Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Alexander Wilson and Sarah Belle McCandless




Husband Alexander Wilson 1 2

           Born: 12 Oct 1850 - Butler Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Sep 1925 2
         Buried: 


         Father: David Wilson (      -1892) 3
         Mother: Sarah Irvin (      -      ) 3


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Margaret H. "Maggie" Sloan (      -      ) 4



Wife Sarah Belle McCandless 5 6

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1937
         Buried: 


         Father: John F. "Peach John" McCandless (1802-1869) 5 7 8 9
         Mother: Nancy Hays (Abt 1821-1863) 5 9



   Other Spouse: Finley Newton Sloan (      -1876) 10 11 12


Children

General Notes: Husband - Alexander Wilson


He spent his school days in Clay Township, Butler County, PA, whence he had been brought by his parents when a lad of five years, and where he lived on a farm until his eighteenth year. At that time he de­cided to start to make his own way in the world, and subsequently secured employ­ment in the oil fields of the Alleghany River, in Armstrong County. Later he moved to Allegheny Township, Butler Coun­ty, where he was engaged as an oil producer.


General Notes: Wife - Sarah Belle McCandless


She died aged eighty-seven years.

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Sources


1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 765, 1344, 1391.

2 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 22.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 765.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 766, 1391.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1070.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 766, 1344.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 344.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 848, 1133, 1343.

9 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 13.

10 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 946.

11 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 766.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 868.


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