Bales McColly and Catherine Felgar

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Husband Bales McColly ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Nov or 29 Nov 1821 - near Youngstown, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1906
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         Father: Zachariah McColly (Abt 1780-1821) 1 2
         Mother: Rebecca Fletcher (      -1843) 1 2

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       Marriage: 12 Jan 1847 2 3

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Wife Catherine Felgar ^{2 3}

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           Died: Bef 1906
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         Father: Henry Felgar (1819-      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Dr. Marston M. McColly ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1847 4
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           Died: 1893 4
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2 M Eugene A. McColly ^{3 4}

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           Born: 17 Apr 1850 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Margery M. Johnston (1852-      ) 4
           Marr: 24 Dec 1872 4

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3 M Cicero M. McColly ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1852 4
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           Died: 1863 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Anna Kate McColly ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: 1856 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Charles Franklin Marker (1852-1927) 6 7

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5 M Edward B. McColly ^{3 8}

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           Born: 16 Dec 1858 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: Catherine H. Murdock (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Bales McColly

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At thirteen years of age went to Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he worked at the saddler trade under his brother Clayton for nearly three years and then spent an additional year of apprenticeship in a saddler shop at Youngstown. In 1841 he commenced business for himself at Pleasant Unity, where he conducted a saddlery shop for seventeen years. In 1858 he was elected prothonotary of Westmoreland County and served for three years. He then returned to Pleasant Unity and resumed his saddlery and harness business which he followed for eight years. During this time he dealt some in oil and bought the old Weaver mill property, which he sold at a fair profit on his investment, and also bought and sold the old Thomas farm near Pleasant Unity at a nice profit. In 1870 he moved to Ligonier and opened a saddlery and harness manufacturing establishment.
He was a member of Greensburg Lodge, No. 225, A. Y. M. and Ligonier Presbyterian church. He was an active, persistent and successful worker in the Democratic party for many years, but later had a slight leaning towards the prohibitionists. He was tall, rather dignified in bearing and was a man of fine personal appearance. He was well informed in biography, history and literature. With the history of the United States he is intimately acquainted. [BHCWC, 544]

At thirteen years of age, he worked at his father's trade, under his brother Clayton for three years, after which he went to Youngstown, Pennsylvania, where he followed the business of a harness-maker for seventeen years. At that time he was elected to the office of prothonotary of Westmoreland County, the date being 1858. Prior to this he had filled many of the local offices, one of which was tax collector and since the collector at that time rode on horseback over his territory he was later able to relate many incidents which were of more than usual interest. After holding the office for three years he removed to Pleasant Unity, where he resumed his trade, continuing for eight years. At the same time he bought and sold a number of farms, one of which became the site of the Frick Company Bessemer Coke Works. The excitement caused by the discovery of oil drew him to the celebrated "Pit Hole," where fortunes were made and lost in a single day. In 1870 Mr. McColly removed to Ligonier, where he then resided. He was a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church of Ligonier, and a member of Greensburg Lodge, No. 225, F. and A. M. In his politics he was a Democrat and a forceful party worker. His native gift for telling a good story made him an interesting character to meet and converse with. He was well posted on the general history of his state and the whole political history of the nation, with its wars and industrial developments.

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General Notes: Wife - Catherine Felgar

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from Cook Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 544.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 77.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 545.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 78.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 78, 87, 473.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 39.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 87, 473.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 79.