James P. Cassidy and Eliza Wilson

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Husband James P. Cassidy

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            AKA: J. P. Cassidy,1 James Cassidy,2 James T. Cassidy
           Born: 20 Feb 1838 - Mill Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Aug 1923
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Jesse Cassidy (      -      )
         Mother: Nancy [Unk] (      -      )

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       Marriage: 10 Nov 1866

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   Other Spouse: Caroline F. Glenn (      -1863) 2 4 - 1859

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• Note: This may be the same person as : James P. Cassidy.

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Wife Eliza Wilson ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 25 Oct 1910 1
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Cornelius Wilson (1810-1893) 1
         Mother: Sarah Cummings (      -1841) 1

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   Other Spouse: Morris Parker (      -1861/1865) 1

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Children

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1 M Jesse J. Cassidy

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           Born: 
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           Died: 17 Mar 1920
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

         Spouse: Eliza J. Westlake (Abt 1867-1902)
           Marr: 1899 - ? Venango Co, PA

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2 F Ada Belle Cassidy

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           Born: 
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           Died: 12 Apr 1959
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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3 M Carl Cassidy

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4 U [Unk] Cassidy

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General Notes: Husband - James P. Cassidy

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Utica, Venango Co, PA

When three years of age his parents moved to Sandy Lake township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. There he grew to manhood and learned the blacksmithing trade, which stood him in good stead when oil was discovered on Oil creek, as it was men of like mechanical genius who brought about the new order of things that pertained to drilling for petroleum. Leaving his home for the oil regions when the spring-pole was the engine that sent the drill on the way to the oil-bearing rock, he followed "gigging it down" to use the phase of that day, until this mode of drilling was superceded by the steam engine, the last well to be drilled by this method by his company being near where the Big Rock bridge spanned the Allegheny river.

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General Notes: Wife - Eliza Wilson

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She went to live in Lone Rock, WI, with her first husband, returning to Utica, Venango County, PA, after his death.

Cemetery book gives her date of death as Oct 28.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 591.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 471.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 56.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1010.