John Graham
John Graham born in County Armaugh Ireland and died in Spring Creek, Centre County Pennsylvania; he married Eleanor Blakely in 1758 in Ireland
John settled in Chester County near Valley Forge in 1775; moved to Northampton County 1789, then to Penns Valley (Centre Co.) 1791, and finally to Spring Creek near Bellefonte in 1794; John Graham is listed among the taxables of Potter Township, Centre County, PA in 1790, per Linn's History of Centre County, PA; Linn's History also lists John Graham as on of the taxables in Spring Creek Township, Centre county in 1801, along with Francis Graham.
Eleanor Blakely born about 1738 - Per family records, she was born in June, 1762; Marriage date is also from family records, and obviously one is incorrect; Will probated 12/24/1821, Bellefonte, Centre county, PA. ()
John and Eleanor Graham’s Children:
Graham Family Records formerly kept by Hettie Graham and John B. Graham
Margaret Graham born January 17th 1759 in Ireland; married Richard Carey who was born about 1759
Gracey Graham born January 5th 1762 in Ireland; married John Atchinson who was born about 1762
Nancy Graham born December 22nd 1764; married James Watson who was born about 1764, their child was James Watson who was born about 1784
Eleanor Graham born January 19th 1767 in Ireland
Hetty Graham born March 9th 1770; married 1stWilliam Dailey who was born about 1779; married 2nd Christopher Kitley; Per Graham family records Hetty lived in Penns Valley, Centre County, PA.
John Graham born September 23rd 1770 in Ireland
Hannah Graham born April 23rd 1774; married William Graham who was born about 1774; Per Graham family records this is the correct name of Hannah's husband. They lived in Centre County, PA, and then moved to Ohio. No idea if this William Graham was related to Hannah by blood or not.(possible son of Robert Graham)
Francis Graham born October 19th 1776 in Valley Forge Chester County Pennsylvania
Jane Graham born October 1778 in Chester County Pennsylvania; married Thomas Steer who was born about 1778
Francis Graham (1776-1859)
Francis Graham was born near Valley Forge Chester County Pennsylvania[1][2]and died October 8th 1859 in Clearfield County Pennsylvania[3]. He is buried in Dales Cemetery, Clearfield County.
Francis was supposedly born within hearing distance of the battle of Brandywine. His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Henry Wilson from Romans 8th chapter, 18th verse. Francis lived for a time near Bellefonte, Centre County, and moved to Karthaus, Clearfield County Pennsylvania in 1823, and then in 1859 moved to Grahamton Clearfield County. Francis Graham is listed as one of the taxables of Spring Creek Township, Centre County in 1801 per Linn's History of Centre County.
Francis married Jane Boggs on September 9th 1810.[4] Jane was born about 1787 in Centre County. Her father was James Boggs
Francis and Jane Graham’s Children Are:
- James Boggs Graham born August 21st 1811 in Bellefonte Centre County Pennsylvania
- Eleanor Blakely Graham born November 11th 1812 in Bellefonte Centre County Pennsylvania
- Jane Clother Graham born June 8th 1814 in Bellefonte Centre County Pennsylvania
- Elizabeth Nancy Graham born November 11th 1815 in Bellefonte Centre County Pennsylvania
- Cambridge Graham born December 19th 1816 in Bellefonte Centre County Pennsylvania
- Margaret Graham born February 22nd 1817
- John Wesley Graham born October 10th 1819 and died March 17th 1865 in Graham Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania. He is buried in Dales Cemetery Clearfield County. He drowned by falling from a raft of logs at the mouth of Moravian Run, Clearfield County Pennsylvania.[5]
John married September 28th 1852 to Gwen Harcorn Dale who was born March 15th 1832. Her middle name is variously spelled either Harcorn or Hancorn. (Sister Mary Grace Waring's History says they were married in 1876. Not possible.) Gwen died January 17th 1919 and is buried at the Dales Cemetery Bradford Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania. [6] Gwen’s parents were John Dale who was born July 16th 1796 near Manchester Lancashire England, and Elizabeth Waring born September 1803 in England.
