Peter Lovell Pryer and Ellen Burns Nickle

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Husband Peter Lovell Pryer ¹

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           Born: 7 Mar 1844 - Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Sep 1882 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: Peter Pryer (1809-1888) 1 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Lusher (1812-1885) 1 3

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       Marriage: 12 Oct 1871 - Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA

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Wife Ellen Burns Nickle ¹

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            AKA: Eleanor B. Nickle
           Born: 2 Oct 1848 - Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Aug 1924 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY
         Buried:  - Nickleville Cemetery, Nickleville, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Daniel Dobbin Nickle (1818-1909) 5
         Mother: Mary Ann Myers (1827-1885)

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Children

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1 M [Infant] Pryer

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: when a few hours old
         Buried: 

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2 F Effie Odelia Pryor ⁶

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           Born: 26 Nov 1873 - Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Feb 1956 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 6
         Buried:  - Radle Cemetery, Guys Mills, Randolph Twp, Crawford Co, PA

         Spouse: Dr. Charles Wesley Burgwin (1873-1946) 6
           Marr: 3 Sep 1903 - ? Venango Co, PA

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3 F Cora Mabel Pryor

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           Born: 10 Aug 1878 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Jul 1934 - Buffalo, Erie Co, NY
         Buried:  - Ellington, Chautauqua Co, NY

         Spouse: Edwin Allen Bagg (1863-1959)
           Marr: 23 Jun 1908 - Conewango Valley, Chautauqua Co, NY

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4 M Clyde Orton Pryor ⁷

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           Born: 21 Nov 1880 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 Jan 1932 - Maple Shade, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Maple Shade (Mt. Zion) Cemetery, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Edna Berlin (1884-1912)
           Marr: 28 Aug 1906 - ? Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Lottie Marie Rote (1890-1973) 7
           Marr: 10 Jun 1914 - Van, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA

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5 F Lovey May Pryor

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           Born: 4 May 1883 - Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Oct 1963
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Harry Herman McElwain (1888-1975)
           Marr: 17 Jun 1912

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General Notes: Husband - Peter Lovell Pryer

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Another source gives his date of death as Sept 25.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Burns Nickle

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First name Elanor (12) Eleanor (13) Buried at Nickleville. (4)

When Eleanor Burns Nickle and Peter Lovell Pryer married they went housekeeping in a small house on his father's farm which was called the "spring house" because underneath the house was a large spring and which was reached by two flights of stone steps coming toward each other with the spring beside the landing. The other part of the basement was where the milk, and butter was kept in troughs full of water from the spring. The upper part where the couple lived was called the shop and consisted of two rooms. During the winter "Love" as he was called taught school and farmed in the summer. Here in this little house Effie, the oldest child was born.
In the spring of 1876 they bought an old farm about 1½ miles southeast of Davis Corners in Rockland Twp., Venango County, Penna., and moved there intending to build the farm up to be more valuable. Here the other children, all but Lovey, were born. Here they worked very hard for about six and a half years and then tragedy struck when Lovell died from erysipelas after a very short sickness. He was a very faithful member of the Methodist Church.
After his death, Ellen, as she was called took her children and went to live with her father, Daniel Nickle and her mother, Mary Ann Nickle on their farm near Nickleville, Venango County, Penna. Where the youngest daughter, Lovey May, was born. Her mother died March 3, 1885 so she continued to live with her father until his death December 24, 1909. After his death the farm was sold September 2, 1910 and she went to live with her daughter Cora Mabel, who was married to Edwin Bagg and lived at Conewango Valley, N.Y. where he operated a hardware store and feed mill. The next spring she bought a little house and lot near the Bagg mill where she lived with her daughter Lovey until Lovey's marriage June 17, 1912, when she sold her house and went to live in a part of the large farm house they bought adjoining the village of Conewango Valley.
In summer of 1919 or 20 she had a peculiar attack in her head probably due to high blood pressure but not a paralytic stroke. She never recovered from this attack or rather the effects of it but gradually became more feeble both in mind and body. In the summer of 1922 she was no longer able to feed herself and her mind was wandering back to her childhood. On Monday, Aug. 18, 1924, about 1:00 P.M. one of the large arteries in her neck broke and caused a hemorrhage which caused her death in a few minutes. She was a very faithful member of the Methodist Church from her childhood. She was buried in the cemetery at Nickleville.

The News-Herald, Franklin, PA
Aug 19, 1924; pg 11, col 4
Mrs. Ellen B. Pryor, aged 75 years, a native of Nickleville, this county, died Monday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. O. Bagg, of Conewango Valley, N. Y., after a four year's illness.
Mrs. Pryor was born at Nickleville, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Ann Myers Nickle. Her husband, Love Pryor, died about 42 years ago. She spent all her life at Nickleville until a few years ago when she went to make her home with her daughters. The following children survive: Mrs. E. W. Burgwin, of Guys Mills; Mrs. E. O. Bagg, Conewango Valley, N. Y.; Mrs. Harry McElwain, of Conewango Valley and C. O. Pryor, of Cranberry. One brother, Rev. O. H. Nickle, of Seneca, and one sister, Mrs. J. H. Donaldson, of Nickleville, also survive.
Mrs. Pryor was a life long member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
The body was brought to this city today to the Osenider chapel and will be taken overland to Nickleville where funeral services will be held in the Presbyterian church of that place at 11 a. m. Thursday.

1 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 120.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 5, Rockland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1997), Pg 93.

3 James Lincoln Lusher, Lusher Family Tree (Self-published, cir. 1942), Pg 2.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 4, Richland Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1996), Pg 37.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1111.

6 Alan R. Jones, Threads of Venango (Indiana, PA: A. G. Halldin Publishing Co., 1984), Pg 241.

7 John A. M. Ziegler, Ph.D., D.D, Ziegler Genealogy (Huntington Park, CA: Glenn Printing Co., 1935), Pg 14.