Historical Map, Sullivan County
Published by L. E. Wilt, Towanda, PA, 1944
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Sullivan County Message Board DAR Online Community Search USGENWEB Search The Sullivan County, PA Genealogy Website Searches Sullivan County only. (Note: For advanced search, consult Free Find's (Search tips) The Colley Township House Turrell Street, Lopez, Colley Township, PA 1990 Courtesy of David R. Maher Note: In 2009, the Colley Township House was formally recorded as a Historic Resource of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The building takes us back to the era of James McFarlane and the vast tanning industry in Sullivan County at the end of the 19th century. You can see a more recent photo at the head of the Streby History of Colley. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View The Sonestown Covered Bridge Sonestown, PA Built Over Muncy Creek 1850 Courtesy of Sullivan Review, March 2, 2006 Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Dale and Carol (Hoose) Brotzman Beaver Meadows, PA December 2010 Note: Carol is a Family Historian and Major Contributor to our Web Site. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View A Mystery Gathering Likely Held at Eagles Mere, PA About 1895 Note: You can read all about this mysterious photograph and the collective efforts of our contributors to solve it at Gathering. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Dushore in Winter View Southeast from the Snyder Homestead Winter of 1942-43 Note: You can learn more about the Snyder family at Snyder and Harrington. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Frank Snyder Collection Phillip Peter Sweeney Songwriter and Poet December 2013 with Alexis Cacyuk You can listen to the music and poetry of Phil Sweeney at his Home Page. The Sweeney Family History can be accessed at The Sweeneys of Ringer Hill Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Photo Source: Phil Sweeney Sonestown Grade Shool 1928 Third Row, Fifth from Right is Walter Richard King Others Unidentifed at this Time Note: You can find attendance lists and more photos on the Davidson Attendees Page Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Connie (King) McMichael, daughter of Walter Richard King Dutch Mountain 2015 Near Border of Wyoming and Sullivan Couunties Original Junk Family Property Now Owned by the Hoffman Family Note: You can learn more about the families that settled here at Kronmiller's History of Bellasylva. The Junk family is interred at the Junk Cemetery. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Source: Mary Ellen Hoffman Eagles Mere Lake Park 1913 Entrance Way Card Issued by The Forest Inn and Postmarked October 1916 Note: You can learn more about The Forest Inn at Endless Mountains. This history discusses several of the hotels built around the lake. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Photo by Scott W. Tilden Original Auctioned on eBay in January 2017 A Mystery Graduation Army Corps of Engineers Fort Humphreys VA 1932 Found in Attic of Genevieve Marshall Note: You can learn more about this mystery at Engineers Photo Courtesy of Roger Hatch Cole's Hardware Store Proprietor Samuel Cole Water Street, Dushore, PA About 1905 Courtesy of John C. Lieberman Source: Kaier Collection, Mahanoy City, PA Editor's Note: The building to the right was the fire station, which is now the offices of the Sullivan Review. In this old photo, the name "J. E. Collins" is posted on the lintel of the fire station. Collins was a prominent businessman and perhaps the fire station was named for him, or the sign is some sort of advertisement. Cole's Hardware is now called the Tubach Building. We thank the Sullivan County Historical Society and Museum for this information. February 2010. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View The Griffiths Elizabeth (Kinsley) and Joseph Griffiths With Daughter Catherine ("Katie") Lopez, PA 1914 Courtesy of Sue (McGuire) Schultz Source: Betty McGuire Collection Editor's Note: Sue is the great granddaughter of John Kinsley and Margaret McGraw, and grand daughter of Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Kinsley. Lizzie married Joseph Griffiths, a mine foreman from Scranton. Their children were Catherine ("Katie"), John Joseph, Mary Marguerite and Elizabeth ("Betty"), Sue's mother. The child in the photo is Sue's aunt. The Griffiths lived in Lopez during the coal mining era of the early twentieth century. You can learn more about the Irish Kinsley line at Settlers XXVI: The Irish Settlement History. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Reaumur Thermometer The thermometer was not invented until a mere 250 years ago. The first usable thermometers were developed by a German,Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, in 1714; a Frenchman, Ren� Antoine Ferchault de R�aumur, in 1731; and a Swede, Anders Celsius, in 1742. This device allowed beer brewers to control mash temperatures without having to mix fixed volumes of grain and water at either well water temperature or at a boil. As a consequence of their European origins, the Kaier family made the Reaumur thermometer a critical technology in the brewing business they established in northeastern Pennsylvania, including Sullivan County, beginning late in the nineteenth century. You can learn more at the Kaier's Brewery page. Note: Image courtesy of John C. Lieberman. Dushore "Trolleys" 1907 East Main Street Railroad Trestle in Background Courtesy of Scott Tilden Source: Portion of an Old C. W. Williams Postcard Original auctioned on eBay in July 2011 Editor's Note: The Back Side of the postcard indicates the recipient was Madeline Miller in Scranton. The sender penned a note on the front asking her to "see our trolleys hitched to a post"--referring to the horses in the photo. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View National Air Mail Day May 15, 1938 Sullivan County, PA Courtesy of Scott Tilden Source: An Envelope Auctioned on eBay in May 2013 Editor's Note: National air mail service commenced on this date in 1918 and by 1921 had come to Pennsylvania. The route from Long Island to Bellefonte and then points west crossed into Pennsylvania at Lehighton, then ran over Mauch Chunk and Sunbury. The original of this letter was addressed from Bernetta Deegan to Leonard Heverly in New York State, postmarked from Dushore. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Susan Jane (Keeler) Masteller 1831-1926 Wife of Thomas Masteller (1827-1887) Daughter of John Keeler, Jr. and Sarah Bartleson Courtesy of Milly Gowdy Who Owns the Original Charcoal Pencil Drawing Editor's Note: The marriage of these two individuals linked one of the foremost families in southeastern Sullivan County, the Keelers, to a prominent family with origins in Columbia County, the Mastellers. Thomas and Susan are buried at Cherry Grove Cemetery in Nordmont. Many of the Masteller family are buried at St. Gabriel's Cemetery in Sugarloaf Township, PA. You can read about the Keeler and Mosteller connections at Helen Smith Gammon and the Peterman Heritage. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Red Cross Kitchen Stove Two Sided-AdvertisementPage Early Twentieth Century Double Heater Stove Sold by D. E. Carroll Hardware Dushore, PA Stove photos Courtesy of Gail James Undated photo of Hotel Carroll linked below is courtesy of the Sullivan County Historical Society. Editor's Note: Dennis E. Carroll (1845-1921) operated the Hotel Carroll at the corner of Main and Center Streets in Dushore in the 1890s and into the 20th century. In the winter offseason, he ran this hardware store out of the hotel. Dennis is shown in the 1900 Federal Census for Dushore (pages 8-9) with his wife Elizabeth and several children. The stove shown here was manufactured, as shown by the image on the reverse side, by the Cooperative Foundry Company of Rochester, NY. This firm sold a line of stoves and other hardware from 1857 until 1930. The stove brand name comes from the red Gothic cross that appeared on advertising for this line of stoves. