Zachariah Connell and [Unk] Wallace

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Husband Zachariah Connell ¹

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           Born: Abt 1741
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           Died: 26 Aug 1813 - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA 2
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   Other Spouse: Ann Crawford (      -      ) 3 - Abt 1773

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Wife [Unk] Wallace ¹

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         Father: [Father] Wallace (      -      )
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Children

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1 F [Unk] Connell

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         Spouse: Joseph Phillips (      -      ) 2

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2 F [Unk] Connell

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         Spouse: Wesley Phillips (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Zachariah Connell

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He was the founder of the town of Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He arrived there a few years later than the settlement of William McCormick, whose brother-in-law he was. He came to that section of country soon after 1770, and stopped at the house of his future father-in-law, Capt. (afterwards Colonel) William Crawford. After his marriage, he lived for some time on the west side of the river, but afterwards, at a time which cannot be exactly fixed (between 1773 and 1778), moved to the east side of the stream and located on a tract of land which was designated in his warrant of surveys as "Mud Island," which included the site that became the location of the borough of Connellsville. He built his log cabin facing the river, on or very near the spot where the Trans-Allegheny House later stood, on Water Street. There he lived for many years, until he removed to a stone house which he had built at the corner of Grave Street and Hill Alley.
The later years of Mr. Connell's life were devoted to the care of his real estate. He became an ardent Methodist, and donated the lot on which the church of that denomination was built. He died in his stone house on Grave Street.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 365.

2 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 366.

3 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 365, 523.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 364.