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Horner, John, Sr. (For the Horner family see "Land Titles.") Mr. Horner kept a primitive grocery store and also gave credit to his patrons. We have taken the following names
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from his book to show the persons who were his customers and who resided here at the periods mentioned: 1799: Paul Bens- hoff, Daniel Bonbrake, William Brumbaugh, Henry Brumbaugh, Christian Cochenower (Goughenour), David Cochenower, Peter Cochenower, John Fink, Michael Fink, John Fox, Peter Fox, Christian Good, Jacob Horner, Abraham Hildebrand, Jacob Leer, Samuel Matthews, Daniel Stouder, Joseph Stouder, John Wissinger and Ludwick Wissinger. 1800: Jacob Good, Jacob Reed and Jacob Snowberger. 1801: George Anderson, Jacob Brumbaugh, Daniel Cochenower, Emas Edwards, Jacob Fite, . Jache Fox, Peter Fox, Michael Fink, Daniel Grossnicker, Abra- ham Longanecker, David Martin, Daniel Maughner, David Pot- urf, Samuel Shepley, George Wimer, Juter Werner, Peter Wer- ner (these names are probably Justus and Peter Varner), John Wissinger and Ludwick Wissinger. 1802: Jacob Boyer, James Connegham, Peter Erlinkiser, Peter Fox, John Geuger, Abra- ham Hildebrand, Martin Mixel, David Shepley, John Shayver and Jacob Weaver. 1803: Widow Beatty, Daniel Brumbaugh, Peter Fox, Jacob Good, William Hartley and Ludwick Wis- singer. 1804: Conrad Brumbaugh, Frederick Koone, David Shepley and John Studebaker. 1805: Adam Anderson, George Anderson, David Brumbaugh, Jacob Fink, George Fox, Jacob Fox, John Genger, Abraham Hildebrand, Jacob Leer, Sr., Jacob Leer, Jr., McBride, David Martin, Peck Mathias, Peter Reehard, Nicholas Werner and John Wissinger. 1806: Jacob Anderson, Conrad Brumbaugh, Burket, Jacob Coche- nower, Daniel Hay, Adam Horner, David Shepley, Henry Smith and Jacob Stoneman. 1807: Jonathan Black, George Brocias, Conrad Cofman, Ludwig Dunmyer, John Fox, William Guas- bonrn, Daniel Grossnickel, John Horner, Jr., Henry Kurtz, John Mock, David Patton, Henry Rondabush, David Shepley, Jacob Shue, Joseph Stanter, James Tomson, Jacob Whitestone and George Wimer.
Johns, Joseph. (See "Early Settlers.")
Kaylor, Peter, a son of a Revolutionary soldier, born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, came to Cambria in 1800 and located at Loretto. He married Catherine McConnell, of the Loretto colony. They had several children, one of whom was James J. Kaylor, born on the farm near Loretto in 1825, and died June 14, 1894. He married Cecelia Burke, a daughter of John Burke, of Croyle township, and had four daughters and
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five sons: Mark Burke, Cyrillis, Mary, Rose, Ida, Raymond J. and Harold G., twins; Irene and Lewis E. Kaylor.
