Lola, Where is his tombstone ? Does it have more than the year ? Does the cemetery have any records at all? How do you know he did not die in Mercer County ? If you have the date you can get a death certificate for $ 3.00 from vital statistics in New Castle if he died in Pennsylvania after 1906. They will also do a ten year search for more money. Get as much information as you can before you send for certificates, it makes the search more accurate. Often, in a large state, there are people of the same name dying on the same day. Ask me, I know. When you get as much information as you can, contact me and I will mail you an application. Mac

The main cemetery I know of in Sharon is the Oakwood Cemetery on Oakland Avenue. It is a beautiful old cemetery with many mausoleums of the older Sharon families. It is still in use. The problem I always have is it so large that I have difficulty finding my family plots. My uncle tells a story of watching funeral processions on Oakland Ave. when he was a child in the 20s. The one that impressed him the most was a gypsy funeral procession. Does any one recall this? JLL

I've been unable to discover Francis Gibbens (birth and death unknown) except for records in the Mercer County Courthouse, dated Nov. 27, 1897, showing that Francis & Ella (Wolfe) Gibbens sold a parcel of land to a J.J. Boulter for the sum of $1.00. In the 1900 Pa. census Ella, born June 30, 1861, is divorced from Francis and working as a servant at 1083 West, Meadville, Pa. Francis and Ella had ten children. In Ella's 1943 obituary a son John Gibbens is listed as living in Meadville; sons Harry (born April 30, 1880) and Claude (born March 16, 1896) are listed as living in Greenville, Pa. Francis seems to have vanished from the Pa. census by 1900 with the youngest sons (who reappear in the 1920 census). All I know for certain about Francis is that he did, indeed, exist--he's my mystery man. Does anyone have information on siblings or parents of Francis Gibbens? I'm told that he was a red-headed Irishman. Thanks, Elizabeth

Don: I think your Sarah Dean b. 1844 is my husband's g grandmother, Sarah A. Dean who married Robert Mitchell, b. 1841. Do you have any more information about Sarah Dean? Other surnames in my husband's ancestry from Mercer County: Barnes, Montgomery, Alexander, Mook, Carey, McGarr, McIntire. Through the Mercer County Queries I have contacted with others researching Barnes, Montgomery, Alexander and McGarr! Willing to share whatever information I have. And, yes, there are some of us on the list who live in the area. I live right on the Venango County/Mercer County line. Sandy Boyer Barnes

Hello Cousin Pat!!! I am a more distant relative than you may have hoped for!! Sarah Forbes was the daughter of Sarah Haggertie and George Forbes. Sarah's brother William was my ggg grandfather. I have records of Sarah's ancestors back to the late 1600s if you are interested. Sarah Sr. also had a brother George Haggertie who lived in Mercer County. I believe he still has descendants in Mercer County. I have recently been communicating with another Sweesy descendant, Karen Kimball. Have you found her?? Karen has sent me her family line and I would be very interested in exchanging information with you as well. My web page gives some information on the Haggertie/Haggertys (URL below). I am currently working on a revision/update to the site. Looking forward to hearing from you!! At 05:42 PM 23/02/99 -0500, sweeze@isrv.com wrote: >Thought I'd add my surnames to the pile!!! Looking for any and all >descendants of Matthias Sweesy (1782-1859) who was married to Elizabeth >Pounds and then to Sarah Forbes. They were the parents of 9 children. I am >descended from their son, Samuel, b.1815 who married Catharine Galloway, >then Rebecca Stofer, then Susannah Ewing. The Sweesys lived in West >Middlesex, Mercer County. > >Pat Sharon M. Haggerty London, Ontario Canada E-mail: haggerty@julian.uwo.ca Haggerty Family Web-Site: <http://www.execulink.com/~haggerty/Family>

JOHN A. McFarlin Residence: . In 1861 he purchased his farm where he resided on Wolfcreek. Birth Date: 3 Jun 1823 Birth Place: Near Coitsville, Mahoning Co., Oh Death Date: 12 Sep 1901 Death Place: At Home on Wolf Creek, Near Centertown Pa Burial Place: Union Home Cemetery, Mercer Co. , PA Occupation: Farmer and post office Centretown, Worth twp Religion: Schofield M. E. Church Fairview Class-Leader, Steward, Trus Thanks, Walt

Diane, What a treasurer to have. I would like you to check for the following, if you would be so kind: Creola Belle Wagner Reed Gladys and Edgar Coy John Frye (and/or Jr.) Or any Nichols Thanks Karen

