Andrew Proudfit and Isabella Smith
Husband Andrew Proudfit 1 2
Born: 13 Aug 1795 3 Christened: Died: 20 Jan 1875 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 4 Buried:
Father: Alexander Proudfit (1763-1844) 5 Mother: Martha McCleary (1774-1844) 3
Marriage: 26 Nov 1823 6
Wife Isabella Smith 6
AKA: Isabel Smith 1 Born: 13 Aug 1803 - Seneca, Ontario Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: 30 Jan 1865 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 4 Buried:
Father: William Smith ( - ) 6 Mother: Elizabeth McIntire ( - ) 6
Children
1 F Elizabeth McIntire Proudfit 6 7
Born: 9 Mar 1825 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1911 Buried:Spouse: Warren Marble (1822-1852) 4 7 Marr: 11 Mar 1847 4Spouse: Charles Billings (1823-1901) 7 8 Marr: 2 May 1854 7 8
2 M Alexander Proudfit 1 6
Born: 20 May 1827 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: 24 Sep 1906 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 9 Buried:Spouse: Harriet Elizabeth Putnam (1834-1856) 10 Marr: 3 Jul 1852 10Spouse: Elizabeth Lay (1833-1905) 9 Marr: 1 Jan 1857 9
3 M William Smith Proudfit 1 6
Born: 26 Dec 1828 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: 5 Dec 1910 - Chicago, Cook Co, IL 11 Buried:Spouse: Sarah Jane Lewis (1836-1857/1857) 1 12 13 Marr: 22 Apr 1856 13Spouse: Harriet Amanda Lewis (1841-Aft 1911) 1 12 13
4 M John Proudfit 6 14
Born: 9 Feb 1831 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Harriet Emily Culbertson ( - ) 14 15 16 Marr: 29 Apr 1869 - Edinboro, Erie Co, PA 16
5 M Rev. Leonard Proudfit 6
Born: 22 Feb 1833 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 6 Christened: Died: 18 Nov 1906 - Clarinda, Page Co, IA 17 Buried: - Edinboro, Erie Co, PASpouse: Lovinna Port (1835-1878) 17 Marr: 27 Dec 1859 17Spouse: Harriet Gano Bain (1851- ) 17
6 F Martha McCleary Proudfit 1 6 18
Born: 17 Jul 1835 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1911 Buried:Spouse: Charles Lewis Culbertson (1832-1910) 17 Marr: 31 May 1858 or 1859 1 17 18
7 M David Proudfit 6
Born: 10 Dec 1837 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 5 Aug 1862 - Philadelphia, PA 19 Buried: - Edinboro, Erie Co, PASpouse: Anna Haggerty ( -Bef 1911) 19 Marr: Aug 1861 19
8 M Robert H. Proudfit 6
Born: 26 Sep 1839 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 30 Aug 1862 - Bull Run, Prince William Co, VA 19 Buried:
9 M Andrew Jameson Proudfit 6
Born: 9 Sep 1841 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Wynette Stone (1843-1887) 19 Marr: 13 Feb 1866 19Spouse: Ida Georgina Crook (1852- ) 20 Marr: 12 Mar 1888 20
10 M Francis Trimmer Proudfit 6
Born: 15 Mar 1844 - Franklin Twp, Erie Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1911 Buried:Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Putnam (1848- ) 20 Marr: 13 May 1875 20
General Notes: Husband - Andrew Proudfit
He served as a volunteer in the War of 1812. His company, under Capt. William Allison, was ordered out Nov. 7, 1814. In 1817 he went with his father's family to western New York. After his marriage he lived in Friendship, Allegany County, New York, until 1833. In that year he moved with his family to Franklin Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, where he bought a farm of H. J. Huidekoper. Here he farmed and practiced his trade of cooper until his children were grown, and here at the home of his oldest son, to whom the farm had been transferred, he died of pneumonia.
He was a man of strong character, but not aggressive. His unquestioned integrity and absolute fairness commanded confidence, and his uniformly considerate treatment of others made enemies impossible. Singularly free from personal prejudices and petty weaknesses, he was one of those rare persons whose friends find nothing to censure during his life, and nothing to excuse after his death.
A quiet dignity of manner, and an intelligent interest in matters of general importance, gave the impression of a man of the world, though after he settled in Pennsylvania he rarely traveled beyond the limits of the county, and never made a journey by rail. His mind was open and receptive to the last. The habit of smoking, formed when a young man, he gave up after he was seventy years old, because he became convinced that it was injurious.
He had a great fondness for flowers. "My earliest recollection of a visit at "Uncle Andrew's" is associated with my first acquaintance with the gilliflower or stock, some plants of which were blooming luxuriantly where he had sown the seed in a hollow stump in his front dooryard."
1 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Erie, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1896), Pg 887.
2 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 17, 35.
3 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 17.
4 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 36.
5 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 15.
6 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 35.
7 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 203.
8 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 37.
9 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 40.
10 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 39.
11 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 43.
12 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 207.
13 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 42.
14 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 25.
15 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 204.
16 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 44.
17 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 45.
18 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 177.
19 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 47.
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Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 48.
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