Robert Ivell and Elizabeth Gillgrist

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Husband Robert Ivell ¹

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           Born: 31 May 1844 - Round Thorn, Oldham Twp, Lancashire, England 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1909
         Buried: 

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         Father: Reese Ivell (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susanna Bardsley (Abt 1819-1894) 1

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       Marriage: Oct 1877 1

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   Other Spouse: Emma Johnson (      -1873) 1 - 4 Oct 1863 1

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   Other Spouse: Sarah H. Sergeant (      -      ) 1 - 9 Dec 1890 1

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Wife Elizabeth Gillgrist ¹

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           Born: 1838
     Christened: 
           Died: 1890 1
         Buried:  - Prairie Cemetery, Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Willie Ivell ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: when two years old
         Buried:  - Prairie Cemetery, Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Ivell

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He was the only one of his father's family to locate in America.
He started to school at the age of two years and continued until his seventh year, when he went to work in a cotton factory. He continued at that until he was ten, then worked in a coal mine until he reached his majority. In 1866 he left England for the United States, landing in New York after a voyage of eighteen days. Three days after his arrival he went to Ashland, in Schuylkill County, New York, [sic] and worked at coal mining until the thirteen weeks' strike of 1868. He then worked at the trade of a stone cutter in Pittsburgh, being employed on the wall at the foot of Mt. Washington. In July of that year he resumed mining in the employ of W. L. Scott, for whom he worked some ten years. He next mined one year at Lone Pine, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, after which he was in the nursery business at Beaver Falls for one year. He moved to Cherry Township, Butler County, and mined coal one year, then in 1876 went to Venango County and purchased property near Clintonville. He sold coal there until 1881, then disposed of that property to H. Surrena, from whom he purchased fifty acres of a farm in Marion Township, Butler County. To this he added thirty acres in 1903, purchasing a tract from Eli Van Dyke. He later retired from farm work, his eldest son working the place with success. In 1901 oil was struck on the place, and he came to have fifteen good producing wells. Most of the improvements on the place were made after he located on it. He was a Republican in politics, and was frequently called upon to serve the township in official capacity. His first presidential vote was cast for Grant, and he consistently voted the ticket of his party thereafter. Religiously, he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and took a very active part in church work. He served as class leader and Sabbath school superintendent. [TCHBC, 1298]

He had seven children with his first wife; six of them died while young.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1298.