History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 168

Author: Crumrine, Boyd, 1838-1916; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Hungerford, Austin N
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : H.L. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 1216

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" Met in Annual Association at Great Bethel, Monongalia Co., Va. [now in Fayette County, Pa.], Oct. 13, 1777, the following members of the several churches, viz. : Great Bethel, Isnac Sutton, Philip Jenkins ; Goshen ; Turkey Foot, Richard Hall, Henry Abrams; Pike Run, William Wood, James Rogers, Morris Brundy ; Forks of Cheat, Samuel Luallen ; Yough; Teu-Mile; Simpson Creek, William Davis, Dana Edwards; Georges Creek, Joseph Barnet, Peter Jones; Cross Creek, William Taylor."

" At a meeting of the Association on the 2d, 3d, and 4th of October, 1780 (place not given). The number of members in the different churches were given as follows: Great Bethel, 49; Ten-Mile, 9; Yough,

1 1. Great Bethel was at Uniontown, Fayette Co. 2. Goshen, in Grecque County. 3. Ten-Mile, at Bane's, in Amwell township, Washington Co. 4. Turkey Foot, at Confluence, Somerset Co. 5. Pike Run, in Vaneville, Somerset township, Washington Co. G. Yough, organized in 1773, after- wards became the Peters Creek Church, now at Library, Allegheny County.

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34; Goshen, 30 ; Forks of Cheat, 19; Simpson's Creek, 19; Pigeon Creek, 45.

" A request from separate church on Shirtee to join Association. Re- ablved, That William Woods, John Corlly, William Taylor, I-aac Light, David Philips, and John Buckingham - Williams be appointed to attend at Benjamin Rennoes on Shirtee [now Allegheny County] the Wednesday after the fourth Sabbath in October, to examine into the state and order of that church, and if found satisfactory to receive them iuto fellowship with us."

" Association of 1781 met on Saturday before the first Sabbath at Great Bethel. Nine churches represented. Patterson and Cross Creek re- ceived into fellowship."

On the 2d of October, 1784, the Association met at Muddy Creek. The following churches were represented. The names of the churches, mes- sengers, and number of members are here given: Great Bethel, Rev. Isaac Sutton, James Sutton, Isaac Morris, Thomas McGloughlin, 120 members; Ten-Mile, Rev. David Sutton, Robert Bennet, Samuel Parker, Isaac Bane, 31 members ; Peters Creek, Rev. William Taylor, 45 mem- bers ; Goshen, Rev. John Corbley, Levi -, James Meredick, Daniel Clark, 40 members; Forks of Cheat, John McFarland and others, 40 members; Pigeon Creek, Rev. William Wood, Z. Williams, David Ruble, William Buckingham, 35 members; Simpson Creek, Rev. Isaac Ed- wards, John Stohe, 32 members; Georges Hill, Moses Airs, William Carter, 95 members.

" Association met on the 27th October, 1788. Twelve churches were represented. Rev. Jobu Corbly was moderator, and Benjamin Jones clerk."

Sept. 24, 25, and 26, 1796, met at Uniontown, fifteen churches represented. Enon (Fallowfield township) represented by Henry Speers and John Raton.

In 1806 the Association met at Cross Creek, Brooke Co., Va. Twenty-nine churches were represented. Sept. 22, 23, 1820, at Plum Run; Aug. 31, 1822, at Washington ; Sept. 5, 6, 7, 1823, at Pittsburgh ; Sept. 1, 2, 3, 1826, at Redstone.

At the last session it was resolved that "the doc- trines held by the Washington Church and their min- isters are found to be heterodox ... and they are hereby excluded from our fellowship." This was about the time when the church became divided by dissensions, resulting from the teachings of Thomas and Alexander Campbell.

Pleasant Hill (Cumberland Presbyterian) Con- gregation .- The following, taken from the minutes of this church, gives the causes that brought it into existence :

"Shortly after the camp-meeting held in Morris township, Washing- ton Co., Pa., in the fall of 1831, by A. M. Bryan, J. Morgan, Alexander Chapman, R Burrow, and P .. Donnell, missionaries of the General As- sembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In the early part of October of the same year another was held by A. M. Bryan, R. Burrow, and R. Dounell, in Amwell township of the county and State above, in the grove on the farm of Abel Millikin.

