Cliffords

251. JAMES⁵ CLIFFORD (Charles⁴, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹) (author's great grandfather); born 9 April 1804 in the Ligonier area, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 31 July 1875, in Lockport, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania¹³¹⁴ (see Map 7); buried in Methodist Church Cemetery, West Fairfield, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1840,¹³¹⁵ James Clifford married MATILDA REDICK. Matilda was born 11 September 1819, "near" Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; died 6 February 1902, in Lockport, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania;¹³¹⁶ buried in Methodist Church Cemetery, West Fairfield, Pennsylvania.¹³¹⁷

Timeline perspective for the year 1804, the year James Clifford was born:
Conductor and composer Johann Strauss was born in March 1804. The Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis in May for points west. Also in May 1804, Napoleon Bonapart was proclaimed Emperor of France. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Massachusetts in July. Also in July, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey. In December, Thomas Jefferson was re-elected United States president. Little known fact about 1804: Alice Meynell became the first woman jockey in England.
Timeline perspective for the year 1819, the year Matilda (Redick) Clifford was born:
In March 1819, Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent, who would be crowned Queen Victoria, was born in London. Also in March, Edwin Drake was born in New York state—39 years later, he would drill the first producing oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Julia Ward Howe, (re the "Battle Hymn of the Republic") was born in May in New York City. Also in May, Walt Whitman was born in New York state. In August, Herman Melville (re Moby Dick) was born in New York state. The first ship passed through the recently constructed Erie Canal from Rome to Utica, New York, in October. Little known fact for 1819 (actually 1818): People began wearing left and right shoes; before this, shoes were identical for either foot.
Timeline perspective for the year 1840, the year James and Matilda Redick were married:
In January 1840, Captain Charles B. Wilkes of the United States flagship Vincennes claimed the discovery of Antarctica. In March, American President Martin Van Buren issued an executive order shortening the work day to 10 hours for blue collar workers of federal public works projects. In April, French novelist Emile Zola was born. Also in April, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, was born in Russia. Legendary Italian violinist Nicolo Paganini died 27 May in Nice, France. Also in May, Britain issued the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the "penny black," bearing a picture of Queen Victoria, (until then, postage was collected from the person receiving the letter). Claude Monet, French painter, was born in November in Paris.
Timeline perspective for the year 1875, the year James Clifford died:
In January, Albert Schweitzer, physician (re his native hospital in French Equatorial Africa—now Gabon), philosopher-theologian, and Nobel laureate was born in Alsace, Germany. Also in January, Doc (John Henry) Holliday killed a man in Dallas, Texas. In March, poet Robert Frost was born in California. In June, Thomas Mann, German novelist, was born in Lübeck, Germany. In July, Jessie James robbed a train in Missouri. Little known fact about 1875: in August, the world’s first roller skating rink reportedly opened in London.
Timeline perspective for the year 1902, the year Matilda (Redick) Clifford died:
In April, Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium. The Boer War ended in May when Louis Botha, commandant general of the Transvaal forces, accepted British terms of surrender, ending a 3 year uprising by Transvaal forces. Also in May, Cuba gained independence from Spain. In June, the United States Senate voted in favor of Panama as the canal site. In August, Edward VII of England was crowned after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. Ed Sullivan, television host, was born in September. Little known fact about the year 1902: William Topaz McGonagall, fondly remembered as one of worst poets to ever publish in the English language, died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read (aloud) his
The Tay Bridge Disaster, at http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm

I present "timelines," only for my direct ancestors. For sources, see the References section.

James and Matilda Clifford and their children James B. and Rebecca are buried in the Methodist Church Cemetery, West Fairfield, Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania. This can be confusing because the Methodist Church Cemetery is in the back of the Presbyterian Church.¹³¹⁸ For more on the Methodist Church Cemetery, see end note #1318. According to the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who visited the cemetery in 1987, the Clifford plot is in the extreme west corner of the cemetery behind the church. There is only a single stone, and only James and his son James's names are inscribed on the stone. According to Rebecca McKinney, her mother, Lillian Clifford McKinney (#1344), regularly walked from Lockport to tend the plot.

