Capt. Peter Grace and Annie May Siggins

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Husband Capt. Peter Grace ¹

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           Born: 28 Mar 1845 - Ireland 1
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           Died: 17 Mar 1914 1
         Buried:  - Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

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         Father: Michael Grace (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Marcella [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Annie May Siggins ¹

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            AKA: E. Anna Siggins 2
           Born: 19 Dec 1851 - Stewart's Run, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Nathaniel Hood Siggins (1807-1874) 2 3 4
         Mother: Emeline Harriet Range (1813-1852) 2 4 5

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Children

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1 F Gertrude Anna Grace ¹

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           Born: 18 Jan 1874 1
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         Spouse: Richard Everitt Dwight (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 26 Sep 1899 1

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2 M Charles Sumner Grace ¹

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           Born: 24 May 1875 - Karns City, Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary Ann Harper (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 9 Jun 1909 1

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Peter Grace

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He was born in Ireland, and came to America when three years of age. Like many others of our foreign born citizens, when the life of the nation was threatened, he answered the call to arms of his adopted country and in 1861, when a mere boy, enlisted in Company E, of the 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers as a private, and received his honorable discharge in July, 1865, as the captain of his company.
In the service he participated in all the battles and hardships in which his regiment engaged and suffered during the four years of enlistment, and by valor and bravery on the field of action, won advancement until he reached the command of his company.
At the "Battle of the Wilderness," May 5, 1864, his conduct was distinguished by special acts of bravery and valor, for which, thirty years later, Congress by special act awarded him a Medal of Honor. Those who knew Captain Grace say no such tribute was ever more worthily bestowed.
After the war he located at Pitthole, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where he, as one of the pioneers of a new industry, engaged in the oil business which he continued until his death. He had the reputation of discovering more new oil fields and expending more money in their development than any other man. At least two of the fields opened by him were record breakers for that time. These were the Murdock, Pennsylvania, field, and the Cherry Grove, Pennsylvania, field, which was opened with a big gusher on Sec. 646, which figures were long remembered by every pioneer oil man in the county.
Captain Grace was a generous, big hearted, true and honorable man. He was ever ready to extend a helping hand to those in need and was ever thinking of good he could do to others. Few men came nearer living to the Golden Rule as their life principle. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and was a thirty-second degree Mason.
The death of Captain Grace occurred at 6:20 a. m., Friday, March 17th, 1914, after a brief illness of pneumonia.

1 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 134.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 542.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 621.

4 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 96.

5 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 938.