Owen McCabe and Catherine Sears

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Husband Owen McCabe ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1720 - County Tyrone, Ireland
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       Marriage:  - Lancaster Co, PA

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Wife Catherine Sears ^{1 2}

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         Father: [Father] Sears (      -      )
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Children

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1 M James McCabe ²

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           Died: 1795 1
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         Spouse: [Unk] Hughes (      -      ) 2

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2 M William McCabe ^{3 4 5 6 7}

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           Born: Abt 1755 - Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA
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           Died:  - Allegheny Co, PA
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3 F Mary McCabe ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] McIntyre (      -      ) 2

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4 M John McCabe ²

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           Died:  - near Dayton, OH
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General Notes: Husband - Owen McCabe

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The McCabes were resident in Ireland, the family home having been made in that country because of religious difficulties and incompatibilities in Scotland, where the spelling of the name had been MacCabe. Owen McCabe was reared to manhood in county Tyrone, Ireland, there becoming a communicant of the Roman Catholic church, although prior to that time the family religion had been Presbyterian. In young manhood he emigrated to America, following the Susquehanna river to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a locality then regarded as far out on the western frontier. He there married and a few years later he and his family were the first settlers in Sherman's Valley, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Owen McCabe naming Tyrone township, in what is now Perry County, in remembrance of his former home. In Pennsylvania he returned to the religion of his fathers and was a Presbyterian until his death. He was famous for a tenor voice of extraordinary sweetness and strength and in each generation of his descendants this trait has persisted, several of each being singers of unusual ability, while a few have made that art their profession.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 361.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1575.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 458, 706.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 871.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 926.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 470.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1576.