Hugh Logan and Elizabeth Parry

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Husband Hugh Logan ¹

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           Born:  - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Alexander Logan (      -1836) 2
         Mother: Eliza Watt (      -1846) 2

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Wife Elizabeth Parry ³

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         Father: Henry Parry (1761-1847) 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Cadwalader (1778-1842) 3 4

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1 F Rebecca Logan ³

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2 F Sarah Logan ³

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3 M Alexander Logan ³

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4 F Elizabeth Logan ³

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5 F Nancy Logan ³

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6 F Mary Logan ³

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           Born: 22 Nov 1834 - Logan's Ferry, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: James Flack (1837-Bef 1918) 3

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7 M Hugh James Logan ³

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Logan

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He was born at Springdale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, there resided until the removal to Logans Ferry in 1803, and was educated in the district school at Deer Creek. During his childhood the Indians were always to be feared, and at one time the family was taken to Pittsburgh for safety, the boy's earliest recollection being of going through the streets there following his baby sister Nancy to her grave in Trinity Church-yard. Although an Indian raid was so serious a matter, it is told that the boys of the settlement headed by James and Hugh Logan once gave their brothers such a serious fright by pretending an Indian attack, that parental wrath was visited upon the boys in a manner which forbade a repetition of the offense. There was but eighteen months' difference in the ages of James and Hugh, and together they attended Deer Creek school, located five miles further down the river, they walking both ways in good weather. During the winter term, when snow was deep, they boarded with the old schoolmaster, going home week-ends. One Saturday, while returning home in a deep snow, an Indian, returning from a hunt with a deer on his back, guided them to his village, left the deer, and then saw the boys safely home. This Indian village was for a long time known as Sewickley Old Town, and the inhabitants and the Logans were upon very friendly terms. Hugh had heard his parents tell how when he was a baby, Indian women would often come to the Logan home, borrow the baby, take him to their village and return with him before nightfall. The lad's first hunting adventure brought him the ridicule of his mates, he killing three turkey buzzards, and abandoning his gun, he lugged the buzzards proudly home much to his mother's disgust, she berating him for bringing buzzards into her kitchen, he believing them to be wild turkeys.
When James Logan married and left home much additional work fell upon Hugh, his father having the post office, store and ferry to attend to, Hugh also helping in the store and post office. The father carried the mail and ran flatboats to Pittsburgh, carrying oats, wheat, corn, etc., for the farmers. He also carried the mail for the Springdale settlement. After the death of his father, Hugh and John W. Logan found themselves owners of the homestead farm at the ferry, John W. being left the upper end on which Parnassus, Westmoreland County, was built, Hugh being left the old home, store and ferry. He retained the post office in his store at the ferry until Parnassus got the office away from him. He was very popular and could have had political office, but he was a busy man, and always refused when asked to run for the Legislature or for county office. He was a Republican in politics.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 226.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 225.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 227.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 47.