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Donald D. Lewis was in the U.S. Army from October 13, 1972 to Oct 2, 1975. He was stationed in Hanau, West Germany, 18 miles North of Frankfurt. Unit was 30th Transportation Company, 85th Maintenance Battalion. Primary duties were Motor pool truck inspector for a while, then went to school for OH-58 Helicopter Repairman. Discharged Oct 2, 1975 with an Honorable Discharge. Rank at time of discharge was Specialist/4. ( E-4 )
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My Mother and Father ( Donald D. Lewis ) I love very much. They have taught me many wonderful things throughout my life. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be the person I am right now. I give them credit for raising me, I know I wasn't a very easy child to raise. I remember the times they told me that I cried and cried and would not stop. I also remember that they told me that they had a travel trailer, and that one time we went to Terrace Lakes for vacation. It rained for four days and I cried for four days. They left the campsite and we headed for home. That same day my parents put the travel trailer up for sale. We sold the trailer a week later. My parents have told me so many stories about when I was young that I can't remember them all, but I know that there are a lot of them. I can still remember that peas were the vegetable that I hated the most, and my parents would always make me eat them. Now I realize that
they made me eat them so I would be healthy. They were just looking out for me. I really appreciate all the things that my parents have done for me. I looked up to my parents while I was growing up because they taught me a lot of things, one which was to always be respectful of your elders. I may not show it alot but I do really love you guys.....a daughter ( Shannon Michelle Lewis ) May 6, 1999
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My sister Sherri is great !!! I love her so much and I enjoyed growing up and seeing her every day. I can still remember that I wanted to go with her everywhere that she went. Also I always wanted her to play with me, especially dolls and barbies, which were my favorite things to do. Both of us always went swimming in our swimming pool in the back yard. As we got older we started to separate from each other. Sherri was a teenager and seven years older than me. She was like any normal teenager and wanted to go out with her friends and not stay home with her little sister. Sherri always seemed to have time for me and I appreciated that very much.
I can still remember the times that we would walk in the summer from our house up to Market Street and she would buy me lunch. After eating we would always stop at The Tropical Pet Store to look and play with the animals. One time she even bought me something for my pet hamster. I am very close to my sister Sherri, however not as much as I used to be since she got married and moved out. I still love her very much.... a sister ( Shannon Michelle Lewis ) May 12, 1999
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PFC Donald J. Lewis, 450 ORD AMMO CO APO 122- USAR Ready Reserve who was inducted May 17, 1951 and transferred to the Army Reserve May 17, 1953, Was Honorably Discharged from the Army of the United States on March 13, 1957. This was during the Korean War Conflict, but he did not have to go to Korea.
Discharge: Honorable.
U.S. service # US52108682--- Basic Training--Fort Breckenridge, Kentucky. After basic training Donald J. was sent to Europe ( Munster, Germany ) near the German-Russian boarder to be trained in ammunition ordinance and distribution. While there he took a 14 week ammunition course which had to be completed in 4 weeks time. After graduation he was transferred to France where his job was to aid in the set-up of a major ammunition distribution point which covered 55 square miles. After completion, his job was to aid in the distribution of ammunition to various military units as needed. He once stated, " I can remember a time when we had 900 railroad cars filled with ammunition on the tracks, that had to be unloaded and distributed ".
I remember my father Donald J. Lewis, from my earliest days, until present to be a hard working man. He was a loyal husband and father, a hard worker from the earliest of age, and a role model that would make any child proud. As an individual he set his standards high, and was willing to work for what ever he needed or wanted. As a provider he was the best. He did what ever it took to provide for the rest of his family members. There were times my father would work two or three jobs to be able to provide us with whatever we needed. It was a priority with him to get the things that we needed, over getting the things that we wanted. To me he was a " Jack-of -all-trades. " Whether it was plumbing, electrical, roofing, or whatever the task would be, he seemed to get right in there and get the job done. As I am somewhat molded in his image, and have taken on certain characteristics that he portrays, I am thankful for the lessons of life that he has tried to instill in me. In most cases I have applied his experience to my own life and used it to it's fullest in my every day experiences. I want to thank my Dad for everything that he has taught me and the time he has taken to show me the right way. Also for instilling in me the personal satisfaction that is achieved in doing a task and doing it right the first time. To this day I am telling my children, his grandchildren, the same thing that he was telling me thirty years ago, " Do it right and do it right the first time. It takes less time to do it right the first time, than it does if you have to do it over again "....son ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 6, 1998
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JOHN A. KELLEY
John A. Kelley 70, of Uniontown, Pa., died Thursday, January 19, 1995, in Uniontown Hospital. He was born August 13, 1924, in Edenborn, Pa., a son of the late Benjamin and Alice Turney Kelley. He was also predeceased by a brother, Benjamin Kelley. He is survived by his wife, Betty Jane Cole Kelley; and the following children, Mrs. Daniel ( Elizabeth Jane ) Stefan of Smithfield, Mrs. James ( Cheryl ) Fabian, Mrs. Thomas ( Kathleen ) Alexander, Benjamin Kelley, Dennis Kelley and Jack Cole, all of Uniontown and William Cole of Stowe, Ohio; 16 grand-children; 6 great-grandchildren; a brother Patrick Kelley of Nilen, Pa.; and two sisters, Inez York of Tucson, Arizona, and Mrs. Donald ( Marcella ) Lewis of Youngstown, Ohio. He was a Veteran of World War II and a retired draftsman, having been employed by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation, Dist. 12. He was a member of American Legion Post 51, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Friends will be received in the JEROME W. SHELL FUNERAL HOME, 164 South MT. Vernon Ave., Uniontown, today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturday until 11 a.m., the hour of service, with the Rev. Donald J. Immel officiating. Private interment in Sylvan Heights Cemetery.
Quote from Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )--sister--on August 24, 1998 " Every-one called him " Jack". Jack was the oldest child in the family. He served in two branches of the service, which I believe were the U.S. Army, the other the U.S. Marines. He died of chronic respiratory failure and some other problems".
Quote from brother Patrick Kelley--" I remember the straight standing and proud U.S. Marine (my brother)
who we were all so proud of. He was a handsome Marine. I'm so glad our Heavenly Father reached out and took our brother back to Him-self ".
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* Photo in the Kelley Family Tree of the gravestone of John A. and Betty J. Kelley ( Cole ) was provided by Marcella Ruth Lewis ( Kelley ) sister to John A. Kelley. John and Betty are buried on the same plot with one headstone which reads as follows: Interment: Sylvan Heights Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.
JOHN A. BETTY J.
1924-1995 1923-1996
KELLEY
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Some of my most treasured childhood rememberances are the trips we would take to Grandma's house house in Pennsylvania. It was a real treat when Mom and Dad would pack the kids in the car and head back to Pennsylvania. Most of the time I would love to fall asleep in the car, only to awaken back in Pennsylvania. It was a different area than I was accustomed to. The people were different and that was part of the charm that held my attention.....James A. Lewis November 8, 1998
I really love my Uncle Jimmy because he is really a nice person. I have always had fun whenever I would go and spend some time at his house... a niece ( Shannon M. Lewis )
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Information provided by:
In Memory of Benjamin F. Kelley Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )
daughter of: Benjamin F. Kelley
source: funeral program
Date of Birth: June 12, 1898
Date of Death: March 4, 1962
Date and Hour of service:
Thursday March 4, 1962
2:00 p.m.
Services held by:
WAGNER-COOLEY FUNERAL HOME
Clergy: Rev, Rob E. Houss
INTERMENT:
Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pa.
Quote from Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )- daughter- on August 24, 1998. " I remember at Christmas time, my dad would go up in the mountains and cut down a pine tree so we would have one to decorate. I can still see him dragging that tree home, it was always an exciting time. My dad died at home of a heart attack, sitting in his favorite chair. At the time of his death his wife Alice Caroline Kelley and his friend were with him".
Kelley, Benjamin F. -- son of Benjamin A. Kelley of Fairchance, Pa. Inducted into the military service May, 1918. Assigned to Camp Greenleaf. Attached to 12th. Recruiting Company. Left for overseas June, 1918. Wounded slightly while in action. June 1, 1919, still in service overseas. ( Taken from newspaper article - date unknown )
What I remember of grandpap Kelley is faintly in the back of my mind. I was only eight years of age at the time of his death. I will never forget the snow storm that we had to drive through to get back to Fairchance for his funeral. The snowflakes that were coming down were the size of half-dollars. There were times that I thought that we could get out and walk faster. The trip seemed to take forever. I also remember standing in front of his coffin and viewing his body. He had such a peaceful look on his face. Also his coffin was draped with an American Flag.
One incident that I remember well is that outside of the back door of their home stood a " cigar " tree. Grandpap would always tell me that the Indians used to smoke them cigars. So one day I decided to try one myself. I went into the house and got me a couple of them " stick " matches and I believe my brother Jim was with me. I proceeded to " smoke the cigar " . About 20 minutes after I started smoking this cigar
I began to feel sick. Another 15 minutes and I thought I was going to die. ( I felt like I was turning green and having visions. No wonder the indians enjoyed smoking these things so much.) Jimmy ran in the house to tell my grandparents that I was sick. When they came out to see what I had done, I remember to this day what grandpap said. " Leave him alone he will be alright, the indians smoked them all the time. They never killed anybody ". He is sadly missed by all of us....a grandson ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 6, 1998.
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Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Benjamin is laid to rest next to his wife Alice C. Kelley ( Turney ).
Benjamin's stone reads as follows:
BENJAMIN F. KELLEY
PENNSYLVANIA
PFC MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
WORLD WAR I
JUNE 12 1898 - MARCH 4, 1962
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ALICE C. ( TURNEY ) KELLEY
Age 77 years, of Spears Nursing Home, Markleysburg, Pa., died Thursday, October 27, 1983, in the Spears Nursing Home. She was born April 30, 1906, in Uniontown, Pa., daughter of the late Cline A. and Inez Rachel Turney. She was predeceased by her husband, Benjamin Kelley, 1962, and a son, Benjamin. Surviving are the following children, John Kelley, Uniontown, Patrick Kelley, Dilliner, Mrs. Inez York, Tucson, Ariz., and Mrs. Marcella Lewis, Youngstown, Ohio; seventeen grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; the following brother and sisters, Edward Turney, Arlington Va., Mrs. Norma Frankenberry and Mrs. Virginia Granchi, both of Tacoma, Washington. She was a member of the Fairchance Free Methodist Church.
Friends will be received in the Lescar-Markutsa Funeral Home, Fairchance, today 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturday until 1 p.m., the hour of service. Rev. Don Rosenbaum, will officiate. Interment in Maple Grove Cemetery,Fairchance.
Quote from Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )--daughter-- on August 24, 1998 " My mom was a woman of many virtues, one was being of a quiet spirit. She was a good wife and mother. I don't remember her ever complaining much. She spent her last 10-12 years in Spears Nursing Home in Markleysburgh, Pennsylvania. She had lost her eye-sight ( blind for the last 10 yrs. of her life ) and died of Atherosclerotic heart disease there in the nursing home. I believe she died in her sleep ".
I remember Grandma Kelley to be a small woman especially when standing next to Grandpa. She apperared to be quiet and always seemed to have a smile on her face. I know as a child anytime that I wanted anything I would always go to Grandma Kelley. She seemed to understand kids more so than grandpa. Grandma was known to be a good Christian woman, and I know her kindness and good attitude towards others will not go un-rewarded. The last time that I was able to see Grandma was in 1980. She was in the Spears Nursing Home. I don't know if she realized who I was when talking to her at the time, however whether or not, she did, she still had a peaceful attitude toward me and as always a smile on her face. Grandma passed away several years after my last visit, and regretfully I was unable to attend her funeral. I know Grandma is in heaven now and free of all physical pain and suffering...a grandson ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 6, 1998
Family history has always meant alot to me. I was flooded with stories from a very young age. So naturally, I was interested in my husband's history when I married him. His story differs from mine, as I am only a second generation American, his line goes back centuries. Traveling to Pennsylvania to where his roots have settled, has always been a joy. To begin, I've always loved the beautiful hills of Pennsylvania. I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet his Grandmother Kelley, a dear soul. Although I never got to know her in her own home, I'm glad I was able to visit with her through the years, and to know her sweet ways....wife of the grandson James A. Lewis- ( Jody Lee Lewis ) November 7, 1998
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Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Alice is laid to rest next to her husband Benjamin Franklin Kelley. The stone of Alice C. Kelley reads as follows:
MOTHER
ALICE C. KELLEY
1906 - 1983
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In Memory:
Patrick F. Kelley, 71, of Point Marion R.D.1, Pa. and formerly of Dilliner, Pa., died suddenly Sat., April 17, 1999, the result of an auto-pedestrian accident.
He was born in Allison, Pa. on Dec. 13, 1927, a son of the late Benjamin F. and Alice Caroline Turney-Kelley.
He was a 1945 graduate of Georges Twp. High School, a coal miner, retired from Duquesne Light in Greensboro, and a member of the UMWA, Local 6310, and the First Baptist Church of Fairchance.
He is survived by his wife, Arlene Moser Kelley; four children, Paulette Wilkes and Mark Kelley, both of Waynesburg, Patrick F. Kelley Jr. of Wyoming, and Mrs Brian " Kathy " Kittel of Middleburg, Fla.; six grandchildren; two sisters, Inez York of Tucson, Ariz. and Marcella Lewis of Youngstown, Ohio; and by a friend, Martha Goodwin of Point Marion, with whom he resided.
He was predeceased by two brothers, Benjamin and John Kelley. Friends will be received in the RICHARD R. HEROD FUNERAL HOME, Point Marion, today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday until 2:00 p.m., the hour of service, with Rev. Richard Noftzger officiating. Interment will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pa.
* source - Obituary from newspaper - Info provided by Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley ) a sister to Patrick.
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May 31, 1934
Fairchance Boy killed by Auto Decoration Day
Junior Kelley's Death Tops Long List of Holiday County Accident's
A Fairchance child was fatally injured and a number of other persons were hurt when Memorial Day was observed yesterday in Uniontown and Fayette County. Junior Kelley, age 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Kelley of Fairchance, died at 1:20 this morning in the Uniontown Hospital to injuries suffered when struck at 1:15 yesterday afternoon by an automobile driven by Joseph Blaney, 23, of Brownfield, on the Jimtown Road at the edge of Fairchance. The Kelley boy suffered fractures of both legs, a fractured skull and internal injuries. Highway Patroman Carl Wynn, who investigated said the Kelley boy and his younger brother darted behind a truck to cross the road. The one Kelley youngster got across the highway, but the second ran in front of the Blaney machine. The accident was unavoidable, it was stated. In the car with Blaney was his brothers, Jack and Paul and Walter and Samuel Yowler, also of Brownfield. The above is Marcella R. Kelley's brother.
" Benny " as they called him was the third son. He died a tragic death. He got hit by a car and that's what took his life. Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )-- sister
Benjamin A. Kelley is buried in a small cemetery, below the Lowes cemetery, in the mountains above the school where his brothers and sisters attended. Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )- sister
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Quote from Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley )--sister, August 24, 1998 " Inez was the oldest daughter. She started school at a very early age. She would follow Pat and Jack to this little country school-house wanting to go in, but she couldn't, she would wait on the steps outside. Finally the teacher said, " We might as well let her start ". I believe she told me she was only four years of age. She always wanted to learn and still does at age 65.
She graduated at a very early age and wanted to go into the Air Force, but she was not old enough. So she came to Youngstown, Ohio and worked in North Side Hospital till she was old enough to go into the Air Force, which she did ".
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" I am the youngest of Ben and Alice's children. When I was born, I was so tiny that my grand-father, Cline Albert Turney, called me " buttons ". I remember my dad being worried about me being so thin as a child, that he had mom buy a quart of milk from our neighbors ( who had cows ) and I had to drink it every day. I don't remember how long that lasted ". Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley ) August 24, 1998
I have been married since 15 years of age, to a fine man Donald J. Lewis. We have four children that we are proud of: They are: Donald D. ; James A. ; Barbara A. and Michael D. Lewis. " Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley ) August 24, 1998
My mother Marcella R. Lewis ( Kelley ) from my earliest recollection has been a caring person. As a mother she has accomplished the task set before her. While instilling the values of life into us, she taught us the difference between right and wrong. She lives her life as a role model to set an example for her children. Thanks to my mom, I learned the practical things I needed to know as I ventured out on my own. The time and effort that she has put forth has not gone unappreciated. She has fulfilled her responsibilities to her husband and her family as a Christ-like example for all of us to follow...... I remember my mother faithfully taking us to Sunday School and Church every Sunday. It would be snowing fiercely, or the temperature would be a 0' out and mom would still get us to church......
As an individual , she is one who cares not only about her family but also about her friends. There are many times that I can remember when she went out of her way to help a friend at her own expence, not looking for anything in return. She has not neglected me as a mother and has always been there when I needed her. I thank her for this and want her to know that she is more than a mother could ever hope to be......son ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 6, 1998
Traveling to Pennsylvania to where my husbands roots have settled has always been a joy for me. I have always loved the beautiful hills of Pennsylvania. Thanks to my mother-in-law, I was able to go to the house she was raised in, and to go inside her little one-room schoolhouse, which was also her church. I've even had the pleasure of meeting some of the neighbors she lived her life around. It will mean much if my children will be familiar with this area that is not close by, but is also a part of who they are...daughter-in law ( Jody Lee Lewis ) November 7, 1998
My Grandma and Grandpa Lewis are really nice people and I love them both very much. I can recall when I was little and how I used to sleep over their house every saturday night with my sister Sherri. We would get up every Sunday morning and grandma would make us eggs, bacon and toast. I really loved that breakfast. After eating we would get dressed and go to church. I would always go into the kids room at the church, while my grandparents and Sherri were in the congregation for the Sunday service. After church they would usually take us to get ice cream. I can remember I couldn't wait to get this treat. I always knew what flavor I was going to get. Chocolate is my favorite flavor in the whole world. To this day they still call me and ask me if I would like to go for pizza at Wedgewood Pizza with them. I love to do things with my grandparents and I am glad that they are here in this world...... a granddaughter ( Shannon M. Lewis ) May 22, 1999
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*source: Obituary
The Herald Standard, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1992..
Paul L. Lewis, 87, of Fairchance, died Wednesday. Surviving are his wife, Bertha I. (Bricker) Lewis; ten children: Paul F. Lewis of Uniontown, Lawrence Lewis of Fairchance, Loretta Hudak of Coraopolis, Donald Lewis of Youngstown, Ohio, Delores Thomas of Fairchance, Robert Lewis of Milford, Conn., Ronald Lewis of Sacramento, Calif., Bernard Lewis of Uniontown, William Lewis of Fairchance and Mary Hickle of Luxor; thirty-five grandchildren; thirty-four great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends in the James W. Goldsboro Funeral Home, Fairchance, today 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., and Saturday until 11 a.m., the hour of service, with Rev. Paul D. Walker officiating.
Interment in White Rock Cemetery
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Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Bertha Irene Lewis and Daughter Betty Alice Lewis are also on the same headstone of Paul Lionel. Their stone reads as follow :
LEWIS
BETTY ALICE PAUL l. BERTHA I.
