Aaron McKissick and Mary Means

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Husband Aaron McKissick ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1784 - Maine
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Nov 1848 - Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA (Waterloo?)
         Buried:  - Old Sandy Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Means ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Feb 1788 - Maine
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 May 1862 - Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Old Sandy Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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Children

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1 M Putman McKissick ²

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           Died: Bef 1919
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2 M John McKissick ²

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           Died: Bef 1919
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3 M Henry McKissick ²

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           Died: Bef 1919
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4 M Oliver McKissick ⁴

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5 F Hannah McKissick ^{1 2 5 6}

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           Born: 15 Apr 1816 - Portland, Cumberland Co, ME 1 2
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           Died: 8 May 1893 - Sandy Lake Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Cross Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA 7

         Spouse: Judge Robert Cross (1811-1874) 1 5 6 8
           Marr: 25 Dec 1835 1 2 6

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6 F Jane McKissick ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Spouse: Henry Near (      -      ) 2

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7 F Mary McKissick ²

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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Spouse: Dr. A. J. McMillan (      -      ) 6

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8 F Sophronia McKissick ⁴

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            AKA: Sophrenia McKissick 9
           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Spouse: Henry Smail (      -      ) 2

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9 M Thomas S. McKissick ²

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           Died: Bef 1919
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10 M Aaron McKissick

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           Born: Abt Dec 1821
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Jan 1848
         Buried:  - Old Sandy Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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General Notes: Husband - Aaron McKissick

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Of Scotch ancestry, Aaron McKissick was engaged in general contracting. He settled with his family at Franklin, Pennsylvania, about 1818, later removing to Sandy Lake Township, Mercer County. [CAB, 604]

He was a man of great energy, and possessed superior business qualifications. He purchased the land upon which the village of Polk now stands, and in 1839 had the same surveyed and platted under the name of Waterloo, by which it continued to be known until its incorporation as a borough, August 23, 1886, when the name of the post office was adopted. In connection with a store Mr. McKissick opened a hotel, the first in the place, which he ran for a number of years, dividing his attention in the meantime among merchandising, stock dealings and farming, in all of which he was successful. [HVC 1890, 572]

He built a hotel on the Pittsburgh road early in the twenties and officiated as "mine host" to the traveling public on that important thoroughfare nearly a score of years. He was from Maine and had been a ship carpenter in his native state. It was he who gave the name of Bully Hill to that part of Sandy Creek township, a designation transferred to the locality opposite the mouth of East Sandy during the first oil excitement in that neighborhood. He afterward removed to Waterloo and became the founder of that borough. [HVC 1890, 677]

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Means

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She died when about eighty years old. [CAB, 604]

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 995.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 604.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 76.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 323.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 47.

7 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 98.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 603.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 604.