Hon. James Poe and Elizabeth Cathcart Potter
Husband Hon. James Poe 1 2
Born: 15 Apr 1748 - Antrim Twp, Lancaster (later Franklin) Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 21 Jun 1822 - Antrim Twp, Franklin Co, PA 1 2 Buried: - Brown's Mill cemetery
Father: Thomas Poe ( - ) 3 4 Mother: Mary Potter ( -1788) 5 6
Marriage:
Wife Elizabeth Cathcart Potter 1 7 8 9
Born: 1767 9 Christened: Died: 11 Sep 1819 1 9 Buried: - Brown's Mill cemetery
Father: Maj.-Gen. James Potter (1729-1789) 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mother: Elizabeth Cathcart ( - ) 1 7 8 13 16
Children
1 M James Poe 17
Born: Christened: Died: - Belleville, Mifflin Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M William Poe 17
Born: Christened: Died: 1834 17 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Margaret Poe 17
Born: 7 Dec 1785 18 Christened: Died: 27 Jan 1864 18 Buried:Spouse: James C. Campbell (1785-1855) 10 18
4 M Thomas Poe 17
Born: 1786 17 Christened: Died: 26 Jul 1814 17 Buried:
5 F Mary Poe 17
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Matthias Nead ( - ) 17 Marr: 5 Dec 1844 17
6 F Eliza C. Poe 17 19
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Dr. Peter Fahnestock (1788- ) 17 19 20
7 M John Poe 21
Born: 1796 21 Christened: Died: 25 Dec 1862 21 Buried:Spouse: Isabella Harbison (1806-1863) 21 Marr: 31 Jan 1839 21
8 F Harriet Poe 17
Born: 1796 17 Christened: Died: 1 Dec 1831 17 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
9 F Charlotte Poe 17
Born: Dec 1799 17 Christened: Died: 23 May 1819 17 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
10 F Susanna Poe 22
AKA: Susan M. Poe 1 17 Born: Abt 1805 Christened: Died: 10 Nov or 10 Dec 1882 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 1 22 Buried:Spouse: Samuel Van Tries, Esq. (1802-1883) 1 17 Marr: 1 Feb 1837 22
General Notes: Husband - Hon. James Poe
He was brought up as a farmer and followed that occupation all his life. As a young man, he served with Captain James Potter's company in the pursuit of the Indians that murdered Enoch Brown, the schoolmaster, and the children at Brown's school house, July 26, 1764. At the beginning of the Revolution he was a lieutenant in Colonel John Allison's battalion of Pennsylvania militia, which served under General Hugh Mercer, at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in the autumn of 1776. He was a captain in Colonel Abraham Smith's battalion, Cumberland County Associators, 1777-79. He was in active service with a marching company in Colonel William Chambers' battalion of the third class, under the call of July 28, 1777. His tombstone, in the Brown's Mill graveyard, bears testimony to his services as a soldier of the Revolution. After the Revolution, Captain Poe held a number of important offices. He was county commissioner of Franklin county, 1785-87, and again, 1791-93; served in the Legislature, 1794-97 and 1800-03, and represented Franklin county in the State Senate, 1811-19. In politics he was a Republican.
We have a glimpse of his party activity in the fact that he presided over a meeting to make Republican (Democratic) nominations for Franklin county at the house of George Steck, Chambersburg, August 29, 1809.
James Poe was an extensive landowner at the time of his death. His will was dated June 7, 1822, and probated June 25, 1822. To his son, John, he gave the old Poe homestead; to Mary and Eliza, his Mifflin County lands on the Kishacoquillas, and lands west of the Alleghenies; and to Harriet and Susanna, his Centre County lands. All the shares were to be equalized. His executors were John Poe, James Potter (the Judge), Archibald Bard and David Fullerton. He named Bard, Fullerton and Robert Robison to determine the division line between John and William; and James Potter, William Potter, Andrew Gregg and William Irvin to value the lands devised to Mary, Eliza and Susanna. William Poe died without issue before the will could be carried into effect. Harriet Poe elected to take land in Potter township, Centre County, and Eliza the lands on the waters of the Big Mahoning, in Jefferson County; Mary, Eliza, Harriet and Susanna declined to take any other lands.
Captain Poe's father, Thomas Poe, evidently regarded his son as a "confirmed bachelor," for his will contained a provision that in case of James' death without issue his share in the estate should go to his sisters and their children.
General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Cathcart Potter
Without early educational advantages, she became well versed in English literature, and was noted as a brilliant conversationalist.
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2 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 375.
3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 18, 27.
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17 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 377.
18 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 380.
19 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 102.
20 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 514.
21 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 379.
22
G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 381.
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