User Home Pages: The Donahue's from Somerset Co., PA
The Donahue's from Somerset Co., PAUpdated July 24, 2001 | |
| Karon Marie Donahue 2010 Evergreen Terr. Dr. W. Apt. #1 Carbondale,IL 62901 | Recently becoming involved in geneological research we have compled a beginning number of over 100 names to our family tree.While many family members have spread to different parts of the country, for over 160 years certain family ancestors and decendants have lived in Somerset County, PA. My grandmother Maude (Shultz)Donahue's family was located in the 1850 census records in Upper Turkeyfoot Township of Somerset County.Her grandparents Christina or Ann Chrissinger and Daniel Shultz had 13 children, 6 of whom were born prior to the 1850 census.They were married in 1839 in Somerset County.Maude Donahue had her 90th birthday on June 19, 2001 in Stoystown, PA.All of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were present. My grandfather Gerald Donahue, deceased, was a former coal miner and steel worker in the region was one of 5 children born of Thomas Donahue and Clarissa Pheasant.Clarissa had remarried to Orville Bowman and had two children Betty and Kenny.Thomas Donahue was the child of Thomas Donahue and Mary McDowell.Her parents Liddie Stewart and Andrew McDowell were also from the area. My grandparents of my mothers side, Marie Jeanice Speckmann and James William Combs Sr. born in 1919 and 1914 respectively, currently reside in Florida.Marie's father immigrated to the United States as a child from Hamburg, Germany.He was one of 7 children born to William and Mary Speckmann.James'family was from Illinois, and his grandparents married in Iriquois County, were from Ohio and Nashville, TN.His name was Nelson Combs, her name was America Cosby. She was of American Indian descent. Any information that would help to expand our family tree would be greatly appreciated. |
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