James Haylett and Mary Jane Russum

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Husband James Haylett ¹

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           Born: 25 May 1824 - Norfolk, England 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Jan 1906 1
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Mercer Co, PA 1

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         Father: [Father] Haylett (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 5 Apr 1849 - Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE 1

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Wife Mary Jane Russum ¹

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           Born: 30 Jan 1828 - Maryland
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Dec 1895 - Five Points, Mercer Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Mercer Co, PA 1

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Children

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1 M William Haylett ¹

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           Born: 17 Feb 1850 1
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Benjamin Haylett ¹

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           Born: 9 Feb 1851 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

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3 M Robert Haylett ²

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           Born: 16 Mar 1853 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Aug 1911 - Toledo, Lucas Co, OH 2
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

         Spouse: Matilda [Unk] (1857-1895)

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4 M William Henry Haylett ²

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           Born: 22 Dec 1854 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

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5 F Anna E. Haylett ²

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           Born: 2 Mar 1857 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Willis Mook (      -      ) 2

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6 M John W. Haylett ²

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           Born: 8 Sep 1859 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

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7 M James C. Haylett ^{1 4 5}

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           Born: 3 Sep 1861 - Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elva F. Hasson (1861-      ) 2 5
           Marr: 26 Mar 1885 2

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8 M Thomas Lyndsay Haylett ²

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            AKA: Thomas Halett 6
           Born: 16 Apr 1865 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Lizzie Whitman (Abt 1867-      ) 6
           Marr: 4 May 1886 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 7

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9 M Burton R. Haylett ²

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           Born: 19 Jul 1867 or 1868 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1935
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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10 M Harvey Haylett ²

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           Born: 27 Dec 1870 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Dec 1874 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - James Haylett

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He was a youth of fourteen when he followed his older brother William to America, working his way across the ocean on one of the rare steamers then plying the Atlantic. The passage was rough, several storms occurring during the voyage, which occupied a month. His brother had married into a well-to-do family, and was engaged in farming near Wilmington, Del., where James worked for him several years while growing to manhood, saving three hun­dred dollars from his earnings before his mar­riage, which gave him a fair start when he came to Venango County, PA. Immediately after marrying he came with his wife to western Pennsylvania, the young couple settling on the old Lindsay farm on Mill creek, near to her uncle, Benjamin Davis, in French Creek Township, Venango county, and renting until they found a suitable place for sale. Before long Mr. Haylett purchased the place where they made their permanent home, seventy-one acres of wild land most of which he succeeded in putting under cultivation, meantime improving it also in other ways. The house now standing on that property was erected by him about 1872, the barn about the same time. Mr. Hay­lett lived and worked upon this place until about 1887, when he removed to the Five Points in Mercer County, some five miles distant, residing there until his wife's death, after which he returned to the farm to make his home with his son James during the remainder of his long life. He became one of the substantial citizens of his day, served the township as road supervisor, was well known in the Democratic Party as one of its strong sup­porters in the locality, and contributed to church work. [CAB, 1047]

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Notes: Marriage

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Their marriage ceremony was performed by the minister of the Baptist Church.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1047.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1048.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 43.

4 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 50.

5 Beatrice Barnes McClelland, A History of the Barnes Families in Jackson Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Tionesta, PA: Forest Press, Inc., 1977), Pg 61.

6 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1042.

7 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #124.