Category: Crawford County, PA
Families that lived in the county and research done there.
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Adam Brookhouser, Jr. (1803-1865) of Hayfield Township, PA The history of a place doesn’t begin with people, and this place was no exception. Recorded history does begin with people, although we have to acknowledge that we have a “selection bias” towards history that we can access through the written word. The reality is that there…
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or, Catching Up With the Joneses You might recall that I talked about my wife’s ancestry in February—particularly the difficulty in tracing the Jones family of her 2nd great-grandmother, Alice Frances (Jones) McCullough. I had intended to follow up on the Jones family sooner than this, but today is the day: Introducing the Brookhousers Alice’s…
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The search for David E. Jones (1830-1902) Depending on your sources and time frame, the surname “Jones” is about the 5th most common surname in the United States. The same can be said for “David” when you look at first names for males.1 Our work is cut out for us today, since we are looking…
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find our first Jones – Alice Frances Jones – (9 Oct 1857 – 25 Apr 1921). The surname “Jones” dates back to Wales in about the 1270s, when it…
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