Llilnda, I see that you have the name MOON. There were some MOONs who were in Hastings County Ontario in the mid 1800s who then disappeared and who are rumoured to be connected to my Haggerty/Haggertie family. I recently found the following in the 1861 Hastings County census (Ontario was then called Canada West or CW): John Moon, born CW, Wesleyan Methodist, age 22 Robert Moon, CW, laborer, Episcopal, age 39 Sarah Moon, Ireland, Episc, 36 years William Moon, CW, 15 yrs James Moon, CW, 12 Alexander Moon, CW, 10 John Moon, CW, 6 Mary Moon, CW, 2 I wonder if this family might be related to yours? Sarah Moon may have been a daughter of Amelia Haggertie and George Webb. Amelia's brother George Haggertie and his wife Mary Shannon emigrated from Canada West to Mercer County PA. At 02:03 PM 23/02/99 -0500, Linda H. Champanier wrote: >I'm in Connecticut, too, but grew up in Pittsburgh. My Mercer County >surnames include MONTGOMERY, BOSTON, ALBERT, CRILL, ALBIN, HOSACK, MOON, >SMITH, SLEMMONS, BARNES (two separate BARNES lines), CALDOO, KUHN, and >BOLE. > >I'm enjoying all the surname exchanges today! > >Linda Champanier Sharon M. Haggerty London, Ontario Canada E-mail: haggerty@julian.uwo.ca Haggerty Family Web-Site: <http://www.execulink.com/~haggerty/Family>

Lots of Samples in Mercer Co., but couldn't find the name DeCamp. Hickory Twp has a Sample Road. My family always used the Sample-O'Donnell Funeral Home in Sharon. I also have a reprint of The 1873 Atlas and 1877 History of Mercer County and though my spare time at this time is nearly non-existent, I will check on what I can. Joanne Long Lloyd

I'm going to list my surnames also. GLENN, CUNNINGHAM, EVANS, WILLIAMS, NELSON Brief info on this line is below: GLENN, James b. 1743 Prob. Kent County, Dela. d. 20 Feb. 1817 Plain Grove, Mercer Co, PA m. bef. 1766 prob. in York County, PA Elizabeth NELSON - lived in Huntingdon Co, PA prior to move to Mercer Co. GLENN, James b. 6 June 1774 Huntingdon Co, PA d. 6 Jan. 1853 Plain Grove m. Elizabeth Cunningham (d/ Charles and Margaret (EVANS) CUNNINGHAM (several of his siblings married her siblings- James' sister, Margaret m. Valentine CUNNINGHAM who first settled Pine Grove - later Grove City) GLENN, James b. 16 June 1796 Huntingdon Co, PA d. 6 Jan. 1853 Mercer County, PA m. 1) Elizabeth WILLIAMS, d/o Jonathon WILLIAMS m. 2) Catherine BOOK d/ Peter BOOK and Margaret ? GLENN, Mary, b. 1829 Law. Co, PA d. 1910 Plain Grove m. 1858 Jacob BOOK s/ Peter BOOK and Margaret ? (Yes, his sister ended up as his step-mother-in-law) BOOK, James Preston b. 10 Mar 1869 Plain Grove d. 1928 Lawrence County, PA m. 20 May 1895 Sierra Nevada MORROW (d/o George Van Eman MORROW and Margaret McCONAHY) Other surnames in the area (LAW/BEA/MERCER): VAN EMAN, WILSON, MOHNEY, RODGERS, MCCAMEY, HILLIARD, HENNON, PLATTER, MOORE, MCKAY Hope to hear from others researching any of these names. Donna

I am also researching the surname SEIPLE, as well as SHEAKLEY, MILLER, ROSS, CALDWELL, PARTRIDGE and DODD. --Steve Seiple sseiple@compuserve.com

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D4F1310376B9A5B2495AED14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------D4F1310376B9A5B2495AED14 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <36D32659.5F19086E@postoffice.swbell.net> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:06:18 -0600 From: btgool@postoffice.swbell.net Reply-To: btgool@swbell.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-SBIS-NC404 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RRamsey113@aol.com Subject: Re: [PAMERCER-L] My Mercer County Links - part 1 References: <46a3c531.36d2dd60@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mrs. Ramsey and all, Yes that is what I have for the Mercer story as well. A land grant was supposedly given to my gggggrandfather Francis H. Hamilton after his fighting in the War of 1812. His years were 1766 to 1844. He married Ruth Williams and they had one daughter at least Jane Hamilton. He lost the land however through speculation and moved on the Ohio. This story of the land grant is just rumor. I have no cold hard facts. Would love some however. As to the question of how many subscribe to the list and if any still live in Mercer County, I would love to know as well. I am now in Texas, although grew up in Mercer, PA. It's funny that many of the names people mention on this list are last names of kids I went to school with from about 1968 to 1878. Ramsey being one of them. Just FYI. Becky Masters Gool RRamsey113@aol.com wrote: > > I understand things correctly, Mercer County was initially opened up, from > Seneca Indian lands, and grants of land were provided as compensation to those > who had fought in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. (I'm not a historian > so don't get angry if I'm wrong, just teach me, if you feel the need to > provide correction). > > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the Mercer County, Pennsylvania list, > contact the listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert@stlnet.com > > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ --------------D4F1310376B9A5B2495AED14--

