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Anson was born 10 OCT 1902 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He married Dorothy Ashdown. He married Ruth Unknown (Updyke) BEF 1944. He married Erma Unknown (Updyke). Anson died 24 MAY 1975 in Naples, Collier County, Florida, at age 72. His body was interred MAY 1975 in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

2 Foster Updyke #2480 Foster was born 1875 in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He married Myrtle Mae McConnell 10 JUN 1896 in State Line, Southport Township, Chemung County, New York. Foster died JUL 1941 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York, at age 66. His body was interred JUL 1941 in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 1900 Rutland Census. Myrtle and Foster lived in Friendship, Allegheny County, New York near Foster's brother Walter for a time. They were living in Lowman, Chemung County, New York in 1935 when their house burned. Foster was a patient at the State Hospital in Binghamton NY in the 1930s. This waw a state run mental hospital.

3 Myrtle Mae McConnell #2479

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Myrtle was born 30 NOV 1878 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. She married Foster Updyke 10 JUN 1896 in State Line, Southport Township, Chemung County, New York. Myrtle died 21 APR 1962 in St.Joseph's Hospital, Elmira, Chemung County, New York, at age 83. Myrtle died of stroke.

Her body was interred APR 1962 in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Joan NASH O'Dell says Myrtle died April 21, 1962. I suspect that is the burial date since they are three days apart. My earlier source said death date was April 18.

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Herman was born 7 AUG 1844 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Herman was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. The Delana Updyke listed as 25 is no doubt his mother with age recorded wrong, s/b 65. The 12 year old female with awkwardly transcribed name (Fermace) may be a niece.

He married Charlotte L. Squires 19 APR 1871 in Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He married Julia A. Clark 1873. Herman was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He resided in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1908. Farmer, Mansfield PO

Herman died 27 APR 1914 in Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, at age 69. UPDYKE, HERMAN C.

Herman C. Updyke was born on August 7, 1844, and died on April 27, 1914, in Danville, Pa., after an illness of about eleven years of melancholia, which resulted from the death of two dearly beloved children, grown to manhood and womanhood. The body was taken on Wednesday to the home of his daughter, near Troy, and on Friday taken to the old homestead in Sullivan. The funeral was largely attended at the Roseville M. E. church, on Friday, May 1, at 1 o’clock. The Rev. C. D. Smith, of Mainesburg, officiated. He was assisted by the Rev. I. T. Johnson, of Roseville. There were many floral offerings. Decedent was twice married, his first wife being Charlotte Squire, who died leaving an infant son, Elmer. In 1873 he was married to Julia A. Clark, of Mansfield. In early manhood he gave his heart to God and united with the Elk Run M. E. church, of which he was ever a loyal member. His life was of the highest order, and his word once given was never broken. His was a sunny disposition, and he was a friend to every one. He was a loving father and devoted husband. He is survived by his widow, two daughter, Mrs. Ray I. Smith, of Troy; Mrs. Clyde E. Richmond, who resides on the old homestead; four sons, Elmer, of Gray Valley, Colin, of Mansfield, and Walter and Foster, of Friendship, NY.; twelve grandchildren and a large circle of friends. Two children, Anson and Amanda, and a little grandson, Kenneth Richmond, preceded him to the better world. Interment was in the Roseville cemetery.

His body was interred APR 1914 in Watson Cemetery,Roseville, Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

5 Julia A. Clark #5055

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Julia was born 1852 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. She married Herman C. Updyke 1873. Julia, as Herman C. Updyke's wife, resided with him in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1908. Farmer, Mansfield PO

Julia died 5 FEB 1925 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York, at age 72. Obituary : Mrs Julia A. Updyke died this morning at 5 o’clock at the home of her son, Colin B. Updyke on West Hill street, aged seventy-two years. She is survived by the following sons: Colin of Elmira; Foster on the Lowman road; Walter of Friendship; two brothers, John Clark of Elmira; Colin Clark of Wellsboro; two half brothers; Frank of Elmira and Herman Clark of Mansfield; two sisters, Mrs Frank Lanterman of Elmira and Mrs Dell Kiley of Covington, Pa.; two half sisters, Mrs Gertrude Hagar of Mansfield, Pa. and Mrs Stella Crawford of Elmira Heights. The funeral will be held at the Woodlawn Chapel Saturday at 3:30 o’clock. The remains will be placed in the Woodlawn receiving vault and the spring will be removed to Roseville, Pa. for burial.

