Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Whitehill and Margaret Say




Husband James Whitehill 1

           Born: 16 Mar 1816 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jan 1878 or 1879 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA


         Father: James Clemson Whitehill (1771-1841) 3 4 5
         Mother: Barbara Milliken (Abt 1780-1850) 4 6


       Marriage: Abt 1863

   Other Spouse: Mary Jane Thompson (1825-1862/1863) 2 - 1841 2



Wife Margaret Say 2

           Born: Abt 1827-1829
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Mar 1904 or 1906 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

   Other Spouse: [Unk] Hileman (      -      ) 2


Children

General Notes: Husband - James Whitehill


He came to the western part of Pennsyl­vania (Clarion county) with his parents. Followed the occu­pation of a farmer and finally by purchase be­came owner of part of the land which had be­longed to his father. He left the farm in 1860 and followed the fortunes of the oil country in western Pennsylvania.

He moved his family to Shippenville, Clarion County, in 1860. He fol­lowed hotel life there for two years, then was burned out, from there he moved to Walnut Bend, on the Allegheny river, Venango County, where he resided but two years, then went to Oil City, where he resided until his death.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1043.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1050.

3 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 272.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 587.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 549, 696.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1042.


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