The following will was transcribed by Sharon
McConnell of Coto de Caza, CA and submitted for inclusion at the Genealogy
in Washington Co., PA web site in July 1997.
All the Caufield children were born in Luzerne Township, Fayette
County, on the farm Thomas Caufield inherited from his father, Timothy
Caufield, but they moved at an early age to Millsboro, Washington County.
They grew up in the white frame house (still in the family in 1997) on
the west bank of the Monongahela River at Millsboro, bought by Margaret
Lynn's mother, Mary Jane/Polly Gibson. Polly Lynn had moved to Millsboro
after husband, Samuel Lynn's death to provide her two remaining daughters
with an education. Margaret Louise Lynn and her sister, Carrie (Sarah
Caroline), both graduated from the Normal School located on Center Street
in Millsboro, as their mother hoped. Both taught near Low Hill; Margaret
boarded for a time at the Dorsey farm. One of the young Dorsey girls was
her student, and also became a teacher. Margaret, her mother Polly, and
sister Carrie, belonged to the local Cumberland Presyterian Church in
Millsboro where Polly's nephew, Rev. J. S. Gibson, was minister at the
time. Notes from the Dunlap's Creek Church membership rolls indicate
Mary Jane Lynn and her daughter Margaret, who had been baptized at
Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian Church (Pastoral Book of Records, Rev William
Wilson, LDS microfilm 0982385), Fayette County, on April 18, 1842, were
"dismissed" to join the Millsborough Cumberland Presbyterian Church in
April, 1860.
Thomas Caufield and Margaret Lynn were both born in Fayette
County and lived for some years on adjoining farms. The
forty-six-year-old Thomas married Margaret the year after his 90-year-old
father, Timothy Caufield, died. The History of Washington County (1885)
found Thomas Hynes Caufield "a well-informed gentleman, having read much,
particularly of history, remembering well what he reads, and applying the
results of his study to practical purposes, much more than it is
customary for farmers to do." The Caufield farm was originally a tract
called "Rudeberry," warranted (2/25/1785); surveyed (4/27/1785); and
patented (12/12/1792) to Zelah Rude, and originally adjoined properties
of J. Dunlap, J. Brown, J. Tate, and (Edward, Elliott, and David)
Hawkins. The History of Fayette County (by Ellis, 1882, p730) says that
the property passed from Zelah Rude to Peter Rothwell and then to "Thomas
Canfield," actually Thomas Caufield. Thomas Caufield's neighbors at a
June 14, 1848, survey included Samuel Linn, John Tate, Jonathan Hibb(s),
and Martin Hess. Martin Hess appears as both a character reference in
Timothy Caufield's citizenship application (1840) and a witness to Samuel
Linn/Lynn's will (1845).
Margaret Louise Lynn (11/24/1841-9/1912) m (7/15/1874) Thomas
Hynes Caufield (4/24/1829-4/1913) and had five children:
John Gibson Caufield (5/21/1875-2/2/1902)
William Oliver Caufield (8/14/1876-2/1879)
Carrie Lynn Caufield (3/1/1879-12/2/1955) m (4/24/1915) George
Clement Michener
Mary Edna Caufield (11/15/1880-2/1972) m (9/4/1900) George
Chancellor Virgin (9/27/1874-5/9/1938)
Paul Roland Caufield (3/17/1885-7/26/1958) married Goldie
Virginia Warne (4/4/1892-5/30/1991)
Thomas Hynes Caufield, born in Belmont County, Ohio, was the son
of Timothy Caufield (5/11/1790-12/30/1873), who was born in Galway,
Ireland, and Nancy Hynes (married 7/24/1826). According to his
citizenship oath, Timothy left Ireland June, 1811, and arrived in the
United States August 11, 1811. Timothy Caufield married Nancy Hynes at
St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, where the license was issued July
24, 1826. The number in the corner indicates it was only the 96th
marriage performed in the new county:
"Timothy Cofield, St. Clairsville, July 24, 1826, to Nancy Hynes, York.
Satisfied by the appearance of Cofield that he is of lawful age. The
State of Ohio, Belmont County. Patrick Dowd, being sworn says that he
has several years been acquainted with Timothy Cofield and verily
believes that he has no wife living, that he verily believes Nancy Hynes
is more than 18 years of age and has no husband living, and that they the
said Timothy and Nancy are not nearer of kin than first Cousins. Sworn
before me July 24, 1826. M Coulter, Dep. Clerk. The State of Ohio,
Belmont County. This is to certify that by the authority of a licence
issued by the Depy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in an for said
County Timothy Cofield and Nancy Hinds were by me legally joined together
in Marriage on this day. Givenunder my hand and seal the 24th day of
July, 1826. Wm McNeely (Seal), Jus of the Peace" (Belmont County, Ohio,
Record of Marriages, vol 2, p50).
Nancy Hynes Cauffield died in 1831, leaving Timothy with:
1) John Caufield (1827-1884?), farmer, of Redstone Twp, Fayette
County, married (2/10/1853) Margaret Phillips, daughter of Elijah and
Amelia Phillips, of Menallen Twp, in a Baptist ceremony performed by
Isaac Wynn of Uniontown; the Caufields moved to Clarke County, Iowa.
2) Thomas Caufield (4/24/1829-4/1913) m (7/15/1874) Margaret
Louise Lynn (11/24/1841-9/1912)
3) Daniel Coffield (b1831) became an itinerant salesman. With a
good team of horses, he set out in 1860 for "burning" Kansas. He wrote
back to the family regularly, but his brother, Thomas, apparently an
inveterate talker but an unenthusiastic correspondent, never answered.
