Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 139

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884

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Wymer; Elizabeth, who married John Stout; purchased the Sherer farm of 110 acres, and Mary, who married Christopher Dick; Jacob, after his father's death bought the old home- who married Hannah Engler and (second) Mrs. Elizabeth (Stelser) Long, a widow; Wil- liam, who married Elizabeth Stelser; Benja- min, who married Susan Burnham; Jeremiah, who married Catherine Fetterman; Sarah Ann, who married Daniel Engle; Lucinda, and Fannie, who married Adam Myers. Mr. Long's second wife was Mrs. Mary (Dick) Stelser; they had no children. stead place. In 1904 he disposed of his 322 acres of land and brought his family to South Mahoning township, where he purchased the William McCall farm, at Ambrose, a tract of twenty-five acres owned by the widow of John Haynes, and to this he has since added five acres. He resides on this property, which he operates in connection with another farm of 140 acres which he bought and improved, his son-in-law, Rev. Mr. Pardee, living thereon. Mr. Long has worked faithfully and indus- triously since his early boyhood, and the suc- cess that has come to him is the result of his own efforts. He has a high reputation as a business man of integrity and probity, and his many excellencies of character have drawn about him a wide circle of sincere friends. In politics he has been a stanch Republican, but his temperance proclivities have caused him to lean with favor toward the Prohibi- tionists. He is a friend of education, and for three years acted in the capacity of school director. Mr. Long has been clerk of the Baptist Church for twenty-five years, and for several years superintendent of the Sunday school, and while at Pine Flats served as trustee and member of the building com- mittee. He and his wife, wlio is also a member of the mission circle in the church, have interested themselves deeply in church work, and are widely known for their charity and kindness of heart.

Christopher Long, son of William Long and father of William Templeton Long, was born in 1817 in Bedford county, Pa., and was a lad of four years when the family moved to Indiana county. There he obtained his edu- cation in the subscription schools, and contin- ued on the farm with his father until he em- barked in operations on his own account, at that time buying fifty acres of woodland. Erecting a log cabin and barn, he set to work to clear and cultivate his place, subsequently adding to his original purchase until he had 112 acres, and replacing his pioneer buildings with a modern dwelling and good, substantial barns and outbuildings. He made other val- uable improvements and spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits there, be- coming one of his community's most highly esteemed citizens. He was a member of the Baptist Church and was buried in the ceme- tery at Diamondville. Christopher Long married Elizabeth Long, daughter of John Long, and she died on the farm and was laid to rest in the same cemetery as her husband. They had children as follows: Hezekiah H., who became a well-known physician and now resides at Orion, Henry Co., Ill., married Mary Jordan; William Templeton, is mentioned be- low; Samantha, married Ellis Buterbaugh; Lemuel L., a physician and surgeon, is prac- ticing his profession in Stark county, Ill .; Emma, died young.

William Templeton Long, son of Christo- pher Long, was educated in the schools of his native township, and his boyhood and youth were spent on the home farm assisting his father. On attaining his majority he started out to make his own way in the world, pur- chasing 100 acres of timberland. Cutting down the trees, he converted the logs into lumber, working faithfully and industriously, and was soon able to replace his original log house with a more modern frame dwelling. As the years passed he made extensive im- provements, and the little patch of timber near Shawnee bottoms has been converted into .

On Dec. 20, 1864, Mr. Long was married to Sabina Burnham, who was born in Limestone township, Clarion Co., Pa., daughter of Charles C. Burnham, and they have had the following children: Gertrude, born July 19, 1866, educated in the public schools of Cherry- hill township and the Indiana Normal school, taught school for three years in Cherryhill township, and died March 23, 1891 ; Elizabeth, born July 28, 1868, was married Dec. 31, 1890, to William A. Getty, of Indiana, Pa., and they have three children, Ross Templeton, John Childs and Elizabeth May; Blanche, born Sept. 24, 1873, was married Feb. 15, 1899, to Rev. Charles Edgar Pardee, a Baptist min- ister, and they reside on her father's farm near Ambrose with their four children, Edwin Franklin, William Templeton, Levina and Louise ; a son, born March 8, 1876, died April 27, 1876; Rubina, born July 27, 1880, residing at home, is an active worker in the Baptist Church and its local and foreign missionary

a handsome, productive farm. Mr. Long also enterprises, and in the Woman's Christian

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Temperance Union, of which she is local sec- farmer of Georgeville, who married Ruth retary. Goheen ; George, unmarried and farming in North Mahoning township; Hannah, who mar- ried Newton Ainsley, a stock dealer of West Liberty, Ia .; Ella, who married Harry Cham- bers, of Clayville, Pa .; and Jane, who died young.

