Henry H. Fair and Frances Gilger

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Husband Henry H. Fair ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 14 Jul 1836 - Indiana Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1915
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: William Christopher Fair (1798-      ) 2 3 4
         Mother: Anna Mary Cribbs (1805-1896) 2 4 5

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       Marriage: 1866 or 1872 - Clarion, Clarion Co, PA 6

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   Other Spouse: Augusta Rodgers (      -      ) 2 7 - 7 May 1878 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 6 8

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Wife Frances Gilger ^{2 6 7 9}

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           Born: Abt 1842 - Richland Twp, Venango (later Clarion) Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jan 1877 - Philadelphia, PA
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Jonas Gilger (1791-1871) 9
         Mother: Eve M. Grett (1797-1853) 9

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Children

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1 M [Infant] Fair

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Apr 1867
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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2 M Frederick Fair ⁶

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           Born: Abt 1872
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Ellen Ethel Stephenson (Abt 1864-      )
           Marr: 15 Oct 1903 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 10

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General Notes: Husband - Henry H. Fair

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He was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and educated at the common schools and at West Freedom Academy, and while yet a young man learned the trade of millwright. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he was engaged at drilling oil wells at Walnut Bend, Pennsylvania, and on the 10th of September, 1861, at Erie, enlisted in Company A, Eighty-Third Pennsylvania Volunteers. With his regiment he took part in the battles of Hanover Court House and the subsequent engagements of the command in the retreat from before Richmond. In March, 1863, he was discharged from the service on account of physical disability, leaving the army with the rank of a non-commissioned officer. Coming at once to Oil City he engaged for a while in the oil business, and later on at carpentering-as a contractor and builder. In 1871 he embarked in mercantile business, and in 1885 purchased the Oil City flouring mills. He is a member of the G. A. R., one of the trustees of the International Progressive Association, and a director in the Oil City Trust Company Bank. [HVC 1890, 923]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 923.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 442.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 882, 1164.

4 Heasley Family Association, The Little House of Heasley (Privately Circulated, 1980 and forward).

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 831, 882, 1164.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 924.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 882.

8 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 74.

9 Mr. & Mrs. Richard McKean, The Family of Abraham and Hannah Gilger Mull (Mulberry Grove, IL: Self-published, no date).

10 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #6249.