1931-1980 1904-1992 1904-1996
Betty Alice has her own stone, however family members had her put on the new stone with her mother and father and plan to have Betty's old stone re-done and used for another family member.
Paul Lionel was known to the older generations as " Lionel "
I remember him to be called " Buck " by his peers
I've always remembered him as " GrandPap " ... a grandson ( Donald D. Lewis )
Grandpap was a big ol' guy. The smaller I was the bigger he seemed. Once as a child I did something to make Grandpap mad. He handed me his knife and asked me to go cut a switch from a tree. After returning he proceeded to give me what I deserved. ( At least he saw it that way ). From that point in my life I learned to evaluate all situations and learned to make the right decisions. Grandpap was a firm believer that you should show respect to your elders..... a grandson ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 5, 1998
On July 15, 1985,
Ray and I took Mom and Dad on a tour trip to Europe. We toured seven countries and thirty-five cities. What a trip. We were gone for 2 1/2 weeks. Dad's birthday was on July 27 th. and I knew we would be somewhere in Europe on that day. Being it was a tour that we were on, we knew exactly what country we would be in on each day. Before we left Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 15, I called ahead and had a birthday cake ordered for my dad. As I stated his birthday was on July 27 th., well on July 26, we were in Venice, Italy taking a ride on a Gondola. We all sang Happy Birthday to him. I remember Dad telling the Gondalier, who was playing the accordian, " All I need now is my fishing pole " as we were riding on the water. The next day was July 27th, Dad's Birthday. We were in Bonn, Germany. This is where we had dinner and where they brought out his Birthday cake that I had ordered from Pittsburgh, before we left. We all sang " Happy Birthday " to him. This was a surprise to Dad. One that he would never forget. He was 81 years old....a daughter ( Loretta Mae Hudak - Lewis ) December 9, 1998
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Bertha I. Lewis ( AKA: Bert ) known as to her brothers and sisters.
Bertha I. ( Bricker ) Lewis, 91, of Fairchance Pa., died Tuesday, March 5, 1996, at her granddaughter, Mary Thomas Budinsky's home with whom she resided. She was born August 31, 1904, in Georges Twp., daughter of the late Frank and Nellie Mae ( Myers ) Bricker. In addition to her parents she was predeceased by her husband, Paul L. Lewis; four children, Betty Alice Lewis. Lawrence E. Lewis and George and Jennie Lewis; four sisters; and three brothers. Surviving are nine children, Paul F. Lewis of Uniontown, Mrs. Loretta Hudak of Coraopolis, Pa., Donald Lewis of Youngstown, Ohio, Mrs. Delores Thomas of Fairchance, Robert Lewis of Milford, Conn., Ronald Lewis of Sacramento, Calif., Bernard Lewis of Uniontown, William Lewis of Fairchance and Mary Hickle of Luxor, Pa.: several grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; three great-greatgrandchildren; and one sister, Eleanor Bricker of Fairchance.
Bertha was a member of the Fairchance United Pentecostal Church.
The family will receive friends in the GOLDSBORO-TOMI FUNERAL HOME, 21 E. Church St., Fairchance, today from 7-9p.m., Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., and Saturday, March 9, 1996 from 9-11 a.m., the hour of service, with the Rev. Paul Walker officiating.
Interment will follow in White Rock Cemetery.
* Information provided by Bertha I. Bricker obituary. Obtained from Donald J. Lewis personal records. Donald J. Lewis is the son of Paul L. and Bertha I. Bricker Lewis.
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Birth and Death Years - Bertha I. Lewis is laid to rest next to her Husband Paul Lionel Lewis.
I remember Grandma Lewis as being one of the sweetest, kindest and ever-giving woman I know. She was short in stature, with very long hair in her earlier years, which she would wear on the back of her head in a "bun ". She was commonly referred to as " mother to all " or " grandma " to everyone in the neighborhood. It was highly uncommon for Grandma to ever turn anyone away. She would do anything for anybody. It was not uncommon to see different faces at the dinner table each night. If you were visiting at supper time, she would just set you a plate, and pull you up a chair. I spent many hours watching Grandma bake her home made bread, and was sure to be there when it would come out of the oven. Another one of my favorites was her home made noodles. She would refer to them as " welfare noodles " and I can still taste them as I type this. It has been many, many years since I had a slice of Grandma's bread, or a plate full of them home-made noodles, but the memories that I have of Grandma will remain with me through out all my years to come. I am sorry that I could not attend Grandma's funeral when she passed on, and will regret that for the rest of my days.....a grandson ( Donald D. Lewis ) November 5, 1998
The first time I met Jimmy's Grandma Lewis, she greeted me as if she had always known me. She never treated me as an out-sider, but part of the family. My mother ( Julia E. Williams ) took the trip with my Mother-In-Law and us once, and she treated her the same way. Even in later visits, she would ask about my Mother. This meant alot to me. These women are the women of our nation that raised their children unselfishly, without seeking their own reward. Their lives were their homes. Whether good times or bad, these are the women that kept the families a unit, and reared strong men and women. In this age of self-centeredness, we should not forget the dear women of our past, which have nurtured us with their food and their love, which enables us to love our children in the same way. To give them roots and stories which give them a sense of who they are. They are the essence of HOME....wife of the grandson-James A. Lewis ( Jody Lee Lewis ) November 7, 1998
At Grandma Lewis' house, people would always come and go every hour of the day. No matter who they were, they were always welcomed. They never had to stand at the door and knock, they would just walk on in. No matter what Grandma was doing, she would always get up and make something to eat for whoever came in to visit. Her door was always open. One summer visit she said to me " Jimbo " how about going blueberry pickin wih me, and when we come home I'll make some blueberry jam so you can take some back with you to Ohio.. To me that was the best tasting jam I would ever eat. One of my brothers and my favorite night-time snacks would be some of Grandmas " HOT PEPPERS ", and cheese on crackers. I can remember eating so many of them and the hotter the better, those days are gone! She was a very affectionate Grandma, and I sure do miss her now that she is gone. I don't believe anyone could ever take her place in my heart.....a grandson-( James A. Lewis ) November 8, 1998
Mom always said she wanted to see some of the countries where her sons had served while in the Armed Forces. It just happened to be that France and Germany were two of the countries that we toured, so she got her wish. Mom always had a sweet-tooth, so she really enjoyed it everywhere that we went, especially in Switzerland. There she sampled their goodies and she had plenty of them. Of course, we checked them out everywhere we went. I remember while in Italy, Mom had to go to the bathroom. We were all waiting in line and the men in their line were laughing. They said, " You are going to be surprised " and Mom said " I'm not scared to go to the bathroom ". When she got in there, she was shocked to see a big hole in the floor and you had to stand over it. Well so much for those bathrooms...
I bet Mom was thinking, I wish I was back in Cooleytown. If she was she never said it. There were many other things we did and places we went to, too numerous to tell. It was to be a trip Mom and Dad would never forget.....a daughter ( Loretta Mae Hudak -Lewis ) December 9, 1998
I don't remember a great deal of my great-grandmother Lewis. I only met her 3 or 4 times. The times that I did meet her she seemed like a very nice person. I was so young then.... a great-granddaughter
( Shannon M. Lewis ) May 22, 1999
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Betty Alice is on the same headstone as her mother and father. See notes on Paul Lionel Lewis for further info.
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Ronald Gene Lewis served in the U.S. Air Force from January 1958 until February 1981. He was a Senior Master Sergeant. ( SMSGT ) Honorable Discharge
Conflicts: Vietnam-awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Quote from sister Loretta Mae Hudak ( Lewis ) on August 24, 1998 per telephone conversation:
" You know Ronnie was named after Gene Autry. He was born about the time that Gene Autry was real popular. Mom and Dad liked him alot and when Ronnie was born they named him Ronald Gene Autry Lewis. The hospital left the Autry off of his birth certificate, so thats why he's Ronald Gene now. "
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. George is laid to rest next to his sister Jennie L. Lewis. Their grave markers read as follows:
LEWIS LEWIS
GEORGE S. JENNIE L.
1942-1942 1937-1939
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William Leo Lewis served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1972 and participated in the Vietnam Conflict. He held the Rank of Sgt. Honorable Discharge
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CNA -Certified Nursing Assistant
CPT- Certified Phlebotomy Technician
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Benjamin Adam Kelley, age 85 years, of Fairchance, died in the Uniontown Hospital, Friday, August 23, 1946 at 10:45 a.m. Mr. Kelley is survived by the following children: Mrs. Joseph Pavilschek, of Cannonsburg: Mrs. Owen J. Smith of Evansburg: Mrs. C,A. Turney and Mrs. J.H. King of Uniontown; Mrs. J.C. Smith of of Washington, D.C.: Mrs George Knox, of Gibbons Glade: Joseph, Charles and Benjamin Jr. of Fairchance. John R. of Columbus, Ohio, Henry of San Francisco, Calif. Friends will be received in the Sharp Funeral Home, Fairchance after 12 Noon today where services will be conducted Monday, Aug. 26th, at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Harry Humbert officiating. Interment in Maple Grove Cemetery.
* Above article provided by Marcella R. Kelly-Lewis -granddaughter of Benjamin Adam, and daughter of Benjamin Franklin Kelley. Taken from newspaper obituary.
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In March of 1941, James O. Stewart called at the home of Benjamin Adam Kelley in Fairchance. This statement was made by the aged man ( Benjamin Adam Kelley ) " I was born November the 13, 1861 in Reedsville, West Virginia. I am the son of Joseph Kelley and Eliza Lewis Kelley, who were married young. Three of the children were born there, Delia Kelley, Freeman Squire Kelley and myself. My mother died at about the age of forty-eight or fifty. My parents are buried at Gladesville, West Virginia. I went to a subscription school before the time of free schools. The teacher, Elgy Reppert, was severe. He whipped one boy until the blood came through his shirt and made it stiff when the blood dried. The pupils learned. He never gave a lick to me. I never got a whipping at school as I always tried to do what was right. In the short time that I went to free school, it was four months a year, I learned more than at the subscription school. The free school was the Brown school, a log cabin then. There was no Brown Chapel there then and church was held in the log school house. The teachers I went to there were John Lyons ( or Lions ), Mac Chipps, Mary Farrell and Mr. Cunningham. Lots of the pupils went until they were twenty-one and some after that by paying three cents per day. I started at about the age of seventeen and went for four years, had the four teachers. I went to Fairchance to stay in 1887. I fell in love with Arminta McCullough and married her. I met her in Fairchance. She was a daughter of John and Mary ( Smith ) McCullough. We were married November 17, 1887. We had twelve children."
*source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine - Number 22 - July 29, 1947, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Benjamin was in the strike of 1894 when the operating mines of the Frick Coal Co. were out. In this particular strike eleven persons were killed and H. C. Frick, a millionaire coal barron who helped later to form the U. S. Steel Corporation, was owner of mines in that area.
*source: # 25 - 'William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, page 7, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania.
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Benjamin is laid to rest next to his wife Arminta Kelley ( McCullough ). Benjamin's stone reads as follows:
BENJAMIN A.
KELLEY
1861 - 1946
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Arminta ( McCullough ) Kelley
Mrs. Arminta Kelley, aged 71 years, two months and 30 days, died at her home in Fairchance, Thursday afternoon, May 30, 1940, at 3:15 pm. following a lengthy illness of a complication of diseases. She is survived by her husband, Benjamin A. Kelley, and the following children: Joseph and Benjamin Jr. of Fairchance; Charles at home; John of the U.S. Army, stationed in Brooklyn; Henry of Uniontown; Mrs. Eliza King of Uniontown; Mrs Virginia Turney of Uniontown; Mrs. Nellie Smith of Culver, Pa.; Mrs. Carman Smith of Washington D.C.: Mrs Grace Pavilschek of Meadowlands, Pa.; Mrs. Myrtle Knox of Gibbons Glade, a sister, Mrs. Ephriam Victor, Fairchance, a brother, Fred McCullough, of Terra Alta, W.Va., and 42 grandchildren, one Kenneth Kelley, making his home with the deceased. She was a member of the Fairchance Free Methodist Church.
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source: Provided by Marcella R. Kelley Lewis, granddaughter of Benjamin A. and Arminta Kelley. Taken from newspaper obituary.
Mrs. Arminta Kelley, wife of Benjamin Adam Kelley, died at the family home in Fairchance, Pa. in the afternoon of May 30, 1940 after a long illness of a complication of diseases. She was a daughter of John McCullough and Mary ( Smith ) McCullough of Fairchance. She was aged seventy-one years, two months and thirty days. She was preceded in death by two children: Mrs. Sylvia ( Kelley ) Smith and William A. Kelley. She was a member of the Free Methodist Church. Burial was in the old Maple Grove Cemetery of Fairchance. Besides her husband she is survived by the following children: Joseph Kelley and Benjamin Kelley of Fairchance; Charles Kelley, at home; John Kelley of the U.S. Army, stationed in Brooklyn; Henry Clay Kelley of Uniontown,Pa.; Mrs. Joseph Herbert King of Uniontown; Mrs. Cline Albert Turney of Uniontown; Mrs. Nellie Smith of Culver, Pa.; Mrs. Carmen Smith of Washington,D.C.; and Mrs. Joe Pavlischeck of Meadowbrook, Pa. There are forty-two grandchildren. Mrs. Kelley was a member of our clan through marriage as her husband, Benjamin Adam Kelley, is a son of the late Joseph Kelley and Eliza ( Lewis ) Kelley. Joseph Kelley was a son of Freeman Kelley and Mary ( Ailes ) Kelley. This Freeman Kelley was a son of our ancestor William Kelley, Sr.
*source: # 26- Kelley-Clan Magazine: James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania - August 12, 1940; page 11
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Arminta is laid to rest next to her husband Benjamin A. Kelley. Arminta's stone reads as follows:
MOTHER
ARMINTA KELLEY
1869 - 1940
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* source # 21
Birth and Death years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
Joseph and Cassie's stone reads as follows:
KELLEY
FATHER MOTHER
JOSEPH O. CASSIE J.
1892-1967 1898-1973
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* source # 21 - Birth and Death years -Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
IN MEMORY OF:
* NELLIE SMITH on December 4, 1997.
date of birth
DECEMBER 24, 1896 Nellie's stone reads as follows:
date of death
FEBRUARY 15, 1951 NELLIE F.
date and hour of service SMITH
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1951 1896 - 1951
at 2:00 P.M.
services held from
FAMILY RESIDENCE
361 Coolspring Street
clergyman
REV. EARL P. CONFER
place of interment
MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY
funeral conducted by
J. W. GOLDSBORO
Fairchance, Pennsylvania
* As appeared on funeral home notice:
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* source #21
Birth and death years: Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Alice is on the same stone with her husband Charles. Their stone reads as follows:
KELLEY
CHARLES P. ALICE M.
1906-1968 1902-1989
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We have had no luck in locating the gravesite of Eliza King ( Kelley ). Donald D. Lewis - Aug. 2, 1999
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BIO: Joseph Kelley was born near Jefferson or Rice's Landing, Pa., October 1, 1836, the son of Squire Freeman and Mary Ailes Kelley. He was brought to the community later called Browns Chapel in 1840
by his parents who acquired land, mostly wooded, about a dozen miles south of Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, on Laurel Run. The roads crossing that land were the Morgantown-Evansville Pike on the east and the Halleck-Gladesville link of the Fairmont-Kingwood Pike on the south. Joseph was around six feet tall, had dark eyes and when granddaughter, Dora, knew him he was already gray headed. He fought for the Federal Government of "Abe" Lincoln serving in the Union Army during the War Between the States, Company B, Fourth West Virginia Cavalry.
Joseph was a shoe repairer and worked on wagons and guns as well as doing a little farming. He and Eliza Ann Lewis were married in October, 1858. Her father, Benjamin Lewis, owned a home in Reedsville, Preston County, a community on the Morgantown-Kingwood road. The couple started housekeeping at Reedsville where daughter, Delia Belle, and son, Benjamin Adam, were born, before they moved to Browns Chapel.
Joseph died in the log cabin near the Limestone Spring near the east corner of the original Kelley tract. He was 74 years old at his death on December 12, 1910. He was buried at Gladesville, Preston Co., some three miles from his home.
The log cabin stood on a knoll looking westward to the setting sun and across the small valley. It still was in fairly good condition into the 1920s. The spring was still usable past 1926 when son-in-law David Watson planted in the field where the cabin stood and needed water for drinking while working there.
-Charles W. Duncil
* source: # 24- Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page 17, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Tombstone reading: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Joseph's stone is inscribed as follows:
JOS. KELLEY
CO. B.
4 W. VA. CAV.
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Eliza Ann Lewis was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighed 150 pounds when first remembered by granddaughter Dora Watson Duncil. She had dark brown eyes and graying hair by 1895. The daughter of Benjamin Lewis and Sarah Maderia Lewis, Spanish ancestry, Eliza was born at Morgantown June 7, 1840. She was the wife of Joseph Kelley.
She is pictured as not having house flowers, but did have a garden near her cabin in the bottomland of the small valley where some of the Kelleys lived on the Halleck-Gladesville Road. The cabin was called the " Old Squire House " in the 1920s. It was here that Peel Kelley lived alone during the 1930s for some time. By the 1920s, it had been a storage place for machines and feed for David Watson in whose hands it had passed by purchase although part of the original Kelley Tract.
Eliza Ann knew how to do the usual chores of a frontier wife: knit, mend, but did not spin if Dora's information is correct. She made salt-risen bread in addition to all other kinds--corn, wheat and buckwheat flour breads. She was at home in the " Old Squire House " during the Civil War when Confederate troops under Gen. Jones raided that part of West Virginia and took one of her beautiful horses while her husband, Joseph, was at war. Jones' raiders, part of Imoden's forces, must of come up the Beverly-Evansville Pike from Gladesville and headed for Morgantown and then to Fairmont where a major battle was fought and the Southern forces did great damage to the B & O Railroad.
Eliza Ann died in her home, the log cabin on the flat near the Limestone Spring at the southeast corner of the Kelley Tract, at the age of 62, on March 28, 1902. She is buried at Gladesville beside her husband.
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, pages 19-20, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Grave site: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Records indicate that Eliza is buried next to her husband Joseph C. Kelley in Gladesville Cemetery, however there is no marker to indicate her grave site. There is an open space on the Kelley plot to the left of Joseph, perhaps the site of Eliza's grave. Viloa Sunshine Kelley is buried to the right of Joseph's grave. ( Joseph's neice ), a daughter of Elga Reppert and Hattie Lee Kelley ( Boyle ).
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Cline A. Turney and Inez Rachel ( Malone ) Turney were married only nine years when she ( Inez ) died. They had one child, a daughter, Alice Caroline Turney. She was eight years old when her mother died.
To this day ( August 11, 1999 ) there is no record of what happened to Inez Rachel Malone. All we know is a death date of July 13, 1914.
" Alice C. Turney married her stepmothers ( Perie Virginia Kelley-Turney ) brother, Benjamin Franklin Kelley. They were married on February 13, 1923. Alice was 17 years old and Benjamin was 25 years old.
