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County, Pa. Jolm Augustus, born May 20, 1852 ; married Isabella Black and has three children,- Vera Black, born April, 1877 ; Wil- lian Alexander, born May 30, 1879 ; Harriet Matilda, born August 11, 1882; they reside near the homestead. Sallie Teitsworth, born September 21, 1851; married Ephraim Engle- man and has borne tive children, -William, Mabel Stadden, Jennie, Nellie and David Le- Roy ; they reside in Hall County, Neb. Eliz-
Mr. Stadden has generally declined to accept political office, though he has been prevailed upon to allow himself to be elected to the responsible township position of school director, which he has filled acceptably over twenty years, during which time several school-houses have been erect- ed ; was also overseer of the poor for six years and supervisor for the term of two years. He devotes his attention to farming and is honored and re- spected by all his associates and fellow-citizens
William Stadden
abeth Adda, born November 29, 1856; mar- ried James Black and has borne two children- Clara Stadden and Isabella ; they reside in Rockford, Ill. Clara Lenox and Harriet, the latter of whom died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Stadden are prominent mem- bers of the Presbyterian Church at Milton, and have belonged to that denomination about fifty years. Over twenty-five years ago he was elected elder of his church, and, in accordance with the laws of that body, will so remain while life shall last.
as a progressive, just and publie spirited man, of whom it is said by many, " He is one of our most highly-regarded citizens." In politics the family has always been Republican.
S. B. PAWLING.
Back to the pleasant fields of Old England this family traces descent, the great-grandfather having left that country some years before the Revolution and settled in Chester County, Pa. Il is son, Joseph, removed to what is now Sny- der County carly in the nineteenth century,
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and bought some four hundred acres of land near Selin's Grove, and erected buildings to carry on the combined business of farmer aud hotel-keeper. He married twice, and by the first wife had one son, John, who went West, and whose descendants now live in Kentucky. After her death he married Mary Shannon and had four sons and four daughters. From this family sprung the late Judge II. P. Ross, president-judge of Montgomery County, his
Margaret C. Weaver, born March 17, 1831, who bore Margaret S., Allen Francklin, Jeffer- son Samuel, Nora Elizabeth, Melinda JJ., Idah C., and Anna S., and died January 16, 1880; John, born October 21, 1822, married Barbara Gemberling, born March 31, 1831, who bore West W., Sarah E., Christopher G., Mary L., Emma F., Catharine J., Bertha A., Alice R. and Melinda R .; Jane, born June 15, 1825, married Lewis Gemberling and died October 1,
S. B. Pawling
mother being a Pawling. Samuel was the ( 1856 ; Samuel Benjamin, our subject; Rebecea, eldest son by the second marriage, born Febru- born December 25, 1830, married James Biehl ; Augeline, born September 22, 1834, married Benjamin Ulrich ; Charles W., born May 31, 1837, married Lydia C. Long, who bore Charles W. and Cora E., all now deceased; Lewis E., boru December 10, 1839, married Amanda Sehoch, born June 1, 1844, who bore him Albert S., Sammel J., Emanuel E., S. Alice and Della E. ary 9, 1794. On January 24, 1815, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jolin Woodling, born February 5, 1797, who bore him eleven chil- dren,-Harriet, born December 31, 1815, mar- ried David Schoch, and died in 1840; Maria, born December 4, 1817, married David Schoch (second wife), and died November 2, 1870; Susan, born February 25, 1819, married Jacob Hilbish; Levi, born July 27, 1820, married
The father of this family died November 23,
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1874, being nearly eighty-one years of age, having enjoyed a wedded life of sixty years. His wife survived him until October 9, 1883, and left behind fifty-five grandchildren, forty great-grandchildren and one great-great-grand- child, in all one hundred and seven direct de- seendants.
Sammel Benjamin Pawling was born near Selin's Grove September 14, 1828. Hle re- evived a common-school education and remained on the farm with his parents until his marriage 10 Leah, daughter of John and Mary Huffman, on January 18, 1853. One child was born of this union, -James Calvin, born November 8, 1853, and died May 29, 1855. Mrs. Pawling was not long spared to the family, she dying February 11, 1855. He next married Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of Judge James Marshall, on November 20, 1856, the union being blessed with the following children : James Marshall, born July 21, 1857, and married Miss Mary Catharine, daughter of N. C. Lohr, on Febru- ary 7, 1884 (one child has been born to this marriage, Edna Lolir, born December 25, 1884) ; Elizabeth Jane; Samnel Albert, born February 3, 1860, died April 28, 1875, his last words be- ing, "Jesus is here;" Sarah Agnes, born June 4, 1862, died May 27, 1865; John Correy, boru February 8, 1865, died June 11, 1865. The mother died May 21, 1865, Death this taking the mother and two children within three weeks from the effects of diphtheria, while the remaining three children were only spared through the care and intelligent efforts of the father and physician.
