Shenango Valley Cemetery: 1882-1913

Shenango Valley Cemetery: 1882-1913
Author: Mark S. Painter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 9781558562691

One of the first modern cemeteries in Mercer County being operated by an association and offering perpetual care. From the record books of the cemetery, this book offers the following information: name of the deceased, place of birth date/place, death date, in whose lot interred, late residence, age in years, months and days, lot number and section, permit obtained by. Gives the researcher priceless information before the states began keeping death records in 1906. 1882-1913 covers a period when Greenville was booming with new buildings, businesses, railroads, manufacturing, coal and agriculture and was the largest town in the area and hub of the surrounding community. As these records show, the town attracted people from everywhere (a lot from Lehigh, Northampton County area, children of Mercer County area pioneers from all over the county, Venango County oilfield families that moved to Greenville to get away from the mess, Indiana County-a real mix of people from all over) and also recorded are many of the children and grandchildren of the earliest Mercer County pioneers. Index.

The McLaughlin Genealogy

The McLaughlin Genealogy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1990
Genre: Ireland
ISBN:

Descendants of John (1758-1801) and Agnes "Nancy" (McLaughlin) McLaughlin (1769-1848). John was the son of James and Mary McLaugh- lin, and was born in Derry, Ireland, and died in West Salem Twp., Mercer Co., Pa. Nancy was the daughter of Patrick McLaughlin. John and Nancy married in 1790. John and Nancy came to America ca. 1793. They lived first in Junetta (Juniata) in Mifflin Co., Pa., which at that time included an area now comprising much of Centre, Mifflin, and Juniata Counties. Family moved to Forks of Yough in what became Beaver Co., Pa. in 1799 and finally in the spring of 1800, they settled in what became West Salem Twp. of Mercer Co., Pa. Nancy married (2) Peter Lossee (1750-1815) in 1802. She had three children with Peter Lossee and five with her first husband, John McLaughlin. She died near Kinsman, Trumbull Co., Ohio. Descendants live in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and elsewhere.

History of the Kuykendall Family

History of the Kuykendall Family
Author: George Benson Kuykendall
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 689
Release: 1919
Genre: History
ISBN: 5872287712

With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

Chambers History

Chambers History
Author: William Davis Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1925
Genre:
ISBN:

Some ancestry and many descendants of various Chambers emigrants from Scotland or England to the United States (and one immigrant to Canada). Descendants lived throughout the United States, and in Canada.

Archives of Memory

Archives of Memory
Author: Alice M. Hoffman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813133430

""Tell me about the war""--These words launched a ten-year project in oral history by a husband-and-wife team. Howard Hoffman fought in World War II from Cassino to the Elbe as a mortar crewman and a forward observer. His war experiences are of intrinsic interest to readers who seek a foot soldier's view of those historic events. But the principal purpose of this study was to explore the bounds of memory, to gauge its accuracy and its stability over time, and to determine the effects of various efforts to enhance it. Alice Hoffman, a historian, initiated the study because she recognized the