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NOTE: Photos of the tombstones can be found by CLICKING HERE. Old Seceder CemeteryClarion County’s Oldest Burial Grounds Dates Back Many Years Editor’s Note. We are grateful to Mrs. Pearl Ion Miller of Clarion, for her efforts, spending many hours in making the survey of the cemetery monuments at old Seceder Cemetery, as … Read more
Marriages Performed In Warren County, Pennsylvania.[Copied by Elizabeth F. Lane, witness, Clara Cramer.] Allen, Samuel P., to Mary Elizabeth Thompson, March 17, 1833Briggs, Ira, to Margaret Jones, Sept. 12, 1833Carr, Hiram, to Abigal Thompson, Feb. 12, 1828Chapman, Renselaer, to Harriet F. Turner, Feb. 17, 1839Green, James, to Polly Miles, Dec., 1811Grosenburg, Samuel, to Elizabeth Toss, … Read more
Marriages Performed by Samuel Clark, J. J.Sharon, Mercer Co., Penna.Between the years 1837-1846. [Copied by Miss Mary J. Trudell, Menominee, Mich.] Addgate, Haven, and Matilda Baldwin, June 29, 1842Ames, Siprean, and Nancy Meeker, April 27, 1845Amey, John L., and Adeline Beard, Dec. 15, 1844Ashton, Heters, and Hannah Urmson, Aug. 31, 1843Austin, James, and Hannah Dunlap, … Read more
Hi all, It’s been a busy 10 days since our last update. The following has recently been added. Photos of the tombstones found at the Shippinville Methodist Cemetery in Shippinville, Clarion County. (contributed by your’s truly). Carol just finished entering Cemetery Records for the Edgewood Cemetery and “Old Saltsburg,” (“Old Presbyterian Graveyard”), Saltsburg, Indiana County. … Read more
Sharp GraveyardLeacock Township The following is transcribed from William Frederic Worner, “Lightner/ Sharp Graveyard, Leacock Township,” Worner Collection, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, volume 2, number 7, pages 42-44. ———Inscriptions: Anna Sharp. Born February 25, 1770; died February 15, 1855. Aged 84 years, 11 months and 18 days. Barbara Sharp. Died May 23, 1808. … Read more
Kurtz GraveyardEarl Township The following is transcribed from William Frederic Worner, “Kurtz Graveyard, Earl Township,” Worner Collection, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, volume 1, number 19, pages 128-133. Inscriptions: Hannah K., wife of John Binkley. Died April 26, 1837. Aged 46 years, 10 months and 3 days. Anthony Ellmaker. Died April 21, 1817. Aged … Read more
Ellmaker Graveyard,Earl Township The following is transcribed from William Frederic Worner, “Ellmaker Graveyard, Earl Township,” Worner Collection, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, volume 1, number 20, pages 134-138. ———Inscriptions: Amos, son of Esaias E. and Sarah Ellmaker. Born August 3, 1838; died June 5, 1878. Elias, second son of Leonard and Anna Margaret Ellmaker. … Read more
BRIEF PERSONALS (Surnames H – J) Hale, Danford, Ackley Station p.o., Pine Grove, was born in Brattleboro, Windham county, Vt., in 1833. He married Lurina Ames, and had two children – Charles, who was killed by a falling limb, and Cynthia, who was born in Pine Grove, but now deceased. The family came to Pine … Read more
BRIEF PERSONALS* (Surnames K – N) Kablin, Christian, Warren p.o., Glade. Lawrence Kablin came to this country nearly forty years ago, bringing his children – Lawrence, jr., Barbara, Magdalene, John, and Christian. His wife, Barbara, died before the family came, and Jacob, the second son, never came to the country at all. Barbara, the oldest … Read more
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church I have consulted the authentic records of the Methodist Episcopal church and also drawn largely on the memory of those who watched its progress with prayerful solicitude ; but I am chiefly indebted to Mr. Duncan C. Hartman for the names and dates in the earlier days of the church. … Read more