Andrew S. Eagleson and Jennie M. Pyles

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Husband Andrew S. Eagleson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Mar 1836 - Hopewell Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Rev. Dr. John Eagleson (1809-1873) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Stewart (      -1842) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1864 3

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Wife Jennie M. Pyles ³

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         Father: James Pyles (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Ann Eliza Smith (      -      ) 3

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1 M John Eagleson ³

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2 M James P. Eagleson ³

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3 F Margaret Smith Eagleson ³

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4 M Andrew Stewart Eagleson ³

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew S. Eagleson

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He attended the Hopewell Township schools and Buffalo Academy, and afterward taught school for several years. The outbreak of the Civil War determined his career for the three succeeding years, for he enlisted in 1861, in Company K, 8th Pa. Reserve Vol. Corps, which was identified with the Army of the Potomac. He participated in many of the most important battles of that period, including: Mechanicsville, the seven days fighting in the Peninsula, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battle of the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania Court House, and he participated in the skirmishing and long and weary marching that fell to the soldier's lot. He gained promotion for bravery and at one time received a painful wound. He was identified with W. F. Templeton Post, No. 120, G. A. R., at Washington, of which he was past commander. Lieut. Eagleson, with tender emotion, recalled many of his brave comrades who shared hardships with him and remembers with especial affection the gallant tent-mate who carved for him a keystone watch charm he wore with pride, while the 8th Regiment was camping on the battlefield of Antietam.
After he had received his honorable discharge from military service, Lieut. Eagleson returned to Hopewell Township, where he engaged in farming and stock raising, and to a moderate degree he was also a breeder of Shorthorn cattle. Besides this, he made a business of surveying, and was a director in the Citizens' National Bank. In his younger years he took a lively interest in politics and frequently was elected to county offices. He served three years as county treasurer and one term as county surveyor.
He was a member of the East Buffalo Presbyterian Church, in which he was an elder for over forty years. At one time he was active in the Masonic fraternity.

He was a lineal descendant of the Byers people who were pioneer settlers of East Finley, from 1780 to 1790, whose descendants have become prominent from Pennsylvania to California.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 761.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 695.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 696.