Levergood, Peter, was born in Lancaster county in 1785, and died in Johnstown, July 26, 1860. His parents came from Germany and were known in Lancaster as "Pennsylvania Dutch." His wife, Susan Rodfong, whom he married in York county in 1807, died in Johnstown in 1840. They came to Johns- town in 1811, and, as is elsewhere noted, he acquired the residue of the Joseph Jolins' plotted lots and lands. They had nine chil- dren, three of whom died in their youth. Their elder child was Catherine, who married John Benshoff, and removed to lowa, where both died. 2. Jacob Levergood was born in Lancaster county, near York, October 7, 1807 ; died in Johnstown, February 1, 1885; he married Jane Louisa Hayes, who came to Johnstown in 1830, from Franklin county; she was born June, 1811, and died May 31, 1889, a victim of the great disaster. She was a daughter of Patrick and Nancy Hayes. They had nine children : 1. Susan, intermarried with William Caldwell. 2. Peter HI. 3. Agnes, intermarried with John Parke. 4. Mary, intermarried with George Fockler. 5. Martin Luther. 6. Emma Cummins, in- termarried with Virgil C. Elder. 7. Jacob Charles. 8. William H. 9. Lucinda, who with her mother was lost in the destruction of their home, on the corner of Bedford and Vine streets May 31, 1889. Peter Levergood died testate and appointed his son Jacob his executor, who conveyed odds and ends of his father's real estate. 3. Mary Levergood, married Harry Sutton, and moved to Iowa. 4. Phoebe Levergood, born in 1812, died in 1842; on Dec. 31, 1831, married Robert Parke Linton, who died March 8, 1879; they had four children : 1. John Parke Linton. 2. William. 3. Peter, and 4. Susan, intermarried with John H. Clark. 5. Lucinda, died in 1841; intermarried with Jacob Myers, who also moved to Iowa in 1856. 6. Peter Levergood, Jr., died in 1853, in his thirty-first year; he married Adelaide Saylor, a sister of Mrs. William Cover; they had two daughters: Margaret, inter- married with Thomas E. Watt, and Cora, intermarried with Yeager; her second marriage was with Thomas Yea- kle. Catherine Fite was the second wife of Peter Levergood, Sr., who died in 1851. His third wife was Louise Sharretts, the widow of the Rev. Sharretts, of Indiana, who survived her hus- band.
The name of Peter Levergood is closely associated with the progress made in Johnstown, as for almost fifty years he
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was one of her leading citizens. In the Lutheran church, to which he belonged, his influence was strongly felt. He was orig- inally a Federalist, and was in the ups and downs of the Whig party until its death, then followed the Republican party. He was a canal commissioner under Governor Ritner, a member of the assembly, burgess of the borough, school director and candidate for congress. In the chapters of the City of Johns- town, Land Titles and in the Political Review of the county, elsewhere in this work, will be found the history of Peter Lev- ergood. In selling to Messrs. Brenizer and Burrell it was his intention to return to York and Lancaster counties, but finding he would have to repurchase the Johns lands he determined to make his home here, and established it on the southwest corner of Bedford and Levergood streets, the latter of which was named for him. The Levergood family graveyard, located on Vine street, was continued until 1892, when the bodies were removed and the ground sold to the Electric Light Company for its new plant.
Lloyd, Rees, the founder of Ebensburg (see article), came there in 1796; his wife was Rachel Rowland, who died about 1840. They had ten children: 1. John, born March 2, 1782, died in 1838; he married Jane Tibbot. a daughter of the Rev. William Tibhot (see Tibbot) ; they had five children: Mar- garet, married David Hughes; Jane, married Richard J. Evans; Rees, married Eveline Morrow; Abel, married Annie Gardner, and John, married Sarah Cannon, a daughter of Associate Judge Cannon. of Illinois, and on her death married Margaret Evans, a daughter of Evan J. Evans. 2. Fanny Lloyd, born January 21, 1784, in Wales; died 1832 at Paddy's Run; she married a Griffith. 3. Stephen, born April 9, 1785, in Wales; died 1870; his wife was Catherine Tibbot (see Tibbot) and had nine chil- dren : Eben, Margaret, who married Richard T. Evans; Rees. William, Stephen, Rachel, the wife of a Mr. Reynolds, of Kit- tanning; Catherine, married E. J. Mills, of Ebensburg; Jane. whose husband was the Rev. Dorsey, and Rose, who married Robert Evans. 4. David, born Feb. 18, 1787; died 1840. 5. Annie, died in infancy. 6. Annie, born Aug. 20, 1792, in Wales; deceased ; she married Major David Evans, of Ebensburg, and they had nine children : Rachel, married
Jane was the wife of a Mr. Chidister; John, married in the west ; Mary, the wife of John McCoy; - -, married Samuel Lloyd; Annie, married Benjamin Davis; Margaret was the wife
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of Dr. David Tibbot: David married in Illinois; Harriet was the wife of Michael McCague, and had one child, Emma Mc- Cague. Her second husband was William Orr; the third hus- band, Stych. 7. Samuel, born Feb. 10, 1794, also in Wales, and died about 1845, single. 8. Ebenezer, born near Philadelphia, October 25, 1795, and died there. 9. Rachel, born March 27, 1798, at Ebensburg, infant. 10. Benjamin, born there Nov. 3, 1799, and died about 1860; married, and lived at Paddy's Run, Ohio.
