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Josiah V. Thompson Uniontown, Pa Family Record Book 27

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Oak Hill Nov 25, 1931 4 PM I have a letter dated Nov 22, 1931 in answer to mine of 11th inst from John F. Carothers of Clarence, Mo who says there are no Carothers now at Shelbyville, Mo but he is going there in a few days & will look through the graveyard there & advise me what he finds. He thinks there is a Lieut James Carothers buried there. He expressed himself as sure that his Uncle John H. Carothers 1813-1879 was right in saying that Hon John Carothers was son of James & Margaret Henderson Carothers he having been told so by older members of the family.

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Oak Hill Nov 26, 1931 Thanksgiving 10:33 AM This is the 55th anniversary of Hunnie's birth. We celebrated her 27th anniversary, about half the years with a dinner at Venice, Italy Nov 26, 1903. I have a letter dated Nov 16, 1931 in answer to mine of Mch 16, 1931 see b 24 p 392 from Mrs Faye Ferguson Simon who was single when I made the record in book 12 page 290 where she is shown as the only child of Margaret Jane Anderson who was the only daughter of Cyrus Jack Anderson, grandson of Andrew Jack. Cyrus J's wife was Eliza Fulton of our Agnes' [best guess] line

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She says her father, Irvin Baird Ferguson was born at Burlington, Iowa Apr 8, 1868 & on Feby 9,1893 at Lenox, Iowa, he married her mother, Margaret Jane Anderson see b 12 p 290. His father's name not given was born in 1838 in Uniontown, Belmont Co, Ohio & his wife born in 1837 in the same place was Mary Gilchrist Irwin. Her husband, Philip Arthur Simon, owner of Mercantile Co in Turon Kan. No issue. Her parents live in Sterling, Kan.

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A letter dated Nov 18, 1931 from John F. Hudson, Pgh, Pa said he had been in Wbg, Pa the day before & had phoned Hudson Rose & his wife said that Mrs Jacob S. Patterson of Wbg had gotten the family bible of her father Eli Rose. He then went to see her & she got out the bible & while it had pictures of Eli's father Jacob Rose & wife & their children it did not have any dates or family record. Make slip to go to the graveyard on the farm in Whiteley Tp & get tombstone records.

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A letter postmarked Nov 12, 1931 from Estelle Finley, Columbia, Tenn sends the following:From "Life of Andrew Jackson" by James Partom Vol 1 published 1860 in New York by Mason Bros year 1767 page 55James D. Craig formerly a resident of Waxhaw, now of the state of Mississippi states that he remembers hearing Charles Findly [sic] deceased say that he assisted in hauling the corpse of Andrew Jackson from his home on Twelve Mile Creek to the Waxhaw Churchyard & interring it there; that he brought Mrs Jackson & the boys with the corpse & after the funeral, conveyed them to the residence of George McKemy, where soon

after Andrew was born. This was, no doubt, Charles Finley, ancestor of B.M. Finley see infra [sic]

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Oak Hill Nov 27, 1931 9:30 AM The ground is covered with snow this morning. I have a letter dated Nov 7, 1931 in answer to mine of Oct 31, 1931 from E.D. Carothers Atty at law 1231 Glenwood Road, Glendale, Calif which he says has 70,000 inhabitants & is 7 miles from Los Angeles City Hall. I think I was referred to him by Kathey Carothers Klepser of Gary, Ind whose mother, Bell S. Carothers lives in Calif. He says Uniontown, Pa has always been in his mind as it was where his father James Carothers born in 1840 & his brother John Carothers born 1833? were mustered into service in the Civil War as members of the 85th Regiment. They both volunteered

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for 90 days & then for 4 yrs or until the end of the war. My father served a little over a year when he was honorably discharged from a Baltimore Hospital. He went in weighing 160 lbs & came out weighing 95 lbs reduced from malaria, gotten in the Peninsular Campaign around the Potomac River. Uncle John served through the entire war & was at Appomatox & when Lee surrendered which he often told me was the most exciting day of his life.My father died at Pittsburgh in his 65th year & Uncle John died at Toronto, O in his 92d year. On his father's way home from the hospital in 1861

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when changing cars in Phila, he made application for pension & mailed it to proper officers & then came to his home in Florence, Wash Co, Pa & was nursed back to health.In the early 90s, his hearing went bad & had throat trouble & his family physician also a member of the 85 th had him apply again. He filed [sic] out blanks & had to prove he was living as he was discharged with quick consumption. He was allowed $6 a month but dating back to the 1861 application he got $2000. He refers to John F. Carothers of Clarence Mo who he says probably gave me his address & I guess he is right.

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He gives his line back to his great grandfather & I am tabling it on next pages 10 & 11. His father in 1880 moved on a farm about 4 miles from Florence, Wash Co, Pa & when 60 yrs old say 1900 retired & moved to Pgh where he died when 65. He married Elizabeth Burns, daughter of James or Jamie Burns a shoemaker a real Scotchman & "an honest to goodness relative of Robert Burns" He bought his gallon of whisky on first day of each month as shown by his acct book in hands of E.D.C. his grandson. Speaking of his direct ancestor, he says we definitely know of three brothers in New England viz: James, John & William. Of these he says James was his father's grandfather (In this I am sure he is right) & he says was a Colonel in Revolutionary War. In Beaver Co, Pa there is or a few years ago was an old sand tombstone to his memory stating he was a Colonel etc. He notes the 3 generations named James. He taught School at Pgh.

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James Carothers he writes that an old sand tombstone in Beaver Co, Pa states that he was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. I think it probably states that his father was a Colonel see preceding page.

James Carothers born on a farm 3 miles from Frankfort Springs, Beaver Co, Pa or came there in his very early life, died in 1852 from Black fever & his 3 children below & him all died within a week. Married Levens 6 children. She survived & lived with her son David. She died aged abt 70.

David Carothers ob lived on a farm near New Cumberland WVA, several children Philip Carothers lives on & owns his father's farm

John Carothers b 1833 ob 1925 aged 92 at Toronto, O served thru Civil War in 85th Reg. Lived on a farm near Frankfort Springs until abt 70 yrs old & then moved to Ohio

Frank Carothers living at Hollidays Cove WVA Joseph Carothers lives at East McKeesport, Pa E.D. Carothers at Glendale Calif my informant

Mary Alice Carothers married a Dean at Woman's College New Wilmington, Pa Mitchell Carothers lives Sharon, Pa Mary Carothers Alice Carothers Thomas Carothers

These 3 [above] with their father all died in 1852 within a week of black feverJames Carothers b 1840 ob 1905 served in Civil War in 85t Reg. Married Elizabeth Burns

William Carothers [brother of James] says his descendants located in Missouri & many of them live there now. One of them, William a dear friend of mine is now living at Wolf Lake Indiana. He has promised to return here when he is ready to retire from the mercantile business. I wrote him last night. Another descendant, J.F. Carothers is at Clarence Mo & I presume you got my name address from him which is correctJohn Carothers. He says he refused to take up arms vs his King & went over to Canada & I have met a number of his descendants now in Calif or in Northwestern part of the U.S. I had a very dear friend, John Carothers in Calif a direct descendant of this John who died a few years ago, but I am quite well acquainted with his sons most of whom are lawyers.

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Oak Hill Nov 28, 1931 3 PM A letter postmarked Aledo, Ill Oct 29, 1931 says the parents of Russell Bartlett see b 25 p 465 are Moses R. Bartlett & wife Mary McLagine [sic]. She says Edward Curran Bartlett was his brother. I take it that he is brother of Russell. Asking the names of her parent's children she gives:1. John Finley Farquar born at Cherry Fork O married Jane Campbell in Sunbeam, Ills2. Calvin Stewart Farquar born Cherry Fork, O married Mary Irene Clark at Santa Rosa, Calif

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3. Ann America Farquar married Judge R.J. Grier 1 Monmouth, Ills4. Mary Jane Farquar born Bloomington, Ills married Russell Bartlett Monmouth, IllsThe letter dated Oct 28, 1931 from F.D. Aledo, Ills says her cousins Mrs Mary J. Bartlett has sent her my letterSays my mother Dorcas was a sister of Mary J. Farquar, our grandparents died leaving a family of children who were put out among the Uncles & Aunts & I don't know of any family record. My mother Dorcas was

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her Uncle James Finley family. Miss Bessie Finley, Aledo Ills 707 South Walnut St is a descendant of his third generation & has an old record, can't say how far back & this is the only record of the family I know of. She

has an old bedspread that has the date of somebody's marriage. We will send you a copy of our grandfather as far as we know it. I was always under the impression that our grandparents died in Adams Co, O As to [sic] many of the children

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were married & settled near Cherry For, O. Get names & make slip.My mother was married at Winchester, O by Robt Stervast, pastor of A.R. Church Cherry Fork O. My mother's parents & Uncles might have lived near Winchester, O. For more information refer you to Arthur J. Grier 480 Chatwood St, Oakland, Calif.For Anna Farquar Grier family also the Stewart Farquar family.Mrs Eva Eddy, Grand Junction MichFor the John Farquar family, Mrs Effie McCain 908 16th Ave

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S. Nampa, Idaho for the descendants of Mrs Carson. If we can do anything more, will be glad to do it.My niece, Mrs Pearl Speer likes this kind of work & so do I [line written between lines says:] it says that I do Signed Miss Emma A. Cross daughter of Dorcas Finley, Aledo, Ills RFD No 2. This & the 3 pages preceding were read to my by P. Pallini [faded word] wrong [faded word] the letter I believe the name of the [party who performed the service of marrying her mother Dorcas Finley was Robert Stewart & not Stervast as he read it.

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Oak Hill Nov 30, 1931 Minnie V. Cross see next page was married July 12, 1912 to Daniel Coffelt. Her children being great grandchildren of Dorcas Finley are:1. James Lewis Coffelt b Mch 18, 1914 at Cameron, Mo2. Lawrence Russell Coffelt b Mch 24, 1918 at Everest, Kan3. Mary Margaret Coffelt b Dec 3, 1919 at Olathe, KanShe then gives them the children of Lara S. Cross viz: Mildred & Matthew Morrow [best guess]. She says Mary Dorcas son is Paul Schmadekus. Fred Cross children: Garth & Mary don't have dates but can get them if I want them.


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William Finley lived near Cherry Fork or Winchester, O, died & his children were put out with their Uncles & Aunts to be raised. He had a brother James who took Dorcas to raise. I think he was a son of Robert Finley who about 1806 came from Va & took up 1000 A of land at Cherry Fork O. They don't know name of his wife. A circular chart table reports 8 children see p 520

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Dorcas Finley 6th child b Oct 15, 1822 ob Mch 2, 1876 near Aledo Ill. Married Jany 17, 1849 Mathew Morrow Cross at Winchester O b Nov 16, 1820 near Roney's point, WVA ob Jan 17, 1912 near Aledo Ill Bur Sunbeam

Cemetery, Ills, son of Wm Cross and wife Ann Morrow. He was a carpenter and farmerPorter M. Cross b May 4, 1850 at Cherry Fork O ob Jany 31, 1853 buried Adams Co, OWilliam Finley Cross b Feby 22, 1852 at Cherry Fork, O ob June 20, 1861 near Aledo, IllsLewis Algia Cross b Jany 22, 1854 at Cherry Fork, O ob July 30, 1888 at Hoxie, Kan. Married Jany 18, 1877 to Mary Ellen Scott at Vinton, Iowa b Oct 9, 1856 in Jeff Co, Ohio ob Jan 1, 1919 bur at Mirshle [best guess] Mo daughter of Abram Scott & wife Mary WallaceMcDill Louis [best guess] Cross b Feby 25, 1856 at Cherry Fork, O ob Jany 17, 1928 buried Bakersfield, Calif married Mch 8, 1882 to Abbie Maria Kincel [sic], Aledo, Ill b March 12, 1863 near Aledo, Ill daughter of James Wright Kimel [sic] & wife Mary Barbara Barnett. She lives at Lara's home 911 Humboldt St, Bakersfield, Calif. See p 519.

Pearl Virginia Cross b July 31, 1878 at Aledo, Ills married Mch 15, 1900 Thomas D. Speer No issue see p 518

Minnie Violet Cross b Apr 12, 1887 at Noxichan [best guess & not a real good one at that] ob Feby 23, 1920 at Olathe, Kan p 17Lara Stewart Cross b Feby 12, 1883 at Aledo Ill married Luella Robeson [or perhaps Rodeson] in 1912Mary Dorcas Cross b Jany 28, 1885 at Milton Mills, Iowa married C.S. Schmadekas see p 523Fred Cross b Feby 8, 1887 at Morton [sic] Mills Iowa see p 523

Emma Arzelia Cross b May 24, 1858 my informant, single born in Aledo, IllsCreighton Reed Cross b Nov 6, 1860 in Aledo, Ill married Mch 30, 1907 Cora Florence Paden b April 11, 1873 at Oakland Iowa, daughter of James Lyle Paden & wife Sarah Florence Parker. He is a carpenter. Lives at 334 Normandie Court, Redlands Calif

Margaret Florence Cross B July 13, 1908 at Monrovia [cut off]Stewart Ellsworth Cross b Aug 25, 1865 at Aledo, Ills ob May 31, 1882 at Evans Colorado & buried there.

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James Finley brother of William shown on page 18 was born 1776 & died Mch 7, 1853. Married Aug 24, 1805 to Dorcas Doak. See page 145

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Oak Hill Nov 30, 1931 10 AM I received a letter yesterday from Howard N. Eavensom [best guess] Engina [best guess] Union Trust Bldg Pgh, Pa saying that my friend Charles H. Lewis of Cleveland, O had died suddenly about two weeks ago.My cousin Sara Gorley & her husband John Harry Gorley here last night on my invitation from 7 to 11:20 PM told me that Mrs Frances H. Cone wife of R.E. Cone of Huron, South Dakota had died about three weeks ago. She had over worked herself in some welfare work, took a cold & died quickly probably from pneumonia. She was a wonderfully bright intelligent capable woman. Sara said when 2d cousin Elizabeth M. Fullers effects were being sold, Mrs J.D. Rube bought the

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entire effects of the dining? room for a pittance among which were a lot of books which she gave to Sara & among them was the Fuller family bible with record which she took to Hopewell Church & gave to Mrs Rev Van Emam, Lizzies niece who has since died & Sara back there later says Ren Van Emam & he allowed her to copy the record which she has & I had better get & table as I am not sure whether I got it all from Lizzie. I loaned Sarah [sic] my 2d vol Anjou Crawford family history. She said her Moore ancestors married Joane Power sister of Rev James Power & that the will of

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Miss Eleanor Moore on file at Greensburg, Pa asked that she be buried alongside of her brother Robert Moore & she is so buried at Rehoboth. Her ancestor, William Miller father of Warwick Miller married 1 Rebecca Johnson daughter of Daniel Johnson of Menallen Tp to whom all his children were born & he married 2d - her sister Ann Johnson whom I knew, but had no issue by her. Their sister, Esther Johnson 1805-1908 became the second wife of Samuel Harris & became the mother of Jacob G. Harris all of whom I well knew. Their brother Simon Johnson was the father of Mifflin Johnson, widower now aged abt 82, childless & living alone at New Salem, Pa. Their father Squire Daniel Johnson was twice married both being daughters of Joseph Mendenhall of Menallen Tp

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which see, the fighting Quaker & his wife Jane. She after much questioning being admitted to the Quaker Church from which his fighting proclivities disbarred him. He was of the blue-est of the blue bloods of Chester Co, PaSara said that both the father & grandfather of Daniel Johnson were sea captains hailing from Ireland.She said her relative Albert Myers Gibson editor name was given in full to her father viz: Albert Myers Gibson Miller but he dropped the Myers & just used Albert G. Miller. She said her mother wondered how Myers got in A.M's name. J. Harry Gorley said that for more than 6 mos they knew they Natl Bk of Fay Co must close because of Pres Jas G Binns [best guess] loose reckless way of making loans.

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Oak Hill Dec 1, 1931 9:50 A.M. I have a letter dated Nov 26, 1931 from my friend Mrs Harriet A. Markle 76 Rogers Ave London, Ontario, Canada in which she says they had traded their farm for two houses in London, Ontario as their adopted son James Markle did not care for the farm, but said he was now on another farm of her sister's husband. She says it is almost 4 years since her husband died. I saw her in London May 28 or 29 th, 1929. She speaks of some woman telling her of the government allowing some land grants

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growing out of the Civil War (it must be the War of 1812) & that a Mr Markle had been to see David B. Markle of Clifford, Mich about it. Said it amounted to ninety million dollars & their [sic] were 15,000 heirs.

A letter dated Nov 16, 1931 in answer to mine of Oct 27, 1931 from Mrs Martha A. Plummer 6211 S. Warner St, Tacoma, Wash gives the address of Mrs A.L. Vaughn r 1812 E. Wright Phone Broadway 2063 Tacoma, Wash. She gives following names from Tacoma Wash Tel directory:

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H.S. Crothers 3756 N. 28th Proctor 1783

Mrs Martha Crothers res 1917 S. 56th Madison 490[cut offw 12/1. Sevilla Carothers res 1102 Division Main 95362 12/1. Howard Carothers, Atty Puget Sound Bd Blg Main 520 res 208 N. Tacoma Main 7357w 12/1. Gerald Carruthers res 4315 N. 28th Proctor 2501 LMrs Jane Carruthers res 205 N. Tacoma Bway 1892[Think the w 12/1 notations indicate that JVT wrote these people on that date]She says Mrs Vaughn above noted was in Ireland 2 yrs ago & gave the Samuel Caruthers address in Belfast, Ireland to whom I wrote & the letter just came back. Her first husband was a Carothers & she says his parents are now living in Tacoma Wash. Am writing her tonight.

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She says her brother Neely Archibald Carothers 72 yrs old now living in Idaho, was named for their mother's father & for their father's father. Says her brother Samuel Edward Carothers was named for his father's people. Says the Grace Caruthers she wrote about was raised by her Uncle Hugh Caruthers but not adopted by him but took his name & he willed her his property if she was a dutiful daughter. He died at Roseville, Ills where a banker attended to his business. She married after abt 1907 & now lives in Calif. Make Roseville Ills slip to see if his tombstone gives where he was born.

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8 PMIsa Feather Byers phoned me at 10:30 Am today that about an hour before, Jacob Henderson Lynn was found dead in the basement of the skyscraper shot through the neck by his own hand. Pallini said at supper that Harry S. Clark had told him this afternoon that the shooting occurred much earlier than that & that the shot entered his forehead - the base act of a coward. I phoned Frank E. Merts at 8:30 PM & he said Jake Lynn was seen by dwellers standing vs their wall 9 to 9:30 last night & between 11 & 11:30 last night going up the steps to the attic [sic]

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& when he came in his room abt 11:30 PM he told his wife he had been down on 2d floor but said nothing of being in the atticThe elevator man took him down at 5:30 AM this morning papers [sic] stood there reading them until 6:30 AM & abt 7, went in the bank, locked the door, went to one of the restrooms there & shot himself at 7 AM as he was still warm when found by the janitor at 8 AM & Frank E. who had gone to his office heard of his death at 8:30. He shot himself through the forehead & the ball came out his neck below his ear. He is to be buried Thursday afternoon in Brownsville [unreadable word] where his [faded word] is

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Oak Hill Dec 2, 1931 9:40 AM A letter dated Oct 29, 1931 from Aura A. Secrest of Wooster, O Says her brother Harry O. Secrest, E. Euclid Ave & 84 St Cleveland O where he had been located for 20 yrs passed away last year Nov 10, 1930 following a 5 weeks illness of heart trouble, he being the only brother I had left & was always so thoughtful & kind to me & generous to a fault, leaving wife & 3 daughters.Florence, the oldest married a year ago last June.She seeks information abt Rev. ancestry

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& says she is a member of Wooster's Wayne Chapter of D.A.R. Harry was a member of Western Reserve Chap. S.A.R. Will enclose list that the organizations accepted on the Rev James Finley from Ireland. Refers to Colonial records of Phila, Pa Vol 13 page 481 & vol 13 p 617 vol 15 p 472. She speaks of Capt Wm Rippey having married Margaret Finley & after her death, he married Elizabeth Finley McCracken. Do you know if she was a daughter of Rev James Finley (she was not) signed Miss Aura E. Secrest Wooster, O. She asks how Aunt Sallie M. Finley is

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Says she was spending a few days in home of Dr W. Arthur Finley & wife in DeLand, Fla when they recd word of his brother Robt L. Finley passing away last Feby.Also speaks of Idem [best guess] Vail family located near McClellandtown, Pa. She gives following data:Michael Finley born Armagh Co Ireland May 7, 1683 & died in Sadsbury Tp Chester Co, Pa in 1747 (make slip) married July 12, 1712 Ann O'Neill born in same Co in Ireland. His name & Michael Jr's appear on tax lists of Sadsbury Tp as late as 1747. She gives his children & says:

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7th George Finley born June 4, 1723 she says Guilford Co Pa 1800 he went to Guilford NC.)8th Rev James Finley married Hannah Evans born 1732 & died Apr 1, 1818 daughter of Robert & Margaret Kilpatrick Evans of Cecil Co Md. From 1752 to 1782 lived & owned Whitehall farm near present town of Andora Md where his children were born. James Finley 2d child of Ebenezer & 1st wife Jane Kincaid born in 1784 & died 18619. Samuel Finley b July 19, 1800 ob Feby 14, 1880 my grandfather

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he died near Cumberland Ohio. Married in Pa 1821 to Cathrine Frame b June 29, 1801 in Pa & died June 1, 1883 on same farm near Cumberland O. Immediately following their [sic] came to Noble Co, O & here the children were born.11. Mary Malvina Finley born Nov 4, 1843 & died Feby 4, 1911 in Wooster, O. I have often heard my mother speak of her being the youngest of 12 children but haven't the data at hand to correct my mistake.(I have his bible record)

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Mary M. Finley married Wm Luther Secrest Sept 22, 1864. He was born Aug 29, 1839 & died Oct 4, 1914. Children born near Cumberland, O1. Chas Grant b Apr 20, 1866 died Aug 29, 18662. Aura Etta B Apr 17, 18693. Albert Finley b Nov 13, 1871 ob Jany 25, 1894 Cleveland, O4. Harry Obert b Sept 5, 1873 ob Nov 10, 1930 Cleveland O5. Asbury Carthem [sic] b May 24, 1879 ob Feby 21, 1918 Cleveland, OThe 2d one above Aura Etta is my informant

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Oak Hill Dec 3, 1931 9:30 AMOak Hill Dec 5, 1931 2 PM

Going down yesterday morning on the 6:35 AM PRR train to Pgh a [sic] got on at Irwin Pa & set down in the seat with me & on inquiry, he said his name was William James Griffith 38 yrs old then born in Wales Dec 4, 1893 & came to America in Aug 1907 & now lived on & owned a 90 A farm mortgaged in Hempfield Tp Westd Co, Pa 5 miles from New Stanton & abt 8 miles from Gbg, P.O. New Stanton RFD. He said Hempfield was the biggest Tp in the Co & extended to about 11 1/2 miles south

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of Irwin, Pa & to about 1 1/2 miles north of Tarr Sta, Pa Which he said was in East Huntingdon Tp. He said he thought of applying for a 33 yr 7% loan on his farm in accordance with the Hoover recent Federal plan. He said something abt the 1% extra paying it out in that time, but he had the right of anticipation. He said he had a large family & had his two Freeport veins of coal optioned at $85 per acre having just phoned it in 9 [sic JVT must have been having trouble with his eyes again]

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Oak Hill Dec 6, 1931 2:40 PM I have the Sept 1931 National Genealogical Society Magazine which gives:"Tax lists of Mt Pleasant Tp Westnd Co, Pa Oct 1785" pages 49-56 by Miss Mary C. Oursler of Wash D.C. in which Edgar J. Pershing taken from the original tax lists recently presented by Mrs Rosanna (George) Hunter (Mrs John) of Latrobe Pa see Sept 1928 quarterly pages 44-51 Lost Battalion of the Revolutionary War by Edgar Pershing & giving also

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some abstracts from official pension application gives:Thomas Elliott 5s 11d*William Finley 8s 11dHe was a Rev. soldierJohn Jack - Conococheage 3s 3d several JamisonsJohn Jack (Sewickley 10 s 10 d*Patrick Jack 5 s 10 d Rev soldier. This was son of James 1728-1776 who was born 1745 & went to Black Lick, Indiana Co, Pa*David Kilgore 7s 8d He was Rev soldierThomas McClenahan 7s 10d*John Nichols 10s [unreadable]d a Rev SoldierRev James Powers 9s

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Dr Hugh Thompson 3s 5dJoseph Thompson 12s 1dIn the pension appn of Isaac Anderson, he is shown to have enlisted in the State troops under Capt Samuel Miller & Lieut Matthew JackIn Aug 1781, he enlisted in Col Lochry's Regt & as Lieut he commanded a Co & Patrick Hunter was his ensign in Gen Clark's expedition vs the Indians )Patrick married Nancy Jack)Wm [best guess, may say Mary? Grissill McCormick in which Grissell declares she is widow of Wm McCormick a Rev War

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pensioner who died Mch 5, 1815 Lancaster Co, Pa who she married Dec 1782 & applies for pension June 3, 1839 from Morris Tp, Greene Co, Pa Grissel McCormick died June 27, 1839 leaving 4 surviving children. No names give & no other family data.Tombstone inscription at Gbg, PaPeter Rugh ob Dec 22, 1828 aged 81 yrs 4 mos & 5 days.Mary Margaret Rugh, his wife ob Apr 12, 1851 aged 77 yrs 4 mos 75 days

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I have a letter dated Dec 2, 1931 in answer to mine from Miss Sara Carothers Wells 1851 Park Rival, Wash D.C.in which she gives some records of her Carothers line which I am tabling on page 46-7. Jacob Wells family bible is with my cousin in Indiana & I can't give complete dates of marriage etc.

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James Carothers b 1753 ob July 11, 1835 in Jessamine Co, Ky served in Revolutionary War, pension app does not give date or place of birth. He enlisted in May 1776 & served until May 1779 & was in battle of Monmouth. Speaks of son appn fr pension in 1818 aged 65 yrs. In 1799 gave Hugh Caruthers of Orange Co NC P/A. thinks family buried on farm near Keener, Jessamine Co, Ky. slips Married Mary Smith who died in 1800.

Nancy Carothers ob married Ezekiel Proctor in 1804 ob & had 2 daughters Lucy A. Proctor Melissa E. Proctor

Joseph Carothers ob Mch 6, 1837 married Mary Hedges died Mch 1837 left 4 children see page 246 Jasper Carothers ob don't know about him, says he died young Polly Caruthers b 1798 ob never married

Sarah Carothers 1788 in the summer, ob Mch 14, 1873 in Jackson Co, Ind. Her home was burned & old Carothers bible destroyed. Married Nov 29, 1818 Jacob Wells ob Dec 20, 1850 in Jackson Co, Ind see p 48

Thomas Carothers b 1753 ob served in Revolutionary War, pension app does not give date or place of birth. Served in Revolutionary War Apr 27, 1776 to May 2, 1779 was at battle of Kings Mountain & was discharged in NJ. Had enlisted in NC 4th Reg & appn fr pension Sept 2, 1818 aged 65 yrs recd last pension at Lexington Ky Mch 18, 1820 see page 242 et seq & 244.


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Sarah Carothers see other side p 48 married Nov 29, 1818 to Jacob Wells son of Samuel Wells a Rev solder & wife Elizabeth Slemp. He was born May 10, 1791 in KY. Had children:

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Mary Smith Wells b Jany 15, 1820 ob Jany 12, 1897 married Dec 20, 1841 Christian Branaman b Nov 1820 ob Aug 1902 son of Abraham & wife Susan Kindred. Had 8 sons & 5 daughters. Buried in Clear Spring, IndSamuel Thornton Wells b Nov 4, 1821 ob 1901 Denver Col. Married 1 Catharine Durham 1 daughter, married 2 Mrs Mazie Wilson 1 son see page 50Elizabeth Slemp Wells b Mch 4, 1823 ob July 31, 1898 married Feby 20, 1845 Jackson Co Ind Jacob Thomas Beem & had 12 children. He son of Michael Beem & Mary. Both buried near Marco, Green Co, IndMartha Anna Wells b Mch 1, 1825 ob May 10, 1913 married July 30, 1848 James W. Owens ob Mch 25, 1887. Had 3 daughters & 2 sons. He son of Barnett Owens & wife Hannah Wood buried at Wrays Ch Jackson Co, Ind.Wm Franklin Wells b May 10, 1828 ob Dec 1852 at Donaldsonville, La & buried in La. Married 1848 Margaret Ann Lockman & had one son Jacob Wells see p 243.James Carothers Wells b Apr 20, 1830 ob Oct 5, 1894 Practiced medicine in Jackson Co, Ind 40 yrs. Married July 11, 1855 Nancy Carr b May 5, 1840 ob July 4, 1902 daughter of John Carr & wife Catharine Peck. Had 3 daughters & 1 son. He graduated 1856 fr Miami Med Co. Cyrus [best guess] O. Buried Clear Spring Ind.

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Samuel Thornton Wells see page 48 served through Mexican War & was Colonel in 50th Indiana Reg in Civil War. Married 1 1849 Catharine Durham ob 1861 & is buried Vallonia Jasper Co, Ind., daughter of Jesse B. Durham & wife Elizabeth Ewing. Married 2 1865 Mrs Mazie V. Wilson widow of John Ready Wilson

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Sarah Elizabeth Wells b 1853 Vallonia, Ind married & lives in Los Angeles Calif Married Homes 1874Edward Clifford Wells b 1868 Major 10th Cav U.S. Army 1st Col in World War retired & lives in San Francisco, Calif. See p 243.


Oak Hill Dec 7, 1931 9:11 AM The Indiana History Bulletin for Nov 1931 on page 78 reference is made to 5 vols of 150 yrs of American Development in Indiana issued by the Lewis Pub Co of Chicago & NY of which the last 3 vols are devoted to Indiana Biography. Make slip to see these vols when in Indiana & see if any of our people are named in the 34 pages of Index. Prof Roll of Terre Haute Ind can tell. Also see history of Benton Co, Ind by Elmore Barclay & Ray Jones Vols 2 recently [unreadable word] from Benton

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Review Shop, Fowler Ind which contains numerous biographies, see if any of John Logan or his wife Mary James down to 1845.In Penna Mag of Hist & Biog for July 1931 there is an article on Joseph Bonaparte as recorded in the private journal of Nicholas Biddle with notes by Edward Biddle which gives much interesting hist see pages 108-224 on page 275 among list of marriage bonds in state library at Hbg Pa are:Alexander Thompson of Cheltenham Tp Montgomery Co, Pa fuller &

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Susanna Fips May 25, 1785John Thompson of City of Phila blacksmith & Mary Carter June 1, 1785.In said Penna Mag of hist etc for Oct 1931 on pages 289-300 is an ilumining [sic] article on "James Buchanan, the Squire from Lancaster".

A letter dated Jany 19, 1926 belated answer to mine from (Ann) Elizabeth Fulton Cherry RFD 6 Washington, Iowa says her father Robert Hayes Fulton put Hayes

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in his name for his mother as there were other Fultons there.See b 13 p 78 & 79 where Virginia has inserted a lot of information given in her 4 page letter which failed to give book & page which omission has caused me to lay her letter aside probably 100 times when I came to it. She says at the closing of her letter that William Fleming lives

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near Washington, Iowa but she believes Joe McClelland, Versailles, Mo would be the one to write to. I do not know about Uncle George but will be pleased to hear from you again.

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Oak Hill Dec 8, 1931 9:25 AM The Genealogical Soc of Pa Magazine for Mch 1931 reports as follows:1. From old Phila g.y.s p 138 Samuel Thompson ob Nov 19, 1824 aged 33 yrs, Elizabeth Thompson ob Oct 5, 1900 aged 85 yrsAbstracts of wills of Westd Co, PaPage 159Morris Dunlevy Westd Co, Pa dated Apr 6, 1817 proved Oct 29, 1817 gives to aged mother Mary Dunlevy (she was sister of ggmother Ruth Elliott) wife Elizabeth all R.E. brothers John, Andrew & Daniel

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heirs of brother Anthony late of Wash Co, Pa decd. children of my brother James late of Jefferson Co, O sister Nancy Wilson. Exr wife Elizabeth, Michael Findley (Finley) & Luke Basel. Witnesses John Robinson & Wm LatteNext marriages by Rev John Hutchinson Pastor of Pres Ch of Mifflintown & Lost Creek Pa Page 163Mch 12, 1829 James Crawford Jane MarleFeby 10, 1831 Robert Thompson to Polly LukensPage 165Mch 31, 1832 Abraham Lukens

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to Sarah ThompsonDec 18, 1832 Robert Jordan to Martha ThompsonMch 11, 1834Chas Thompson to Mary Ann Cochran

Page 165 Jane 6, 1835James Cochran to Lavinia Thompsonpage 166 June 8, 1840Wm Glenn to Sarah Thompson Spruce Creek Huntingdon Co, PaOct 1, 1840Jerome N. Thompson to Jane WrightyAug 10, 1842 Bonaparte Thompson to Mary Elizabeth Foglemanpage 167 July 22, 1844Josiah Thompson to Eliza Phillipspage 178 marriage & deaths from Bedford, Pa Gazette

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Edward Crawford Esq in Chambersburg, Pa ob Mch 5, 1833 aged 75 yrspage 196 under notes & queries of Feby 20, 1827 died on Tuesday Feby 13, 1827 at his home in Guilford Tp, Mr John Crawford in his 82d yr. He was a Lieut in Revolutionary army & one of the garrison that defended Fort Washington NY in 1776 etc. He was captured & was a prisoner of war for 4 yrs

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In an index of N.E. Gen Society magazine I find references as follows:Eleanor Carothers 49Elizabeth Carothers 263Also George & Juliana 263J. Caruthers 294P. James Caruthers 199340 Elizabeth Finndlay [sic] 49John Finndlay 49Martha Findley page 27Elizabeth Finley p 39Fannie Finley 294Janie Finley 295Joseph Finley 294Mary Finley 120[unreadable word] Wm Finley 276

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p 348Anna Jack 294Cynthia Jack p 26Martha, Patrick, & Samuel p 27350David Kilgore p 29Elizabeth, Jennie, Jesse, Margaret & Robert p 29P 366Anna Robertson 294John Robertson 294p 379Wilson p 46, 127, 353

Abner p 163, Allice 294Alexander 295 etc

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In the pictorial page of the NY Sunday Times abt a month ago was a reference to Caruthers, Calif which by referring to Rand McNally is in Fresno Co, Calif, Fresno county seat & contains 50 inhabitants.In NY Times Dec 6, 1931 is picture of the daughter of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Pierce Butler, formerly Ann Butler now Mrs Edward K. Dunn who were married recently at the home of her parents in Wash D.C.

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A letter dated Sept 22, 1931 in answer to mine renewing his correspondence expresses regret regarding my eye trouble & says he himself has been suffering for 6 mos from neuritus of his right arm & is being treated at the Naval Hospital at Annapolis Md where his address is 267 Hanover St. Says for 4 yrs had made genealogy a business & has completed many records & receives for his Finley records $1.50 each of various branches that came to America for 1684 to 1769

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Of these records, 12 have been accepted by the D.A.R. & Colonial Dames. In last 4 yrs have collected a great mass of information from Scotland and Ireland to descendants in America. Have many letters from Scotland & Ireland.Mrs H.B. Brown of Lincoln, Ill is a descendant of John & Thankful Doak Finley (on one line) & also of Rev Robert Finley of Princeton (Basking Ridge) & of Robert Finley who came to America in 1684 & settled in Md. Have compiled [unreadable word, smeared]

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branch of her ancestors & of David Edward Finley Esq of Wash D.C. & Estelle Finley of Columbia Tenn who are also descendants of John Finley & Thankful Doak.He encloses 12 pages of records of several different lines which help me wonderfully as he aims to & does run them mostly back to ancestors who were in my Anjou records which I loaned him years ago & he copied. I will table these lines to

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supplement records I had gathered & was not able to connectAfter giving record of James Finley b 1722 at end of page 77, he starts a new paragraph saying: "James Finley son of Samuel born 1734 died in Greens Tp 1809 will dated May 10, 1889 married Jean Rippey" (I can't place him just now)He then gives a new paragraph under date 1732 & gives what I believe to be two brothers of my ancestor

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Michael Finley gotten from my records see my Anjou book viz 1732Samuel Finley died unmarriedRobert Finley b May 9, 1681 died 1741 at West Nottingham Chester Co, Pa will dated Oct 10, 1739 pro July 20, 1711 married Sarah Patterson & had two children:

1. Mary born May 6, 1719 married John Johnstone2. Robert born Feby 11, 1720 died Apr 21, 1808 aged 88 yrsI have seen his tombstone at Rising Sun, Md. Married Frances Boyd had 5 children see page 90.

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Says has very full & complete record of Michael Finley & wife Ann O'Neill 1734. Have proof of parish record of Co Armagh, Ireland that Archibald Finley born June 8, 1686 died Bucks Co, Pa Mch 11, 1749 will dated Mch 11, 1749 was a son of Robert & Margaret Landes Finley see table p 92.

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James Finley married Elizabeth Warrender see Anjou History from Dundee Scotland.

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James Finley married Grizel Hunter. He was born Oct 25, 1583 & died 1619 at Ducheisoie [best guess] Fife, will dated Dec 23, 1619. Married 1603.

6. James Finley born Aug 14, 1616 ob Oct 11, 1678 at Dundee, mfr of flax. Married Martha Huchaus in 1634. She died May 2, 1679 aged 61 yrs

James Finley b Mch 26, 1636 ob Jany 10, 1689 married Dorothy Inglis in 1658 She died in Dundee Oct 21, 1690 aged 52 see p 321.