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Meet Bob Sweeney Sullivan County Historian Photo by Lynn Franklin Reverend Xavier Kaier As A Young Priest About 1870 While Visiting Family Mahanoy City, PA Eventually, Father Kaier Became the Most Prominent Catholic Cleric in the History of Sullivan County, serving 58 years from 1863-1921 as Pastor of St. Basil's Church in Dushore. You can learn more at The Kaiers Come to Pennsylvania. Photo Courtesy of John Curtin Lieberman Click on photo for full size view. Mary R. Mulnix (1879-1944) Daughter of John and Hester Mulnix of Elkland Wife of John Louis Rosbach Both interred at Estella Cemetery. Learn more at Vickie Rosbach's Tribute. Photo Courtesy of Vickie Rosbach, Granddaughter Click on photo for full size view. Emily Matilda Yonkin (1857-1943) Daughter of Peter and Catherine (Suber) Yonkin Birth and Baptism Certificate Learn more about this family at The Suber Family. Photo Courtesy of Craig Stevens Original Donated to the Sullivan County Historical Society Click on image for expanded photo. Jacob Myers (1804-1875) Father of Ellen (Myers) Crawford Grandfather of Preston Lafayette Crawford Learn more about this family at The Crawford Descendants. Photo Courtesy of Carol Brotzman Source: The Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler Collection Note: Ellen was a daughter of Preston L. Crawford. Levi Andrew Crawford (1887-1971) Son of Preston and Mary (Thrasher) Crawford In Patriotic Order of the Sons of America Uniform Washington Chapter, Dushore PA 1903 Learn more about this family at The Crawford Descendants. Photo Courtesy of Carol Brotzman Source: The Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler Collection. There is a Group Photo of the Order shown on The Descendants of Johannes Jakob Messershmidt. Click on image above for expanded photo. Baby Gown Made by Jane Sadler Rogers For Her Daughter Zilpha Ann in 1829 Zilpha later married John R. Fleming The dress was passed down in the Fleming family to Zilpha's great granddaughter, Cheryl Franklin Who Contributed the Dress in 2014 to the Sullivan County Historical Society. See more photos and learn more about this family at The Warren and Rogers Family Photo Collection and The Scrapbook of Aunt Eliza Rogers. Photo Courtesy of Cheryl Franklin Click on image above for expanded photo. The Phillips Family North Mountain Area 1909 Courtesy of Rick Swartz Note: You can learn more about the Phillips Family and the identifications of the participants in this old photo at Descendants of Robert Pierce Phillips. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Satirical Postcard 1918 Mailed to Lloyd W. Fahler by a Nephew Courtesy of John C. Lieberman Note: You can learn more about the Kaier, Lieberman and Fahler Family at The Kaiers Come to Pennsylvania. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View Hiram and Martha Jane (Mase) White Eldredsville Before 1895 Courtesy of Sullivan County Historical Society Note: Their children married into the Shadduck and Frawley families of Sullivan County. Read more about the Whites at The Frawley Collection. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Christian Baumunk (1843-1924) Son of Michael and Maragret (Storms) Baumunk Born in Sullivan County, PA Moved to Indiana as a Young Man Courtesy of Beth Jenkins Roberts His Great Great Granddaughter Note: Read more about the Baumunks and see photos in the Baumunk Day History and Descendants of Christian Baumunk Sidebar at Faces and Families, Group Seven. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. The Hillsgrove Band About 1900 Hillsgrove, PA Courtesy of Paul Galough Whose Relatives Played in the Band Note: Read more about the band at the Hillsgrove Souvenir Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. The Old Stone House Nordmont PA Built for John Boston Structure Stood from 1850-2000 Courtesy of Nancy Spencer Note: Read more about the Boston family at The History of Cherry Grove Chapel Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Sarah "Sadie" and Patrick John Boland Brother and Sister Mildred PA 1952 At Patrick's Home in the Year He Died He is barely visible in shadows to right of porch. Courtesy of Denise Weber The photo was fouund in the Hampson family collection passed down to Denise. Neither Boland was ever married. Patrick can be found in the 1900 Federal Census for Cherry Township with his widowed mother Mary and other family members. Sadie was a servant by then in the home of Benjamin Hall in Towanda, PA. Children of John and Mary Boland, Patrick lived from 1873-1952, while Sadie lived from 1877-1958. Click on the Photo for a Full Size View. Richard Leroy "Dick" Holcombe 1915-2014 Author of Dick's Legends Obituary Photo Courtesy of P. Dean Homer FUneral Home Sullivan County Settlers Menu Sweeneys of Ringer Hill Ghosts of Sullivan County Patrick Devanney John Sims Green James & Catherine Farrell Postcards from Lopez Edward Eldred & the Genessee Road George McDonald & Ethel Travis Andrew McDonald & Mary Hayden Cecilia McDonald & the Laughlins First Settlers of Dushore The Suber Family in Local History Cavanaughs of Irish Ridge Lewis and Huckell Families of Hillsgrove Patrick McDonald & Martha Daly George Whitefield Potter Frank Farrell Sones, Simmons & Stevenson Joseph & Ursula Baumgartner The Sick Families of Cherry Mills William Sick & Catherine Kelly Joseph Fulmer and Descendants Julius & Mary Barth Long Joseph Hoagland: Dutch Pioneer The Little Family: An American Odyssey John Kinsley's Irish Settlement: 1830-1986 The Thrasher Heritage Henry Myers and the Myers Legacy Henry Yonkin and Barbara Hartzig Pealer and Related Families Descendants of Jacob Hoffa Descendants of Jacob Kester and Katherine Knubaharin Family of Johannes Jakob Messerschmidt The Frawley Collection The Italian Heritage of Bernice and Mildred The Dohm Tradition Heritage of John Bahr Descendants of William Wilson Potter The Sherman Family The Kohensparger Clan The Descendants of John T. Wilcox Descendants of Obed Gansel Ancestors of Pauline Holcombe Doctor Fremont McCarty The McCarty Heritage Samuel Rogers and Ann Gaunt The Fairchild Family Origins John Vough and Hannah Winder Wilhelm Reinbold The Fuller Family Philip Haberle The Wilbers John Warburton and Mary Sadler John Warburton and Ann Clarke John and Mary Bagshaw Jackson Charles Mullan Samuel McCarty Jonathan Webster Pond Families Peter Dennis Emig Genealogical Resources to Get Started *About Us *Copyright & Acknowledgements *How to Contribute *Library of Congress *MyGenealogist.com--Family Tree Search *How to Get Started *Tips on Reading Old Handwriting *Linda Haas Davenport's Learning Center *Free Genealogy Lookup Forum *Genealogy in Time *Access Genealogy *Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter *The MetaArchive: Index of Archives *MyTrees.com Newsletter *Family Search Worldwide *Sullivan County in Historical Context *Atlas of the German Empire *Routes Your Ancestors Took *Sheila Helser's Map History *Ernie Hatton's Sullivan County DNA Project *Colonial Occupations *GenForum Chat Sullivan County *Linkpendium Genealogy *History of Spanish Hill

