Hiram Cozad and Rachel Gibson

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Husband Hiram Cozad ¹

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           Born: 8 Oct 1824 - East Lackawannock Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Cozad (1794-1877) 1
         Mother: Hannah [Unk] (      -1881) 1

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       Marriage: 29 Nov 1859 1

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Wife Rachel Gibson ¹

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         Father: William Gibson (      -1845) 1
         Mother: Jane Nicholson (      -Bef 1888) 1

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Children

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1 M Elmer E. Cozad ²

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         Spouse: Milla M. Troutman (      -      ) 3

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2 M Fred Cozad ¹

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3 F Lizzie Cozad ¹

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4 M Charles Cozad ¹

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5 F Laura Cozad ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Hiram Cozad

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He was educated at Sharon, PA, and at the age of nineteen bought a team and hauled coal, being among the first to haul it from the mines to the canal, for three years. He then run on a canal-boat for J. B. Curtis for three years, and was entrusted to carry all the money back to the company. In 1851 he, in company with Hugh Hildebrand, John and Wash Berry, H. Reynolds, John Rankin, went by team and boat to St. Joe, Mo., and thence overland to Cal­ifornia, where he remained seven years, returning in 1858. Mr. Cozad settled at his marriage on land that became the northern part of Sharon, and in 1864 he bought a farm of 160 acres in East Lackawannock Township, and later bought another large farm in Cool Spring Town­ship. He served as school director, and he and wife were Methodists. He was a Democrat. [HMC 1888, 893]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 893.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 889, 893.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 889.