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    1. [BP2000] Indiana Co., PA
    2. Donna VanZandt
    3. History of Indiana co., PA 1880 JAMES MILLER was born in the county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1791, and was a son of Moses and Catharine Miller nee Beatty. In 1818, he came to Philadelphia, and in 1820, his wife, Nancy Allen, and two children, Catharine and Sarah. having joined him in the city, together they migrated to Armstrong township. His wife died in 1878, in her eighty-fifth year. Their children were: Catharine, m. to Samuel St. Clair; Sarah, m. to Isaac St. Clair; Nancy, m. to John St. Ciair; Mary A., m. to Wm. A. Stewart; Jane m. to Christopher Boreland; Margaret, m. to John B. Peelor; Rebecca, m. to Thomas Hill, and Eliza, m. to Joseph Lowry. Mr. Miller located in Indiana in 1858. He has been connected with the Presbyterian church for sixty-six years. MRS. SARAH A. KELLY was born in Salem township, Westmoreland county, in 1826, and was a daughter of William and Mary Guthrie nee Hill. The former was born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, in 1777, and died in 1865. The latter was born in Derry township in 1788, and died in 1860. William was a son of John Guthrie, one of the earliest settlers of Westmoreland county. One of his brothers was killed by the Indians near Hannahstown. John Guthrie's children were: Elizabeth, m. to John Brownlee, who with one child were killed by the Indians; his wife and one child were carried by the Indians to Canada, where they remained nearly four years before returning to Westmoreland county; her second husband was William Guthrie, who as well as herself died in Jefferson county at an advanced age; Jennie, d., m. to John Beatty, d.; Sarah, d., m. to William Beatty, d.; Nancy, d., m. to James Porterfield, d.; James, d., m. to Margaret Dixon, d., and William, d., m. first to Nancy Dixon, d., and second to Mary Hill, d. The children of William, a son of John Guthrie were: John, d., m. to Margaret McQuaide; Samuel D., lives on the old homestead in Salem township, Westmoreland county; James, m. first to Sarah Beatty, d., and second to Mrs. Margaret Hall ; Nancy, m. to David McConnell, d.; Martha, m. to John B. Chambers, of Apollo, Armstrong county; Elizabeth, d.; Jane, d.; Mary, m. to Thomas K. McQuaide; Jane, H., m. to Archibald Adair, and Sarah A., m. in 1850, to William H. Kelly, agent of W. P. R. R., d. in 1867, in his forty-fourth year. Our subject's children were: Mary C., m. to W. G. Brenner; Jennie E., d.; Bell S., operator Western Union Telegraph Company; Myrtilla A., and William G., operator W. U. Tel Co., Allegheny City. (first 2 Beatty references to L-142) JAMES MOORE was born in or near Hannastown, Westmoreland county, on the 4th of July, 1774, and died December 9th, 1846, near New Alexandria, where he kept the Union Hotel for many years. He was the son of John Moore, one of the early settlers of this section, and a native of Ireland. Our subject was in the fort at the time Hannastown was destroyed. His wife was Catharine C. Scott, who died in her seventieth year, in 1846. She was born on Pine run, near what is now Apollo, Armstrong county. James Moore's. children were: Sarah, d., m. to Capt. Joseph Cook, d.; Rebecca, d., m. to John Laid, J. P.; .John, d., m. to Margaret Beatty; Jane, d., m. first to William Cook, d., and second to Thomas Elder; James, d., m. to Jane Clark; William, m. to Mrs. Jane Kean nee Robinson; Maxwell, d., m. to .Julia A. Sigler, d.; Mary, m. first to Justin Loomis, d., and second to Hardy Sloan; Elizabeth S., m. to Alexander C. Moorhead, d.; Chambers S., m. to Elizabeth Mathews; and S. S., m. first in 1854, to Margaret A. White, d. in 1872, forty-one years of age, and second in 1875 to Mrs. Margaret Leech nee Gamble. Chambers S. was in the Pennsyl vania militia at the time of the Morgan raid. S. S. has been in business in Saltsburg for thirty-three years, and was the first merchant in the tin and stove business and is in the same line of trade today. He has been postmaster for ten years, and trustee of the Presbyterian Church for two. His children were: Catharine Elizabeth, Sarah Jane, d.; John W., William S., James A. and Anna Mary. L-84 Donna L-3

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