George W. Moyer and Eveline Weir

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Husband George W. Moyer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Oct 1819 - Kutztown, Berks Co, PA 3
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           Died: 3 Aug 1898 - Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: Daniel Moyer (      -1866) 3
         Mother: Catherine Madoria (      -1883) 1

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       Marriage: Feb 1843 4

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Wife Eveline Weir ²

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            AKA: Emeline Weir 4
           Born: Abt 1821
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           Died: Aft 1909
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         Father: Adam Weir (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M George Moyer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Teressa Canon (      -      ) 1

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2 F Emeline Moyer ⁴

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            AKA: Emma Moyer 1
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           Died: Bef 1909
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         Spouse: Prentice Fry (      -      ) 1

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3 M James Francis "Frank" Moyer ^{2 5}

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           Born: 25 Feb 1856 - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Lilly Clarissa Caldwell (1860-Aft 1909) 5 6
           Marr: 2 Dec 1880 6

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Moyer

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He received his education in the public schools of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and Trumbull County, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen located at Warren, that state, where he learned the trade of a blacksmith and carriage maker. He followed that avocation until 1843, working much of the time in Philadelphia, but in the year named located at Sheakleyville, where he established the first manufactory for carriages and wagons in that borough. First, however, he worked for Ralph Jewell, the village blacksmith, whose shop (one anvil) he soon purchased, and not long afterward had sixteen employes engaged in the manufacture of vehicles adapted to agricultural purposes. When his trade expanded over the mountains it was his custom to fasten five or six vehicles together and so convey them toward the eastern markets. At the highest point in his business he employed some twenty-five or thirty men. In 1852 he went to California, making the trip via New York and the Isthmus of Panama with mules. They were short of provisions and were stinted as to food, but they finally arrived at San Francisco after three months. He went to the mines and engaged in placer mining, but after about a year he returned, via Cape Horn and New York, bringing with him a peck of gold money. He had left his business in charge of his brother Daniel and on his return he resumed its charge. About 1847 he bought land on the Franklin road, three-fourths of a mile east of Sheakleyville, and this included the farm James F. of this review now occupies. In 1855 he sold his industrial plant and purchased another farm north of Sheakleyville, where he engaged in general agriculture and in the raising and shipping of live stock. In the latter Mr. Moyer's specialty for quite a time was the raising of high-bred Morgan horses, and upon one occasion he rode one of his black beauties to Pittsburg to deliver the animal in good condition and collect a substantial sum. Still later he bought property in Sheakleyville, where he erected a handsome residence and in partnership with W. G. Brown, engaged in the banking business, which he continued until the death of the latter six years later. Mr. Moyer then returned to his stock business, a large portion of which consisted in the shipment of cattle from the Chicago market to the oil regions of western Pennsylvania, for the disposal of which he maintained a stockyard at Parker City and a slaughter house at Franklin. In 1878 he retired from active business to his fine farm near Sheakleyville, where he died. Although generally meeting with the most pronounced business success, the deceased suffered reverses by his investments in the Keystone oil fields, by which he lost some four thousand dollars and about five thousand dollars on the cattle business. He died as a citizen universally esteemed not only for his broad and useful activities in agriculture, finance and commerce, but for his continuous promotion of the public, civic and moral interests of Sheakleyville and vicinity. He was the first burgess of the place; served as school director; was a lifelong supporter of Prohibition principles; was the pioneer in soliciting subscriptions for the right-of-way of the J. and F. Railway (now the Lake Shore); was a charter member of Sheakleyville Lodge No. 592, I. O. O. F., and an active Mason, and was known throughout the years of his maturity as a loyal and influential adherent to Methodism. [HMC 1909, 1054]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1100.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1053.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1054.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1055.

5 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 977, 1100.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1056.