markle's. Kate dont think her mother was more than 15
yrs old at the time. Says she was 9 yrs old when they came to Westnd Co in 1813, born say 1804, & that Maria
Markle (Smith) was a little older than her mother & Nellie Markle, her sister, was a little younger & that there
were but 14 mos between Maria & Nellie. Her mother was married when 23 & Mrs Jack's death was long before
that. Said her Uncle Wagner laid Mrs Jack out. Says her mother told her she thought Mrs Jack came from the old
Country as she was always telling them tales of things that occurred there. Her mother said the cancer on the side
of Mrs Jack's face was awful, & the smell from it was so bad they didn't know they w'd get her laid out, but Uncle
Wagner went in & went ahead with it. Kate says she knows she died before grandfather A.F.T.
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or at least strongly thinks so. Says her mother said Mrs jack wasn't very tall. Says Eliza Carnahan, who was a
little younger than her mother, went to school with her mother, but was hard to get along with, as she told so
many stories. She married Neff when rather young. Neff was a widower with one child, a daughter when they
were married & they had a lot of children "a big lot". (my recollection is there were 13) & after Neff died, she
married "old L__'s [blot on name, Louis?] Carnahan", a drunkard, who was her first cousin & who was a great
deal younger than she was & she had two children twins, by him. One died & the other, a girl, grew up. She was
called Zenie & she marred a man named Potter, who was said to be from Ireland & he left her, was reported to
have gone back to Ireland, & she died shortly afterwards. They had one child, a son, who turned out bad & was
taken to Morganza. His name was Willie Potter. One of Eliza Carnahan Neff's children married a Budd (not one
of the Markle Budds) & lived a couple of miles across the river from West Newton In Rostraver Tp. Kate got
milk from her grandson & just before she fell, he told her they had had a birthday celebration for his
grandmother, who was a little older than Kate. Her name was Ginsey Neff, now Budd & Kate thinks she is still
living. I must look this up & go at earliest moment possible to see her. Kate says Abraham Markle, Casper's
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son by first wife was gone from Westnd before her grandfather came & his older brother George also. They
would come back to visit & she said George Stayed more at her grandfather's than he did at his own father's.
I bid Kate & Sally goodbye at 4:40 PM & at corner Kearsarge & Sycamore Sts took street car to B&O Sta. Came
to C'ville on 5:35 Pm old Duquesne Ltd, meeting Mrs H.P. Snyder with her explanations & two daughters in the
dining car, found street car, was half hour late, but got it at 8 PM & had to change at New Haven & U'town Car
barn, got to town at 9:07, got my four day's mail, 33 letters, got shaved, had business conference with Frank S.
Haynes & came out at 10:15, wrote at this record until 1 Am, bathed my feet, retired at 1:55 AM, got up at (.
Went to church & heard a grand sermon from Dr W.H. Spence on text John, 2d chapter 25th & last verse, last
clause "for he knew what was in man". Andrew came in at 1:11 Pm & we went over beyond his house to view
some of the farm, returning at 2:44 Pm, read until 5, went in, taking Mary & Joe to Minnie's with me for dinner,
returned at 6:30 & have finished making record of the notes taken yesterday at Cousin Kate's. It is now 10:30 & I
must write up my cash acc't book since leaving on 12th, preparatory to going on the 6:52 AM PRR train tomorrow
for Pgh.
JVT
Oak Hill, Nov 17th, 1919 9:19 PM
Coming up from Pgh tonight on the 4 o'clock B&O train, I sat with W.D. Fulton part way & had supper with
him. I asked him when he had been to his old home at Indian Pa, & he said he was just returning from there.
Said he was born Feby 4, 1861 & that his grandfather Robert Fulton came out from Conewango Creek or Valley,
Lancaster Co Pa & that he was a first cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. Said Robert Fulton
1765-1815 bought a 60 A farm for his mother, brother & two sisters in Cross Creek, Washington Co, Pa taking
title in his own name & put them on it. The brother got killed at the Point in Pgh from an accident in some
building operations. Said he just recalls his grandfather who died when he was 4 to 5 in year 1865, say aged 80
yrs. His father was one of three brothers, he thought, who came
over from North of Ireland. He gave me this genealogy of his immediate family:
Robert Fulton, born say 1785, died say 1865.
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Alexander
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-------+-------Robert, was living Alexander Hamilton Elwood D.
at or near Galesburg called "Ham"
B. Feby 4, 1861.
Ills in 1876 & visited Lived at West Leba- Went to College
in Indiana Co when non, Ind Co abt 10 at Wooster, O.
he came on to Cen- miles west of Indiana in 1880.
tennial
was twice elected to
the Legislature.
Ed spoke of a book some woman relative in NY got u p & said he had an extra copy & would let me have it. He
spoke of Robert Fulton's talks with Napoleon abt the submarines. He s'd Judge Thos Mellon wrote a book of his
early life & printed 100 copies which he sent to his friends
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but being rather raw, his sons gad gathered them in, but he knew a party in Pgh who had one of them. Ed also
highly commends a work published in 1917 on Man from the pen of Mark Twain, published by Twain's Literary
Exs which he says is on sale at Weldins in Pgh
JVT
Oak Hill Nov 18, 1919, 11:59 PM
I met Winnie Baird at Post office today & she says she has the family Bible of her father & mother that has
the family record in it at Florence Hess her sister's on Nassau St where she is living & will let me copy the
record if I call around. She says her brother George, whom I met yesterday in the Frick Bldg has their
grandfather Baird's Bible & her brother Rob in Kansas has their great grandfather Baird's Bible. I called up
Joseph J. Thompson at Connellsville Pa today & his wife s'd he was in Uniontown, so I reached him & he came
in this afternoon. Said he had not been to Indiana since our former talk & that his Aunt Mary Ray of Indiana Pa
has been sick, so I think I must go their [sic] this week to see her. He says Summers M. Jack, lawyer is abt 58, &
used to be his school teacher, married a daughter of
who was
President of Bank there. He s'd he had a brother James Jack who was a lawyer in Pgh.
JVT
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Wm Penn Hotel, Room 1205 Nov 19, 1919 10:46 PM
I came down from home this morning on the 6:52 AM train & took the Fish Creek abstracts, the Wash Co Pa
Thompson & Semans Fr deeds, the Callaghan deed & abstracts & T Monon Co deeds & 5 abstracts in Cooper
Van S. & Kyle field to Read, Smith, Shaw & Beal's & delivered them to C.F. Fanen in presence of R.E. Umbel
who was there. Then went over to Wm Penn Hotel & not reaching Andrew there, went back to R.S.S.& B. for
my overcoat making appt for tomorrow with Maj David A. Reed & W.A. Seifert & met Andrew there & with
him, had an hour's conference, with McClay, Seifert & Umbel. I then went & saw A.O. Fording abt hurrying up
his deeds for the Rich Coal & then on arrangement with A.W. Mellon's private Secy, went to 800 Union Arcade
& met H.B. Rust, Prest Koppers Co & his brother W.F. Rust & Mr Ramsburgh, & made arrangements tentatively
for them to come to Uniontown Friday morning to go & look over the coal field in Monon Co W.K. & then took
a street car No 40 to Mt Washington to continue my interviews with Cousin Kate Smith. She said that before
John Markle went away on his last trip, his wife Betsy Jack, heard of the reports about him & took him to task
about it & he acknowledged to her that the woman in question had had a child to him. He built the stone house
shortly after the turnpike was built & she thinks it was in the stone house that Mrs Jack died, but is not sure. She
had been sick a long time, her mother said. She thinks her mother said that John Markle wasn't at home at the
time Mrs Jack died. Lucinda, daughter of John & Betsy Markle married 1st
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Horatio Lloyd, who was a wagoner & came home & came home [sic] from one of his trips East sick with typhus
fever & died. He had lived always after his marriage at the stone house with the Markle family until his death.
He was a brother of the second wife of Uncle Joe Markle. They had three children, see page 16 No 1. After
Lloyd's death, Lucinda married for her second husband, Louis Brenneman, who married a daughter of John C.
Carothers. Louis Brenneman, a son of Sam, was living recently in Pgh & would, Kate thought, be 75 yrs old. She
will make inquiry to see if he is still living & let me know. He used to come up to West Newton to the funerals
of all the Stokeleys, who were his cousins. He was the only one of the family living, all of his brothers & sisters
& there were several, dying young. Kate says the wife of Gasper Markle, the butcher, who was Elizabeth Orr,
was at Dixmont for many years & was shut up in a room at home for some years. Emmett Rowland, their
grandson, was run over by the cars up toward Connellsville, he being at the time in the employ of the RR & she
said "had the Davis in him & wasn't quite right". The mother of Elizabeth Orr, wife of Gasper Markle Page 28
No 1, was a Davis. The Rowlands got $1000 from the RR for damages for Emmett's death & used it to educate
his younger brother Albert Collins Rowland & he is now
a practicing lawyer in Pgh, being Atty for some Coal Co. Martha Jane Markle married
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John Carothers of James of James Page 28 No 1, & their only son James Henry Carothers shot himself in the yard
at the old log house out on the farm out in South Huntingdon Tp after he was a young man, grown, one of his
sisters & Kate thinks it was Agnes married a preacher & she was "off" too. She was a doctress & went abroad as
a missionary & came back because the climate didn't agree with her. The preacher she married was a widower
with three children & cousin Maggie L. M. [Markle] said he was marrying her for her money as "she was well
off". She says Eleanor, one of the sisters of James Henry & Agnes is still living in West Newton. Mr Fritchman
is also living, was a soldier, was a soldier in the Civil War & draws a good pension & is called "Page" Fritchman.
Lizzie, a sister of Mrs Fritchman tried to teach school, as did one of John Carothers daughters, but they were too
nervous & couldn't teach.
Referring to the drawing pages 42-43 No 1, Kate says the two illegitimate sons of Col Israel Painter still own the
old Col Carnahan Willow tree farm & more land as they bought the Arch Boyd place. Their names were John &
Israel, & they had the same mother, Kate Low, who never was married. Col Israel Painter built a house for her
on her father's farm. She also had two daughters to Col Painter & one the Col did not will anyV3 Page 161
thing to but to the other one he willed $20,000, & also willed $20,000 to Kate Low, the mother. The girls were
called Low & the boys Painter. There were some children that died. Kate Low's father's house was "away out
that way" - beyond Mendon. The village of Williamsburg was on the farm of Kate's Uncle Peter on what was
known as his "Fort Field" where they often dug up stone hatchets & implements of warfare. The part of the old
Latta farm to the right of the road as you go toward Mendon. When the schoolhouse is was owned by Kate's
Uncle Wagner (Uncle Barnes Wagner) & he lived on it. Mrs Stauffer (Scholl's dau) got it next or later, &
Nicholls owns it now. Kate says when she was nine years old, she went one evening to visit Aunt Hannah (It is
now 3 Am 20th as I am to be called at 6:30, will quit & go to bed.) See line 22 next page. [record is continued
there, but this the following appears first]
Oak Hill Nov 24, 1919 7:07 PM
I got up at 6:30 Am 20th, got my breakfast & took street car No 75 to 5610 Ellsworth Ave, arriving a little before
8 o'clock & saw Cousins Ruth & Abb & also J. Robinson Showalter & made arrangements for them to have their
home with him & to be boarded for $100 per month for the two & paid him for this month, Nov & he to have
credit on the note Ruth holds of his for their keeping up to 1st of this month. Then took street car in, got
geological maps on Monon Co WVA from B.F. Hoffacker & at 10 Am went with them to Union Arcade & met
W.F. Rust, Fred Lowndes, J.P. Williams Jr, Mr Ramsburg, & others at 1 Pm went over to Kate Smith's & from
there at 4:30, phoned W.F. Rust & arranged for him to come that night to Oak Hill where he arrived in his
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car with Lowndes & Williams at 10:30 PM. I having left on 5:35 B&O, got home at 8:15 PM. At 8 Am on 21st,
we went via New Geneva & met Morris, where we picked up Frank A. Gumps through my coal holdings in Cars
& Clay Dist Monon Co WVA & continued up Roberts Run crossing over at Gump to the headwaters of Big
Whiteley & down it through Garards Fort, across to Ceylon & Little Chicago & Nemacolin where we got coal
samples & then to Ronco where at 5 PM, we got another sample & home at 6:15 PM. Mr Rust & party left for
Pgh at 6:30 AM 22nd & I was busy at Bank Bldg & today there also negotiating with Jasper Augustine & Wm
Searight & by phone to St Paul, Minn with Has F. Sperry & I am now ready to continue the transcribing cousin
Kate's recollections taken 19th & 20th which I left off abruptly on the middle of the page preceding this.
From line 18 preceding page:
Markle with her Aunt Kate & that my Aunt Mary Thompson was away somewhere sewing & came home about 9
o'clock after Aunt Hannah had gotten supper. Father came in later & she recalled him as tall & strong & in going
home with them about ten o'clock, he carried her across the creek. She says a family of Boyds now own & live at
the Jacob Markle farm. Get date from record at Greensburgh when John Neyman sold his South Huntingdon Tp
farm to James Carothers as an aid to help fix date of Barrett incident & speaking of which, Kate said Mrs Scholl's
oldest child was 12 yrs old when her grandmother moved
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there in 1813 & Mrs Scholl was a little girl & remembered the incident about their trying to get her half sister.
She told Mrs Rotharmel all about it, & said she herself was a little girl & it came near killing her half sister, she
having been drugged.
The Benj Miller farm is now owned by Frank Gaut, who married Anna Jack Robertson, a daughter of William,
who was a son of John & Joanna Robertson. They are both now living on the farm. William Robertson had a
second wife, who by his will was to have farm for life & then it was to go to his grandson Will Gaut, who
married Mary Scholl. Israel Miller got his farm from his father William Miller. There was a fuss in the family
when William Miller died & while he didn't make a will, Israel in some way got the farm & lion's share & Leah
Robb said they "would have fixed him" if it hadn't been for their mother. Israel's son William is dead, but his
widow lives there with their daughter who married Cy Markle (of SBM). Cy has two children. William Miller's
wife was an Andrew, lived "away out" & had a nice farm & was three children. Kate says the Jas P. Carothers
farm has been sold & she thinks Will L. Scholl owns part & Dan Williams people part. Lillie Miller Highberger
is living on the John N. Robb farm which I think they bought & they ship milk to McKeesport. Refer to pages
128 & 129 Book 1. Will of Magdalena Rothermel, who is widow of Christian Rothermel, Kate thought her name
was Sibilla Bauer, but after seeing this record
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says she supposes her mother made a mistake in the first name. Said her grandfather Peter Rothermel threw it up
to his older brother Martin, who was rich saying:"yes, you can be rich, but you took it off of the rest of us". Peter
Rotharmel was only & yrs old when his Father, Christian Rotharmel died & Martin, his oldest brother was a man
grown & took advantage of his younger brother & sister. Kate recalls the children saying her mother thought
Keppner's wife was Sibilla, whereas it was Catharina and Sibilla married Paul Grosscup. Kate never heard of the
grandchildren Hegeleys & didn't know Margaret had a child Solomon Seivert before she married Long. Kate s'd
she only had the one child by Long.
Kate says that just after her mother died, about 45 yrs ago, a Mrs Grosscup visited them at the old home in West
Newton, & stayed over night with them & had a daughter with her who had just graduated & was going to teach
& had also a younger daughter with her who was only 4 or 5 yrs old. Mrs Grosscup's name before marriage was
Ryall, & her mother was a Bovard (Evidently, a sister of O.B. Ryall). Her father, she s'd wasn't just right in his
mind. Her mother lived at Ashland, Ohio. Her husband's name was Daniel Grosscup. He had a farm, then a
planing mill & got hurt badly & was a widower with three children, one of them being a Lutheran preacher, when
he met Belle Ryall & married her. She had been at their house before (ie at Smith's) & her husband was there
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once with her. This would be a sister of O.B. Ryall, my relative, Oliver Bovard had a sister who married a
Mitchell, & her daughter was out at Ashland, O, when old Mrs Paul Grosscup (my Shearer relative grandmother
of the Judge) died from a cancer & when she returned, reported that Mrs Grosscup had not been properly cared
for. Paul Grosscup had a son Isaac who predeceased him, leaving a widow, whose name before marriage was
Dolman, & she was not of good repute. She had a boy born a year or two after Isaac's death, which she took to
Grosscup's with her & she waited on her father-in-law, Paul Grosscup, who was old & his wife, seeing the
maneuvers, when laying sick, would moan continually from her dying couch "Poor Pa, Poor Pa" meaning her
husband. After she died, Paul Grosscup married this widow of his son, who Bell Ryall Grosscup said was a bad
woman. She had two daughters by Isaac who taught school & Kate says she heard she had a child after her
marriage to Paul Grosscup & that Belle said there was a suspicion of whose it was, (so this is the child Judge
Peter S. Grosscup told me his grandfather had when over 80 & that there was no suspicion, but that it was his
own. The Judge has another guess. Evidently not being informed of the mother's character). She made her
husband Paul Grosscup make his farm over to her by either deed or will, at any rate, she got it, so Belle told Kate.
When Belle
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was at West Newton on that visit over night 45 yrs ago, she said a sister of her husband's father Juliana Myers
living then in Phila, "away up in the nineties" was hale & hearty & would lightly run up the stairs to 3 rd floor
without effort or fatigue. She was the only sister of Paul (being daughter of the Elder Paul & Sibilla). She then
had two old old white haired men who were her sons with whom she lived, or who lived with her. Kate says her
Uncle Benj Rotharmel told her when she spoke of it to him that her (Mrs Myers) brother Paul Grosscup had told
him she had been married twice, her first husband being a Thompson & her second, a Myers & she dont know
whether the two sons above were named Thompson or Myers. Shortly after her Grandpap moved here in 1813
(her Aunt Katy was then in her 18th year), she thinks it was same summer some one came on horseback to the
house & told him Jacob Grosscup, brother of Paul Jr had died & wanted him to go to the house where he lay
dead. Peter Rothermel & his daughter Katy went going on horseback toward Bell's & did not get there until
midnight & found Grosscup had been living in a little house in the yard & a very good family named Stinicums
lived in the big house, took them in & cared for them royally.
Speaking of great great grandfather, John Rotharmel & of not finding his will Kate said her Aunt Katy had told
her that he was a nice, honest, fine man
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but something happened & he died rather poor, although he had been as well off as the others. Said that her
grandmother told her that her mother was named Juliana at the insistent demands & urgent request of the
Grosscups, but her mother didn't Know why, but just after her death, when they heard of Juliana Myers (nee
Grosscup) their only sister, Kate saw why they had wanted the name for their only sister. Kate now asks if there
isn't a place called Donegal in Westnd Co & I told her "yes" & she said "that was where Jacob Grosscup died &
where my grandfather & Aunt Katy went".
Kate said Martin Rotharmel's wife (Page 217, Book 1) was Hannah Leasure & that when he died, his children
were all dead. She sd one son died when 19 of consumption & the other son Jacob died leaving six little girls,
but no boys. Kate knew of three daughters, one left two children & Sam Smeck just had one which was taken
when little by Martin, the grandfather, to raise. Hannah, the wife, seemed all for her own friends as against her
own children, or their children rather, & when Martin did no by his will leave her in full control of everything,
she was mad, left the house & never came back & would not be buried in the same cemetery where he was
buried. (Here ends notes taken on 19th & these taken 20th 1:22 & 4:30 PM begin).
Wm Robertson, son of John & Joanna married first, a rich wife & their daughter Anna Jack Gaut
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got $7,000 from her mother's estate at one time & John Fullerton, whose mother was a sister of Wm Robertson's
wife, got $14,000. He was exr. Kate says David Markle, son of John & Betsy & Andrew Robertson, son of John
& Joanna, first cousins, married sisters. Also says one of John & Joanna Robertson's girls married William
Plumer & Nellie, another, married a Boyd. She thinks Boyd's name was William. The first wife of Wm
Robertson had two brothers & a sister who were unmarried. Wm Robertson got his second wife over in Wash Co
Pa, but had no children by her, so that Anna Jack Gaut was his only child.
Page 217 Book 1, Will of Martin Rotharmel, brother of Kate's grandfather Peter, Kate says his oldest daughter
Maria was older than her grandfather. Mrs Smeck died young & her father, Martin, raised her son Sam Smeck.
Said he, grandfather, died in 1823 aged 64 born then say 1758. Said Martin was out to West nd in the fall once
when they were making cider & talked of coming back & buying a farm near them. His health was bad then &
shortly after, he got back home he died, say in Nov 1818. Kate s'd her grandmother's mother died the same year.
(That would be, I guess, the wife of Capt Conrad Stenger). She was the wife of Capt Conrad Stenger & her name
had been Anna Catharine Bender & she was from across the ocean. She had a sister in this country, but Kate
dont know her name. Kate said the Painting of the battle of Gettysburgh by P.F. Rothermel
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was shown once in Pgh & Sam, her brother, went to see it. She said she didn't know whether they were related or
not as there were so many down East. She said someone went to see the Rotharmels at Phil a, but they could not
trace the relationship, although in appearance, they were the "very image" of the Berks Co Rotharmels.
Kate spoke of a Miss Kramer marrying a Waltz. Said her mother was a sister of Casper Markle & lived at Waltz
Mills. She was a very close woman. They had a big farm & had hams, potatoes, etc to sell & the Rotharmels &
Mill Grove folks used to go there to buy from them. She had a daughter, Mary?, married to a Boyd, of another
family. Israel Miller's 2d wife was a daughter, & Mrs Hunter was another daughter & another was Mrs Niccolls.
Morris L. Painter, another illegitimate son of Col Israel Painter was by some Pgh woman (not Kate Low) & Col.
educated him. Kate said her grandfather Peter Rotharmel was out buying cattle once by the Robert Fulton farm
Page 24, & there was a vicious bad character living near named Weiand who had threatened Rotharmel & he
refused to go to his house, but the neighbors induced him to go saying Weiand was away. He came back
unexpectedly, riding a trained horse, which he rode right into the room where they were setting & bade the horse
lie down, which it did. He had on a belt with several pistols & seeing Rotharmel, said "I believe I said I would
kill you". Some of
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the family opened the door & kicked the horse when his head was turned & the horse ran out. He turned & swore
& demanded to "know who put the house out," When Rotharmel ventured that he had not closed the door
securely. He then ordered Rotharmel upstairs, made him lie down on a bed, where he lay until 3 or 4 AM when
Weiand fell asleep & he made his escape. Weiand struck one of his sons once & knocked his shoulder out of
joint. Paul Rothermel, son of Paul, the brother of Christian, John, & Leonard, when out in West nd, was moved to
sympathy for this son & his sister & told them to come to Berks Co & he wd care for them. They said they had
no money & could not get away, whereupon, he gave or sent them money & they left Westnd & their cruel vicious
father & went to Berks Co. The daughter married a Rotharmel there, but not Paul who was middling old at the
time.
Mrs Hood, living on Vine St West Newton called Lucy, was named for Mrs Ed Cowan, whose name was Lucetta.
She was Lucetta Oliver, daughter of Jimmy Oliver. Mrs Hood's mother was a sister named Eliza & her husband
was William Thompson. They both died in West Newton & are buried in the cemetery there. Mrs Hood's
daughter "Hazy" Rose, was named for Mrs Hazlett & she lives on S.S. Pgh 4 or 5 miles out. Ed Cowan's
daughter Eliz was married to lawyer J.J. Hazlett.
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She is dead & so is he. He died a long time before her. No children (It is midnight & the steam has gone down,
so I will quit for tonight).
It is now 8:44 AM & I resume my transcribing. Kate says Lucy Hood & Mrs J.J. Hazlett, daughter of U.S.
senator Ed Cowan used to go to Ohio to visit relatives. Evidently to visit the Sam'l Thompson people at Cadiz O.
See Page 74 Book 2.
Will of John Finley, Page 275, Book 2. This was a son of Clement Finley, who Kate thought was a brother of
Squire Andrew Finley & it was their farm first owned by Clement & willed by him to his son John that Peter
Rotharmel bought in 1813 at public sale. One of John Finley's daughters married a Robertson, a brother of John,
the husband of Joanna, & they were very poor & John would give no help at all to his brother & his family. Kate
said her Aunt Kate heard the dogs barking one morning & looking down by the barn was Mrs Robertson who told
Kate she had been raised there & she wanted a basket of cherries from off the trees she used to gather them when
a little girl & said they were "so poor" & didn't know what to do & that Mr Robertson's brother wouldn't help
them any. This Mrs Robertson's daughter became enceinte to Bell a son of William & Nancy (nee Finley) Bell.
He, Bell (who would be second cousin to the girl he seduced) ran off. Went West & never came back & Kate did
not know what became of the girl, or of her parents, the Robertsons as they moved away. The stage coaches
used to make John Robertson's their regular stopping place & he was a very poor provider, so that often, Joanna
would have nothing in the house from which to prepare meals for the travelers.
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& she was so goaded by this humility & stinginess that she ran off from home, but he quickly got wind of it &
started after her & away off on back of the farm, under a projecting rock, he found her & upon his promise to
provide, she went back home with him & the next day, he bought a lot of provisions for the house. Before he
went off to hunt her, his black servant girl, Nell, gave him a plain talk & tongue lashing. Joanna would have to
sneak money from him to buy clothes for their daughter Sallie, who later became Mrs Plumer, & she would go
out in the woods to dress, so that her father would not know of her having the good clothes. Joanna never dared
to have nay parties at the house. Her Aunt Katy told her that after Joanna's death, a wife (2d or 3rd) would give
parties & would order him to go for water & other chores & made him do it. His 3rd wife had a child, a girl &
John Robertson willed her $2,400, but if she died before coming of age, the money was to go to his daughters
Nellie Boyd & Sallie Plumer, who got it as the child died when abt 5 yrs old.
Kate says Joanna Robertson, Ginsey Finley, & Betsey Markle, sisters, are all buried at Sewickley Church
graveyard (Mrs M. being the only Markle buried there) & no one of them knew the other was dead, their deaths
being so close together from a deadly typhus or spotted fever that swept over that section at the time. Mrs
Robertson & Mrs Finley died first & Mrs Markle, a short time after.
Eleanor Jack had first been living with her
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daughter, Joanna & by reason of Robertson providing so scantily, John & Betsy Markle took her to their home &
when they sent for her clothes, Robertson would not give them up. After her death, they wanted John Markle to
go for them, but he wd not saying that if he did, he would give Robertson a kick which he would long remember,
so his wife Betsy Markle went for them taking with her her son Gasper, who was young. She had a fight to get
them, but took them home with her & afterwards in speaking of Robertson said "you couldn't expect anything
from a hog but a grunt". "Uncle" Wagner took Betsy Markle over to grandmother Rotharmel's for a visit one day
& Betsy remarked to grandmother Rotharmel she didn't know why Joanna & Ginsey (her sisters) didn't come to
see her (they were then dead) & Mrs Rotharmel, not wishing to alarm her or make her any worse said: "Well, you
know they have been very sick, just as you are", Betsy then said she wanted to go over to Robertson's to see them
& Uncle Wagner said he would take her over on Monday of the coming week. On Sunday of the next week, her
son Gasper, in passing through her room in the morning found she did not speak to him, as was her habit & when
he later passed back & she did not speak, he went to the bed & felt her & found she was dead. Kate says there
are small tombstones to their graves, which are near to the graves of her Aunt Hannah, wife of her Uncle Dan.
she was the only one of the Rotharmels buried there. She was a Newlon & was buried in among them. She was a
sister of Elijah Newlon, who married a Markle. She thinks Squire Andrew Finley was dead before his wife died.
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Kate says her mother told her that John Carothers' wife (who was a Power) parents of James P. Carothers & John
Finley's (son of Clement) wife were sisters & that "Natty" Hurst was a brother-in-law. Kate says her grandfather,
Peter Rotharmel was her (in Westnd) 2nd time on his way west. John Markle wanted him to stay & buy the Finley
farm which was to be sold. When Peter came to get his horse, which was a good one, it was gone & John Markle
said it had been stolen. He did not lie the horses abt there as they were a poor lot, so he wrote back to Berks Co
to a friend, Conrad Stenger, his brother-in-law, to buy him a good horse & send it on. He gave the letter of John
Markle to mail & he stuck it in the fire & burned it. After waiting two weeks & the horse not coming, Peter got
uneasy & one day, the daughters of John Markle said to him they didn't know what their father, they called him
Pap, could be carrying hay up on the hill for & he said he would go up & see & upon getting up there, found a
pen built in which his horse was enclosed & the horse was wild with joy at seeing its master. Markle had taken
this ruse to get him to stay for the sale. The sale came off & Finleys got their hired man to bid it up. Peter had
gone before hand & looked the farm over & reported that he didn't want to buy a blackberry patch, as the farm
was wofully run down, but nevertheless, he got a man to bid for him & it was knocked down to this man for $24
per acre & he announced Peter Rotharmel as the buyer, the auctioneer congratulated him & John Markle & others
were dazed & surprised as he had kept them in the
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dark as to his intentions.
One of John Finley's daughters married a Kerr & they had a son who was a preacher who once when there on a
visit preached in West Newton.
Grandmother Finley, widow of John, the son of Andrew, who was a Stokeley before her marriage said Clement
Finley & two of his sisters were buried on his farm on the meadow hill, which Peter Rotharmel bought & he,
Peter, was buried up in the orchard, no stones to any of their graves. This Mrs Finley always called him "Uncle
Clements" indicating he was a brother of Squire Andrew, her father-in-law. Page 283 Book 2. Kate says one of
Squire Finley's sons, she thinks Andrew, married Polly Lloyd, a sister of Gen'l Joseph Markle's 2d wife & went
away off, she says further away than Ohio. When Kate's grandmother died, one of their daughters was at the
house with her aunt, Mrs Gen'l Markle. Thinks her name was Harris. Said her mother told her that some of the
Fricks worked for Barney Wagner, who was a hatter, & they could help him a great deal being Efficient. Said the
lived not far from Wagners.
Page 294 Book 2, Kate says Polly Finley was widow of John, son of Squire Andrew, whose maiden name was
Stokeley as stated heretofore. She says she died over at Alex Simeral's at Webster. She thinks Simeral was her
son-in-law. She thinks he is the same Alex Simeral who had the bad girls, she told me about before. Once, she
thinks it was before he was married this Alex Simeral was out with a New Year's
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party & came to Peter Rotharmel's house just before daylight Jany 1st & he took them in & gave them something
to eat. He, unnoticed, had got out among them with his gun & was shooting as fast as they were.
Page 296 Book 2, Will of Wm T. Bell. She says this was a son of Wm Bell & Nancy Finley Bell. Said Nancy
married for her second husband, Old Joe Hough after Bell died. Said she had a son "Todd" who lived with her &
was unmarried & died at her place, so this is evidently William "Todd" Bell. Kate said "Paddy" Jack came to her
grandmother's every week. Ruth & Abb, when I spoke of being to Wooster, O, spoke of Matilda Robison, our
relative & I told them I was at her grave. They then spoke of a wonderfully fine lace shawl she had sent to their
mother, my Aunt Matilda, & upon asking them when it was, they said it was after she was married to Uncle
Samuel Robinson.
When in Thursday morning 20th inst 11:15 to 11:50 AM to see Attorney A. Marshall Thompson in the Frick Bldg
in persuance of arrangements made at 9:33 PM the night before with him & his brother J. Harold Thompson &
James F. Sperry of St Paul Minn at the Syria Mosque: he said his father was a Presbyterian minister Rev Samuel
H. Thompson & that he had come from County Donegal Ireland. He said he had been there himself on a visit &
had been at Letterkenny. It is now 12:12 Pm & I must go in town as I have finished my transcribing.
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At Dr Frank B. Hess's 59 Nassau St Uniontown, Pa S.W. Corner Nassau & Stockton Sts Nov 26, 1919 6:55 PM
Cousin Winona C. Baird is giving me the record from her father & mother's Bible:
Jeremiah Baird, Born October 9th, 1828.
Margery Finley, Born October 25, 1835.
They were married Jany 15, 1857 by the Rev Samuel Wilson D.D. of Dunlaps Creek Pres Ch of which he was
pastor abt 30 yrs. He baptized Margery when she was an infant & performed the marriage ceremony on a very
cold winter day when there was good sleighing snow & then baptized her first eight children.
Births
1. Winona Catharine Baird, Dec 21, 1857.
2. Margaret Ann Baird, Dec 30, 1858.
3. Robert Baird, Nov 8, 1860.
4. William Finley Baird, Feby 26, 1862.
5. Moses Alexander Baird, Aug 28, 1863.
6. Elliott Jerome Baird, Apr 23, 1865.
7. Edward Lincoln Baird, Jany 3, 1867.
8. Mary Margery Baird, July 14, 1868.
9. George Hayden Baird, Aug 21, 1870.
10. Edward Jerome Baird, July 13, 1872.
11. James Fulton Baird, Jany 25, 1875.
12. Anna Florence Baird, Aug 3, 1876.
13. Benjamin Beal Baird, Mch 6, 1879.
14. Leila Ada Baird, Dec 20, 1883.
Marriages
William Finley Baird & Almina Abbey Smith Jany 27, 1886 by Rev Penhallegon of Streator Ill.
Robert Baird & Rachel Emma Shannon at Homestead Beaver Co near Beaver Falls, Pa.
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Margaret Ann Baird & William McClure M.D. of Montreal Canada, in Canton, Ohio at the home of Dr Swan,
who was killed in Pgh by an Auto a week or two ago.
Anna Florence Baird & Frank Brown Hess, June 29, 1904 by Rev harry H. Ryland.
Moses A. Baird & Lametha Anton Vorhees at Streator, Ills, Oct 7, 1891.
George H. Baird & Sarah Ella Morgan Sept 14, 1899 at Bridgeville by Rev Anthony Mealy.
Edward J. Baird & Caldonia Lister on Sept 16, 1903 at Willsville, Kansas.
Benjamin B. Baird & Anna Maria Guseman Oct 26, 1905 at Carmichaels Pa by Rev H.O. McDonald.
James F. Baird & Sarah Moser, daughter of Nathaniel H. Moser on March 30, 1916 by Rev R. Ivan Wilson.
Deaths
Elliott Jerome Baird, Sept 19, 1866.
Edward Lincoln Baird, Sept 26, 1868 of Diptheria
Leila Ada Baird, Sept 13, 1890 of Diptheria
William Finley Baird, May 10, 1916.
Almina Abbey Baird, Nov 5, 1903.
Jeremiah Baird, May 26, 1901.
Mary Margery Baird, Mch 26, 1902.
Moses Baird was born Dec 1, 1794 & died Dec 7, 1873 & his wife Rachel Beal daughter of Benjamin Beal, was
born Oct 9th, 1796 & died Nov 10, 1880. They were the parents of Jeremiah Baird.
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Jeremiah Baird was christened Jeremiah Piersol Baird for his Uncle Jeremiah Piersol the Elder whom I remember
& who lived to be one hundred years or almost & shoe wife was Polly, or Mary Beal, another daughter of
Benjamin Beal. They were the parents of Jeremiah Peirsel, the father of Isaac F. Peirsel.
Pasted in the Bible is the following record copied by Winnie from the family Bible of her grandfather
Robert Finley Robert Finley, born Apr 4, 1809.
Catharine Carothers, Jany 1812.
They were married Jany 23, 1833.
She died June 9, 1842 (Their children were)
1. Ruth Finley, born Mch 19, 1834 Died Nov 2, 1834.
2. Mary Margery Finley, born Oct 25, 1835.
3. Samuel Elliott Finley, born May 15, 1838.
4. Ebenezer Finley, born Sept 6, 1841 Died Oct 31, 1842.
Ann Hunford, Born Nov 20, 1814, married to Robert Finley May 13, 1845 (Their Children):
5. William Hunford [Husford?] Finley, Born Aug 22, 1846 Died Oct 10, 1855.
6. Thomas Wilson Finley, born June 18, 1848.
7. John Evans Finley, born Sept 23, 1849 Died Aug 11, 1919.
8. Margaret Ann Finley, born Mch 29, 1851. Died
She married Sept 13, 1871 to James Gibson Wilson.
9. Naomi12* Catharine Finley, Born Feby 17, 1852 died Aug 1852. Robert Finley died Oct 7, 1874.
Ann Finley died June 10, 1895.
Frank B. Hess, Born Apr 20, 1877, so he says.
Frank & Florence give me the names & dates of their children as follows:
*
This is added Jany 22, 1920 from original Bible record loaned to me by Thos W. Finley.
Finley Baird Hess, born Sept 27, 1905.
Joseph Samuel Hess, born Mch 16, 1911.
John Frank Hess, born Jan 18, 1914.
Winnie gave me to copy a ledger folio sheet in the handwriting of her great Uncle Ebenezer Finley giving the
age, marriages & children of his Father Ebenezer Finley, who was the son of Rev James Finley, who was a
brother of my great great grandmother Martha Finley Thompson.
[Margin note reads:] (See Page 206 lines 12 & 13)13*4
"My Father's age & marriages"
Ebenezer Finley Senr, was born Decem 28, 1760, died Jany 1st, 1849.
1st wife {Jane Kinkaid was born Nov 5th, 1762 died June 6th, 1793.
married Jany 29, 1782.
2d wife {Violet Lowry, was born Apr 2, 1775.
married Apr 8, 1794, Died Nov 11, 1804.
3d wife {Margary Cunningham, was born Apr 14, 1769
married March 14, 1805, died Jan 27, 1822.
4th wife {Sarah Jones, was born Sept 14, 1769.
married May 23, 1822, Died Jany 24, 1847 in 78th yr.
Children's Names 1st Wife's children:
1. John Finley was born Nov 20, 178214*5 Died March 8, 1793.
2. James Finley was born Nov 25, 1784. Died Aug 26, 1861.
3. Elizabeth Finley was born Dec 22, 1786, died July 3, 1860.
4. Joseph Finley was born March 31, 1788, died Oct 8, 1848.
5. Hannah Finley was born Oct 16, 1791. Died Mch 29, 1793.
2nd Wife's Children:
6. Rebecca Finley was born Saturday, Oct 17, 1795. died Feby 9, 1886 in 91 yr
7. Hannah Finley was born Friday, Dec 10, 1796. died Feby 16, 1871 in 65 yr.
8. William Finley was born Aug 26, 1798. died Jany 16, 1867 in 67 yr.
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9. Samuel Finley was born July 19, 1800. Died Feby 1, 1880 in 80th yr.
10. Jane Finley was born June 7, 1802. Died Sept 2, 1890 in 88 yr.
11. Ebenezer Finley was born Oct 24, 1804. died Dec 28, 1892 in 88 yr.
3d Wife's children:
12. Eliott Finley was born Apr 27, 1807. Died Jany 7, 1892 in 85 yr.
13. Robert Finley was born Apr 4, 1809. Died Oct 7, 1874 in 65 yr.
*4
Lines cited read: The changes made on Pages 179 180 were made from the original Bible records.
*5 See Page 206 lines 1 to 5:
[lines read, beginning p. 205 last two lines & continuing through lines
cited:] instead of writing the year of his birth 1782, wrote the year of his death 1793 on that line
instead of the one below & then 82 was written over the 93, leaving it a little indistinct, but
plainly evident that it is 1782 & not 83 as the two shows as the strongly distinctive figure written
over the three.
14. Margaret Finley was born Nov 29, 1810. Died Aug 13, 1839 in 29 yr.
The following record Winnie said she copied from Lulu Hibbs Chalfants record, being from the Bible of
her grandfather Uncle Theodore Van Kirk, which I have some place, but the birth of Ada Belle Van Kirk was
lacking, but Winnie Supplied it from memory.
Samuel Carothers, died Jan 1849.
Ruth Elliott Carothers died Feby 21, 1843, aged 52 yrs
Catharine Carothers Finley died June 9th, 1842.
Theodore Van Kirk was born Jan 22d, A.D. 1819.
Jane Carothers was born Apr 18th, A.D. 1819.
Ellen A. Van Kirk was born June 21st, 1846.
Matilda Ruth Van Kirk was born June 12, 1850.
Ada Belle Van Kirk was born March 4, 1858.
Cyrus P. Carothers was born Feby 25, 1860.
Cyrus P. Carothers died Apr 9, 1876.
On the upper left hand corner of the Ebenezer Finley record, I find written in a small neat hand (but not his)
about his wife:
"Phoebe Woodward, born May 8, 1808, married Feby 9th, 1826."
Winnie said her great grandfather Ebenezer Finley & his 4 wives were all buried at Dunlaps Creek Presbyterian
graveyard. His 4th wife was the widow Jones, who had three daughters, one married to a Ross & one, I believe to
an Abraham & the youngest, I think, Diana was married to Enos Sturgis, whom I knew when she was 17 yrs old, I
think.
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At Margaret McC Price, 6911 Church Ave, Ben Avon, Pa Nov 30, 1919 3:33 PM.
From Mrs Price's family Bible I take the following record:
William P. Price of Allegheny Pa and Margaret McC Whitesell were married Mch 24, 1874 by John F. McLaren,
minister of the Gospel.
Births
William P. Price, Oct 3, 1845.
Margaret McC Whitesell, Feby 4, 1850.
George L Whitesell Price, Dec 24, 1874.
Henry Thompson Price, Oct 4, 1876.
Ella Price, Sept 26, 1880.
John McClintock Price, Apr 2, 1883.
Katherine Whitesell Price, Aug 19, 1885.
Sons of Geo L. W. Price:
William P Price, Sept 24, 1907.
George L Whitesell Price, Aug 20, 1909.
Paul Allan Price, Jany 27, 1913.
Children of Katherine W.P. Smith:
Grant Skiles Smith, Oct 3, 1913.
Margaret Whitesell Smith, Aug 6, 1914.
Child of John McC Price:
John McClintock Price Jr, Dec 9, 1918.
Deaths
William P. Price
Oct 25, 1905.
Catharine Whitesell
Jany 28, 1906.
William P., son of George
Oct 5, 1909.
George Jr, son of George
Feby 28, 1911.
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Marriages
George L. Whitesell Price to Loretta Dalzell, Nov 27, 1901.
Katherine Whitesell Price to Grant Skiles Smith, Nov 1, 1911.
John McClintock Price to Ruth Lucile Jenkins, Feby 28, 1918.
In the Encyclopedia of Biography of Pennsylvania by John W. Jordan, printed in 1915 Vol V on Pages
1560-1561, is a biographical sketch of Dr Henry Thompson Price.
Mrs Price says her son George was in the Spanish-American War in the first engineering Dept going with the
army of occupation into Porto Rico [sic]. He is a member of the S.A.E. fraternity.
Mrs Price says her father George L. Whitesell died July 21, 1862 at Harrison's Landing Va, being surgeon of the
63 Pa Reg. He was educated at the University in Pgh & graduated in Medicine from the University of New York.
He was in his 42d year when he died. He was a son of George Whitesell who was a son of Jacob Whitesell & his
wife Catharine Markle.
Wm Penn Hotel, Pgh Pa Nov 30th, 1919 7 PM
At 12:22 Pm today, cousin Henry Thompson Price M.D. came to the hotel for me in his Auto & drove me
over through Allegheny seven miles to Ben Avon to his mother's at 6911 Church Ave, where we met his mother,
his brother John, who had arrived yesterday from Milwaukee, Wis,
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on a visit, his sister Ella & Miss Stinson & had dinner with them. Mrs Price said Judge Kline married a niece of
hers, a daughter of her sister Mrs Sam Johnston. In asking of how her son Grant Skiles Smith got "Skiles" in his
name, she said he was from over near Latrobe & had an uncle, bro of his mother who was a Doctor in Chicago. I
asked [if] he was from the Ligonier Valley & on asking the name of his father, she said it was Boyd Smith & I am
sure he is descended from on of the three Smiths there that I visited in the nineties & all three of whom had
married into Aunt "Betsy" Carnahan family, her oldest daughter having as I recall married a Boyd. Mrs Price
told me about taking Miss Stinson when a little girl from one of the homes for children with which she was
working & had raised her in her family as one of her own.