John and Gwen Graham’s Children Are:
Jane Ann Graham born April 30th in Bradford Township Clearfield County PA and died April 20th 1930 in Graham Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania; She is buried in Centre Hill Cemetery Graham Township. Jane married August 24th 1876 to Elias Kay Turner who was born in Graham Township
Asbury Clarke Graham born June 3rd 1855 in Graham Township and died October 25th 1877 in Graham Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania; He is buried in Dale's Cemetery, Bradford Township, Clearfield County; per family records he did not marry; The Dale genealogy confirms that he did not marry and the place of his burial.
William Edmund Graham born January 10th 1857 in Graham Township and died January 29th 1883; per family records he did not marry; He is buried in Dale's Cemetery, Clearfield County, PA.
Mary Ellen Graham born May 27th 1858 in Graham Township and died January 9th 1915 in Bradford Township Clearfield County and buried in the Dale Cemetery, Bradford Township, Clearfield County, PA. She married Zachariah Hoover who was born May 23rd 1852 in Bradford Township. They had William Ottobein Hoover
Elizabeth Susan Graham born August 20th 1859 in Graham Township and died July 5th 1926 in Bradford Township Clearfield County
1. She is buried in Dale's Cemetery, Bradford Township Clearfield County, PA.
2. Home address had been 107 Merril St., Clearfield, PA.
3. Was a member of West Side United Methodist church, Clearfield.
4. Helped support the Central Pennsylvania Conference Home for children in Mechanicsburg, PA.
Hettie Patchin Graham born January 19th 1861 in Graham Township and died April 28th 1958 in Clearfield, Clearfield County PA. She is buried in Dale Cemetery
1. She never married.
2. Is buried in Dale's Cemetery, Bradford Township, Clearfield County, PA.
3. Alternate spelling of first name is Hetty.
4. Per her obituary, she attended Millersville State Teachers College and obtained a teaching certificate at age 18. At the time Aunt Hettie would have been in school herself, Millersville was called Millersville Normal School. I suspect she obtained her teaching certificate right out of high school, and later attended college.
5. Also per her obituary, she was a member of the Methodist Church, probably at Wallaceton, as that was her residence for many years prior to her death, where she taught Sunday school for many years.
6. Funeral was at Nicholson funeral Home, Clearfield, with Rev. Richard Beard officiating.
7. John Buchanan Graham, in a note attached to a page in one of the family history scrapbooks started by Aunt Hetty and later kept by Uncle John and now Doris Manos, says of her: "We remember her as one always doing for others, her mother, brother, sisters, the needy at home and distant locations and especially her many nieces and nephews.
We remember no reprimand from her. She was such a shining example of correct way of living that one in her presense could not think of doing wrong.
Would that we could carry on in the future as she has in the past. J.B.G. 10-18-66."
James Boggs Graham born December 10th 1862 in Grahamton, Graham Township
John Curtin Graham born October 24th 1864 and died May 2nd 1881 in Bradford Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania. John did not marry. Per his obituary, died of diphtheria at his mother's home is Bradford Township, Clearfield County, PA., aged 16 years and 6 months.[7]
- Hester Graham born March 12th 1823 and died May 7th 1892. She is buried in the Dale’s cemetery Clearfield County Pennsylvania. [8] Hester married November 9th 1848 to Samuel Clark Patchin. [9] Samuel was born March 18th 1816 in Hague Warren County New York.
Samuel and Hester Patchin’s Children Are:
Orvelia Patchin born 1850
Francis Graham Patchin born October 14th 1852
Julia Patchin born 1853
John W. Patchin born 1854
Cambridge B. Patchin born 1856
Susanna M. Patchin born 1859
Margaret Patchin born 1861
- Francis Graham born June 9th 1825 and died in Frostburg Maryland. He married September 16th 1852 to Emeline Undercoffer [10] who was born about 1832. She died October 15th 1863 and is buried in Dales Cemetery Bradford Township Clearfield County Pennsylvania. [11]
Francis married a second time to Mary Wright.[12]
(John Allison's book 'Central PA Marriages' lists a marriage of a Francis Graham to Mary Neff, 10-4-1865. I don't know if that is this same couple or someone totally different.)
