History of Bedford, Somerset, Fulton counties Pennsylvania, Part 104

Author: Waterman, Watkins & Co.
Publication date: 1884
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Number of Pages: 967

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Jenner township was organized in 1811, and named for Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of vacci- nation. It is large in territory, and embraces within its limits one borough and one prosper- ous village.

This township contains valuable deposits of iron ore and limestone. Coal is mined to a con- siderable extent for local use. Other minerals, including silver and copper, have been found in the township.

The early settlers of this township were the Reeds, Boyds, Covers, Hoffmans, Duncans, Han- lines, Ankenys, Ilares and others. Most of the pioneers of this locality came from Brother's Valley and other early settled portions of Som- erset county.

The following is the assessor's list of taxable inhabitants of Jenner township, for. the year 1817 : Christopher Beatzy, Adam Blough (sawmill), Peter Bisel, Peter Blough (still), Henry Blough, Jac. Blough, Fred Biskeaker, Sam Berkey, Jos. Berkey, "big" Jos. Berkey, John Burntrager, Peter Baumgartner, Benj. Bowman, Dav. Berkey, Dav. Beatty, John Bisal (blacksmith), Geo. Barron, Wm. Boyd (still), Dan. Biskeakor, John Berky, Jas. Boyd, Jac. Boyer, Sam. Boyle, Jos. Christ, Andrew Camp- bell, Mich. Campbell, John Commer (still), Jos. Cooper, Chas. Cooper, John Craig, Jas. Camp- bell (shoemaker), Hannah Craig, Mich. Cable, John Cooper, Andrew Dennison (gristmill and still), John Dennison (tavernkeeper and post- master), Sam. Duncan, Sam. Deetz, Godfrey Darr (shoemaker), Davis & Bleain, John Engle (joiner), John Friedline, Geo. Friedline, John Fulmer, Wm. Frame (weaver), Moses Frame (sawmill), Peter Friedline, William Griffith, Thos. Griffith, Sr., Thos. Griffith, Jr., Jesse Griffith, Abner Griffith, John Goan (wheel- wright), Jac. Goan, Dan'l Gallaher (shoemaker),

John Goan (of Adam), John Goan, Sr., Sam. Griffith, Williamson Griffith, Hamilton Goudy, Andrew Hackman (tailor), Abr. Hershberger, Jac. Hoffman, Ph. . Hoffman, Edw. Hair, Mat- thew Hair, John Hair, Jac. Hoffman, Jr., Alex. Hanlon, Henry Howard, Jas. Hattry, Peter Hostetler, Jos. Hostetler, Benj. Hershberger, John Hoover (shoemaker), Abr. Hershberger, Fred. Horner (gunsmith), Dan. Horner, Thos. Johnson (tavern), Mich. Kover, Jac. Kesler, Sol. Keyzbeer, John Kesler, Henry Kennedy, Jac. Kuster, Conrad Keiser, Geo. Kime, Sam. Kime, Jac. Lehman, John Lehman, Isaac Lehman, Jas. Lyon, John Lander, John Lear, Peter Lame, Chris. Miller, Jona. Miller, Jos. Miller, Henry Miller, Chris. Miller, Thos. Mccullough, Peter McNulty, Val. Mishler, John Morrison, Peter Miller (joiner), Dan. Miller, John Murphy (tavern), John McFarlan, Jas. Murray (black- smith), Jas. Mitchell (tavern), Dav. Powel, Robt. Peter, Jac. Phenix, Wm. Rea (tavern), Mich. Rea, Gabriel Roade, Wm. Rose, Eli Ritter, Jac. Risherberger, John Risherber- ger, John Right, Jac. Robertson (miller), John Reed, Hugh Reed (grist and saw mill), Jac. Riffle, Mich. Spicker, Peter Spicker, John Shaly (blacksmith), Mich. Stuff (blacksmith), Wm. Storm (weaver), Dav. Simpson, Henry Sheaver, Simon Sheaver (distiller), Sam. Steel (sawmill), Geo. Stern, Robt. Trimble (shoe- maker), Sam. Thomas, Arthur Taylor, Mich. Thomas, Elizabeth Umburn, Andrew Wertz, Anthony Waggoner (wagonmaker), Robt. Wil- son (gristmill, sawmill and postoffice), Ph. Wyant, Dav. Wyant, Sol. Wilson, Geo. Woy, Robt. Wallace, Jeffrey Yoder.