Her son John is in the Electrical business in Milwaukee, Wis & her daughter, Mrs Smith, lives in Cleveland O,
where, I believe, her son George lives also. She spoke of Mrs A.C. Dinkey being a relative, a daughter, I think,
of Robt E. Stewart of Braddock Pa & said she would write to her & was already in correspondence with different
of her relatives for the records of their respective families.
She gave me the following lists of children which she had had typewritten from the papers or records she has &
while I believe the children of her great grandfather Jacob Whitesell is complete, many of
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the others are not. She said her great grandfather, Jacob Weitzel, came to this country from Holland when he was
then years old.
Jacob Whitesell (Weitzell) married to Katherine Markle, had children as follows:
1. Phillip
2. George
3. Hannah
4. Susannah
5. Elizabeth
6. Katherine
7. Mary
8. Jacob
9. Joseph
1. Phillip Whitesell married & settled in Noblestown, Indiana & had children Phillip & Jacob.
2. George Whitesell married Mary Cubbage. These are the grandparents of Mrs Price.
3. Hannah Whitesell married John Miller & settled in Lafayette, Ind & of their children, John was one.
4. Susannah Whitesell married John Means & had children
A. Whitesell Means married 1. Reed L. Lithgow, who died & he m.2. Susan Johnson (no children.)
B. Courtney C. John
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D. Joseph Means married ______ & had children: John, Alfred, Cassius, Brown, Robert & Adah.
E. Susan.
5. Elizabeth Whitesell married James Hilands & had children: James, Patterson, Alexander, William & Martha,
the latter marrying a man named Smith, but left no children.
6. Katherine Whitesell, married John Brown & had children as follows:
A. William Brown who married Melvina Struter & had children William, Walter, Margaret & Lawrence.
B. Josiah married Elizabeth Culbertson
C. John, married Mary Jane Wallace & had children:
I Sarah E. married _______Robinson.
Chas, Dalzell II Mary T. married Alex Wulson
III Ila Mary married Robert Dalzell
IV Katherine Ida (died)
V Hattie, married _______
VI Roda E. (died)
D. Oliver, not married
E. Susan, not married
F. Hannah, married William Whitesell.
G. Caroline, twin of William, married John Peebles & had children: Lemuel, Clara, Jane & John.
7. Mary Whitesell, married John Crider. We are go get this record from Miss Crider.
8. Jacob Whitesell, married Jane Stuart. Mrs Price thinks their daughter has the family bible of Jacob
Whitesell, her great grandfather & is expecting to be paid for it as she has
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sold many other family heirlooms. Says she is a degenerate & lives in Phil a Pa.
9. Joseph Whitesell married Nellie _______ & had children:
A. Charles, who settled in Knightstown, Ind.
B. Lowrie.
Mrs Price said her mother died three months after her husband died see line 32 Page 182 & that when she lay
sick, she called her son-in-law, Sam Johnston to her bedside & asked him if he would take care of Mrs Price in
the settlement of the estate of her, Mrs Whitesell's, husband so that she would get what was fairly due her. She
asked him in three different ways to all of which he was dumb, not saying he would, when Mrs Price, who was
present said "Oh, Sam will treat me all right". Same left the room & Mrs Whitesell told Mrs Price to get a lawyer
to look after her interests, but to not get Jackson (who recently has had disbarment proceeding vs him). Her
sister, Mrs Johnston, took out letters, being the Eldest, on their father's estate, & would not let Mrs Price join as
Co-Admx, so on the advice of the son of her guardian, she employed Geo E. Alter, who fought her case through
the Courts & won at every turn.
Mrs Price showed me a printed file of Oct Ten, 1914 (or 1915) Court of Common Please of Allegheny Co, Crider
Vs Crider which gives the dates of death of many of the Criders. I left at 5:05 PM, took street Car 13 & got to
Wm Penn Hotel at 6 Pm & met Mrs R.F. Downey, have written this up & it is now 8:22 PM
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Register of Wills, Pittsburgh, Pa Dec 1, 1919 11:25, AM
Will Index
Jack, Andrew
Admis Bond Vol 2
Page 192 *
Inventory
Vol 22 Page 1818. *
Accts
Vol 2
Page 39 * Accts
Vol 9
Page 118. *
Jack, Annie
Guardian
Vol 48 Page 534
Jack, Alexander
Record of death Vol 12 Page 36 *
Adm bond
Vol 65 Page 10 Renunciation Vol 73
1897
Inventory
Vol 16 Page 248 *
Jack, David
Adm Bond
Vol 2
Page 185
Inventory
Vol 20
1816
Jacks, David
Inventory
Vol 1
1821 *
Adm Bon
Vol 2
Page 191 *
Jack, Edwd H.
Record of death Aug 8, 1911
*
Will
Vol 112 Page 25 *
Jack, Jas.
Adm Bond
Vol 2
Page 197 *
Inventory
Vol 21
1818 * Acct
Vol 4
Page 222 *
Jack, James M.
Adm
Vol 25 Page 348 * Inventory
Vol 15
1871 * Accts
Vol 20 Page 446 *
Jack, Jas P.
Record of death Vol 8
Page 419 *
Jack, Laura P.
Record of death Aug 30, 1913
*
Will
Vol 124 Page 23 *
Jack, Labanna G.S.
Date of death Apr 4, 1915
*
Will
Vol 131 Page 362 *
Jack, Mattie V.
Record of Death Vol 5
Page 30 *
Adm Bond
Vol 41 Page 255
*
Jack, Margt.
Record of death Vol 7
Page 172 * Adm Bond
Vol 48 Page 112 * Renunciation Vol 56
Year 1890 *
Jack, Margaret J.
Record of death Vol 11 Page 529 *
Will
Vol 53 Page 336 *
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Jack, Margaret L.
Record of death June 27, 1916
*
Will
Vol 136 Page 545
Jack, Robt D.
Record of death Vol 4
Page 509 Adm Bond
Vol 41 Page 101 * Inventory
Vol 61
1885
*
Jack, Samuel S.
Jack, Thos
Record of death Vol 5
Page 384 *
Will
Vol 30 Page 481 *
Will
Vol 4
Page 55 *
Inventory
Vol 7
1833
Jack, Thos J
Record of death Vol 5
Page 26 * Adm Bond
Vol 41 Page 245 * Inventory
Vol 1
Page 69
Jack, Theodore
Record of death Oct 10, 1916
Jack, William
Record of death Vol 5, Page 454 * Will
Vol 31 Page 85 * Inventory
Vol 2
Page 276
Jack, William, Dr
Record of Death Vol 9
Page 261 *
Renunciation Vol 22
1892
Jack, William H.
Cert Will
Vol 147 Page 520 *
Whitsel, Cath
Will
Vol 4
Page 284 * Inventory
Vol
48
1836 Account
Vol 2
Page 142 *
Whitesell, Cyrus
Adm Bond
Vol 22 Page 23 *
Renunciation Vol 41
1867
Whitesell, Cyrus M. Guardian
Vol 27 Page 175
Whitesell, Cath
Record of Death Vol 13 Page 439 * Will
Vol 62 Page 229 * Renunciation Vol 6
1900
Whitesell, Cath
Record of death June 28, 1905
Whitesell, G.L.
Will
Vol 10 Page 259 *
Inventory
Vol 40
1862 Whitesell, George
Record of death
Vol 2
Page 432 * Will
Vol 22 Page 320 * Inventory
Vol 6
1880 Whitesell, George
Guardian
Vol 39 Page
490
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Whitesell, Isaac
Record of death Vol 7
Page 618 *
Will
Vol 38 Page 99 *
Weitzel, Jacob
Will
Vol 1
Page 285 * Inventory
Vol
35
1809 Accts
Vol 3
Page 78 *
Whitesell, Jacob
Record of death Vol 1
Page 149 * Adms Bond
Vol 29 Page 305 * Inventory
Vol 134
1875
Whitesell, Jacob
Record of death Vol 4
Page 452 *
Will
Vol 28 Page 305 *
Whitesell, Wilson
Record of death Vol 16 Page 139 * Adm Bond
Vol 74 Page 713 * Inventory
Vol 27 Page 474
Whitesell, Wm W.
Record of death July 8, 1905
* Will
Vol 83 Page 448 * Accts
Vol 117 Page 246
Rothermel, Hannah C. Record of death Vol 10 Page 502 *
Renunciation Vol 116
1895
Rothermel, Hannah
Will
Vol 48 Page 414 * Rothermel, Samuel
Adm Bond
Vol 7
Page 369 *
Accts
Vol 3
Page 392 *
[* indicate entries JVT has marked with check marks]
I have finished the indices above 3 tables & it is now 1:30 Pm & I must go to keep apptmt with A.W. Mellon.
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Wm Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa Monday, Dec 22, 1919 8:20 PM Room 760
I left home this morning on the 6:46 Am PRR train on which Judge R.E. Umbel & B.F. Sterling were also
passengers & Bruce told several incidents about the illicit sale of whiskey in the County & the efforts of the
government officials to apprehend the violators of the law, who he said had sold all they had, one barrel alone
selling for $900, & were now breaking into the bonded warehouses & stealing it. The train was late arriving
about ten o'clock & on repairing to Reed, Smith Shaw & Beals, Judge P.S. Grosscup, who arrived from NY last
night at midnight, soon appeared. He has just left to take the 8:25 PM PRR train to St Louis, Mo, where he goes
to spend Christmas with his daughter & her family, where they moved from California on her husband getting a
position. Judge says he expects his brother Col Grosscup will be the next Governor of WVA as he has the
undivided support of the Republican party. Judge says he graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, O, a
Dutch Reformed College & upon his commencing the practice of the Law four or five years later, he was elected
a Trustee. He said that during the first week of October, this year, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Edward
W. White, returning from an outing in Connecticut stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria NY with his wife on his way
to Wash. DC & he had them as his guests for dinner & he said to Sam'l McClay & myself "My, how Judge White
hates President Wilson" saying "he was the most dangerous man who had ever occupied
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the President's chair". Judge White then told Judge Grosscup that a friend of his had attended a dinner in Balto,
Md when Woodrow Wilson was Governor of New Jersey, at which Wilson was in the party & he, Wilson, said
that it was not necessary to have a lawyer who knew the law on the Supreme Court Bench of the U.S., but most
important to have one who had intelligent views on Social Reform. Judge White said he said to his friend "He
certainly did not say that". & his friend replied that he was at the dinner & vividly recalled & a week or two later
returned with a letter from Andrew D. White of Cornell University, who was also at the dinner verifying in the
same terms that Wilson had said that. Judge White, now 76, & Judge Homes, are way past the age for retiring,
but Judge White said "We cannot do that & give Wilson with those views the opportunity of making
appointments". Judge Grosscup said that White was a very large bulky man & walked with a rather tottering
shuffling gait, but that his mind was very clear & he hoped he would live until Mch 4, 1921.
Judge Grosscup spoke of Sam'l Untermayer having a relapse & said he took the defeat of his son, Irwin,for Judge
very much to heart & said that Chas F. Murphy, the Tammany leader got in some mix up so that he had to have a
Jew lawyer to help him out & he went to Untermyer & his price was that Tammany would make Irwin their
candidate for Judge which necesV3 Page 193
sitated their refusing to renominate Judge Newburger, who had been a satisfactory Judge & it was going against
public opinion to not give it to him again. He accordingly ran as an independent Democrat & was put on the
Republican ticket with a Republican, both of whom & the whole Republican ticket with one exception were
elected. Judge said Croker made the same mistake fifteen years ago when he did not renominate Dyer & lost
their whole ticket.
Speaking of Peter Markle, see page 130, Judge Grosscup said he remembered him very well. He said he got his
hand & front arm blown off at a celebration in Ashland, O. & that he lived just on the edge of town toward his
father's farm which was a mile out. He said he was very skilful with his one hand, would bind bands with one
hand & would use the stump of his arm to lift up the sheaf to put the band around. He also knew Aaron Markle,
who lived on the other side of town, was a man he thought fully ten years older than the Judge's father, born say
1808 & that he was about my height, but with a very large stomach. Said he was an uncompromising Democrat &
had a large family of children. Judge was his lawyer once & won his support by winning his case about which he
told me once before. He said his great grandfather, Paul Gross cup married Sabilla Rotharmel & Peter Stenger
married "Tinie (Christina) [margin note says:] See page 89.
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Shearer, who was a sister of Rebecca Shearer, the wife of his grandfather Paul Grosscup, the younger, their
mother being Elizabeth Markle, as I remember.
Referring to Juliana Myers & her sons by a former husband, Thompson, mentioned on Page 166, Judge Grosscup
said he went to the Centennial at Phila with his father & mother & he said his father spoke of having Thompson
relatives in Phila & wanted to go to see them, but as he was young, only 23, he did not encourage it, so they didn't
see them. He further said that his grandfather's brother, Jacob Grosscup, noted on Page 166 as dying, lived as he
understood off on the mountain or near the foot of the mountains. Andrew came down, arriving an hour late,
about 9 Pm & left at 11 Pm for Balto Md to see Carl R Gray, to whom I gave him a letter of introduction about
some of the Western Maryland RR Co Coal in Clay Dist Monon Co WVA. It is now 12:33 Am 23d & I have
three letters to write before going to bed.
JVT
Oak Hill Dec 25, 1919 5:55 PM
I was busy on 23d negotiating with E.D. Patterson who was dealing with John L Hatfield for the 1000 A
Price options which the Beals & Mr Menon [this is really hard to read, best guess] wanted me to get & also
awaiting conference results of WVA Attys with Trustees Attys & Piedmont Coal Co Atty's Andrew got back
from Balto at 3 AM
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having made good progress. On 24th, I had satisfactory conferences with A.W. Mellon, J.G. Beal, Sam'l McClay
et al & al one PM started over to south side to see Kate Smith after calling up Sallie Brown, her niece at Hill
640-R, arriving at 228 Virginia Ave at 1:30 PM & in a conference with Cousin Kate 2 to 3:15 Pm, she told me
the following:
Samuel Grosscup, a son of the Elder Paul, went one evening about six o'clock to his father's to get $300
which his father was letting him have to pay for a field they were buying. At the time, his mother-in-law was
visiting them, having come the day before & he told her & his wife he would be back about nine o'clock. He got
the money from his father, who saw him start off on horseback. As the clock struck nine at his home, his wife &
her mother thinking they heard someone ride up said "here comes Sam", but when they went to the door, no one
was there. Similarly, when the clock struck nine at his father's, they thought they heard someone ride up &
remarked: "Same has come back" but when they went to the door, there was no one there. When he had not
returned home the next morning, the whole country turned out to hunt for him & hunted in every nook & corner,
turning over boards & everything, but without avail. They decided that on the next morning, they would raid a
bad place upon the mountains that was
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very hard to get to, but that night, the place was burned down. Evidently showing that the guilty party or parties
were in the hunt. Neither he, nor his horse was ever heard of. She said his wife was a Dolman, & they had one
child, a boy, she thinks 4 or 5 months old. Says the night her grandfather & Aunt went to the Stineicums, it was
not Jacob Grosscup who had died, but his wife. After his wife's death, Jacob Grosscup moved to Rostraver Tp,
near his brother Paul's & died there leaving two children, a boy & a girl. Some woman in the neighborhood
raised the girl, but Cousin Kate doesn't know who raised the boy, but he used to work at Ryall's. She says Belle
Grosscup, who visited at their home in West Newton 45 yrs ago with a daughter just through school & ready to
teach & a younger daughter 4 or 5 yrs old, was the daughter of a brother of "Dave" Ryall & it was he who wasn't
just right mentally, but Belle, when asked how her father was, said he was better. Her mother was a Bovard, so
Kate said & her husband was Daniel Grosscup, a son of the younger Paul. He had been married before & had a
son by his 1st wife who was a Lutheran preacher. It was Belle who told abt Juliana Myers living in Phil a. Aside
from the two daughters, she had with her, she had had other children who had died. Kate says great grandmother
Markle was a large
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heavy woman & so was Mrs Miller, who was very large & also that Aunt Hannah was large. Kate says she saw
Mrs Oliver once & that she was a very big woman & her mother told her that Mrs Scholl was large. Said also
that her mother's sister, Mrs Wagner was large, weighing over 200 lbs & her grandfather's brother, Martin
Rotharmel was "a horse load", a very large man. Said her mother's brother Jacob Rotharmel, was also a very
large man. He went off & was never heard from except as here stated. He was a drover. Kate said he talked with
her mother one evening at the door & said he was going away the next day with some cattle & then went on out
home & started off with the cattle next day. He & his brother Dan had a store in West Newton in partnership.
He sold the cattle in Phila to which his firm owed a lot of money & they took the money from him, so Geo Brush
who was with him said. Jake never came back to West Newton. Geo Brush got word through a Westmoreland
Co man who was coming out of St Louis afterwards, saying he had met Jake who was going in & told him he
mustn't go in as the people were dying there thick from cholera. Jake said he must go into the Bank & he
continued on & was never seen or heard of afterwards. He was unmarried.
Kate says there was a Capt Carnahan
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who lived out beyond Bell's. He used to bring apples to town & her father bought apples from him. She didn't
know his first name.
The party referred to on Page 96 who I met & who was going south & from Mrs Brown rents in Mrs Slater.
Kate said her mother told her that great grandmother Markle had told her the Rothermels were brave, strong men
& noble & they feared nothing & were independent & firm as a race. Asking Kate if she knew what became of
the Jane (Jack) Clark descendants, said she remembered when she was 10 or 12 yrs old of Miss Mary Clark &
"she wasn't a young girl either" serving for Mrs Robb, (wife of a brother of John N. Robb), but she doesn't know
what became of her. This Mrs Robb "lived down below us" in West Newton & Miss Clark served for her
different times, but she don't know who she was or where she lived.
Says she thinks Sam B. Rotharmel is 75 or 76. S;d he was born on a New Year's day. She says her grandfather's
Bible was her grandmother's & not his & it is a great big German Bible printed in German & there were no ages
or record of births in it. Just the name Stenger. Says Capt Conrad Stenger, her great grandfather, a Capt in the
Rev War & the man who bought great grandfather Casper Markle's farm in Berks Co & who was the father of
Kate's grandmother brought the Bible from Germany with him the second time he came out, he having
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gone back once (& but once) after coming to America. Kate says her grandfather, Peter Rothermel took the Bible
at the appraisement, which was long, long before he came to Westnd. Peter Rothermel was living in Franklin Co
Pa when Conrad Stenger died & he went back to Berks Co & took the Bible at the appraisement, but left it with
his mother-in-law, the widow of Capt Stenger & after moving to Westnd, he & his wife went back to Berks Co Pa
on horseback & when returning, he strapped the Bible on his saddle & brought it thus to West nd Co. Kate said
her grandmother read in it every Sunday. Her grandfather gave the Bible to her father & Kate says it is packed
up with some of her things in West Newton & is being kept or stored at Fries in West Newton. Just across the
street from Kate's old home in a big brick house or rather in the house of Mrs Murdoch who is a daughter of
Fries.
She says Gideon Markle lived in Berks Co on a farm just below the Capt Stenger, or Casper Markle old farm.
Once his two brothers came to see Capt Stenger & asked him if he knew what Gideon did for a living, saying the
worked hard to get along & he was never seen working, yet he & all his family wore the finest of clothes. Capt
Stenger indicated he knew, but would not say. After they had gone, Capt's wife asked why they had asked. A
couple of days later, Gideon Markle rode
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up & paid Capt Stenger $13 in silver for a debt he owed him. A day or so later, he went to the store to buy
something & handing out the silver, in payte, the storekeeper said "oh, you got bit too. That money is
counterfeit". "however, it will do you no good to take it back to him for he will deny it is the money he gave
you." Just then, the sheriff stepped in & laid his hand on Capt Stenger's shoulder & told him he was under arrest.
The sheriff then took his posse up the mountains where was a den of the counterfeiters & in some way got in &
while some got away, he cut off the rear escape & captured some of them including Gideon Markle. There was
among those arrested a man named Kline whom they tried & convicted & Gideon was sent to the
"Wheelbarrow", the name then given to the Penitentiary. Gideon was put to work on the roads with others &
never having worked any, he did not stand it long & soon died. She says her grandmother, who was a little girl
when this happened remembers it & said Gideon was a brother of Casper. This happened after Capt Stenger
moved there. Gideon had a wife & sons & daughters who dressed fine & wouldn't notice other relatives. The
references on Page 195 et sequiter about the Grosscups were induced by my telling
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Cousin Kate that Judge Grosscup was in Pgh Monday, & she asked if he was large like the Rotharmels. I told her
he was over six feet, but erect & rather slender & she said that was the build of her grandfather. Asking her if she
had ever heard any of them say that Eleanor Jack had said how many children she bore, but she hadn't, but that
there were the six married daughters we had mentioned, the two sons & the two daughters Barrett carried off, ten
in all. I left Cousin Kate & Sally at 3:17 PM & hurried up to corner of Sycamore & Kearsarge St & after waiting
awhile, & no car coming, I walked up Sycamore two or three squares & turning to the left at th South Hill Trust
Co went a block & turned to right & a half block ahead got the Incline & for the first time went down it in a jiffy
to Carson St. Walked across Smithfield St bridge, cold & raw & took the B&O 4 o'clock train for Connellsville
Pa & went to Isabella N. Evans for Christmas Eve dinner, which was excellent. Celia, M.R. Bozts, youthful with
her 70 yrs, along with Gertrude Markle Husband, my cousin & "Dickie" were the guests, Mrs Bozts said her
mother was a Henry, her father being of the same Virginia family as Patrick Henry. Gertrude, daughter of Cousin
Geo Ashman Markle, said she married Husband against her parent's wishes. & he has treated her very badly even
running hat pins through her hand. He is a son of Francis M. Husband & her eldest child, a son, Francis M.
Husband will be ten in Jany, her
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second, Mary Ashman is seven & her youngest, Howard Overholt, named for her brother who died, is six. She is
suing for divorce & on Dickie's recommendation, she has Bialas for her lawyer. She says her Aunt Maria
Overholt is 83 yrs old & her Uncles are J.W. & Isaac F. Overholt, the latter financing her to secure the divorce.
Dickie took us all in his car & I caught the 10:30 PM Street car, got to town at 11:33 & to Oak Hill at 12:30 Am
with 70 letters, 3 days mail, mostly Christmas cards & eleven packages. Went in at 2 Pm to sister Tute's & had
Christmas dinner with her Eva, Mary & Jasper. Then at 4:30 went to Andrew's for a half hour's business with him
& frolic with the children. Minnie was there also. It is now 9 PM JVT
Registers office Allegheny Co Pgh Pa Dec 29. 1919 12:12 PM
Andrew Jack, adm Bond Book No 2 Page 192
Bond of Niomy Jack, Hugh Davis, Robert Hilands & Richard Bowan in sum of $1500 - dated Nov 21, 1817.
Conditioned that the above bounden Neomy Jack & Hugh Davis, Adms of Andrew Jack, late of Ross Tp, Decd
file inventory in 1 mo & acct in 1 yr. Niomy Jack signs by making her mark.
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Record of Accts No 2 Page 39 is acct of Hugh Davis & Naomi Jack:
Inv & App [best guess] gain
$517.03
of Casper Reel [Rell?] Bridge Stock 125.00
of I.Starret 3 yrs rent CBO [best guess]450.00
of Mr Keary recd from Adm at Orbairs 410.53
of Mrs Margaret Jack
95.00
Andrew Jack his bond not yet pd
40.00
$1,747.63
Various payts show balance of $28.29 filed Mch 6, 1823.
[The above extremely hard to read best I can make out]
other ters
_________
In Record of Accts No 9, Page 118 is acct of Hugh Davis, acting Adm of Andrew Jack charging himself with $48
int for Allegheny Bridge Stock & showing a balance due estate of $2847. This is dated Oct 6, 1856. confirmed
visi [best guess] by Court.
2. Alexander Jack, Record of Deaths Vol 12 Page 36 shows that Alexander Jack, late of Pgh Pa died Apr 27,
1897 at 1:30 AM intestate as pre oath of Wm W. West.
3. David Jack, Adm Bond Book No 2 Page 185, Shows that on Feby 23,1821, John Cum & Joseph Taylor gave
bond for $159, as Adm of David Jack
In same book, Page 191 is a bond dated June 15, 1816 signed by
Elizabeth Jack (by her mark) who takes out letters giving bond [unreadable single letter or two letter word]
$1000? with Joseph Taylor & Joseph Clark signing with her.
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4. Edwd H. Jack, died Aug 8, 1911 & his will dated Pgh June 10, 1911 recites that he is of City of Pgh & recites
that all his Estate real & personal shall be divided equally between his two children Edna V & Eliza H, subject to
the legal Claims of my widow of 1/3 for life which portion shall revert to the children above named at her
decease or in event of her remarriage. Will probated Aug 17, 1911 & letters granted to Fidelity Title & Trust Co
on Nov 23, 1911. Election of widow to take against will filed.
5. James Jack, Adm Bond Book No 2 P 197. Letters of Adm taken out by Margaret Jack & Richard Bowen in
bond entered into Nov 21, 1817 with John Darragh & Hugh Davis sureties in amt of $2,000. Recites that James
Jack was late of Ross Tp Decd. Witness by Wm Jones. To file inv 1 mo & acct in 1 yr. At Record of Acct Book
4, Page 222 is a full page of acct by Margaret Wray (possibly Uray) late Margaret Jack Exhibited in Recorders
office July 26, 1845. In this acct she claims credit of $670 for purchase of Real Estate in Jefferson Green Co Pa
in 1821
$670.
Also "amt in Estate in purchase of Real Estate of Andrew Jack Snr $886.78.
deducting accountant's int on one third thereof 295.59 $591.19. Am't of Bridge Stock trans Jany 1, 1844.27 Shs
675. claimed cr for Instd due on Bridge Stock $500 & int on same p'd to Hugh Davis 114.22 614.22.
Int on above sum fr Apr 1, 1823 to Jany 1, 1838 543.58.
Showed accts to 1/3 to be $3260.03 & the sum of $6526.08 distributable to the children.
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Oak Hill, Thursday, Jany 22, 1920 11:33 AM
When I got home Tuesday 20th inst at 6:22 PM from New York & Washington DC, I found at my office
Room 522, that in accordance with his promise, Thomas W. Finley had left the family Bible of his grandfather
Ebenezer Finley which was a thick volume (3 1/2 inches thick) being 11 inches long & 9 inches wide. The front
pages up to 25th chapter were missing, but the book bound in leather backs was yellow with age & at the end of
the Apocrypha gave "Practical Observations on the Old & New Testaments illustrating the Chapters a very few
excepted in their order, with arguments to the different books, by the Rev Mr Ostervald, Professor of Divinity &
one of the Ministers of the Church at Neufchatel in Switzerland, Trenton. Printed & sold by Isaac Collins
MDCCXCI" (1791)
At the ending of the "observations" & just before the beginning of the New Testament, were some three
blank leaves (one torn out) yellow with age, worn & torn on which seemed to be the original record by Ebenezer
Finley in part much faded & the writing barely distinguishable, but the record of the birth of his first born "John
Finley was born 20th of Novr, 1782" "Deceased 8th of March, 1793". On the blank leaf, at the end of the prophets
& the beginning, someone undertook to copy the above record & gives 1783 as the date of John's birth. This is an
error, which was made by the party transcribing on the record several years after his birth, (the Bible on being
printed in 1791 & bought probably 1792 or 1793) & instead of writing the year of his birth 1782, wrote the year
of his death, 1793 on that line instead
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of the one below & then 82 was written over the 93, leaving it a little indistinct, but plainly evident that it is 1782
& not 83 as the two shows as the strongly distinctive figure written over the three.
The record gives "Eli Huston Finley born Apr 27th, 1807".
At the bottom of the Page where this copying was done is written, I believe in the handwriting of Ebenezer Finley
1804-1892.
"Levi Pearsale, Born Jany 23, 1831."
The changes made on Pages 179 & 180 were made from the original Bible Record.
In a record written in Feby 1880 by Ebenzer Finley for his nephew Thos W. Finley, giving a family record
of the four marriages of his father Ebenezer Finley & the births & deaths of his children, he concludes it as
follows:
"Ebenezer Finley Senr came across the mountains in 1772 at fourteen years of age (his own statement gives
his birth as Dec 28, 1760 which would make him only twelve if he came in 1772) & settled on the farm he lived
& died on & some of his family have owned & occupied it until the present time (Feby 1880) now over one
hundred & eight (108) years.
Written by Ebenezer Finley"
Oak Hill, Jany 24, 1920 10 Am, Saturday.
The following letter, unsigned in the handwriting of Ebenzer Finley was evidently prepared by him to be
written & signed by his nephew Thos W. Finley, who had no doubt recd a letter from Lt Leighton Finley who was
a descendant of Rev Sam'l Finley.
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New Salem (Pa) March 4th, 1881.
Lt Leighton Finley:
My Dear Sir:
To your interrogations, I would reply; The Rev James Finley was my
great grandfather, he came to the West from the Eastern shore of Maryland & settled in Westmoreland Co some
twenty four miles above Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River, he had five sons. John, who was a Presbyterian
minister, went West & settled in Kentucky, subsequently moved over into Ohio, where his family lived &, I
believe, are all dead, three of his sons viz Michael, Joseph, & William, lived & died near their Father's Ebenezer,
the Eldest (this refers to the son of Rev James ) (& my grandfather): his father brought him when quite a boy,
fourteen years of age to the farm we now live upon in the year 1772, now over 109 years since. My grandfather
was married four times, had children by three of his wives. My Father was among the younger children, he died
some over six years since at the age of about sixty six years; Ebenezer Finley that you met at Washington, now
member of Congress is a great grandson of Rev James Finley - as you are at Baltimore occasionally if you will go
to the Westminster Church Cemetery, you will see quite a family of the Finleys entombed there, for further
information, I would refer you to a large book called Old Redstone or to a Book entitled McCurdy's Life by
Elliott, these books give a pretty good history of the Finley Family, particularly Dr Samuel Finley & his brother
James, the books are hard to be obtained at present.
(This letter should be signed by)
Thos W. Finley.
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Below is a two page legal cap, one sheet of paper compactly & finely written by Ebenzer Finley, evidently for his
nephew Thomas W. Finley as it was folded & in the old family Bible above referred to at the family record
pages:
"A synopsis, or brief history of the family of Rev James Finley, who was born Feby 1725 in the county of
Armah, Province of Ulster, Ireland, emigrated to America September 28th, 1734. Revd James Finley migrated
from Cecil county Maryland in the year 1783, took charge of the congregations of Rehoboth & Round Hill
Churches until his death which occurred Jany 6th, 1795, leaving a widow whom he had married in Cecil Co Md &
whose maiden name was Hannah Evans, also left five sons & two daughters viz: John Evans, whom he left in
charge of a congregation ministering to them near where his Father left when he went to Rehoboth. Said John
Evans subsequently emigrated West & landed his boat at Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky. Preached there
for several years & then went over to Red Oak Church in Ohio, seven miles from the town of Ripley, Brown Co.
He died in 1800 leaving a widow, three sons & three daughters viz James (who was a lawyer), John, Job Russell,
Hannah, Elizabeth & Mary, all now dead, one granddaughter still living, Nancy Kirkpatrick, who was a
daughter of his son James, who practiced law in Georgetown, Brown Co, Ohio. Rev John E. had a son who was
a ruling Elder in the Red Oak Church many years before he died. His son, Job Russell, was non compis mentis.
Joseph, son of Rev James Finley lived some
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two miles from Rehoboth Church, married for his first wife Miss Veech, by whom he had one son James who
now lives near Columbus, Ohio. His second wife was Miss Frances Moore, by whom he had several children, his
eldest son (evidently by second wife) was the Rev Robert Finley, who lived & died in Wooster, Ohio, the other
children all lived near the old homestead where their father lived & died.
Ebenezer, son of the Rev. James Finley, lived son Dunlaps Creek, Fayette Co Pa. He carried on said farm when
but fourteen years of age 1772. He subsequently went East to his Father's & married Jane Kinkaid, by whom he
had five children, viz John, James, Elizabeth, Joseph & Hannah. She, his first wife, died Jany 6, 1793. He
married for his second wife, Violet Lowry, by whom he had six children viz Rebecca, Hannah, William, Samuel,
Jane & Ebenezer. She, the second wife, died November 11, 1804. He married for his third wife, Margary
Cunningham (widow) by whom he had three children, viz, Eliott, Robert, & Margaret. She, his third wife, died
Jany 27, 1822. He married for his fourth wife, Sarah Jones (widow), who died Jany 24th, 1847. He died Jany 1st,
1849 aged 88 yrs & 10 days.
William, son of Rev James Finley lived quite near the Rehoboth Church, was a Ruling Elder as was also his
brothers Joseph, Michael, & Ebenezer. He, William, married for his first wife, Sarah Patterson. She died,
leaving no children. He married for
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his second wife, Margaret Wilson, by whom he had several children, one son, who had taken a Classical course
& about to enter the Theological Seminary, suddenly sickened & died several years before his father died, the
family are now nearly all dead.
Michael, son of the Rev James Finley lived near the Rehoboth Church, Westmoreland Co Pa. He married for his
first wife Elleanor Elliott, by whom he had six sons & three daughters viz James, Evans, Elliott, Ebenezer, Robert
& Michael, his daughters were Sarah, Mary, Ella & Hannah (this four, not three as above), all of whom died early
in life, his sons, three of whom settled near Wooster, O, one was a eminent physician & was [sic] killed, all the
others have since died.
Margaret, daughter of Reb James Finley married John Power, son of Rev Dr Power lived near Rehoboth, raised
a large family & all lived & died near said church.
Hannah, daughter of Rev James Finley married John Robinson, raised a large family, all lived & died within a
few miles of said Rehoboth Church;
Samuel, son of Rev James Finley in Consequence of a hurt by being thrown out of a wagon when young, received
such mental derangement as rendered him no compis mentis."
The above paper bears no date. It is now 12:30 PM Jany 24th, 1920 & I will do up above papers in the old
Bible & take it in town to give back to Cousin Thos W. Finley.
JV Thompson
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Butler Pa Jany 31, 1920 11:20 AM
Hotel Ninon, Room No 51 1st floor up
Miss Margaret Neyman thinks her grandfather, John Neyman's people were from Holland, but she does not
know whether he was born in this country or not. She says her father, John Harmon Neyman told her he was
twelve years old when his Father came to Butler Co. He was born in 1799 & she thinks it was about 1812 when
they came. When John Neyman came to Butler Co, he took up 600 acres of land which he lost & then bought a
farm of 150 acres adjoining the 600 A from Wm Robb, his son-in-law, who, she thinks had come to Butler Co
before he, John Neyman, did. He was in debt when he died & Miss Neyman does not think he made a will, says
her father, John H. bought the farm to keep a home for his mother, who lived with him & died in the old home in
Dec 1852, the same year & month in which Miss Neyman was born & she thinks a day or two after she was born.
She was buried in North Butler graveyard, about half a mile from the farm, being the Presbyterian Church
graveyard. Miss Neyman says her mother had a marker put at her grave. The date of her birth was marked in her
own Bible, a small one, which Miss Neyman has at her old home, but she says her mother said
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that both her husband & his brother William, a bachelor, who lived with them, said it was not correct as they
were not sure just when she was born. Miss Neyman says her grandfather, John Neyman, was an Elder of the
Presbyterian Church here in Butler & built the Church or at least did the stone work. That Church is gone, but a
new one has been built on the same site. He was buried in the town graveyard, a little square plot, which five or
ten years ago was taken & the High School building of Butler Pa was built on it. There never was any marker to
her grandfather's grave. She dont know when he died, but it was a good many years before her grandmother died
& it was before Miss Neyman's mother came to this Co from Jefferson Co, where she & her husband lived when
first married. Miss N. thinks they lived about five miles from the County seat of Brookville. Says her
grandfather was everything, was a miller, stonemason Etc & got involved in debt.
Miss Neyman says her grandmother was a rather small woman & very erect as was her daughter Sallie Beatty.
She says Dr Neyman remembered seeing his grandfather John Neyman. At lunch 12:30 to 1:15 Pm, Miss
Neyman s'd her cousin Mary Neyman Keister was a small
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woman, not fleshy & when abt 94 yrs old, fell when walking in her yard & broke the top off of her thigh bone
where it goes in the socket & was confined to her bed for sometime when they got her a wheel chair which she
wheeled herself about with. Her son, Oscar D. Keister, with whom I have been corresponding is an old bachelor
& lived with his mother.
Margaret says her grandmother Neyman died from a cancer on her face. She has just finished 3:15 PM giving me
a record & list of the children of her grandparents as listed on pages 214 & 215 just following & says she never
heard of a Mary, but said there might have been a Mary as Miss Carsonette Porter might have gotten it in Westnd
Co from parties who know more about it than she. Says she, Carsonette Porter, visited Dr Neyman here when she
was rather young & was out at the old home to visit them, but she thinks this was before she had traced up the
family records. Speaking to Margaret about Carsonette's statement of Susan, her grandmother, being born in
1796 & her, Margaret's, certainty that her father was born in 1799, she says it is possible that Betsy, Abraham &
Solomon or Sarah that is one of them might have been older than Susan.
Mrs Moser says her father, Isaac Robb, was 88 yrs 8 mos & 8 days on New Year's morning when he died which
would be Jany 1, 1899.
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[Descendant Chart]
Magdalena Markle, daughter of Casper Merkle, baptized as Magdalena Merkle at Moselem Church Apr 20, 1767.
She married John Neyman [Their Children]
Anna Neyman, married William Robb in Westmoreland Co. She died in Butler Co Pa many years before her
husband, who married a second wife Miss N. thinks she was dead many years before she was born & says she
left quite a family of children. She says she was the oldest child. See Pates 216 & 217.
Daniel Neyman, second child lived, she thinks in Mercer Co. He was never here to visit after Miss N's mother
came here. In the summer of 1918, Miss N. visited his daughter, Mrs Keister, who told her that when she was a
young girl, she & her father came on horseback to Butler to visit his Father & mother. Says he lived in upper
or norther part of Butler Co. See Page 218 & 219.
Susan Neyman, m. David Maginnis, She Eloped & got married, but was back home afterwards. Mr Maginnis
helped to educate Dr Neyman. For record of her descendants, see record I got from Carsonette Porter, Aug 23,
1898 Book No 1 Page 222.
"Betsy" Neyman, or Elizabeth. Married
Calvin, who Miss N. thinks lived "away up in Mercer Co". She ran
off from home to get married & was never back afterwards. Dont know anything about when she died, nor
anything abt the family. Says her mother never saw them & told her they never came home after she eloped.
Says she had a family of children, but she knows nothing about them. She thinks they were called "Cavins"
Abraham Neyman & Solomon Neyman were twins. Miss N. says they were so much alike that they could not
tell them apart, but one of them was left handed. She did not know which one. Once, when a young girl of a
parted wanted to know which one she was talking to, she asked him to throw a stone at a cow & thus identified
him.
[Abraham Neyman] married Eleanor McCleary, who was living in Butler Co when married. He lived in Butler
& had a drugstore here. He was killed by a tree falling on him when coming from his father's to Butler. Dr
Neyman, his son, was but two or three years old at the time. See Mrs Haine's statement on Page 220. She
thought he could not have been more than a year old & she fixes the catastrophe as occurring in 1827. See Page
220.
[Solomon Neyman] Solomon & John H. were in the lumber business together in Jefferson Co Pa & transported
the lumber by River down to New Orleans & on one of the trips, Solomon got the fever & died at New Orleans
unmarried. John H. was with him when he died, & he was buried in New Orleans.
Sarah Neyman, "Aunt Sallie", m. John Beatty, "an Irishman, very Irish". & thinks he was born in Ireland.
Married sometime after the War of 1812 & lived in Butler Co. He was a farmer & a renter. Never owned a
farm. A few yrs before their death, they bought abt ten acres north of Butler, near Miss Neyman's home. He
died & she died shortly thereafter & is buried in the North Cemetery, Butler which lies north of the town.
Thinks there was no marker to her grave, one of her sons was blind & he talked of putting a marker to his
mother's grave, but was short of money & died before he got it done. He became blind from neuralgia affecting
the nerve of the Eye. He wanted to go to the Civil War, but his eyes were bad then & they would not accept
him. Later he went stone blind. See Pates 222 & 223.
John Harmon Neyman, B. in Westmoreland Co in 1799. died Apr 4, 1881, aged 82. Thinks his birthday was in
June or July. He died at the old home from being gored by a bull on a Saturday evening & died on Monday
morning. Is buried in North Butler Church Cem. He was a regular attendant of Pres. Ch, but not a member,
was a lumberman, a miller & a farmer See Page 224. married Isabel Wilson on Sept 16, 1844,who was born
Feby 18, 1818 in Indiana Co Pa, a daughter of John Wilson who came from Ireland when a young man after he
had been educated there for a Sailor. He removed to Jefferson Co near Brookville & there she was married
when 25 yrs old. She died at the old home Sept 3, 1913 aged over 95 yrs & is buried beside her husband. She
was rather small, about size of Margaret & was quick & active on her best. Margaret says she has her mother's
build but looks like her father who was medium size. She died from a cancer on the face, came from a wart
below her eye, below the lens of her glasses, developing only a year before her death. See page 224 & 5.
William Neyman, says he was two or three years younger than her Father & that he was the youngest of the
family. He never married. Always lived at the old home & died there about 1877 & is buried at the North
Butler Church Cem. Thinks there is no marker to his grave. He was always a farmer. Died, she thinks from
kidney trouble.
Jasper Neyman, Margaret thinks he was 3d child coming between Daniel & Susan. He was married & lived
north of his brother Daniel & Margaret. thinks probably in Mercer Co, as there are Neyman's living in the upper
or northern part of Mercer Co who she thinks are his descendants. She knows nothing about them. Says that
he Father & mother when living in Jefferson Co came to Butler to visit his mother who was living at the old
home with William & then went up to visit his brother Daniel & then continued on up & made a visit to his
brother Jasper who was tending a mill. His wife who was always sickly, was in bed & a lot of children were
about the house which did not look very inviting.
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[Descendant Chart]
Anna Neyman & William Robb were married Jany 1, 1805. He was a son of Isaac Robb & he had a brother
Isaac15*1, who was drowned. Mrs Moser not recall where it was or in what river, although she has heard it
many times. She says she thinks he was unmarried when drowned, but was not a young man. He was an expert
swimmer & it was always a mystery why he was drowned. Mrs Moser says she is 78 yrs old & her brother Elliott
was born in 1847 & she thinks he was less than a year old when their grandfather Wm Robb died. He died on the
farm near the old Neyman home. He is buried at Concord Pres Church graveyard & his first wife is also buried
there. There are stones at their graves, she being named just "Ann" & her husband always intended to have a
final "a" put on it, but never got it done. Theirs is about the oldest stones in the cemetery or graveyard. His
second wife is not buried there as she went back to live wither her brother somewhere in Butler Co, she thinks &
died & is buried there. Mrs Moser says her father, Isaac & her Aunts Rebecca, Elizabeth & Sarah are all buried
at Concord, her Uncle William at North Butler, her Uncle John in West Newton & her Uncle James in Oregon.
