[2246]
1830 Census, Washington Twp, Harrison Co., OH
1 M 20-29 (John), 2 M 0-4.
1 F 20-29 (Hannah), 1 F 5-9.
[2243]
[S11569]
1850 Census, Donegal, Washington Co., PA
[2244]
[S244]
1830 Census, Washington Twp, Harrison Co., OH
[2245]
[S11569]
1850 Census, Donegal, Washington Co., PA
______ FISHER _______
|
_Elias FISHER _______|
| (1808 - 1870) |
| |_Catharine _____ ____
| (1759 - ....)
|
|--Asahel E. FISHER
| (1820 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Unknown ____________|
|
|_____________________
[39308]
[S3486]
1850 Census, Waynesville, Warren Co., OH
__
|
_John W. GREGORY ____|
| (1833 - ....) |
| |__
|
|
|--Charles GREGORY
| (1864 - ....)
| __
| |
|_Sarah A. _____ _____|
(1836 - ....) |
|__
[61134] Per the 1900 census, both parents were from Kentucky.
[61132]
[S7040]
1900 Census, Liberty Twp, Gage Co., NE
[61133]
[S7040]
1900 Census, Liberty Twp, Gage Co., NE
[105186]
[S7040]
1900 Census, Liberty Twp, Gage Co., NE
_William MCCONNELL __
| (1780 - 1829) m 1812
_John MCCONNELL _____|
| (1815 - ....) m 1837|
| |_Jane _____ _________
| (1784 - ....) m 1812
|
|--Alexander E. MCCONNELL
| (1843 - 1862)
| _____________________
| |
|_Martha _____ _______|
(1817 - ....) m 1837|
|_____________________
[59504]
[S6757]
1860 Census, Yellow Springs Twp, Des Moines Co., IA
[59505]
[S6757]
1860 Census, Yellow Springs Twp, Des Moines Co., IA
[59506]
[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
[59507]
[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
[59508]
[S5097]
Ancestry.com Civil War records
_William MCCONNELL __
| (1776 - ....) m 1810
_Joseph Reed MCCONNELL _|
| (1826 - 1908) m 1869 |
| |_Nancy "Agnes" REED _
| (1786 - 1865) m 1810
|
|--Belle MCCONNELL
|
| _Walker HERRIOTT ____
| |
|_Mary Jane HERRIOTT ____|
(1846 - 1918) m 1869 |
|_Ann BOYD ___________
[96785]
[S14460]
Allegheny County, PA, Will Book 72, Page 489.
_Enos K. MCCONNELL _______+
| (1824 - ....) m 1843
_John N. MCCONNELL ___|
| (1853 - ....) |
| |_Armilda "Armenia" WILEY _
| (1826 - ....) m 1843
|
|--Glen F. MCCONNELL
| (1880 - ....)
| __________________________
| |
|_Ellen Rebecca _____ _|
|
|__________________________
[69527]
[S8805]
1900 Census, Franklin Twp, Grant Co., IN
[69528]
[S8805]
1900 Census, Franklin Twp, Grant Co., IN
_Francis MCCONNELL __
| (1811 - 1893)
_Thomas MCCONNELL _______|
| (1837 - 1905) m 1869 |
| |_Mary SMILEY ________
| (.... - 1842)
|
|--James MCCONNELL
| (1872 - 1949)
| _James MCCAUSLAND ___
| | (1802 - ....)
|_Martha Jane MCCAUSLAND _|
(1837 - 1905) m 1869 |
|_Mary HUNTER ________
(1805 - ....)
[10181]
James McConnell was born on his father's farm near Mechanicstown on
May 29, 1872. Not much is known about his youth because he was not
inclined to talk about it. He grew up on thwe farm in East Township,
later farmed by his brother. James worked as a farmer in the Salineville
arewa during his youth and early married life. Later he operated a feed
and farm supply store in Salineville. He served a mayor of the town for
two terms during the prohibition era. He lost sleep many a night while
serving in that office, cooperating with federal prohibition officers on
bootleg cases.
James marriedRosa Benson, a neighbor girl, on July 22, 1904. She was
the daughter of William Harrison Benson and Martha Missouri Benson. She
was born July 22, 1878. When they left Salineville, they moved to a farm
on Yellow Creek between New Somerset and Bergholtz in 1926. James lived
the rest of his life there. He died October 2, 1949. Rosa is stillbliving
there with her son Howard McConnell, who now owns it.