Well, I'm still on the list but haven't had much luck with previous postings so gave it up for awhile. But since someone brought it up... I am looking for information on the family of John Thomas YOUNG (b. 1804) and his wife Nancy Jane ALLISON. They lived in Clarksville and had nine children. The entire family moved to Jo Daviess County, Illinois around 1854. John Thomas was the son of Matthew YOUNG and Elizabeth Bail(?). They moved to Mercer from Washington County via way of Allegheny. Nancy Jane was the daughter of Mary W. KOONTZ and Gaius ALLISON. I have quite a bit of information to share and am looking for other descendants of these people to compare notes with. janet young berkson

This has got to be one of the greatest times I've had in doing my research for many years. Lets keep it up Mercer County. Always knew good folks came from this part of the woods! Jane

I have a partial list from the New Lebanon Cemetery which has the MOOK family, George MOOK Dec 15, 1801 - March 13, 1887 and Rebecca MOOK d Mar 1, 1871 age 66y 6m 21d and several children. Jane

I'm glad everyone woke up. I have been on this list for sometime. I was wondering if I was the only one. I am searching the Thomas family. Thomas M. Thomas and Margaret Harris came from Wales in abt 1856. They are both buried in Oakwood Cemetery. They had eight children from 1840 to 1854, each 2 years apart. William was the oldest and Moses the youngest. Moses died in 1886 in Columbus OH. Aaron The 3rd oldest, is my gr-gr-grandfather and died in East Chicago, Lake county, IndianaI have lost the other children. Anyone have any possible connections? Aaron D. Thomas adtkart@aol.com

Well, I guess we come back in style! My surnames that I am researching are: REASH, MILNER, SEIPLE, KELCH, McCANN, PRYTLE, KEARNEY, O'CONNER, MASON, McDONALD, SCHEISTLE, and MARTIN. I know that their are a lot but I have hit many brick walls. If anyone has any connections to these names, please let me know and lets keep this list rolling... Thanks, Heather harst13+@pitt.edu

John, I am also researching the McDonald clan of Mercer Co. and was so glad that we are reposting a lot of our data. Robert McDONALD b. 1757 d. June 9, 1840 in Delaware Twp. m. Mary KELLY in MD. They had children: Alexander, Elizabeth, Robert, Elinor, James, Mary, William, and another that I am not sure of. If this information is familiar I would LOVE to exchange information. My line continues down form ALexander. Thanks! Heather On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, John MacDonald wrote: > I've recently joined this list and yes, it does seem a bit slow. > > I'm researching all of the McDonald, McDaniel and McDonnell families of > Mercer, including my own line of Robert McDonald (moved to Mercer in 1798). > I have a fair amount of information, mostly concerning the McDonald > families but also other surnames. Besides the McDonalds, I'm most > interested in: KLINGENSMITH, THOMPSON, MERCHANT (MARCHAND), ECKLES, > FENSTERMAKER, SCOTT, PEARSON, SWAGGER and others. I'm interested in the > early history of Cool Spring and Jefferson Townships. > > I've transcribed the entire 1800 census and have some townships for 1810 > and 1820 and would be happy to send those files as an attached TEXT file > to an e-mail message. They are not large files. > > I also have the 2 volume 1888 History of Mercer County and am willing to do > specific look-ups. > > Does anyone have any information on the Cool Spring Seceder church, > mentioned on page 354 of the 1888 History? Besides the McDonalds, the > founding families were the McClintocks, Garvins, Bradens, and Bradleys. > Their first pastor was Rev. Thomas McClintock, who served from 1803 - 1805. > > John MacDonald > > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the Mercer County, Pennsylvania list, > contact the listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert@stlnet.com > > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ > > This list is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Please help support Rootsweb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >

Thought I'd add my surnames to the pile!!! Looking for any and all descendants of Matthias Sweesy (1782-1859) who was married to Elizabeth Pounds and then to Sarah Forbes. They were the parents of 9 children. I am descended from their son, Samuel, b.1815 who married Catharine Galloway, then Rebecca Stofer, then Susannah Ewing. The Sweesys lived in West Middlesex, Mercer County. Pat

Steve, I noticed your posting of MCCONNELL. I have a Sara A. MCCONNELL who married John MCCANN and was wondering if this connected with any of your research. John MCCANN b. 1817 d.1884 and lived near Fredonia. Thanks, Heather On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 SongMan67@aol.com wrote: > Since so many are looking at the list right now, I'm researching the surname > MCCONNELL. My ggg-grandfather James came with his wife Rhoda Ann GOUCHER > MCCONNELL to Mercer county from Ohio sometime between 1842 and 1850. They had > these children: James, John, Cornelia, Calvin Margaret, and William. My ggg- > Grandfather fought in the 57th Regiment, Co. B of the Penn. Volunteers in the > Civil War, and died in 1862 of Typhoid Fever. > > Hello to all Mercer Co. researchers. > > STeve McConnell > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the Mercer County, Pennsylvania list, > contact the listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert@stlnet.com > > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ >