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HESRY CLAY TOJTSSF-IIP. dividual traits. I n 1S66,nt the age of forty-fhr, a time of life when most men, especially those engaged in active business, \\-ould be disinclined to con~mencea new study, the captain, until that time unable to read a musical note, took up the study of music, as a pastime as well as a science, pursuing i t faithfully for three years before h e felt competent to attempt to instruct i n the art. H e is now well equipped, a successful teacher, and instructs pupils in Sunday- and common schools. Perhaps h e is more noted as a teacher of music than in any other capacity. H e mould say so of himself; but h e is as well noted throughout the region he inhabits as an excellent neighbor, highminded public citizen, and warm-hearted friend.
SAXUEL ALLCBAUGH.
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Is 1S33, at the January session of court for Fayette County, there was presented a petition of the inhabitants of \Vharton township for a division beginning a t the Great Falls on Toughiogheny River; thence to Carrol's nlill ; thence by said mill to the Virginia (now \Vest Virginia) line. An order mas issued, and Morris Morris: Thornas Collins, and Abel Campbell appointed viewers to inquire into t h e propriety of such division. I n obedience to t h e order they reported t.11at with the assistance of a competent surveyor they had performed the d i h e s assigned to .--
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The late Samuel Allebaugh, of Masontown, was of Gernlan stock. H i s father, Christian Allebaugh. lived in Rockingham County, Va., where h e married Catharine Shoaalter, of the same county, by whom h e had ten children, eight sons and two daughters. Samuel was their fourth child, and was born March 3, 1789, and was educated in the country schools of Rockingham County. Growing u p he learned the trade of blucksinitbing, and finally came into Fayetre County, locating a t 3lasontoiva in 1S10. H e married Elizrbetil Weibei, of Geri~iant o ~ n ~ h ithen, p now Sicholson. ~ l l k yhad eight children, equally divided as to s e s (six of whom are living),-Josiah S.,who married S a n c y J. Heath, March 4,1832; James 11.)who
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married Elizabeth Guinn ; Andrew J. ; TVilliam R., who married JI:iry X. Hill, and died J u n e 13: 1STS ; Kancy J., married Sov. 7, 1844, to Capt. Isaac P. Kendall ; Elizabeth A., who married James S. Rohrer, Jan. 25, 1846 ; Rebecca C., who married , Adam Poundstone, Feb. 8, lS46, and died Nov. 1, 1852 ; Elmira J., who married Capt. C. L. Conner, Sept. 21, 1SqS. Capt. Conner was a soldier in t h e Mexican war and in that of the Rebellion, and was engaged i n each fiom the beginning to its close. H e j was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian ' Church, and died April 5, 1877. 1 Samuel dllebaugll died Sept. 16, 1867, and was interred in t h e German Baptist burying-ground. After leaving Virginia he lived wholly in Jiasontown, except for a period of about five years which h e passed o n his farm in German township, on the waters of Brown's Run, and two years which mere spent in Fairfield County, Ohio, an a farm which he purchased i n 1835, upon nliich h e moved in 1886, a u d which h e sold in 1S3i, returning in the fall of that gear to his j old and cherished home in Jlasonto~vn. His rcputation for manly virtues was excellent; in fact, he was noted for his good qualities as a neighbor and citizen. According to his means he generously assisted all his children to a start i n life. They liad all arrived a t maturity before his death. H i s widow, Elizabeth, i n her ninety-second year, is a n active, intelligeut, and I amiable old lady. Mr. Allebaugh was long a member of the German Baptist or Duukard Church. H i s ' children are Cumberland Presbyterians.