Mr. Pawling again entered the bonds of matrimony on May 15, 1866, marrying Miss Hester Ann, daughter of Benjamin Long, born September 9, 1826. From this union has re- sulted two sons,-Harry Jackson, born February 25, 1867, and West Clide, born February 20, 1870.
Ile moved to Union County in 1853 and to the present residence in the spring of 1857. Il is life has been devoted to intelligent farming and a success has been carved, gathering to- gether three very fine farms comprising some three hundred and seventy-five aeres, among other possessions. He has invariably declined
to accept political preferment, esteeming his farming interests more important for the welfare of his descendants.
Ilis abundant means have always been at the request of his worthy fellow-citizens and his hand has been open and free. In religious matters he has, from an early day, been con- nected with the Lutheran Church, part of the years as deacon, during which time, in 1877, the congregation erected, largely through his gener- ons aid, St. John's Church, at White Deer, a handsome and commodious structure.
At this writing the church is being remodeled and his purse has again been called into use. Hle is a generous giver to kindred matters and is held in high esteem and regard.
JACOB FARLEY, ESQ.
When the toesin sounded the call " to arms," and the colonists were gathering themselves to- gether for the struggle with the mother-country in 1776, Caleb Farley, a young scion of an old and prominent New Jersey family residing in Tewksbury township, Hunterdon County, threw himself' into the breach and served bravely throughout the days which tried men's souls. Ile bore commission as first lieutenant when the war closed, immediately after which he married Charity Pickle, and came into Union County, Pa. Here he became a farmer and improved various tracts of land, which he afterwards lo-t through the entry of previous claims. He then purchased what was known as the David Cup- ples tract, comprising one hundred and twenty aeres on the White Deer Mountain, where he lived and raised eight children, - Charity, John, Jacob, Barbara, Catharine, Elizabeth, Abraham and Sarah. He died prior to the year 18 10, aged ninety-three years, his wife following him a few years later.
Abraham Farley, the father of our subject, was born 1789, in White Deer township, and followed farming all his days. He married Rebekah (born March 19, 1804), daughter of Michael Wolfe, of East Buffido township, on March 29, 1824, and had children as follows : Charity, died in infancy ; Caroline married Daniel Wolfe, and has two girls and one boy ;
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Michael married Hannah Hoy, and has two In -; Abraham married Susan Schrack, and has twelve children ; Catharine died in infancy ; Sarah married David Voncida, and had seven children ; John married Mary Brown, and has
he has taken time to answer the demands of the jouerous position of justice of the peace, to which he was elected in 1881, and which he has filled with signal ability. He has often been called upou to act as administrator of estates, and has two boys and two girls ; Jacob (subject of our gained an enviable reputation as au honorable, kotel) ; Elizabeth and Wilson, both of whom impartial man and official. Although a Demo- died in infancy. After marriage, Abraham erat and opposed by two other members of that Farley bought a farm in East Bullalo township, party, and in a township averaging seventy-five and lived there until 1873, when he died, his | Republican majority, 'Squire Farley was elected
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wife surviving until August 27, 1878, when -he died at the home of her son Jacob. Jacob Farley was born in East Buffalo township ou January 27, 1812. Like so many of those who have attained prominence in after years appar- ently through the soundness of an carly training, he received the education afforded by the com- mon-school system, and added largely by close observation and practical experience. His days have been devoted to farming, to which he has added the successful enlture of tobacco, though
to the office, -- a fact speaking volumes as to the esteem of his fellows.
He was married, June 1, 1868, to Miss Mary E. Brown, elsewhere mentioned, and the following children now gladden their home : Sarah Aun, born Jannary 7, 1869; Elias Jacob, born January 7, 1871 ; Francis Nathan, born October 31, 1872; Obed Brown, born September 24, 1874; Mary Catharine, born Jannary 7, 1877; Benjamin Franklin, born December 1, 1878; Ruth Elizabeth, born
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March 15, 1880 ; Mabel Rebecca, born Febru- their duty and laid out a dividing line as follows : ary 6, 1882.
