Joseph Junkin and Elinor Cochran
Husband Joseph Junkin 1 2 3 4 5 6
Born: 2 Jan 1750 - Cumberland Co, PA 2 4 5 Christened: Died: 21 Feb 1831 - ? Mercer Co, PA 6 7 Buried:
Father: Joseph Junkin, Sr. ( -1777) 2 4 5 6 Mother: Elizabeth Wallace ( -1796) 2 4 5 6
Marriage: 24 May 1779 2 5 6 8
Wife Elinor Cochran 9
AKA: Eleanor Cochran 5 10 Born: 1760 - Franklin Co, PA 6 Christened: Died: 17 Sep 1812 - Mercer Co, PA 7 Buried:
Father: John Cochran ( - ) 2 11 Mother:
Children
1 M Joseph [1] Junkin 6
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
2 F Elizabeth Junkin 2 4 6
Born: Christened: Died: 1801 - Cumberland, PA 2 Buried:Spouse: John Findley (1773/1776-1855) 6 12 13 14
3 M Capt. John Junkin 4 6 15
Born: 12 Sep 1786 6 Christened: Died: 27 Apr 1814 - ? Mercer Co, PA 6 16 Buried:Spouse: Martha Findley ( -1813) 6 16
4 M Joseph [2] Junkin 4 6 15
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Rambo ( - ) 2
5 F Elinor Junkin 2
AKA: Eleanor Junkin 4 6 Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Walter Oliver ( - ) 2 6
6 M Rev. Dr. George Junkin, D.D., LL.D. 4 6 17 18
Born: 1 Nov 1790 - New Kingston, Cumberland Co, PA 19 Christened: Died: 20 May 1868 - Philadelphia, PA 18 19 Buried:Spouse: Julia Rush Miller ( -1854) 20 Marr: 1 Jun 1819 20
7 F Agnes Junkin 4 6 7 22
AKA: Ellen Junkin 21 Born: Christened: Died: Buried: Status: TwinSpouse: Rev. James Galloway (1786-1818) 6 7 22 23 Marr: 12 Mar 1812 22Spouse: Hugh Bingham ( -1865) 6 21 23
8 F Mary Junkin 4 6 7
Born: Christened: Died: Buried: Status: TwinSpouse: Rev. George Buchanan (1782-1855) 6 7
9 M William Junkin 4 6
Born: Christened: Died: in childhood Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
10 M Benjamin Junkin 4 6
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
11 M William Findley Junkin 24
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
12 M Matthew Oliver Junkin 4
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
13 M Dr. David X. Junkin, D.D. 1 6 18
Born: 8 Jan 1808 - Springfield (later Findley) Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1 20 Christened: Died: 22 Apr 1880 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 20 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Joseph Junkin
He built a house on the west side of his father's estate in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and, in 1776, volunteered in the Revolutionary army, serving in New York and Pennsylvania. His enlistment delayed his marriage, and it was not till May 24th, 1779, after serving faithfully, and being wounded five days after the battle of Brandywine (September 11th, 1777), disabling him for eighteen months, that he returned and claimed his bride-Miss Elinor Cochran, of Franklin county. He commanded a company in the battle of Brandywine, and, in 1778, marched up the Juniata against the British and Indians.
It was through the influence of his son-in-law, John Findley, that he was induced to come to Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He bought land in the county in 1803-04. His two older sons, John and Joseph, were sent out in 1805 and built a cabin and mill-dam, and the next year the family came. A large grist-mill and a saw-mill were built, and afterward a cloth-mill (fulling, carding, and cloth dressing), the first in the township and county. The flour-mill was the largest in the county for many years, and contained the first pair of French burr-stones in the county. These were a considerable source of profit to their owner, because of their doing much better work than the old-fashioned "country stones."
It was in 1805 that two of his sons, John and Joseph, came to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, to commence improvements on a property purchased by him in 1800. This property was about two and a half miles south of the county town, and was known as the Hope Mill property. In 1806, he came out himself, bringing along with him the balance of his large family, consisting of wife, sons and daughters. In a biography of his son George it is related that at what is now the foot of Federal Street, in Allegheny City, dwelt a Mr. Robinson, who had threshed rye for him in Cumberland County, and who offered him the farm on which the central part of the city would later stand, from the second bank to the foot of the great hill, for $4,000. Mr. Junkin was well convinced of the speculation offered him, had the money wherewith to purchase, and although preparations had been made for his reception at Mercer, on land already owned by him, would probably have closed with Robinson's offer, had not his son-in-law, John Findley, who was then prothonotary, etc., of Mercer County, strongly dissuaded him from entertaining the proposition. The result was that Junkin prosecuted his journey to Mercer, contenting himself to remain in moderate circumstances, while Robinson retained his farm, and, by the proceeds derived afterward from the sale of lots from it, lived and died a millionaire.