Not much is known of James Clifford. He was in his fifties and sixties when his children were growing up, and hence his grandchildren would not have known him. The only picture I have of him shows him in front of the Lockport home with Matilda and all their children except Sarah.¹³¹⁹ Hugh M. Clifford, my grandfather, looks to be about four or five; the picture must have been taken about 1862, when James was in his late fifties, and shortly before son Carson joined the army in August 1862. James appeared tall, perhaps about six feet. Because he was wearing a large dark-colored broad-rimmed hat, it is difficult to get a good impression of his facial features, but he had strong features. I would describe him as craggy looking at that time.

There was an article in the 26 February 1846 Ligonier Free Press describing a gentleman's fox hunt, in which James and other Ligonier area Cliffords took part.¹³²⁰ Possibly there were financial reversals for James's Ligonier Valley line (see Charles Clifford [Jr.], #53). Certainly by 1860, James was without real estate and working as a laborer in Lockport.

Lacy (Clifford) Lewis, his granddaughter (#1335), who was not yet born when James died, wrote:¹³²¹

James Clifford her husband [Matilda's husband] of some means, was an English gentleman who met the Reddick family in 1838 or 40 in Chase City, Virginia. He married Matilda Reddick and came north with her to Lockport, Pa. at 1840 or before.

These statements are not correct -see comments after Lacy's description of Matilda.

Photo 9. Matilda (Redick) Clifford (1819-1902) (see #251) with her bible. Date not known, probably late 1890s. Bottom: Stone that Matilda (Redick) Clifford used to step up to her carriage. The stone was still in the yard in the 1980s. Both from the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who lived in Belair, Maryland

Matilda was a daughter of Jonathan W. and Jane (Brooks) Redick. Jonathan Redick and family lived in the Ligonier area in the 1830s and 1840s.¹³²² See the Jonathan W. Redick web site. Besides the 1862 picture, which shows Matilda Clifford, W. Robert Brown (Belair, Maryland) sent me one of Matilda taken when she must have been in her early eighties. She appeared thin at that time, with fine features. The picture shows her sitting on the front porch of the Lockport home, holding a large book in her lap. I am sure it was the family bible.

From Lacy (Clifford) Lewis's Early memories, pages 1-2:

To go back to Lockport and Grandmother Clifford - she was a tall rather thin, long earrings of her day, and I always thought of her as being old - maybe she was in 1893, I figure at 76 or so. She was always nice to us. I can see her smoking her pipe, the custom in her day for Virginia gentlewomen. My dad used to take her a box of tobies - very small cigars - not made anymore, I guess. It took 18yds. of calico to make a dress then and we used to take 18 yds each at 6 cents a yd. calico for her and Aunt Beckie each, my father's sister Beckie who stayed home and took care of everything in the home - as far as I can find.

What Matilda enjoyed most of all, according to Lacy, was when her three engineer sons (Edward, Hugh, and Gilson) would come by her Lockport home and blow their locomotive whistle for her.

We know from several sources that neither James Clifford nor Matilda Redick were natives of the Chase City area, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Where did Lacy get these ideas? Matilda and James undoubtedly met in the Ligonier area of Westmoreland County. Matilda's parents, Jonathan and Jane Redick, lived in that area from at least 1830¹³²³ until circa 1842;¹³²⁴ and of course we know that James was a native of the Ligonier area. However in 1850, Matilda's parents were living in Virginia, in Hancock County, which is now part of West Virginia, sandwiched between western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Matilda did have a brother Cummins Redick who moved to Chase City, Virginia, sometime after 1872.

When James was living in the Ligonier area, he apparently was a teacher, at least in part. This from Francis McConaughy¹³²⁵ in the Ligonier Echo, 3 June 1891, page 1:

[pertaining to the Hermitage School-in the Ligonier area] This David Allison taught six months there and then studied medicine with Dr. Steward, of Indiana, who was noted for "turning out" many young doctors. He then practiced his profession till he died in the fifties at Saltsburg, Pa. John Clark, Esq., John Clifford, Martin Knox and I think James Clifford were also teachers in this house up to the time [unclear word] was built on the same land, up by the old State road in 1834.

The James Clifford would most likely have been our James Clifford—I know of no other James Clifford for that time in that area, although there is no family legend that I know of that James was a teacher. The John Clifford could have been James's brother, but more likely was John Clifford (#240), son of Thomas Clifford.

