Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Alexander A. Read and Isabella Clyde




Husband Alexander A. Read 1 2

            AKA: Amos Read,3 Amos Alexander Reed 4
           Born: 1824 or 1827 - Wolfe Run, Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 1 2 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1899 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Goshen Cemetery, Clearfield Co, PA


         Father: James A. Alexander Read (cal 1795-1871) 5 6
         Mother: Margaret Ardery (      -      ) 7


       Marriage:  - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA



Wife Isabella Clyde 1 2

            AKA: Isabelle Clyde 8
           Born: Abt 1824 - Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1897
         Buried:  - Goshen Cemetery, Clearfield Co, PA


         Father: Samuel Clyde (      -Bef 1898) 1
         Mother: Nancy Hartshorn (      -Bef 1898) 1




Children
1 M Amos Read 1

            AKA: Amos Reed 8
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: when twelve years old
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 M Elmer Read 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1898
         Buried: 



3 F Carrie Read 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1898
         Buried: 



4 F Margaret Read 1

            AKA: M. J. Reed 8
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: [Unk] Owens (      -      ) 1 8


5 M J. Manesfield Read 1

            AKA: J. Mansfield Reed 8
           Born: 1853 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: M. M. Richel (      -      ) 9
           Marr: 8 Apr 1880 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 9


6 M S. C. Read 1

            AKA: S. C. Reed 8
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



7 F Anna B. Read 9

            AKA: Belle Reed 8
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



8 F Rachel Read 9

            AKA: Rachel Reed 8
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



9 M A. H. Reed 4

            AKA: Archie Read 9
           Born: May 1866 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Nettie Price (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 1891 8



General Notes: Husband - Alexander A. Read


He passed the days of his boyhood and youth on the home farm. After marriage, they located on a farm in what was then Goshen, but later was Lawrence township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, which he successfully operated. Later, they were living in West Clearfield.

He obtained his education in the common schools of Lawrence township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. After his marriage he resided for some time in Goshen township, but subsequently removed to Lawrence township, where he followed lumbering and operated a farm of 240 acres. During the last five years of his life he lived in retirement at Clearfield, where he died at the age of 74 years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he was politically a stanch Democrat.

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Sources


1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 969.

2 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 13.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1003.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 930.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615, 647, 903, 969, 1002.

6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 9.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1002.

8 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 931.

9 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 970.


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