Adam Potter and Rebecca Jane Thompson

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Husband Adam Potter ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1817 - Centre Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1913
         Buried: 

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         Father: Adam Potter (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Barbara Palmer (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Rebecca Jane Thompson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1827 - near Scotch Hill, Clarion Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1910 - Fisher, Millcreek Twp, Clarion Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Samuel Thompson (1790-1870) 2 3
         Mother: [Unk] Cathers (1790-1867) 2

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Adam Potter

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Fisher, Millcreek Twp, Clarion Co, PA

He was born in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Clarion County in 1822. He engaged in lumbering and farming, living on his own farm of 134 acres beginning in 1849. He held the office of constable for eighteen years, and at various times held most all of township offices. He enlisted in 1861 in Company F, Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, and served his full time. He received a pension.

1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 46.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 218.

3 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 55.