James and Matilda apparently moved from Ligonier Township to Lockport, Fairfield Township, in the early 1850's. The 1841 tax list for Westmoreland County lists James and his brother Joseph as tenants on their late father's property.¹³²⁶ The 1850 federal census for Ligonier Township has James and Matilda and their first four children living in Ligonier Township, where James's occupation was listed as farmer with no real estate or personal property.¹³²⁷ Recall that James had quit-claimed his share of his father's land in Ligonier Township to brother Robert in 1846.¹³²⁸ By 1860, the family was in Lockport where James was working for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a watchman, with person estate of $100.¹³²⁹ Probably James, when he first came to Lockport, worked on the canal locks. Neighbors in Lockport in 1860¹³³⁰ were Elisa McCune, age 40, widow (she would have been the widow of James McCune, from whom Matilda purchased the Lockport House, see later); Hugh McCune, age 18; Bannon/Banon McCune, age 16, and other children.¹³³¹ Apparently my grandfather, Hugh McCune Clifford, was named after this Hugh McCune and Hugh Clifford's brother Phillip Bannon Clifford was named after this Bannon McCune.

In 1870, James was reported as a laborer with no property, whereas Matilda was listed as keeping house with $600 real estate and $200 personal property. Still in the household in 1870 were Edward, Rebecca, John P. (Phillip Bannon), Hugh M., Thomas G., and Sarah J. (Clifford) Steel and her daughter Louisa Steel.¹³³² In 1880, Matilda was head of the household in Lockport, with children Rebecca, James F. and (Thomas) Gilson Clifford.¹³³³ In 1900, only Matilda and Rebecca Clifford were enumerated in the Lockport household.¹³³⁴

Photo 10. James Clifford (#251) and Matilda (Redick) Clifford and family, Lockport, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, circa 1862. From the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who lived in Belair, Maryland. Part of the Clifford's Lockport house is in the background. From left to right, standing: Carson W. Clifford (#712) (1845-1918), Matilda (Redick) Clifford (see #251) (1819-1902), and James Clifford (#251) (1804-1875). Sitting: Mary (Molly) Clifford (Felton) (#713) (1848-?) holding Thomas Gilson Clifford (#719) (1861-1899), Rebecca E. Clifford (#715) (1852-1914), Edward Samuel Clifford (#714) (1850-1924), Hugh McCune Clifford (#718) (circa 1858-1914), Phillip Bannon Clifford (#717) (1856-1928), and James B. Clifford (#716) (1854-1899). James and Matilda's daughter Sarah Jane (Clifford) Steele (#711) (1841-1892) was not in the photograph. From the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who lived in Belair, Maryland.

Clifford's Lockport House

James and Matilda Clifford came to Lockport from the Ligonier area of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the early 1850s. In 1864, Matilda purchased their Lockport house from the estate of James McCune (who was a Lockport neighbor and no known relation to our Cliffords). This was lot #69 in Lockport:¹³³⁵

… Lot no. Sixty nine in the village of Lockport, Township, County and State aforementioned being one hundred and thirty feet in front by sixty feet in depth having thereon erected a frame house and kitchen and frame stable bounded by the Pennsylvania Canal on the south. On the east by second street, on the north by an alley, on the west by heirs of Shoneberger, it being the same house and lot of ground which was levied on ____ as the property [of] Henry Harr by William Welsh, Sheriff of Westmoreland County, and James McCune became the purchaser as referenced to the said Sheriff. Deed to the said James McCune will more fully appear which is dated the 24th day of August A. D. 1853… ." [Note: James McCune had died and his executors were selling his properties.]

In 1875, Matilda purchased Lot # 68 from James and Charlotte Gardner.¹³³⁶ This lot originally belonged to the Cambria Iron Company. I could find nothing in either deed about the houses on these lots formerly being an inn-presumable the house on lot #69 was the house that at one time was the inn (see below).

I do not know why the few Lockport documents pertaining to Cliffords are all in the name of Matilda. An 1876 map labels the Clifford home in Lockport as "Mrs. M. Clifford," but James had died in 1875. Could it be that Matilda was willed money by her father, Jonathan Redick?

