James Luce and Elizabeth Parr

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Husband James Luce ¹

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            AKA: James Luse 2
           Born: 1769 - New Jersey
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Sep 1835 - ? Troy Twp, Crawford Co, PA
         Buried:  - Diamond Cemetery, Diamond, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: [Father] Luse (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Wife Elizabeth Parr ¹

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           Born: 20 Aug 1772
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Oct 1855
         Buried:  - Diamond Cemetery, Diamond, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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Children

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1 F Rachel Luse ²

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           Born: 1808
     Christened: 
           Died: 1882
         Buried:  - Diamond Cemetery, Diamond, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Andrew Proper (1784-1874) 2 5

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2 M Shubal Luse ²

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3 F Lydia Luse ²

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         Spouse: James Williams (      -      ) 2

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4 F Eliza Luce ¹

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            AKA: Eliza Luse 2
           Born: Abt 1809 - Troy Twp, Crawford Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Apr 1888
         Buried: 

         Spouse: William Williams (      -1858) 1

         Spouse: Jonathan Benn, Jr. (1810-1885) 6
           Marr: 1871

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General Notes: Husband - James Luce

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The first permanent pioneer of the western part of Troy township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was James Luse, who, toward the close of the 1700s set out with his brothers, David and Nathaniel, from their home in Essex County, New Jersey, for French Creek. Mr. Luse had in his native state been in the employ of William Shotwell, who afterward became the agent for Field's claim, and at whose suggestion it was that Mr. Luse came West. David and Nathaniel settled in the western part of Crawford County, but the country was too wild and desolate and marshy, and they soon removed to Redstone.
James settled with his family at Meadville, and commenced making improvements on a tract of land six miles distant, near the Cussewago, every Monday morning going with his men from Meadville with provisions, prepared by Mrs. Luse, sufficient to last all the week. The products of their labor proved to be "sick wheat." The grain possessed the quality, not uncommon in a wild country, of producing illness in whomsoever consumed it. It was consequently worthless, and Mr. Luse sought out a new locality for his future home. About 1801 he settled on a tract of Field's claim, located in the south part of present Troy, just east of the Sixth Donation District, on the site where Liberty Schoolhouse was later located, near the east branch of Sugar Creek. The old road from Fort Franklin to Fort Le Boeuf, made and used by the French, passed through this farm, and it was largely with the intention of keeping a tavern on this road that Mr. Luse removed to the wilderness. The road was not improved as was expected, and there was little travel by the place. Instead, the pike was built a few years later through Meadville. For years Mr. Luse dwelt with his family in the deep recesses of the forest, remote from neighbors, surrounded only by the wild denizens of the wilderness. He was a stone mason by trade, and remained on his farm till death in September, 1836, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, leaving four children: Rachel, wife of Andrew Proper; Shubal; Lydia, wife of James Williams; and Eliza, married at the age of fourteen to William Williams, and now the wife of Jonathan Benn.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1102.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 669.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 43.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 46.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 598.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1102, 1104.