Thomas Randolph Wakefield and Elizabeth McConaughy

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Husband Thomas Randolph Wakefield ¹

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           Born: 13 Apr 1855 - Jefferson Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Hough Wakefield (1822-1900) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Covert (      -      ) 1 3

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       Marriage: 9 Apr 1885 4

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Wife Elizabeth McConaughy ⁴

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         Father: James Patterson McConaughy (      -1889) 4
         Mother: Mary Mendell (      -1889) 4

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Children

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1 F Caroline Wakefield ⁴

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2 F Dorothy Wakefield ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Randolph Wakefield

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He received his initial schooling in his native township and then attended Waynesburg college. He was graduated from the State normal school, California, Pennsylvania, in 1878. He then took a higher course in the Polytechnic institute of Western Pennsylvania. During this period and for some years thereafter he taught in the public graded and State normal schools\emdash in all about ten years. He took up the study of law in 1879 with General Thomas W. Sanderson, Youngstown, Ohio, and continued under the preceptorship of Hon. Alfred Howell, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the Fayette County bar in 1884 and then engaged in practice at Uniontown. He was the Democratic candidate for district attorney in 1895 and was defeated by a reduced majority. He was for thirteen years a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, holding a commission during eight years of that period, being successively 2nd lieutenant, 1st lieutenant and inspector of rifle practice. He was a member and one of the board of deacons of First Presbyterian church, superintendent of its Sunday-school, and for a number of years a member of the church choir. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Royal Arcanum, Improved Order of Heptasophs and Order of Iroquois.
He was for a number of years a close student of local history. He was associated with Paoli S. Morrow, Esq., in projecting the Fayette County Historical and Genealogical Society, secured the charter for that organization, and delivered numerous lectures on local history before teachers' institutes in Fayette County.

1 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 575, 1160.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 575, 1158.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 574.

4 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 576.