Single freemen : Peter Miller, Emanuel Myers (wagonmaker), Jac. Miller, Thos. Christian, Sam. Riffle, John Blough, John Anderson, Robt. Frame, John Boyd, Chris. Kesler, Jas. Lyon, John Daniels, Jos. Daniels, Sam. Murphy (joiner), Robt. Dennison (storekeeper), Thos. McAffy, Henry Goan (miller), Chris. Boyer, Jr. (miller), Jas. Alexander, Robt. Potter, Wm. Faith, John Faith, Sol. Wilson, Peter Althouse, John McCain (wagondriver), Rodgers Marchel, Wm. Dayley, John Hanlon, Adam Hoop, John Craig, Alex. Hamline (assessor). In the fore- going list, other occupations than farmers and jobbers are designated.

During the Indian troubles a family of the name of Boyd was living near Carlisle. In the absence of the father, the Indians one day

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burned the house, killed the mother and an in- fant child, and took as prisoners the three remaining children - Sarah, aged seven ; Rhoda, aged five; and George, aged three. The children were compelled to walk (bare- footed) to the vicinity of Fort Pitt. The son was never returned ; but the girls, after seven years of captivity, were brought back to Car- lisle and exchanged. Rhoda afterward married Robert Smiley, and in the year 1780 settled in what is now Jenner township, about one and a half miles northeast from where the village of Quemahoning now stands, on the stream to which the Indians had given that name.

The nearest neighbor the Smileys had at first was eight miles away-about three miles be- yond where Jenner Crossroads is now located. This neighbor was afterward killed by Indians, and the Smiley family was driven back to Car- lisle, where they remained one winter and then returned to their clearing. The next summer they were again driven away and they spent the next winter on Conococheague creek, now in Adams county. In the spring they returned and were allowed to remain.

Their cabin was built of logs with puncheon floor and chestnut-bark roof. They had six children-Agnes, George, Sarah, John, James and Robert. In the year 1791, at the age of seventeen, Agnes Smiley married Moses Fream, who came from Hagerstown, Maryland, then aged twenty-one years. They settled in the year 1792, one-half mile southwest of the Smiley " clearing," being one mile north of Quemahoning. They became the owners of a body of land containing twelve hundred acres, lying on both sides of Quemahoning creek and being heavily timbered, mostly with white pine.

In 1813 he built a sawmill and a cabin on the creek where the village of Quemahoning now stands.

Moses Fream had twelve children. Mary, the fifth, was born October 13, 1801. At the age of sixteen she married William Dalley, a native of Somerset county, New Jersey.

They settled at the sawmill, and in 1817 built near it a small log building, in which were put machines for carding wool and a fulling- mill. In 1827 a three-story frame woolenmill, 20X30 feet, took the place of the old building, and a spinning-machine and looms were added. In 1834 William Dalley died, leaving eight children. His widow remained in possession of

the property, and in 1842 married Owen Mor- gan, a native of Neath, South Wales, who bought the property from the Dalley heirs. Additions were made to' the woolenmills in 1858, in 1867 and in 1879, its last size being 45×46 feet. On May 17, 1882, the entire mill was consumed by fire. By November 1, of the same year, a new mill was ready to run. Its size is 32×94 feet, two stories high, and fitted up with all modern improvements in machinery and fixtures. The sawmill was rebuilt in the years 1846 and 1874. A store and warehouse, 20×72 feet, and two stories high, was built in 1871. These buildings, together with a barn, and dwelling-houses for seven families, consti- tute the village of Quemahoning.

Owen Morgan died in 1871, aged sixty-two years ; his widow died in 1880, aged seventy- nine. Their only son, Hon. Wm. S. Morgan, has carried on the manufacture of cloth and lumber at Quemahoning since 1864, having learned the trade from his father. He has held various responsible positions-school director, justice of the peace and postmaster, and was elected a member of the state legislature in the fall of 1882.

The first gristmill in the township was erected by the general cooperation of the citizens. It stood at Jenner Crossroads, and was probably erected some years prior to 1800. The first individual owner was Thomas Faith. The first sawmill was built by Samuel Steel.