William Robb above, was born Aug 22, 1783 & his wife, Anna Neyman was born Oct 15, 1784. Their first
children were twins Mariah & Hannah. Hannah died when a young baby & Mariah lived to be a very old woman.
[Children of Anna Neyman & William Robb:]
Mariah Robb, born Jany 21, 1806. M. William Aiken of Scrubgrass. He was a farmer & lived 4 miles above
Clintonville, Pa in Venango Co. Mrs Moser thinks they died there. Still own the farm she thinks. That is, their
descendants do.
Hannah, died young
Rebeccah Robb, Born Feby 11, 1808. M. John Christy of Concord Tp. He lived & died near Concord Church
where both are buried.
*1 See West New Newton Times Sun of May 18, 1922 article "Born
of the travail of war" stating that he founded West Newton in
Jany 1796 & was drowned there in 1807 when going ashore during a
rise in the River to see abt the fastening? of his boat, he fell
in the River & was drowned before he could be rescued. JVT May
28, 1922 5 PM
Isaac Robb, Born April 23, 1810 in Westmoreland Co. M. Sarah Christy who was born Sept 14, 1808. She was
a daughter of John Christy, but no relation to Rebecca's husband. They were married July 5, 1832.
1. William Coulter Robb, B. Dec 30, 1833 & named for Rev Wm Coulter
who married his parents.
2. Christy Robb, B. Sept 5, 1835
3. Elvinah Robb, B. Dec 18, 1837
4. Neyman Robb, B. Oct 20, 1839
5. Anna Robb, Born August 9, 1841, named for her grandmother, she married on Sept 18,
1862 to George Washington Moser who was born Oct 8, 1832 of Oakland Tp. He died Jany
30, 1903.
William John Moser, B. Jany 25, 1864. M. Jessie M. Scott on Apr 26, 1887. She was
born Oct 31, 1867.
Walter Roy Moser, B. Sept 4, 1889.
Minnie Anna Moser, B. Nov 20, 1893.
Elmer Milton Moser, B. Mch 4, 1895.
Sarah Jane Moser, B. May 17, 1866.
James Harvey Moser, B. Sept 8, 1867.
Lydia Maria Moser, B. Oct 15, 1869. ob Mch 25, 1898 unmarried.
Anna Mary Moser, B. Mch 16, 1871.
Isaac Robb Moser, B Feby 1, 1873 ob Mch 10, 1875.
George Solomon Moser, B June 11, 1874.
Emma Elvina Moser, B. Feby 28, 1876. ob Apr 23 1886.
Infant Still, not named B Dec 28, 1877 ob Dec 28, 1877.
Elmer Jefferson Moser, B. Dec 29, 1878 ob May 20, 1880.
Albert Marshall Moser, B. August 3, 1884.
7. Mary Robb, B. Oct 29, 1844.
6. Infant, stillborn & unnamed B. Nov 25, 1843.
8. Elliott Robb, B. April 19, 1847.
9. John Moore Robb, B. March 14, 1851 named for his uncle Jno N. Robb
& his uncle Samuel
Moore who was married to his mother's sister.
10. Sarah Belle Robb, B. March 14, 1853.
John N. Robb, Born March 7, 1812. Married Leah Miller
Elizabeth Robb, B. May 1, 1814, m. Thomas Campbell of Concord, a farmer Both buried at Concord.
James R. Robb, B. August 21, 1816. Went to Oregon when young man & married there to Eleanor ________.
Sarah Robb, B. October 24, 1878, m. Hughes Christie, a bro of John who married Rebecca was, was a farmer &
lived in Concord Tp.
Jemima Robb, B. February 16, 1821. Never married. Died when a young woman & is buried in Concord, but
Mrs M. Thinks there is no marker to her grave.
William Jefferson Robb, b. September 6, 1823 m. Nancy Ann Christy, a sister of Sarah, the wife of his brother
Isaac. They are both buried at the North Butler Pres Ch graveyard & there are markers to their graves.
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[Descendant Chart]
Daniel Neyman, married
, He was a farmer & died on the farm. She thinks before she was old
enough to remember. His wife was a Methodist & took & the family with her.
[Daniel Neyman's Children]
Elizabeth Neyman, she thinks was oldest. Mar a man named Christy & they lived near Slippery rock, not far
from the Keisters. Both dead many years ago. He was a farmer & possibly also a miller.
Neyman, oldest, married & both are dead.
A son, lives now in butler Pa married, Both living.
Lulu, m. A Doctor & both are dead, she thinks without issue.
Mary, m. Hayes. He dead & she is living in Slippery Rock.
Winifred
A Dau
A Dau
All these are unmarried.
William, m. Cooper. Living somewhere in the west both of them she thinks but do not have any
children.
Mary Neyman, mar Paul Kiester, was a farmer & owned the farm that his son Oscar D. Kiester of Keister Sta on
the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR now lives on
Mary, m.
Fair. She died many yrs ago, but he was living in 1918, but never gave any attention
to his children. She left 4 daughters & 2 sons, all of whom are married. Their mother died when
they were young & their grandmother Keister raised them.
Charles, married. He is dead & widow remarried & is living in Grove City, Pa.
Oscar D. Kiester, of Kiester's Sta Pa. Unmarried.
Exie? Neyman }They lived on the farm & both died there when young women. Both Alice Neyman
}unmarried. Possibly Axie is the name.
Cordelia Neyman, lived in Butler Pa. married James Adams who she thinks was born in the upper part of Butler
Co. He bought & sold cattle. Both dead & buried in the Cem North of Butler. She died in the fall of 1912, the
yr before Margaret's mother died. He had died many years before. She was a Methodist.
Jeannette Adams, m. Jeremiah Sutton, who was in lumber business in VA, but is now farming in
Butler Co.
Cordelia, m. Smith. Live in Grove City Pa.
Beckwith,
Ralph,
Jemima,
Alice,
These [last] four are all unmarried
Frank Adams, m. Julia _______. He is a lumber man in WVA.
Belle Adams, unmarried. Lives in Butler Pa. She is a stenographer.
John Neyman, the oldest boy, He lived up near old home & after his wife died went west & died out there.
Kit, was deaf & dumb. She married a deaf & dumb man near Pgh with whom she became
acquainted at school & at last reports had two children.
A Dau, thinks she unmarried, but is not sure.
Ninean? Neyman, Lived in Mercer Co, a farmer. Mar. Miller? Both died she thinks at their daughter's in
Grove City Pa, but probably taken someplace else for burial.
Mary Neyman, oldest, m. James Gilmore, a farmer in Mercer Co. Both Dead. Laura, oldest
Otis, second
2 daughters
Margaret thinks they are all married [last 3]. She used to visit them at their home near
Grove City Pa when she went there to school.
"Lin", a girl m.
Campbell. Thinks a carpenter. They lived in Grove City Pa Thinks no issue.
Axie? M. L.M. Campbell bro of "Lin's" husband. Lived in Mercer Co.
John, married.
Daniel, married.
Son, married.
Dont know whether there were any more children. Dont know who wd have the family Bible.
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[Descendant Chart]
Abraham Neyman married Eleanor McCleary
[Their Children]
Thomas Neyman, was killed when 2 1/2 yrs old when his father was killed.
Abraham Markle Neyman, Born Feby 6, 1826 Mrs Haines thinks in the Country & his father came to the town
of Butler to live when he, Abraham M. was about 1 yr old. He was about one year old when his father & brother
were killed. He died Sept 17, say 1910 as he would have been 85 yrs old in Feby following his death. His father
was returning from his Father's old home to Butler Pa when a storm came up & blew a tree down across the
wagon, killing Abraham Neyman & his son Thomas instantly & the child Abraham M. was wrapped up in
blankets & was thrown clear of the tree unhurt. The tree pinioned the mother down & she was never able to
straighten up thereafter, although she lived to be 83 yrs old. Mrs Haines remembers her, but was very young.
Miss Neyman said that children going home from school found them. The mother, Eleanor & her babe Abraham
M. were taken back to her father-in-law's John Neyman's at the old home, where she was turned in sheets for
several weeks. Son Abraham M. had a position as clerk at the Court House, writing on transcribing when he was
14 yrs old & when 11 yrs old, rode 20 miles to a school he was elected to teach. He got homesick & came back
home crying & his mother made him go back the next morning & teach the school out. He married Emmaline
Purviance, a daughter of Gen'l John Nelson Purviance Atty Gen'l of Penna, a grand good man, honest & upright.
They were married in 1861 & were a very devoted loving couple. She was born Nov 9, 1838. They were married
Nov 12, 1861 in Butler Pa by Rev Dr White of the Episcopal Church. He was the most active diligent physician
of Butler Pa & I think the first citizen of the town for many years.
Eleanor Neyman, B. Aug 5, 1863, named for her grandmother, m. Charles Sidens Haines on My 21,
1890 by Rev Dr Jno S. McKee of U.P. Ch. He was born in Brady Bend, Pa, lived in Boston & his
people were from Portsmouth N st. He was born Aug 21, 1859 & is still living.
Helen McCleary, B. July 1, 1892.
Robert Neyman, B. July 20, 1894.
John Markle, B. Feby 10, 1903.
Emma Purviance, B. Dec 14, 1904.
John, 2 1/2 yrs younger than Eleanor, Died of membranous [sic] croup when Eleanor was 5.
Eliza Jane, b. Aug 23, 1869. m. Watson Fergus Tait of Mercer Co. Both living in Parkersburg
WVA. He is in oil business.
Elizabeth Neyman, aged 24.
Watson Fergus, aged 21.
Eleanor, B. Feby 3, 1906.
George Purviance, B. Sept 23, 1871. M. Helen Englehart of Butler Pa. Both living here.
George Purviance Jr, 8 yrs old.
Abraham Markle Jr, B. Oct 3, 1873, unmarried.
Alonzo Haines, B. Nov 12, 1875. m. Nellie________.
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[Descendant Chart]
Sarah Neyman married John Beatty [Their Children]
Boston Livingston Beatty, He went west to Oregon or Washington before the war & nothing was ever heard of
him. Dont know whether he married or not. He was the oldest of the family. Margaret never remembers seeing
him.
William Beatty }William & Neyman both went early into the Civil War & were
Neyman Beatty }killed or lost & their parents drew pensions for them. Neither was married. Margaret knew
them both & says they were young men.
Daniel Beatty, He went blind & lived with his father & mother & after their death, a cousin kept him, a Mrs
Davis, cousin on his father's side. He was unmarried.
Samuel Beatty, Unmarried. He was in the Civil War, was a saddler & worked at his trade until he got old &
then lived with Abner Patton, a farmer in Butler Co. He drew a pension. He is buried in the North Cem near of
north of Butler Pa.
Mary Beatty, M. Livermore. They went west & he died there & she lived many years afterwards & died in the
old lady's home at Wilkinsburg Pa about 15 yrs ago. She was about age of Margaret's mother ie born about the
same time viz 1818.
Sarah livermore, m. Samuel Parker from Pgh where they lived. He was a carpenter. Both died in
Pittsburgh & buried there.
Samuel, Died young.
A boy, died young
Alvin Parker, went west, was married, but didn't live with his wife. Knows nothing
more about him.
Mary Jane Livermore, m. Edward Mulnix, whose parents lived about Pgh. They moved to Pueblo,
Colorado where he is a carpenter & contractor. She thinks they went about 1881 or 1882 where both
are still living.
Cora Mulnix, oldest married someone in Colorado
Orford Mulnix,}The last she heard from them neither was
Sarah Mulnix, }married.
Ann Jane Beatty, m. Daniel Barnhart of down about Pgh & lived in Pittsburgh. The last Margaret knew of them,
a good many years ago, they were both living.
Daniel Barnhart, Died when a child.
Margaret cant say whether there were other children or not.
A Daughter, lived with her grandmother. Left descendants one of whom I met married a man named Evans
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[Descendant Chart]
John Harmon Neyman & Isabel Wilson See Page 215. He died Apr 4, 1881 aged 81 yrs 8 mos 29 days born then
say July 6, 1799. She was born Feby 18, 1818 & died Sept 3, 1913 aged 95 yrs 6 mos 15 days.
[Their Children]
Markle Joseph Neyman, His father always called him Markle & the others called him "Mack". He was the
oldest. Married Easter Ann Fligger of Butler Co. He lived on the old farm "in a house of his own" & "Mother &
I always occupied the old house." He has always been a farmer. He had lost his interest in the farm, but owned
some stock which he sold & moved in Mch 1919 to Oxford, Chester Co Pa where he bought a farm where he is
living, but his wife is dead Born Nov 17, 1845.
Leroy, m. Grace Thompson of Butler Co Pa. Both are living at Winona, Oklahoma & he is in the
oil Business.
Arthur, oldest
Herbert
Anne Mildred, youngest
Two boys are now going to school, their first year.
George, unmarried in Oklahoma working for an Oil Co.
Mary, unmarried. A stenographer living in Detroit Michigan.
Nelson, m. Hazel Anderson of Venango Co. They are living with his father in Chester Co Pa &
keep house for him. Have no children.
Blanche, ob Mch 10, 1885 aged 2 yrs 9 mos 11 days born May 27, 1882.
Frances, Living
Samuel, Dead.
Mary Melissa Neyman, mar John Montgomery of Armstrong Co Pa. He was a Riverman as a young man, but is
now a farmer & living in Oakland Tp, Butler Co Pa. "She died a year before mother in 1912". Born Aug 16,
1847.
2. Ada May, The second. m. Frank Moore of upper Butler Co. Both
living in Pgh. He is Principal of
school in East Pgh.
Hugh, Dead
A son, died a babe
Charles, aged abt 6 yrs.
1. John Ardel, oldest Died aged abt 7 yrs.
Amanda Belle, m. Samuel Gilfillan of Butler Co & both live in Butler Co. He owns some oil
Wells.
Bertha Maud, M. Snider of Chicago where they both live.
Alfred Alonzo, Died aged about 17 yrs.
Bessie Blanche, Unmarried Lives at home with her Father.
John Getty Neyman, Getty was his grandmother Wilson's name in Ireland. Married Cora Pearson who is now
dead. He is a widower & lives in Pgh. He is a carpenter. Born Sept 5, 1849. She died Apr 12, 1889 He died
May 21, 1920 aged 70 yrs 8 mos 16 days.
Grace Neyman, is teaching school at Coraopolis Pa. Unmarried
Margaret Isabel Neyman, my informant, Born Dec 20, 1852 at the old home. She went to Grove City Academy
(now college) in the fall of 1881 & 1882 for one year after her father's death & after that went to Millersville,
Lancaster Co, Pa to the State Normal School. She commenced teaching when 18 yrs old & taught several years
before going to Grove City & then just after her return from Millersville, says she couldn't tell how many years,
she taught, but must be over thirty. Did not teach continuously. Her first school was in Washington Tp north of
Oakland Tp. She is now teaching in Oakland Tp about 2 1/2 miles from her old home. Says there were 13 or 14
yrs she didn't teach & by reason of the scarcity of teachers, they asked her to take school & she took it up again.
Sarah Eleanore Neyman, about 3 yrs younger than Margaret. Died about 1886, five years after her father's
death & unmarried. Born June 14, 1855 ob Dec 13, 1885 aged 30 yrs 6 mos.
Abram Clark Neyman, Died when five years old. She thinks in 1864. Born July 20, 1857. Died of diptheria
Jany 3, 1863.
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Oak Hill, Feby 1, 1920 2 PM
After strenuous efforts yesterday morning & the help of Jennings H. Thompson, who was the first one to tell
me it had been found, & delivered at 4 PM on 30th to Wm Penn Hotel, I got the book which I had forgotten & left
on the Chair Car the morning of the 30th. I got this book at the Wm Penn Hotel about 8:40 Am after their
repeated contention for over a half hour that it had not been left with them. I grabbed a taxi & went to the B&O
Station yesterday morning & took the 9 o'clock train on the B.R.& PRR for Butler Pa where I arrived at 10:35
AM & walked up to the Hotel Nixon. Miss Neyman had been in, but had stepped out, but came back at 11 AM,
the hour I had appointed to meet her. She is a slight, erect, bright intelligent woman of 67 yrs probably a little
over five feet 1 in height & weighing say 110 lbs, wearing glasses, but her hair is not gray. After talk with her, I
got room 41 where we were busy until 7:30 PM. Except for an hour each for lunch & dinner writing down the
information & data recorded from Page 211 to 225 inclusive Excepting pages 216, 217, & 220. The data she
gave me was all from her memory & she thought perhaps a little of it might not be correct. She said her
grandmother Neyman talked English, so her mother told her very brokenly, using Penna Dutch largely in her
conversation. Much of the information she gave, she got from her mother, remembered from her talks with the
Neyman relatives. Margaret said her father was a very quiet man & talked but little. She said her Father's family
Bible with record was packed
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up & taken by her brother Markle J. to Chester Co Pa without her knowing he was taking it. She said she would
write him for the record. Margaret said she lived in Connellsville Pa five years leaving in 1912 the year before
her mother's death, say then from 1907 to 1912, but was never up to Uniontown. She had a millinery store along
with her niece, Bertha Maud, now Mrs Snider, I believe, living in Chicago. The store was called "Neyman's" &
was located on North Pgh St about the Corner of Apple adjoining F.E. Markell's Drug Store & not far from PRR
Sta. She roomed with Mrs Ward, who was a Sunbower, she said & who always spoke very highly of me, but she
did not know then that we were relatives. In speaking of the serious time they had treating Dr Neyman's mother
when the tree fell on her, she said she was turned in sheets for several weeks. She said she did not know how it
was done, whether just on the bed or whether swung like a hammock in sheets. If Miss Carsonette Porter is
correct about her grandmother Susan being born in 1796, I fear the order of ages given by Margaret on Pages 214
& 215 is not correct as Anna (Mrs Robb) was born in 1784 & putting Daniel & Jasper 2 yrs apart would leave 8
yrs between children & I think some of those listed between Susan & John H. should come before Susan.
At 7:30 PM, Margaret & I started to walk down to take the street car at corner of Main & Jefferson as where
going to lunch, she called up Mrs Eleanor Haines daughter of Dr Ney
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man & she came to room 51 for half an hour 1:45 to 2:20 Pm & when going to dinner, she called up Mrs Anna
Moser, daughter of Isaac Robb & we arranged to go to their homes after dinner to get the record of their
respective fathers & grandfathers family. Going down Main St, we crossed over & went up one flight of stairs
where she introduced me to a strong, bright, young or middle aged man named Evans, a relative, son I think of
one of her Aunt Sally Beatty's daughters that she had forgotten about when giving me the record in the afternoon.
We took the street car to Elm St Corner of Pearl & had to walk up Elm St three or four blocks on a glare of ice to
604 Elm St on the left hand side where we arrived at 8:15 PM at the residence of Mrs Anna Moser aged 78, a
daughter of Isaac Robb, to whom Margaret introduced me & also to her daughter-in-law, Mrs Wm J. Moser,
whose name before marriage was M. Jessie Scott & not Jessie M. Scott as given in the record at Page 216 & her
daughter Minnie Anna who opened the door for us & later to her father Wm John Moser when he came in. He is
full of jokes & fun. Mrs Anna Moser is a large rawboned woman with a large face, square jawed & firm & looks
very vigorous, but is a little hard of hearing. She said her grandfather had no children by his second wife who
was an old maid when he married her.
Mrs Moser & her son Wm J. in speaking of the Mosers said they came to Butler Co from Berks Co Pa. The one
that came out that is
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of his ancestors was his great great grandfather John Moser. His son, John Moser, caught the black fever in the
War of 1812 & died young & his son Solomon was raised by his grandfather Moser & his son George
Washington Moser was Mrs Moser's husband.
Mrs Moser got out a printed record which had been prepared by her father & printed so as to give all the
members of the families a copy. It was prepared from the family records & Bibles & gave the dates of birth of
her grandfather & grandmother & all of their children. Also of Isaac Robb, his wife & all of their children & it
was from this, I took the dates given on pages 216 & 217, for their births. The dates of birth & death on the same
pages of Mrs Moser's own children & the dates of birth on Page 216 of the children of her son William John
Moser were taken from their family Bibles. By this time, it was 10:15 Pm & as Mrs Haines was waiting for us to
come, I told the Mosers I would come back in the summer time when the roads are good & finish getting from
Mrs Moser, the additional data I wanted her to give me
viz
1. Record of descendants of following brothers & sisters of her father viz: Mariah, Rebeccah, Elizabeth (her
husband Thos Campbell was married 4 times) James R, /Sarah [sic] & William J.
2. Also record of same of her brothers & sisters, to wit: William C. who is living in Nebraska (Ord, I believe)
over 86 yrs old, Christy, Elvinah, Neyman, Mary, Elliott, John M. & Sarah B.
3. Also of her own children, Viz; Sarah Jane,
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James, Harvey, Anna M., George S., & Albert Marshall.
4. And marriages etc of her grandsons Walter Roy & Elmer M.
Elmer M. is not a college graduate, but is a graduate of the Moody Institute at Chicago, where he met his
wife when they were at school together. He is now pastor of the First Pres. Church of Galena, Ills & but 25 yrs
old. Their mother showed me photos of Walter & Elmer & they are handsome boys with fine faces.
Mrs Anna Moser said her grandfather John Christy married a Miss Christy, his first cousin. When I asked her if
her father did not have a record of the marriages & deaths printed also, she said he had not, but that he had often
spoken of it &said he was sorry he did not have that done too when he had the opportunity. We then bid them
goodbye at 10:20 PM & Margaret & I walked down to Pearl Street, then up Pearl two more blocks to Oak St &
up it about a block to Mrs C.S. Haines (Eleanor) at No 215 Oak ST where we arrived at 10:40 PM. She is the
daughter of Dr A.M. Neyman & thinks his mother's strict dealings with him when a young man made the great
man out of him he was. She & her daughter Helen, showed me photos of both. He has a fine head & attractive
countenance. She shows great determination & will power. Mrs Haines said that the storm accident when she
was hurt & her husband & older son killed, had such a lasting hold on her
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that up to the day of her death, she would never go to bed until the Doctor came in in his numerous night calls to
see patients covering a period of over 50 years.
At the time set for his wedding, he had not appeared at the hour set for the marriage & someone went to his office
& found him writing a prescription & told him that it was the hour of his wedding & the guests were waiting.
At midnight, John M., her son walked to the corner with me to get a street car. We waited until 12:30 & no car
coming, we went back to the house & phoned for a taxi which came up & I got to the Hotel Nixon at 1:11 AM
after bidding them all goodby & telling them I would come back in the summer when the roads got good & visit
the cemetery etc. I want them to go to see Oscar D. Keister about the record of his grandfather Daniel Neyman
Pages 218 & 219.
I got up at 5:45 AM this morning, paid my bill & walked down to the B.R. & P Sta arriving at 6:15 & found the
6:25 train reported an hour late. I then walked up about three blocks, to the Harmony St Car line & found they
would not leave until 7 o'clock. I then walked 3 1/2 blocks further beyond the Court House to Cunningham St &
was just in time to catch the 6:30 car on the Pgh Mans & Butler St Rte for Pgh. We passed on through Mars in
Butler Co, but shortly thereafter crossed the line into Allegheny Co passing through Wildwood & Sample where I
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was last fall to see Cousin James G. Sample & his sister. The ground everywhere was covered with snow, white
everywhere. We passed through Etua & Allegheny & I got off at the Bridge at 8:30 & went up sixth St & Liberty
on a brisk walk, arriving at Union Sta at 8:40 & caught the 3:45 train for Greensburgh, where I arrived at 9:42 &
went to the street car station arriving at 9:57 & caught the 10 o'clock St car getting to town at 12:30 & to Oak Hill
at 1 PM just having time to stop at the restaurant under the Null House & get two sandwiches as i had no
breakfast. I commenced at 2 Pm & read over the record I had written yesterday, made some corrections & noted
some references for two hours & at 4 o'clock commenced at 226 & wrote until 5 when I went into Minnie's for
dinner & found she had a big turkey done to a turn for herself, Andrew, & myself. I came back to Oak Hill at 7
& at 7:11 commenced again on this record & now at 8:20 PM have finished. The record on Page 220 was
furnished by Mrs Haines & her daughter Helen.
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Oak Hill, Feby 4, 1920 8:18 PM
This afternoon at room 522, Frank S. Hagans said that his mother was born in the house where he now lives
at West Pump in 1820, that "Jane Springer" as he called her, now Mrs Jane E. Johnson was born same year (she
was born in Dec 1820 & is still living) & they were friends as girls together. He also said that Lewis Armstead
told him that his mother, Tabitha Armstead, was 91 yrs old & was born in a little log house which stood on the
back end of the J.K. Ritenour property, corner of Mill & Fayette St & which he said he remembered & I think I
do too, & which is in the same square in which she still lives. I learned yesterday evening from Alice Armstrong
& the Flemings that Tabitha was very sick, so I went around at four o'clock this afternoon to see her & found her
sleeping on a cot before the fire in the back room & her son Lewis, who is totally blind, sitting there along with
Emma Henderson, wife of W. Pres Henderson & a fat chunky daughter of Eli H. Touly. Mrs Henderson spoke of
her mother & I asked who her mother was & she said she was the daughter of A.Pat McClure & her mother was a
Burgess. Evidently, the illegitimate daughter of whom I had heard long years ago. I gave Lewis a copy of the
pneumonia cure, but he said his mother had gotten well of the pneumonia, but was having swollen feet. I then
went down to the "Holler" & Minnie L. Redburn & myself
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put back in the Geo L. West book case in the corner of my old bedroom the books we had taken out some ten
days ago in order to take the book case down & do some plastering on the ceiling above & which I.N. Beighley
just got put back in place this afternoon. This book case contains the Dr W.H. Egle series of notes & queries &
other choice works & practically all of the books I got from Father's & Mother's library & brought in following
mother's burial from Springdale, after Tue, Lenora, Will & I had divided them, selecting in rotation in the order
of our ages Nov 3, 1897. On the middle one of the three drawers beneath the bookcase, were many newspapers
laid aside by me for preservation & the Bibles of my grandfather Andrew Finley Thompson & my father Jasper
Markle Thompson. I take it that the births of the three children was written by grandfather, as father being raised
at Mill Grove among the Markles in early live [sic] wrote his name G.M. Thompson as they all called him
"Gasper" & he has told me he did not know but that was his correct name "until he got his father's family Bible &
found he had written his name Jasper". Hence, I take it that the births of his children are written in grandfather's
own hand & the record of the deaths of grandmother, grandfather, & Uncle William L, are written by Father.
Also in Father's own Bible, the record of his & mother's marriage & the births of us four children are all in
Father's
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handwriting & I am tonight writing in the record the dates of his & mother's death. Grandfather's Bible is well &
substantially bound in leather & is eleven by nine inches & three inches thick & was printed in Philadelphia by
M. Carey & Son No 126 Chestnut St in 1821. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a clipping from a
newspaper from top to bottom 11 inches long announcing the death of Alvira S. Fuller, (father's first cousin) wife
of Dr Smith Fuller from Pulmonary consumption on May 25, 1848 in her 28th year.
The family record is as follows:
Mary Thompson was born March 24, AD 1819. William L. Thompson was born October 13 AD 1820.
Jasper M. Thompson was born August 30, AD 1822.
Leah Thompson, wife of Andrew F. Thompson departed this life 22d September, 1824.
Andrew F. Thompson departed this life 20th of April, 1825.
William L. Thompson, eldest son of Andrew & Leah Thompson, departed this life (in Owensville, Clay County,
Mosouria [sic]) on 20th August 1841 (of congestive Feaver) [sic]
Father's family Bible is also well & substantially bound in leather is nine & a half inches long by six & a half
inches wide & two & three quarter inches thick. It was printed at Hartford by S. Andrus & Son 1853 & he has
written his name "J.M. Thompson" May 13, 1856 & evidently, the record has been written in, as in grandfather's
after the children were all born.
The family record is as follows:
Marriages
J.M. Thompson to Eliza Carothers, February 1846
Births
Ruthana Thompson, Born May 16th, 1847.
Lenora M. Thompson, Born May 28th, 1849.
William M. Thompson, Born November 13th, 1851.
Josiah V. Thompson, Born February 15, 1854.
Deaths
Jasper M. Thompson, Died March 15th, 1889.
Eliza Thompson, Died October 31st, 1897.
It is now 9:50 PM
JV Thompson
[The following entry made in neat legible hand]
Josiah V. Thompson - Died September 27th, 1933.
Rosemary Maloney
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Registers Office, Pittsburgh Pa, Feby 10, 1920 12:15 PM
See Page 204.
6. James M. Jack, Adms bond book No 25 Page 348
Catharine Jack, Robert Black & Thos J. Jack, all of Allegheny Co give bond for $800 on Oct 27, 1871 for
Catharine Jack, an Admx of Est of James M. Jack Record of Accts no 20 Page 446 is acct of Catharine Jack,
Admx of James M. Jack, late of Plum in Co of Allegheny, yeoman. Charges herself with appnt of $50. Showed
various small bills & a bal due accountant of $100.95. Filed before Jos H. Gray Reg & sworn to Sept 27, 1872 &
confirmed nisi Dec 2, 1872.
7. James P. Jack, Record of Deaths Book No 8, P. 419.
Sarah K. Jack appears Nov 5, 1891 to take out letters of Adms & swears that James P. Jack, late of Belleone
died Oct 30th, 1891 at abt 4 AM.
8. Laura P. Jack, who seems to have died Aug 30, 1913 in her will at Will Book 124 Page 23 & 24 wills:
2d To daughter Edith Pierce 5 Shs stock in Part Pgh School [best guess]
3d To two daughters Minnie McCune & Edith Pierce $500 each.
4 to two sons Edward Jack & Labana S. Jack Jr $500 each above $2000 being mtge held rs Edw C. Haus.
5 To daughter Laura Jack, all the int on sd " net [sic]
6 To daughter Laura Jack all money dep in Pgh Bank for Sav & Park Sav Bk Pgh
7 To my husband Labana S. Jack Sr my diamond great pin etc & appoints husband Labana S. Jack Sr exr. Will
dated July 10, 1908. Affidavit states she died Aug 30, 1913 & will is admitted to Probate Oct 6, 1913 & letters to
Labana S. Jack.
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9. Labanna S. Jack Senr, Will Book 131 P 362 shows that he is of the Bor of Crafton & 2d directs his Exrs to
place $100 tombstones to both his & wife's graves. 3. Gives to each of my five children a house & lot on N.
Stanley St, Ingram Pa, Each lot 50x120. Viz to daughter Laura H. Jack, to my son Labanna S. Jack to my
daughter Mrs Edith Jack Pearce, to my son Edward S. Jack & to my daughter Mrs Minnie Jack McCune. Gives
each specific lot with number.
4th gives Labanna s. diamond studded watch & gold headed cane & to son Edward S. Also a gold headed cane.
6. States has had his life insurance policy made to five children equally
7. Residuary Estate to five children equally & appoints Laura & Labanna Exrs Dated May 15, 1914. Labanna S.
Jack Sr died Apr 4, 1915 at 10:30 Pm & Will admitted to Probate Apr 7, 1915 & letters issued to above two Exrs.
10. Mattie V. Jack, Record of Deaths, Book 5 Page 30 Oath of Elizabeth Gould applying for letters of Adm says
Mattie V. Jack, late of Boro of Braddock, died Mch 5, 1885 at 10:30 PM. In bond book, No 41, Page 255, is
bond dated June 29, 1885 of Elizabeth Gould as Admx of Mrs Mattie V. Jack, late of Bor of Braddock, with
Daniel Gould, David Stewart Jack & Frederick Pastreas, bondsmen.
11. Margaret Jack, Record of Deaths, No 7, Page 172 shows that James Jack applying for letters of adm on Oct
28, 1889 makes oath
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that Margaret Jack, late of Pittsburgh Pa died Oct 22, 1889 at 11:35 AM. In Bond Book 48 Pages 112 & 113,
letters are taken out by James Jack & bond p'd on for $500 with Michael Frank & Jas McCafe as bondsmen.
Renunciation Paper No 56 filed Oct 28, 1889. Showed signature of children & heirs renouncing viz Mrs. Emma
J. Good, Lottie I. Jack, & David S. Jack
12. Margaret J. Jack, Record of Deaths Vol II P 529 shows that Alexander Jack on Mch 30, 1897 applied for
letters of Adm on Estate of Margaret J. Jack late of Pittsburgh Pa who died Dec 24, 1896 at 11:30 PM. Will
Book 53 Page 336 is her will dated Nov 9, 1896 bequeaths to beloved husband Alexander Jack, all Estate except
some wearing apparel which she gives to her daughter Mrs W.H. Pillow. Bequeaths organ to granddaughter,
Margaret J. Jones. Directs that vacant lot on Blaine St be sold & from proceeds pay $155 to John L. Jones being
the am't my son John A. Jack owes to him. Gives son John S. Jack $1.
13. Margaret Lindsay Jack who died June 27, 1916 makes will Recorded Book 136 P 545 Apr 13, 1915 recites
that she is of Pasadena, Los Angeles Co, Calif of age of_______years, bequeaths first
1st to my sister Elizabeth Lindsay Lucas all I possess with understanding that she pay my widowed sister Sarah L.
Shank $500. Also to my sisters Isabella L. Reed & Anna L. Kennedy $300 each.
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Also makes bequests to nieces Annie Frigella & Gretta Reed Jeffer & to Pasadena U.P. Church $100. Admitted
to Probate Sept 2, 1916.
14. Robert D. Jack Bond Book 41 Page 109 shows that he was late of Chartiers Tp & that on Apr 7, 1885 letters
of Adm were taken out by Margaret Jack, who gave bond in $300 with G.A. Mackie & R Munay bondsmen.
15. Samuel S. Jack Record of Deaths 5 Page 384 shows that on Sept 15, 1886, Mrs Anna S. Jack, applying for
letters testamentary makes oath that Samuel S. Jack, late of the city of Pittsburgh, died Sept 2, 1886 at 7 AM. His
will is recorded in Book 30 Page 481 & is dated Oct 15, 1883 & states that he is of Pgh Pa being about to go from
home on business a requirement of my connection with the firm of Park Bros Rs [best guess] as employee etc.
1st bequeaths to beloved wife Anna S. Jack all of real & personal estate with condition that half goes to her
absolutely. Then 1/5 net value to her in trust for our son Wilbur Lee Jack who is under age, also 3/10 to Wilbur
Lee Jack when he becomes 30 yrs old.
Recites that a Life Ins Policy in Mutual Life Ins Co of NY was made out originally to his sister Annie C. Jack &
he wants her to get it, about $2,000 & the addition thereto of abt $500 to go to his father, William Jack if he is
living on Oct 24, 1883 makes codicil appointing his wife Exrx & asks her to advise with his friend Anthony F.
Keating Probated Sept 15, 1886.
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16. Thos Jack, Will Book 4, Page 55
Will recites that he is of Versailles Tp & wills everything to John Ludwick of same Tp. Dated Oct 10, 1832.
Witnessed by Larkin Stonehome & Adam Ludwick. Shows that on Dec 14, 1832 & Feby 5, 1833 witnesses
qualified & will recorded Feby 6, 1833.
17. Thos J. Jack, Record of Deaths Vol 5 Page 26, recites that he was late of City of Pgh Pa & that he died Dec
9, 1883 & on June 26, 1885 John Madden applied for letters of Adm & on Adm Bond Book 41 Page 245, he
gave bond same day for $100, with A.J. Kirschner & Jas W. Collins Sureties.
18. William Jack, Record of Deaths Vol 5 P 454 states that he was late of Pgh Pa & died Nov 21, 1886 at 6 AM
as sworn to Dec 15, 1886 by Annie C. jack in applying for letters testamentery on his will which is recorded in
Book 31 page 85 & dated Sept 9, 1886. Recites he is of 22 ward City of Pgh wills:
2d If my grandson Wilbur Lee Jack lives to be 21 yrs gives him $2000 to be p'd then.
3d Give to my son Robert H. Jack $100 to be pd in 90 days.
4. Give all residue to daughter Annie C. Jack & appoints her Exrx.
Witnessed by David D. Bruce & W.B. Negley Probated Dec 10, 1886.
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recites that Dr William Jack was late of the city of Allegheny Pa & died Dec 31st, 1892 at 7 PM.
20. William H. Jack, Will Book 147 P 520, his will dated Dec 14, 1914 recites he is of Saranac Lake, Franklin
Co NY.
2d, Gives all personal property to wife Cora B. Jack of Saranac Lake NY.
3d, gives her all his real estate. Lastly appoints wife & Arthur C. Sullivan of Pgh Exrs. Probated may 8, 1918.
21. Cathrine Whitsel, Will Book 4 Page 284. Her will dated Mch 6, 1832 states she is of Ross Tp & is weak &
infirm of body, but sound & perfect in mind & memory & has been blessed with temporal things & has numerous
offspring whom she wishes to have enjoy it wills:
1st to my eldest son Philip Whitsel $1. in 1 yr.
2d to my eldest daughter Elizabeth Hilands $1. in 1 yr.
3. to my son George Whitsel $1. in 1 yr.
4. to my daughter Hannah Miller $1. in 1 yr.
5. to my daughter Susanna Means $1. in 1 yr.
6. to my daughter Cathrine Brown $1. in 1 yr.
7. to my daughter Mary Crider $1. in 1 yr.
8. to my son Jacob Whitsel $1. in 1 yr.
9. to my son Joseph Whitsel $1. in 1 yr
& states that anything coming to me from my father's estate in the hands of Joseph
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Marcle, or anything that may be left of my own property shall be divided equally betwixt my son George Whitsel
& Mary Crider, save my clothes which I wish my daughters to have equal as Mary Crider thinks right. Appoints
Geo Whitsel & Thomas Gibson of Pine Tp Exrs. Witnessed by Thos Gibson & James Gibson.
In a codicil dated Oct 23, 1832, she refers to personal property willed to her by her father & now in hand of
Joseph Marcle, she wants divided equally among all her children & names "to wit, my eldest son Philip Whitsel,
Elizabeth Hilands, George Whitsel, Hanna Miller, Susan Means, Cathrine Brown, Mary Crider, Jacob Whitsel &
Joseph Whitsel. Codicil witnessed by Thos Gibson & A. Hilands. Probated Apr 20, 1836 & letters to Exrs
named in Will.
Oak Hill Feby 11, 1920 1:22 AM
When at Pgh, I got to this point completing copy of Catherine Whitesel's will (she was baptized Aug 20,
1757, see Book 1 Page 17 bottom) when it came 4:22 Pm & I had to quit & go to see W.A. Seifert & catch the
4:58 train home, arriving late at 7:44 Pm & I have tonight been going over past six months records in part to get
addresses of relatives in Pgh section advanced in years that I must go to see.
JV Thompson 1:27 AM
Oak Hill, Feby 18, 1920 9:35 AM
In answering yesterday James C. Clow's letter of Nov 21, 1919, I find the old letter of his mother's
Grandmother, Anna Brown (who was daughter of Sam'l Potter, a brother of great grandmother Catharine
Caruthers) to her husband Robert Brown, then in Phila. Evidently purchasing his fur [far? word is somewhat
blotted] good & the letter which I must return, written in a neat plain precise chirography with every letter
perfectly formed, practically like copperplate expresses & shows the care with she is performing her wifely
duties in his absence & her filial love & devotion. Evidencing why her granddaughter, Kate Riddle Brown Clow
had inherited the character & disposition that led her son James C. to say in the above letter: "She was one
mother in a thousand, and I thank God today for her early teachings". The letter is written on the first page,
covering it completely of a double sheet of paper, slightly pink, 8 inches wide by 9 inches long & on the back
sheet, now browned with age & directed to "Mr Robert Brown, care Mr Richard C. Potter, Merchant,
Philadelphia" & barely distinguishable to the left below the address showing where & when it was mailed is
"Greensburg 31st Oct" & in the upper right hand corner after folding is "25 1/2" evidently showing what postage
was paid. It is worthy of note that his mail was sent care of Richard C. Potter, who possibly may have been
recognized as some connection or relative. The letter follows:
"Greensburgh 30th Octr, 1815
My Dear
It is with pleasure I take up my pen to let you
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know that through the tender mercy of God, we are all spared and in good health at present but find the loss of
one who is so dear to me for when you are from home there appears Still a want both in the Shop and house but
we must look unto him that has promised to be with us in the house and by the way There is nothing new in this
place since you left home only the great scarcity of water this night there is not one bucketfull to be got from Mr
Youngs up to Mr Morrisons. God only what would become of us if fire should take place as there was one in
Pittsburg on Friday morning last it broke out in a Mr Church's hatter shop and consumed all in that Street Mr
Patterson's is also burnt the loss is calculated to be between 4000 and 5000 Dollars. I received a bill from
Baltimore last mail there is nothing coming on but one Keg of Tobbacco [sic] and some Sheet iron Carriage is
high yet it is 5 1/2 dollars per C. I feel very anxious to hear from you as I understand that when Mr Weigly met
you at Bedford, you was alone. The children join me in love to you I add no more at present but remain Your
loving wife Anna Brown
The body of above letter embraced nineteen lines & I have put the same words in each line as was in the letter.
There is no punctuation Except the three periods above indicated. It is now 10:30 AM & I will go in town to my
office.
JVT
Registers Office Pgh Pa Feby 27, 1920 9:44 AM
I resume my copying from the records. See Page 243
21 ctd. Cathrine Whitsel, Record of Acts Vol 2 Page 142, in which Exrs Thos Gibson & George Whitesel charge
themselves with Inv & Appmt $489.30
Proceeds of crops of RE
28.60
Int from different persons
81.63
_________
$596.53
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& take credit for various sums including:
3. Doctor Agnew Physician's bill
$ 10.87 1/2
6. John Cryder, Proven bill
199.62 1/2
7. John Brown, Proven bill
82.62 1/2
8. James Hillans Proven bill
36.40 1/2
15. Exrs for services including exps in going to
Greensburgh on business of Estate
70.58
17. John Means on a/c of his distributive share
as one of heirs
13.00
18. George Whitsell [same as above]
13.00
19. J. Hillands [same as above]
13.00
20. John Crider [same as above]
13.00
21. Jacob Whitsell [same as above]
13.00
22. John Brown, Joseph Whitsell & Hanna Miller
39.00
Bals in hands Exrs
22.00
___________
$596.53
Sworn to Feby 17, 1838 & confirmed Nisi Mch 26, 1838.
N.B. The above balance of $22 distributed as follows:
Am't payable to Philip Whitsell one of the heirs who is at present absent $14 & one dollar to each of the other
Eight heirs.
22. Cyrus Whitesell, Bond Book 22 Page 23 wherein letters of Adms are taken out by James A. Gibson on
Estate May 8, 1867 & bond for $600. given with George Whitesell & D. Whitesell on bond.
23. Catherine Whitesell, Record of death Vol 13 Page 439 wherein Guyton makes oath that Catherine Whitesell
of Ross Tp died Dec 31, 1899 at 4:30 PM & in Will Book 62 Page 229 in her will dated Sept 29, 1879 states:
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1st I will lot of land I own part of tract owned by my father Jacob Whitesell & which title I own by virtue of deed
of partition made by his heirs unto my sisters Margaret Whitesell & Anetta Whitesell share & share alike & if
either sh'd died without issue, then her share to go to survivor & likewise on same terms equally wills sd two
sisters all her personal property & appoints Wilson Whitesell Exr. Witnessed by Alex Hiland & M.D. Peebles.
