Notes
Note for: Joseph Converse, 20 JAN 1771 - 7 FEB 1857 Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
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Note for: Sarah Robinson Converse, 29 APR 1823 - 28 NOV 1902 Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
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Note for: Caroline Converse, - Index
moved from Laporte, Pa. to Illinois
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Note for: Henry Converse, - Index
moved from LaPorte, Pa to Lycoming County, Pa
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Note for: William E King, 24 NOV 1816 - 21 JAN 1902 Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
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Note for: Permelia Converse, 5 OCT 1827 - Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
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Note for: Abram Dorson Edgar, 18 APR 1817 - Index
was a methodist minister
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Note for: Oliver Gordon Hasset King, 26 NOV 1842 - 3 MAY 1863 Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
Individual note:
Union soldier in the Civil War. Served with the 141st Regiment, Company
K of the PennsylvaniaVolunteers. Hiswas killed at the Battle of
Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863 at age 23 along with his cousin James
Speary.
According to the 141st Regimental History book written in 1886 by
Regimental Chaplain David Craft, page 91:
"James Sperry and his brother Dorson were residents of Davidson township,
in Sullivan County, and both member of the same company. In the assault
upon the enemy's position in the oak woods James was mortally wounded in
the back, and as the Regiments was compelled immediately to fall back he
was left on the field. He was unmarried and about 24 years of age. He
seemed to have premonition of his death, for in col. Watkins' diary was
this entry: -"James Sperry, Company K, shot by a ball in the back in the
spine, Chancellorsville, VA. His fathers name is Christopher Sperry -
resides in Davidson, Sullivan County, PA. 'He died a soldier and a
Christian. If he never meets you on earth, will meet you in heaven.' "
"Oliver G. King, a cousin of the Sperrys, and also of the Penningtons,
and Converse, of the same company, enlisted from Laporte township, was a
son of William King, a single man, and about the age of 20."
Of the four hundred and nineteen officers and men with which his company
entered the battle of Chancellorsville, two hundred and thirty-four were
either killed or wounded.
See James Speary for Regimental History.
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Note for: Edgar Crosby King, 22 JUL 1845 - 28 AUG 1874 Index
Burial:
Place: Cherry Grove Cemetery, Nordmont, Sullivan Co., Pa.
Individual note:
King family genealogy notes he died of pneumonia in 1874. The exact date
is given in Perry Watts Kings 1874 Diary located on the Sullivan County
genweb project web site.
He studied to be a minister. Never married.
Notes
Note for: Lemuel Mordecia King, 17 APR 1848 - 1926 Index
He was a teacher in the public schools and later became a farmer in
Sullivan County, Pa. He lived next door to Christopher Speary.
Had 8 children.