ALWARD - My grandmother, Florence Jeannette ALWARD was born in 1898 in Oakmont, PA to Bruce Sproul ALWARD and Ida Belle McBRIDE. Bruce Sproul ALWARD was born in 1876 to Forster ALWARD and Hannah Mariah KIPP. He was a collector for American Oil Company. Forster was born in Harrisburg in 1832. He served in Co A 102nd Regt. Pa Vol. during the Civil War. He was promoted to Captain and was wounded in the side by a mini-ball at Cedar Creek. A carpenter by trade, his injury was aggravated by his chosen occupation. He was the son of Henry ALWARD and Eliza ELDER. Little is known of Henry. He was born about 1795, was a clerk in a bank in Harrisburg, married Eliza Awl Elder 23 May 1818 and moved to Pittsburgh sometime after 1830. He is in Allegheny County by 1840, but had disappeared by 1850. There is a Henry ALWARD who served from Pittsburgh during the Mexican War, enlisting in 1846 and dying shortly after his return. It is believed that Henry ALWARD is the son of Henry ALWARD and Rebecca HARRIS. A Rebecca ELWARD, aged 79, is living with Wesley BOWMAN and his wife Tamar in Freeport, Armstrong County, PA in 1850. Tamar was the daughter of Henry ALWARD and Rebecca HARRIS. Also living with them in Eliza ELWARD. Forster is granted leave due to an illness in the family in 1865, and at that time, Eliza ALWARD was in the Pittsburgh Infirmary. Forster married twice, first to Mary Rossiter VANHORN and secondly to Hannah Mariah KIPP. Henry ALWARD, Sr. was born in 1770 to John ALWARD and Priscilla TAYLOR. They were residents of Northumberland County and lived in or near Sunbury, PA. John ALWARD had been born in Basking Ridge, NJ in 1747 to Henry ALWARD and Mary COX. He lived in Muncy Creek and possibly also in Berks County. His father Henry was born in 1718 in Woodbridge, NJ to Henry ALWARD, Jr. and Sarah COMPTON. He is said to be buried at the Presbyterian Church at Basking Ridge where he was a member. I did search the cemetery and did not find him, although several ALWARDS are interred there. Henry ALWARD, Jr. was born In Woodbridge, NJ in 1695. He served in Col. Farmar's militia in 1715. Henry Jr. was the son of Henry ALWARD, Sr. and Judith HENDRICKS. Henry Sr. was probably born in England. The name of his father has not been determined. Some say Henry, others say Thomas. We do know that his father died when Henry was young and his mother Anna married again, first to Peter DESIGNEY and next to Robert ROGERS. The dates given for these marriages are only months apart and that does make me wonder. Robert ROGERS' will mentions his "son-in-law" Henry ALLWOOD.

BEATTY - Elizabeth Jane BEATTY was the daughter of Robert BEATTY and Sarah Ann GRIM. She was born in 1848 in Armstrong County, PA. After the death of her first husband, Joseph C. McBRIDE, she married David McKINLEY, a resident of Jefferson County, PA. Robert BEATTY was a blacksmith in Manorville, Armstrong County, PA. He served in Co K 104th Regt. Pa Infantry attaining the rank of Corporal. He was born in 1826 to William BEATTY and Isabella CALDWELL. William BEATTY was also a blacksmith. He was born in eastern PA, and may have been the son of William BEATTY of Chester County, PA.

 

BOONE - Sarah BOONE married Conrad ADAMS who was a neighbor of Benjamin BOONE and Eve LOFTER in Northumberland County. They named their children Benjamin and Eve and one of the descendants apparenty stated that Sarah was a cousin to Daniel BOONE in a letter written about their ancestors. Little else is known. She is mentioned in a settlement document that mentions all of Benjamin's heirs. After Conrad's death, she married the handyman, Conrad LAMBERSON and later moved to Armstrong County, PA.

 

CALDWELL - Isabella CALDWELL was born about 1790, probably to James CALDWELL and Frances NEILSON. James CALDWELL was born in Greencastle, Franklin County, PA in 1759 and moved to Westmoreland County carrying two of his children in baskets on either side of a pack horse. The family settled near Wallace's Fort near what is now Cokeville, but at one time was called Broad Fording. He is said to have served in the Revolutionary War, although I have not checked that out as yet. James was the son of Robert (b. 1738) and Margaret (nee unknown) CALDWELL and the grandson of William W. CALDWELL of Ireland.

 

CUPPLES - Sarah Sabina CUPPLES was born in Mifflin County, PA in 1835, the daughter of James CUPPLES and Ann Elizabeth RUSSELL. She married twice, her first husband, John HARTLEY having died at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. She married second John DEARING. James CUPPLES was born in 1789 and was the son of James and Mary Ann (nee unknown) CUPPLES. James Sr. is said to be the son of John CUPPLES, Sr. and was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1758. The Cupples' came over the year before the Revolutionary War, settling first in Chester County. It is said that their ship was chased by an English-Man-of-War, but a dense fog saved them.