The Cliffords Lockport home was less than 100 yards from the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks; when the tracks were twinned, about 1900, the house was even closer to the tracks. The house has an interesting history. This house was originally an inn during the days of the canal and was called the Lockport Hotel. Much of what is known about the house is due to Lacy (Clifford) Lewis's manuscript.¹³³⁷

The house was a large two story structure, probably originally all of logs, but by 1900 some of it was of wood frame. There were large porches on two sides, both on the ground floor and the second floor. When the house was an inn, there was a bar, a dining room, and large entertainment room on the ground level, and a number of bedrooms upstairs, each with its own large fireplace. Pictures of the house taken at about the turn of the twentieth century and again about 1915,¹³³⁸ show parts of the porches still standing, but the house by this time was needing repairs. The house passed from Matilda Clifford to daughter Rebecca Clifford to Rebecca's niece Lillian (Clifford) McKinney (#1344). In 1920 and 1930, Lillian and her husband Grover McKinney and their family were living in the house.¹³³⁹ In 1930, a Samuel McKinney, age 37, wife Frieda, age 32, and children Samuel, age 9, and Lillian, age 6 were living six dwellings from Grover and Lillian's house.¹³⁴⁰ Perhaps Samuel was a brother of Grover McKinney.

In the 1980s the house, at that time vacant, was owned by Lillian's daughter Rebecca McKinney. I believe Rebecca McKinney, who died in 1997, sold the house out of the Clifford family by 1990. At that time the house was still standing, but was just a shell of its former structure. The porches, chimneys and part of one wing were gone. The windows were boarded and the wooden frame covered with tar paper-like siding, and the roof had been repaired. The house, re its being an inn at the time of the Pennsylvania Canal, is mentioned on page 255 of Swetnam, G. and H. Smith (1976) A Guide to Historic Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 292 pages. I received 16 June and 28 August 1985 letters from Helene Smith ("Preservation." Box 104-A, R. D. 3, 10 Western Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 15601) pertaining to the "old canal hotel and confirming this must have been the house of James and Matilda Clifford.

Photo 11. Clifford's Lockport house, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, circa 1920. From the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who lived in Belair, Maryland. The little girl on the porch is believed to be Rebecca McKinney (#2041) (1916-1997). By this time, the house was showing signs of disrepair. For example, the overhanging roof of the porch at one time extended completely along the sides of house that are visible in the photograph.

Photo 12. Composite photos of the Clifford's Lockport house. Photographs from the late W. Robert Brown (#2036), who lived in Belair, Maryland. Top: Front part of the house, date not known. Middle Left: Part of the "right" side of house in 1981. Middle Right: Front part of the house in 1981. Bottom left: Left side of the house, date not known. Bottom right: Front part of house in late 1980s, with its new gray tarpaper siding and red roof. This was about the time the house was sold by Rebecca McKinney (#2041). I believe the house was used for storage in 1990s. I do not know if the house is now (2002) still standing.

From Lacy (Clifford) Lewis's Early memories, pages 2-3:

I remember the home there so well - it was built as a lock house, on the now drained and forgotten western division of the great canal system, connecting by way of the portage over and through the Allegheny Mountains, (it was) portage railroad located between Duncanville, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania This house was a very fine one, a large two story log house rather unusual - big porches on two sides on the second floor as well as fine big porches on two sides of the first floor and great elm trees in front and sides - as a lock house of those days, it contained the bar, [and] for entertainment a large front room and big dining room, a big kitchen and a number of rooms upstairs for travelers who stayed over nights. These rooms has such large fireplaces, it was a joy to be there … I forgot to say that after the passing of the canal, Lockport was a landlocked village - almost hedged in by the Conemaugh River and Mt. ridge - of course when the R. R. came thru Lockport with a station, Lockport prospered again - my dad often talked about swimming in the river and seeing a stone down toward [now] Bolivar that had the perfect imprint of a man's foot. I never saw it, the rock probably gone now, for The Johnstown Flood of 1899 flooded the bottom lands below the home, and even came up to the second story windows at Lockport - killing 2 or 3 thousand people in Johnstown on the Conemaugh River, about 10 or 12 miles east of Lockport. Uncle Hugh's was the last train to leave Johnstown May 30, 1899.

