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Descendants of Daniel Ferree

384. RACHAEL⁶ FOSTER (ELIZABETH⁵ FERREE, PHILIP⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born December 24, 1799 in Pennsylvania, and died February 10, 1874. She married JOSEPH SMITH LEFEVRE, son of JOSEPH LEFEVRE and SALOME CARPENTER. He was born May 08, 1795 in Paradise, Lancaster Co, PA, and died April 10, 1875.

Children are listed above under (224) Joseph Smith LeFevre.

385. RACHEL SLAYMAKER⁶ FERREE (PHILLIP⁵, PHILIP⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born February 08, 1806 in Pennsylvania, and died June 21, 1886 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. She married WALTER DAVIS 1829. He was born 1804 in Ireland, and died 1866 in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

More About RACHEL SLAYMAKER FERREE:
Burial: Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Notes for WALTER DAVIS:
A Scotch-Irish emigrant for Londonderry, he and his wife settled on a farm near London Grove, below Paradise. He was pf that branch of the Davis family that settled about Pittsburgh and had come to this country intending to join them. His voyage was over the southern route, and it took him 90 days to sail from Belfast, Ireland, to New Castle, Delaware, where he landed. While traveling through Lancaster County he was so pleased with the country and the people, that he secured work and remained there all his life.

He was an austere man and a stricy churchman and a lifetime member of the Presbyterian Church at Paradise. His honesty was such that it was a common saying long after his death in that part of the country, to say a man was "as honest as Walter Davis".

He died in 1866 and was buried in Caprenter's Graveyard, while his wife, Rachel, survived him by 20 years and died at the home of her daughter, Sarah, in Harrisburg, PA, June 21, 1886 and was buried there.

More About WALTER DAVIS:
Burial: Carpenters Cemetary, Paradise Twp.Lanc.Co.Pa.

Children of RACHEL FERREE and WALTER DAVIS are:

1040.	i.	JOHN SLAYMAKER⁷ DAVIS, b. 1829, Pennsylvania; d. 1882.
1041.	ii.	ELIZABETH DAVIS, b. 1831, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1908, The Gap, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	iii.	SAMUEL DAVIS, b. 1833, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1833.
1042.	iv.	MARY JANE DAVIS, b. 1834, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1887.
	v.	WILLIAM FERREE DAVIS, b. 1835, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1835.
1043.	vi.	SARAH ANN DAVIS, b. 1838, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. February 10, 1912, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
1044.	vii.	RACHAEL FERREE DAVIS, b. December 01, 1839, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	viii.	MARTHA DAVIS, b. 1841; d. 1844.
1045.	ix.	JOSEPH FERREE DAVIS, b. 1844, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
1046.	x.	SUSANNAH DAVIS, b. 1846, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1921, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

386. HENRY⁶ MARSH (TAMAR⁵ FERREE, PHILIP⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born 1797, and died 1832. He married LYDIA MARSH May 04, 1820, daughter of JAMES MARSH and LYDIA MOORE. She was born April 17, 1797 in Sadsbury Twp, Chester Co, PA, and died February 07, 1829 in Chester Co, PA.

More About LYDIA MARSH:
Burial: Friends burial ground, Sadsbury, PA

Child of HENRY MARSH and LYDIA MARSH is:

JANE⁷ MARSH, b. 1821; m. SAMUEL CARY, 1840.

387. ANN⁶ FERREE (JOEL⁵, PHILIP⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born April 20, 1796 in Shenandoah Co., Va., and died May 1847 in Paxton, Sullivan Co., In.. She married ISAAC POSTLEWAITE September 07, 1813 in Jefferson Co, KY. He was born January 23, 1793 in Kentucky, and died October 03, 1851 in Sullivan Co, IN.

More About ANN FERREE:
Burial: Boone Graveyard, Paxton, Sullivan Co., In.

Children of ANN FERREE and ISAAC POSTLEWAITE are:

	i.	JOEL F.⁷ POSTLEWAITE, b. June 13, 1814, Jefferson Co, KY.
	ii.	POLLY POSTLEWAITE, b. June 14, 1814, Jefferson Co, KY.
	iii.	ANN MARIE POSTLEWAITE, b. June 21, 1816, Jefferson Co, KY.
	iv.	JOHN K. POSTLEWAITE, b. February 06, 1819, Carlisle, Sullivan Co, IN; m. KEZIAH SUMMERS; b. Abt. 1826, Indiana.
1047.	v.	JAMES LEATH POSTLEWAITE, b. May 27, 1820, Carlisle, Sullivan Co., In.; d. January 12, 1891, Russellville, In..
	vi.	SAMUEL ISAAC POSTLEWAITE, b. December 17, 1828, Jefferson Co, KY; m. ELLEN HALL.
	vii.	WILLIAM H. POSTLEWAITE, b. December 22, 1829, Sullivan Co., In.; d. August 20, 1851, Sullivan Co, IN.

More About WILLIAM H. POSTLEWAITE:
Burial: Ledgerwood Cemetery, Sullivan Co, Ind.

viii.

ELIZABETH POSTLEWAITE, b. August 25, 1832, Sullivan Co., In.; m. JAMES HANCOCK, December 07, 1850, Sullivan Co, IN; b. Abt. 1827, Indiana.

388. LYDIA A.⁶ FERREE (JOEL⁵, PHILIP⁴, PHILIP³, DANIEL², JEAN¹ LA VERREE) was born January 01, 1798 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and died January 06, 1848 in Jeffersontown, Sullivan Co., In.. She married JACOB LINDER PIRTLE Abt. 1822 in Sullivan Co., Indiana, son of HENRY PIRTLE and MARY VINEY. He was born April 06, 1783 in Berkely County, Virginia, and died September 26, 1861 in Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, Indiana.

More About JACOB LINDER PIRTLE:
Burial: Pirtle Cem., Sullivan Co., IN

Children of LYDIA FERREE and JACOB PIRTLE are:

	i.		CASSANDRA⁷ PIRTLE.
	ii.		NANCY ELLEN PIRTLE, b. July 29, 1821, Sullivan County, Indiana; m. (1) GEORGE N. PIRTLE; b. 1813, Kentucky; d. 1861, Sullivan Co, IN; m. (2) WILLIAM P. WALTERS, October 10, 1863, Sullivan Co, IN.
	iii.		JOEL FERREE PIRTLE, b. March 31, 1823, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. September 25, 1853 ²⁵⁶; m. NANCY PRICE, November 07, 1844, Greene Co, IN; b. Kentucky.
	iv.		THOMAS WALES PIRTLE, b. January 25, 1825, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶; d. July 18, 1855; m. MARY ANN WOLFE, September 10, 1851, Sullivan County, Indiana.
	v.		WILLIAM LINDER PIRTLE, b. October 21, 1826, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶; d. August 01, 1853; m. MARY ANN FERREE²⁵⁶, October 08, 1850, Sullivan Co., Indiana; b. September 08, 1830, Paxton, Sullivan Co., In.; d. February 25, 1907, Carlisle, Sullivan Co., In..

More About WILLIAM LINDER PIRTLE:
Census: 1850, Hadden Twp, Sullivan Co, IN
Occupation: 1850, Farmer

Notes for MARY ANN FERREE:
Name: William L. Pirtle
Spouse: Mary A. Ferree
Marriage Date: 08 Oct 1850
Performed By: V. D. M.
Name/b>: J. W. Wolfe

Posted by: Patti Strickler (ID *****0902) Date: December 10, 2002 at 14:39:04
In Reply to: Re: nancy ferree / lisle pirtle ind? by Mike Smoke of 732

I have some information to pass along about Mary Ferree, whom you have to be a daughter of Joel Ferree, and who married William L. Pirtle and was born c1818.

I have the following obit from the Terre Haute Star, pg. 9, Tues, Feb 26, 1907:

"Mrs. Mary (Serlee) Markee, 77 years old, one of the pioneer residents of Haddon Township, died at 1 o'clock this afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Alumbaugh, here, after a long illness resulting from a stroke of paralysis.

