Aaron Woods

Aaron was named after his father and was the oldest child, with Mary (named after her mother) born three years later and Emily following in another two years. Both parents…

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Moses Orr

Moses was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and came to America May 5, 1851 at age 11. Death records, which rely on the sometime faulty recollections of relatives, put…

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George W. Deary

George’s birthday was in January of 1845 in Philadelphia, by most accounts. The story of his early years has been muddled by records of a George W Dearry from roughly…

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