_________________________
|
_Addison A. ADAIR ___|
| (1843 - ....) m 1867|
| |_________________________
|
|
|--Ella M. ADAIR
| (1868 - ....)
| _Alexander M. MCCONNELL _+
| | (1791 - 1853) m 1820
|_Virginia MCCONNELL _|
(1842 - 1920) m 1867|
|_Polly Ann ADAMS ________+
(1802 - 1873) m 1820
[51929]
[S5549]
1870 Census, McConnelsville, Morgan Twp, Morgan Co., OH
[51930]
[S5549]
1870 Census, McConnelsville, Morgan Twp, Morgan Co., OH
__
|
_Cornelius CATING ___|
| (1747 - 1824) m 1778|
| |__
|
|
|--Elizabeth CATING
| (1787 - 1839)
| __
| |
|_Mary Ann DOWDELL ___|
m 1778 |
|__
[70548]
[S8877]
Rootsweb website: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnnystree&id=I00173
[70549]
[S8877]
Rootsweb website: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnnystree&id=I00173
[106036]
[S8877]
Rootsweb website: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=johnnystree&id=I00173
[25753]
[S1887]
1850 Census, Centre Twp, Carroll Co., OH
[25754]
[S1887]
1850 Census, Centre Twp, Carroll Co., OH
__________________________
|
_Hazel FULLER ____________|
| |
| |__________________________
|
|
|--Daniel MCCONNELL
|
| _Joseph MCCONNELL ________+
| | (1849 - 1929) m 1877
|_Corless Isaac MCCONNELL _|
(1885 - 1968) |
|_Amanda Catherine HORNER _+
(1849 - ....) m 1877
__
|
_Francis MCCONNELL __|
| (1811 - 1893) |
| |__
|
|
|--Edward MCCONNELL
| (1835 - 1896)
| __
| |
|_Mary SMILEY ________|
(.... - 1842) |
|__
[10143]
Edward McConnell was born near Belfast, Ireland in 1835. He is thought to have been the eldest son of Francis and Mary (Smiley) McConnell. He was the first of the family to come to America. He came in 1850 when he was 15 years old. His crossing of the Atlantic turned out to be a trying ordeal. It took 13 weeks instead of the usual 3 to 6 weeks. To make matters worse, the sailing ship was scarcely out of sight of land when a case of Cholera was found on board. During the crossing, more than half the passengers and crew died of the dreaded disease. The ship was carrying cattle as well as passengers. They ran out of rocks from the ships ballast to sink bodies. They were becalmed in mid Atlantic for 9 weeks. Day after day the ship's dead were dropped overboard at sunset, only to float around the ship among the canvas enshrouded bodies of those dropped overboard during the previous weeks. Those on board who had not been directly exposed to the first cholera victim, were virtually imprisioned in the ships cargo hold for the entire crossing. The only daylight they saw was through a foot square ventilator opening in a hatch cover. They were given tobacco to use in all forms, as the only preventative that they knew for the disease. Edward was among those that aquired the tobacco habit quickly and for life.
Upon arrival in Philadelphia, Edward McConnell worked first in a sand and gravel pit, shoveling sand and gravel for 12 hours a day. He "batched" and saved his money for two years. He sent the money to Ireland for his brother Thomas's passage to America. The two of them then were able in a couple of years to send for their sister Sarah's passage. After Sarah's arrival the moved to the Pittsburgh area. Edward was hired to manage a big vegatable gardening operation on Neville Island in the Ohio River below Pittsburgh. This was a very productive tract of land but is now covered by heavy industry and homes. Since the gardening operation was seasonal, he worked at other jobs during the winter, sometimes as a deckhand on a river boat, sometimes floating logs to a river sawmill.
Edward McConnell received his United States Citizenship papers in Pittsburgh on September 25, 1860. The same year he took Eliza Potter as his wife. Very little is known of her. She died, leaving him with three small children.
The children were 1. Thomas: 12/6/1861 - 8/24/1880: nm
2. Eliza Jane: 9/29/1864 - 9/7/1871
3. Emma Mary: 2/4/1867 - 5/4/1917: m John Spence
Thomas, above, died of a hernia that he suffered at a barn raising. Eliza Jane died as a small child. Emma Mary McConnell married John Spence, a member of the East Liverpool fire department for many years. She died following an operation.
