Capt. Thomas Jolly and Rebecca Jolly

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Husband Capt. Thomas Jolly ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 19 Feb 1793 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Dec 1885 - Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Thomas Jolly, Sr. (Abt 1755-1841) 1 2 5
         Mother: Betsey Mitchell (Abt 1754-1840) 1 3

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       Marriage: 27 Dec 1824

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Wife Rebecca Jolly ^{1 3}

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           Born: Cal 27 Apr 1799 - Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Sep 1851 - Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Samuel Jolly (1766-      ) 2 3 6 7
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 8

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Children

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1 M Samuel Jolly ¹

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           Born: 1825 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 1890 9
         Buried:  - East Unity Presbyterian Cemetery, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: Clarissa Jane McGinnis (1833-1888) 9
           Marr: 14 Jul 1853

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2 F Sarah Jolly ^{1 3}

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           Born: 29 Oct 1829 - Eakin's Corners, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Mar 1916 - Seneca, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Brandon Cemetery, Cranberry, Venango Co, PA 10

         Spouse: Samuel B. McGinnis (1829-1904) 3 8
           Marr: Abt 1851

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3 F Jane Jolly ^{3 11}

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           Born: 20 Sep 1834 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Oct 1915 11
         Buried:  - Scrubgrass Stone Church Cemetery, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 12

         Spouse: Eli Ewing Williams (1830-1905) 3 11 13 14
           Marr: 28 Feb 1856 13

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4 M Thomas Jolly ^{1 3 15}

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           Born: 30 Oct 1839 - Venango Twp, Butler Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Marilda Annie Russell (      -Aft 1890) 3 15 16
           Marr: 27 Oct 1859 3

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Thomas Jolly

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Capt. Thomas Jolly is one of the oldest residents of Butler County, having lived here since his father settled. He was born in Westmoreland County in 1793, and is still living, in hale and vigorous old age. The writer received from him many interesting reminiscences of pioneer days. Capt. Jolly is one of the few surviving soldiers of 1812. He was in the service a little over two months. Afterward he was a Captain of militia and held the position about twenty-one years. He is a man whose qualities command the respect of all who know him. Capt. Jolly has never been away from the farm for a year since he came with his father. He remembers when there were scarcely any clearings in the town­ship and when only faintly-marked paths served as roads. Capt. Jolly, when a young man, devoted consider­able attention to hunting, and often killed twenty deer in one season and helped to kill many bears. He estimates that his father, himself and brothers killed over a hundred bears in this vicinity, before wild animals became scarce. [HBC 1883, 450]

He came with his parents to Butler county, PA, in 1797. He was reared upon the homestead farm in Venango township, and resided upon the same until his death, at the ripe age of ninety-three years. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was afterwards a captain of a militia company for twenty-one years. Dur­ing early manhood he devoted considerable attention to hunting, and he esti­mated that his father, himself and brothers, killed over 100 bears in the vicinity of his home during pioneer days. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church, and throughout his life he was an ardent supporter of the Democratic party.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 450.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 551.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1317.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 70.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1316.

6 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 642.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 335.

8 Audrey Jean King Mattern, McGinnis Family Records (Carlsbad, CA: Self-Published, 1996.).

9 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 88.

10 Kipp Melat, Brandon Cemetery, Cranberry Township, Venango County, PA (Seneca, PA: Self-published, 1979), Pg 31.

11 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1017.

12 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 3, Scrubgrass Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1995), Pg 54.

13 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 645.

14 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 53.

15 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1313.

16 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 975.