James Halyday and Almira Coe

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Husband James Halyday ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 Jan 1809 - Venango Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 9 Nov 1884 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Father: Francis Halyday (      -1811) 1 3
         Mother: Sarah Horth (Abt 1769-1842) 1 3

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       Marriage: 16 Oct 1828 1 2

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Wife Almira Coe ^{1 2}

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         Father: Arial Coe (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Lydia [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - James Halyday

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The following, taken from a late sketch of Oil City, is appropriate here: “In his youth James Halyday's playmates were the Indian boys of Cornplanter's tribe, and little he dreamed of the city, founded as if by the ma­gician's wand on his old home. His life was passed within half a mile of the place of his birth (near the site of the Petroleum house, Third ward) and he watched the changing scenes of the discovery of oil, the building up of the busy marts of trade, the floods and fires and the gradual development of this section, culminating in making this city the 'oil metropolis of the world,' all passing before his eyes like the dissolving views of the stereopticon.” Peculiarly kind and benevolent to all who needed either sympathy or more material aid, the memory of James and Almira Halyday will be cherished for many years by those whom destiny has brought to occupy their native place. [HVC 1890, 851]

He and his wife had seven children; four still living in 1879.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 509.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 851.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 850.