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ginning a t the Great Falls of the Youghioglleny River; thence south 1SO perches, south 37i degrees i west, 646 perches to the nlouth of Laurel Run ; thence ( south 30 degrees east, 34 perches; thence south 75 1 degrees west, 24 perahes; thence south 9 degrees i east,, 3s perches; thence south 4 degrees east, .iS perches ; thence south 7;- degrees east, 30 perches ; ; thence south 10 degrees west, 3 perches ; thence south , 19; degrees east, 20 perches; thence south S: degrees east, 152 perches; thence south 80 degrees east, GO perches; thence south 23 degrees east, 40 perches; thence south 300 perches; thence south 43; degrees , \vest, 702 perches to the United States turnpike; ,1 thence south 13 degrees ~vest,205 perches to the b u r n ~ , cabin a t the intersection of the road leading to Car-
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rol's mill; thence with said road to the Virginia (now West Virginia) line. This report was presented to the court on tlie 9th day of June, 1824, and by them confirmed, and it was directed bv said court t h a t the western section continue to be called " Wharton," and the eastern section be erected into the township o f " Henry Clay." Henry Clay townsliip is bounded on the north by Stewart township, on the east is separated by the Youghiogheny River from Somerset County, Pa., on the south is divided by the celebrated Mason and Dison's line from the States of Slaryland and West Virginia, ancl on tlie west (bounded) by Wharton. It lies partly in the Ligonier Va11e>-,and is thesoutheastern of the fire mountain or highland townships, and is also the southeastern township of the county. Its greatest length from north to south is eight miles, and from east to west is seven and threequarter miles. Laurel Hill Ridge runs tlirough tlie township a little west of the centre, with an average width of three miles, arid average height of two thousand three hundred feet above the level of the ocean. On the weqt of Laurel Hill Ridge high hills, rough and broken, estend to the Wharton line. On the east high hills estend to t h e river, and rise from six Ilundred to eight l~undredfeet abore its banks. There are here no valley or bottoms, but the river cuts its way through rugged liills. These hills, east of the Ridge, extend as fhr sonth as the National road. From the Xational road south to 31nson and Dison's line is an elevated plain (with a rolling surface) over two thousand two hundred feet abore the level of the ocean, a section well adapted to grazing. It was formerly cdled t h e " Glades." Youghiogheny and Cheat Rirers drain the township. Beaver Creek, west of Laurel Hill, Mill, Hall, and Tub-Mill Runs, east, Fall into tlie Youghiogbeny, while Cheat receives from the southwest Little Sandy and Glade R u n s ; both rise in the edge of the township. The rapid fall in the Youghiogheny and these different runs offer many splendid sites for mills or factories. The soil is principally a clay loam on the hills and a sand loam along the streams and on the chestnut ridges of the mountain. Oak is the main timber, next chestnut, then small quantities of sugar, poplar, wild-cherry, dogwood, sycamore, and walnut. Originally it was a very h e w y timbered region, but much of it has been cut, yet a large amount remains. Coal esists throughout the township, but in many places the veins are only from fifteen to eighteen inches thick. The Upper Freeport coal-vein, about four feet thick, is found on Hall's Run, Bearer Creek, along the river, and near Marklessburg. Above the river, north of the National road, the Philson coalvein, two feet thick, is found, and close to the HorseShoe Bend the Berlin coal-rein, two feet thick, is found. South of Somerfield, ancl on land of H. J. and J. J. Easter and Susan Leuhart, are found reins of bituminous coal six feet s i s inches in thickness.
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' ley, as TI-ellas for much of the surrounding country, comes fkom these mines.
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On t,lie same lands there is found n rein of escellent iron ore, which is utilized to some extent, and which will be of great value if railroad facilities should be extended to this township. The Xalzoning sandstone is found i n many places, and from twenty to fifty feet thick. Traces of the Morgantown sandstone are found, and other good building rock. T h e silicious limestone is found on Beaver Creek, well exposed, and also esists in the river hills in veins fire to six feet thick, in bowlders or chunks. Fruits, especially apples, do well throughout the whole township. Peaches are injured by the borer, and do not yield a regular crop. Pears, plums, aud cherries do \\.el!, and grapes are a never-failing crop. Berries are an abundant crop. Wheat yields from s i s to fourteen bushels per acre. Forty years ago it lvas supposed it could not be grown, but a better system of farniing than what prevailed then shows that it can be raised. Rye, corn, buckwheat, a n d oats are raised, while potatoes are t,he staple crop. The soil, improved by liming and well farmed, would give better results than have yet been attained; but the higli elevation of tlie to~vnsl~ip above the ocean, with its length of winter season, will always keep most of its productions below the arerage of lower localities. The township is well adapted to grazing and dairying. The climate is very healthy, from the high elevation, pure air, absence of s~vamps, and tlie best of water. The n-inter season commences with 'early frosts about two weeks sooner, and ends with rough weather two weeks later than in any other part of the county outside of the other mountain townships. The townshipcontains two 1-illages,-Jockey Valley, on the Xationxl road, within one mile of the river, in the southeastern part, and Markleysburg, in the soutliern part, one mile and a half soutl~westof the National road. I n lSTO t h e population was 951, of which 15 mere foreign born, and all whites. I n ISSO the population was 1232, induding Markleysburg, the population of which was 77. The Indian path known as Nemacolin's trail was the route of the old Braddock road through the township, and where i t crosses tlie river, a half-mile u p the river from the Smithfield bridge, on a high hill on lands of J. J. Easter, were seviral Indian graves. At Sloan's Ford an Inclian trail crossed the river, and on land of Charles Tissue, on a beautiful knoll, mas n stone pile or Indian grave. Nr. Tissue opened it ancl found a very large skull, apparently that of an Indian. The body had been laid clown on the ground and stones set up edgewise along each side of the body, and then flat stones laid over them, and then about a n-agon-
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HENRY CLAY TOWNSHIP. load of stones gathered and laid over them. The I n dians only used this region as a hunting-ground, and never killed any settlers in the township. Gen. Braddock's first camp i n Fayette was at the Twelve Springs, near J o b Clark's tavern stand. Persons have doubted his camping here, as t h e place does not suit the description of his first camp, but J o h n E. S t o r e took t h e description, and after a full day's exploration found the place to agree with i t in every particular. PIOXEERS ASD EARLS SETTLEMENTS.