"The number professing reconciliation to God at this meeting was es- timated at one hundred. After this, from time to time, by M. Bird and A. M. Bryan, meetings were held in the neighborhood, principally at the house of A. Millikin. In the early part of 1832 a second camp-meeting was held in the grove before mentioned by William Harris, Alexander Chapman, S. M. Aston, M. Bird, and A. M. Bryan. At this meeting there were many cases of awakening and conversions, though not so many as at the first. From this camp-meeting the different ministers who occa- sionally preached in the neighborhood received, baptized, and enrolled the names of persons up to Jan. 22, 1833, who were then regularly or- ganized into a congregation called 'Pleasant Hill.'"

At the organization the following persons were chosen ruling elders: Joseph Evans, Abner Clark, and Abel Milliken, and were ordained by the Rev. John Morgan. The church is at present under the

care of the Rev. Luther Axtell. Worship is held in a neat brick edifice not far distant from Clarkstown.

Schools in Amwell Township .- The first classical school west of the Allegheny Mountains was estab- lished within the bounds of the Ten-Mile congrega- tion (Presbyterian), in the spring of 1782, by Rev. Thaddeus Dodd. The following extract from a letter of the Rev. Dr. Jacob Lindley (who was one of the pupils), dated June 2, 1854, gives some account of Mr. Dodd's school, and the writer's connection with it:

" My parents when I was eight years of age imbibed the notion that I was pious and sent me to the school of the prophets, which was kept in a large log house, erected for the purpose, some fifty steps from Mr. Dodd's dwelling. It was sufficiently large for three or four beds, with room for tables, etc. I was sent there to live with Mr. Dodd and to study Latin in A.D. 1782, and remained there till 1784. The Latin students then with Mr. Dodd were James Hughes, John Brice, Robert Marshall, Francis Dunleavy, John Hanna, Daniel Lindley, David Smith (father of Rev. Joseph Smith, D.D.), Robert Marshall, Jr., and Jacob Lindley. Mathematical students, Daniel McFarland, Joseph Eddy, Thomas Stokely, and Thomas Gormly. All boarded with Mr. Dodd.""

In 1789, Mr. Dodd became principal of an academy in Washington. About three years later William Greenlee and Archibald Stansbury were teachers in this township. In 1800, Isaac Cook, Matthias Luce, and James Foster were also teachers. About 1810 two school-houses are remembered, one near Nathan- iel McGiffin's residence, and the other near Capt. John Hughes'. There were others, but where located has not been ascertained. Among the teachers at that time were John Wells, James Smith, Nathan Becket, Joseph Evans, Hugh Stockdale, John Mountz, and John Birch. But little information has been gained of the schools until 1835. At that time Amwell accepted the public school law, and divided the town- ship into districts under the direction of B. Hughes, J. Chamberlain, and David Evans, who were the first school directors under the law. The number of per- sons in the township at that time liable to taxation for school purposes was three hundred and seventy- seven, and three hundred and ten dollars and sixty- four cents was raised in the year 1835. In the next year the township did not comply with the terms of the law as regards State appropriation, and only raised one hundred dollars and eighty-one cents. In 1837 the proportion of the township was five hundred and twenty dollars and four cents; to this was added twenty-four dollars and sixty-six cents, making five hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy cents. The following is a list of the school directors from 1835 to the present time :

1835 .- B. Hughes, J. Chamberlain, D. Evans.

1836 .- H. Beabout, J. Vankirk, J. Swart.

1837 .- David Frazier, D. J. Evans.

1838 .- James Hughes, J. Ilorn.

1839 .- Isaac Tucker, F. Shrontz. 184 ) .- John Buckingham, Adam Marsh.

1843 .- William McEvans, Daniel McCollum.

1844 .- Hamilton Vankirk, Joseph Miller. 1845 .- William Hallam, Samuel Hughes. 1846 .- John Horn, David Frazer.

1847 .- A. J. Closser, Zebulon Ferrell.

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1848 -Joseph Miller, Jr., William Luallen.

1849 -John Moningan, David Blusher.

1850. - Thomas J. Patterson, David McElleny.

