To David M. Waid dmwaid@provide.net and other WAID researchers in Crawford County. Here is the information I found on Pember Waid in the "History of Crawford County, PA, 1885." On page 698, in the history of Woodcock Township: "Other pioneers of the township who came during the first decade of this century or earlier were: John Faulkenburg, James Fluhart, a gunsmith; Christian Ferst, who came about 1797, and afterward removed to Mercer County; William Kennedy; James Long, who was born in Lancaster County, immigrated to Woodcock about 1797, and died at the residence of his son George in 1830, at the age of ninety-two years; George, John, James and Cookson Long, his sons; Anthony Matson, Patrick and Hugh McCullough, William McKnight, and David Ridenour. The early settlers were largely of German origin, with a fair proportion of Irish. The earliest came mostly from the Susquehanna. About 1825 quite a number emigrated from Lehigh. Many of the present residents of Woodcock are descendants of its first pioneers. Pember WAID and his son, Ira C., from Connecticut, early settled on land now owned by Francis C. WAID." On pages 1166 through 1181, in the Biographical Sketch section for Woodcock Township (this will come in several parts as these pages are all ONE Biographical Sketch of this man!): "Francis C. WAID, farmer, PO Meadville, was born in Woodcock Township, this county, April 23, 1833. Pember WAID, his grandfather, was born August 21, 1774, in Lyme, Litchfield Co., Conn., and was there married to Anna Lord, daughter of Samuel Lord, born May 22, 1776, and died February 2, 1844. Pember WAID died February 15, 1852. They are both interred in the Blooming Valley Cemetery, Wood- cock Township, this county. They were the parents of the following children: Erastus S., born May 24, 1800, married Elvira Simmons (have two sons: Lisander, now in Jamestown, NY, and Walter, residing near Centerville, this county); Ira C., born August 15, 1801, died January 27, 1870; Mary A., born February 26, 1803 (she was visited by Mr. WAID on New Year's Day, 1885, and found "quite well," her daughter Clarissa living with her; she resides in Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., NY; she married Philander Simmons, a farmer by occupation, raised a family of ten children - six boys and four girls - all of whom are now living except Ira, who served his country three years, died October 11, 1867, of illness contracted in the army; Philander Simmons moved to Jamestown in 1855 and there died December 13, 1882); Martha L., born May 18, 1804, died January 22, 1833 (she married Lathrop Allen, whose eldest son, Henry O., painted the portraits of our subject, his wife and his parents); Eliza C., born January 11, 1806, married G. Phillips (she is a widow and lives on he farm near Townville, this county, with Pember Phillips, her youngest son; her husband died May 4, 1853, and is interred at Townville); Samuel L., born June 11, 1808, removed to Michigan after middle life, and there died about 1862; George W., born January 21, 1810, died December 4, 1861; Phoebe W., born September 24, 1811, married Cyrus Goodwill, who died May 16, 1855, aged forty-five years, one month, eleven days, and is interred at Blooming Valley (she is living at present with her youngest son, Albert Goodwill, in Warren County, Penn.; Mr. WAID had the pleasure, in company with his two eldest sons, of calling on his Aunt Phoebe, the end of November, 1884, and found her well and sitting in a rocking chair that is over one hundred years old, once owned by her uncle, Samuel Lord); Clarissa U., born January 26, 1813, died June 16, 1853 (she married George Roudebush; they lived and died in Blooming Valley; George Roudebush died November 15, 1865, aged fifty-two years, eleven months, nineteen days; he was Postmaster a long time; he was a manufacturer of window sash; Ralph Roudebush, their eldest son, now lives where they did); Henry A., born January 25, 1816, removed to the West in early life, served his country in the war of the Rebellion, and died in Illinois about 1863; Andrew G., a carpenter and joiner by trade, having worked several years with George Roudebush, Blooming Valley, born May 11, 1818 (living in Dexter, Mich.), and Horace F., born July 12, 1820, lives in Blooming Valley, this county (he served his country during the late war of the Rebellion). Pember WAID was a ship carpenter, a vocation he chiefly followed until he came to this county, where, after constructing canal boats here for a short period, he withdrew from active life. Our subject has heard Pember WAID say he saw the British troops when they burned the American shipping at Pettibaug (now Essex), Conn. Ira C., the second son in this family and father of our subject, was born in Litchfield County, Conn., and came with Jared Shattuck, driving a four-horse team from Connecticut to Meadville, in the fall of 1816. They were six weeks on the road. The family came in the spring of 1817. He worked three years and six months for Mr. Shattuck after coming to Meadville. In the summer of 1817 he helped to haul brick to build Allegheny College. He and Jeremiah Smith, during the winter of 1825-26, helped to stock Mr. Canaday's mills, situated on Conewango Creek, nine miles below Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., NY, and our subject has heard his father say that Jeremiah Smith and he put forty logs into the Conewango in one day, the trees being taken right from the stump. June 12, 1825, Ira C. WAID married Elizabeth P. Morehead, of Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn., daughter of Robert and Sarah (Clark) Morehead, who were parents of eight children, viz.: Temperance, born December 20, 1796, died March 11, 1869, at the resident of R.L. WAID, Mead Township, this county, and is interred in Blooming Valley Cemetery (she married James Fergerson, and the family have all passed away except Robert A. Fergerson, who still lives on the small farm of two acres , part of the farm bought by his grandfather, Robert Morehead, on which his parents lived and on which Robert A. makes an excellent living; he is a carpenter and joiner, having learned his trade of his uncle, Joseph Finney, with whom he worked for several years, but he has since followed farming); Lydia, born November 1, 1798, died December 24, 1798; John, born December 24, 1799, died February 15, 1883; Robert, born March 12, 1802, now resides on the old homestead in Vernon Township, this county, four miles west of Meadville on the State road; Thomas, born February 11, 1808, died September 23, 1829; William C., born March 6, 1810, died April 29, 1857 (in his lifetime he did more days' work on the farm of Ira C. WAID than any person outside of the members of the family, and many hours in youth and manhood died he labor on the farm with Francis C. WAID, with whom dear recollections of those days are ever present); Elizabeth P. (our subject's mother), born August 26, 1804, died January 7, 1882; and Sarah, born August 7, 1813, died December 10, 1870, and is buried in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, where she had erected a beautiful little monument bearing this inscription: "To my husband, Joseph Finney, born November 18, 1811, died December 6, 1853" (he was the second interred in Greendale Cemetery). Robert Morehead was a native of Ireland, born December 25, 1767, died November 12, 1851, and is interred at Meadville by the side of his wife in the old graveyard; he was twice married; he came to America in 1787 and worked at his trade, that of a weaver, for several years in Philadelphia, New York and Newburg, NY. He afterward went to Farmington, Conn., and there married Sarah (Clark) Morehead, born March 12, 1771, died July 23, 1825. The record of the Clark family dates her lineage back to the landing of the "May Flower." To Mr. and Mrs. Ira C. WAID were born four children: Robert L. (deceased), George N., Franklin P. (deceased) and Francis C...." More to follow on Pember Waid tomorrow night! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net