I n 1768, J o h n Penn granted to Chew & \Vilcos several large tracts of land in the townsliip. These proprietary (preferred) grants comprised three hundred and thirty-two acres on the head-waters of Bear e r Creek, close to tlie Glover school-house, called Beaver Dam, a tract on Hall's Run, above \V. Barnes, one hundred and fiky acres near the river at Confluence, three hundred and thirty-seven acres back of J. J. Easter's, running to the Jluryland line, and over two thousand acres on Glade Run, near the cornerstone in the boundary line of Maryland and West Virginia. Enoch Leonard was supposed to have been here about 1770. H e lived within two or three miles of Sloan's Ford. His wife was Lydia Fish. H i s son Enoch married Henry Abram's siater, and went to Virginia. His daughter Charity married Joshua Jones, Elizabeth married a man b j the name of Clap, a n d Lydis married J o b Clark. Henry Abrams came soon sfter Leonard. Job CIm-k came about 1778. H e left lionie on account of his step-mother and enlisted in the American army, and claimed to h a w fought a t Bunker Hill. H e was a small man, with black hair and blue eyes; born in Connecticut. and married Lydia Leonard about 1779 or 'SO, and built his tavern soon after a t the Twelve Springs. H e was born in 1758, and died in 1842. T h e Hon. Andrew Stewart secured a pension of ninetysix dollars a year for him. H i s son J o b mas killed a t the Inks tavern, i n Wliarton, by his team running away. Leonard married Hanuah, daughter of Benjamic Price, Esq., and went West. Isabella married Andrew Fianigan, a n d Sallie married Johu Collier, who kept tavern at X o u n t Augusta. Noses H a l l was supposed to have cvme here about 1785. H e occasionally preached to the people of t h e surrounding country, though it does not appear that he was very much gifted i n that direction. On one occasion he closed one of his sermQns in this way. " Suppose," he said, "that all the men in t h e 11~0rldwere p u t into one man, all the rivers into one river, all the trees into one tree, and all the axes into one axe; that the one man should take the one a s e and cut down the one tree, so that it would fall into the one river, what a splish, splash, and splatter dash there would be !" No doubt this mas thought (by himself if by no
one else) a very convincing argument. J I o s Hall had a son Ephraim, and his son Squire kept tarern after him. Joseph Listou and Plancet came with Moses Hall. -4ndrew Flanigan from near Farmington, where his father, David Flanigan, lived. H e married Isabella Clark about 1799. H e was often in Henry Clay township when a inere child. H e mas in the mar of 1812 under Capt. Andrew Moore. H e kept on Braddock and National roads, in t h e same house. Clark Flanigan, one of his sons, married Mary Roberts and lives above Sloan's Ford, quite an old man, possessed of a good memory of the past. J o h n Sloan was the ancestor of the Sloans, Sloan's Ford being immed after him. H e came from Ireland about 1'787, then disposed of his property to Sebastian Tissue, and removed with his family to Jlaryland, where h e died. Of his fhmilg, William, David, Margaret, and Sarah returned to Henry Clap. IVilliarn had two sons, Henry and James, and two daughters, Eliza and Sarah. The latter married Jonathan Butler, and is now living near the ford. J o h n Potter came from Kew Jersey to Henry Clay (then T17harton)in January, 1787. I n 1797 h e married Elizabeth Callag1.1an. J o h n and George, their oldest children, went to Ohio, and died there. Elizabeth married Capt. J. Wickline, and died in Illinois; Ann married a Mr. Hathinson; Samuel married Sarah Leonard, and lives in Stewart to~vcship;Amos, the youngest, lives in Wliarton, now serenty-four years of age. John Potter was justice of the peace for many years, and lived on the Bmddock road. H e was a wheel~rrightin N e ~ rJersey, and the British burned his shop. H e built tlie firat bridge near Somerfield, which was burnt. H e ~ r a the s author of s work