Adam Mohney, Sr.

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Husband Adam Mohney, Sr. ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Adam "Moni",3 Jonathan Mohney 4
           Born:  - Germany
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           Died:  - Millville, Armstrong Co, PA
         Buried:  - Oak Ridge Cemetery, Armstrong Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Adam Mohney ^{1 3 4}

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           Born:  - Northampton Co, PA
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           Died: 1832 - ? Clarion Co, PA 1 3 4
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         Spouse: Susanna Shirey (      -1842) 1

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2 M John Mohney ²

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           Died:  - Clarion Co, PA
         Buried:  - Oak Ridge Cemetery, Clarion Co, PA

         Spouse: Catherine Wagner (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Adam Mohney, Sr.

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He founded the Mohney family in America. He was born in Germany, and on coming to the United States settled with his wife in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Reformed Church, the family establishing the first Reformed Church in Clarion County, and his descendants adhered to the same faith. In politics the men of this family were all Democrats.

He (Adam Mohney, Sr.) settled in Redbank with a family of eleven children and purchased eleven hundred acres, giving to each of his eleven children one hundred acres.

A native of Germany, he crossed the Atlantic to the New World in the latter years of the 1700s, and settled in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. In 1808 he came to Clarion County and purchased 1,100 acres of land near West Millville. Returning to Northampton County, he brought to his new home his large family of children, some of whom were already married.

The history of the Mohney family in Pennsylvania begins during the latter half of the eighteenth century, when Adam Mohney, the American progenitor, came to Northampton County from Germany and settled in Williams Township. In 1780, Adam "Moni" and his son, Adam, Jr., were both taxed for lands owned in this township. In 1810, Adam Mohney, Sr., moved to Clarion County, where others of the name had already settled. John Mohney, in 1808, bought five hundred acres in Redbank Township, Clarion County, and built a log house where he lived with several sons and daughters. Adam Mohney also selected Redbank Township as his future home. Having eleven children, he purchased eleven hundred acres of land near West Millville with the intention of dividing the property so that each child should receive one hundred acres. This intention he fulfilled. Soon after making his Redbank Township purchase he returned to Northampton County for his family and settled with them on his new land.

1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP xl.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1482.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 422.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 892.