James and Rosa Benson McConnell had five children:
1. Ralph Benson 10/19/1907- ; m Pearl Lawrence
2. Mabel; 9/6/1909- ; m Herman Carl Farence
3. Ida Mae; 3/29/1911- ; m Paul Henry Pecht;
Russell Earl Baker
4. June Eva; 6/1/1912- ; m David Albert Johnson
5. Howard John; 3/12/1916- ; m Alice Mildred Yokum
[Excerpted from "The Francis McConnell Descendents in United States" by
George Edward McConnell 1/18/1971]
[10177]
[S869]
Richard D. Baith, email: rdbaith@alaska.net. Info comes from "Francis
[10178]
[S871]
1880 Census, East Twp, Carroll Co., OH
[10179]
[S5419]
1900 Census, East Twp, Carroll Co., OH
[10180]
[S869]
Richard D. Baith, email: rdbaith@alaska.net. Info comes from "Francis
_James MCCONNELL ____+
| (1766 - 1817) m 1787
_Edward MCCONNELL ___|
| (1789 - 1847) m 1812|
| |_Rachel ANTRAM ______
| (1759 - 1841) m 1787
|
|--Nathan Lewis MCCONNELL
| (1825 - 1907)
| _David TOWNSEND _____
| | (1760 - ....) m 1780
|_Lydia TOWNSEND _____|
(1795 - 1860) m 1812|
|_Lydia _____ ________
(1762 - ....) m 1780
[3674]
Moved to Pleasant Plain Iowa, July 7, 1847.
His civil war registration showed he was born in Pennsylvania. Other records said Ohio.
[3673]
[S10465]
Civil War Draft Registration
[3666]
[S2954]
1870 Census, Penn Twp, Jefferson Co., IA
[3667]
[S5545]
1850 Census, Penn Twp, Jefferson Co., IA
[3668]
[S9158]
1860 Census, Penn Twp, Jefferson Co., IA
[3669]
[S10465]
Civil War Draft Registration
[3670]
[S2954]
1870 Census, Penn Twp, Jefferson Co., IA
[3671]
[S361]
1880 Census, Lincoln, Smith Co., KS
[3672]
[S7634]
1900 Census, Lincoln, Smith Co., KS
[83214]
[S2221]
1900 Census, Locust Twp, Christian Co., IL
[83215]
[S2221]
1900 Census, Locust Twp, Christian Co., IL
[106697]
[S6988]
Ancestry Family Trees
_Washington MCCONNELL _
|
_Thomas M. MCCONNELL ______|
| (1863 - 1918) m 1893 |
| |_Rachel _____ _________
|
|
|--Wildia May MCCONNELL
| (1894 - ....)
| _Joseph MARTIN ________
| | (1832 - ....)
|_Wilhelmina "Mina" MARTIN _|
(1872 - 1952) m 1893 |
|_Catherine PHIPPS _____
(1834 - ....)
[100502]
[S15540]
1910 Census, Grove City Ward 2, Mercer Co., PA
[100503]
[S15540]
1910 Census, Grove City Ward 2, Mercer Co., PA
[108196]
[S15541]
Pennyslvania County Marriages, 1885 to 1990.
[87476]
GRAHAM McCAMANT MEADVILLE
of Bellwood and ex-sheriff of Blair County, is entitled to the distinction of
having been held prisoner in as many, if not more, southern prisons during the
last war as any other soldiers who served in the Union Armies. He is a son of
Joshua B. and Judith (Ginter) Meadville and was born near Warriors Mark
Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1844. His paternal
grandfather, William Meadville, was of Scotch ancestry; and settled in
Huntingdon County about the commencement of the present century, He was a
native of Maryland, and married a Miss Binn, of that state. His son, Joshua
Meadville, was born January 1, 1808, and followed farming and
Teaming during most of his life in Huntingdon and Blair counties. He died in
Antis Township on April 14, 1853, when in the forty-six year of his age. He
was a democrat of anti-slavery views, had held various township offices and
served for several years as a member of a cavalry company of the old state
militia. He married Julia Ginter, who was born September 4, 1806 and was the
daughter of William Ginter, a native of Rhineland district of Germany, and
forgeman by trade, who settled in Morris Township, Huntingdon County, where
he died. He was a son of Daniel Ginter, and married Catherine Dry, by whom he
had three sons and four daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Meadville had eleven children:
Sarah, who died in infancy; Mary, wife of David Beamer who is in the employ of
the railroad company at Altoona; William, who was killed; John, of Bellwood
who served as a Union soldier through the late war and is now right foreman
on the Bell's Gap Railroad; Matilda, wife of John Henshey of Antis Township;
Joshua B., who enlisted August 1, 1861, in Co. F 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves,
was taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad fight and died in prison at Saulsbury,
North Carolina; Arbline, who married Martin Robinson and is now dead, Graham
McCamant; Peter, of Bellwood, who enlisted as a Union soldier in the Army of
the Potomac, was held prisoner by Mosby's guerillas for some time, and after
being exchanged served until the close of the war; Annetta died in infancy;
and Ruth A., who now resides with her mother at Bellwood.
