Robert Patterson Highlands and Mary Catherine Allio

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Husband Robert Patterson Highlands ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Feb 1814 2
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           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 23 Feb 1847 -  (Divorced) 2

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Wife Mary Catherine Allio ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 21 May 1830 - France 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Feb 1918
         Buried:  - Fontana Cemetery, New Lancaster, Miami Co, KS

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         Father: Joseph Allio (1775-1876) 3
         Mother: Vannet "Annettie" Lewis (1775-1881) 3

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   Other Spouse: George Hoover (1816-1872) 2 4 - 15 Jan 1856 2

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   Other Spouse: Mitchell Dunaway Hampton (1831-1899) 2 4

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Children

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1 M Winfield Scott Highlands ⁵

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           Born: 14 Aug 1849 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Feb 1853 5
         Buried:  - Tylersburg, Clarion Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Charles Albert Highlands ⁵

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           Born: 26 Mar 1851 5
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Lottie Highlands (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Patterson Highlands

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After residing for a few years in Tylersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, he removed to California in 1851, leaving his wife in Clarion County.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Catherine Allio

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Another source states she was born May 1.

GRANDMOTHER'S MEMORIES
The facts as Grandmother Hoover related them to us correspond to what others have recorded. Her father Joseph Alliott was a soldier of the regular army in France when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia. Grandmother Aliott said she waited seven years for him to return from the army so it would seem he had been in the army some time before the Moscow disaster. When through adverse circumstances Napoleon thought it best for his beloved France for him to abdicate he did so and was held prisoner on the island of Elba for a year. In the spring of 1815 he escaped and returned to France and was welcomed as a hero by the people of France. He called his troops together and began a series of battles that ended in his defeat at Waterloo. After being permanently discharged from the army he lived and worked until 1830. After their two little boys were born they decided to go to America so their children would not have to go to war. Mrs. Aliott was pregnant. They went as far as Paris to stay until the baby was born. The baby was a girl, Mary Catherine. When she was three months old they took passage on a ship to America. Her parents told Mary Catherine that after they disembarked they were sitting on the chest that contained all of their possessions, with their three children around them, John 4, Joseph 2 and Mary Catherine 3 months old. Not able to speak or understand English, wondering what to do next, when a nice appearing man that spoke French came by. He told them he owned some wooded land in western Pennsylvania and that he would give them work clearing the land and had a conveyance and could start immediately. They accepted his offer and the rest has been recorded elsewhere.
Grandmother Hoover told many interesting tales, one I should mention here is that when her mother was helping clear their land she got up one morning very early and went out to work, she never came back when she was supposed to and when they went to look for her she had had a hemorrhage and was not able to walk home. Of their growing up in Tylersburg; she must have had a happy childhood. She told of going to school and how spelling was taught by syllables. We liked to hear her spell Punxitawney; P-u-n-x, punx-i-, Punxi-t-a-w, taw, Punxitaw, n-e-y , ney, Punxitawney. Of how they used to carry torches at night when they went anywhere to keep the "painters" (panthers) away, and how the young people would go in groups when they went to the ball, and of her girlfriend Mary Ann Shotts, and would demonstrate how they would dance with their beaux. One time when it was reported the world would end on a certain day the young folks dressed up in their good clothes and went down in the garden to wait for the event. They ate cucumbers while they were waiting. Grandmother's dress was a beautiful blue calico. These are not the most important things that Grandmother told I'm sure but what stuck in the mind of a ten year old girl, me. She remembered some French and taught us some French phrases. I wish I had been around her when I was older am sure I could have given a better account.
Florence Ballard Bibens, July, 1980

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1494
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2 Bonnie Rae (Allio) Schulz, The Allio Genealogy & History: Descendants of Joseph Allio & Vannettie Lewis Allio 1775-1983 (Clarion, PA: Self-published, 1992), Pg 94.

3 Bonnie Rae (Allio) Schulz, The Allio Genealogy and History; Descendents of Joseph Allio and Vannettie Lewis Allio (Clarion, PA: Self-Published, 1983), Pg 1.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1494.

5 Bonnie Rae (Allio) Schulz, The Allio Genealogy & History: Descendants of Joseph Allio & Vannettie Lewis Allio 1775-1983 (Clarion, PA: Self-published, 1992), Pg 96.