Hi Terry, Hattie M. Seaman married William W. Murrie in Fayette Co., PA on Dec 21, 1904 Bk 36 page 135. Social Security Death Index Hattie M. Murrie 23 Jul 1880 15 Feb 1967 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania There is an obituary for Hattie in the Daily Courier, Connellsville, Pa., Feb 28, 1967. She is the widow of William W. Murrie, and died in Mt Lebanon. Samson Funeral Home of 537 Neville St, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also an obituary for William W. Murrie in the Daily Courier, Connellsville, Pa on March 2, 1948. It does not mention a place of burial. William W's parents, John W. and Agnes Murrie are buried in Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville., PA. Beverly

I sent Terry info on this couple. I discovered that they were married in 1904. William Watson Seaman was born in Maryland, May 31,1875 and died March 2, 1948 apparently of a heart ailment. He at one time worked for Mrs. Sarah Cochran which I found very interesting. I have not found where this couple is buried. Dawne

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawne Temple" <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> To: <TWilson11@rocketmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:09 PM Subject: Hattie Murrie Obituary 1967 > The Daily Courier,Thursday, February 28, 1967 > > Mrs. Hattie S. Murrie, 86?, a resident of the Methodist Home in Mount > Lebanon, formerly of Connellsville, died Monday in the Home. > She was the widow of William W. Murrie > Surviving is a niece Ruth Ann Seaman of Pittsburgh. > The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Methodist > Home, 700 Bower Hill Road, Mount Lebanon. The body is at the Samson > funeral home, 537 Neville St., Oakland, Pittsburgh. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Wilson" <twilson11@rocketmail.com> > To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:24 PM > Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] SEAMANs & MONROEs > > >> Looking for someone smarter than I. Trying to find info on Hattie May >> SEAMAN. >> >> b 23 Jul 1880 in Paines Hollow, Herkimer Co., NY >> d 15 Feb1967 a Methodist Home, Pittsburgh, PA >> bur Unknown >> d/o Albert Redfield SEAMAN (1841 Wayne Co., NY - 1926) & Ida Melissa >> MONROE (1856 - 1933) >> >> w/o William W. MURRIE >> b bef 1880 >> d aft 1989 & retired from B&O RR. >> >> 1900 census - she res Connellsville, PA, was a milliner >> >> Feb 1926 - res Dawson, Fayette Co., PA >> >> 1949 - res 111 McElhaney Ave., S. Connellsville, PA with sister-in-law >> Clara Seaman, widow of Albert SEAMAN >> >> late 1950s & 1963 - res in Methodist Home in Mt. Lebanon , PA at 700 >> Bower Hill Rd. >> >> Somehow Hattie is related to Alice SEAMAN who lived in Bloomburg, >> Columbia Co., PA. Alice's husband graduated Penn State and became a >> missionary in Africa, prob late 50's or early 60's. Greensbueg, >> Westmoreland Co. was mentioned as "the old family home". >> >> I would like to know: >> Where is Hattie buried> >> Where is William MURRIE buried? >> When & where was William b & m?? >> How does Alice fit in the picture? >> >> Thanks for any help you can offer. >> >> Terry >> >> >> Terry Wilson >> 21 Clark Avenue >> Shelby, OH 44875 >> (419) 347-6782 >> Researching: ALLEN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND,HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, >> JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, >> MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & >> WILSON >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> >> ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >> >

Looking for someone smarter than I. Trying to find info on Hattie May SEAMAN. b 23 Jul 1880 in Paines Hollow, Herkimer Co., NY d 15 Feb1967 a Methodist Home, Pittsburgh, PA bur Unknown d/o Albert Redfield SEAMAN (1841 Wayne Co., NY - 1926) & Ida Melissa MONROE (1856 - 1933) w/o William W. MURRIE b bef 1880 d aft 1989 & retired from B&O RR. 1900 census - she res Connellsville, PA, was a milliner Feb 1926 - res Dawson, Fayette Co., PA 1949 - res 111 McElhaney Ave., S. Connellsville, PA with sister-in-law Clara Seaman, widow of Albert SEAMAN late 1950s & 1963 - res in Methodist Home in Mt. Lebanon , PA at 700 Bower Hill Rd. Somehow Hattie is related to Alice SEAMAN who lived in Bloomburg, Columbia Co., PA. Alice's husband graduated Penn State and became a missionary in Africa, prob late 50's or early 60's. Greensbueg, Westmoreland Co. was mentioned as "the old family home". I would like to know: Where is Hattie buried> Where is William MURRIE buried? When & where was William b & m?? How does Alice fit in the picture? Thanks for any help you can offer. Terry Terry Wilson 21 Clark Avenue Shelby, OH 44875 (419) 347-6782 Researching: ALLEN, EDMAN, FERRIS, HARLAN/HARLAND,HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I am returning to the list after a few years' haietus from the list and from genealogy. All of my relatives are from Westmoreland County, mostly from the area around New Stanton. My ggrandfather, Mathias CLASPY, showed up there in 1844 and I have not been able to trace him backwards. My gggrandfather, Jacob FOX, showed up around 1800. -- Paul C. Claspy Ol;msted Twp., OH Paul.Claspy@cwru.edu Researching CLASPY, KINTIGH, FOX, ALBIG