The grandfather of Mrs. Farley, Abraham Brown, was born in East Buffalo township, and lived a farming life, dying in 1868, having at- tained some eighty-tive years. He had six children, of whom Elias was the second son. ; Elias Brown married Mary Gephart and had issne as follows; Mary E. (Mrs. Farley), born July 6, 1816; Sarah Louisa, now deceased ; Melinda A .; Catharine married William Groover, and has borne him three boys-Ben- jamin O. (married Jennie Hummel, and has one boy) Francis and Abraham G. Mr. Brown still resides in East Buffalo township, on a fine farm located at Martinsburg.
Mr. and Mrs Farley are valued members of the Evangelical Association Church at White Deer Mills, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school since its organization, in 1878. Previous to their removal to the present residence, in 1871, and since his early manhood, Mr. Farley had been identified with the Salem Church, and for years acted as Sunday-school teacher and superintendent, and has always manifested great interest in religious and edu- cational matters, doing his utmost to benefit the younger generations and the people by whom he is surrounded.
CHAPTER XL.
WEST BUFFALO TOWNSHIP .!
Tire township of Buffalo was formed when Northumberland County was erected, in 1772. Its territory was reduced at different times by the creation of township-, and was in 1792 yet too large for convenience of the inhabitants. In 1791 a petition was sent to Northumberland County Court asking for a division of the township. In accordance with this request the court, at the January sessions, 1792, appointed William Irwin, Samuel Dale, John Thompson, Christopher Boldy, Benjamin Miller and Henry Poutins as viewers to examine the township, and, if desirable, to divide it. They performed
Beginning at two gum saplings on the south bank of the Spruce Run, at the line of White Deer and Buffalo townships, a little west of Daniel Rengler's old saw-mill ; thence south to the head of the spring at Andrew Pontin-' (afterwards John Stees, and now part of the (state of Hon. Isaac Slenker, deceased); theure down Sweitzer Run to its mouth at Pem's Creek. All of Buffalo township west of this line was organized as West Buffalo township. Its original boundaries have been changed by the erection of the townships of Hartley, Lime- stone and Lewis, all of which have been successively carved out of its ouce extensive territory. In 1769 the officers' surveys were made; they extend through the whole length of the southern part of the township, along the turnpike, and are about a mile in length from north to south. The southeast survey in the township was awarded to Captain Timothy Green ; this survey embraced the Rockey (Thomas) mill-site and all the land in the town- ship south of that and cast of Mifflinburg. In 1770 Jacob Fought bought of Captain Timothy Green two hundred and sixteen acres, including the forks of Buffalo Creek, and built the first mill there in 1771. By 1781 it had passed into the hands of Joseph Green, who is assessed with a grist and saw-mill here, and also one on Penn's Creek, in the present territory of Lime- stone township. By act of June 14, 1777, Fought's was made the place of holding the elections for the Third Election District of the county of Northumberland ; said election dis- triet was composed of the townships. of White Deer, Buffalo and Potter. In 1788 the election- house for Buffalo was changed to Andrew Bill- myer's (about two miles west of Lewi-burgh), now Le-her's. The mill property afterwards became Thompson's, and in the spring of 1789 passed into the possession of William Rockey. It remained in the Rockey family over half a century, and then passed into the hands of Major Charles H. Shriner. About 1875 he sold it to C. W. Thomas, the present owner.
Captain Timothy Green also sold to Peter Sellers, or Zellers, two hundred acres cast of the Fought land, which he moved upon and oven-
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pied in 1783. The next officers' traet west of Captain Green's is the Ensign Foster tract, two inmdred and forty-six acres, the southern por- tions of which are now within the bounds of the borough of Mifflinburg. George Rote had become the owner of it and lived on it before 1775, at which time he had thirty acres cleared. In 1781 two of his children, George and Rhody, aged about twelve and fourteen year's respectively, were captured at or near their home (Mifflinburg) by the Indians. They were separated, but both taken into the region of country ruled by the celebrated Indian chief Cornplanter. They remained in captivity until peace was proclaimed, when they were liberated and came back to their home. George Rote died in 1797. His sons were Peter, Jacob, George, Abraham and John. His sons-in-law were John Kessler, Michael Shortz, Adam Colpetzer, Joseph Ultz, Frederick Bartges and James Ben, the latter the husband of' Rhody, who had been a prisoner with the Indians for a couple of years. Part of the Rote property was, in 1797, laid out in town-lots and called Green- ville; also Rotestown or Rhodestown. It is now embraced in the borough of Mifllinburg, being that part of the borough east of Snod- grass' corner or cast of Third Street.