 

Children of James and Matilda (Redick) Clifford:

+	711	i.	Sarah6 Jane Clifford; born 14 March 1842; died 27 August 1892; married Joseph S. Steele.
+	712	ii.	Carson W. Clifford; born 11 September 1845; died 10 May 1918; married Sarah Melissa Lichtenfels.
+	713	iii.	Mary (Molly) Clifford; born 29 January 1848; died 4 February 1930; married George C. Felton.
+	714	iv.	Edward Samuel Clifford; born 6 January 1850; died 30 November 1924; married Lavinia (also called Laura) Steele (or Hicks).
+	715	v.	Rebecca E. Clifford; born 20 October 1852 (the 1900 federal census reports Rebecca born February 1852);1342 died 14 June 1914; did not marry.
	716	vi.	James B. Clifford; born 1854; died 20 April 1899. James did not marry; he is buried in Methodist Church Cemetery, West Fairfield, Westmoreland County. However his death record reports James B. Clifford dying of kidney ?trouble, 24 hrs. duration, and being buried 22 April 1899 in Blairsville1343 [Burrell Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania]. In 1884, James B. Clifford purchased lot 61 on Second Street in Lockport from Carson and Melissa Clifford.1344 This was the lot Carson purchased from James Gardner 4 May 1875. Family legend has James as a storekeeper, and this is partially confirmed from his death record listing him as a merchant, presumably in Lockport.
+	717	vii.	Phillip Bannon Clifford; born 12 February 1856; died 28 January 1928 in Altoona; married Mary Alice Gibson.
+	718	viii.	Hugh McCune Clifford; born 1858 or 1859; died 16 June 1914; married (first) Sarah Boucher; married (second) Ida Louise Zinn.
+	719	ix.	Thomas Gilson Clifford; born 1861; died 1899; married Anna [-?-].

252. THOMAS⁵ CLIFFORD (Charles⁴, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born circa 1804-1810;¹³⁴⁵ apparently died after 1846. Charles and Jane (Lytle) Clifford did have a son, Thomas.¹³⁴⁶ Having so stated, almost everything else about Thomas Clifford is speculative. Could he have been the boarder listed in Robert and Mary A. [-?-] Clifford's family in 1860;¹³⁴⁷ and listed as a surety, with Mary Ann Clifford, in the Letters of Administration for Robert's estate in 1864. The answer is almost certainly no. Jane (Lytle) Clifford, Thomas's mother, would have been about 49 when the boarder Thomas was born. The boarder Thomas was undoubtedly Thomas Clifford (#245), son of Thomas and Catherine (Lawson) Clifford. This Thomas was living next to Robert and Mary Ann at the time of the 1850 federal census.¹³⁴⁸ For more on the boarder Thomas, see Thomas Clifford (#245) and Robert Clifford (#236).

The only records I have of Thomas (son of Charles) is in the 1846 petition of Robert and Joseph Clifford to appraise the value of their father's estate,¹³⁴⁹ and a statement on the Lytle family in "Some families of Indiana County."¹³⁵⁰ Thomas was not mentioned in the 1842 petition to appoint an administrator of his father's estate,¹³⁵¹ nor was Thomas mentioned in the 1846 and 1847 quit claims of his mother and brothers Robert, John, James and Joseph.¹³⁵²

I have listed Thomas as the fourth-born child, based on known ages of the other sons as they relate to age ranges in the 1820 federal census. Joseph, who was born in 1811, would be the last born child, being less that 10 in 1820. Why Thomas was not mentioned with his other brothers in the 1842 documents, but mentioned in one 1846 document but not in the quit claim documents of 1846 and 1847, is a mystery. Perhaps he had already relinquished his share. It could be that Thomas was not able to take care of himself; but even if not, would he not have some sort of legal claim to his share of his father's estate?



253. JOSEPH⁵ CLIFFORD (Charles⁴, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 15 October 1811 in Pennsylvania; died 11 June 1880; married PHOEBE KARNS; born 19 October 1813 in Pennsylvania; died 18 August 1879.¹³⁵³ Both Joseph and Phoebe are buried in Broxon Cemetery, Whitney County, Indiana.¹³⁵⁴ Phoebe's father was said to be John Karns, possibly born circa 1790 in Pennsylvania.¹³⁵⁵

Joseph was apparently the only son of Charles and Jane (Lytle) Clifford enumerated as head of household in 1840 in Westmoreland County.¹³⁵⁶ Besides Joseph and Phoebe, age distributions suggest children Jane and John and Joseph's mother, Jane (Lytle) Clifford were in the household in 1840. And there was one male between ages 15-20 (born circa 1820-1825), unidentified.