Daniel Coffield in frustration wrote a last letter saying it was his last
letter.
Timothy Caufield moved in 1834 to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he
married (1836) Elizabeth Detson (1786-2/1/1872, bur Mt Pleasant
Presbyterian Church, Smock), and settled on a farm in Redstone Township,
Fayette County. The History of Fayette County (by Ellis, 1882, p732)
describes Timothy Caufield, not always accurately: "Timothy Canfield, who
emigrated from Ireland to America in 1809, came to Fayette County in
1813, and in 1820 took a contract to do a large amount of work on the
National Road. In 1834 he bought a farm in Redstone originally occupied
by Joseph Woodmancy. There he settled and lived until his death in 1874,
aged ninety years. Three of his sons are still living--Thomas on the old
farm, John in Iowa, and Daniel in Kansas."
Timothy Caufield applied for citizenship on 12/4/1820, and took
the oath 10/5/1840. His citizenship paper reads as follows: Fayette
County. Be it remembered that at a Court of Common Pleas held at
Uniontown for the County of Fayette in the State of Pennsylvania in the
United States of America on the fifth day of October A. D. 1840, Timothy
Caufield, a native of Ireland, exhibited a petition praying to be
admitted to become a citizen of the United States and it appearing to the
Court that he had declared an oath before the same court on the fourth
day of December 1820 that it was bona fide his intention to become a
citizen of the United States and to renounce forever all allegiance and
fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever
and particularly to the King of Great Britain and Ireland of whom he was
then a subject, and the said Timothy Caufield having on his solemn oath
declared and also made proof thereof by competent testimony of Martin
Hess and James Morris, citizens of the United States, that he had resided
one year and upwards in the state of Pennsylvania, upwards of five years
in the United States of America immediately preceding his application,
and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that during that time
he had behaved as a man of good moral character attached to the
principles of the Constitution of the United States, well disposed to the
good order and happiness of the same, and having on his solemn oath
declared before the said Court that he would support the Constitution of
the United States and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and
abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate,
state or sovereignty whatever and particularly to Victoria, Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland of whom he was before a subject.
Thereupon the Court admitted the said Timothy Caufield to become
a citizen of the United States. In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand and the seal of said Court at Uniontown the fifth day of October
A. D. 1840. Richard Beeson.
Timothy Caufield's will, probated 1/8/1874, Will Book #4, p476, Fayette
Co, reads as follows:
The last will and testament of Timothy Caufield of the township of
Redstone, County of Fayette, state of Pennsylvania. I, Timothy Caufield,
considering the uncertainty of this mortal life, and being of sound mind
and memory to make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner
and form following, it is my desire tht all my just debts, funeral
expenses, to be paid by my executor out of my personal estate,
Item 1st. I will and bequeath to my step daughter Eliza Hess one bed and
bed clothes and bedstead in sitting room and one beurow in sitting room,
one table and two old chairs.
Item 2nd I will and bequeath to my son Thomas Caufield the remainder of
my personal estate after paying all my just debts and funeral expenses.
Item 3rd I will and bequeath to my son Thomas Caufield my house farm on
which I now reside together with the farm I bought of Robert Hagerty
adjoining me situate in Redstone township, Fayette County, Pa, adjoining
lands of Thomas Higinbotham, heirs of Martin Hess, Robert Hagerty,
Earhart Grable, W Stevens and James McCray containing in all about one
hundred and fifty acres more or less by paying out the following
bequests.
Item 4th I will and bequeath to my oldest son John Caufield the some of
fifteen hundred dollars to be paid out of the farms bequeathed to Thomas
Caufield.
Item 5th I will and bequeath to my youngest son Daniel Caufield the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars to be paid out of the farms bequeathed to
Thomas Caufield, if the said Daniel Caufield should not make his
appearance inside of ten years, then in that case his share to be equally
divided between John Caufield and Thomas Caufield share and share alike.
I make and ordain William K Gallagher and Thomas Caufield Executors of
this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me
made. In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and seal the twenty
seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy three.
Timothy Caufield (seal)
Signed sealed and published and declared by the above named Timothy
Caufield to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at
his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses
thereto-
Earhart Grable
James F Grable
Fayette County SS
(req seal) Be it known that on the 8th day of Jan AD 1874 before me Jos
Beatty Register for the probate of wills and granting letters of
administration in and for said county personally came Earhart Grable and
James F Grable subscribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and
testament of Timothy Caufield deceased who being duly affirmed according
to law say that they were not present when the said Timothy Caufield
signed said will but that he acknowledged the same to be his last will
and testament when of sound mind and memory to the best of their belief
that at his request and in his presence they subscribed their names as
witnesses thereto, that they knew of no undue influence used or late will
made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the
Register office the date above written
Jos Beatty
Letters of Testamentary granted to Wm K Gallaher and Thomas Caufield who
were duly qualified, Jan 8th AD 1874
Registered and compared Jan 8th AD 1874
Thomas Caufield saw service in the Civil War, as recalled by his
daughter, Edna Caufield Virgin; Thomas Canfield from Fayette County was
mustered into the Sixteenth Cavalry, Company B, as a private on March 6,
1865. He was then thirty six, and it was five years after the
nineteen-year-old Margaret Lynn had moved to Millsborough. The Sixteenth
Cavalry saw action on March 31 at Dinwiddie Courthouse; at Five Forks on
April 2; at Amelia Springs on April 5; at Sailor's Creek on April 6; and
at Farmville on April 7. Then "after the surrender of Lee (April 9) the
regiment was moved to Petersburg, and thence to North Carolina, to
support the advancing columns of Sherman, but soon returned, and was sent
to Lynchburg to guard the captured stores and preserve order. It
remained there until the beginning of August, when it was moved to
Richmond, and there mustered out of service on the 7th of that month"
(History of Fayette County, by Ellis, 1882, p226).