Edward McConnell met the woman who was to be his second wife on the water-front produce market in Pittsburgh. Nancy Anna McCausland taught school for more than 15 years. She also carried on an unusual business for a young woman, at anytime, but especially in her day. with the coming of the railroad into Carrol County, Ohio, she gathered up butter, eggs, meat, fruit, potatoes and other vegetables and took them to Pittsburgh to market. She sold them herself during the late spring, summer and fall.
She acted as agent for her neighbors. This was possible, since a four month school year was common in rural areas of Ohio until the 1880's. She taught school in Columbiana County about a mile from the site of Morgan's surrender. She was born in 1837 in Carroll county, daughter of James and Mary (Hunter) McCausland.
Edward McConnell and Nancy Anna McCausland were married November 19,1868 at her father's home, near what is now known as Washington Hall, East of Carrollton. The next spring he took over management of half Moon Farm, a vegetable farm across the Ohio River from Steubenville. For a year he managed a big vegetable garden where the Steubenville country is now located. Next he bought a steep, very poor hill farm in Brooke County, West Virginia. It was located upriver from Steubenville and within sight of the river. Four of their children were born there. He sold it and bought the Wintersville farm in 1877. This last farm is where the family grew up. He later bought the ajoining farm, part of which was later owned by Charles McConnell, a grandson.
Edward sold the first sweet corn in Steubenville, each year for 25 years or more. He grew a wide variety of vegetables and small fruits, which he sold in the Ohio river towns. He burned his own limestone and used the first commerercial fertilizer in the community. The analysis of this fertilizer was 1-2-2 and it came in 500 pound barrels. His cultivated crops were planted in contur strip, probably not quite as it is done today, but much differently than most of his neighbors.
Financially he was quite successful. He left a productive farm and a nice estate when he died November 19, 1896. His wife died on July 22, 1911. They are buried in Union Cemetery in Steubenville.
Edward McConnell's family were not well educated by today's standards, but better than the average in their times. Margaret and Anna attended Normal School at Richmond. Ross took a short course in farm management at Ohio State University. Joseph attended an auctioneer's school for a time. None of the family were particularily bashful, they were married somewhat later in life than was common in their time. They were all past 31 years of age at the time they were married except Anna, who was 26.
[Excerpted from "The Francis McConnell Descendents in United States" by George Edward McConnell 1/18/1971]
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1880 Ohio Soundex Island Creek Township, Jefferson County, Ohio T767
9/8 82 ED 101 sht 36 L3
Edward McCausland 45 Ire
Nancy 43 OH
Thomas 18 PA
Annie 14 PA
James 10 VA
Maggie 8 OH
Joseph 6 OH
Ross 4 OH
Sarah 2 OH
Annie B. 1 OH
McCausland, David 41 OH Nancy's brother
I believe that the first two children listed, Thomas and Annie, are by
Edwards first wife, Eliza Potter
Name: Edward McConnell
Enlistment Date: 8 Mar 1864
Side Served: Union
State Served: Pennsylvania
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 8 March 1864.
Enlisted in Company I, 183rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 8 Mar 1864.
Deserted from Company I, 183rd Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 20 May 1864.
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[10132]
[S869]
Richard D. Baith, email: rdbaith@alaska.net. Info comes from "Francis
[10133]
[S10544]
Per Descendants of Francis McConnell document
[10134]
[S10477]
1860 Census, Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co., PA
[10135]
[S10465]
Civil War Draft Registration
[10136]
[S10465]
Civil War Draft Registration
[10137]
[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
[10138]
[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
[10139]
[S7030]
1870 Census, Cross Creek Twp, Brooke Co., WV
[10140]
[S870]
1880 Census, Island Creek, Jefferson Co., OH
[10141]
[S869]
Richard D. Baith, email: rdbaith@alaska.net. Info comes from "Francis
[10142]
[S3941]
Find A Grave website
[102120]
[S869]
Richard D. Baith, email: rdbaith@alaska.net. Info comes from "Francis
_Jacob MCCONNELL ____
| (1806 - 1892) m 1843
_John Simpson MCCONNELL _|
| (1860 - 1944) m 1900 |
| |_Isabella SIMPSON ___+
| (1820 - ....) m 1843
|
|--Elowise MCCONNELL
| (1907 - ....)