Robert Finley b Dundee 1662 ob July 28, 1716 in Md came to Md in 1684. Married Elizabeth Jane Johnson says he has complete record of her descendants

1.Thomas Finley b 1604 ob 1683 married Agnes Goodlate who died in 1692 Petitioner BalcastieJames Finley b 1629 ob? married Margaret McKay Scotch deed [unreadable word] May 10, 1712 from her

James Finley Thomas Finley William Finley Margaret Finley Thomas Finley b 1630 ob 1710 John Finley b 1631 Gilis? Finley b 1632 married 16016 John Carstairs 2. Alexander Finley b 1606 no record 3. Elizabeth Finley b 1608 no record

4. William Finley b 1611 ob prior to 1670 to Killisandra Co Cavan Ireland & left widow Agnes 5. Grizel Finley b 1614 see p 326


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John Finley married Sarah Cragie see my Anjou hist

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James Finley married Margaret Mackie Alexander Finley married Margaret Jennings

James Finley bap Dec 4, 1687 St Peters Ch Dublin, Ireland ob Feby 10, 1753 in Greens Tp, Cumb Co, Pa (now Franklin Co) (Make Carlisle slip) married Jany 10, 1706 in St Peters Ch Dublin Ireland Elizabeth Patterson daughter of Robert Patterson & his wife Mary Fullerton. He came to America landing at New Castle Del May 22, 1720. Elder Rock Pres Ch settled 1st in Nottingham Tp Chester Co, Pa thence to Cumberland Co, Pa. see page 76.John Finley b Aug 10, 1689 Dublin, married Feby 18, 1709 Alice Mitchell. He died in 1764 in Lurgan Tp Cumb. Co, Pa 1764 & after he died, his wife married John Adams. Had 7 children all bap in Dublin see page 82Samuel Finley bap Oct 10, 1689 came to America 1720 with his brothers James & John. Married May 20, 1709 in Dublin to Jean White daughter of Samuel White. Settled in Lower Octoravia West Nottingham, now Md. He was a minister of Rock Pres ch & founded in 1720 & Exr of will of Robt Finley 1739. He died at Chestnut Level see page 84

John Finley also spelled Finlay & Findley in Ireland born Apr 9, 1636 see my Anjou book page 34 see page 100.


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James Finley 1687-1753 see p 74 married Elizabeth Patterson

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John Finley bap Dec 18, 1706 ob 1773 in Augusta Co, VA married Apr 20, 1724 to Thankful Doak daughter of James & Elizabeth Doak. see page 78Joseph Finley bap July 9, 1708 ob in Kent, DelRobert Finley bap Aug 6, 1710 ob 1762 unmarriedWilliam Finley bap May 6, 1712 ob 1789 in Va married Mary Wallace? have complete record.Thomas Finley bap Nov 10, 1714 ob in Cumb Co, PaAndrew Finley bap Apr 18, 1717 ob in York Co, Pa father of Major John Finley of York Co, PaSamuel Finley bap June 20, 1718 ob in Cumb Co, Pa will dated Oct 1795 pro 1803 his son Robt died in Wash Co, Pa in 1806. His will dated Oct 27, 1806 pro Dec 17, 1806. His son John Finley died in Ohio Oct 13, 1855 aged 79 yrs Married Hannah DoveyGeorge Finley bap Nov 28, 1719 ob Westnd Co, PaJames Finley b 1722 in Chester Co, Pa ob in Va. His [not completed]


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John Finley 1706-1773 see page 76

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John Finley b Dec 28, 1724 Chester Co, Pa ob in Va in 1791. Married 1 Apr 21, 1741 Mary Caldwell daughter of David & Mary Caldwell Married 2 Mary Gaines record of their children is from bible see p 80

Robert Finley b May 10, 1726Margaret Finley b Jany 18, 1728Andrew Finley b Oct 6, 1730Alexander Finley b Nov 10, 1734 ob in GeorgiaThankful Finley b Apr 1737Samuel Finley b May 1739 married 1754 to Elizabeth FultonWilliam Finley b Jany 18, 1741 ob 1802 ancestor of Wm L. Finley of Jennings Lodge, OregonJames Finley b May 18, 1743 married Kezia Martin ancestor of Mrs Brow of Lincoln, IllsGeorge Finley b Jany 4, 1748 married Jean LyleHave fine record of these last 4 sons.


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John Finley 1724-1791 see page 78. Had 2 children by 1st wife & 7 by second.

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John Finley b Jany 24, 1742 ob Married Ann MillerGeorge Finley b Jany 30, 1743 married Ann NewlandJean Finley b Apr 21, 1744 married John TrimbleRobert Finley b Apr 21, 1745 no recordMargaret Finley b Dec 21, 1746 married John ShieldsDavid Finley bap Jany 21, 1748 married Elizabeth MountsJames Finley bap Mch 26, 1749 married Jean McQuistonThomas Finley bap Apr 21, 1750 no recordThankful Finley bap Dec 26, 1751 married John McCarter. Have complete record of descendants covering 350 pages.


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John Finley 1689-1761 see page 75

[children]

Joseph Finley bap Oct 7, 1709Samuel Finley bap Dec 30, 1711Susan Finley bap Apr 4, 1713John Finley bap Nov 22, 1715Elizabeth Finley bap Jany 1, 1717Robert Finley bap May 7, 1715Andrew Finley bap Jany 1, 1720


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Samuel Finley bap 1689 see page 75. Had 8 children the first six bap St Andrews Ch Dublin & last 2 born in Md

[children]

John Finley bap Mch 6, 1710 ob 1759 Slow Cr Tp Salem Co NJ will dated Mch 20, 1757 married Rebecca. 10 children see page 86.David Finley bap Feby 10, 1712 married Nov 25, 1731 Mary CornwellJames Finley bap Oct 24, 1714 ob 1782 at Rising Sun, Md married Sarah Harrison 4 children see p 88William Finley bap Jany 27, 1716 ob in Salem Co, NJSamuel Finley bap Mch 22, 1719 ob 1795 at Milford Hundred Del married Oct 18, 174- at Wilmington Del to Sarah Witterton 6 childrenRichard Finley bap Feby 28, 1720 ob married Mch 6, 1742 in Phila, Pa Ann EdwardsMargaret Finley born 1722 in MarylandRobert Finley b 1724 in Md ob in Kent Co Md married Feby 28, 1758 Mary Tiller


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John Finley 1710-1757 see p 84

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Margaret Finley b 1732 married David LongRobert Finley b 1734 ob 1770 unmarriedNathan Finley b 1736 no recordElizabeth Finley b 1738 married Nathan PaulSarah Finley b 1740 married Andrew LongJohn Finley b 1741 married Hannah EdwardsJane Finley b 1742 married James MillerWilliam Finley b 1743 married Mary WhiteJames Finley b 1743 married 1 Mary Thompson married 2 Jane CraigDavid Finley b 1745 innkeeper Penns Neck, Salem Co NJ married Aug 27, 1771 Sarah Adams ancestor of old lady in Phila, Pa. I have very fine record of descendants


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James Finley 1714-1782 see p 84

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Jean Finley b 1730 ob Apr 30, 1812 aged 82 buried at Rising Sun Md unmarriedJoseph Finley b 1732 ob in Harford Co MdJohn Finley b 1734 ob Harford Co MdJames Finley b Nov 16, 1737 ob in Harford Co, Md married Mary Jane Barckly had 5 children

Robert Finley b 1760 ob 1825 moved to Fayette Co, Pa & then to Ashland Co, OJames Finley b 1762 moved to Fayette Co, Pa appd J.P. Mch 19, 1784 for Fayette Co & lived near

Uniontown, Pa inventor of 1st suspension chain bridge. Samuel Finley b 1764 ob in Harford Co, Md Sarah Finley b 1768 married

Alexander Finley b 1770 ob Dec 1825 moved to Greene Co, Pa where he married Mary Smith in fall of 1803 & in 1809 moved to Mt Vernon, O then to Tylertown, Ashland Co, O where he died. She died Mch 23, 1853. Had 8 children.

James Finley moved to Madison Co Ohio. Make slip Hannah Finley married Wm Glennon [Slennon?] Sarah Finley married Dan Pocock Benjamin Finley John Finley married Sarah Baird Rachel Finley married Spark Baird Elizabeth Finley married John Pocock Mary Finley married Elijah Pocock

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Robert Finley see p 68 1720-1808 son of Robert 1681-1741

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Sarah Finley b? married Apr 2, 1781 John SterrettJohn Finley b? married May 12, 1787 Margaret RowlandJane Finley married Abraham HoltRobert Finley b 1765 ob Oct 12, 1807 singleMargaret Finley b? married James Barckly


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Archibald Finley see p 69 son of Robert Finley & Margaret Landes b June 8, 1686 ob Mch 11, 1749 in Bucks Co, Pa married 1721 Margaret Kelso

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John Finley b June 27, 1722 married 1 Elizabeth Harris. Piloted Boone into Ky 1769. applied for pension in Wash Co Va Make slip.Henry Finley b Apr 8, 1726 married Elizabeth WalkerAlexander Finley b June 12, 1730 married MaryAgnes Finley b Oct 18, 1734 married Henry KelsoArchibald Finley b Dec 8, 1738 married Sarah Barnhill


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Robert Finley of Finley Manor, Paisley, Scotland married Catharine Wilkes

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James Finley b Aug 3, 1730 ob Oct 10, 1809 in Va married in Bucks Co, Pa Mary Patterson b Apr 4, 1732 ob Feby 3, 1810

Rev Robert Wilkes Finley b June 9, 1750 ob Dec 8, 1840 in Ohio married Rebecca Bradley. He was father of Rev James B. Finley of O. See my records

Samuel Finley b May 10, 1752 George Finley b Mch 18, 1753 Mary Finley b Dec 22, 1754 James Finley b June 15, 1756 Thomas Finley b May 30, 1757

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James Finley married Ann McDonald. I have this line back to a known connection elsewhere which see.

[children]

James Finley b June 8, 1737 in Glasgow, Scotland ob at Basking Ridge NJ Oct 5, 1805. Came to Princeton NJ 1769 on invitation of his friend Rev Dr John Witherspoon & was gunmaker for U.S. during Revolutionary War. Married Ann Angris James Finley b 1770 moved to Western NY

Alexander Finley b 1771 married Susan Whitaker had 12 children see my recordRev Robert Finley b 1772 ob married Esther I. Caldwell have complete record of his descendants he says

Ann Finley b 1774 married Charles Mayford


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John Finley married Mary Ogilvie

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Charles Finley born in Glasgow, Scotland Nov 30, 1736 on in Hillsboro NC Mch 15, 1816 came to America in 1768 & served in the Revolutionary War. Married. Have record of only two sons. William Finley b 1775 married Sarah McDaniel Francis Finley b Feby 26, 1776 married Jane Caruthers


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John Finley b Apr 9, 1636 in Parish Newburn see p 75 & also page 34 Anjou books. Married 1663 Jane Thompson sister to George Thompson who married his sister Margaret see sd p 34 Anjou. Descendants in Ireland spelled name Findley. Mention is made of a Scotch deed & granters bond with dates Oct 1, 1663 - Nov 1, 1681 given. Jane Thompson on May 1, 1670 is mentioned as his spouse. He moved to Carrickfergus Co Antrim, Ireland & died 1704 aged 68 yrs. His wife died 1714 aged 64 yrs. Had 2 sons in King William's War in 1690. Had 8 children

[children]

James Finley b 1664 ob Aug 26, 1739 at Dublin. Will dated June 16, 1739 married Catherine Osborne who died Feby 29, 1741 John Finley William Finley Samuel Finley James Finley David FinleyRobert Finley b 1666 ob Jany 30, 1722 married Jane Ann Stoyte John Finley James Finley Thomas Finley Alexander Finley William FinleyGeorge Thompson Finley b 1670 no recordDavid Finley b 1672Jane Finley b 1676William Finley b 1679 ob Jany 5, 1751 aged 72 yrs married JaneJohn Finley b 1682 ob July 5, 1745 will dated May 13, 1745 married Nov 5, 1719 Sarah Ann Farris

William Finley b 1728 came to America 1770 & settled in Cumb Co Pa He is tracing.

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Oak Hill Dec 14, 1931 11:11 AM This is the 132d anniversary of the death of Washington. I have a letter dated Dec 9, 1931 from Mrs Helen Hardin Thanner (Mrs Geo H.) of Havemeyer Lane, Stanford Conn a Rothermel descendant who is building a fine English home & wants the Rothermel coat of arms to put in one of the windows. She was referred to me by Edw Wesner of Burlington Iowa a relative who told her I was preparing a Rothermel genealogy but I am writing her for her line & telling her I don't know of a coat of arms

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5:44 PM I have just returned from the funeral of my very dear & worthy Christian friend Mrs Lucinda Wells Cottom who was buried from her East Fayette St stone house home with interment in the cemetery at Hopewood, Pa North Union Tp side where her father Wm P. Wells )Prince Wells) & her mother are buried. I rode to the grave in front seat of car No 3 Donald R. Nixon & in the back seat were Mrs John W. Darby (2 wife & widow) living on Jefferson St adgj the late Geo Patterson daughter of John Workman & niece of Philip Workman of near Elliottsville, Pa. Mrs [unreadable ends in lch] of 286 Derrick Ave

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& Miss Clara Smith living on Grant St, Long time school teachers now retired, sister of Lee Smith Atty & keeping house for him. This Morning's Herald announced the death yesterday at his apts Titus Bldg Morgantown, St of Evans W. Hess born Aug 12? 1855 & whose wife died abt Nov 1, & who had lost a daughter but is survived by one son Emerson G. Hess Atty of Pgh Pa & his two children Emerson G. Jr & Catharine. Funeral at 2 PM tomorrow in Oak Grove Cem which I must attend.

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10 PM Dan R. Kovar aged abt [unreadable]6 Prof of History in our Uniontown High Schools came out on my invitation at 7:30 PM & went back at 9:45 PM. He says he was born in Saskatchewan Canada where his father was a minister Presbyterian, I believe a native of Moravia. He says a Finley in Pgh married his sister & he will see him abt Mas [sic] & have him send me his Finley line. He himself married a daughter of Dr Armer Craig son of Armer S. Craig. He says a page article in the special feature section of the NY Times of Oct 18, 1931 by Frank W. Skinner a member of the U.S. Engineers Soc & [unreadable word] Connecticut engineer first referred to

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James Finley, inventor of the first suspension chain bridge in the U.S. which he patented in 1808 & while the article says it was built in 1796, there is nothing to substantiate that date, but said the Com of West & Fayette Cos met in Apr & May 1801 & each paying $300 contracted with James Finley to build said bridge over Jacob's Creek near Mt Pleasant & Scottdale to be completed by Dec 1801. He said this bridge went down with a six horse team & that a former iron bridge he built at Brownsville over Dunlaps Creek went down 4 horse teams & two horse were killed. He built a 3d bridge but he has not found where.

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He says James Finley once associate Judge sat in the house of Representatives (O think the Legislature) with Albert Gallatin which is referred to in Ellis History of Fayette Co page in which & other references he gave me & I will enter in daylight. This James Finley was born in 1762. See page 88 & 89 brother of Robert 1760-1825 & they were sons of James Finley born Nov 16, 1737 who died in Harford Co Md. See also next 4 pages 108-111

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Oak Hill Dec 15, 1931 9:15 AM It is 43 yrs ago today that Hon Charles E. Boyle died at Seattle Washington on Dec 15, 1888 having left here on Nov 8th previous & father accompanied him as far as Chicago, Ills & died himself just 3 mos later on Mch 15, 1889 I have a letter dated Aug 12, 1931 from Miss Anna M. Wirtz 459 Orange St, New Haven Conn who writes on suggestion of A.F. France & says she is assisting Prof Richard S. Kirby & Philip G. Laurson of Yale University in preparation of a book on the early phase of Civil engineering to appear in 1932 from the Yale Press & wants the place & date

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of birth & death of James Finley the inventor of the first chain suspension bridge in the U.S. see pages 88, 106-7.

She says in 1796 (it was in 1801) he built the first iron suspension bridge on the U'town Gbg road over Jacobs Creeks. He is called Judge & Hon James Finley in Western Penna Hist Magazine where a sale of land was ackd before him as Judge of court of common Pleas of Fayette Co. He was apptd J.P. of Fay. Co in 1784. She thought he was probably born 1765 to 1770 it was 1762.Mr Kovan gives following references:Engineering News Vol L 3d no II Mch 16, 1905 page 269 in which cuts are included

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D.B. Stineman suspension Bridge page 285 1929 edition not in early edition.Ellis History of Fayette Co, Pa Page 154 where it says Finley & Gallatin were members of House of Rep. This was of the State legislature as by reference to the new 1928 Biog of congress, his name is not found.Prof D.K. Kovar said last night that in 1929 he saw an original deed to James or John Power for land in Fay Co which was shown to him by Jno M. Core of the Fayette Title & Trust Co who had close & settling Est of James Hadden

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make slip to see Core & see what other papers of Hadden he has. Am writing Miss Wirtz today.Dan R. Kovar's telephone is 1926-J. He says Prof Wm H. Cooke told him that he wrote the personal history articles or most of them in the 1882 Ellis History of Fay Co. He also said he saw in a 3 vol DeLuxe edition of the History of Fayette Co, Pa with James R. Barnes name on it an account of this James Finley. Investigate. It may have been Rev James [unreadable initial or small word] was it the Hadden Hist.

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3:11 PM Have just returned from the funeral of Evans Willson Hess, burial in Oak Grove Cem new part Pike side East of driveway. I have a letter dated Oct 29, 1931 from Mrs W.D. Carrithers 1937 Frankfort Ave Louisville Ky in answer to one I wrote her husband on Oct 12/31 who has sent me a notebook with the genealogy of their Ky Carrithers family which I have had Virginia copy & will return her book to her as she prizes it very highly.

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She is anxious to connect their Adam Carrithers SR born 1782 died 1858 & his father & mother James & Mary as we think there is a deed in Shelby Co, Ky Adam by James & Mary Carothers but nothing more. Make slip to look it up.Tradition is that they came to Ky in 1796 from Allegheny Co Pa & it is said that Adam had his name changed from Carothers to Carrithers & left the Pres Ch & sent [unreadable word] the Methodist Church. Adam built a Meth Church which became [best guess]

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was replaced by a new building standing & is called Carrithers Chapel & the old Family burial ground is nearby with Adam, wife & family buried there.She says all the data she is sending me is found in Court records & bible & g.y. & is entirely authentic. Says there are other collateral lines which in time she will be able to secure. Asks if the family has a Revolutionary War record

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& asks who is James & Mary who came to Ky with Adam.& where or there is an Andrew mentioned in deed & asks who are Adam's brothers & sisters.

Dec 16, 1931 4 PM I will now take up tabling the descendants of Adam Carrithers com on page 118. Sallie Hadden Cope here for 3 hours has just gone & told me her sister Wilhelmina Hadden Komle died Oct 6, 1931 in Pgh & is buried [unreadable word or words] here

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Mrs Wm D. Carrithers of Louisville, Ky says the record of the children of Adam Carrithers Sr by his second wife see page 119 can be gotten from Mrs Graham Lawrence, Shelbyville, Ky so I am writing her today for it.Christmas Day Dec 25, 1931 1 PM Have just finished the Carrithers record & am doing up the book to be registered back to Mrs Wm D. Carrithers Louisville, Ky & have written her a 12 page letter with 20 pages of questionnaire with 79 questions.


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Adam Carrithers born in Allegheny Co, Pa Oct 1, 1782 & died in Ky in 1858. He emigrated to Ky in 1796 with his parents James & Mary Carothers & he changed the spelling of his name to Carrithers & was married three times. Married 1 Sept 8, 1803 Mary Cunningham born 1785 & who died & had 5 children. Married 2 Dec 1, 1814 Mrs Elizabeth (Miller) Montgomery who was a widow with one child, Nancy born Jany 28, 1813 by her he had 7 children. Married 3 Nov 13, 1845 Asenath Harding b June 4, 1795 ob Mch 18, 1880. No issue by her. [children]

Francis Carrithers b Feby 9, 1805 ob married Feby 24, 1825 Ruth Nible see p 122William Carrithers b Oct 22, 1807 ob May 10, 1886 married Jany 21, 1830 Hannay [sic] Y. Davis b Mch 4, 1807 ob Nov 23, 1830 see page 12[unreadable]Charles Carrithers b Mch 12, 1809 ob June 27, 1889 married Aug 25, 1831 Elizabeth Dunbar b Jany 1, 1810 ob Feby [blotted] 1881 see p 124Jane Carrithers b Dec 11, 1810 ob Oct 3, 1838 married Aug 28, 1827 Simeon Moore [best guess] b Oct 31, 1804 ob Feby 27, 1873 see p 126Robert Carrithers b Nov 19, 1812 ob July 29, 1898 married 1 Sept 12, 1833 Edna Stallard married 2 Elizabeth [unreadable surname] b Nov 18, 1821 ob June 22, 189- see p 128Ruth Carrithers b Oct 2, 1815 ob married Feby 28, 1834 Delancy Dales [best guess]John M. Carrithers b Jany 9, 1818 ob Feby 21, 1868 had 2 children Stephen & JohnMary Carrithers b Mch 10, 1820 ob Mch 8, married James StallardJames T. Carrithers b Nov 17, 1822 ob May 20, 1824Joseph Carrithers b Mch 13, 1825 ob married 1 Elizabeth Hole married 2 Widow Figg had 2 children Ruben & TaylorAdam P. Carrithers b Sept 16, 1827 ob married Mollie Hally had 3 children, Billie, Eugene, & Mannir [sic]Isaac Carrithers b Oct 9, 1831 ob married Lida Downs had one child, Pearl

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William C. Carrithers see p 118 b Oct 22, 1807 ob May 10, 1886 married 1 Jany 21, 1830 Hannay Y. Davis b Mch 4, 1807 ob Nov 23, 1830. One child. Married 2 Apr 12, 1832 Elvira Frederick b Aug 25, 1814 ob Oct 7, 1876. Had 10 children. Married 3 Nov 20, 1877 Mrs S.E. Burton. No issue

[children]

James Carrithers b Nov 14, 1830 married Sept 5, 1854 Eliza FreemanJulia A. Carrithers b Oct 7, 1832 ob Feby 15, 1876 married Sept 7, 1854 Edwin Shouse see p 130Mary E. Carrithers b Oct 8, 1834 ob Nov 3, 1834Louisa J. Carrithers b Jany 2, 1836 ob Mch 1, 1836Margaret Carrithers b Apr 16, 1837 ob Apr 14, 1884 married Mch 15, 1855 John McKinley see page 131Pressley Neville Carrithers b Sept 11, 1839 ob Aug 28, 1841Adam Thomas Carrithers b Mch 8, 1482 ob Feby 2, 1910 married 1 Oct 6, 1864 Martha Robinson, married 2 Kate Reilley who left one child who d.y. Married 3 Nannie Crockett Katherine Carrithers ob in childhood by 2d wifeGeorge F. Carrithers b Aug 31, 1844 ob Mch 22, 1892 married Keziah McKinley b Dec 2, 1845 ob Jany 19, 1895 see p 132Robert P. Carrithers b Mch 26, 1847 ob Dec 9, 1910 married Mch 26, 1868 Mollie Mershon b Apr 23, 1843 ob Jany 30, 1905 see p 134Mildred Rebecca Ann Carrithers b Mch 26, 1847 ob Nov 25, 1916 married Dec 22, 1864 John Adam Hoke b Dec 16, 1843 see p 138Katie Asenith Carrithers b July 2[cut off] 1852 living married Oct 23, 1872 Stephen C. Scobee b Apr 2, 1849 ob Dec 2, 1882 see p 139.

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Francis Carrithers see page 118 born Feby 9, 1805 ob, Married Feby 24, 1825 Ruth Nible. Had 10 children.

[children]

John Carrithers obMary Jane Carrithers obElizabeth Carrithers obHester Carrithers obZachariah Carrithers obSara Carrithers obRebecca Carrithers obWilliam Carrithers b 1842 ob married a Clark fr Culpeper Va George Carrithers Frank Carrithers Elena Carrithers John Carrithers Bettie Carrithers Stanley CarrithersVirginia Susan Carrithers ob

Francis Carrithers ob

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Charles Carrithers see page 118 married Elizabeth Dunbar. Had 5 children

[children]

John Adam Carrithers b June 12, 1832Francis Oliver Carrithers b Dec 25, 1834Nancy Jane Carrithers b Feby 5, 1836Mary Elizabeth Carrithers b Sept 10, 1837Andrew Thomas Carrithers b May 8, 1839


[descendant chart]

Jane Carrithers see p 118 married Simeon Moore. Had 6 children

[children]

Sarah Jane Moore b Apr 12, 1829 married Wm PeteroffMary Elizabeth Moore b Apr 12, 1829 ob Dec 1891 married Wm YagerJames Adam Moore b Jany 6, 1832 married Irene SandersJohn Thomas Moore b Mch 10, 1834 ob May 11, 1891 see p 142Charles Wesley Moore b Mch 18, 1836 married Susan S. WoodsmallRuth Carrithers Moore b Mch 7, 1838 ob Nov 22, 1900 married James Robinson on Jany 12, 1860


[descendant chart]

Robert Carrithers see p 118 b Nov 19, 1812 ob July 29, 1895. He had 11 children, but names 13. Married 1 Sept 12, 1833 Edna Stallard. Had 9 children. Married 2 Elizabeth Russell b Nov 18, 1822 ob June 27, 1891 had 3 children.

[children]

James Carrithers b Nov 9, 1834 ob Sept 28, 1855Adam Carrithers b Jany 17, 1836 ob Jany 20, 1862Margaret Carrithers b Jany 21, 1838 ob Mch 25, 1918 married Oct 21, 1858 C.C. HokeNancy Carrithers4. Mary Carrithers b Apr 22, 1840 married Apr 15, 1865 Taylor Carpenter5. Edmond Carrithers b July 24, 1842 married Oct 22, 1867 to Laura Day6. Thomas David Carrithers b Dec 16, 1844 ob Jany 26, 1848

7. Frank Carrithers b Oct 13, 1847 ob Sept 2, 1916 married Dec 15, 1870 to Nora Miller8. Charles Carrithers b Oct 29, 1850 ob Mch 28, 1900 married Feby 24, 1881 to Alice Knapp9. Annie A. Carrithers b Oct 10, 1852 ob Aug 6, 1912 married Dec 18, 1872 to James Johnston10. Jodie Carrithers see p 131 b Mch 13, 185711. Martha Carrithers b Dec 15, 1858 ob Married Mch 4, 1880 to Huston Hunsinger12. Emma J. Carrithers b Dec 2, 1860 ob Oct 31, 1920 married Mch 4, 1880 to Chrisler Frederick

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Julia A. Carrithers see p 120 married Edwin Shouse

[children]

Melancthon Shouse ob Jany 29, 1865 aged 15 yrs killed by lightningRosie Shouse ob 1860 aged 2 yrsWilliam D. Shouse b 1862 ob 1924 married Linnie Allen. Have 3 children all living Allen Shouse Loraine Shouse Julia V. ShouseMary Cordelia Shouse b 1864 married Tom E. Pemberton had 2 children die in infancy & one living William E. Pemberton married Mary Mood & have 1 sonMargaret Shouse b 1868 married 1887 J.R. Bennett. No issue

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[descendant chart]

Margaret Carrithers see p 120 married John McKinley had 2 children

[children]

Daniel McKinley ob in infancyElla McKinley married Jodie Carrithers son of Robert. His name is Joseph R. see page 129 & had 3 children John Carrithers Billy Carrithers Hattie Carrithers

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George F. Carrithers see page 131 married Keziah McKinley & had 4 children.

[children]

Daniel Carrithers ob in infancyWilliam David Carrithers b Apr 17, 1866 married Jany 2, 1895 to Margaret B. Thompson. No issueNina B. Carrithers b Sept 13, 1868 married Apr 12, 1888 to J.B. King & have 5 children

Wm Bernard King b Mch 9, 1889 ob May 7, 1891 Naomi Keziah King b Oct 17, 1891 ob Nov 17, 1891

Gladys Ethel King b Apr 24, 1895 married Nov 18, 1920 Hugh McDonald & have 1 child, Nina Elsie b June 20, 1922

James Bryd [sic] King b Oct 23, 1899 ob June 8, 1906 Karl Carrithers King b Oct 30, 1896 ob Oct 4, 1918Charles Adam Carrithers b Apr 29, 1875 married 1904 to Frances Slaughter & have 2 children

Virginia Lee Carrithers b 1905 married Dwight Bray & have one child Dwight jr aged 4 yrs Charles Adam Carrithers Jr b 1913

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Robert P. Carrithers see p 121 married Mollie Mershom. Had 5 children

[children]

Pearl Carrithers b July 19, 1869 married June 28, 1899 Charles Ford DansomMargaret Frances Dansom b Aug 27, 1900 married Dec 16, 1920 N.W. Brownell & have 1 child

Margaret Frances Brownell b Jany 23, 1925 Mildred Pat Dansom b Nov 26, 1905Josephine Carrithers b Feby 1, 1872 ob May 25 1921 married June 1, 1898 Clarence C. Eblem & have 2 children see p 136Elvira Bell Carrithers b Aug 18, 1874 married 1. J.W. Griffith see p 137Florence D. Carrithers b Dec 28, 1879 married W.H. Emmat of Chicago, Ills & have 4 childrenGeorgia Ella Carrithers b May 15, 1882 married 1 June 20, 1904 Louis Voliz [Volz? Voluz?] Married 2 to Ray G. Bennett of CalifAlbert L.W. Carrithers b Feby 6, 1885 married June 30, 1909 Anna Prentiss Arnold of Palo Alto, Calif no issueLeroy Carrithers b Feby 27, 1885? married Irene Guersom of Chicago, Ills

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Josephine Carrithers see p 134 married Clarence C. Eblem

[children]

Marvin Eblem b July 13, 1900 married Oct 16, 1922 to Marie C. Ericson Marvin C. Eblem Jr b July 21, 1923 Clarence A. Eblem Marie Eblem Dorothy EblemMary Gladys Eblem b Oct 17, 1902 married 1 Oct 6, 1922 J.W. Whitehouse ob [Griffith scratched out, & Whitehouse written above it] Mary Jr Whitehouse Christine Whitehouse

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Elvira Bell Carrithers b Aug 18, 1874 see p 134 married 1 J.W. Griffith ob Dec 12, 1910 3 children Married 2 C.C. Calhoune of Calif

[children]

Ruth GriffithLynn GriffithWillard Griffith

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Mildred Rebecca Ann Carrithers see page 121 married John Adam Hoke & had 5 children

[children]

Charles Edward Hoke b Nov 22, 1866Lizzie Hoke b May 19, 1867 married Hartwell PickettWm Russell Hoke b Aug 16, 1873Julia Ann Hoke b Oct 11, 1874 ob in infancyInfant Son born & died Oct 23, 1879

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Katie Asenith Carrithers see page 121 married Stephen C. Scobie, had 4 children

[children]

Wm Ernest Scobie b Oct 20, 1873 married Sept 13, 1895 Ura A. Moore b Oct 24, 1875 Pansy Scobie b May 12, 1897 Christy Scobie b Sept 9, 1901 Mayme Scobie b May 9, 1911Ella Long Scobie b Mch 12, 1876 married Aug 26, 1902 Walter F. Hoffs b Dec 1, 1866 ob Aug 18, 1915 Arcenith Hoffs b June 27, 1903Mamie Sue Scobie b Mch 12, 1876 married Oct 10, 1895 to Richard Vandike b May 24, 1866 ob Mch 17, 1913 she died Aug 25, 1912 see p 140James C. Scobie b Apr 18, 1878 married June 29, 1903 to Bessie Thomas b Aug 3, 1881 James Robert Scobie b Nov 28, 1903

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Mamie Sue Scobie see page 139 married Richard Vandike 2 children [3 listed]

[children]

Mary Katharine Vandike b July 2, 1897 married July 27, 1918 Albert Williams b June 15, 1896 3 children Albert Williams Jr b Oct 4, 1919 Mary Evelyn Williams b Apr 13, 1922 Ella Louise Williams b Nov 17, 1923Evelyn Vandike b Feby 13, 1899 ob Feby 18, 1899William Richard Vandike b Sept 13, 1909


[descendant chart]

John Thomas Moore see p 126 married 1 Sept 6, 1858 Lucy Ann Stout b May 15, 1841 ob Sept 22, 1868 married 2 June 2, 1871 Rebeka McKinley b Sept 21, 1836 ob Oct 7, 1904

[no children listed]


Oak Hill Dec 26, 1931 10:15 AM I have a letter dated Dec 24, 1931 from Mrs Ruhamah Finley Lardner of Duluth, Minn giving me an old address of Mrs Elizabeth Finley Leonard viz 224 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky who she thinks is probably dead, but thinks some of her family would get the letter so I am writing her today. Make slip also. She says her sister, Mary was the mother of Clem Flagler whose death I reported to her & his sister Bessie. She was author of some books to children

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Oak Hill Dec 27, 1931 1 PM I have a letter postmarked Dec 24, 1931 from Emma A. Cross RR 2 Aledo, Ills see pages 18 & 19. She gives some more of her Finley line & says that he who her mother Dorcas Finley 1822-1876 see p 18 called Uncle James Finley & who took her to raise was born in 1776 & died Mch 7, 1853 & I am tabling the information she now sends on page [blotted]. She got this information from Bessie Finley 707 S. Walnut St Aledo, Ills, great granddaughter of James to whom I wrote last night as she advised for the record of his descendants & who she says has among old papers, a receipt for $2.50 paid by a Wm Finley for John Finley decd or

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heirs for recording a deed in Mason Co KY which she will copy for me so I am writing her today to do so & to send me any other old papers of value genealogically. Miss Cross says the children in her grandfather Wm Finley's family were put out two in a family except her mother & one other & they went alone in a family.Aunt Mary J. Finley Farquhar & Uncle Thomas the baby were together. Aunt Sarah Finley just younger than mother was with an older sister. I judge mother was 6 or 8 yrs older as I think I heard them talk of Uncle Tommy being two years of age. Dr Thomas McCague visited here 35 or 43 yrs ago, think his mother was a

Finley.

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Russell Bartlett's mother was a sister of hisRev McCauge was sent out as a missionary by the U.P. Church to Egypt about 1858. He claimed relationship & talked of Liggetts in Ohio that her brother C. Reed Cross reminded him of the Liggetts being related.She says she lived in Olathe, Kan 18 mos & had she known it then would have called to see Mrs Mary George. She & her niece were both strangers there but says she may write to someone there & ask if she is still livingI used to hear my folks talk about the McIntire's a General McIntire & a Peter McIntire. I don't know whether Patsy was the General's wife or his sisterThey were abolitionists & concerned in the underground RR helping runaway slaves escape. Says she has written to a daughter of Uncle Tommy Finley of Wheeling WVA & may get dates of his birth & death. Make slip.

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He was buried in Benton Co, Iowa. His first wife was buried there. His 2nd wife took her 3 children & went back to Wheeling WVA or near Wheeling WVA to her people. She was a cousin of my father. Am writing her to get Tommy's record.Says she found Mary Finley in cemetery at Cherry Fork, O but could not claim any for sure (they were all of her family) & asks if I had the names of Leander & Erastus Finley who came from Adams Co O but didn't claim relationship (but they were related) with us. There was another brother but I can't remember his name. They were near my parents age. The maiden name of Erastus's wife was Hart. She & my mother went to school together.

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Oak Hill Dec 28, 1931 9:15 AM I have a letter in answer to mine dated Dec 19, 1931 from Mrs E.B. Eddy Grand Junction Mich see about page 18 saying that she cannot give any information about her grandmother Farquhar's family only that she was a Finley & was born at Cherry For, O. She was Mary Jane Finley daughter of William Finley see page 18. Am writing her again for list of her grandmother's children & their descendants of reference as to who can & who has bible records

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Arda Bates St Clair Rorison sends a Christmas card from Los Angeles Calif rejoicing that she is not in the hospital as she was last Christmas & asking about the Delameters & Peairs & saying that Narcissa Vanderlip is again a grandmother. She didn't give her address.

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I have a letter dated Dec 21, 1931 in answer to mine from Frank Carrithers Taylorsville, Ky now with the State Highway Dept says that the first Carrithers to come to Ky was Adam Carrithers born 1782 who came in 1802 & his son Francis was his grandfather & Francis's son William was his father. His gf born 1805 see page 122 & his father William born 1842 see p 123 both born in same house, each had several children. He says his grandfather's sister Ruth had several children.

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I have a letter dated Dec 16, 1931 in answer to mine from Mrs Ruhamah Finley Lardner 401 Exchange Bldg Duluth, Minn in which she says an unfortunate thing happened in her young life to claim Flagler's sister Bessie who was a harum scarum girl much like many of the present day who one day caught a nigger stealing apples from their orchard & threatening him pointed a gun at him which she didn't know was loaded pulled the trigger & killed the nigger. She was tried & convicted & sentenced to one day in jail which she spent in the Shff's house

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with her mother, but it so nearly unhinged her reason that she later married the doctor who treated her through her illness & moved to Cape Breton, Prince Edwards Isle where she thinks she still lives having had a couple children but she does not know her married name. She says there is to be a wedding about Mch 20th [unreadable word] when she will get some more information & write me. I think she says her father went to Jefferson I suppose she means College

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A letter dated Dec 20, 1931 from Mrs Geo H. Pinney now at 2957 S. Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, Calif says she has some more dates of birth & death which I am writing her tonight to send. I am sending her her [faded word or words] as shown on page 94 [best guess second digit] this book.

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Oak Hill Dec 29, 1931 10:46 AM A letter dated Dec 8, 1931 in answer to mine from Mrs Catherine L. Eskridge 120 Logan Ave, Leavenworth Kansas says her father had two Uncles John & Thomas Carothers & says Nancy is the daughter of Thomas Carothers I think & Dr John Carothers was his son. Nancy married a Prof Armstrong & they had two children James & William Armstrong. James was a member of Buell's staff in Civil War & killed in battle. William was at our home in Mo in 1879 on his way home from Florida where he

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lost his wife & child. She enclosing a clipping dated Dec 7, 1931 at St Joseph Mo saying that Miss Isabel Bartlett Farwell aged 58 of Freeport Ills (make Freeport slip) had died in a hospital there as a result of injuries recd Friday in a motor car accident near Cameron Mo from a tire blowing out. Mrs Eskridge says this is a [unreadable word] to what I was asking about Louise Farwell (nee Aurand?) of Freeport, Ills

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A letter date Dec 11, 1931 from W. Ewing Rankin Upper Middletown Pa says his old deed was made Jany 4, 1872 from Priscilla Austin to Robert M. Modisett for a portion of land patented to Samuel Stevens in Franklin Tp, Fay Co, Pa on the mud pike from Davidsons Ferry to Connellsville, Pa ctg 321 A 24p for $12,000 Recorded in deed book 4 pages 461-2 Jany 8, 187- by Joseph Beatty

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I have a letter dated Dec 5, 1931 in answer to one I had written his daughter Sevilla, from B.F. Carothers of 1405 S. 47th St, Tacoma, Wash whose record I got about Sept 1921 at Champaign, Ills who says his son Loven [best guess] was killed in an accident at Corminn [best guess] Mich in 1927. He had seen in papers last Dec all

my throat troubles. They moved to Tacoma in July 1928 to visit two daughters & remained there. Writing him today.

