Susannah Wilson, 1785–1863 (aged 77 years)
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Note: In 1827, Waynesburg served as the county seat of Greene County, Pennsylvania, a role it had held since the county's formation in 1796. The town was laid out that same year on a tract of land originally purchased from Thomas Slater, featuring a central grid of streets and alleys, many named after local agricultural and distillation activities, such as Cider Alley and Whiskey Alley. Incorporated as a borough in 1816, Waynesburg was a small but growing rural hub by the 1820s, with an economy centered on agriculture (including grain, hay, corn, flax, and timber harvesting), livestock breeding (sheep, horses, cattle, and swine), whisky distillation, mercantile trade, tanning, leather production, and early milling operations like flouring and grist mills. Transportation relied on highways connecting to Pittsburgh and the Monongahela River, with the nearby Cumberland Road (completed around 1820) facilitating broader trade, though it bypassed Waynesburg itself. In 1827, Waynesburg served as the county seat of Greene County, Pennsylvania, a role it had held since the county's formation in 1796. The town was laid out that same year on a tract of land originally purchased from Thomas Slater, featuring a central grid of streets and alleys, many named after local agricultural and distillation activities, such as Cider Alley and Whiskey Alley. Incorporated as a borough in 1816, Waynesburg was a small but growing rural hub by the 1820s, with an economy centered on agriculture (including grain, hay, corn, flax, and timber harvesting), livestock breeding (sheep, horses, cattle, and swine), whisky distillation, mercantile trade, tanning, leather production, and early milling operations like flouring and grist mills. Transportation relied on highways connecting to Pittsburgh and the Monongahela River, with the nearby Cumberland Road (completed around 1820) facilitating broader trade, though it bypassed Waynesburg itself. Population specifics for Waynesburg in 1827 are not documented, but the town was described as a modest settlement with log and emerging brick structures, including a brick courthouse built in 1800 that stood until 1850. Early settlers included families like the Hays, Cotterrel, Hoskinson, and Pollock, many of whom were involved in farming, mercantile businesses, and local governance. Institutions included basic common schools with log or frame buildings, and religious organizations such as the Unity Presbyterian Church (organized in 1814 with a frame structure in the 1820s) and Methodist Episcopal congregations dating back to 1803. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was established around 1828, just after this period. No major events are recorded specifically for Waynesburg in 1827, though the nearby town of Jefferson (about 10 miles east) was incorporated as a borough that year with a population of around 700. The community reflected a mix of German, Irish, English, and Scottish-Irish influences, emphasizing thrift, morality, and pioneer self-sufficiency amid the transition from frontier life. |
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Note: After his last known child and 1850, when his wife Susannah was head of the household on the Census. |
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Note: Middleport Ohio April 12th 1854 Middleport Ohio April 12th 1854 Dear son it is with pleasure that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of March 31, I was very much rejoiced to know that you were well and doing well. For my part my health has not been very good ------ back and I am now just able to be about a little, perhaps I can sit up half the time during each day by taking turns at sitting up and lying down. I should like very much to see you and Martha, if it was possible, but I could not stand the fatigue of travel, so for if I had so good a chance to do so. I think that William has about as much to do as he can well ----- as to make a living these times without going a traveling. I am still staying with Maryann at Hartford, she is well and sends her best wishes to you. She is making money by keeping boarders, but it is a hard way to make a living. I have not heard from Jane since I wrote to you before, she does not write to me nor does she visit me, the reasons I suppose are best known to herself. Lampsons were all well the last I heard from them, I have not heard from Cynthia for more than a year, the last that I heard from them they were about to start for --------Some letters sent to Monticello Indiana but no answer has been received---------- it is therefor probable that they have left that part but where they have gone I do not know. Robert you will perceive that it is your Big Brother that wrote the forgoing lines by request of mother who is entirely too ill to write herself and I think if you want to see mother in this world you had better come tolerably soon as I do not believe that she will get through the summer, she is subject ------ attack------ very weak and she does not gather strength after such attacks for a long time. I do not believe that she can walk twenty steps at this time if it was to save her life. I do not wish to give you any ----- but I want you to know just how matters stand. yours W. W. Hurley |
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Note: The weather turned warm and burials were made quickly. Robert was buried in a mass grave on site or possibly in one of the church yards near by. |
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Old Hartford Cemetery, Wagoneer District, Mason County, West Virginia
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Author of last change: DaveH |
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| Marriage | Marriage — about 1784 — |
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herself
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1785–1863
Birth: November 6, 1785
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— Pennsylvania, United States Death: April 28, 1863 — Mason County, Virginia, United States |
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1793–1862
Birth: December 24, 1793
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— Pennsylvania Death: October 30, 1862 — Greene County, Pennsylvania |
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1794–1862
Birth: October 11, 1794
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— Pennsylvania Death: December 9, 1862 — Greene County, Pennsylvania |
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14 years
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1802–1877
Birth: December 15, 1802
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— Pennsylvania Death: September 10, 1877 — Greene County, Pennsylvania |
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1784–1850
Birth: before 1784
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— On the Bates Fork of Ten Mile Creek, Morris Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States Death: between 1832 and 1850 |
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1785–1863
Birth: November 6, 1785
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— Pennsylvania, United States Death: April 28, 1863 — Mason County, Virginia, United States |
| Marriage | Marriage — about 1810 — Pennsylvania, United States |
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1810–1884
Birth: about 1810
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— Pennsylvania Death: August 10, 1884 — Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA |
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4 years
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1814–1891
Birth: May 5, 1814
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— Greene County, Pennsylvania Death: September 17, 1891 — Union Township, White County, Indiana |
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1824–1905
Birth: August 6, 1824
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— Greene County, Pennsylvania Death: March 11, 1905 — Junction City, Kansas |
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1827–1862
Birth: 1827
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— Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania Death: April 6, 1862 — The Battle of Shilo, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee |
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Middleport Ohio April 12th 1854 Dear son it is with pleasure that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of March 31, I was very much rejoiced to know that you were well and doing well. For my part my health has not been very good ------ back and I am now just able to be about a little, perhaps I can sit up half the time during each day by taking turns at sitting up and lying down. I should like very much to see you and Martha, if it was possible, but I could not stand the fatigue of travel, so for if I had so good a chance to do so. I think that William has about as much to do as he can well ----- as to make a living these times without going a traveling. I am still staying with Maryann at Hartford, she is well and sends her best wishes to you. She is making money by keeping boarders, but it is a hard way to make a living. I have not heard from Jane since I wrote to you before, she does not write to me nor does she visit me, the reasons I suppose are best known to herself. Lampsons were all well the last I heard from them, I have not heard from Cynthia for more than a year, the last that I heard from them they were about to start for --------Some letters sent to Monticello Indiana but no answer has been received---------- it is therefor probable that they have left that part but where they have gone I do not know. Robert you will perceive that it is your Big Brother that wrote the forgoing lines by request of mother who is entirely too ill to write herself and I think if you want to see mother in this world you had better come tolerably soon as I do not believe that she will get through the summer, she is subject ------ attack------ very weak and she does not gather strength after such attacks for a long time. I do not believe that she can walk twenty steps at this time if it was to save her life. I do not wish to give you any ----- but I want you to know just how matters stand. yours W. W. Hurley |
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