Samuel Moorhead and Agnes (Nancy) Craig
Husband Samuel Moorhead 1 2 3 4 5 6
AKA: Samuel Moorehead 7 Born: 20 Mar 1769 - Cumberland Co, PA 2 3 8 Christened: Died: 1 Mar 1853 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3 8 Buried: - Old Salem Cemetery, Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: William Morehead ( -1819) 9 10 11 Mother: Elizabeth Barnett (1748-1832) 6 10 11
Marriage: 1792 8
Wife Agnes (Nancy) Craig 2 5 7 8 12 13 14
Born: 15 Feb 1773 8 13 Christened: Died: 30 Jul 1817 8 Buried:
Father: Lt. Samuel Craig ( -Abt 1777) 5 7 12 13 15 16 17 Mother: Jane Boyd ( - ) 5 12 13 14
Children
1 M William Moorhead 18
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
2 M Samuel Moorhead 2 3 18
AKA: Samuel Moorehead 19 20 Born: 23 Aug - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 18 Christened: Died: 1848 18 Buried:Spouse: Martha Bell (1789/1793-1877) 3 18 20 21 22 Marr: 13 Mar 1812 2
3 M John Moorhead 5 23
Born: 23 Apr 1793 - near Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 23 Christened: Died: 8 Dec 1858 23 Buried:Spouse: Margaret Hill (1795-1850) 5 23
4 F Jane Moorhead 1 24 25
Born: 30 Jan or 30 Jun 1795 - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 24 25 Christened: Died: 18 Dec 1854 24 25 Buried: - Fairfield Presbyterian Cemetery, Fairfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: John Hill (1790-1856) 1 24 25 Marr: 9 Jun 1814 - Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 25
5 M Josiah Moorhead 26
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:
6 M James Moorhead 26
AKA: James Moorehead 7 Born: 18 Apr 1799 26 Christened: Died: 1 Oct 1877 26 Buried:Spouse: Mary Ogden (1802-1841) 7 26 Marr: 20 Mar 1820 26Spouse: Eleanor Trilbey ( - ) 27
7 F Elizabeth Moorehead 27 28
Born: 18 Jul 1801 27 Christened: Died: 25 Mar 1884 27 Buried: - Old Fairfield Presbyterian Church, Westmoreland Co, PASpouse: Col. Amos Ogden (1791/1797-1867) 27 28 Marr: 24 Dec 1818 7 27
8 F Rebecca Moorhead 29
Born: 28 Sep 1803 30 Christened: Died: 3 Feb 1835 31 Buried:Spouse: Alexander Craig (1794-1869) 29 32 33 Marr: 9 Jun 1826 34
9 M Joseph Moorhead 35
Born: 9 Jan 1806 35 Christened: Died: 4 Sep 1865 35 Buried:Spouse: Nancy Pollock ( - ) 35
10 F Sarah Ann Moorhead 36
Born: 15 Nov 1807 36 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Rev. Samuel Swan (1798-1877) 37 Marr: 17 Apr 1826 36
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Moorhead
He became a tanner, and as there was no tannery in the northern part of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, when he moved there, he established a highly prosperous business, which he carried on for many years. He became very wealthy for his day, acquiring the ownership of eight or ten farms. He was reputed to keep money in his house and once narrowly escaped being robbed and perhaps murdered, but a young man in the house succeeded in preventing the robbers gaining an entrance. After this, a grandson (who remembers seeing the place when a boy) says, he had so many weapons of defense that his house had the appearance of an arsenal.
An anecdote is related of him connected with his dislike of a young man who was with him learning the tanning trade. Knowing that a young Irishman in his employ admired a red silk handkerchief that he owned, he offered it to him as a reward if he would start a quarrel with John Larimer and give him a complete beating. The Irishman promised; Samuel Moorhead hid to witness the gratifying sight; but "The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft aglee", for it was the Irishman that received the beating. Whether the handkerchief was given when he failed to fulfill his contract we are not told.
He was grandfather of Rev. George Hill, D. D., of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, Rev. J. D. Moorhead, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and Rev. W. W. Moorhead, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
General Notes: Wife - Agnes (Nancy) Craig
Of Mrs. Moorhead the story has come to us that shows she was a woman of spirit. Once when she was expecting company and on "hospitable thoughts intent", her husband objected to having a chicken killed, reminding her of the price for which it could be sold, but instead of having the desired effect she killed two.
1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 374.
2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 841.
3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 204.
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5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1082.
6 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 111, 123.
7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 174.
8 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 123.
9 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 741.
10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 63.
11 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 29.
12 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 408.
13 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 315.
14 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 16.
15 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 684.
16 Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924), Pg 178.
17 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 14.
18 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 124.
19 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 161.
20 Linda (Francis) Hanna & Roberta (Francis) Hamilton, The Descendants of Walter Bell (Franklin, PA: Self-published, about 1990), Pg 1.
21 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 841, 844.
22 Raymond Martin Bell, The Bell Family of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1941), Pg 45.
23 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 127.
24 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 811.
25 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 129.
26 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 130.
27 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 133.
28 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 173.
29 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 63, 136.
30 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 136.
31 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 64, 136.
32 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 142.
33 —, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (J. H. Beers & Co., 1903), Pg 133.
34 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 63.
35 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 137.
36 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 138.
37
—, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 539.
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