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Oak Hill Dec 31, 1931 9:42 AM This is the last day of a very distressful financial year Gelying [sic] the "omes" [sic] which for 60 years past have as a rule been good. Let us hope that 1932 will bring greatly improved business conditions. It is also the birthday anniversary of Isa Feather Byers born to James I. Feather & his first wife in 1876 in Smithsfield Pa & Louise H. Whaley born to Geo W. Litman Jr & his wife nee Gardner in the Peoples Bank Bldg corner West Main & Arch St, Uniontown Pa in 1882 about one week after Capt Adam C. North was shot & killed on the street by N.L. Dukes

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Mrs Lida Robinson of 305 Morgantown St, City at office of Lee Smith 2d floor Cray Bldg from 3 to 4:15 PM today said they had but two children both named for their parents viz: Lida born in June 1918 & John L. born in Mch 1920. We were there with her Atty Dan Robinson to meet Lee Smith Atty of Mrs Crawford who bought the 161 Union St property from John L. Robinson for $8200 & who rendered Mrs Robinson a statement showing she owed $6726 in Nov 1930 equal to $7160 now against which are Mrs Robinson's first mtge of $2000 & 5 mos int & my 2d mtge of $5000 dated Jany 31, 1924 with

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1 yr & 11 mos int & I agreed to settle on her figures & satisfy my mtge throwing off enough of my interest to make settlement meet her figure & Mrs Robinson agreed to satisfy her mtge on payt in full with int & Mr Smith thought Mrs Crawford could place it in ome [sic] mtge when she got a deed. which Mrs Robinson & Dan agreed to give & all commended me fr making such a settlement possible. Mr Smith will see his client & her husband James A. Crawford who worked for the West Penn & let us know next week.

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Oak Hill Jany 1, 1932 10 AM Friday I hope & believe we will have much better business conditions before the close of the second quarter. I have a letter dated Dec 30, 1931 from Prof Henry S. Jacoby Prof of Bridge Engineering Emeritus who says he has his Jacoby Genealogy 12 mo 328 copies of 680 pages each printed by the Lancaster, Pa Press Inc whose estimate was $1000 below the best New England printers & the cost was viz:Composition $1600Press work & paper 750Binding & stamping 205Carton & labels 48Postage 19 cts a copy 26. 03

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I have a letter dated Mch 27, 1931 from Miss K.M. Conlon 1402 Frick Bldg Pgh, Pa answering one I wrote Mr Frank McCune saying the missing leaves from the old German Bible (Casper Markle's) saying he believes they are lost but he will make further search for them when he gets stronger & will forward any records he finds. He died however shortly thereafter

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I have a letter dated Feby 8, 1926 from A.S. Kincaid 218 Court St, Pekin Ills Tel 108 in answer to my letter of Nov 25, 1925 to his father John Blair Kincaid asking information about his marriage & their children which information he says will be collected within a week & forwarded to me without delay which so far I have no I have not recd. Says they want a book. Writing him today.

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I recd yesterday a letter with Christmas & New Year's cards & a prayer from cousin Sister Mary of the Angels of the Monastery of an Dominic 13th Ave South West Newark NJ with felicitations & saying she would write me in about a week. I have just written her an eleven page letter. I have a letter dated Aug 21, 1931 from Alverna Markle Dean of Boulevard Apts, Cheyenne Wyo who says she got a letter from me in 1923 but in the throes of housecleaning it was lost & she got

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my name again when her daughter, Marian Dean Miller in answer to her letter about last July got the wonderful Markle record I sent her. She asks abt Genl Joseph L. Markle about whom she used to hear her father, Thomas Markle (see my Jany 11, 1923 records) talk. Says they went west in 1871 when she was six years old & in 1875 her mother went back to Earlville, Ills for treatment for cancer & died when she was 10 yrs old. Says that in 1881 she married John J. Dean a

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British Canadian & raised ten children to manhood & womanhood & her little Gertrude died in infancy. She sends a two page sheet in a large envelope giving her own dates & those of her children which I will table tomorrow as it is now 5:30 PM & dark. The record above referred to did not give what I expected, was mailed Sept 2, 1931 & was apparently from her daughter Marian Dean Miller See next page. Thomas Markle was born in Luzerne Co, Pa see page 170.

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Thomas Ware Markle see b 9 p 210 born Oct 29, 1825 ob Dec 23, 1915 son of George Markle b Mch 5, 1795 who died Oct 15, 1875 who married Mary Bowman born Apr 19, 1805 & died Feby 28, 1889. He was son of Christian Markle born Nov 26, 1761 & died 1842. Married Apr 14, 1848 to Louisa A. Pratt b Jany 11, 1831 in Luzerne Co, Pa & died July 11, 1876. Her mother was Elizabeth Taylor Pratt.

[children]

1. Rosabelle Markle ob in infancy2. Corabelle Markle ob in childhood see p 229-313. Harvey Markle ob in childhood4. Virginia Markle ob in childhood5. Alverna Markle b Jany 13, 1865 married Dec 22, 1881 John James Dean born Apr 17, 1855 ob Dec 2, 1907 Their 8 youngest children born near LaSalle, Colo

Sherman Wilkinson Dean b Mch 15, 1883 in Laramie, Wyo P.O. Briar Cliff Manor NY see p 180 in World War

Edna Dean b June 10, 1884 b in Laramie, Wyo ob Feby 24, 1920 Boyerstown, Pa see p 181 Iva Dean b Dec 26, 1885 in Greely Colo see page 183 Harvey Hardesty Dean b June 28, 1887 ob July 4, 1830 see p 182 Gertrude Dean b Nov 25, 1899 ob Jany 11, 1890

Rose Minerva Dean b Nov 29, 1890 ob Oct 26, 1918 grad 1908 Red Cross nurse World War died of influenza unmarried

Jesse Parker Dean b May 2, 1893 p 184 Louies [best guess] Bruce Dean b June 2, 1896 see p 185 Allen Moir Dean b Mch 25, 1899 see p 187

Mariam Eunice Dean married Norman Miller she born Sept 1, 1903 see p 189 Helen Louise Dean Aug 11, 1905 see p 188

6. Sherman Markle b Feby 19, 1867 at Belvidere, Ills see page 190

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From 164He enlisted in Civil War in 1861 & served 1 yr in army of Potomac in infantry, 7th Reg Pa reserves 50 Army corps & at end of that time was too broken in health to re-enlist. At close of Civil War, he moved to Illinois, living there & in Iowa until 1870 when he cam to Wyoming & lived there until 1884 when he moved to Colorado where he has since made his home. He was of an unusually beautiful Christian character having served his Master since his 23d year of which 4 yrs was in active service

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as Elder & S.S. supt. Was a Squire in Wyoming being J.P. for 8 yrs. He was so active in settling differences that the Judge of the court especially approved his good record. He leaves a son Sherman Markle of LaSalle & a daughter Alverna Dean of Beebe, Draw, 11 grandchildren & 2 great grandchildren & also 3 brothers & 2 sisters B.B. Markle of Greeley Colo J.B. Markle of Littleton, Colo & S.B. Markle of Montrose, Colo. Mrs John Jory of Elwell Iowa & Mrs George Casper of Camton S.D. Interment in Linn Grove Cem.

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Another clipping is of the passing of my good friend Jesse B. Markle who died July 5, 1925 at Littleton, Colo as shown in the Independent of July 10, 1925 pneumonia caused his death, having been but ill a short time. He was 88 yrs old & a veteran of the Civil War & had lived in Littleton & vicinity many years. He was born in Luzerne Co, Pa Apr 13, 1837 where he spent his boyhood & moved with his parents to Boone Co Ills in 1858

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He married Mary Jory Oct 23, 1864 & had 3 sons: Charles B. who was killed in Mexico Feby 18, 1904, Reuben R. of Medicine Hate, Alberta & James Harvey of Grand Co, Colo. He & his wife came to Colo in 1882 & settled on a farm in Denver on Broadway a mile east & half a mile south of Littleton Colo & lived there until 1905 & then moved into Littleton. He enlisted in Co C 13th Reg of Wisconsin Inf & served 3 years on Sept 18, 1861

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& was honorably discharged Feby 6, 1863. He was a Mason & for many yrs was Tyler [sic] of the Lodge of No 22 A.F.A.M. of Littleton. He was admitted to the Channing Lodge NO 250 of McHenry Co Ills Oct 25,

1862. He was tyler abt 30 yrs he is survived by 2 sons & his widow who is critically ill at this time. Funeral from Pres Ch & by the Masons interment in Littleton Cem.

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Mrs Marion Dean Miller of No 24 Boulevard Apts Cheyenne Wyo writing Sept 1, 1931 says she encloses above two obituary & says Uncle Ben Markle's daughter, Mrs Maude Markle Sides will provide the data of her branch. The children of my Aunt Margaret, Caroline, May & Frances have not yet replied to my inquiries.She sends me 40 pages of questionnaires she had send out some questions answered & with many blanks which she wants filled

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Blanche Loraine Markle Anderson see book 9 page 602 has a fifth child born since I got their record viz:Joyce Marilyn Anderson born Nov 22, 1926 at Montrose Colorado.Minnie Alverna Markle Carklinft [sic] b 9 p 604 adopted two children viz Frank Huston Sherrockuhhuff [sic] born at Pueblo Col Jany 6, 1920 Harriet Elizabeth Sherrock Carkhaft [or Carkhaff] b at Pueblo Col Dec 28, 1922

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In giving Alverna Markles Dean's record, she says she was born in Huntingdon, Luzerne Co, Pa. Make slips. & says he [sic] was married Dec 22, 1881 at Centennial Wyoming to John James Dean born in Toronto, Canada Apr 17, 1855 son of Joshua Hardesty Dean & wife Martha Reedy see p 190. Frank Daniel Pless father Isaiah Byrd Pless was directly related to Admiral Byrd of the navy & his mother Nancy Charity Cody was a relative of Buffalo Bill viz Wm F. Cody.10 PM Jany 2, 1932

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Sherman Wilkinson Dean b Mch 15, 1883 see p 168 married June 26, 1918 in Paris France to Huyza May Barton b Sept 1, 1885 at Maywood, Ill daughter of George P. Barton & wife Lucy Nichols. Lives Briar Cliff Manor NY. Have two children born in New York City. B.A. 1911 Colorado College

[children]

Lester Barton Dean b Nov 30, 1920Lucy Nichols Dean Apr 25, 1923

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Edna Dean see p 168 b June 10, 1884 ob Feby 24, 1920 married Oct 26, 1912 at the homestead, LaSalle Colo to David Preston Wysong Jr b Feby 11, 1884 at Vineyard, Hemford Co Md son of David Preston Wysong & wife Rebecca Newbold. He is a civil engineer. Have two children. She buried in Linn Grove Cem, Greeley,

Colo

[children

Margaret Edna Wysong b Oct 11, 1913 at Lock Raven Md grad of high school & Hannah More Academy IndHelen Dean Wysong b July 9, 1915 at Glydom, Md now in high school

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Iva Dean see page 168 b Dec 26, 1885 present address Starke, the Manse, Florida married Nov 28, 1918 at LaSalle, Colo to George H. Lowry born June 67, 1869 at Maryville, Tenn son of Wm Henry Lowry & wife Isabel Edmands. Have 1 child. George H. Lowry is a Pres minister Maryville College, Tenn 1894 D.D. 1927 Aubonn [best guess] Theolog Seminary

[children]

Margaret Alverna Lowry b May 10, 1922 at Laramie, Wyo. Now in grad schools at Starke, Fla.

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Harvey Hardesty Dean see p 168 b June 28, 1887 ob July 4, 1933 at Wheatland, Wyo married Apr 16, 1918 at Berkeley, Calif to Grace Ellsworth Laughlin b Dec 18, 1885 at Platteville, Colorado daughter of John Laughlin & wife Jessie Ross. He was in heavy artillery U.S. Marine Corps [unreadable word looks like Mept] occupation farming. No children reported

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Jesse Paul Dean p 169 b May 189[faded married Apr 30, 1929 at Ridgefield NJ to Marguerite Annabella Jossier b Jany 28, 1904 at New York City daughter of Paul J. Jossier & wife Annabelle Conroy. Present address 1 East Harriet Ave, Palisades Park NJ enlisted May 23, 1917 at Denver Colo in Co 73 60 th Marines branch U.S. Marine Corp 2d Div A.E.F. in World War, discharged Sept 10, 1919 at Norfolk, Va occupation Interior decorator. No children reported

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Thomas Bruce Dean see p 169 b June 2, 1896 married June 5, 1918 at Denver Colo to Lucille Dennhardt born May 18, 1901 at Colorado Springs Colo daughter of Paul Leonard Dennhardt & wife Julia Ida Fellows. Have 4 children 1st one born in Denver Colo & other three in Greeley, Colo studied law, enlisted July 18, 1918 Co 93 Balloon Co air service Discharged Jany 10, 1919 Camp John Wise San Antonio Texas occupation newspaper

[children]

Betty Lou Dean b Apr 8, 1919Rose Marie Dean b Oct 27, 1922Julia Fellows Dean Aug 1, 1924Alice Lucille Dean b July 24, 1928

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Orville Norman Jory see b 9 p 212 born June 14, 1874 farmer near Maswill Iowa, Story Co married Oct 30, 1907 at Canton S.D. to Mabel Eliza Niyhart [sic] b Mch 9, 1874 at Jamesville Wis daughter of James Clyde Niyhart & wife Sarah Lorina Coverl 3 children all born in Story Co Iowa near Maxwill Iowa. He wants a book when published

[children]

Eleanor Eugenia Jory b Sept 15, 1908 educated at Iowa UniversityJennie May Jory b Sept 20, 1909Norma Leora Jory b Aug 11, 1911 Pilot license in Air Navy

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Allen Moir Dean see p 169 b Mch 28, 1899 present address Leonic NJ or care of S.W. Dean 347 Madison Ave, NY married Oct 21, 1930 at the Little Church around the corner NY to Emily Victoria Perssom of Brooklyn NY daughter of Frans Perssom & wife. No issue. Grad of Beebe High School LaSalle Colo wife is grad of Pratt Institute & both are art students. Artist & illustrator contract with McCalls Pub Co.

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Helen Louise Dean see p 169 b Aug 11, 1905 married Jany 6, 1924 at Denver Colo to Paul DeMotte Lorrick b Oct 7, 1904 son of Justice Sumner Lorrick & wife Stella Turkle. Paul is a chemist address 3225 Osage, St Louis, Mo. Have one child born in St Louis, Mo

[children]

Maryonne Lorrick b Jany 8, 1925Dean DeMotte Lorrick b Oct 20, 1931 in St Louis Mo

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[descendant chart]

Marian Eunice Dean see p 168 b Sept 1, 1903 married Sept 18, 1929 in St Louis, Mo to Norman A. Miller b July 8, 1901 at Leadville, Colo son of Sven A. Miller & wife Caroline Carlson both living & both natives of Sweden, educated Beebe Draw Public School & Colorado teachers college at Greeley Colo. Norman at Sage

Creek Public High school & 3 yrs at Univ. of Wyoming. Representative fr Union Pacific RR at Cheyenne Wyo where they live at No 21 Boulevard Apts. No children given.

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Sherman Markle see p 168 b Feby 19, 1867 married Nov 28, 1894 at Kinndell Neb to Mae Eckerson b Oct 11, 1875 at Darlington Wis daughter of Thomas J. Eckerson & wife Ann Jones. Have two children both born in LaSalle, Colo

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Hazel Mae Markle b Sept 19, 1895 married Sept 26, 1924 at LaSalle Colo to Frank D. Pless b Nov 22, 1897 at Cruso NC son of Isaiah Byrd Pless & wife Nancy Charity Cody. Had 2 children both born in LaSalle, Colo Sherman Byrd Pless b June 28, 1925 ob July 15, 1925 Frank Harvey Pless b Sept 5, 1926Alma Edna Markle b Nov [best guess] 1898 ob Sept 1899

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Oak Hill Jany 3, 1932 4:46 PM Sunday Go to Washington, Mason Co Ky & hunt up the old records of the Presbyterian Church there & see if grandfather Andrew Finley Thompson joined & when & if his age was given & whether he became an Elder. Also whether grandmother Leah joined 1818-1824 & her age if given. Also if great grandmother Mary Jack Thompson & after 1803 Logan joined say shortly after 1790 if by letter from Mt Pleasant Pa & whether her age was given. Go too to Mt Pleasant Pa & see if ggf Wm Thompson was not a member of Rev James Power's Ch [unreadable word]

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Oak Hill Jany 4, 1932 9:44 AM Miss Estelle Finley of Columbia Tenn writing from Centreville, Tenn sends the following addresses from Telephone directory [faded word]W.D. Carothers Centreville, TennG. Grady Carothers Centreville, TennS.G. Carothers Centreville, TennC.E. Carothers Centreville, TennJ.D. Carothers Centreville, TennShe thinks S.G. Carothers would likely take more interest as he is an older man & President of the Bank there. Also finds J.H. Patterson Centreville Tenn etc. Also says has been asked to help [several faded words]

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A letter dated Jany 1, 1932 in answer to mine from Mary C. Lawrence, Mrs Graham Lawrence of Shelbyville, Ky saying she had sent the records I asked for to me several years ago - offers her services to help compile & carefully index the record of her branch as she is experienced in such work. Says she would typewritten [sic] & would do it cheaper than anyone else by reason of her interest

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Oak Hill Jany 6, 1932 11:11 AM Yesterday's Morning Herald announced the death at her home near New Salem, Pa of Miss Edith R. Moss aged 56 on Monday morning Jany 4, 1932 at 5:40 AM from pneumonia. Burial this morning in Syloam Heights Cemetery. She was daughter of Joseph H. Moss & was reported survived by one sister & two nieces.

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Oak Hill Jany 8, 1932 10:10 AM I have a letter dated Nov 24, 1931 from cousin Georgia D. Roat of 376 E. Mahoning St, Milton, Pa saying she had found in an old safety box a worn & torn pamphlet giving the 1812 war record of great Uncle Genl Joseph Markle with the date of publication gone but issued probably she thinks when he ran for Governor. She says she was enclosing it with her letter but it was not enclosed.

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She says it gives his father, Casper & grandfather John Christian Markle of Moselem Springs & she says disproves the contention of John Markle of No 2 Rector St (gotten by him from Anjou) that his ancestor Christian was a son of Casper. Am writing her today to send me the pamphlet. She sends record of her brother

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Samuel Derickson son of William Derickson & wife Mary E. Folmer & says to destroy the record of him which she formerly sent from which I infer if there is a difference (she does not give book or page) that this is the correct one so I am tabling it on the next page No 198.

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Samuel Derickson born Oct 3, 1859 at Milton, Pa son of William Derickson & his wife Mary E. Folmer. Married Mch 3, 1886 Annie E. Emerson born July 5, 1869 in Blue Earth City Minn daughter of John Emerson & wife Eliza Clement. Had 8 children, the first one born in Dorsey, Neb, the 7th at Middle branch Neb & the other 5 at Niobiana, Neb

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Edward Vincent Derickson b Feby 4, 1887Sarah Derickson b Mch 8, 1889William Wood Derickson Jr b Jany 6, 1891 married July 29, 1914 at O'Neill Neb to Cecelia Throckmorton, daughter of Elmer & Mary Throckmorton see p 202 [which shows] Have 7 children all born at Dorsey, Neb William Harold Derickson b Sept 29, 1917 Albert John Derickson b Sept 5, 1919 Mildred Esther Derickson b Mch 27, 1921 June Mae Maxine Derickson b Dec 9, 1922 Vivian Lucile Derickson b Jany 12, 1924

Norma Jean Derickson b Feby 11, 1926 Mabel Jeanette Derickson b Jany 11, 1930 Georgia Markle Derickson b Nov 20, 1893 married May 29, 1920 at Dorsey Neb to Clarence Butterfield son of Jet & Queen Butterfield[Blotted first name] Jeanette Derickson b Oct 26, 1895John Leslie Derickson b June 13, 1897 married Oct 27, 1920 at O'Neill Neb to Pearl Mitchell daughter of Moses & Bessie Mitchell see p 201 [which shows] Had 2 children 1st one born in Dorsey Neb & next at Venus, Neb. Lester John Derickson b May 4, 1922 Virginia Maria Derickson b July 30, 1925 Marian Elizabeth Derickson b Dec 14, 1899 married June 10, 1921 at Dorsey Neb to Oral Pickering son of William & Myrtle Pickering see page 200 [which shows] Had twin girls born at Dorsey Neb Olive Darlyne Pickering b Feby 17, 1924 [twin] Vera Arlyne Pickering b Feby 17, 1924 [twin] Olive Virginia Derickson b Mch 27, 1912

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Oak Hill Jany 9, 1932 9:50 AM I have a letter dated Jany 4, 1932 from Mrs Clara Carruthers, Chillwack B.C. Canada in answer to mine to her son Gerald Carruthers of Tacoma, Wash in which she says her husband is Christopher Carruthers, son of Robert who was son of James Carruthers & they came to Canada about 1842. Says if this is the family I seek to write to Mrs May Cook Spencerville, Ont. Am writing both today

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I have a letter dated Nov 24, 1931 in answer to mine from Beatrice Bell 909 Second St, Mt Vernon Washington which is postmarked there Jany 5, 1932. She refers to b 25 p 192. Mary Ida Clothier [best guess] has been cashier of Pacific Telephone Co for 28 yrs at Bellingham Wash. Daisy Bell Foster is employed for 15 yrs as reporter & editor on Bellingham Herald & Mt Vernon Daily Herald. Wm Bell operated a wood carving machine. Raymond Bell operates projection machine in motion picture theatre. Beatrice Bell my informant manages an information bureau see p 210.

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Marguerite Thompson see b 25 p 1923 b Nov 27, 1849 married Jany 10, 1871 at Meadville, Pa to Joseph Jackson Bell born Dec 26, 1846 at Cochranton, Pa son of John Bell & wife Lydia Adams. He was in the oil business & afterwards a merchant most of his life. Reports 5 children the 1st & 3d born in Cochranton, Pa the 2d

at Cairns City, Pa the 4th at Pueblo Colo & the 5th at Bellingham, Wash.

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Mary Ida Bell b Oct 26, 1871 married Sept 22, 1894 Arthur Wellington Clothier now divorced 1 child born in Bellingham, Wash.

Lyle Bell Clothier b Apr 13, 1897 married Aug 1925 in Mt Vernon Wash Amy Fern Covey Lyle Bell Clothier Jr B Oct 24, 1928 in Bellingham, WashDaisy Lydia Bell b Feby 17, 1874 married Feby 1911 to Harold Jerome Foster divorced & no issueWilliam Joseph Bell b Dec 29, 1876 in Bellingham married 1900 Edith Holbrook have 7 children see page 208 [which shows] 1st one born in Paradise Wash, 2d & 5th born in Clipper Wa, 3d in Marietta Wa, 4th in Bellingham Wa 6 & 7th in Seattle Wa

Elsie Virginia Bell b May 13, 1902 married 1921 or 1922 Harold Carlson 1 child born in Seattle, Wash

June Adair Carlson b June 3, 1923 Don Holbrook Bell b Jany 16, 1904 Forrest Gaylord Bell b Oct 18, 1909 William Vernon Bell b Aug 30, 1911 Marguerite Josephine Bell b Aug 24, 1913 William Holden Bell b May 12, 1920 Loren Foster Bell b July 16, 1921 Raymond Rhodes Bell b July 27, 1882 married 1909 Chloe Fizer in Bellingham Wash have 1 child born there Gaylord Joseph Bell b Mch 22, 1910Margaret Beatrice Bell b Feby 15, 1892 married June 27, 1928 to Lawrence Brokenshire & divorced. My informant for this record lives 909 Second St, Mt Vernon, Wash

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From p 205She says her mother does not know exact date of birth of her mother Mary Patton Thompson but says she was 92 when she died. She never heard her father Joseph Thompson mention any brothers or sisters of his but she often heard him talk of his father & mother. Her father's father was killed by a tree falling on him many years before the death of her father & mother. The mother lived with my mother's father many years but as it was before my mother's birth she does not know the date. She thinks her father was an only child. She says her mother's brother Joseph see b 25 p 192

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had 2 sons & 1 daughter. James Thompson Chicora, Pa, Mrs Annie Cumberlin Chicora, Pa RD 2, Hugh Thompson believed by his brother to be dead as he has not been heard of for many years.Her brother Will Thompson decd see b 25 p 192 had & [sic] 3 sons & 3 daughters living:1. Mrs Lillie Byers, Boyers, Pa2. Mrs Annie Beighley 522 Mifflinn ST, Butler Pa3. Mrs Hessie Hutchinson West Sunbury, Pa RD 44. Samuel P. Thompson West Sunbury Pa RD 45. Ross Thompson West Sunbury Pa RD 46. Philatus Thompson 274 W. Diamond St, Butler Pa

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Her brother Robert Thompson decd see b 25 p 192 has 4 sons & 1 daughter living:1 Martin G. Thompson Keisters Pa Route 12. Melvin H. Thompson West Sunbury, Pa3. Robert Thompson Clayton, Pa 4. Mrs Rosalie E. Manning 945 [rest of entry crossed out reads Chestnut St, Franklin, Pa.]She evidently has not given one son.Her half brother James Thompson decd b 25 p 192 has 2 sons & 1 daughter living:1. G.W. Thompson West Sunbury, Pa2. W.B. Thompson Brancthton, Pa3. Mrs Lizzie B. Hughes 793 Liberty ST, Meadville, Pa

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Her sister Annie Bellingsley see b 25 p 192 has 2 daughters living:1. Mrs Ida Kelley Slippery Rock Pa2. Mrs Jane Stoops West Sunbury, Pa RD 4Her sister Sadie - Sarah Ann (decd) Kelley b 25 p 193 has 2 daughters & 1 son living:1. Mrs Jennie Schweibert, New Castle Pa RD 72. Mrs Minnie Canan New Castle, Pa3. Seymour Kelley New Castle, Pa RD &Her sister Martha McElroy Decd see b 25 p 193 has 3 sons & 3 daughters living:1. Melvin McElroy Emlenton, Pa RFD2. John W. McElroy Medaryville Ind3. James H. McElroy Jr 307 Cooper Ave Oil City, Pa

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4. Mrs Saml H. Corbett Utica, Pa5. Mrs J.T. Joseph Parkers Landburg [best guess] Pa RD 666. Mrs J.M. McQuiston Clintonville, PaThe above is the correct list of my mother's brothers & sisters as I had to compile them for the settlement of her sister Mary E. Rhoades estate b 25 p 193.The name of her two living brothers, Oliver Thompson 232 E. Clay St Butler, Pa & Taylor Thompson Natl Military Home Dayton, O.Mother remembers that the name of her father's mother was Christiana Anderson. Write me if we can be of any further assistance.

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Will write her asking if her mother can tell which is the best one in each family to write to for record. Make slips for all. I saw Atty Dan Robinson this forenoon at the Commissioners office & he said he would have assignment of the first mtge on 161 Union St assigned & the record receipted showing a balance of $2000 prin & all interest paid this month & could make Mrs Crawford a deed & allow me to have the $300 or so Mrs Crawford is ready to pay go on my 2d mtge. Judge J.W. Dawson gave me a pkg which Mrs McDuffet?

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said contained all of my papers, check books & checks which were given to him in court Dec 1930 by my attorney E.C. Higbee I then went to the Registers office & had Darrell W. Smiley, clerk look up the following Stevens wills:Will book 2 p 306Benj Stephens, George Tp wife Ruth dated Aug 9, 1833 Pro May 10, 1844 signed as above not of our family.Will book no 1 p 142Will of Benjamin Stevens of Fayette Co dated 1803 Pro Mch 25, 1814 gives son Harry 5 shillings & mentions

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son Benjamin & grandson Wm Cullen Stevens (who was the father of John G. & Clara Stevens). This son was Dr Benj Stevens & with his brother Harry married each of them a daughter of Elisha & Elizabeth Peairs. His wife was ElizabethWill of Samuel Stevens dated Mch 8, 1797 probated Sept 5, 1797. He left his property to his wife Nancy for

life & at her death to go to his daughter Priscilla. This was Priscilla Austin who I knew who lived to be abt 97 widow of John M. Austin & mother of Mrs R.M. Modisett. Make slips to examine these wills further.

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He did not find any wills of Harry Stevens & Vachel Stevens. Make slips to look for Harry's will at Wheeling WVA (also for Elisha) & to look at Washington Pa for Vachel's or for settlement of his estate at Uniontown, Pa. Darrell also read over the list of stocks aggregating $106,000 of the $138,621.10 appraisement of the personal effects of the late George Patterson decd Rose's first cousin among which the principal ones were:Bethlehem Steel Ltd $26,000Chicago Rock Island & Pacific 20,000Anaconda Copper [unreadable] 14,000Standard Oil of Indiana 12,000American Smelting & Refining _18,000 $90,000

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Oak Hill Jany 11, 1932 7:07 PM Frank Sillerts [best guess] came out at 3 PM in his auto & drove me down to Wilbur Ewing Rankin's in Franklin Tp & we got back here at 4:30 PM. The deed of Apr 1872 from Priscilla Austin for 331 A gave no further record of title. Ewing's father Hugh Rankin (son of William) bought the farm Apr 7, 1881 from [unreadable name] Modisette paying $32000 [best guess, faded] to Geo Work [best guess] He said [faded line] the house a frame one is on top of a commanding [sic] Ewing says the J. Wm Gaddis farm adjoining is abt 100 A now owned by Arthur Hough who came from Perryopolis was

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Make slip to see if he descends from Abraham Hough. Ewing says the old Dr Benjamin Stevens graveyard is on Hough's farm & many of the stones were taken to the creek & used in trapping muskrats, but Hough gathered them up & brought them back. Ewing promised to go to the g.y. which is hard to find, copy the inscription & mail them to me. Go to Gbg & see what year ggf Wm Thompson was last assessed in Mt Pleasant Tp & how many acres. Also go to U'town & see what year Elisha Peairs was first assessed [unreadable line]

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See what [faded line] & refer to his will & see if he didn't leave his farm to his youngest child Rachel who married 1st Vachel Stevens & 2d Joshua Gibbons & see if she conveyed it & to whom or made a will & trace down to date & locate. I ate a pig's foot for lunch today & counted 32 bones in it. A skeleton from the g.y. [unreadable word] in one [unreadable word] one of a miner's & scared him so bad that they could not get him to go back any more

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Oak Hill Jany 12, 1932 10:10 AM When I went out this morning to take my morning walk, I found the temperature ideal, mild & no wind & Pallini looked at the thermometer at 9 AM & said it was 42 degrees.

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Oak Hill Jany 13, 1932 3:30 PM Wm Hankins of Wm born 1856 has just left with his cousin Mr Clark of Buda, Ills born in Bureau Co, Ills Feby 25, 1878 who administered on the estate of his father James Hankins Clark who he says was born Mch 19, 1842 & died abt July 1, 1931. He says his relative, Wm Clark Dixson will be 100 yrs old in the spring born May 8, 1832

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Oak Hill Jany 14, 1932 9:05 PM Alva Rothermel son of Samuel B. Rothermel a grand & noble man & his wife Mary Newcomer has just left after an hour & a half call says he will be 54 in Mch born Mch 13, 1878 in a little old log house now burned down, near his grandfather Benjamin Rotharmel's at High House in German Tp. His wife is a daughter of Oliver M. Keener & Olive Welsh keeping house for Lewis A. Brown at Adah Pa is her sister.

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I was at Pgh today with Frank E. Merts in his Lincoln car bought in 1923 from Geo P. Hoover paying $2000 cash & trading in his old Chevrolet for $3400, making $5400 the cost of the Lincoln then now selling for $3200. We left at 9:05 Am & got to Pgh 10:20 AM & started back at 5:05 PM & got here at 6:35 PM. Asking him what John Lynch was worth when he died he said "not a nickel" & that Chas H. Seaton or his estate had to pay a $30,000 note he was on [best guess] for him to the Natl Bank

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of Fayette Co & that said bank had to charge off abt $14,000 more of Lynch's note on which they had no security. Said he had but one child, a daughter who married a New York lawyer & with whom her fool mother was, she caused a rupture between John & his brother Maurice whereupon John went to Pgh & his brother Tom Lynch gave the position of Supt or mgr of the Union Supply Co stores at a salary of $15,000 & Tom gave Maurice his interest in the clothing store at Uniontown, which the three owned & Maurice was to keep their parents & sisters

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& Maurice never paid John a dollar for his share & died worth $150,000 leaving one child a daughter still single living with her mother in Phila & they have held on to their fortune. He said Tom Lynch's sons all looked aged & Clay F. Lynch had an operation a year ago & was thought to have cancer of the stomach.He said Chas S. Bowman's estate had dwindled to practically nothing & that of his father Morgan H. Bowman was greatly depleted.

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Oak Hill Jany 15, 1932 10:33 AM I have a letter of dated Jany 12, 1932 in answer to mine from Georgia D. Roat of 376 E. Mahoning St, Milton, Pa. She sends a blueprint from the records of Moselem Lutheran Church which she says was sent her by John Kremer of Hazleton, Pa in which all the dates seem to by 1760 but it is not understandable as Mrs Pallini reads it. Am writing her to know whether she wants it rtd. She also said she was sending the old Gen Jos Markle torn pamphlet, but it has not come.

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Oak Hill Jany 16, 1932 3:11 PM I have a letter dated Jany 12, 1932 in answer to mine from Mrs Alverna Markle Dean of No 24 Boulevard Apts, Cheyenne Wyoming. She says she is not able to give the dates of Rosabelle, Carobelle, Harvey & Virginia as they were all born before I was & the bible was burned when the house burned down. Says her father Thomas Markle was of the first to answer Pres Lincoln's call & her

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sister, Virginia was born shortly after his enlistment & died shortly before he was mustered out in 1862 & he never saw her. He was stationed at Camp Poinepont [best guess] Virginia hence her name. She was burned out 2 months after she was married in Dec 1881 & all records were burned. Says she was young when her parents left Penna. Since writing last Aug has a new grandson see page 188. Says she has recently learned that the family bible of her grandfather, George Markle 1795-1875 is in possession

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of my cousin Robert Markle of Billings Montana son of Benjamin B. Markle my father's youngest brother who is in employ of the Bell Tel Co there. Am writing him tonight. Says her daughter will write me soon. She says the four older children of her father as named on page 169 Rosabella, Corabella, Harvey & Virginia are named in the order of their births.

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Oak Hill Jany 17, 1932 1 PM I have a letter dated Dec 8, 1931 from J. Elliott Jacob of Shelbyville, Mich. He sends records of his branch see b 24 p 362 which I have entered in this book pages 324-7Mrs Wm G. Elliott of Yonkers NY sent me on Dec 14, 1931 sent me a record of Jessie Vaughn Elliott Woodward's children, sister of her husband see b 24 p 363 which I have tabled on pages 328-9 which she says was sent her by Jessie's oldest daughter Florence J.


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Mary Duncan Elliott see b 24 p 362 married May 3, 1838 Thomas Bull Jacobs b Aug 15, 1812 & died Jany 3, 1888 at Lancaster, Pa & buried there. Graduated at Dickinson Academy, Carlisle, Pa in 1831 & was an Episcopalian, a farmer, merchant, school master. Served in Union Army during Civil War as Captain commissary was son of James Jacobs & wife Margaret Bull. Had 7 children the first one born in Carlisle, Pa the next three at Hampden Farm & the last three at West Chester, Pa

[children]

Jesse Elliott Jacobs b Mch 19, 1839 ob 1902 in Balto, Md married Nov 28, 1872 at Allegheny, Pa Margaret Dwight Bell who died in 1918 in Balto Md. Don't know birth but thinks was in 1842 or 1843. No issue. commissioned Capt Mch 1862 U.S.A. Cav & Major in 1863 & Col in 1864 & Brevet Col in 1865 Discharged 1867 on Staff Maj Gen W.L. Elliott, his aide.Cyrus Hamilton Jacobs b July 8, 1841 ob Apr 26, 1863 at Willickens Bend, La Private 72d Ill Vol Inf U.S.A.Fanny M. Jacobs b June 30, 1844 ob Dec 20, 1921 at West Chester Pa was neither teacher nor homemaker was supported in genteel poverty by her father & brother Wm V.

Thomas Bull Jacobs Jr b Mch 25, 1846 ob Nov 16, 1851Mary Duncan Jacobs b May 20, 1850 ob 1920 at West Chester Pa same as FannyWilliam Vaughn Jacobs b June 19, 1852 married Nov 19, 1890 Mary Whipple at Winona, Minn ob Apr 12, 1923 at Glencoe, Ills cremated see page 236Elizabeth R. Jacobs b Feby 8, 1856 ob Aug 26, 1896 at Thomasville Georgia. Same as Fanny.

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William Vaughn Jacobs see page 235 married Nov 19, 1890 Mary Whipple b July 9, 1871 at Winona, Minn ob May 11, 1931 at Chicago, Ills Had 3 children the first two born in Chicago Ills & the last one in Glencoe, Ills

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Jesse Elliott Jacob [sic] b Mch 14, 1892 married Feby 1, 1917 at Spartanburg S.C to Mrs Mildred Steele a widow b Oct 24, 1892 at Malmos, Sweden, daughter of John Steele & wife Matilda Seaholme. No issue. My informant for this record.Whipple Jacobs b Feby 8, 1897 married Oct 20, 1923 at Evanston, Ill Mary Lotham, daughter of Carl Lotham & Mary Balcock. Have 3 children 1st one born at Evanston, Ills & other two at Winetta, Ills Wm Lotham Jacobs b Oct 28, 1924 Nancy Jacobs b Apr 19, 1927 Anne Jacobs b Feby 16, 1930Katharine Jacobs b Feby 18, 1899 married Mch 30, 1921 at Glencoe, Ills Thomas Edwards Hough b Oct 1892 in Chicago, Ills don't know his parents names. No children given.

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Jessie Vaughn Elliott see b 24 p 363 b Dec 14, 1849 ob Jany 13, 1918 see [sic] Ashland Cem Carlisle, Pa married Apr 7, 1870 Charles R. Woodward b Dec 7, 1844 ob Mch 13, 1891 married at Detroit, Mich. Had 6 children all born in Carlisle, Pa.

[children]

Florence J. Woodward b Mch 17, 1871 married June 8, 1892 in Carlisle, Pa to Frank Mover. Had 2 children Julia J. Mover b Mch 27, 1893 in Little Silver NJ

Rollin M. Mover b Feby 28, 1896 in Spring Lake NJ married June 23, 1923 see next page [which reads] had 2 children. wife's name not given.

Austas Dorinda Mover b Sept 1, 1924 Nalson Edward C. Mover b Oct 12, 1927 at Rahway NJJessie E.N. Woodward b Jany 5, 1873 ob June 30, 1929 married Sept 28, 1897 to Fred S. Skipp. He died June 30, 1929 & buried Rock Creek Cem Wash D.C. Agnes W. Skipp born in Wash D.C.Robert C. Woodward b May 5, 1875 married June 1901 Maggie Bradner. He died 1917 & buried Rosedale Cem East Orange NJ 4 children born in Doylestown, Pa Farsaley? B. Woodward Naddick S. Woodward

Frank B. Woodward Robert C. Woodward JrSarah E. Woodward b Mch 27, 1877 married July 1902 Jeremiah Hoover ob Mch 13, 1927William G. Woodward b Mch 15, 1979C. Rollins Woodward b Feby 22, 1888 ob Aug 1888

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Oak Hill Jany 18, 1932 2:44 PM Otho Minor Boughner has just left after an hour's call & says he was named for his grandfather, his mother having been a daughter of Otho Minor who owned & lived at the Jacob D. Weltner home & farm in Monongahela Tp Greene Co, Pa. Asking him the name of Otho Minor's father he could not tell me but said to ask his daughter Ethel & she could tell me.

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Oak Hill Jany 19, 1932 9:40 Am James E. Cottom came out Saturday evening 16th inst to see me about the Butter Co, Pa oil & gas deal & I had written him about & I asked him what was the birthday of his late wife Lucinda Wells Cottom whose burial last month in the cemetery at Hopwood, Pa in this North Union Tp. I attended & whether her father Wm P. Wells was buried there & I don't believe I made record of what he told me. He said his wife was born Sept 25, 1854 & that the plate on her casket said 1854-1931 & that her father had been buried in the old Pres g.y. in Uniontown, Pa & her older half brother Andrew Wells of Phila came out here a year or so before his death & remained here [very difficult to read. I may have left out a word or two]

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I have a letter postmarked Washington D.C. Jany 17, 1932 from Sarah Carothers Wells 1856 Park Road Wash D.C. in which she says Thomas Carothers see page 45 had a son William, father of William, James & Isaac Carothers who lived in Family of Jacob Wells in Jackson Co, Indiana. Capt Isaac Carothers was second cousin of Sarah Wells see p 244. She don't know Mary Smith's parentage. Says Sarah Elizabeth Wells page 50 married Jonas B. Holmes in 1874 & had one son Gayle who lives in Los Angeles Calif

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Edward Clifford Wells see page 50 has two daughters, Maggie Virginia ob July 2, 1901 & buried in Fairmont Cem Denver Colo2. BettieSamuel Wells educated Bloomington Ind Univ in Mexican [sic] & Colonel Civil WarJacob Wells son of Wm F. Wells see page 49 was born in 1851 left a son Cecil Wells. Don't know date of death of Jacob's mother but says she married Irvin.She thinks she will visit the old g.y. near Keene Jessamine Co Ky on the Carothers farm this year. Make slip.

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Thomas Carothers born 1753 see page 45 served in Revolutionary War from N.C.

[children]

William Carothers William Carothers James Carothers

Isaac Carothers was in Mexican & Civil Wars & was a captain in 58th Ind Reg Civil War was a Baptist minister


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Joseph Carothers see p 46 ob Mch 5, 1837 says his wife Mary Hedges lived to 86 yrs old

[children]

William CarothersSamuel Carothers died a bachelor in 1912 in Jessamine Co KyJames Carothers b Jany 19, 1831 in Jessamine Co Ky ob Dec 26, 1912 in Clay Co Mo Mrs S.H. Adams Apr 10, 1858 Gardner Kan Nannie Carothers b May 3, 1860 married Albert Endicott Lizzie Carothers b Apr 10, 1867 married Hoskins

Robert Sec? Carothers b Apr 13, 1870 Saffordsville Kan never knew his people


I have a letter from Mrs Vienna E. Parker 710 E. Hazel St, Albion, Ind dated Dec 13, 1931 in answer to one I wrote her brother Wm C. Carothers at Wolf Lake, Ind who has just gone to California & says she has more records than he has.W.O. Carothers (who is now dead) wrote me some time ago for a family history which I made out at the time & which I am sending you. There are some deaths & births since. My father Lafayette Carothers often said he was Scotch Irish so I take from that that great grandfather came from Scotland. W.O. Carothers in his searches concluded he was the last son of the family & had wandered off to America where he did well & between 1810 & 1850

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he came on horseback with enough money in his saddlebags to buy each of his children an 80 A farm in Noble Co Indiana. Don't know his religion, gets from [sic] on Dec 29, 1917 her cousin W.O. Carothers, Monticello, Ind who had sent her a Carothers autobiography to which he refers & speaks of a reunion they had had. Says he learns of Caruthers in Texas, Tenn & Carolina & will go south as soon as he can & get more historySays his youngest son is in Co C 3d Ind Inf at Fort Benj Barrison [sic]. Will start tomorrow to Hattiesburg, Miss & from there to France. Says he has a single daughter teaching school at Hamilton, O.

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John Carothers born Dec 9, 1774 ob Feby 17, 1842 W.O. Carothers thought he was the last or youngest son & wandered to America. They lived in Geanga Co, O & from there went on horseback abt 1835 to Noble Co, Ind & bought 80 A for each child. Married Betsy Sickler b Jany 21, 1778 ob Sept 8, 1853. They had 15 children of whom 4 were not named

[children]

William B. Carothers b Dec 4, 1797 ob Apr 16, 1846 see p 252 [which shows:] married & settled in Ohio & had 5 children last four children married & settled in Ohio

Nathan Carothers ob married Rebecca Strouse settled in Noble Co Ind Left 6 children. She survivesMelinda Carothers married Daniel When Settler [sic - don't know if this is a last name] lived on farm in Swan widow living in Avilla, Ind. Mary Carothers ob married & lived in Painesville, OEdwin Carothers married Ida Rankinberger now in Avilla, Ind 2 boys

Charles Carothers ob Alice Carothers married Capt Clark had 7 children

Frank Carothers married Jane Hanlon. Have 4 children 2 girls & 2 boys all married. He is in Avilla, Ind, has grocery

Newton Carothers [son of William B.] Norton Carothers Zilpha Carothers Betsy Adaline Carothers Clarissa Carothers [daughter of John Carothers b 1774] b Feby 27, 1799 ob Apr 16, 1846 see p 254 [which shows:] Married Enoch Sober & had 7 children all died single except John Jane Sober William Sober Malcolm Sober John Sober, ob married Myron Sober Clarissa Sober Henry Sober James Sober Henry P. Carothers b May 12, 1802 ob Oct 16, 1871 see p 256 [which shows:] Married Elizabeth Etoin & came to Indiana & settled near Kendallville, Ind. Both died leaving one son, Roderick

Roderick Carothers married Martha Holmes & moved to New Carlisle, St Joseph Co, Ind Have 5 or 6 children also grandchildren

John J. Carothers Jr b Apr 14, 1804 ob see p 258 [which shows:] married & lived in Hobert, Lake Co, Indiana

Lafayette Carothers b Apr 6, 1826 ob Mch 4, 1907. He was born near Genesee NY & moved with his grandparents to Geanga Co, O when aged 9 yrs. Having always lived with his grandparents, he knew but little about his parents, they having moved west in an early day. At age of 26, he married Mch 27, 1853 to Morrilla O. Beard b Dec 15, 1833 & ob. They came to Indiana in Oct 1854 & settled on a farm in Green Tp & lived there until 1891 when they sold the farm & moved to

Kendallville Ind. They had 5 children one died in infancy.Vienna E. Carothers b Feby 6, 1854 see p 274 [which shows:] married Rev Wm L. Parker a local preacher in the Meth Epis Ch of Albion, Ind who was born on Oct 20, 1853. She my informant for these incomplete records. Lives in Jefferson Tp

Forrest H. Parker b Aug 14, 1880 married Mitta WellsEarl F. Parker b Nov 26, 1900, teacher in High school at Albion, Ind.Fay L. Parker b 1903 on street railway at Fort Wayne, Ind

Cyrus V. Carothers b Feby 26, 1857 married May McCoy & live at Kendallville & have 4 children see p 276 [which shows:]

John Carothers married Mine [best guess] Heltzel & lives near Kimmel on a farm. Have 1 girl [list 3 children

Cleo Carothers (girl) died aged 3 yrs Floyd Carothers Coy Carothers

Letitia Carothers married Earnest Rawson & live in Kendallville, IndLefay Carothers still single works on a farm at Kimmel

Arthur Carothers still at homeWilliam C. Carothers b Feby 20, 1864 see p 277 [which shows:] Married 1 Lena Lipp. Had 1 child abt 3 yrs after her marriage she & child both died he having gone to Kansas. Married 2 Orlie Stag & is now in a store in Wolf Lake, Ind he being the one I wrote to & she got the letterLeslie B. Carothers b Feby 26, 1858 see p 278 [which shows:] married Mary Vandolic & live in Auburn & have a store there. Have 5 children all at home.

Grace Carothers Blanche Carothers Walter Carothers Lawrence Carothers Carl Carothers Betsy Carothers [daughter of John Carothers born 1774] b May 14, 1806 ob Mch 20, 1852 see p 260 [which shows:] married Mr Howard & moved to LaGrange Co Ind & left 4 or 5 children. The family all gone but one or two grandchildren.Nameless twins born & died Dec 6, 1807Austin Carothers b June 2, 1808 ob see p 262 [which shows:] married & lived in Michigan & left 3 daughters & 2 sons Caziah [sic] Carothers Adna Carothers Elna Carothers Charles Carothers Adrian Carothers Madison Carothers b Dec 6, 1810 ob 1868 see p 264 [which shows:] married Lydia Egleston & had 5 children

Sarah Carothers married Geo Hallibaugh had 4 children live in or about Kendallville, Ind Augustus Hallibaugh married Ella Adams & have 3 children Ed Hallibaugh Vat Hallibaugh Annie Hallibaugh Elsie Hallibaugh married Henry Reem. Have 3 children Effie Hallibaugh married Henry Richards. No issue

Emma Hallibaugh married John Glessby & have 3 children all at home.Henry Carothers see p 265 [which shows:] married & went to Michigan.

Ed Carothers came to Indiana, settled near Wolcottville, Ind.Rose Carothers married & lives in Mich & her widowed mother now dead lived

with Anna Eliza Carothers

Lyman Carothers see p 265 [which shows:] married Lizzie Hanlon. Both dead. Had 2 daughters & 1 son living in Syanas Mich

Alma Carothers Oma Carothers Carl Carothers Libbie Carothers married Egleston & lives near Cleveland, O Matilda Carothers [daughter of John Carothers b 1774] b July 26, 1813 ob May 1888 see p 266 [which shows:] Married Stephen Sterns & lived in Indiana for a time & then moved to Wisconsin & have 3 children who have been living in Arizona & Los Angeles Calif for 30 yrs or more Aura Sterns Adna Elna Sterns Ann Eliza Sterns DeLaura Carothers b Feby 8, 1816 ob Oct 17, 1878 see p 268 [which shows:] Delara or Delana Carothers married Martin Follett & lived in Indiana for a time & then moved to near Council Bluffs, Iowa.Mariah Jane Carothers b Oct 19, 1818 ob 1888 see page 272 [which shows:] lived at home caring for her aged mother in Ohio until her death after which she married Rubin Barton & moved to Des Moines Iowa & died in the west after a lingering sickness, but left no familyNameless born & died Aug 27, 1821Stillborn b Dec 4, 1823Delena Carothers see p 270 [which shows:] twin of DeLaura married Anson Herendeen & moved to Indiana & had six children Manerva Herendeen married Simon Busy. Had 2 children Harley Busy married Lillie Lee & have 4 children Alzina Busy d.y. Alzina Herendeen married Wm Clemens moved to Mich Willie Clemens d.y. Retta Clemens d.y. George Clemens married issue Jerome Clemens married issue Rittie Clemens married issue Weltha Herendeen Ellen Herendeen

Henry Herendeen married Susanna Hait & have 6 children live on old placeGeorge Herendeen married Rose Kesling live in [unreadable] & have son

Willie HerendeenSarah Herendeen married John McCoy & died of consumption & left one childMary Herendeen married James Kelly & lives in Newark, O has 2 children

Edna Herendeen single & at home Alfred Herendeen lives in Kendallville, Ind

James Herendeen [son of Anson Herendeen] married Retta Owen & lived on part of old home. Children live in Noble Co Ind

Milton Herendeen married Minnie Norman [best guess] have 5 children Homer Herendeen married Diffendeffer & have issue Alva Herendeen married Effie Christieb [best guess] Osia Herendeen married James Herron Henry Herendeen married Mrs Hill

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Jany 20, 1932The foregoing 30 pages or so are taken from a Carothers record sent me Dec 13, 1931 by Vienna E. Parker nee Carothers born Feby 6, 1854 of 707 E. Hazel St, Albion, Ind which I am returning to her today to be registered tomorrow. Kate Ruple Thompson widow of my brother Will M. Thompson with their daughter Catharine Thompson was out this afternoon to see me about her $4000 Ontario bonds extended 1 yr from Sept 1st last & said all she had except 64 cents but didn't say how much was locked up in NBK Fay Co. She said she & Will were married 45 yrs ago Jany [unreadable] 1887 at Washington, Pa [unreadable word or words] $6 a mo rent.

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Oak Hill Jany 22, 1932 9:40 AM I have a letter dated Dec 2, 1931 from Miss Sarah Carriger of Morristown, Tenn. She is at sea as to just who her Col Patrick Jack is & I am setting her right. She says the family of Wm Pinckney Jack who moved to Ala are all dead & only knew one of them, cousin Lillie Jack. She says that by writing Miss Annie Jones Russellville, Ala or some lawyer there, I might get the inscriptions from the gravestones etc. Says Miss Jones is a cousin of cousin Lillie Jack on her mother's side as I understand it. Am writing her today. Make slip

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Many years ago, my great Aunt Martha Mariah Jack Rhoton & her brother William Pinckney Jack rode horseback through the country & visited the Jacks in Chambersburg, Pa. I have heard my father & grandmother say that Judge John Finley Jack came south to look after the supposed interests his father Col Patrick Jack had in lands in Tenn by reason of the grant from Atta-Kulla-Kulla but which for some reason could not be perfected & liking Tenn, he located & built a home near Tate Springs, Bean Sta, Tenn which was then on the old stage road from Ky to Washington City & the east. Asks if I have anything abt Col Patrick Jack's experience at Old Fort London.

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In a 3 page letter of Col Patrick Jack [some words crossed out & written over unreadable] she speaks of his being at the massacre of the garrison at Fort London on the Tennessee River in 1760 & was one of the three persons who survived, his life having been saved through the influence of the Indian Chief Atta-Kulla-Kulla the "Little Carpenter". He had three children. Mary, James & John Finley JackIn Dr Ramsey's annals of Tenn page 68 is the following record: A grant signed Arthur Dobbs Gov of N.C. Wm Beamer Sr, Supt & Deputy Adjutant in & for the Cherokee nation & Wm Beamer Jr interpreter & the Little Carpenter, Half King of the Cherokee Nation of the Overhill towns & Matthew Toole interpreter

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made to Capt Patrick Jack of the Province of Penna is recorded in the Register's office of Knox Co, Tenn which purports to have been made at a council held at Tennessee River Mch 1, 1757 for consideration of $400 & conveys to Capt Jack fifteen miles square south of the Tennessee River the grant itself confirmed by the of [sic] the purchase by Jack is dated at a general council met at the Catawba River on May 7, 1762 & is witnessed by Nathaniel Alexander. Much of above sketch is taken from Dr C.L. Hunter's Sketches of Western N.C. page 80 to 84.Judge John Finley Jack see b 26 p 604 married Elizabeth Cocke next to the youngest daughter of Gen Wm Cocke a Captain in Revolutionary War, a companion of Daniel Boone from western [unreadable] across the Allegheny mountains to Ky

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prominent actor in the establishment of the Franklin Gov & one of the first senators to congress from Tenn & afterwards one of the circuit judges of that state. He served in the Legislature of Virginia, N.C. Tenn & Miss & at age of 65 he volunteered in War of 1812 & distinguished himself for his personal courage & died Aug 8, 1828 aged 87 yrs universally lamented & is buried at Columbus, Miss.Judge John Finley Jack was educated at Dickinson College Carlisle, Pa studied law & emigrated to Knoxville, then the capital of Tenn where he soon rose to eminence & later moved to Rutledge, Granger Co, Tenn & became a law partner of Gen John Cocke his brother-in-law & was circuit clerk state attorney & served several times in both branches of the Legislature.

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Was elected circuit Judge & served for many years. In his later years, he retired to his plantation near Bean Sta East Tenn where he died.Col Patrick Jack's children: Jane Stewart died 1853 aged 71 yrsMary Jack died May 29, 1862 aged 85 yrsThe family of his son John Finley Jack consisted of 8 children see b 26 p 604-5 of whom in 1876 four were living Jacksboro, county seat of Campbell Co Tenn was named for him. He was of the highest integrity & an unsullied character. Says she & other of the relatives there will want copies of my book.

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[words in italics written in another hand] Sarah Ann Jack see b 26 p 604 b Mch 10, 1825 near the Springs, Granger Co, Tenn ob Dec 30, 1902 married June 11, 1844 Dr Michael Carriger b Mch 4, 1818 in Carter Co, Tenn & died in Morristown, Tenn Sept 27, 1884 son of John Carriger & his wife Margaret Elliott. They had 7 children the first on born in Tazewell, Tenn Dr Carriger was a graduate of Transylvania Univ Lexington Ky. He was a State Senator of Tenn.

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James Allison Carriger b Nov 30, 1845 ob May 23, married Nov 13, 1872 to Julia Lenoir see page 288Margaret Elizabeth Carriger b Nov 27, 1847 ob Jany 24, 1910 married May 14, 1873 Nathaniel L. McCandless b Oct 29, 1831 ob May 23, 1897 see p 293Wm Pinkney Carriger b Oct 31, 1850 ob Mch 17, 1886 married [unreadable might be Mary] Rebecca Thomas [unreadable two lines] see p 291Mary Jane Carriger b Oct 4, 1855 ob July 14, 1866Sarah Cornelia Carriger b Oct 1, 1859 married Jasper Cooper Jones Dec 26, 1881 at Morristown, Tenn. Have 3 children. She lives at 721 Colonial Road West Palm Beach Fla. Writing her today.

[unreadable first name] Carriger Jones b Feb 14, 1894 at Valdosta, GA ob July 17, 1919 at Valdosta, Ga married [unreadable first name] A. Paine [unreadable month & day] 1893 at Valdosta, Ga. See p 499James Cooper Jones b Sept 23, 1895 at Valdosta, Ga married Oct 5, 1926 Elsie Stoner b at Wythesville, VaHerbert Pinkney Jones b July 18, 1899 at Valdosta, Ga ob June 12, 1891 in infancy

John S. Carriger b Mch 24, 1863 ob married Sept 29, 1897 Elizabeth Gammom [best guess] have 2 childrenJohn Shields Carriger b Aug 7, 1902 an attorney living in Chattanooga, TennThomas Pinckney Carriger b Dec 25, 1907 in school at Duke Univ Durham, N.C.

Mary Aurelia Carriger b Oct 16, 1867 ob Apr 13, 1915 unmarried

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James Allison Carriger see p 286 educated at University of Va where he graduated in 1870 after serving in his youth in Confederate army & was a noted educator & teacher & lawyer, was a leading citizen & Mayor of Morristown, Tenn, was President of Merchants Bank. Married Miss Julia Lenoir on Nov 13, 1872 She born Jany 12, 1850 ob Aug 11, 1892 daughter of Albert Sobreski Lenoir & wife Catherine Freeding Welckers. Had seven children probably born in Morristown, Tenn.

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Sarah Carriger b Oct 22, 1873 single my informant for this recordAlbert Lenoir Carriger b Nov 24, 1875 married in Arizona Mrs Pearl Fern Aiken where both live. No issueMary Kate Carriger b June 3, 1878 unmarriedAdelaide Lenoir Carriger b Sept 13, 1880 unmarriedPaul Carriger b Nov 3, 1883 married in Portland OregonJames Michael Carriger b Feby 4, 1886Julia Lenoir Carriger b Aug 10, 1892 ob Sept 14, 1892

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Margaret Elizabeth Carriger see p 286 married W. Nathaniel L. McCandless. Have 4 children

[children]

Michael Carriger McCandless married Nannie Folsom. He died some years ago leaving 2 childrenMary McCandless living singleBessie McCandless ob in childhoodMabel Pearl McCandless married Claude B. Snodgrass

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William Pinkney Carriger see p 286 married Mary Rebecca Thomas b Sept 15, 1853 in Tazewell, Claiborne Co, Tenn. & had 3 children. She is now Mrs R.G. Waterhouse 6530 University Ave, Chicago Ills. Writing today

[children]

Wesley Carrol Carriger b Sept 28, 1876 married 1 lives at Thermal Calif. Writing him today. By a 2d marriage has 3 children a girl 17 a boy 15 & a girl 12.Herbert Michael Carriger b Jany 28, 1882 ob Nov 23, 1899 while a school boy at Emory Va in junior class of Emory Henry CollegeWilliam Pinckney Carriger Jr B Sept 8, 1885 ob Feby 19, 1856 in infancy

The father of Mary Rebecca Thomas was James Dickson Thomas & her mother Julia Ann Price. She married Wm Pinkney Carriger May 13, 1875 in Washington Co, Va which was the home of her grandparents Price. Her 3 children above all born in Morristown, Tenn. On Oct 10, 1894 she married Dr R.G. Waterhouse then Pres of Emory Henry College & who [unreadable word] was made a Bishop of Meth Epis Ch South lives 6530 Univ Ave, Chicago, Ills.

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In the N.E. Gen & Hist Register Jany 1932 given in front picture of my friend George F. Baker pages 1 to 5 who was born in Troy NY Mch 27, 1840 son of George Ellis Baker & wife Eveline M. Stevens & died at his residence NY City May 2, 1931. In Mch 1856 he entered as a clerk the Banking Dept of the State of NY at Albany NY at $500 a year where he remained for 7 yrs. When he was in 1863 considered the most able clerk in the banking Dept & on July 25, 1863 he became a director of the First Natl Bank of NY opened at No 2 Wall St & he buying 30 shares became one of the first directors & its teller. He became cashier in 1865 & then head of the bank. He married Nov 18, 1869 Florence Tucker Baker of Benj Franklin Baker & wife Sophronia J. Whitney of Louisville, Ky

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& had 5 children 3 of whom survive. Mrs Howard B. St George (Evelyn)Mrs Wm Goaby [best guess] Loew (Florence Bellows)George Fisher Baker JrOn Pages 100-101 among memoirs of deceased members is that of my relative by marriage of Alva Clymer Dinkey of Wynnewood, Pa who was born at Weatherly Pa Feby 20, 1866 & died at Wynnewood, Pa Aug 11, 1931 son of Reuben Dinkey & wife Mary Elizabeth Hamm when 13 yrs old he became a boater boy at the Edgar Thomson Steel works where later he learned telegraphy at a small RR Sta near Braddock Pa & in 1885 he became a telegraph operator from 1885 to 1888 he was a machinist in Pgh locomotive works at Allegheny, Pa & for next 4 yrs he was an expert machinist & secy to the Genl Supt of the Mesighe Electric Co of Pgh, Pa & became an electrician until 1898 when he took a position

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at the homestead Working the Carnegie Steel Co of which Co he was elected Pres in 1903 which he held until 1915 when he resigned & became Pres of the Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co & held the position for 8 yrs & at time of his death was Pres of the Midvale Co. He invented the Dinkey Controller. He was a director of the H.C. Frick Coke Co Moon Natl Bank of Pgh, the Monongahela Trust Co of Homestead Pa, Duquesne Trust Co of Duquesne, Pa & the Hays Natl Bank of Hayes Pa & American Iron & Steel Institute & member of American Society of mining Engineers & many other Engineering Cos & the Academy of Science & art of Pgh. He was a Republican & attended the Pres Ch. He was a member of Duquesne Union, Pilgrim & Oatmeal Clubs. He married June 11, 1891 Margaret M. Stewart, daughter of Robert E. Stewart & his wife Caroline McMasters of Braddock Pa.

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who with 3 children survive:1. Robert E. Dinkey of Pgh Pa2. Charles Dinkey of Villanova, Pa3. Mrs Howell L. Seiple (who was Leonora Stewart Dinkey) she is also of Villanova, PaOn page 112 is reference to a complete genealogy of the signers of the Declaration of Independence being prepared by Homer P. Rogers Bap [sic] A. Pendleton, Oregon

Clarence Griffin P.O. Box 533 Forest City N.C. is managing editor of a New Magazine first issue this month $1 a yr being entitled N.C. Hist & Genealogical Records also page 113 is [unreadable word] Biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick

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The July to Oct 1931 issue of Nebraska & Midwest Genealogical record gives:On page 46 marriage of Geo E. Finley? aged 33 to Mary E. Angullaged 34 both of Greenwood & both born in Ohio married by Rev F.M. Esterbrook on Mch 25, 1885 see 1st Meth Plattsmouth NebOn Page 51 record of marriages of Lancaster Co, Neb J. Cadman probate judge on Aug 2, 1868 Rufus Markle & Elizabeth A. Wilson (Willson) by H.T. Davis

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A genealogy of the Smith & Patterson family ctg 91 pages by Clarence Mitchell Smith of 120 Dakota Ave, Columbus O recd by me from him last month, contains many exhaustive details & valuable information about all the different lines entering the family for use in my book & I must make slip to refer to it to properly report many of his near relatives & to bring specific dates of others down to date none of which are noted here except the one I went to see at Paris, ills Dec 31, 1925 & was too late viz: Harry Brown Patterson born Jany 11, 1831 at West Union, Ohio

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youngest of the six children of John Patterson & his wife Mary Brown Finley who on Sept 7, 1852 married Jacob Bookwalter Dresbach & who died at the home of her daughter Mrs Harry Bell at Tuscola, Ills Dec 18, 1925 just a little short of completing her 95 years & was buried in the Edgar Cem at Paris, Ills by the side of her husband who was born Pickaway Co, O Feby 25, 1824 & died at his home in Paris, Ills Dec 7, 1899. Am filing this book in the outer hall library eastern compartment

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Oak Hill Jany 23, 1932 10:10 AM I have a letter dated Dec 27, 1931 in answer to mine of Nov 6 & 11 from Elizabeth Carothers 1070 Tillamook ST Portland, Oregon in which she says her Aunt Mary says that John Carothers born 1770 shff of Cumb Co at Carlisle, Pa was not doctor John who was a first cousin of Matthew Londen Carothers, my grandfather. He was a son of Thomas Carothers born 1772 & am older brother of Andrew Carothers, lawyer b 1778. He, Dr John Carothers, had two wives, the first had one son Henry Carothers & after she died he went to Shelbyville, Mo taking Henry. There he met Emily who was his 2d wife & had 3 daughters.

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The second marriage was about 1832? He was a tall heavy set big man & when his wife ran away, he was broken hearted. His friends thought he would die of a broken heart at about 75 years of age. What Mrs Eskridge says about his daughters is O.K. as Aunt Mary says she knows more about them than she does. Aunt Mary knows nothing about the Armstrongs I mentioned. Betty Thompson lived with M.L. Carothers while he settled the estate of Dr John Carothers. Says we are sure Dr John was the son of William C. (in which she is wrong from her own statement above as he was a son of Thomas) Mary Ann was a pretty girl & called Aunt Mary

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Snaggletooth which angered her & caused jealousy between the two girls.Mr John F. Carothers of Clarence Mo writes Nov 11, 1931 giving you data which have & says the wife of James born 1766 was Alice Carothers daughter of John Carothers (she asks who was this John's wife but don't say who he was). They had 3 children. Aunt Mary does not remember a Mary & Sarah Ann sisters of James 1788. James's mother died when he was born & he was reared by outsiders which Malinda Carothers, widow of Andrew J. confirms.From the deed dated Oct 28, 1800 the heirs signing were:James Carothers & Elizabeth his wifeWilliam Carothers & Margaret his wifeJohn Carothers & Sarah, his wifeThomas Carothers & Elizabeth his wifeAndrew Carothers

V27 Page 302Ann CarothersJames Bell & Jean his wifeShe refers also to a deed of May 12, 1822 from heirs of Andrew Carothers of West Pennsboro Tp to Andrew Carothers Esq lawyer of Carlisle, Pa. John et al to James Carothers book R p 408 Dec 24, 1886 East Pennsboro Tp James & Alice Carothers of Hanover Tp Beaver Co, Pa to William & John Carothers of East Pennsboro Tp Brother James died intestateShe says John Carothers (I don't know whether she means shff John or not) was the father of John William (James decd) & Alice which she expects I already have (but I don't think I have) She says her aunt Mary says that many of the wealthy people of those days had natural sons

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& nothing was thought of it. Aunt Mary says that James born 1788 was tall blue eyed & nice looking & Malinda Carothers says James & Margaret Murdochs reared James whose mother died when he was born & he never saw his father.She gives:Jack Carothers son of Frederick Andrew, my brother died at Kolotus, Wash Mch 18, 1929Lillian Swegle's parents are George Swegle & Virginia McIllister Lillian was born 1876Elmer Ellsworth Swain died 1900 at Portland Oregon. His father was Enos Swan [sic]David Gentry was married Aug 1894 to Nellie May Ritter. The parents of

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Chas Fife Gardyne [sic] Patullo were Adam Patullo & Elizabeth Scotlands. She mentions an Andrew Carothers of West Pennsboro Tp & says he had children James, William, Martin & John & asks who they are. Says that a year ago, her Aunt Mary gave her the name of Mary & Sarah Ann, children of James born 1766.

I have a letter dated Dec 28, 1931 inquiring about a former letter of Nov 27, 1931 from John Franklin Carothers of Clarence, Mo asking many questions & sending record of Armstrong Carothers 1815 - 1858 & referring to book [unreadable may be 25 p 48, 68-9 & [unreadable]

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[word or words too dark to read] Carothers now says that Sarah Ann Carothers see b 25 p 269 married a Hardin whereas I had her listed there as having married a Blackburn.

Only one or two of the descendants of Armstrong Carothers 1815-1858 see b 25 p 268 now live in Shelby Co, Mo & he says their old family bible with record is lost but by going to g.y. & court records, got names of his children & some dates, but all other dates are missing.He says here are some additional records of James A. Carothers 1879-1917. His children are:Carl Warren Carothers b July 18, 1903 married July 16, 1931 to Miss Myrtle Ellis of Macon, Mo b Aug 26, 1909 daughter of John Meredith Ellis & wife Martha Bernice Roberts who were married Nov 4, 1908

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[unreadable first name] Carothers born Aug 6, 1908 married July 4, 1931 [unreadable first letter]attias Juniata M. Reynolds born Oct 9, 1911 daughter of Oliver Perry Reynolds & wife Miss Bessie Ellers of Iowa & who came to Missouri in 1920. He says he was in Shelbyville, Mo last week & found among old deeds two other deeds made in July & Aug 1842 to Dr John Carothers from which he concludes he came there that year. He will make further search & report. Says he is expecting data from Mrs H. Alwright & will forward it. He wants a book.His letter of Nov 27, 1931 says he was in Shelbyville, MO this week & found will of Dr John Carothers & his grave stone in the cemetery which read:

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John Carothers M.D. b Jany 5, 1796 in Cumb Co, Pa ob June 2, 1855 in Shelbyville, Mo. Also found graves of Dr James Bell & wife.Dr James Bell b Sept 16, 1809 ob June 20, 1876Amanda Bell wife of Dr Bell ob Mch 19, 1873 aged 48 yrsAlso the graves of 3 of the children of M.L. & E. Carothers viz: Annie, William & Thomas. Am writing asking for dates.Could not find any will of Dr James Bell. He says John H. Carothers, father of Mrs Eskridge & Dr John Carothers were double cousins which gives a line on who Thomas Carothers married. Last will of Dr John Carothers directs his property to be sold & divided equally between his daughters, Elizabeth, Mary Ann & Emily Carothers if they cannot be found money to be put out at int. Directs James Bell & M.L. Carothers to write his brother Thomas to p 312

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John William Carothers see b 25 p 268 b 1843 ob Feby 4, 1901 married about 1865 Rhoda Jennings. Had 6 children. Married 2 Elizabeth Key who died Mch 11, 1908. No issue. He was a farmer, member of Meth Church & was buried at Bacom Chapel.

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Fannie Carothers married Delass Arnold & [faded word] 3 children [cut off]ominee, Mich Arthur Arnold Lee Arnold Claire ArnoldElizabeth Carothers married ______ Arnold, 2 children Frank Arnold Edgar ArnoldHattie Carothers married John Bogart & live in Kansas

Elma Carothers married Leslie Penrose live near Louisville, Ky & have 11 children Florence Penrose married Ray Daugherty & live in Kansas City, MO Leslie Penrose Gertrude Penrose Hattie Penrose Ella Penrose Gretta Penrose Francis Penrose Bernard Penrose Sherman Penrose Harold Penrose Robert PenroseBertie CarothersJesse Armstrong Carothers married Miss Myrtle Minick daughter of John Minick & wife of Mollie Robison. Have 2 children

Jessie Maude Carothers. She graduated from Shelbina High School & is teachingJohn Jessie Maude Carothers. He is a senior in Shelbina, High School.

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Susan Mary Carothers see b 25 p 269 married James Smith & had 11 children:

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Romy SmithDollie Smith married Boone Faddis & live Andraim, MoRoy SmithEdgar SmithLucy Smith married John WeimArmstrong SmithNora Smith married Roy WayAnnie Smith married Amos MillerMaud SmithLeona Smith married Arah [sic] PhilipeHenry Smith ob when a small child

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From page 307Carothers [unreadable word or words] Montgomery Co, Texas (make slip). If he will take al three the money to be turned over to him. He says their mother is not such a one as could raise them properly in MO. He speaks of his wife's bad record being sent on to Phila & wants the little girls of whom he speaks very affectionately taken from her. Dated at Shelbyville, Mo Feby 27, 1855 says he is very sick. John Carothers M.D.

A letter dated Oct 7, 1931 from Miss Madge C. Finley of Greenville, Texas says she is too lonely in their big house & is going to marry Mr Evans & sends

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a number of papers or letters & records to keep which she finds in sorting out & destroying old things, her mother kept. Says she will [sic] her father's album to W&J College.In the Finley Genealogy she sends, she says that:John Finley 1713-1757 1st wife Martha Barkley (Barclay), 2nd wife Mary Berrow [sic]. She gives much of the genealogy of their line which I think I had before & recorded but possibly I did not have it all but will not now record it. They call Col J.B. Finley D.D., L.L.D. their cousin.Among the papers are several letters of Lieut Leighton Finley & Edwin C. Finley & others & also a two page list of date which I will now make record of:

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[unreadable word, might be will, followed by two or more unreadable words]John [unreadable word] Finley Jany 13, 1806 Shippensburg, PaMargaret Williamson Nevin Aug 5, 1808 Chillicothe, OJohn Nevin Finley Mch 25, 1833Samuel Mitchell Finley Mch 17, 1835, Fairchance, PaSallie Ann Oliphant July 20, 1838 Niles, MichTheodore McCracken Finley Mch 9, 1840Margaret Clarissa Fersom June 5, 1841Martha Mary Finley Apr 18, 1842Gertrude Elizabeth Finley July 5, 1844 Allegheny City, PaMargaret Nevin Finley Apr 27, 1860Fidelio Hughes Finley Jany 29, 1862, Quaker Valley, PaJohn Knox Finley Apr 18, 1864 Niles, MichJames Oliphant Finley Aug 18, 1866Elizabeth Duncan Finley Aug 21, 18722Blanche Mitchell Finley June 16, 1874Margaret Caroline Finley June 22, 1866 Farnham CanadaCharles Albert Barnard Nov 8, 1858, Niles Mich

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Elizabeth Frances Barnard, July 26, 1882 Denver, ColoCharles Finley Barnard Aug 21, 1884 Moline, IllsHughes Albert Barnard May 18, 1890 Neenah, WisJustus Abram Cronkhite Apr 12, 1857Gertrude Elizabeth Finley died at Niles, Mich Apr 1, 1845John Nevin Finley died at Pittsburgh, Pa Mch 18, 1856Margaret Williamson Nevin Finley died at Sewickley Pa Feb 22, 1862Elizabeth Duncan Finley died at Niles, Mich Oct 11, 1879Dr John Knox Finley died at Niles Mich Feby 3, 1885Charles Finley Barnard died at Moline, Ills Nov 1, 1887Jane Oliphant Finley Cronkhite died at Dallas, Texas Nov 27, 1889Married at Shippensburg Pa June 8, 1831John Knox Finley & Margaret Williamson Nevin

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Married Fairchance Pa May 5, 1859

Samuel [unreadable] Finley & Sallie Ann OliphantMarried Niles Mich Sept 6, 1865Theodore McCracken Finley & Margaret Clarissa Fersommarried at Niles Mich Nov 1, 1881 Charles Albert Barnard & Margaret Nevin FinleyMarried at Dallas Texas Jany 22, 18888 Justus Abram Cronkhite & Jane Oliphant FinleyHe was Vice Pres of the Dallas mtge Co, Dallas, TexCharles Barnard is in the milling machinery business in Moline, Ills also has an interest in a flouring mill at Niles, Mich.

In today's Morning Herald among deaths is that of Mrs Gorgh [sic] H. Kuhm as follows:Mrs Elisabeth Rugh Kuhm wife os Geo H. Kuhm

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died at her home at Dawson, Pa Wednesday Jany 20, 1931 at 8:15 PM aged 80 yrs & 5 mos born in Westmoreland Co, Pa on Aug 22, 1851 daughter of John Rugh & wife Sarah Williams. She had been a resident of Dawson for 48 yrs & a member of the trinity Lutheran Church, Connellsville, Pa. Besides her husband, she is survived by the following children:1. Elmer, Frank & Miss Nelle of Dawson PaJohn G. & Mrs R.R. Jones of Uniontown, PaMrs Nora Swisher of Fairmont, WVAGeorge Jr of Masontown, Pa A sister Mrs Amanda Peters of Gbg, Pa & three brothers, John & William Rugh of Gbg & Oliver Rugh of Export, Pa & two grandchildren. Make Gbg slip. Burial in Sylvan Heights Cem.

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Oak Hill Jany 24, 1932 I have a letter dated Dec 10, 1931 in answer to mine from Maj A.F. France of 267 Hanover ST, Annapolis Md. He asks if I have any records of the descendants of William Finley, son of William born 1717 (son of Michael) & his wife Catharine Culbertson & says he has record of all the other children of the Elder William who went to Virginia. He says this William was born in Chester Co, Pa in 1742 & died abt 1814 in Hambleton Bann Tp York Co, Pa (make slip) & who married Oct 31, 1765 Susanna Skinney (Pa Archives Second Series Vol [unlisted] page 101) in 1779 had 243 A. 4 horses 5 cattle, served in Revolution & had issue.

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See page 322 for his children.John Finley, Univ of Glasgow is now someplace in South America have not heard from him since 1929. He sent me Glasgow & Dundee Scotland records. I have copies of old bible of Charles Finley of Dundee, written 1798. The Finleys of Forfarshire & Balchristie Fife are descendants of Archibald Finlay who distinguished himself in the battle of Largs in Argyleshire Oct 2, 1263. His great grandson, John Finlay, Bishop of Dumblane who died 1425. He then uncertainly follows with someone who married Eleanor, daughter of John Stewart of Fothergill now Foringal who had issue: John, Andrew, Alexander & one other John Finley, oldest son who was born in the Tp of Talhyk [best guess] Forfarshire 1457 - also married - Stewart. His son John Finley who voluntarily resigned

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[two or more unreadable words] Glimtilt married [unreadable] His son Andrew married Janet Hays a

descendant of Wm de Hays, cup bearer to Malcolm IV & his son James married prior 1576 Elizabeth Warrender & they had issue:1. William Finley b Apr 15772. John Finley b June 8, 1579 married Sarah Cragie 3. Christina b Aug 6, 15804. Andrew b Nov 4, 1582 married Christina Forbes5. James Finley b Oct 25, 1583 married Grizel HunterAm trying to get records recd from Ireland, Parish Mallaghtrack Co Armagh page 187 in some kind of shape & says Robert son of Robert & Margaret Finley bap May 8, 1681 married Aug 2, 1718 Sarah Patterson page 192 says Michael

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son of Robert & Margaret bap May 7, 1683 married June 12, 1712 Ann O'Neill. Samuel son of same Robert bap May 18, 1684.On page 216 this Robert Finley had son Archibald bap Jany 8, 1686 who married on Aug 10, 1721 Margaret Kelso & had 5 children see p 92James Finley & Dorothy Inglis page 72 had a son James Finley born 1661 ob in Charles Co Md unmarried Nov 18, 1699 aged 38 he being an older brother of Col Robert Finley with whom he came to Maryland in 1684 see p 72.

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William Finley see p 318 p 1742 in Chester Co, Pa ob abt 1814 in Hamilton Bann Tp York Co, Pa son of William Finley twin, born 1717 & his wife Catherine Culbertson. Married Oct 31, 1765 Susanna Skinney or Skinner (Pa Archives 2d Series Vol 2 p 101). In 1779 he owned 243 A & served in the Revolutionary War. Reports 8 children.

[children]

Catherine Finley b 1766 no recordSusanna Finley b 1768 no recordEbenezer Finley b 1770 served under Brig Genl Henry Miller as Capt of York Co, Pa militia Feby 2, 1794 no further recordMartha Finley b 1772 married Apr 12, 1792 Hugh DunwoodyMichael Finley b 1774John Finley b 1776 ob in Ohio aged 82 yrs married Susanna Moore daughter of Robert Moore of York Co, Pa & his wife Sarah see page 324.Ann Finley b 1778Margaret Finley b 1782

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John Finley born 1776 see p 323 who died in Ohio at age 82 say 1858. Make slip & see the records I got in Illinois Dec 31, 1925 from Mrs Honeywell & compare the children given below with what she gave. Married Susanna Moore & reports 7 children.

[children]

John Finley b abt 1797Sarah Finley married Wm LeonardDavid Finley b 1799Susanna FinleyRobert FinleyRebecca FinleyWilliam Finley married Rachel Glover

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John Finley see p 73 7th child of James Finley & Grizel Hunter b Mch 10, 1619 ob Balcastie, Scotland Feby 1679 married 1639 Jane Henning who was bap July 21, 1621 daughter of Richard Henning & his wife Jane Smith. Had 8 children.

[children]

John Finley b 1640James Finley b 1642 ob Nov 20, 1738 married AnnJane Henning Finley b 1646William Finley b 1648Elizabeth Finley b 1650Robert Finley b Inchivie, Fife, Jany 24, 1652 ob prior to 1698 Linen draper in Glasgow 1672-96. A Freeman. Married Apr 22, 1672 Ann Saunders b 1658 daughter of John Saunders & wife Mary Risle see p 328George Finley b 1655Richard H. Finley b 1656

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Robert Finley see p 327 had 9 children

[children]

George Finley b Feby 10, 1673 in Glasgow ob 1718 in Co Wicklow, Ireland will dated Dec 14, 1718 proven Jany 10 by widow MaryWilliam Finley b 1675 merchant in DublinMichael Finley b 1678 ob Sept 5, 1747 in DublinAnn Finley b 1680Priscilla Finley b 1684Thomas Finley b 1685 died in IrelandRobert Finley b Apr 22, 1692 in Glasgow, ob 1747 or 1748 married June 20, 1721 Catharine Wilkes granddaughter of John Wilkes & had 7 children John Finley b 1722 being oldest inherited Finley Manor Robert Finley b 1724 Catherine Finley b 1726

George Finley b 1727 Ann Finley b 1728 Samuel Finley b 1729

James Finley b Aug 3, 1730 ob Oct 10, 1809 in Va emigrated to America 1748 settled in Bucks Co, Pa married Aug 1, 1749 Mary Patterson who died Feby 13, 1810. Had 6 children.

Rev Robert Wilkes Finley b June 9, 1750 ob Dec 8, 1840 in Ohio married Rebecca Bradley

Rev James B. Finley of Ohio whose record I have. Samuel Finley b May 10, 1752 no record George Finley b Mch 18, 1753 no record Mary Finley b Dec 22, 1754 James Finley b June 18, 1756 Thomas Finley b May 30, 1757John Finley b 1694 married Mary Ogilvie

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[unreadable date & place] A letter from Rev Wm Burke Hindman handed me at church this morning by Mrs Joe G. Carroll in answer to one I recently wrote him says early records of the church were lost before Dr Milholland became pastor & he sends me what he could find as below. There is no date on record of the organization of the First Pres Ch of Uniontown, Pa but it was doubtless effected about 1799. During the War of 1812-14, Rev James Dunlap an ex Pres of Jefferson College had charge of the church. In 1817 Rev Wm T. Wylie came on a salary of $1000 per annum which is believed to have been one of the highest salaries paid at that time in the U.S. He was installed as regular pastor in May 1819 & remained 6 yrs or until Oct 1823. The following joined the church:Jasper M. Thompson, no recordEliza Thompson, no recordRuth A. Thompson no recordLenora M. Thompson no record

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William M. Thompson Dec 5, 1874 & at the same time Mrs Clara McDowell joined.Josiah V. Thompson Jany 6, 1872 (which was the 51st anniversary of mother's birth)Mary Thompson, my wife Jany 7, 1882Andrew A. Thompson Sept 13, 1896John R. Thompson Sept 13, 1896Mary L. Redburn Sept 13, 1896Ruth Ann Shepler joined by letter (from Dunbar, Pa) Apr 7, 1894 Lenora M. Niccolls joined by letter (from Brownsville, Pa) Jany 14, 1883Jasper M. Thompson was elected elder Mch 1, 1860 & John Kennedy Ewing was elected at same time.William M. Thompson was elected elder Mch 16, 1890 & Rose B. ReidDr J.C. Hazlett (was it Dr I.C. Hazlett) & Albert G. McDowell were elected at the same time.The session minutes of Apr 6, 1889 give record of Resolution on death of Father who died Mch 13, 1889

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A [unreadable] dated Apr 30, 1931 but not recd from P.O. by me until Sept 14, 1931 from S.M. Carothers Sumter, S.C. says that Archibald Carothers son of John & Sarah sold his land in Cumb Co Pa in 1790 which we know for sure. Make slip & that is the last trace we have of him. In my old mail, I find but one other letter

from him an unanswered one dated Oct 21, 1926 which is the first one evidently he has written me as it speaks of Manville Carothers of Kirksville, Mo having given him my name. I am now filing said letter away.

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Oak Hill Jany 25, 1932 11:20 Am A letter dated Jany 18, 1932 from Tom C. Stevenson 821 Hawley Bldg Wheeling WVA says that Elias Pearce in Capt Zackquils [sic] Morgan's Co Pittsburgh Pay Rolls also the minutes of the Virginia Court for Yohogania Co held on the farm of Andrew Heath near West Elizabeth Mch 25, 1778 there appears the following Elijah Pearce produced a commission from his excellency the Governor appointing him Lieutenant of militia & the said Elijah came into court & swore to said commission I take it that both Elias & Elijah should read Elisha as I know of no claim Elijah Pearce in [two or three unreadable words]. He is right.

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A letter dated Jany 18, 1932 in answer to mine of July 25, 1931 from Mrs Addie J.S. Butler of New Harmony, Ind states that her mother Martha Finley born 1828 in Ohio married her father Thomas Lewis Stewart & refers to book 21 but does not give page. She says will get Kate Finley Robinson's date when born & died. Am writing her for page & telling her I have her earlier Finley record in book 27 p 88. A card dated Jany 18, 1932 from Fay Denny Sorento Ills says she is gathering data & will send same to me soon.

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I have a letter dated Jany 16, 1932 in answer to mine from B.F. Carothers now of 1405 S. 47th ST, Tacoma, Wash formerly Sept 29? 1931 of Champaign, Ills saying his son Loren Carothers met with a fatal accident at Corruna, Mich June 18, 1927 caused by a stroke on the temple from a lever on a signal switch which he was operating while in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway

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A letter postmarked Jany 20, 1932 from Emma A. Cross Aledo, Ills gives address of Miss Sarah E. Finley 143 Stone Church St, Elm Grove WVA (Make slip) who tells her she has often driven through Uniontown, but fails to give date of marriage of her father (whose name I think was Thomas Finley, Uncle of Miss Cross). Miss Cross says he was married in my father's house in Sunbeam, Ills. She says Anna M. Finley youngest child of Thos M. Finley was raised in my father's family from her 11th year when his 2d wife went to WVA she left Anna or Reta as we called her with us. My mother died the next year.

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Aunt Sarah Finley came to Illinois with my folks in wagon from Ohio when they moved to Ill in Spring of 1856. Then she went to McClean? Co to her sister's Mary J. Finley Farquhar. Her sister who married A Carson lived out there someplace too. Aunt Sarah was married to Geo Morrison there & lived not far from Aunt Mary J.F. Farquhar. She says her Uncle Ben F. Farquhar came to Sunbeam, Ills. When May J. Bartlett was 3 yrs old bought a farm & lived on it 3 yrs then sold it & moved to Monmouth, Ills. Did not live many years. He & Aunt Mary are both buried there. Also oldest son John Finley Farquhar was brought

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there for burial. Should think Mrs Eaby could have given his family record as her father died at her home at

Manheim a suburb of Chicago Ills. I suppose she is kept busy as she has her husband's mother with them. She is 90 yrs old. (This must refer to the husband's mother) her father's home was not a happy one. He lived with Eva, his wife in Nebraska with other children.We continued at work last night until 4:40 AM this morning until 4:40 AM finishing up 21 letters for me which Virginia Maloney wrote today. We went to bed at [unreadable] AM She sorted more letters for me letters up to date except Mary J. Peairs of Pgh & Mrs [unreadable]

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Ogle of [unreadable] N. Dak Oct letters up to date & the 4 records on the stand by my chair accomplishing much during her 4 nights & almost 3 days stay & Virginia left for home in her own car via route [unlisted] she driving 3 PM an hour & a half late [this is written over & hard to read] with her Thomas Maloney Jr who brought his wife to her home between Searights & New Salem Pa & came for her. I will now take up in the morning the 4th & last bunch of my old mail of which I find there are 25 letters filed alphabetically by States & commencing with one from Martha Grat of York S.C.

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Oak Hill Jany 2[unreadable] 1932 9:30 AM Miss Mary Richey Keenan of 132 W. Otterman St, Greensburg, Pa called this afternoon for an hour & left at 3:30 PMJames E. Cottom has just now 8:30 PM left at 8:30 PM to report about his trip yesterday to Butler, Pa for me where he learned that the widow of I.W. Phillips lives in a big million dollar house 8 miles this side of Butler, Pa & she directed him to see her son Thos W. Phillips Jr apparent head of the I.W. Phillips Gas Co who was away for the day John H. Wilson Butler Pa City solicitor is their Atty & I told him to write Wilson for an appointment.

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Oak Hill Jany 17, 1932 9:25 AM I have a letter dated Jany 21, 1932 in answer to mine from Robert T. Markle 23 1/2 Custer Ave Billings Montana answering mine of 16th he sends to me fr b 7 p 211 record from their family bible published by Edwd Cushing, Lunemberg [sic] Mass 1829 giving record of his grandfather which I am tabling on page 344. The brothers of George Markle according to a note in Benjamin Bowman Markle's handwriting were as follows: see table pages 348-9. It is not known whether order of births [rest of line cut off]

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is as given & by me recorded in table or not but I think it is from records I got Benjamin & Moses Markle lived at Red Bank, Pa. He is writing his youngest sister Alice Mary Baker in Saskatchewan Can for further data.He learned of Markle in Oregon & speaks of Corresponding in 1927 with Vivian Markle - Haines? Oregon? who said:Charles Markle 1741 Saxony, Germany 1848Tibatha Lutney, Watertown, Mass 1760-1818John 1784 - Stanton, VaJohn Jr, John Jr [sic] Charles Olneer [sic writing becoming very difficult to read]

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Richard B. 1818-1885 [last digits best guess] Liberty VA John 1873 John William

If I have any records of the family for distribution he would like to know the price & buy one. He will want a book. He supposes the T. in his name is for his mother's maiden name Teeters. Fortunately what his father had written down clears up who Jonathan was, viz a son of Christian born Nov 26, 1761 see bk 9 p 210-11

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George Markle see b 9 page 211 born Mch 5, 1795 died Oct 15, 1875 married Oct 14, 1822 Mary or Polly Bowman b Apr 19, 1805 ob Feby 26, 1888

[children]

Thomas Bowman Markle b Oct 29, 1825 ob Dec 28, 1915 buried at LaSalle, ColoSally Markle b July 8, 1828 ob Feby 20, 1837Mary Markle b May 2, 1831 ob Dec 10, 1900Fanny B. Markle b Mch 15, 1835 ob Apr 19, 1895Jesse Bowman Markle b Apr 13, 1837, obMargaret Markle b July 15, 1839, obCharles Kalbfus [best guess] Markle b Aug 8, 1842 ob Sept 12, 1862Caroline Matilda Markle b Sept 6, 1844 obGeorge Markle [shown on page 346] George Bowman Markle b Aug 28, 1847 Minerva Markle b Oct 25, 1849

Benjamin Bowman Markle b Jany 21, 1852 ob Nov 11, 1916 buried in family lot at Clinton, Rock Co, Wis married Jany 1, 1876 in Blaine, Ills Libbie Idella Teeters b 1857 in NY State daughter of Smith & Abigail Teeters. Buried in Clinton, Wis

Idella Maud Markle b Dec 9, 1876 see p 350 [which shows:] married 1 1894 at Clinton, Wis Frank O. Wilson ob married 2 & now lives with Ira I. Sides at 828 12th St, Greeley Col. No issue by either marriage.Nellie May Markle b Jany 11, 1878 ob Mch 13, 1924 buried Greeley Colo married Gosselim see p 351 [which shows:] married Oct 14, 1903 at Greeley, Colo to Clarence E. Gesselim of Janesville, Wis

Marjorie Lucille Gesselim b Dec 21, 1905 in Eaton Colo married 1931 to Glen H. Williams at [unreadable word] IllsLeslie Benjamin Gesselim b Oct 22, 1907 at Greeley, Colo Bonnie Belle Markle b Nov 3, 1879 ob Feby 14, 1904 buried Clinton, Wis

Robert Teeters Markle b July 9, 1886 see next page [which shows:] married Oct 15, 1910 at Greeley Colo to Minnie Mary Rigney b Feby 1, 1855 ob Apr 18, 1926 buried at Billings Mont. Her mother's maiden name was Tarr. No further record of her parents, but they lived in Kansas City when she was born.

Anna Roberta Markle b Jany 7, 1913 at Eaton, ColoMargaret Elizabeth Markle b Dec 4, 1916 at Greeley, Colo

Alice Mary Markle b Jany 5, 1890 see p 352 [which shows:] married May 26, 1909 at Woodstock, Ills to Albert Wm Baker further record will soon be sent see page 384 for his record

Joseph Franklin Baker b June 26, 1911 Harold Wilfred Baker b Nov 28, 1913 Robert Milton Baker b May 11, 1923

John Stanley Baker b Nov 17, 1924 ob Apr 21, 1925 aged 5 mos at Toronto, Ont, Canada

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Christian Markle see b 9 p 210-211

[children]

Jonathan MarkleDaniel MarkleMoses MarkleBenjamin MarkleJacob Markle, the youngestHannah (Ashe) MarkleHettie (Hess) MarkleSallie (Dill) Markle married Solomon Dill

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Oak Hill Jany 28, 1932 9:00 AMOak Hill Jany 30, 1932 6:20 PM At Chas W. Rush's office between 10:20 & 11 AM this morning, James T. Feather said he was born May 10, 1849 & that he & Salome Jennings born 1852 were married Aug 30, 188- & that he worked at Broad Ford Pa for A. Overholt & Co fr $120 at same time H.C. Frick worked for the Co at $60 per month carrying slop to the hogs. He said his father-in-law Henry J. Jennings 1827-1920 was only worth $27,000 when he died having deeded the Howell house on Fayette St to his wife before he died. He said Mr & Mrs Jennings made a joint will & gave but one dollar to his wife saying her husband could provide for her & that T.S. Lackey was responsible for that clause & when Mrs Feather came to make her will, she gave her sister Mary but

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$1 saying our parents had provided for her. He tried to persuade her to change it, but she wouldn't & he said she died worth $40,000 & that her sister Mary has not spoken to him since.Often when he would take his grandchildren Margaret E. & James I.F. Byers to the stores & pay for whatever they wanted to buy his wife wd say "Why don't you let John Byers keep his [unreadable word] Emily [rest of line either blank or completely faded] My wife & Virginia drove up today arriving at 11 AM when I was in town & I went with them to Friendship getting lunch from Geo Dunn at Smithfield & got from Mr Evans 4 bus of apples for them & 2 bus for Oak Hill & got 9 doz eggs & 5 gallon gasoline eggs [sic] 200 [unreadable] at Davenport, New Geneva, Pa 201 lbs lard 18 lbs sausage & 12 pork with them from here which I got from Mr [unreadable] Left 12 PM

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Oak Hill Jany 31st, 1932 1 PM Yesterday afternoon, I had my dear Rose look over my bank books & she found entry on the Mellon Natl

Bank Book of ck I gave H.R. Barber in Sept 1927 in payt of Anjou's bill & hunting further found my paid & cancelled ck No 014 for $1522 dated Sept 12, 1927 on Mellon Natl Bank Pgh payable to H.R. Barber which he had certified, endorsed & collected Rose said through the Peoples Sav & Trust Co Pgh. I will have a photostatic copy of same made & send to Gustave Anjou now living at Hasbruck Heights NY again [best guess on place name]

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Mrs Augusta Pallini nee Belluccei a native of Florence, Italy a member of my household, wife of my butler Pasquale Pallini told me again last night upon my asking about the mustard & milk emetic which I must incorporate along with other home remedies in each of my family histories as it has been uniformly successful, given instant relief & a sure cure whenever tried. She said to first put a tablespoonful of mustard in a glass & them slowly pour in over it half to two thirds of a glass of milk so it doesn't cake & drink it. She also said the white of an egg well beaten up swallowed will give relief [rest faded]

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Oak Hill Feby 2, 1932 10 AM Ground hog day, raining all morning - overcast. Frank A. Gump [best guess] who has just gone after [two or more unreadable lines] yrs ago was down on the farm of his mother's father [unreadable name starts with Bres] in Perry Tp Greene Co, Pa & he died [unreadable month] 15, 187[faded] [unreadable words]Thorn J. McClernan here 3/4 of an hour till about 6 Pm said that Will J. Sherrard told him he got $150,000 div from Washington Coal & Coke Co which was 1/27 & that John [faded] got the same & his

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brother Alex C. Sherrard got $450,000 or 1/9 which figures that they distributed $4,050,000 indicated that they had $1,065,000 on hand in addition to the $298,000 they got from the H.C. Frick Coke for their property negotiations for which [faded words] M.M. Cochrane's had gone bad & he had [faded or blank line] John W. Williand Masontown, Pa [blank or faded lines] Thorn said the mother of James G. Bnnys [sic] had paid $30,000 for him some years ago [faded line] settled by a [faded line]

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Oak Hill Feby 4, 1932 8:20 PM Just rtd half an hour ago from Pittsburgh going down this morning on the PRR & coming back on the 5:20 PM B&O & on going out to get my smothered onions for dinner was told that they had discontinued the diner six weeks ago.Andrew W. Mellon resigned as Secretary of the Treasury this morning one month short of eleven years service & it is well he did as he has become very unpopular the last two years. Hoover appointed him Ambassador to Great Britain & he has accepted & Ogden Mills is now Secretary. Mellon unfortunately is not a diplomat & everyone concedes he is not even diplomatic.

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Cousin Tom C. Stevenson and S.A. Williams both of Wheeling WVA called here for an hour yesterday afternoon having been to Morgantown WVA to Laurel Hill g.y. where he saw the new granite lettered tombstones to Elisha Peairs 1726-1816 & his wife Elizabeth Jack 1735-1814 recently erected backed up against the old ones by Andrew F. Peairs, still living with his single sister Belle Peairs at the old home near Round Hill Church. Tom was there to see them not long ago & at Rehoboth & at our Sewickley Church & g.y. & also at

Long Run Church & g.y. about a mile beyond Irwin Pa where he said he saw the grave of Rev Swann of whom I have often heard mother talk who he said was

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Pastor of both Sewickley & Long Run Churches for 36 yrs. Tom's mother was a daughter of Uncle John C. Plumer & his first wife Elizabeth Peairs daughter of Joseph Peairs 1760-1807 second child of above mentioned Elisha & Elizabeth Peairs. Tom's wife is a daughter of John Elliott & he said he had the record of a Benjamin Elliott's children who I understood him to say was son of a Robert Elliott whose will is recorded at Carlisle, Pa.Tom said the attic at his grandfather's home in West Newton, Pa was full of old documents, letters etc & that he told Ruth E.P. Andrews she must preserve them but he says she didn't. Make slip to go & see if they are still there.

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This forenoon I went in the Carnegie Bldg to see Wm Gates abt the Lowe & Pgh Steel Co coal of 2600 A & he admitted that their only outlet to the River was at Rices Landing, Pa & said they did not have an outlet at mouth of Bit Whiteley & said their price was too high & this was a bad time to talk about buying coal lands but when I told him about the activities of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co & that I would make the effort to get them down to $1500 per acre, he said he would talk to Mr Moses about it. Asking him how long before the 70 yr returning program caught him he said 4 yrs that he was born Apr 19, 1866 in Kittanning, Pa

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I went in this afternoon to see Hon William W. Maerkle [sic] ex state Senator, a stalwart handsome man at his office, loans, investments etc on the door 2020 Farmers Bank bldg Pgh Pa about a 10 yr loan of $30,000 on her 141x150 ft property corner Morgantown & Fayette St.Asking about his forebears, he says he don't know how the e got in their name as they used to spell it Markle. He said he was born in Bedford Co, Pa the 13th & youngest child of Henry Markle born 1822 who lived in Bedford Co & was son of another Henry Markle who also lived there but he could not go further back.

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He is very much interested in getting further information & I asked him to come up on the B&O some evening & I would meet him & put him up & go over some of my Aug 1920 records as I believed he came from the York Co Pa Markles & he could then see the Robinson property.Frank E. Merts & his wife Della G. Merts came out before 9 PM & were here until 10:30 PM. They heard Billy Sunday talk at a Kiwanis luncheon today at the White Swann Hotel & were much pleased with him. He said he never saw his father

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as he was born 3 mos after his father entered the Civil War in which he was killed leaving himself & a brother 2 yrs older & his mother had a hard time getting along & they were educated at an orphanage & when his brother became 18 yrs old, he had to retire from the school at that age & he left at the same time when 16 yrs old. They said he had two bad boys who had been in jail divorced etc. They thought his mother had gone to Indiana. Make slip to

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follow up the Sunday records I got in Berks Co Pa in Aug 1890.John F. Hudson & I went in at 4:15 PM & saw Jake? Gold about the $200,000 Merts loan & agreed that the Massachusetts Life Ins Co should have 1% coms or expenses & that Wm W. Maerkle himself, myself & John F. Hudson should each have one percent & we to have Merts give him a letter on above terms giving them the balance of Feby 1932 to work it out. It is now 11:55 PM

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Oak Hill Feby 5, 1932 3:15 PM O.M. Boughner here from 1:30 to 3 PM today says that John Buchanan Sterling of Masontown, Pa aged 75 yrs has died. He reports E.S. Hackney born in May 1857 as walking feebly. He says he himself was born in Greensboro, Pa then Monongahela Tp Greene Co, Pa Dec 8, 1856 & that the name when they first Germany [sic] was spelled Buchner

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I have a letter dated Sept 7, 1927 evidently in answer to mine from Hettie Mae Jack Morrow, Carters Creek Tenn giving her Jack record on 3 pages but no book & page & will table what she sends on the next page. She says Samuel Jack Taylor Sr died Feby 5, 1903 which I don't understand & am writing.

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W.E. Jack born Mch 29, 1857 near Santa Fe, Tenn married 1 Mch 8, 1876 America Walters b Mch 28, 1854 near Theta, Tenn ob at Theta Tenn Mch 27, 1889 daughter of C.C. Walters & wife Polly Gaskill & she was buried at Kimole Creek Cem. Had 5 children. Married 2 Sept 12, 1889 Lou Wilker b May 9, 1855 at Santa Fe, Tenn ob Sept 1, 1907 daughter of Wm Wilker & wife Sarah Foster & buried Imole Creek Cem. Had 3 children. Married 3 Sept 18, 1908 America Gaskill b Dec 2, 1858 near Santa Fe, Tenn Daughter of Robert Gaskill & wife Margaret [unreadable last name three letters ends ex]

[children]

Green Emma Jack b Feby 26, 1878Bertie Rosanna Jack b July 8, 1880 ob Jany 29, 1923 married Sept 18, 1901 to Saml J. Taylor Ruth Arbell Taylor b Feby 26, 1903 ob Mch 8, 1903 Ruby Ophelia Taylor b Feby 13, 1909 Samuel Jack Taylor b Oct 25, 1918Samuel Boyd Jack b Aug 26, 1883 married Aug 5, 1917 Willie B. Carver Grace Evelyn Jack b Feby 17, 1919

Harold Boyd Jack b June 3, 1921 ob Nov 29, 1925 [last line cut off]William Andrew Jack b Apr 7, 1886 see p 372 [which shows:] married Nov 24, 1911 Ethel Gaskill Allen Boyd Jack b Sept 1, 1912 ob Jany 12, 1916 Virginia Arbell Jack b Dec 20, 1914 William Andrew Jack Jr b Oct 24, 1917Mary Louise Jack b Oct 8, 1888Hettie Mae Jack b Sept 23, 1890 married June 2, 1921 Bert L. Morrow ob June 4, 1924Walter Green Jack b Nov 2, 1894 singleGrady Dewey Jack b Sept 11, 1898 married Apr 14, 1926 Tinia Baker


Oak Hill Feby 6, 1932 12:05 PM This forenoon while waiting for my car, Wm A. Stone came in the Sky Scraper & wanted me to get him privilege to cut off Lick Hollow again & I told him I could not now. He said he made $67,000 off of it before when he was 26 yrs old (in 1896) by cutting & stacking the pit posts & having them ready when business started off & he was able to sell at his own price. He said he was born July 17, 1870 in Carroll Co Mo along the Iowa line

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where he father, Solomon Stone lost $15,000 all he had in a contract for laying rails on a RR & broke up & he was brought back to WVA.He said he had 11 grandchildren, Wandell having 2 boys, Bill & Tom & a girl his son that was was killed having 3 daughters, one born after his death, his son in Ala having one son Bill. Mrs Whyel having two children one named Bill & Mrs Dick Barton where he lives having 2 daughters

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We then drove out to Springdale & was admitted by Ahleen & she called her mother to whom I paid Jasper M's bill for $96.93 for Nov & Dec coal. She said Andrew had turned the place over to Jasper charged with payment of $30,000 at 4% to his sisters Helen & Catharine.Asking for Father's old ledger & Gen Joseph Markle's picture, she said Kate had burned both & father's & mother's

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pictures & all that was left of father's effects were a lot of old letters to father up in the attic which she would send in on a load of coal with Jasper someday for me to look over, keep what I wanted & return the balance. She said their son, 8 1/2 weighed 84 lbs & wore 13 yr old clothes. Said all three of their children were born in South Union Tp, the oldest one at the Riffle house & the other two at the [sic] viz: John [rest unreadable]

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as follows:Ahleen Thompson Dec 23, 1913Katherine Thompson Apr 18, 1916Jasper Markle Thompson Jr June 29, 1923

Oak Hill Feby 7, 1932 6:55 PM I have just finished my dinner having gone in to eat just after the Hoey family of Clairton Pa where Mr Hoey has a shoe store, left for home in their auto after a call of 2 or 3 hours they having left home at 2:30 PM with their 3 children & Miss Luther

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Ligonier, Pa, who knows our Smiths there & who teaches school at Clairton. Leah said that cousin Mrs Mary Jane Wachob died in West Newton, Pa about Dec 1st last shortly after celebrating her 97th birthday on Nov 24?

1931. Notice of her death must have been in the on paper I did not get. She said she would have one sent me. Miss Luther weighed 150. Chas N. Hoey weighed 149 Leah Scholl Hoey weighed 195 Charles Edward Hoey weighed 83

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& he was born Sept 23, 1920James Scholl Hoey born Apr 7, 1924 weighed 63Eugene Clifford born Jany 17, 1927 weighed 48All three of their boys were born in the McKeesport Pa Hospital since they have lived at Clairton, Pa. Leah said the Kaufmann Store corner 5th Ave & Smithfield St, Pgh, Pa was owned by the Liggett heirs who will take it with improvements at the expiration of a 99 year lease.

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Oak Hill Feby 9, 1932 9:30 AM Otho Minor Boughner said the other day when here that Fred G. Schroyer & brother had over $2,000,000 on deposit in the Natl Bk of Fay Co when it closed & that Will J. Sherrard had $101,000 in deposit there then as he had been told by a party to whom Will had said so.4:44 PMI went in at 2:30 PM to the First Pres Church & attended the funeral there of my friend Andrew Stewart Flenniken born in Carmichaels, Pa Aug 1848 son of John W. Flenniken who on Jany 1871 married Annie J? Patterson & who died at his home

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No 11 Nutt Ave at 12:15 AM Sunday Feby 7, 1932 in his 84th year & was buried in Oak Grove Cem. We went together in Apr 1925 to North Carolina & attended the Sesqui-Centennial of the Mecklenberg Declaration which his grandfather Flennikin a Revolutionary soldier had signed on Apr 25, 1925 at Charlotte NC. He was one of the last surviving grandsons of a Revolutionary soldier. He died of pneumonia & his wife is down with it & was not able to attend the funeral but was carried downstairs to view his corpse.

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Oak Hill Feby 11, 1932 10 AM Thomas Alva Edison would have been 85 yrs old had he lived until today. I have a letter dated Feby 1, 1932 in answer to mine from Miss Anna Wirtz of 267 Winthrop Avenue, New Haven, Conn who asks if I have a picture which I do not have of James Finley born 1765 inventor of the chain suspension bridge to be reproduced in the engineering book the Profs of Harvard College use to put out. He was brother of Robert Finley 1760-1825, who went from this Co & Alexander Finley 1770-1825 who went from Greene Co, Pa & both became first settlers of Ashland Co, Ohio.

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I have a letter dated Jany 31, 1932 from Alice Mary Markle Baker of Wolfe Saskatchewan Canada, sister of Robert T. Markle of Billings, Montana who says she was married May 26, 1909 at Woodstock Ills to Albert Milton Baker who was born at Kettleby, Ontario, Can. in Dec 23, 1883 son of Joseph Baker & wife Susan. Their children see page 352

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I have a letter dated Feby 1, 1932 from Mrs Elizabeth Campbell of Council Grove, Kansas written from Carmel, Calif by the sea where she is spending the winter with her daughter Edna Lockwood & family. Her brother, John McIntire of Herington, Kan has a new grandson named Gails (Barr)

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I have a letter dated Feby 1, 1932 from Mrs Mary C. Cook (Mrs Judson) Spencerville, Ontario, Can. She gives a long sketch of the Caruthers name & says I am a descendant of Margaret Carruthers who married William Weir. She was daughter of John & Mary Calvert Carruthers. John Carruthers laird of Gilburn & Souseed married Jean Johnston & lived in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, had 4 sons, Christopher married Mary wood, lived in Fulton, Dumfriesshire. David died in 1853 aged 84. Says someone had nine children

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don't know whether it was Christopher or David. viz: James married Helen Bell & had 4 childrenMary married Alex AdamsChristopher, Calif in Chilwalk [sic] B.C., Jean 2d wife 6 children Elizabeth married Thomas Clloit [sic] 5 children, Christopher, Robert & Mary given.Jean married John Holiday 5 children viz: Mary, John, Elizabeth, Robert & JaneMargaret married Robert, one daughter Mary Jane, Kelso Roebuck 2 sons Charles & JamesJohn married Mary Calvert & come to America in 1841 & died in 1851 aged 47 yrs. Had 7 children

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Grace, not married & died in Priscott, Ontario 90 yrs oldMary married Walther Dalghish 5 childrenGrace died in 1928Christopher died near Priscott, Ont &Jonathan died in AustraliaChristopher not married Lived & died with Samuel & Grace.Samuel not married, died in Priscott, Ont. Also named Robert Walter7:55 PMHave just returned from Washington Pa where I attended a trustees mtg W&J college from 3:30 to [unreadableC.N. Brady said he was born May 29, 1849 in Wheeling WVA in the same house in which his mother & her 13 children were born of which 2 boys & 2 girls are still living.

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John Carruthers b 1804 ob 1851 came to America 1847 married Mary Calvert & had 7 children.

[children]

Christopher Carruthers ob 1877 married Christina Mitchell who died in 1879 5 children John Carruthers dead William Carruthers dead

Herbert Carruthers 4 sons all married Christina Carruthers 2 sons Walter Carruthers in Sorento 1 son 7 daughtersMargaret Carruthers married Wm Weir 6 children page 392 [which shows] Mary Weir married Judson Cook & have 1 son my informant Judson Cook James Weir married Lina Welles Elizabeth Weir married Howard MacGregor near Chilwalk B.C. John Weir had 3 little girls Robert Weir 1 girl & 2 boys Herbert Weir 1 girl Herbert Carruthers married Agnes Holiday & had 1 son. Married 2 Bella Ferguson no issueMary Carruthers married David Black 4 children Mary Black dead Margaret Black married Geo Castle have 1 girl Herbert Black 2 boys David Black 3 little girlsElizabeth Carruthers d.y. singleJohn Carruthers married Margaret Weir 2 children Elizabeth Carruthers married Capt Mac Queen 2 boys & 2 girls Calvie Carruthers married, 2 girlsThomas Carruthers married Bella Hiezel 2 girls Grace Carruthers married Fred Harding Calif Susan Carruthers dead

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Oak Hill Feby 12, 1902 11:40 AM I have a letter from Dan R. Kovar of Uniontown, Pa senior High school saying his brother-in-law F.J. Finley's father came to America in 1880 from County Down, Ireland & is not of the Fayette Co Dunlaps Creek Finleys. The bridge erected by James Finley was at upper Tyrone Tp on farm of Isaac Meason on road between Uniontown & Greensburgh, Pa. He says the log house home of said James Finley is still standing but is

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weather boarded up as told to him by McClelland Leonard. I just called McClelland Leonard on phone office 276, home 2556 & he says that within the last year, he located the house in North Union Tp on the road leading north from Bethelboro on the Robert Junk farm which the said Robert got from his father Thomas Junk "Idel" says James Finley owned the farm getting it by deed from the commonwealth & died there in 1829 & is buried at Laurel Hill g.y. & has a tombstone record of which his will etc he will get & bring out to me

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some evening. He says the executors of his will, one of whom was a Sherrard sold the farm in 1839 also that his will is on record here (make slip) & that he had 3 minor children at time of his death & that Dr Hugh Campbell was their guardian. Make slip to look up filing of his accounts. He, James Finley gave mortgage on his farm to Fayette Co & Westnd Co that his iron suspension bridge over Jacobs Creek on farm of Col Isaac Meason would stand for 50 years. This mtge has been satisfied by Fayette Co but not by Westnd Co. The bridge was torn down. A son of James Finley who was a doctor moved to Indiana.

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Oak Hill Feby 13, 1932 9:27 AM This is the 78th birthday anniversary of my enemy & traducer L.L. Miner. Yesterday's Morning Herald announced that A.W. Mellon would be 77 next month born Mch 24, 1855 & was the oldest Ambassador ever sent to London, Eng by the U.S. This week's West Newton Times-Sun of 11th inst announces the death from pneumonia aged 78 at her home of my cousin Mrs Geo Bruner whose record I got a few years ago when I was at her home in South [unreadable, looks like Amsterdam]

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Mrs Sarah R. Brunner [sic] aged 78 yrs widow of Geo H. Brunner of Sewickley Tp died Monday at 8:30 AM Feby 8, 1932 after an illness of 2 weeks of pneumonia. She was a life long member of United Pres Ch of West Newton Pa & is survived by six children:1. John M. Brunner of Yukon2. Walter Brunner of Smithton3. Mrs Robert Hill, Scottdale4. Mrs Scott Fulmer at home5. Mrs Margaretta Wagley of Bell Cal6. O.Z. Brunner of Chicago, Illsfuneral Tuesday interment in West Newton, Pa cem.