Margaret Louise Lynn (Caufield) received the following letter
from Civil War soldier:
Letter postmarked Brownsville, Pa July (?)
Addressed: Miss M L Lynn, Millsboro, Washington Co, Pa
Bermuda Hundred, Va
July 12, 1864
Miss Maggie:
Doubtless you will be somewhat surprised at the reception of this
note and wonder in your mind who it is that has had the impudence to thus
address you. However I hope after you have kindly considered the matter
you will hold me guiltless.
In the first place consider our position, hundreds of miles from
home and friends in an enemy country: here we are constantly exposed to
the deadly missles from the enemy hurled into our midst and more than
this the many diseases that ever follow camp life are to be dreaded by
the soldiers.
In hours of affliction is the time a soldier feels most the want
of that dear mother, kind sister, or fond brother. But as we cannot be
blessed with the society of our friends while we are in the army why can
I not have some good letters from the Patriotic and Union loving ladies
of the North? I think I may. I think you will write me at least one.
Nothing is better adapted to promote the happiness of a soldier while in
the field than plenty of good letters. Camp life becomes loathsome and
monotonous after we have staid in one place untill I could point out
every particular spot of ground or perhaps point to every leave of
vegetation growing on it. I must acknowledge we have not wanted for
excitement here though, most expecially that of the field of battle.
This is a very mild and beautiful evening. The sunlight has
fallen from the leaaves of the forest and lingers no longer on the
summits of the Western hills. Every thing so calm, the air so pure and a
gentle zephyr playing by me, it makes me long for to be at home again
that I mgiht take a walk on some of those fine evenings with some of my
lady friends.
I heard from you a short time since; an Officer from our regiment
was passing up the River on the Boat and he saw you standing in the door
of your dwelling. He waved his handkerchief. he did not know whether you
recognized him or not. He was not close enough to speak to you. He is
an old acquaintance of yours. I was at Millsboro last fall when I was on
furlough but I did not see you. Is Amanda Evans teaching school this
summer? If so, where at?
I shall not trouble with a long letter this time but if you
condescend to answer this imperfect note I will be most happy to
entertain you the next time with something more interesting. And as I
know generosity and benevolence to be two prominant features of
character, I have no fears but you will answer it and write me a long
letter. Tis under this impression that I bid you adieu. Truly your
friend, Frank S. Morley
To Maggie Lynn
Address> Frank S Morley
Comp "F" 85th PV
Washington, DC
Both Margaret and Thomas Caufield died during the flu epidemic in
1912: Margaret in September and Thomas the following April. Thomas
Caufield made the following will, and then was preceded in death by his
wife, Maggie:
I, Thomas Caufield, of Fayette County, state of
Pennsylvania, do make this my last will and testament. I give and
bequeath to my beloved wife, Maggie L Caufield, all my personal and real
property of every description, whatever and wherever located; also all my
rights, claims and choses in action in fee simple to have the same to her
heirs forever, in witness where I have hereunto set my hand. If
agreeable to her, I desire that she shall be the executrix thereof.
Thomas Caufield
Signed and delivered in our presence and attested by us in the
presence of the testator and in the presence of each other at his
request. January 26th 1886
Samuel Colvin
J F Grable
The 1913 obituary for Thomas Cauffield reads as follows:
AGED RESIDENT OF MILLSBORO
Thomas Cauffield is Dead at the Age of 83 Years--Was Long A Farmer
Millsboro, April 1.
In the death of Thomas Cauffield, which occurred this morning at
2:30 o'clock, Millsboro lost one of its oldest and best known citizens.
Mr Cauffield was born near Brownsville 83 years ago and for the past 24
years has resided in Millsboro. He had enjoyed his usual health until
two weeks ago when he contracted a heavy cold which resulted in his
death.
Mr Cauffield had been engaged in farming and stockraising until
14 years ago when he retired. He was a member of the United Presbyterian
Church. Mr Cauffield's wife died September 23, 1912. Three children
survive: Mrs George C Virgin of Millsboro; Paul Cauffield; and Miss
Carrie Cauffield at home. Five grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday. Services will be
conducted at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev D A Cooper of Clarksville. Interment
will be in the Red Stone Cemetery.
The History of Fayette County (by Ellis, 1882) also notes that a tavern
was kept "by some person on the Higginbotham Place, east of the Red
House." When Samuel Lynn's grandsons, Paul Caufield and Benjamin King
wrote a family history in 1955, they stated that in 1840, at the death of
his father William Lynn (Jr.), Samuel Lynn replaced the dwelling his
father had built there with a ten room brick house, occupied in 1945 by
Wilkie Higginbotham. As noted in History of Fayette County (p740),
"Maggie L. Lynn of Millsboro', Washington County...her great grandfather,
William Lynn, was one of the pioneers of Fayette County, settling in
Redstone township, on a farm adjoining her husband's, about the time the
county was organized." We believe that this is William Linn who died
6/15/1799 (will probated 10/7/1805, Will Book I, p233).
Fayette County's Andrew Lynn Sr (b1700 Carncastle, Co Antrim-1800, Green
River, KY) m (1735) his employer, Crowe's daughter, who died in New
Jersey (George Rogers Clark Papers, vol37, series J, p76, microfilm 30).
