Husband William Cosgrove 1 2 3
Born: 4 Jun 1845 - County Armagh, Ireland 1 2
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Father: James Cosgrove (Abt 1817-1892) 1 2
Mother: Elizabeth McKinley ( -1893) 1
Marriage: Aug 1889 4
Other Spouse: Anna Eliza Rhodes ( -1882) 3 4 5 - 1880 4
• Residence: : Big Beaver Twp, Lawrence Co, PA.
Wife Nancy Y. Boyce 4 5
Born: - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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Died: 1900 5
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Father: Hugh Boyce ( - ) 4
Mother: Mary Young ( - ) 4
Children
General Notes: Husband - William Cosgrove
Beginning when he was eight years old, he lived in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and most of the time on the farm to which his father brought the family. He attended school until he was eighteen, working on the farm in the summer. When he was twenty-five years of age, Mr. Cosgrove bought from his father fifty acres of land, paying for it in cash $1,200, besides the value of his labor for the preceding four years. To this original tract he has added by purchase twenty-one acres on the north and forty-seven on the south, making a farm of almost 120 acres which he devoted to general farming, although his orchards came in for a large share of his attention.
In 1876, Mr. Cosgrove built an elegant house, 28x32 feet, and fitted it up in the most complete style of the time, introducing hot and cold water throughout the house, and heating the rooms with a furnace. Only gas or electric light was lacking, and that was not available as yet for a residence outside of a city. In 1890, he built a large barn, 40x60, and put up a steel windmill to force water from a good spring to a tank that was placed on the highest spot in the orchard. Water was then supplied from the tank for the house, both upstairs and downstairs, and for the barn. The house, being on an elevation, commanded a magnificent view of the Little Beaver River, and the wooded slopes beyond.
He and his wife were members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to whose spiritual and material support they gave liberally. His political views coincided with straight Republican doctrines, and he served as school director three years, and as supervisor one year.