George Sheakley and Cynthia Culbertson

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Husband George Sheakley ^{1 2}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1791 2
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           Died: 1884 - Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Sheakley (1755-1816) 1 3 4
         Mother: Margaret Jenkins (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: May 1824 - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 5

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   Other Spouse: Mary (Ann?) Wallace (      -1822) 2

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Wife Cynthia Culbertson ²

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Children

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1 M Joseph Sheakley ¹

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2 M Alexander Sheakley ¹

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3 M Hiram Sheakley ¹

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4 M George Sheakley ¹

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5 M Robert Sheakley ¹

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6 F Mollie Sheakley ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Tiffany (      -      ) 1

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7 F [Unk] Sheakley ¹

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         Spouse: James McNamara (      -      ) 1

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8 F Margaret Sheakley ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Brown (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - George Sheakley

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He enlisted in the war of 1812 and went to the defense of Erie.

The Pittsburgh & Erie Turnpike Road was surveyed through the Sheakley farm, and a town was subsequently laid out at that point. On the 4th of July, 1822, one of the ceremonies of the day was that of naming the village, which was called “Georgetown” in honor of the proprietor. This was subsequently changed to “Sheakleyville.”

In 1817 he erected a good frame hotel in the tract afterward occupied by the village, at a cost of $1,700, and in connection with his distillery, it yielded profitable returns. He had previously built a small hewed log-house within the present limits of the borough of Sheakleyville, and had kept hotel, on a small scale, before the larger house was erected. Mary Sheakley, the first white child born in the village, com­menced life in the year that the larger building was put up. In that build­ing the first Mrs. Sheakley died, and there, too, he married his second wife: the first marriage on the land which the village afterward occupied. In about 1827, he sold his tavern, and all his Georgetown property, excepting three or four lots, to David Carlisle.

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Notes: Marriage

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The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Ira Condit.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1102.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 562.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 995.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1512.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 71.