William Reader and Mary White
Husband William Reader 1 2 3
Born: Nov 1752 - Houiley, Warwickshire, England 1 3 Christened: Died: 1808 1 4 Buried:
Father: Samuel Reader, Sr. ( - ) 5 Mother: Elizabeth Palmer (1721- ) 1 5
Marriage: 1782 1 3
• Biographical Sketch.
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Wife Mary White 1 3
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Joseph White ( - ) 3 Mother: Elizabeth Nason ( - ) 3
Children
1 M William Reader 1 4
Born: 28 Dec 1782 - Rowington, Warwickshire, England 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Hadley ( - ) 4 Marr: 9 May 1815 4
2 F Elizabeth Reader 2 7 8
AKA: Elizabeth Reeder 6 Born: 18 Apr 1784 - Rowington, Warwickshire, England 8 Christened: Died: 26 Dec 1879 9 Buried:Spouse: Robert Wallace (Abt 1782-1847) 2 6 8 Marr: 17 Mar 1807 8 10
3 F Harriet Reader 11
Born: 3 Sep 1785 - Honily, England 11 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M James Reader 12
Born: 27 Feb 1787 12 Christened: Died: 13 Oct 1830 - near Elizabeth, Allegheny Co, PA 13 Buried:Spouse: Sarah Daily ( - ) 12 Marr: 6 Aug 1812 12
5 M Charles Reader 13 14
Born: 1 Jul 1788 13 Christened: Died: 10 Nov 1858 - Indiana 13 Buried:Spouse: Sarah Applegate (1786-1864) 13 Marr: Jul 1818 13
6 F Martha Reader 15
Born: 20 Jan 1790 15 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 F Mary Reader 2 15
Born: 28 Jan 1792 15 Christened: Died: 27 Nov 1873 16 Buried: - Little Flock Cemetery, near Shelburn, Sullivan Co, INSpouse: William Wallace (1794-1849) 2 15 Marr: 1816 or 1817 15 16
8 M Henry [1] Reader 15
Born: 28 Jan 1792 15 Christened: Died: 25 Sep 1796 15 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
9 F Sarah Reader 15
Born: 26 Jan 1795 15 Christened: Died: 21 Oct 1796 15 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
10 M Henry [2] Reader 17
Born: 2 Oct 1796 17 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mrs. Margaret Kountz ( - ) 17 Marr: 1839 17
11 M Francis Reader 14 18 19
Born: 23 Sep 1798 - Warwickshire, England 14 Christened: Died: 20 Apr 1884 - Belle Vernon, Fayette Co, PA 20 Buried: - Howe Cemetery, near Coal Center, Washington Co, PASpouse: Catherine James (1804-1836) 20 21 Marr: 25 Dec 1832 20 21Spouse: Eleanor Bentley Smith (1817-1847) 1 19 Marr: 10 Jan 1842 21 22Spouse: Mrs. William Duvall Jackman ( -1854) 23 Marr: 8 Jan 1849 23
12 F Sarah Reader 24
Born: 11 Jun 1800 24 Christened: Died: 28 Jul 1876 24 Buried:Spouse: George Trumbo (1794-1876) 24 Marr: 11 Jan 1827 24
13 M Edwin Reader 25
Born: 25 May 1802 25 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Catherine Mellinger ( - ) 25 Marr: 1834 25
General Notes: Husband - William Reader
He and his wife had thirteen children.
In 1804, he determined to go to America, and he sold his farming stock by auction at Houiley, March 12-13, 1804. They left Liverpool, June 11, 1804, on the American ship "Washington," and reached Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 15, after a voyage of 65 days, a part of which was very stormy and dangerous. All the family came to America except the eldest son, William. The family remained in the neighborhood of Philadelphia for some weeks, and in the fall bought a wagon and some horses and started for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, undergoing the hardships incident to the traveling of that day, over the mountains and through the wilderness everywhere, happy in the thought of founding a home of their own among the people of the free and promising new country. At Pittsburgh he made inquiries for land, and selected a farm on the Monongahela river, in Nottingham township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1805, containing 200 acres, for which he paid $8 an acre. In a letter to his son William, in London, he described its improvements as "a new house which cost $1,000, a barn, stable, and some other out-buildings, and a whiskey distillery, which proved the ruin of the family that formerly owned it, for they all but two died for the love of it." One of their neighbors was John Holcroft, from Lancashire, England, a prominent figure in the "Whiskey Insurrection" in western Pennsylvania, and was reputed to be the notorious "Tom the Tinker" of that period. Charles Reader, one of the sons of William Reader, painted a portrait of Holcroft. William Reader had great faith in Mr. Holcroft, and turned to him as the adviser of his family in his property interests, while he made a business trip to his old home in England, and some of their descendants intermarried. William Reader died in 1808, and the property passed to his widow and children. Francis Reader, eleventh son of William Reader, born September 23, 1798, was the father of Francis S. Reader.
F. S. Reader's
General Notes: Wife - Mary White
from High Cross, Rowington, England
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1.
2 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 5.
3 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 102.
4 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 105.
5 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 101.
6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 112.
7 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 521.
8 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 106.
9 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 11.
10 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 10.
11 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 109.
12 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 111.
13 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 112.
14 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 2.
15 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 110.
16 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 12.
17 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 117.
18 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 805.
19 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 96.
20 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 122.
21 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 4.
22 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 127.
23 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 5.
24 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 118.
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F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 120.
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