Her body was interred FEB 1925 in Watson Cemetery,Roseville, Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Buried on Updyke-Richmond Plot. Of Sullivan in sister Mary's 1893 obituary.
 
 

6 Joseph B. McConnell #2234 Flags: Death Cert; Newspaper; Photo. Joe was born 13 OCT 1849 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He married Elisabeth Weaver 3 JUN 1871 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Joe was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He resided in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1908. Farmer, Mansfield PO

Joe died 5 MAY 1913 in Elk Run, Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 63. His body was interred MAY 1913 in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Some have speculated that the middle initial of B. stands for Bryant. Whether Joe and Lib built the larger McConnell house in the locust grove or moved to it after the death of Alma and James in 1887, we don't know. In any case, Carrie was born in the newer house in 1887. The barn was struck by`lightning and burned during this gentleman's tenure as holder of the McConnell homestead, and he had to sit helplessly on the front steps and watch it burn because it went too fast to save. At the time of the barn burning, the house was in the locust grove and the barn was where the driveway is now. The locust grove house, too, burned about 1896. Following the loss of the house, the family moved back across the road and restored the dilapidated early homestead and added on to it with the house that had been on the farm below then owned by Darius Soper who built a new house (the one I lived in as a child-JMT). This resulted in two upstairs sections that did not connect until James Asher McConnell cut a doorbetween them at a much later date.

Newspaper: Mr. Joseph McCONNELL's house, with granary and dairy house attached, near Elk Run, burned yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock while Mr. and Mrs. McConnell were absent from home. Part of the contents were saved. A strong wind was blowing at the time otherwise it is thought the fire might have been put out by the neighbors who were early on the scene. The loss will approximate $1500: insurance $500 in the Grange.

Joseph died of cancer of the stomach at age 64.
 

7 Elisabeth Weaver #2235 Flags: Obit; Death Cert; Photograph. Lib was born 31 MAR 1854 in Liberty, Liberty Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Lib was listed as a household member living with Dr. Leonard Jarvis Bradford on the 1870 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Harriet Gaylord, stepmother of Leonard was in household. Leonard was a homeopathic physician. Elizabeth Weaver was a Domestic Servant, Samuel May and Edmund Ames were farm laborers. She married Joseph B. McConnell 3 JUN 1871 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Lib, as Joseph B. McConnell's wife, resided with him in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1908. Farmer, Mansfield PO

Lib died 22 JAN 1927 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York, at age 72. Obituary: Mrs. J.B. McConnell - The funeral of Mrs. J. B. McConnell was held at the Methodist church at 1:30 p.m., Monday, the Reverend Eli Pitman and the Reverend Harold G. Stearns officiating. Mrs. McConnell died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Foster Updyke, on the Lowman Road, Friday morning. A prayer service was held at the home Monday morning at 10 0'clock, and funeral services at the Mansfield Methodist church at 1:30 p.m. Mrs. McConnell had spent her entire life in Sullivan. She was a member of the Methodist church and was an active worker in the church and Sunday school. She is survived by five children, Mrs. Foster Updyke, of Lowman; Mrs. H. C. Beardsley, of Columbia Cross Roads; Mrs. J. G. Frasier, of Pine City; Reverend C. G. McConnell, of Elmira, and James McConnell of Peoria.

Her body was interred JAN 1927 in Oakwood Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Lib came to the McConnell household as a hired girl and married the young man of the house. She was active in church and community activities and was remembered as an excellent Sunday School teacher.

Abraham was born 01 JAN 1781 in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. He married Catherine Harrington* ABT 1801. He married Delana Benson ABT 1829. Abraham registered to pay taxes 1829 in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Rutland Township was formed From Jackson and Sullivan in 1828. William Howland, William Rose and Ezra Wood performed the first tax assessment.

Abraham was listed as the head of a family on the 1830 Census in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Abraham registered to pay taxes 1838 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. One hundred wild acres of land.

Abraham registered to pay taxes 1839 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 100 wild acres, one cow.

Abraham registered to pay taxes 1840 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 100 wild acres of land, one cow.

Abraham was listed as the head of a family on the 1840 Census in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Abraham registered to pay taxes 1842 in Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Two horses, three cows.

In the Census of 1850, Abraham was listed as a head of household in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Abraham and Foster were listed as farmers. Abraham's property was valued at $850.

Abraham was listed as the head of a family on the 1860 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Abraham died 1 OCT 1864 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 83. His body was interred OCT 1864 in Pumpkin Hill Cemetery, Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Laura and Lorin may be same person since one appears in 1850 census and the other in 1860 census. Children may have been born in Bradford County not Tioga. Needs verification. Info from Chemung County Hist Soc. says he was born in Tompkins County. He may, like the Smiths, have been born in NJ and then lived in Tompkins County (Smiths from Hector) and migrated again. Lowell WARTERS work gives birth in Tompkins County.

9 Delana Benson #4265

Delana was born 1804 in Brookline, Massachusetts. She married Abraham I. Updyke ABT 1829. Delana died 25 JUL 1873 at age 69. Her body was interred Jul 1873 in Pumpkin Hill Cemetery, Rutland Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

10 John C. Clark * #7307

John was born 1824 in Pennsylvania. He married Amanda M. Unknown (Clark) BEF 1846. John registered to pay taxes 1848 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 95 wild, five improved acres of land, two stags, two cows.

In the Census of 1850, John was listed as a head of household in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. John was a farmer with property worth $1000.

John was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Stella was listed in the household as keeping house, although they did not marry until October of that year.

He married Hestella Unknown (Clark) OCT 1870. John was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. John was listed in a directory in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1899. Clark John C (Mainesburg) r 4, dairy 11 cows and farmer, 170

He resided in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania 1908. John died 1909 at age 85. His body was interred 1909 in Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

11 Amanda M. Unknown (Clark) #7308

Amanda was born 1827 in Pennsylvania. She married John C. Clark* BEF 1846. Amanda died 1868 at age 41. Her body was interred 1868 in Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
 

12 James McConnell Jr. #2229 Flags: Obit; Photo. James was born 20 JUL 1814 in Connecticut. James registered to pay taxes 1833 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Taxed on 60 wild acres of land. James registered to pay taxes 1834 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 60 acres wild land James registered to pay taxes 1835 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 3 improved acres, 77 wild acres, 2 oxen, 2 cows. He married Alma Bryant BEF 1836. James registered to pay taxes 1837 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Three improved acres, 142 wild acres, 2 oxen, 3 cows. James registered to pay taxes 1838 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Fifty wild acres, two oxen, two cows. James registered to pay taxes 1839 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Eighty wild acres, one cow. James registered to pay taxes 1840 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Eight acres of wild land, one cow.

James was listed as the head of a family on the 1840 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Alma and James lived next door to her uncle and aunt Justus WOOD and Elizabeth Schoolcraft ROSE. Joe McConnell and Susan still live inthis property today, over 150 years later.

James registered to pay taxes 1841 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Six improved, 74 wild acres of land, one cow.

James registered to pay taxes 1842 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Six improved, 74 wild acres of land, one cow.

James registered to pay taxes 1845 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. In the Census of 1850, James was listed as a head of household in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. This is the place which has always been a McConnell family farm. Joseph McConnell lives there now in retirement. James was a farmer with property valued at $1500. The census taker recorded him as an illiterate.

James was listed as the head of a family on the 1860 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. James was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. In addition to family, 22 year old Jane Smith in family as Domestic Servant.

James was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. James died 22 MAR 1887 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 72. His body was interred MAR 1887 in Wood Cemetery, Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. James and Alma bought and settled on the property now called The Summer Home by the McCONNELL family. Tioga County was part of a large tract which had remained in Indian hands until the Treaty of 1784 at Fort Stanwix. William Bingham was a Pennsylvania Senator in Philadelphia who had purchased, starting in 1792, over a million acres of land in New York and Pennsylvania that the commonwealth had surveyed after the 1784 treaty. Following his death in 1804, his heirs continued to sell the land, a process he had already begun. This was called the Bingham Estate and it was from this tract that James and Alma bought the property which has been under McConnell ownership from that time to the present. The property adjoined the property of Alma's uncle, Justus Wood and his wife, Elizabeth Schoolcraft Rose, who were the ancestors of the Woods who lived next door to the McConnells for 140 years or so until Tom Wood sold the property at his retirement in the 1970s.