Then Andrew Lynn Sr moved with his five sons: Andrew Lynn Jr., (Colonel)
William Lynn, Nathan Lynn, Benjamin Lynn, and James Lynn; and two
daughters: Nancy Elizabeth Lynn (married William Mentor Graham) and a
Daughter Lynn (married John Pope) to Maryland. The girls eventually went
to Kentucky, after a period in North Carolina. All these Lynns were for a
time in Fayette County, and Andrew Lynn Sr also may have had a brother
William Lynn who settled in the area.
Most of the information on the Lynn family is from interviews
with Andrew Lynn, Esq (son of Col. Andrew Lynn Jr and grandson of Andrew
Lynn Sr) of Cookstown, Pennsylvania, as told to Dr. Lyman Copeland Draper
(1/30/1838) making compilations--Draper Manuscripts--for the Wisconsin
Historical Society. In a handwritten note to Draper (George Rogers Clark
Papers, vol37, series j, p17a) believed to be by Andrew Lynn Esq himself,
he notes in discussing what he believes to be an error in regard to his
uncle: "...there were none in this country (of our name) only my father's
connection..."
Our William Lynn, who does not mention a wife in his will
(Fayette Co, Will Book 3, p233), died sometime between 1799 when his will
was written and 1805, when it was probated, leaving the following will:
In the name of God, Amen, I, William Linn of Redstone Township, Fayette
County and state of Pennsylvania being of sound mind and memory do make,
ordain, and publish this to be my last will and testament in manner and
form following-viz.-
First I will and order that all my just debts be duly paid and as
my son Alexander hath got his share of my estate also my son John who is
deceased yet I order that Alexander shall have four pounds paid to him
out of my estate;
Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Margaret Mary
and Sarah fifteen pounds that is five pounds to each of them to be paid
by my executor to be paid in country produce.
Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son James Linn three
pounds.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William's children
that is those that he now hath or hereafter may have the plantation I now
live upon to be their real property at the decease of their father to be
divided amongst them as he may think proper. I will that after my son
William Linn hath paid the above legacy that he shall bring up these
children upon the benefits arising from said plantation and that said
children shall have and retain the whole of my personal property to be
divided as said William Linn shall direct. And lastly I nominate,
constitute and appoint my beloved son William Linn to be the executor of
this my will hereby revoking all other wills, legacies, and bequeathments
made by me heretofore, declaring this and no other to be my last will and
testament. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this
fifteenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
Signed, sealed, published, declared, and pronounced by the said
testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his
presence and at his request have subscribed as witnesses.
William Linn (Lynn), John Allen, Richard Mills, Rachel Staart "
Having made a will leaving his property to the children of his
son, William Lynn, at his son's death, there was no reason for son
William Lynn to make a will also, and none appears. We do not know when
(son) William died (oral family tradition says it was 1840), but he
apparently had at least two surviving sons. Samuel Lynn
(12/25/1793-8/12/1857) and Ayres Lynn (1807-4/27/1889) as indicated in
the 1850 Census. Paul Cauffield and Benjamin King, worked out a family
tree for our Lynns in 1955:
Samuel Lynn (12/25/1793-8/2/1857) is buried Dunlap's Creek Church
Cemetery, Redstone Twp, Fayette Co, Penna.
Samuel Lynn's first wife (2/5/1818) Elizabeth McCormick (1802-1836)
She was a daughter of James McCormick (b1765, N Ireland, bur Dunlap's
Creek Church, m1 Margaret Mary Taylor, 2Margaret Oliver, and 3Martha: 17
children) as well as a sister of John C McCormick (1797-1876) m Hannah
Crable; Margaret McCormick m Charles McCormick (1772-1835) bur Dunlap's
Creek Presbyterian Churchyard; and William McCormick (b9/11/1819,
Menallen) m (3/6/1844) Phoebe Jones (by Rev Hudson), dau of Edward Cook
Jones m Hannah J Woodward. Elizabeth McCormick Lynn is buried Dunlap's
Creek Church Cemetary, which is perhaps a quarter mile from the present
Dunlap's Creek Church, Her tombstone was still intact in February, 1997.
Elizabeth McCormick Lynn and Samuel Lynn had seven children:
1) Mary Jane Lynn (1/28/1819-10/18/1856) m (3/12/1840) Ellis Bailey
Woodward (7/25/1816-8/20/1896), son of Joshua Woodward (b1783, Chester
Co, son of Richard Woodward) m Sarah Dannels (dau of Jesse Dannels/
Clendannels, Kennet Square, Chester Co). Mary Jane Lynn is buried
Dunlap's Creek Church Cemetery. Ellis Bailey Woodward is listed as a
wagoner (The Old Pike-The National Road by Thomas B. Searight, 1894) bur
Sandy Creek Union (Quaker) Cemetery, Menallen Twp, Fayette Co. They had
no children.
2) William Lynn (8/4/1820-10/28/1821) bur Dunlap's Creek Cemetery
3) James Lynn (6/22/1822-1/29/1889) m1 Rachel Hazlett m2 X
Stauffer dismissed from Dunlap's Creek "to connect with some church in
Earlville, (LaSalle Co) Illinois" (12/11/1852)
Anna Lynn (w Rachel Hazlett) m Joseph Rockwell
Mollie Lynn (w Rachel Hazlett)
4) Daniel Lynn (b7/25/1824-pre 2/1865) m Mary Ann Hazlett. She was a
widow in Earlville, Illinois, when her brother-in-law Samuel Lynn wrote
(2/1865) to half-sister Margaret Lynn (later Caufield)
Samuel C Lynn (b3/13/1856)
William H Lynn
5) Rebecca McCray Lynn (8/8/1826-1858) was named for her aunt,
Rebecca McCormick who married William McCray. Rebecca M. Lynn m1 Joseph
Woodward, (mechanic, resided Catsburg/East Monongahela City, brother of
Noble Woodward, son of David Woodward m X Butler) then she m2 Elias
Jeffries, son of Nathan Jeffries, a miller (b12/28/1790 Jeffries Ford,
Chester Co, Pa, on the Brandywine) m Mary Cloud (dau of Joel Cloud,
Greene Co). They were dismissed from Dunlap's Creek Church to go to
Clayton Co, Iowa, 1856:
David Woodward;
Noble Woodward;
William Woodward (1847-2/23/1905) m Martha J.,
children...