         
Three soldiers: Elgeroy Hill, Peter Reinbold, Duke William Rogers.
These citizens of Sullivan County served in the Civil War. Elgeroy enlisted in the 50th PA Infantry. Here are somer more photos and a brief Historical Note. You can learn more about Peter Reinbold at Descendants of William Reinbold. Here is biogranphical information on Duke William Rogers

Pennsylvania's Civil War Flags
Civil War Soldiers Inquiry Database
GAR Membership Records (1866-1956): Pennsylvania
Andersonville Civil War Prison
-----A Sidebar on Local Irish in the Civil War
Pennsylvanians in the Civil War
Veterans History Project
History PA Volunteers: 1861-1865
Sullivan County Draftees 1863
Sullivan County Volunteers 1862

Patriotic Sons of America, Shunk 1891
Note: You can find a list of the veterans shown in this picture in Burke Campbell's Shunk History

-Conscientious Objectors: Bradford and Sullivan County
-Sullivan County Pensioners List 1883

Alienage
If you were not a native born or naturalized American, you could avoid the war by declaring your allegiance to another country. That is what Andrew Philbin of Forks Township did according to this document submitted by Tom Crossett. There is a lot of confusion about the Philbin heritage in Sullivan county, and which if any of the Philbins and their relatives were Civil War veterans. You can read more about the Philbins, Harrisons and Jordans at Faces and Families, Group Two on this site. You can also click on the picture above to get a full scale impression.


