George Waddle and Mary [Unk]

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Husband George Waddle ¹

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            AKA: George Weddell 2
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Wife Mary [Unk] ³

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1 M James Waddle ³

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            AKA: James Weddell 2
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         Spouse: Susan Evans (      -      ) 3

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2 M Peter Waddle ³

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            AKA: Peter Weddell 2
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         Spouse: [Unk] Pritchard (      -      ) 3

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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3 M John Waddle ³

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            AKA: John Weddell 2
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4 M George Waddle ³

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            AKA: George Weddell 2
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5 M Daniel Waddle ³

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            AKA: Daniel Weddell,2 David Weddle 4
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         Spouse: Ellen Mateer (      -      ) 3

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6 F Margaret Weddell ²

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         Spouse: [Unk] Hammond (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - George Waddle

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He was a native of Germany. He came to America and settled in Elizabeth township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1753, where he secured the title of four hundred acres of land, and then returned east of the mountains and effected a permanent settlement on his farm the following spring. The nearest improvement was Rostraver, seven miles distant. The Indians were in force and unfriendly, and often he and his wife were compelled to seek protection in the block-house on the opposite side of the river, to reach which they both mounted a horse and swam the river.
He planned and named after himself a cemetery, in which he and his wife were first to find a burial.

This family name was first spelled Waddle, when the first George Waddle came from eastern to western Pennsylvania. About 1840 it appears as Weddle and later, Weddell, although Weddle is still used. The family is supposedly of German ancestry, the original seat of the family in Pennsylvania believed to have been in Lancaster County. The first one of the name to come to western Pennsylvania was George Waddle in 1752. He located on the west side of the Youghiogheny river, three miles below West Newton, where he entered a tract of four hundred acres of wild land covered with timber. During the first summer he cleared a small part of his tract and prepared it for cultivation and in addition built a comfortable log cabin. In the fall he returned east, but in the spring of 1753 came with his family, installing them in the log cabin built the summer before. On the highest part of his new farm he set apart three-quarters of an acre as a family cemetery, he and his wife being its first occupants. This plot has ever since been known as the "Waddle Burying Ground." It came with the remainder of the farm to his son Daniel by inheritance and then passed to Daniel's descendants. George and Mary Waddle had eight children. [ONW, 250]

One of the oldest families of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, is the Weddle family. One of the ancestors, in 1755, came from Hagerstown or its vicinity in Pleasant Valley, Maryland, and settled in what is now Rostraver township. He was accompanied by his son, and together the two erected a log cabin, took up land, and began the work of clearing. The son remained to keep possession with dog and gun while the father returned to Maryland, and in the spring of 1756 returned with the other members of the family. The descendants of this pioneer ancestor long resided in Westmoreland County.
The Weddle homestead was situated on the banks of the Youghiogheny river. [BHCWC, 279]

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 250.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 637.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 251.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 582.