Joseph Junkin was a soldier of the Revolution, and the commander of a company in the battle of Brandywine, a few days after which, in a skirmish, he received a musket ball through his right arm, shattering the bone. The torture arising from the wound, or perhaps loss of blood, caused him to faint and lie as one of the dead when the enemy passed over the ground. A shower of rain falling on him in the evening, he revived, and sought by crossing fields and woods to get outside of the British lines unperceived. Providence directed his steps to the kitchen door of the residence of a Quaker named George Smith, who met and gently pushing him back said, "Friend, thee is in great danger; my house is full of British officers, and there in my meadow is encamped a squadron of British horse; but I will try to save thee." He took the wounded Junkin to his hay-loft, but in a short time returned, saying that the British officers demanded hay, and that their soldiers would be presently there to take it, so another hiding-place must be found. The loft over the spring house was the next place, where a bed was made of some bundles of flax for his resting place. Mrs. Smith soon afterward supplied him with a supper of scalded bread and milk, and with some linen cloths, with which he dressed his wounds. Before daybreak his host routed him out, and leading him past the sentries of the British encampment, and giving a hunting-shirt to cover his continental uniform, pointed the way of Washington's retreat. This was not to be the end of his trouble. Soon after sunrise he was captured by two dragoons dressed in English uniform, who compelled him to march forward between the heads of their horses. Their questions as to who he was, and to what brigade he belonged, he answered truly. They marched him along for about a mile, he in the meantime determining to attempt escape when they reached a piece of woods in advance. When within a short distance of the thicket at which he contemplated making the attempt his captors said, pointing the way, "You will find your regiment encamped in a field just beyond this wood\emdash we are Americans in disguise." The enfeebled man sank to the ground from the revulsion of feeling caused by this declaration, but with the assistance of the perpetrators of this rough jest played upon him soon enabled to rejoin his company. A horse was then procured for him, a saddle improvised out of a knapsack stuffed with hay, with a rope bridle, he made his way home, a distance of ninety miles, in three days.
Mr. Junkin was a valuable acquisition to Mercer County. He had means to enable him to put up a fine grist mill, saw-mill, fulling-mill and a carding machine, besides building what at that time was perhaps the finest residence in the county. He soon took quite an active share in the public affairs of the county, in both church and politics, and was very active during the War of 1812 in sustaining the administration. In politics he was a Democrat, and being a ready and strong writer, was frequently pitted against Benjamin Stokely, who was a Federalist in his political views. He was not an office-seeker, but in 1818 was appointed county treasurer. It was in the fall of 1812 that his wife accidentally fell through the hatchway in his flouringmill, dislocating the spinal column, and causing her death in a few days afterward, on the 17th of September. He died in February, 1831. Both he and his wife were Scotch-Irish, and devotedly attached to the religious views taught by Calvin, not only to the dry doctrines of that faith, but cherishing in their hearts the warm and fervent feelings of a sincere, evangelical piety that impelled to activity and industry in the cause of Christianity. Eleven of their fourteen children reached adult life and married. Two of their sons, George and David, became ministers in the Presbyterian Church. Two of their daughters, twins, were married to ministers of the Associate Reformed Church, Revs. Galloway and Buchanan. Including these, with other sons and sons-in-law, and grandchildren, the Christian ministers among his descendants, in 1876, numbered no less than fifteen, and ruling elders, sixteen. [HMC 1888, 959]
General Notes: Wife - Elinor Cochran
from Marsh Creek, near Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA
In the autumn of 1812 she accidentally fell through the hatchway in the family flouring-mill, dislocating the spinal column, and causing her death in a few days afterward.
1 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 168.
2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35.
3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 959.
4 Conway P. Wing, D.D., History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations (Philadelphia, PA: James D. Scott, 1879), Pg 212.
5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 489.
6 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 409.
7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 960.
8 —, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 26.
9 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 35, 168.
10 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 405.
11 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 404.
12 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 651, 661, 959.
13 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 807.
14 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 681.
15 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 527, 959.
16 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 962.
17 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 520.
18 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 963.
19 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 414.
20 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 415.
21 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 8.
22 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 268.
23 —, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 89.
24
G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 410.
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