| _W. L. EDWARDS ______
| |
|_Luella EDWARDS _________|
(1872 - 1945) m 1900 |
|_Imogene SALLISBURY _
[47928]
[S4564]
1910 Census, Clay Twp, Marshall Co., WV
[47929]
[S4564]
1910 Census, Clay Twp, Marshall Co., WV
_David "Daniel" Torrance MCCONNELL _+
| (1818 - ....) m 1844
_James M. MCCONNELL _|
| (1850 - 1916) m 1878|
| |_Rebecca M. STEVENSON ______________+
| (1827 - 1870) m 1844
|
|--Herald MCCONNELL
| (1894 - ....)
| ____________________________________
| |
|_Amanda A. GABBY ____|
(1853 - ....) m 1878|
|____________________________________
[88114]
[S9197]
1900 Census, Monmouth, Warren Co., IL
[88115]
[S9197]
1900 Census, Monmouth, Warren Co., IL
[83871]
[S11103]
1880 Census, Parkersville, Lyon Co., KY
[83868]
[S11103]
1880 Census, Parkersville, Lyon Co., KY
[83869]
[S11012]
1860 Census, Trigg Co., KY
[83870]
[S11103]
1880 Census, Parkersville, Lyon Co., KY
[106758]
[S6720]
An estimate based on age of children
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|
______ MCCONNELL ____|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--Rebecca MCCONNELL
|
| __
| |
|_Unknown ____________|
|
|__
[14614] Moved to Cherokee Nation, Canadian District with her sister.
_Alexander MCCONNELL _+
| (1803 - 1886) m 1832
_Alphonso "Almon" C. MCCONNELL _|
| (1836 - 1916) m 1856 |
| |_Rebecca Hall CHASE __
| (1812 - 1880) m 1832
|
|--Robert P. MCCONNELL
| (1857 - 1875)
| ______________________
| |
|_Grace J. TOD __________________|
(1836 - 1907) m 1856 |
|______________________
[4840] He was blind.
[4835]
[S4453]
1860 Census, Warren Twp, Trumbull Co., OH
[4836]
[S4453]
1860 Census, Warren Twp, Trumbull Co., OH
[4837]
[S4451]
1870 Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH
[4838]
[S36]
Sharon McConnell, 11 Bobby Jones Lane, Coto de Caza, CA 92679-5009.
[4839]
[S36]
Sharon McConnell, 11 Bobby Jones Lane, Coto de Caza, CA 92679-5009.
_William MCCONNELL __+
| (1760 - 1835) m 1778
_Robert MCCONNELL ___|
| (1795 - 1865) m 1820|
| |_Unknown ____________
| m 1778
|
|--Stephen MCCONNELL
| (1828 - ....)
| _William BAKER ______
| | (1765 - ....)
|_Mary BAKER _________|
(1802 - 1860) m 1820|
|_Unknown ____________
[32981]
[S2865]
1850 Census, Eel River Twp, Greene Co., IN
[32982]
[S2865]
1850 Census, Eel River Twp, Greene Co., IN
[103355]
[S2011]
Indiana marriage index.
__
|
_John REYNOLDS ______|
| (1792 - 1867) |
| |__
|
|
|--Martha J. REYNOLDS
| (1837 - ....)
| __
| |
|_Nancy A. MCCONNELL _|
(1801 - ....) |
|__
[95364]
[S14022]
1850 Census, Henderson Co., IL
[95365]
[S14022]
1850 Census, Henderson Co., IL
_Aaron WILSON _______+
| (1747 - 1814) m 1773
_James WILLSON ______|
| (1779 - 1836) m 1803|
| |_Mary JACOBS ________
| (1753 - 1818) m 1773
|
|--Nancy WILLSON
| (1810 - ....)
| _Robert MCCONNELL ___+
| | (1729 - 1813) m 1747
|_Sarah MCCONNELL ____|
(1778 - 1843) m 1803|
|_Nancy "Agnes" BOYD _+
(1732 - ....) m 1747
[42784]
[S10779]
An estimate based on census data and marriage date
[104011]
[S11305]
Ohio County Marriages, 1789 to 1994