While in Westmoreland County, one of Joseph's jobs was moving freight between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with a six-horse team.¹³⁵⁷ Joseph and family moved from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Ohio County, West Virginia (then part of Virginia), in about 1849 or early in 1850. Their daughter Elizabeth Ellen Clifford was listed in the 1850 Virginia census as age circa 1, born in Pennsylvania. Joseph moved to the Wheeling, West Virginia, area after he quit-claimed his share of his father's estate to his brother, Robert (see under Charles Clifford, #53). I do not believe Joseph owned land in Ohio County. I could find no records of land deeds involving Joseph in Ohio County. Joseph and family, while in the Wheeling area, apparently lived near Waddles Run, just outside the then eastern limits of Wheeling, on the north side of Waddle Run, near where the stream crosses secondary state route 15.¹³⁵⁸

In 1850, George Reed—son of Robert and Sarah (Clifford) Reed-and family were enumerated at dwelling 639, family 666, which was next to Joseph Clifford and family (dwelling 638, family 665) in Ohio County, Virginia. Also in the family in 1850 was Joseph's mother, Jane [Lytle] Clifford. In 1860, the George Reed family was not on the same page as Joseph; they apparently were not in Ohio County. Joseph Clifford and George Reed were first cousins. Possibly they came to Ohio County as a delegation or perhaps one influenced the other to move to Ohio County. However, Joseph's brother John Clifford was already in Ohio County in 1840.

The 1850 federal census for Ohio County lists Joseph as a collier;¹³⁵⁹ in 1860, same county, Joseph was listed as a farmer.¹³⁶⁰ He and family moved farther west about 1865; first to South Whitley, Whitley County, Indiana, and then permanently to the Fort Wayne area, Indiana, where he farmed. Both Joseph and Phoebe were Presbyterians.¹³⁶¹ In 1870 and 1880, Joseph (Phoebe died in 1879), listed as a farmer, was living in Aboite Township, Allen County, Indiana.¹³⁶² Also in the household were sons Joseph and James, daughter Phoebe Clifford, and grandson Oscar Romick. The census was taken 1 June 1888, and Joseph was reported suffering from asthma. Joseph died 10 days later, 11 June 1880.

Clifford-Karnes Reunion The third annual reunion of the Clifford and Karnes families was held Sunday, Sept. 5th at the home of Mrs. Ellen Hurley [#724], at Roanoke [Jackson Township, Huntington County, Indiana]. There was a large attendance and everyone present reported a fine time. Dinner was served in a large tent erected on the lawn. The afternoon was given over to a program of music and recitations and the election of the following officials: President J. B. Karnes; vice president, Frank Shruyer; secretary, Miss Irene Palmer [#1353a]; treasurer, James Clifford [#728]. The next reunion will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clifford [#727], on West Main street, in September of 1916—from Fort Wayne News, 10 September 1915; online in the "Stories" section of ancestry.com.

 

Children of Joseph and Phoebe (Karns) Clifford:¹³⁶³

+	720	i.	Jane6 Clifford; born circa 1837; married John W. Romick. See Jane's letter to brother John at the end of Joseph and Phoebe's children.
	NN	ii.	Oliver Clifford.1364
	NN	iii.	John K. Clifford; born circa 1840 in Pennsylvania; married (tentative), 27 November 1866, Mary Mitchell.1365
+	721	iv.	Robert E. Clifford; born 17 August 1841; died 18 December 1902; married Hannah Snook.
+	722	v.	Mary Ann Clifford; born circa 1845; married William A. Hiler.
+	723	vi.	Margaret Clifford; born 25 December 1848; died 16 February 1917; married Isaac Briggs.
+	724	vii.	Elizabeth Ellen Clifford; born 1849 or 1850; died 1925; married James Edward Hurley.
	725	viii.	Phoebe Clifford; born 17 April 1852 in Virginia (present-day West Virginia); died 19 November 1905; married, 3 March 1885,1366 William Briggs; born 22 March 1849; died 26 October 1895; both Phoebe and William are buried in Broxon Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Whitley County, Indiana.1367 Apparently William and Phoebe did not have children.1368 One would suspect that William Briggs was related to Isaac Briggs, who married Phoebe's sister Margaret Clifford.
	726	ix.	Sarah (?Sophia ?Sally) Clifford; born 16 April 1853 in Virginia (present-day West Virginia).1369
+	727	x.	Joseph Clifford; born 17 January 1856; died 1932; married Alven Paul.
+	728	xi.	James Edward Clifford; born 9 January 1859; died 6 October 1946; married Celia M. Keller.
	729	xii.	George Clifford; born 3 September 1863 (Phoebe Karns Clifford would have been age 50 at this time?); died 3 March 1869;1370 buried in Broxon Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Whitley County, Indiana.1371 Letter of Jane (Clifford) Romick Letter of Jane (Clifford) Romick to her brother John K. Clifford, 10 May 1867. The original letter was purchased on eBay in 2006 by Brenda Knepper (The California State University), who generously donated the original letter to me. The history of the letter prior to being found on eBay is not known.