The Jackson furnace was erected on Laurel Hill creek, near the Pittsburgh turnpike, by Irwin Herald, Philip Murphy and Charles Ogle, about 1823. After running a few years unprofitably, it ceased operations, but was again put in blast by Joseph and William Graham about 1838. Shortly after it went out of blast forever. Jacob Cover cut the first wood for this furnace in 1824. He is still living, and is now in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Mr. Cover came to this town- ship with his father in 1798.

The first store in the township was kept by Samuel Elder, near Picking's hotel, about 1830.

Daniel Biesecker came from Franklin county about 1803, and settled in the then sparsely inhabited territory of Jenner township. He died in 1856. He married Nancy Kimmel, and was the father of ten children: Joseph (deceased), Abraham, Elijah (deceased), Solo- mon (deceased), Noah, John, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Sarah and Magdalena. Abraham and John are

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farmers of Jenner township. Noah is a resi- dent of Quemahoning, and also follows farm- ing. All of the daughters live in Jenner except Elizabeth, whose home is in Westmoreland county.

Philip Maurer came from Germany to Broth- er's Valley about 1783. He was a tailor by trade, but followed farming in this county. He died in Brother's Valley. He was the father of three sons and two daughters, all of whom are dead. His son Jacob, born in Brother's Valley in 1799, died in Quemahoning in 1866. Jacob Maurer married Elizabeth Walker, and reared eleven children : Jonas, Henry W., George, Jeremiah, William, Isabella, Mary, Caroline, Catharine, Rosana and Elizabeth. All the sons except Jonas served in the late war. William was wounded at Petersburg. Jonas is a farmer in Jenner township, living on the place first owned by a man named Coffee.

The Griffiths, formerly very numerous in this township, are of Scotch descent, and came from Bedford county. Thomas settled in Jenner in 1809, and in 1811 was followed by his brothers, Abner and William. A little later another brother, Jesse, settled here. Abner Griffith died in 1833, at the age of forty-eight. He served as county commissioner, and followed farming. He married Mary Owens, and was the father of John (deceased), William, Abner, Levi, Eli, Sarah, Mary A. (deceased) and De- borah. Levi resides in Jenner, and has served one term as justice of the peace.

William Griffith, one of the brothers above mentioned, died in Jenner township in 1861, at the age of eighty-four. He married Sarah Owens, and was the father of eleven children. His second son, William W. Griffith, is now living on a part of the old homestead.

Jesse Griffith died in 1859, at the age of seventy-four. He was married to Lydia Con- nelly, and was the father of four children : William C., Allen, Samuel and John, of whom only William C. is still living. He was born in 1804, and has resided in this township since his father came here. For a number of years he was engaged in the lumber business.

Mr. William C. Griffith, in the days when the slavery question was agitated, was strongly identified with the anti-slavery party. On one occasion a fugitive slave, who had found his way to this county, was employed by Mr. Grif- fith as a farm laborer for about six months,

after which he obtained work with a neighbor. The slaveowner, coming to Somerset, there heard that the colored man was at work for Mr. Griffith. Riding out to the farm, he demanded of Mr. Griffith if he knew anything about a runaway "nigger." Mr. Griffith knew something about him, but his replies were not satisfactory to the slaveholder, who, after using some strong language, rode on. Mr. Griffith took a short route to the neighbor's house, and, finding the negro, informed him that his master was in search of him. The slave hastened away, and in due time found his way to Canada in safety.

Jacob Shunk lived in this county at an early day. Afterward he moved to Canada, where a son named George was born, who came to this county in 1820. George Shunk moved to West- moreland county in 1871. He married, first, Nancy Rose ; second, Martha Griffith. Chil- dren : Jonathan, William, Allen, Edmund, James K., Rebecca, Mary, Catharine and Anna. Jonathan, William and Allen served in the late war. Jonathan enlisted in October, 1862, in Co. E, 171st regt. Penn. Vols., and again in September, 1864, in Co. E, 52d regt. Penn. Vols., serving in all about eighteen months. He now resides in Jenner township and is the only member of his father's family now living in the county.

