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JOHN MOSIER, father of Daniel Dimmick Mosier and grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was born November 10, 1785, near Easton, Pennsylvania, and mar- ried Sarah Overfield, daughter of Martin and Sarah (Ott) Overfield. Sarah (Overfield) Mosier was born November 22, 1791.
Paul Overfield, grandfather of Sarah (Overfield) Mosier, and maternal great-great-grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was born in North Germany in 1715, and came when a child with his parents from the fatherland to New Jersey, and subsequently married Rebecca Marshall. The following named chil- dren were born to Paul Overfield and Rebecca (Marshall) Overfield: Abner ; Benjamin; Martin, (married Elizabeth Ott) ; Sarah, (married Lieut. Moses Van Campen) ; Rachel, (married Joseph Pennell) ; Paul, (married Hannah DePue) ; William ; and Elizabeth, (married Edward Marshall). Paul Overfield, great-great-grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, died in 1800.
Martin Overfield, father of Sarah (Overfield) Mosier, and maternal great- grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was born in 1756, and married Sarah Ott, who was born November 24, 1749. Martin Overfield in the Revolutionary struggle served his country during the years 1780-81-82 in the Fifth Company, Fifth Battalion of the militia of Northampton county, Pennsylvania. After the sur- render of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1881, and the disbanding of Washington's army at Newburg on the Hudson, Martin Overfield was mustered out of his country's military service and settled in the backwoods of Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and commenced to help clear up the primeval forest which shaded the Indian war path extending from the banks of the Del- aware to the Susquehanna.
Martin Overfield died on his farm in Middle Smithfield township, on May 25, 1821, and on his tombstone is the following: "A soldier of the Revolution under General Washington".
Sarah (Ott) Overfield, mother of Sarah (Overfield) Mosier, and maternal great-grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, died February 29, 1848, and sleeps by the side of her husband, whom she survived more than a quarter of a century. Hon. William Overfield, son of Martin and Sarah (Ott) Overfield, became prom- inent in public life, and represented Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties in the
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House of Representatives and Senate of Pennsylvania, and filled other offices with honor, for he was a faithful and honest servant of the people.
John Mosier died in Middle Smithfield township, May 7, 1855. The land on which is located Sand Hill cemetery was given to the Church Cemetery Association by John Mosier, who is buried near the little white church, which in summer-time, with its green sloping grounds on every side, can be seen for miles around.
Sarah (Overfield) Mosier died August 14, 1888, in the home she had lived in continuously for nearly four score years. The Mosier homestead is now occupied by her son, Samuel Overfield Mosier, who bids fair to pass the century mark on the old farm among the meadows, trout streams, hills and mountains of his boyhood days.
DANIEL DIMMICK MOSIER, son of John Mosier and Sarah (Overfield) Mo- sier, and father of Frank C. Mosier, was born in Middle Smithfield township, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1816, and when about sixteen years old came to the Wyoming Valley. Through the influence of his uncle, Hon. Will- iam Overfield, canal commissioner of Pennsylvania, he obtained a position on the North Branch of the Pennsylvania Canal, which with other internal improve- ments cost the state of Pennsylvania more than forty-one millions of dollars. All of this great property, which, with its mighty franchises, would in time have intermingled the waters of Lake Erie, with the Chesapeake, and made this water- way the grand highway of commerce between the Atlantic seaboard and the West, was sold a few years before the Civil War for a few paltry millions by trusted public servants, who left to future generations in the legislative halls of our State the record of a public calamity, one of the greatest that ever befell the people of this Commonwealth.
Daniel Dimmick Mosier was employed by the state on the North Branch Canal a number of years, which gave him a good start in life, for he was enabled to purchase from John M. Stark a large farm in Pittston township, from which hundreds of thousands of tons of anthracite coal have been mined. This valu- able property is still owned by the Mosier family, and under lease with the Erie Railroad Company, successors of the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Daniel Dimmick Mosier was married, January 2, 1842, to Elizabeth Ann Ward, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, mother of Frank C. Mosier, was the daughter of Victor Ward and Anna ( Mills) Ward.
Thomas Ward, paternal grandfather of Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, and maternal great-grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was of English ancestry, and emigrated to America and settled in Connecticut previous to the Revolutionary war, and married Anna Wakely. He enlisted in Captain Samuel Wright's com- pany of Colonel Samuel Wyllys' regiment, December 2, 1775, and took part in the siege of Boston.
