George Siggins and Pheobe Dawson

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Husband George Siggins ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1778 - Drumcliff parish, County Sligo, Ireland 2 3
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           Died: 17 Jan 1865 - West Hickory, Harmony Twp, Forest Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Siggins (1750-1801) 4 5
         Mother: Sarah Hood (1750-1835) 1 4 5

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       Marriage: 27 Jun 1821 - Venango Co, PA 6

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   Other Spouse: Jane Young (1784-1821) 1 2 6 - 18 Feb 1800 - Centre Co, PA 6

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• Biographical Sketch: Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918).
To read this brief biographical sketch of his life and career, click here.

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Wife Pheobe Dawson ³

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           Born: Abt 1770 - Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Sep 1860 - Venango Co, PA 6
         Buried: 

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         Father: James Dawson (1753-1814) 7
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (1758-1829) 7

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - George Siggins

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When his parents came to America in 1793 he came with them and they settled in Centre County, Pennsylvania. From Center County he removed, about 1801, to Stewart's Run, Venango, later Forest, County, and cleared a tract of land. In 1802 he moved his family to a farm near Pithole, Venango County. Some years later he removed to Harmony township, Forest County, built a sawmill and shipped lumber down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh. He served in the war of 1812. After the war he settled below Tidioute, Warren County, and in 1816 removed to West Hickory, Venango, later Forest, County, where he purchased a thousand acres. This he afterward divided among his sons.

He came from Centre County, Pennsylvania, to Stewart's Run, near where John A. Dawson later resided, in Harmony township, Forest County, about 1801 or 1802, and cleared quite a tract of land. Some years later, on account of a heavy frost, which ruined his crops, he removed to what became Harmony township, below Fagundus, built a saw-mill and manufactured and shipped lumber down the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh. The War of 1812 breaking out soon after his mill began running, he was drafted, and stationed at Erie, being there at the time of Perry's victory. After the war he sold his mill to Isaac Ball, and settled below Tidioute, soon after migrating to Hickory Town (now West Hickory), a once famous Indian reservation, where he purchased of a squatter, by the name of John Thompson, 1,000 acres, on which the family descendants would long thereafter reside. He was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He crossed the ocean with his parents at the age of seventeen years. He was united in marriage with Jane Young, a daughter of the famous M. E. J. Young. After marriage the young folks resided in Westmoreland County for some time, removing later to Beaver County, and also making two or three other moves before they finally settled on the farm where W. P. Siggins now [1899] lives, which they purchased in 1812. The members of the Siggins family were justly proud of having retained possession of this handsome estate, which was never permitted to fall into the hands of strangers, but descended from father to son from the time of its purchase by George Siggins in 1812 until the present day. [BOB37JD, 321]

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General Notes: Wife - Pheobe Dawson

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When she married Siggins, she was considerably older than he.
She died at the age of ninety-four years.

1 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 321.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 542.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 78.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 283.

5 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 77.

6 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 95.

7 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 363.