GAR Memorial
William Knaeble moved from Sullivan County in about 1857, then joined the Minnesota Regulars, Company B, 4th Regiment, during the Civil War. He claimed to have fought in 23 battles. Here we see the Memorial issued on his behalf by the local Grand Army of the Republic post at the time of his death in 1916. You can learn more about the Knaeble family and their journey from Pennsylvania to Minnesota at Faces and Families, Group Two; just scroll down to the section on the Rohe and Knaeble families.

Simpson Simmons: Letters From a Soldier

The Cullen Civil War Letters

Ferdinand Heess: A Letter From The Front in South Carolina

A Letter from Private Dorson Speary 1862

Dreadful Accident: Death of Andrew Shaddick

A Letter from Joel Molyneux to Elvira McCarty 1862

Letters to Isaac Rogers from Civil War Soldiers

The Green-Huckell Letters

Civil War Letters of Lew Shadduck

Memorial to 93rd PA Regiment
Josiah Kohensparger Gettysburg Memorial Card
Source: .The Cogansparger Family Bible
Josiah Kohensparger's Letters to His Father
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Colonel John Richter Jones:
A Short Biography


Gilbert Potter in Battle
October 29, 1864, Virginia Front

Old Soldiers: 1903 Reunion of 203rd PA Volunteers
4th Annual Reunion, 1903, West Auburn Township Vicinity, Susquehanna County, PA
Source: Leo Bolles Collection
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Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans
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Complete Sullivan County Draft Registrations: 1917-18
Note: To access the records, click on the link above and then scroll down through the entries. They appear in roughly alphabetical order as they are found in the original records depository at the National Archives in Morrow, GA. The records were copied by Bob Sweeney personally over the course of several visits in 2008-2011. You can rotate the records using your computer so as to see a horizontal layout of each document. We have donated a paper copy of these records to the Sullivan County Historical Society in Laporte, PA.

Soldiers of the Great War:
Fallen Pennsylvanians of WWI

Sheila Helser's World War I Photos

The Death of Ernest Von Bennett: 1918

Lloyd Crawford's Last Letter: 1918

Memorial Day 1919: Dushore and Mildred

World War Two Deaths and Obituaries

The 1940 Draft in Sullivan County

The Pennsylvania WW II
Roll of Honor

US Army Enlistments WW II

Military History Online

Nordmont Veterans Memorial 1955

Military History Online

Endless Mountains War Memorial Museum

Paul W. Yonkin: Sullivan County War Hero

A War Bride Comes to Pennsylvania

Civilian Conservation Corps in PA

J. L. Christian, MD of Hillsgrove ran for office about 1900. Here is a campaign photo.
Photo contributed by Carol Brotzman from the scrapbook collection of Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler.

Allen E. Tilley's Cherry Grove Chapel: 1892-1992

Joanna Leahy.(1846-1913)
Photo contributed by Chuck Cummiskey
Great-grandson
Joanna was the daughter of Patrick and Ellen (Flynn) Leahy of Knocklong Parish, County Limerick, Ireland. Patrick's brother Thomas Leahy married Ellen's sister, Mary Flynn. So brothers married sisters. The couples moved to the Sugar Ridge area near Overton, PA, and had many offspring. Joanna and her sister Anna in turn married Francis and Joseph Cummiskey, respectively. Once more, brothers married sisters. Francis and Joanna moved to Kansas and Joseph and Anna moved to Washington State. Joanna's first cousin, Mary Ann Leahy, daughter of Thomas and Mary, married Daniel Kelly, whose daughter Agnes Elixabeth (Kelly) Sweeney is pictured on the left side of this page. The Leahy children intermarried with Kelly, Jordan, Burke, Keefe, Cummiskey, Cullen, Dorsey and other major Irish families in the Bradford and Sullivan counties border area.

Helen Smith Gammon and the Peterman Heritage

John T. Kielty, MD (1901-1984)
John T. Kielty was a family physician practicing in Towanda, PA in the 1950s. He was the family physician for the Kellys, Sweeneys, Frawleys, Sammons and other local families with roots and branches throughout Sullivan and Bradford Counties. Click on the name above to see a vaccination record for Robert E. Sweeney, the administrator for this page, at age 6 when he and his family lived in LeRaysville, PA. Dr. Kielty was a Captain in the US Army in World War Two.
According to Edward Kelly: "Dr. Kielty was my mother's doctor for her first child, Joseph Kelly, who died in infancy in October 1941 during the epidemic at Mills Community Hospital in Towanda, PA that took the lives of a dozen babies".
Ken Beirne relates that Dr. Kielty was the only physician in the area who was known to have worked with midwives in the delivery of children and was the doctor of record for his grandparents, Charles and Josephine (Kelly) Sammons and all of their children.
You can find several references to Dr. Kielty on Joyce Tice's Tri-Counties Genealogy Site.

