Joseph S. Newcomer and Mary Ann Stacy

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Husband Joseph S. Newcomer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Mar 1839 - Upper Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Uriah Newcomer (1797-1849) 3
         Mother: Frances Smith (1798-1852) 3

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       Marriage: 1869 4

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Wife Mary Ann Stacy ^{2 4}

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           Born: 1846 - Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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           Died: Aft 1918
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         Father: William Stacy (1821-1917) 2 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Strickler (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Bertha Newcomer ⁴

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           Died: when twelve years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Frank Newcomer ⁴

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           Died: when thirty-nine years old
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3 F Nora E. Newcomer ⁴

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         Spouse: Paul H. Anderson (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph S. Newcomer

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He attended the public school at the old "Galley" school house, and at the age of eleven years lost his father; three years later his mother died, but he remained at the home farm with his brother John until he was twenty-one years of age.
In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 85th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving three years and two months in the war between the states. He was a soldier of the Army of the Potomac, and fought in many of the historic battles of the first three years of the war, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, and many others. After the war he was caught in the oil excitement and spent a year in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He then returned to Fayette County, locating at Morgan Station, where as a member of the firm W. S. Yard & Company, he engaged in the management of a general store. After two years he and his partner John Lane purchased the interest of William S. Yard, and for three years continued the business as Newcomer & Lane. They then sold a half interest to Morgan & Company, who had erected coke works nearby. The firm operated as J. S. Newcomer & Company until 1893, then retired from business and disposed of their goods by auction. They had been very successful, but the coke works had been sold to the H. C. Frick Coke Company and they could no longer control the business, Morgan & Company having also sold their half of the mercantile business. After the dissolution Mr. Newcomer at once began the erection of a new store building, and in a short time was again in successful operation, in profitable general merchandising.
He was a Republican in politics, and served many years on the school board as auditor and treasurer. He was a member, with his wife, of the Disciples of Christ, and was an active worker in the church. He also belonged to the Improved Order of Heptasophs.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 716.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1242.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 715.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 717.