This command was previously General Spencer's, and was reorganized for service in 1776 as the 22nd Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Line. After the evacuation of Boston by the British, it marched under General Washington to New York by way of New London and the Sound, and helped fortify New York City. On August 24 it was ordered to the Brooklyn front, and remained there and took part in the battle of Long Island, fought August 27, and was in the retreat of the American army across the East River on the evening of August
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29. At White Plains it was in line of battle on October 27-28 to oppose the advance of the British forces under General William Howe against the intrenched position of Washington's Army. After the retreat of the British from White Plains, his command remained encamped in the vicinity of Peekskill, under Ma- jor-General Heath, until the expiration of term of service, December 30, 1776. (Record of Conn. Men in Revolution, p. 107). Thomas Ward applied for a pension September 28, 1818, which was allowed. Soldier died at Glastonburg, Connecticut, October 5, 1824. (Ref .- Hartford County, Conn., Pension Roll, p. 45).
The date of the death of Anna ( Wakely) Ward, wife of Thomas Ward, is unknown.
Victor Ward, father of Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, and grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was a son of Thomas Ward and Anna (Wakely) Ward, and was born in Trumbull, Fairfield county, Connecticut. He married Anna Mills, daughter of Robert Mills and Desire (Robertson) Mills, a daughter of Jonathan Robertson.
Jonathan Robertson, maternal great-grandfather of Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, and great-great-grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was of Scotch ances- try, and settled in Weston, Fairfield county, Connecticut, at an early date, and on April 14, 1759, enlisted in Captain Samuel Hubbell's 5th Company of Colonel David Wooster's 3rd Conn. Colonial Regiment. (See Conn. Colonial Record, French-Indian Wars, 1758-1762, p. 151).
His regiment took part in the campaign of 1759 under General Amherst which began with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and closed with the battle of Quebec, September 13, 1759, which was a glorious victory for British arms, for it added a vast territory to the Mother Country's possessions in North America, and made ' the name of Wolfe, who fell at the head of his troops, renowned forever in the annals of Time. Colonel Wooster was a fighter, and before the close of the Colonial wars, became a brigadier-general in the English army, in which he vali- antly served. During the struggle for American liberty his sword was drawn on the side of the colonies in whose battles he bravely fought. Years afterward the State of Connecticut erected to the memory of its Colonial and Revolutionary soldier a colossal monument which perpetuates the name of one of its patriotic sons, Major-General David Wooster, who died in defense of the soil of his native state, May 2, 1777. (See History of Danbury, Conn., pp. 85-86). (Washing- ton and his Masonic Compeers, pp. 315-317).
Robert Mills, maternal grandfather of Elizabeth (Ward) Mosier and great- grandfather of Frank C. Mosier, was of English ancestry, and married Desire Robertson, daughter of Jonathan Robertson, of Weston, Fairfield county, Con- necticut.
Desire (Robertson) Mills, daughter of Jonathan Robertson, and grandmother of Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, survived her husband, Robert Mills, a num- ber of years, and is buried in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Elizabeth Robertson, sister of Desire (Robertson) Mills, in 1782, was married to Thomas Williams, who came with his father, Thadeus Williams, to the Wyoming Valley, previous to the Revolutionary war. About January 1, 1777, Thomas Williams enlisted in Captain Samuel Ransom's 2nd Independent Company (recruited by authority of the Continental Congress in the Wyoming Valley) of Colonel Durkee's Fourth
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Connecticut Regiment, which fought under Washington at Princeton, and upon other battlefields of the Revolution. Thomas Williams became a non-commis- sioned officer, was a courageous soldier and brave Indian fighter. The name of Sergeant Williams is often mentioned in the annals of the Wyoming Valley. He died November 12, 1839, and is buried in Hollenback Cemetery.
In our country's second conflict with Great Britain, the Connecticut military records show that Victor Ward was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was in active service in 1814, when the towns bordering on Long Island Sound were threatened with attack by a combined British land and naval force.
Victor Ward died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the year 1827.
