James R. Locke and Sallie Cummins

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Husband James R. Locke ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Feb 1885 1 2
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         Father: John Locke (1837-1915) 1 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Rodgers (1846-1929) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Dec 1906 2

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Wife Sallie Cummins ^{1 2}

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         Father: Samuel Cummins (      -      )
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Children

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1 F Emma Elizabeth Locke ²

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2 F Helen Locke ²

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3 M Harry Locke ²

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General Notes: Husband - James R. Locke

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He was born on the old Porter Phipps farm, his parents moving two years later, in April, 1887, to the Cannan farm two miles below Clintonville, Pennsylvania, where he was reared. He was given a good education in the local schools, and thoroughly trained in both agricultural and mechanical lines by his father, gaining valuable experience as his assistant. When nineteen years old he started work in the oil fields, being employed with C. W. Hovis during the next four years in the building of rigs, after which he joined the Lincoln Oil Company, with which he was associated until 1918, and in which connection he came to locate on the A. T. Hollister farm, one mile west of Clintonville, in Clinton Township. The owners of the Lincoln Oil Company were Frank R. Hayes (of Oil City), Ora Hayes and J. J. Van Dresser (of Franklin), and their holdings covered 240 acres. There were thirty wells producing at the time Mr. Locke became connected with the company, as pumper, and he helped to sink and fit up forty-nine more. Mr. Locke and his brother-in-law, J. A. Cummins, were both engaged as pumpers on this lease. His services were highly appreciated by his employers, who showed the utmost confidence in his intelligence and fidelity, which have been manifested in the management of his own affairs as well as in his discharge of the responsibilities intrusted to him by others. On May 1, 1918, Mr. Locke moved to Sharon, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the electrical department of the National Malleable Company. Fraternally he belonged to the Knights of Pythias, holding membership in the lodge at Boyer, Pennsylvania. [HVC 1919, 903]

Possible SSDI: JAMES LOCKE 10 Feb 1885 Nov 1969 84 Sharon, Mercer, PA 16146 (not specified) Pennsylvania 177-09-6238

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General Notes: Wife - Sallie Cummins

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She was reared at Butler, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 353.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 903.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1245.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 902.