Ensign MeMeen's tract, two hundred and forty-eight acres, was next west of the Ensign Foster. It was all embraced within the bounds of the borough of Mifllinburg, as incorporated in 1827. Next west of Mifllinburg was the Lieutenant Askey tract, which Captain John Clark owned and lived on as early as 1775, at which time he had fifty aeres under cultivation. West of the Askey, which was one hundred and sixty-one perches wide, came the Captain Irvine tract, six hundred and twenty-two acres. Chris- tophier Heuney was Captain Irvine's (General James Irvine, of the Revolution) tenant here as early as 1775, and remained such until 1782, when he removed to Centre County, and died | there in 1790. Ilugh Wilson, the grandfather of Mrs. A. G. Curtin and Hon. John B. Lin, moved there in the spring of 1791 and kept tavern there for two years, when he moved to Colonel Hartley's place, (now John Yerger's), in
1793, by John Kleckner, who took one-half of the tract ; Solomon Klockner, who took one- fourth ; and John Hoover, a brother-in-law of the Kleckners, who took the other fourth of the six hundred and twenty-two acres. Solo- mon was a clock-maker, and his fourth was on the east side of the tract. The house in which he lived is still standing along the north side of the turnpike, a little cast of' Yutz's, but has been uninhabited during the last few years. He afterwards became the owner of the western fourth, whereon his son George lived until his death. After the death of George it was sold to William Foster, in 1835.
John Kleckner kept the tavern vacated by Hugh Wilson, and the tavern continued to be kept there by him or his son David until about 1840. He also had a distillery in operation a part of the time. His sons were George, Jo- seph, Anthony, David, Elias and Daniel. Of these Anthony in carly manhood settled near Loganville, in Sugar Valley, Clinton County, where his father had large lauded interests and where he built the first mill in what is now Greene township, Clinton County, where he died in 1860. John Kleekner died in 1839, aged eighty-nine years. His sons, David and Elias, succeeded him ju the ownership of the farms, and they are still in the hands of the Kleckner family.
Next west of Captain Irvine's tract was the Lientenant Stuart tract, three hundred and forty aeres. Robert Forster owned it in 1814; now owned by S. L. Shoemaker and Charles Royer.
West of the Stuart was the Lieutenant Me- Alister tract, three hundred and forty acres. In 1809 John Hayes, surveyor, is taxed with one- half of it. Mr. Hayes was well known in his day as a surveyor, and before his settlement on the MeAlister tract had lived a little north of Low- isburgh, on what is now the Paul Geddes place. He came there in 1793 from Dauphin County, Pa. ; was born February 11, 1765, and was the second of eleven children. He dealt largely in timber lands, and at the time of his death was a large holder of mountain lands. He was for many years deputy surveyor for Union County, Hartleton. Mr. Wilson was succeeded, in land died May 16, 1844, aged seventy-nine
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years. His sons were Robert G. IT., David, ! Wright (married by Friends' ceremony, June William, Joseph and James. John Hayes, his 5, 1728), of Hempfield (now Columbia) Pa. Hle was born July 5, 1730; married March 27, 1760, by Thomas Barton, missionary at Lan- caster. As early as 1756 Mr. Shippen recom- mends him for a commission as ensign. sons, Robert G. H. Hayes and David Hayes, and Calvin M. Hayes, a son of David Hayes, were all surveyors, and all in turn have been county surveyors and justices of the peace.