Mch 5, 1900 M.D. Peebles swears to execution & M. Petrie proves signature of Alex Hiland & on Mch 27, 1900
letters c.t.a. issued to R. Guyton Renunciation filed see Bond book Vol 69 Page 211. Bond was given for $150
Recites she was of Ross Tp.
24. George L. Whitesel. Will Book 10 Page 259. His will dated June 24, 1826 wills everything to his wife
during life & at her death "to be equally divided between my two children Mary Jane & Margaret M. Whitesel"
Witnessed by H.M. Pillow & A.P. Clow who on Aug 19, 1862 prove same & letters of Adm c.t.a. issued.
25. George Whitesell Record of Death Vol 2 Page 432 shows upon oath of William Whitesell that he died Jany
23, 1880 at 2 Pm & in Will Book 22
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covering two full pages 320 & 321 & dated June 19, 1869 Wills as follows: States he is of Hampton Tp,
Allegheny Co Pa "Farmer"
1st directs his body be interred in burying ground of Presbyterian Church at Cross Roads Pine Tp
Item directs household & kitchen furniture be appraised & given with his Library of books to his daughters Sarah
Jane McCaslin & Elizabeth McClintock & my granddaughter Mary Elizabeth Sample in equal shares at the
appraised value to be taken by choice alternately in order of ages.
Item Directs farming implements etc be equally divided between his two sons William & Joseph M. Directs that
permanent & substantial gravestones be erected at his grave by Exrs.
Item gives & devises to son William farm in Hampton Tp ctg 46 A 76 P Beginning in center of Pine Creek at old
Mill Dam etc being residue of my homestead farm after executing deed to my said son William.
Item Gives & devises to my son Jacob $2, 158 being 2d installment due him on Judgt bond vs son William due
Apr 1, 1871.
Item to son Joseph m. $1,158, being 4th installment in said mtge & bond
Item to my daughter Sarah Jane McCaslin $2,158 being 3d installment
Item to my daughter Elizabeth McClintock $2,158, being installment no one in sd mtge.
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Item to my granddaughter Mary Elizabeth Sample $2,158, being fifth payt in s'd mtge.
Item to my grandson George Whitesel, son of Cyrus $1000 out of last installment in said mtge.
Item to my two granddaughters of my son Dr George Whitesell Decd $200 each to be paid out of remainder of
said mtge.
Item gives all residue of personal Estate to sons Jacob, William & Joseph M & my daughters Sarah Jane
McCaslin and Elizabeth McClintock & my grandson George Whitesell, son of Cyrus & my granddaughter Mary
Elizabeth Sample share & share alike.
A codicil made Aug 28, 1875 revokes bequest to his son Jacob Whitesell & gives it to Jacob's son George
Whitesell Signed George Whitesell Admitted to probate Jany 31, 1880 by Philip Hoen, Register.
26. Isaac Whitesell, Record of Death Book Vol 7 Page 618 Oath of Dorcas McKeag on Nov 20, 1890 shows that
Isaac Whitsell late of Pittsburgh Pa died on Sept 14, 1890 at 5:30 Am & his will in Will Book 38 Page 99 dated
Aug 21, 1890 gives to his daughter Dorcas McKeag $1000 & what is left of his Estate to be equally divided
between my son Robert Whitsell, my daughter Martha McClure, my daughter Lyde Muffley, and my
granddaughter Nellie Swain. Appoints daughter Dorcas McKeag Exrs. Proven Nov 18, 1890. Nellie Swain
receipts on margin of Will records on Sept 15th (no year) for $200 her sh of residue.
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27. Jacob Weitzel Will Book 1 Page 285 Recites that he is of Pine Tp, Allegheny Co Pa is weak in body etc.
1st Wills to beloved wife Catherine 150 A of land which is the upper place called "John Peries Cabbin" during her
widowhood also 2 horses 2 cows & a heifer 4 sheep & six geese her bed & bedding & her tea ware together with
farming utensils & allow her to build a good convenient house on paid land to enable her to raise my younger
children & also $50. a year out of the yearly income of my estate, also her bed & bedding & saddle. And further
allow my sons Philip & George to hold my lower place for a term of five yrs their putting & keeping the same in
good repair over & above an equal share with the rest of my children & gives to daughter Elizabeth her bed &
bedding & young mare saddle & bridle & one cow over & above an equal share & I order the house & land I how
live on to be rented, together with four acres of meadow off of Lower place which I have avowed to my two sons
Philip & George & after the expiration of the 5 yrs, I order the land I now live on with house & lower place to be
valued & appraised & the money arising therefrom to be equally divided among my children & after the marriage
or death of my sd wife the 150 A to be sold & divided equally among his children. All disposition of lands to be
according to intestate laws of Penna.
Orders two sons Jacob & Joseph to be educated & "Bound to Trades" such as they may choose.
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Appoints wife Catherine & son George Exrs Dated July 10th, 1809 & signed (as per record) Jacob Weizell (seal)
Witnessed by Richard Morrow, Samuel Drake, Sam'l Jones. On July 13, 1809, Richard Morrow & Samuel Drake
appear & prove the will before Wm Jones. for Samuel Jones Register Exrs filed an acct June 18, 1810 see Record
of Accounts book 3 Page 78.
28. Jacob Whitesel, In Record of deaths Vol 1 Page 149, Wilson Whitesell on March 25th, 1875 makes oath that
Jacob Whitesell, late of Ross Tp, died on March 10th, 1875 at 12 M & in Bond Book No 29 Page 305 Wilson
Whitesell takes out letters of Adm on Mch 25, 1875 giving bond for $2000 with Alex Hilands & J.H. Whitesell
as sureties.
29. Jacob Whitesell, Record of Death Vol 4 P 452. Frank Whitesell appears Feby 6, 1885 & makes oath that
Jacob Whitesell of Sewickly Bor died Feby 2, 1885 at 5 PM. His will recorded in Will Book No 28 Page 305
states that "I Jacob Whitesell of the Borough of Sewickly" Wills 2d to my beloved wife Anna Margaret Whitesell
absolutely all my personal Estate of whatsoever kind including all my interest in the law firm of Whitesell & Son
& Whitesell & Sons, both of which I am the Senior member & without inventory & appraisement 3d I give &
devise to my sd wife Anna Margaret
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Whitesell all of my real estate wheresoever situated including my house & lot in the Borough of Sewickly.
Lastly appoints wife Anna Margaret Whitesell & son Frank Whitesell Exrs. Dated Jany 21, 1885 at Sewickley &
signed Jacob Whitesell. Witnessed by Isabella Bryan & Annie E. Neill Probated Feby 6, 1885 before Philip
Hoen Reg & letters issued to above named Exrs.
30. Wilson Whitesell Record of Death Vol 16 P 139 J.R. Sangree on June 17, 1903 makes oath that Wilson
Whitesell late of Ross Tp died May 22, 1903 at 9 AM. Adms Bond Book No 74 Page 713 shows that on June
12th, 1903 before Geo H. Stengel Register, letters of Adm were granted to J.R. Sangree, he giving bond for $700
with R. Guyton & W.W. McIntyre sureties.
31. Wm W. Whitesell see page 190, also see Will Book 83 Page 448 wherein he recites that he is of the Borough
of Sewickley & wills everything personal mixed & real to his mother, Anna Margaret Whitesell without
inventory, bond or appraisment. Appoints J.Francis Morton (or Horton) & Frank C. Whitesell Exrs. Dated July
1, 1905 & witnessed by Isabella Brown & Mrs Laura Quick Simmons which witnesses on July 12, 1905 prove
said will & it is probated same day & letters issued to above Exrs Record states that he died July 8th, 1905 at
11:50 PM.
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32. Hannah C. Rothermel Record of Deaths Vol 10 Page 502. John D. Brown on June 7, 1895 makes oath that
Hannah C. Rothermel late of the City of Allegheny died May 9, 1895 at about 6 AM.
33. Hannah Rothermel Will Book 48 Page 414 states "I, Hannah Rothermel, being of sound mind, do bequeath
to Hannah C. Rothermel, my daughter all my real and personal property for services rendered. signed at
Allegheny City this 30th day of September 1890". Hannah Rothermel. Witnesses E. Ehrlich & L. Goldsmit
Proven by said witnesses on May 25, 1895 & admitted that day to probate by Sam'l Conner, Register.
34. Samuel Rothermel, Bond Book No 7, Page 369 shows that on Jany 29th. 1839 Hannah Rothermel & Revd
David Kaemmerer took out letters of Adm on Estate of Samuel Rothermel late of the City of Pittsburgh Dec d &
gave bond for $4000 with Jacob Byerly & Henry Bentel as sureties before D. Gilleland Register
In Record of Accts Book 3 Page 392 is the "Guardian account of David Kaemmerer guardian of the orphan
children of Samuel Rothermel late of the City of Pittsburgh Pa" in which he charges himself with
Proceeds of sale of tract of land in Berks Co Pa sold under order of Court of that county
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after deducting the dower of Hannah Rothermel widow & paying same to her & Payts of expenses & debts of
said decedent in his lifetime as exhibited in annexed statement to me.
Part of proceeds of sale
$834.34
Exps & debts of decedent as exhibited
180.51
________
$653.84
Deduct dower of Mrs Rothermel
215.28 = $438.56
Int for 1 yr & 1 mos on above sum
49.51
_________
$488.07
Deduct additional expenses
62.17
_________
$425.95
Various payments for Exrs & notes, but not added nor showing balance or distributions Sworn to & filed Apr 28,
1843 & confirmed nisi June 19, 1843.
Hilands, Joseph
Hilands, Jas D.
Hilands, Alexr
Herron, Francis D.D
Will Book 14
Page 41
Record of Deaths Vol 6 Page 232
Record of Deaths Vol 2 Page 495
Will Book 9
Page 573.
35. Jas D. Hilands Record of Deaths Vol 6 Page 232 where Mary E. Hilands makes an oath that James D.
Hilands late of Pittsburgh Pa died Aug 7, 1882 at 5 Pm
36. Alexr Hilands Record of Deaths Vol 2 Page 495 where Moses D. Peebles makes oath that Alex Hilands late
of Allegheny City Pa died April 29th, 1880 at 10 1/2 PM.
37. Joseph Hilands Will Book 14 Pages 41 & 42 wherein his will with probation covers one leaf Pages 41 & 42
& provide:
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States that he is of Ross Tp, Allegheny Co Pa
1st gives to brother David in trust for use of brother John, with provisions $1000 to pay his debts that are being vs
John's or testators real estate.
2d wills to brother Alexander Hilands $1600.
3d wills to brother James $1200.
4th wills to brother Robert $1000.
5th wills to brother David $2000.
6th wills to brother David (in trust for the children of my sister Martha $1600 to be distributed among such
children of my deceased sister Martha Cunningham as shall behave themselves in a decent & sober manner etc. &
to loan the money to D.H. Cunningham, the father of sd children.
7th wills to sister Jane Peebles $1600.
8th wills to brother David (in trust for the children of my sister Sarah Buchanan, $1600 with provisions with
provisions they must be sober & not immoral on penalty of not sharing in his estate.
9th wills to Miss Jane W. Elliott $2000.
10th wills to Lillian Jeffrey $50.
11th wills to nephews & nieces as follows: To Robert Cunningham, Nannie Peebles, Samuel Peebles, Anna
Jeffrey, George Jeffrey, and Joseph Hilands, son of my brother James each the sum of ten dollars. Residue to go
to brother David & Miss Jane W. Elliott equally. Dated Dec 15, 1869 & signed Joseph Hilands. Witnessed by
Sallie Major & James B. Hamiltoring [best guess] Probated Dec 23, 1869 before J.R.W. Gray Reg.
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38. Dr Francis Herron Will Book 9 Page 573 is his will dated Pittsburgh Jany 22d, 1857 states he is of the City
of Pittsburgh & is in 83d yr of his age. Directs his body to be interred by his exrs in lot in Allegheny Cemetery
secured for that purpose & marked with a plain headstone corresponding with that of my wife with my name &
age & being Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh for 40 years - & no more. States "as are my
lawful debts are ligur [best guess] dated so far as I know, bequeaths as follows:
1st to my daughter Rebecca Herron, all the furniture & $2000 out of first monies & to have share of property also.
2d I devise all my Missouri lands to my daughters Mary B. Smith, Jane Williams Eliza Shiras, Rebecca Herron,
& Isabella Hoge Share & share alike.
3d Devises house & lots in Pgh Corner Penn & Wayne St to my daughters above named equally when sold & to
my son John Herron to share alike with them ie one sixth part exrs to invest his share & trustee to be appointed.
Directs $250 paid to Domestic Missions Society & $500 to Trustees of Western Theological Seminary.
Gives library to family & directs them to have his manuscript sermons destroyed in the fire. Appoints his
sons-in-law John M. Smith, George Shiras & Wm Hoge of New York Exrs. If when he dies he holds notes
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vs any of his sons-in-law, it is to be deducted from shares of their wives. Cancels all entries on day books vis any
of his children. Signed Francis Herron. Witnessed by George Shiras Jr., Jno A. Renshaw & Francis G. Bailey.
By a codicil on Nov 22, 1859, he revokes what was willed to his son John, & directs exrs to pay it to his
son-in-law William Hoge who is to use it for John's benefit. Signed Francis Herron, Witnessed by Francis G.
Bailey & Jno A. Renshaw & below by George Shiras Jr on Jany 26, 1861 letters testamentary issued to John M.
Smith & George Shiras Jr (William Hoge having renounced) before Wm J. Richardson Register.
I finished this record at 4:44 PM.
Wm Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh Pa Room 666 9:44 PM
I went to the Registers office this morning at 9:44 Am & worked continuously to 4:44 Pm making records
from Page 245 to this 257. I then went over to A. Leo Weils office & he told me the Natl Bk of WVA at
Wheeling WVA had phoned authorizing him to use the paper signed & left with him yesterday by their Atty Chas
McCarinc [best guess]. He further stated papers were being prepared for Referee W.R. Blair to make return
tomorrow to Court. I then went over
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to Reed, Smith, Shaw & Beals office & in R.J. Dodd's room found Sam'l McClay, Wm A. Seifert, F.B. Farren,
Judge Robt E. Umbel & W.H. Conaway closeted. After the last three had gone, the first two took me in W.A.
Seifert's room & Mr McClay said they would now have to make their election & they called up Judge Peter S.
Grosscup at NY by phone & arranged for him to come here tonight for an appointment at 10 AM tomorrow. I
then came over here, read the paper got my dinner wrote a couple of letters & am following this with some
personal history & genealogy of his family told me Wednesday evening the 25th inst. His great grandfather was
1. James Span Conaway who came from Ireland served throughout the Revolutionary War, was a
friend of Washington, a resident of Maryland & is mentioned often in their archives. He owned 1600 Acres of
land all of which is now in the City limits of Baltimore Md. He then migrated beyond Cumberland Md to
Somerset Co Pa, then to the Dunkard Creek Valley, Green Co Pa & from there in 1789 to Paw Paw Creek now
Marion Co WVA. He married Rachel Williston & their son ------------------------------------------------------------------------2. William Williston Conaway
married Rhoda P. Everly, who was the widow of Joseph? Everly who had served in the War of 1812. Her maiden
name
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was Hendrix from the North part of Marshall Co WVA & she married Everly when 14 yrs old & lived to be 96
dying in 1905. She recd a pension as widow, I understand of Everly, born say 1809 & married 1st in 1823. They
had (I think she had nine children).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------3. William Sandford Conaway &
3. Rachel Conaway. She is now 82, born
Married Mary W. Arnett, dau of
say 1838 & lives four miles up Paw Paw James Perry Arnett. Wm S.
Conaway
Creek above Rivesville. She married had a record jump of 11 feet 2 inches ______Parker who is
84 & they have 14 at Barricksville WVA. Wait thinks children. She has the family records his mother's
mother was a Willey as in her trunk. he says they were related & that was where he got his name from U.S.
Senator Waitman T. Willey who was in the U.S. Senate from both VA WVA & who had a record hop, step &
jump of 55 feet in front of the Court House Morgantown WVA which he turned around & repeated by jumping
back again. Wait says the red hair comes from the Willeys. They had --------------------------------------------------------------------------4. Waitman Harrison Conaway
&
William Williston Conaway
married Mary Willa Cavender
+------------------------------------------ of Connellsville, Pa. He has | James Perry
Arnett
Ulysses Neene been my attorney for over 20 | m. Isabella (Willey?) Arnett. years
|
She was a great Bible -------------+--------------- | student. Harrison Conaway, now at
|----------------------------------------- school at Winchester VA, I be- | Mary W., M. Wm S.
Ulysses N. Arnett lieve. He is 16 yrs old
&
| Conaway
Jr, My Attorney stands 6 ft 1 inch in his
+-------------------------------------------
stocking feet.
JVT 10:33 PM
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Oak Hill March 5th, 1920 9 PM
Yesterday forenoon in hunting through cash acct Book O for a F.E. Markell notation, found where Robt
Wardrop had told me about the death of their Director D. Leet Wilson early in Nov 1916 aged as I recall 76 &
stating that his wife was 78 & was the daughter of rev Aaron Williams & sister of L. Halsey Williams, whose
daughter was the wife of Carroll P. Davis, trust officer of the Union Trust Co who I called to see a little before
noon today. His office is on 2d floor just back of elevator & over front entrance way. He is a very fine gentleman
with good face & upon inquiry, he told me Mrs D. Leet Wilson was in NY for three weeks having gone a week
ago with her daughter, Mrs Thomas Patterson. He said Mrs Wilson was rather frail & further that Mrs Patterson
was well up on & interested in family matters. He said also that his mother-in-law, Mrs Williams was well
versed in the Herron lore & he was expecting her home from the South tomorrow & he would talk to her & write
me. He said Mrs Wilson lived at the old home at Shields near Sewickley & he thought might have Dr Herron's
old Bible as he thought there were two or three old Bibles there.
I went to Pgh on the 6:46 Am train this morning in answer to H.C. McEldowney's phone call on 3d to meet the
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co Coal men in accordance with his talk with B.F. Jones Jr Prest of the Co. The train
was over an hour late & I took a
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taxi & arrived at Union Trust Co about 10:35 AM & Mr McE said the men were waiting in the Director's room
on 4th floor. I asked him to give me the "lay of the land" & he said he thought we could sell them all of Dunkard
Tp about 15,000 Acres. He then took me up & introduced me to Mr Angloch, their coal man, aged near 40, fine
head & good face & Mr Shaw, who was older. Mr Baton was there, Mr McE left me with them for an hour & I
went fully over the matter with them & told them I would report next week after seeing my associate owners what
we could do. Then went down to report to Mr McE, but he being engaged, I went up & saw Mr Davis as above &
then went down & told Mr McE just what I had done & said with all of which he was well pleased. I then went
direct to see Mr Clingerman & found he had gone Wednesday to Cambridge Springs as he had told me Tuesday
he had hoped to do. Then went to see Mr Gates & finding no one in his office, a boy sent me in Mr Coble's
office & went to look for him. I explained the situation to him & he sd Mr Clingerman was at the Riverside
Hotel, at Cambridge Springs Pa & after some enquiry, he got Mr Gates on the phone & he s'd if they would ask
him, he would say that the Corporation would want Dunkard Tp included even with the known higher sulphur
content & Mr Coble significantly said to me that Mr Clingerman would ask Mr Gates who I think was in
Uniontown when Mr Coble got him. I told Mr Coble
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I would phone him tomorrow & let him know what arrangements Judge Grosscup had made with Judge Gary for
an appointment. In the afternoon, I went to see Joe W. Kennedy & agreed with him to name $750 per acre
consideration for the West Bethlehem Tp Coal sold him in august Just so I got the full $700 & give him the $50.
Then went & saw F.B. Farren & went over the thirteen deeds I had gone over & had taken down with me then
went to Berger Bldg & got $3000 on Greene Turf Co note from DeWitt Haber & then went to Wm Penn Hotel &
called up Minnie L. Redburn, who had recd the expected telegram from Judge Grosscup & read the first part of it
to me over the phone. I then deemed it important to go to see Judge Gary & secured a chair reservation for
Sunday morning's train, caught the 4:58 PM train & at 8:11 PM got the telegram from Minnie which is favorable
& I will now put in a call for Judge Grosscup & have him make appointment with Judge Gary to see me Monday.
It is now 9:44 PM JVT
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Room 522 Apr 6, 1920 6:11 PM
At 12:11 PM today, I went around to cousin Elizabeth Markle Fuller's residence on West Fayette St & was
with her until 233 PM & had a very enjoyable conference. She got the Bible of her Father, Dr Smith Fuller,
which was published at Hartford by Sumner & Goodman in 1844. From it, I took the following records in pencil
& am now copying them here verbatim:
Marriages
Dr Smith Fuller & Jane R. Beggs were married 3rd day of July 1849.
Smith Fuller Jr & Edwinna Null, married December 10, 1885 in Greensburgh Pa by Rev W.W. Moorhead. This
is crossed out.
Births
1. Smith Fuller was born Feby 3, in the year 1818.
2. Elvira Fuller was born February twenty second in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
Twenty one.
3. Jane R. Fuller was born October the 10th in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five.
4. Harriet Fuller was born on the Thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty nine.
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5. Elizabeth M. Fuller was born September the fourth in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty one.
6. John M. Fuller was born on the eighteenth of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty three.
(At 6:33 PM, I quit & went to Minnie's for supper & have walked out home through the rain & mud & it is
now 8:11 Pm & I will continue the Bible record):
7. William B. Fuller was born April the 17th in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
8. Frank Fuller was born June 16, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
9. Frank Fuller was born April 7, 1853.
10. Charles Fuller was born November 18, 1855.
11 Smith Fuller Jun, was born August 9, 1857.
Deaths
12. Frank Fuller died June 15, 1853.
13. Charles Fuller died January 20, 1860.
14. Alvira S. Fuller died May 25, 1848.
All of the above is in the handwriting of Dr Smith Fuller Sr.
15. Jane R. Fuller died on the morning of February fifteenth (15th) in the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty eight 1888.
This announcement of his mother's death is in the handwriting of Dr Smith Fuller Jr.
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Lizzie says that Will's middle name was Beggs viz William Beggs Fuller, and that she was named for her
grandmother Elizabeth Markle viz Elizabeth Markle Fuller & her brother John Markle Fuller for his grandfather
John Markle & his sister Harriet (Mrs Anderson) was named for her grandmother Fuller (the mother of her
father) who was Harriet Smith, a sister of Micajah Smith, who married an older sister of Lizzie's mother (who
was a younger child). Thus their daughter, Amanda Smith is a first cousin of both Lizzie & her Father. Amanda
has a sister Alvira named for Lizzie's mother. She married Harry Markle, her second cousin. Another sister,
Lizzie Smith, married John Krepps & lived in Allegheny. Harman D. Smith was a brother. Lizzie says the first
Frank, her half brother, was named for Rev Frank Moore, a Methodist minister who used to preach here & the
second Frank, her half brother, was named for his brother the first Frank.
In a paper prepared by the Medical Society of Fayette Co upon the death of Dr Smith Fuller Sr dated "Uniontown
Pa April 15, 1892" & signed J.S. Hackney MD, Ellis Phillips, MD, Isaac Jackson, MD in which it stated they all
had read medicine under him it is stated that: "In 1839, Dr Fuller was married to Miss Elvira Markle of West
Newton".
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Lizzie says her mother was the youngest of the family & when married was living with her sister, Mrs Smith, the
mother of Amanda. I told her that her grandmother died in 1831 Early. Lizzie says that Father told her he
thought more of her mother than he did of any cousin he had. Her recollections of the last week of Alfred M.
Fuller of Perryopolis life & of Mrs Mary Posey coming out when he was on his death bed with her lawyer &
writing a will are very vivid. She says she owns the house where she lives adjoining her brother John, also the
Will B. Fuller house on S. Gallatin Ave 2/3 or 54 Acres with the house & buildings of her Father's South Union
Tp farm also the Woods tannery 115 A & 400 Acres of timber near there, & two lots 50 & 150 ft in good
locations in Washington DC which she bought with her savings when clerking in the Dept's at Washington city.
There is a beautiful oil painting of herself hanging in the parlor which she says was painted by Sam Kilpatrick of
Connellsville. The wife of Congressman (one time) W.S. Shollenberger of Beaver Pa was Joe Power, her
roommate at Dr Beatty's Female Seminary at Steubenville, Ohio. It is now 9:35 PM.
JVT
Oak Hill Apr 7th, 1920 11:17 PM
I recall that Cousin Lizzie M. Fuller told me yesterday that Hallie, daughter of her
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sister, Mrs Anderson was the wife of Rev Van Ervan [Evan, Erman?], the Pres. minister at present at
Merrittstown Pa. I suppose at the Stone Church. She gave me to read, a long letter, very closely written 40 lines
to the page & 16 words on average to the line 2 1/3 pages long on sheets 12 in by 7 1/2 inches, which I have just
finished reading from his grandmother "Harriet R. Fuller" In singed dated Dec 15, 1828 to her husband, John
Fuller, then at Harrisburg in the Legislature I believe. It is dated "Monday, Connellsville" & refers to E & S. (S.
evidently for Smith then over 10 yrs old) in which she says they were pleased with their letters evidently from
him & she underscored this expression: "the tears stood in Smith's eyes when he read his although he wished to
conceal them". She also refers to Amanda & Amzi & has reference to trying to collect debts due from Many
people she named who owed for leather (he had a tan yard) & spoke of taking Salt, oats, corn, what, whiskey, &
anything she could get in payt. The letter is a very creditable & affectionate one.
JVT
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Oak Hill Apr 21, 1920 7:33 PM
I have just walked out from the "Holler" a 22 minutes walk from 6:43 to 7:05 PM. At room 522, this
afternoon 12:55 to 1:28 PM I made the following pencil note which I am now copying in this record:
Have just returned from Apartment No 7 second floor front of Strickler & Hess Building where I went at
12:01 O'clock to see Miss Mary Jane Willson, who says she was born May 5, 1829 & will be 91 on May 5th next.
Her grandfather John Wilson (or Willson) came from county Down, Ireland with his family in which there were
four or five sons & they settled in Virginia near Morgantown where her Father David B. Wilson was born Apr
27, 1773 being the only child born in this country. One of the sons of her grandfather John Wilson (and she did
not know who his wife, her grandmother was) settled down the Ohio River between Pittsburgh & Cincinnati O, &
another one, James, settled some two miles from Rehoboth. He married a Patterson who was born near laurel Hill
who was consumpted, a family ailment & a large family of their children died from it. I believe all except
Mathew, who is the husband of Andrew Brown's sister & is now she says a gray haired man. He went in early
life to Maryland for treatment & says he had it boiled out of him. She says her brother John
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Rea Willson was named for his grandfather Wilson & a Presbyterian preacher named Rea, & was born Oct 10,
1821? Exactly 27 yrs after her father's first marriage on Oct 10, 1794 to Nancy Dunlevy (see Annals of Dunlevy
family Pages 158-160) & was the oldest. Her brother James M. Wilson living in 1892 in Aledo, Ills, as shown by
a release. She has (she says they had gone security for him & had to pay $1800) was born born [sic] a year & a
half later. He is the father of her niece Cora c. Wilson who is now living with her. Then 2 1/2 yrs later, her
sister, Nancy Dunlevy Willson (named for her father's first wife) was born. She married Will McCrory of
Fayette City, Pa, who had two little boys that sickened one after the other & each died in two hours after taking
sick & were buried together in same grave. She is also dead. Will McCrory was a brother of Lewis McCrory,
whom I knew (the father of Luella Parkhill, now of Somerset Pa) & of Thomas, James & others. Miss Willson
says she came along 3 1/2 yrs later, the youngest of the family born as above stated on May 5, 1829. She says
they left their Father's family Bible with the family record in it, with the family of Cullers who got the farm as
they had no Bible. She says they are dead now & she doesn't know what became of the Bible. She knew nothing
about Col
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Edward Cook or his antecedents, but knew the grandfather of James E. Cook who lives here, & thought his name
was Edward, but did not know who his wife was. Said she knew the Elliotts well as they all went to Rehoboth to
church. Said her father David B. Wilson, when down the river, met Nancy Dunlevy & they got married and so he
was not Educated as had been intended for business or some profession. Miss Willson says she fell some eleven
years ago helping her brother Squire John R in his wheel chair & almost broke her back & she has not been able
to straighten up erect since & it has given her more or less pain ever since. Her hair is not gray except a little at
the edges, the mass of her hair being still a brownish black.
I had gone to see her to tell her of her unclaimed balance in First Natl Bk Uniontown Pa of $26.74 & got her
Bank Book & getting later a "Proof of Claim" went at 5 PM with Miss Martha L. Alter, Notary Public & Miss
Willson signed it & swore to same & I am getting ck for her for the balance due.
JVT
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At 1432 Kelton Ave, Dormont Pa, July 5, 1920, 12:25 PM at Cousin Sallie Brown's to see her Aunt Miss Kate
Smith Tel Locust 1843-M
Miss Kate says that John Finley, son of Clemons Finley, built a new house on the Clemons Finley farm &
moved in it before it was plastered or finished & he died, then his wife, then a son, all within 11 mos from the
time they moved in. Kate thinks it was abt 2 yrs before her grandfather moved there in 1813, say in 1811 & they
are buried at Sewickly Church. Kate says she has seen there [sic] names on the head & foot Stones. Before he
built the new house (a big brick house, still standing, in which the Bells did the Carpenter work) there was an old
log house which remained for years & in which her Uncle Ben Rothermel lived & raised his family & which was
later torn down by Dan Williams. Kate says grandmother Finley (that is the wife of John Finley, son of Squire
Andrew, nee Stokeley, & she s'd she had been a lady 20 yrs & little Johnny Finley's slave for 7 yrs) told her that
Clemons Finley was buried on the Finley farm on the meadow hill & also two of his sisters & all on the meadow
hill where John Jack & his wife Eleanor were buried, which place was the burying ground prior to Sewickly
Church being used as a burying ground. Dan Williams ploughed over all of the graves.
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Kate says Maria Rothermel, the oldest daughter of Peter Rothermel never married. Her name was Maria
Catherine & she always went by the name of "Aunt Polly". She stayed at home with her mother & was 71 yrs old
when she died, which was some years after her mother. Kate says Capt Conrad Stenger went back to Germany &
got a German Bible, a great big one, which her grandfather took at the appraisement, but it does not have the
record in it. It is the one Axie Murdoch, across from her old home in West Newton has & has instructions to give
me, but that Capt Stenger's son Conrad got the Bible with the record or ages in.
Barney Waggoner & his wife lived about a mile from her father's farm, up at the Pike, about Williamsburg, on an
acre or two of ground which he bought & built a house one [sic] & Pool bought it afterwards. He was a hatter &
carried on his trade there. She was 2 1/2 yrs older than her brother Peter & was probably born in 1789 or 1790 &
was married when she was 20 yrs old. He was 5 yrs older than her. They were married in Franklin Co Pa & he
lived 12 or 14 miles away, near the line & possibly across in Virginia she says (or might it be Maryland).
Peter Rothermel was born, Kate says in 1793 in Feby & died the day before the Election of the Governor of
Penna in Oct 1860, a month before Lincoln was first elected.
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He was at Kate's home at 4 o'clock in the afternoon & at 10 o'clock that night, he was dead from an overflow of
blood to the heart, so Dr Hasson said. He died three or four months before his sister "Aunt Polly", who died in
Feby following. He was 67 yrs 7 mos & 27? days old.
They had a burying ground on the farm at the head of the orchard, a place selected by her grandfather 5 yrs
before he died. His wife tried to talk him out of it, but to no avail. He was buried there first, say in 1823 & then
Mrs Wagner, then Uncle Sam, a good many years after, & 7 yrs after his death, his mother died & was buried
there, then Peter & Aunt Polly, then two children of Uncle Ben & Uncle Dan. Her Uncle Ben, as Exr in settling
the Estate, sold the farm to Thomas Williams, the father of Dan Williams, who now has it. They reserved the
graveyard Dan made a fuss about it & wanted them moved, so they were all moved to the Markle graveyard.
When Kate was about 45 yrs old, & her Uncle Ben Rotharmel was in his seventies & just after a meeting in
Allentown Pa of the Rothermel family, she said on his return, her Uncle Ben said: "sit down, I want to make a
witness of you." (Maria Rothermel Markle, widow of Casper Markle was at Peter Rothermel's before Benjamin
was married). I took her home in a sleigh & she told me "I saw you when you were a span long
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when you were three days old. I was on my way from Westmoreland Co to my old home among the Rothermels
in Berks Co & stopped at your Father's in Franklin Co Pa, he being my first cousin, as my father, John Rothermel,
whose son Peter was your father". This, Kate says, her mother told her was great grandmother Markle's last trip
back to her old home in Berks Co. It was also 12 yrs before Peter Rothermel, with his family, moved to West
Newton vicinity in 1813. Kate says that at about the end of the first week, after their arrival, great grandmother's
three daughters, Leah, Mary, & Sally Markle, came to visit or call on them & all three wore homespun flannel
dresses. Also that great grandfather, Casper Markle & his wife Mary or Maria & their son John & his wife, all
came over to see them the day or in the morning of the day after the Rothermels arrived & all wore home made
flannel. Kate said her Aunt Katy s'd if that was all they wore there, she wanted to go back to her old home. Aunt
Katy was said to have been a very beautiful girl & Kate says that Leah, my grandmother was her favorite among
the Markles & neighborhood. Kate says her mother told her that Leah, my grandmother, was a very pretty girl &
was smaller ("not so large") as her
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sisters. She was married at Scholl's & went to Kate's Aunt Betsy Waggoner's where she borrowed a cap (or two,
which Betsy told her to keep as she wanted to get them out of the house) to get married in. They left the morning
after they were married on horseback by the Wilderness route for Kentucky. Kate is not sure whether it was
before Leah's Markle's [sic] father was dead or not. She says that Mary Markle was married to William Miller
about two years after they moved here in 1813. Kate says her mother was 9 when they moved here & 11 when
Mary was married & she thinks grandmother Leah was married about 2 yrs later, which would be in 1817. She
says that when Cassius C. Markle lived on the hill up above them, he had the date of his great grandmother
Markle's birth & death framed & hung on the wall. As proof of her name being Maria, & not Mary, Kate says
that when her husband Casper wd come to their home, he wd always say: "Ma-ree-a, send word" so & so to you
& then too she says Shulls had a Maria & John Markle had a Maria. Kate says then Susan Rothermel, wife of
Ab Rothermel of McKeesport (Peter Abner Rothermel, brother of Sam'l B. of Uniontown) said only a month or
two ago to Sally Brown who was up to visit her, that Maggie L. Markle was 76 in March, born then Mch 17,
1844
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& not 1845 as her niece, Margaret E. Markle told me last Monday as she was a year older than she was herself &
she was 76 born in Apr 1845. This conforms to Wm L. Scholl's statement, who thought she was more than a year
older than he was. Susan Rothermel, above mentioned, was a Pool & her mother was Lucetta Scholl, a sister of
Christian Scholl & Aunt of Wm L. & Millard F. Kate says & insists that her mother always told her that
grandfather Andrew F. Thompson was buried beside his grandmother Jack on the farm down in the field, being
just the three of them buried there & that his grandmother Jack was buried before him. She, Kate, said her
Uncles Peter & Benjamin Rothermel dug grandfather Thompson's grave & that they had also dug his
grandmother Jack's grave. There was a low fence around the 3 graves which had fallen in. Kate says Squire
Andrew Finley married (ie performed the ceremony) Mary Miller & Lean & grandfather & also all of his own
children. She said her mother told her that "grandmother Jack" drew a dower from the Boyds who had bought the
Jack Farm & always when she would get the dower money each year, she wd give Nellie Markle, her
granddaughter, daughter of John & Elizabeth, a present, giving her once a blue calico dress.
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Kate says Maria, daughter of John Markle, used to go often to the Clark's to stay all night. Kate's mother & this
Maria were great friends & chums. Maria was the mother of Amanda Smith, recently deceased & of Mrs Harry
Markle. Kate says that great grandmother Maria Markle died when she was 9 mos old, which wd make it Oct
1832 & her mother took her in her arms to the funeral & had to sit up by the dam "as I wouldn't let anybody look
at me", as her mother told her.
Kate says that great grandmother Markle used to tell her mother so much about th early members of the
Rothermel family & that they were all great singers & particularly the men & they used to go from one house to
the other every week at least once down in Berks Co to sing all through the connection.
Kate says that Pres't James Buchanan was born in a big log house that stood on the line of her grandfather's farm
in Franklin Co Pa. There had been 60 A of vacant land between the farms & her grandfather went up to
Chambersburg & bo't the 60 A for $60. He afterwards sold this 60 A to Conrad Stenger. He sold his home farm
in Franklin Co which was abt 2 miles from London ctg abt 150 A to Rider. Pres't Buchanan's father also James,
kept a store in Mercersburgh & Kate's grandfather used to haul goods for him from Balt o to Mercersburg. Kate
says the farm where Pres't
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[Descendant Chart]
Benjamin Rotharmel, Born Oct 1801. Married Eliza Lou Ganicker [Garricker?]. He died in Fayette Co Pa & is
buried there were Methodists & were married by a Methodist preacher.
[Their Children]
1. Benjamin Franklin, always called "Frank", Born May 25, 1834. Married Caroline Fiscus [Ficens? Ficher?
This word is almost impossible to read], born out on the Ridge. Both are dead. Had but one child. He had a farm
near Madison.
Annie Rotharmel, m. Brown. She died shortly after her mother, being hurt by a street car. She
inherited farm from her father. He lives near Balto, Md
Frank, Died
Mildred, married in Balto, Md.
2. Jacob, B. Jany 13, 1836 ob.
M. Rebecca Hantz from out about Madison. He moved to Southern Fay. Co.
James Buchanan, married & lives probably abt Pt Manor & has a large family.
3. Peter Absalom, but always called "Ab". Married Susan Pool. They live at Christy Park near McKeesport.
Both living. He is or was 84 last fall. He was born Oct 16, 1837 & died on Apr 1921.
Strickler, died in 1919 unmarried & without issue.
Eliza, M. Sheppard Markle, son of Uncle Gasper. Both dead Left a large family.
John Pool, married & has two children. Lives at McKeesport. Is a painter. ob Apr 14, 1926 aged
58 yrs.
Lenora, m. King, lived at McKeesport. She died long ago. Had children, but they died before
she did.
Benjamin, unmarried. Living at home with parents.
Lucetta, m. Parkinson. Both living in McKeesport.
Eldon, a boy
Son
4. Mary Catharine, m. Geo W. Brown. Both living. She is abt 78 yrs old. She was born Jany 28, 1840. He was
born Jany 31, 1843 married on Feby 15, 1868.
Minnie Eliza,B. Nov 26, 1868. }All three of the girls are married.
Anna M., A dau. B. Aug 25, 1870 } See Book 4 Page 27 [may be 277,
Fasmia O., A dau, B. Dec 11, 1872} the entry is blotted.]
Ed Dean Brown, m. Morgan, Daughter of D.P. Morgan. Live in Uniontown & have a boy & girl
& perhaps more. He was born June 19, 1877.
Roy J., son } These boys are twins & are living & both married.
Ord S., son } Born Mch 9, 1879.
5. Samuel Benton, B. Jany 1, 1842 as he s'd he & Maggie Markle were abt same age & all went to school
together up at the Gate House - the toll gate, where she thinks Father went to school also as did her mother. M.
Mary Newcomer. Kate says he went to see her a long time. He lives in Uniontown.
Mary, He graduated her from Uniontown High School & she taught school. She is unmarried.
Al, He is married & Kate thinks he was working in our P.O. 6 or 7 yrs ago.
7. Olive, Born Feby 3, 1847. M. J. Calvin Lawrence. She died without issue of dropsy 5 or 6 months after she
was married. Her name was Olive Amanda.
6. Sarah Elizabeth, born Nov 19, 1844. M. John Gaut of South Huntingdon Tp, a son, she thinks of Robert
Gaut. Both living in Scottdale.
Eliza, married & her husband died without issue & she lives with her parents in Scottdale.
Olive, died when probably 8 or 10 yrs old.
8. Sevilla, named for the mother of Peter Rothermel, Kate's great grandmother. She is unmarried. She lived with
her mother after her father's death in a house built for her mother & Sam told his mother she must deed it to
Sevilla which she did & Kate thinks Sevilla still lives in it. She was born Jany 29, 1850 & lives in aforesaid
house in Woodbridgetown. She died Apr 15, 1926. See Book 4 Page 271.
9. Strickley John, Died when 9 yrs old in Westmoreland Co & was buried on the farm with others of the family
B. Oct 20, 1853. ob Apr 8, 1863.
10. James Buchanan, He died when 6 yrs old in Westmoreland Co & was buried on the farm. His & Strickler's
death were but 3 wks apart. Both dying of diptheria B. Oct 30, 1856. ob Mch 12, 1863.
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Buchanan was born belonged to Skinner & she thought his father was just a renter. She said her mother & her
Uncle Ben often climbed up the sides of the house & the Skinners drove them away fearing a log wd pull out &
fall on them. She s'd Gen'l Joseph Markle used often come to her grandfather's near London when a young boy
or young man driving a four horse team, s'd he wd leave home Monday morning & get to her grandfather's on
Friday & her grandfather would send his own team with his colored man on to get the Salt while Joseph & his
team rested before starting back with the load. She s'd his father, Casper, would never give Joseph enough
money, as he was so very close & did not give in his will enough to great grandmother to live on, often Conrad
Stenger & her grandfather made up enough to pay the difference, so Joseph could start back home. Great
grandfather Casper Markle wrote to Peter Rothermel, Kate's grandfather, to buy burrs for his mill at Millgrove,
which Peter went to Shippensburg Pa to deal for, but the price Casper limited him to to pay for them was so
small, he could not get good burrs & he refused to buy inferior ones, which he said was not worth hauling back.
He finally succeeded in getting a lower price for the good burrs & Casper came
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up some & sent Joseph after them, but did not give him enough money & Messr's Rotharmel & Stenger had to
make up & pay $15. before they could get the Burrs for Joseph to start back with & it was never repaid. Kate
said Casper was very close & says great grandmother often told her mother that she & Joseph always saved all
they could, so he could have it to take with him. She said she was always uneasy when Joseph was on these trips
as he was so young & spoke to her husband Casper about it & he always unfeelingly said: "he is big enough to
take care of himself".
Kate says her Uncle Ben moved to Fayette Co about a year before the Civil War was closed. Said his son Sam
B. was down in Kentucky teaching school & after moving to Fayette Co was drafted whereupon he went back to
Kentucky & stayed there until the war closed. Kate thinks Sevilla would have her father's Bible with the record.
Kate says her brother, Peter, was cross, lazy, & dictatorial & wanted them all to knuckle to him. He was taken
out to his grandmother to live when a year old & they humored him, so that he was badly spoiled & when they
died, & he came back home, he would sleep until noon which didn't suit his father, so they didn't get along well
together. Kate s'd Sidney Taylor's mind was all gone the last 4 or 5 yrs of her life & she was a great charge
See page 284
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[Descendant Chart]
Juliana Rothermel, born Feby 27, 1804, married Andrew Smith see Page 91. He was a jeweler having learned
his trade as a clock maker in Germany.