Thus Perie Virginia was Alice's stepmother ( because she married her father Cline A. Turney ) and she was Alice's sister-in-law ( because she married Perie Virginia's brother )."
Quote from Marcella R. ( Kelley ) Lewis daughter of Benjamin F. and Alice C. ( Turney ) Kelley.
IN MEMORY OF
* CLINE A. TURNEY
date of birth
APRIL 6, 1887
date of death
FEBRUARY 26, 1956
date and hour of service
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1956
3:30 P.M.
services held from
GOLDSBORO FUNERAL HOME
clergy
REV. J. W. SHELL
place of interment
MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY
Fairchance, Pennsylvania
Funeral conducted by
J. W. GOLDSBORO
Fairchance, Pennsylvania
* As appeared on funeral home notice.
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* source #21 - Home video/photographs taken at grave site on December 4, 1997 by Donald D. Lewis. Cline's stone reads as follows:
CLINE A. TURNEY
1887 - 1956
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To this day no one knows what became of Inez Rachel Malone. All we have is:
Born: March 2, 1887 - Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
Died: July 13, 1914.
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Mrs. Perie Virginia Turney, 76 of 705 Montlieu, in Virginia, died at home Monday at 1:45 a.m., following a brief illness. She was born at Fairchance, Pa., November 6, 1893, a daughter of Benjamin and Arminta McCullough Kelley. She was married to Cline Albert Turney who died in 1956. She was a member of The Church of the Brethren in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Died: October 12, 1970 - in Virginia
Surviving are a son , Cline Edward Turney of Falls Church, Virginia. Three daughters: Mrs. John
( Virginia ) Granchi of 705 Montlieu Ave.; Mrs. Robert ( Grace ) Parson of Detroit, Michigan; and Mrs. Morris ( Norma ) Frankenbery of Tacoma, Washington. Two brothers: John Kelley of Fort Myers, Florida
and Henry Kelley of Los Angeles, California. Two sisters: Mrs. Thomas ( Ersel ) Russell --( Carmen Kelley )-- and Mrs. Eliza King of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. A step-daughter, Mrs. Alice C. ( Turney ) Kelley of Fairchance, Pennsylvania. Thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be held in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, Thursday, with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery. The
body will remain at the Harold C. Davis Funeral Home until tonight at 7:00p.m., when it will be taken to Fairchance, Pennsylvania to the Goldsboro Funeral Home.
* The above information was provided by Marcella R. ( Kelley ) Lewis, a granddaughter of Cline Albert and Virginia ( Kelley ) Turney; daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Alice Caroline ( Turney ) Kelley.
** Taken from newspaper obituary and funeral program. William Balsinger and Perie Virginia Kelley were married ( Perie at a young age ). According to word of mouth they had four or five children who all died at a young age.
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There are four children listed on the Balsinger Headstone at Maple Grove Cemetery, along with William B. and Jennie V.
Perie Virginia is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pa with her first husband, William B. Balsinger and their four children.
Her second Husband Cline A. Turney is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pa in a plot next to Benjamin F. Kelley and Alice Caroline Kelley ( Turney ).
*source: # 21- Home video taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pennsylvania taken 12-4-1997 by Donald D. Lewis ( head stone ).
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It is believed by family members that the father of Cline Albert Turney was from Ohio.
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* source: Daily News Standard, Uniontown, Pennsylvania January 12, 1905
Amos Turney, aged 72 years, died at the Uniontown Hospital Wednesday morning, January 11, 1905, of liver trouble. Mr. Turney was born in Preston Co. Virginia ( WV ) but went to Jackson Co. Missouri in 1854 and remained there until the Civil War when he returned to Preston Co. and enlisted as a teamster in the Civil War, but before the close of the war he was taken with measles and mustered out. While living in Missouri Mr. Turney married Miss Caroline Litherman ( Leatherman ) of near Keyser, Virginia ( WV ) and after his service in the war they settled near Oakland, Maryland, where they lived until 1883, when they moved to Uniontown, where Mr. Turney followed the trade of a laborer.
The deceased is survived by his wife and these children: Mrs. John ( Jennie ) Mossburg, Henry Turney, Misses Sylvia and Lucy Turney of Uniontown; Mrs. Ida Deberry of Preston Co. West Virginia; Mrs. George Childs of near East Riverside, California and John Turney of Keyser West Virginia. He also leaves a brother, Ezra Turney of Preston Co.
Funeral Thursday at 2:00 p.m. from the home of Mr.and Mrs. John Mossburg, 352 East Main St., with services by Dr. H.F. King. The pallbearers were James McDowell, Elias Miller, Walter Weir and Porter Shanaberger and the interment was in Park Place Cemetery.
* Information provided by Marcella R. ( Kelley ) Lewis obtained from family records. Second great-granddaughter of Amos and Caroline Litherman Turney.
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Mrs. Caroline ( Litherman ) Turney of Uniontown died at the home of her cousin, Mrs. Susan Likins, of Water St. at Keyser West Virginia on Monday evening, March 4, 1907, aged 66 years and nine months. Deceased's maiden name was Caroline Litherman and she was born in Mineral Co., West Virginia. She lived for a time in Missouri with her parents but they moved to Preston Co. West Virginia in 1861, she having in the mean time married Amos Turney. They moved to Uniontown in 1883 where her husband died two years ago. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. John W. ( Jennie ) Mossburg, Sylvia, Lucy and Henery Turney of Uniontown, Mrs. Daniel ( Ida ) Deberry of Preston Co. West Virginia, Mrs. George Childs Of Pomana, California and John at Keyser, West Virginia. She also leaves nineteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The funeral occured on Thursday at the home of Mrs. Likins and was conducted by Rev. Wolf. Interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Keyser.
* Information provided by Marcella R. ( Kelley ) Lewis. second great granddaughter of Amos Turney and
Caroline Litherman Turney. * Taken from newspaper obituary, from family records.
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BIO: (From Morgantown Newspaper 1935) Freeman S. Kelley, 73, well-known University Avenue resident, died yesterday at his home. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the home,
414 University Avenue, with the Rev. Frank L. Shaffer officiating. Burial will be in the East Oak Grove Mausoleum. Surviving are his wife, Lavinia Kerns Kelley, and nine children:
Mrs. Ray Mayfield, Mrs. Earnest Scheneck, George N. and Joseph A. Kelley, Mrs. Harry DeMarsh, Mrs.
Edward Lewis, Desmond F. and Junior C. Kelley, and Hazel Kelley, all of Morgantown. Also surviving are three brothers: B. A. Kelley of Fairchance, Pa.; E. S. Kelley and E. R. Kelley of Browns Chapel and two sisters, Mrs. David Watson and Martha Anderson, both of Browns Chapel.
One son preceeded him in death.
Kelley-Smith Lineage, Part 1, page 2 shows name as Squire Freeman.
Hazel Elizabeth Kelley reported his name as Freeman Squire Kelley
per Shirley Rhae Skinner Hodges November 4, 1993
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Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Other family records and his obituary indicated that Freeman was to be buried in the East Oak Grove Mausoleum. However on our visit to East Oak Grove, no cemetery records indicated that he was buried in their mausoleum. We found his grave to be located in MT. Calvary Church Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Also to note that his grave stone was a relatively new stone. Perhaps his body was moved and a new stone was erected. Dates were plain and easy to read. Freeman and his wife Lavina are on the same stone. Freemans dates read as follows: " 1862 - 1935 "
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David and Mary Etta went to keeping house above Eureka on White Day Creek four miles west of where her parents lived, near his father and mother, Charley and Rachel Watson. The newly-weds moved to Browns Chapel in late 1887s, after their first child, Rose Edna, was born in 1886. The girl died August 13, 1888 of meningitis, while the family resided in the Joseph Kelley log cabin on the Halleck-Gladesville Road. Edna is buried at Halleck, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. In 1894 they moved back to Brown's Chapel in the blistery weather of November.
Here they built a frame home on the ten acres given Mary Etta by father Joseph and started clearing it for farming. The ten acres formed the nucleus of a farm for which David bought parcels of land from Freeman Squire, Benjamin Adam and E.R. Kelley to make the farm large enough to pay for itself.
Mary Etta had brown hair and hazel eyes and was 5 foot and 7 inches tall. In her later years she was somewhat on the heavy side and always wore dresses of her own making to her ankles. Her checkered aprons were full length, pinned at the shoulders and she wore bonnets in summer that she made. She seemed to have had some stomach ailment. She often told of how Edna climbed on a chair, then on to the table at the Kelley log cabin to get her some medicine from the shelves or the cabinet in the kitchen while they lived near the Limestone Spring.
Mary Etta would can pickles, pears, quinces, cherries, green beans, make sauerkraut, pickle beans, dry beans and apples in addition to canning applesauce. Much of the pork would be salted heavily and stored in the house during cold weather or in the cellar. The hams smoked in the " smokehouse " section of the grainary with hickory wood would be eaten during the winter and summer until the next
" butchering time. " Other pieces of the hogs would be pickled in salt brine jars, ground into sausage for winter eating from stone or glass jars, and made into mincemeat for pies.
Her home-made bread and sugar cookies always attracted the grandchildren's taste. She could bake excellent pound and marble cakes in her wood-coal burning stoves and made much cottage cheese and butter: the buttermilk she churned drew praise. The old-fashioned ( Yeast mix ) Preston County buckwheat cakes complimented the fine bacon and ham that David raised in the orchard hog lot. The grape arbors at either end of the house gave shade in summer and warmth from the winter wind in addition to the concord juice and jelly each fall. David kept the vines trimmed and on pole arbors and Mary Etta made the jelly, one of many kinds, including grape marmalade.
September 1, 1935, she and David observed their 50th. Wedding Anniversary at the farm with the front lot filled with relatives and friends on a sunny weekend. They held the event in the field above the yard from where they could look to the distant blue ridges of mountains their kin had defended in the Civil War. ( 1861 - 1865 )
Mary Etta suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1934 but outlived that by 15 years. She had been taken to Baltimore, Maryland, on the train about 1913 for an operation, her only such experience. These appeared her only major illnesses on the farm.
*source: # 25- " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, pages 10, 11, 12, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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*source # 21
Birth and Death years - Home video/photographs taken of Whiterock Cemeteries, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Jesse's gravestone reads as follows:
FATHER
Jesse C. Kelley
1884 - 1932
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While " Peel, " as Ewart Summerfield was better known, and Isa lived most of their lives in the Brown Chapel community they did live in Fairmont for some time in the " Teens of this Century."
While the couple parted with mutual consent in the 1930s, they were in communication. Peel " batched in the Old Squire House " on the " lower road " -- the Halleck-Gladesville Road -- and at his sister, Mary Etta Watson's house on the Watson Farm now owned by George T. Duncil, for some time in that decade.
When he had become ill, the daughters who had been caring for their mother took care of Peel, who died in 1955.
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page 24, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Birth and Death Years: Actual video/photographs taken of graves by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Ewart and Isa are on the same headstone.
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Geed Kelley Home
Sitting to the west of the Shahan Store-Halleck Road of the triangle, was the two story frame home which had half a front porch and a partial one in the rear of the " L " shaped building. A well was close to the back porch. A 10 quart size pail on a rope brought water up on a wooden winch. This porch was reached from a gate at the yard side pailing fence near the garage and hen house. The long lane, that started with a gate at the country road, dipped and crossed a small stream, helping the visitor to reach the barn to the left of the lane before coming to the home, a good 1/8 th. of a mile from the road.
In the mid-1920s, on Saturday nights in summer, young people gathered here, for William played the guitar and they could sing with him. There was the organ that Dorothy was big enough to play. But the two-story place was comfortable, and later would be covered with insulbrick on the outside.
Most of the interior had wall paper. A large wood-burning stove was in the kitchen and a fireplace in the " front room ". A swing on the front porch helped seat the young people, who usually numbered enough to partially fill the front yard also. There was a gate here that led to the barn, while another led through the slatted yard fence into the garden on the far side of the house from the road.
There had been two houses on this land. The one remembered in the 1920s and still usable in the 1960s, was built around 1890. The earlier home was a log cabin built right after the Civil War.
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in the 1920s, page 10, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Elga " Geed " was dressed in dark trousers and safety pinned jacket of overall material, rubbing snuff; wearing a brown faded hunting cap. His wrinkles and hollowed cheeks clean shaven and tanned. His fingers wrapped in tape in a few places from wounds gotten from his labors.
After his wife, Hattie, died in 1957, Geed lived alone for a while, spending much time with daughter, Dorothy and her children in her home nearby, and with her widower, Bill Cunningham, in whose home he died in 1968.
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source # 25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, page 8, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Martha H. Kelley, shared in the homeplace of father Joseph and at one time had a home in the Laurel Woods down below Uncle Bill Kelley's place, after her husband, Adolphus Anderson died on hog butchering day at the David Watson place about 1930. There were summers in the 1930s that she came to the Watson place to visit her brother, Peel Kelley, who batched there in those years, at which time the historian and her visited the house. They also picked huckleberries on hot afternoon walks and got well aquainted in those years.
One small incident stands out in the memory of the historians when Aunt Matt was at the Watson place one summer. There was this smallish brown dog that liked to follow Charles around. He was fond of taking walks through the neighboring woods, sometimes in the early evening before dark. One night he went up the lane from the Watson house to the Pike and down it to the pathway that led between the Limestone Spring and the ruins of the Joseph Kelley cabin to the Gladesville Road. It was dirt in those days and Charles had to make sure he got back to the house over a mile away before dark. He reached the Gladesville Road, turned and started back up the path to the Pike with the dog walking along sniffing at everything along the narrow way. It was now about dusk. An animal with a white stripe down its back was along the trail and the young man called to the dog to come on but he did not. He got squirted and Aunt Matt made the dog stay in the coal-house at Watson's for four days because he always wanted in the house. Charles escaped the " tangle " and never got " skunked ."
*source- #23- The K - S ( Kelley-Smith ) News Journal - August 1981. page 47
Martha Kelley had brown hair and hazel eyes. She had a sense of humor and could also be a little stern. She taught Charles some thing about " using your head to save your feet " in getting water from the springs. She was a clean person...
*source # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page-20, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Birth and Death years: Actual video /photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Martha and Adolphus are on the same headstone. Martha's dates read as follows:
" 1868 - 1953 "
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Juan is a very nice person. I love him very much. There is really nothing that I can remember that happened when I was younger with him because my sister and him have only been married for 4 years.
I can remember that a couple of years ago he took me up to the quarries. It was a bunch of woods with a lake. We went just looking around having fun. It was raining out and it was really muddy. Now the quarries are gone and in it's place they are making a golf course. Juan really enjoyed going to the quarries and would return there often. I am glad that Juan married my sister, and I know that he will treat her right... a sister-in-law ( Shannon M. Lewis ) May 23, 1999
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born: January 8, 1927
died: December 25, 1997, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio
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born: January 15, 1927 -
died: April 29, 1998, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio
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Cause of death:
Joseph M. Vitelli-- In April of 1975 he was drilling a large housing that was drilled before and filled in. When he began to drill, the drill caught hold and was thrown on him, pinning him beneath it. This was the cause of his spinal cord being severed, and two weeks later, the cause of his death...daughter--Jody Lee Lewis- ( Vitelli ) November 7, 1998
Hobbies and Interests:
As Joseph was thought of as an under-priviledged child living in an ethnic section of Youngstown, Ohio, known as " Smokey Hollow ", or " The Hollow ". This enabled him to go to " Fresh Air Camp " in the summer, and also to take art lessons at the Butler Art Institute. This brought out his talent for art. He was wonderful at sketching and also painting. It made one wonder that if he had the education or encouragement, he may have been able to make a life for himself in the field of art....daughter--Jody Lee Lewis- ( Vitelli ) November 7, 1998
My Junior year in high school, I was a member of the Chorale. We had the opportunity to go to Mexico for a music competition. A meeting was held to discuss the trip and determine the monies that would be needed. Many of the parents at this meeting were prominent people of Boardman, Ohio. Doctors, Lawyers, men in politics. Their earnings were much greater than my Father's, yet they believed it would be too much of a cost. My father stood and stated, " What a wonderful experience this would be for us ". He told the people there, that he didn't have the money, but was willing to cash in his insurance policy. Somehow, the people changed their minds and we went. We won first place in " The International Music Festival ", and this remains as one of my dearest memories. Not only because we won, but because my father made a sacrifice for me. Little did I know, that the next year he would be dead....Jody Lee Lewis- ( Vitelli ) November 7, 1998
Joseph is located in the South Chapel section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Block C, Lot # 70, grave
# 5.
Taken from obituary of Joseph: He leaves three sisters, Mrs. Felix Batholomew of Hubbard, Mrs. Frank Valley of Youngstown and Mrs. William Hurta of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
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* source - Home video/photographs taken of grave site summer of 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. Joseph's stone reads as follows:
JOSEPH M. VITELLI
SSGT US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
APR 13, 1922 - MAY 6, 1975
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Julia E. Williams: Assumed most of her life that her name was Julia Elizabeth. In 1992 she recieved a copy of her baptismal record from The Romanian Orthodox Church of Youngstown, Ohio and discovered that her given name was " Elizabeth ( Elisabeta ) Julia. At the age of fifteen, her mother had an arranged marriage to George Muntean . At the age of sixteen she gave birth to Elizabeth, and soon divorced George. A few years later she married George N. Williams. Elizabeth used Williams as her surname, although not legally adopted. Some legal documents give her last name as Williams, while others state Muntean. In 1992, Elizabeth had her name changed legally to her name at baptism as Julia. Even through all of this, everyone knew her as " Betty ". ...daughter--Jody Lee Lewis-( Vitelli ) November 7, 1998
We never realized how different our lives would be without her. It's important that our children remember the love that she had for them, and how they filled her life with joy. It was important to her that we remained close. We strive to keep a strong family bond. ...daughter and son-in law--( Jim and Jody Lewis )- November 7, 1998
Betty is located in the South Chapel section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Block C, Lot # 70, grave # 6.
* source - Home video/photographs taken at grave site summer of 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. Betty's stone reads as follows:
BETTY VITELLI
FEB. 28, 1924 - MARCH 20, 1994
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My grandmother was the biggest influence in my life. She shared her stories clear back from her trip to America at the age of four. Plus numerous stories of days shared with family on the farm, on the Hubbard Road in Youngstown, Ohio....grand-daughter-Jody Lee Lewis ( Vitelli ) November 7, 1998
Julia Nicola Williams is located in the Evergreen Section of the Belmont Park Cemetery, Lot 151, Grave#4.
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* source - Home video/photographs taken at grave site summer 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. Juliana's grave stone reads as follows:
JULIA WILLIAMS
SEPT. 27, 1906 - AUG. 24, 1989
I am the vine, ye are the branches John 15:5
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...One day we were riding out in the country, we were sight-seeing. I didn't know what it was that little Mike ( Michael D. Lewis Jr. ) saw. I was talking to my sister Inez, that was in town from Tucson, Arizona when Mike said something about the airplane that he had just seen. I made a remark, that it was probably a bird and to my surprise Mike said: " Now Grandma, did you ever see a bird with wheels ! ". I still remember that and every time I think about it I have to laugh. Mike has a way of making you laugh.....Grandmother ( Marcella R. Lewis-Kelley ) - December 6, 1998
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Military Service: U. S. Air Force - Rank - Airman First Class - Ray participated in the Korean War Conflict - discharged from Active Duty on December 17, 1954
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Jeffrey Alan Lewis served in the U.S. Navy from November 1987 to November 1993. He held the rank of Lieutenant.
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Tina is on the National Deans List in 1998-1999. She is also a Presidential Scholar and a member of the Phi Sigma Pi Fraternity which is a National Honor Fraternity. She is on the SAI Board of Directors of California University and has been Senator of Student Government since the fall of 1994.
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*source: # 17 - The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania page 21, Jack W. Lewis
In his pension records, Joseph was asked on July 20, 1900 the question, " Have you any living children? If so, please state their names and the dates of their births". His answer was:
July 10, 1868- James M. Lewis
Aug. 20, 1869- Anna C. Lewis-Doyle
Feb. 28, 1872- Thomas Tate Lewis
May 24, 1874- Elizabeth J. Lewis-Price
May 27, 1876- William M. Lewis **
Sept. 21, 1878- Pauline B. Lewis-Gaskill
Jan. 31, 1881- John R. Lewis
Civil War Pension Records ( file # 860538 ) indicate a birth date of May 27, 1876 for William M. Lewis.
source: # 17, " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania" by Jack W. Lewis
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William's grave stone has " William L. " inscribed on it and the birthdate on the stone is 1874. We are unsure of why this discrepancy occured. Some grandchildren have agreed that his middle name is " Leo " however others have said that his middle name is " Lee ". All have agreed that he was born May 27, 1874. At the time of this printing most of the family tree has been printed with William's middle name as " Leo. " We are really not sure positive which name is correct as of this date ( Aug. 21, 1999 ) so from this point he will be known as " William L. "
If the dates on William Leo's tombstone are correct then there is a discrepancy on the birth date of his sister Elizabeth J. Lewis. We can only assume that William was born in 1874 and his sister Elizabeth was born in 1876. We only have William's tomb stone to go on.
* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken at grave site by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. William's stone reads as follows:
FATHER
WILLIAM L. LEWIS
1874 - 1928
William Leo Lewis is buried in White Rock Cemetery in a plot next to his father Joseph P. Lewis.
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* source # 21 - Home video/photographs taken at grave site by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
Nora's stone reads as follows:
MOTHER
NORA MAE LEWIS
1878 - 1955
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source # 30-
Actual phone conversation with Dorothy McDowell ( Dean ) on August 14, 1999. Dorothy stated that her mother died at the age of 37 years.
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Steven's grave marker reads as follows:
STEVE LEWIS
1897 - 1950
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source # 30-
Phone conversation with Dorothy McDowell ( Dean ) on August 14, 1999 - Dorothy stated that she was the daughter of Anna Catherine Dean ( Lewis ). She also stated that her mother died when she ( Dorothy ) was only 6 years of age. She was then raised by her Aunt Virginia Lewis who never married.
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*source: # 17 - " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " pages 19 - 22, Jack W. Lewis
Joseph is believed to have been born on February 22, 1845. Some census records and his tombstone engravings place his year of birth between 1844 and 1846. His death notice, published in the May 29, 1903 issue of the Uniontown newspaper ( The Daily News Standard ), states thay he was born on February 22, 1845 and has his age listed as 58.
When the Civil War started, Joseph was too young to enlist but after the Confederate raids near his home in April 1863 he enlisted on June 1,1863, as a private in Co. " I " of the 1st Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the name of this cavalry regiment was changed to the 1st West Virginia Cavalry. Company " I " later became known as the second Company
" A ", and his military and pension records associate him with Company " A ". In the " Company Descriptive Book," Joseph's company commander, Captain Dennis Delaney, described him as having a fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, and 6 ft. - 0 in. tall. After Joseph enlisted, his regiment saw lots of action. Under cavalry Major General William W. Averell he made raids into Southwestern Virginia in the fall and winter of 1863. In the summer of 1864, he fought under Major General David Hunter during an ill- fated attempt by the federals to capture Lynchburg, Virginia. In the fall of 1864, he fought under Major General Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. In the spring of 1865 he fought under the famous cavalry officer, Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer, who's then famous Third Cavalry Division was responsible for stopping General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
According to Joseph's pension records, he and his regiment mustered out at Wheeling, WV on July 8, 1865. According to his aforementioned death notice, Joseph reenlisted and remained in the service for another two and one half years. His unit and assignments during his second enlistment have not been researched. In his pension records he states, he lived in Morgantown until July 1867 and then moved to Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.
He married Mary Melcina Sullivan at Gibbons Glade, PA on July 21, 1867 and then moved to Gibbons Glade " after 1868." He also lived in the following places: March 1869- Elliot Mills, PA; August 1870- Haydentown, PA; after 1871- Uniontown, PA; 1871- Fairchance, PA; 1873- Dunbar, PA; 1876- Lemont, PA; and 1880- Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania.
Joseph filled out the form on which this information is recorded on July 20, 1900, at which time he was living in Oliphant Furnace, PA. It is likely that these frequent moves were associated with finding work in the area. In the 1890 Fayette County census, Joseph listed his occupation as " fireman-stationary."
Joseph died a horrible death at the age of 58 on May 28, 1903. The Uniontown, Pennsylvania newspaper, The Daily News Standard, carried the following story on Friday, May 29, 1903:
** DEAD AT HIS DOOR **
Joseph Lewis a Civil War Veteran. Struck By Train and Instantly Killed.
ATTEMPTED TO CROSS TRACK And Was Run Down---- Was Employed At Continental No. 1 on the Night Shift and Had Been Coke Worker for Many Years.
In plain view of his wife and not over 50 feet from his home, Joseph Lewis, aged 58 years, was struck by the passenger train on the Coal Lick Run branch Thursday afternoon about 4 o'clock and instantly killed.
Mr. Lewis operated the dynamo on the night shift at Continental No. 1. Thursday was payday and after receiving his pay he went to the grocery store of William Nehls near his home and paid his bill. He then started on the return trip home and as he attempted to cross the track near his home was struck by the train which was going at a rapid speed, and instantly killed. His body was thrown over 20 feet. The train stopped at once and the body was picked up and carried into the house. Mrs. Lewis had witnessed the accident from a window and a son John was nearby. The Lewis home is near the water tank close to the siding of Factory B of the National Glass Company. Mr. Lewis's neck was broken, there was a cut in his head and he was bruised more or less all over his body. No physician was called as he lived only a few seconds.
Deceased was born in Morgantown, WV, February 22, 1845, but had lived in Fayette County about 30 years. About 40 years ago he married Mary Sullivan in Preston Co., WV who survives him, together with the following children: Marshall- Oliphant; Tate- Ronco; William- Continental No. 1; John-at home; and Mrs. S.R. Price-- Allegheny City. He leaves the following sisters, Mrs. A. E. Downs, Wilson Ave., and Mrs. Somerfield Derring, Morgantown.
During the Civil War Mr. Lewis served in Company A of the First West Virginia Cavalry and made a second enlistment, serving in all five years. After coming to Fayette County he was employed in various capacities at different coke works. He lived at Oliphant for many years and moved to his late home near the glass works last July. He had a policy for $75.00 life insurance in the Prudential Life Insurance Company.
Funeral Saturday afternoon, May 30, 1903.
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Joseph was buried at White Rock Cemetery. Joseph's grave contains a G. A. R. ( Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal order open only to Union veterans of the Civil War ) marker that commemorates his heroic service during the Civil War. The marker is kept filled with flowers by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
*source: # 17 - " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania ", page 22, Jack W. Lewis
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* source # 21
Reading of Joseph Pau's tombstone - Home video/photographs taken December 4, 1997. Joseph's stone reads as follows:
JOSEPH P.
LEWIS
DIED
MAY 28, 1903
AGED 59 YRS.
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*source: # 17 - " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " Jack W. Lewis
Joseph Lewis and Mary Melcina Sullivan were married July 21, 1867. She was born May 2, 1846 in (W) Virginia in Monongalia Co. or possibly Preston Co. In the 1900 Fayette Co. Georges Twp., census, Mary indicated that her father and mother had been born in Pennsylvania. Joseph and Mary made their home in various parts of South Western Pennsylvania. They had seven children. It is believed that Mary was either married previously or had a child,* Charles, out of wedlock, as the obituary for Joseph and Mary's son, James Marshall, mentions a half-brother, * Charles Sullivan, living in Coolspring, Pennsylvania in 1923. ( Some Lewis family records indicate Charles married Ethel Downs and had four children: Edna, Ralph, Kenneth and Estella.) * 17-page 21
After Joseph's death Mary filed for a continuation of his Civil War pension on January 18, 1904. In her application she listed herself as living at # 124, Lebanon Avenue, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Mary died 13 years later in 1916. It is possible that Mary is not buried with Joseph since Joseph's headstone list her name and birth date, but not her date of death. * 17-page 22
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*source: # 18
" Malsina "Mary" Sullivan, daughter of William T. and Catherine ( Strausser ) O'Sullivan was born May 2, 1846 in Pennsylvania. The 10 member Sullivan Family was of the Lutheran religion. About 1882 the family moved from Preston, Co. West Virginia to Coolsprings, ( Sullivan's Crossing ), North Union Twp., Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.
Information provided by Loretta Mae Hudak ( Lewis - 2nd great-granddaughter ) of William T. and Catherine ( Strausser ) O'Sullivan. Some information obtained by previous family genealogy search, conducted by: Ewing Genealogy 714 S. Hillward Ave. West Covina, California 91791. Also information obtained from a genealogist in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, prepared for Loretta Mae Hudak ( Lewis ) .
( This family source indicates that Mary died in 1912 on the day of the Dupont Mill explosion, date unknown )......The mill was located near the White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.
We haven't been able to verify this information about Mary in 1912...Donald D. Lewis - July 29, 1999
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*source # 17 - The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania - by Jack W. Lewis
This source lists James Marshall Lewis birth date as Ju;y 10, 1868 and his sister Anna C. Lewis as August 20, 1869
In his pension records, Joseph ( James Marshall's father ) was asked on July 20, 1900 the question,
" Have you any living children? If so, please state their names and the dates of their births, " His answer was:
July 10, 1868 - James M. Lewis
Aug. 20, 1869 - Anna C. Lewis-Doyle
Feb. 28, 1872 - Thomas Tate Lewis
May 24, 1874 - Elizabeth J. Lewis-Price
May 27, 1876 - William M. Lewis **
Sept. 21, 1878 - Pauline B. Lewis-Gaskill
Jan. 31, 1881 - John R. Lewis
If the dates on James Marshall tombstone are correct then there is a discrepancy on the birth date of his sister Anna C. Lewis. We can only assume that James Marshall was born in 1869 and that Anna C. was born in 1868. We only have James tombstone to go on.
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*source # 21 - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania taken December 4, 1997 by Donald D. Lewis: James Marshall's grave stone states that James was born on July 10, 1869 and died on July 25, 1923. We have physically verified the dates on the stones of James M. , Thomas Tate, William L., and John R. Lewis. James's stone reads as follows:
JAMES M. LEWIS
JULY 10, 1869
JULY 25, 1923
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken at grave site by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Thomas B. and his wife Nancy E. Lewis ( Hoon ) are buried on the same plot and share the same headstone. It reads as follows:
LEWIS
FATHER MOTHER
TATE B. ELIZABETH H.
1872-1964 1873-1947
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John R. Lewis is buried in the White Rock Cemetery in a plot next to his father Joseph Paul Lewis.
* source: # 17 - The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania, page 310, Jack W. Lewis
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. John's stone reads as follows:
JOHN R. LEWIS
1881 - 1962
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* source # 17 - " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " by Jack W. Lewis
Sarah Ellen is buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Fairchance, Pennsylvania with her first husband, James Marshall Lewis.
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/Photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Sarah Ellen's stone reads as follows:
ELLEN LEWIS
MITCHEL
1873 - 1945
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* source # 17 - The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania - by Jack W. Lewis.
Lindsay's gravestone reads as follows:
LINDSAY C. LEWIS
PENNSYLVANIA
MM 2 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II KOREA
MAY 19, 1899 - MAR 9, 1974
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Omar is laid to rest beside his wife Lena Ruth. They share the same headstone. It reads as follows:
LEWIS
LENA RUTH OMAR RALPH
1907-1974 1905-1985
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* source # 17 - The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania - by Jack W. Lewis
Margaret is buried on the same plot with her third husband, Grover A. Cowdery. They also share the same stone, which reads as follows:
COWDERY
GROVER A. MARGARET M.
1888-1973 1902-1975
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Jack graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy and was commissioned an Ensign in 1960. He also attended The Massachuettes Institute of Technology from 1964-1966 and graduated with MS ( mechanical engineering ) and NE ( Naval Architect ) degrees. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1960-1970 and was in Quantanomo Bay, Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He resigned his Lieutenant Commander commission in June of 1970 to start his own consulting engineering practice in Washington, D.C.
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Edward is laid to rest beside his wife Leah Lewis ( Goldsboro ) and they share the same headstone. It reads as follows:
LEWIS
EDWARD K. LEAH G.
1908-1956 1911-
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source: # 17 * " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " - Jack W. Lewis, pages. 18-19
Benjamin A. Lewis, was born in Connecticut, probably between 1802 and 1815. The exact date of his birth has not been determined. In the 1850 Virginia Census, his age is listed as 48. However, in the 1860 Virginia Census his age is listed as 45. His occupation in the 1850 census is listed as " stone cutter " and in the 1860 census as " farmer ".
According to word of mouth stories passed from generation to generation, there were five brothers ---Benjamin, Thomas, John and two others--- who came to the U.S. from Wales in 1661 and settled in Westerly, Rhode Island. These brothers had different occupations: glass worker, iron worker and coal miner. It is not known who these Lewis brothers married or how it came to pass that one of their descendants settled in Virginia. Most likely, the lure of federal land grants in frontier territories, as the western part of Virginia was at the start of the 19th century, brought Benjamin to the Morgantown area. In 1828 he received a Land Grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia of 100 acres in a area known as " Dry Run ". Eleven years later, on May 21, 1839 he married Sarah Ann Madera, daughter of John Madera. Sarah Ann was about 17 when she married--- her age in the 1850 Virginia Census being listed as 28 years.
In 1841, Benjamin and Sarah welcomed their first born, Eliza A. Lewis. She was followed by two more girls, Frances (1842) and Harriet (1843). The following year, 1844, a son Joseph was born. Two more girls followed Joseph: Anne M. in 1848 and Dorothy in 1851. In 1845, Benjamin received a second Land Grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia of 80 acres in the Dry Run area. He must have been sorely disappointed with all this farming acreage and only one boy to help farm it.
It is not known what happened to Benjamin and Sarah and their female children. According to family word of mouth history, Benjamin was 96 years old when he died. In the 1880 West Virginia Census for Monongalia Co., a " Dorothy " Lewis is listed who stated she was single white female, age 28, born in Virginia and stated her father was born in Connecticut and her mother in Virginia. This is probably Benjamin and Sarah's youngest daughter, Dorothy, since her age matches the 1850 and 1860 censuses and since she and her mother would have been born in that part of Virginia that is now West Virginia. Dorothy is listed in the 1880 Census as having two sons, John E. and Benjamin, age 10. Both are listed as having the surname, Lewis. What became of Dorothy and her two sons is unknown. The 1903 death notice for Joseph, states one of Benjamin's daughters married A. F. Downs and was living on Wilson Ave. in Uniontown, PA and another married Somerfield Derring and was living in Morgantown, West Virginia
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*sources: # 17, " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " - Jack W. Lewis
Among the prominent civic leaders of pioneer Morgantown were members of the Madera family. Originally this family ( sometimes spelled Madori, Madeira, Madery, Madara, etc. ) came from Spain. They owned the three islands off Spain now known as the Madera Islands, where they were artificers in filigree jewelry. During the reign of the Spanish King Charles V ( 1516-1555 ) they, being Protestants, moved to Holland to escape persecution by the Inquisition. Three brothers from this family, Jacob, Peter and John Daniel immigrated to America from Holland sometime in the 17th century and located on the shores of the Deleware Bay and at Gwynedd, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. John Daniel after a time located in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Later he and some of his family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio.
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*sources: # 19, National Geographic Traveler, Sept./Oct. 1990 pages 90-103
Madeira: One of a group of 5 Portuguese Islands some 500 miles south of Lisbon, Madeira possesses sub-tropical rain forests and dazzling peaks, tiny coastal fishing villages and a cosmopolitan city.
Serpentine roads that cut through steep , volcanic slopes may try a driver's skill and patience, but the reward is rich: Lush vistas that have won Madeira its nickname " Pearl of the Atlantic ".
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* source# 17: " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania " by Jack W. Lewis
" In 1828 Benjamin received a Land Grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia of 100 acres in an area known as " Dry Run ". Eleven years later on May 21, 1839 he married Sarah Ann Madera, daughter of John Madera. Sarah Ann was about 17 when she married-- her age listed in the 1850 Virginia Census as 28 years." This would make Sarah Ann born about 1822.
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*source # 37: 1860 Census of Monongalia Co., Morgantown - page 121
1860 Census
Name Age Birthplace
Sarah Lewis 41 VA.
This census would make Sarah Ann's birthdate around 1819. We feel this would place her birth date between 1819 - 1821 as her brother Christian's birthdate has been verified by actual photo's of the grave site as being 1822.
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* source # 32: Monongalia Co., West Virginia Marriages 1854-1880, page 58
Hill, Emery 21 Marion Co.
Lewis, Anna M. 22 Monongalia
Robert T. ____________
Benjamin ____________ 10-11-1874
The above marriage listing would have listed Benjamin's and Robert T.'s wives in the blank spaces. We feel that the absence of the wives listing indicated that they were not present or were deceased at the time of the marriage. We speculate that the death date of Sarah occured before 1874.
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source # 32- Monongalia Co., West Virginia Marriages 1854 - 1880; page 58. Reads as follows:
Hill, Emery 21 Marion Co.
Lewis, Anna M. 22 Monongalia Co.
Robert T.
Benjamin 10-11-1874
NOTE* According to this record Anne M. was 22 years old, however if you go by her birthdate she would have been 26 years of age at the time of her marriage.
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NOTE:* According to family records Myrtle Kelley was considered to be a half-sister. We don't know if she was a child of Ben or Arminta's. We don't know how this information came to be.... Donald D. Lewis - July 29, 1999
IN MEMORY OF:
* IDA M. KNOX
date of birth
OCTOBER 20, 1885
date of death
OCTOBER 22, 1965
date and hour of service
SUNDAY OCTOBER 24, 1965
2:00 P.M.
services held from
GOLDSBORO FUNERAL HOME
clergy
REV. JOHN GRIMM
place of interment
WHITE ROCK CEMETERY
funeral conducted by
J. W. GOLDSBORO
Fairchance, Pennsylvania
* As printed from funeral home notice.
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William Balsinger and Perie Virginia Kelley were married ( Perie at a young age ). According to word of mouth they had four or five children who all died at a young age.
There are four children listed on the Balsinger Headstone at Maple Grove Cemetery, along with William B. and Jennie V. Balsinger.
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source: # 21 - Home video of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fairchance, Pennsylvania, taken 12-4-1997 by Donald D. Lewis.
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* Obituary
source: # 29 - Daily News Standard, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1990
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* source #21
Birth and Death years- Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
Minnie's husband ( Norman D. Spaw ) is on the same stone with her. As of this date Aug. 3, 1999, as far as we know Norman is still alive and well. Their stone reads as follows:
SPAW
Minnie K. Norman D.
1924-1990 1927-
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* SOURCE # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Eliza's stone reads as follows:
ELIZA ANN
KELLEY
1926 - 1955
IN MEMORY OF:
* ELIZA ANN KELLEY
date of birth
July 27, 1926
date of death
August 25, 1955
date and hour of service
SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1955
2:30 P. M.
services held from
WAGNER - COOLEY
FUNERAL HOME
clergy
REV. FORREST B. RAY
place of interment
MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY
funeral conducted by
ROBERT D. WAGNER
AND J. WOODROW COOLEY
Fairchance, Pennsylvania
* As appeared on funeral home notice
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* source # 21
Birth and Death years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
Joseph Jr. and Patricia's gravestone reads as follows:
KELLEY
FATHER MOTHER
JOSEPH O. PATRICIA
1928-1986 1937-
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BIO: Ken was raised by his grandparents, Benjamin Adam and Arminta McCullough Kelley.
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David and Mary Etta loved old-fashioned mountain greens and Mary Etta in spring would teach her daughters to know what to pick. Later in season, the garden produced leaf lettuce, carrots and other vegetables, but her tomatoes always drew praise from sons and grandsons. The garden was the spot for raspberries, currants, strawberries and rhubarb in addition to concord grapes and potatoes. There were red cherries in the orchard for many years until a storm claimed the tree, but the blackhart ( black ) cherries stood the test of time and three large trees produced up until the land was sold in 1952.
Here for over 30 years they raised corn and potatoes and some oats and hay for the 2 or 3 milk cows, a horse or two, any pet sheep Mary Etta owned, to help feed the chickens and hogs and even the hound dog- - for David like to fox hunt and seek out rabbits and hunt and trap other small game all his life.
David kept bees many years and his clover fields prospered and helped feed livestock and served the bees alike. Clover hay was fine for the animals. David spent some time each winter trapping and always tried to nab any weasel that might get into the chicken-house or small individual coops and pens where the mother hens set, hatched and took care of the baby chicks until they were some months old. He helped milk the cows and took the job of trying to train new calves to drink from a bucket and slopped the hogs. He could tan hides as well as dry them on racks. Once he made two granddaughters gray fox neck furs. He sold furs and showed interest in coon-hunting until his last days on the farm.
David knew an old mountain craft of redoing split bottomed chairs and other handy ways. At least two days of the year, he would work on the dirt roads as required by law. He walked or rode to Halleck to cast his votes for county, state and national officials.
When David died in 1941 he would have some sort of growth on his full chest that Aunt Matt had said was very small when he was young. It was never diagnosed. Once he broke a leg and kept going without proper care, got pneumonia and was bed fast in March one year, but generally kept going without many illnesses.
*source: # 25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, pages 11, 12, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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source #27:
Birth and death years: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Hattie was tall and fair complexioned. Not at all showing too many wrinkles for her years and hard labors. A pleasant face even when her eyes and mouth show she has a bad cold. Her blue eyes and graying hair still glitter, the eyes with humor, the hair with luster of life.
She had brown eyes ( or blue ) and always seemed an easy-going, very friendly person. She always made a guest feel at home and comfortable. She kept chickens and milked cows when necessary. Her water was carried from an outside open well to the kitchen for cooking and canning and other purposes.
About 1900, Hattie bought an organ from Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $ 22.00 but never learned to play it. During the 1920s, in summer when the young people of the district met on Saturday nights at her home. Dorothy and William ( Hattie's children ) would play the organ for the young people to sing. Or perhaps William would accompany them with the guitar. These were lively evenings about the time when Charles A. Lindbergh made his lone trans-Atlantic trip to Paris in 1927. William used a Popular Science Magazine diagram and made a perfect model of the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane Lindbergh used. This solid model decorated Geed's home for years.
*source: # 25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, page 8-9, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
*source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Hatties stone reads - " 1879 - 1957 "
[NI0395]
source # 27:
Death year: Actual video/photograph taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. The stone reads: " Daughter of E & H Kelley - Viola Sunshine Kelley - Died - 1903 " Viola is buried nest to her Uncle Joseph C. Kelley. Viola's stone lies to the right of his stone. ( Jos. C. Kelley ) in the graveyard.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Williams stone reads - " 1909 - 1931 "
[NI0397]
source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Donald's stone reads - " 1914 - 1987 " . Located to the right of Donald and Genevieve's stone is another smaller stone which reads, " Onedia A. Kelley - 1924 - ". We have been unable to figure out exactly who Onedia is and how she fits into the family.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Genevieve stone reads " Genevieve W. " 1917 - 1980 ". Genevieve is on the same stone with her husband, Donald E. Kelley
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Adolph died of a heart attack after helping butcher hogs at the David Watson farm, Thanksgiving Day, 1932. The men had just finished the work and Adolph sat down to rest on the back porch at the farm when death occurred.. He was buried at Mt. Calvary.
*
source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, page 20, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Adolphus and Martha are on the same head stone. Adolphus's dates read as follows:
" 1858 - 1931 ".
[NI0408]
source # 27:
Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Emma is buried right next to her parents - Adolphus and Martha Harriet Anderson ( Kelley ).
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source # 27:
Birth and Death date: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. William and his brother Joseph are on the same stone. Their stone reads as follows:
" Twins "
William
and
Joseph
Born & Died
Jan. 17, 1907
William and Joseph are buried next to their sister, Emma B. Anderson.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death date: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Joseph and his brother William are on the same stone. Their stone reads as follows:
" Twins "
William
and
Joseph
Born & Died
Jan. 17, 1907
William and Joseph are buried next to their sister, Emma B. Anderson.
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Isa told many stories of her life but one the children recall especially was the time, when five years old and not big enough to get on the family horse by herself, stands out. Isa's mother put her on the horse with a bag of corn and sent her to Fortney's mill by herself to get the grain ground. Mr. Fortney would help Isa back on the animal after the grain was ground and send her home. Betty, her daughter, says when Isa was asked if she knew the way back home, Isa would tell them: " No, but old Charlie ( the horse ) did. "
Isa, like most of the women of her day, liked meat and vegetables and took great pleasure in her family as signified by the number of children. She did much sewing and cooking and liked to sing. Perhaps that is why the entire family is good at music. ....Isa outlived Peel by some 21 years...
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page 24, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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*source # 27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Ewart and Isa are on the same headstone.
[NI0414]
* BIO: Dana was a member of the Elwood Masonic Lodge, Chapter of Council of
Elwood, the Elwood Tipton Commandry and the Indianapolis Shrine Club.
*souce-Dominion-Post, Morgantown, West Virginia, December, 1988
source #27"
Place of Interment: Actual video/photographs taken of known grave site by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. At the time of our visit we were met by the caretaker of the cemetery and he explained to us that " Daney " Kelley was buried on the plot with his parents, Ewart Summerfield and Isa E. Kelley
( Boyles ), he also stated that there was no headstone. While we were there we also visited Betty Doris Kelley at her home. She is the sister of Dana Kelley. She also verified the location of Dana's grave, which matched the location of what the caretaker told us. Betty Doris also stated Dana did not have a headstone.
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source-Dominion Post, Morgantown, West Virginia, January 1988
source # 27:
Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. At the top of Charles headstone it reads: " UNCLE "
[NI0457]
BIO: Leoma was a member of the Community United Methodist Church, the
Democratic Women's Club and order of the Eastern Star.
Dominion-Post, Morgantown, West Virginia, May 16, 1988
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*source # 27: Birth and Death years, military service: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of graves by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
Betty Doris Bartges ( Kelley ) : Actually visited with Betty for about 2 hrs, July 12, 1999. On the day of our visit Betty appeared to be in good health and of sound mind. After we explained to her who we were, she seemed well receptive of our visit. She allowed us to take a photograph of her with myself ( Donald D. Lewis ) and we told her we would send some photos from our family tree. We enjoyed talking to her and our visit with her. We were glad to find Betty alive and well, as our previous information stated that Betty had died about 1980. It turned out to be her sister-in-law that had died in 1980.
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*source # 27- Visit to Betty Doris Bartges ( Kelley ) told us that her brother Howard Franklin Kelley lives in Woodstock, Georgia where he moved to several years ago for health reasons.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death year: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Lavina's stone reads as follows: " 1874 - 1937 "
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* Obituary Dominion Post Common, Morgantown West Virginia, November 1986
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BIO: Virginia B. Schenck, Beaumont, Texas, formerly of Lansing Age 94, Died March 7, 1994. Born September 30, 1899, Morgantown, West Virginia. Mrs Schenck retired from Sparrow Hospital in 1970, and was a former member of Pilgrim Congregational Church (UCC). Surviving are 1 son, Jack Schenck of Beaumont, Texas; 1 grandson, Erick Schenck; 1 sister, Fannie Palmer of Clyde, North Carolina; numerous neices and nephews. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 12, 10 a.m. at the Gorsline-Runcilman Co. Lansing Chapel with the Rev. Roger N. Pohl, Pastor officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the Chapel beginning Thursday, 7 p.m. where the family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. and Friday, 2-4 p.m.
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BIO: SIBLINGS: Fanny (Palmer) Virginia Belle (Schenck)
Edith (Mayfield) Joseph Nathan
William Nathan Mary Gayle (Lewis)
Junior Curtis Desmond Faye
SPOUSE: William George Skinner
CHILDREN: Lavina Jane Shirley Rhae (Hodges)
William Edward
Hazel Elizabeth Kelley was born November 2, 1913, in Rock Forge, West
Virginia. She married William George Skinner in Morgantown, West
Virginia on September 20, 1935.
They made their first home on Beechhurst Avenue in Morgantown.
While living there their first child, Lavina Jane was
born on July 13, 1936.
On August 22, 1937 they moved to Lansing, Michigan. In August of
1938 they lived at Route 1, Box 180, 86 Stoner Road, Lansing. On
November 7, 1938 their second child, Shirley Rhae was born.
In 1942 they lived at 129 South Holmes Street, Lansing, Michigan.
William Edward, their only son and third child, was born January 21,
1947 in Lansing, Michigan.
At the time of her death she was living at 5637 Kaynorth Road,
Lansing, Michigan.
Hazel died on December 1, 1988 and is buried in East Lawn Memory
Gardens in Lansing, Michigan.
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Some records show the date of his death as 1927 ,however, 1897 seems to be a more realistic date. Freeman was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania and married Mary Ailes and they had seven sons and five daughters. They were married in Greene County on December 1, 1835. About 1843 they moved to Clinton District, Monongalia County. Another notation shows the move took place in 1840. About the year 1855 Freeman accepted Christ and was united to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Smith's Chapel (Later called Halleck) of which church he was an active member until prohibited by the infirmities of old age. Although during his declining years he could not take an active part in his church, yet he was devoted to the study of the Scriptures .He was a kind and indulgent father, a hospitable neighbor and freely gave to the poor. He always led a peaceful life and on his death bed of affliction some of his last words were "I am just waiting."
Both Freeman and Mary are buried in the Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., West Virginia
" Old Squire House "
The exact date for the life of this structure, the " Old Squire House " is not known, but the building was one floor and not much of a home by the 1920s. In 1863, it was the home of Joseph Kelley and his family. While Joseph was off to war, Eliza kept things going and planted a garden along the road. The field , across the road from the house and other buildings, called Old Garden, is where two black heart cherry trees still stood and the Watson cows grazed constantly here in the decade after World War I, giving much fruit into the 1930s the trees were still reaching skyward into the late 1950s. Here is where Eliza's horse was grazing when the Confederate soldiers under General Jones, part of General Imboden's raid in that part of northwestern Virginia, came out Evansville-Morgantown Pike and stole the animal.
There was still one building in addition to the house and outside toilet standing in the small field that might have been Eliza's yard, in the 1920s. By that time the building was used for storage of potatoes while they dried in the fall, and for other crops, fertilizer, corn, other items David Watson need not take back " on the hill " each time he used them in the fields behind the house, or in fields along side, or across the road from it.
*source: # 24- Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter Three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in 1920s, page 12, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
*source # 27:
Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Freeman Kelley Sr. Cabin
From all indications Freeman and Mary Ailes Kelley built a cabin of pole logs when they first settled on the newly-acquired land in 1840. This must of been only a temporary place for by 1845 they had constructed a hewed log, dovetailed and plastered cabin on a more or less gentle slope--almost level--land some distance farther to the south from where Donald E. Kelley thinks the first home was built. Perhaps this second home was built in a wooded area that had to be cleared, thus the reason for the delay. About 1971, pear trees planted near the first cabin, at the north edge of the Kelley Tract, were still standing.
The main Kelley cabin faced the setting sun, nearer to the western edge of the holdings than any other except Geed's place. They must have * bought 300 acres, one source says the original 300 acres were bought at .50 cents an acre. The other acreage must had been given to them to total the square mile or around 600 acres, since the Ailes part is supposed to have cost $1.00 an acre.
The cabin was one of the few that had a completed upstairs with a built-on kitchen and an enclosed passageway between the main cabin and cooking room.
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( * Official Monongalia County records - May 24, 1837 James Miller of Monongalia Co., Virginia purchased what is considered to be the original Kelley Tract of land in West Virginia from George C. McCall. In April of 1840 James Miller and his wife Rebecca sold this same land to Joseph Ailes of Greene Co., Pennsylvania. He bought the land for $ 500.00. Freeman and Mary were given the 322 acres by Mary's father. They had mostly uncleared land. The farm is described as being approximately 10 miles south of Morgantown, the county seat. The tract was drained mostly by branches of Laurel Run to the south. However, we cannot confirm it, but there are reports that the tract Freeman and his sons finally owned equalled one square mile, 640 acres. )
The land in time would be divided among seven of the twelve children. And they in turn would divide or sell the tract, parts of the square mile to grandchildren, until by 1976, Donald E. Kelley was the last person named Kelley holding land from the original sector.
*source: #-25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 7-8, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania )
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While the sons got land elsewhere, the cabin was left to Aunt Manerva. Uncle Geed Kelley was the administrator of the estate and it was in his judgment to sell that part of the acreage and the cabin to Jake Keener around World War II. Jake repaired the cabin and lived in it before he completed a new home before tearing down the cabin.
In the meantime, about 1910, Minerva Kelley Clem and her husband and small girl, Mary, lived here awhile. When Minnie died of TB, the daughter was about 6 years old and Ora Smith used to take the child to school. Mary was raised by Emma, Uncle Bill Kelley's daughter.
At the time of the first reunion of the Kelleys and Smiths, " a good bit of furniture was still in the cabin; including cord beds, chairs, cupboards, spinning wheel, ect. " according to Donald E. Kelley.
Uncle Peel and Aunt Isa and family lived in the cabin around 1930, so it was occupied nearly 100 years after erection by the first Kelley in the area. The long shed, or barn, stretched along the lane leading from the country dirt road, with the entrance ways facing the house, the back toward Grafton. This building gradually deteriorated over the years and was in much disrepair in the 1920's.
*source: # 24- Kelley - Smith Family Personalities: Chapter Three, pages 9-10 - Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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The hewed log cabin that Freeman built had 2 rooms upstairs, a big living room with a large stone chimney and a fire place and a smaller bedroom on the first floor. There was a large front porch and a built-on kitchen at the back. Here sheep, cows, hogs, rye, wheat, oats, corn, buckwheat, potatoes and other crops would be raised once the land was cleared.
*
source: # 25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelley, Chapter One, page 8, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source # 27:
Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Served in the Union Army during the Civil War. * First Kelleys, page seven. * Kelley-Smith Family, appendix, page one ( Gertie L. Thorn obituary )
William Kelley Home ( brother of Joseph C. Kelley )
William ( Uncle Bill ) Kelley was a soldier in the Union Army during the " War Between The States. " Here on the " morning sun side " of Tater Hill, two houses had been built before the era about which we are writing arrived. There was a log cabin and the present frame house built in 1888 or 1890. For this home with a veranda all across the front, was weather-beaten and well-loved and lived-in by the 1920s. At the back in summer the " cook house, " connected with a board walk, and a back porch, was used to keep the cooking heat out of the main part of the home. This structure was a two-story one, a little like Geed's residence.
It featured a stone-lined, open shaft well which had an old " oaken bucket " on a rope and a crank or wooden winch to pull up the water. Trees surrounded this well keeping the water cool, except when sunlight filtered through some leaves on windy days. When the leaves fell in the fall the air would help keep the water cool.
A huge barn was built to the rear and along the run that came from the watering trough on the Pike Ridge Road and a spring at Ray Smith's home, giving both cattle and the hogs in a worm-wooden fenced-in pig sty water for drinking and wallowing in. This was one branch of Laural Run as it cross the valley road. The barn was home for the cows, hay and other feed but the corn was kept in a crib back toward the house. The barn was half in the woods and the path from Uncle Bill's place to Mary Etta's house on the hill-side, went past the south end, while the path to Ray's went between the house and barn, which was fully in the cow pasture.
When a visitor walked from Uncle Geed's or the Freeman Sr. cabin, he cut catty-cornered across the field behind the Nelse Ball house, close to the Tater Hill ( Halleck side ) of the road to Gladesville, and came out onto the road atop Tater Hill if the weather was dry. On wet days or in winter, the walker followed a path through the trees on the ridge and came out at the back of Uncle Bill's house, then walked past the barn, across the stream and pasture and up the hill to David and Mary Etta Watson's home. The lane to the barn was between the open front yard and the log-fenced pig lot which was on the east side of the house. The main orchard was across the road on a level plot of land and the garden on the slope behind the house.
*
source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in 1920s, page - 11, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania.
William Kelley ( Uncle Bill )
William Kelley inherited his share of the original estate and had one of the largest Barns on the land before it was torn down after World War II. The house lay just over Tater Hill from the original Kelley cabin and on the north of the Kingwood-Fairmont Pike--Halleck-Gladesville link--on Laural Run.
Uncle Bill had hazel eyes and black hair and was not quite six feet tall.
From a log cabin he moved into a board frame house, " L " shaped, where Ora Smith, lived in 1975. One of the phrases he gets credit for is the remark to a relative. The kin was talking on a winter day when the ground was thawed and muddy: Nice day overhead ! ... and Uncle Bill is credited with saying, " Yes, but not many people are going that way. " Actually he had a " wonderful sense of humor ". His memory was good and he enjoyed talking about the " old days " of people and places of interest to him.
Credited with being a good father by Ora, he would sit and sing hymns in the late evening. He knew them well and Ora says he taught her to sing by having her join in with him. He liked to go to Browns Chapel on Sunday evenings to Christian Endeavor where he joined in with the singing.
Uncle Bill also " loved to go to every circus that came to Morgantown ." He walked most of the way, a distance of twelve miles. Martha would also clean his pants and coat with coffee ( the Boy Scout uniforms in the 1930s were washed with coffee in the water to keep the brown color ). She also put soot from the kitchen or heating stove pipes--coal fire and wood--on his shoes to make them black and shiny.
*
source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in 1920s,
page - 16-17, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source #27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*
source #27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Other records indicate a month and day of birth as September 19, however we have not been able to confirm this date.
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Miss Kelley's life was one of self-sacrifice. She waited on her paralyzed father and on her blind Aunt, Manerva Kelley, until their deaths. She took care of two brothers, Marion and John, and of one sister, Minnie, in their last days. She also raised a niece ( Mary, daughter of Minerva Kelley Clem who died of TB ) and a grandniece.
Harriet Emma Kelley
Harriet Emma Kelley was born the daughter of William and Martha J. Smith Kelley. Emma stayed at home and never married. She took care of her father as late as the 1920s when the reunions started and her blind, Aunt Manerva Kelley on the homeplace.
She was the chief housekeeper and cook and always dressed in plain clothing. She was considered a good cook and George M. Boyd, whose mother, Mary Martha Bernadine Clem Boyd, was raised by Emma, said he used to play hookey from school in the 1930s to visit the homeplace and enjoy Emma's
" own butter biscuits ". George terms Aunt Emma a " very meticulous person who demanded the same from everyone who visited her home there " in the little valley below. George said Aunt Emma raised his sister Virginia ( Ginny as she was called in the 1920s ). Virginia got the Uncle Bill ( Emma's father ) place by inheritance and retained ownership of the farm several years, George wrote in 1975. It was later deeded to E. Ray Smith and at this writing the home of Ora Kelley Smith, adopted daughter of William Kelley. From this farm, Uncle Bill went off to fight for the north in the Civil War. He returned to the farm and lived out his days and died there.
She is remembered for doing her cooking in the small kitchen building at the back of the house in summer to keep the main building cooler for the sick, elderly people. The well was half-way between the house and the kitchen and to the west of the home. A boardwalk connected the house's back porch and the kitchen. Emma's life was one of sacrifice and love for those who needed love and peoper care.
Emma died of stomach cancer at 5:00 p.m. January 19, 1937, according to available records, and is buried at Halleck, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. She is praised by the historian of the Pennsylvania Kelleys, James O. Stewart, for having assisted him with some records.
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page 15, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Francis Marion Kelley Home
( son of William Kelley, nephew of Joseph C. Kelley )
This single story white and green painted trim house sat in the middle of the small valley, closer to the dirt Halleck-Gladesville Road and was on more level land than Uncle Bill's place. The house was reached by a short turn-in lane that took one into the farm. A wooden palling fence surrounded the yard and garden which was to the left of the house when a visitor came into the open place.
A porch on the front of the house afforded shade and cool air in hot weather for it was almost never in the sun in the hot part of a summer day--the morning sun was on it and then it became shaded and by the time the sun was hot and high in the afternoon, it was to the west and soon disappeared behind Tater Hill to give cool evening sitting in the swing that always hung on the porch. This was unlike Uncle Bill's front porch which, with it's swing, was generally in the sun.
Jo Etta Zinn Kelley, a large woman in later life, could sit in the swing and watch the men harvest in the fields across the road on the Watson place, or look to Uncle Bill's and watch the cattle graze in the pasture across the dirt road. The side gate to the yard fence led to the kitchen at the back of the house and a pump. The chickens ran " wild " on this farm and could scratch everywhere but in the garden as at Uncle Bill's.
The house was built about 1895 and seemed in good repair in the 1920s. A chicken coop, corn crib, fairly large barn, hog pens and other units were at the back on a flat piece of land. Marion's corn and oats were in fields behind the pasture land. Woods bordered on both sides of one of Marion's main crop fields and part of the line fence bordered the Watson land on the field behind Marion's place, his garden and the Watson field behind the " Old Squire House. "
At Marion's one fall day a threshing machine came in the 1920s to thresh oats. The straw came out one place and the oats were sacked at the bottom of the noisy machine, powered by a steam engine. The threasher was not Marion's and went from farm to farm or area to area to do its work. An unusual flat rock was found near the barn. One could surmise this was used for such purposes as necessitated the mother of inventions, to make lye soap, washing clothing, or whatever; it was a gray, pocked boulder.
*source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in 1920s, pages 11-12, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Francis Marion Kelley
Francis Marion Kelley, son of William Kelley was not very tall and had the usual Kelley look. He lived a short distance across a small valley to the east-southeast from his father and sister, on one branch of Laural Run. It was part of the original Kelley tract he had inherited. He farmed, raised hogs, a cow or two, raised corn, oats and he and his wife, Jo Etta Zinn Kelley, had a garden where they raised the usual vegetables each summer. They had no children but seemed to have a happy life there when the 1920s rolled around. A nephew, Porter Brown, stayed with them in their late years.
At harvest time, Marion helped David and the others with farm chores, making hay and putting it up, cutting oats and at butchering time as all the men--relatives and close friends--helped each other with things " too big " for one man to do.
The white cottage went to Mary Clem Boyd upon Marion's death. She and her family enjoyed the player piano--played from paper rolls with special holes that passed over an air channel of metal which caused the keys to operate and thereby get the notes of the music of songs. It could be played manually also. Later the house was to pass out of the hands of the Kelley family.
*
source # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, Homesteads in Browns Chapel in 1920s,
pages 15-16, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source #27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13,
1999.
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Jo Etta died in 1935 and Marion must have lived about a year after her, the gravestone at Halleck, reads 1936. Jo Etta was born in 1860. They rest beside each other in the Halleck Cemetery as they had in the white cottage there in the quiet little valley. In summer, Jo Etta often disliked the warm weather because she was a large woman, but the porch near the dirt road afforded shade on summer afternoons.
*
source: #-24, Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, page-15, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source #27:
Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 . Her stone reads " 1866 - 1935 "
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*source #27: Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. His stone is inscribed with the following: SON OF W. & M.J. KELLEY
[NI0568]
Records indicate that Ora Delila Vanata was adopted and raised by William Kelley at Dominion Post, Morgantown, West Virginia, after the death of her parents, John Vanata and Maude Pletcher.
Elza Ray and Ora Vanata Smith had eight children of whom the names of only two are known. We know that James was the youngest.
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*source #27: Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source #27: Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Twelve years after Elwoods death Ellen had a cerebral hemorrhage and died at home at age 84. She was a little woman and very energetic in her younger days. It was true she never learned to write but was still an excellent gardener and kept chickens. Every time she heard a hen cackle, her granddaughter says, she ran to get the egg. She was considered quiet and smiled alot and was hardly ever upset about anything.
*
source : #-25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 10, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
[NI0588]
Other records indicate that Riley Elwood Smith was born in Ohio, February 20, 1855.
He died at the age of 82, but was never ill. One morning he asked for a glass of milk before getting out of bed. He drank it and said, " My ! that tasted so good ! " and fell over dead.
*source: #-25, " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 10, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Della is described as a jolly person, very hospitable and most everyone enjoyed visiting her home. Della helped to care for Lina and Walter after their parents died and they could not live at the homeplace.
*
source: # 25 - " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " Chapter two, page 14, Charles W. Duncil. Butler, Pennsylvania.
[NI0596]
Kelley Clan Magazine, number eleven, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
[NI0598]
Kelley-Smith Families, appendix, notes 1985, page twenty-three
[NI0599]
Kelley-Smith Families, appendix, notes 1985 page twenty-three
[NI0603]
While repairing Cook's Hospital, Gaston Avenue, Fairmont, West
Virginia, following a fire, he fell through the charred boards eighteen feet to the ground.
He died as a result of the injuries sustained in the fall.
Freeman belonged to the Orrel Lodges No. 20, I.O.O.F., of Newburg,
Preston County and the Gladeville Lodges No. 46, Junior Order of
United American Mechanics.
*
source: # 24 - Kelley-Smith Family Personalities, Chapter three, page 18-19, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
source #27:
Birth and Death year: Actual video/photograph taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Other sources indicate a birth month and day of August 8, however we have not been able to confirm this date.
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*source #27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Grave stone reveals the birth and death years.
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*source #27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Grave stone reveals the birth and death years.
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BIO: Was in the U.S. Army Camp at West Virginia University when World War I ended. * Kelley-Smith Linage, part one, page seven.
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BIO: Kathryn was a homemaker and a mother. She was a member of the Baptist Temple for 48 years, and the ABW and Elder-Shaver Circle of the church. She was a member of the World War I Women's auxiliary and past president and past state chaplain of the World War I Auxiliary. She was also a member of American Legion Post 17's Women's Auxiliary and Winfield Extension Homemakers for 48 years.
*source: Times-West Virginian, Fairmont, West Virginia, June 17, 1992
*source # 24- Kelley-Smith Personalities, Charles W. Duncil, pages 36 & 37, Butler, Pa.
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BIO NOTE : A Photo of Betty appeared in the Tuesday April l9, 1983 issue of Times- West Virginian with the second story on her.(Times-West Virginian . Fairmont, W. Va., Monday, Apri1 18, l983)
OBITUARIES - Elizabeth Johnson
Elizabeth K. Johnson, of Beverly Road, Fairmont, died Sunday in her residence. She was born Nov. l8, l9O8, in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of the late Edward Edgar W. and Ne11ie Orr Kelley. She is survived by her husband, Walter E . Johnson ; three sisters, Miss Waneta Kelley, Mrs. Donald (Lavica) Hohman and Mrs. Milton (Clara) Tetrick, all of Fairmont; two nieces, Brenda K. Tetrick of Arkansas, Mrs. Marvin (Karen) Rowan of Fairmont; 3 nephews, Lindy Tetrick of Pittsburgh, Pa., Chester D. Kelley of Fairmont, Gary A. Kelley of Fairmont. One brother, Chester F. Kelley, is deceased. She was a member of the Diamond Street United Methodist Church. She was a member of the Marion County GenealogicaClub,Inc., the Young Women's Christian Association, the Corner Stone Genealogical Society of Waynesburg, Pa., and a member of the Friends of Marion County Library. She was a member of the Marion County Historical Society, Marion County RIFF Society the Palatines to America Society,National Genealogical Club, Taylor County Historical and Genealogical Society. She belonged to the Tri-County Researchers of the Ohio Valley and the Washington County (Pa.) Genealogical Club.
Friends may call at the Ford Funeral Home, 201 Co1umbia St., 7-9 p.m. Monday and 10 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, and lO to l p.m., Wednesday. Services will be he1d in the funeral home Wednesday at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Meredith Ball officiating. Burial wi11 be in Bever1y Hi11s Memoria1 Gardens. (Excerpts from the second story not in the first one Monday.) She was a member of the Greene County Historical Society of Waynesburg, Pa., Pioneer Historical Society of Bedford County, Pa., Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County, Pa.Genealogical Services and the Historical Museum Commission of Harrisburg, Pa.; the Preston County, Morgan County and Wetzel County Societies , and the Tri-County-Marshall, Tyler and Wetzel County Society. She was a member of the AARP, West Virginia Wildlife Assoc., West Virginia Citizen Action Group, Prickett Fort Memorial Foundation. She was a former officer and charter member of the Marion County Genealogical Club and secretary of the West Virginia Historical Society of Fairmont . She was a graduate of East Fairmont High School and the West Virginia Business College (of Fairmont). She was a former employee of the Monongahela G1ass Works, Owens- Illinois Glass plant, Monongahela Power Co. and the Sampson Engineering Co. An aunt, Mrs . Flora Winn, among the survivors, lives in Washington, D.C.
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BIO: Served in the U.S. Navy as Aero-Mechanic 2nd Class, at Great Lakes, Illinois; Corpus Cristi, Texas, 1943-1946.
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*source # 27: Birth and Death year: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Stone is inscribed as follows: SON OF FR & NC KELLEY
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source # 27:
Birth and Death dates: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Stone is inscribed as follows: SON OF FR & NC KELLEY
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source # 27:
Death date: Actual video/photograph taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Grave stone states: INFANT OF FR & NC KELLEY, our records indicate that there was a child born, Edna,
female, with these dates.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death Dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Kelley-Smith Families, appendix, notes 1985, page twenty-three
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Kelley-Smith Families, appendix, notes 1985, page twenty-three
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BIO: William Kelley was born in 1759, we think in southwestern Virginia back of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Williamsburg on the Tidewater section of the state. The son of John Kelley and a woman whose maiden name was Harris, but whose first name is unknown. It is known that she was the sister of John Harris who was the founder of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Records offered by Genevieve McKinney Hartsaw of Washington, Pa., show "William Kelley served as a private in the militia of Chester-field County, Virginia." Chesterfield County in old Virginia is located south of Richmond and west of Petersburgh, Virginia. In his will William Kelley, Sr. mentioned that the children of Morris would inherit his share. Morris had predeceased his father. William married Elisabeth Force and the couple had the following children: Sarah; Eliza; William, Jr.; James; Samuel Force; Squire
Freeman, Sr.; Harriet; Martha; Rachel; and Morris. Some records seem to indicate that William, Sr. was married twice and had the following children by his first wife: Morris; Charlotte; Maria; Susan; Hannah
and Mary. It is more likely that Charlotte, Maria, Susan, Hannah and Mary are actually the daughters of Morris.
Following the Revolutionary War, William turned most of his wealth over to the Colonial Government in exchange for Continental currency. Afterwards the currency became so inflated, partly because the British printed so much paper money, that it became almost worthless. The U.S. Government offered to redeem the Continental currency for five cents on the dollar, but William refused. He believed that some
day the Continental currency would be redeemed for its original amount. "We lost our heritage of wealth but we gained a nobler heritage," James Edward Kelley wrote. "Our heritage is the gratitude of every
American citizen. I would not exchage my American freedom (for which Father William fought and gave his all) for the wealth of a Rockefeller."
Both William, Sr. and his wife Elisabeth are buried in the Hewitt United Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rices' Landing, Greene Co., Pennsylvania
WILLIAM KELLEY, Sr.'s WILL
I, William Kelley, of Jefferson Township in the County Greene, and state of Pennsylvania of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament as
follows: I give and bequeath to my Dear Wife Elizabeth, all the use and proffets of my farm while she remains my widow, also one bed and bedding, one sorrel mare and side saddle, one cow, one table, four
cirs, one teakittle, one pot, one chirn, fraying pan, the corner cubberd and dubberd ware, one little wheel looking glass and the clock. After my decease, I order my executors to sell the balance of my moveable property to pay the funeral expenses and just debts, my will is one year after the death or marriage of my widow for my executors or either of them to sell my farm and the money arising after paying all expenses to make a divident of the same to my legatees, all to share and share alike, my daughter Eliza's children to draw her share after deducting out the amount of a note, with interest which I hold on James Neel their father, my will is that my son Morris's children to draw his share. I do make, constitute
Jonas F. Randolph and Isaac F. Randolph aforesaid Executors of this my Last Will and Testament whereof I have set my hand and seal this fourth day of July, one-thousand eight-hundred and forty-one.
Sealed and acknowledged in the presence of Samuel Sharpneck and James Kelley.
His Mark
William X Kelley
Greene County SS
Before me George Hoskinson, Register for the Probate of wills and granting Letters of Administration in and for said County this day came Samuel Sharpneck and James Kelley the two subscribing witnesses to the within instrument of writing and upon their solumn oaths sayeth that they were present and saw William Kelley the Testator within named sign, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last will and testament and that at the time of doing thereof he was of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding according to the best of their knowledge, observation and belief.
Samuel Sharpneck
James Kelley
Sworn and Subscribed before me July 24, 1841 Inventory filed August 23, 1841 from Monument at Hewitt United Presbyterian Church Cemetery: "In memory of William Kelley, Sr. who departed this life July 14, 1841 in the 82nd year of his life. He lived in credit and died lamented by all who knew him. He was a believer in the divinity of Jesus Christ and an honest man and this stone is erected to his memory by John Walters."
Will of William Kelley, Sr. - Copied from Photostat in Waynesboro,
Pennsylvania, Greene County Courthouse, Page 141 No. 998
Father William had one son, Samuel Force Kelley, who fought in the Civil War. He also had 9 grandsons in the Civil War including some at Browns Chapel and some in Greene County.
*
source: # 25 - "William Kelley - Elwood Smith," Family Genealogy ", Chapter One, page 5 and page 9, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
Records of Genevieve McKinney Hartsaw, Washington, Pennsylvania
Birth and Death dates:
source #27: Actual video/photograph of grave stone taken by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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Near her husband, William's marker is another which reads: " Elisabeth, wife of William Kelley, died October 18, 1856, aged 79 years, 6 months and 21 days. She is not dead but sleepeth."
*
source: # 25 - " William Kelley - Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelley's, Chapter one, page-5, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
Birth Date:
source #27: Actual video/photograph of grave stone taken by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999
reveals a death date of October 18, 1856 aged 79 years, 6 mths. 21 days. We don't know how her birth date was determined. A birth date of March 28, 1777 is more likely than other records indicated as May 21, 1777.
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BIO: Married Charles Crago. They had three sons and four daughters.
* source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number eighteen, Good Friday 1942. James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
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BIO: Married James Noel ( Some records show Neel ) They had three sons and three daughters.
* source: # 26- Kelley Clan Magazine, number nineteen, August 25, 1942, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
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* source : # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number nineteen, August 25, 1942, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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BIO: Married Elizabeth Ewart: ( Some records show " Swurt " ), and they had four sons and four daughters.
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*source #27: Actual video / photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Charlotte and Jacob's graves are located in a field next to the Central Grade School- 1927, Jefferson, Greene Co., Pennsylvania.
Their stones are in bad condition, weather-beaten and are in 2 pcs. each. The top portion of the stones are upright and laid up against the base.
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*source # 27: Actual video / photographs taken of graves by Donald D. Lewis July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number thirteen, Christmas 1940, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Hannah and her husband, Hiram Haver, lived at Inconium, Iowa for many years. Then they homesteaded a quarter of land a half mile west of Bonesteel, North Dakota. They had seven girls all of whom with their husbands and families are living in or near Bonesteel North Dakota.
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He was a member of the Odd Fellows.
source #27: Actual video / photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis, July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source: # 26 - Kelly Clan Magazine, Christmas 1940, #-13, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Rev. Adam Robert Rush prepared by correspondence courses for the ministry. He was received into the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in February, 1888. He retired after thirty-five years of active service to the church. He was a member of the Odd Fellows.
After the death of his first wife, Martha Ellen Crago in 1926 the Rev. Rush married Miss Winifred Murphy of Near Perryopolis, Pa. They made their home with Mr. Alfred Murphy in the old Murphy Homestead. They had no children.
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*source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number fourteen, Easter 1941, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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* source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, Christmas 1939 - #10, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
" My grandfather James Kelley bought the Bend of the River farm from Amos Horner, June 3, 1839. Grandfather sold the farm to Richard Covert, September 23, 1869. It was probably soon after this that he and all of the family except Elizabeth Margaret Kelley-Stewart ( was married by that time ) went to Iowa."
( Quote from- James Otis Stewart--grandson )
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It is believed the Hewitt United Presbyterial Church at Rices Landing was founded in part at least by mother Elizabeth's family.
*
source #-25, " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelleys in Virginia, Chapter one, page-4, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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*source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number ten, Christmas 1939, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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BIO: Samuel Force Kelley married Ailse (Alice) Carter of Millsboro, Greene County, Pennsylvania on November 6, 1834. They had eight sons and three daughters. The fifth son of Father William and Elisabeth Force Kelley of Greene County, Pennsylvania, was Samuel Force. He married Ailse Carter and
in the census report of 1850 we find an interesting item or two. On the sheet sent the Kelley-Smith historian (Charles W. Duncil) by Mary Kelley Crane, descendant of Samuel Force, copied from the
Harrisburg, Pa,, State Library microfilm, July 14, 1977, we find: The sheet covers Jefferson Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The notations were taken from the census taker named James Rea as
recorded by him August 29, 1850.
Samuel Kelley age 42 farmer born in Pennsylvania
Ailyzy age 37 female can't read or write
(spelling on report)
Freeman age 14 born in Penna.
William age 13 born in Penna.
John age 11 born in Penna. school 1 year
Elizabeth age 8 born in Penna. school 1 year
James age 6 born in Penna. school 1 year
Rachel Ann age 3 born in Penna.
Harriet age 1 born in Penna.
Elizabeth age 72 in same household born New Jersy worth $1,000-1,400.
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Samuel Force responded to President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers at age 52 and was Honorably Discharged after the Civil War ended in 1865. His widow drew a pension war records show.
*
source: #-25- " William Kelley - Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 5, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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Ailes was from Millsboro, Pennsylvania which is below Fredericktown on the Monongahela River in Greene Co. Pennsylvania. Census records show she was born in Pennsylvania, and her parents were born in Virginia
*source: #-25- " Wiliam Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 4, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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*source # 27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source # 27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Ansadonna and Samuel's stone reads - " Kelley - Donia - 1855 - 1905, Samuel F. 1853 - 1930 ".
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*source # 27: Birth and Death years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Joseph's stone reads - " Joseph M. Kelley - 1882 - 1938 "
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*source: # 26 - Kelly Clan Magazine, August 15, 1939, #-8, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
OUR TEACHERS:
Mary Stewart Kelley is teaching first grade in the Prospect School of Brownsville, Pennsylvania
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Freeman Kelley left Carmichaels about 1873 and bought a farm near Ceylon. He ran a farming and blacksmithing business there. About 1886 he left Ceylon and bought a farm near Khedive.
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*Note: James Edward Kelley was the Kelley Clan President in 1937
About forty-five years ago when I was a boy of some sixteen years, I made my first visit to Father William's tomb. I accompanied my father, Freeman Kelley and his brother John Kelley of Cumberland, Md. It was their last visit to their grandfather's tomb. There were in a reminiscent mood and talked over their boyhood days and the early life of the Kelley family as they had learned it. I learned some things about Father William. He was much opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages and would not sell grain to anyone who manufactured liquors. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Later investigation reveals that he served in the Virginia Militia. It may seem strange to you but at that time this part of Pennsylvania was believed to be part of Virginia. Later it was found to be part of Pennsylvania.
His sons were too young to serve in the War of 1812 and they were too old to serve in the Civil War. However, one of his younger sons, at the age of fifty-two, responded to Lincoln's first call for volunteers, served in the war for more than four years, and was honorably discharged after the war was over. Father William had at least nine grandsons in the Civil War.
I also learned that Father William turned over most of his wealth to the Colonial Government in exchange for Continental currency which afterwards became so inflated that it was worthless. The government redeemed it at five cents on the dollar. Father William would not take that for his, believing that it would be redeemed someday at it's original value he turned it over to his children. My father and Uncle John did not know how much of this currency their grandfather had. All they knew was that they had played with about two barrels of it which was their father's share.They talked about their father and his brothers and sisters ( sons and daughters of once wealthy parents ) being cast upon the world without the things to which they had been accustomed. They spoke of the courage of their own father, of how he had learned a trade and reared a family and lived an honorable, upright life.
You can see what inflation and devaluation of the currency did for the Kelleys. Had the children of Father William received a just valuation of his estate, they would of been a family of wealth. Yes we lost our heritage of wealth but we gained a nobler heritage. Our heritage is the gratitude of every American citizen.I would not exchange my American freedom ( for which Father William fought and gave his all ) for the wealth of a Rockefeller.
The above is excerpts given in an oration delivered by James Edward Kelley during the afternoon session of the 1937 Kelley reunion-held in the Hewitt Presbyterian Church of Rices Landing.
*
source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, Christmas 1937, #-4, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
KC Magazine-#5- summer of 1938
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Miss Elizabeth Alice Kelley was one of the most widely known teachers in Southwestern, Pa. It was probably in the winter of 1893-1894 that she taught the Heistersburg district school in Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co., Pa--Next she taught at Shady Park School in North Bradock, Pa as Principal and teacher for 10 Years. Then she was Principal and teacher at Mansfield School in Carnegie, Pa for six years. Then she was at Carmichaels for eight years, part of the time as primary teacher and part of the time as Principal. Next she taught the primary room at Mather, Pa for eleven years. She retired in 1934
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*source: # 26- Kelley Clan Magazine, number twenty-two, July 29, 1947, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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Kelley Clan Magazine, September 1, 1968, Lloyd M. Kelley, Washington, Pennsylvania
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*source:# 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, 1939, #8, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
OUR STUDENTS:
Grace Lucille Kelley, daughter of Alvie Earl Kelley and Marion Belle ( Martin ) Kelley, is attending the Griffith Beauty School in Pittsburgh.
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Kelley Clan Magazine, number twenty-six, September 1, 1968, Lloyd M. Kelley, Washington, Pennsylvania.
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Joseph E. Kelley son of Alvie Earl Kelley is building a new house on his fathers farm near Eighty Four.
*
source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, July 14, 1941, #-15, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania
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*source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number twelve, August 20, 1940, James O. Stewart. " History of Ashtabula County, Ohio, Then and Now. " Published 1985 by A.C.G.S., page 354
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*source: # 26 - Kelley Clan Magazine, number fifteen, July 14, 1941, James O. Stewart, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
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*source - Kelley Clan Magazine, number twenty-six, September 1, 1968, Lloyd M. Kelley, Washington, Pennsylvania.
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*source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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*source: #-25, " William Kelley-Elwood Smith Genealogy " First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 4, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
Harriet Kelley born October 12, 1812 ( One record shows 1813 ). She married John Walters and they had several children. No further information is available.
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BIO: Rachel married Daniel McCullough and they had five sons and five daughters.
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Morris Kelley is mentioned in the will of Father William and it's believed that he died before his father for the last Will and Testament says that his son Morris' children are to draw his share. It might possibly be that those children were Maria, Charlotte, Susan, Hanna and Mary since these are listed in the Family Bibles without notations or identifications. One glance at the data might cause one to draw the conclusions these five girls were Father William's offspring. But it is conceivable they were Morris' children instead. There is no record that Father William married twice and thus fathered the latter listed girls.
* source: #-25 - " William Kelley - Elwood Smith Genealogy ", First Kelleys, Chapter one, page 5, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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BIO: John Kelley, born in County Armagh, Ireland (Ulster or Northern Ireland), came to America in 1719. He came to the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1734. In 1747 he was engaged in fur trading with the Delaware Indians on the west side of the Susquehanna River, 12 miles from the present site of Harrisburg. John Kelley was associated with John Harris who founded Harrisburg, the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1747.
John Kelley located in Donegal Township, Westmoreland County in 1760. He married John Harris' sister. While no direct ties have been found, it is a theory that Harris' sister was William Kelley, Sr.'s mother.
While the Horn Papers are not always reliable, a notation in these documents says, "John Kelley and his family came with a group of settlers in 1767 in the Spring. The sons, James, William and Joseph
lived here in Greene County (not named that until years later) until about 1777." In another place the papers state John Kelley located in Donegal Township, Westmoreland County in 1780."
*
source: # 25 - "William Kelley - Elwood Smith," Family Genealogy, Chapter One, page 1, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania, James O. Stewart Papers, Horn Papers
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BIO: She was the sister of John Harris, the founder of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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BIO : Records show a John Kelley, believed to be William's brother and probably older, was in the Revolutionary War Rangers. He fought the British and Indians on the western slopes of the Alleghenies. One battle with the redmen in the wilds of the valley of the Monongahela started on Dunkard Creek near what is now Blackville, West Virginia, on the Pennsylvania border south of Waynesburg, and continued to what is now Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia.
* source: # 25 - "William Kelley - Elwood Smith," Family Genealogy, Chapter One, Charles W. Duncil, Butler, Pennsylvania
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* sources: #-21, Home Video of White Rock Cemetery, Fairchance, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, December 4, 1997. Taken by Donald D. Lewis ( great-grandson )
Frank Benjamin Bricker's grave marker reads as follows:
FRANK B. BRICKER
1876 - 1966
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Nellie Mae Myers and Beulla Myers are said to be half-sisters to the rest of the Myers children. Julia A. Lewis is believed to be the mother of Nellie and Beulla Myers.
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* source # 21-Home video/photographs taken at grave site By Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997.
Nellie Mae Bricker's grave marker reads as follows:
NELLIE MAE BRICKER
1881 - 1953
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Herbert and Myrtle are laid to rest on the same plot. Also they share the same headstone. Their stone reads as follows:
BRICKER
HERBERT R. MYRTLE I.
1915-1994 1918-1998
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. John W. and Dortha F. Bricker share the same plot, also the same headstone. It reads as follows:
BRICKER
DORTHA F. JOHN W.
1915-1995 1907-1993
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* source # 21 -
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs of grave site by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Robert's grave stone reads as follows:
ROBERT G. BRICKER
PFC US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
1920 - 1980
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* source # 21
Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family stones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Agnes P. Rhodes ( Bricker ) is buried next to her husband Edward W. Rhodes. They share the same headstone. It reads as follows:
RHODES
EDWARD W. AGNES P.
1906-1986 1913-1981
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* source # 40: The Monongalia Story - A Bicentennial History - Vol. lll, District, by Earl L. Core - pages 518, 520.
Page 518 lists:
Levi Bricker under privates Recruited September 6, 1862. Company E, 7th. WV Infantry Volunteer Co. Mustered into service at Grafton on July 31, 1861 and served till September 5, 1863, and was consolidated into a battalion.
Page 520 lists:
Company C, 3rd. WV Cavalry. Organized at Brandonville October 1, 1861, marched to Clarksburg, where remained till January 15, 1862, when it proceeded to New Creek. It was in the engagements at Chancellorville and Gettysburg. Peter Tabler was Captain. Levi Bricker of Monongalia Co., was on it's roll.
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* source # 21 - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery on December 4, 1997 by Donald D. Lewis. Robert's stone reads as follows:
ROBERT M.
MYERS
1862 - 1952
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source: # 21- Home video of Maple Grove and White Rock Cemeteries, Fairchance, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania taken 12-4-1997 by Donald D. Lewis.
There is no birth date for Julia A. Lewis inscribed on her tombstone, also the cemetery listing for White Rock Cemetery does not list a birth date. However, other information has been obtained through other genealogy searches has indicated that Julia A. Myers ( Lewis ) birth date is listed as 1865. Julia's stone reads as follows.
JULIA A.
wife of
ROBERT MYERS
DIED
DEC. 23, 1909
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* source # 21 - Home video/photographs taken at grave site by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. John's gravestone reads as follows:
JOHN W.
WARMAN
MAY 6, 1842
SEPT. 1, 1907
Co. 75 PA VOL CAV
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* source: # 2-1900 Census of the United States, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, North Union Twp., Supervisors Dist.- 17 Enumeration Dist. 46, Sheet # 7, Line 1, Volume 89
William Sullivan- Head of family-White male-born June 1818 in Pa., 82 years old in 1900, married 59 years in 1900, Occupation- Coal Miner. Owned his home. Education- could read, write & speak english. Father born in Maryland, Mother born in Maryland.
Military service:
* Census of the United States-1890 Special Census Schedule Civil War Union Veterans and their Widows-Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. North Union Twp. Enumeration June 1890:
William Sullivan- Enlisted June 13, 1861. Rank: Private, H Company 3rd Regiment of Virginia Calvary.
Length of Service: 3 years, 2 months, 4 days.
Discharged: August 17, 1864
Post Office address in 1890: Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
The O'Sullivan Family: O'Sullivan is Irish . The name comes from the root word O'Suileabhain. The descendant of the black-eyed one. This clan originated in Tipperary, Ireland. The shield has a silver background with a red hand holding a sword erect.
William was a laborer in Preston Co., (W) Virginia. One of the largest employers of Preston Co. in 1850 was the B&O Railroad. Most of the employees were construction workers. In the 1900 Census of Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, his occupation was listed as a retired coal miner. On April 5, 1845, he married Catherine " Kate " (Strausser) Wolf. She was born in (W) Virginia, April 11,1828. She died in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, February 6, 1912.
The family was known to have lived in Grant District, Preston Co., West Virginia from 1850 to 1871. This information was obtained from the 1850 Census of Preston Co. and the Personal Property Tax Books of Preston Co. West Virginia. William listed his last name as O'Sullivan until 1870 then wrote his name as Sullivan. The 1850 U.S. Census has him listed as Sullivan.
William O'Sullivan was a Civil War Veteran. He enlisted June 13, 1861 and served under Captain Van Swerringen in Co.H., 3rd Regiment of the Virginia Infantry Volunteers. He entered the Union Army at Clarksburg, (W) Virginia. William was captured at Bridgeport (W) Virginia on April 30,1863, and confined at Richmond, Va. until May 5, 1863. He was paroled at City Point, Virginia May 14, 1863 and reported back to camp May 16, 1863. In January 1864 the regiment became Company H., 6th Regiment, West Virginia Calvary. He served as a Private for a 3 year enlistment. ( 3 yrs.,2 mo. and 4 days) Discharge came August 17, 1864 at Beverly, West Virginia. He returned to Bruceton Mills, Preston Co.,West Virginia.
William T. O'Sullivan died April 8, 1902 in Coolsprings, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, at his home.
sources:
# 2- The 1900 Census, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
# 4- Tombstone Park Place Cemetery, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
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*source: # 13-1910 Census of the United States, Fayette Co., PA, North Union Twp., Supervisors District #22, Enumeration Dist. #55, Voting Precinct #3.
#105- Catherine Sullivan- Head of family- White Female- Born in West Virginia- Age 83 yrs. Old- Widowed- Had eight children and seven were living in 1910. Could read, could not write and spoke english. Occupation, None- Owned her home. Father born in W.VA.-Mother born in W.VA.
Catherine was born in (W) Virginia, April 11,1828. She died in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, February 6, 1912.
sources:
# 3- The Morning Herald, Uniontown, PA, February 10,1912
# 5- Death certificate, File # 17932
*source #- 18- Information provided by: Loretta Mae Hudak, ( 2nd Great- Granddaughter ) of William T. and Catherine Strausser Sullivan. Some Information obtained by previous family genealogy search conducted by: Ewing Genealogy Services, 714 S. Hillward Ave., West Covina, California 91791, also info obtained from a genealogist in Fairchance, Pennsylvania, prepared for Lorette Mae Hudak.
* February 6, 1912 Uniontown, PA Newspaper pg. 5
Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, 84 years old, died at 12:30 o'clock this morning of old age, after a stroke of paralysis last Friday. Mrs. Sullivan was born in West Virginia, but has lived in Fayette county for the past 30 years. Her husband died 10 years ago. The death of Mrs. Sullivan occurred at her home in Coolspring. The deceased is survived by four daughters; Mrs. Elizabeth Pollack, of Lambert; Mrs. Jennie Densmore, of Reeson; Mrs. Mary Lewis, of Oliphant and Mrs. Nettie Baker, at home and three sons; Henry and Marshall Sullivan at home and Jackson Sullivan of New York. A large number of grandchildren also survive. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
Another Obituary similar to this was in The Morning Herald, Uniontown, PA, February 10, 1912, pg.2.
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*sources:
*6-7 Birth - 1850 Census of Preston Co., West Virginia
* 7 Marriage - The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1912
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*sources:
# 2, Birth - 1900 Census of Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
#7, Mariage - The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania,
#9, Death - Death Certificate - James M. Sullivan
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* sources:
# 10- Park Place Cemetery, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylcania
# 11- Birth Certificate of Staten Trader
# 12- Trader Family Bible owned by Harold R. Trader Jr. Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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* sources:
# 7-The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
# 13- 1910 Census of Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
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* sources:
# 7- The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
# 14- Marriage Certificate, Book 16, page 193
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* sources:
# 7- The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, February, 6, 1912
# 13- 1910 Census of Fayette Co., Pennsylvania
# 15- Will of Catherine Sullivan, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, Book 17, page 104
# 16- Marriage Certificate, Book 15, page 463
Annette was her mother's absolute heir and executor. Aka " Nettie " Sullivan
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* source: # 7- The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, February 6, 1912
Lived in New York in 1912.
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: Old East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia.
Christian and Louisa J. are buried next to each other and share the same headstone. It reads as follows:
MADERA
LOUISA J. CHRISTIAN
1825-1908 1822-1869
Christian and Louisa's stone is in excellent condition. It looks relatively new and was easy to read at a distance.
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* source # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol. ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core; Chapter 46; Page 478.
Christian served in Capt. Daniel Harris's company and was among the residents of Monongalia Co., pensioned under an act of Congress of March 18, 1818 for military services during the Revolution. Christian and his family moved to Morgantown, probably in the early 1790's.
Christian Madera died in 1822, having been one of Morgantown's early businessmen. In 1806 he obtained Lot # 90, at the corner of Front St. and Bumbo Ln., from Jacob Foulk, pioneer Morgantown potter. Here he resided until his death, leaving a portion of the lot to his grandson Christian and the remainder to his wife Ann for her lifetime. His executors were his son Nicholas B. Madera and his son-in-law Fielding Kiger.
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* source #34: searches Rootsweb.com - Isearch-cgi#1.20.06 ( file: pension 1.txt )
Christian Madera- Monongalia - PA line ( military unit )- 1819 ( pension notes started )-1822 ( died )
CHRISTIAN MADERA
MONONGALIA COUNTY
PRIVATE
PENNSYLVANIA LINE
$ 96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$ 281.41 AMOUNT RECEIVED
JANUARY 7, 1819 PENSION STARTED
AGE 65
SUSPENDED MAY 1, 1820
RESTORED FEBRUARY 16, 1820
DIED MARCH 15, 1822
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*source # 35: Monongalia Co. wills: 1796 - 1903: page 51
Date of Book No.