After the death of John Hayes the old Hayes farm passed into the hands of his son, Robert G. B. Hayes, also a justice of the peace and surveyor, and after his death, in 1854, to his son, John Hayes, who, after a few years, soll it to Jacob Strickler, the present owner. "Ile was an inn-keeper at Lancaster, in June, 1770, and during this year took up a great deal of land in Buffalo Valley. The land on which Northumberland now stands was patented to his wife, Sarah, in 1770, and, in connection with William Patterson, he laid out that town. The west half of the Lieutenant MeAlister traet was owned by Thomas Forster, who was a lieutenant in Captain Clarke's company in the War of the Revolution. He died June 1, 1804, and was buried in the Lewis grave-yard. Wil- ) liam Forster and John Forster, who afterwards removed to Hartley township and died there, were his sons. The Lieutenant Thomas Forster Reuben Haines made an addition to it, January 19, 1781, of land sold him by London in 1775. In the spring of 1772 he moved into Buffalo Valley, residing at a place he called Silver Spring, afterwards sold by his executors to George Roush in 1803, now owned by Levi L. Shoemaker. His wife died previous to the year 1775, as during this year he signed deeds place was sold by the heirs of Forster to Geo. 'alone, and it appears by a letter dated the 18th Kleekner, one of the sons of John Kleckner, and ' of July, 1775, to Captain London, at that time after his death became the property of John P. in the field, that his five children were with his Cronimiller, Esq., of Mifflinburg, to whose es- inother's family at Hempfield. His promi- nence in political agitations prior to the Revo- lution will be seen by the correspondence of that period, published under those years, and what he said in the Cabinet he was not afraid to make good on the field of battle. As soon as the news of the battle of Bunker Hill reached the country he enlisted a company of ninety-seven men and set off' for Cambridge. After his return, on November 7, 1776, he was elected a member of the Supreme Excentive Council of the State, from Northumberland County, serving for one year. He owned an immense body of land during his life, embrac- ing nearly the whole of West Buffalo township, besides large quantities now lying in Centre and Northumberland. tate it now belongs, he having recently died (1884). Next west of the Lieutenant MeAlis- ter, which was the most western of the tracts included in the " officers' survey," was the Da- vid Johnston tract, surveyed August 20, 1769. This survey inelndes the Keiser farm (for a long time known as the Yous farm) and some of the Mench farms in Lewis township. North of the MeAlister, Stuart and Irvine surveys were the Christian Sharrack, James Johnston and Samnel Davies, made in 1770 and 1771. North of the two latter and the Lientenant Askey were Captain John London's lands, on Cold Spring Run and north fork of Buffalo Creek, surveyed in August, 1769, in the names of John Perrymen, Thomas Gilbert and Ger- shom Silvers. Captain Loudon was one of the ale fall in the tem big, maying thuis in the spring of 1772. The following -bach. of him is taken finn Limu'. " Amale of Buf- falo Valley," pages 311 and 315, published 1877.
" Captain lohn London died at his residence near Milllinburg, in February, 1798. His par- ents were Richard London and Patience
" Dr. W. J. Wilson (of Potter's Mills) told me that when a boy he often saw Captain London at the Buffalo Cross-Road- Church. He wore a rocked hat, blue coat, buff vest and broches, silver kner and shoe buckles. He married the second time. Ilis will, dated No- vember 10, 1797, named his wife, Ann, and two daughters-Susan, married to Samuel Wright (grandfather of Samnel Wright, of Columbia,
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Pa.) ; Catharine, unmarried-and three grand- ments were made there soon after. Among the children-John London Stake, Charlotte and early settlers in that neighborhood was Jacob Catharine Stake. He left an annuity to his Grozean or Grosong, commonly called " French brother Richard, who died unmarried. Captain 'Jacob." In 1775 he is assessed with forty-nine London's children by his first wife were Marga- acres of cultivated land; his place was for a long time afterwards known as Heberling's, and was near the entrance to the Brush Valley ret, Susan, Patience, James and Catharine. Mar- garet married J. Stake ; Susan, Sammel Wright, above-named (their child, the late John L. Narrows, through which an Indian path passed. Wright) ; Margaret's children were Charlotte ; There is a large spring not far above the en- und Catharine (Charlotte, married J. Quest ; Catharine, A. Chenowith). London Stake never married and that name became extinet.
trance to Brush Valley Narrows, which still goes by the name of the " Frenchman's Spring" from the fact that Grosong is said to have concealed himself in the thickets near by when pursued and searched for by the Indians. Some time between 1776 and 1779 he built a Wright, of Harlem, Stephenson County, Ill.), 'small log mill there. In the spring of 1780 a skirmish took place at this mill between an Buffalo Valley, now in her eighty-first year, [armed patrol of the settlers and a band of In-
"Captain London's remains were conveyed to Columbia, and buried in the old burying- ground. Mrs. Wright (mother of William and daughter of the late Paschal Lewis, of' says that her father and mother went part of the way, the day of the funeral, from London's house to the river, or possibly to Pem's Creek ; that after Captain London's death his slaves were brought over from his farm and left part of them at Robert Barber's (at White Spring) and part of them at her father's (now D. W. Pellman's), to stay umtil such time as Robert. Barber was ready to start down with an ark or a raft to Columbia.
" They had been slaves previous to 1780, and the young ones were still in their apprentice- ship, and as his estate was bound to take care of the older ones, Samuel Wright, his son-in- law, set apart forty acres for their habitation and maintenance, on the east side of Columbia and back from the river. Among these were Chloe and Phillis. Chloe was a regular Congo negress. Phillis died a few years ago, aged one hundred and five years. John C. Watson said that on the day of the fimeral Buffalo Creek rose very much and they could not get over it with the coffin, when 'Mel,' Captain Clarke's slave, shouldered the coffin and went over the foot-log with it on his shoulder."
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