[Their Children]
Peter Rotharmel Smith, Born Jany 5th, 1829 in an old Stone house that stood where the U.P. Church of West
Newton Pa now stands. He died at King Wood WVA abt 4 yrs ago & is buried there. He died in the fall. She
thinks in Nov. He married a widow up there, but Kate only saw her once & dont remember her name. She was
living there when he died. He was a school teacher & was lazy.
Ella, Living at home at Kingwood WVA. Unmarried.
Anna, Unmarried. They kept boarders & she quarreled with her mother who told her to leave the
house & never come back & she did, going first to Balto & then to Pgh. Her mother was to blame, as
she refused to give her money & lavished everything on Charles.
Charles, married & has a wife & one child. "Is good for nothing." His mother bought a house for
him in Uniontown Pa. Thinks he was a painter
Maria Catharine Smith, never used Maria & always went by Catharine or "Kate". My informant, Born January
3d, 1832. She went to School in West Newton Pa at a little old round brick school house still standing down 5 th
St near Vine. She says her mother told her it was there when they came to Westmoreland Co. She fell first Aug
14, 1910 & hurt one hip which lamed her, making one leg shorter than the other. She fell the 2d time May 23,
1917 & the bone was turned in socket rendering her a cripple. The next week, she was brought down top Mt
Washington by her niece Sallie Brown, with whom she has since made her home. She died at 1432 Kelton Ave
Dormont Pa June 6, 1924.
Hannah Elizabeth Smith, Born July 31st, 1835. Died Apr 28th, 1898. Unmarried & is buried in West Newton
Cemetery across the River where Kate says she has three sisters buried & her father & mother said none of the
girl [sic] were married "because father & mother were too strict with us" & kept us at home. Dr Robinson s'd she
died off cancer of the throat.
Florian Smith, "Called of Pap's father who was born in France". A French name, she says. Born Apr 1838. He
died in New Florence Pa, but is buried in McKeesport Pa on the night the New Year was coming in, say Dec 31.
Married 1st Harriet Channels, whose mother was from England & Harriet was probably from there & brought
over when little. She died in McKeesport & is buried in West Newton Cemetery. He married 2 d Cornelia Coyne
of down about McKeesport Pa. She is still living as Kate says "she aint far behint me as she was older than him".
He was a silversmith & jeweler. Sarah H. was only child to 1st wife & the other 3 were to 2d wife who died Mch
2, 1921.
Sarah Harriet, but never used the Harriet B. Nov 10, 1864 in McKeesport Pa. M.1. Nov 1, 1882,
James Kirkpatrick Brown from Phila. He born Mch 8, 1850 & died Dec 3, 1902. He was an engineer
on the Penickey & boarded with us. He died 18 yrs ago & is buried at Mt Wash. m.2. Mule, who
died 15 mos later.
Charles Fahnestock Brown, Born Aug 20, 1883. m. on Aug 1, 1911 at West Newton
Pa. Nell Kathaleen [written over other words looks like I Kathaleen] Smith Born Mch
28, 1883 dau of Henry Wm Smith & his wife Elizabeth C. Weber.
Charles Fahnestock Jr, Born May 25, 1912
Wallace Robert, B. May 12, 1914.
Emily Brendlinger Brown, Unmarried Born Apr 20, 1885 at Potterville Pa
William, only lived 3 mos
Andrew Florian, born Aug 9, 1869 in McKeesport Pa. Called for own Pap & his father. Lives in
New Florence Pa Has a son & daughter. Andrew Florian Smith m. July 5, 1887 Mary Wells, born
Dec 27, 1870 & is still living (dau of John & Caroline Wells) New Florence Pa Their 3 chil born in
McKeesport Pa. Ethelyn Smith, Born Jun 18, 1888 & on Aug 1, 1921 married Joseph F. Hughes.
Have one child born in Balto, Md
Helen Margaret, Born Aug 9, 1922
Helen B. Jany 18, 1890 & died Sept 16, 1901.
Donald Smith, B. June 3, 1892.
Albertha, lived to be 14 yrs old & died unmarried in McKeesport & is buried there Born 1872.
Died 1887. Harry, The statement on other page between the heavy lines
should go here. [statement reads:] M.1. "some lowtrash" & he separated of her & m.2. a girl he got
in some hotel or restaurant "dont think she was anything either". He lived on Mt Wash & never
came to see her. Couple children dead. none living.
Anna, married & has two children.
Samuel, not married
Margaret, m Luther Keck. Have a boy living & a girl Virginia died aged 6 yrs.
Florence, a girl, died when 9 mos old.
Emily, m. Foote, & lives in West Newton. Her mother lives likely have their own Bible record. I
called & saw them last Nov to get Kate's address. Have two children.
Gertrude, unmarried.
Maria, named by Cas C. Markle. Died when 6 mos old.
A dau, died unnamed aged 6 mos
Edith, married.
Julia, married
A dau
Sarah Anna Smith, Born Nov 14, 1841. She was 3 1/2 yrs younger than Florian. Died Nov 13th, 1899 unmarried
& is buried in West Newton Cemetery, was sick for 2 yrs with pain in the stomach.
Adela Araminta Smith, Born Sept 15, 1844, Died Nov 10, 1882. Unmarried, was delicate always & had
consumption. She swalloped [sic] a pin which they thought later dropped into her stomach & she experienced
much pain, was a regular Rotharmel in appearance, but was small, not as large or tall as me Kate says "Mother
was tall & slender". Buried in West Newton Cemetery.
Samuel Smith, Born Nov 5, 1847 being three yrs younger than Adela. He died in August aged about 50 yrs & is
buried in West Newton Cemetery. He was married twice & had one child by 1st wife & 11 by 2d wife. m.1.
Elizabeth Pollock, a daughter of Rose Ann Bell who was a daughter of William Bell by his wife Nancy who was
a daughter of Squire Andrew Finley. She only lived 11 mos & dying, left a boy, Henry who was taken & raised
by his grandmother Pollock. She is buried in West Newton Cemetery. m.2. Mary Warricks from in or about
West Newton Pa. She is still living with one of her daughters in West Newton. He was a jeweler, but drank &
was doeless [that's what it looks like, useless?]. Kate said much of her money went to keep him & his family
when they were in want which was often.
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Kate says her brother Florian's wife Harriet died about a year after she was married, dying in a Nov aged as
her folks said only nineteen. The dates would be on her tombstone. Sallie was the only child of course by the
first wife, balance being by 2d wife.
Kate s'd her Uncle Jacob Rothermel was the big heavy man, weighing way over 200 lbs & Mrs Waggoner was the
heavy woman of the family, also weighing over 200 lbs. Kate said Nellie, daughter of John Finley, the son of
Squire Andrew Finley married a Budd & she thinks her husband was named Joseph Budd. She has been dead
some years, just as Will L. Scholl stated last Monday. The Carnahan girl who was a granddaughter of Squire
Andrew Finley & her mother having died, she lived with her grandmother Carnahan, went to school with Kate
Smith's mother & one evening went home with her from school & Mrs John Markle, who was an Aunt of the
girl's mother was there & the girl said something about you folks thinking you are better than me, but hey had her
sit down with them to supper, but she would not eat & Mrs Markle boxed her ears. She then went home to her
grandmother Carnahan's & told her they wouldn't give her anything
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to eat & Mrs Markle must have been there, for she boxed her ears again in the presence of her grandmother &
told her the girl was the worst liar she knew. The girl married Emanuel Neff & had, as I recall, more than a dozen
children, one whom Ginsey, married another Budd (Benjamin, so Will L. Scholl thought) & it is she that Kate
says is still living over in Rostraver Tp & Kate says she is a year or two older than she is. It is she that I must go
to see at the earliest possible date.
July 7, 1920 6:06 PM. Kate says Maggie Markle would never tell her age & when the recent census enumerator
asked her her age, it made her very mad & she said he had no business asking her. Kate says her sister Roxie
Miller was the same way, would not tell her age, but that "mother told me she was just one month younger than
me". Kate says her Uncle Daniel's first wife was a fine woman & everybody liked her, but not so of the second
wife who said the people about her were all right for neighbors, but not to associate with as she was a lady from
Greensburgh, whereat Kate's mother retorted that everything they wore in their house was paid for, whereas the
Constable had to collect the money for everything she put on.
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[Descendant Chart]
Daniel Rotharmel, see Page 91. m.1. Hannah Newlon. She is buried at Sewickly & there is a marker to her grave
which is next to Elizabeth Jack Markle. He was a school teacher & then connected with an ironworks & had a
store in West Newton (dry good & groceries) & broke up. He drank heavily & was discharged from the iron
store because of his drinking. He moved to Pgh & came back & lay sick at "Aunt Katie's" & "Uncle Ben & Pap
paid his funeral expenses" so Kate says. He married second Hannah Rippey, widow, who however had no
children by Rippey.
[Children of Daniel Rotharmel & wives]
2. Elizabeth, died long ago. M. Mike Haymaker who had courted her mother & was even older than she. He was
rich & lived at Newlonsburg & died before she did. They had six children, were buried up near Newlonsburgh.
Mrs Duff at Roxie's funeral said there were two girls & a boy living up at Newlonsburg & a girl & boy had gone
to California. Abram Fulton was married to a sister of Elizabeth's mother & was one of the executors (his wife
was Rachel Newlon) of William Newlon & Kate's mother took Mack before daylight & went & told Abram to
not give Dan the girl's money, but he s'd Dan was all right & gave him their money & he spent & squandered it
drinking just as his sister s'd he would. Elizabeth lived with the Abram Fultons at Washington Pa a long time &
did the baking as they kept student boarders. Kate says she married Mike to get a home.
3. Keziah, m. Joe Donnell. Lived near Newlonsburg. Lived everywhere, were very poor. lived not far from
Roxie's on south side. He was sick & lazy. She was in Dixmont & was taken home & they wouldn't take her
back. Kate thinks both she & her husband died in the Allegheny County Home. Kate says there was a son of
theirs at her house with John Rothermel of McKeesport, son of Ab & he said their [sic] was no end of the
children of his mother, but Kate thinks there were over a dozen, but this boy said that only five of them lived.
This boy had an older brother John & a sister Addie & two other sisters.
1. A boy, Died in infancy.
The boy, Elizabeth, & Keziah were 1st wife's children. All the rest were by 2d wife.
Richard Rotharmel, m. Hannah Scholl, a daughter of David Scholl, a bro of Christian. He was in the Civil War
& called once at Uniontown to see me. He died last winter at Dayton, O. Soldier's home Kate thinks. She died
abt 5 or 6 yrs ago before he went to the Soldier's home & is buried at the Markle graveyard. Dick was so drunk
that Millard Scholl had to drag him to put him on the train.
Eliza, died when aged 12 yrs or less. Buried at "Markles" in David Scholl's lot.
David, Dick was running after Hannah with a bucket of water to throw on her when he threw it on
David who was a little boy & ever after that he had spasms, but lived to be probably 25, but
fortunately died before his mother "And that's the kind of relations I had" said Kate.
Frances, named for Fannie Crothers [sic] She married a glassblower & lives up beyond Uniontown
(probably Fairchance) on or near the mountains "but I dont know his name" Kate says.
Samuel, m. Mary Bates of Pgh or Allegheny. Her father was an Englishman & helped them often. "He died long
ago in Pgh, was a lawyer & done something bad, forged a note or something & wasn't a lawyer after that". He
was separated from his wife & was a drunkard. Kate says that Mrs David Weimer told her mother than [sic]
whenever a woman got drunk, her children wd drink & that she, Hannah (this Sam'l's mother) was then laying
upon the kitchen floor dead drunk. Kate says she never saw anything of his wife or children, but she thinks there
were 8 or more children among them and Ed & a Charlie. She says she saw once in the papers that at some
funeral, Bates Rotharmel of Penna was scheduled as one to go along. She was living 3 yrs ago at lower end of
Pennsylvania Ave in Allegheny Pa with her son, but in her own house which her father had given her.
John, died when a baby.
Mary Jane Rotharmel, m. Martin, a teacher of writing at Duff's College & was a nice man & a teacher in the
Sunday School, but his wife wouldn't let him go or to Church. He was an Episcopalian. They moved to Oil City
& he & his wife went to the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893 & he dropped dead there. She came back to Oil
City, but Kate has never heard of her since. They had no children.
Peter, He went to the Civil War the first summer, say 1861 when only 16 or 17 & fell at the battle of Antietam,
Killed, but his body was not brought home. His mother drew about $2500 back pay for him after Dan's death.
She was helped by the money to get this pension & loaned them the money as she was boarding with them & lost
part of it & then took the money she had left & came to Pgh & boarded with a Bates family, but not that of her
daughter-in-law. She "died long ago" says Kate.
Satya, a girl, m. a Reynolds & lived in Pgh. He went crazy & they put him somewhere. Had no children. Kate
says she doesn't know whether they are dead or alive.
Hannah, the youngest, m. Harry Chess from Pittsburgh. He was a stonemason. He went off & left her & nobody
knows what became of him. They had one child, she died long ago over in Allegheny & is buried over there
someplace. Their son is named Howard Chess & was taken by a Lutheran minister she thinks up Oil City way &
raised with 8 or 10 other orphan children he was raising. Sallie Brown saw a Mrs Oliver of Wilkinsburgh at
Strickler Rothermel's funeral at Mckeesport who told her she often saw Howard Chess in Wilkinsburgh. Mrs
Oliver was a Mathiot & her mother was a Turney. Kate says that Dan's widow who died in Pgh left her money to
her daughter Hannah Chess, who died three weeks after her mother's death & she thinks Howard got the money
Mrs Chess was a nurse. She got a divorce & took name of Rothermel, see her mother's will Page 253 this book.
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Cousin Kate says her father was drafted when young, she thinks when he was about 17 yrs old. He was one yr in
service when the big battle of Leipsic occurred in which he was engaged & in which 92,000 fell. This battle was
won by the Germans, but her Father was in the French army having been a resident of the Grand Duchy of Baden
from the town of "Booven-baugh" as she pronounced. Said to have been a village then, but a city now, when the
battle was over, her father was standing along side of another man & saw people from the Country come & turn
over some soldiers, take off their clothes & carry them off. There was no one in authority to be seen on either
side. One said to the other "what shall we do" & they agreed to go home which they did. He was home 3 mos
when a man appeared hunting him. After a year at home, he went back & served in the army for that year in the
German army being a prisoner on parole as they had won. The Germans then made him serve seven yrs more
being eight yrs in the German army & one in the French. He was not rubd [sic] by a King, but by a Duke. He was
not in the battle of Waterloo. Said the first year he was in the French army, he never saw Bonaparte
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but once, and while there was room to ride on either side of the soldiers, he rode right up through the middle of
them injuring many of them so they had to be taken to the hospital. Kate says he, Napoleon, was a fine soldier,
but a tyrant & that he had one son & he was poisoned. Says her father told her the son was poisoned. He had
learned the clockmaker trade before he went into the service. Tis now 9 Pm Pgh time & dark. Back to Wm Penn
Hotel Room 1023 11:11 PM July 7, 1920.
Cousin Kate said, upon my asking how old her father was when his father died, that her father was not born until
tree months after his father died. She said his Father was Florian Smith & that he had gone to England, this
would be say in 1793 & had $10000 in Bank in England. He went to an Abbey to an old priest one evening & the
priest told him he should prepare to return home as he was very sick. The next morning, the old priest went to
the Hotel where Florian Smith who was a Catholic was stopping & found he had died in the night. Being a
Catholic, they confiscated his money & they never got any of the $10,000. They claimed to know only his name
& to not know where he was from & five yrs later his
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widow whose maiden name was Maria Shupe through a priest at her home wrote to this old priest & from him
learned the above facts. There were but two children, John & her father Andrew. John, to keep from being
drafted into the French army in which he did not want to fight, went to Poland & married there. After some years,
he came back to Baden having drunk of some spring & got a cough & was told he had drunk consumption &
could not live a year, but to go back to Poland where he could live ten yrs. He followed the Doctor's advice &
went back to Poland & died then yrs later. Florian's widow Maria died so Kate says her mother told her when her
own brother Florian was a babe, say in 1838. There was a prominent General in Baden who had been a friend of
Florian Smith & through his widow's intercession with him, he had put the boy Andrew out as an apprentice to a
clockmaker who was a hard taskmaster, so when Andrew returned from his nine yrs in the war or army, the
General said he would put him out again as an apprentice at which he rebelled, but the General was firm & taking
him with him, gave him a line to a certain jeweler when he came to a city (Kate did not know what city it was ) &
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taking the note or letter, he went to the house indicated a servant admitted him & took him to the third floor to a
fine room handsomely furnished, where a big fire was burning. Pretty soon, the proprietor came in & shook
hands with him & asked him what he had worked at & he s'd he wouldn't tell him. The man asked him why & he
then told him his hard experience. The man got up & shook hands with him again & told him it would be
different there. He then took him to the shop where 30 men were working & he shook hands with every one of
them & he having demonstrated his ability to fix a clock was put at a chair to repair watches. He was boarded &
kept & worked without pay, but was treated well & after about three years, he quit & said he was going to
America. His boss told him to sit down for 3 mos & he wd give him important training as a jeweler which would
stand him in great stead when he came here, so he remained for 3 mos taking special instructions & then came to
America. When he was about to die, he sent for George Plumer, son of Alex Plumer of West Newton Pa to write
his will. In doing this, he gave directions to be buried in the West Newton Cemetery along side of his wife &
when Mr Plumer told him that being
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a Catholic that could not be as he must be buried in a Catholic burying ground. To this, he replied that "all who
live proper lives go to the same place, & I will be buried no place but along side of my wife" This was done &
Kate says Mr Plumer said he died a good Presbyterian. Kate says that Nellie Finley's husband, Joseph Budd,
was a brother of the husband of Eliza Carnahan's daughter Ginsey who married she thought Benjamin Budd. She
says Ginsey is one & half to two years older than she is. She said Eliza first married Emanuel Neff & had a raft of
children & after Neff's death, married Luis or Lindsey Carnahan, her first cousin & had twins, a boy & a girl.
The boy died & the girl married some Englishman who had left a wife & a lot of children back home. Said Eliza
lived with this daughter who was a dressmaker along with a woman whose name I forget & that her mother
finally went to live with her daughter Ginsey Budd & she thinks died there. Kate says Lucy Hood, whose mother
was a Thompson was there to see her not long ago & said she was no relation to our
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Thompsons. Kate said Monday that she had been very sick since moving to their present home 1432 Kelton Ave
Dormont Pa with indigestion & she said "I thought one night I would die." The doctor says she has a false
appetite & eats much more than she digests & it does her no good, but harm, so she says I am trying to eat much
less. She has not been able to get any glasses that she can see with, so she cannot read. Sallie says the doctor
reports some kind of cataract on her eyes which makes it impossible to get glasses that she can see with, but
notwithstanding this, I am going to see Cousin harry T. Price of the Westinghouse Building & see if he can
recommend a good oculist to examine her eyes. It was 5:55 PM Pgh time when I got there this evening & I was
with them until about 9:40 PM & had a good talk with Kate & Emily before leaving. Sallie went out after supper
to the hill above their old home on Mt Washington where there was a big fire Monday night rendering 30 or more
families homeless. I went to Childs & got my supper at 10:30 PM not having eaten since 8:30 this morning.
When I got to Wm Penn at 10:55, met David A. Ritchie
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& also T.H. Johnson of Bellaire, Ohio & arranged to meet them at 9 o'clock in the morning at the office of Geo S.
Baton in regard to the adjustment of Cousin Lou B. Richey's coal proposition. It is now 1:11 AM July 8, 1920 &
I will quit & go to bed.
JV Thompson
Oak Hill July 11, 1920 8:35 AM
Cousin Kate gave me a bunch of old letters & cfts which I asked to have to look over & have the cfts that are
in German translated & I would return them. She said: "You can just keep them. Sallie would throw them out
someday anyway as she has done before."
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Aug 6, 1920 3:05 PM
At Jeannette (or Ginsey) Budd's in Rostraver Tp Westmoreland Co Pa.
Arrived here 20 minutes ago. Mrs Budd says she was born on Feby 16, 1830 & is in her 91st year. She is a
large fleshy woman with a large strong face with not a wrinkle in it & with not a semblance of old age or
decrepitude in her appearance to talk as she sat in her rocking chair on the porch & talked laughed & joked
except that she said she walked with a cane which she held in her hand but she did not rise during the three house
I was there. I should judge that she is about my height & would weigh near 200 lbs. She has a sort of double
chin or a fulness in her throat below the chin & her teeth were so good & regular & well fitted that I thought them
natural, but upon asking her, she said they were not. As I was leaving, I asked her son when the old substantial
large brick house in which they live was built & by whom & he s'd by his grandfather Joseph Budd in 1844. She
now occupies the same room she moved into when married in 1850 ie 70 yrs ago. The house is situated on a
slope rising gently from the Youghsogheny River & is about two miles up from West Newton & as you look
across the River
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on the top of the hillside, you see the farm of Cousin Wm L. Scholl, who took me out & parts of the buildings
among them, the old stone house as it is the old Scholl homestead in South Huntingdon Tp. He met me at the
B&O Station on my arrival at 2 PM & when I told him I wanted to go out to see cousin Ginsey Budd, whom I had
never met, he posted my by telling me that "she was a come by chance" & told me the name of her father, but it
was an odd name & I do not recall it. He said she born before her mother, Eliza Carnahan, granddaughter of
Uncle Squire Andrew Finley was married to Neff, by whom I believe she had a dozen children, so this is another
evidence of the "bad girl" Cousin Kate Smith s'd Eliza was, but if she knew it, she did not mention it. It is
however, but another proof of the good that often comes of bad actions as socially viewed. From above will be
seen that on the Jack side, Mrs Ginsey Budd is a third cousin & is also related on the Finley side & on the
Caruthers side as her grandfather Carnahan was a son [of?] Col John Carnahan of the Willow Tree whose wife
was Rebecca Caruthers, sister of great grandfather James Caruthers. In going out, we took the first left hand road
after crossing the bridge & just at the Harry
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Markle home where we stopped for a few minutes & saw Hannah & her mother, we continued out past the
entrance gate to the West Newton Cemetery & when near two miles out, turned square to the left in front of a
frame house & continued past a larger frame house on the hill which Will said was one of the Budd homes &
came next to the large Budd home above mentioned where Mrs Budd lives with her son. Will said most of the
land through which we passed was the old Budd property as they had owned over 600 Acres there. Mrs Budd
said our great great grandmother Eleanor Jack, saw her 5th generation & put a silver half dollar in each hand of
the babe which she gave it for good luck,, Mrs Budd didn't know what or whose child it was. She said however,
that great great grandmother Jack was married when she was just twelve years old & that she spun & made her
own wedding dress. Mrs Budd thinks her mother's mother's name was Eleanor (daughter of Andrew & Ginsey
Finley) & when Mrs Budd's mother, Eliza Carnahan, was eleven months old, her mother died. Her mother was
taking or had the measles & was working out in the garden when a rain came up & she got wet & died at eleven
o'clock that night. Mrs Budd says she still has the same room in this fine old brick house that she moved into in
1850 when she
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was married. She says her grandmother Carnahan had a son that died before it grew up & her mother whose
name was Eliza was the only other child. She says her mother was 73 when she died, which, she guesses was
about 25 yrs ago & that she is buried in the West Newton Cemetery & there is a marker at her grave. Mrs Budd's
grandfather Carnahan's name was James Carnahan. He had a brother, William Carnahan, who lived at Stanton.
She never knew or heard of any other brothers or sisters. This William, had two sons, Lindsey & John & two
daughters Cynthia & Lovina.
Cynthia married 1st a Copeland & had one boy & married 2d Arch Pool at Stanton where the Pools had a big farm
& by him had a boy named William she thinks. Lovina died an old maid. Thinks they are buried out at the Big
Sewickly (stone) Church.
Squire Andrew Finley's daughter Nancy married 1st William Bell & had children. Mrs Budd thinks David
Markle, son of Big Gasper, the butcher wd have family records. His widow lives in West Newton. Nancy Bell's
2nd husband was Joseph Hough & had one child by him, a daughter named Josie who married a Dr Logan Brown
of Madison & had issue. Joseph Hough, Nancy's 2d husband died of old age when Josie his daughter was less
than two weeks old. Nancy had
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a daughter by her first husband Bell who was married to one of her second husband's sons. Old Joseph Hough
was very rich for his day & his widow Nancy profited by her dower interest therein. Mrs Budd remembers her
grandfather Carnahan died when her own son Andy was 6 yrs old (this wd be say in 1860 or 1861) & is buried
out at Salem graveyard. His brother "Billy" Carnahan at Stanton made hats. Will L. Scholl & Mrs Budd both say
that her grandfather Carnahan descended from Col John Carnahan who lived at the "Willow tree", as she, Mrs
Budd, often heard it said that her grandfather ought to have had that farm. Mrs Budd says her oldest brother,
Abner Gilbert Neff, was a Lieut in the Civil War & his Capt saw him fall off of his horse when he was shot in
battle & saw him raise up & wave his sword & give the command to his company. He died seven days later. I
forgot to ask what battle it was. Her second brother, Andrew Neff was also in the Civil War & was captured by
the Rebels & all the time he was confined in prison (Libby, I believe) he was only given each day a tablespoonful
of flour stirred in a pint tin of water. When he got back, there was was [sic] a hole clear through his chest, but
not deep enough to hurt his lungs, through which they drew a white silk handkerchief which brought out worms
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or maggots an inch long. He got well & was a shoemaker & Will Scholl says he made his wedding boots 50 yrs
ago. Will is now 75 yrs old. Andrew Neff is buried in the West Newton Cemetery. John & Emanuel Neff, also
brothers of Mrs Budd (John named for Dr Hasson & Emanuel for his father) were also both in the Civil War.
John lives in Rostraver Tp & Emanuel in Sewickly Tp. Mrs Budd doesnt' know where the Neff family Bible
went, but thinks her sister, 10 yrs younger than her, viz Elizabeth Rossell, now living in Braddock Pa aged 80 yrs
might know. She lives with her second son, Charley Rossell. Mrs Budd says she herself has 94 descendants,
some of her great grandchildren two girls & a boy Harold have been in & out since I came. From Mrs Budd's
family Bible, I take the following record:
Marriages
Benjamin Budd and Jennetta Neff married Jany 1st, 1850.
Benjamin Budd was born Aug 3, 1825.
Jennetta Budd was born Feby 16, 1830.
Their children are as follows:
1. Joseph Budd born Oct 13, 1851.
2. Andrew Neff Budd born Oct 20, 1854.
3. Birthlina Budd born May 11, 1858.
4. Eliza L. (Lizabeth) Budd born Nov 25, 1860.
5. Edward Budd born Oct 13, 1863.
6. Chalmers Merwin Budd born Sept 4, 1866.
7. Silvia J. Budd born June 5, 1869.
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8. Lavina Sampson Budd born May 24, 1872.
Eliza was named for her two grandmothers.
Chalmers Merwin called Merwin is the son with whom she lives & whose wife I met & him also when he came
in from the harvest field. He says they have put up 25 tons of hay which he estimates at $30 per ton. Says he got
$40 a ton last winter.
Lavina was married twice before she was 21. She married Charlie Miller of Fairchance Pa June 14, 1890. He
was born Oct 22, 1869 & was killed on the RR being a brakeman Sept 15, 1890. She married 2d Cyrus P. Hough
July 6, 1892. He is a son of Joseph Hough. Their son:
Homer Glen Hough was born June 28, 1893.
Deaths
Birthalina Budd died Jany 12, 1861.
Joseph Budd died Dec 8, 1863.
Infant daughter of Albert & Lizzie McKelvey died Nov 2, 1882.
The above is taken from a Bible printed at Columbus by J&H Miller Publishers a "Polyglott Bible".
In another Bible "Hitchcock's new & complete Analysis of the Holy Bible" Published by A.J. Johnson NY in
which is written on front cover Capt Benjamin Budd June 16, 1879. In this Bible is the following incomplete
record:
Edward Budd
Miss Annie McKelvey
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married Nov 25, 1883.
our children:
Dora Budd
Birthie Budd
Then: Mr Albert McKelvey
Miss Lizzie Budd
married
our children
Frank McKelvey
Nettie McKelvey
Then: Mr Andy Budd
Miss Carrie McKelvey
married
our children
Joseph Budd
Willie Budd
Arthur Budd
Then: Mr Harry M. Steen
Miss Sylvia Budd
married July 23, 1889.
Mrs Budd says there were Carnahans who were distant relatives who lived between Madison & West Newton Pa.
She knows nothing about the Carnahan whose widow married Mathew McClanahan. She says her father-in-law,
Joseph Budd, who is buried at Salem Church, could go from Yough River to Monongahela River on his own
land. His wife said she had seen six generations of her own family & six of her husband's. Mrs Budd's
husband's grandfather was also Joseph Budd. He came to Westnd Co Pa from the Jerseys.
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His son Benjamin, married Nellie Finley & their son John abt 80 yrs old is living in West Newton, Joseph,
another son was the father of Mrs Budd's husband Benjamin. Mrs Budd says she remembers seeing her
husband's grandmother, a very old woman down at the stone house on the River below where we now are
churning with an old fashioned up & down churn with her right arm & nursing a baby on her knee which she was
holding with the other arm. We left about 5:30 PM & drove over to Mrs Murdoch's on Main St & got from her
the old Conrad Stenger German Bible that Kate Smith told her to give me, but there is no family record in it. I
took it over & left it at Mrs Harry Markle's until I wd be down again. Mrs Murdoch introduced me to her mother,
Mrs Freas whose maiden name was Robinson, who said she was 87 & who is very well preserved.
We then drove over to Mrs Harry Markle's, where I met her other two single daughters, Evalyn, gray haired &
slender, looking like her father & 6 1/2 yrs younger than Hannah & Aldis, short fat & jolly 26 yrs old & who
Hannah said named herself. Mrs Markle said she, herself, was born the day or week that Mrs Dr Smith Fuller
died in May 25th, 1848 & was named for her, viz Alvira Fuller Smith. She spoke of her Uncle
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Gasper Markle had a remarkable memory & collected his butcher bill accts from memory. He weighed near 400
lbs. She said her brother Amzi got his wonderful memory from the Markle side. Hannah said her Uncle Amzi's
forehead above his eyes & on up bulged away out. He held his position as librarian of Congress through all the
party changes of Administrations & when he died, Congress voted a gift of $700 each to his children. Mrs
Markle said the old small, one story brick house back of her residence was the old Smith home, built either by her
father or grandfather. The little brick house across the road from her & near the P&LE RR tracks was where Dr
Smith Fuller first went to housekeeping when he married her Aunt Alvira Markle. Mrs Budd, Will L. Scholl, &
Mrs Markle all spoke in the highest terms of Kate Smith's father, even though he was a Catholic. Knowing that
S.B. Markle had been a Baptist upon inquiry, Hannah said that they were all Presbyterians, saying that her father
had gone with her mother. I went back to Pgh on 6:19 B&O train Saturday morning & Hannah & Evalyn boarded
the 6 PM train & came up with me. At Oak Hill Sunday, Hannah spoke of a daughter of 2d cousin John C.
Carothers having married a McCune of McKeesport & of their daughter, only 8 days older
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than Evalyn 12 yrs old being as tall as she was 5 ft 8 in & weighing 180 lbs. James C. Harvey & his wife
Charlotte, came in their auto Sunday afternoon. They say that Camp Kearny is in California near San Diego & it
was there that Robert J. Harvey, their brother was drowned. They said Rob was 26 yrs old & weighed 175 lbs.
Am getting sleepy & will go to bed, it being 2 Am 9th & I am to be called at 5 AM.
Room 1010 Waldorf Astoria NY Aug 15, 1920 11 PM
I got up at 5 Am Monday morning Aug 9th last, had breakfast at 6 o'clock with Hannah & Evalyn Lawther &
James C. & his wife Charlotte Harvey & started at 6:30 AM with Pallini driving in Auto to Sam'l E. Hogsett's out
Morgantown road off east from Charles L. Smith old farm & got him to sign option at $116 per acre for his 700
acres odd of coal on Wheeling Creek, then went to his brother, Robert Hogsett's on Fayette St & he signed same
option for his 497 A. Had however first stopped at Dr C.H. Smith's Morgantown St on way in & he signed. Then
called Geo W. Semans & he s'd he wd sign if his brother Thos B. Semans did & he came in my office a little later
& signed that option & also extended the Dunkard Tp options to Oct 1, 1920 reducing the 1/22 int fr $650 to
$600 & the bals of Dunkard fr $570 to $500 & giving option on M.L. King Peny Tp at $400 & agreed on sale by
him & purchase by me of his Whiteley Tp Coal at $285 & his Wayne Tp at $250. I then went round Carried to
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Register office of Frederick Co Md at Frederick Maryland Tuesday Aug 10, 1920 11:40 AM
Index to Wills
Book No. Folio Testator
Exr or Adm Date of Probate
A * 1
63
Jack, James
Patrick Jack et al Mch 21, 1754
H.S. 1
234 Anderson, Edd Sr Eda Anderson
May 14, 1816
H.S. 3
107 Anderson, Mary Zepheniah Anderson Feby 19, 1823
codicil 236
A (Nix) 1
178 Cook, Francis Rev Wm Otterbein May 18, 1762
A * 1
551 Cresap, Michael Mary & Michael Cresap Nov 24, 1775
H.S.* 2
50
Elliott, John Sr Eli Elliott et al Mch 3, 1817
GM & RB * 1
225 Fulton, Robert Robert Fulton
Oct 8, 1806
GME 2
195 Fulton, Robert Solomon & John Fulton Aug 15, 1836
GM * 2
446 Lilly, Richard Mary & Sam'l Lilly July 30, 1792
RD * 1
272 Lilly, Samuel Sam'l Lilly of Richd Mch 13, 1812
HS * 2
406 Lilly, Samuel Felix McGarey
Nov 15, 1820
GM * 2
447 Markell, Adam Sr Adam Markell Jr
Aug 5, 1792.
GM
1
268 Markell, Conrad John Cambare et al Sept 20, 1782
RB * 1
94
Markell, Cristena William Markell et al May 18, 1810
JPP 1
434 Markell, Francis Caroline m. Markell May 21, 1883
JKW 2
573 Markell, George Jas E. Walker
1900
W. Irving Parsons
Mch 19,
JPP 2
506 Markell, Lewis Geo & Francis Markell May 1, 1888
JKW 2
149 Markell, Louis Mary K. Markell
June 16, 1897
RB * 1
175 Markle, Nicholas Ludwig Kessching Apr 27, 1811
GM * 2
537 Stevenson, Edward John Stevenson et al June 24, 1794 RB
Henry Joshua Stevenson Sept 25, 1813
HS 1
256 Stevenson, Joshua Wm Durlin Jr
June 10, 1816
HS 2
94
Stevenson, James Wm Stevenson et al June 30, 1817
A * 1
441 Stevenson, William Ann Stevenson et al Dec 8, 1772
A * 1
171 Thompson, George John Darnall
Jany 2, 1762
A * 1
2
Thompson, John Yacominte Thompson Mch 17, 1751
HS 3
446 Thomson, John Samuel Thomson
Jany 16, 1826
GH 1
20
Thompson, John P. Mary L. Thompson et al Mar 5, 1855
GMRB* 1 23 codicil Thompson, Raphael Sarah Thompson
Jany 14, 1804
2
1
421
Stevenson,
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1. Will Book Page 63. Will of James Jack of Frederick Co Province of Maryland dated Mch 13, 1754 being very
sick & weak in body gives & recommends soul unto God who gave it & body to be buried in a christian life
manner at discretion of Exrs "nothing doubting but at the General resurrection I shall receive the same again by
the might Power of God" & as to such worldly estate as God has entrusted me with:
1st All debts & funeral exps to be paid.
Item: I give & bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife 1/3 of all my movable estate chattels lands &
tenements whom I likewise make one of my Exrs along with Patrick Jack & Arthur Alexander, to her &
her heirs while she continues my widow.
Item: I give my well beloved son, John Jack & Sarah Jack & the child unborn the remainder of my
Estate to be equally divided between them including 8£ to be levied off the Estate for the maintenance
of the child unborn. Revokes all other wills.
James Jack (Seal)
Witnessed by James Gilleland, John Jack, Gabriel Friend. The three witness on Mch 21, 1754, all swear that
they saw him sign the will. Sworn to before Reverdy Ghintin Depty Coms [best guess] Fredk, County
2. Will of William Stevenson Will Book A No 1 P 441 1st leaves beloved wife Ann Stevenson bed, bed clothes,
saddle 1/3 of whole Estate & 1 cow.
Item: to my 5 children, Mary, Margaret, Hugh, Sarah & Eleanor all remainder
equally, my
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Hugh getting two shares. Appoints wife Ann Stevenson & James Watson Exrs signed Sept 29, 1772 William
Stevenson
Witnessed by Ninian Chamberlain, Robert Jimison, Patrick Watson on Dec 8, 1772 first two prove will.
3. Will of George Thompson Will Book A No 1 Page 171
Recites George Thompson of Frederick Co Md
farmer being in perfect health gives entire estate to John Darnall & appoints him Exr Dated Oct 26, 1753.
George (his mark) Thompson
Witnessed by Wm Darnall & Meredith Davis on Jany 2, 1762 Meredith Davis, one of the witnesses (being one of
the people called quakers) comes in & proves the will.
4. Will of John Thompson Will Book A No 1 Page 2 being the second will in the book
Recites that John Thompson of province of Maryland, Planter
1st gives to son William Thompson one tract of land called Thomson's pasture with 61 acres of land at
lower end of a tract called Thomson Hopyard ctg 110 acres likewise 148 A at the head of a tract of land
called the John & Yacomintze on Potomack Ctg 445 A.
2d to my son Cornelius Thompson tract called Thomson's Cool Springs whereon
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my new dwelling plantation is likewise 9 & in upper end of Thomson's Hop- yard with a small Island ctg
12 A lying ? t also 148 A in middle of John & Yacomintze tract of 445 A on Potomack.
3d to my son John Thomson tract called the conqueror on Wats branch ctg 135 A also 148 at lower end of
tract called John & Yacomintze on Polomack of 445 A also 73 t at lower end of Derby Island
th
4 to daughter Ann Thomson tract on Potomack Called Duck Folly ctg 105 A also one long Island in Potomack
ctg 20 A
5th makes dear & loving wife Yacomintze Thomson my sole exrx Dated Sept 25 1748. Signed John Thomson
Witnesses William McKay, Nicholas Garrett, & Mary Merfy on March 7 (say 1751) William Mackey Nicholas
Garrett & Mary Murfey prove will.
5. Will of Robert Fulton GM & RB 1 Page 225 of Frederick Co, Md
1st to beloved wife Margaret Fulton, the house now in my possession & 1/3 of my land & £100 in hands of
Saml Lilley to be pd to her as soon as Collected & many other things.
2d to daughter Mary White £100 fr personal Est.
3 to daughter Jean Springer 20 S if demanded. gives to Robert Springer, son of Jane £50.
4th to son Nathaniel Fulton 20 S if demanded
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gives to Benjamin Fulton, son of Nathaniel £50.
5 the remainder of personal Estate to be equally divided between my son Robert Fulton & my two daughters
Margaret Browning & Elizabeth Baltzel.
Wills & bequeaths R.E. to son Robert Fulton & appoints him sole exr & bequeaths to my two daughters Margaret
Browning & Elizabeth Baltzel £1000 ie 500 each & recites how to be paid Dated Apr 7, 1805 Robert (his mark)
Fulton
Witnessed by Joseph Hedges, John Baltzel & John Gregg. Proven Oct 8, 1806.
th
6. Will of Raphael Thompson GM & RB 1 Page 2
Recites he is of Frederick Co gives to wife Sarah all real
& personal estate relying on her prudence for distribution among our children as her directions I have given her
by word of mouth & appoints her sole Exrx Dated Dec 7, 1803. Raphael (his mark) Thompson
Witnesses J.Dubois, Elisha McAtee, & Jas McAtoo. Proven Jany 13, 1804 by Sarah Thompson & on Jany 14,
1804 by John Dubois & James McAtoo. See Page 313 et secq
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Recorders office Frederick Md 4:05 PM
Book Folio Date
Names
B * 85 Oct 11, 1749 Jack, Jeremiah to John Jack
Harys Jonkin
Deed
B *? 85 Oct 10, 1749 Jack, John fr Jerome Jack
F * 556 Oct 3, 1758 Jack, James fr Michael Liggett
Deed B * 19 Mch 23, 1748
Deed
Deed
Jack, James fr
H * 601 Sept 21, 1763 Jack, James fr Mathew Elder
Deed
O * 357 June 4, 1771 Jack, John to Thomas Johnson Jr
Deed
jr &e?]
J 16 June 20, 1764 Jacques, Lancelot fr Evan Shelby
Deed
J 1205 June 19, 1765 Jacques, Lancelot to Rich Prather
Deed
& many others to & from Jacques, Lancelot
[pr &e? price?
1. Deed Book B Page 85. At request of John Jack, the following deed was recorded Oct 10, 1749 to wit Deed
made Apr 23, 1749 between Jeremiah Jack of Fredk Co Md yeoman of the one part & John Jack of same place of
the other. Conveys for £200, sterling conveys tract of land called Jack's bottom on NE side of Potomack River ctg
175 A. Signed Jeremiah Jack
Witnessed by Thomas Cresap, Ed Wyatt & Thos Prather.
on back of deed was endorsed mem to wit on Apr 28, 1749, came Jeremiah Jack & ackd same to be his act & deed
& with him came Ann, his wife & resigned her claim of dowry & on same date Jeremiah Jack Ack's receipt from
John Jack of £200 sterling money of Great Britain on Oct 10, 1749 is receipt from John Jack of 7 S as an
alienation fine by order of Benjamin Tasker Esq Agt of the Right Hon Lords Proprietary of Md Signed John
Darnall.
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2. Book B Page 19 At request of James Jack was recorded on Mch 28, 1748, a deed made Oct 7, 1748 (evident
error in dates) between Jenkin Harys of Prince Georges County of Md & James Jack of the County of Lancaster
in Pa for £70 Lying in Prince Georges Co ctg 50 A.
Ackd in Prince George Co Md Oct 14, 1748 by Harys & his wife Sara.
3. Book O Page 357 At request of Lancelot Jacques & Thomas Johnson was recorded on June 4, 1771 deed
dated May 17, 1771 between John Jack of Mecklenburgh Co, North Carolina son & heir at law of James Jack late
of Frederick Co Md of 1st part & Lancelot Jacques & Thomas Johnson Jun of City of Annapolis of other part of
£75. Conveys conveys [sic] the land John Harys to aforesaid James Jack ctg 50 A. Signed John Jack
Witnessed by Thos Prather, & Sam'l Beall, Junr. Ack May 17, 1771 by John Jack, but no wife is mentioned.
Copied by Mary R Post
4. Book F Page 556. At the request of James Jack, the following deed was recorded Oct 3, 1758 viz a deed made
Oct 2, 1758 by Michl Liggett of Frederick MD, Farmer to James Jack so same county for £115. Conveys tract of
land called Dam Head ctg 214 A.
Coped by Hannah E. Lawther
5. Book H Page 601. At request of Mathew Elder, the following deed was recorded Sept 21, 1763 which recites
that the deed
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was made Aug 24, 1763 by James Jack of Fredk Co Md farmer to Mathew Elder farmer of same Co for £125,
conveys a tract of land from which it appears that on Aug 24, 1763 James Jack came before Justices of the Peace
in s'd Co & ackd same. At same time came Agnes Jack, wife of said James Jack & also duly ackd same & relinquished her
dower.
