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Descendants of Daniel Ferree

372. BARNABUS⁶ RILEY (ANNA MARIA⁵ FERREE, JACOB⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born March 05, 1799 in Hamilton Twp., Adams Co., PA, and died December 07, 1880 in Fairfield, Adams Co., PA. He married MARY SHEETS November 27, 1823 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. She was born August 26, 1805 in Pennsylvania, and died December 07, 1880 in Adams County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for BARNABUS RILEY:
Supposedly buried at Union Cemetery, Fairfield, PA. At his death the real estate was sold to W.P. Nunnemaker, Paxtob Riley was executor of Barnabas' will.

He was a carpenter and built Maria Furace at Calendonia Iron Works

[9] (81 years, 9 months, 2 days")
* b. and bap. rec. of daughter Margaretta

* Census, 1840-50-60, PA, Adams Co., Liberty Twp.

* Census, 1870-80, PA, Adams Co., Hamiltonban Twp.

[4] p. 281, 446, 471 "...was a carpenter by trade, at which he workedthe greater part of his life. He also cultivated a farm in Liberty Township, this Co., which be bought. He built the Maria Furnace Works, in Hamiltoban Township, and theCaledonia Iron Works, in Franklin Co., Penn. He was an industrious man, of good character, and a deacon in the Lutheran Church ofr many years. In 1869 he removed to Fairfield, this Co., in which place he died." He was also an original member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamiltonban Township, first organized in 1855.

* He lived with his daughter, Lucretia, after his wife's death, until his own.

* d. rec. of son Paxton. Barnabas's grandson, David P. Riley, stated on Paxton Henry Riley's death certificate (his father) that Barnbabas was born in IRELAND. This is believed to be incorrect, as other supportative information is contradictory. The original death certificate has "Adams Co., Pa." erased and "IRELAND" written over it. According to all other information and from Barnabas's Census Schedules, he was born in Pennsylvania, and Barnabas's father was born in IRELAND, and his mother "of German extraction."
* Will, Adams Co., PA, Vol. H, p. 517 #5693
* newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler, 10 Dec. 1823 (m. date); both of Liberty Township, Adams Co., PA

On 27 Nov 1823 when Barnabus was 24, he married Mary SHEETS [1], daughter of David SHEETS (5 Jun 1775-25 Nov 1854) & Anna Maria (18 Jul 1777-29 Dec 1848). Born on 26 Aug 1805 in Freedom Twp., Adams Co., PA. Mary died on 11 Mar 1890; she was 84. Buried in Union Cem., Fairfield, Adams Co., PA.

WILL OF BARNABAS RILEY

ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; 1880

March 1st 1875 - This is My Will - This is to show My desire of distributing of My Afects after my death First I permit both of us to be buried deacent, the next I want all my Just debts paid, the next I want A deacent stones put up to show where we lie if I die before my wife. 3 - procede - line betwene the lots. 4. Mary Riley, my wife, is to have twelve hundred dollars which is to be put on intres for to keep her and if the intrest is not Sufficent to suport hir deacent and comfertable the must take of the principal to keep hir deacent as long as she lives. 5. Mary my wife, is to keep all of the furniture that she thinks that she may nead for hir benifit and comfert during hir life. 6. the children is all to stand a I have placed them in what I call ther outfit, except what will be menchened hearafter. 7. Adaline Lucinda Gearhart is to hve my arm chair. 8. Isadore Manda Nunemaker is to hve the green rockin chair. 9. Alla Eliza Butt to have the settee. 10. Lucretia Virginia Shully to have the split latern rocin chair. 11. Mary Riley to have the use of the above articulars as long as she will keep hous for hirself and if she wount keep house then each gets ther articular. 12. Daniel B. Riley gets the sadel and bridel. 13. when Mary my wife, dont see proper to keep house, she wount want much of the furniture. you had beter to divide the things amongst yourselfs and make no sale - Daniel B. Riley has got the _________ above. 14. the old house is to be sold as soon as you get A menchen for it and if ther is anny Money after the above is complyed with it is to be divided eaquill among the several children dont quarl for the few dollars. 15. and after my wifes death the brick house is to be Sold and the Money to be divided eaquill as the other. 16. I apoint Paxton Henry Riley and John Nunemaker for to be my trustees given under my hand March the first eighteen hundred and Seventy-five.
Barnabas Riley

Witness:
Peter Kready
Josephine Sanders

State of Pennsylvania
County of Adams

Personally came before me Samuel B. Harner, Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration, in and for the County aforesaid, Peter Kready & Josephine Sanders the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will, who being duly sworn according to Law, to say that they were present, and saw and heard Barnabas Riley the testator within named, sign, seal, publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing instrument of writing as and for his last will and testament, and at the time of so doing he was of sound ming, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they signed it as witnesses at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other at the same time - and that John Nunemaker one of the Executors named therein is dead.
Peter Kready
Josephine L. Sanders

Sworn and subscribed before me this 18th day of Der. A.D. 1880.
Samuel B. Harner,
Register.