Henry S. Picking came to Jenner township in 1831, and is still living on the place where he then settled. Mr. Picking was born in Adams county, in 1808." He kept public-house from 1831 to 1862, and is now the sole survivor of the early tavernkeepers on the pike in this township. In 1834 he was captain of a military company. From 1861-6 Mr. Picking was asso- ciate judge of Somerset county, and discharged the duties of that office in an able and faithful manner. Mr. Picking married Melissa Wilson. His children are Frank P., John H. (deceased), Worth J., Margaret H. (deceased), Agnes E. (deceased), Frances Matilda Cass and Anna. Worth J. manages the homestead farm.

While Judge Picking was engaged in hotel- keeping, like every other landlord, he occasion- ally had some very queer customers. Once a stranger arrived, carrying a heavy bag, which he placed upon the bar, informing Mr. Picking that it contained nails. He stayed over night, and when he paid his bill in the morning the landlord learned that the bag, which had been

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laid away so carelessly, contained about half a bushel of silver money.

Among the curious characters who used to travel the pike was a wagoner named John Carr, best known as "Devil" Carr, who was very much of a bully. Once, while driving over Laurel ridge, about a mile from Picking's hotel, Carr met a peddler on a large flat rock, which covers the road for some distance. After they had greeted each other pleasantly, Carr induced the peddler to leave his wagon, on some pretext or other, then holding his whip threat- eningly, asked him if he could dance. The peddler said he could, and Carr, standing by with his whip, kept him dancing until both were tired of the sport. He then ordered the peddler to get upon his wagon and proceed, and to tell every person he met how " Devil " Carr made him dance. But the peddler, going to his wagon, produced a revolver, and pointing it at Carr's head, commanded him to dance. Carr complied, seeing no other way out of the un- pleasant trap in which he was caught. Finally the peddler said, " Now you get on your wagon and ride on. Don't look back ; and if you meet anybody tell them you saw a peddler who was a match for you, and made you dance."

About 1840 a runaway slave was captured in Westmoreland county by Jonas Sparks and Joshua Marks, who brought him to the hotel kept by Mr. Picking. The poor negro was se- curely tied, his hands being fastened in front of him and his elbows tied with ropes behind him. Mr. Picking persuaded the captors to untie the hands of the slave. The men then went out upon the porch to look for the man who was hunting the slave and who had offered a reward for his capture. They saw him coming and shouted, " We've got the yellow bird in a cage !" 'The poor slave, trembling with excite- ment and fear, turned to Mr. Picking and asked, " What shall I do ?" He was informed that the door was open and the woods were near. He started for the woods on a run ; the men followed, but as it was nearly night, the fugitive was soon lost to view in the forest and the pursuit was abandoned. Seventeen years later the same negro returned, and presented Mr. Picking with a rifle and a razor, at the same time thanking him heartily for saving his life.

Jonathan Kline came from Cumberland county about 1800, and settled in Jefferson

township, Somerset county. He moved to Ohio, where he died in 1836. His children-Jonathan, Michael, John, David, Jacob, Catharine, Chris- tina, Elizabeth and Barbara-are all dead. David married Mary A. Young, and reared nine chil- dren, of whom three sons and five daughters are still living. Of the sons, Benjamin, the eldest, is farming in Jenner township, and is the owner of three hundred and fifty-three acres of land.

George Rauch was one of the pioneers of this county. He came from Washington county, Maryland, to Brother's Valley about 1785. He died in 1885, aged eighty-one years. He was the father of one son, Henry, born in 1776, who came to this county with his father. Henry served a short time in the war of 1812. He was a farmer, and died in Brother's Valley in 1849. He married Mary Young. His children-Peter, John, George, Jacob, Elizabeth, Eve, Mary and Rosana-are all dead. John, the second son, was born in 1802. He died in Brother's Valley in 1872. He served one term as county com- missioner. He married Catharine Bowman, and reared five children, four of whom are living. His son, Henry Rauch, Esq., has resided on a farm near Jennerstown since 1852, and has been justice of the peace since 1874.