Deed ackd
by Mathew Elder in Sept 21, 1763, Acklg same
From the Registers Office, Copied by Evalyn Lawther
7. Book RB 1 Page 94 Will of Christena Markell of Frederick Town Md recites that whereas my husband
Conrad Markle bequeathed 1/3 of his estate to me to dispose of as I wished, now to carry that out & do equal
justice to our children I Will:
1st to my son William Markell to have what was heretofore bequeathed & also that left to my son John Markell
he s'd William having bought it from
John.
2d Also to s'd son William 3 lots in a town called Hamburgh in Prince Georges Co Md.
3d to my daughter Catherine Burckhart, wife of John Burckhart 1 doz pewter plates, 1 clock
4th to my grandson George Markell, son of my son William part of a lot in Frederick Town.
5th to Elizabeth Waugh, wife of William Waugh, one lot.
6th Wills residue to son William Markell & daughter Catharine Burckhart & appoints son William Markle &
son-in-law John Burckhart Exrs
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Signed Oct 29, 1794 by Christena Markell
Witnesses Peter Engels, Henry Myers & Allen Quynn Jr. on May 1st, 1810 proven by Wm Markell before
Richard Butler & on May 14, 1810 proven by John Burckhart
8. Will of Samuel Lilley RB 1 Page 272 gives to his beloved sister Esther Diggs all his estate for life &
at her death directs remaining property be sold & the "money shall be equally divided among my poorest
relations" Appoints Samuel Lilly (of Richard) Exr Dated Mch 6th, 1812 and witnessed by McDonald,
John Doll & Carlin. Proven Mch 13, 1812
9. Will of Nicholas Markle RB 1 Page 175 1st gives daughter Barbara Biddle, wife of Thomas Biddle £270.
2d to my daughter Magdalena Markle my plantation whereon I now dwell in Fredk Co. Dated Mch 24, 1810.
Witnesses James Marks, John Finefrock & John Slatz Proven Apr 27, 1811.
Copied by Hannah E. Lawther
10. Will of Samuel Lilley (H.S. No 2 Page 406)of Fredk Co Md gives to Elizabeth Lilly beloved wife during
widowhood & then to be equally divided among my children. Appoints Felix McGarey Exr. Proven, Proven [sic]
Dec 7, 1820? Witnesses Wm B. Head, Sam'l Ogle & Leonard I.M. Littlejohn Proven Nov 15, 1820.
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11. Will of Adam Markell, Book GM No 2 Page 447. recites he was a farmer of Frederick Co Md & is dated
July 13, 1790.
1st to daughter Hester Moore £50 to be paid after decease of my wife Hester Marckell
2d to my daughter Hannah Smith £100.
3d to my daughter Margaret Yergins £100.
4th to my daughter Judida Squires, 1 yr heifer & £100.
5th to my beloved wife Hesther Marckell my plantation where we now dwell & 1 sorrel mare with saddle &
bridle 2 cows 4 sheep & the household furniture.
6th to my son Adam Marckell Junr & 1 to my son Gabriel Marckle, & to my son Ephraim Marckell the
following tracts of land including the A resmay [resuray? best guess] on good range called Difficulty, B.
part of Stringers Chance C. part of Justices Delight
Appoints son Adam Markell Junr sole Exr
Adam (his mark) Marckell
Witnesses Jacob Barnett, George Cook, & John Agnew Proven Aug 5, 1792.
12. Will of Richard Lilly of Fredk Co Md Book GM No 2 Page 446 dated Oct 2d, 1791. Gives to wife Mary all
his lands in state of Maryland & after her death to go equally to my two sons Samuel & Ignatius Lilly. Also
leaves to wife 1 negro man named "Jack" & one named Shadwell, negro boy named Harry & negro woman
named Hannah & many other things.
Gives to son Joseph Lilly all my tract of land in Pa, Bedford Co, Hopewell Tp, Raystown
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branch of Juniata ctg 200 A Makes wife Mary & son Samuel sole exrs. Signed Richard Lilly, dated July 30, 1792.
Witnesses Nathaniel Beall, Thos Flemming, Geo Adam Domer & Daniel Domer. Proven July 30, 1792.
13. Will of Edward Stevenson GM No 2 Page 537 recites he is of Fredk Co Md & a farmer gives to children
Sarah Stevenson, Joshua Stevenson, Susannah Stevenson, Mary Stevenson, Edward Stevenson, John Stevenson,
& Samuel Riston my wife's son, all lands, stock Etc. Recites provision for Sarah. Gives to my two loving
brothers John Stevenson & Joshua Stevenson £75 each Heirs to be blindfolded & draw lots to divide goods Etc.
Dated Mch 13, 1782. signed Edward Stevenson. Witnesses Wm W. Rodgers Sen, Edward Hodgkiss, John
England, & Daniel Stevenson. Proven June 24, 1794.
14. Will of Conrad Markell GM No 1 Page 268 recites he is of Frederick Town Md gives to beloved wife
Christiana £300 in gold & silver coin together with the use of one of my houses either in Frederick or Balt o. To
my son John J. William also give my lot & the two houses thereon standing in Balto.
They closed the office on her & she did not get it finished.
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Copied by Mary R. Post
15. Will of John Elliott HS No 2 Page 50 recites he is of Frederick Co Md gives to wife Sarah Elliott the room in
which we sleep with its furniture, big a case of drawers etc. (detailed privileges) & my John to whom I intend
giving my farm shall keep her horse & cow winter & summer & also furnish a sufficiency of firewood for his
mother's use & he is to pay her $100 a year yearly or even quarterly.
Then as to remainder of my personal estate direct my exrs to dispose of to the best advantage the proceeds with
monies due me I bequeath as follows:
To my son Eli Elliott the 1/3 part there of.
To my daughter Joanna Elliott the 1/3 part thereof.
To my daughter Ruth Gibson the wife of Samuel Gibson the 1/3 part thereof during her life only & after her
death to her children then living to be equally divided between them under this express proviso that my exrs shall
not be compelled to pay into the hands of Samuel Gibson anything bequeathed to my daughter Ruth Gibson &
continued provisions thereabouts. To my son Eli Elliott, the half of piece of land a tract called High Germany ctg
101/2 Acres. To my son John Elliott, the plantation or farm on which I live with appurtenances. [there is one
line blurred which seems to be an insert - totally unreadable.]
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except the rights & privileges of my grandchildren Mahlon Gibson, Caroline Ingram, Each the sum of $200.
Lastly appoint my two sons Eli Elliott & John Elliott Exrs to which I have set my hand & seal this the third day
of the first month 1817. John Elliott
Witnesses Benjamin Hall, William Elliott jr, David Howell & Israel Howell.
Fredk Co on Mch 3, 1817 came Elliott & John Elliott & proved will as did also Benjamin Hall, William Elliott Jr
& Israel Howell, all before Henry Steiner Regr.
Sarah Elliott widow of John Elliott refuses to accept to administer on the estate & asks that they be granted to
Richard Roberts dated 4th day of 3d mo 1817 & signed Sarah Elliott, Eli Elliot, John Elliott
Test
Elizabeth Upton
We left Hagerstown Tuesday morning Aug 10, 1920 about 9 Am & drove to the Battlefield of Antietam & all
over it & on to Sharpsburgh WVA where we turned to left toward Fredericktown & passed through Middletown
WVA & Braddock's Heights & reached Frederick Md at 11:30 AM where I took room 57 for the girls & went to
the Court House & gleaned with
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them half the above records commencing at Page 306. The room above was at the New City Hotel which we left
at 5:30 PM for Gettysburgh where we arrived at 7:22 PM passing thru Emmittsburgh Md & taking a detour
through Fairfield Pa covering 80 miles today ie 40 from Hagerstown Md to Frederick Md & 40 from Frederick
Md to Gettysburgh Pa as against 192 yesterday from Uniontown Pa via Mt Lake Park Cumberland & Hancock
Md to Hagerstown Md. After dinner at 9 Pm, I asked the clerk about Judge Wills' family & he called up an
emaciated old man he called Squire Hill & introduced me & from them I learned what follows of the Judge's
family, none of whom are now here except that Edward McCammon, who has married a second wife, lives out
abt 3/4 of a mile toward the battlefield. He has no children by either wife.
1. Emma Wills married Edward McCammon & she is now dead
2. Annie Wills married John McCurdy & they live at Steelton Pa where he is a druggist.
3. Jennie Wills married Wm P. Quimby & they live at Phila (he is from New Hampshire) where he travels for
the law book firm of Geo T. Bisel & Co.
4. Mary Wills married John S. Bridge & they live at Balto Md where is is Prest of the Automobile Club.
5. James, the only son died aged abt 6 yrs.
Josephus Daniels, Secy of Navy, wife & family were her yesterday viewing the battlefield. It is now 3:22 Am
Aug 11, 1920 & I will go to bed & am to be called at 6 AM.
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Registers Office, York Pa, Aug 11, 1920 9:26 AM
Index to Wills
Decedent
Residence
Date Executors Book Page
Merckell, Christian * Corlonis Tp Dec 2, 1800 Geo Merkell
K 194
Merckle, Catarina * Corlonis Tp Jany 1, 1807 Christian Merkle L 426
Michael Merkle 16Nix Macklin, Philip York
Dec 2, 1817 Solomon
Macklin M 486 Nix Macklin,John
Conewago Tp June 29, 1835 Geo Anchinbausch R 211
Daniel Macklin
Markel, George
* Chanceford Tp Jany 1, 1843 Eve Markel
S 302
Markel, Sarah
Manheim Tp Sept 27, 1888 Rebecca Markle EE 501
Markel, Catharine
Shrewsbury Tp Feby 8, 1897 Wm & Noah Markel LL 63
Markle,Rebecca
Manheim Tp Jany 26, 1899 Geo F. Saubel MM 638
Markel, Geo H.
Cadorus Tp Nov 16, 1899 Jonas F. Garven NN 402
Markel, Emanuel
Shrewsbury Bor Feby 12, 1900 Margaret Markel NN 533
Markle, Amos
West Manheim Tp Nov 9, 1903 Geo H Markel et al QQ 520
Markle, Therasay
Hanover Bor May 17, 1906 NM Fleckinger TT 153
Albert Markle
Markle, Albert E.
Heidelberg Tp Dec 13, 1909 Annie Markle WW 63
Markel, Wm H.
Cadorus Tp Mch 28, 1911 Amelia C. Markel XX 163
Markel, Henry K. Spring Grove Bor Apr 27, 1914 Geo W. Musser 3A 523
Markle, Noah
Shrewsbury Tp July 27, 1914 Harry A. Markel 3B 61
*2 Nix
This is Mechling.
Markel, William
Cadorus Tp Nov 10, 1914 Chas F. Markel 3B 276
Marks, Peter F.
York Tp
Mch 13, 1915 Ida M. Markel 3B 656
D. Markel
Markle, Jacob V.
Penn Tp
Aug 5, 1916 Lydia M. Marks 3E 242
Markle
Caruthers, James * Monaghan Tp Nov 17, 1789 James Caruthers H 19
Carothers, Jenkins Esq Jefferson Feby 26, 1845 Margaret Carothers S 452
Jack, James
* Hamiltonban Sept 8, 1780 John Jack et al E 106
Reed
Thompson, Andrew * Mt Pleasant Apr 14, 1761 Eleanor Thompson A 232
John Thompson
Thompson, Alexander Cumberland Tp Nov 27, 1766 Thos Paxton Sr B 87
John Paxton
Thompson, James
Hopewell Tp Mch 31, 1784 Alexr Thompson F 233
Thompson, William * Cumberland Tp June 29, 1790 Robt Thompson et al H 140
Thompson, John
Hamiltonsban Sept 5, 1793 Esther Thompson H 495
Thompson, William Straban Tp Aug 14, 1797 Wm Thompson
IJ 380
Thompson, Joseph
Chanceford Tp Jany 18, 1816 Archibald P Thompson N 229
Joseph Thompson
Thompson, Alexander Hopewell Tp Sept 21, 1843 Archibald Thompson S 358
Thompson, Joseph H. Chanceford Tp May 13, 1857 Mary J Thompson U 388
Emma
V.H.
S. Cadorus Tp
Benj.
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Thompson, Lucinda
York Bor
Dec 8, 1868 Jno A Metzell Ad X 397
Thompson, Alexr
Lower Chanceford Jany 22, 1876 Thos B McDonald Z 559
Thompson, Tobias
York Bor
Oct 5, 1876 Danl Hinkle
AA 38
Thomson, Rev C.W.
York Bor
May 8, 1879 H.C. Adams
AA 703
Thomson, Caroline
York Bor
July 1, 1880 H.C. Adams
BB 205
Thompson, Matilda
York Bor
Nov 24, 1880 Hy Whiteman
BB 345
Thompson, William York Tp
May 28, 1885 Elizabeth Thompson DD 149
Thomson, John A.
Wrightsville Bor Jany 17, 1894 B.F. Beard
II 359
Thomson, Elizabeth Satterlee
Wrightsville Bor June 18, 1894 B.F. Beard
Thompson, Wm K.
Chanceford Tp Mch 30? 1895 James W. Thompson JJ 269
Thompson, Nelson J. Paradise Tp Dec 30, 1896 L.J. Shultz et al KK 656
Thompson, Alexander Fawn Tp
May 24, 1898 Mary A Thompson MM 185
Jesse Thompson
Thompson,Agnes M.
Fawn Tp
Nov 8, 1899 Elnora Thompson NN 382
Thompson, Robt A.
Red Lion Bor Sept 24, 1901 Alex M. Grove
OO 665
Thompson, William E. Hopewell Tp Nov 28, 1902 W.L. Thompson QQ 530
A.O. Thompson
Thompson, Wm A.
City of York Apr 8, 1907 Carrie Lilly Thompson
TT 641
Thompson, Sarah A. Hanover Bor Oct 11, 1909 W.H. Welborn
VV 660
Thompson, Mary J.
Peach Bottom Tp Feby 10, 1911 J.Lewellyn Thompson
XX 77
Thompson, Wm H.
Manchester Tp Nov 15, 1917 Catharine W. Thompson
3G 94
Thompson, Jesse
Fawn Tp
Apr 26, 1920 Wm A Thompson et al 3H 242
II 607
1. Book K Page 194 Will of Christian Meckel (there is a line drawn under Meckle to show an error & on index it
has been changed to Merckel) of Cadorus Tp, County of York, Pa yeoman being old & weak in body first
provides for his wife Catharine & then gives to his son George Meckel all my lands & plantation whereon I now
dwell in such a manner as I now possess the same in Cadorus Tp adj lands of Jacob Eppely & lands of my son
Christian Meckel ctg abt 290 A but to pay out £500 therefore to be paid in yearly payts of £25 beginning 2 yrs
after my death which shall be paid in
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equal shares to my other ten children is £50 to each of them in manner following the first £25 to be p'd to my
1. eldest son John Meckel, next year same
2. to my daughter Barbara & rest to
3. to my son Christian & then
4. to my son Jacob & then
5. to my son Henry & then
6. to my daughter Catharine & then
7. to my daughter Elizabeth & then
8. to my son Michael & then
9. to my daughter Anna Mary & then
10. to my youngest daughter Margaret
& then repeat clear through same way. If daughter Barbara remain unmarried & get sick to have further
provision for her care. Appoints two sons Christian & George Exrs. Dated Sept 26, 1800 Looks like signed in
German Christian Merckel (seal)
Witnesses Henry Danner, Samuel Rohrback & Jacob Cuzzula (Eppely) Proven Dec 2, 1800.
2. Will of Catarina Meckle Book L Page 426 Widow Christian Meckle decd of Cadorus Tp gives:
to my oldest daughter Barbara, single woman my pipe stofe [stove?] with the
pip [sic] thereto belonging &
to my daughter Margreta Meckle also single "Eikoly" (equally) to the one as much as to the other (ie
Barbara & Margreta) "all my closes wich I whearle (wear) & all my liennen & all my other clop
[clap?]"
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& gives also to them "eackweal" (Equal) all my green ie my wead my roy inshiorg korn etc etc as
coming to me by legacy from Jacob Ramback fourther (further) balance to be sold & divided between
all my children viz
to John Meckle to Christian Meckle to Jacob Meckle to Henry Meckle to George Meckle & to Michael Meckle &
to Barbara Meckle & to Catarina now the wife of John Rinder & to Elizabeth now the wife of John Rudisel & to
Anna Maria now the wife of Jacob Rambach & to Margreta Meckle.
Appoints sons Christian & Michael Exrs Dated Oct 15, 1806 Catarina (her mark) Meckle.
Witnessed by Samuel Rohrback & H. Strickhouser. Probated Jany 1, 1807.
3. Will of George Markel Book 8 Page 302 recites that he is of Chanceford Tp & is weak in body & wills:
to my son Henry Markel $1.
to my son George Markel $1.
to my son Adam $1.
to my son John $1.
to my daughter Eve, married to Jacob Crone $1.
to my daughter Barbara married to Peter Hern $1.
to my daughter Catharine married to Christian Shofe $1.
to my daughter Elizabeth married to Jacob Miller $1.
to my daughter Lydia married to George Miller $1.
to my daughter Peggy married to Samuel Deckman $1.
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to my son Samuel my young horse at my decease.
to my daughter Thessy, one bed bedstead & bedding, Chest spinning wheel & a cow.
All above legacies not to be pd for 1 yr except at discretion of Exrs.
All rest of property to wife Eve during natural life & after her death to be sold & divided equally between my
children. Appoints s'd wife Exrx. Dated June 4, 1839 signed George Markel
Witnessed by Hugh Long, & Jacob Dowe.
They closed for noon at 12:10 Pm. 2 PM on my return
Will was probated Jany 31, 1843.
4. Will of James Caruthers Book 4 Page 19 dated Aug 3, 1782 wherein James Caruthers of Monaghan Tp
provides for his wife Jean & out of an agreement with this son John & then gives:
to my son John Caruthers £5 in gold.
to my son Andrew Caruthers £5 in gold had recd Advcmts.
to my son Thomas Caruthers £5 in gold had recd Advcmts.
to Mary, wife of Moses Starr £10.
All balance of estate to my four sons viz John, James, Andrew & Thomas in following manner & form. Exrs to
divide in six equal shares 1 sh to John 1 sh to James 2 shs to Andrew & 2 shs to Thomas Appoints Charles
Coulson & Wm Gadfrey Exrs signed. James (his mark) Caruthers.
Witnessed by John Thompson, & David Coulson. Proven Nov 17, 1789 by John Thompson Nov 28, 1800 Letters
cta issued to son James Caruthers.
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5. Will of William Thompson Book H P 146. wherein William Thompson of Cumberland Tp
3. to wife Elinor various things & use of house along with unmarried daughters & son Robert to pay her £8 a
yr.
4. to son Robert Thompson my dwelling plantation & to pay out to mother & sisters
5. to my daughter Marey (or Marcy) Hampton £30.
6. to my daughter Febe Armor £10 to the two children of Thompson & Jane Armor £10 each.
7. to my daughter Ruth Alison £30.
8. to my daughter Sarah Piller £30.
9. to my daughter Martha Alison £30. & bed, milch cow, & chest of drawers etc.
10. to my daughter Elizabeth Thompson £50. Etc. Etc.
11. to my daughter Shusana Thompson £50. Etc. Etc.
12. to my daughter Elinor Thompson £50. Etc. Etc.
13. to my grandson Joseph Thompson £5.
14. to my grandson John McDermond £5.
15. to my two granddaughters Mary & Sarah McDermond to each £10.
16. to my two granddaughters Mary & Sarah that is bound to me to be under care of my wife until of age.
Appoints wife Elinor son Robert & son-in-law Francis Alison Exrs. Dated May 22, 1790. Witnesses William
Thompson, Gabriel Walker, & Robt Bigham. Proven June 29, 1790.
6. Will of James Jack Book E Page 106 Dated Dec 23, 1779 & recites that James Jack of Hamiltonban Tp being
weak in body orders Real Estate sold at Public Sale bequeaths to loving
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wife Agnes Jack a raft of things & £1500 in cash & her full [unreadable word] of remainder of my Estate &
to my daughter Lidia, all remaining part of my personal Est not left to wife.
to my son John Jack £300 & to his son James Jack £50.
to my daughter Elizabeth Shaw £300.
to my daughter Jean Wikes £300 & her son James Wilkey (or Wilkes) my granson
[sic] £50.
to my daughter Agnes Kernahan £400 & to her son James Kernahan my granson £50.
to my daughter Mary Reed £400 & to her son James Reed my granson £50.
to my daughter Sarah Reed £400 & to her son James Reed my granson £50.
to my son Andrew Jack £300.
to my daughter Easter £400 & to her son James Wilson my grandson £50.
to my grandson William Beard £20.
All above to be p'd out of R.E. if it brings enough. If it doesn't, they are to be reduced proportionately. If it over
runs to go to legatees proportionately. Appoints wife Agnes jack, son John Jack & son Benjamin Reed Exrs.
[one line is completely blurred - only words I can make out are:] I [short word] give to my loving wife Agnes
Jack £220 which is in the hands of my son Andrew Jack & likewise bequeath to my wife my Desk over & above
what I bequeathed to her & at her disease [sic] I order my Desk to my son John Jack signed James Jack.
Witnesses Henry Cotton, Hugh Cotton, & John Cotton
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Probated Sept 8, 1780 before Archibald McClean Reg.
At bottom is renunciation by Ann (not Agnes) of Hamiltonban Tp stating she is weak in body & resigns in favor
of her son John Jack & son-in-law Benjamin Reed, dated Sept 6, 1780. Signed Ann (her mark) Jack Witness
present Lydia Jack
7. Will of Andrew Thompson Book A Page 232 recites that Andrew Thompson of Mt Pleasant Tp York Co Pa
being weak in body bequeaths to my well beloved wife Heleanor Thompson the 1/3 of all my personal estate &
£6 more if the child lives she is now pregnant with, her bed & furniture Etc. I leave & bequeath to my son John
and Andrew the plantation I now live upon, they paying thirty pounds out of s'd plantation to the rest of the
legatees & the remaining part of my estate I leave to my sons William, Isaac, Ephraim, George and Margaret
Thompson only I order my daughter Margaret a "good cloath saidall" orders that if child wife is pregnant with
lives is to be equal sharer with the others. Orders wife live on plantation during widowhood & be provided for by
John & Andrew & 1 horse & 1 cow kept free for her Exrs to keep family together & raise them until they are bit
[sic] to be put to trades. Appoints wife & son John Exrs Dated Mch 14, 1795 signed Andrew Thomson
Witnessed by John Galbreath & David Betley Probated Apr 14, 1761 Letters to Eleanor Thompson & John
Thompson.
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Recorders office York Pa Aug 11, 1902 12:33 PM
Adsectum Index to deeds
Grantee
Grantor
Where recorded Date of Record
Franklin Tp Carothers, Armstrong Josiah McQueen
2E P 534
Fairview Tp Carothers, Andrew
David Eppley
3N P 453
Mch 27, 1789
Aug 18, 1835
Monaghan Tp Crouthers, John
Abram Williams
2L P 9
Sept 3, 1795
Spring Grove Tp Caruthers, Jason D. Moses M. Bowner
13Q P 228
Mch 24, 1904
Crothers, Wm S. Trustee Henry Witmer
O P 31
Jany 11, 1821
Jack, Chas B.
Jacob Crosby
3U P 417
Aug 29, 1848
Jack, Elizabeth
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, Edward
" "
"" "
" " " Jack, Harriet
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, Joshua W.
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, James A.
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, Sarah
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, Theresa
" "
"" "
" " "
Jack, W. Frank
Jas W. Grove Agt
14Q P 531
Jany 25, 1906
Jack, James
* Thos Latta Hamiltonban Tp
2S P 127
Jany 31, 1791
Meckel, Christian Jr * Christian Meckel Sr 2H P 156
May 21, 1792
Meckel, Christian
Christian Meckle
2O P 335
Sept 24, 1799
Direct Index
Grantor
Grantee
Crothers, John
Philip Koonse
2H P 250
Cruthers, John
Daniel Carpenter
2K P 69
Cruthers, John Atty Thos Dill
2M P 314
& later ones
Jack,Chas B.
Dan'l Liebhart
3V P 582
also most of others above are in this deed.
Meckle,George
Sam'l Eichelberger 2T P 348
Sept 1, 1792
June 26, 1794
Mch 9, 1797
Nov 26, 1850
Apr 4, 1809
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1. Deed Book 2G Page 127 wherein by deed dated May 9, 1775 made by Thomas Latta of Cumberland Tp, York
Co Pa & Deborah, his wife to James Jack of Hamilstonbann Tp, York Co Pa yeoman. Witnesseth that for
consideration of £650, said Latta conveys to s'd Jack a tract of land lying in Hamiltsonbann Tp surveyed & laid
out by Archibald McClean Deputy surveyor by warrant dated Apr 16, 1765 adjg lands of William Wilson &
James Wilson ctg 190 A & allowance of 6% for roads. signed by Thomas Latta, Deborah Latta
Witnessed by Alexander Mckesson & Robt McPherson & ackd before Robt McPherson one of the Justices of his
Majesty Court May 9, 1775 & recorded Jany 31, 1791 & compared by Thomas Clingan & Benjamin Reid.
On pages preceding this viz 126-127 is record of deed from Peter Freed et al to Martin Cronmiller dated
May 22, 1765 & recorded Jany 29, 1791 saying it is a true copy taken from & compared with the original at York
the 29th of Jany 1791. Thomas Latta & James Jack. J. Barnitz Recorder
2. Deed book 2H Page 156 wherein by deed dated Dec 20, 1791 between Christian Meckel (the Elder) of
Cadorus Tp yeoman & Catharine his wife to Christian Meckel (the younger) son of
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the aforesaid Christian the Elder, a single man. Witnesseth that for £90.5.3. conveys 68 A 19 P in 1 st tract & 24
A 119 P in 2d tract which was conveyed by Jacob Canto to Christian Meckel Sen July 28, 1787. Recorded May
21, 1792.
3. Deed Book 2T Page 348 wherein by deed dated Feby 25, 1809, George Meckle of Manheim Tp yeoman &
Catherina, his wife convey to Samuel Eichelberger for £206.4.9 a tract of land in sd Tp ctg 29 A & 74 P.
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Room 1010 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel NY Aug 15, 1920 4:11 PM
I am here transcribing the data taken from the tombstone records on Thursday last Aug 12, 1920 by myself,
cousins & friends at the Falling Springs Presbyterian Church graveyard situate in the City of Chambersburg, Pa
on the banks of the Conococheague or as often pronounced Conocogy.
Taken by J.V. Thompson
1. Hon Alexander Thomson, born Jany 12, 1789 Died Aug 2, 1848. Mark the
perfect man & behold the
upright for the end of that man is peace. 2. Jane Graham, wife of Alexander Thomson Born Feby 4, 1804, Died
Oct 29, 1883
3. George Graham Thomson Born Oct 26, 1826, Died June 2, 1891
4. Anna, youngest child of Alexander & Jane Thompson died Apr 9, 1861 aged 18 yrs & right in or just by the
Alex Thomson Enclosure was:
5. Martha Crawford, wife of Josiah Duffield born Dec 9, 1788. Died Feby 11, 1850. & not far away, but further
back was:
6. Our Father Joseph S. Crawford Born May 6, 1806 Died Aug 23, 188 Aged 82 yrs 3 mos & 17 days.
7. Our mother Mary Crawford Died Nov 15, 1890 aged 76 yrs 4 mos & 27 days
8. Edward McKinley, son of Joseph G. & Mary Crawford, born June 26, 1847. Died Aug 19, 1850.
9. James A. Crawford Died Apr 16, 1886 aged 36 yrs
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10. James Finley, Senr was born 1777. Died 1850
11. Adaline, wife of James Finley Born 1787 died 1875.
12. James Finley Junr was born 1812 died 1851.
13. William P. Thompson who died June 23, 1844 aged 42 yrs 5 mos & 28 days
14. John Thompson who died May 20, 1830 in the 67th year of his age.
15. Nancy Reed, consort of John Thompson who died Dec 10, 1814 in the 37th yr of her age.
16. Susan B. Thompson Died Nov 14, 1885.
17. Col John Findlay born Mch 31, 1766 Died Nov 5, 1858 in his 73d year.
18. John Findley Jr son of Col John Findlay Died Oct 14, 1832 aged 33 yrs & 2 mos.
19. Also his son John died Dec 29, 1832 aged 4 yrs 6 mos & 3 days.
20. Mrs Jane Maclay Died Par 17, 1827 in her 37th year.
21. Also her daughter Nancy Jane who died May 27, 1827 aged 2 yrs & 2 mos.
22. Col Josiah Crawford Died Jany 1, 1819 in the 83d year of his age.
23. Martha Crawford Died Oct 14, 1859 at an advanced age.
24. James Crawford Died near Chambersburg Nov 11, 1862 in his 21st yr.
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25. John Lindsay Esq Died Sept 6, 1825 in his 55th yr.
26. Frances, wife of John Lindsay Esq Born June 14, 1780 Died Apr 11, 1868.
27. Edward Crawford Lindsay, youngest son of John & Frances Lindsay died Feby 22, 1844 in his 21st yr.
28. James Lindsay Died Dec 23d, 1823 aged 87 yrs 8 mos & 15 days. He was an honest man.
29. Edward Crawford Esq. Born Jany 10, 1757. Died Mch 6, 1833 A Soldier of the Revolution rests here.
30. Mrs Elizabeth Crawford, wife of Edward Crawford Esq Died Dec 3, 1792 aged 30 yrs. Amiable &
beloved woman. Farewel [sic] Thy years were few, but thy virtues were many. They are recorded not on
this perishing stone, but in the book of Life & in the hearts of thine afflicted friends.
31. Catharine Crawford Munro, 1818. Like thy excellent mother, thy days were few, but thy virtues were
many.
32. Mrs Rebecca Crawford 2d wife of Edward Crawford Esq Died May 21, 1839 aged 62 yrs. To a tender
& beloved mother this tribute of remembrance & affection is erected by her only surviving child.
33. In memory of the many virtues & promising qualities of Miss Ruhannah Chambers Crawford, this
stone with broken hearts & much affection is inscribed by her parents & family. Born June 11, 1799 Died
Dec 14, 1813.
34. Also her brother Benjamin Born June 17, 1809. Died Nov 6, 1810
Then down in lower end of graveyard I find:
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35. Joseph Fulton Boyd 1832-1907
36. Robert Elliott Coyle 1833-1910.
37. Blanche Bowen Coyle 1843-1915.
38. John S. Crawford Born July 20, 1819. Died May 21, 1903 Aged 83 yrs 10 mos
& 1 day
39. Hugh Crawford Born Jany 17, 1785 Died Aug 8, 1860 aged 75 yrs 6 mos & 22 days
40. Elizabeth, wife of Hugh Crawford Born May 8, 1787 Died Aug 25, 1865 Aged 78 yrs 3 mos & 17 days
41. Ann H. Crawford Born Apr 9, 1814 Died Dec 31, 1893.
42. Jane D. Crawford Born Oct 19, 1824. Died Jany 1, 1894.
43. William S. Stenger, 1840-1918 "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away".
44. Helen Y. Stenger, wife of Frank Stuart Smith Jany 2, 1869, Dec 27, 1896. She being dead yet speaketh
45. Alex M. 4th son of W.S. & Helen M. Stenger Born Nov 9, 1879 Died July 8, 1880.
46. William P. Stenger (Baby Willie) Died July 28, 1871.
47. Edmund Reid, third son of W.S. & Helen M. Stenger Born March 11, 1875 went home to heaven March 8,
1880.
48. Little Bessie Died Sept 6, 1867 aged 9 mos & 19 days
49. In memory of Elihu D. Reid, Died Jany 9, 1880 aged 73 yrs and his wife
50. Elizabeth A. Culbertson Born Jany 22, 1814 Died April 6, 1891 In hope of a glorious resurrection
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51. Edmund, son of E.D. & Eliz A. Reid Born Nov 2, 1839 Died June 6, 1861 Aged 21 yrs 7 mos & 4 days.
52. S.D.C. Reid, son of E.D. & Eliz A. Reid Born Aug 27, 1837 Died Feby 8, 1867.
The following taken off by Cousin Hannah E. Lawther
53. Col Patrick Jack, an officer in the Colonial & Revolutionary Wars Died
Jany 25, 1821 aged 91 yrs.
54. Martha, wife of Col Patrick Jack
55. Jane Stewart, daughter of Col Patrick Jack Died 1853 aged 91 yrs.
56. Mary, daughter of Col Patrick Jack Died May 29, 1862 aged 85 yrs.
57. John Finley (on Patrick Jack Lot) died Par 9, 1859 in the 63rd yr of his age.
58. James McKee Died June 29, 1834 aged 55 yrs
59. Elizabeth, wife of James McKee Died June 29, 1859 aged 77 yrs.
60. In memory of Homer Denry, son of James & Catharine Crawford Died Oct 24, 1842 aged 13 yrs.
61. Katharine M. Crawford M.D. Aug 28, 1858 Dec 2, 1903
62. Margaret S. wife of Holmes Crawford Died Aug 9, 1868 aged 81 yrs.
63. Holmes Crawford Died Feby 15, 1874 aged 84 yrs
McLanahan
64. Johnston
1794 - 1855.
65. John B.
1796 - 1877.
66. Sidney E. his wife 1812 - 1886.
67 Prudence Maria 1846 - 1848
68 & 69. Twin Children 1850
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70. Isabel B.
1848 - 1886
71. Ellen
1841 - 1894
72. Sidney S.
1851 - 1913
73. Dr J. Custis Richards, departed this life June 11, 1874 aged 62 yrs.
74. Mary Potter McLanahan, wife of Dr John Custis Richards Died Aug 25, 1890 aged 76 yrs.
75. Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Thomas Richards who departed this life Apr 29, 1846 aged thirty
years, also to the memory of Mary, Eleanor, & Elizabeth Daughters of Dr J.C. & Elizabeth Thomas
Richards.
76. Mary, aged 6 yrs
77. Eleanor aged 2 yrs
78. Elizabeth aged six months
79. In memory of Capt Ben Chambers who died the 29th of Dec 1813 aged 58 yrs.
80. In memory of Sarah Chambers, wife of Capt Ben Chambers who died July 27, 1837 aged 78 yrs.
81. Susan B. Daughter of Capt Ben & Sarah Chambers Born Oct 25, 1804 died Oct 28, 1884.
82. In memory of George Chambers who died Aug 17, 1802 aged 12 yrs.
83. Benjamin Chambers Born July 1820. Died Apr 4, 1895
84. Eleanor Lucelia, wife of Benjamin Chambers Born Feby 14, 1820, Died Dec 11 1902.
85. Benjamin, son of Ben & Eleanor Chambers Born Jany 29, 1851 died Oct 30, 1881.
86. Emma, daughter of Ben & Eleanor Chambers Born Aug 8, 1855 died Dec 23, 1884.
87. Alice, daughter of Ben & Eleanor L. Chambers Died July 1, 1867 aged 20 yrs
88. Charles, son of Ben & Eleanor L. Chambers Died July 14, 1863 aged 8 mos.
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89. Oliver, son of Ben & Eleanor Chambers Born Aug 1, 1857 Died Jany 29, 1890.
90. Emmaline K. Chambers Born June 11, 1829 Died May 22, 1905.
91. William L. Chambers Born Jany 15, 1825. Died Apr 26, 1889.
92. Carrie
Died Dec 19, 1884.
93. Margaret K. Chambers Born May 19, 1850 Died Oct 30, 1899.
94. Ellen C. Chambers, wife of Frank McHaffey 1855-1903.
The following were taken by Cousin Evalyn Lawther aged 12 yrs
95. Samuel Shillito
1770 - 1815.
96. Mary Poe Shillito 1775 - 1805.
97. Henry Nesbit
1782 - 1847.
98. Sarah Shillito Nesbit 1803 - 1852.
99. Our Father James Crawford Died Jany 17, 1872 aged 73 yrs.
100. Our mother Catherine Byers, wife of James Crawford Died Dec 11, 1892 aged 87 yrs 1 mo 26 days.
101. Fredk B. Crawford Jany 1, 1829 July 20, 1896.
102. Mariah C. Markley, his wife March 12, 1834 Par 21, 1911.
103. Milton Crawford Co D 21st Pa Cav'l Sept 1, 1844 May 29, 1913.
104. Rebecca S. Harmony, his wife.
105. George Chambers 1845-1918
106. Robert M. Bard Died Jany 28, 1851 aged 41 yrs.
107. Elizabeth Little wife of Robert M. Bard Born Dec 7, 1813, Died Dec 7, 1881.
108. Our Father John Crawford Born 1800 Died May 31, 1875.
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109. Margaret Black, wife of John Crawford Born Jany 27, 1804 died Nov 12,
1871.
110. Nancy Crawford Died July 6, 1863, aged 70 yrs
within the wall enclosing the Chambers monument are the following:
111. In memory of Col. Benjamin Chambers, first white settler of Franklin Co in 1730. Founder of
Chambersburg and Donor of these grounds to the Presbyterian Church in 1768 who died in 1788 aged 80
yrs.
112. Also his wife Jane Williams Chambers who died in 1795 aged 70 yrs
113. In memory of Gen James Chambers who died in 1805.
114. George Chambers who died in 1802 also.
115. Capt Benjamin Chambers who died Dec 23, 1813 aged 58 yrs and
116. His wife Sarah Brown Chambers who died July 27, 1837 aged 78 yrs also
117. Susan B. daughter of Capt Benjamin & Sarah Chambers Born Oct 23d, 1804 Died Oct 28, 1884.
118. In memory of Joseph Chambers who died Dec 23, 1811 aged 55 yrs.
119. In memory of Margaret Chambers, consort of Joseph Chambers who died July 1, 1820 aged 51 yrs.
120. In memory of Benjamin Chambers son of Capt Benj Chambers Dec who died August 11, 1823 in his 29th
year.
121. In memory of William Chambers Esq son of Capt Benj Chambers Decd who died
Sept 11, 1823 in his 27th year.
122. Sacred to the memory of Ben Chambers only son of Thos & Cath D. Chambers Born Nov 14, 1829 Died
July 16, 1849.
123. Adam Ross Died Nov 30, 1827 aged 27 yrs
124. Also Jane Chambers his wife died Mar 19, 1825 aged 63 yrs.
There is evidently some mistake about the dates or the ages.
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125. In memory of Doct John Colhoun who deptd this life Dec 22, 1782 aged 42 yrs also
126. In remembrance of his affectionate widow Ruhannah Chambers Colhoun who died Apr 12, 1826 aged 76
yrs.
127. Mary Chambers Wigfall born Feby 12, 1835 Died Apr 2, 1870.
128. To memory of Elizabeth Gormly Dau of Sam Gormly Esq of Pittsburgh Born June 7, 1834. Died Sept 12,
1855.
129. To memory of Ben Chambers, the beloved & only child of Joseph Chambers & Sarah his wife: Born Jany
5th, 1852 Died June 15th, 1855.
130. In memory of Joseph Chambers Born Feby 15, 1799 Died Oct 6, 1854 131. Sarah Acton Chambers, wife of
Joseph Chambers Born Nov 25, 1799 Died June 26, 1867.
The following were taken off by Miss Ellen Bailey Ruby of Chambersburgh Pa, Daughter of Ed
Ruby Decd.
132. Dr John Sloan, a native of the County of Tyrone in Ireland who died Aug
25, 1831 aged 71 yrs 2 mos &
4 days
133. Also his daughters Elizabeth & Mary Sloan who died between the ages of 134. seven & eight years this
stone is affectionately dedicated by a surviving wife & mother.
135. M. Jane Maclay Died April 17, 1827 in the 37th yr of her age.
136. Also Nancy Jane died May 27, 1827 aged 2 yrs & 2 mos.
137. Margaret C. Washington, Nov 28, 1823 Dec 16, 1912 also
138. Capt Edward Crawford Washington who lost his life in the assault on
Vicksburg May 19, 1863 aged 43
yrs
139. O. Crawford Washington Sept 3, 1849 Jany 6, 1878.
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140. Norris Fairfax Washington Born June 16, 1855 Died Dec 25, 1867.
141. Elizabeth Wiestling 1895-1917.
142. David Maclay M.D., son of Dr Charles T and Anna Frazer Maclay
143. Mary Pomeroy Maclay, daughter of Judge Joseph & Ann B. Crawford Pomeroy March 30, 1855 Sept 23,
1912
144. David Elsworth, son of Charles & Belle M. Maclay Aug 28, 1913 Nov 6, 1913
145. Edward Crawford Born Aug 23, 1743 Died Apr 28, 1801 aged 57 yrs.
146. Elizabeth, relict of Edward Crawford Died Oct 14, 1848 aged 83 yrs.
147. Sarah Bonlley [Bondley? Bordley?] Crawford Daughter of T. Hartley & Sarah Corbell Crawford Born
Dec 8, 1809 Died Jany 9, 1856.
148. John Agnew Crawford D.D. 1822-1907 Pastor Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Installed July 10,
1867 resigned Dec 3,1886. Pastor Emeritus Jany 1, 1887 to Sept 19, 1907.
149. Susan Munro Crawford
150. Ellen Anderson Crawford daughter of J.Agnew Crawford Died Feby 4, 1901.
It is now 9:15 Pm & I have finished the transcribing & will go to dinner.
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Carried from Page 305
to Dr J.S. Hackney's office on Church Street & after a 3/4 hour's talk with him & his wife, they both signed the
Wheeling Creek option. I then went to John F. Hogsett's home & he said he was willing to take the price & wd
join in the sale, but because of the Schroyer Judgt Vs him on debt of Isaac W. Semans & myself, he thought best
to not join in the option just now. Then went out to Oak Hill where I found Cousin Louisa B. Richey waiting
with her car & having done excellent work in the 5 hours from 6:30 to 11:30 Am started two hours late at 11:30
Am bidding James C. Harvey & his wife Charlotte goodbye & left with Cousin Lou B. Richey, Hannah E.
Lawther & Evalyn Lawther in the car with William Carroll aged 19 yrs, son of Wm T. Carroll driving. We
reached cousin Mary R. Post's cottage on G Street Mt Lake Park about 145 PM & went to Mrs Skyles boarding
house where we had a good lunch. Cousin Susan V. Young was also at her sister Mary's. Lou feeling she was
not equal to so long a ride, stayed with Sue & told Mary to go with us. We started at 3 Pm going via Oakland,
Kaysers Ridge, Grantsville, Frostburgh, Cumberland & the National Road over Polish Town & Sideling Hill
Mountains through Hancock to Hagerstown which we reached abt 8 Pm. On Pages 318 & 319 is a segment of
our itinerary. At Frederick, the Recorder told me the County of Frederick Md was erected or organized in 1748
out
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of Prince George County, Maryland & that since then, two other counties, Montgomery & Hartford, I believe, but
am not sure have been organized & lay between the mother County & Frederick. Prince George Co lays a short
distance out from Washington DC & upper Marlborough is the County seat. I will have to run out there the first
opportunity & see if there are any Jack records.
At Frederick, I made a thorough search of the Index in Register's office as shown on Page 306, but was only able
to examine the wills I have put this check mark [in copy, it appears as an asterisk *] to & will need to return to
thoroughly complete my search. What I took off is entered on Pages 307 to 310 inclusive.