Alma and James cleared the land and built their first house, possibly a log cabin, on the site of the present McConnell home. Later a nicer house was built in the area now called the locust grove. Whether James and Alma built that house and left the older house for Joe and Lib until 1887 when they both died, or whether Joe and Lib built the new house leaving the older house for the parents is unknown.

James and Alma bought adjoining farms for their three daughters. The one we lived in when I was growing up (Soper Place/Rumsey Place) went to Molly and her husband William Welch who were the parents of Freeman, my great grandmother Ruth Holly's first husband. The one on the corner (Soper's Corners), where now both the house and barn are gone, went to Jeanette and her husband Stephen Beach. The one at the top of the hill where so many people have lived, where Carrie and Henry Beardslee died, went to Caroline and her husband Alvah Gray. When the elder McConnells died, their son Joseph was required to pay off his sisters for their portion of the homestead. Resentment of this passed down even to when Joan Nash (O'Dell) was growing up. She heard about it from her grandmother Carrie and her great aunts.

James and Alma died within a few weeks of each other in 1887. Some have believed that James' middle name was Asher, but there is so evidence to substantiate this, and it was at a time when few people had middle names. Obituary- abstract- Mansfield Advertiser 23 Mar 1887- James McConnell died Elk Run Monday night, aged and respected, 4 children: Mrs. Stephen Beach, Mansfield; Mrs. Alva Gray and Joseph McConnell of Elk Run; Mrs. W. W. Welch of Richmond twp.; buried Wood Hill Cemetery.

13 Alma Bryant #2228

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Alma was born 16 MAR 1816 in Connecticut. She married James McConnell Jr. BEF 1836. Alma died 23 JAN 1887 in Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, at age 70. From Newspaper Column: Mrs James McConnell is lying dead at her home near Chandlersburg. Funeral services tomorrow. Rev. King will officiate.

Her body was interred JAN 1887 in Wood Cemetery, Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
 

14 Jacob Weaver #2239 Flags: Photograph. Jacob was born 24 MAR 1832 in Jackson Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylania. He married Catherine Carroll 6 MAR 1853 in Liberty, Liberty Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Jacob died 21 JAN 1899 in Northe Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, at age 66. His body was interred JAN 1899 in Northe Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska.

15 Catherine Carroll #2238 Flags: Photograph. Catherine was born 13 MAY 1836 in Sidney, Delaware County, New York. She married Jacob Weaver 6 MAR 1853 in Liberty, Liberty Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Catherine died 1916 in Kingsley, Michigan, at age 80. The following summary was written by James Asher McConnell July 20, 1960. The Carroll family, which was the family of my grandmother on the maternal side, according to our memory which was told us, came from Sidney, New York and settled at what was then called the Block House about 20 miles south of Mansfield, my present home. They came through the woods a distance of perhaps 150 miles or more by oxcart. The country they settled in was heavily timbered high hills or low mountains, whichever you want to call them, with some farming possible after the timber was cleared off, and as I understand it, most of it was burned. The village was named after the Block House which actually existed. It is now called Liberty. Whether Catherine Carroll, my grandmother, was born at the time the journey was made, or later, I do not know. We do not know the date of the journey, but it was sometime probably between 1830 and 1853, certainly not later than 1853 because Catherine and Jacob Weaver were married during that year.

From James A. McConnell. - My grandmother, Catherine, who was a very nice person, not given to bragging or talking too much, maintained that she was a direct descendant of the Charles Carroll of Carrolton, Maryland, who was a signer of the Decalration of Independence. I do not lay so much store by this supposed event as some, but it is interesting to know, even though it may not be true. There is some support for this story in the fact that some of my grandmother's near ancestors had been Catholic, although at the time I knew my grandmother she was Protestant, and apparently had been raised as such. The Weavers seemed to have been Pennsylvania Dutch, and came up from the country south of the Block House, from what is now Williamsport , and Harrisburg, the capitol of Pennsylvania. Jacob's father, Henry, was a tavern keeper at the Block House. In fact, as my sister remembers it, the tavern was in the Block House. She recalls visiting with her mother some of the relatives around the Block House when she was a small girl, and dimmly remembers the Block House itself.

The Weaver family began drifting westward to Nebraska in the 1880's somewhere around 1885 when Jacob and family left. I am not sure that all the boys went at that time. Perhaps some of them were already there. Jacob, I believe, never came back East,although his wife Catherine, came back here and lived with my mother and father from time to time, and died with one of her sons who at the time was living in Michigan.