1851 .- Oliver Lacock, Nicholas Horn. 1852 .- A. M. Evans, Robert Chamberlain.

1853 .- Julin Curry, James Hughes. 1854 .- Enoch Baker, John Horn.

1855 .- Robert Chamberlain, Isaac Horn, James C. Chambers, Ira Kelso. 1856 .- Robert Chamberlain, Stephen Pat ersun.

1857 .- Benjamin F. Reese, George Swart.

1858 .- Samuel Baker, George W. Moningan, Joshua Denman.

1859 .- A. J. Clossen, Joseph Evans. 1860 .- B. F. Rees, W. W. Sharp.

1861 .- Adam Horn, James McDonald. 1862 .- A. J. Closser, James McDonald.

1863 .- Robert Horn, William W. Hill.

1864 .- Milton B. Curry, Benjamin F. Rees.

1865 .- Robert Chamberlain, Daniel McCollum.

1866 .- G. W. Moningan, Ira Kelsey.

1867 .- Tunis Miller, Daniel Condit, John A. Fruzzee.

1868 .- David Baker, Peter Camp. 1869 .- William Watson, John Lewis. 1869, October .- Isaac Iams, C. Hackney.

1870 .- Adam Marsh, Onias Mouingan.

1872 .- J. C. Vankirk, A. J. Swart.

1873 .- H. Beabout, Clark Hackney.

1874 .- James Smith, Adam Horn. 1875 .- J. N. Horn, Joseph Gray. 1876 .- Isaac Riggle, John Martin. 1877 .- John Weaver, William Swart.

1878 .- D. H. Lewis, William Hallam, Irwin Moningan.

1879 .- H. C. McCollum, John Hughes, J. C. Vankirk.

1880 .- J. C. Vankirk, II. W. Horn, J. HI. Meek.

1881 .- W. Hallam, Jr., James H. Meck.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

ENOCH BAKER.

Enoch Baker was of Quaker parentage, and was born in Maryland, Nov. 28, 1788. When he was about six months old his father, Nathan Baker, who was a farmer, moved to Chester County, Pa., where he remained until the beginning of the present cen- tury (from 1800 to 1803), when he removed to Wash- ington County, Pa., and settled in East Bethlehem township. During Nathan's residence in Chester County his first wife died, leaving eight children,- Lydia, Mary, Aaron, Nehemiah, David, Joseph, Enoch, and Nathan; and he was married to his second wife, a widow, Mrs. Jordan, by whom he had four children,-William, Israel, Hannah, and Mah- lon. Soon after settling in Washington County Nathan returned to Chester County with a drove of horses, and while there died, and was buried beside his first wife. Enoch Baker learned the blacksmith trade with Nathan Pyle, of East Bethlehem town- ship. After serving his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman four years with Christopher Slusher, and then purchased a farm on the road from Lone Pine to Ten-Mile village, where he spent the balance of his life. He was a hard-working, thrifty, consci- entious man, who left a stainless character and repu- tation. He was prudent and discreet, a gentleman, and never permitted himself to say harsh things to

those with whom he conversed. He was a man to whom his neighbors turned and asked advice when surrounded by difficulties. He was for many years a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and delighted to study and practice the precepts of Christianity.

He was married March 3, 1814, to Elizabeth Jen- nings, of Amwell township, Washington Co., Pa. He died Aug. 29, 1861. His wife died Aug. 5, 1862. The children of Enoch and Elizabeth (Jennings) Baker were Nathan, Lemuel, Elmey, Permelia, Da- vid, Lucinda, and Daniel.

Nathan Baker was born Oct. 24, 1816. He is a farmer, and resides in Amwell township. He married Maria Horn, and has four sons,-John W., David E., Robert C., and Colin R.

Lemuel Baker was born Sept. 25, 1818. He is a farmer of Amwell township. He was married Jau. 4, 1844, to Sarah Jane Ross. She died Dec. 24, 1849, leaving one child, Permelia Baker, who married Franklin T. Shrontz, a farmer of Amwell township, and has six children,-Sarah Frances, Cordelia B., Elmey Mary, Lemuel Baker, Permelia T., and John Frederick.