Samuel Keim was an early settler of this county. Only one of his sons is now living,- Christian, in Jenner. He was born in Cone- maugh in 1812. His first wife was Elizabeth Boyer ; his second, Nancy Lehman ; children : John, Jacob, Daniel, Noah, Samuel, Josiah, Mahlon, Mary, Lydia, Anna and Eliza. Jacob is living on the Thomas Griffith place. The rest of the children are widely scattered.

The Lohr family settled in this county at about the close of the revolution. John, one of the ten children of the original settler, was born in this county about 1790, and died in Jenner township in 1860. He married Sarah Weighley, and was the father of Jacob, David (deceased), Michael, John, Andrew, Jeremiah (deceased), Josiah, Elizabeth, Mary, Magdalena (deceased) and Lavina. ' Jeremiah and Josiah served in the late war, and Jeremiah died in the service. David died in 1877. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Gohn (Gohn was an early settler on the farm now H. D. Lohr's). To them were born eleven children : Samuel, H. D., Zachariah, David, Harvey, Sarah, Mary, Sabilla (deceased), Lydia (deceased), Catharine

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and Emma. Samuel, H. D. and Zachariah were in the late war. Samuel was wounded. H. D., who was in Co. G, 19th regt. Penn. Vols., for three years, was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863, and held in rebel prisons until November 19, 1864.

Michael Korns was an early settler of South- ampton township, where he died. His son, Michael, was born in that township, moved to Jenner, and died here in 1874. He was married to Hannah Lepley, and was the father of Alex- ander, Simon L., Edmund, Matilda, Nancy, Eliza- beth and Mary A. All the sons are living on the home farm, which contained three hundred and twenty acres. Edmund served nine months in the late war.

Capt. Noah S. Miller moved to Jenner town- ship in 1879, and is engaged in farming. He was engaged in teaching for twelve years. Capt. Miller served in the late war two years ; first as second lieutenant, and afterward as captain of Co. D, 142d regt. Penn. Vols. He was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and also at the battle of the Wilderness. At the Wilder- ness he received a shot near the eye, which has since caused the loss of sight in one eye. Capt. Miller is a son of Samuel J. Miller, who died in Quemahoning in 1883, at the age of seventy- three, and a grandson of Joseph Miller, men- tioned in the history of Quemahoning town- ship.

Yost and Jeremiah Miller were the first rep- resentatives of the Miller family who settled in the northern part of Somerset county. They came from Germany, served in the revolutionary war, and after the war, settled in this county. Samuel J. Miller, son of Joseph Miller, and a descendant of the above-named pioneers, was married to Elizabeth Mowry, and was the father of Josiah and Noah S., of this township; Gil- lian (deceased), Peter, Samuel, Adam, Jacob S., Jeremiah, David, Franklin, Lemon, Benjamin and Nancy. Josiah, Noah S., Samuel and Gil- lian served in the late war. Gillian was wounded in the service and died in consequence. Josiah, served in Co. E, 93d regt. Penn. Vols .; enlisted in September, 1864, and was discharged in June, 1865.

Among the representative citizens of Jenner township are Hon. William S. Morgan, at pres- ent representative to the state legislature, and Adam S. Shaffer, now holding the office of county commissioner.

JENNERSTOWN.

The land where Jennerstown now stands was formerly owned by John Dennison, who laid out the town about 1822 and sold the first lots. The place has been a borough since 1874. Jenners- town was a very energetic and prosperous vil- lage before the days of railroads, when travel by stage and all kinds of traffic passed over the turnpike. A man by the name of Butt probably kept the first hotel.

Jennerstown is on the Pittsburgh turnpike, eleven miles north of Bedford, and contains two churches, one store, one carriageshop, two black- smithshops, two cabinetshops and one shoe- shop.

Daniel Kautz came from Cumberland county to the town of Somerset about 1818. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Abraham Miller, who was county sheriff at the time of the first hang- ing in Somerset. Mr. Kautz subsequently re- moved to Indiana, where he died in 1866, at the age of seventy-nine. He was a cooper by trade. His children were Perry, Chauncy, Chambers, Charles, Abraham B., Margaret, Mary and Ellen, of whom only Chambers and Abraham are liv- ing. Both served in the army-Chambers four years and Abraham about one. The latter was a sergeant in Co. H, 211th regt. Penn. Vols. A. B. Kautz has been engaged in the manufacture of carriages at Jenner Crossroads since 1859. His son J. F. is now in partnership with him, the style of the firm being A. B. Kautz & Son.

