Thomas Adison McCracken and Eliza Hoyt

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Husband Thomas Adison McCracken ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 May 1838 - Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA
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           Died: Aft 1909
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         Father: Thomas McCracken (1809-1893) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Williams (Abt 1809-1848) 1

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Wife Eliza Hoyt ²

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           Born: 12 Dec 1847 2
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         Father: Augustus Hoyt (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Zelpha Turner (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Minnie McCracken ⁵

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           Born: 1870 5
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         Spouse: Charles Klingensmith (      -      ) 5

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2 M Ernest Martin McCracken ⁵

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           Born: 21 Aug 1872 - Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Katie Murphy (1874-      ) 5
           Marr: 8 Nov 1893 5

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3 F Desse O. McCracken ⁵

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           Born: 1879 5
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         Spouse: Roy Sheppard (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Adison McCracken

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He attended school and worked on the home farm until he was twenty years of age. In 1861 he enlisted at Sheakleyville in Company K, One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under Captain J. J. Pierce, of Sharpsville. The troops were sent to Erie for equipment, then, by way of Harrisburg to Baltimore, MD, where they were drilled. Subsequently the regiment went to Harper's Ferry and then to the Shenandoah Valley. At this point Mr. McCracken was taken with a severe attack of the measles and confined to the hospital, joining his company in time to participate in the battles of Slaughter Mountain and Winchester. As he had not fully recovered from his illness, however, and was found unfit for active service, he was discharged for disability, September 3. 1863. Returning to Mercer County, PA, he resumed farming. Later he inherited a part of the old homestead and has occupied it. In 1900 he retired to Sheakleyville, leaving his farm in the charge of his son. Mr. McCracken was one of the first members of the Sheakleyville Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and is an old-time, Lincoln, Civil war Republican. He has had little connection with the politics of the locality, although he served as burgess of Sheakleyville from 1905 to 1907, and was also for some time a member of the city council. [HMC 1909, 993]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1099.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 993.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1098.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1060, 1078.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 994.