Benjamin Wyland Wyant and Cynthia Ann Dickey

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Husband Benjamin Wyland Wyant ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 4 Sep 1855 - Washington Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Adam Wyant (1813-1882) 4 5 6
         Mother: Sophia Bowser (1828-Aft 1922) 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 28 Nov 1876 1

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Wife Cynthia Ann Dickey ^{3 7}

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           Born: 26 Jan or 26 Jun 1853 - Washington Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Samuel A. Dickey (      -      ) 8 9
         Mother: Diana Wolfe (1831-      ) 10

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Children

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1 F Finnie Lulu Wyant ^{11 12}

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           Born: 25 Aug 1878 12
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Mary Josephine Wyant ⁷

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            AKA: Mary Josephene Wyant 12
           Born: 22 May 1880 12 13
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         Spouse: Horace E. Nichols (      -      ) 12 14

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3 M John Finlay Wyant ^{12 14}

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           Born: 7 Jul 1883 12 13
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4 M Samuel Blair Reed Wyant ^{12 13}

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            AKA: Samuel R. Wyant 11
           Born: 3 May 1886 12 13
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5 F Anna Sophia Wyant ^{12 14}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1890 12 13
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         Spouse: Joseph Leard (      -      ) 12

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6 M Benjamin Franklin Wyant ^{12 14}

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           Born: 26 Jun 1892 12 13
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         Spouse: Lottie May Wolfe (      -      ) 12

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Wyland Wyant

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Washington Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

He attended common school in his youth and later studied at summer schools. Upon leaving home he went to Lawrenceburg, later Parker's Landing, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged for three years in supplying water to the town. He then married and settled down to farming on the Ezekiel Dickey place, in Washington township, part of which he owned, making his home there for about six years. At the end of that period he moved to the Grange Hall, in Washington township, where he conducted a general merchandise store for eight years, from that location returning in 1889 to the Dickey farm, buying forty acres of that property. He lived on that place, and not only cultivated that tract but also another of 140 acres, in which latter he owned a quarter interest. It was very valuable, being not only good for agricultural purposes but underlaid with deposits of limestone, fire clay, iron ore and coal.
Mr. Wyant was a prominent worker in the interest of the Republican party in his locality and lined up with the Progressives; he was township committeeman. He was elected to various offices, having been supervisor for seven years and school director for sixteen years. He was also an interested church worker. When thirteen years old he united with the Church of God, later transferring to the united Presbyterian Church at Cowansville, in which he held membership for twenty-six years. When this church dissolved in 1912, he again united with the Church of God, joining the Limestone Church, his family also becoming members of that congregation. He was an elder in that church, and served as Sunday school superintendent at the Brush Valley Church. [HAC 1914, 461]

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 461.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 393.

3 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 141.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333, 668.

5 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 392.

6 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 137.

7 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333, 461.

8 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 640.

9 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 886.

10 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 820, 899.

11 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333.

12 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 142.

13 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 462.

14 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 333, 462.