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A letter postmarked South Bend, Ind Jany 28, 1932 from Roland Obeinchaim Secy Round Table Ind south Bend 802-810 Odd Fellows Bldg says Dr Charles Stoltz, author of the Tragic Career of Mary Todd Lincoln, has died & no copy is available as only a limited number were printed. Make slip.

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A letter dated Jany 29, 1932 from Mrs C.M. Hallman in answer to mine to her brother Thos Burd Zell who I visited July 16 or 17, 1926 at 510 Brighton Ave, Pennside, Reading, Pa. She says her brother Thomas Burd Zell died Mch 10, 1928 & her sister Josephine died Apr 3, 1928 & her mother Josephine Patterson Thompson Zell died Aug 5, 1928 in her 95th yr being too old to stand the

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shock of the death of her son & daughter. She says the only photo she has of her mother is the one in the Thompson history. Says if I care to have it, she will have a copy made & send me. See b 17 p 7

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A letter dated Jany 30, 1932 from Miss Jane Macon 1208 Union St, Brunswick, Georgia who belongs to the Georgia Society of colonial Dames of America who says she is a descendant of the Jack family & asks me for information. She refers to the abridged compendium of American Genealogy where she finds I trace my lineage to a Patrick Jack 1678-1726 & she says she has an ancestor of that

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name who was born in Ireland in 1708 (it should be 1700) who emigrated with some brothers to Penna in 1730, married Lillis McAdoo & moved to North Carolina about 1760 & died there in 1780. I know nothing of his ancestry except that his grandfather (it was his great grandfather) William Jack was in 1661 one of the 13 ministers of Presbytery of Lagan in Northern Ireland to be ejected from their benefices by Charles II for non conformity to Ch of Eng

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She thinks her Patrick is perhaps a son of my Patrick - as he was - & speaks of the prominence of many of his descendants. Says she has a lot of data concerning them & is keen to trace the records.

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I have a letter dated Jany 30, 1932 from Mrs B. Milligan 617 East Park ST, Olathe, Kansas in answer to mine of Jany 25, to her mother Mrs Mary George who I was to see there Feby 17, 1926 who she says was born at Palestine, O Apr 8, 1833 & died Feby 19, 1930 at Olathe, Kan & was buried in the family lot at Sedanville O beside her husband John D. George.

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I have a letter dated Jany 28, 1932 in answer to mine from John T. Neilson of Oak & Washington Sts, Peoria, Ills saying his mother Eliza Jane Neilson passed away May 1926 aged 93 yrs. She was totally blind for the last year of her life. I was with her when she died in Johnstown, Pa. says he has been having some heart trouble & prostate gland trouble for the past year & have quit work but got down to the store at noon viz the Isaac Walker Hardware Co of which he is president. My wife is quite well & active in D.A.R. & club work. See Sept 5, 1919 when I was at Corry Pa I think [unreadable word or words]

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A letter of mine dated Jany 25, 1932 to Dr William Plumer North East St Farmington, Ills was rtd on 28th saying he was deceasedW. Ewing Rankin on Jany 28, 1932 sends me from Upper Middletown, the following old Stevens g.y. record which g.y. is on the A.D. Hough farm in Franklin TpBenjamin Stevens ob Feby 21, 1811 aged 73 yrsSophia Stevens ob Mch 20, 1847 aged 70 yrs 3 mos & 3 daysElizabeth Stevens ob Apr 18, 1810 aged 62 yrs

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Dr Benjamin Stevens ob Jany 21, 1813 aged 38 yrsPriscilla Stevens ob July 23, 1791 aged 21 yrsBenjamin Boyd ob Oct 11, 1819 aged 13 yrsHenry Boyd died Oct 20 aged 21 daysThere is a stone in the Cem. that is broken & the pieces can't be found but the part that is left has a Masonic emblem cut on it.I find that Samuel Stevens patented the farm on which I live in 1790 & died soon thereafter & I don't know where he is buried. I feel sure he is buried there & that Priscilla Stevens named above as dying July 23, 1791 was his wife & their only child Priscilla their only child married John M. Austin.

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Oak Hill Feby 14, 1932 4:30 PM I have a letter in answer to an old one of mine dated Jany 26, 1932 from Mrs J.W. Harvey Box 317 Osborne, Ks asking about her Finley family. She says there have been two children born to her son Ralph & Mary Harvey:1. Thresa [sic] May Harvey b June 20, 19282. Jack Winton Harvey b Dec 6, 1931She sends a couple slips she recd with Finley records

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She sends an unsigned slip dated Hutchinson Kan Nov 22, 1931 which says the writer's father died Oct 30, 1929 & her own mother died when I was small about 1877. Says her Step mother got ill about Thanksgiving 1930 was taken to the hospital by her grandson, became unconscious & died Dec 23, 1930. Am writing for names

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Oak Hill Feby 15, 1932 12:22 PM This is my own birthday anniversary the 78th & Dr John Dawson Sturgeon born July 12, 1854 who I saw an hour or so ago at the hospital said L.L. Minor had dinner with him Saturday 13th celebrating his 78th. He says L.L. is now living at the Exchange Hotel here as he can't get a tenant to take care of him & his home, the old Capt I.P. Kendall farm in German Tp.Dr J.S. Hackney took me to the hospital this forenoon where my blood sugar test was up to 200 but the test there & his here showed no sugar in my urine of which I passed twelve pints up to 10 AM today

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While waiting this afternoon for Pallini to come with the car, Henry D. Ruby came up & said his negotiations with Thos B. Seamans for the purchasing of his 650 shares Tower Hill Ltd at $90 a share looked good. He said E.S. Hackney had a mtge for $67,500 on the Joseph Vecchio Main St Property we sold him which we thought was double its value. He said Vecchio owed depositors $102,000 & they would not get one cent on the dollar. He said E.S. Hackney told him he had to take over a 78 room apartment bldg in Orlando, Fla that cost $500,000 & had $250,000 in it which is probably double what it could be sold for. He said he also told him he had had to buy a 150 room hotel at Orlando Fla but did not say what it cost him.

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Making investments on his own judgement do not seem to be profitable as were all he made with me when he took my judgement & which invariably made him big profits.John T. Robinson congratulated me on my 78th & said that 44 yrs ago today Feby 15, 1888 he married Eugenia H. McCormick at Cumberland, Md the ceremony being performed he said by Rev James D. Moffitt, pastor of the 1st Pres Church there assisted by Rev Malachi C. Bailey of the Fair chance & Tent Pa Churches whose son Hodge Bailey he said now lived in East Liverpool, Ohio where a brother of Rev M.C. had been in business.

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Oak Hill Feby 16, 1932 1:11 AM Dr Jacob Sidwell Hackney has just left after an hours professional & social call during which I warded off

for the present at least the administering of insulin on me to reduce my blood sugar. He said his father, Hiram Hamilton Hackney Esq had said their Hackneytown Eng now a part of London Eng which was a mistake as he had had those records searched for 1000 years - found no Hackneys there, his father's statement coming from the fact that Hackneytown was the Port of departure from which vessels sailed for America & elsewhere

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Doctor found that his Hackneys came from St Albans the oldest municipality in England about 20 to 30 miles north of London from which one Joseph Hackney came between 1695 to 1700 to America to Burlington NJ whose wife was Elizabeth Jennings sister of Samuel Jennings Provincial Gov of New Jersey of the same family as Rev Dr Jacob Jennings of Dunlaps Creek Church & Henry J. Jennings 1827-1920. The will of Samuel Jennings on record at Burlington NJ gives his sister Elizabeth Hackney £50 & his nephews Samuel & John Hackney each £10. They had a brother Joseph

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who did not come to America but went to London Eng & became a wool merchant & very wealthy & died there in 1735. John Hackney above born 1676 had a son Joseph born in Burlington NJ Aug 17, 1700 & went to Kennett Tp Chester Co Pa where he died in 1744. Either his wife or his son's, Joseph's was a Harlam of the same family as Justice Harlam of the Supreme Court of the U.S. John 1676-1744 had sons I think Samuel, Joseph & John, the latter born 6 mos after his father's death who when a young man married his cousin was read out of the Quaker church for doing so & went to North Carolina & his descendants are at Salem [unreadable small word or state abbreviation]

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Joseph Hackney, son of John, went to Fredericktown, he said (or was it Fredericksburg VA) & his son Aaron Hackney went to Wilmington Del & married 1st Lydia Reese of the Episcopalian faith, was censured & forgiven & she died in childbirth with the child a year later & he married second Hannah Gregg daughter of Wm Gregg of Va whose sister Martha Gregg married the great grandfather of John D. Ruby & John D. Sturgeon M.D. Nicholas? Dawson making "Sid" & Dr John D. Sturgeon Sr 3rd cousins. "Sid" said the wife of Hon Dr Daniel Sturgeon was a niece of Hannah & Martha & that her brother Elec [sic] Gregg, the wag & wit

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was a different man from Elihu Gregg who burned the Preston O.W. Va Court house who was of the same family "Sid's" great grandfather Aaron Hackney came to Fayette Co, Pa in 1765 & took up the farm beyond Heisterburg, Pa in Luzerne Tp which embraced Hackney Knob. He planted a blackheart cherry sprout & a son of that tree grew to immense size & was cut down a dozen years ago by John Hackney tax collector from whom "Sid" got the boards & made four tables, one for each of his children, the boards being 22 inches wide in the clear. "Sid" worked a year at the carpenter trade.

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Aaron Hackney & Hannah Gregg were the parents of John Hackney whose son Aaron was the father of J. Duncan Hackney who was the father of John Hackney tax collector & the present Sheriff John Hackney "Sid's" grandfather son of Aaron & Hannah married Lydia Sidwell daughter of James Sidwell who came from about Winchester Va about 1795? to Fayette Co, Pa & bought from Benjamin Whaley - of the same family as James C. Whaley - the farms in Menallen Tp known as the Hackney farms where Shamrock now is. James Sidwell was first married but "Sid" has not been able to find to whom by whom he had a daughter

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who married a StephensonJames Sidwell married second Amy Long & their daughter Lydia Sidwell married John Hackney who was born in Luzerne Tp & got a part of the Hackney farm in Luzerne Tp from his father Aaron Hackney which he still retained but his father-in-law James Sidwell dying about a year after his marriage & he & his wife came to Menallen & lived with the widow, her mother & he later became the owner [blank or faded line] his death bed of same & [unreadable word] gave them to his sons John Hackney Jr &

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[several lines written over & through each other unreadable]

It is now 12:46 PM & I will get ready for lunch. John Hackney & Lydia Sidwell were married in 1812 & in same year, her first cousin also Lydia Sidwell, daughter of Hugh Sidwell married Joseph Hackney in Va. Sid said a descendant of Samuel Hackney now had a restaurant Atlantic City, NJ. Frank B. Farren here yesterday evening to look through the house said H.C. McEldowney was unfriendly to me had told John A. Irwin he did not want to see me if I came in. He told Frank B. he would sell the Lantz farm 376 A for $15,000 & allow me a 5% com for selling it.

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A letter dated Jany 8, 1932 in answer to mine of 22d from Clarence M. Smith of 120 Dakota Ave Columbus, O says his brother Herbert C. Smith died in San Francisco Calif Jany 9, 1932 body cremated [unreadable word or words] in urned in Cypress [unreadable word] San Francisco Calif. He says to note this on page 5 but does not give number of book. He was sick in the hospital only about 8 days. He speaks of my telling him of the wife of Joseph Darlinton having first refused an offer of marriage from Geo Washington & says his brother Fred Smith & sister Jane Thompson are living in a house built by her son Doddridge Darlinton in West Union Co at East end of Main st.

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& the Baptist Church is at the west end of said St. "Dodge" built this house right in the way of the street to spite the town & they had to make a turn around it to continue the street. My brother & sister bought it which is substantially built of stone & brick. My brother is beautifying the place & it is one of the show places of the village & the last two reunions of their family were held in it.

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A letter postmarked Jany 28, 1932 Avilla from Malinda Whonsettle says she recd my letter asking for the descendants of Wm B. Crothers, her grandfather. She don't know what B is for & says he came from New York to Ohio but don't know what year nor whether he was married when he came. He married Melinda Barton but don't know her parentage. He died in 1835. Father Nathan was the oldest of his children. He was born in 1821 & died in 1891. He came to Pride & settled in Greene Tp He was buried in Avilla Cem.

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Says she knows but little about her father's family ie his brothers & sisters I take it.Newton married Lucretia Skyles & had 3 sons. Their address was Huntingburg, Dubois Co, Ind. Aunt Zilpha

married Joseph Kyle, had 2 boys & lived in Pennville, Ind, their names were Oscar & Charles. Mr Kyle was a soldier in the Civil War & died there. I didn't know who Uncle Norton married & I know nothing of his family. Aunt Rhoda married William Frank & had one daughter. Betsey & Adaline married

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brothers named Hathenvey. This is all I know of father's family. Ask who Eliza Caruthers was as I knew one of that name who lived in Arizona who visited us once. Excuse pencil as I am too nervous to write with ink. Make slip to go see her if I am out there.

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Nathan Crothers born 1821 died in 1891 buried in Avilla, Ind Cem. Married 1847 Rebecca Stroues [Strones?] born in Penna 1825 ob 1913 & came from Penna to Indiana in 1836 with her people

[children]

Malinda Crothers b 1849 married 1883 Daniel Whonsettler who in 1880 came from Wayne Co & had a farm in Swan Tp. He was born in 1844 & died in 1905. Had no children.Mary Crothers b 1852 ob 1898 married 1882 to James Shiland & went to Pennville, Jay Co, Ind. No issueCharles Crothers ob in infancyEdwin Crothers b 1858 in Swan Tp ob 1930 married 1884 Ida M. Kenkimberg & had 3 children A daughter d.y. Walter Crothers lives at Albion Freda Crothers is at Avilla, IndAlice Crothers b 1860 married 1878 Jonathan Clark b 1867 ob 1918 had 7 children see page 430 [which doesn't add any new information] 3 have died. Addie Bolton lives Kendallville, Ind Ella Downing John & Frank in AvillaFrank Crothers married 1890 Jane Hamlon born 1867 d 1920 see p 431 [which shows] her parents came from Penna Minnie Crothers married Peple lives Avilla Clarence Crothers married Ruch live Kendallville Rolly [sic] Crothers at Garrett Ralph Crothers lives Avilla

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Oak Hill Feby 17, 1932 9:42 AM I have 4 letters dated Jany 26, Jany 27, Feby 4, & Feby 12, 1932 from Tom C. Stevenson 821 Hawley Bldg Wheeling WVA. He is trying to find at Richmond Va of the oath on Mch 26, 1778 in Yohogany Co Va of Elijah (Elisha) Peairs in the Revolutionary War. There are no records in Ohio Co WVA no wills of Harry, Elisha, Charles or Benjamin Stevens, nor nor settlements of their estates there or at Pittsburgh, Pa where S.A. Williams has made search for me nor do they appear as grantors of Red [blank line] estate

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He refers to A.F. Blessing of Indiana, Pa who is a Peairs descendant. He says a court held for Yohogany Co Va held Sept 27, 1779 has this entry:"Ordered that Joseph Pearce son of Elisha Pearce be appointed constable for the ensuing year in place of Benjamin Phillips" I have the following cft of Revolutionary War service: Joseph Pierce ensign in Capt Joseph Pierce Co of Rangers on the frontiers 1778-1783 Westnd Co, militia.John Pierce ensign on list of rangers on the frontiers 1778-83 Westnd Co Pa militiaAlso John Pearce is 2d Lieut

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Capt John Kyle Co on returns of the officers of 4th Battalion. Also has a cft of Rev. service of David Allen in Rev War whose daughter Susannah Allen married Joseph Peairs 1760-1807. There is a record in Allegheny Co, Pa of a Jonathan Pearce who I think died Oct 20, 1802 which is said to contain some valuable data concerning the Pearces. Says will secure a copy & if of value will advise me of contents.He has record of a grant of 4000 A adjoining lands of James Walker on drains of Monongahela River to Elias Pearce dated July 8, 1787 & his name appears in 1790 census.

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He finds on tax lists of Bedford Co, Pa in 1773 Elisha Pearce, Tyrone Tps, Franklin Tp Westnd Co 1783 Rostraver Westnd Co 1786 Franklin Tp Fayette Co Pa in 1785, Elizabeth Tp Allegheny Co, Pa 1791. In the Journal of the Va House of Burgesses 1752-1758 May 4, 1756 page 395 ordered that it appears to the committee that the said Robert Donalds by order of the governor did supply Capt John Smith with sundry goods for the use of the men who marched with in the expedition vs the Shawnee & Robert Donald paid to John Pearce £9.7s 6d fr 15 days hiring of his cart & oxen to transport goods toward Fort Frederick. I take it that is John the father of our Elisha. In Hennings Statute Vol 7 page 215, 1758 to the militia of the

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county of Frederick for provisions furnished by sundry inhabitants of the said Co Isaac Pearce for provisions 13 s 8 d who I take to be a son of John. He heard in his letter of 27th from Richmond VA that the old Rev. records were destroyed during the Civil War. The census of 1790 above referred to about Elias Pearce was for Monongalia Co VA which was made up from census made by that State in 1782, 1783 & 1784 & Elias name appears in the census taken in 1782. Says the private books of the court held at house of Theophilus Phillips on Georges Creek

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were destroyed at the burning of the court house at Morgantown, WVA in 1796. In his letter of Feby 4, he says he found Will of Elias Pearse at Morgantown, WVA in will book 1 page 331 dated May 23, 1807 probated in Dec of same year. He names wife Amy, son Isaac, daughters Elizabeth Hill, Eleanor Hawkins, Druscilla Pearce, Sarah Pearse [sic] Excutrice [sic] wife Amy & Exr Joshua Hickman. The will of Jonathan Peirce b 1 p 162 Allegheny

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is dated Oct 29, 1802 in which he states is is a resident of Elizabeth Tp names his mother Sarah Parce [sic] brother, James, sister Hannah Brodey, sister Sarah Taylor. He also named Jonathan son of brother Lewis. Executors Andrew & Lewis Pearce. Neither Pa or Va record of any service rendered by ancestor Elisha Peairs. Will later give you any data I may get covering the Jack family.

I saw Andrew Peairs who was 82 yrs old on Feby 2d. His sister Belle died some weeks ago.

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I am writing asking him to search at New Castle, Pa if he has opportunity for wills or settlements of estates of Harry, Elisha, Charles or Benjamin Stevens. Make slips.

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Oak Hill Feby 18, 1932 9:33 AM A letter dated Feby 14, 1932 from Miss Madge C. Finley of Greenville, Texas announces that she is to be married on Mch 13, 1932 she is to be married to Mr E.E. Evans of Mercedes, Texas where he has a nice home & has lived for 21 years. He is a native of Miss & lived for some years in St Louis, Mo where he was vice Pres of the wholesale house of Stix Rice Co & is now retired. Writing her today.

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A letter dated Jany 27, 1932 in answer to mine of Jany 25, from S.M. Carothers, Sumter S.C. speaks of the Wisconsin data he sent in abt 1930 about Andrew & Robert Carothers which I did not get & which he now says he might have sent to me at my former address probably when I was away from home. Says Mr Jarman did not make the trip to Carlisle. Make slip to look myself.

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He says Mrs Flower wrote him that John who died 1798 was probably a son of James of York Co Pa who made a will in 1782 & died in 1789 who had sons John, James, Andrew & Thomas. This last would fit the twin brothers as per Mrs Pilcher's acct which looks undoubtedly like gggfather John, half brother James but he does not mention a Williams [sic]. He speaks of his John who died in 1783 having an oldest son Robert but no Thomas

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Says James of York Co speaks of a certain paper between him & his son John which G.M.C. thinks might show something of importance. Make slip to try & trace it or of record as he thinks it refers to lands. Says he has been very successful in tracing the descendants of Thomas & Hanna Neely of Mecklenburg Co NC Have also traced John Carothers Jr son of John & Sarah further down since I wrote You who was born in Pa 1755

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overHe has penciled name John L. Stary Gastonia NC who has a chart which he is having printed showing all the Neelys & Carothers at Mecklenburg Co NC cemetery & Ebenezer which when completed he will send me.4 PM I Met David Morgan Hertzog on the pavement in front of the old court house as I came out at 3:30 PM & he said he was born Mch 30, 1852 & that Samuel Evans Ewing was 4 days younger than him.

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Henry R. Titterington who had just looked up the settlement of estates for me for James N. Mackey who died Nov? 1899 & whose estate I administered on at request of the heirs on May 1901 Geo D. Howell & Lenora T.

Niccolls on my bend [best guess] and of his son Horation [sic] Nelson Mackey who died Jany 5, 1927 had as the records show a son Larkin N. Mackey born Oct 1903 to his housekeeper Elizabeth Scott who was allowed $6951 for 27 years by the court for services & who sold his farm of 127 A in Georges & South Union Tp on the judgement accorded her & bought it in. I had at 12 o'c noon attended a Kiwanis luncheon at White Swan Hotel & heard Dr R.E. Hutchison

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Oak Hill Feby 20, 1932 10:40 Am Dr Ralph C. Hutchison gave a most interesting talk Thursday 18t at the Kiwanis luncheon at the White Swan Hotel on Reza (pronounced Ras) Khan the present ruling King of Persia who is son of an inconsequential farmer uneducated & who came up from the ranks through the military weighs 243 lbs is 6 ft 4 in tall a tremendously forceful character, utterly fearless & a strong personality aged probably about 55 years & who unarmed braves every danger. I wish someone would have taken down shorthand what he then said & his more important more than an hour's address at night at the annual Baxter

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class banquet dinner at the First Pres Church on World condition which was very illuminating.He came out here at 5:30 PM 1st to see me when upon inquiry he said his father Joseph Cooper Hutchison was from Upper Octorara Lancaster Co, Pa & went to Colorado & was practicing medicine at a small mining town in the Cripple Creek section called Florissant, Teller Co Colorado 218 inhabitants where Dr Ralph C. himself was born but his father later moved to Denver. He said a Hutchison uncle now living in Phila

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whose address he will send me had married an Anderson in Lancaster Co, Pa but she is not living now.Yesterday forenoon at the Wilkinsburg Bank, Mr Crandall Vice Pres of the bank & active manager in charge said his wife was a sister of Thomas Taylor Seelye who said now had a position with the Standard Oil Co at Lima O. I submitted to him the Boughner, Gorley, Merts $200,000 loan as a means of getting my $5,000 note with them paid & am satisfied I convinced him & he said he would submit it to [rest of line & next line unreadable smeared]

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A letter dated Feby 16, 1932 from James C. Harvey, Santa Fe, New Mex gives me address of E.D. Tittman, atty at Law Hillsboro New Mex as the one best able to give information about the gold find in San Mateo Mt 250 miles south who reports the ore there as worth $7000 a ton. He says he, Gladys & their over 3 yr old son John are well & says they lost a child last spring which almost cost Gladys her life.

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A letter postmarked Feby 17, 1932 Farmington, Ills from Mrs Frank L. Steenburg, Farmington, Ills signed Lida Jack Steenburg gives my reference to book 5 page 416 saying that my letter to Samuel Jack has been handed to her, his daughter. She says her father died five years ago next Sept 19, say 1927 of just old age. His third wife died 3 years ago before. Hopes I will be able to complete my book of the Jack family.

A letter dated Feby 7, 1932 from M.F. Carothers, Clarence, Mo refers to b 27 p 307 says in regard to the children of M.L. Carothers & his wife Elizabeth who was buried at Shelbyville, Mo

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says there was only one marker or slab inscribed as follows:"Annie, William & Thomas, children of M.L. Carothers & wife Elizabeth"Referring to Mrs Eskridge's statement that her father, John H. Carothers & Dr John Carothers were double cousins, he says he explains that Thomas Carothers born 1772 father of Dr John Carothers born 1796 & Andrew, his brother born 1778 married sisters & as Andrew married Miss Catherine Louden then Thomas evidently married her sister but I don't know her name. There was a Wm M. Louden witness to Dr John Carothers will. [This surname may be Londen. Hard to tell which for sure]

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He then refers to book 26 p 448William Thomas Carothers Mch 17, 1799 born in Carlisle, Pa & died in Kentucky 1838 while on a business trip to Kentucky married Miss Margaret Ann Culp born 1800 & died 1891 & were married in 1829.2. William Thomas Carothers born 1834 died 1901 married Miss Frances Ellen Phillips in 1865 & she died in 1870 & had following children:1. Mary Frances b Mch 19, 1868 married Herbert A. Wright b Oct 8, 1859 son of John R. Wright & wife Miss Rebecca A. Hand. Mr H.A. Wright is an attorney & they live in Clarence Mo. They had one child: Fred Carothers Wright bond Dec 9, 1894 who married

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Miss Lenora Pat Tucker born Nov 26, 1893 daughter of Ashley B. Tucker & wife Miss Nonie Edwards. Mr Wright married Miss Tucker in Dec 27, 1919. They have one son viz:

Ashley Tucker Wright b Dec 21, 1920They live in a suburb of Chicago where he has a position with a paint & varnish Co.

Says is expecting some answers to his letters & will send me what he gets.

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A letter dated Feby 8, 1932 sends me 7 pages of records he has taken about the Jack family from the family from the D.A.R. lineage books:No 11.94651. James Jack 1758-1834 surgeon Capt Richard McLan [sic] Co Col James Johnston Cumb Co Reg Penna line down Cumb Co, Pa died Allegheny Co Pa. He married Agnes McKinney2. Lida Jack born 1796 married 1815 to William McAllister b 1780. Their son Samuel McAllister b 1820 married 1847 Frances Anne Donnell 1825-1860.Their son Henry Scott McAllister b 1849 died 1904 married 1887 Virginia Hayes b 1863.Their daughter Frances McAllister married John Studley Alexander

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No 118508Mrs Mary E. McCandlessNathaniel Lemuel McCandless b 1831 ob 1897 married 2d 1873 Margaret E. Carriger 1847-1910John B. McCandless died 1839 married 1818 Cassandra Garden 1799-1882Michael Carriger 1818-1884 married 1844 to Sarah Ann Jack 1825-1892John McCandless married Susanah FarmerJohn Finley Jack 1766-1829 married Elizabeth Cocke 1792-1806

Patrick Jack married Martha Finley & William Cocke married Sarah McLinnPatrick Jack 1730-1821 Capt 5th Co 1st Battalion Cumb Co militia died in Chambersburg, Pa

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No 115870 [best guess, upper part cut off]Mrs Sarah R. Power McCune wife of William McCuneCalvin B. Power b 1838 married 1 in 1861 to Gertrude Wykoff 1849-1865James Power M.D. 1781-1861 married Nancy Jack who died 1864John Power 1757-1805 married 1778 Margaret Finley 1756-1836John Jack married Nancy McCoyJames Finley married 1752 Hannah Evans 1737-1818John Jack 1747-1815 private Capt Joseph Eager's Col Lochry's Penna Reg born Cumb Co, Pa died in Westnd Co, PaJacob Theodore Meals b 1853 married 1871 to Sarah Clark b 1856William Meals b 1820 ob 1900 married 1848 to Lucretia Ann Jack b 1829 ob 1913Samuel Jack Jr b 1784 married 1807 Sarah Jane Newell b 1784

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Jacob Meals married Catherine VarnumSamuel Jack married Lucretia Ann GearEnoch Varnum married Mary MechlingJacob Mechling married Catherine 1748-1832Samuel Jack private & artisan Penna line born in Ireland & died in Greensburg, PaNo 10-566Mrs Mary Sayre Wylie, wife of Paul E. WylieA.H. Sayre b 1851 married 1877 to Jennie McCullough born 1860John McCullough b 1830 ob 1862 married 1852 Isabella R. Jack b 1830 ob 1905Matthew Jack Jr b 1796 ob 1847 married 1829 to Isabella M. Porter 1810 ob 1871Matthew Jack married 1782 to Nancy Wilson b 1760Matthew Jack Lieut 1776

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8th Reg Penna Continental line 1777 promoted to Captain born in Derry Ireland & died in Westnd Co, PaNo 99746Mrs Margaret Burrus Barry wife of Thomas Frazier BarryJohn E. Burrus Jr b 1847 married 1870 to Margaret A. Burritt b 1848 ob 1886John C. Burrus b 1814 ob 1874 married 1837 to Louisa McGehee b 1821 ob 1908Charles C. Burrus married Elizabeth ColemanArchibald McGehee b 1783 ob 1850 married 1819 to Cynthia Cosby 1799-1867Daniel Coleman married ChildsDaniel McGehee married Jane Brooker HodnellSydnor Cosby married Catharine Jack b 1767James Jack married 1766 to Margaret Houston

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Patrick Jack married Lillis McAdoo

Patrick Jack b 1700 ob 1780 patriot too old to serve in ranks as did all of his sons. When ill in bed. Tories burned his house & the exposure caused his death. Born in Ireland died in Charlotte, N.C.

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Oak Hill Feby 22, 1932 10:46 AM This is the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Dr Wm B. Hindman preached two very instructive sermons yesterday morning & evening on his recent researches about his career.Yesterday was the 64th anniversary of the birth of our butler Pasquale Pallini born Feby 21, 1868 at the village of St Andra in the Province of which Arezzio is the capital the posthumous & 7th child of Pasquale Pallini who died 3 mos before his birth

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& his wife Annunzia Nadri who was left with 7 children to raise all now dead except Pasquale. The father of Annunzia Nadri was the owner of a wheat mill which she had learned to run & manage successfully. Dr Hindman spoke yesterday of Washington having been in what is now Fayette Co Pa in 1753, 1754 & 1755 & that in 1769 he bought the Great Meadows ctg 254 A site of Fort Necessity battle for £15.+ & that he was here in 1784 & lodged at a hotel that stood on the site of the present Fayette Title & Trust Co bldg the skyscraper

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Continuing with [faded word or words] of Feb 2, 1932 from Tom H. Stevenson Wheeling WVA giving Jack lines taken from the D.A.R. magazines:No 91378Mrs R.E. Lewis, Sutherland wife of Roger Burton Johnson1. Hugh Lewis Sutherland born 1848 married 1878 to Ethel Cosby Burrus born 18582. Benjamin Sutherland b 18-7-1858 married 1847 Rebecca Lewis 18-7-1898John C. Burrus b 1814-1870 married 1839 Louise McGeheee [sic] 1821-19083. Hugh Lewis 1800-1892 married 1820 to Elizabeth Bale 1805-1857Archibald McGeehee [sic] 1783-1850

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married 1819 to Cynthia Cosby b 1799 ob 1867Charles C. Burrus married Elizabeth Coleman4. Isaac Lewis b 1770 married Mary NortonSydnor Cosby married Catharine Jack b 1767Daniel Coleman married ChildsDaniel McGehee married Jane Brooks Hodnell5. William Lewis married VanPeltJames Jack married 1766 Margaret Houston6. Patrick Jack married Lillis McAdoo see 99746

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No 89507Mrs Effie Clarke Jack wife of Joseph Chadwick Jr1. D. Franklin Jack b 1843 married 1872 Arma Catharine Clark b 1852

2. William Jack Jr b 1813-1848 married 1830 Malinda Davis 1815-18883. William Jack d 1816 married 1808 to Elizabeth Wardlaw4. John Jack married Mary5. Patrick Jack married Lillis McAdooPatrick Jack member of Com of Safety, Mecklenburg Co NC when sick in bed his house burned by Cornwallis born in Ireland see 99746

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No 87271Mrs Nellie Jack Hall wife of Edwin Augustus Hall1. Ebenezer Gear Jack b 1812 ob 1863 married 1837 Esther Jane Thomas 1822-19002. Samuel Jack b 1784 married 1807 Sarah Jane Newell b 17843. William Jack married Lucretia Ann Gear William Jack b 1745-1800 soldier artisan with raw troops who occupied Trenton NJ taken prisoner by Hessians liberated when Washington surprised the enemy. Born in Ireland died in Greensburgh, Pa

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No 83380Miss Sarah Carriger1, James A. Carriger b 1845 married 1872 Julia Lewis 1850-18922. Albert S. Lemoir [sic] b 1803 ob 1861 married 1856 to Catherine Freeling Welcker b 1818-1889Dr Michael Carriger b 1818 died 1882 married 1844 Sarah Ann Jack 1825-19023. William Ballard Lewis married 1802 Elizabeth Avery b 1781John Finley Jack 1766-1829 married Elizabeth Cocke 1792-1866Wangnlsll [sic] Avery married 1778 Leah Franks 1748-183-William Lemoir married Anna Ballard 1751-1833Wm [cut off]cKee

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married Sarah McLinPatrick Jack married Martha FinleyPatrick Jack b 1730 died 1821 Capt 1st Battalion Cumb Co Pa militia died at Chambersburg, PaNo 62935Mrs Anna McAllister Briney wife of James Briney1. Samuel G. McAllister married Frances Ann Donnelle2. William McAllister married Lydia Jack 2d wife3. James Jack married Nancy McKinneyJames Jack b 1758 ob 1834 sergeant Capt Richard McLenie's 1st Battalion Col Johnson Cumb Co, Pa Reg of militia Penna line b Cumb Co, Pa died Allegheny Co, Pa

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2936Miss Elizabeth Jeannete Briney daughter of 62935No 64889Descent through John J. McCullugh [sic] b 1830 ob 1862Isabella Jack born 1830 died 1905 married 1852 Matthew Jack Jr ob 1847 married Isabella M. Porter 1810 ob

1871 married 1829 Matthew Jack & Nancy Wilson 1760 married 1782 Matthew Mack b 1755 ob 1836 see 108566No 65130Miss Lillis Virginia Barnett1. Wm Joseph Barnett - Ann Wright2. Patrick Barnett - Nancy Beall3. William Barnett - Jean Jack4. John Barnett - Ann Spratt5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdooPatrick Jack b 1700 ob 1780 see [unreadable words]

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Mrs Emma Murray Gibson same as 65130No 58626Miss Carrie L. Barnett1. Augustus Wm Barnett b 1825 ob 1898Celeste Treulen 1833-1871 married in 18492. Samuel Barnette 1775-1813 Elizabeth Worsham b 1791 ob 1856 2d wife married 1822Gabriel Treulen 1804 ob 1845 Anna Conner b 1805 ob 1852 married 18263. Wm Barnett - Jeann [sic] Jack b 1750 ob 1811 married 1772Richard Worsham - Mary WinfieldJohn Adam Treulen Jr b 1770 ob 1823 Ann Margaret

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Miller 1776 ob 1810 married 17934. John Barnett - Ann Sprott5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdoo b 1700 ob 1780 see previous recordNo 49237Mrs Georgia Liggett Allen wife of Edwin C. Allen1. William Liggett - Jane M. Henderson2. John Henderson - Ann Jack3. James Jack - Anna Watson 2d wife4. John HendersonJames Jack 1733 ob 1817 ensign Capt Alex Scott Co Lancaster Co Penna militiaNo 40952Mrs Nancy Henderson Maffett wife of Joseph Maffett

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1. Joseph Henderson - Nancy WilsonJohn Henderson - Ann JackJames Jack - Anna Watson 2d wife see 49237No 39016Mrs Louise Jane Jack Woods wife of Isaac Newton Woods1. Ebenezer Gear Jack b 1812 ob 1863Esther Jane Thomas 1822-19002. Samuel Jack b 1-84 Sarah Jane Newell married 1877 [sic]3. William Jack - Lucretia Ann Gear

William Jack b 1745 ob 1820 born Ireland died Greensburgh, Pa see previous record

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No 38910Mrs Laura Jack Sharp wife of Charles Jacob Sharp1. Samuel Witherspoon Jack - Adelia Miller2. James Jack - Maria Julia Witherspoon3. Col Patrick Jack b 1769 died 1820 married Harriet Spencer in 1777 (last one date is wrong)4. James Jack - Margaret Houston married 1766James Jack born 1731 ob 1822 bearer of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in 1775 to the delegates from NC to Continental Congress Phila Commanded a company throughout the war [several unreadable words]

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No 37642Mrs Jessie Augustus Jack Dadswell wife of Cyrie E. Dadswell1. John Harrison Jack - Harriett Smucker2. Ebenezer Gear Jack b 1812 ob 1863 - Esther Jane Thomas 1822-19003. Samuel Jack b 1784 - Sarah Jane Newell married 18074. William Jack - Lucretia Ann GearWilliam Jack 1745-1800 see previous record

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No 35958Miss Annie Lowrie Alexander M.D.1. J.B. Alexander - Annie Lowrie2. Robert Davidson Alexander - Abigail CaldwellSamuel Lowrie - Mary Johnson3. William Bain Alexander - Violet DavidsonRev Samuel Craighead Caldwell - Elizabeth Lindsey 2d wifeJudge Samuel Lowrie - Margaret Alexander4. John McKnith Alexander b 1733 ob 1817 - Jane Bain married in 1759John Davidson - Violet WilsonDavid Caldwell born 1725 ob 1821 - Rachel Craighead

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Robert Alexander - Mary Jack5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdooPatrick Jack b 1700 ob 1780 see previous recordNo 29278Mrs Cora Henderson Deemer wife of Lawrence V. Deemer1. Samuel Stewart Henderson - Anna Latch2. Joseph Henderson - Nancy Wilson3. John Henderson - Anna Jack4. James Jack - Anna Watson 2d wifeJames Jack b 1733 ob 1817 see previous record

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No 29281Mrs Ella Henderson Marlin wife of Benj Marlin1. Joseph B. Henderson - Mary Bennett2. Joseph Henderson - Nancy Wilson3. James Jack - Anna Watson 2d wife see previous record [think he left out one generation see record above]No 29287Mrs Alice Henderson Van Lassell wife of Alex Reuben Lassell1. James Buffington Henderson - Mary Bennett see no 29278No 25353Mrs Ethel Burrus Sutherland wife of Dr H.L. Sutherland1. John C. Burrus b 1814 ob 1879 - Louise McGeheee [sic] 18-1-1908

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No 17939Mrs Sarah Cooper Sanders wife of John Wilkes Sanders1. Thomas L. Cooper - Mary S. Pope2. Alexander Pope - Sara Barnett3. Samuel Barnett - Eliza Joyner4. William Barnett - Jean Jack5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdooPatrick Jack b 1700 ob 1780 see previous recordB 16666Mrs Elizabeth N. Jack Wells1. Joseph Jack - Hannah J. Herron2. John Jack - Nancy McCoy married 1782John Jack b 1747 ob 1815 see previous record b Cumb Co Pa ob [unreadable]