6) Elizabeth Lynn (9/25/1831-6/11/1922) bur Salem View Cemetery, New
Salem, Fayette Co, Pa, m (3/30/1854) Benjamin King at Dunlap's Creek
Presbyterian Church: 8 children:
a) Mary Elizabeth King (3/28/1855-11/20/1931 or 11/21/1936) bur Salem
View Cemetery, m (2/22/1886) Martin Hess Holland (10/1853-8/30/1932), son
of Harvey Holland (1827-3/25/1896) m Rose Ann Hess (d9/20/1898)
William Thompson Holland m1 Ellen Heater m2
Charlotte Shallenberger
Martha Jean Holland (w Ellen Heater)
William Thompson Holland Jr (b12/1890)m Ellen (d 8/6/1930)
Benjamin King Holland (1/1893-1/13/1953) m Hattie Malone
Melvin H. Holland
Kenneth Holland
Iven A. Holland
b) James William King (6/13/1857-12/21/1926) bur Salem
View Cemetery, never married
c) Upton King (2/9/1859-7/11/1920) bur Oak Grove
Cemetery, m (11/13/1890) Nancy
Catherine Newcomer, no children
d) Rebecca/Becky Jane King (1/14/1862-6/3/1949) bur Salem
View Cemetery, never married
e) Sarah/Sally Margaret King (6/16/1865-4/21/1954) bur
Salem View Cemetery, never
married
f) Samuel King (4/25/1867-6/16/1942) bur Salem View Cem,
m (11/3/1898) Effie Stacy:
Mildred King died an infant
g) Jasper Thompson King (11/23/1869-10/29/1950) bur Smithfield Cemetery,
m (12/21/1899) Iona Pearl Ewing
Elizabeth King m Ivan Everly, killed Searight
Harford, no children
Lillian King m Carl Galbraith
Edna King m Robert Clohecy, m2 Orville Mathews
Robert Clohecy Jr. MD
h) Benjamin F. King (9/25/1871- living in 1955) m
(3/14/1901) Lou M. Brown
Wilma Brown King m Charles W. Moore
Byron Wendell Moore
Homer Finley King m Gladys Brown
Mary Lou King
Homer Finley King Jr.
Samuel King
Robert King
Benjamin King
William King
Dorothy Ann King
Byron Francis King m Hazel Fearer
Patricia King
Byron Francis King Jr.
Eleanor Jane King
Dorothy Ann King m Dale U. Cox, M.D.
Dale U. Cox Jr.
Wilma Rae Cox
7) Samuel Lynn (3/7/1834-1/2/1902) m (3/1867) Ellen Rouse, bur
Earlville, Illinois
George C Lynn (4/27/1871-1894) accidental death, m
Lillian J. Loveless
Letter from Samuel Lynn (son of Samuel Lynn m Elizabeth McCormick) to his
sister Margaret Lynn (dau of Samuel Lynn m Mary Gibson)
Letter postmarked Earlville, Ill February 18
Addressed to Miss Margaret L Lynn, Millsboro, Washington Co, Pa
Letter reads:
Earlville February 15th, 1865
Dear Sister, I again seat myself after a long delay to answer your very
welcome letter. I hope you will excuse me for my negligence. Your letter
came to hand in due time. I also received my first letter from Carrie
which I was happy to receive. I hope she may write oftener. I am happy to
learn that you have gotten a No 1 Certificate and are getting good wages
for teaching. I feel quite proud to know that I have a Sister in
possession of a good education. It is better than riches. If I had my
life to live over again, I would employ my time differently from what I
did in my boyhood while going to school. For what is life without
knowledge? The more a person knows the more they know the value of an
education. I was offered forty dollars per month this winter to teach
school. I would not accept the offer as I was afraid I could not both
teach and do the collecting of taxes of this town. The office paid me
something over one hundred dollars. I commenced collecting the middle of
December and have just finished, taking me about two months. My stump
has not bothered me since last August. I expect to have an artificial
foot in course of a month or two. Oh how glad I will be when I will be
able to walk without crutches, although I have got so used to walking
with crutches it seems like no great hardship. My health is tolerable
good but not quite so good as previous to losing a limb. I think I have
been lucky to come off with my life to have met with as many accidents as
I have. About two months ago I took a horse and sleigh and went out to
Mendota (about eight miles distant) for cousin Lizzie A Poundstone who
was going to school there. My horse was very fractious and as we were in
the night getting back and could not very well see the road, we upset.
The horse took fright and ran. I held onto the lines until he dragged me
some five or six rods when the sleigh struck me knocking me almost
senseless when I let him go. He ran about half a mile to a schoolhouse
when the boys at singing school there stopped him but the sleigh was so
broken that I had to get another team to get home. I soon got over my
shock and thought I was not much hurt, but the next morning I could
scarcely get out of my bed. I did not fully recover for two or three
weeks. Lizzie escaped unhurt.