Francis and Emeline Graham’s Children Are: [13]
William Boggs Graham born about 1853
Cambridge Graham born about 1857
Elizabeth Winebrenner Graham
- Curtin Morrison Graham born January 16th 1828[14] and died September 19th 1885 in Frostburg Maryland[15]; married Susan Wright October 20th 1858 in Frostburg Maryland. [16] Susan was born July 20th 1828 in Walnut Level Frostburg Maryland
Curtin and Susan Graham had no children;their address was in Frostburg, Allegheny County, Maryland. [17]Per Curtin’s obituary, both Mr. & Mrs. Graham were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Both are buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Frostburg, Maryland.
James Boggs Graham (1862-1959)
ID: I0565
Name: James Boggs GRAHAM 123
Sex: M
Birth: 10 DEC 1862 in Grahamton, Graham Township, Clearfield Co., PA 4523
Death: 29 NOV 1959 in Sington, Boggs Township, Clearfield Co., PA 4523
Note:
1. Buried Dale's Cemetery, Clearfield County, PA.
2. Marriage license lists his residence as Grahamton, occupation farmer, age 30.
3. Per his obituary, he was member of Wallaceton Methodist church and the Bradford Grange.
4. He engaged in farming and lumbering all his life.
5. Also per his obituary, he died at the home of his daughter, Bessie Bock.
6. Funeral was held at the Bennett Funeral Home in Clearfield, Pa., with Rev. W.W. Banks officiating.
7. The following was prepared by Doris Graham Manos:
" THE HOMESTEAD FROM JOHN BUCHANAN GRAHAM 7/22/86(age 92)
The homestead is the farm property known in my generation as the Forcey farm, but was the home of my grandparents, James Boggs and Fannie Buchanan Graham prior to Uncle Max and Aunt Margaret Graham Forcey taking it over.
Given time and the inclination, I will write my own story about the farm, but for now the things Dad told me about its origin will be recorded.
The building of the house was a family affair. They all had a hand in it. Before Dad (James Boggs Graham) was married, they lived in the smoke house while the house was being built. That was Grandma Graham (Gwen Dale Graham),
Aunt Hetty, Aunt Elizabeth and Dad.
John Dale, my great grandfather furnished the real estate for Dale's church. My great uncle James Boggs Graham owned Grahamton. Dad bought the
homestead from him. After momma and papa (Fannie and James) were married,
Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Hetty and Grandma moved to the Rolly Graham place.(This was located across the lower field in my childhood.)
The original barn was a log barn. I imagine it was struck by
lightening and burned. A new barn was built and it was struck by lightening
and burned four gears after the first. The standing barn of today was built
about 1898. I well remember that. I was four years old. I remember it
because it was a new type. They sent away and got an advertisement model to
work from. I believe the carpenter was Philip Shimmel. The timber for the
barn was all sawed timber - the old one was hewed timber. The original sawed
timber is still there (today). It was designed from the model bought from
somebody in the business. It was a full fledged design.
There was a well at the corner of the barn, but the water wasn't good because of seepage from the barn. It never could be used for drinking water.
I worked in the barn as long as I was there (on the farm). I was never keen about the supervision. Dad was too remote as far as supervision. His father drowned when Dad was three years old, and he got his supervision from
aunts and uncles and anybody around.
I can remember when the silo was built. I went to the top of the silo and made a lot of fuss. Mothers' attention was caught as I danced around the center post at the top. They had a ladder built outside the chute.
The Buchanans would come out to the farm from Clearfield for summer vacations.
The family went to church at Dales where there was Sunday School every
other Sunday. The preacher went to Dales in the morning and to Center Hill at
2:00 P.M. serving also Woodland and Stoneville. It's amazing how he got around with a horse and buggy.