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No 9388Mrs Harriet Patrick Ballinger wife of Wm Pitt Ballinger1. William Houston Jack - Laura2. James Jack - Margaret Houston3. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdoo see previous recordsNo 9389

Mrs Lucy Ballinger Mills wife of Andrew Graham Millssame as 9388No 9390Mrs Laura Ballinger Randell same as 9388-9389

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No 9517Mrs Mary Louise Hill wife of Dr John Hill1. William A. Pope - Susan Cooper2. Alexander Pope - Sarah J. Barnett3. Samuel Barnett - Eliza Margaret Joyner4. William Barnett - Jean Jack5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdoo see previous recordNo 9522Mrs Effie Pope Wimberly same as 95[not finished]No 9006Mrs Effie Rankin Jack Kennedy wife of John W. Kennedy1. Capt Ebenezer Gear Jack - Esther Jane Thomas

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2. Samuel Jack - Sarah Jane Newell3. William Jack - Lucretia Ann Gear see previous recordNo 9572Mrs Elizabeth Jack Latta wife of James M. Latta1. William Jack Jr - Harriett Eason2. William Jack - Margaret Wilson see previous recordsNo 9835Mrs Emily Jack Smith wife of Frank W. Smith same as 9006No 10814Mrs Laura Jack Davidson wife of Robert Vance Davidson

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1. Thomas McKinney Jack - Nannie Knox2. Wm Houston Jack - Laura Harrison3. Patrick Jack - Harriet Spencer4. James Jack - Margaret Houston5. Patrick Jack - Lillis McAdoo see previous recordsNo 11488Mrs Anna H. Jack Roberts wife of Thomas Tenbrook Roberts1. Joseph Jack - Hannah Jane Herron2. John Jack - Nancy McCoyJohn Jack enlisted Capt Joseph Eager's Co Col Archibald Lochry's Reg wounded Woodbridge NJ [faded word] Ranger

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[faded words] Capt Andrew Sweringen ob 1815 Westd Co Pa age 68 years

No 12621Mrs Lydia Jane Jack Clarke - wife of Samuel M. Clarke1. William Jack - Caroline Howard2. John Jack - Nancy McCoy see no 11488No 13317Mrs Nancy Jack Power Scott wife of John Y. Scott1. James Power M.D. - Nancy Jack2. John Jack - Nancy McCoyJohn Jack b 1747 ob 1815 see 11488-12621

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No 636Mrs Sarah Rowena McDowell Roach wife of Dr Edw Eldon Roach gr gr granddaughter - Samuel Wilson - Margaret Jack gr gr gr granddaughter - Patrick Jack & Lillis McAdoo see previous record of Patrick JackNo 7594Mrs Nancy Jack Wentling wife of John F. Wentling1. William Jack Jr - Harriet Eason2. William Jack - Margaret Wilson served in militia throughout the war prisoner at Trenton NJ guarded Military stores under Capt Samuel Moorhead

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Shenandoah Valley Pioneers & their descendants T.K. Cartwell 1908Page 89James Jack - allowed pay in Colonial wars previous to 1758page 507Mrs Smith & her son German Smith lived in Winchester, the son married Virginia Jack daughter of Mr & Mrs C.P. Jack - the Jack family trace their line to Revolutionary ancestors in that period the name was spelled Jacques. They settled as pioneers near the Potomac River west of Martinsburg & one or more of the name figured in the Revolution. James Jack who lived in Morgan Co in 1850

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inherited large tracts of land from his Rev. ancestors xxxxxxxpage 615History Com of Penna Wm H. Egle M.D. M.A. Cumb Co between 1750-1755 there a figure of note in Cumb Co Capt Jack the Black Hunter, Black Rifle & wild hunter of the Juniata, the black hunter of the forestOld WestmorelandEdgar Whassler 1900Garrison at Fort Hand Apr 26, 1779 consisted of 17 men under Capt Samuel Moorhead & Lieut Wm JackThe Frontier Forts of Western Penna 2 vols page 325 Fort Hand 324 miles of Kiskiminta River

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at the ford & the ford was about 6 miles above the mouth of the stream. The stream was north west from Hannastown about 14 miles. Capt Samuel Moorhead who had married a daughter of Col Lochry commanded the Co stationed there & William jack afterwards Judge Jack was his Lieut. Old Westmoreland page 151 Wm Jack mentioned as a professional scout mention is also made of Sheriff Matthew Jack

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Oak Hill Feby 24, 1932 9:42 AM Judge Robert Emory Umbel was admitted as a member of Fort Necessity chapter of S.A.R. at the Parish House meeting Monday night H2d inst on Washington Bi-Centenary.he said his people being Dunkards opposed to wars & fighting he had not thought he was eligible until a distant cousin I believe [unreadable name looks like Liet] Thomas of Iowa was elected to Congress & while in Washington D.C. looking up the records found that Alexander Thomas had been a Revolutionary soldier & his son

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Michael Thomas had a daughter Ann Thomas who married an Umbel & became the mother of Judge Umbel's father. There were ten deaths of members reported since formation in Feby 1927 & on my motion seconded by Monroe Moreland Hopwood the record of their deaths - their ages were voted to be recorded on the minutes as well as what Judge read of Theodore Tilton's remarks about the Fort Necessity battle of July 3, 1734 starting the 6 yrs war in Europe & the local efforts in 1854 to erect a monument there then

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In the West Newton Times-Sun of Nov 28, 1931 which cousin Leah Hoey of Clairton Pa had sent me first last column under heading "Called by death in her 97th year~ is announced the death of cousin Mary Jane Wachob as follows: Mrs Mary H. Wachob passed away at her home on 4th St Sunday afternoon at one o'clock Nov 22, 1931. Had she have lived until Saturday, would have attained 97 yrs. She was born in Sewickley Tp

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& was the daughter of Paul Hough & Martha Crawford Cook Hough & a great granddaughter of Col Edward Cook, one of the pioneer settlers & leaders of western Penna. In 1886 she married James Wachob with the exception of a few years spent in the west, she spent her entire life in West Newton, Pa. When a young woman she joined the First Pres Ch in West Newton Pa & for 74 yrs was a faithful & loyal church & S.S. worker

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She is survived by the following nieces:Mrs Wm A. ZehmMiss Ida V. GuffeyMiss Pauletta GuffeyMrs Carroll Miller& a nephew Joseph F. Guffey all of Pittsburgh, PaFuneral from 1st Pres Ch 3 PM Tuesday 24th burial in West Newton Cem. In the editorial column 1st one on 1st page they say of her a venerable & exemplary life has come to its close almost 97 yrs old "Aunt Molly"

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as she was affectionately called has been taken & many hearts feel void because of her departure. Her devotion of her religious life placed her in high esteem. She having served devotedly in the church for 74 yrs. Her cheerful smile & sunny disposition were distinguishing features of her life.

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A letter from Mrs Mary B. Ponting postmarked Berkeley Calif Feby 18, 1932 says she has rented her house for 4 mos & for a time her address will be Box 547 Carmel Calif.

A letter dated Feby 11, 1932 in answer to mine from cousin Sister Mary of the Angels, Monastery of St Dominic 13th Ave & South Tenth St Newark NJ sends me a birthday card which is signed Mrs Baader & says

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she has been suffering from the Grippe & Lent coming in she will not now answer the questions I asked her but will send me an Easter egg in type. She is trying to raise money to get an instrument - radio I suppose so that shut-ins like herself can hear something from the outside world. I am writing her today & am sending her five dollars.Joe Stern born Feby 25, 1864 has just phoned his birthday conciliations [best guess]

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Oak Hill Feby 26, 1932 8:11 AM Frank E. Merts driving to Pgh yesterday said it was 35 yrs day before yesterday since his wife Della's mother Mrs Saml P. Gibson died on Feby 24, 1897 & he said he would be 58 yrs old today born Feby26, 1874. He said the National Bank of Fay Co had a mtge for $40,000 on Jules Levy Bldg adjg Wm Hunt's jewelry store & also held a $10,000 note with no endorser on Levy of whom he is receiver in bankruptcy. Also that said bank had a $60,000 mtge on the Simon John Bldg 4 stores on Penn ST back of the jail which cost $100,000 but won't sell for other [sic] 10,000. Virginia came up yesterday to help me for bals of month.

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A letter dated Feby 23, 1932 in answer to mine from John T. Neilson Peoria, Ills. He says his mother Eliza Jane Neilson died June 5, 1926 in Johnston, Pa in the home of her grandson E.L. McIntyre & was buried in the old Unity Cemetery 2 miles west of Latrobe Pa. They claim Unity Church was the first Pres Ch west of the mountains & all of mother's forefathers are buried there. The Jacks were buried at Middle Church near Mt Pleasant Pa & they claim to be the first church west of the mountains.

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I have a letter dated Feby 19, 1932 in answer to mine from Mrs Belle S. Carothers 5400 Walnut St, Oakland Calif saying she is gathering the data from the Isaac Carothers families & will send them to me.

A letter dated Feby 17, 1932 in answer to mine from Cornelia C. Jones 721 Colonial Road, West Palm Beach Florida says that Joseph Cooper Jones see page 287 was son of Berry Jones a native of Valdosta Ga - Rebecca Cooper a native of S.C.

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[descendant chart]

[Jones]

[children]

Jose Carriger Jones see page 287 have 2 children at Valdosta, Ga Leon A. Paine Jr b Jany 22, 1922 James Carriger b May 20, 1924James Cooper Jones has 2 children born at Valdosta Ga Margaret Irene Jones b Oct 3, 1927 Joseph Cooper Jones b Nov 21, 1929

She wants a book

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[italicized words in another handwriting] I have a letter dated Feby 19, 1932 in answer to mine of Jany 22, 1932 to his sister Miss Anna Jones from J.W. Jones of Russellville, Ala who says William Pinkney Jack came there between 1840 & 1850 & practiced law & married Mary Harris younger sister of the writer's mother. She was a daughter of Benjamin Harris see p 502 & also book 26 p 604. Their dates & those of their children on page 502 are taken from their tombstones. Wm Pinkney Jack & his two sons were all lawyers & good ones, but because of drink (not for print) did not have any great measure of success. His brother John Finley Jack Jr who died in Columbus

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Miss has a daughter, Miss Laura Jack living in West Point, Miss who he is sure can give me much information for my history. I think it was from her I got their address. Wish I had more for you. Am writing to know if any of the three children on page 5- were married.

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[descendant chart]

William Pinkney Jack see b 26 p 604 b May 12, 1818 ob Sept 25, 1890 at Russellville, Ala & is buried in the city cem there see tombstone. He was a lawyer. Married Mary Harris b Mch 24, 1828 ob Feby 25, 1880 daughter of Benjamin Harris

[children]

Benjamin Harris Jack b Mch 7, 1851 ob Dec 4, 1910John Finley Jack b Feby 26, 1854 ob Jany 18, 1924Mary Lizzie Jack b Feby 25, 1860 ob Jany 21, 1929


A letter dated Feby 15, 1932 in answer to mine of Jany 23, 1932 from Miss Elizabeth Carothers 1070 Tillamook St, Portland, Or says her Aunt Mary Saltmarsh will be 90 on 26th inst born then Feby 26, 1842.Says she has been corresponding with Mrs Wright about her grandfather, Wm Thomas Carothers, natural son of William b 1768, second son of John 1739-1798 & will send me her line if I want it. I am writing her for it.John Carothers Shff 1770 married Sarah as shown by deed. She is on track of another Carothers. The wife of the pastor of their church 1st Pres viz Gertrude Butterfield daughter of Mary Emma Carothers who was daughter of

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Levi Carothers who married Lydia Davis a niece of Jeff Davis & he was son of John Carothers of Ireland who married Atern [sic] with children Levi, Rev John, Mary Ann, Elizabeth & Jerry. Her family moved to Ohio. Levi's children were Mary, Alice, Anna who married Allison & had Ulysses, Sylvester, Marion, Mary, Willie & Caroline. Anny Eckler Traver married Feby 8, 1932 in Portland Oregon to Samuel Moritz will get his dates.

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Two letters dated Feby 19, 1932 from Tom C. Stevenson 821 Hawley Bldg, Wheeling WVA. Elizabeth Jack was the daughter of Jeremiah Jack & Ann Swaine. He was the 9th child in a family of ten children. Jeremiah Jack died in 1785 in Berkeley Co, Va now WVAJeremiah Jack was born Dec 1, 1709 probably in North of Ireland & died in 1785 having settled on the Potomac River West of Martinsburg, WVAPenna Archives 2d Series Vol 9 p 36 states that Ann Swaine married Jeremiah Jack July 7, 1724 in First Pres Ch Phila Pa. Our Jeremiah was the son of Jacob Jack bap at Chesney France May 19, 16[cut off] married Nancy Farquhar in Scotland Apr 7, 17--

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James Jack & wife Jean came over in 1738.Lancelot Jacques landed in Wash Co, Md in 1740. He & his brother Denton were heads of families in Washington Co Md in 1790 make slips The other letter gives James Pearce record see next page. The record I have of the children of John Pearce whose will is of record at Uniontown, Pa Daniel, Isaac, Elisha, Joseph, John, Jonathan, Andrew, Mary (a child 8 mos) & Sarah who married Watkins. The will of Jonathan Pearce filed Oct 29, 1802 Pgh Pa mentions mother Sarah sister Hannah Brady Sarah Taylor & Jonathan son of brother Lewis. His brothers Lewis & Andrew named as Exrs.He gives copy of an old letter as follows see page 510

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[descendant chart]

James Pearce see his file 82 born Aug 8, 1717 married Jany 19, 1712 Sarah Van Horn names 10 children.

[children]

Andrew Pearce b Dec 15, 1744 married Oct 27, 1764 Elizabeth Van Meter see 511Mercy Pearce b Jany 29, 1716 married Aaron Robinson on Nov 19, 1767Lewis Pearce b Nov 21, 1728 ob Aug 23, 1825 married May 9, 1773 Mary Howell

Sarah Pearce b Jany 3, 1775 ob Mch 21, 1852 married Nov 3, 1796 Abram Warne [sic]Esther Pearce b Nov 3, 1779 ob Mch 2, 1867 married John McNaughtonLlewellyn Pearce b Jany 1, 1781 ob June 17, 1856 married Apr 1, 1800 Jane Chambers

Jane Pearce b July 9, 1780 ob 1861 married 1804 John MooreAndrew Pearce b July 22, 1787 ob July 22, 1822 married Jany 18, 1811 to Jane LeedhamMary Pearce b Nov 17, 1790 ob Mch 29, 1859 married Mch 6, 1806 John TaylorJonathan Pearce b Oct 8, 1782 ob Jany 15, 1856 married Jany 28, 1814 Anna IrwinMargaret Pearce b July 8, 1797 ob Sept 5, 1864 married Dec 11, 1817 Philip Howell

Elizabeth Pearce ob married George Titchie

Mary Pearce b Dec 30, 1749 d.y.Simon Pearce b Apr 3, 1752 died without issueHannah Pearce b Sept 23, 1755 married Feby 12, 1775 Hugh BradySarah Pearce b Sept 23, 1761 married Mch 9, 1792 Freegift TaylorJames Pearce b Dec 30, 1762 married Apr 26, 1787 Esther KinneyStephen Pearce b May 19, 1764 ob Dec 1810 married Aug 28, 1787 Mary KinneyJonathan Pearce b Aug 11, 1767 ob without issue

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From page 507 Saundersville, Tenn Dec 9, 1880James S. PeairsShenandoah, Iowa Yrs 7th rcd since writing you I have made inquiries of my ancestors & learned from Benj S. Rutherford who married my father's sister Nancy Pierce that the Isaac Pierce who died in 1810 was my great grandfather & that he moved from Allegheny Co, Pa to this country. He had a son that probably came with him - Isaac my grandfather & Jonathan. They settled near this place on 649 A of land which was divided between the two Isaac & Jonathan. There is a Woods family living in Wilson Co adjg this who are related but I don't know how. I have 3 Uncles, Benj Pierce aged near 90, Franklin B. Pierce aged abt [unreadable] & Thos L. Pierce a half uncle

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all live in TexasF.F. Pierce moved to this state from Allegheny Co Pa since the late war, but we have not been able to trace any relationship. Mr Rutherford is 80 yrs old. G.L. Pierce, Andrew Pearce page 509 who married Elizabeth Van Meter who had a son James born in 1767 ob 18-7 who married Rebecca Van Meter & their daughter Catharine 1802-1817 who married Gabriel Carpenter 1801-1880. Seymour D. Carpenter advises Tom that in addition to Andrew there were 4 other sons & 4 daughters & that they were probably nephews & nieces of John whose will is on record at Uniontown, Pa

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5 PM McClelland Leonard of Uniontown, Pa drove out between 3 & 4 o'clock & gave me the following about James Finley 1765-1828 the engineer whose tombstone is still standing with inscriptions at the old Laurel Hill Pres Ch g.y. on the former Joseph W. Work farm which g.y. is plowed over & many tombstones are piled along the fence as high as the fence. He says he will drive me out someday to see it & the old log house home of Finley on the Robert Junk farmJames Finley Esq appointed Associate Judge for Fayette Co, Pa by gov Thomas Mifflin Dec 15, 1794 & his Commission filed in Recorders office book B p 316. His farm called Red Bank is located in Union Tp (North) on a small branch of Redstone Creek

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He pledged his estate Apr 14, 1801 to the penal amount of $1200 to the Coms of Fayette, Westmoreland Cos to secure & guarantee the insurance of his iron bridge for a period of 50 yrs. This mtge was satisfied by the Fayette Co Coms but not by Westnd Co Pa. His wife's name was Rachel & made her signature with an X mark. He left 3 minor children who were James Jr, Mary Jane & Elizabeth. Dr Hugh Campbell was appointed their

guardian whose report & directed approved June term 1839 David A.C. Sherrard & John Junk were named as exrs of his will which was

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John Dawson & Dr Hugh Campbell & probated Mch 17, 1828 dated Feby 28, 1828. Make slip to see will.The bridge above referred to was over Jacob Creeks at Iron Bridge & was the first iron chain bridge in the world. He also built like bridges at:1. Over Dunlaps Creek at Brownsville, Pa which fell killing 2 or 3 horses3. Over the Potomac River at the falls thereof at Georgetown D.C. which as late as the Civil War was still called "Chain Bridge" although then gone having been built in 1815 & several times spoken of by A.F. Hill in his book "Our Boys"3. Over the Merrimac River in Massover the Lehigh River N.E. Penna6. At Wilmington Del [unreadable word]

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[several unreadable words, smeared] built prior to 1820"Clell" said Clark W. Foster Carpenter aged 75 to 80 living in Uniontown once lived in Laurel Hill section knew James Finley Jr the son who he called Doctor Finley who he said moved to the State of Indiana. He is going to see him & get more details if he can.He also spoke of the first cable suspension bridge having been made by John A. Reebling [best guess] at Saxonburg, Butler Co, Pa

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A letter dated Feby 4, 1932 in answer to mine from Mrs Pearl V. Speer RR 2 Aledo, Ills sends the following records. She speaks of Arthur Grier not answering my letter & says his mother, Anna Farquhar Grier daughter of Mary Jane Finley Farquhar had 3 children viz:1. Arthur2. Ethel &3. Leslie1. Arthur married Bessie Blackburn of Monmouth, Ills. Have no issue2. Ethel married Earl Rankin of Monmouth, Ills & have 8 children, Grier, Bessie Louise, Ethel May , Helen Gertrude, Harry, Frances, Merl & Mildred3. Leslie married Esther McAllister & have 2 children

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Anna Americus & a boy whose name I cannot give.Fred Cross's wife writes there are Finlays at La Grand Oregon (make slip) who claim to be related to the Morse who invented the telegraph who spell the name as above. Says she has not been able to get in the D.A.R.She sends record of Thomas Maxwell Finley who was the baby in the family of which her grandmother Dorcas Finley was the 6th child. I am tabling what she sends com. on page [blank]0 see page 18She thinks her grandmother Dorcas Finley was 16 yrs old when she went to live with her Uncle James Finley say in 1838 probably

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After death of her father see page 18 her mother Mary Ellan Scott Finley married 2d John Robinson Willis by whom she had 3 children. Her father Lewis Algia Cross was a farmer. Her husband Thomas Dihel Speer see page 18 was born Aug 28, 1874 at Sunbeam Ills son of Robt Duncan Speer & wife Nancy Jane Dihel. He is a farmer.Since her sister's death, they have her two youngest children see page 17 & 18The older brother James Lewis Coffelt is at the Security Benefit Association Home at Topeka KanMinnie Violete married James Daniel Coffelt b July 12, 1874 at Russellville, Mo ob Sept 1, 1929 at Jefferson City Mo son of

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Daniel Coffelt & wife Rebecca Ann Swafford see p 17. He was a building contractor. She says that some of Dorcas Finley's brothers or sisters of Dorcas were raised in a McIntyre family, her aunt (it was Elizabeth Finley) having married a McIntyre.Luella Rode, wife of Lara Stewart Cross see page 19 was born Apr 25, 1887 at Cable, Ills daughter of Anthony Rode & wife Mary Noble Ellis. They have two children both born at Grangeville, Idaho viz:1. Mildred Bernice Cross b Mch 25, 19132. Matthew Morrow Cross b Aug 21, 1915 see page 523 for additional records. She cannot give names of Dorcas Finley 1820-1886 uncles & Aunts but am writing for [unreadable] record of her brothers & sisters


Thomas Maxwell Finley youngest child of 8 children of William Finley see pages 18 & 19 born in Adams Co, O in 1836 ob Jany 1876 near Vinton, Benton Co, Iowa & is buried in Maplewood Cem west of Vinton Iowa. Married 1 Sarah Ann Wallace b Nov 17, 1830 ob Feby 22, 1867 & is buried in Maplewood Cem Vinton, Iowa, daughter of Robert Wallace & wife Rebecca Ramsey. Had 5 children. Married 2 Sept 17, 1869 near Aledo Ills Ann Denniston b Aug 3, 1805 at Dallas WVA ob May 24, 1892 at Dallas WVA buried at West Alexander, Pa.

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Gilbert Finley, obIda Finley, obBoth [above] died in infancy & buried in Maplewood, CemWallace Finley ob in a hospital at Walla Walla WashMary Bell Finley born in Benton Co, Iowa ob Jany 9, 188- in Benton Co Iowa buried in Maplewood Cem.Anna Margaretta Finley b Mch 5, 1864 ob Aug 2, 1913 at Fort Morgan Colo married Jany 17, 1896 at Sunbeam, Ills Luther Allen Cross b abt 1873 in Mo son of Wm Cross brother of Mathew M. & wife Nancy Jane Jordan No issue but adopted Grace Alberta. He is a merchant at Morgan ColoSarah Eleanor Finley b Dec 9, 1870 near Vinton Iowa lives 143 Stone Church St, Elm Grove WVA writing her tonightCora Luesta Finley b Mch 20, 1872 at Vinton Iowa ob in 1914 at Fort Morgan Colo buried in Riseside Cem thereJames Gilbert Finley b Oct 26, 1873 near Vinton, Iowa married June 20, 1901 at Dallas WVA to Anna Vanora White b Dec 12, 1882 ob Feby 20, 1920 buried at Dallas WVA daughter of Hiram White & wife Nancy Trussell p 522 [which shows:] He is a farmer in Texas in poor health 3 children all born at Dallas WVA

Andrew Walker Finley b Sept 9, 1903 married Oct 23, 1929 to Maria Hunt daughter of John L. Hunt & wife Louise Glover. He is salesman for an electric Co.

Sarah Ann Finley b Oct 27, 1930 Vesta Luesta Finley b Oct 16, 1909 Robert Free Finley b Nov 30, 1917

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[Cross]

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Mary Dorcas Cross p 19 married Nov 25, 1909 at Grangeville, Idaho to Clarence George Schmadeka b Aug 11, 1877 at Grimesville Ida son of Christopher Henry Schmadeka & wife Mary Ellen Yates. He is a poultry man & lives 5105 Beckman Ave with [sic] Hollywood, Calif Paul Carlos Schmadeka b Oct 15, 1912 at Grangeville, IdahoFred Cross b 19 married Feby 18, 1911 at Mt Idaho, Idaho Co Idaho to Helen Nina McGow b Jany 26, 188 at Redfield South Dakota daughter of Alonzo Henry McGrew & wife Clara Mary Walker. He is a mechanic & lives at 1209 Second Ave LaGrand Oregon. Have 2 children 1st one born at Grangeville, Idaho & 2d one at La Grand Oregon Garth Maurice Cross b July 21, 1911 Mary Fair Cross b Apr 23, 1925

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Oak Hill Feby 27, 1932 9:45 AM I have a letter dated Aug 5, 1927 in answer to mine from Margaret A. Gist 101 Kings Mountain St York S.C. giving the record from the family bible of Hon David Miller Finley & also giving her Gist line as I had asked her to do. See b 26 [best guess smeared] p 180 [or 100, smeared]David E. Finley married Elizabeth Lewis Gist she gives the Gist line as follows:Christopher Gist the Colonist was born in 1640 ob 1684 son of Christopher Gist & Anna Washington, England. He came to Maryland as early as 1682. He was Justice of Baltimore Co Sept 4, 1689

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He married Edith Cromwell daughter of William Cromwell who died 1684 & his wife Elizabeth Trahearne. Wm Cromwell was a member of the Legislative council of the Lords Proprietors. He was the son of Henry Cromwell who came to Virginia about 1620. Henry was the son of Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinsbrook Hall a Royalist & the Uncle of Oliver Cromwell Lord Proprietor of England.

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Christopher Gist & Edith Cromwell had one child Richard Gist who married Vipperah Murray daughter of James Murray of Athel, Gent, Maryland & Jemima Morgan daughter of Thos Morgan, Gent, Capt Richard Gist was surveyor of the Western shore of Maryland was a commissioner to help to lay out Baltimore town in 1729 was presiding magistrate of Balto in 1736 & later a member of the Assembly & died Aug 22, 1741. They had 4 sons & 1 daughter viz: Christopher, Nathaniel, Thomas & William & Edith.

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Christopher Gist was an explorer & surveyor for the Ohio Co a guide of Col George Washington in his expedition vs the French & also guide to Genl Braddock. His brother Wm (4th son) was buried Mch 21, 1794. He was married Aug 22, 1737 to Violetta Howard & had 9 children of whom the 2d son William came to South Carolina before the Revolution & first settled in what is now Union Co. He was a Royalist & fought with them at Kings Mountain. He was born 1743 & died 1802

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& is buried at St Michael's Churchyard at Charlotte S.C.? where he was a merchant. His wife was Sarah Fincher & they had 5 sons 3 of whom settled in Union Co. Joseph Gist who was a leading lawyer of Upper S.C. representative in Congress 1821-7 Francis Fincher Gist 2d Son became the father of Wm H. Gist governor, who signed the order of Secession Dec 20, 1860. Col Nathaniel Gist was married 1812 or 1813 to Elizabeth Lewis McDaniel & had 8 sons & 2 daughters. Their 7th child Wm Crawford Gist born May 3, 1827 was the father of Elizabeth Lewis Gist who

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married David Edward Finley one of his brothers was Brig Genl States Right Gist who was killed at the head of his brigade in the bloody battle of Franklin Tenn Nov 30, 1864.Another brother Capt James Dugan Gist died of fever at Martin Miss Aug 24, 1863Wm H. Gist Governor of S.C. 1858 to 1860 was the Secession Gov.My informant Miss Margaret A. Gist & her sister Miss Sarah Frances Gist living in York S.C. are daughters of

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Wm Crawford Gist & sisters of Elizabeth Lewis Gist who married David Edward Finley see b 21 p 100She says her nephew David Edward Finley Jr Esq of Washington D.C. who referred me to her was educated at York S.C., Washington D.C. & 4 yrs at Univ of S.C. at Columbia S.C. graduating in 1910 aged 20. He was Sec of his father in Congress & graduated in law at Geo Washington Univ, Wash D.C. practiced law in Phila & went in World War serving as 2d Lieut Signal Corps U.S.A. Wash D.C.

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& was with Col Arthur Wood in Red Cross service. After the war & was then and was then special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury Mellon [italics written in another hand]

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Frances Finley see b 21 p 101 born Mch 10, 1892 married Nov 8, 1916 Joseph Dexter Brown son of Jack Brown & wife Amanda McCowan of Anderson Co S.C. Have 5 children all born in Anderson S.C.

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Mary Elizabeth Brown b Jany 21, 1918Edward Finley Brown b Oct 2, 1919Dexter Brown Jr b Nov 26, 1922Amanda Lillian Brown b Oct 30, 1923Clarence Gist Brown b Feby 4, 1925

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Mary Elizabeth Finley b 21 p 101 b Jany 30, 1894 married July 19, 1916 in York, S.C. to Walter Bedford Moore Jr b Apr 15, 1886 in York S.C. son of Maj Walter Bedford Moore & wife Annie Lee Adrekes. He was educated at Univ of S.C. at Charleston S.C. & at Harvard College, member of Y.M.C.A. & was in France in World War. Live in Columbia S.C. Have 4 children the first three born in York S.C. & the last one in Columbia S.C.

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Annie Lee Adrekis Moore b May 14, 1917Walter Bedford Moore 3d b Jany 23, 1919Bessie Finley Moore b Aug 12, 1920Sarah Gist Moore b Feby 26, 1922

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I have three letters from James Ferguson Finlay see b 16 p 433 to whom I was referred by Estelle Finley dated June 11, 1926 June 17, 1926 & Dec 1, 1927 who gives his line back to his great grandfather Alexander Finlay of Scotland & which with data his Uncle Alexander Finley of Greenville S.C. I am tabling on pages 538 et seq.He sends 7 pages of Scottish record from 1736 to 1846. In a disposition dated Dec 4, 1806 John Finlay of Waterside in favor of his second son Alexander Finlay (evidently 1780-1863) & another son John is also named. Other papers between a Robert Finlay & John Finlay lends to the belief that John

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is the son of Robert. He is very anxious to have me connect up his family with ours & says his Uncle Alexander Finlay of Greenville S.C. will want to get a book. My informant also wants a book

I have 7 letters from Oct 1926 to Sept 1927 from Estelle Finley, Columbia Tenn the 1st one dated Oct 28, 1926 encloses one from C.S. Rainwater Clerk of Jefferson Co court Dandridge Tenn which adjoins Knox Co

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on the east which says he finds marriage record of John Finley to Nancy Barnes June 10, 1811.Also David C. Fendley to Sallie Lancfords in 1819Also finds will of Wm Finley dated 1818 in which he names several children copies of wills cost $1.50 each & marriage cfts .50 each if you desire them. Estelle says this is the same Co where David Crockett married Polly Finley Aug 12, 1806. 2d letter postmarked Nov 9, 1926 extract from will of Wm Finley Jeff Co Tenn at Dandridge1st to my son James my large pot rackto my sons William & Samuel

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to my 2 daughters Jean Barnes & Susanna Parks I give to my dear Mary Crockett's three children John, William

& Polly Crockett. Further give & devise to my son Kennody [sic] the land & plantation where I now live with the reserve that my wife Jean lives there for life. My plantation contains 100 A. I give all my beds, household furniture, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep etc to wife Jean & son Kennody & appoints them exrs this 3d Apr 1818 signed Wm Finley Witnesses Andrew McQuistun Richd A. Graham Jr & James McQuistun probated June session 1819 book 2 p 237-9 see p 542

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Alexander Finlay born 1780 at Longrergende [best guess] Dumbarton Shire [sic] Scotland who died Sept 7, 1863 at Gimmerscroft, Scotland buried at Auld, Isle near Kirkenlulloch. Married 1819 at Carnhill to Mary Harrower b 1800 at Alboa Clackmarronshire [best guess] & died Nov 1868 at Manse Place Airdrie & buried same place he was. Had 7 children all born at Cairn Hill except last one who was born at Grummerscroft [sic]

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John Finlay b Nov 1820 ob Feby 4, 1901 at Greenville S.C. & buried there at Springwood Cem married 1851 at Craigens Mary Black b 1819 at Craigens ob Apr 17, 1866 at Gummerscroft [sic]. He came to America 1871 see p 540 [which shows:] coming over 1871 & lived at Hendersonville N.C. Had 6 children Alexander Finlay b Feby 1, 1853 lives Greenville S.C. RFD 5

James Finlay b June 5, 1855 moved to Greenville S.C. married there to Elizabeth Jane Griffin & had 4 children all born at Greenville, S.C.

James Ferguson Finlay b Sept 4, 1882 married Jany 17, 1911 Cora Vaughn Smartt & have 2 children see b 16 p 103 he is a lawyer at Chattanooga, Tenn of firm of Finley & Campbell & he is my informant for this record.

John Black Finlay ob in babyhood Hattie May Finlay b Oct 16, 1889 Edward Finlay b Nov 21, 1892 lawyer at Chattanooga, Tenn

Robert Finlay b Nov 18, 1857 Marshall Harrower Finlay b Feby 1, 1860 John Finlay b Mch 1862 David Wallace Finlay b Aug 1864 James Finlay b 1823 ob 1859 at Melbourne, Australia & buried there. Married 1849 to Mary HillsJean Finlay b 1825 ob abt 1900 married 1850 Wm WhiteRobert Finlay b 1829 ob 1839 at Gimmerscroft & is buried at Auld IsleMarian Finlay b 1827 ob 1859 at Brownieside buried at New Monkland married 1850 to Robert Wotherspoon [sic]Alexander Finlay b 1831 ob 1876 lived at Melbourn & Sydney AustraliaMary Harrower Finlay b 1836 ob Mch 26, 1919 at Warriston House Edinburg, Scotland married 1861 at Brownie side to John Best

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From 537Aunt Mary Trotter said her name was Mary Jean but her sister's daughter said it was just plain Jane. She also stated we were related to David Crockett's family & that John Finley with Boone. I don't think there is any doubt about the above being my family.4th letter postmarked Apr 15, 1927 gives references to hist of Cumb & Adams Co, Pa by Warner Beers & Co Chicago, Ills 1886. In Penna before 1800 same names are settled in Blount Co, Tenn after 1800. Big Springs

section are Finley Carson, Robert Patterson, Samuel Boyd

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page 29 Thomas & Clement Finley Weirs, Thompson Trimblepage 31 1757 Thos Kenny, Clarks, Elliotts, McClure.Page 59 John Finley had a son killed by the IndiansPage 89 6th battalion Samuel Finley is quartermaster& page 91 Daniel Finley is a Capt in Part 3 Adams Co, Pa marriage of Samuel Finley Feby 22, 1785 to Mary Graham vol 1-418 Oct 15, 1816 Blount Co Tenn Jos Finley of Williamson Co Tenn sold same granted to said Joseph Finley by grant 1778 on June 26, 1810 was on Holston River waters. Jones Wm Simmons B. Sherrill

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Her 5th letter dated July 20, 1927 indicates she is still in doubt as to the parentage of her grandfather James Kennedy Finley. She has thought that the name of her great grandfather was John but is not sure of it. My gr grandfather James Kennedy Finley was born in 1802 as I get it from Mary Trotter's bible & the records of Blount Co, Tenn give his marriage to Temperance Kenny is James K. Finley. I know James Kennedy Finley is correct. When I got copy of Wm Finley's will from Jeff Co, I thought this was my family but I now believe this William may have been a brother of my grandfather's father. We had an Uncle Robert in the family

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but I do not know that he was my grandfather's brother. He may have been a brother of my great grandfather. Then says: Mary Mitchell Latta born May 14, 1909 (book 13 p 266) I did not know of the [unreadable word] Jennie K. & Martha children of my grandfather James Kennedy Finley until Mr Parpecun [best guess] wrote me about them in letters I sent you. Both children died young. I did not know of them when you were here. I have not dates. I do not know when she James K's second wife died.

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Her 6th letter refers to Gaines Hist of Scott Co Ky & says among the early settlers 1794 to 1811 was James Finley who in 1796 took oath abt his importing of slaves. Joseph Finley shff 1830-1884 was the oldest son of B.F. & Susan Finley from Virginia & were among the pioneer of Scott Co Ky. In 1880 Joseph Finley married Miss Mary Gatewood of Stamping Ground. Her mother was Eliza Hockersmith. Their 5 children were:1st Henry, 2d Lewis, 3d Joe Walker 4th Kate 5th Sarah Coffult 6th Mary, 7th Lucy 8th Rosellthis hist also mentions Wm G. Finley, William Finley & Joseph Finley pages 92 & 93 see b 21 p 282 make slip.

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Her 7th letter of Sept 23, 1927 says that she went to the court house that day at Columbia, Maury Co Tenn & found following marriage records:Record book 1838-1852 page 1040 issued to Josiah B. Finlay to Harriet Jackson Oct 1842Page 267 Andrew Finley to L.B. Ament issued June 30, 1849 married July 1, 1849 by Wm Mack minister of the Gospel rtd July 2, 1849

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A postcard dated Nov 8, 1927 from Mrs M.A. Cummings 820 N. 4th Ave Knoxville, Tenn states that a few

days ago her son G.D. Cummings of Bessemer Ala mailed me a typewritten record of the descendants of Kitty Bruce Finley Brewster Green - I have discovered that the 7th child a daughter was omitted viz:Lucinda Margaret Brewster born Feby 14, 1838 whose 1st marriage was to Thomas Earl of Birmingham Ala who lived only a few years. Married 2d to Calvin Crook & lived near Sparta, Tenn. Both died there. A daughter Kitty Lou Crook Hindgens

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& a son Claud Earl Crook both live at Sparta, Tenn. Make slip.

A letter dated Sept 6, 1927 from John M. Bishop of Powell Sta Tenn notes a meeting at Rogersville, Hawkins Co Tenn of the unveiling of a monument by a daughter of Judge Crockett of Yankton S.D. who motored there to this meeting in house of his ancestors David Crockett & family who were killed by the Indians & he was the grandfather of Davy Crockett who married Polly Finley. He says that my contribution was the only one recd from a Finley descendant to honor her grave.

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A letter postmarked Nov 9, 1927 from Mrs Laura Pearson of Sparta Tenn gives the descendants of Kittie Lou Cummings Biles born July 31, 1840 ob Dec 3, 1915 which I am tabling on page 552.


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Kittie Lou Cummings b July 31, 1840 ob Dec 3, 1915 see p 550 married Oct 3, 1866 Thomas B. Biles b June 7, 1839 ob June 9, 1915 had 2 children.