Anna (Mills) Ward, mother of Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier, died in Plains township, Luzerne county, in the year 1834, and was buried in the Hollenback Family burying ground. In after years her remains were removed to the ceme- tery founded by George M. Hollenback, a son of Matthias Hollenback, who was an ensign in Captain Ransom's 2nd Independent Company of Colonel Durkee's 4th Connecticut Regiment, and who returned to his home in time to take part in the battle of Wyoming, fought July 3, 1778, and was one of the few survivors of a butchery which has few parallels in the annals of history. Colonel Hollenback was a Virginian by birth. He died in the home of his adoption, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1829, and is buried in the cemetery which bears his honored name.
ELIZABETH ANN (Ward) Mosier, mother of Frank C. Mosier, of Scotch and English ancestry, was born in Trumbull, Fairfield county, Connecticut, Novem- ber 27, 1821. After the death of her father she came from Bridgeport, Connec- ticut, to Plains township, about the year 1829, with her mother and grandmother, Desire (Robertson) Mills, and became neighbors of her great-uncle, Sergeant Thomas Williams, and her mother's brother, David Mills, formerly of Bridge- port, Connecticut, who was the owner of a large farm from which was mined in after years millions of tons of coal.
Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier became well acquainted with Sergeant Will- iams, who often entertained her with stories of his many fights with the Brit- ish Tories and Indians. She was a continuous resident of the Wyoming Valley for more than four score years. When very young she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she always was a faithful and charitable worker. In the War for the Union, her only brother, Joseph S. Ward, fought in the 7th and 12th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. John Ward, a son of Joseph S. Ward, also served his country in the 9th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. Both survived the battles of the Civil War, and after the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, each returned to his home in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and became members of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Daniel Dimmick Mosier died May 14, 1889, and Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mo- sier died March 6, 1909, and both sleep in the Mosier plot in Hollenback Ceme- tery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
The following children were born to Daniel Dimmick Mosier and Elizabeth Ann (Ward) Mosier; Georgia Mosier, (daughter) born October 18, 1842, and on October 31, 1865, was married to Conrad Sax Stark, who was born April 12, 1836. He was a son of John D. Stark and Ann (Sax) Stark. John D. Stark was born April 26, 1797, and was a grandson of Aaron Stark, who was slain in the
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battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778. John D. Stark, on February 22, 1828, was married to Ann Sax, who was born February 15, 1803. Ann (Sax) Stark: was born February 15, 1803. She died November 25, 1855.
John D. Stark became a prominent citizen of Pittston township. The last days: of his life were spent on his farm located upon the banks of Spring Brook, where- its waters join the Lackawanna. His life was one of industry and usefulness. He died June 21, 1862, and is buried in the Stark Family plot in Marcy Ceme- tery, Luzerne county, near the Brick Church, which was erected in 1853.
Many soldiers of the Revolutionary and other wars repose in Marcy Ceme- tery. The first interments therein were made previous to the year 1790. The date of the death of Ebenezer Marcy is marked upon his tombstone as having occurred March 20, 1790, at which early time there were more than one hun- dred unmarked graves in this burying ground. Marcy township, Luzerne county, was named after Ebenezer Marcy.
Conrad S. Stark graduated at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1860. He was offered and accepted a professorship in the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, during 1860-1861, after which he studied law with Hon. W. G. Ward of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Luzerne bar, November 30, 1864. He died at his home in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1880, in the strength and vigor of manhood, a leading member of his pro- fession.
At a meeting of the Luzerne county bar held March 27, 1880, the chairman of the meeting was Hon. Charles E. Rice, now president judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, who after paying an eloquent tribute to the memory of the deceased, concluded as follows :
"He will be missed in the profession by the Bar and the Court; he will be sadly missed in the town in which he lived, and with whose varied interests he was so fully identified; he will be missed in this county by all good men, and in that home which has been so sadly bereaved; but notwithstanding all this, we cannot but with pleasant emotions bear testimony to the character and life of a man, who with humility yet with self-reliance and earnestness, did in his lifetime all that God gave him to do."
Georgia (Mosier) Stark died in the state of Florida, where she was temporarily residing, July 14, 1896. She was a sincere friend and an affectionate sister and mother, and was beloved by all who knew her. Conrad Sax Stark and Georgia (Mosier ) Stark are buried in Hollenback Cemetery.
John B. Mosier (son) was born in Pittston township, August 9, 1844, on his father's farm which was cleared up by David Brown, shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War. (See Bigsby's "History of Luzerne County," p. 617; Hayden's "Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania," p. 168).