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SCHOOL RECORDS AND HISTORY

--Fox Township: 1922-1950
--The Fox Gazette 1932
......Fox Township High School
--Dushore High School Attendees: 1898-1937
--Dushore High School 1938-1968--Class Reunion Presentation
--Dushore High School Class of 1944
--Colley Schools
--Sonestown/Davidson HS: 1906-1939

St. Basil Graduates: 1901-1969

Sullivan Highland High School Web Page

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Thomas Burk Versus Henry Williams
Business Litigation in 1877
The Court of Common Pleas in Laporte was the venue for every day commercial legal activity in Sullivan County. Presented here is a typical situation where one party, Thomas Burk of Canton, PA, is filing suit against Henry Williams for collection of a debt. The original legal docket for this case is now in the possession of the Sullivan County Historical Society and Museum. It was "packaged" in a cardboard-thick light brown legal wrapper and secured externally by a pink tie string. The artifact itself is a standard legal docket, in this case manufactured by F. S. Hasbrouck and Company, 26 John Street, NY. The internal contents of the case were handwritten on lined white paper. As you can see, the final page bears the signature of the local prothonotary, Henry Van Etten, and the actual seal of this Court. You can examine scans of the entire docket at Burk Versus Williams 1877.

THE CENSUS RECORDS

PA GenWeb Archives
Sullivan County Search Form, 1850 Census, 1860 Census, 1870 Census

-Four PA Counties 1850

-David Bailey's Census Records:
Index
1808 Taxables
1810 Communities
1820 Communities
1824 Taxables
1830 Communities
1840 Communities

-Paula Lundstrom's 1880 Census:
(1)Colley, Dushore and Davidson
(2)Elkland and Fox Townships

-Carol Brotzman's 1880 Census: Forks/Forksville>, Laporte>, Hillsgrove>, Shrewsbury>, Fox Township>, Cherry Township>, Elk Township>...

-Shirley Yarber's 1900 Census: Cherry, Bernice, Colley, Lopez, Ricketts, Davidson, Dushore, Elkland, Hillsgrove, Forks/Forksville, Fox, Eaglesmere, Laporte, Shrewsbury

--Jack Leo's 1940 Federal Census:
Eaglesmere and Shrewsbury

Overton, PA 1880 Census

The History of Overton (1910)

Overton House
Erected by Peter Sherman in 1868 as the first hotel in Overton. The first structure later burned. In 1877, James J. Hannon built the second structure, shown here. According to Ed Kelly, the Hannon Hotel was owned by James and Mary (Sullivan) Hannon. Mary was a daughter of Hanora Kelly Sullivan. The Hannons remained the hotel's owners until the death of Margaret (Maggie) Hannon in 1966. Maggie would entertain Ed's family in the parlor when he was growing up and always noted that they were cousins. Hanora Kelly was the sister of the four Kelly brothers who came to Kelly Hill near Overton in the 1800s.

Photo courtesy of Carol (Abrams) Wells. Click on cpation for full size photo.

Thomas Ingham's History of Sullivan County (1899)

Streby History of Sullivan County (1903)

Dushore Centennial Program (1959)
>Editor's Note: Compare to the Sullivan Review history published in 1959 and reprinted in 1984. Here is a Link.

Letters to Charles Mullan in Ilinois (1842)

Sullivan County Granges: A Historical Overview

100 Years of Pride: A History of Lopez (1976)

Egle's Notes and Queries: Naming the Towns of Sullivan County
Egle's Notes and Queries: Full Transcribed Text for Sullivan County
Egle's History of Pennsylvania: Sullivan County
Pennsylvania County Histories and Biographies
-----Note: Just change the number before ".pdf" in the web address to advance the text in this source.
Sullivan County Biographies

Churches & Cemeteries
Images of tombstones, cemeteries and churches in Sullivan County and related communities...Sullivan County Cemeteries
-- St. Gabriel's Episcopal Cemetery
--Franklin Bethel (Stone Heap) Cemetery: A Pictorial Record
--Lungerville Cemetery: A Pictorial Record
--The St. Basil's Cemetery Photo Gallery
--Pennsylvania Cemetery Postings

--Chaffee's History of the Wyoming Conference (1904)

--Forkston Cemetery Association Records

--Catholic Death Records

--Beaver Meadows Church: 1850-2005
---Records and History
Here is a searchable text version of the Beaver Meadows Church history without photos.

--Beaver Meadows Cemetery: The Legacy

--The DG ("Anonymous") and Thrasher Translations of the Records of
Old Zion and Peace Church
--Vincent R. Soden's
Bernice Presyterian Church Records

Locating Unmarked Cemetery Burials

The Priestley Susquehanna Settlement
Huckell Family History Page

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish:
St. Basil and Other Local Catholic Churches

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Tioga Point Museum of Athens, PA
Home Textile Tool Museum of Orwell Hill, PA

Sullivan County Historical Society and Museum

Selected Sullivan County Histories
Images of America

When My Grandmother Was a Child.....Wayman, Sweeney, O'Hara, Brink, Sayman, Mayo....

John Speaker Osler

The Osler Connection

The Litzelman House
Burke Campbell provided this picture of the oldest house in the Campbellville area. The house is reputed to be over 200 years old and was originally a log cabin. Read about the house and the history of this old community in
John Campbell and the Story of Campbellville
and
Burke Campbell's Campbellville

The Fanning General Store

The picture shows, on the right, the Warren H. Fanning General Store & Post Office in 1906. On the left is the old Tripp Bldg, where the first high school was held on the second floor. The building was owned by E. M. Letts. The land lying above the buildings was the A. E. Campbell farm. Read more in The Old Community of Shunk

Diary of Perry Watts King
Life in 1874

Sudden Death in 1881

William R. Ricketts History

Douglas Photos of Ricketts

Ellen Shefler's Valentine
Carol Brotzman provided this sample of Valentine artistry from the end of the 19the century in Sullivan County. Ellen Lorena (Crawford) Shefler (1896-1990) received this popup card from Hattie Hunsinger about 1900. The front inscription reads:
I greet thee Valentine!
What can I say to thee, my friend?
My loving greetings,here I send.
My wish is that your future life
Be free from sorrow and from strife.
Valentine Cards a la 1900!!

Octagon House--Love's Labor Restored!!!

Covered Bridges

A Pictorial Legacy of Sonestown

Mary Lou's Beau

Bellasylva: The Later Years

Forksville Tales and the McGuire Family

Alexander Kellock: A Coal Miner in Bernice

Isaac T. Sones (1821-1871)
In Civil War Uniform

Lehigh Valley Railroad
History and Pictures...

Lehigh Valley Schedules

Eagles Mere Railroad Pass 1898

Train Wrecks

Luke and Lura Chapman McKernan

Nelson Pritchard and Teresa Murphy Corcoran
Wedding Picture--August 3, 1891

The Cyclone of 1922
The Blizzard of 1888

Sewing Basket of a Pioneer
Sewing or "cat" basket that belonged to Anna Hunsinger Thrasher. The basket was made by Anna's grandfather Bralich at least two hundred years ago. The basket was given to Ellen Sayman Reed, Anna's granddaughter in 1928. In her scrapbook was found the reference to its origin. The basket came to Carol Brotzman, who owns it today, from Ellen Crawfrod Shefler. Ellen purchased it when the old house originally lived in by her sister Maud Crawford Sayman was cleaned out and sold.

Elam and Margaret Hogaboom
This is an old photo of the ancestors of our contributor, Darla Hogaboom. We do not know where it was taken or what year. The photographer was M.W. Nix. This couple lived in Sullivan County in the late 1850's. We would love to learn more about this family and the location of the Nix photo gallery in time and place.

Guild at John Streby Home
This is an old photo of a guild meeting at the home of John Streby in 1898. We do not know which guild was meeting or picnicking there. The picture was found in the estate of Helen Jeannette Hottenstein and was recovered and scanned by Dave Kester, a prominent contributor to this page. You can learn more about this topic at Guilds.

Barn Raising 1907
Swenson Farm
Barn raisings were a common event in Sullivan County in the nineteenth century. According to Paul Neis, who contributed this photo: "When you see a photo of a barn raising, and the guys are pushing up a section of wall, that section is called a bent. It is not always a wall section; there are interior bents, too. The bents run lengthwise in the building, parallel to one another. The first two bents are raised and braced temporarily, then connecting beams and permanent braces are installed. Then the next bent, and its connectors, and so on. The photo of the raising shown here is about half-way up, and there are about 20 men pushing it with poles that must be 10-12 feet long."
Source: Holton Area Centennial 1871-1971, Holton Area Committee, Holton, Michigan
Note: Click on the Photo for a Full Size View

Horse-Drawn Railroad
About 1880
Cascade Township, Lycoming County
Cascade is the largest township by area in Lycoming County and lies directly across the Sullivan County line from Hillsgrove. Note that the rails for this "railroad" are made of tree trunks. The wheels have no tires. The picture shows lumbermen hauling cut logs out of the woods using this unique method. Lumbermen were incredibly imaginative. Many of them or their parents had originally worked on construction of the canals before the rail era came about. The canal boats were occasionally actually drawn by horses thorugh the locks and other slow-moving areas. A large pulley or rope running from the boat to a team would permit the horses to pull the boat or barge along the course of the canal. So, the concept of using horses to pull a vehicle was familiar to these woodsmen. According to Bill Brenchley, one oldtimer from the area recalls the remains of the device from his childhood and refers to it as a "Tram".
Source: The Dryer Family Page
Page 59
By Permission of Dick Dryer
Note: Click on the Photo for a Full Size View

Scrapbook of Aunt Eliza Green Rogers
From some time in the 1870s, when she lost three children, until some time before her death in 1939, Eliza Green Rogers kept a scrapbook. As the second wife of Sadler Rogers, she had a large extended family of blood, marriage and step relationships. This collection represents an encyclopedic microscosm of Sullivan County society and personalities. The scrapbook was rescued from inadvertent destruction in 2004 by Carol Brotzman.

Old Advertising Cards

Penny Postcards from Pennsylvania

Rouse Point Restaurant 1920s
Route 220 Two Miles South of Dushore
Original postcard photo sold on eBay in October 2019. The restsursnt snd Mobil gas station were owned and operated by Thomas Charles. Rouse (1881-1952). He was descended from an old Irish family from the Kilglass region of County Sligo who settled in the area in the mid-19th century. Rouse named his roadside business after the famous Rouse's Point vacation spot on Long Island. This building is now a private residence, after being completely remodeled. It was located across from a Day Care facility in 2019 Here is a link to the Back of the card. Click on both photos to see an expanded version

Other Fine Links

--Sullivan's March Against the Iroquois (1779)
--Northeastern Pennsylvania Biographies
--The Benton Township News
--The Canton Independent Sentinel
--JoAnn McGuire's Lopez News
--Muncy Historical Society and Museum
--Joan Blank's Lycomimg County History
--Historic Williamsport, Lycoming County


Click on picture to read the history.
--Forkston Sesquicentennial: 1842-1992
--The Belsnickel
--McHenry Funeral Homes--A History
--Morton Montgomery Biographical and Historical Annals of Berks County (1909)
--The Coming of the Turnpike
--Early Trails

Family Pages --The James McNeal Family -The Bensinger Family Page -Persun and Keeler Family History -The Speary Family of Sullivan County -Historic Pittsburgh Census Project: 1850-1880 -Loyalsock: A Pilgrim Journey -Letters to Mary Burns Gorham: 1857-1869 -The Brotzman Site: Family History and Genealogy -Scholderer Surname Study -The Johannes Schwalm Page for Descendants of Hessians -The Menges Family Genealogy Forum -Ancestors and Family of Andrew McDowell -Molyneux Family Page -Descendants of Johann George Huntzinger -History of Beaver Meadows Church -Lambert Family History: Album One -Lambert Family History: Album Two -The Higleys and Their Ancestry (1896) -Stabryla Family Research Project -The Baumunk Family History -Sweeneys-McDonalds from County Sligo to Pennsylvania * * This record is current through 2021 when Ancestry.com decided to no longer support file upgrades. For a more current file on Geneanet, contact Bob Sweeney. -Descendants of Johann Melchior Hafa -The New England Ball Project -The Black Family Web Site -The Kobbe Family Emigration -The Pennsylvania Steele Family -Laughlin-McDonald and Related Families of Northern Pennsylvania -Lavelle Family Forum -Descendants of James T. Kelly of Kelly Hill, Forks PA -Hatton-Exley Site -The Hoppes Generations -The Fassett Family Tree -Koppenhafer Family Page -BLM Records -Weaver/Diltz/Martin Family Genealogies -Bumgardner & Litzelswope Family Page -Brobst/Probst Family History -Henrietta Kester: History of Bellasylva -Family Hart Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy -Speary Family of Sullivan County -Alex Stavisky's Lopez Page

Related County and Town Web Pages -Cattaraugus County NY, -Lycoming County Digital Archives, -Lackawanna County PA , -History of Wyoming -Pat Krivak's Luzerne County History Page -Bradford County PA -History of Eages Mere -PA Location Finder -County Sligo Ireland -The Kilglass Parish Records -Louth County Library -Wyoming County Historical Society Other Links & Sources The Endless Mountains Eaglesmere Village PA Visitor's Network Closed Colleges in Pennsylvania Northeast PA Biographies Pennsylvania Vital Records Uncovering PA: Sullivan County Eastern PA Obituaries Irish Memorial Sites Grosse Ile The Irish Memorial 2003 Ireland's Historical Mapping Archive Virtual Irish Community Other Sources for Local History: --Asylum at Azilum --Aristide-Aubert Dupetit-Thouars ("Dushore") Dushore Fire 1898 You can read more at Selected Dushore Fires or the Dushore Fire Department Page. Source: An Old Photo Contributed by Bettyann Sick Goodyear Click on the photo for an enlarged version.

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Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Jo Mitchell's Irish Churches Page St. Molaisse Church Kilglass, County Sligo, Ireland Aerial View Taken Before 1972 Courtesy of Charles Devanney PA Historical & Museum Commission USGENWEB Resources Various tidbits to help researchers in their quest to find their ancestors, brought to you by the US GenWeb Project Tips from Robert Bickham tips to finding what you're looking for! PA GenWeb The PA GenWeb is a great resource. Check out some of the other County pages! You won't be disappointed. World GenWeb The WorldGenWeb is a non-profit volunteer organization that is dedicated to the free use and access of public domain genealogical information. Small Town Humor in 1924 Caption reads: "This is not the picture of a Meshoppen girl at 'Pot Falls but represents an Auburn Center damsel at Whites Pond." According to Carol Brotzman, Whites Pond is located in Retta near Auburn Four Corners, Auburn Township, Susquehanna County, PA. Sandy Miner tell us that Pot Falls is near Meshoppen, off Route 6 near the Slumber Valley Road/ Kaiserville Road. Meshoppen and Retta are small towns in Wyoming County, PA. Source: Unidentified local newspaper dated March 19, 1924 From the Leo Bolles Collection

The Sammons Girls 1913 Josephine Sammons was the older sister of Agnes Elizabeth (Kelly) Sweeney, and each was one of 18 children of Daniel and Mary (Leahy/Lahey) Kelly. The two sisters remained quite close throughout their lives. Agnes is pictured on the left-hand column of this page. The Kelly, Sammons, Beirne and Sweeney families were interrelated by marriage and friendships for over seventy years in the communities of Towanda and Sayre, PA, and Elmira, NY. Click on caption for full size photo Photo courtesy of Ken Beirne FAMILY COATS OF ARMS: Coats of Arms from Ireland and Around the World Murray Family Crest Roger Murray was born in Ireland and entered the mining industry in the Bernice area. Eventually, the Murray family owned and operated mines in what came to be called Murraytown. See the picture below. His daughter, Anna, grew up on Cherry Hill in Murraytown and married James H. Lavelle of Cherry Mills. Their large family is pictured on the entry page of the Message Boards on this site. You can read more about Murraytown and the Murrays in Sullivan County Industries--Now and Then. Roots Web The people who graciously host this webpage and many other GenWeb pages. One of the oldest and largest.

Murraytown 1918 Jerry Cahill contributed this photo from an old postcard. The coal mine tipple is visible on the right side of the picture. The town was named for Roger Murray whose family crest is shown above. Dushore Public School Ellen Koppenhafer found this picture of the Dushore Public School in the belongings of her grandmother, Mary Magdalen Seltzer, born April 1899 in Dushore, daughter of George Seltzer and Lizzie Saxe. Levi Hunsinger and Descendants Wanda Orlopp provided this picture of her great-great grandfather and family as taken on Christmas Day 1947 at the homestead of Charles and Sarah (Hunsinger) Karge, Levi's daughter and son-in-law. The picture shows: Back Row: Levi, Geraldine (Crawford) Karge, Ralph Karge (Levi's grandson and Geraldine's husband); Middle Row: Cleon and Rita Karge (children of Ralph and Geraldine); Front Row: Ronald, Melvin, Vera and Alvin Karge (more children of Geraldine and Ralph). Geraldine is holding another infant child, Ivan Karge. The man near the woodpile in back is Everett Reeser, husband of Fluetta Karge (sister to Ralph). The original picture was taken by Fluetta Karge and obtained by Wanda from Mildred Karge, a sister of Fluetta and Ralph. Additional pictures and information can be found in the section on the Crawfords and Hunsingers in Faces and Families. Andreas Knaeble and Marguerite (Margaretha) Lefevre These pictures were contributed by Tom W. Gerber. Much of the historical information was provided by Kay Ostertag, Lynn Blazek, and most recently by Dee Froemming.. The Knaeble's (Knable with an umlat over the "a" in German) are from the town of Oberndorf am Neckar near the Neckar river in Germany, which is located between Stuttgart and Konstanz. Oberndorf means "upper village". Andrew was born July 10, 1801 and subsequently emigrated from Bremen to New York on or about June 20, 1828. Andrew married Margaretha Lefevre in Boston, MA on July 30, 1831. Their first child, Henry, was born in New York City in 1832, but they subsequently moved to Sullivan County, Pennsylvania where the other children were born. There appears to be an old land record from 1840 for the purchase of 40 acres and 109 perches for $119.91. Some of their sons served in the Civil War. After the war, the family moved to Minnesota. There they got into the furniture business. While they were running the store, a friend asked if he could display children's caskets in their store window. Before they knew it, the Knaebles were undertakers and the business grew from there. Andrew was also apparently an accomplished violinist. Margaretha was born about 1809 near Strasbourg, France, an area of constant conflict between the French and Germans over the last several centuries. We do not know how or when she came to the United States. Margaretha died August 24, 1865 and is buried at St. Basil's Church in Dushore, PA. She was supposedly the niece of Marschal Joseph Francois Lefebvre, the Duke of Danzig, who served with Napoleon and she may have been a lady-in-waiting. She is sometimes also identified as "Marguerite", which is the French version of Margaretha and may have been her birth name. Margaretha Lefevre's Earrings from the French court are still in the family. You can review more information on these families at: (1) Lynn Blazek-- The Knaeble Lefevre Family (2) Dee Frykman Froemming-- Descendants of Andreas Knaeble, and (3) Descendants of --Valentine Rohe.