Does anyone on the list know where Fairfield, Westmoreland Co., PA was in relation to Loyalhanna, Westmoreland Co., PA in 1830 - 1840? Lee Anne

Fairfield is an eary township and constituted much of the northeastern corner of Westmoreland. To the west along the Conemaugh River is Derry Twp founded in 1775, and then Loyalhanna, formed from part of Derry in 1831. Loyalhanna Dam and a community named McChesney-Loyalhanna are in Derry Twp. Lee Anne Center wrote: >Does anyone on the list know where Fairfield, Westmoreland Co., PA was in >relation to Loyalhanna, Westmoreland Co., PA in 1830 - 1840? > >Lee Anne > > >==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > > >

Hi listers, I have not been here for awhile. I am researching the McCarthy family, 1870 coalminers, Connolly family 1888 coalminers Nee /Knee family 1870 Coalminers All around the North Huntingdon, Latimer, Fairmont Village areas of Irwin. They have common decedents. Is anyone else researching these families? Carol Apollo, Pa.

For those of you who may have connections to Fayette County, I invite you to have a look at the Fayette County Cemeteries online. In March 2005, we undertook the task of identifying, locating and documenting the cemeteries of Fayette County, PA, as part of the USGenWeb project. Our goal was to make this information freely available to both local and long distance researchers. With the help of some very dedicated volunteers, this has become a reality. We've spent the past few weeks updating the site in time for Memorial Day. We now have about 20,000 veteran's burials documented. 29 new cemeteries have been added, for a total of 484. 40 cemeteries have had major updates of added information and corrections. Over 4,000 new entries have been added for a total 43,400 burials. There are over 200 pictures of the entrances to the cemeteries and thousands of individual head stone pictures. While the project is nowhere near completed, we have made tremendous progress in documenting the burials of our ancestors. As progress, the elements and vandalism take their toll, the family plots and country cemeteries shrink and disappear. This is our effort to see that those buried there are never forgotten. Go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~pafayett/index.html and click on CEMETERY RECORDS...or http://www.rootsweb.com/~pafayett/cemetery/index.html Be sure to sign the guest book. This message is being sent to the mailing lists of the counties adjacent to Fayette. If you receive more than one copy, my apologies. Marc Whetsel Fayette Cemeteries Online "Show me your cemeteries and I will tell you what kind of people you have." Benjamin Franklin