Linton, John, born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1773, died in Johnstown, July 25, 1818. His father was William Lin- ton, a Seotch-Irish farmer, who had three children, William. Mary and John. John Linton was well educated at the Magilli- gan College in his native county. While pursuing his studies in surveying he became involved in political troubles and was forced to leave the country. He came to America about 1795 and remained in Baltimore for a short time, going from there to Greencastle, Pennsylvania, where he became a merchant. About 1801 he married Ann Park, the daughter of Robert and Jane Bailey Park. They were natives of the north of Ireland, probably County Down.
Robert Park had four children: Elizabeth, Ann, John and Mary. Ann was born at Belfast, about 1780 or 1781, and died in Johnstown, April 2, 1835; John was born at Ballywalter, County Down. The family disembarked at Philadelphia in 1794, and there Robert Park, who was a teacher of mathematics, soon afterwards died. His widow married Colonel James Johnston, a surveyor and distinguished citizen of eastern Penn- sylvania, from which state he served in the Revolutionary war. His home was near Greencastle, to which place the Park chil- dren were brought. There Elizabeth Park and John Agnew, and Ann Park and John Linton were married at the same time by the same minister. Elizabeth Agnew died in Pittsburg in 1825, and her daughter Maria married Dr. David T. Storm, a practicing physician of Johnstown. (See Medical Profession.) John Park married Mary Lang, the daughter of Rev. James Lang, a Presbyterian clergyman of Franklin county, and lo- cated in Indiana county in 1799. He erected the first log cabin in what is known as Marion, and died there in 1844 at the age of sixty-eight. His wife died there twenty years later. Their descendants are numerous in that county. Mary Park married Ninian Cochran. a surveyor of Cumberland, Maryland, and in
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1827 returned to Johnstown, where her daughter Mary mar- ried Isaac Hildebrand and removed to the west, and Arabella, another daughter, married Selah Chamberlain.
About 1806 John Linton moved to Frankstown, where he and John Agnew opened a general store. The latter afterwards removed to Ebensburg and resided there for several years, being a justice of the peace during part of the time. Coming from Frankstown to Johnstown in 1810, John Linton practiced surveying and kept an inn. He was the first postmaster of Johnstown, only holding the office for a few months, however. In 1811 he was elected a county commissioner and continued in that office until his death, at which time he was living in an old log house on the northeast corner of Main and Franklin streets, now known as the Frazer-Griffith-Schrader drug store corner. A few years after his death Ann Linton purchased the easterly half of the square on the northwest corner of Main and Market streets, and resided there until her death in 1835. She and her husband were members of the Presbyterian church. The first bituminous coal used for domestic purposes in the village was burned in Mrs. Linton's grate about 1822.
Mr. and Mrs. Linton had six children, all of whom sur- vived their mother. They were: 1. Mary, married John Mat- thews, and died in 1855 at Fairfield, Iowa. 2. Robert Park Lin- ton, married Phoebe Levergood, daughter of Peter Levergood, December 31, 1831 ; she died in 1842, leaving to survive her four children : John Park, married Anna King; William, married Eliza Myers; Susan, married to John H. Clark, and Peter, mar- ried Elizabeth Hutchinson. Robert P. Linton's second mar- riage was with Ruth Buchanan, daughter of Matthew and Susan Moore Buchanan, of Blair county, born April 12, 1812, died April 21, 1882, at the old family homestead on Locust street, where the Elks' Hall is now located. To them were born three children: Charlotte and Clara, twins, born in 1850, the latter of whom died in 1852, and the former married to Charles B. Moore, of Ebensburg, who survives, was lost from her home in the disastrous flood of May 31, 1889; and Anna Augusta, born in Johnstown, and now assistant librarian in the Cambria Library. Robert P. Linton died March 8, 1879. 3. Jane, married Joseph Chamberlain, a civil engineer by profession, who had come here from Vermont, and who died at their home in Cleveland in 1846. While in Johnstown he was elected to the general assembly of Pennsylvania. 4. John Linton, the second, married Adelaide
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Henrietta Lacock, youngest daughter of Gen. Abner Lacock, of Beaver county. Sept. 1. 1831. Gen. Lacock was a member of congress in 1811-13, and a United States senator 1813-1819, and died at Freedom. Pennsylvania, April 12, 1837. 5. Eliza, mar- ried Dr. Charles G. Phythian, who came to Johnstown in 1829. (See Medical Profession.) 6. Louisa married S. Moylan Fox, a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of West Point. He was a civil engineer on the Portage railroad at the time of their mar- riage, and died in New Orleans. Louisa died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Chamberlain. in Cleveland, in 1873.