On Page 311 is record of the limited reference to deeds on the Index in the Recorder's office & my references on
that & two succeeding pages.
Commencing on Page 313 & continuing on to Page 318 is what was copied by the girls, Evalyn, Hannah, &
Mary. On Wednesday morning the 11th, we got up at the New Eagle Hotel, Gettysburgh Pa at 6 AM, got our
breakfast at 6:30 & started at 6:55 for York, Pa which we reached about 8:20 AM driving 30 miles & went to the
Colonial Hotel where I took rooms 502 for the girls & as the Court House was not open yet, I went to barbershop
& got shaved. Then, going to Court House, made the reference at the Register's
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from the Index to Wills as shown on Pages 320 & 321, but only got a few of the older ones as shown by this
check mark [*] examined record of those examined showing on Pages 321 to 327 inclusive. The Registers clerk
said York County was formed from Lancaster Co in 1749 & that Adams Co had later been formed out of it. At
the Recorder's office the Index is on a system that was new to me & I am sure I did not get all the references I
should have gotten, but what I did get are noted on Page on Page [sic] 330 & the only three references I was able
to make are noted on Pages 331 & 332. Wilbur had driven 5 miles about York & at 4 o'clock, we retraversed the
30 miles, making one short detour at York, over the Lincoln Highway making the run in 1 hr & 7 min. We
waited for Prof J. Warren Gilbert, who was to act as our guide over the battlefield & at 5:30 Pm, we started
returning at 7:30 Pm traversing 17 miles up & down over the battlefield of 25 square miles or 16,000 Acres
making in all 82 miles for that day run. Prof Gilbert's talk was most entertaining. He said he was born on or
adjoining the battlefield Nov 23, 1863, four days after Lincoln's short, but famous address dedicating the
cemetery. He showed us where Lincoln stood & also showed us the Judge Wills house, now a place of business
where he, Lincoln, stopped over night & dressed up his
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speech. Gilbert said it was so near or on the midnight hour that he was able to claim either Nov 23 or Nov 24 as
his birthday, but his mother sd 23d. We got the same room No 123 back for the girls at the New Eagle Hotel &
they gave Wilbur & me No 124 which was a better room than No 127 which we had the night before. After
dinner, I took the girls to the Lincoln theatre to a movie & were called at 6 AM, but I had gotten up at 5:30 &
took a cold bath. We got breakfast at 6:30 & started at 7 Am for Chambersburg, making round about detours
through Fairfield, Waynesboro, & Green Castle & arriving about 10 AM or before at the Hotel Washington. We
took Mary R Post to Mrs Maud Ruby's near the Hotel & we then drove out through the grounds of Wilson
College which are very attractive & the buildings large, good & substantial. George Wells, our colored waiter at
Gettysburgh, who hailed from Chambersburgh said it was the third largest female seminary in the U.S. We then
had Wilbur let us out at the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church & we walked back to the graveyard for a couple
of hours work of transcribing from the tombstones. While Wilbur went to call on a married sister who lived
there. In a very short time, Mary came to the graveyard with Mrs & Miss Ruby. Miss Ruby said she was named
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for her grandmother Ellen M. Ruby & her brother E. Baily Ruby. She said the stream running back of the
graveyard in which half a dozen or so of naked boys were bathing was the Conococheague. The data that she,
Evalyn, Hannah, & myself took from the tombstones & monuments is entered on this record Pages 333 to 342
inclusive transcribed from 4:11 to 9:15 PM today. We got started from Chambersburg at about 12:30 PM getting
a sandwich apiece at a restaurant which we ate on the way. It rained in torrents on the top of every mountain
ridge we crossed & it was 4 PM when we were at Cumberland Md. The arrangements of Lou's car, a Cadillac
were so excellent that we could run up the glass shades to keep out the rain & down again at will. The car was
very comfortable & while I rode in front with Wilbur going, I gave Evalyn my seat returning & I rode most
comfortably with Cousin Hannah on my left & Cousin Mary on my right. Hannah wrote on the margin of the
newspaper the dates of her own & Evalyn's births viz Hannah E. Lawther Apr 27, 1877, Evalyn E. Lawther Apr
24, 1908. We reached Mountain Lake Park abt 6:15 & went to Mrs Skyles for supper which we finished at 6:55
Pm & after an hours visit with Sue, Lou, Mary, Hannah, & Evelyn, Wilbur drove me to the B&O Station making
198 miles for the day.
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Our runs by Auto then were:
Monday, Aug 9, 1920
192 miles
Tuesday Aug 10, 1920
80 miles
Wednesday Aug 11, 1920
82 miles
Thursday Aug 12, 1920
198 miles
Total
552 miles
The train due to leave Mt Lake Park at 8:20 PM did not get in until 9:30 a long freight train of 63 cars
having got ahead of it & they having struck & demolished a Ford Auto near Grafton WVA, but did not kill
anybody. Consequently, we did not reach Phila Pa until 7:30 AM the 13th, got my breakfast at Broad Street Sta &
left at 8:15 Am for Atlantic City & found on arrival at the Graymore at 10 AM that Andrew had gone home or to
Pgh last night & Lida was taking the train abt 10 to return also. Went into conference about my criminal trail
with W.C. McKean, J.E.B. Cunningham, Wm A. Seifert & J.P Fessler [best guess] for the balance of the day. In
the evening, went to 507 Pacific Ave to see Betty W. Sonnakolb, but she was out, but called up later & she came
in to see me. Walking down from Massachusetts Ave, met Mr Shaw of Jones & Laughlin Steel Co on the Board
Walk. He had been there since last Monday & asked me if the agreement had been signed, but I told him I did not
know as I had been Automobiling in Md & Pa all week. Later in the evening, W.A. Seifert came to 866 &
showed me a telegram from Andrew saying J&L had signed up, thus closing
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the deal for the purchase by them of 14,000 A of coal land at $700 per acre in Dunkard Tp, Greene Co Pa & Cass
Dist Monongalia Co WVA they to pay five million dollars down on the closing of the deal & the four million
eight hundred thousand dollars in eight equal annual pay't at 6% semi-annual which H.C. McEldowney has
agreed to cash for $30 per acre off & he allows ($15 to $20 to buy RR Rpo [sic] & farm lands for plant sites &
allows me $50 per acre to adjust the J.M. Hustead liens so we can pay that title. I took Betty home at 12:30 AM
& on my return at 1 Am found cards in my box from Isabel N Evans who was at the Traymore room 624 with
Charles & from Isa F. Byers who has rented a cottage at Ventnor City. I went to the Chalfonte at 8 Am 14th where
Betty met me & we had breakfast together, coming out from breakfast met Mr Angloch of J&L Steel Co & his
wife who were also eating breakfast> I bid Betty goodbye & walking down the Board Walk, met Mrs Anna Bell
Hustead & later met her son J. Edgar Hustead. Had further conference from 9:20 Am to noon with the lawyers &
a little later, Isa phoned me saying Isabel was there with her & I talked to her also. she came in 866 at 2 PM &
her son Charles & while she was there, I got Senator John L Hatfield on the phone at his room 159 & had a
reasonably satisfactory talk with him about redeeming the Sarah M. Lantz farm foreclosed by his father Hiram
Hatfield & a talk
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to get price on the Isaac W. Semans Coal in Dunkard Tp that Ed G. Donley himself & others had bought in. He
is to return home the latter part of this week & will talk it over with the parties & write me. While he was there,
say about 3:30 PM, Isa came in looking younger than ever & with an immaculate white cloth suit, looked
stunning. She was accompanied by Judge J.Z. Van Swearingen, the two according to Isabel being almost
inseparable. Isabel spoke of some very nice words said in my behalf by Mrs Celia M.R. Boyzts & Miss Hetty
Brown, whose record of her grandfather Dr Samuel Potter Brown I must return to her as I was giving instructions
at the Traymore to forward telegrams preparatory to taking the Bus for the 4:45 PM train to NY, a young man
stopped up & s'd he wanted to see me. It was Henry A. Potter, who was to have been there the day before
according to Jap T. Shepler's letter & I told him he could take the train with me which he did. He said the people
he was wanting to 500,000 tons of coal for during the next two yrs & would advance one dollar a ton was the
Netherland Government. Potter's company is the Aberdeen Co Inc 13-25 Park Row Room 623-624 New York
City tel 8896 & 8897 Barclay. His house telephone is Orange 5790. Upon asking if he was a grandson of Thos
Potter of Phila mfr of oil clothes, he said he was & is
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then related. He says his grandfather came over about 1830? from Potterstown, North of Ireland. His father's
name was Henry A. Potter, named, he said for an uncle of his grandfather Thomas Potter. His father, for whom
he was named, is dead, but his father's brothers William & Charles are the active members now of the firm of
Thomas Potter, Sons & Co. As we passed through Phila, I think shortly after changing cars at North Phila, he
showed me plant of the Thos Potter & Sons Co firm for mfr of Oil Cloth, Linoleum Etc. We got in at 9 PM & I
was fortunate in getting suite 1010 as Jp Mumaw [Musman? Murman?] who has had it is away electioneering for
Cox for President. At 2 Am 16th, Chs H. Duncan called me from Balto saying he wd see his parties there Mr Thos
T. Boswell & wd leave at 10 AM & get here about 1 PM. It is now 3:17 Am, Aug 16, 1920 & I will quit & go to
bed.
JVT
Oak Hill Aug 19, 1920 8:48 Am
I got home last night on the 9:15 Street Car from Connellsville Pa. When at my rooms 1010 Waldorf on
Monday 16th inst, Henry A. Potter told me that his grandfather Thos Potter came over in 1830 with his mother, a
widow, & his sisters as steerage passengers & that he bought oil cloth etc from
McCaully, a mfr at Phila & peddled it about Phila
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for five years & by 1837 had saved some money & started up for himself & was successful & a couple of years or
so later bought out McCauley whose financial affairs had waned. Later, Thos Potter went away out in the woods
& bought sufficient ground for an enlarged plant, which is probably the location they now have near North Phil a.
At any rate, he prospered & when the Civil War came on, he was in position to make & fill a contract with the
U.S. Government which he did by making & supplying the haversacks & knapsacks for the army & this made
him rich & enabled him to establish the house & fortunes of Thos Potter Sons & Co of Phil a H.A. said his
grandfather died in 1875. JVT
Oak Hill, Sept 6, 1920 9:33 Am Labor Day
On Friday 3rd inst, Miss Eliza J. Baird who is living with her cousin Mary Hibbs on Lincoln St. came in to
see me at Room 522 about her claims vs me & to sign option on her Wash Co Coal & in questioning her, I found
her mother was a Lackey or Lacky whose mother in turn was Mary Wilson & thus making her related. She said
Mary, the wife of Clark Fogle now living at Grand Ridge, Illinois was the only one of her mother's family
surviving so I wrote to her. Miss Baird phoned while I was in mtg Saturday & upon calling her on my return she
s'd she & Mary Hibbs were gathering some data for me, on the next page is data she gave me Friday, at which
time I wrote it down.
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[Descendant Chart]
Mary Davis married Alexander Lackey [Their Children]
William
Huston Lackey, The miller
Alexander
A Son, lives near Pt Marion Pa
Eliza, m. Hostetler
A daughter m. Henry D. Core
Jane, m. Amos Woodward
Joseph Amos
Caleb W.
Samuel
Hannah, m. John Hibbs Lived where Ories now is.
Mary, unm.
Dr S.E. Hibbs
George & Elliott, are twins. [George lives north m. Minnie of Fay Co Pa. [Elliott] lives at
Monessen Pa?
Elizabeth m. Samuel M. Baird
Ellen F., m. J.F. King
Eliza J., named for her mother she said. my informant.
Mary, m. Clark Fogle. She is still living at Grand Ridge Ills, was younger than Mrs Baird.
Mrs Baird said Squire John Wilson our Director, was related through her grandmother Lackey.
May 29, 1921. The above is wrong. Mrs Baird did not know. it was John Leckey who married Mary Wilson &
their son Alexander Lecky had the children above named except that Mrs Jas Hostetler's name was Ann, not
Eliza. Alex Lecky's wife was Mary Davis
JVT
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Hotel Statler Cleveland O Room 530 Wednesday 3:22 AM Sept 15, 1920
Am copying what I wrote down quickly by pencil on letterhead sheets at Markle's because of the limited
time I had to stay.
At Clinton W. Markel's Sept 14, 1920 1:37 PM. Arrived here about 20 minutes ago C.W.M. bringing me out
in his Ford Car from the Taylor Inn Lodi. C.W. said he ran a car out in Oklahoma 3 yrs & never had a puncture &
never had to get a new tire. Has had this one since Jany 1, 1919 & has never had to get a thing, has never had an
accident, nor had his car in the shop. Thinks most Auto repair shops do something to the car so you will have to
keep coming back with it. He said he did not think MARKLE spelled Markle so he took to writing it Markel & a
lot of the others did the same thing.
Found Clinton's Father Augustus sitting in the sunshine on the front porch. He said he was in his 94th year, which
Clinton assures me is correct as he was born Aug 8, 1827 instead of 1828. Clinton says he takes the date from his
mother's record & he is sure it is right by reason of her care & pains to be correct. He says the year cut on the
tombstone is wrong & should be 1827 & not 1828. Augustus now says that instead of his Uncle
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who was a lawyer being named Lucas Markle, his name was John Markle & he thought he lived at York, Pa.
Said last year that all of his father's (it is 4 AM & I am getting sleepy & will go to bed for an hour & a half) (on
Board 10:40 AM Erie RR Co train for Pgh Pa Chair No 17 11 Am Sept 15, 1920) brothers & sisters stayed in
Penna except that Adam, who was a bachelor came out to Ohio, going to Williams Co in North Western corner of
the State. Augustus now says (upon my reading to him the Will of his grandfather George Markel of York Co
Pa) that his Uncle & Aunt Jacob & Elizabeth Miller came to Ohio with his father when he was about 3 yrs old,
say in 1830. He says Jacob was a butcher & had a small farm at or near where Wooster O now is. He don't know
where they are buried as they died when he was away in the Mexican War as a drummer boy for two years. They
had five sons that he recalls viz 1. Michael, who owned a farm abt 1/4 mile from Wooster on the hill. He was a
carpenter & contractor & was guardian of Augustus after his father's death. 2. Henry was a carpenter also as was
3. Augustus, who helped to build the first court house at Wooster & who one night got up in his sleep & walked
all about the upper rafters in the building in his night clothes & after coming down safely awoke in great alarm.
Those who found him doing it kept quiet
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fearing he might awaken. He wasn't just right in his head at times. 4th, William, was a painter. 5th Levi was a
hatter 6th They had one sister came along from Penna & he thinks her name was Sarah Jane as his own sister he
says was named for her. She married & lived in Wooster O, but he dont recall her husband's name. Mile Miller
had several sons viz: George, a painter by trade & he was on the police force for a long time.
Augustus says there was ten wagons came out when his father came. Mike was the "best off" of the Millers. He
had a claim in Penna & did not marry until after he got here when he married a Smith. He brought his parents &
brothers & sister with him in his wagon. Says Henry was married in Penna. Augustus says each wagon brought a
family viz say 1st wagon George Markle, 2nd wagon Mike Miller, 3rd wagon Mentzer family.
Anna Robinett says her father Peter Markle was born in 1812 & her mother was also born in 1812. Her mother
died Mch 25, 1871 & her father died Nov 16, 1871. They are both buried in the Baughman Graveyard in the
country in Wyandotte Co, O abt 7 or 8 miles North West from upper Sandusky O. He died in Ashland O. She
says her father said he had some business to attend to in Little
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York (ie York, Pa) & was going there & stopped in Ashland & Dr Sampel, who was building a house in Ashland
asked him to help him. He said he would help until Friday. One of these nights while helping, he had a warning
or dream & jumped out of bed in great agitation alighting on the floor with such force as to awaken others in the
house who, noting the pallor on his face, asked what was the matter, to whom he said his wife had Sept over his
forehead three times. The next day, he was carrying a hod of bricks (he had but one arm) to the 3rd floor of the
building & the runway had been changed & he fell through to the cellar sustaining injuries from which he died a
few days later. Anna Robinett says she knew Peter S. Grosscup (also Fred) & had planted corn with him in the
same field, but did not know he was any relation.
Talking again with Augustus, he says say 4th wagon was the Solliday or Solliway family. He says these four
wagons are all that came to Wooster. He says his Uncle & Aunt George & Lydia Miller came as say a 5th wagon,
that they all came through Cleveland & after they passed through Cleveland, George & Lydia Miller struck off
some where & did not come to Wooster. Said they camped 2 or 3
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nights on the Mountain erecting a tent. He says his Uncle George Miller was a farmer & he recalls that he had a
son who came to Wooster to visit them coming as he says from Williams Co Ohio (which is where Adam Markle
went). He thought this son's name was William, but was not sure. Augustus says his Uncle & Aunt Christian &
Catharine Shofe did not come with them, but he remembers hearing his "daddy" say they moved somewhere in
this section afterwards. Christian was a farmer. He remembers hearing of his Uncle Crowl, but thinks he must
have stayed in Penna. He says a 6th wagon was his Aunt Peggy & her husband Samuel Deckman no doubt
although he does not recall the name of Deckman. Says his Aunt Peggy lived abt 50 miles or so North East of
Wooster up toward or near to Cleveland. She had children, but he does not know how many or their names.
Does not recall that they ever came to visit them, but says he was away so much, was in the Mexican War 2 yrs
when 18 & in Civil War 3 yrs. He remembers hearing of his Uncle Henry Markle, but knows nothing of his
family. Thinks he stayed in the East. Knows nothing about the families of his Uncle John Markle, the lawyer,
nor of his Uncle Samuel Markle the merchant. Thinks they
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remained in the East (now at Youngstown O.) Mrs C.W.M. says there is a preacher Markle at West Salem, O.
Wayne Co abt 7 miles from here near where Wayne Medina & Ashland Cos corner. He is a Methodist, but she
does not know his initials. Anna Robinett says there is a lawyer Markle in Ashland O. Anna says her
sister-in-law's brother McLaughlin was over in the Ashland Cemetery a few weeks ago & saw the inscriptions of
death on a tombstone of a Markle man & wife who died same day & upon inquiry, someone told him that the
wife was in delicate health & died & that her husband got drowned the same day she died. Augustus remembers
that his father's mother's name was Eve & he did know what her maiden name was, but cant think of it now.
Anna Robinett says her oldest sister Rebecca Jane's first husband Thompson was from near Cincinnati O as after
they separated, "Jennie", her sister got work in his brother-in-law's tailor shop in Cincinnati, O making button
holes. Jennie died abt 3 yrs ago in Alexandria VA which is abt 10 minutes ride from Washington DC & is buried
abt 3 miles east & 1 mile north of Wharton, Wyandotte Co, O. Shaffer, her second husband, died at Wharton
before she did. She
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thinks it was in Oct 1910. Had one child by Shaffer viz Chas Henry Shafer who lives at Alexandria Va is
married & has one child. She gave me the record which I am recording on Pages 362 & 363 of her father's
family, which I gathered piecemeal in talks with her & the others sandwiched in. She was not disposed to talk of
Jennie's first husband Thompson or asked [these two words are only guesses, train must have hit a bump] whether
they had any children said she didn't know. She said her grandfather Livingston was married the second time &
had issue Anna Livingston, a half sister of her mother, who married, Lena & Tillie, sisters of Augustus & lived in
Indianapolis Ind. Anna Robinett says her brother George bought a farm in Missouri & when he came to make the
last payment, someone else claimed it which made him feel so discouraged that he went into the Civil War in the
Cavalry. She thinks he enlisted from Illinois. He was engaged to marry a Miss Boatwright, who lived in Mo. His
Captain was named Paul. George went to Miss Boatwright's to spend the night & took sick with the fever & died.
Jennie said George was older than she was, but Anna thinks Jennie was oldest. Augustus says his brothers name
was Constant Ohio Markle. They called him "Con". Anna says her sister, Mary
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had bought 40 Acres of land about a mile from North Eaton O, out from Cleveland & was living there. Has son
Bert Frank (Albert) had been living down South a few years & had a dream that his mother was not getting along
well, & so came up to see about it & found his mother sickly, but doing her own work & accordingly, Bert had
some differences with (it is now 2:50 Pm & we are due to arrive in Pgh at 2:50)
(Oak Hill 9:44 PM Sept 19, 1920) [Boy am I glad to be off that darn train!!!] Sweitzer about the place. Anna
thinks Sweitzer was a German. He spoke very broken English & had worked in the breweries. He went up to
Cleveland & bought a revolver, but knew nothing of how to use it & shot at Bert & the bullet went in the wall.
Bert dropped to his knees & his mother screamed. Bert wrenched the revolver from Sweitzer & they called for
Mary to go over to a neighbor's but she would not. Bert then too her out of the room & when he was out,
Sweitzer locked the door on him. He then poured oil over the bed, got a twine string & strung from the bed to a
Morris Chair in an adjoining room, got an old revolver of Bert's, set fire to the bed, lay down in the Morris Chair
and shot & killed himself. The bed & a lot of Mary's Christmas presents were burned up, but the neighbors or
firemen broke in & put the fire out before it reached him. This occurred say in 1909? Anna says her husband
Robinett died Oct 4, 1911 & Mary died in July
See Page 364
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[Descendant Chart]
Peter Markle Born in York Co Pa in 1812 came out with his father & step mother Aunt in say 1830 & died in
Ashland O from effects of his fall Nov 16, 1871. He married Sarah Ann Livingston from Canton O who she
thinks came from Penna or her parents did. She was born in 1812 & died in Wyandotte Co O Mch 25, 1871. They are both buried in the Baughman Graveyard in
Wyandotte Co Ohio abt 7 or 8 miles North West of Upper Sandusky O See Page 351 [or 356].
[Their children]
Rebecca Jane, called "Jennie" the oldest Born Dec 1, ____ m.1. Thompson they separated & after long years, she m.2. Wm Shafer who was from Penna
. She thinks &
believes it was probably Spanskin [best guess]. Knows nothing about whether there were any children by
Thompson, but there was one by Shafer. Shafer died Oct 1910 Jennie died in 1917.
Chas Henry Shafer, Lives Alexandria VA is married & has one child.
George, the 2d child died unmarried at Pilot Knob Missouri & is buried there so his Captain wrote.
Mary Ann, 3rd Child) m.1. William Frank from Medina Co, A Dutchman, but not a Jew. Both dead a long while.
Abt 12 or 13 yrs after Frank died, she m.2. Chris Sweitzer. She lived at North Eaton, O & died July 4, 1910.
Jennie Frank, m.1. Will Gonze He is dead. m.2. Will Trask they live at Strongville, O.
Sadie Gonze, m. Roy Sprague
Leonard Trask aged over 21 but not married.
Fred Frank, lives at Strongville. M. Maggie Gonze, a sister of Will who married Jennie.
Ralph Frank, m.
John Frank
John Albert, unmarried.
Charles Frank, married & died without issue. Widow has married again.
Arthur Frank, m. Tressie ______. Both living at Elyria O but have no issue.
John Albert, unmarried Lives with sister Jennie P.O. is Berea Ohio
George Frank, m. Millie _____. Both living at Elyria O.
Alice
Arthur Frank think he was married last June
Twin girls, born dead.
Imogene, 4th child Dont know date of birth. She died Jany 1916 at Ashland O & is buried there in the Ashland
Cemetery. She married John McMurray. They were both born in the same house in the same year in Ashland, O.
One family moved out & the other moved in. He was a blacksmith & died in June 1916 & is buried beside her.
They have three children.
Charles McMurray, unmarried. Lives at Elyria O. Works in a saddler shop.
Harry McMurray, unmarried. Lives in the old home at Ashland, O with his dog. Is up in the
forties. Drives a wagon for one of the groceries He ran over the dog's foot & then took it home &
cared for it. He is most like to have his grandfather's Bible.
Minnie May McMurray, married Delbert Barrick whose name is A.E. probably Adelbert. He
works for Heis Co. Both living at Ashland, O.
Charline Barrick, 12 yrs old last Aug.
Clyde Barrick, Born Sept 8, 1912.
Charles Livingston, 5th child. Born in Ashland O. Married Susan Robison from Franklin Co Pa (may be Franklin
Pa). Her father kept a boarding house in a town there. Charles went with a man named Golden to Pit Hole City
Pa where they struck oil. He then went to Texas & from there to the Klondike & then back to Texas where he put
down the first artesian oil well in Dallas Texas field & from there he went to Los Angeles California where he &
his son Perry Livingston Markle had the Monarch Foundry. She has not heard from him for some time. Chas
McMurray told her last winter that the last letter came back unopened. She dont know [unreadable word]
McMurray told her last winter he had seen him at Los Angeles Calif. The letter came back unopened. She dont
know whether he is living or dead.
Perry Livingston Markle, The only child.
Sarah Anna Markle, 6th child. Called "Anna" Born in Ashland Ohio May 1, 1852. Married Peter Robinett of
Delaware, Ohio on Dec 27, 1870 in Wyandotte Co, Ohio by Rev Samuel Foggie (Phasick) & went to
housekeeping 2 or 3 miles east of Wharton O. He died Oct 4, 1911 in Paulding, Paulding Co Ohio or 2 miles east
thereof & is buried in the Paulding Cemetery.
Wm O'Neil B. Jany 23, 1873 m. Adaline McCully Both living at Holmesville, Holmes Co O.
Jennie, "Birdie" Died before she was 2 yrs old.
Maud Matilda B. Sept 11, 1876 m. Chas Albert Dickison. He is a abstractor for Farmers Bank
Paulding O where they both live.
Allen Ray Dickison
Clara May lives in Findlay O. b May 1, 1878 m.1. Allison David Kinnison called "Ham" & are
divorced. He lives in Toledo, O. m.2. Lawson. L. Brown fr Mt Blanchard O. They are separated
but not divorced. Live in different parts of town. No issue by either husband.
Charles Allen, b Aug 24,1880 m. Catharine Wurm fr Paulding O. Live at Holloway, Mich.
Marie, B. Oct 8
Floyd
Conrad, b. July 12
Franklin
Charles Milo (or Arlo) Twins B June 10, 1916
Harley Arlo, (or Milo) 2 hrs younger
Sadie Belle Robinett, 6th & youngest child born Oct 12, 1881 Died in Mich Feby 15, 1916. m.
Frank A. Johnson of Paulding O He is living No issue. Eliza Clara Markle, called "Lidie" Born in
Ashland O. Oct 9, 1854 She died Dec 16, 1919 at Wharton O & is buried there. married Lafayette
Benjamin Ward of Wharton O. He was a farmer & lives there. Have 3 girls & 1 boy living.
Lennie, a girl m. Fred Nye a farmer by Dunkirk O. Both living on a 160 A farm. Have 2 children a
boy & a girl.
Lawrence, Dead
Alverda, m. Bert Humphreys, a farmer. Live at Forest O. 3 boys living & 1 boy dead. No girls
Clinton & wife think it is spelled "Umphfreys"
Bessie, m. Earl Lyle. Live 4 miles south of Upper Sandusky Have one little girl. Catharine Phoebe
Markle 8th child. Called "Kitty" Born in Ashland O. on Apr 1, say 1857 as her mother said she was
between 2 & 3 yrs younger than "Lidie" Married O'Neil Ward of Wharton Ohio, a brother of Lidie's
husband. They dont live together. He put the farm in her name & then she wouldn't convey it back
& they separated. She finally agreed to convey it to their son Frank, the youngest of their children
& her husband joined in the deed & that made the older children mad at her. Frank had done the
most for her.
Porter Ward, m.1. Birdie Wise. She died leaving 2 children. m.2. Alvina Holloway Shaffer (she
had married "Jennie's" son & they separated & she then married "Kit's" son.
Dale, (a boy) now 18 by 1st wife.
Rema, (a girl) now 15 by 1st wife who gave her to Kitty on her death bed.
Pansy (a girl) by second wife now 8 or 9.
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from page 361.
4, 1910 at North Eaton, O. but is buried in Strongsville, O. Frank, her first husband had been buried at
Brunswick, Medina Co, O. but was taken up & buried in Strongsville O. East of here. Clinton says his mother's
mother, ie Mrs Smith, his grandmother was a Cleveland before her marriage & was a relative of Grover
Cleveland & for that reason, he voted for Cleveland for his 2nd term. He had bought sheep under Harrison & they
went down, down, down under Cleveland's administration. He said then he would never vote for another
Democrat, but because he didn't like Taft, he voted for Wilson the first time & s'd (but thank the Lord I didn't
vote for him the second time."
Augustus says he heard his father speak of relatives named Ramback who he said lived back in Penna. He thinks
he had also heard of Rudisills, but never heard of the Rinders. Never heard of Gideon Markle who was a brother
of his great grandfather as I figure that he, the Christian Merckle who died in 1800 in Cadorus Tp, York To, Pa
was the eldest son Christian mentioned by Peter (son of the emigrant Christian) in his will made in 1778 & of
record in Berks Co Pa. Clinton said he knew a "Gid" or Gideon Markle, a butcher at Chippeway Falls, O, but
they could not figure out that they were any relation. Clinton said he bought this 67 acres of land from Shirley
some two years ago for $7000 getting furniture, fixtures, implements, grain & everything on the farm thrown in.
He has recently been offered
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$13000 for the farm alone. He says there is no better land, & it lays nicely running back to Black River.
Anna says she was at Imogene's in Dec before she was 18 (say Dec 1869) & found the family record was torn out
of the Bible, but she got the record of her own & her younger sisters birth from it & put it back in the Bible, but
dont remember the other dates. She says Imogene tore it out. Charles had but the one child Percy.
1. Clara E. Barnhart was married to C.W. Markle April 9, 1885.
2. Clara Etta Barnhart was born in Chester Tp, Wayne Co Ohio March 4th, AD 1866.
3. Clinton Webster Markle was born in Wayne Co, Ohio May 19, 1857.
The three items above taken from the Barnhart Bible printed in NY by American Bible Society in 1850.
Clinton's wife says Lovona Bason (nee Smith) referred to on Page 131 of this Book died in Ashland Ohio June
24, 1920 on a Monday morning aged 89 yrs & 1 mo. She was born May 24 or 27, 1831 & was a twin sister of
Augustus' wife. Clinton says his grandmother Margaret Horne Markle had a big leather Bible when she lived with
his father which he thinks was his grandfather's Bible. When his grandmother died, he thinks he was 13 or 14, say
1870 or 1871 & they lived on a farm near Wooster O & the Van Meters lived near them & his Uncle Morgan Van
Meter was doing their farm work for them being to page 368
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[Descendant Chart]
Elizabeth Markle daughter of George Markle & granddaughter of Christian Merckle See Pages 323 & 322
married Jacob Miller [Their Children]
Michael Miller, m. "a Smith, daughter of Huckleberry Smith down in the bottom" Says Cousin Augustus. He
was a carpenter & contractor.
George Miller, Dead. His widow who was Jean Muterbaugh still lives. Had a son & a daughter.
"Gust", marred but no issue. He hung himself over trouble with his wife & the preacher.
Kratz pronounced ("Crotts") & called "Bub" married & has children. Lives in Wooster O.
Otto, abt Clinton's age. Clinton thinks he is dead leaving issue.
Benjamin, youngest boy, younger than Clinton. He died 3 or 4 yrs ago. His widow runs Shoe Store
in Wooster O. Had 2 girls both married & their husbands help run the store,.
Ellen Miller, m. Henry Myers of Wayne Co O near Wooster. She lives at Wooster. He is dead.
They had a dozen or more children. She wd be good one to give the family lore. To find her go to
Mrs Ben Miller's Shoe Store on East Liberty St.
A daughter, m. John Stevens of Wooster O. was a butcher. His son-in- law is now running the
shop. They have a "slew" of children.
A daughter m. Chester Webster, a son of Lena & Geo Webster See Page 128.
Nellie Webster, m.1 m.2?
Henry Miller, married in Wooster O. He only had 2 children, a boy & a girl, Augustus says. Clinton says he
knew two boys older than himself. Augustus says Henry died rather young & before his father. He was a
carpenter.
Augustus Miller, m. in Wooster O. Had no children. "He was out of his head at times". He was a carpenter.
William Miller, was married & was a painter. Had 3 or 4 children 2 boys "that I know" & I think 3 girls.
Levi Miller, married. Had a couple of boys & 2 or 3 girls. Lived in Wayne Co was a hatter.
Augustus says [of the last two above] "one had five children & one had six."
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[Descendant Chart]
Magdalena or "Lena" Markle, daughter of George Markle & granddaughter of George Markle, see Page 128.
marred George Webster of Vermont. [Their Children]
Tillie Webster, married.
Harvey Webster, Died aged abt 21 yrs.
Phoebe Webster, m. Daggett, a wholesale & retail confectioner of Indianapolis, Ind. Firm was Daggett &
Webster being himself & his father-in- law.
Chester Webster, m. Miller see preceding page.
Susan Webster, married at Indianapolis, Ind.
Helen Webster, married at Indianapolis, Ind.
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From page 365
harvest time & he thinks his Aunt Phoebe got the Bible after her mother's death. She died while Clinton's were in
Oklahoma say 5 or 6 yrs ago. She is buried in the Wooster cemetery, but has no monument up. She died at the
home of her oldest son William & Clinton thinks Will Van Meter wd be the one that wd get it. He lives down by
Overton in Wayne Co, close to the B&O branch that runs to Wooster. He is 63 & past. He is the only one of the
family versed in family lore. He lives between the stations Armstrong & Overton on the side of a steep hill.
Charles McMurray's No is 618 Lodi St Elyria O. He can tell where Art & Geo Frank live.
Speaking of the children of Constant Ohio Markle (brother of Augustus) Clinton's wife says 1. Mary lives in
Michigan. She marred 1st a Freightner who she married here & he died either here or in Michigan & she married
twice in Michigan & both those husbands died. Thinks she has some children.
2. John marred 1st in Wooster & 2d she thinks in Norwalk, O. where he lives being a carpenter. He had a
daughter to his first wife Eva who married Frank Culbertson of Wooster.
3. George married Adaline Sidle & lives down by Friendsville, O, think in Wayne Co. No issue. Has a house &
lot & works at anything, a kind of a roustabout.
4. Robert married Mary Eby & lives on a farm close here in Medina Co.
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[children of Robert & Mary Eby].
Dora, m. Spice
Charles } All these
Ira
} 3
Glenn } unmarried
Della, married
Lizzie, unmarried.
5. Edward married 1st Landis, married 2d__________. Has one girl possibly two by first wife & probably two to
second wife.
6. Willis Markle married a Wooster woman & left several children viz two boys & two girls, one of the, Edith,
advertised for a man & got married & then left him. She is now trying for a divorce. She isn't much, redheaded
or light haired. See Page 129. Clinton thinks William Van Meter would undoubtedly have his own Father's
Bible & could give the records of the Van Meters. Augustus said his father & his mother were both Lutherans in
Penna, but his mother became a Methodist in Ohio because there was no Lutheran Church. Augustus was a
carpenter by trade which he learned under "Mike" Miller. He said he could not hear even thunder in his right ear.
When he was in the Civil War in Alabama, he was talking to some comrades when a boiler or engine just near &
in front of him burst & he heard something crack in his right ear & thought he was shot, but the doctor told him it
was the drum of his ear which broke. Clinton said it was Chippewa lake in Medina Co, next Station to Seville on
the Street Railway where Gideon Markle had a butcher shop 25 yrs ago. He thought he was about 38 yrs
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old then. He told Clinton that his people came from Connecticut. After Gideon in Berks Co was sent to the
Penitentiary for counterfeiting as told by Kate Smith, the family may have gone to Connecticut. In walking down
to the St car Sta 11 to 11:20 PM, Clinton said his father & all the Markles were great hunters & enjoyed the
hounds. Augustus said when I saw him last year, that there were no other Markles came out with his father.
From his statement now that was true as to the name only as it seems 3 or 4 at least of his sisters came, the
Millers, Deckmans & Shofes. I left the Markle home at 11 Pm bidding Augustus, Clara & Anna Robinett
goodbye & Clinton walked the half mile to the St Car with a lantern with me. Took the car at 11:30 PM at Alma
Station, changed at West Park & got to car barn at 1:40 Am where I waited until 2:15 when I got a car to the
Public Square & walked out Ench'd Ave to Hotel Statler & at 2:40 AM was shown to room 530 where I am now
at 3 PM [I think he means AM] transcribing having left a call for 5:30 Am to get breakfast at 6 & leave by St car
at 7 AM for Elyria O. I think I noted that Clinton said he thought Markel came nearer to what Markle was
pronounced & he accordingly changed his way of spelling it. The Methodist preacher, Rev Markle is at West
Salem, Ohio. It is now 4:22 AM 20th & I have finished my transcribing & must go to bed as I am to be called at 5
AM.
JVT
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[Descendant Chart]
Gasper Markle married Elizabeth Orr [Their Children]
Alvira Markle, born Apr 28, 1837 married John Budd. He lives on West side & is married
Brittie Markle, Born Dec 15, 1838 m. Albert Rohland of West Newton. He was killed on B&O RR. Both buried
in West Newton cemetery.
Boy, Died young
Emmett, killed on B&O, Unmarried.
Albert Collin Rohland, m. Elizabeth Glasser?. He is a lawyer in Pgh.
Martha Jane, born Nov 11, 1840. Died Feby 9, 1896. m. John Carothers, son of James Caruthers & Elizabeth
McClure married Nov 1, 1870? He died Jany 5? 1912. Both buried in West Newton Cemetery. His father James
Caruthers & wife were buried at Sewickly Church.
Elizabeth McClure, born Oct 22, 1871. Died May 26, 1914.
Eleanor Byers, Born Aug 22, 1876.
Martha Belle, born Dec 6, 1877, Died Jany 15, 1915.
Agnes Matilda, Born Aug 2, 1879. Now a missionary Central China m. Wm Turnbull Locke, a
widower born Feby [unreadable], 1881 Died Jany 1904.
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[Descendant Chart Continued]
Mary Miller Markle, born Mar 20, 1843. Died Oct 1, 1920, married William Page Fritchman who was born Dec
10, 1838 & died Dec 13, 1919. married on Jany 5, 1871. Both buried in West Newton Cemetery.
Frank Markle, Born Mch 28, 1873. m. Margaret Crilley. She died Mch 9, 1918? He lives at
Indiana, Pa V. Pt & Supt of mines [Vice Pres & Supt?]
Harold Dale, B. Dec 15, 1900. Unmarried.
Horatio Lloyd, B. May 29, 1903
Bernice May, B. Aug 23, 1905.
Harry Vernon, B. Nov 27? 1907
Dorothea Elizabeth, B. June 13, 1910.
Margaret Jane, b. Mch 18, 1916.
Harry Gamble, (twin) Born Feby 14, 1875. Lives at home unmarried.
Charles David, (twin) born Feby 14, 1875. Died Jany 21, 1909 unmarried.
Horatio Lloyd, B. Aug 9, 1877 Lives at Dillonville, O. unmarried. Is a RR Engineer. Almira, B.
Aug 31, 1879 m. June 1, 1904 to Thomas H. Hodgson, a merchandize [sic] broker. Lives at
Spokane Wash. He was born Apr 29, 1874.
Dorothea Almira, B. Mch 3, 1905.
Thomas Wilbur, (twin) Born May 29, 1911
Ina Caryl, (twin) Born May 29, 1911
Mary Elizabeth, Born May 1, 1914.
Elizabeth Ellen, at home B. Feby 24, 1883.
Rosanna, B. Dec 24, 1884. m. Howard M. Miller of Martins Ferry O. He mgrs furniture store.
Mary Louise, B. Mch 21, 1910.
Catherine Fay, B. Aug 23, 1912.
Anna Elizabeth, B. July 6, 1918. See next page
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[Descendant Chart Continued]
Gasper Markle & Elizabeth Orr continued from the 3 pages preceding
Elizabeth Ellen, B. Dec 28, 1844. Died Jany 1913. Unmarried.
Micajah P., Buried at Salem Church graveyard in Rostraver Tp abt 3 miles out.
David _____Markle, Born June 30, 1853. He died Mch 20, 1911 m. Evelyn Pollock, dau of Stephen Pollock &
Rosanna Bell his wife. She [Evelyn] was born Nov 5,
1861. married Mch 3, 1880. She lives in West N. He is buried in West Newton Cem.
Marie Bell, B. Feby 18, 1881, died Apr 15, 1911 m. Edward Wilson of McKeesport Pa. He lives
there & is married again. No Children.
Rosanna Elizabeth, B. Sept 26, 1882. m. Wm Clayton Fisloner & both living in West N.
Zelma Marie, B. July 1, 1902.
Harry Clayton, B. May 10, 1905.
George Pollock, 3/12/21 Kate thinks he is at home.
Clara Nevada, B. Dec 14, 1883. M. Frank Carson. Did live in Wash DC. He has disappeared & she
is at home. No issue.
Ethel May, B. Sept 18 [or 15] 1894. m. Dr Wm C. Heisey of McKeesport, Pa. Both living. No
issue.
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[Descendant Chart concluded]
William Green [or Greer] B. Apr 29, 1890 m. Bernice Blackburn on Sept 30, 1920. Lives in West
Newton, Pa.
Ralph Clayton, B. Sept 4, 1897. At home unmarried.
Ada Irene, B. June 17, 1901. Is at home.
Margaret Pearl, B. Jany 27, 1892. m. Walter Scott Endler of Cumberland Md. Live now in
Hazelwood Pgh Pa No children
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John Markle & Elizabeth Jack [Their Children]
Gasper Markle, oldest of family.
Maria, oldest girl, m. M.P. Smith
John Markle, probably next to youngest. He worked in Oil region. m.1. m.2.
David, by 1st wife Died on train going to Soldier's home. He was married & left a daughter.
Andrew, by 2d wife, He is dead. m. Adda Baer. She is living in California with her son George.
Guz, married. He lives in Uniontown, Pa.
John, married & divorced was in Portugal or now in South America.
George, married & lives in California.
Elizabeth, by 2d wife who was a Yankee, is married & lives in Dover Delaware.
John, in Chicago was adopted & goes by another name.
Adda, was adopted by family named Young & took that name.
[Descendant Chart]
James Caruthers & Elizabeth McClure for second wife. His first wife was [4 preceding words crossed out]
Elizabeth Woods. His 2d wife was a daughter of Richard McClure who owned the farm where Glassport now is.
There was an explosion on the boat & he was drowned in the Monon River.
[Children]
Jane? by 1st wife, Died young & unmarried.
Julia? by 1st wife, m. James Chambers. Lived in Sewickly Tp near Rilton. Both dead.
William, thinks he was married.
Nancy, m. Leary?. She is dead.
Anna, m. Frank Orr & lives [unreadable] Has a shoe store.
John, by 2d wife See Page 372 B. Jany 18, 1832 Died Jany 5, [maybe 1912, extremely faded.]
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At Mrs H. H. Markle's West Newton Pa West Side Oct 14, 1920 6:20 AM.