Testator Inst. Probate Devisees Witnesses Page No.
Madera, (x) 3/11/1822 John Madera, son R. Berkshire 1-389
Christian 6/- /1822 Christian Madera, g.son Nicholas Madera
son of John
Eliz. and Sarah Madera, g.daus. Exrs.
daus. of John Madera. Nicholas B. Madera
Anna Madera Fielding Kiger
other sons and daus.
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Christian's stone reads as follows:
CHRISTIAN MADERA
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MAR-15-1822
AGED 65 YRS.
Standing at the front of the mausoleum looking out over the cemetery, Christian's grave is located on the lower hill to the left of the mausoleum. The stone is in fair to poor condition. The inscription is visible and the lower portion of the stone is wearing away. Also it appears to be " peeling " away in layers.
At the time of our visit the caretaker of East Oak Grove Cemetery informed us that Christian's grave, along with the others on the same burial plot, once were located at the Old Methodist Church in Morgantown. The area is now the home of the Chemistry Bldg of West Virginia University. The graves and stones were moved to East Oak Grove Cemetery in ( date unknown poss. early 1900's ).
Other family members graves located on this plot are: Anna Madera ( Christian's wife ), Jacob Madera
( Christian's son ), Hannah and Martha Madera ( Jacob's 1st. and 2nd. wives ), George Madera, Susanna Madera ( wife of Nicholas B. Madera ) and Rufus Putnam Madera ( son of Nicholas B. Madera ).
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Anna's stone reads as follows:
ANNA MADERA
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE-9-1838
AGED 73 YRS.
Anna is buried between her son Jacob and her husband Christian. Anna's stone appears to be in somewhat better condition than her husband Christian's stone. The inscription is clearly visible and surface is smooth with slight deterioration.
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis : East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Jacob's stone reads as follows:
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JACOB MADERA
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DIED
MAY 11, 1854
AGED
73 YRS, 4 MOS.
Jacob's stone seemed to be in fair condition. The inscription was clearly visible except toward the bottom of the stone where the inscription was starting to fade.
Jacob is buried between his mother ( Anna ) and his 2nd. wife ( Martha ). Jacob's 1st. wife ( Hannah ) is buried at the left end of the Madera row, next to Jacob's 2nd. wife ( Martha ).
Hannah --- Martha --- Jacob -- Anna -- Christian -- George --- Rufus --- Susanna
* Note - Looking at Jacob's 1st. and 2nd. wives stones we noticed that they are almost identical in composition and inscription. Also they were both inscribed using the cursive style lettering. Jacob's was standard letter box print.
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*source # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol. ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core; Chapter 46: 1822 ; Page 481.
Nicholas B. Madera was appointed Morgantown postmaster on March 6, 1822.
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*NOTE: There is limited info known about Nicholas Madera and the birth dates of his 12 children. Nicholas's wife Susanna died at the age of 63 in 1833. Records indicate that Nicholas had children born after his wife's date of death. This leads us to believe that possibly Nicholas was married for a second time and that any children born after her death date belonged to his second wife. We have no way of confirming this- it's just speculation.- Donald D. Lewis
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*source # 28- The Monongalia Story, Bicentennial History - Vol ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core. Chapter-46; Page-477.
Among the prominent civic leaders of pioneer Morgantown were members of the Madera family. Originally this family (sometimes spelled Madori, Madeira, Madery, Madara, etc.) came from Spain. They owned the three islands off the coast of Spain, now known as the Madera Islands, where they were artificers in filigree jewelry. During the reign of the Spanish King Charles V (1516-1555) they, being Protestants, moved to Holland to escape religious persecutions. Three brothers from this family, Jacob, Peter and John Daniel immigrated to America from Holland sometime in the 17th. century and settled in the Philadelphia area. Pennsylvania records list a " Jacob Medary " who arrived from Rotterdam, Holland and took the oath of allegiance September 2, 1739.
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*source # 33- Rootsweb.com - Shipslists - " Loyal Judith " - 1739
( List 73A ) A list of ye Pallantines Names in ye Loyall Judith, Edwd Paynter, Master. ( Qualified September 3, 1739 ) Hans Jacob Madery is listed among the 88 men on this ship
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*source # 19 - National Geographic Traveler, Sept/Oct 1990, pages 90 - 103
Madeira: One of a group of five Portuguese Islands some 500 miles south of Lisbon, Madeira possesses tropical rainforests and dazzling peaks, tiny coastal fishing villages and a cosmopolitan city. Serpentine roads that cut through steep, volcanic slopes may try a driver's skill and patience, but the reward is rich: Lush vistas that have won Madeira it's nickname " pearl of the Atlantic ".
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* source- # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol.ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core; Chapter 46; Page 477.
Jacob and Catherine reared a family of at least six children.
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* source # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol. ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core ; Chapter 46 ; Page 478.
By 1778 Sebastian was dead but his widow and the children, residing in the Wyoming Valley of Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, escaped the massacre in which 200 persons were killed, by fleeing down Schuylkill River to locate near Fairmont, Pennsylvania.
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* source # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol.ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core; Chapter 46; Page 478.
Christopher and Elizabeth had seven children.
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* source # 17, " The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, Pennsylvania" - Jack W. Lewis
One of three brothers that immigrated to America from Holland sometime in the 17th century and located on the shores of the Delaware Bay and at Gwynedd, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. John Daniel after a time located in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Later he and some of his family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio.
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Index of sources:
# 20, US Genweb Archives by J.N.- Ships List
Loyal Judith 1739 ( List 73A ) A List of ye Pallantines Names In ye Loyall Judith, Edwd Paynter, , Master. ( Qualified September 3, 1739 )
Listed as: Hans Jacob Madery, Hans Jacob Madari, Hans Jacob Madori
Source #28: The Monongalia Story; Bicentennial History; Vol II-Pioneers; by Earl L. Core; page 477
"Pennsylvania records list a "Jacob Madery" who arrived from Rotterdam and took the oath of allegiance September 2, 1739."
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* source: # 22 - Daily News Standard, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1914
Irwin Edward Bricker
Fairchance 4-22-1914 - Irwin E. Bricker age 3 years, child of B.F. and Nellie Bricker died at the house of his parents Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. He had been ill several days and the illness developed into diptheria from which he died. Services will be conducted from the home, Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. Interment will take place in White Rock Cemetery, Fairchance, Pennsylvania.
[NI1072]
I was only one year old when my grammy died. I don't remember her at all. I wish that I did. To this day I miss her so much, not knowing her wants to make me cry. I have learned so much about her through my mother and sister, Sherri. They continue to remind me of her to this day. I remembered when my mother would tell me that my grammy would always hold me and rock me to sleep. I also remember when my mother would tell me about how her and my father would get me to sleep and they would decide to go to Dunkin Donuts for a cup of coffee and then they would get a call from my grammy ( within 15 minutes ) saying that I woke up and she needed them to come home immediately. My sister would always tell me that my grammy was really sick. Also when I was a year old and she would really try to hold me, but it was hard for her because she had really bad arthritis. My grammy has been dead for 15 years now and I love and miss her with all my heart.....granddaughter ( Shannon Michelle Lewis ) May 12, 1999
[NI1083]
James Bricker died as a baby - no further info. available
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*source # 39:
Surname Index - Pennsylvania Deaths lists Bricker, Norma Jean as having a birth date of December 11, 1938 and a death date of April 27, 1939
Father: Herbert - Mother: Myrtle Hostettler
The dates of 12/8/1937 and 4/26/1939 were obtained from family members.
[NI1092]
Richard James Kelley was born a " Blue baby " he lived just a few days.
[NI1100]
source #27: Actual video/photographs taken by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
[NI1101]
source # 27: Actual video / photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
[NI1138] Elizabeth Ewart and her sister ( Unknown ) started from Ireland to come to this country and the sister died on the way.
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*source #27: Actual video / photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis, July 11, 12, 13, 1999
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In spite of her affliction she went about the house as if she could see for she knew the location of every article. She even patched and sewed quilts as well as any woman could do. After she had been told the colors of the different pieces she could distinguish them by touch.
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Dorothy is located in the Evergreen Section of Belmont Park Cemetery. Lot # 151, Grave # 2.
Prior to her death, Dorothy resided at 7043 Amherst Dr., Boardman, Ohio.
Davis - Velker Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
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* source - Home video/photographs taken at grave site summer 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. Dorothy's stone reads as follows:
MOTHER
DOROTHY NICOLA
1887 - 1957
BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED EPH. 2:8
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Peter is located in the Evergreen Section of Belmont Park Cemetery, Lot # 151, Grave #1. Prior to his death, he resided at 1519 Albert Street, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio The McCauley Funeral Home handled the arrangements.
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* source - Home video/photographs taken of grave site summer 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. Peter's stone reads as follows:
FATHER
PETER NICOLA
1882 - 1943
CHRIST LIVETH IN ME GAL. 2:20
[NI1146]
Georges' gravesite is located in the Evergreen Section of Belmont Park Cemetery, Lot 151 Grave #3 ) #17021 in the log book at the cemetery.
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* source - Home video/photographs of grave site summer of 1999 by Donald D. Lewis. George's stone reads as follows:
FATHER
GEORGE N. WILLIAMS
1903 - 1969
The Lord is my Shepherd
[NI1232]
A coal tipple is a storage facility used to store coal for the loading of different hauling vechicles. George fell to his death from one of these tipples. ....Shoaf, Pennsylvania
[NI1261] Nellie Mae Myers and Beulla Myers are said to be half-sisters to the rest of the Myers children. Julia A. Lewis is believed to be the mother of Nellie and Beulla Myers.
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* source # 27:
Conversation with Betty Doris Kelley per our visit, July 12, 199. Betty Doris Bartges ( Kelley ) stated to us that a baby daughter was born to Ewart and Isa Kelley ( Boyles ) in July of 1920. The baby girl was born dead. Betty Doris discoved this fact when applying for Social Security benefits, because she thought she herself was born in 1920. She discovered that she was born in 1921 and also discovered the birth certificate for the child born in 1920. Place of interment is unknown.
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source # 27:
Birth and Death Years: Actual video/photographs taken at grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999. Also on our visit to Morgantown at the home of Betty Doris Bartges ( Kelley ), Betty Doris stated to us that Melvin Lee Kelley, buried at Mt. Calvary Church Cemetery was the son of Dana Lee Kelley.
Melvin's stone reads as follows: Melvin Lee Kelley - 1931 - 1937
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source #27:
Birth and death dates: Actual video/photographs of grave taken by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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source #27:
Birth and death dates: Actual video/photographs taken of grave by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
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* source # 21- Birth and Death Years - Home video/photographs taken of White Rock Cemetery, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania and family gravestones by Donald D. Lewis on December 4, 1997. Pennsylvania. Flossie lies next to her husband Jesse C. Kelley. Flossie's stone reads as follows:
MOTHER
FLOSSIE E. KELLEY
1886 - 1958
[NI1448] Alma is on the same grave stone as her parents.
[NI1487]
source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken by Donald D. Lewis on July 11, 12, 13, 1999.
Birth date for Elizabeth was determined by the date and age listed on her grave stone.
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source # 31:
Tommy was born dead or lived only 2 months. Not sure of the date.
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source # 31:
Harold was a baby that was born dead. This was in 1942 or 1943, not sure.
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* source # 28: The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol. ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core ; Chapter 46 ; Page 477 & 478.
John and Mary later moved to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and reared a family of 12 children.
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* source # 28 : The Monongalia Story - Bicentennial History - Vol. ll - Pioneers, by Earl L. Core ; Chapter 46 ; Page 478.
Daniel in 1822 was living at Chillicothe, Ohio.
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Hannah's stone reads as follows:
IN MEMORY OF
HANNAH MADERA
WIFE OF JACOB MADERA
DIED
AUGUST 10, 1822
AGED
35 YRS.
Hannah stone is in very poor condition. The inscription is almost illegible.
[NI1640]
* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Martha's stone reads as follows:
IN MEMORY OF
MARTHA MADERA
WIFE OF JACOB MADERA
DIED
JUNE 29, 1859
AGED
57 YRS. 9 MOS.
Martha's stone is in ill repair and the inscription is just barely visible. A figure of a leaf is at the top of the stone.
[NI1646]
We have two (2) sources on the spelling of Susannah's maiden name. One source lists it as Trinkle, the other as Frenkle. Name taken from marriage records indicates last name as Frenkle. Marriage date of November 27, 1804. ( U.S. Genweb Madera-PA 6-19-1972 )
*source # 28: The Monongalia Story - A Bicentennial History-Vol. ll, The Pioneers, by Earl L. Core: Chapter 46, page 478 lists as follows:
" Nicholas B. married Susan ( or Susannah ) Trinkle and they had 12 children "
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* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Susanna's stone reads as follows:
IN
MEMORY OF
SUSANNA MADERA
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
0CT. 5, 1833 AGED
63 YRS.
WIFE OF N. MADERA
* NOTE: Susanna's stone was in good-fair condition and can be easily read. However the entire stone is slowly sinking into the ground. Only the portion of the stone with the inscription is visible above the ground.
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* source # 36: Monongalia County Deaths 1853 - 1899 - page 75
Person making
Name Date Age Birthplace Parents Death report
N. B. and N. B. Madera,
Madera, Henry 8-15-1854 43 Mon. Co. Susan Madera father
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* source # 37: 1860 Census of Monongalia Co., Morgantown
1860 Census listed the following:
Name Age Birthplace Occupation
Albert Medary 32 VA Carpenter
Margaret 34 Eng.
Ada 8 VA.
Charles 6 VA.
Nicholas 4 VA.
James 2 VA.
[NI1652]
* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Rufus's stone is quite small and reads as follows:
IN MEMORY OF
RUFUS PUTNAM MADERA
DIED MAY 12, 1838
AGED 2 YRS. 1 MO.
Rufus's stone was in fair-poor condition, however was still legible.
[NI1669]
* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Margaret's stone reads as follows:
MARGARET R. MADERA
WIFE OF
ALBERT MADERA
BORN
OCT. 9,1825
DIED
MAY 13, 1903
Margaret's inscription is on one side of a monument.
On the second side is listed: On the third side is listed:
FRANK D. MADERA ROBERT N. MADERA
BORN BORN
JUNE 16, 1860 JULY 9, 1855
DIED DIED
OCT. 18, 1884 MAY 5, 1880
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JAMES E. MADERA ALLIE E. MADERA
BORN BORN
DEC. 29, 1857 APR. 3, 1863
DIED JULY 6, 1881
JAN. 1 1890
The stone is a rather large monument in very poor condition.
The fourth side of the monument is totally illegible. However we believe it could be Albert Madera's gravesite. We have no way to confirm this.- Donald D. Lewis
[NI1670]
* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: Old East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Initially Robert was put on the family monument with his mother: ( See Margaret R. Madera's notes ). Robert also has a second tombstone set separately from the monument next to another stone for his sister Alice E.
Robert's stone reads as follows:
ROBERT N.
SON OF
A. & M. MADERA
DIED
MAY 5, 1880
AGED 24 YEARS
9 MOS. & 27 D'S
ASLEEP IN JESUS
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* source # 27: NOTE: Frank D. Madera is on the family monument with his mother Margaret R. Madera. For Frank's tombstone inscription see notes on Margaret R. Madera.
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*source # 36: Monongalia Co. Deaths 1853 - 1899 page 228
Person making
Name Date Age Birthplace Parents death report
Albert and
Margaret
Madera, Frank D. 10/18/1884 24 Morgantown Madera Albert Madera
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James died 4 years after he buried his father. ( Albert Madera )
*source # 27: NOTE: James is located on the monument with his mother Margaret R. Madera. See her notes for James's inscription.
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*source # 27: NOTES: Alice E. Madera appears as Allie E. on the family monument with her Mother. ( See Margaret R. Madera's notes ).
Allie also has a separate stone beside her brother, Robert N. Madera. Allie's stone reads as follows:
ALICE E.
DAUGHTER OF
A. & M. MADERA
DIED
JULY 6, 1881
AGED
18 YEARS 3 MOS.
& 3 DAYS
DIED EARLY RECEIVED HOLY
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* source# 36: Monongalia Co. Deaths 1853 - 1899 page 228
Person making
Name Date Age Birthplace Parents death report
Albert and
Madera, Alice 7/5/1881 -- Morgantown Margaret Madera Chas. Madera, brother
[NI1674]
*source # 37: 1860 Census of Monongalia Co., Morgantown - page 104
NOTE: Charles's birthdate was determined by using the 1860 census of Monongalia Co., Morgantown.
[NI1677]
* source # 27: Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: Old East Oak Grove Cemetery. Charles stone reads as follows:
CHARLES MADERA
DIED
FEB. 11 1872
AGED - ?
Charles's stone was in extremely poor condition and very hard to read.
[NI1680]
*source # 27:
Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: Old East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Hugh's headstone is
a rather large monument with MADERA written in large letters at the base. On one side Hugh's inscription reads as follows:
HUGH
MADERA
BORN
OCT. 27 1853
DIED
JULY 27 1893
Hugh's stone is in fair-poor condition showing signs of weathering and is becoming hard to read. Hugh is on this monument all by himself.
[NI1682]
*source # 27:
Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis:Old East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Anna's stone reads as follows:
ANNA MADERA
DIED
JULY 16, 1882
AGED
25 YEARS
Anna's stone is in fair condition and easily read. However it's starting to show signs of deterioration.
[NI1685]
*source #27:
Actual video/photographs taken of family stones on July 11, 12, 13, 1999 by Donald D. Lewis: Old East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., West Virginia. Grant's stone reads as follows:
GRANT MADERA
DIED
NOV. 25 1883
AGED
22 YEARS
Grant's stone is in extremely poor condition and very hard to read. There is an inscription at the base of the stone which was illegible. -Donald D. Lewis
[NI1704]
* source # 39: Surname Index- Pennsylvania Deaths
Person making
Name Date of Death Age Birthplace Death report
Bricker, John Sr. 3/12/1870 73 years Pennsylvania Bricker, Levi - son
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[NI1723]
* source # 41: Preston County Marriages: 1869 - 1881; Wills: 1862 - 1899
WILL:
Turney, Henry, of Preston County, March 11, 1871. Certificate of Probate May 20, 1871.
First: To my dear wife Mary while she shall continue to be my widow, I give and devise all my property, real and personal and mixed on condition that she shall use the same in a husband like manner and not permit any waste in said property. She shall merely have the use, rents, and profits of said real estate, and receive the interest occuring from time to time on any moneys I may die seized. My executors are directed to collect or rent and to loan out the same on interest with good security. The interest to be enjoyed by my said wife but she may not impair or diminish the principal.
Second: After the death or marriage of my widow, I give and devise all my real, personal and mixed to my four children, Amos Turney, Jemimah Boyce, Jonas Turney, and Ezra Turney, share and share alike.
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* source # 36: Monongalia County Deaths 1853 - 1899
Date of Person reporting
Name, Death Birthplace Age Parents Death
Turney , Benj. F. 8-2-1878 Portland Dist 14 yrs. 2 mos. Amos & Carrie Turney Amos Turney
- Father