Graham McCamant Meadville was reared in his native county and received his
education in the common schools and an academy, which he attended for ten
months after the close of the late war. At sixteen years of age, on August
26, 1861, in Co. F, 76th Pennsylvania Infantry and served three years seven
months and eleven days in the Department of the South, being successively
under the command of Generals Hunter, Mitchell, Gilmore. He was in several
battles, among which are: Salt Works and Poctaligo, Georgia, October 22,
1862; Morris Island, South Carolina, July 10, 1863; and Fort Wagner, same
state, July 11, 1863. He was taken prisoner at Fort Wagner, and confined
successively in Charleston jail, Castle Thunder, Belle Island prison, Moore
Hospital prison, Pemberton prison and Belle Island (second time) and at
Andersonville, Savannah and Milan. He was paroled on November 21, 1864, after
a continuous imprisonment of sixteen months and ten days and sent to
Annapolis, Maryland, from whence he was taken to Harrisburg, this state, he
was honorably discharged from the federal service on March 7, 1865. He
immediately returned home, and on the 19th day of the same month entered the
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a laborer in their foundry at Altoona.
He was soon transferred to the railroad as a brakeman, and then promoted to
the position of locomotive engineer, which he still holds. He removed to
Bellwood, where he has resided ever since.
September 25, 1872, Mr. Meadville married Anna Mary McClellan, daughter of
William McClellan of Bellefonte, Centre County. They have eight children,
three son and five daughters: Flora May, born August 13, 1873; Joshua W.,
born March 24, 1875; Blanche B., born September 5, 1879; Mary B., born August
23, 1881; Graham G., born July 12, 1883; Peter Russell, born November 8, 1886;
Ruth E., born June 30, 1888; and Judith, born June 30, 1889.
In politics Mr. Meadville is a republican, and in 1885 was elected as sheriff
of Blair County, which office he held for a term of three years. At the
expiration of his term, in 1888, he was appointed and served one year as
deputy sheriff. In his religious belief he leans towards the Baptist faith of
his ancestors. Of late he has interested himself to some extent in real
estate, and now owns, three and one-half miles west of Bellwood, in Antis
Township, a valuable farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres of land, on
which he raises some very fine horses and cattle. In 1889 he erected the fine
three-story brick opera house block at Bellwood. Mr. Meadville is one of the
higher degree Masons in the United States. He is a member of Lodge No. 391
Free and Accepted Masons; Clearfield Chapter, No. 228, Royal Arch Masons;
Constantine Commandery, No. 33, Knights of Templar; Syria Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Gourgas Grand Lodge of
Perfection, Ancient Scottish Rite Masons. Graham McCamant Meadville is a tall
man of fine personal appearance. He is energetic and active in whatever he
undertakes, served creditably and efficiently as a county officer, and ranks
high as a man of business ability and spirit, and of public enterprise.
Transcribed and submitted to the Blair County, PA, USGenWeb archives by Janet Gray
_Jacob G. MILLER __________
|
_Jacob J. MILLER ______|
| (1827 - 1910) m 1850 |
| |_Catherine _____ __________
|
|
|--John C. MILLER
| (1868 - ....)
| _James Benjamin MCCONNELL _+
| | (1800 - 1861) m 1825
|_Nancy Jane MCCONNELL _|
(1832 - 1910) m 1850 |
|_Mary Polly GROSE _________
(1806 - 1883) m 1825
[21666]
[S912]
1880 Census, Harlan, Shelby Co., IA
[21667]
[S912]
1880 Census, Harlan, Shelby Co., IA