George Delo and Eve Hummel

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Husband George Delo ¹

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           Born: 1773 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Michael Delo (      -Abt 1773) 1
         Mother: Mary Kiefer (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: Eve Catherine Kuhns (      -1820) 1

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Wife Eve Hummel ¹

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         Father: Christopher Hummel (      -      ) 1
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   Other Spouse: Daniel Loughner (      -1812) 1 2

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Children

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1 F Eve Delo ³

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         Spouse: Slocum Kerr (      -      ) 3

         Spouse: Jacob Reiche (      -      ) 3

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2 M Henry J. Delo ³

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           Died:  - Elkhart, Elkhart Co, IN
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         Spouse: Hannah Barr (      -      ) 3

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3 M Louis Delo ³

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           Died: Bef 1913
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         Spouse: Caroline Lobaugh (      -Bef 1913) 3

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4 M Rev. Reuben F. Delo ³

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General Notes: Husband - George Delo

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In 1807 he moved to a place about four miles southwest of the present location of Clarion, Pennsylvania. Three years later he sold his land to his half-brother, Henry Smith, and moved to the mouth of Piney, on the Clarion river. Delo's Eddy, on the Clarion, took its name from him. Not long after he moved to a bluff on the Clarion between the mouths of Canoe and Beaver creeks, where he had secured a large tract of land. His wife's brother, John Kuhns, joined lands with him; another, Chris­tian Kuhns, moved in 1813 to a farm joining the present Reedsburg. Mr. Delo erected a sawmill at the mouth of Canoe creek, and about a half mile below a boat scaffold on the river bank, in 1815, and engaged in lumber­ing and boat-building, at the same time clear­ing a large and beautiful farm, with large and substantial frame buildings. In 1840 he sold his sawmill to Maxon O'Dell. In 1818 the wife of Henry Smith was killed by a cow. Some time after he visited Mr. Delo, who inquired after his circumstances. He replied that it was hard to get along without a mother in so large a family. Mr. Delo said: “You should get you a wife.” He replied: “I have no time to hunt one.” Mr. Delo told him he had a neighbor, a widow with a number of children, and “when you come again I will take you up and introduce you.” Several years passed. In February, 1820, Mrs. Delo died, and when Mr. Smith came again Mr. Delo had married the widow. She was Eve, oldest daughter of Christopher Hummel, one of the founders of Hummelstown, in Dauphin county, who had been a teamster in Washington's army. They were of German stock. She had married Daniel Loughner, a son of Rudolph Loughner, of Westmoreland. He died at the mouth of the Tiscaminitas in 1812. The widow at once moved to Beaver township, where her brothers, Samuel and Henry, and other mem­bers of the family, lived. A sister, Susan Hummel, married William Mays, three of whose sons are living in Clarion county-Sam­uel H., a veteran of the civil war; David, and John. When Mr. Delo married the widow he had nine children and she had six.

About 1842, Mr. Delo bought three hundred acres of land at Walnut Bend, on the east side of the Allegheny river, in Venango county, including the islands. Here he laid out a town and named it Georgetown. It became considerable of a place during the oil excitement in the sixties. In 1865 land there sold for $1,000 an acre. Indians were often guests of Mr. Delo, but they had no fixed location in the county. The territory seems to have been reserved for hunting grounds. There were many evidences of their camps in earlier times. There was an Indian by the name of Jack Snow, who had been in the habit of coming up the Clarion and camp­ing on its banks for some years to hunt and fish. The last time he came was in the fall of 1809. With his party of hunters and squaws they set their camp at the mouth of Deer creek. After a short time Snow got into a quarrel with some white men who had gone to his camp; after they had left, one threatened to shoot Snow the first opportunity offered. Mr. Delo went over the river and advised Snow to leave, telling him that his life had been threatened. Snow at once left. The camp fixtures, meat, traps, etc., were packed into their canoes, and hunters and squaws, with their boats, went down the river, never again to return and camp along the stream. They, however, for years traveled through the country, it was thought to visit lead deposits. Several of them came at one time and lodged with Mr. Delo one night. In the morning be­fore breakfast they went out into the woods and soon returned with a quantity of lead ore. Mr. Delo was somewhat of a hunter before he left Westmoreland county. From the vicinity of Greensburg, he with two others followed the track of a large panther; on the evening of the second day, at Freeport, they lost the trail. His companions, discouraged, returned home, but Mr. Delo after some effort found the track on the third day. He followed this on a chestnut ridge; after a time he came on his own tracks. The hunter had become the hunted. They soon looked into each other's eyes, and a practiced hand and keen sight laid out the panther. An old physician, Dr. Meeker, said the skin measured eleven feet from point of nose to tip of tail, that it was stuffed and sent to Philadelphia. Possibly true. At the mouth of Canoe creek, Mr. Delo saw a panther on a rock on the opposite side of the river watching for a fish breakfast. He shot her and got twenty dollars for the scalps of the mother and two cubs.
He served two campaigns in Captain Neely's company from Venango County, PA, at Erie, in the war of 1812. He and his family were Lutherans in religious belief. When he died he had living nine sons and three daughters. [GPHAV, 242]

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General Notes: Wife - Eve Hummel

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Her first husband died at the mouth of the Tiscaminitas in 1812. She at once moved to Beaver township, [Clarion County, PA?] where her brothers, Samuel and Henry, and other mem-bers of the family, lived.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 242.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 513.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 244.