Lemuel was married to his second wife, Cordelia K. Lindley, May 11, 1852. She died May 7, 1873, and he married his third wife, Mrs. Anne Eliza Mc- Collister (née Gass), Jan. 4, 1875., She died May 28, 1881. Lemuel married his fourth wife, Elizabeth H. Black, of Jefferson, Greene Co., Pa., July 26, 1882.

Elmey Baker was born Aug. 26, 1820. She mar- ried Abel M. Wilson, a farmer of Amwell township, Nov. 17, 1842. Their children are Nathan B., Eliza- beth (married to A. B. Samson), Lucinda (married to John Reynolds, deceased), Ruth A. (who died July 15, 1880), Enoch B., Victorine, and William M.

Permelia Baker was born Nov. 9, 1822, and died April 6, 1838.

David Baker was born Jan. 19, 1826, and died April 11, 1838.

Lucinda Baker was born Oct. 16, 1828. She mar- ried Robert Stockdale, May 2, 1850. They reside in Henry County, Iowa, and have two children,-Enoch B., and James.

Daniel Baker was born Sept. 4, 1832. He married Minerva A. Walton, Feb. 12, 1857, and resides upon the old homestead. Their living children are Flora (married to A. J. Meek), Ida May (married to Abram L. Paul), Viola, Lydia, James, and Bird.

The brothers and sisters of Enoch Baker, who are all dead, married as follows: Lydia, married Ben- jamin Townsend. They removed to Columbiana County, Ohio, where they both died.

Mary married Joshua Linton. They lived and died in East Bethlehem township, Washington County, Pa.

Aaron married Ruth Jordan. They lived upon the farm where his father settled:

Nehemiah married Eliza Pyle.

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David married Margaret Robbins. They lived and died in East Bethlehem township.

Joseph married Mary Corwin, of Amwell township, wherein they died.

Nathan married Abba Ruble. Their children were Levi, Lavina, David, Mary Ann, Albert, Malinda, and Hiram.

ANDREW J. SWART.

Andrew J. Swart, a courteous and companionable gentleman of Amwell township, is the sixth son, and eighth in the order of birth, of a family of nine chil- dren-six sons and three daughters-of Philip and Asenah (Walton) Swart. He was born in the town- ship wherein he resides, Dec. 16, 1836. He was reared on a farm, and was educated in the common schools and Waynesburg College, Greene County, Pa. Under the call for three months' men he enlisted in April, 1861, and was a member of Company E, Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He returned home in July, and October 31st of the same year he was married to Mary J., daughter of Jacob and Mary Greenlee, of Greene County, Pa. In August, 1862, he enlisted in a company raised at Amity by Capt. Silas Parker. This company was known in the service as Company D, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, commanded by Col. R. P. Roberts, who was killed at Gettysburg. Mr. Swart was wounded July 2, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg. He remained in the hospital upon the field for about two weeks, and was then removed to the hospital at Annapolis, Md., where he remained until October of the same year, when he was given a furlough and sent home. After the expiration of his furlough he reported at Philadelphia, and was placed in a hos- pital there, where he remained until March, 1864, when he was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital, in which he remained until September, 1864, when he received his discharge. Since that date he has given a superintending care to his farm, being by his wounds unfitted for severe manual labor.

Mr. Swart is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, a member of the William F. Templeton G. A. R. Post, of Washington, Pa., and also of Ten-Mile Lodge, I. O. O. F. His gallant service for his coun-

try, his modest, genial manner and moral worth, have secured for him the respect of those who know him.

Mr. Swart has four living children,-Florella, mar- ried to Samuel Luellen, a farmer of Amwell town- ship; Viola, Minnie, and Anna Mary.

ANDREW J. SWART.

Three of Andrew. J. Swart's brothers, John, Henry C., and Amos, were soldiers in the late war, all mem- bers of Company D, 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Amos was killed at Spottsylvania in 1864; Henry C. was severely wounded in the same battle.

Mr. Andrew J. Swart's father, Philip Swart, was the oldest son and second child of a family of ten, the children of Jacob and Sarah (Evans) Swart. He was born in 1797, and died in 1876. His wife, Asenah (Walton) Swart, died in 1870. The immigrant ances- tor of this now numerous family was Philip Swart, a native of Germany. His children were Jacob, above mentioned, and Susan, who married John Philips, of Greene Co., Pa.