254. SARAH⁵ MENOHER (Jane⁴ Clifford, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 30 June 1795; died 15 January 1879; married JOHN DOUGLAS MCELROY; born January 1791; died 10 July 1880; buried in Antiochian Village Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County.¹³⁷² In 1850, John, listed as a farmer, and Sarah were living in Fairfield Township with all children except John and Elizabeth. Also in the household in 1850 was a John Beck, age 40, farmer.¹³⁷³ In 1860, John D., Sarah and daughter Sarah were stll in Fairfield Township. Also in the family was Rachel Ann McElroy; born circa 1841 in Pennsylvania. In 1870, John D. and Sarah were living with their son Samuel and family in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County.¹³⁷⁴ In 1880, John D., a widower, was living in the household of Joseph Matthews and Elizabeth Matthews (John's daughter) in Fairfield Township;¹³⁷⁵ both John D. and his parents were listed as born in Pennsylvania, which is not correct.

John Douglas McElroy was a son of James and Elizabeth (Betsy) (Douglas/Douglass) McElroy, from County Down, Ireland; they emigrated to Philadelphia in circa 1787, then to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and finally to western Pennsylvania. James and Betsy had at least four children: (1) Joseph Alexander McElroy, who married Jane Parks; (2) John Douglass McElroy; (3) Mary McElroy, who married Robert Halferty; and (4) James McElroy, born in the Ligonier Valley circa 1799, married Ruth Nesbit and moved to Ohio in 1835. James and Ruth had children: (a) Alexander McElroy, (b) David McElroy, (c) Samuel McElroy, (d) James McElroy, (e) Mary McElroy (married [-?-] Laburty, could this be Halferty?), and (f) Ester Hettie McElroy, married Peter Simons¹³⁷⁶

 

Children of John D. and Sarah (Menoher) McElroy:¹³⁷⁷

+	730	i.	James6 McElroy; born 8 December 1814; died 21 December 1908; married Susanah Barr.
	731	ii.	Jane McElroy; born circa 1819; married Thomas Clifford Reed (#270), a son of Robert and Sarah (Clifford) Reed; hence Thomas and Jane were first cousins, once removed—see Thomas Clifford Reed for descendants.
+	732	iii.	Elizabeth McElroy; born May 1823; married Joseph Matthews.
	733	iv.	Sarah McElroy; born circa 1827.
	734	v.	Susan McElroy; born 20 November 1831; died 23 July 1896; married Christopher Myers Clifford; born 24 June 1834; died 8 April 1900. Christopher was a son of Edward and Catherine (Myers) Clifford. Christopher and Susan were second cousins—see Christopher Myers Clifford (#673) for more information and descendants.
+	735	vi.	Samuel McElroy; born circa 1832; married Elizabeth [-?-].
	736	vii.	Rachel McElroy; born circa 1840.

Age distributions in John D. and Sarah (Menoher) McElroy's 1830 and 1840 households suggest there were other children.¹³⁷⁸


257. JOHN⁵ MENOHER (Jane⁴ CLIFFORD, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 11 November 1803; died 16 September 1832; married MARY MATTHEWS; born 31 March 1807; died 1 December 1880 in Rankin, Illinois. She was a daughter of William Matthews¹³⁷⁹ and Elizabeth (Snodgrass) Matthews.¹³⁸⁰ In 1830, John, Mary and one female, apparently daughter Elizabeth, were enumerated in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.¹³⁸¹

 

Children of John and Mary (Matthews) Menoher:

+	737	i.	Elizabeth6 Menoher; born circa 1826-1830; married Samuel Ritchie.
+	738	ii.	James Gordon Menoher; born 24 August 1831; died 3 November 1866; married Elizabeth Blakely.