The Methodists have had quite a revival here in Earlville getting
in all about eighty new converts. The meeting commenced the first of
January and is still holding on. Mr Gross (?) is the name of the
minister. A greater part of the time he had no one to assist him. His
friends made him a donation a few nights since donating him between five
and six hundred dollars. He deserves it as he gets but a small salary
and has labored very hard for the salvation of souls. He is very zealous
in the cause of Christianity and is a man of rare talents. I think he is
just such a man as is needed here.
You wish to know how much it will cost to get a likeness taken of
Father's here. I do not know it makes no difference. If I have a chance
of getting it taken off I will do it and pay for it and send it to you.
They do not take very good pictures here in Earl. And I have not been to
Ottawa since you wrote me last. You also wished me to send you my
photograph. I have had none taken since a short time after I came home
from the Army. They are very homely however I will send you one. And I
can send you another when I get more taken if they are any better. I want
you to write soon and send me yours and Carrie's. You ask where I make
my home. I make my home since Daniel died with Mary Ann (the widow). I do
not know how long I shall be here. I presume I will make my home here
until I get my foot, when I will try and get in some kind of business.
The citizens of Earlville are trying to get me the Post Office. A large
majority wish me to get it. It lies altogether with Burton C Cook, our
Congressman from this district. He has the power to give it to whom he
has a mind to after the 4th of March. But he should go according to the
wish of the people. I understand it pays about a thousand dollars a
year. I will quietly wait for the result. Carrie says Aunt Henrietta
asks if I like potato soup yet. Tell her I am just as fond of it as
ever. I wish I was back there to have a mess of potato soup with all of
you once more. Perhaps I will pay a visit before another year goes by.
I will close hoping these few lines will find you all well. Give
my love to Carrie and Mother and Aunt Henrietta and all enquiring
friends. Your Affectionate Brother,
Please write soon. Samuel Lynn
Samuel Lynn m2 (2/5/1838) Mary/Polly Gibson (8/9/1803-6/20/1889),
daughter of James Gibson (1755-11/24/1836) and Margaret Lackey Gibson
(1769-1853), Fayette County Register of Wills lists death of Mary Lynn
as 8/6/1896, age 81, but we know she survived the flood of 1889. Family
tradition has her facing the Monongahela River at the front door, broom
in hand!
8) Henrietta Lynn (5/22/1839-7/1839)
9) Margaret Louise Lynn (11/24/1841-9/1912) m (7/15/1874) Thomas
Hynes Caufield (4/24/1829-4/1913)
a) John Gibson Caufield (5/21/1875-2/2/1902)
b) William Oliver Caufield (8/14/1876-2/1879)
c) Carrie Lynn Caufield (3/1/1879-12/2/1955) m
(4/24/1915) George Clement
Michener
d) (Mary) Edna Caufield (11/15/1880-2/1972) m (9/4/1900)
George Chancellor Virgin(9/27/1874-5/9/1937), son of Amanuel Virgin
(3/25/1845-11/21/1921, son of Jesse Virgin m2 Clarinda Hupp) m Ellen M
Dawson (7/11/1855-11/27/1919) bur at the Bumgarner Cemetery, behind
Millsboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Millsboro, Penna.
*Paul Howard Virgin (12/8/1902-1978) m Mary Steeves
(2/6/1911-12/22/1991), dau of Dr Edward W. Steeves m Mary Jane Crudden
*Ralph Eugene Virgin (11/8/1904-1932) auto
accident
*Elsie Idahalia Virgin (11/26/1908-2/20/1983) m1
Roland Kinder
(d1952) m2 Robert Stingle
*Dorothy Virginia Virgin (b12/8/1911) Millsboro,
m (9/5/1942) Dorsey Humphrey
(d1/7/1948) son of
Everett Humphrey m Effie
Sykes
*Margaret Ellen Virgin (2/19/1913-12/1985) m (Thomas) Herbert Gabler, son
of Ernest Raymond Gabler m Arcie Titus
e) Paul Roland Caufield (3/18/1885-7/26/1958) m (4/4/1916) Goldie
Virginia Warne (4/4/1892-5/30/1991):
*Margaret Virginia Cauffield (b8/14/1917) m Frederick Hugh Shuman
(1/28/1913-10/1973), son of Lewis Frederick Shuman (9/14/1881-1/18/1948)
m Mary Elizabeth Barry (7/17/1881-8/10/1967)
*Anna Lynn Cauffield (b8/1/1921) m Robert William Burns
(12/7/1917-2/29/1988), son of Walter Burns (12/30/1875-9/14/1936) m Sarah
Jane Alderdice (3/26/1882-11/22/1952)
*John Warne Cauffield (12/31/1924-1/3/1925)
*Edna May Cauffield (2/24/1926-2/4/1997) m Robert Anderson Mycoff
(b1/15/1924), son of Walter J. Mycoff (b6/29/1897) m Florence M Leader
*Patricia Joanne Cauffield (12/6/1930-9/23/1983) m (6/17/1950, Ohio)
Alvin Harry Kautz
10) Frances Eleanor Lynn (8/1844-2/13/1857), baptized as Frances Ellen
(6/22/1845), Dunlap's Creek tombstone said she was 12
11) Sarah Caroline Lynn (b1/15/1847, bap.6/21/1847-3/18/1888) never
married
Ayres Lynn (1807-4/27/1889, Connellsville) m Susannah Johns (b1814) dau
of Daniel Johns (b1793)
Daniel Lynn (b1831) m Malinda (b1842)
Alfetta Lynn (b1865)
Thomas J Lynn (b1868)
Sarah Lynn (b1869)
Samuel Lynn (b1833) m Rebecca (b1832)
Sarah Lynn (b1858)
Robert Lynn (b1861)
King E Lynn (b1863)
Albert Lynn (b1867)
Sarah S Lynn (b4/2/1836) m (1857) Josiah K Brewer (Genealogical
and Personal History of Fayette Co PA, Vol III 1912 pg 864-865)
The obituary for Ayres Lynn in the Connellsville Courier 5/1889:
One of our oldest citizens was stricken with paralysis some days before
he died in April 27, 1889 at age 83, buried in Fairview Methodist
Cemetery.
