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Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Dayton Union Academy   About 1815 the first school was opened in a building, perhaps not at first designed for a school house, on land of Benjamin Irwin, near the Indiana county line, and was taught by “Crooked” William Marshall. Some of the pupils traveled three or four miles daily … Read more

Echo Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania (Contributed by Linda N. Stitt) This cemetery is located on the Echo-Snydersville (Muff) Rd., on a farm. One must enter through the barn yard lane, and open and close two gates, as one proceeds. The cemetery is on the outskirts of a wooded area. Those … Read more

Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Early Families Among the earlier landowners and settlers were: Thomas W. Hiltzheimer, General Daniel Brodhead, John Rutherford, Jacob Peelor, Joseph Marshall, James Kirkpatrick, John Calhoun, James McGahey, Abel Dindley, James Russell, Thomas Duke, William Kinnan, Ephraim Blaine, James Hamilton, William Borland, John Borland, William Kirkpatrick, William Cochran, James Marshall, Noah … Read more

Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania 1840 Census Records Page 1     Samul Elgin   Ebenezer Smith   John Wallas   Richard E. Caruthers   John Schrkengost   Benjamin Giger   Martin Schrkengost   William McGauhy   James McGauhy   William Coocke   John McSwaine   Samuel McCorkell   Mark Cample   Peter Shotts   … Read more

Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Dayton Union Academy This school was established in 1852 by the united efforts of the United Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal congregation, and was a non-sectarian institution. The first principal was Rev. John A. Campbell, and his successors were Rev. David K. Duff, David Love, A.M., D.W. Lawson and others. For … Read more

Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home A need having arisen for a home for the children of deceased soldiers, Dayton was suggested as the most desirable location in the county, and in Nov. 1866, a stock company was organized with a capital of $15,000 and the following membership: Rev. David K. Duff, … Read more

Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Churches    Glade Run Presbyterian Church    Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church    St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal Church Return to Wayne Township Home Page  

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Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania Cemeteries   Belknap German Reformed Cemetery   Concord Cemetery   Cross Roads Cemetery   Dayton Methodist Cemetery   Echo Methodist Episcopal Cemetery   Emory Chapel Cemetery   Franklin Union Cemetery   Glade Run Presbyterian Cemetery   Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery   Lutheran Cemetery   McCrea Furnace Union Cemetery    Local Transcription   Milton Cemetery   Milliron Cemetery  Local Transcription   St. Michael’s Episcopal Cemetery   United Presbyterian … Read more

Belknap German Reform Church Cemetery Wayne Township Armstrong County Pennsylvania (Contributed by Linda N. Stitt)   Adams, Edward C., 1936 — Adams, Anna M., 1936 —-  Adams, Lee F., b. Mar. 23, 1885 d. Apr. 26, 1967 Aton, Hulda B., 1893 – 1956 W.W. Vet Aton, Maurice W., 1886 1933 W.W. Vet Baker, Emma, w/o … Read more