The Scots and Irish belonged to the last great English migration pattern to the US. Beginning around 1742 (the end of "Prince Charlie's War"), the Highlanders were on the wrong end of the stick, and these particular Scotsmen were the "Borderlanders" -- known for their skills at bushwhacking the English and occasionally, each other. A hundred years of constant guerilla warfare had honed their skills as farmer/warriors, and they were noticeably less genteel than the prim and peaceable Quakers when they landed at Philadelphia. It is fairly well documented that the Philadelphians tended to "incent" these newly arrived "wild" families to move westward into the Indian lands, rather than to stay in Philadelphia. At the same time, the most newly arrived through Baltimore, found their way into the Virginia militia of Lord Fairfax, where a few hundred found employment under a certain Major Washington. This was not noble service; they only signed on to (for the most part) pay off their indentures, or gain land bounties west of the mountains. As for the Germans, they were mostly Alsatians. The town of Irwin was, for instance, really started around the nexus of "Fort Walthour" -- a typical stockade home of the time, which gave rise to the area known as "PenGlyn", which is the Eastern part of Irwin, along Pennsylvania avenue, about a mile east of the center of town. The Walthour family has been prominent in Irwin and Westmoreland county since those earliest days. -----Original Message----- From: Jackie Mitchell [mailto:mitchj@infionline.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:36 PM To: PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO-L] Re: Moving ever Westward... What about the Indian Problems? Would this have been a factor? Jackie Mitchell ----- Original Message ----- From: "DONALD SINCLAIR" <DSINCLAIR@indy.rr.com> To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO-L] Re: Moving ever Westward... > These familes often times moved to FREE land. The sons of larger families > had to start out on thier own and get thier own land. If you had four or > five sons, dividing your own land to them after you died or were infirm, > would not give them each enough to raise enough crops to support thier own > large family to be. As for feeling threatened, I think it must have been > something else. Westmoreland County at the 1767 era would have been just > 10 years or so removed from the French and Indian War. This was an outpost > type area and the Penn family was looking for a "buffer" between the > Indians and the established areas from Lancaster and on Eastern. Free land > was offered to those people brave enough to settle there under direct > threat from the Indians. This threat went on all the way until the turn of > the next century. The Germans were known as great farmers, the Scots and > Irish as great fighters. Together, these are the people that tamed > Westmoreland County. > > Donald Sinclair, Indianapolis > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <RoverLSmith@aol.com> > To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:49 PM > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO-L] Re: Moving ever Westward... > > >> The families were large, and needed more land to survive. The next >> generation >> of many of these families would move on to Ohio and further west. Imagine >> how >> overcrowed eastern PA would have been had all these large families >> stayed, >> married, and had large families of their own. Even families described as >> "farmers" didn't necessarily farm for a living. They "farmed" to survive >> rather than >> making a living selling grain and they didn't exactly eat as well as we >> do >> today. Remember, these people didn't have tractors. They walked around >> with a bag >> and threw out seed. They also raised animals, which could graze on poor >> soil >> if the farm were large enough, and they hunted for the meat as well as >> the >> pelts. The Truxals (etc.) may have had other occupations such as >> shoemakers, >> saddle makers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, weavers, gunsmiths, etc. >> Greensburg >> was fairly prosperous. There were also coal fields around Greensburg. >> None of my >> ancestors who resided in the area did poorly, although within a couple of >> generations many moved on -- the members of the families who did stay >> didn't seem >> to starve to death. Families or parts of them did move on as land opened >> up >> for settlement. Another thing to take into consideration with German >> families >> is that they tended to isolate themselves a bit as they did not speak the >> same >> language as many of the people surrounding them. >> >> Debbie >> The sudden move in 1767 from rich farmland toa poorer area is something >> that cannot be answered by land suddenly opened for settlement. I can >> imagine a waunder lust son or two doing this but not the whole family. >> They >> must have felt threatened by something >> >> >> ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== >> >> > > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ====

From the Genealogymagazine.com. Some Pennsylvanians in 1772: Settlers in Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland Counties. http://www.genealogymagazine.com/sompenin17.html The Ashcrafts and Carrs as asked about in a prior query are included. Dawne

From the Greensburgh & Indiana Register 11/26/1812 Married on Thursday last, by the Rev. Joseph Henderson, James McKnight, Esq. to Miss Jane McComb, daughter of General James McComb. All of Indiana county.

No relation to me. Greensburgh & Indiana Register Thurs. 7/30/1812 Married on the 9th inst. Thomas Pollock, Esq. of Ligonier Valley to Miss Henderson, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Henderson, of Indiana connty. Note: connty is the way it was printed.

Hi list, What High School would someone be graduating from in the 1899-1900 if they lived on 3rd Ave., New Kensington Borough, Westmoreland Co., PA?? Thank you for any background you could give me on my question? Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS)