John Linton, the second, became a clerk in the store of Silas Moore, in Ebensburg, when he was sixteen; at nineteen he opened a store on Main street, Johnstown, next to his mother's residence. He and Silas Moore formed a partnership and en- gaged in business on the southwest corner of Main and Franklin streets. In a short time he purchased Mr. Moore's interest and made a new partnership with Joseph Chamberlain, his brother- in-law. They removed their store to the northeast corner of Main and Clinton streets. where they erected the Wild building, which was destroyed in the flood of 1889. John Linton and Adelaide Lacock Linton had eight children, one of whom, Anna Park. married James Moore Swank.
Mr. Linton became captain of the Conemaugh Guards about 1840, and commanded it until he left Johnstown in 1853; he was also inspector of the brigade, which gave him the title of major. He was a Whig. and as such was elected to the general assem- bly in 1842 and '43. In 1845 he lost the prothonotaryship to Gen. Joseph McDonald. In 1850 he was again elected to the assembly. and in 1852 was a Scott presidential elector.
In 1845 John Linton gave up the mercantile business and entered into partnership with William Huber and Jacob Myers in the manufacture of pig iron. They built the Somerset fur- nace at Forwardstown and put it in blast in 1846. The next year he sold his interest there and purchased the share of Peter Lev- ergood in the Mount Vernon Furnace at Johnstown, which was built in 1845-46, and was the first furnace erected within what is now the limits of Johnstown opposite the Pennsylvania railroad station. It was subsequently known as the Linton and Galbreath Furnace. John Linton. George Merriman and Col. Thomas J. Power built several sections of the Pennsylvania railroad at and above Johnstown. beginning near Swank's brick works and extending to Cambria City. He removed to Rochester in 1853
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and died there in December, 1894. Adelaide Lacock Linton died in October, 1895.
Luther, Conrad. He was a member of the Hessian body of soldiers in the Revolutionary war, but joined the Amer- ican army at Lancaster. Elizabeth Smith, who afterwards became his wife, assisted him to escape. They came to Cambria in 1796 and located in what is Carroll township, where he was one of the pioneer farmers. They had six sons and a dangh- ter. John was born in 1800, and died April 22, 1862; he mar- ried Mary Ann Platt, a daughter of John Platt, then of Susque- hanna township; they had ten children: Henry Luther, of Gal- litzin; Demetrius A., born October 31, 1827; Sarah A., intermar- ried with Henry Bender; Elizabeth, married James Weakland; Lucinda, intermarried with Michael Snyder, of Houtzdale; Matilda, the wife of Anselm Weakland; Mary Ellen, married John Latternes; Victoria, married Joseph Lied, of Barr town- ship; John W., deceased, and Chrysostom Luther, a farmer of Carrolltown. Demetrius A. Luther married Mary M., a daugh- ter of Thomas Benden, and had fourteen children. Mr. Luther was elected sheriff in 1882. (See chapter on Political Review.)
McGough, Arthur. He was born in County Donegal, Ire- land, and came to Loretto about 1788. The name of his wife was Susan, born in 1765, died Feb. 13, 1845, there. They had seven children: John, who was born in Donegal the year his parents came to America, and died in 1856; he married Sarah Glass ; Thomas, Arthur, Jr., Peter, Mary, Bridget and Margaret McGough.
McMullen, Lawrence. He located at Loretto prior to 1800. and died about March, 1812. His children probably were Eneas and Nancy; the latter is mentioned as Naney MeDonald in his will.
MeMullen, Samuel. Ile came to Loretto about the time of his brother Lawrence; his wife's name was Susannah Logan. They had four sons: John, Alexander, Hugh and James; and three daughters: Margaret, who probably married a Morris, as he had two grandchildren named Margaret and Samuel Mor- ris; Jane, and Mary MeMullen. Samuel MeMullen was one of the first commissioners of Cambria county.
Mathews, Samuel. He located on the Von Lunen farm prior to 1800, and died about June, 1829. Both he and his wife, Jane, are buried on the place. There is one tombstone there bearing the date of 1804. Their children were: William, John,
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Martha or Marthew, Sarah, Archibald and Jane, whose hus- band was a Mr. Lemmans.
Morgan, Peter. He is also known as Peter Magen, or Maken, but his will is signed Morgan. On April 4, 1798, he located on what is known as the Jacob Wertz farm, near Wal- nut Grove. He came from Hagerstown, Maryland; the name of his wife was Margaret. They had six children: Daniel, Elizabeth, married John Meneely ; Hannah, married Jacob Hoff- man; Mary, Susannah and Catherine Morgan. Mary Hoffman, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah, born May 18, 1818, died Jan- uary 23, 1906, married Jacob Wertz in 1838. He was a son of John and Catherine Stayer, or Stair, born Ang. 31, 1815, and died in Marshall county, Indiana, on a visit, May 24, 1888. They had seven children: Hannah, married David Hildebrand; Cather- ine, married Jolm M. Harshberger; Elizabeth, became the wife of Jacob Meneely; Susan, married Samuel Harrison; John A., the husband of Susan Strayer; George Munson, married Louise Glitch, and Jacob M., married Lena W. Glitch. (See Wertz.)
Myers, John, born Ang. 9, 1791, near Conewauga, a set- tlement on the Pennsylvania and Maryland line; married Ann Glass, May 11, 1817, at the Buckhorn, in Gallitzin township; they had twelve children: James Myers, Susan, born Dec. 5, 1819, died in Oct., 1902; her first husband was John Scanlan, and later Michael Hasson, Esq. Matilda, born Oct. 29, 1821, died Sept. 25, 1871, single; Mary, born May 26, 1823, married Joshua D. Parrish, living in Ebensburg (see Parrish) ; George, born July 6, 1825, died July 20, 1831; John, born May 6, 1827, died July 28, 1834; Henry, born May 21, 1829, died at Loretto; married Ann Addlesberger; Margaret, born Sept. 30, 1831, died at Reading; married John Anstead; Catherine, born Jan. 3, 1834, died at Altoona; married Joseph Ryan; William, born April 8, 1836, died at Hazleton; Martha, born Feb. 14, 1839, single, died in Altoona; Joseph Myers, born December 7, 1842, and residing in Freeland, Pennsylvania. James, the elder son, was born Feb. 20, 1818, and died July 10, 1896; he married Mary Josephine Murray (see David Todd), born Nov. 11, 1819, and died May 25, 1903, in Ebensburg. They had four children: Cyril R., died April 28, 1898, married Catherine Rist; Cornelia, became the wife of Captain John Porter, who had been a mem- ber of the general assembly of Pennsylvania; Gallitzin, single, and Herman H. Myers, single. James Myers was elected sheriff in 1858. (See Political Review.)
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Nagle, Richard. He served under Gen. Washington in 1776 to 1783. He was one of the early settlers in the Mc- Guire community at Loretto. In 1826 the state of Pennsyl- vania granted him an aunnity of $40 per year for his services at Valley Forge, Germantown, Long Island and elsewhere. He died in 1823, and his wife, Mary, survived him. He had sev- cral children, among them Jacob and Honnor. Jacob Nagle died about 1857; the name of his wife was Mary Magdalene; they had eight children: Mary Ann, married to a Mr. Coul- ter; Richard, died leaving a son named William ; John J., Nich- olas, Margaret Nagle-Delozier, George, Jacob and Michael James Nagle.
Noel, Nicholas, died in the summer of 1859 at his residence in Washington township. He had eight children: Mary, mar- ried Arthur Behe; John, Joseph, Elizabeth, the wife of Conrad Behe; Catherine, married Edward Burk ; Margaret, whose hus- band was John Rainey; Teresa, married Joseph Crist; and Susan, whose husband was Daniel Skelly.