Ayres Lynn's will is recorded Will Book 7, p270 reads as follows: To all
to whom it may concern be it known by this instument of writing that I
Ayers Lynn a farmer and resident of Jefferson township, Fayette County
and stae of Pennsylvania being of sound mind and good health do hereby
make and publish this as my last will and testament: First at my death I
do hereby will and bequeath to my wife Susan Lynn all my property boath
Real and personal that I may be possessed of at the time of my decease to
have and to hold for her own use during her natural life and at the
decease of my wife Susan Lynn: the household goods consisting of all
goods and chattles used in and about the house for housekeeping are to be
equally divided between my three children, namely Daniel Lynn, Samuel
Lynn and Sarah Lynn intered married with Josiah Brewer.
Second, and at the decease or as soon after as convenient of my wife
Susan Lynn I will and bequeath that all my real estate shall and is
hereby given to my son Daniel Lynn and I do farther direct that for and
in consideration of the above named bequest to my son Daniel Lynn that he
shall pay or cause to be paid to my son Samuel Lynn the sum of three
hundred dollars in yearly installments to say one hundred dollars in one
year after the death of my wife Susan Lynn and then one hundred dollars a
year until the whole amount is paid and my son Daniel Lynn is to pay
interest on the sum of one hundred dollars of the above from the time of
my wife's decease until all is paid.
Allso my son Daniel is to pay or cause to be paid to my daughter Sarah
Brewer the sume of two hundred and twenty five dollars; she the said
Sarah Brewer having already received seventy five dollars the said amount
of two hundred and twenty five is to be paid in three equal annual
payments that is to say seventy-five dollars in one year after the
decease of my wife Susan Lynn and seventy-five dollars a year thereafter
until all is paid and he my son Daniel Lynn is to pay interest on the
last payment from t he time of the decease of my wife Susan Lynn until
all is paid.
And I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Daniel Lynn my executor and
do desire that he settle up my estate. Signed sealed and delivered this
26th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty one. Ayrs Lynn (seal) Attest J A Hopkins W H Hopkins
We have neither birth nor death dates, nor mother's name, nor
wife's name for son William. However, tax records at the Fayette County
Courthouse in Uniontown, Penna, show Fanny Lynn, living on 114 acres from
1816 to 1829, joined in 1817 by Samuel Lynn with 60 acres. In 1821, Ayres
Lynn and John Lynn join Fanny and Samuel. Daniel Lynn joins the list from
1827. Either John Lynn or Daniel Lynn apparently left and was not heard
from again. The 1790 Census shows both a William Lynn (Maggie's great
grandfather), whose household included 4 males over 16 years of age, and
(son) William Lynn, with 2 males over 16; the 1810 Census shows only
(son) William Lynn with five males over 16 years.
Further evidence for the two brothers Lynn, descendants of
William, is a reference to Samuel Lynn's brother in a letter to Samuel
and second wife, Mary Gibson Lynn, from Mary's sister, Ellen E Gibson
Stevenson, of Bloomington, Iowa:
On the outside of letter, postmark: Bloomington Nov 17
Samuel Lynn
Brownsville
Fayette Co
Penna
Inside the letter: Bloomington November 17th 1845
Dear Brother and Sister,
I now take up my pen to inform you that I am well at present
hoping these few lines may find you enjoying the same blessing. We
arrived here safe on the 13 of May and rented a house and went to
housekeeping on the next day in Bloomington. It is situated on the west
bank of the Mississippi. There is a very good landing here and it is
quite a business place and I think it as large as Uniontown. There has
been shipped from here to St Louis some fifty or sixty thousand bushels
of wheat and there would have been a mutch larger quantity but for the
lowness of the water as there is great difficulty in crossing the rapids
at ____nch. The merchants have commenced storing as our streets is
crowded with wheat wagons every day. The crop has been very good here.
The corn is as good as I every saw in Pennsylvania. The land is very
ritch. The people here care nothing about gardens. They have them in
their fields. I saw one onion bed of two acres on wich they raised five
hundred bushels from the seed and a great many of them was as large as
saucers. This is beautiful country and I like it much better than I
expected. We have had a very warm dry summer. The weather was much
warmer than I ever felt in Pennsylvania. We laid with open doors and
windows for more than two months.
We have been sick with slight fevers but are all well except
Alexander. He was taken with liver complaint the first of September and
was confined to the house and bed until the first of this but is able to
walk about now. I have been very unwell the most of the summer and this
fall had a bleading on the lungs witch made me very weak but is better
than I have been for a year. I was very sorry to hear that you and
family was so afflicted. I received a letter from Henrietta written on
the 5 of october stating George Gibsons death. I feel sincerely sorry
for Mary and Alexander in there affliction.
I want you to excuse me for not writing sooner for I feel myself
under great obligation to you for your kindness to us. I am very uneasy
about M Jane as they have not wrote since the last of August. I want you
both to advise them such as their father and me would do if present. I
want you to write particularly about how they are and tell Mother I would
like to see her for I often think I am with you all. I don't want you to
think I have forgotten my friends for I shed many a tear and would give
worlds to see you all but this cannot be. Sometimes I think I will come
in the spring but cant tell how it may be for I am often laid by and the
distance is so great that I am affraid to undertake it. Give my love to
Mother and all the rest of my friends.
