James Summerville and Sarah Scott
Husband James Summerville 1 2 3
AKA: James Sommerville 4 Born: 4 Apr 1764 - near Belfast, County Down, Ireland Christened: Died: 11 Aug 1854 - Franklin Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 4 Buried: - Seceder Cemetery, Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA
Father: Samuel Summerville ( - ) Mother: Jane Sprott ( - ) 5
Marriage: 1796 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
Wife Sarah Scott 1 4
Born: 31 Jul 1774 - Scotland Christened: Died: 6 Dec 1826 - Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA 1 Buried:
Father: James Scott ( - ) 2 Mother:
Children
1 F Jane Summerville
Born: 26 Dec 1797 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 11 Dec 1878 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: David Martin (1795-1868)
2 M William Sommerville 4
Born: 28 Feb 1799 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 27 Dec 1853 - Buckhorn, Jackson Co, IA Buried:
3 M John Summerville 1 4 6
Born: 13 Mar 1800 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 12 Dec 1880 or 1881 - Armstrong Co, PA 2 Buried:Spouse: Catherine Ferguson (1801-1853) 1 7 Marr: 1826
4 F Ann Sommerville 2
Born: 9 Sep 1801 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 28 Apr 1831 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Abram Titus ( - ) 2
5 M Samuel Sommerville 4
Born: 23 Mar 1803 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 15 Sep 1867 - Terre Haute, Vigo Co, IN Buried:
6 F Hannah Sommerville 7
Born: 6 Dec 1806 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 13 Apr 1884 - Armstrong Co, PA Buried:Spouse: William Minteer (1808-1891) 2 Marr: 1855
7 M Joseph Sommerville 4
Born: 28 Apr 1808 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 15 Mar 1883 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Mary Downs (1818-1894) 5 Marr: 1837
8 M Josiah Sommerville 4 8
Born: 29 Jan 1810 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 15 Feb 1881 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Mary Jane Rankin (1810-1890) 8 Marr: 1831
9 F Margaret Sommerville 4
Born: 26 Jul 1811 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 10 Apr 1886 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: William Ferguson ( - ) 7 Marr: 1836
10 M Azel Freeman Sommerville 2
Born: 5 May 1815 - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: 6 Aug 1898 - Chillicothe, Livingston Co, MO Buried:Spouse: Jane Sample (1823-1895) 5 Marr: 1843
11 F Frances "Fannie" Sommerville 7
AKA: Fanny Summerville 2 Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1898 - Clarion Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Joseph D. Rankin ( - ) 7
General Notes: Husband - James Summerville
He was a native of County Down, Ireland, and in 1782 came to America. He got into some difficulty about shooting rabbits out of the hunting season, and to avoid arrest he took passage on a vessel which was ready to sail for the New World. He first located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and on his arrival there his only possessions consisted of a dog and a gun. After following farming in that county for two years he removed to a place on Crooked creek in Armstrong County, and in 1796 secured 350 acres of land in Franklin township, that county, on the site where Worthington was later located, and about six miles from Kittanning. Years later the place was being owned and operated by his great-grandchildren. He died there at the age of ninety years, and was buried in the Seceder cemetery at Worthington.
He was born near Belfast, in County Down, Ireland, and was a member of the Seceder or Presbyterian Church. In his native land he was reared and educated, and when a young man crossed the Atlantic and took up his residence in Pennsylvania.
He was one of the first settlers west of the Allegheny river in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and there on the old homestead farm he and his wife died at a ripe old age, he having attained the age of ninety-eight years. He was first a Whig, and later a Republican, in politics.
The lists of his children given on different pages of the source differ somewhat. Josiah and Azel may be the same person. Besides those listed were two others deceased before 1898. With the exception of one, all lived to be over seventy years of age.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Scott
Another source states that she was a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 54.
2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1591.
3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 554.
4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1415.
5 Rev. N. B. Grubb, A Genealogical History of the Gottshall Family (Gottshall Family Association, 1924), Pg 110.
6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 622.
7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1416.
8
—, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 995.
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