O'Hara, Daniel. He came to Loretto about 1791. He was born Feb. 9, 1761, and died at Loretto, Feb. 9, 1809; he mar- ried Rachel Friddle, born in 1770, and died in 1853; their chil- dren were: David, born March 6, 1796, died Jan. 21, 1864, he married Elizabeth Parrish (see Joshua Parrish) ; Henry, born in 1800, died Feb. 18, 1890, married Patience McGuire (see Michael McGuire). David O'Hara was a member of the first board of poor directors for Cambria county.
Parrish, Joshua. He was a native of England, and married Barbara Thimble. At the solicitation of Father Gal- litzin he came to Loretto about 1800 and built what is known as the O'Hara mill. He died about September, 1840. They had eight children: Peter Benedict, Joseph, James, Thomas A., John, Elizabeth Parrish-O'Hara, Mary Parrish-Storm and George Parrish. George died before his father, leaving seven children: Joshua, Jr., Demetrius, Susannah, Barbara, George, Michael and Ann Elizabeth Parrish.
Thomas A. Parrish was born Feb. 20, 1804, and died Sept. 11, 1876. He married Mary Storm, a daughter of John Storm, of Loretto. Their son, Franeis J. Parrish, of Gallitzin, was born July 24, 1832; he married Mary McConnell, a daughter of Hugh McConnell, of Allegheny township; she died April 26, 1878. They had four children: Louise, Frank P., James W. and Mary J. Parrish. His second wife was Mary Shaffer-Murphy,
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and they have two children, Beatrice and Edmund. He has been a justice of the peace for thirty-five years. Joshua D. Parrish is a son of George Parrish, the latter born July 28, 1795, and died Aug. 25, 1837, and Catherine Storm, also a daughter of John Storm. He was born June 3, 1825, and is now residing in Ebensburg, being one of the two only surviving members of the Cambria Guards in the Mexican war. He mar- ried Mary Magdalene Myers, a daughter of Jolm Myers.
Pringle, William, was born Aug. 14, 1797, on Pringle Hill, now in Croyle township, and died there March 20, 1895. He was a son of Philip Pringle, who came to that locality in 1795 with six sons and six daughters: William, Jacob, Martin, Samuel, Philip and John; Margaret, Christina, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah Pringle. The elder son, William, married Elizabeth Bolewine, a daughter of Henry Bolewine, then of Somerset county, who moved to Pringle Hill. They had eleven children : Henry, who died when he was fifteen; John, died several years ago in Fremont, Ohio; Margaret, married David Lowman, of New Florence; Elizabeth, died in 1875; Alexander B., died in Conemaugh; William, Jr., died at Portage about 1882; Isaac and John, twins; the former died when four years of age; Christina, married Peter Fleck; Susan, and David W. Pringle, who was killed while in the Union army during the Civil war. Martin Pringle, a son of Martin Pringle, was also killed in the same war, and is interred in the United Brethren cemetery on Pringle Hill. Thomas M. Pringle, a son of Will- iam Pringle, Jr., of Portage, is said to be the best rifle shot in America.
Pringle, Martin. He was a brother of Philip (1795), and is the ancestor of another branch.
Proctor, Jesse. He lived in Bedford county and near the town prior to the Revolutionary war. He married Ann Adams, the widow of Samuel Adams, who was killed by the Indians in 1771. (See Early Settlers.) Their son Isaac mar- ried Elizabeth Proctor, a daughter of Col. John Proctor, who was a colonel in the War of 1812; they had three children: Will- iam, Imcinda H. and Anna Proctor. Anna was drowned in Johnstown in 1810, and Lucinda H. was drowned in the flood of May 31, 1889, at the age of eighty-two. Evan Roberts and Lucinda H. Proctor were married and had seven children : Catherine, married JJohn S. Buchanan ; both died May 31, 1889; Thomas Proctor, Almira, married Dr. A. J. Jackson; Virginia,
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1. Isaac Proctor.
2. Charles B. Ellis.
3. Evan Roberts.
4. Wesley J. Rose.
5. George W. Kern.
6. Jacob Horner, Sr.
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Lucinda, Elizabeth, married Powell Stackhouse; and I. E. Rob- erts. All are dead except Mrs. Jackson and I. E. Roberts. The latter was a member of Co. F, 198th Penna. Infantry, in the Civil war. (See George Roberts.)
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