John B. Mosier never married, was successful in business, and accumulated a large estate. At the time of his death, September 27, 1889, he was a Mason, and a member of St. John's Lodge, F. and A. M., Pittston, Pennsylvania; Pitts- ton Chapter, R. A. M .; and a Sir Knight of Wyoming Valley Commandery, Knights Templar, Pittston, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Hollenback Cemetery.
FRANK C. MOSIER (son) was born October 8, 1846, (of whom further men- tion is hereafter made).
James H. Mosier (son) married Fannie Field. He is engaged in the real
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estate and general insurance business, Pittston, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to Wyoming Valley Lodge, F. and A. M., Pittston, Pennsylvania; Pittston Chapter, R. A. M .; Wyoming Valley Commandery, K. T., Pittston, Pennsylvania, (of which he is a past eminent com- mander ) ; Lu Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. (Mystic Shrine), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Keystone Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32° Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, A. A. S. R.
Helen Mosier, his daughter, is a member of Dial Rock Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, West Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Frank C. Mosier's birthplace was in Pittston township, on his father's farm. His boyhood days passed the same as other boys brought up on a farm, working in the fields, fishing in the mountain streams, hunting in the nearby woods, and attending district school in winter. During these halcyon days came the Civil War, and the rolling of drums, waving of flags, and marching of soldiers to the front, inspired the heart of every true patriot and lover of his country.
In September, 1862, Lee, with a mighty host, came up along the Blue Ridge from the sacred soil of Virginia in solid columns of gray, with bayonets flashing in the autumnal sun, the stars and bars flying, and with martial bands playing, "Maryland, My Maryland", he thundered at the southern gateway of Penn- sylvania.
It was then he enlisted in Captain Hileman's company, 19th Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and went to the front, where, with thousands of patriotic men under Major-General John F. Reynolds, stood ready to repel the rebel inva- der if the Army of the Potomac met with defeat upon the soil of Maryland, where was fought the battle of Antietain, one of the most sanguinary in the his- tory of the Civil War.
Returning home from the Antietam campaign, he attended Wyoming Semin- ary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, and subsequently obtained a position with the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he remained until he entered the University of Michigan. After completing his studies at Ann Arbor, he became a student in the law office of Hon. Fitz William H. Chambers, of Detroit, an ex-member of the Canadian Parliament, and later on judge of the Circuit Court of Wayne county, Michigan.
After being admitted to the Detroit bar he returned East and studied law with Conrad S. Stark, Esq., and was admitted to the Luzerne bar, February 26, 1874, and still practices his profession in the Federal Court and in the Supreme, Supe- rior and other courts of Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday, March 4, 1891, Frank C. Mosier was married, by the Rev. John LaBar, to Lydia Ellen Stark, daughter of John M. Stark and Sarah (David- son) Stark, of Wyoming, Pennsylvania.
Christopher Stark, son of William Stark, and great-great-great-grandfather of Lydia (Stark) Mosier, came of English ancestry, and was born at Groton, Con- necticut, in 1698. On April 1, 1722, he married Joanna Walworth, of New Lon- don, Connecticut. He subsequently removed to Dutchess county, New York, and from thence, in the year 1772, to the Wyoming Valley, where he became an extensive land owner. A number of children were born to Christopher Stark and Joanna ( Walworth) Stark, only two of whom, James Stark and Aaron Stark, we make mention of in this sketch.
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James Stark, son of Christopher Stark, and great-great-grandfather of Lydia (Stark) Mosier, was born May 22, 1734. In 1758 he married Elizabeth Carey, of Dutchess county, New York. James Stark enlisted September 17, 1776, in Captain Ranson's 2nd Independent Company of Colonel John Durkee's 4th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental army, and fought under Washington. While in his country's service he contracted a disease which caused his death, July 20, 1777.
His elder brother, Aaron Stark, born November 3, 1732, was slain in a mas- sacre of July 3, 1778, and his name, with that of Daniel Stark, is inscribed on the Wyoming Battle Monument.
Henry Stark, son of James Stark, and great-grandfather of Lydia (Stark) Mosier, was born April 19, 1762, and married Elizabeth Kennedy November 3, 1791, and died January 22, 1807.