Mrs. Markee was born in near Paxton, this county, and married William L. Pirtle in 1850. Pirtle died in 1853 and his widow married Isaac Newton Markee in 1856. Markee died in 1883, and since that time Mrs. Markee had made her home with her daughter. She is survived by four children, Mrs. W.Q. Rogers of Loogootee, Mrs. Frank Buckley of Monett, MO, Mrs. J.F. Alumbaugh of this place and William Markee of Chicago.The Funeral will be held at the Carlisle Christian Church Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial will be in the Carlisle Cemetary."

This 1907 obit gives her age as 77 years. Her birthdate, then, would be closer to 1830. While the obit says Serlee, the information in the body of the obit points directly to the marriage records of Sullivan Co. and the marriage of Mary to William L. Pirtle. Also, to support the fact that her surname was Ferree and the newspaper made a typo, there is a 20-yr old Mary Ferree enumerated on pg. 395 in Hadden Twn. in the 1850 census in the home of Thos. Ledgewood. She is enumerated next to 25 yr. old William L. Pirtle (also living in the Ledgewood household), whom she would marry two months later. She then married Isaac N. Markee, a nephew of my ancestor Margaret (Markee) Browning, on 29 May 1856 in Sullivan County.

As the census info and the obit seems to strongly suggest that the Mary Ferree who married Pirtle and then Markee was b. c1830 and not c1818 as was the Mary who was the daughter of Joel and Mary (Leeth) Ferree, I am wondering if perhaps there are two Marys? I don't know for sure, but I was wanting to pass this info on to you for your information. The obit doesn't mention parents....who could they be?

Response:

Brother of Joel Ferree, Philip Copeland Ferree is the father of the Mary Ferree who married Isaac Marker and Wm. Pirtle. Philip was born 6/11/1804 and died 10/1847. He married Margaret Trimble (1806-1837). Joel's daughter Mary b. 1810 married Abel Carey Pirtle in 1827.

More About MARY ANN FERREE:
Census: 1850, Hadden Twp, Sullivan Co, IN

vi.

PHILIP COPELAND PIRTLE, b. December 23, 1828, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. March 10, 1909, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶; m. (1) ELIZABETH M. LASSELL; m. (2) ELETHA WOLFE, March 05, 1850, Sullivan County, Indiana.

More About PHILIP COPELAND PIRTLE:
Burial: Pirtle Cemetery, Sullivan County, IN

	vii.		ELIZA A. PIRTLE, b. 1831, Sullivan County, Indiana; m. (1) JOHN W. SHAKE, November 23, 1876; m. (2) ALLEN CHAMBERS, February 13, 1887, Sullivan County, Indiana.
	viii.		ISAAC P. PIRTLE, b. August 15, 1832, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶; d. August 18, 1855, Sullivan County, Indiana; m. ALVIRA HENRY, December 25, 1854, Sullivan County, Indiana; b. WFT Est. 1827-1835²⁵⁶.
	ix.		GEORGE WASHINGTON PIRTLE, b. June 21, 1834, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. August 04, 1860; m. RUTH ELLEN SHIPMAN, January 01, 1857, Sullivan Co, IN.
	x.		LYDIA ANN PIRTLE, b. November 10, 1836, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. July 28, 1955, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶.

More About LYDIA ANN PIRTLE:
Burial: Pirtle Cemetery, Sullivan County, IN

1048.	xi.		JACOB LINDER PIRTLE, b. November 10, 1836, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. November 16, 1878, Missouri.
	xii.		JOHN KINNEY PIRTLE, b. February 20, 1839, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. November 24, 1908, Sullivan County, Indiana²⁵⁶; m. (1) RACHEL JANE WOODWARD, February 18, 1863, Sullivan County, Indiana; b. 1844²⁵⁶; d. 1891; m. (2) EVALINE JANE WALTERS, Aft. 1890.

More About JOHN KINNEY PIRTLE:
Burial: Pirtle Cemetery, Sullivan County, IN

xiii.

SUSANNAH A. PIRTLE, b. March 18, 1840, Sullivan County, Indiana; d. 1927; m. WILLIAM FRANKLIN SMITH; b. WFT Est. 1830-1845.

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