Perhaps this will help someone else as well. From the rootsweb archives: History of Cambria County, V.3 54 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. vessel, and was three days out at sea before the captain of the ship knew that he was on board. Of his brothers who were concerned with David in this affair, Robert was beheaded, Gilbert imprisoned for life, and Samuel escaped to Scotland. On his arrival in this country David Wakefield first settled in Path Valley, between the Tuscarora and Conecocheague mountains, in Perry (then Cumberland) county, Pennsylvania, where some of his younger children were born. After living there about fifteen years he settled on the north of the Conemaugh, opposite Squirrel Hill, then in Cumberland county, but now Indiana county, and where now stands the village of Centerville, Pennsylvania. Two years later, finding his title to the land defective, he moved five miles northwest to near the head of the west branch of Richard's Run, in Wheatfield township, somewhere between the years 1788 and 1794. There David died and is buried. After his death his widow removed to Mercer county to live with a daughter, and died there. Thomas Wakefield, eldest son of David and Mary Jane (Wade) Wakefield married Elizabeth Morton, niece of John Morton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Wakefield enlisted from Chester county in the Continental army under General Washington, and among other services he spent the terrible winter that so tried men's souls at Valley Forge. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morton) Wakefield: 1. Robert Wakefield, married his aunt, Mary Wakefield. 2. James Wakefield, born April 25, 1787; married first, Martha Moore; married second, Susan Sanderson; died August 31, 1846, near Allegheny City. 3. John Wakefield, married first, Mary Bracken; married second, ---- : removed to High Prairie, Illinois, and died there. 4. Thomas Wakefield, married Elizabeth Haymaker. 5. David Wade Wakefield, born February 3, 1796; married first, Susanna Wilson; married second, August 25, 1818, Mrs. Kate Conrad. He was a farmer, millwright and contractor, and died in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1878. 6. Samuel Wakefield born March 6, 1799, died September 13, 1895. 7. Mary Wakefield, married Dill Sanderson. Their son, Colonel Thomas Sanderson, is a prominent lawyer of Youngstown, Ohio. 8. Elizabeth Wakefield, married John McNutt, and died in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. 9. Catherine Wakefield, born, June 1, 1810, died April 17, 1899, at Rock Island, Illinois; married Dr. John Farrell. Rev. Dr. Samuel Wakefield, sixth son and child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morton) Wakefield, a distinguished clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than half a century, a scholar of eminent abilities and an author of wide repute, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. March 6, 1799. When he was one year old his parents removed to Westmoreland county and located three miles from Armagh, a small Irish village; and still later moved farther west in the state and made a home for himself and his family in a wilderness region. When very young Samuel was put to work, and at the age of seven years he assisted in cultivating the land. In that wild country the opportunities for acquiring even a rudimentary education were almost wholly lacking, and on that account the boy was compelled to rely entirely on his own efforts to obtain instruction in the primary branches; but he was determined to gain an education at some cost, and fortunately possessed the native force of character to accomplish that difficult task. The particular occasion which determined him in this direction was that on which he and several other lads were sent to the