Mr Lynn, I want you to come and see the country. I would like to
have you for a neighbour. When you write tell me if you have had any
account of your brother. There has been several of our Uniontown people
here to see the country Mr Ewing, Mr Fuller, Mr Phillips Bradberry, Mr
Wallace Baily and ____ were all here this fall but made no purchase.
Fruit is very scarce here. Apples is four dollars and a half a
barrel. We got peaches for one dollar a bushel so we have to console
ourselves and eat pumpkin pie. This is a great place for fish in the
summer season. We had them very plenty. I used often to wish you had
share of them. I want to see Margaret and Frances. Tell them that Ewing
sends his love to them and says he is going to Pennsylvania. Mary R
sends her love to you and says you may look for a letter. George sends
his love to all of you. Gibson and Alexander sends their best respects
and wishes their uncle would come and see the country for they are
delited with it. E Eliza and Henrietta sends their love to you and says
they would be very glad to see you all. Stevenson sends his love to all
of you.
Mary I want you and Lynn to write to us soon as you receive this.
Give my love to all the family and to friends and neighbours. I want you
to excuse my bad writing and spelling as I have written but one letter
beside this for twenty years.
No more but remains your affectionate Sister, Ellen E Stevenson
Affiliated with the Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian Church of his
father, Samuel Lynn was elected school director (History of Fayette
County, p734) for Redstone Township in 1841, 1846, and in 1850; Isaac
Lynn was elected in 1855. Samuel Lynn was elected again in 1857, the year
he died. J Linn was elected in 1866; T C Lynn was elected in 1880.
Samuel Lynn was followed as a school director by his son-in-law, Joseph
Woodward, husband of Rebecca McCray Lynn, who served in 1868, 1871, and
1877. Their son, William Woodward, served two stints in the Civil War
with Company E of the Sixth Heavy Artillery, 212th of the Line.
Samuel Lynn (12/25/1793-8/12/1857) left the following will
(Fayette Co, Will Book III, p284): In the name of God, Amen, I, Samuel
Lynn of Redstone Township, Fayette County, State of Pennsylvania, being
weak in body but of sound mind and memory, conscious of the uncertainty
of life and the certainty of death and feeling desirous of arranging all
my worldly affairs whilst I am blessed with capacity so to do, I make and
publish this my last will and testament.
First, I command my immortal soul to God who gave it and my body
to the earth, the estate with which it hath pleased God to entrust to me
I dispose of in manner following: to.wit.
It is my will that all of my just debts be paid out of my estate.
I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Mary Lynn, one sorrel
mare called Fanney, saddle and bridles, one cow her choice, two feather
beds and bedding for winter and sumer and bedsteads, a sham and secretary
and bureau, the carpet in the dining room and carpet in the bedroom above
parlor, one set of Winsor chairs, her choice, one half of the loopbound
furniture, one half of the cooking utensils used in the kitchen, one
looking glass her choice, one small iron kettle, one breakfast table.
The residue of my present estate of whatever it may consist,
together with all my real estate, I wish, it is my will that the same be
sold to the best advantage as soon as it may seem convenient to do so by
my executors herein named and the proceeds of such sale to be distributed
in a manner following after payment of any debts as noted above, and in
addition to the above bequeathment to my wife Mary, it is my will that my
executors place upon interest the sum of one thousand dollars which
interest of six percent upon said one thousand is to be paid annually to
my wife during the time she remains my widow, and in case she should
intermarry and cease to be my widow, the said interest is to cease and
she is to have paid to her six hundred dollars which is hereby bequeathed
to her absolutely and which sum of six hundred dollars is to be paid in
two equal annual payments after she ceases to be my widow.
Upon further consideration it is my will that the executors let
the one thousand dollars remain in the hands of the purchasers of my real
estate he paying annually six percent interest the remainder of the
proceeds of my estate real and personal.
I bequeath to my dear children share and share alike, except my
daughter Mary Jane Woodward who has received from me property to the
amount of one hundred fifty five dollars sixteen cents, which property
being charged at high rates, I now reduce the amount of said property to
the sum of one hundred thirty dollars, which sum of one hundred and
thirty dollars stands as charge and is to be accounted as part of her
equal legacy when the said six hundred dollars is paid to my widow, if
done at all.
The remaining four hundred dollars is to revert to my estate and
be divided as above stated amongst my children, the legacies herein
bequeathed my children to be passed to my sons when they arrive at the
age of twenty one years and to my daughters when they arrive at the age
of eighteen years.
I constitute and appoint George Craft my executor of this my last
will hereby revoking and making void all other wills at any time
heretofore made by me. In testimony whereof I hereby set my hand and
affix my seal the 24th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty five.
Samuel Lynn Martin Hess Lewis Hess
Fayette County
Be it remembered that on the 29th day of August 1857 _____ appeared
before me Jno Collins Register for the Probated of Wills and granting
Letters of Administration in and for said County, Martin Hess and Lewis
Hess, witnesses to the foregoing instrument and last will of Samuel Lynn
and on their solemn oath did respectively declare and say that they saw
the testator sign, seal and heard him proclaim the same to be his last
will and testament when of sound mind and understanding; that they know
of no undo influence or later Will made said ___ to their knowledge or
belief and that they subscribed their names as witnesses thereto in his
presence and at his request and in the presence of each other. In
witness whereby I have placed my hand and seal of the office of Register
of said County this 29th day of August AD 1857. Jno Collins, Register