James Stark, son of Henry Stark, and grandfather of Lydia (Stark) Mosier, was born April 24, 1792, and married Mary Michael, of Monroe county, Penn- sylvania, April 19, 1819. James Stark served as a soldier in the war of 1812. (See Hayden's "Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lacka- wanna Valleys, Pennsylvania," vol. I, p. 540). James Stark became one of the most prominent business men of his time. He accumulated a large landed estate, which represented hundreds of acres of anthracite coal worth millions of money. This valuable property at his death was devised to his family, the children of some of whom still live to enjoy the patrimony of a grandparent who prospered, became wealthy, and left a record for honesty, industry and thrift to his descend- ants, which is worthy of emulation. James Stark died February 3, 1856, and now reposes in Hollenback Cemetery.
John M. Stark, father of Lydia (Stark) Mosier, was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1819, and on October 16, 1841, was married to Sarah Davidson, daughter of Morris Davidson and Ann Davidson, both natives of Sussex county, New Jersey. Ann Davidson, mother of Sarah (Davidson) Stark, was related to the Morgan family of New Jersey, one of whose kinsman was General Daniel Morgan, of Virginia, a comrade in arms of Washington in the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars.
John M. Stark was a man of prominence, noted for his firmness, integrity, self-reliance and industry. For a number of years he was superintendent of one of the divisions of the North Branch of the Pennsylvania Canal. This position he resigned to accept a more responsible one with the Pennsylvania Coal Com- pany, of which corporation John B. Smith, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was the general manager, and between these two men of the old school ties of friendship existed long after John M. Stark retired from the employ of the great coal com- pany, which will always remain an enduring monument to the management and executive ability of John B. Smith, one of the best known pioneer coal men of northeastern Pennsylvania. (For Portrait of John M. Stark, see Bradsby's "History of Luzerne County," p. 335).
During John M. Stark's active life he made careful investments in anthracite coal lands, and the rentals therefrom enabled him before his death to make a large distribution of his property among his children.
John M. Stark was proud of the record of his family, for a forefather fought under Washington in the War of the Revolution, and the name of a kinsman,
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Aaron Stark, is inscribed on the Wyoming Battle Monument, over the immortal words : "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". (See Bradsby's "History of Luzerne County," p. 121).
During all the wars of the American Republic, the Stark family have main- tained a record for patriotism, not often excelled. General John Stark, of New Hampshire, a name famous in the annals of the Revolution, commanded a bri- gade at Bunker Hill, fought under Washington at Trenton and Princeton, heroic- ally led the Green Mountain boys at Bennington, and achieved a substantial victory for the American cause, came of the same English line of ancestry as the Stark family of the Wyoming Valley. (See Hawthorne's "United States," vol. 2, pp. 512-17-22-31, etc."; Bradsby's "History of Luzerne County," p. 357).
In the armed conflict with Mexico which secured the acquisition of immense territory to the American Union, his brother, George H. Stark, served as a ser- geant in Captain Ogier's H Company, 4th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, and on July 29, 1846, by order of General Taylor, was honorably discharged at Mata- moras. On July 30, 1846, he re-enlisted and became a non-commissioned officer in Captain Blanchard's ( Phoenix ) company, - Regiment, Louisiana Volun- teers, and by order of Major-General Scott was honorably discharged at New Orleans, May 15, 1847. On soldier's discharge the following is endorsed: "Said G. H. Stark participated in the storming of Monterey and also the bombardment of Vera Cruz, and acquitted himself gallantly in both engagements."
In the war inaugurated for the destruction of the American Union, his son, George M. Stark, on August 21, 1862, enlisted in Schooley's Independent Bat- tery, recruited in Pittston by Lieutenant U. S. Cook, formerly principal of the Pittston high school, who prevailed upon many of his scholars to volunteer in defense of their country's flag.
As soon as Schooley's command was mustered into the United States military service it was assigned to garrison duty at Fort Delaware, in the state of Dela- ware, where on October 17, 1862, the scholarly Cook died. After his death the battery was ordered to Washington, D. C., and became Battery M, Second Heavy Artillery, 112th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and for a time remained on guard at Fort Lincoln.
At midnight on May 3, 1864, the Army of the Potomac moved out of its win- ter cantonments on the Rapidan and began its last campaign against the Army of Northern Virginia, strongly intrenched, ready for battle. The advance of Grant's troops against the positions held by the Confederates under Lee was stubbornly contested, and thousands of brave men were killed, wounded or burned up in the battles which raged for weeks in the Virginia wilderness, with a fierceness unparalleled in the annals of war.
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