Indiana County, Pennsylvania, her people, past and present, Volume I, Part 143

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 930


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On Feb. 19, 1889, Mr. Jeffries married Elizabeth Rittenhouse, daughter of John B. Rittenhouse, of Indiana, and they are the parents of thirteen children: Edna N., who is the wife of John T. Jamison ; Nellie, wife of H. J. Meyers : Jerry ; Nola; Margaret ; Al- bert; Dollie: Dorothy ; Paul; Harl; Mary ; Isabella, and another son, unnamed.


Mr. Jeffries is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Rochester Mills, of which he is a past grand, has been secretary of his


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lodge for over six years, and he represented it ford, Alice Ruth and Joseph Samuel. All as delegate to the grand lodge at Philadelphia in 1908. He is also a member of Indiana Lodge, No. 931, B. P. O. Elks.


have been given excellent educational advan- tages, beginning their training in the local country schools, after which Lloyd attended the Eldersridge academy two terms, Rexford WILLIAM EDWARD ROBINSON, the attended there one term and also one term at Kiskiminetas, and Alice went to the Elders-


leading merchant of Nowrytown, in Cone- maugh township, Indiana county, was born in ridge academy two terms. Joseph is still in that township Oct. 26, 1857, a son of S. S. school. Mrs. Robinson was born at Saltsburg, Indiana county ; her father came from West- Robinson. His grandfather, Robert Robinson, was born in 1739, in Ireland, and married in moreland county, Pennsylvania. 1769 to Rachel Wier. They had eight chil- dren.


MILTON WORK, proprietor of the Ever- green farm in East Mahoning township, In- diana county, is one of the best-known men in


S. S. Robinson, the father of William Ed- ward Robinson, was born on the farm adjoin- ing Nowrytown where he died in 1871. He that region and a notably successful agricnl- married Bell M. MeLanahan, who was born in turist. He is a native of the township, born 1829, near Indiana, Pa., a daughter of Robert Nov. 10, 1836, on what is now the McGee and Nancy (Moorhead) MeLanahan.


farm, not far from his present home. A de- scendant of William Work, the founder of the family in Indiana county, he is of early pioneer stock of his section.


William Edward Robinson attended school in the Robinson District, No. 1, and worked on the farm of 230 acres until he attained his majority. Following this he was engaged in teaming and lumbering for a few years, and worked at the carpenter's trade for one year, and then began clerking for Mr. Benter, in his general store at Edri, in Conemaugh township, thus continuing a year, during which time he learned the details of the busi- ness, so that when he went back to Nowry- town he was able to embark in the same line himself, and operate his store successfully and intelligently. This was in 1887. He has con- ducted his general store since, and it is known carries a full stock of goods necessary for use on the farm and in the home, as well as a com- plete line of wearing apparel, and for the last twenty-three years has also filled the office of postmaster at Nowrytown. In addition to the interests centered in his store, Mr. Robin- son is extensively engaged in the poultry busi- ness, and is a recognized authority in that line. A man of action, he has carried out his plans regarding his business ventures in an enter- prising manner, and is justly recognized as one of the leading men of his township. In


William Work was a native of Cumberland county, Pa., born in 1760, of Scotch-Irish de- scent. He grew to manhood there, and it is not known whether or not he took part in the Revolutionary war. In 1792 he married Miriam Seroggs, who was also born in Cum- berland county, in 1775, daughter of Alex- ander and Rachel (Ireland) Scroggs, the for- mer a Scotchman. Mr. and Mrs. Work crossed the Allegheny mountains in 1801 and made a location in Westmoreland county, Pa., near what is now New Florence, spending three as W. E. Robinson's Nowrytown Store. He years there. Thence they moved to Indiana county in 1804, settling in what is now the western part of East Mahoning township, in which section Mr. Work was a pioneer farmer. He was also one of the first teachers there, when the schools were run on the subserip- tion plan, and held in log structures with oiled paper windows and primitive furnish- ings. Here he passed the remainder of his days, dying Aug. 1, 1828, of cancer; he was buried in Gilgal cemetery. Mr. Work was one of the founders of Gilgal Church, from which he withdrew, however, in 1818, on account


1909 he became owner of an automobile, the of doctrinal differences, joining the organiza-


first to be owned and operated in his locality, and made use of it to attend the Presbyterian Church at Saltsburg. In politics he has al- ways been a Republican, and he has served as school director for three years. The Pres- byterian Church holds his membership.


tion of the Associate Church at Mahoning. His wife died July 28, 1850, and is buried in the same cemetery. They were the parents of fourteen children: (1) Rachel, born Oct. 6, 1793, married Robert Hamilton, and died April 8, 1878. (2) James, born March 2, 1795, married Mary Ewing, and died Aug. 17, 1860. (3) Lettice, born July 7, 1796, mar-


On Aug. 7, 1890, Mr. Robinson married Bessie L. Piper, daughter of Joseph and Cath- erine (Larmer) Piper, and they are the par- ried John Ewing, and died Ang. 23, 1871. (4) ents of four children : Lloyd E., Harry Rex- A. Seroggs, born Dec. 7, 1797, married Mar-


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garet Brown and (second) Naney Beatty, and died Oct. 23, 1878. (5) John, born June 24, 1799, married Martha Hamilton and (second) Sarah Beatty, and died March 6, 1872. (6) William, born Dec. 10, 1800, is mentioned else- where. (7) Allen N., born June 6, 1802, mar- ried Lydia Lewis, and died Jan. 30, 1852. (8) Sarah, born April 17, 1805, married Mat- thew Steele, and died April 1, 1887. (9) Aaron, born Oct. 26. 1806, married Nancy Smith and (second) Elizabeth Spencer, and died July 21, 1892. (10) Mary, born Oct. 12. 1808, died Dec. 27, 1853. (11) Miriam, born July 25, 1810, married Alpha Limerick, and died Aug. 11, 1850. (12) Moses Thompson. born Dec. 5. 1812, is mentioned below. (13) Susan, born Sept. 30, 1815, married Jolin Smith, and died Feb. 24, 1844. (14) Elijah I., born Nov. 23, 1818, married Margaret Me- Creery, and died June 25, 1892.


Moses Thompson Work, son of William and Miriam (Seroggs) Work, was born Dec. 5, 1812, in East Mahoning township, and there attended subscription school. His opportuni- ties for education were limited, but he had unlimited training of a practical nature, as- sisting his parents until he started out on his own account. He was only in his sixteenth year when his father died, and he remained on the homestead after that until 1836, when he settled on a tract of land now owned by the McGee family, in East Mahoning township- 100 acres then entirely in the woods. He first erected a round-log house and stable, cleared his land, and subsequently bought another tract of 160 acres known as the William Me- ried John M. Lytle May 7, 1878, and resides Call place. In 1857 he put up a brick house, at Fort Morgan, Colo .; Hubert, born July 3, 1860, married Laura Arbuckle, and is a prac- ticing physician in Pueblo, Colo .; Jennie Myrtle, born Dec. 2, 1862, died on Christmas Day, 1882. one of the first of its kind in the township. which is still standing and in a good state of preservation. He also built a frame barn, and made extensive improvements of all kinds on his property, gaining a reputation for hard Milton Work spent his boyhood on the farm and went to the local school, later learning the trade of carpenter and joiner with W. G. Mc Elhaney, of Indiana. His first wages were ten dollars a month, and later, when he be- came a journeyman, he received fourteen dol- lars a month. After four years at the trade he returned home, continuing to help his father until 1863, when he settled on what is now known as the Evergreen Farm, in East Mahoning township, formerly part of his father's holdings, what was once known as the William McCall farm. On this tract of seventy-five acres he has lived and worked for half a century, during which time he has im- proved it from year to year, keeping abreast work and thrifty habits which he well de- served. He had a kindly disposition and high character which made him well liked wherever known, and he was popular in many circles, being associated with various local interests in which he took an active part. He followed general farming and stock raising to the end of his life, but did not devote all his time to that work. serving from 1854 to 1857 as county commissioner, and holding many other local offices. He was one of the organizers of the Indiana County Fair Association, served as director and one of the managers of same, was a Whig and Republican in politics, and in religious connection a member of the Gilgal Presbyterian Church. He was originally a of the progress made in agriculture and show-


member of the United Presbyterian Church. He was a large man, six feet in height and weighing 180 pounds. His death occurred on the farm in March, 1885, when he was in his seventy-third year, and he was buried in the Gilgal cemetery.


In 1833 Mr. Work married Margaret Hop- kins, who was born April 13, 1812, daughter of John and Margaret (Jamison) Hopkins, and she died Aug. 25, 1844, the mother of children as follows: Thaddeus C., born Feb. 23, 1835, died Oct. 9, 1857 ; Milton, born Nov. 10, 1836, is mentioned below; Arabella, horn April 14, 1839, married James I. Work (a veteran of the Civil war), son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Johnson) Work and grandson of John Work, brother of William Work, the pioneer, from whom the branch here under consideration descends ; Asenath, born Feb. 15, 1841, died Aug. 19, 1844; Ruth, born Nov. 20, 1843, died Aug. 24, 1844. For his second wife Mr. Work married, Aug. 13, 1847, Tabitha L. Van Horn, of East Mahoning town- ship, who died in December, 1890, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lytle, of Fort Morgan, Colo., and the remains were brought East for interment in the Gilgal cemetery in East Ma- honing township. She was the mother of these children : Elizabeth, born Sept. 1. 1848, married Joseph Hood, of Indiana, and is now a widow, residing in Iowa; Francis A., born Aug. 30, 1850, died Aug. 25, 1876; Mary S., born Oct. 5, 1852, married A. W. Steele, of Indiana, Pa .; Ruth, born Nov. 7, 1855, died Jan. 3, 1858; Sara S., born Feb. 9, 1858, mar-


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On June 4, 1863, Mr. Work was united in marriage with Elizabeth Craig, who was born near Marion Center, in East Mahoning town- ship, April 2, 1842, daughter of John and Mary (Brown) Craig. In 1905 Mr. and Mrs. Work made a trip west to the Rocky moun- tains, visiting Colorado and elsewhere. Mrs. Work died June 4, 1907, on the forty-fourth anniversary of their marriage, and was buried in the East Mahoning cemetery. She was a faithful member of the United Presbyterian Church of East Mahoning, and a loving help- mate through a long and happy married life to the husband who survives her. They had no children. Since the death of his wife Mr. Work's niece, Mrs. Stewart, has kept house for him.


FRANKLIN PIERCE OATMAN, in his lifetime one of the extensive and progressive farmers of White township, Indiana county, was born Aug. 4, 1854, in Rayne township, this county. He was a son of Joseph Oatman and grandson of Jacob Oatman, who was but a child when his father came to the United States, from Holland, the Oatman and Johns- ton families-to which latter the wife of Joseph Oatman belonged-crossing the ocean in the same vessel. The first account we have of them is of their residing in a locality in Mifflin county, Pa., known as "Long Hollow." The hollow begins at the old iron furnace near Mount Union on the east side of Jack's Moun- tain, and extends to McVeytown, formerly known as Waynesburg, and long ago simply as Wayne. The grandchildren of Jacob Oat- man remember hearing their parents tell of their childhood days spent in the "Long Hollow."


The following letter written by C. L. Oat- man Oct. 1, 1885, from Lake Geneva, Wal- worth Co., Wis., gives a brief history of the Oatman family to which he belongs :


"My grandfather, George Oatman, bad


ing himself to be a typical member of a fam- ily noted for thrift and well-directed indus- three brothers, Benjamin, Isaac and Joseph. try. He has followed general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of raising and dealing in horses. Their father was a Hollander ; came from Ger- many and settled in the town of Old Milford, Conn., about seven miles from New Haven, where the family were born and reared. My grandfather and his brother Isaac came to Vermont. George (my grandfather) settled in Rutland county, and Isaac in Bennington county, and Benjamin settled in Jefferson county, N. Y. Joseph, the other brother, was called the lost Oatman ; went from home south and was supposed to be dead. Now you will


During the Civil war Mr. Work enlisted, in September, 1862, in Company I, 23d Regi- ment, Pennsylvania State Militia, and was out for a short time, being stationed at Chambers- burg, this State. He has always been a stanch Republican on political questions, and his church connection is with the United Presby- terian congregation of East Mahoning, to which he has belonged for over fifty years; he know which you descended from-either has served as trustee of the church.


George, Isaac, Benjamin or Joseph.


"In 1836, at Beardstown, on a steamboat on the Illinois river, going up the river, my name was called and it seemed to startle one of the passengers who said that was his name and that that was the first time he had ever heard it outside of his own family. Compar- ing notes it was shown that we were cousins and he a son of Joseph Oatman, with family who afterward settled in Kane county, Ill. He and a portion of his family left here and went to Texas and are large cattlemen and rich. Edward and Frank Oatman reside at Dundee, Ill. Joseph Oatman, the lost one, went to Kentucky and settled near New Al- bany on the Ohio river, and this branch of the family came from Kentucky. Eli Oatman, my father, was George Oatman's son ; had two brothers, Lyman and Eliakim. Royce Oat- man, son of Lyman Oatman, started for Cali- fornia in the fall of 1849 with a family of seven children on the southern route and were massacred by the Apache Indians. Olive and a little sister were taken prisoners. Olive, I believe, was some twelve years old, and her sister younger, who died-could not stand the hardship. Lorenzo, a brother, was left for dead on the ground, and recovered, but after- ward died. Olive was rescued in 1856, after a captivity of some six years. She became since her captivity finely educated, married a man from near Detroit, Mich., by the name of Fairchild, and he is now or was last year a banker in the city of Sherman, Texas. She is badly marked (tattooed) about the face. I have a book of their history. A lit- tle more history would show that the name was not originally Oatman, but Hoatman, and (there) being two of the same name but no relation at Old Milford, to separate their prog- eny they cast lots, or drew cuts, as to which should leave out the 'H,' and our side got beat and left the name 'Oatman,' as we write it." In a postscript he adds: "Joseph lived


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in Kentucky, was a large slave owner, died Nov. 29, 1812. He also notes that "Johnston and was buried near New Albany on the Ken- Oatman was born April 9th, 1835, and died tucky side of the river and a large monument the 29th June, 1835, age 2 mo 18 d." This was his first child, whose full name was Wil- liam Johnston Oatman. raised to his memory. A little more history of the massacre-when they were murdered on the southern route to California. The ground The children of Joseph and Eliza (or Eliza- beth) Oatman were as follows: (1) William has been enclosed and monuments to their memory erected by the government, and is Johnston, born April 9, 1835, died June 29, now one of the stop-off places of excursion- ists."


A similar story is told by the family of Joseph Oatman of Indiana county, Pa. The names of the three brothers of their grand- father, Jacob, are, however, John, George and Royce; these went to California in 1849, but it was John's family that was massacred. They say there was a copy of the history men- tioned in the possession of their family, but that it was loaned out and lost; that it was published in 1850.


Jacob Oatman, grandfather of Franklin Pierce Oatman, was born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and died Sept. 12, 1835, at Water Street, Pa. He married Mary Mc- Ready, who was born Dec. 4, 1779, and died Sept. 16, 1850. They had a family of seven children, one son and six daughters: Lydia, Joseph. Anna Maria, Jane, Rebecca, Nancy and Sarah.


Joseph Oatman, second child and only son of Jacob and Mary (McReady) Oatman, was born Dec. 15, 1810, and died June 30, 1899. He came to Water Street, Pa., from the "Long Hollow," Mifflin Co., Pa., April 21, 1836. From there he moved to Williamsburg, where he resided about eight years, and then moved again, to Indiana county. This was about 1844. He was foreman for eighteen years on the Pennsylvania canal, and lived in the same house with Maj. Samuel Caldwell, who mar- ried his sister Anna Maria. Major Caldwell owned and operated an axe factory at Water Street for many years. The house they lived in was a double stone dwelling which was long afterward used as a hotel, and may be so used yet. The grandfather, Jacob Oatman, died here shortly after the death of his grandchild William, son of Joseph.


On July 10, 1834, at the home of the Johns- tons, three miles above Williamsburg. Pa., Joseph Oatman was married to Eliza, daugh- ter of William and Jane Johnston. Joseph Oatman in a note written by him in a book which belonged to him states that "Joseph and Elizabeth Oatman was joined in wedlock on Thursday the 10th of July, 1834." And then he adds-"He aged 23-6-25, She aged 21-7-11." This would make her birthday


1835. (2) George Washington, born Oct. 12, 1837, belonged to the law firm of Johnston & Oatman for many years; Robert L. Johnston, his law partner, was his uncle. He married Priscilla Jane Tibbett, of Ebensburg, Pa., and their children were: George B. MeClellan; Martha Elizabeth, who married William Hargnett, of Ligonier, and lives at Wilmer- ding, Pa .; Alice Catherine, who married Rob- ert Gillan, of Johnson, Laurel Hill; and Annie Laura, unmarried. (3) James Johns- ton, boru at Williamsburg Dec. 24, 1839, taught public school. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves : served three and a half years; was at the bat- tle of Peach Orchard, where on June 29, 1862, he received a fracture of the skull and was left on the field for dead, but later fell into the hands of the Confederates and was taken to Libby prison, remaining there three months. After the close of the war he taught a year as principal of the Ebensburg high school ; studied medicine, graduating in 1867 from Jefferson Medical College ; located first at Car- rolltown, Cambria county ; in 1870 graduated from Hahnemann Homeopathic College; lo- cated in Altoona, where he built up a large practice. In 1897 his wound in the head so affected his health that he was obliged to abandon practice. He died soon after, Jan. 29, 1900, at his home, No. 1700 Fifth avenue, Altoona, Pa., from the effects of his injury received in the line of duty, but his widow has nevertheless so far been refused a pension. In 1868 he was married to Regina H. Me- Dermitt, daughter of Col. B. A. MeDermitt, of Ebensburg. Their children were born as follows : William Johnston. April 5, 1869 (druggist at Osceola, Clearfield Co., Pa.) ; Robert, Nov. 16, 1870 (machinist in Altoona car shops) ; Stella Gertrude, Aug. 1, 1874; Charles Joseph, March 24, 1878 (works in the Altoona shops) ; Genevieve Catharine, March 26, 1887 ; Ernest Francis, Oct. 10, 1888 ; Ralph Bernard, Aug. 20, 1896. (4) Martin Luther married Nannie Evans, of Granville, Ohio. (5) Mary Jane, unmarried, at present lives at No. 105 North Fifth street, Indiana, Pa. She taught in the public schools of Indiana county, and took care of the old home in her father's


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old age. (6) Anna Maria died Feb. 26, 1879, daughters of Jacob and Mary (MeReady) aged twenty-two years. (7) Robert Lipton Oatman : married Fannie Yeager, of Napoleon, Ohio. He died and she married a Mr. Mclaughlin, of Lancaster, Pa., where she now lives. (8) Franklin Pierce was the youngest.


Franklin Pierce Oatman grew to manhood in Rayne township, Indiana county, helping with the agricultural work on his father's homestead, and also following lumbering and carpenter work. Ile became an expert me- chanie, so handy with tools that he could even build a carriage or do other work not usually possible to any but an experienced trades- man. He continued to follow farming and carpenter work on his father's place in Rayne township until August, 1894, when he moved with his family to White township, settling on the Lockhard farm, a tract of 174 acres owned by his father-in-law, Peter Leasure. This farm, located one mile from the center of the borough of Indiana, he subsequently bought from Mr. Leasure, and there he con- tinned to live and work until his death, which occurred at that place March 2, 1905. He fol- lowed general farming and stock raising on an extensive scale, and was one of the most advanced agriculturists of his district, his service. Dennis Shorthill went to Clarion work being done in the most intelligent and county. John Shorthill, the father, died at his old home near Millcreek, Pa., but was buried in the town of Huntingdon. approved manner. He had particularly fine horses, and his residence and other buildings were kept in excellent condition, the whole property presenting a most ereditable appear- ance. He gave all his time to his own work, taking a public-spirited interest in matters affecting the general welfare, but never seek- ing office or entering actively into such affairs. He was a stanch Democrat in political opin- jon, and in religions connection a Lutheran, belonging to the church of that denomination in Rayne. He is buried in Greenwood ceme- tery, Indiana.


On March 16, 1886, Mr. Oatman married Samantha Leasure, who was born on the home- stead farm in Green township, this county, daughter of Peter and Margaret Ann (Miller) Leasure, and to them were born six children, namely : Margaret Velma, now the wife of Nealis Groft; Elva, who is now a student at normal school; Vernie Iona, Lucy Catherine, Martha Jane and Anna Arvilla, all attending school. Mrs. Oatman now owns and occupies the farm in White township, where she and all her children reside, her son-in-law, Mr. Groft, now conducting the place for her. This land is underlaid with two fine veins of coal, though they are not being operated.


(1) Lydia Oatman, born Aug. 15, 1809, died in 1872, aged about sixty-two. About 1829 she was married to James Shorthill, who was born in 1799 and was about five years old when he came to the United States with his parents, John and Nancy Shorthill, who with their children Thomas, James and Dennis emi- grated from Ireland to America about the year 1804 and settled in Mifflin county, Pa. They afterward moved to Huntingdon county, having bought a farm of five hundred aeres in the ridges five miles from the town of Huntingdon and about three miles from Mill- creek. James Shorthill sold his share of the farm and moved with his family to Hollidays- burg about the time of the construction of the Pennsylvania railroad. Here they kept a boarding house for men who worked on the reservoir. They remained here only about three months, when, about 1846, they settled in Indiana county near to the Oatman fam- ily, some six miles east of the town of Indiana, which place was laid out about 1805. Thomas Shorthill, eldest son of John and Nancy, served in the war of 1812 and died in the


James and Lydia (Oatman) Shorthill had children as follows: Mary Jane, born April 28, 1831, married Adam Snyder, by whom she had no children, and (second) John Johnson, by whom she had three, Margaret, Ellsworth and Annes (a daughter) ; Anna Maria, born June 24, 1832, is the widow of Joseph Mauk, who was a soldier in the Civil war, and she lives at, Marion Center, Pa. (they had no chil- dren) ; Rebecca, born May 16, 1834, was mar- ried July 29, 1866, to Joseph MeCormick, son of Joseph, of Smicksburg, Pa., and they have two children, Eveline Lydia, born May 28, 1867 (married Oct. 18, 1888, James C. Bovard, son of James ; no children; they keep hotel in Marion Center), and Joseph Carothers, born Sept. 26, 1870 (married Jan. 4, 1894, May Wyncoop, and has three children, Charles Lloyd, James Donald and Joseph Paul) ; James, born in March, 1836, married Elmira Burke, of Cambria county, and died in 1895 (they had one daughter, Mary, who is mar- ried and has two children, Gray and -) ; Sarah Elizabeth died' unmarried ; Albert died unmarried; Joseph died unmarried; George -, of




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