Of wild life Dad said grouse, squirrels and rabbits were plentiful, and he once saw a wild turkey. He said that once in a generation a bear was seen in the area and that deer were scarce.
Dad said they always had a vegetable garden from which canning for winter was done. He said there are a lot of apples many of which he heard of for many years. Those he named were early summer called astrican, summer queen, fall smokehouse, fall and winter French peppin and and also Russett. Currant berries grew on bushes. I remember these along the lane into the house.
Addendum - In the family today are three small plank bottom kitchen chairs
which if memory serves me Aunt Hetty said they had the chairs when they moved into the house in '49'. There is also a calico quilt for which she said the
patches were collected about '49' (1849).
Told to me March 5, 1975"
8. The following was also prepared by Doris Manos:
J.B.G. and the Timbers
John Buchanan Graham, born June 15, 1894, remembers the village of Grahamton in Bradford Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania because he was born on a farm at nearby Dale. J.B.G., Dad, remembers that Grahamton had at least six houses, a flour and feed mill, a blacksmith shop, a post office, a general store and a barn (which housed horses) across Moravian Run from the village. The village was nestled there because it was a lumbering center and roads came into it from Fairview, Centre Hill, Dales, Shiloh and Bigler.
Grahamton was a funnel through which timber was taken en route to the Susquehanna River. An old timer, Jimmy Myers, said that when it snowed, "the Moravian Run Road had one-way traffic" in that the road went down to the mouth
of Moravian Run and on to Gallows Harbor which was on the bank of the Susquehanna River.
The timbers were hauled on half bob sleds drawn by teams of horses. The end of the timbers not on the sled dragged on the snow. The timbers were squared
and hewn by axes and were oak, pine and some hemlock. Dad said the teams and drivers would take the timbers to the river by the "road" along Moravian Run. The outstanding thing about the "timber road" was that the packed snow made a perfect road for timbering, but when the snow thawed the underlying terrain was so rough that "as Dave English said 'You couldn't carry a bridle over it."
Nonetheless, the snow-covered ground provided a perfect one-way traffic
flow to Gallows Harbor and then the team, driver and sled would return home by
another route such as Fairview or Shiloh.
In December 1902, when Dad was eight years old, the virgin timbers from the Graham homestead were cut, taken to Grahamton and destined for Gallows
Harbor to be made into a raft which was to be floated down river for sale. The raft
was also destined to be the last one floated from Gallows Harbor.
In December, however, there was a very light snow and everyone was concerned that not enough snow would fall to permit the transporting of the timbers and that they would be unsalable by the following winter. In March, however, a heavy snow fell and all the neighbors like Mark Taylor, A.M. Hoover, William Turner, Roland Dale and Issac and Matt Knepp turned out to help. (Taylors lived at the Harry Gearhart place; Hoovers at the Emerson Maines place; Rolly Dale at the Dale place, and William Turner on the Allport Cut-off. Dad didn't remember where Knepps lived.)
When the logs reached the river they were 'tied' together with poles. Matt Knepp, Willie Turner, Grandad (James Boggs Graham) and Dad lashed the logs of different lengths together to make the raft. To do the 'tying' Dad helped to bore holes in the timbers with a rafting auger. The auger was of such a length and design that two men in standing position worked it at a time. The holes were made in such a fashion that they formed loops through which poles, i.e. saplings were 'threaded' to lash the timbers together.
Dad said rope was impractical in that it had to be bought! Even though the
procedure was crude, the project was self sufficient since the raw products
provided most of the needs to build the raft.
It probably took three or four days to put the raft together and each night there was a return trip to the farm via Shiloh. "A special thing I remember was that I was too young to go on the raft. When the raft was ready to go, there were two teams, two wagons, and a horse and buggy to take back to the farm and I was the only one there to take them back." What justice! He was too young to go but left alone to return the valuable possessions.
To accomplish the mission home all were tied together in a line and Dad rode the head team with the horse and buggy bringing up the rear. The snow