Thanks Dawne. I appreciate that. Let me know if you need more details on him and I will be happy to send it along. Margaret On 5/18/06, Dawne Temple <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> wrote: > > That's OK the Della Reagan Fisher transcript of The St. Paul's Cemetery at > the Ridge Churches near Trauger does not list my ggrandparents tombstone > even though it is a large one right beside the church parking lot. They > died > in 1931 and 1934-way before the transcript was made. I will add your > Grandfather to the list that I have before I put it in Chestnut Ridge > records so that at least in this one, he will be included. > > Dawne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margaret Gagliardi" <megsgeneo@gmail.com> > To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:41 PM > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO-L] Veterans Scottdale Cemetery > > > > Not only are they not complete, but unless they had a military marker > they > > were ignored. My Civil War Grandfather is ANDREW B. FINDLEY and he has > a > > regular tombstone. I contacted the Veterans in Scottdale and even took > > them > > papers proving he was a Vet and they still ignored me. So I ordered the > > GAR > > marker to place at his grave and put an American Flag in it myself. I > > think > > they are replacing his flag every year now, just because they see the > > marker > > and the worn out flag from the previous year. > > > > Margaret > > > > > > On 5/17/06, Dawne Temple <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> wrote: > >> > >> When I was at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh I copied the Veterans > >> that were buried at the Scottdale Cemetery according to a transcript in > >> their collection. I am sure that the Korean and Viet Nam lists are not > >> complete. > >> > >> G. A. R. Veterans > >> > >> Albig, William K. Lohr, Milton B. > >> Bair, David R. May, Benjamin B. > >> Bair, Jonas May, Thomas B. > >> Bell, ? Merritt, Jonathan > >> Bennett, John Might, John > >> Booher, John Patton, William I. > >> Cowan, Robert Plummer, George J. > >> Eicher, Samuel R. Porter, Samuel D. > >> Fairchild, Samuel R. Rager, James W. > >> Farrar, J. G. Ridenour, George W. > >> Freeman, William Robertson, John > >> Graft, George L. Rollinson, Isaac > >> Greenawalt, Cyrus M. Runge, Alexander R. > >> Gusdanovic, ? Rush, Samuel O. > >> Hall, Jackson Sager, George W. > >> Heffelfinger, Jos. Sisley, Adam > >> Hough, George W. Smith, Nathan > >> Jaquette, Anthony Stauffer, Henry W. > >> Jones, Gabriel Sterrett, Josiah G. > >> Jones, James H. Stevenson, Samuel G. > >> Keagy, John L. Stewart, James > >> Kinkead, Alfred Stewart, Thomas H. > >> Klingensmith, James Tedrow, John K. > >> Kuhn, Daniel Thomas, Charles W. > >> Layton, Martin E. Trimble, Murry > >> Lessig, George Walter, John > >> Wilson, > Perry > >> B. > >> > >> more to come..... > >> > >> Dawne > >> > >> > >> ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > > > >

That's OK the Della Reagan Fisher transcript of The St. Paul's Cemetery at the Ridge Churches near Trauger does not list my ggrandparents tombstone even though it is a large one right beside the church parking lot. They died in 1931 and 1934-way before the transcript was made. I will add your Grandfather to the list that I have before I put it in Chestnut Ridge records so that at least in this one, he will be included. Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Gagliardi" <megsgeneo@gmail.com> To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO-L] Veterans Scottdale Cemetery > Not only are they not complete, but unless they had a military marker they > were ignored. My Civil War Grandfather is ANDREW B. FINDLEY and he has a > regular tombstone. I contacted the Veterans in Scottdale and even took > them > papers proving he was a Vet and they still ignored me. So I ordered the > GAR > marker to place at his grave and put an American Flag in it myself. I > think > they are replacing his flag every year now, just because they see the > marker > and the worn out flag from the previous year. > > Margaret > > > On 5/17/06, Dawne Temple <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> wrote: >> >> When I was at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh I copied the Veterans >> that were buried at the Scottdale Cemetery according to a transcript in >> their collection. I am sure that the Korean and Viet Nam lists are not >> complete. >> >> G. A. R. Veterans >> >> Albig, William K. Lohr, Milton B. >> Bair, David R. May, Benjamin B. >> Bair, Jonas May, Thomas B. >> Bell, ? Merritt, Jonathan >> Bennett, John Might, John >> Booher, John Patton, William I. >> Cowan, Robert Plummer, George J. >> Eicher, Samuel R. Porter, Samuel D. >> Fairchild, Samuel R. Rager, James W. >> Farrar, J. G. Ridenour, George W. >> Freeman, William Robertson, John >> Graft, George L. Rollinson, Isaac >> Greenawalt, Cyrus M. Runge, Alexander R. >> Gusdanovic, ? Rush, Samuel O. >> Hall, Jackson Sager, George W. >> Heffelfinger, Jos. Sisley, Adam >> Hough, George W. Smith, Nathan >> Jaquette, Anthony Stauffer, Henry W. >> Jones, Gabriel Sterrett, Josiah G. >> Jones, James H. Stevenson, Samuel G. >> Keagy, John L. Stewart, James >> Kinkead, Alfred Stewart, Thomas H. >> Klingensmith, James Tedrow, John K. >> Kuhn, Daniel Thomas, Charles W. >> Layton, Martin E. Trimble, Murry >> Lessig, George Walter, John >> Wilson, Perry >> B. >> >> more to come..... >> >> Dawne >> >> >> ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== >> >> >> > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > > >

Speaking of Scottdale Cemetery,,I am planning a trip there in the next couple of weeks. I want to just see the Sterrett area for myself. I know there are probabily no stones left of the older Sterrett's (Starretts),,but it will be neat to see where they all lived. My friend and I are leaving Ar. next week, going to Al., Ga, Sc. then up to Wva., Pa, Ohio, and Il,,then bacl home. Katy

Not only are they not complete, but unless they had a military marker they were ignored. My Civil War Grandfather is ANDREW B. FINDLEY and he has a regular tombstone. I contacted the Veterans in Scottdale and even took them papers proving he was a Vet and they still ignored me. So I ordered the GAR marker to place at his grave and put an American Flag in it myself. I think they are replacing his flag every year now, just because they see the marker and the worn out flag from the previous year. Margaret On 5/17/06, Dawne Temple <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> wrote: > > When I was at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh I copied the Veterans > that were buried at the Scottdale Cemetery according to a transcript in > their collection. I am sure that the Korean and Viet Nam lists are not > complete. > > G. A. R. Veterans > > Albig, William K. Lohr, Milton B. > Bair, David R. May, Benjamin B. > Bair, Jonas May, Thomas B. > Bell, ? Merritt, Jonathan > Bennett, John Might, John > Booher, John Patton, William I. > Cowan, Robert Plummer, George J. > Eicher, Samuel R. Porter, Samuel D. > Fairchild, Samuel R. Rager, James W. > Farrar, J. G. Ridenour, George W. > Freeman, William Robertson, John > Graft, George L. Rollinson, Isaac > Greenawalt, Cyrus M. Runge, Alexander R. > Gusdanovic, ? Rush, Samuel O. > Hall, Jackson Sager, George W. > Heffelfinger, Jos. Sisley, Adam > Hough, George W. Smith, Nathan > Jaquette, Anthony Stauffer, Henry W. > Jones, Gabriel Sterrett, Josiah G. > Jones, James H. Stevenson, Samuel G. > Keagy, John L. Stewart, James > Kinkead, Alfred Stewart, Thomas H. > Klingensmith, James Tedrow, John K. > Kuhn, Daniel Thomas, Charles W. > Layton, Martin E. Trimble, Murry > Lessig, George Walter, John > Wilson, Perry > B. > > more to come..... > > Dawne > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > >

Hi list(s), I received our g-g-grandfather Joseph FOUSS' Pension Records from the National Archives & transcribed them. If anyone would be interested in reading these records please e-mail me directly & I will send you an attachment. Just use the above subject line. :) HMWEBBER@aol.com Helen M. (Webber) Imburgia 396 Derry Drive Aston, PA 19014 (610) 358-1102 HMWEBBER@aol.com Professional Genealogist Local Historian Founder of the     Delaware County Genealogical Society (on-line) Index for Wills in Delaware Co., PA 1789 - 1900 Index for Administrations in Delaware Co., PA 1789 - 1900 Index for Naturalization Records in Delaware Co., PA 1795 - 1926

I meant Aug 30, 1864-July 6, 1865 not 1964 and 1965! Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawne Temple" <dtis4me@zoominternet.net> To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:29 PM Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] 1890 Veteran's Schedule > Saw this in the 1890 Veteran's schedule and thought it was interesting. > > Jacob Rollinson, Private, Comapny C, 204 PA INF, Aug 30, 1964-July 6, > 1965. Length of service 10 mo. 6 days > Scottdale, under comments is- > Transferred to the heavy artillery > captured in 1863 and escaped from Andersonville Prison to Mexico and > joined the french? army and was never discharged from US Army Service > > Also listed from Scottdale were two Confederate soldiers- > > Richard Kerfoot > Jackson Goswick, ,Company K, 60 Ga Inf., date of enlistment May 13, 1862. > > Dawne > > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > > >