Christian Myers
The Myers family farm was in eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but the land in 1800 looked nothing like the pristine acreage tourists see today. Christian was one of at least…
Read MoreHenry Huhn
For much of its history, Philadelphia’s brickyards helped build the city’s economy by building the city itself. With an abundance of brick clay in South Philly, there were nearly 3000…
Read MoreGeorge Warren Elliott
The Elliott family of Philadelphia welcomed George as the sixth of seven children, the last of four boys born to William and Rebecca. William supported his family as a box…
Read MoreGeorge Handy Smith
A noteworthy ancestor in this family’s tree was General Lachlan McIntosh, a member of General George Washington’s staff at their Valley Forge encampment during the American Revolution. His great-grand-niece, Margaret…
Read MoreSamuel L. Gracey
NOTE: In 2011 Laura M. DiPaolo wrote an exhaustive history of the Methodist Ministers’ burial ground, Section 131 at Mount Moriah. “God’s Forgotten Acre” was published in the Journal of…
Read MoreSamuel Crothers
There were seven siblings in Sam’s family that were older than him, plus two younger ones. Their parents were immigrants who settled in Philadelphia from northern Ireland. From a family…
Read MoreThomas Bacon, Jr.
This man’s plot is marked with a ledger grave, a flat, horizontal stone that has plenty of room for a lengthy epitaph or whatever else one wishes to have inscribed.…
Read MoreNathan Bryan
The Bryan family was one of the earliest to settle in the coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Nathan’s father was one of several brothers that established plantations. As such,…
Read MoreJohn Francis Maher
This ancient Irish surname is pronounced like Mars but without the letter “s.” John was given the name when he was born in Waterford, Ireland, but his father wasn’t there…
Read MoreJames Godman Peale
The Peale family included several well-known artists from the post-Revolutionary War era. George Washington sat for seven portraits by Charles Wilson Peale, who painted many of the founding fathers. His…
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