 

DE GRAAF - Hannah DE GRAAF, born about 1750 in New York, was the daughter of Michael DE GRAAF and Rachel SWART. She married John KIPP and they lived in York, now Adams County, PA. They settled in the Mt. Pleasant area and attended the Dutch Church there. Michael DE GRAAF was born about 1725 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co, NY to Abram DE GRAAF and Elizabeth PARMENTIER. Michael was in Mt. Pleasant, Adams Co, PA as early as 1772 where he is listed on the tax records. He and two sons signed a petition to Congress in 1783 regarding land in Kentucky. Abram was born in 1695 to Moses De GRAEF and Hester DELAMETER (LE MAISTER). Moses was from Dieppe, France and was the son of Jean LE COMTE of Picardy, Somme, France and Marye LAURENS. Jean was a Huguenot whose family fled the country after Louis XIV invaded. He came to America about 1674, uniting with the church there at the earliest chance. Since they didn't have a dwelling, and there were no vacant homes available they lived in the constable's (Demarest's) home and stored their belongings in his barn. The dutch word for LE COMTE ( the count) is DE GRAEF, thus the name change. Some sources say he was the 6th great grandson of Louis IX, King of France but I have not seen any documentation. He probably arrived from England to New Amsterdam aboard the ship, "The Diamond."

 

ELDER - Eliza ELDER was born about 1798 to John ELDER, Jr. and Elizabeth AWL in Dauphin Co., PA. She married Henry ALWARD and they moved to Pittsburgh, PA. She apparently lost her husband sometime between 1840 and 1850. John ELDER, Jr. was a son of Rev. John ELDER ("the Fighting Parson") by his second wife, Mary SIMPSON. John ELDER, Jr. fought in the Revolutionary War. He made the rank of Captain. He was a farmer, teacher, surveyor and sheriff. It is said he erected the first steel plant at Middletown, PA. His father, Rev. John ELDER was a Presbyterian minister at the Paxtang Church. He went to school at Edinburgh, Scotland and was the son of Robert ELDER and his wife Eleanor.

 

HARTLEY - Little is known of the HARTLEY family. Matilda Elizabeth HARTLEY is the daughter of John HARTLEY and Sarah Sabina CUPPLES. She was born in 1861 in Mifflin County, PA and married Milton Clay KAUFFMAN about 1880. Her father, John HARTLEY was born in Centre, PA and died at Andersonville Prison, Sumter Co, GA in 1864. He was a laborer. He served in Co I 149th PA Volunteers, enlisting as a Private. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness. A letter written to his wife, Sarah, said he was taken prisoner on the 5th. He had black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion and stood 5 feet 8 inches tall. His military records show his age as 23 in a document dated in 1865. I do not know if this was his age then, or when he was drafted in 1863. John and Sarah married in Newton Hamilton, PA in 1857.

KAUFFMAN - specifically the family of Albert John KAUFFMAN, born 1892 in Granville, Mifflin County, PA to Milton Clay KAUFFMAN and Matilda Elizabeth HARTLEY. He left home at an early age, after his father was jailed, thinking there were too many children for his mother to care for alone. He spent some time out west, but eventually settled in Allegheny County. He had nothing to do with his father and did not attend his funeral. He did care for his own family, during the depression giving money to family members who had little. This upset his mother-in-law, but he only answered that they were family. More questions than answers are available for the rest of the family. Some of the children are recorded as being the children of Milton and Anna WILLIAMS. It is not known if he married her, or if this was an error. No information on her has been found other than her name on the certificate. Milton married Matilda Elizabeth HARTLEY about 1880 according to census information, but a child born in 1883 is listed as the child of Anna WILLIAMS in his death certificate. Milton's death certificate states that he was the child of John KAUFFMAN and Mary MILLER. Every other piece of evidence shows him to be the child of John E. KAUFFMAN and Margaret MASHMAN. Milton was born in Patterson, Juniata County, PA in 1862.

 

MOCKENHAUPT - Alban MOCKENHAUPT was born in Nauroth, Germany in 1910. He moved to America and raised a family there. He was the son of Peter MOCKENHAUPT and Katharina ARNDT. Peter was the son of Peter MOCKENHAUPT and Maria Anna WEBER and was born in 1869, also in Nauroth. Peter MOCKENHAUPT, Sr. was the son of Johann Peter MOCKENHAUPT and Maria Elisabetha SEIFNER. He was born in Elkenroth, Germany in 1841. Johann Peter was born about 1815 and married Maria at the Catholic Church of Gebhardshain.

 

SLAGLE - This line begins with my grandfather, Charles Edwin SLAGLE, born in 1897 in Mosgrove, Armstrong County, PA. He was the child of Wilmer Lloyd SLAGLE and Mary Ann PATTON. He worked for the railroad, being a railroad station manager for many years before managing the produce yard in Pittsburgh. His father, Wilmer was the son of Washington SLAGLE and Sarah HOFFER. Washington was the son of Abraham SLAGLE and Christina BOWSER and was born in 1852.Abraham was born in 1818 and is believed to be the son of Harmon (aka Hiram and Herman) SLAGLE and his wife Barbara. Barbara's last name is given as HOTTENBURG in some records, but there are no HOTTENBURGS in the state of PA at any time during the 1800's. There is a Herman SLAGLE born to Christian SLAGLE and his wife Anna Maria in 1793 in Northumberland County. This may be our Harmon. Christian was the son Johann Christian SCHLEGEL, Jr. and Catharine CONRAD.Christian was born on the Schlegel Adventure, the family's property in Berks County, PA in 1765. Johann was born in PA in 1744 to Johann Christian SCHLEGEL, Sr. and wife Catharina. Johann Sr. arrived at Philadelphia aboard the "Bilander Townsend" in 1737 from Germany.