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Scotch Hill Union CemeteryFarmington TownshipClarion County, Pennsylvania Last Name First Name Middle Name Other Name Date of Birth Date of Death Age at Death Notes Agnew Clarence M 14 November 1938 Agnew Elizabeth 22 February 1840 5 May 1906 Agnew Florence 13 September 1881 … Read more
Hawthorn CemeteryRed Bank TownshipClarion County, Pennsylvania This is only the Old Circular Section of the cemetery, not the complete cemetery Transribed by Jack L. and Linda M. Stitt Algo, Charles, 1879 – 1960Algo, Bertha, 1881 – 1917Algo, Lucille M., 1908 – 1923Algo, Violet C., 1914 – 1925 Anderson, Myrtle , 1879 – 1937 Anderson, … Read more
Shannondale Zion Lutheran CemeteryRedbank TownshipClarion County, Pennsylvania Transribed by Jack L. and Linda M. Stitt, June 25, 2000 Ake, John N., 1919 – 1994Ake, Eleanor J., 1922 —-Ake, Homer F., 1949 – 1980Ake, John F., 1947 —- Algoe, Alan R., 1962 – 1966 Banks, Lyngren, Apr. 7, 1862 – Feb. 10, 1904Banks, Theodore M., … Read more
Memorial History of St Paul’s Lutheran and Reformed Churches 1831-1960 RD2 Knox, Pa Translated and Compiled by Raymond E. Hollenbach 1959-1960 Supervision and Research by John B. Dengler 1959-1960 William and Henry Best are said to have settled on the land where the churches are in 1801. On October 3, 1812 William obtained a deed … Read more
CHAPTER III A POPULAR ERROR – THE STORY OF CAPTAIN JACK – ITS UNRELIABILITY – JACK’S NARROWS – ORIGIN OF THE NAME – MURDER OF ARMSTRONG, SMITH AND ARNOLD – SHICKALAMY’s STATEMENT – THE SEARCH FOR AND FINDING OF THE BODIES – MONUMENT TO JACK ARMSTRONG. John Harris, from whom I have quoted the distances … Read more
CHAPTER VI POLITICAL AFFAIRS INTRODUCTORY – ORLO J. HAMLIN – ELECTIONS FOR GOVERNOR, 1835– ELECTIONS FROM 1840 TO 1883 – GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1884 TO 1889 – PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT VOTE, 1889. THE early election returns of McKean county are among the very few records which have been lost; so that the writer had to … Read more
Centre Hill Presbyterian Church CemeteryPotter TownshipCentre County, Pennsylvania Abstracted from 1898 edition of Egles Notes and Queries Annual Volume Alexander, Esta, wife of Henry, died 1822, aged 54 yearsBarber, Sarah, wife of John and daughter of James McClenahan of North Cumberland Co., died 1801 aged 33 yearsBarber, John died 1811, aged 63 yearsBrisbin, … Read more
CHAPTER II CONRAD WEISER — HIS JOURNEY TO THE OHIO — WILLIAM FRANKLIN — GEORGE GROGHAN — ANDREW MONTOUR — BLACK LOG — THE STANDING STONE— JOHN HARRIS’S STATEMENT — ITS LOCATION — MEANING OF INSCRIPTIONS UPON IT — SECOND STONE ERECTED BY THE WHITES. Conrad Weiser, the first white visitor to the … Read more
CHAPTER I ABORIGINES OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY – DOUBTS CONCERNING THEM – FIRST WHITE VISITORS – INDIAN TRADERS – THEIR CHARACTER – THE OLD INDIAN WAR-PATH. But little is known concerning the Aborigines of Huntingdon county previous to the settlement of the whites among them. Of course, such knowledge could be gathered only from the traditions … Read more
PREFACE The first suggestion of the preparation of local histories at the close of the first century of our national existence that came to the attention of the author of this work was made some four or five months before the opening of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. The purport of that suggestion was that … Read more