BUFFALO TOWNSHIP.

THIS township is bounded on the north by Hope- well, on the east by Canton and Franklin, on the southeast, south, and southwest by Franklin and East Finley, and on the west by Donegal township, of which last named Buffalo originally formed a part. The waters of Buffalo are Buffalo Creek, which flows in a northwesterly course through the central part of the township, and Brush Run, which marks the northern boundary of Buffalo against the township of Hopewell.

Buffalo was formed from a part of the territory of the original township of Donegal, in accordance with the prayer of a petition of Samuel Taylor and twenty others, inhabitants of the last-named township, pre- sented at the April session of the Court of Quarter. Sessions of 1798, representing the great extent of the township, and its consequent inconvenience for the transaction of public business, and for that and other reasons asking for its division.

This petition was acted upon, viewers appointed, continued to January and February term, 1799, when report was made and approved, and action confirmed by the court May 8, 1799, and the upper division of Donegal township was erected into a separate town- ship called Buffalo township.

Following is a list of justices of the peace of Buf- falo township from its erection to the present time :

William Clemens, Feb. 5, 1801. Adam Allison, Jan. 22, 1805. James Gelmore, Jan. 1, 1807. John McMillan, March 3, 1809. James Allison, Jan. 21, 1814. William. Reed, Jan. 21, 1814. James Smith, Apr:1 3, 1821. James Brownlee, July 24, 1821. Joseplı McKee, Nov. 18, 1835. Isaac Hodgins, Oct. 13, 1835. James Logan, Dec. 31, 1838. Hugh Craig, April 14, 1840. Heury Bruce, April 14, 1840. John Meloy, April 12, 1842. Isaac Hodgins, April 12, 1842. Hugh Craig, April 15, 1845. Alexander McClees, April 15, 1845. John Moore, April 11, 1848.

' Hugh Craig, April 9, 1850. A. E. McClees, April 9, 1850. 1 Abraham Williams, April 9, 1850. Abraham Williams, April 10, 1855. Oliver M. Wallace, April 10, 1855. A. E. McClees, April 10, 1860. Thomas Buck, April 10, 1860. R. L. Simpson, May 10, 1861. Abraham Williams, Aug. 25, 1864. John Clemens, June 3, 1865. Jolın McMannis, June 3, 1865. O. H. P. McCoy, May 18, 1869. D. M. Boyd, March 29, 1870. Julın Clemens, May 28, 1870. O. H. P. McCoy, Jan. 30, 1874. John McMannis, March 24, 1874. James Hodgins, March 30, 18SO. | John J. Allison, April 9, 1881.

Settlements .- James Allison, a native of Ireland, came to this country and settled in Eastern Pennsyl- vania. He was employed in the iron-works in that region, and in 1758 or 1759 married Sarah Rea. He and his wife continued there for several years, until several children were born to them, and in the spring

of 1776 Mr. Allison brought his family into what is now Buffalo township. He took up a tract of land, containing three hundred and sixty-nine acres, located on the waters of Buffalo Creek. For this tract, which was named "Complaint," the Virginia commissioners, in session at Redstone Old Fort, Dec. 21, 1779, issued a certificate, in which it was recited that the tract then granted to Allison was "to include his actual settlement made in the year of our Lord 1776." Before James Allison's settlement on this tract, a man named Taylor had located a claim upon it, and had made a little clearing. This improvement-right Mr. Allison purchased for a gallon of whiskey and a few yards of linen cloth. Taylor afterwards located land in Hope- well township, but later removed to Cross Creek town- ship, where he died. Mr. Allison was a trustee of the Upper Buffalo Church, and himself and wife dying on their old farm, both were buried in Upper Buffalo churchyard. Their family of children numbered ten, six of whom were born in Eastern Pennsylvania, and the last four in this township. Margaret became the wife of Joseph Alexander, of West Alexander, in Donegal township. David Allison, the second.son of James Allison, was born July 31, 1770. He pur- chased fifty acres of his father's farm, upon which he made his home, but was abroad much of the time. He followed flat-boating on the Ohio River for a while, was at various times in the scouting parties during the Indian troubles, and was in the war of 1812 under Gen. Harrison. All his life David Allison maintained a close and warm friendship for Col. David Williamson. His wife was Jane Horner, daughter of a property-holder adjoining his father. She and two of her children died within a few days of each other, leaving Mr. Allison a widower with one child, a daughter (Jane), who always resided in this township until 1879, when she removed to Ohio, dying there in 1881. David married again in 1814, taking for his second wife May Jarvis, of Virginia. The result of this marriage was three children,- John J., Sarah E., and Eliza M. Allison. The two daughters married and found homes in the West. The son, John J. Allison, still resides in Taylorstown, in this township. John Allison, who was born Oct. 2, 1764, married Mary Herron, and settled on a part of the homestead. He was the oldest of the Allison sons, and was present at St. Clair's defeat. He lived and died upon his place in this township, and left a

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family of six children,-James, John, Andrew, Ann, Sarah, and Mary. James settled in Virginia, near the Greene County line, dying there a few years ago, and the rest all removed West. Of the children born to James and Sarah Allison after they emigrated to this county James was the oldest, born March 19, 1775. He lived on a portion of the homestead, and died in the old house. His first wife was Martha McConnaughey, and they had no children. By his second marriage (to Eliza Caldwell) he had two children,-J. K. Polk and Elizabeth Allison. The former lives in Hopewell township, and the latter married William Graves, and lives on her father's place. Adam Allison, another son of James Alli- son, Sr., lived and died in Taylorstown. He was born Jan. 19, 1798, and filled the office of justice of the peace for several years. . Andrew, the next son, was born Oct. 19, 1780. He removed to Newark, Ohio, and was made sheriff of the county in which he resided. Sarah, the last child of James and Sarah Allison, was born Aug. 23, 1788. She became the wife of William Pogue, and lived near the old farm. Her son, John G. Pogue, who lives near West Alex- ander, in Donegal township, is her only living child. The original Allison property is now owned by Henry Keenan, John Sawhill, and Mrs. William Graves.

Walter Summers was an early settler in this town- ship. He located land on a Virginia certificate issued to him Dec. 21, 1779, the land being situated on Sum- mers' Run, a tributary of Buffalo Creek. It was given the name of " Raccoon's Haunt," and was adjoining property owned by Peter Wolfe, Samuel Rogers, Eleazer Williamson, and Joshua Russell. So exten- sive were the investments made by Mr. Summers that his lands were said to extend a distance of six miles. His children were five sons and two daughters. The daughter Jannette never married, but the other be- came Mrs. James Caldwell, and from her are the only lineal descendants of the family. None of the sons ever married, and the name no longer exists in this neighborhood.

Ezekiel Boggs was granted a Virginia certificate for a tract of land called " Jealousy," embracing one hundred and forty-three acres "in the county of Ohio, [Virginia], on the waters of Buffalo Creek, to include his settlement made in the year 1774." This certifi- cate was issued from Redstone Old Fort, Nov. 22, 1779, but the survey was not made until Feb. 2, 1786. The tract " Jealousy" was bounded by the lands of Robert Taylor, Charles McRoberts, John Graham, and William Carson. Francis Boggs, a lineal de- scendant of Ezekiel Boggs, bought a farm of three hundred and eighteen acres of James Clelland, Oct. 13, 1784, situated one mile northwest of Taylorstown, which was afterwards owned by the Fleck family. Francis Boggs' daughter Lydia became quite famous for her courage in times of danger, as well as for her narrow escapes from death. During the siege at

Wheeling she moulded bullets until her arms were blistered, and once when captured by the Indians and carried across the Ohio River she effected her escape by compelling her horse to swim the river. Lydia Boggs and Christiana Clemens were schoolmates in the old school-house that once stood on the farm of Robert Cruthers, and studied together under the teaching of Mr. Hawthorn and Mr. Gibbons. Lydia Boggs married Col. Moses Shepherd for her first hus- band, and after his death became the wife of his partner, Mr. Koogle. She had no children by either marriage, and died a few years ago at the great age of one hundred and six years.

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History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 168

Author: Crumrine, Boyd, 1838-1916; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Hungerford, Austin N Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia : H.L. Everts & Co. Number of Pages: 1216

Author: Crumrine, Boyd, 1838-1916; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Hungerford, Austin N
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : H.L. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 1216