Jonathan [2] Neff and Mary Jane Farnsworth

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Husband Jonathan [2] Neff ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Sep 1814 - South Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Neff (      -      ) 4
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       Marriage: 5 Mar 1840 3

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Wife Mary Jane Farnsworth ^{1 3 5}

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           Born: 16 Jun 1817 or 1818 - Bald Eagle Valley, Centre Co, PA 5
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         Father: John Farnsworth (1786-1852) 1 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Dean (      -Bef 1880) 1

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Neff ³

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2 F Sarah R. Neff ³

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         Spouse: Capt. Evan Lewis (1829-      ) 3 7 8

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3 M Ezra Neff ^{2 4 9}

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            AKA: Squire  Neff 2
           Born: 7 Mar 1843 - South Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 2 9
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         Spouse: Mary A. Neil (1847-1881) 10
           Marr: 10 Sep 1865 2 9

         Spouse: Lika B. Gibson (      -Abt 1884) 2 3
           Marr: 1883 2 3

         Spouse: Louise M. Seitz (1842-      ) 2 3
           Marr: 5 May 1885 2 3

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4 M John F. Neff ³

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5 M Silas M. Neff ³

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6 M Aaron A. Neff ³

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7 M Dr. Edward L. Neff ³

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8 M Dorsey D. Neff ³

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General Notes: Husband - Jonathan [2] Neff

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He was born in South Mahoning township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, two miles east of Plumville. He passed his entire life in his native township, and the homestead farm on which he passed the closing period of his life, near Rossmoyne, was within half a mile of the place of his birth. As a young man he clerked in a general store at the Five Mile House, so named because it was five miles distant from Punxsutawney, but aside from this experience virtually his entire active life was spent in agriculture.
In his young manhood he served seven years as a member of the old militia company known as the Mahoning Volunteers, and in all of that period missed only two days of the annual three-day musters of the organization. Mr. Neff cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, and thereafter voted at every presidential election until the time of his death\emdash seventeen in all. He espoused the cause of the Republican party at the time of its organization and continued throughout his life to give it his unqualified support.
He and his wife were devout and zealous members of the Mahoning Baptist Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Jane Farnsworth

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She was born in the state of Ohio, and was a mere child when her parents removed to Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, locating on a pioneer farm at Big Run. [HJC 1917 ii, 198]

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Notes: Marriage

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"The loving companionship of Mr. Neff and his wife continued for the remarkable period of more than sixty-eight years, the gracious ties being severed only when the venerable husband and father was called to eternal rest, Dec. 13, 1908, at the patriarchal age of ninety-four years, three months. About four years later the deeply bereaved wife and mother likewise entered into rest, at the age of ninety-three years, ten months. This noble pioneer couple passed their entire wedded lives within the boundaries of the township in which Mr. Neff was born. Both retained to the last wonderful mental and physical vitality, and the records of Pennsylvania can show few instances of such long and solicitous companionship as marked the marital career of these fine old people."

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 511.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1176.

3 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 198.

4 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 197.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 793, 1176.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 793.

7 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 476, 483.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 556.

9 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 148.

10 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 147.