JENNER CROSSROADS.

Prior to the laying out of this village the land on which it is built was owned by Jonas Ankeny, Jesse Griffith and Frederick Althouse. Felix Launtz erected the first building in 1845. As far back as 1825, however, John Shopwood had kept hotel at this point. In 1836 Samuel Elder started the first store at the crossroads. The first church was built by the United Breth- ren in 1849. The first settled physician in the place was Dr. William Craig, succeeded by Dr. Joseph Covode, who still practices here.

Jenner Crossroads is an enterprising village. It is situated on the Pittsburgh turnpike, ten miles north of Somerset. The summary of its business interests is as follows : One hotel, one store, one planing-mill, one cabinetshop, one wag- onshop, one shoeshop, three blacksmithshops, one saddler's shop. There are two physicians, one church and one school in the place.

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Edmund Kiernan," a native of Franklin county, engaged in the mercantile business at the foot of Laurel hill in this township in 1836. A year or two later he moved to Jenner cross- roads, where he continued business until 1875. He was one of the foremost business men of the township and county.

The Enos family, which settled in Turkey- Foot, was among the earliest in the county. John Enos, son of the original pioneer, married Miss Heinbach, and was the father of David, Jacob, John, Lydia, Julia and Mary. David lived nearly all his life in Somerset county, and died in Westmoreland county in 1862, at the age of fifty. His grandfather, father and himself were blacksmiths. David was the father of two sons- Benjamin and Eli. Benjamin Enos has been in business at Jenner Crossroads since 1869 as a contractor and builder. He is also proprietor of a planing-mill. Mr. Enos enlisted in September, 1864, in Co. G, 93d regt. Penn. Vols., and was discharged in June, 1865.

James M. Cover has been engaged in the mer- cantile business at Jenner Crossroads since 1877. Mr. Cover's ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Brother's Valley, where his grand- father, the venerable Dr. John P. Cover, is still living. Silas J. Cover, the father of James M., was in the mercantile business for twenty-three years. He died in 1877, at the age of forty-nine.

CHURCHES.

Hoffman Lutheran church, near Jenner Cross- roads, was organized November 20, 1814, Rev. Ernst Heinrich Tiedemann, pastor. The origi- nal members were Jacob Hoffman, Simon Shaffer, Michael Cover, John Kummer, Peter Friedline, Philip Hoffman and Conrad Keyser. The pastors have been Revs. E. H. Tiedemann, D. H. Kieffer, J. H. Rabanach, P. Schmucker, F. Heyer, D. Heilig, H. Haverstick, P. Rizer, S. B. Lawson, J. T. Williams, J. K. Miller, P. Sahm, John Tomlinson, J. J. Welch, J. W. Ryder and A. K. Felton. The first church was built in 1814 and cost seventy-five dollars. The present church, erected in 1871, cost thirty-five hundred dollars. The present membership of the church is sixty-seven, and of the sabbath school, seventyseven. The congregation for- merly belonged to Friedens charge. In 1879 a new charge was formed, embracing Stoystown, Horner and Hoffman congregations.

Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church .- Moses Fream, who had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Hagerstown, Maryland, settled within one mile of where the church now stands, in the year 1792, and built what was then considered a large log house. In the second story he taught the first school that was opened in the township, and the same room was used for preaching by the Methodist itiner- ants. As the Fream family of twelve children grew up they all became members of the church, and were also joined by Edward, Mathew and John Hare and Samuel Duncan and their families. They continued to worship in Fream's house until the year 1827, when the first Hope- well church was built, two miles north of Quemahoning. It was built of hewed logs and lined with boards, and had a shingle roof. The lot on which the church stands and the burying- ground adjoining were sold by Matthew Hare and wife to Samuel Duncan, John Hare and William Dalley, a son-in-law of Moses Fream, who were the first trustees. The deed bears date May 81, 1827, and the price paid was five dollars.

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History of Bedford, Somerset, Fulton counties Pennsylvania, Part 104

Author: Waterman, Watkins & Co. Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Number of Pages: 967

Author: Waterman, Watkins & Co.
Publication date: 1884
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 967