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Maggie Elizabeth Biles b Feby 14, 1868 married June 11, 1890 Wm Albert Passmore b Sept 6, 1865 no issueLaura Ann Biles Mch 8, 1870 married Dec 11, 1889 Frank Pearson b Sept 19, 1867 ob Jany 10, 1898 had 2 children. She is my informant for this record.

Edna Louise Pearson b Oct 7, 1890 married June 30, 1915 Josiah Morford Whitson b May 27, 1886 & have 3 children

Laura Pearson Whitson b Mch 18, 1917 Josiah Morford Whitson Jr b Feby 18, 1922 Albert Passmore Whitson b June 15, 1927

Frank Pearson Jr b Nov 16, 1893 married Sept 3, 1916 Laura Ann W. Isom b May 27, 1893 have 3 children

Florence Albert Pearson b June 1, 1917 Lena Ann Pearson b Apr 3, 1921 Frank Pearson III b Dec 20, 1924

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Oak Hill Feby 28, 1932 12:22 PM A letter dated Feby 24, 1932 from Mrs Pearl V. Speer RR 2 Aledo Ills writes anxiously about the record she sent which I ackd on 26th inst & says she believes her Aunt Miss Emma A. Cross wrote me about Mrs Mack

Coffland who lives there with her children. She was a Finley a niece of Erastus Finley. Says if anything more to let her know. Writing for Mrs Coffland's record.

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A letter of Feby 25, 1932 in answer to mine of Jany 22d from Miss Sarah Carriger Morristown Tenn says her great Aunt daughter of Judge John Finley Jack knew Dr C.L. Hunter & had several copies of his western sketches of western N.C. from whom they got one & that her father's only living brother, Uncle John Carriger had recently died. A letter dated Feby 21/32 in answer to mine of 12th from Alice Markle Baker, Wolfe Saskatchewan, Can gives date of her sons death for page 303 & asks if my book will be for sale

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A letter dated Feby 26, 1932 from Ruhamah Finley Lardner 410 American Exchange Bldg Duluth, Minn writes of the fine clothes procured for her forth coming marriage on Mch 15, 1932 or Mch 13 th of our Cousin Margaret F. Finley of Greenville Texas daughter of the late Theodore W. Finley to Eugene E. Evans once of St Louis, Mo but for 21 yrs a resident of Mercedes, Texas where after a wedding trip to San Antonio, Texas they will be at home after Mch 20. P.O. address Box 494

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I have 4 letters from Mrs M.R. Peyton Lebanon Tenn No 238 E. Market St in answer to mine the 1st letter dated Aug 22, 1927. She is trying to get records of the families of the sisters of her grandfather viz: Kitty Finley Brewster. She also speaks of his sisters Lucinda Finley who married Wm Pennebaker & Polly Finley who married Joseph Denny who moved to Putnam Co, Indiana & later both families moved to California & I can trace them no further. Grandpa had only one brother, George Finley named for his father. He had a large family but I fear was not a successful man or his children would have

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been known to us, else he died & his children scattered. I have heard my father speak of as Bluford Finley who I think was George Finley's son. Among old letters, I found a letter from one of gfather's sisters to Ann Finley telling of this brother George's misfortune & his wife's death & his house full of children.Says was hard to give up the idea that John Finley the explorer was not her ancestor but says Maj Albert Finley France has a copy of the bible record of John Finley the explorer which belongs to his son's descendants. Must write him for it & to locate the descendants. France thinks it impossible for him to be our ancestor. He thinks my great grandfather George Finley is a son of John Finley of Augusta Co Va & a grandson of Robert Finley eldest of four brothers, 1st Robert 2d Michael

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3d Samuel who never married & 4th Archibald FinleyThese 4 brothers she says came to America arriving as I said in Phila Sept 28, 1734.Asks me to come to see her when I get to Tenn & bring Estelle with me as she is very fond of her. Make slip.Her 2d letter dated Nov 4, 1927 says the last heard of her grandfather O.G. Finley's brother George was in 1846 when he was living near Bloomington Indiana. Make slip.She speaks of Mrs E.D. Hayman who is a granddaughter of Jesse Johnson Finley my father's oldest brother. I am com a table of her ggfather George Finley's line on p 564

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Oak Hill Feby 29, 1932 11:40 AM We have a letter dated Nov 14, 1927 from Mrs Monroe Hudgens, Sparta, Tenn written me at instance of her cousin Mrs Mary Lou Peyton of Lebanon who says that George Finley Jr brother Obediah Gaines Finley moved to Bloomfield Ind (not Bloomington Ind) where he was last heard from in 1846. She sends a record in which she says Lucinda Earle Bruster was born Feby 14, 1838 & died Apr 21, 1911 see pages 548-52 & page 601 where I will now table what she sends me.

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Oak Hill Mch 2, 1932 9:44 AM This is the 76th anniversary of dear Minnie L. Redburn's birth & is a nice mild morning with no wind. Dr J. S. Hackney here this forenoon said his father was married in 1852 & that his sister Mrs Virginia W. Hudson now of Newton, Kansas last day of the year was born on he thought in 1853 ie Dec 31, 1853. I thought it was in 1852.

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I have a letter dated Nov 22, 1927 from Mrs Kittie Green Davis (Mrs W.Y. Davis) of 111 Fairfax Ave Nashville, Tenn which she sends at the instance of her cousin Mrs Mary Lou Peyton of Lebanon Tenn. She gives her line down to her grandchildren & hopes she can get data to let her in the D.A.R.In the record she sends she says Annie Hawks married Apr 11, 1893 to Wm Y. Davis b Aug 18, 1860 see page 581 where my table shows that Annie Finley Hawks married Jesse Gleaves. She then says they had a child

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William Erwin Davis b Apr 22, 1894 ob May 11, 1925 & she signs her name as Mrs W.Y. Davis & I must write & ask her if she married him after Annie died in 1907 & when & who she is as she has not given any indication of her own parentage. Mrs Peyton's letter gives a Chas Alexander Martin Finley born at Marianna Fla Apr 22, 1849 but gives nothing as to who he is but I think he is son of Jesse Johnson Finley & am tabling him 604-5

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George Finley, son of John Finlay [sic] of Augusta Co Va see possibly page 80 was born 1750-1 & died 1809 or 1810 married 1786 at Stamford, Lincoln Co, Ky to Mary Gaines b 1765 ob 1830 & buried at Lebanon Tenn. 7 children.

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Obediah Gaines Finley b May 24, 1787 in Lincoln, Ky emigrated in 1807 to Lebanon Tenn member State Senate at Knoxville, Tenn 1812-3 served in Creek War & located on his farm in 1830 called "Grassland" see p 566 [which shows:] ob Mch 22, 1871 married 1 1811 to Mary Lewis Johnson b Aug 20, 1791 ob 1830 in Lebanon Tenn daughter of Jesse Johnson of Sumner Co Tenn a Revolutionary Soldier from N.C. Had 8 children. Married 2 1831 to Sarah Ann Johnson b May 1, 1788 ob Aug 22, 1857 also daughter of Jesse Johnson above. No issue. Married 3 Apr 16, 1861 in Lebanon Tenn to Bettie Wassom ob Mch 1903 no issue.

Jesse Johnson Finley b Nov 18, 1812 ob Nov 12, 1904 at Lake City, Fla see p 576 [which shows:] born near Lebanon, Wilson Co Tenn ob Nov 12, 1904 buried at Gainesville, Fla. Married 1 Amanda Yerger. Had 2 children. Married 2 Lamb had 1 child married 3 Margaret Harris Martin b July 24, 1826 of Holly Springs Miss ob Feby 26, 1898 at Gainesville, Fla of Feby 26, 1898 had 2 children. His father, Obediah Gaines Finley served in War of 1812 & Jesse J. served in Seminole Indian War as Capt in 1838 & in 1840 moved to Mississippi Co Arkansas where he achieved immediate success & he was elected to the senate there in 1841. He moved to Memphis Tenn where he practiced law where he was elected Mayor in 1845 & in 1846 moved to Marianna Florida. Was elected to State Senate there in 1850 & in 1852 was Pres Elector on Whig ticket. In 1853 he was apptd Judge of the Western Circuit of Fla. He joined the Confederacy as a private & quickly advanced to Capt & Col & displaying great military genius was made Brig. General Nov 16, 1863. Fought at Missionary Ridge & in May 1864 was severely wounded at Resaca & later at Jonesboro. He removed to Jacksonville, Fla in 1875 & was in Congress 1875-79. He was re-elected but unseated by the Republicans. Gov Perry apptd him to U.S. Senate in 1887 & in that year was again apptd Judge & served 6 yrs. He never sought political office but it was always forced on him

Lucius Finley b 1833 near Lebanon, Tenn & died at Tampa Fla 1893 married Annie Eliza Hall of Aberdeen, Miss No issueSamuel Yager Finley b July 20, 1835 ob June 27, 1903 at Gainesville, Fla married Julia Nooten

Emma Finley married W.H. Christopher Jessie Finley married J.W. Patton Sue Finley married E.C. Cannon Mayme Finley married Will Broon[cut off] Yerger Finley Guston Finley by 2d wife Emily Finley by 3d wife died in infancy Arthur Martin Finley by 3d wife died in infancy

One [of the above two infants] being stillborn Napoleon B. Finley [son of Obediah Gaines Finley b 1787] Dec 5, 1814 ob 1826

William M. Finley b Oct 11, 1816 ob Mary Eliza Finley b Sept 15, 1818 ob Dec 1821

John B. Finley b June 18, 1820 ob Mch 16, 1868 married Nov 2, 1845 Elizabeth Lamb of Raleigh N.C. who died Sept 5, 1901 see p 608Foster Gaines Finley b Mch 22, 1822 at Lebanon, Tenn page 568 [which shows:] ob 1906. Married 1 1842 to Mary Buckner ob 1842 married 2 1845 to Altamira G. Taylor b Oct 10, 1826 ob May 14, 1893 daughter of Isaac & Margaret Taylor

Isaac Taylor Finley b June 20, 1847 married Nov 9, 1881 to Maggie O'Hearn from St Augustine, Fla

Nellie Finley ob in infancyFoster Sprague Finley b 1894? served in World War in Navy. Married in South America & have 1 child born about 1921 or 1922

Mary L. Finley b Dec [unreadable] 1852 my informant for this record. Married Feby 25, 1874 to Joseph M. Peyton b Apr 15, 1854 in Lebanon, Tenn ob Oct 15, 1887 & is buried in Lebanon Tenn see page 570 [which shows:] married Joseph McMinn Peyton

Foster Finley Peyton b Dec 4, 1874 ob Dec 15, 1880Joseph Campbell Peyton b Oct 16, 1876 married Dec 16, 1924 Mary Maxine Sawyers b Mch 17, 1899. He has the Peyton Packing Co meat packersByrd Rhea Peyton b Nov 4, 1878 ob Apr 25, 1921 married June 1916 Ellen McKinley Boyd. No issue. Was traveling auditor of American Smelting & Refining Co.

Isaac William Peyton b June 15, 1881 [twin] ob 1881Margaret Elizabeth Peyton b June 15, 1881 [twin] married Nov 14, 1899 Philip Hall Pursley b Apr 1881 a lineal descendant of Gen Griffith Rutherford Depot Agt NC & St Louis RR at Lebanon Tenn

Finley Peyton Pursley b Aug 15, 1901 operator for U.S. air mail service at Cheyenne WyomingAnn Brevard Pursley b July 20, 1903 Grad 1924 fr Cumb Univ married Dec 28, 1926 to Paul Jones who was in World War

Polly A. Jones b Sept 28, 1927Chas Griffith Rutherford Pursley b Jany 16, 1910 In Junior class high school at Lebanon, Tenn.Joseph Phea [best guess] Pursley b Nov 9, 1912 in high school

Margaret Taylor Finley [daughter of Foster Gaines Finley] b Jany 16, 1856 married Mch 27, 1879 August B. Lampton b Apr 1856 ob Apr 29, 1882William M. Finley Jr b Nov 10, 1857 married 1886 to Nannie J. Carms of Ala b Nov 1, 1860 Got degree from Vanderbilt Medical College Nashville, Tenn 1879 see p 572 [which shows:] practicing medicine in Ala

Foster Gaines Finley b Sept 16, 1889 Grad Birmingham Ala Med College 1913 1st Lieut in World War & went overseas. Dis [best guess] Aug 19, 1919 at Atlanta Ga.Hattie Delia Finley b Dec 5, 1893 Grad B.S. from Auburn Ala Univ. teacherGeorge D. Finley b Aug 1892 Grad fr State Sec Agr School Blountsville, Ala Lawyer in Birmingham Ala In World War but did not get overseasAlta Gleason Finley grad 1926 from Sheresed School of music Chicago & is teaching it at Blountsville, Ala

Maggie Lou Finley ob in infancy Wilson Riddle Finley ob in infancy

Nannie Frances Finley educated at Blountsville, & Montgomery AlaCharles D. Finley [son of Foster Gaines Finley] b Nov 11, 1860 ob Nov 29, 1886 educated at Lebanon Tenn moved to Fla in 1878 & drowned in St John's RiverObediah Gaines Finley II b Oct 1, 1866 married June 18, 1894 M.L. Hester b Mch 28, 1874 in N.C. Live at Tampa, Fla see p 574 [which shows:]

Margaret Lou Finley b Mch 12, 1896 married Apr 5, 1916 Ernest M. Cuscalem b Mch 28, 1895 2 children

Arthur Cuscalem Jr b Apr 13, 1918 Margaret Ann Cuscalem b May 9, 1927 Foster Gaines Finley b July 12, 1899 lives Tampa Fla

Obediah Gaines Finley III b Apr 8, 1901 lives Tampa FlaCarrie Elizabeth Finley b July 9, 1904 married June 17, 1926 at Tampa Fla to D.M. Hoffman

John Winton Finley b Dec 24, 1912 ob Feby 2, 1913 Sarah Ann Finley [daughter of Obediah Gaines Finley] Nov 15, 1823 ob July 25, 1888

Mary Eliza Finley 2nd b Dec 4, 1826 ob Nov 1857 married Apr 1847 to James Harm Williams had

4 children see p 592George Finlay Jr [son of George Finley & Mary Gaines]Sarah Finley b Jany 12, 1799 ob Feby 7, 1877 see p 580 [which shows:] married 1 Oct 15, 1819 Samuel Pennebaker b May 20, 1796 ob Oct 25, 1835 in Lebanon, Tenn. Married 2 Rev John Wiseman, Baptist.

Wyant Pennebaker b Aug 20, 1820 ob Jany 19, 1857 in Mississippi see p 582. Mary Pennebaker b Jany 26, 1822 ob married 1831? Samuel Clifton

Cassandra Pennebaker b July 18, 1824 ob Dec 24, 1876 married May 22, 1842 Preston Hawks see p 602

Samuel Hawks b Apr 1843 ob Apr 1843Mary Wilson Hawks b Sept 1, 1845 married Brooks Williams & had 8 childrenWilliam Wiseman Hawks b June 9, 1848 married Jany 22, 1874 to Tommie Page. Had 8 children see p 586Martha Louise Hawks 6th child b Mch 18, 1859 living in Wilson Co Tenn married 1 W.J. Gambill married 2 W. C. Green no issueAnnie Finley Hawks 7th child b Jany 25, 1861 ob Sept 26, 1907 married Nov 25, 1880 Jesse Gleaves had 7 children

Annie Louise Gleaves b Nov 18, 1881 married James Mercer of Dallas Texas Jessie Gleaves lives Dallas Texas Tovell Gleaves lives Dallas Texas Finley Gleaves Chattanooga, Tenn Mrs Fred Fliming live at Danville, Ky Mrs Paul Tremmell lives at Dallas Texas Chas Gambill Gleaves lives at Chattanooga, Tenn Eldon Hawks Gleaves living N.Y. City William Pennebaker b Sept 12, 1826 George Finley Pennebaker see p 596 Samuel Pearse Pennebaker Edwin Ruthwin Pennebaker Sarah Ann Pennebaker b Dec 14, 1835 Ann Finley [daughter of George Finley & Mary Gaines] b May 24, 1801 married Jany 15, 1829 Robert H. Green b Aug 11, 1803 ob May 11, 1870. She died Aug 13, 1857 see p 598Kittie Bruce Finley [daughter of George Finley & Mary Gaines] b May 24, 1803 married 1 July 19, 1821 William Bruster. Married 2 Robt H. Green being his 2d wife but no issue by him. Wm Bruster was born Oct 20, 1793 ob Oct 13, 1853. Kitty died Jany 14, 1882 at her daughter Lucinda E. Creek in White Co, Tenn.Mary Finley married William BrusterLucinda Finley married Joseph Denny

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Wyant Pennebaker see p 580 went to Tippah Co Miss where he was very prominent & influential & became a member of the Legislature there after the Civil War. He died at New Albany Union Co Miss, Buried at Ebenezer Church Cotton Plant, Miss. Married Mourning Mria [sic] Johnson b Oct 2, 1819 ob Feby 7, 1848 in Miss daughter of Philip & Elizabeth Johnson. Married 2 Dec 4, 1849 Mary Goodwin from Ala, Jeff Co b Apr 15, 1825 ob June 15, 1912. Had 8 children

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Samuel Wilson Pennebaker b Apr 18, 1843 ob Apr 28, 1927 in Miss. Served in C.S.A. & was in many battles including Gettysburgh, Pa. Married abt 1863 Mrs Ann Frances Hawes Liddell b Oct 25, 1838 ob Jany 25, 1892. She desc of Josias DuPre Huguenot who in 1696 applied to SC for citizenship. see 584. [which shows:]

1. Ida Pennebaker b June 17, 1865 ob Sept 8, 1907 married Aug 1, 1888 Wm Archer McGill b Apr 4, 1858 at Abbeyville, Miss ob Feby 3, 1912 at New Albany, Miss. Have but 1 child

Wm Greene McGill b May 22, 1887 who is a leading citizen of New Albany Miss married June 15, 1915 Margaret Chritold [best guess] Lowry b Aug 7, 1891 & have 1 child

William McGill b Apr 18, 19212. Leander Aquilla Pennebaker oldest, [sic check birthdates] b Sept 13, 1868 in Jasper Texas moved with parents when a child to New Albany, Miss merchant at Oxford & Water Valley Miss & in 1893 moved to Clarksville Tenn where he has since been in the retail shoe business. Married 1902 Eunice Balthrop b Dec 12, 1880 daughter of John Hartwell Balthrop. She is informant for some of these records

Mary Frances Pennebaker b May 13, 1903 grad 1920 fr S.W. Univ Memphis, Tenn married Bey 9, 1925 to Patrick Henry Cross b June 17, 1898. She sent this record in through Mrs M.L. Peyton.

3. James Pennebaker Lester Pennebaker Reginald DuPre Pennebaker now living in Colorado unmarried Edna Pennebaker [daughter of Wyant Pennebaker] ob when a young womanElizabeth Jane Pennebaker Aug 28, 1850 married Jany 12, 1880 Joseph Robert Smith. Have 2 children

Alice Augusta Smith b Jany 27, 1881 married John Isaac Anderson live RD 2 Guntown, Miss Joseph Louis Anderson Lucile Anderson

Arthur Irvin Smith b May 25, 1888 married Corrin Gresham Live Memphis, Tenn. Edith Smith Dorris Smith Arthur Smith JrEdwin Ruthwin Pennebaker [son of Wyant Pennebaker] b Mch 22, 1852 married Martha Cunningham have 3 children see p 588

Joseph Douglass Pennebaker married Nellie Nichols & live at Lakeland Plantation [cut off]ba, Miss Joseph Pennebaker Edwin Pennebaker Crockett Pennebaker Raymond Pennebaker Douglas Pennebaker Mary Grace Pennebaker Nellie Kate Pennebaker Kate Pennebaker married Edward Smith Sibyl Troy Smith Clara May Smith Crockett Pennebaker married Laetta Barnett have 5 children Joseph Pennebaker Ingram Pennebaker Walter Pennebaker Virginia Pennebaker James Pennebaker

Wyant Pennebaker [son of Wyant Pennebaker] b Mch 13, 1854 see p 589 [which shows:] married 1 Etta Marmon had 1 child, married 2 Annie Smith have 3 children Joseph Jefferson Pennebaker married Emma Graham Carrie Lee Pennebaker Marvin Pennebaker Frederick Pennebaker Wilmer Pennebaker Sarah Ann Pennebaker [daughter of Wyant Pennebaker] b Feby 13, 1856 married to Andrew McBryde who died in New Albany Miss soon after marriageThomas Jefferson Pennebaker b Mch 25, 1859 see p 590 [twin] [which shows:] married Virginia McBryde. Had 9 children Mattie Lucile Pennebaker Robert Augustus Pennebaker John Edwin Pennebaker William Warden Pennebaker Thomas Henry Pennebaker Charles Jefferson Pennebaker Mary Virginia Pennebaker David McBryde Pennebaker Ruth Lee PennebakerMartha Ellen Pennebaker [daughter of Wyant Pennebaker] b Mch 25, 1859 ob May 17, 1927 see 591 [twin] [which shows:] married Jerome Myers Clarence Jefferson Myers married Earle Murray. Have 7 children Louise Myers Ralph Myers Kathleen Myers Leon Myers Chosen Henry Myers Marie Myers Eugene Myers Alice Bland Pennebaker [daughter of Wyant Pennebaker] b Oct 5, 1862 ob Nov 10, 1922 singleMary Louise Pennebaker called Dolly. b Mch 8, 1866 married July 1890 John Oliver Caldwell b Oct 5, 1857 at Wallerville, Miss ob 1926. Had 1 child Boyce Holloway Caldwell married Rush Si[cut off] V27 Page 586 & V27 Page 587

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William Wiserman Hawks see p 580

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Keta [best guess Reta?] Greene Hawks b Nov 17, 1874 married Jany 29, 1896 George Corley 3 children Sara Corley George Corley Edwin Body CorleyCora Cassandra Hawks b May 16, 1877 married Sept 8, 1901 Robert Sneed Robert Sneed JrIda Boyd Hawks b Feby 27, 1880 married Oct 15, 1902 Joe Fienney [sic]William Page Hawks b Nov 25, 1882 ob Oct 18, 1888Samuel Jesse Hawks b June 4, 1887 married Oct 19, 1910 Maude McCartney One child

Elizabeth Hutton HawksEdwin Elann [Elam?] Hawks b Mch 7, 1890Fred Gambill Hawks b Oct 1, 1895 married Oct 11, 1914 Mabel Warren No issueMartha Louise Hawks b July 27, 1900 married Mch 24, 1920 Winston Prince Panthea Page Prince Winston Prince Jr

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Mary Eliza Finley see p 567 [which shows:] Mary Eliza Finley 2nd b Dec 4, 1826 ob Nov 1857 married Apr 1847 to James Harm Williams had 4children [children]

William Finley Williams b 1848 ob 1904 married 1875 Christine Keiser [best guess] May Williams b 1879 married 1933 Edwin Bevans No issue William Williams b 1883 ob in infancy Fred M. Williams b 1882 married 1912 Louise Stout 4 children Lewis Williams b 1913 Mary Louise Williams b 1916 Christine Williams b 1920 James Edward Williams b 1922 Edna Williams b 1883 ob in infancy James Harm Williams II b 1885 married 1910 Esther Pilquist James Bush Williams b 1924Sallie E. Williams b Sept 1849 see p 593 [which shows] married N.G. Cartwright. Had 10 children Charles Cartwright ob 1872 Mary F. Cartwright ob 1872 Foster Cartwright ob 1872 Kate B. Cartwright ob 1872

James W. Cartwright b 1880 married to Bernice Bryant & had one childJames Cartwright Jr b 1902 Dates wrong [see below, Doris] married Helen Seagrave

Doris Cartwright b 1907 & married Chas Coleman. No issue. I think Doris is sister of James Jr & not his daughter

Leland Cartwright ob Henry Cartwright ob Vance Cartwright b 1882

Finley Cartwright b 1886 married 1 Mary Bowen. Married 2 Kate Tanner had 1 child by 1st wife & 3 by the second

Mary Bowen Cartwright Finley Cartwright Jr Martha J. Cartwright N.G. Cartwright III Raymond Cartwright b 1889 married Pearl White Pearl White CartwrightAlice Martin Williams [daughter of James Harm Williams] b 1851 ob 1896 see p 594 [which shows:] married Frank Mosely James Moseley b 1877 married Blythe Has issue

Will Moseley b 1879 ob 1891 Frank Moseley obMary Kate Williams b 1853 ob 1897 see p 595 [which shows:] married 1871 to Ben H. Bacchus

Alice Bacchus b 1873 ob 1893 married 1891 Chas Garvin. Issue died Sallie C. Bacchus b 1875 ob 1893 Lena W. Bacchus b 1877 ob 1894 John Bacchus b 1882 ob 1887 Minnie Bacchus b 1884 married Felix Nicholson No issue Mary Bacchus b 1886 married Dr Craig & has 1 daughter Bennie Bacchus b 1888 married Lewis Morrison Mary H. Morrison Ruth Morrison

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[Pennebaker]

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See p 581

Geo Finley Pennebaker b Nov 22, 1828Samuel Pearse Pennebaker b Mch 21, 1831Edwin Ruthwin Pennebaker b June 12, 1833 ob May 31, 1875 married Martha Louise Smith at Lebanon Tenn b June 27, 1838 5 children

Mary Howard Pennebaker b June 3, 1857 married Frazier Edmundson of Memphis, Tenn Howard Edmundson Martha Edmundson

Edwin Ruthwin Pennebaker 2nd b Aug 1, 1839 married Dec 23, 1875 Kate Bertie [best guess] both of Lebanon Tenn. Had:

Frank Pennebaker, married Edwin R. Pennebaker 3d has 2 or 3 children

Lena Orsen Pennebaker b Apr 29, 1861 married Jany 26, 1882 Samuel Golliday lawyer 3 children see p 597 [which shows]

George Shall Golliday b Mch 20, 1883 married Dec 8, 1908 Pam Hollaway Rucker in Evansville, Ind

Virginia Golliday b Dec 29, 1910Mary Howard Golliday b Oct 6, 1886 married Mch 10, 1917 Robt B. Henderson

Lena Golliday b Jany 22, 1918Gladys Golliday b Dec 13, 1891 Wm Harrison Givens July 5, 1919

Wm Harrison Givens Jr b Nov 3, 1926Louise Alice Pennebaker b Apr 2, 1864 ob May 9, 1921 see p 597 [which shows:] married Edward Taylor Campbell b Sept 25, 1861 ob Oct 18, 1916 3 children

Edwin Taylor Campbell b Aug 11, 1883 married ______ BlankLucile Cary Campbell b Nov 13, 1885 married Feby 20, 1908 Benj Gaines Chapman 2 children

Alice Louise Chapman b Jany 21, 1909 Jaqueline Cary Chapman b Oct 16, 1912

Thurlow Campbell b Mch 17, 1886 ob July 1886Lucile Pennebaker b July 29, 1868 married Sept 10, 1891 David J. Matteson

Dorothy Matteson b Sept 17, 1893 married June 10, 1914 Carrington Caldwell Margaret Matteson b March 4, 1915 Dorothy Lucile Matteson b March 5, 1919

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Ann Finley see p 564 married Robt H. Green

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Thomas Finley Green b Dec 2, 1829 married 1 Stoademore married 2 Virginia Owen & had 6 children by her Annie Finley Green married Eugene Brown, 1 son John Owen Green Kate Sylesta Green Robert H. Green married & has 2 daughters Mary Virginia Green Frances Nimmo [sic] GreenCatherine Jane Green b Jany 23, 1831 married F. M. Gracekis 2d wife no issueGeorge Green b Mch 20, 1833 married Nancy Powers 4 children Edwin Green Anna Lou Green Robert Finley Green Catherine Grace GreenJames Green b Jany 17, 1835 ob in infancyRobert Smith Green b Apr 17, 1836 married Amanda Trass 5 children. He was a doctor, graduate of Emons College, Ga married Dec 5, 1865 Amanda Truss [sic] who died May 7, 1907 both buried at Woodlawn near Birmingham, Ala Julius Green Anna M. Green single Mary Virginia Green married John Bell Messer Robert Green Messer married Cornelia Hamlin Mary Cornelia Messer John Robert Green married Frances Hasett & had 6 children Frances Green Ida Green Robert Smith Green Herwith [best guess] Green [twin] Thomas Elbert Green [twin] William Goldsmith Green Thomas Elbert GreenElbert Gaines Green b June 13, 1838 ob early unmarriedMary Ann Gaines Green b July 3, 1843 ob Oct 25, 1925 married Sept 22, 1869 to Paul Hamilton Earle & he died Nov 26, 1900. Had 5 children see p 600 [which shows] Samuel Loundes Earle married Lucile Smith Katherine Earle single

Mary Gaines Earle married Merrill P. Northington had 1 child Mary Allen Northington married Lee C. Bradley Jr Lee C. Bradley III Merrill Northington Bradley Paul Hamilton Earle married Rose Munger Mary Colett Earle Samuel Loundes Earle Paul Hamilton Earle Rosa Munger Earle Catherine Earle Eugenia Earle

Ann Finley Earle married Apr 1908 Robt G. Hiden who died Nov 27, 1925 have 3 children Robert G., Mary Earle & Samuel Earle

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Lucinda Margaret Bruster see page 560 daughter of William & Kitty Bruster see p 565 b Feby 14, 1838 ob Apr 21, 1911 married 1 Mch 8, 1859 Thomas W. Earle a lawyer who was killed in Confederate service abt 1863. Married 2 Sept 25, 1873 to Calvin Brown Crook b May 22, 1831 ob Nov 11, 1926 by whom she had 3 children.

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Willie Cummings Crook b Jany 1875 died soonKitty Bruce Crook b Dec 18, 1875 married Dec 25, 1902 to Monroe Hudgens b Aug 18, 1879 have 2 children. She my informant Nina Christine Hudgens b Aug 12, 1904 Mark Earl Hudgens b Oct 21, 1906Claudine Earl Crook b Jun 9, 1879 married Mollie Bandy on Feby 2, 1913

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Kitty Green Hawks b Feby 21, 1857 see p 562 as she is now Mrs Davis who is sending me this record & may be the daughter of Cassandra. Married Chas H. Robertson May 2, 1875. 1876 see p 580. [sic] He was born Oct 17, 1841 ob Feby 28, 1881

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Sarah Pennebaker Robertson b Aug 19, 1876 married June 19, 1906 to Arthur F. Robertson Katherine Lyman Robertson b May 16, 1909 Charles Henry Robertson b Dec 14, 1910 George F. Robertson b Dec 16, 1877 ob Aug 1904Lena C. Robertson b Feby 17, 1880 married Feby 1903 to J. Ryal Woodhall William Ryall Woodhall b Mch 18, 1907 Eleanor Davis Woodhall b Mch 16, 1912

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Charles Alexander Martin Finley born Apr 22, 1849 at Marianna Florida see p 563 & 576 married Apr 1873 at Lake City, Fla Arabella Moncrief born May 18, 1853 in Montgomery Ala ob Nov 30, 1910 at Tallahassee Fla & had issue born at Lake City, Fla

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Maggie Mae Finley b Mch 1, 1874 married E.D. Hayman no issueMyra Moncrief Finley b Nov 16, 1875 married I.I. Himes. Had 3 children 1st one born at Palatka [best guess] & other two at West Palm Beach Fla Chas Finley Himes b Feby 15, 1909 ob Mch 17, 1918 Samuel Hilborn Himes b Dec 30, 1910 Mae Himes b Oct 30, 1912Jesse Johnson Finley II b Nov 1, 1877 married Mary Colcock Darby of Charlestown, SC. Had 3 children born there Jesse Johnson Finley III b Jany 29, 1910 [twin] Emily Darby Finley b Jany 29, 1910 [twin] Charles Willson Finley b Feby 12, 1921 Annie Bella Finley b Sept 9, 1880 married H.C. Helveston Saran. Had 4 children born in West Palm Beach, Fla Harold Finley Saran b May 27, 1902 Gladys Saran b May 27, 1904 Humboldt Saran b Aug 21, 1906 Henry Charles Saran b June 33, 1920Henry Robinson Finley b Sept 1882 ob July 30, 1883Charles Alexander Martin Finley II b Sept 19, 1884 ob July 13, 1907Edith Adele Finley b June 27, 1887 married R.G. Crowgery 3 children see p 606 [which shows:] Adele Crowgery b Dec 11, 1916 in Jacksonville, Fla Robert Gundry Crowgery Jr b May 13, 1921 John Finley Crowgery b Dec 30, 1922 at Wytheville, Va Ida Corinne Finley b Oct 15, 1889 married E.D. Patterson had 4 children all born at Graceville, Fla Martha Corinne Patterson b Feby 28, 1915 Kathryn Patterson b Feby 20, 1918 Ezra Dalton Patterson Jr b Nov 7, 1919 Margaret Patterson b Jany 18, 1921

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Oak Hill Mch 3, 1932 2 PM I have a letter postmarked Nov 1927 from Mrs Neal Young Bailey of 1050 Merenciter Ave Memphis Tenn daughter of John B. Finley son of Obediah Gaines Finley see page 566 & 604-609? who refers to my book 5 but gives no page & who has sent her father's record see page 604-9 which she has evidently sent me at the instance of Mrs Mary Lou Peyton of Lebanon, Tenn. I am writing her today & hope she is still living born in 1851.


[first name or names cut off] Finley see p 567 had 6 children

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Mary Gaines Finley b Sept 2, 1846 ob Aug 2, 1909 married Sept 2, 1869 Jacob Frolich. Had 4 children Pearl Frolich Finley Frolich Harman Frolich John FrolichSidney Lamb Finley b Dec 1848 ob June 13, 1914 see page 610 [which shows:] Married Dec 13, 1871 George B. Faxon & has 6 children. Elizabeth Finley Faxon

Finley Wolctt [sic] Faxon married June 19, 1901 5o Mary Eleanor Sellers 2 childrenMary Hills Faxon b Apr 7, 1902 married Thos M. Divine of Chattanooga, Tenn & have 1 child

Mary Hills Divine b July 13, 1927 Elinor Douglas Faxon b Mch 19, 1911

Charles Spencer Faxon married abt 1913 to Bessie Fuqua & live in Cincinnati, O. Have 3 children Chas Spender Faxon Jr Sidney Lamb Faxon David Faxon George Benton Faxon

Marie Louise Faxon married Oct 1912 to Arthur Wright & live at Rochester NY 3 children Frank Wright Elizabeth Wright Arthur Wright Sidney Lamb Faxon Louisa Estelle Finley [daughter of Finley who had 6 children] b Nov 30, 1851 still living in Memphis, Tenn Married Nov 6, 1893 Neal Young Bailey. No issue. Live at 1050 Merinater Ave Memphis Tenn She my informant for this recordSarah Williams Finley b June 29, 1851 ob Jany 23, 1919 married June 28, 1888 Benjamin Archer Wills & had 4 children Peter B. Wills

Elizabeth Lamb Wills b Nov 24, 1914 Y. Rozelle Holman & live in Memphis, Tenn. Have 3 children

Y. Rozelle Holman Jr b Sept 13, 1915 Sarah Finley Holman b Sept 22, 1917 Benj Archer Holman b Sept 8, 1919 Anne Archer Wills

Virginia Finley Wills married Oct 20, 1921 to Hugh Wright Stanton & live in Memphis, Tenn Have 3 children

Julia Ann Stanton b Dec 15, 1922 Sarah Elizabeth Stanton b Oct 18, 1924 Virginia Louise Stanton b Dec 13, 1926Spencer Lamb Finley b Apr 16, 1857 living in Memphis married Dec 10, 1884 Emma Bailey 2 children Elizabeth Nose [sic] Finley

Neal Bailey Finley 1st Lieut in World War killed in battle in France Aug 6, 1918Foster Green Finley b Oct 31, 1859 ob Sept 1, 1876 never married

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Oak Hill Mch 5, 1932 1 PM This forenoon in Second Natl Bank, David W. Riffle of McClellandtown, Pa recalled my first loan of $800 to him to buy a store & which he paid back before due. I also met there John S. Carroll, Len Lenhart Jr & Jas H. Sparks & on the street met Clemmer Craft & at skyscraper Conner J. Vance Graft who read me a recent letter he wrote to Chas M. Schwab offering him $000 A including Smith Creek for ten million dollars & the answer then to dated Feby 19, 1932 from C.A. Buck to whom it had been referred saying they had finally concluded that just now they would not be [unreadable] had large coal reserves. I then met Richard J. McGeee [sic] formerly of Dunbar, Pa

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who told me of having come in to see me at the instance of Capt J.M. Hustead to borrow $3000 to make an urgent payment which I let him have. I then talked at the door while waiting for Pallini to Thos H. Matthews living at Mt Independence this Tp for 5 yrs janitor of the school there & for 25 yrs postmaster at Percy Pa born Feby 12, 1855 in Dunbar Tp on the Mt Braddock farm back of the stone house om [sic] then owned by the Measons who still owned it when he moved away when 4 yrs old & John Sowers was manager for them. He said Meason was buried on the farm between the stone house & back road

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but was taken up & buried at Woodvale abt a mile away where was then an Episcopal Church now gone, but he was taken up the second time & taken to Connellsville, Pa for burial. Beesons bought Mt Braddock he thought in the sixties. I then went to Thos B. Semans but he was not in & I left word with the maid to have him phone me. Thos H. Matthews above is son of William Matthews who he said was of German descent & his wife Elizabeth McNutt who came from New JerseyO.M. Boughner asked me at the News stand in the Arcade if J.B.F. Rinehart was taking Co[unreadable] for me

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& I told [faded or blank line] letter written him & his evasive answer of Feby 29, & he too thought he might be leaving me out & spoke of what he had heard from Kit Blackshere & Walter C. Montgomery who said he was taking up 25,000 A for some steel Co & said that Montgomery knew about it & O.M. said he would try to see him soon & find out & let me know. He did not think Eugenia H. Robinson had placed her Com of $30,000 yet.Will A. Stone [best guess] here this PM said he bought Lick Hollow (abt 1000 A) from Robt L.B. Brownfield & Anne E. Huston, heirs of Col Ewing Brownfield for $8000 [unreadable word] he [or maybe it says she]later with my help is getting Mrs Thorndell's stock bought control ofPeoples Bk of Fay Co. Thos. B. Semans phoning this evening sd he had lost faith in everybody because so many had lied to him, a pitiable plight he is in.

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