JAMES M. HAZLETT, veteran of the Civil war and farmer of North Mahoning township, was born in Blacklick, Indiana county, March 12, 1842, son of John C. and Nancy (McFar- land) Hazlett.

James Hazlett, the grandfather, was of Scotch-Irish stock and emigrated from Ire- land to this country in 1791, settling first in eastern Pennsylvania and later moving to the southern end of Indiana county, Young town- ship, where he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits. He and his wife, Margaret (Long), had five children, namely : Samuel, who lived and died near Jacksonville, Pa .; Leslie, who lived and died near Clarks- burg; John C .; Nancy Jane, who died in Jacksonville, the wife of James Henderson ; and Rosanna, the wife of David Gibson.

James M. Hazlett, son of John C. Hazlett, had but meager educational advantages in his boyhood, which was devoted for the most part to the hard, unceasing work of the farm. He continued to assist his father until he reached the age of twenty-one years, and in 1866 was married to Catherine Simpson, of East Ma- honing township, daughter of James and Jane (Martin) Simpson, the former an extensive farmer of Indiana county; her mother was from Jefferson county. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hazlett, namely : Harry, went West to Colorado as a boy, and later settled at West Liberty, Iowa, where he is now a farmer, speculator and horseman; Jennie, who was a teacher, went to Colorado and Iowa and is now in California, the wife of Harry Thomas; James, a farmer of Jefferson county, Pa., married Vesta Hadden; Della, who married Lou Means, lives in East Mahon- ing township; LaVerne, is a stock raiser in Colorado, to which State he went as a young man; William, a farmer, is residing at home; Dora, died in 1911, at the age of twenty-eight years; Annie, is living at home.

John C. Hazlett, son of James and father of James M. Hazlett, was born near Blacklick, Indiana Co., Pa. He had little chance to go to school in his boyhood, was reared to the hard work of the farm, and grew up in the vicinity of Jacksonville. After his marriage he settled near Clarksburg and continued to live at different points until moving to George- ville, in East Mahoning township, where he took charge of and operated the Kinter farm for eighteen years, then retiring and living a quiet life until his death, which occurred in After his marriage Mr. Hazlett spent one year in Georgeville, and then removed to Young township, Jefferson county, where he spent three years. At the end of that period he purchased the farm on which he now re- sides, a tract of 108 acres, which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and 'im- proved with a number of fine buildings. He carries on general farming and has some stock, cattle, sheep and horses, and has been uni- formly successful in all of his ventures, by reason of his hard and constant labor. A Re- publican in politics, he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has served fifteen years as school director, two years as road boss and a like period as assessor. With his family he attends the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Haz- lett died in that faith Oct. 22, 1903. Georgeville. He was a Republican and a faith- ful member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married near Jacksonville to Nancy Mc- Farland, who was born on the old McFarland farm near that point, and they had a family of thirteen children: Sarah, who married Irvin Dixon, a farmer of Livermore, Pa .; James, color bearer of Company C, 11th Penn- sylvania Reserves, who was killed at the battle of South Mountain during the Civil war; James M .: Samuel C., who was in Com- pany C, 206th Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry, and is now a farmer in the Mahoning district; William, who enlisted at the age of seventeen years in the 105th Volunteers, served three years, re-enlisting and served eight months more (he subsequently was the proprietor of a hotel and livery business at On Aug. 25, 1863, Mr. Hazlett enlisted in Company C, 206th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, at Indiana, Pa., and served in the Army of the Potomac, doing guard duty and assisting in building forts. He was on duty in front of Richmond, his regiment being the first to enter that city when Lee surrendered, Edenburg, where he died in 1897 ; he married Della Waters) ; Leslie, who lived on the old McFarland farm for eighteen years, and died at Jacksonville (he married Maggie Stearns) ; Albert, living in the West, who married a Miss Britton; Thomas, a farmer near Clarksburg, who married Martha Blakley; Robert, a and there he did patrol duty for four weeks.

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His command was then sent to Lynchburg, Washington; James F., a dairyman of Brad- but returned to Richmond, where he received ford, Pa., who married Stella Griffey (she is his discharge, He had an honorable record now deceased) ; Ella, who married Robert Mc- and his faithfulness to duty won for him the rank of corporal. He is well known in this part of Indiana county, and his many friends testify readily to his integrity and probity of character.

GEORGE WASHINGTON HAZLETT, who is engaged in cultivating a valuable farm in West Mahoning township, Indiana county, was born in that township Feb. 17, 1846, son of Peter Hazlett.

Peter Hazlett, son of William was born in Rayne township, Indiana county, and spent his whole life in hard, unremitting labor, till- ing the soil, in his native county. As a youth he was obliged to spend all of his time in as- sisting his father to clear the home place, and as a consequence he could never go to school, and throughout his life did not learn to read or write. Although poorly educated, however, Mr. Hazlett was a good farmer and an industrious worker, and he succeeded in clearing up a goodly part of his wild land in West Mahoning township, where he died in the spring of 1881. His wife passed away when she was seventy-five years old, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was also a member. He voted the Republican ticket. To Mr. and Mrs. Hazlett were born ten children, as follows: Eliza Jane, who married Jonathan Brendell and (second) John Kiser (all are now deceased) ; Sarah Ann, deceased, who married John Blose, and lived in West Mahoning township; Louise, deceased, who was twice married, first

Brier, of Smicksburg, Pa .; William, a farmer of Jefferson county, who married Jane Fleck; Silas W., a farmer of West Mahoning town- ship, who married Susie Hall and (second) Mrs. Laura Niel; and Addie, who married Hezekiah Lewis, and lives at Dayton, Pa.

Like his father George W. Hazlett had to work hard in his youth, and had but limited opportunities to secure an education, but he made the most of his chances, and his early schooling has been supplemented by much William Hazlett, the paternal grandfather of George W. Hazlett, was of Irish stock, and the first of the family to come to Indiana county, settling near Chambersburg, where he secured land, cleared it and made a home for his family, and there spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits. He mar- ried Sarah Wells, and they became the par- ents of the following children: James, who lived at Butler, Pa .; David, who lived on the old place and died at Deckers Point; Peter, who died in Clarion county, Pa .; Peggie, who was the wife of Joseph Stutchel and died at Chambersburg, Pa .; Pollie, who married John Lewis; and Amy, who married Samuel Fitz- gerald, and died in West Mahoning township. reading and close observation, so that he has become a very well-informed man. He re- mained on the home farm until he was twenty-four years of age, at which time he purchased his present property in West Ma- honing township, known as the old Kinter farm, a tract of 109 acres, of which Mr. Haz- lett has cleared about seventy-five acres. He has devoted his land to general farming, in which he has been uniformly successful, and each year he has added to the improvements the father of George W .; Robert, a farmer, on his property, continually enhancing its value. Mr. Hazlett is known as a man of sound principles and good judgment, is an excellent farmer, and a kind friend and neigh- bor, and is justly entitled to the respect in which he is held by his fellow citizens.

On Nov. 4, 1872, Mr. Hazlett was married to Amanda Turner, of Venango county, Pa., daughter of Daniel Turner, of that county, and to this union have been born three chil- dren : Kittie L., who died June 8, 1912, was the wife of H. E. Rowe, and had two children, Olive and Clyde; Mr. Rowe has been con- nected with the Trust Company Bank of Pittsburg, in the mortgage department, dur- ing the last twelve years. Zelda Frances mar- ried George Butler, a farmer of East Mahon- ing township, and has two children, Ethel Margaret and Amanda F. resides with her parents.

Mr. Hazlett is a stanch Republican in politics, but has never aspired to office, his farm and his home satisfying his ambitions. He is a faithful member of the Church of God, at Georgeville, Pa., of which Mrs. Haz- lett is also a member, and they have numerous friends in the congregation, as they have indeed wherever they are known.

BENJAMIN CABLE, a veteran of the to William Bohman, and lived in Jamestown, Civil war, who is now living retired after N. Y .; Susan, who married Archie McBrier, many years spent in farming in West Wheat- and lived in Venango county, Pa .; George. field township, was born Aug. 9, 1832, in

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Conemaugh township, Somerset Co., Pa., and is a son of Abraham and Eliza (Reese) Cable.

The great-grandfather of Benjamin Cable came from Germany and founded the family in York county, Pennsylvania.

Abraham Cable, grandfather of Benjamin Cable, was born in York county and later moved to Somerset county, where he followed farming and millwrighting in Conemaugh township, owning a large property, of more than 200 acres.

Abraham Cable, son of Abraham, and father of Benjamin Cable, was born in 1800 in York county, Pa., and followed farming all his life. He had many properties in Somerset county, also worked in the grist- mills, and in 1851 moved to West Wheatfield township, Indiana county, where he pur- chased 120 acres of land near what is now Garfield. He worked for many years at Gamble's mill, and in connection with farm- ing carried on extensive stock raising oper- ations, kept a stud and bred many fine horses. He was first a Whig and later a Republican, and was prominent in the affairs of his town, although never an office seeker. He died in the faith of the Baptist Church, in 1870.

Mr. Cable married Eliza Reese, who was born in 1810 in Shade township, Somerset Co., Pa., and died in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Cable were laid to rest in the Johnstown cemetery. They were the parents of seventeen children, as follows: Mary married George Schnell; Catherine died at the age of twenty-two years; Susan married Edward Wood; Ben- jamin is mentioned later; Julia Ann married Morris Rice; Eliza married Henry Blue- backer; Abraham married Mary Burkett; Wesley died when two years old; Ellen mar- ried . Charles Askins; John married Maria Callman; Nancy married Ed Colbert ; Robert married a Miss Harris and (second) Julia Layman; Rachel married John Messinger; Harriet married Abe Calligan and lives in Johnstown, and besides Benjamin is the only survivor of this large family; Cornelius died when four years old; James died young; and William, who was four years of age at the time of his death.

engaged in lumbering and hauling fire clay. When the Civil war broke out Mr. Cable joined Company D, 4th Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Cavalry, under Capt. George Covode and D. P. Smith, Col. Campbell Childs and James Kerr, of the 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. He enlisted at Lockport, Pa., Aug. 26, 1861, and received his hon- orable discharge July 1, 1865, at Lynchburg. In the year 1863 Mr. Cable was captured and imprisoned by the Confederates. During the greater part of his service Mr. Cable drove a team, but he also participated in a great many battles, and that his regiment was in the thickest of the fight is shown by the fact that out of his company of 100 men but thirty-three returned to their homes. Mr. Cable was known as a brave and faithful sol- dier, one who ably and cheerfully performed the duties that fell to his lot, and he was re- spected by his officers and admired by his comrades. On November 1, 1865, Mr. Cable purchased the Taylor farm, a tract of sev- enty acres in West Wheatfield township, and this he continued to cultivate until April, 1912, when he disposed of it. He is now liv- ing retired in Garfield, being tenderly cared for in his declining years by his daughter, Mrs. Caroline E. Faust. Although he is probably the oldest man in West Wheatfield township, Mr. Cable retains his faculties to a remarkable degree, and is much more active than many men years his junior. An enter- prising, industrious worker all of his life, he is now reaping the rewards that such an ac- tive life brings, and rests content that his has been a useful career and is free from stain or blemish.

Mr. Cable was married to Elizabeth Lichenfeld, daughter of Philip Lichenfeld, and they have had the following chil- dren: Thomas Jefferson, deceased, who mar- ried Jane Dias; Albert; Elizabeth, who mar- ried William Uncapher, of West Wheatfield; Caroline E., who married John Faust and lives with her father; Elizabeth, who married James Brett, and lives in West Wheatfield township; Susan, who died at the age of six years; and Benjamin, who married Jane Wineburner and is engaged in farming in West Wheatfield township.

Benjamin Cable, son of Abraham Cable, re- ceived his education at the place of his birth, Albert Cable, son of Benjamin Cable, was born in West Wheatfield township, and there spent all of his life, being engaged in farm- ing and taking a prominent part in political matters. A Republican, he served as town- ship auditor for many years, and he was a and as a lad worked with his father at farm- ing and stock raising. In 1851 he accom- panied his parents to West Wheatfield town- ship, where he secured a position driving for Jacob Gamble, the mill owner, in whose em- ploy he continued for four years, and also member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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He was laid to rest in the Lutheran cemetery. He married Lizzie Walbeck, who survives him and resides on the homestead, which she is cultivating with the help of her sons. Mr. and Mrs. Cable had the following children : Frank Levi; Ada, who married Charles Robinson and lives at Robinson, Pa .; Lyda, who married Elmer Robinson, and lives in West Wheatfield township; Ocea, who died at the age of seven years; Scott John, who is unmarried and lives with his mother on the homestead; Susie, who married Charles Robertson, and lives at Lockport, Pa .; Emma, who married Fred Robertson, and lives at Latrobe, Pa .; and Jacob, who is unmarried and assisting his mother and brother in con- ducting the old home place.

Frank Levi Cable, son of Albert Cable, was born Nov. 25, 1876, in West Wheatfield town- ship, Indiana Co., Pa., and was there mar- ried Oct. 29, 1899, to Celia Bell Frame, daughter of George W. and Marinda (Light- cap) Frame, of West Wheatfield township. One child was born to this union, Frank Well- man, born March 14, 1910. Mr. Cable at- tended the common schools, after leaving which he secured employment in the brick- yards and clay quarries, and eventually pur- chased fifty-five acres of the old homestead, on which he started farming and market gardening. He still continues to follow these vocations, and has been uniformly successful in his enterprises, because of his industry and well directed efforts. In politics he is a Republican, and has taken an active part in township affairs, having been road hoss for six years and supervisor of roads for four years. He is a member and steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he has acted in the capacity of sexton for thirteen years, and is a teacher in the Sunday school. Like other members of the old and honored family, he is widely known throughout this part of the county, and in a large acquaint- ance numbers many warm friends.

GEORGE LOWMAN, general agriculturist and stock feeder of Cherryhill township, Indiana county, was born near the town of Marion Center, this county, April 27, 1858, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Hunter) Lowman.

Abraham Lowman, grandfather of George Lowman, was one of the early settlers of Indiana county, where he followed farming throughout his active life, living to the re- markable age of ninety years.

Abraham Lowman, son of Abraham, and father of George Lowman, was born near Marion Center, Indiana Co., Pa., and as a young man learned the trade of carpenter, a vocation which he followed for many years. He died in January, 1910, on a part of the old homestead that had been settled by his father. His widow still survives, and niakes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Brown, residing near Marion Center. Mr. and Mrs. Lowman had a family of twelve children. We have record of: George; Samantha, wife of George Wynkoop, living near Marion Center; Albert, a resident of Pittsburg; Bertha, wife of Joseph Brown, living near Marion Center; Laura, wife of Port Donahoe, living in Dixonville; Margaret and Emma, who are deceased; and Cora.

Robert Hunter, the maternal grandfather of George Lowman, was a native of West- moreland county, Pa., who became an early settler of Indiana county, locating near Marion Center, where he spent the rest of his life in tilling the soil.

George Lowman attended district school in the vicinity of Marion Center until he was twelve years of age, since which time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Dur- ing the last twenty-seven years he has car- ried on operations on his present property, which he has developed into one of the best farms of its size in this part of Indiana county.

Mr. Lowman was married in 1883 to Durilla McKendrick, who was born in Indiana county, daughter of John and Amanda (Gibson) McKendrick, early settlers and farming peo- ple of Indiana county. Mrs. Lowman's. father came to this section from Philadelphia when he was a young man, and both her par- ents are now deceased. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lowman, Chester, who re- sides in California; he was married in 1898. to Margaret Stephens, and had one child. The family is connected with the Presbyterian Church.

SAMUEL ROBERT MCHENRY, a well- to-do farmer and large land owner of Rayne township, is a descendant of pioneers who settled in Indiana county over a century ago.

The first of this branch of the McHenry family to come to this country was Isaac McHenry, who was born in Scotland in 1734, and whose wife's name was Jane Smith or Smythe, likely the latter, as the Scotch often spell the name that way. The first we know of Isaac is his taking the oath of allegiance,

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with Abraham Leasure and John Stuchall erable to his original purchase, now owning (Dallas Albert's History of Westmoreland 215 acres, all in Rayne township. He is a County). The name is there spelled Mc- typical representative of a family whose mem- Hendry. This was in 1777. Later, before bers have always been numbered among the good citizens of their respective communities. 1800, he settled three miles north of Indiana on what has been known as the James Hamil- Thirty-one years ago Mr. McHenry mar- ried Mary Jennie Bothel, of Rayne township, daughter of Daniel and Mary Jane Bothel, and they have been the parents of the ten following children: Mabel, who died when thirteen years old; Linus E., living on the farm, who is married to a Miss Borland; Mary Elinor, deceased; William Oliver, de- ceased; Maud, deceased; and John, Carl, Bessie, Mary D. and Samuel Gilbert, all at home. Mr. and Mrs. McHenry are members of the Grove Chapel Lutheran Church. In politics he gives his support to the Demo- cratic party. ton farm. Thence he moved to Mahoning township, where he and his wife and two sons died in the fall of 1812, all during the same week, the parents aged about eighty years, the son James aged thirty-three years and the son Samuel aged thirty-six years. They lie in the cemetery at Gilgal Church (this church was organized in 1808). Isaac and Jane McHenry had children as follows: John married Miss McCord; William, born in 1770, was with Anthony Wayne in Ohio in 1793 and 1794, and with him was his brother Isaac, who died in the service; Mary married Patrick Lydick (they were the great-grand- parents of J. A. C. Ruffner, of Indiana, Pa.) ; PETER STEAR, who carries on general farming in North Mahoning township, Indi- ana county, was born in Porter township, Jefferson Co., Pa., March 18, 1834, son of Frederick and Mary (Stiteler) Stear. James married Elizabeth Stuchel; Samuel married Mary McCall; Joseph married Eliz- abetli Boyd; Jane married Robert Morrison ; Hannah married Daniel Morrison.

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Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, Volume II, Part 139

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 884

Author: Stewart, Joshua Thompson, 1862- comp
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 884