Memorandum:

Whereas Letters Testamentary were this day Granted in due form of law, unto Paxton H. Riley the surviving Executor named in the foregoing Will - A true and perfect Inventory to be exhibited into the Register's Office on or before the 18 day of Jany. next - And an account of reckoning on or befor the 18th day of Decr. A.D. 1881. Witness my hand at Gettysburg, this 18th day of December, A.D. 1880.
Samuel B. Harner,
Register

More About BARNABUS RILEY:
Burial: Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield, Adams Co., PA
Occupation: Carpenter/Chair Maker

Children of BARNABUS RILEY and MARY SHEETS are:

	i.	INFANT⁷ RILEY, b. WFT Est. 1824-1850.
	ii.	WILLIAM DAVID RILEY, b. March 05, 1825; d. December 21, 1829.
1016.	iii.	LUCINDA ADELINE RILEY, b. January 01, 1827, Pennsylvania; d. April 14, 1887.
	iv.	CAROLINE RILEY, b. August 24, 1829; d. Bet. 1829 - 1830.
1017.	v.	ISADORE AMANDA RILEY, b. January 26, 1831, Pennsylvania; d. April 04, 1877.
1018.	vi.	ALLAH ELIZA RILEY, b. March 09, 1833, Pennsylvania; d. April 06, 1907.
	vii.	MARGARET MARY RILEY, b. December 28, 1835; d. May 08, 1853.

More About MARGARET MARY RILEY:
Baptism: St. James Luth, Gettysburg, Adams Co., PA
Burial: Fairfield Cem, Fairfield, PA

1019.	viii.	PAXTON HENRY RILEY, b. February 23, 1838, Caledonia, Franklin County, Pennsyvania; d. November 28, 1916, Fairfield, Adams County, Pennsyvania.
1020.	ix.	ISAAC TRIMPER RILEY, b. August 08, 1840, Adams Co, PA; d. January 11, 1911, Franklin Co, PA.
1021.	x.	LUCRETIA VIRGINIA RILEY, b. September 09, 1844, Pennsylvania; d. August 30, 1922, Womelsdorf, Berks Co, PA.
1022.	xi.	DANIEL BARNABAS RILEY, b. September 14, 1848; d. July 26, 1920, Fairfield, Adams Co., PA.

373. MICHAEL⁶ RILEY (ANNA MARIA⁵ FERREE, JACOB⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born 1803, and died March 05, 1875 in Huntingdon Twp, Adams Co., PA. He married ELIZABETH WOLF December 06, 1827 in Adams Co., PA. She was born August 24, 1808 in Liberty Twp, Adams Co., PA, and died February 10, 1892.

Notes for MICHAEL RILEY:
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Lived inLiberty Township in 1850. Had a sheriff sale of his property on July
21, 1851. Not found in Huntington Twp. in 1870. Abstracts from Republican
Compiler 1800-1830 volume 1 Married 6 Dec 1827 by E. Ziegler Esq. Mr. Michael
Riley to MISS Elizabeth Wolf, both of Hamiltonban Twp.

Notes for ELIZABETH WOLF:
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Dates from SFX. Last name given as Gallagher on David's death certificate. Name
given as Wolf in many places in St. Joseph's register.Marriage to Jonas
sGreenabaum recorded in records of Methodist Episcopal Church in York Springs
but says they were married in Bendersville.

Children of MICHAEL RILEY and ELIZABETH WOLF are:

MARIA A. "MARY"⁷ RILEY, b. 1828.

More About MARIA A. "MARY" RILEY:
Baptism: February 17, 1828, St. Joseph's Church, Emmirsburg, MD

	ii.	MARGARET JANE RILEY, b. 1829.
	iii.	SARAH ELIZABETH RILEY, b. 1831.
	iv.	LYDIA MALONIA RILEY, b. 1833.
1023.	v.	DAVID A. RILEY, b. December 27, 1835, Adams Co., PA; d. December 21, 1908, Cumberland Twp., Adams Co., PA.
	vi.	AGNES LORETTA RILEY, b. January 20, 1837.
	vii.	MICHAEL EDWARD RILEY, b. March 16, 1838.
	viii.	HARRIET RILEY, b. 1840.

Notes for HARRIET RILEY:
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Worked as a domestic for Samuel Moritz of Freedom Township in 1860

	ix.		HELENA CECELIA ADELINA RILEY, b. September 12, 1843.
	x.		LAVINIA HELEN RILEY, b. 1845.
	xi.		SAVINA J. RILEY, b. September 01, 1847; d. April 22, 1910, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA; m. WILLIAM STARNER, July 30, 1874; d. November 24, 1909.

Notes for SAVINA J. RILEY:
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2nd wife of William Starner. Mrs. William Starner died at the home of her
daughter in Pittsburgh(Centinel newspaper)
Name given as Sabilla J. on marriage license Birth date on death certificate is 31 August 1847

	xii.		JOSEPH DANIEL RILEY, b. 1848.
	xiii.		MARTHA VIRGINIA RILEY, b. June 11, 1850.
	xiv.		WILLIAM RILEY, b. 1855.

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