I left home yesterday morning on the 8:53 Am B&O train (which was 15 minutes late in leaving) for West
Newton arriving here at 10:30 AM. Came over here & left my overcoat & some papers & walked up the path to
the right of the P&LE RR tracks to the West Newton Cemetery located on the West bank of the Youghisgheny
River arriving there at 11 Am & went right to work taking records of inscriptions from the tombstones copying or
rather filling 24 sheets, 48 pages of note cap paper embracing 140 items, one item in many cases covering record
of two to six or more deaths. These I will copy later at first opportunity in this record. It was 6:05 PM when I
got completely over the cemetery except the Catholic corner to which I did not go & it was already dark at any
rate. I came back by same path & Hannah got my supper & I saw also her handsome three year old nephew
Johnny Markle, son of her brother John Markle & also her daughter Evalyn. A little after 7 PM, Hannah walked
over town with me turning to the left at Farmers & Merchants Bank out Second Street, passing on the left hand
side the home of Mrs Biggs, the mother-in-law of her brother John & where he now rooms, but boards here. Also
passed the home of her mother's cousin David Markle, where his widow
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& some of the children lives, a partial record of which is noted on pages 374 & 375. We went out the street
several squares a half dozen or more passing the Winebrenarian Church on our left & crossing over to the right
hand side came to the Fritchman residence with a few steps up & a porch in front arriving about 7:45 PM & were
there for over four hours. We were met at the door by Dorothea A. Hodgson, who is here from Spokane
Washington to attend her grandmother's funeral last week. We met there Elizabeth Ellen Fritchman &
Eleanor B. Carothers who were my informants in giving the information viz names & dates on Pages 372 to 377
inclusive. Except in the record of their Uncle David's family, they sent Dorothea A. Hodgson across the street to
the David Markle home & she came back with the record of births, marriages, & death as relates to s'd family as
shown on pages 374 & 375. Except as to Geo P. which she missed getting, but will get later & send to me. (Here
Hannah came in at 7 AM & we started over town)
Room 1166 9:07 PM Oct 15, 1920.
Cousin Almira also came in & her baby Mary Elizabeth six yrs old & later the twins who were out to a party
when we went. The boy, Thomas Wilbur, has very red hair. along about 11, their brother Harry came in. Mrs
Hodgson who was in with her Children to her mother's funeral is a handsome woman, but her sister
carried to Page 383
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At Millard F. Scholl's West Newton Pa 7:44 Am Oct 14, 1920.
At 7 AM, I started over town with Hannah & stopped at the butcher shop of her brother John, to whom she
introduced me. He is tall, almost or altogether six feet & slender. WE then came up or out 2 d St to the B&O
Station & turned up the Street & to the left back from the next street, she showed me Lucy Hood's home & said
her brother Capt Wm Thompson was now visiting her. Then came out 5th St I guess to Millard's having however
stopped with Hannah to see her sister May (Mrs Donaldson) but they were not up yet & we didn't get in. That
was my experience too at Millard's as after trying the front door & the back door unsuccessfully, I then tried the
back house to advantage & then knocking at the kitchen door an elderly lady came to the door viz Mrs Pinkerton,
Millard's sister. She said Millard was upstairs sick in bed from a bad cold & that Alleen had gone to visit or see
Leah. She was about to take me up to see Millard, but I asked for the family Bible from which to get the record
& she sent me in here to the parlor where I got it, it being one published at Phila, Pa in 1884 by A.J. Holman &
from it I take the following record of births marriages, deaths Etc.
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M.F. Scholl & Ruth A. Carothers were married at John N. Robb's residence Oct 2, 1879.
Births
Millard F. Scholl was born Jany 17, 1850.
Ruth A. Carothers was born July 13, 1854.
Cyrus M. Scholl was born July 13, 1880.
Mary Markle Scholl was born July 30, 1881.
John Robb Scholl was born Nov 10, 1882.
James Christian Scholl was born Feby 9, 1884.
Jasper Thompson Scholl was born June 9, 1885.
Joseph Fisher Scholl was born Aug 31, 1886.
Allieann Scholl was born Nov 24, 1888.
Leah Scholl was born Nov 29, 1890.
James C. Scholl was born Aug 11, 1892.
William L. Scholl was born Mar 16, 1895.
Deaths
Cyrus M. Scholl departed this life July 20, 1880.
James Christian Scholl departed this life Oct 11, 1892.
Leah M. Robb departed this life Oct 15, 1892.
Ruth A. Scholl departed this life May 8, 1913.
On a slip of paper note size laying in the family record pages of the Bible were written:
Births
Benj Miller
Feby 9. 1788.
Ann Pearl Miller Feby 9, 1791.
Jurall Miller Dec 14, 1813.
Joseph P. Miller Sept 1, 1815
Thomas G. Miller June 7, 1817
William L. Miller Oct 31, 1819.
Allieann Miller Aug 21, 1821.
Susan Miller Sept 27, 1823.
Mary Jane Miller June 26, 1825
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Mungo D. Miller May 7, 1827.
Elizabeth Miller May 9, 1829.
Deborah Miller June 27, 1831.
Mahala Miller Sept 24, 1833.
Deaths
Benjamin Miller Jany 5, 1839.
Ann Miller
Jany 2, 1873.
Mary Jane Myers Sept 15, 1865.
Jurell Miller
Oct 6, 1818.
Mahala Miller
May 3, 1836.
Susannah Miller, mother of Benjamin Miller Jany 10, 1821.
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From Page 379
Elizabeth Ellen, while a large woman is very comely & not disporportioned & has one of the sweetest attractive
faces I have ever known with a delightful charming expression. Their first cousin & also my second cousin
Eleanor B. Carothers is tall & angular & is too a fine excellent woman. Hannah said in walking over that Mrs
Fritchman was a very large woman weighing, she thought, 300 lbs, but was a very pretty attractive woman with
beautiful skin. She said the undertakers had to get an extra large sized coffin & even then said they never had
had as much trouble before in getting a corpse in a coffin. Cousin Elizabeth Ellen s'd her grandfather Gasper
Markle weighed 385 lbs & she showed us one of his shirts which was very large measuring, I should say about 4
ft across the shoulders. She says it is the only article of his wearing apparel that they have saved. She took me
upstairs to the room, second one back, over the dining? room? & showed me the bed of his father, viz her great
grandfather, John Markle, which is a fine old piece of furniture looking like mahogany or cherry. It did not have a
mattress or springs, but the bottom was small clothes lines stretched across about 10 inches apart. Almira s'd her
husband's father came from England. We left abt 11:40 & got over home with Hannah about 11:55 PM.
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[History of John Robertson & Joanna Jack] John Robertson built the old stone house out the Pike in 1812. He
died about 1848 or 9 & Mrs Anna Jack Gaut thinks he was 75 yrs old. His father, she is sure was also named
John Robertson & was one of the four brothers who came from Ireland being originally from Scotland. John
Evidently settled out East of here, another brother settled in Rostraver Tp & from him, Andrew Robertson who
died recently descends. He was over 90 yrs old & was a second cousin of Mrs Gaut's father William Robertson.
Another of the four brothers settled over by Washington Pa & the fourth brother settled out by Steubenville, O. &
his name was Joseph she says. John Robertson owned 900 A. of land in South Huntingdon Tp which he left to his
four sons, John, Joseph, Andrew & William. His son Thomas had died shortly after his, mother died aged 26 yrs.
He had typhoid fever & Mrs Gaut says her father always told her that it was typhoid fever & not the black
plague. Thomas was engaged to a sister of David Hunter & after his death, she married a Boyd. John Robertson,
Mrs Gaut's grandfather had one sister she has heard spoken of (& only one) who was married to a Giffen of Mt
Pleasant Tp. Married 1st Joanna Jack. Shed died in 1831. mar 2nd Miss Harriet Jewett, a school teacher that he
met out at Steubenville O when visiting his Robertson relatives there. She was a Yankee & he saw her hanging
out clothes at her brothers & being an entire stranger, asked her: "How would you like to marry a man like me. I
am John Robertson of Westnd Co Pa. I am related to the Robertsons here, you can ask them about me." She
replied: "I will think about it." She had 7 children by him, all dying in infancy except Harriet, a bright girl who
lived to be 5 yrs old. After living with him as his wife for 12 yrs, he died & she afterwards married James
McMasters, a widower with several children from Pgh Pa who was very Irish. After McMasters died, she went
out to Keokuk, Iowa to live with Robert Fulton, who had married a Jewett, a niece of hers. Mrs Gaut thinks he
was a son of William Fulton out by Mendon & says he took his mother, Nancy Fulton nee Pierce out to Keokuk
when she was 90 yrs old. l Robert is dead & also his wife & son Will & live at or near Keokuk. She says the old
maid girls that Eleanor Jack Niccolls told me of were sisters of Perry Fulton, also from near Mendon. Perry's
mother & sisters kept a boarding house in Pgh & had kept one in Washington Pa before going to Pgh. Perry was a
first cousin of Robert above & came back to this county to near Bells Mills on the old Capt Pinkerton farm &
died there rather suddenly. Mrs McMasters, her father's step mother told her father that his brother Joseph had
gotten his father's family Bible with record. After Joseph's death, it went she thinks to his daughter Joanna Null,
wife of Samuel Null, who lived in Allegheny Pa where she died abt 4 yrs ago. Mrs Gaut thinks she left some sons
who are probably living in Pgh. Samuel Null died before his wife. She says a man named Henderson, whose
address she will get me, lives in Wilkinsburgh Pa & is a grandson of her Uncle John Robertson has been hunting
up the family records & can give much information. John Gaut's wife who is a daughter of Millard F. Scholl's
sister, Mrs Pinkerton, who I saw at Millard's this morning brought in a Biographical Cyclopedia of West nd Co
gotten up in 1880 by John M. Gresham Co & Samuel T. Wiley wherein a sketch of Andrew Robertson of
Rostraver Tp on Page 629 it shows that the name of the brother who settled in Rostraver Tp above referred to
was James Robertson of Scotch Irish Extraction & his son Thomas born in 1784 had 11 children, one of which
was Andrew who had ten children of which Isaac I. Robertson late Prest of Fr & M Bank was one.
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[Descendant Chart]
John Robertson & Joanna Jack. She died Jany 9, 1831 aged Aged [sic] 54 yrs 4 mos & 4 days See No 222 Page
30 Book 4. He died Feby 24, 1850 aged 74 yrs 4 mos & 24 days See No 2 Page 66 Book 4.
[Their Children]
John Robertson. He died near Columbus O. She never saw him. m.1. Margaret Plumer, a sister of Uncle Wm
Plumer. She is buried at Sewickly Church. She died June 2, 1837 aged 33 yrs. See No 15 [number unreadable]
Page 67 Book 4
m.2. a woman from Columbus O. She dont know about the children. She only knows of one, Sarah who
nursed Mrs Gaut when she was a baby. There were several children by 2nd wife.
Sallie Robertson, m. William Plumer, a brother of Alex & Geo. He was a farmer at Wintersville, O. abt 7 miles
from Steubenville, O. She died in Ohio & is buried in the cemetery at Steubenville, O. He came back to West
Newton & married here. Long since dead.
John, went to far west.
Alex, was a Doctor in Civil War. Took fever & died. Thinks he was [unmarried scratched out]
Thomas, He was a Doctor. He died aged 84 at Farmington, Ills. He has 3 sons, two are Doctors & 1
a veterinary.
George, Unmarried. Dead
Amzi, Killed in Civil War. Unmarried
Johnathan, married & lives at Peoria, Ills. He is a Doctor.
Johnston, Died single
Andrew, a twin probably with Jonathan. He died aged abt 10 yrs.
Margaret, m. David Robertson a farmer near Steubenville.
Joseph, a Doctor m. a Miss Smith of Rostraver Both dead. No family.
Maria, unmarried.
Sallie, married
Jessie, delicate
Anna, married
Joanna, never married. Dead.
Lizzie, m.1. Ault. He dead. She a widow
Adam
Joseph, He is buried at Sewickly. m.1. Isabella Bovard. She dead buried at Sewickly. She died Oct 19, 1831
aged 89 yrs 5 mos 18 days. m.2. Mary Latta She dead buried at Sewickly.
Oliver Bovard, m. Mary A. Mitchell. He went to Dakota & died there. She died Feby 24, 1875
aged 35 yrs 7 mos & 20 days.
A son, died in South Dakota in a Jany & they could not bury him until May as ground
was frozen 7 ft deep.
A Daughter, Maggie E. Died Aug 6, 1874 aged 1 yr 2 mos 8 days.
Joanna, m. Sam Null. Had children. Both dead.
Ellen, m. Tygart. She dead & he too.
John, married twice, no issue. Dead. Did live at Scottdale.
Maggie, Died single
Andrew, living & is a widower. No issue.
Thomas, m. & has a big family. Living on a farm near Turtle Creek.
Isabel, m. Lives S.S. Pgh.
Nellie, married William Boyd & lived just above Sewickly Church. Had several children died as soon as born.
Both buried at Sewickly.
Joanna, aged 75, m. John Broddry who soon died of consumption. Lives at Irwin with Dau.
Ella, m. Evans. He is dead. Has 2 boys. young men.
Josiah, m. Miss Morton. Have son John & Dau Kellie.
Archibald, now dead buried at Madison. M. Jennie McCune. See Page 386.
[from page 386, lower half] Archibald Boyd & Jennie McCune from page 387.
Harry, Home with his mother.
Frank, m. out west
Archibald, married Lives in West Newton
A dau, married
A dau, married
See next page
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[Descendant Chart Continued for] John Robertson & Joanna Jack
Thomas, buried at Sewickly. Died unmarried aged 26. He died March 20, 1831 aged 21 yrs 9 mos 4 days.
Andrew, Died May 30, 1887 aged 80 yrs 3 mos & 28 days see No 3 Page 66 Book 4 Lived many yrs in Stone
house & then moved to Tarr's Sta where he died, but he is buried at Sewickly. His wife is buried with her own
people at Middle Church Mt Pleasant. M. Matilda Leasure, an older sister of David Markle's widow Sarah A.
Markle who is 85 yrs old.
Maggie Robertson, m. Andrew Stoner of near Alverton or Ruffsdale. She died when her baby was a
few days old & she is buried with the Stoners at Alverton. Stoner is living & married again.
A Daughter, which was taken & raised by her grandmother Robertson when raised the
father came & took it away to his mother's. She is married & lives about the Suburbs
of Pgh.
William Jack Robertson, youngest child, b. August 11, 1818 & Died Jany 29, 1892 & is buried at Sewickly.
Married Nancy Kilgore Apr 3, 1851. She died Aug 12, 1863 & is buried at Sewickly. He has 212 A. that he got
from his father. He & his wife built a frame house on the opposite side of the road & a little this side of the old
stone house & this is the only part of the John Robertson land left in the family. He left it to Mrs Gaut for life &
to go then to her son William. He gave as a reason for doing this, that if he left it to her outright, she would will
it equally to her children which would cause it to be sold to make division & he wanted it kept in the family.
They sold the coal all but 10 A some years ago to John G. Patterson at $100 per acre. The Smith Bros sold the
stone house farm about a year ago to a coal Co who are now stripping it.
William Sparks Robertson, b. Aug 12, 1861. Died Nov 24, 1862.
Anne Jack Robertson, Born Oct 5, 1853 in White frame house above referred to, was 3 wks old
when farm was raised. m. Oct 23, 1873 to Francis Andrews Gaut. His mother, Mary Andrews was a
sister of John Andrews that married Hannah Carnahan, mother's cousin. He was born Nov 12, 1846.
Maggie, born May 21, 1875. m. Albert Miller, son of Albert S. Miller, bro of Leah
Robb. Live at John Miller home married Nov 21, 1896.
Anna Gaut, b. Sept 28, 1896, m. Charles Smith abt 4 yrs ago & lives at
home.
Bertha, B. Sept. 1914.
Cornelia, b. Aug 11, 1898, m. Raymond Masonen, Aug 1918 & went to
France in the Army.
Margaret, B. Sept 22, 1920.
Albert Gallatin }Twins, Born Nov 1902 Both living & Frank Gaut
}working in Radiator Works & making
Frank Gaut
}$4.75 a day apiece. Samuel Miller, b. Aug or Sept, say
1904. Sam works at Radiator works & makes $380 a day. William
Robertson, B. Feby 9, 1878. m. Mary M. Scholl
Millard, B. Aug 12, 1904.
Ruth, B. July 3, 1907.
William Robertson Jr, Born Sept 13, 1911.
John Andrews, Born Oct 29, 1881. m. Mary Pinkerton on Dec 12, 190 [no last
number listed]
Anna Mary, b. Jany 20, 1910.
James Pinkerton, (twin) Born Aug 21, 1913
Frances Andrews, (twin) Born Aug 21, 1913.
Nancy Kilgore, Born Aug 18, 1884. m. Lewis Williams on Dec 24, 190 [no last
number listed] younger son of Daniel Williams
Francis Gaut, B. Jany is 13 } twins
A Dau, She died
}
Mary Jessie, b. Jany 4, 1887 m. Albert Pore on Nov 27, 1911.
Elizabeth, B. Dec 1912.
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William Penn Hotel, Oct 15, 1920 9:55 PM
(Taken down on Scratch paper this morning commencing at 7:25 AM at B&O Sta, West Newton & now
transcribed)
Yesterday morning, I got up at 5:30 Am had breakfast with Hannah at Six, wrote up page 378 & most of 379
& then walked over town with Hannah (See Page 380.) at 7 AM. At M.F. Scholl's where I copied the records
from their family Bible pages 381 & 382. Just as I finished, his son Will L. Scholl came in, having been out all
night at work on the B&O RR where he is employed, & shortly after 8 took me upstairs to see his Father who was
sick in bed with a bad cold. Will was in the Service during the late War arriving in France, I think on Nov 5th,
1918, but as it was only six days thereafter when the armistice was declared, he was not in any battles. He started
off on his motorcycle & in walking down, met classmate Rev Reimund Clay Wolf, who has been in charge of the
M.E. Church here for 3 yrs & who told me he was packing up to leave in next two weeks as the recent conference
has assigned him to Sharpsburg, Pa. I then went over to the home of Mrs Lucy Hood, who is a stockily built
determined looking woman with a large face. She says she is the daughter of Capt sometimes called Major
William Thompson
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who is buried in West Newton Cemetery & record of whose death I got Wednesday. She says his father was John
Thompson & that he died when her Father was a babe & she did not know or learn much about her Thompson
relatives, but said her father was a first cousin of Sam Thompson, who was President of a National Bank in
Cadiz, O. Upon my inquiring about s'd Samuel Thompson's (It is now 11 PM & I am sleepy & will go to bed.)
(It is now 7:33 Am Oct 16/20 & I continue transcribing) sister Ellen or Eliza Moorhead, who I met when out
there Apr 18, 1918 or an earlier trip. Mrs Hood said she was dead & when I spoke of her having a Bible with
many records in it, she said she thought Steen Black probably a nephew, who was now at the head of the Bank
would likely know where it was or might have it. She s'd he married a Robertson from near here & upon inquiry
this morning of Anna Jack Gaut, she s'd he had married a daughter of William Robertson ("Smoking Billy" to
distinguish him from her father") who was a brother (or son) of Andrew Robertson of Rostraver Tp recently
deceased & who lived out near the Hunters by Sewickly Church where I was yesterday. Frank A. Gaut s'd his
father, John Gaut's farm where he was raised was just ahead on the Straight road beyond the A.B. Hunter farm
over the hills. Mrs Hood's grandV3 Page 392
father, John Thompson was evidently (I think unquestionably) the grandson mentioned by Samuel Thompson in
his will dated 1800 & the other grandson Samuel was the father of Samuel Thompson, President of the Bank at
Cadiz O. Mrs Hood said her brother who had gone to the McCune sale yesterday, was Andrew Thompson (not
Wm as Hannah had said) & that they had another brother, John Franklin Thompson (she called him Frank) now
living in Chicago, Ills. I got Mr Chambers at the garage near to run me out in his Auto to Wm L. Scholl's &
learned from his wife that he too had gone to the McCune sale a few minutes before I got there. I then had
Chambers drive me to the Markle Cemetery where I arrived at 10 AM. (The train has arrived)
(Now 8:08 AM on 7:55 Am B&O train for Pgh which left at 8:02 AM)
and as the day was fine & the sun shining brightly, with the air warm & balmy, I worked with comfort until 1:55
PM when I finished taking transcripts commencing with Sheet No 24 & No 141 & finished with Sheet 32 No 186
to be recorded in these records later & started in the warm sunshine on my 2 1/2 mile walk to Sewickly Church
graveyard, taking the left hand road at the top of the hill & passing first a frame house over to the right with a
lane leading to it. Known now as the John Fullerton farm
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& now owned by his daughter, but occupied & rented by another of my cousins, a nephew of Oliver Hunter (son
of his brother, David) as he told me when passing it later in the evening or night. His mother, S. Florence Hunter
s'd it had been one of the Rotharmel farms (probably Benjamin's) & adjoined the other Rotharmel farm, the one
Peter bought & settled on when he came in 1813 to Westmoreland Co & which had been the old John Jack farm
& [faded word] & on which he & his widow Eleanor were buried as told by Cousin Kate Smith & which as
Oliver Hunter told me when passing in the dark about 7:30 PM last night was now occupied by Thomas
Williams, a son of David Williams. He said Daniel Williams who had owned the farm & ploughed over the
graves as Kate Smith related, broke up & his brother David bought in the farm for him or as a help. Passing on
down the road, a very secluded one, I walked over a mile, partly through the woods before coming to the next
house, a small frame one, a tenement, on the left, which which [sic] Frank A. Gaut told me last night was on the
Hunter land. Continuing on through the woods, I crossed a small run & the RR tracks & came to a substantial
brick farm house, an old one, on the left, with the Cross roads just ahead. I stopped & knocked & after a few
minutes, a very good sweet faced woman came to the door & asked me in. I asked
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her if I should take the left hand road to Sewickly Church & she said yes. Asking then her name, she s'd it was
Hunter & I learned on questioning that she too was a cousin, a daughter of William Bell, who was a son of
Walter & "Polly" Bell. This morning, Anna Jack Gaut told me that Polly Bell had told her that she raised 8
children to mature years out of 14 that was born to her. Mrs Hunter s'd she thought her great grandparents,
Squire Andrew & Ginsey Finley, were buried on the old Finley farm, owned later by Nehemiah Finley. Just back
from Port Royal & adjoining the farm of Wm L. Scholl. She thought he, Scholl, might have or know where the
Andrew Finley Bible was, but I think I learned before that Mrs Goslin of Belle Vernon has it. She said her
grandmother had often told her of coming from her home on the Finley farm clear back to that the present Hunter
farm, a distance of three miles, very often in the mornings for the cows which would wander off there as there
were no fences between. She s'd Walter Bell & his brother William Bell, who married Polly's sister Nancy
Finley, were cabinet makers & had come from Derry Westnd Co Pa to that section together hunting for work &
had settled there & married sisters. She s'd her husband's people, the Hunters had come to that section from over
by Waltz's Mills, but
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She knew nothing or had never heard of Patrick Hunter, who her grandmother Polly Bell had told me 42 yrs ago
in 1878 or on a later visit had married her Aunt Nancy Jack & had at an early day gone west or to Kentucky. Mrs
Hunter is a delightful good woman & in her charming hospitality & kindliness reminds me very much of mother.
I had arrived at her home abt 2:40 PM & was there one hour getting the family record from the old Hunter Bible
& from her own family Bible which she went upstairs & got. She also gave me a note sheet, being a copy of
family record, I believe from her father's Bible which she let me take with me to copy & return & I think now that
it is the family Bible of her grandfather Walter Bell that Wm L. Scholl has as I believe his wife is a daughter of
Walter's son David Bell. She also gave me a slip of paper on which was written the dates of birth & death of her
grandmother Polly Bell stating that she was born on Aug 6, 1792 & died Dec 26, 1888 aged 96 yrs 4 mos & 20
days which some of the relatives had given her. She s'd her grandmother was buried at Sewickly Church
graveyard, but that there was no stone to her grave. I told them we wd have to see to putting one up if she knew
where the grave was which she thought she did. While I was copying on scratch paper to expedite matters, a
buckboard drove up & two girls came in, one, her daughter Cora
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& the other a Mrs Bell, a granddaughter of Jane Markle of Scottdale Pa nee Pinkerton, widow of Joseph Markle
of Gen'l Joseph, now 88 yrs old she s'd & blind, but with a wonderful memory & who I must go to see without
further delay. I asked Cora if she wd drive me up to Anna Jack Gaut's when I came back from the cemetery &
upon this arrangement being made, her mother asked me come back for supper & at 3:44 PM, I started to the
Sewickly Church Cemetery where I arrived at 4 PM & was busy taking inscriptions until 6:11 PM when it
became so dark I could no longer decipher. I got all over the cemetery except the corner running from the large
Robertson monument, with Circular ball on top, at drive gate to the Robert Fulton marker at upper corner of
Plumer enclosure & from there to the back corner from the road of the old Stone Church except that I was taking
off about Joanna Jack's marker when it got dark & I took but one viz John C. Plumer's first wife from the Plumer
lot. I missed too the record of Aunt Elizabeth ("Betsy") Hunter & wonder if the stone is down as I got it when
out with C. Ed Carothers at time of Ruth A. Scholl's funeral. If I can get through today in Pittsburgh Pa, I will go
back there in the morning & finish up & also go out to the Dick Cemetery if the weather
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is good. I got back to Mrs Hunter's at 6:26 PM & they were about finishing their supper, having given me up & I
sat down & eat a very good supper & met the two sons, Oliver, who was at the table & Archiball B. Jr, I believe
who came in from taking the honey from a hive of bees in the corner of the field. Oliver had been 18 mos in
France arriving early in May 1918 & was in several battles. He went over on the Mauretaria in six days. At 7
PM, he took me in the buckboard, with the black mare & the road for a mile or more through the woods was
blackness of darkness itself & we arrived at Frank A. Gaut's at 7:40 PM & found that Wm L. Scholl had been
there at 5 PM & had gone home.
(It is now 9:25 Am & we have arrived at Pgh) (9:44 Am am at Duquesne Club waiting for E.M. Love as his
office 2212 Oliver Bldg from which I have just come told me he wd meet me here at 9:45 AM and now he has
just arrived)
(It is now 9:55 AM Oct 16th, 1920 & I must go to my appointments & duties)
(Oct 16, 1920 3:17 Pm on 3:10 PM train for Greensburgh Pa) (on scratch paper) Oak Hill, Sunday Oct 17, 1920
2:55 PM transcribing from scratch sheets.
Mr & Mrs Gaut were very cordial & gave me information about the early Robertsons which I took down on
Pages 384 to 389
to Page 400
At the home of Jane Markle No 703 Pittsburgh St Scottdale Pa Oct 16, 1920 6:50 PM
I am copying the family record from their old large family Bible
Marriages
Joseph Markle & Jane Pinkerton were married Dec 6, 1855. (married by Rev Pollock U.P. minister at old Brick
Church out 5 or 6 miles from West Newton where Capt Mungo Dick (bro of Jas A) lived & it is there where the
Dick graveyard is)
Births
Joseph Markle was born May the 6th, 1830.
Jane Markle was born November the 11th, 1833.
Clara Elma Markle was born Sept 6, 1856.
Mary Elizabeth Markle was born July 11, 1861.
John Pinkerton Markle was born Dec 27, 1863.
Shepherd Edwin Markle was born March 12th, 1868.
George Lloyd Markle was born July 17, 1872.
The above record is written by Joseph Markle very plain & neat.
Deaths
John Pinkerton Markle died Nov 26, AD 1890.
Joseph Markle died Sunday Jany 31, AD 1892.
Shepherd Edwin Markle died Wednesday Dec 10 AD, 1902. at 11:45 PM.
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[Descendant Chart]
Joseph Markle, Born May 6, 1830, married on Dec 6, 1855 to Jane Pinkerton who was born Nov 11, 1833 by
Rev Pollock, U.P. Preacher in South Huntingdon Tp at her father's home. She is the daughter of John & Mary
Barr Pinkerton of South Huntingdon Tp. He was son of James Pinkerton. She was daughter of John Barr, who
came from Ireland. The Pinkertons were Scotch Irish. Joseph Markle died Jany 31, 1892.
[Their Children]
Clara Elma Markle, born Sept 6, 1856 married John Rankin Cannon in Aug 21,____ of the town of Indiana Pa,
"a very nice man, worked for one man all his life after he was married, a bookkeeper for Fred Gwinne of Pgh Pa"
He died Jany 1920 of tuberculosis in Pgh Pa aged abt 62. He was two yrs younger than his wife. She is still
living at No 315 Lafayette Ave N.S. Pgh "away up on a hill" as Mrs Markle says.
Joseph Lloyd Cannon, only child, Born Nov 29th Unmarried. Lives at home with his mother, is
a lawyer with an office in the commonwealth Bldg Pgh.
Mary Elizabeth Markle, Born July 11, 1861. Married on Nov 22, 1883 by Rev Owens, Pastor of Pres Church at
Sewickly Pa to William Pollock Bell (named for his uncle), son of Samuel Bell who was a son of Walter & Polly
Bell. Wm P. Bell died June 26, 1914 at the old home of his father & grandfather & is buried in Sewickly
graveyard. He died of typhoid fever. He was born Aug 1, 1860. Never had any children but have an adopted
daughter they got out of a home who I met Thursday afternoon at Mrs Hunter's.
Mary Jane Bell. Her name was Nelson, got her when she was abt 7 yrs old. Born abt 1884. Her
parents were both dead.
John Pinkerton, Born Dec 27, 1863 Died Nov 26, 1890. m. Lizzie Bair, dau of David Bair who owned the farm
where Wyano now is. David Bair is dead & Lizzie Bair Markle lives with her mother in Greensburgh Pa at 503
Oakland Av. He got hurt which caused trouble in his back so he couldn't walk.
John Ralph Markle, Born in May abt 27 yrs ago. Had one birthday on sea. Was 14 mos in France.
was in the service 20 mos Had charge of sending out supplies & was not in any battles. Sailed July
1, 1919 & landed at NY July 11, 1919. Unmarried. Lives with his mother Bookkeeper (at Rubber
Works at Jeannette Pa.)
Shepherd Edwin, Born Mch 12, 1868. Died Dec 10, 1902. Married to Lida A. Work daughter of Joseph M.
Work & she then wrote her name Lida W. Markle. He died in Scottdale of tubercular trouble. She died in
Connellsville Pa abt 7 yrs ago & both are buried in the Markle Cem.
Edna Isabelle Markle, only child Born Jany 31, 1899 works for Kelly & Cook Real Estate &
Insurance here in Scottdale, & lives here with her grandmother.
George Lloyd Markle, Born July 17, 1872. Unmarried. Is practicing Dentistry in Scottdale Pa
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inclusive & including what they could give me of the descendants of John & Joanna Robertson. Their three
grandchildren, Anna Mary, James Pinkerton, red haired & Frances Andrews, the two latter being twins &
children of their son John A. who lives with them came in & also John As wife, Mary, who is a daughter of Mrs
Pinkerton, sister of Millard F. Scholl whom I had seen at Millard's in the morning. Mrs Anna Jack Gaut said her
mother, who was Nancy Kilgore, daughter of David or Daniel Kilgore, brothers, had died when she was very
young. Sheriff Alex Kilgore was a first cousin of her mother & when he would come to visit her mother, they
wouldn't go to bed, but wd sit up all night & talk, at which times her father wd get very sleepy & often remarked
that he liked Alex, but didn't like his practice of staying up all night talking which he invariably did & along
about daylight, Mrs Robertson would go & get the breakfast. Mrs Gaut seemed very much surprised when I
asked her what relation her father was to her mother & did not know they were any & they were as close even as
second cousins with a common great grandfather, Patrick Jack. She asked me whether her grandmother's name
was Anna or Joanna Jack saying she was named for her & thought it was Anna as she had been christened Anna,
but she mentioned two or three other relatives who had been named for her who were baptized
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Joanna. I told her that her name was Joanna. Their son Wm Robertson Gaut came in about nine o'clock on his
way home (as he lives in last house up the road coming out of West Newton) very much begrimed as he had been
cutting corn, having gone out at 4 AM to his work. I talked to Mrs Gaut until 11:55 PM & she was pretty tired &
sleepy & wanted to go to bed. In speaking of the Carnahans, of whom Mr Gaut's Uncle John Andrews had
married Hannah, See Page 389, they said they used very often see them coming to church at Sewickly four or five
to them always riding single file, one following the other on great big fat sleek horses, too big almost for even
two to ride side by side. I slept upstairs over the parlor or sitting room to left of hall as you enter & got up at 5:45
AM, had breakfast at 6:30 & they very cordially asked me to come back whenever I could. At 7 AM, John took
me in town in his Auto going across the River to Mrs H.H. Markle's where I got my overcoat, with the papers I
had left there & what F.H. Rosboro had brought down the evening before & left there for me. Hannah got in the
car & John drove us to her school house where we both got out & walked down to the B&O Sta & wrote on the
scratch paper as I am now doing until the train left for Pgh & then all the way on the train in to Pgh where I took
a taxi to the Oliver Bldg & at room 2212 the lady told me Mr E.M. Love would see me at 9:45 at the Duquesne
Club
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where I went & he signed up the acceptance papers for his share of the Wheeling Creek Coal sold to the Lorain
Coal & Dock Co. Then went up to Wm Penn Hotel & got suite 1166 & 1168 & met there Judges R.L.
Wildermuth of Columbus O & Albert W. Kennon of St Clairsville O & A Leonard Johnson of Columbus O who
had just come in from Ohio. I then went over to see W.W. McNeill
(Arrived now 3:59 PM at Greensburgh Pa & being told it was too late for 4 o'clock street car for Scottdale walked
leisurely up the street buying a dimes worth of peaches & a dimes worth of plums & saw the 4 o'clock car come
in 10 minutes late & ran & caught it & now at 4:33 PM am on my way.)
I found McNeill had not gotten the option signed up so I gave him the acceptance paper also & the checks & had
him call Mrs Rowe & arrange for her to come in at noon & sign them. Then went to W.A. Seifert's office & gave
him my ck for $1000 to Ayrshire Corporation in payment for 5200 odd acres of coal on Wheeling Creek subject
to the W.M. Greve lien. John H. Murdoch Jr was waiting at Reed, Smith, Shaw & Beals, so I had him go over
with me to the Wm Penn Hotel & took him the tree Ohio people up to 1168 & gave them the seven several
agreements & acceptances to check up while I went to W.H. Clingerman's office Prest H.C. Frick Coke Co for an
appointment with him Gates & Andrew & in talking to him about the 8000 A deal, mentioned to Gary he s'd he
was going to NY next week to a meeting of their Presidents
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on Thursday & he s'd Judge Gary wd be busy with a meeting of the Irwin & Steel Institute on Friday, so
concluded it was not the week to got to see him. Clingerman also s'd he would give me the refusal for the Sutton
tract for the purpose of reaching the upper vein of coal on the Dr Smith Fuller farm which I wanted for my butler
Pasquale Pallini. I then got shaved & went at 2 PM again to W.W. McNeill's & found he had papers signed by
(Here at 4:44 PM my scratch paper ran out & I am writing up the balance of the records first hand)
Sallie H. Rowe & her two daughters who are of age Sarah Margaret & Dorothy & I took him in Mr Seifert's
office with me to see the Lorain People & he left the papers which Mr Seifert is to have the Union Trust Co
people signed tomorrow. Then went to office of Julian Kennedy & met him & R.C. Crawford in regard to RR
Rfw [sic] & Kaufmann surface at mouth of Dunkard Creek & called Andrew in to the conference, but made little
progress. Seifert called me at 4 PM to go back to the Lorain conference & Judge Kennon being fearful about not
getting dower interests divested. I agreed to get the wives of the Penna owners to signed up & return with the
new papers on Thursday next 21st inst for a meeting at 10 Am when they are to turn over fifty thousand dollars of
the money deposited in Escrow in the Union Trust Co of Pgh Pa to me. At the Wm Penn that Friday night, I tried
for 4 hrs to get several long distance calls & retired at
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11 PM but at 11:30 Pm they got L.C. Coldren at Johnstown & he s'd he wd come in arriving near 2 Pm Saturday.
I got up at 5:55 PM took a hot & then a cold bath, got my breakfast in the cafeteria at 7 AM & at 7:33 AM was
transcribing on Page 391. Called Mrs Dr Wm A. Longanecker abt 9 AM & arranged for her to come in at 2 PM
to signed the Lorain papers. Went at 10 AM to see B.F. Hoffacker at 1414 Park Bldg who had just rtd from his
wedding trip & congratulated him & gave him outlines for maps to be made ready for me next week including in
one part of North Wbgfield & in another the Smith Creek field. Then went to Mellon Natl Bank & got draft &
made deposit. Then to E.M. Love's office Oliver Bldg & phoned him & he & his wife, a very comely
magnificent handsome woman came to the Duquesne Club at 11:15 & she signed the Lorain papers. Then went
& saw A.W. Mellon & arranged to see him & Mr Rust on Wednesday & Thursday next. Then went at 11:33 AM
to Julian Kennedy's office & had an hour with him & his sons Joe & Julian & they starting to lunch to which they
invited me which I declined & opposite the Pgh Life Bldg, I had a good talk with Julian & believe we can get
something done when I go down Wednesday & Thursday next. I then went over to Dr J.H. Schiffhamer & had
him treat the callous spot on the ball of my right foot & also the cracked heel on same foot. Got to the Hotel
where I met Judge J.Q. Van Swearingen & Tom McCaffey about our Wash Co Pa coal
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when Lou C. Colarne stepped up. Mrs Longanecker then came in & went up to 1168 & signed the Lorain papers.
(It has just struck five & I must go into Minnie's for dinner.)
(7:27 PM 17th just back from Minnie's, having been up to room 322 Titlow Hotel to see Mrs G.R. Scrugham who
arrived today form Cincin. O.)
Lou c. Coldren came in a few minutes after she had gone & I had a very satisfactory talk with him & he assured
me it would be all over with if he should be called. He was going out on the 3:10 PM train for Johnstown, so I
went over & saw W.A. Seifert & told him briefly about my talk with the Kennedy's & for him to tell Andrew if
he saw him. Then went over to the Wm Penn & paid my bill, got my overcoat, book & papers, got a taxi &
rushed to the Sta & found the gate just closed, but in dashing out an exit gate, the gateman grabbed my left arm &
I wrenched myself free & told him "I must make that train" & running out the walk, got on the last car just after
it had started, wrote upon scratch paper until arriving at Greensburgh, seated with a young beautiful girl of abt 11
yrs who had a violin which she played & who I told I had a Stradivarius on which Col [best guess] Bull had
played 85 yrs ago. Seeking a taxi at 4 Pm, the train having arrived
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at 3:59 the boy said it was too late for the 4 o'c car & there wd not be another until 4:30, so I walked along buying
some fruit on the way & on paying for some plums at the old Robert Brown corner, saw a car at the Sta &
running down, found it was the Scottdale & Uniontown Car which had arrived ten minutes later, so I got on &
arrived at Scottdale at 5:05 PM & went right over to Pat Maloy's & found him in the Bar room. He took me
upstairs & I explained matters to him & he said he wd do everything he could for me. He went & called Grace &
she came up in tears over their loss of their son Raymond who was killed in the War in France. She brought in
six of her children & introduced them to me viz my namesake Joe, who is just six feet & weighs 265 lbs & will
be 21 he told on Jany 5th next, the next older boy was Arnold? or some name commencing with A. & then Mary
Grace, Catherine, Margaret & Maurice Patrick, the baby. Pat said he weighed 215. Grace asked me to stay for
supper but I excused myself for lack of time. Joe walked with me to show me where the office of Dr G.L. Markle
was & just on the first corner, we met Pat & Grace's other son Donald, a handsome six footer, but not heavy like
Joe, who had just returned from a football game in which his side won on a score of 34 to nothing. We met Dr
Markle standing on the corner, so I s'd goodbye to Joe & Donald & Dr walked up home to his home No 703
Pittsburgh St on the left hand side where I was introduced to his sister Mrs Bell & his mother Jane Markle in the
last month of her 87th year having been born on
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Nov 11, 1833 & who has been blind for about six yrs. She is neither fleshy or spare, but a happy medium &
would readily pass for 20 yrs younger than she is & has a pleasant attractive smile in her affliction. She was
married to Joseph Markle Dec 6, 1855, when I was 1 yr 9 mos & 21 days old & s'd they were married in the
evening & on the next morning, they went up to father's & mother's on their wedding trip & were there for a few
days. She s'd I had been baptized the week before & sat on her lap & said "they throwed water on me". She s'd I
was a great talker & just talked talked talked. She remarked that she thought I wd make a preacher, but I said
"No, I wasn't going to be a preacher". She said father was hauling coal to town with a six horse team of fine
horses & a big wagon piled full of coal all of which had to be shoveled in & shoveled out again. She s'd I knew
the names of everyone of the horses. She s'd mother had so many good things to eat & that she always came to
see them when at West Newton. From our house, they went up to Fairchance Pa to see Aunt Mary & Uncle
Potter Crothers & the wind there blew so, she thought it would blow them away. They were there over Sunday &
went to preaching at the Tent Church when they came back to mother's Aunt Mary sent mother some peach
preserves by them at which I remarked "are you fetching some apple butter". Mrs Bell, whose name is Mary
Elizabeth
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said she was named for her two grandmothers. Said Edwin in Shepherd's name was some of Roxie's work. Mr
Markle always said he "didn't like that name. Shepherd was all right, but not Edwin". Shepherd Edwin worked
for Charley Miller in Connellsville Pa & there met Lida Work & they were married & he had tuberculosis & they
both went to New Mexico for their health & were there five years. He had a jewelry store at Las Vegas N. Mex.
& when his health got so bad, he sold his store & went up to Harvey's ranch going 25 miles up the mountains on
burros or donkeys. Says Harvey was an oldish man. William Pollock for his first wife married Nancy, daughter
of Polly Bell, who died without issue & he then married a second time & had two children. He is now 90 yrs old
& lives at Mexico MO. He was in on a visit last August & usually comes back once a year & is well preserved.
His second wife is dead. He is a Miller & a carpenter & came to Bells Mill to build the mill & did build the first
mill there. He boarded at Polly Bell's & there met Nancy who he married. He built the house that is now there,
the one next to Sewickly Church on the road & now owned by Goodman, but where Samuel Bell had lived for
many years. Samuel Bell & David Hunter married sisters Boyds by name. When I was talking so much to Mrs
Markle, mother said I was telling too much. Isabelle, daughter of Shepherd Edwin & Lida lives with them &
sings in the Presbyterian Choir. Lida gave her to Mrs Markle when she found she was going to die. She was out
to choir practice last night, so I did not see her. Mrs Markle spoke of Rose Ann Milligan who was a daughter of
Polly Bell, but is now deceased. Speaking of Polly Bell
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Mrs Markle said she was so good to the sick that the whole neighborhood sent for her & she always responded &
was better than most of the Doctors, especially with children.
I spoke of how favorably I was impressed with Mrs S. Florence Hunter & Mrs Markle said: "She is the best
woman in the the world & nobody ever had a better neighbor than she is". I told her I was trying to sell the
Washington County Coal at $300 per acre & she was highly pleased with the price as was Lloyd. I told her too
that I would pay off the $1300 note I owed her within the coming week & that made her very happy. I bid them
goodbye at 9:25 PM & walked rapidly down the street & many people stopped to marvel at the gait I was
stepping it off as if no one had ever walked so hurriedly in Scottdale. As I turned the corner, I saw the Street Car
standing there & got to it just as the man at the front wheel had closed the door. I hammered on it & he sullenly
opened it & started off being the third close connection in the afternoon. We reached Uniontown Pa at 11:07 PM
& I got my mail & reached Oak Hill at 11:33 Pm. It is now 9:07 PM Oct 17, 1920 JV Thompson
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