John Ferguson, Sr. and Sarah Hanna

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Husband John Ferguson, Sr. ¹

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Abt 1843
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Wife Sarah Hanna ²

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            AKA: Hannah [Unk] 3
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Children

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1 M David Ferguson ⁴

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           Born: Abt 1786
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           Died: 1863 or 1865 5
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         Spouse: Rachel McKee (Abt 1799-1852/1853) 5
           Marr: 1826 2

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2 M John Ferguson ^{1 6}

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           Born: 1801 - Slabtown, near Milton, PA 3
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           Died: 1874 - Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Elizabeth "Betsey" Wiley (      -1878) 3 6
           Marr: Abt 1826 - York Co, PA

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3 M James Ferguson ¹

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4 M William Ferguson ¹

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           Died: 1889 - Clearfield Co, PA 7
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5 F Polly Ferguson ⁸

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         Spouse: [Unk] Campbell (      -      ) 3

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6 F Betsey Ferguson ⁸

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         Spouse: Joseph Wiley (      -      ) 7

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7 F Margaret Ferguson ⁷

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8 F Jane "Jennie" Ferguson ^{8 9}

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         Spouse: William Reed (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - John Ferguson, Sr.

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He was a native of Ireland, and on coming to the New World located in Pennsylvania, near Milton, Centre County, then called "Slab Town," because the houses at that time were all built of slabs. About 1800 he took up his residence in Clearfield County, and thus became one of its pioneer settlers. From the wild land he opened up a farm near the present site of Lumber City, and there spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were consistent members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he was a Whig. [CBRCP-CCJC, 816]

He came to America from Ireland in 1753 with an only brother. Together they enlisted in the Revolutionary army, and were engaged in guarding the frontier against Indian raids. During one of these raids the brother was taken prisoner, and was not heard from afterwards. After doing service for his country, he rejoined his family in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, moving from there in 1803, and traveling by way of Lock Haven, where they tarried for a short time, sending two sons to locate a home farther up the Susquehanna river. Finding a suitable place, they began improving it the same year, the family arriving in the summer of 1804, at which time the country was yet infested with roving bands of Indians and dangerous animals-panthers, wolves, bears, and plenty of wild game, two panthers being killed in the immediate vicinity. There being no roads, they had to transport their supplies from Lock Haven, a distance of 120 miles, by a canoe poled up the Susquehanna river.
The family of John Ferguson, Sr., consisted of twelve children, of whom four sons grew to manhood. [CBRCP-CCJC, 904]

He was reared near Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where he married, and at a very early day he left Clinton County for Clearfield County, being the fifth family to locate there. He settled a little below the later site of Lumber City, took up land and improved a farm in the midst of the wilderness, making it his home during the remainder of his life. It was then occupied by his son James, who died there at the age of sixty-eight, and was then sold to another son, after whose decease it was owned and operated by a third son-J. B. Ferguson. [CBRCP-CCJC, 1009]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816, 904.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1009.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816, 904, 1009.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 904, 1009.

6 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 773.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 906.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816, 906.

9 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 707.