260. JOSEPH⁵ MENOHER (Jane⁴ Clifford, Charles³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 22 October 1811; died 26 April 1871; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where his stone reads "father;" married SARAH CURRY; born circa 1805 or 1815; died 4 December 1871; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery, where her stone reads "mother."¹³⁸²

Joseph Menoher was enumerated in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, in 1840 with one female, age 20-30 (his wife?), and two females, one under age 5 and one age 5-10, probably daughters.¹³⁸³ Joseph, Sarah and family were still in Fairfield Township in 1850, 1860, and 1870; in 1860 and 1870, Joseph, a farmer, reported $4000 in real estate.¹³⁸⁴ Both Joseph and Sarah died in 1871. In 1880, their daughter Elizabeth Menoher was head of household in Fairview Township; also in the household were her sisters Anne Menoher and Sarah (Sadie) Menoher.¹³⁸⁵

 

Children of Joseph and Sarah (Curry) Menoher:¹³⁸⁶

	739	i.	Rachel6 Menoher; born circa 1838.
	740	ii.	Jane Menoher; born circa 1840.
	741	iii.	Anne Menoher; born circa 1842. An Anna C. Menoher (1843-1921) is buried in West Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County.1387 She was probably the Ann C. Menoher, age 68 (born circa 1842), living alone in Fairfield Township in 1910 (living next door to James T. McElroy, #1395, who would be her first cousin once removed).1388 There was also an Ann Menoher, age ?57 (born 1863), landlady, single, living in Fairfield Township in 1920.1389
	742	iv.	Elizabeth Menoher; born circa 1844.
	743	v.	John B. Menoher; born 14 June 1847; died 2 April 1875; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery.
	744	vi.	Mary (also Bell and Isabella) Menoher; born 24 March 1850; died 18 October 1874; buried in Fort Palmer Cemetery.1390
	745	vii.	William Curry Menoher; born circa 1853.
	746	viii.	Sarah Margaret Menoher; born 25 December 1855 in Pennsylvania, died 26 December 1901, married, 12 May 1881, Hugh Wallace Love; born 11 December 1853 in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; died 1915 in Bolivar, Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His parents were James Ralston and Sarah (Wallace) Love. There is a short biography of Hugh Wallace Love in Boucher's (1906) History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.1390b Hugh was a physician in Harrison City, Westmoreland County. He received his medical education in the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City. Sarah died in 1901. In 1910, Hugh Wallace, enumerated as H. W., was practicing medicine in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. In the family at this time were chidren James R., Della B. and Irene G. Love. Also in the family in 1910 was Ella R. Love, age 41, cousin. Children of Hugh and Sarah (Menoher) Wallace (all born in Pennsylvania): (a) James R. Love; born March 1883. James probably did not marry. In 1910, living with his father, he was enumerated as a teacher. In 1920, in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, he was head of household, enumerated as a carpenter. His cousin Ellaretta Love, age 48, was also in the household. In 1930, still in Penn Township, James R. was listed owing a service station. His aunt Elizabeth E. McElroy, born circa 1846 in Pennsylvania, was also in the household. (b) Della B. Love; born December 1890. In 1910, Della, single, was living wth her siblings and father. (c) John G. Love; died "at the age of twenty months." (d) Irene Gladys Love; born 14 September 1894, died 3 January 1981; she married Frederick John Bailey, born 17 April 1893, died 18 December 1953. Both Frederick and Irene died in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and are buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Mt Pleasant, Pennsylvania. In 1930, Frederick and Irene were living in Benson Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Frederick was enumerated as a merchant, general store (page 1A) . Children of Frederick and Irene (Love) Bailey, known from the 1930 federal census: (i) Dorothy Love Bailey, born 11 May 1916, died 18 September 1973 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; married John Dwight Weigle , who provided the information on the Loves and Baileys. (ii) Elizabeth M. Bailey, born private. (iii) Ella J. Bailey, born private.