of two hundred pages called "Potter's Inquiry." H e was said to have been in the Revolutionary war. H e was boro in 1745, and died i n 1816. J o h n Burnworth came in IT92 from Lancaster County. H e settled near Fairview Church. H e was born i n 1767, and died i n 18% H i s wife mas Hannah Hinebaugh. Their children were John R. (whose son is Rev. P. Burnn-orth), James (who married a cousin to Judge Shipley), Xary, Barbara, George, Christopher, Jonathan, Ziba (who lives near Fairview Church), Susan ( t h e widow of Peter Lenhart, t h e tavern-keeper), Keziah, Rhoda ( ~ h married o Julius Kemp, of Somerfield), and Rheuma (who married Charles Tissue, near Sloan's Ford). I n 1800, Ephraim Vansickle came to where A. B. Bradley now lives, close to Jockey Valley. His wife was Anna Robison. They came from Xew Jersey. Ephraim, one of their sons, is the hotel-keeper a t Somerfield, and previously kept a t Jockey Valley. J o h n O'Hegarty came from Lebanon, Pa. H e bought the Mount Augusta farm, which mas formerly the Daniel Collin stand in the days of the staging on the National road. There were stables for seventy-five horses then. This property is the highest point on
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the road in this county, and coninlands a magnificent view of t ~ Alleghenies. ~ e Before 1800 Cllarles Shipley came from Baltin~ore to ncar Fairview Church. His sons mere William, Charles, and J a m e s Sebastian Tissne married Susannall Haines. H e was at Sloan's Ford a t this tinw, arid was in the war of 1512. His son Charles still lives at the ford. H e had also three daughters,Ursula, married James Lalon ; Itachel, married Anlos Hut!er; Sancy, married David Thorp. There are many descendants of Charles Shipley in Henry Clay and other parts of the county, among whom is the Hon. Samuel Shipley, of Uuiontown, who was justice of the peace for ten years, county cornmissioner three years, and associ;lte judge fire years. I n 1507 Jlichael Thomas was living near Jlarkleysburg. H e came from Somerset, and married Magdnlena Jlaust. One of his sons, Michael, lives near the home-place, an intelligent old gentlernan. Isaac Umbel, the ancestor of the Umbels in the township, came about this time. His ~ i f e ' sname was S a n c y Campbell. Andrew, his oldest son, lives near Markleysburg, and William, another son, lives on the Sational road. I n IS15 James Thorp mas l i ~ i n qon Beaver Creek, and in 1520 J o h n Hall, Joseph Hall, J o h n Show, Tholnas and James Laland, and J o h n Lechner were here. Lezliner shot his son one evening in tlie brush, t:tking him for a deer. I n 1832 Amos Glorer and his wit'e, Eliza Gilmore, cnnle here fro111 Virginia. I n 1852 Andrew Boyd came from Stewart, and about 1858 Jacob Staup came from Maryiand. I n 1818 William Chidester came to settle where W. T. Reckner now lives, near Fairviem Church. John Lenl~art came froin Jtarylaud and settled in Henry Clay about 1s". J o h n Easter came from Allegheny County, lid., about 1SS9, and settled on land purchased of William Butler, it being the same on wliich his son, J. J. Easter, nom ~ C S Jacob . Easter came from Maryland or Tirginia s n d settled in Henry Clay about 1830. J o h n Griffin married Sarah Knotts, and came from Delawire about 1893. H e bought the old Tvelve Springs tarern, and lired in it till h e built his stone tavern. His daughter Elizabeth now lives in it. Her husband was Jacob Stone, a son of Squire Stone, of Greene County. John Barnes came in 1840 to near Jockey Valley. His son, J. P. Barnes, is a leading citizen. Samuel Rush lired in Henry Clay township, on mhnt is now the Flxnigan farm. H e was a contractor on the Xational road in 1533 and 1833. His son, Jlnrkcr Rush, uwd to ride ns a postilion ahead of the mnil fro111 Uniontown east i n the days of the Sational road. Israel Parnell came to Hcnry Clay in 1517; settled on the property now occupied by his son, Israel Parneli. His three sons-Hiram, Jxckson, and Israelx c now l i i~n g in Hcnry Clay.
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As late as 1824 wolves, panthers, and bears remained in the townshil~. I n that year a wolf ch,%ed Mrs. Elizabeth Stone, then a small girl, with her sister, into the old Twelve Springs tavern, then kept round the house till it heard a horseman approaching. I n the same year Nichael Tliolnas, then a young man, with three dogs and a heavy club, killed a bear near Mnrkleysburg, and Richard Hall in that summer shot a panther. But since 18% no wild auirnals but vildcats an&deer have been known in tlie township. ROADS.
The old roads in the township were : Ist, Braddock's; 7d, Turkey Foot road, from Confluence by Sloan7sFord, past Liberty Church, past Potter's Mill, to Dunbar's Camp; 3d, Selbysport road, from IVharton, passing south of Markleysburg,-often called Haydento\~nroad; $th, the National road. Towiship roads : lst, River roacl, from Somerfield to Liberty Church, connecting the National and Tnrkey Foot roads ; "1, Beaver Creek road, from Griffin's stand, past Beaver Creek, and joining Turkey Foot road ne:w Liberty Church ; and another branch from Beaver Creel;, running into Stewart, to t h e Falls. And since these roads many minor roads have been laid out in different parts of the township. Braddock's road entered the tomnsllip about onehalf mile up the rirer from the Widow Lenllart7s, on lands of J. J. E:~ster. I t passed from the ford clown to tile mouth of Hall's Run, or Jockey Valley, passing up Jockey Valley througl~T. Conawy's place; tlience through l m d s of William Umbel, passing \vithin onehalf mile of Xarkleysborg, throug-11 lands of JIicliael, and past the residence of George J. Thomas; thence through lands of Jacob Hurnberston ; thence through lands of Squire O'Hegarty, the old G r i z n place, and through lancls of Andrew 3loyes to the township line. After 1790 wagons were put on the roacl, and regular tavern stands were established along the road. Tile first wagon-stand after crossing the rirer mas a t Jockey T'alley, kept by Andrew Flanigan, a log building, still shncling. The second stand was abont one-half mile fart1:er west, a log building, kept by John Conaway. The old Jockey Valley school-house now stands on its site. Conaway moved from it to the Xational road when the latter was opened. The n e s t stopping-point was Squire John Potter's, who from 1790 kept travelers till the road went down, but liecer had a, license or fbllowecl i t as a, business. His house was of logs and stood about seventy yards south of IVilliam Umbel's residence on the National road, and during the time of tlie " Whiskey Insurrection" Potter was known as a governnient man, although owning a small still. "Tom the Tinker" sent him one or two threatening notices, but he gave no heed to them, and tradition has it that the party who arrested Col. Gaddis stopped at Potter's with hi111and st:lyed all iiight. When tlic road r e n t down Potter moved to the house now occupied by JVillia~nUmbel.
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HENRY CLAY TOKSSEIIP. The third w:rgon stand was JIoses Hall's, over half a mile west of Squire John Potter's. Moses H a l l kept tavern a t an early day. His son Squire kept a short time before the road went down. The house was a large log house, which stood just across the road f r o ~ pGeorge J. Thomas' residence. Thomas m o x d in i t in 1864, and the n e s t spring tore it down. Squire H a l l built a brick addition of two rooms to it, but never put s roof on it. The " Standing Itock" is nearly a mile west of the Hall stand, on Squire John O'Hegarty's lancl. I t is a large rock fifteen feet high, resting on a bed rock six fket square in the ground. T h e Standing Rock commences small a t the bottom (about twa feet in diameter), widening out u p to the bulge, and then, instead of drawing in, gets wider for three or four feet higher up, and presents a top level as a table and sixteen feet square. On the road nearly one mile south of Squire O'Hegarty's, where the Widow Bird lires, and over a mile west of the Standing Rock, J o h n Bowermaster cleared land and kept and pastured packhorses before there were wagons used on the road. The fourth wagon stand was Job Clark's, or " The Twelve Springs," nearly two miles west of Bowermaster's, a large log house and log barn, a stone spring-housc, and stone game- and mest-house, and within a circle of three hundred yards twelve strong-fluwing spring