Joseph S. Newcomer and Mary Ann Stacy

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Husband Joseph S. Newcomer ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 22 Mar 1839 - Upper Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1889
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         Father: Uriah Newcomer (1797/1799-1849/1851) 1 4
         Mother: Frances Smith (1798/1803-1852/1853) 1 4

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       Marriage: 1868 or 1869 1 5

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Wife Mary Ann Stacy ^{1 3 5}

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           Born: 1846 - Westmoreland Co, PA 5
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           Died: Aft 1918
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         Father: William Stacy (1821-1917) 3 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Strickler (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Bertha S. Newcomer ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1870 1
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           Died: 1882 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Frank S. Newcomer ^{1 5}

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           Born: 
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           Died: when thirty-nine years old
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3 F Nora E. Newcomer ⁵

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            AKA: Nora F. Newcomer 1
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         Spouse: Paul H. Anderson (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph S. Newcomer

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He was raised on a farm and obtained his education in the common schools. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, and was engaged in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, the sieges of Morris Island and Petersburg, and many other battles of the war, and was honorably discharged in October, 1864, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Leaving the Union service, he spent a short time in the "oil region" of Pennsylvania, and then returned to Tyrone township, Fayette County. In 1866 he engaged in merchandising at Morgan's Station, on the Mt. Pleasant branch of the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad, and steadily built up a very good trade in his business. His storeroom was filled with a large and well-selected stock of fancy and staple dry goods, groceries, hardware and notions. He had large interests in central Kansas real estate, etc., etc.
He was a republican, and served his township as auditor and treasurer of the school board. He was a member of the K. of P., I. O. O. F. and Heptasophs. He was a member of the Disciple church.

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 M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 368.

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

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

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

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