The following text was taken from an autobiographical sketch, writen by William Emerson Culp, Jr. when he was 75 years old. In these three paragraphs he is talking about his parents Wm. E. Culp, Sr. and Lavina Ann (Wilson) Culp.
"My Father's folks came, as I am able to gather, form Holland in the 17th Century, Crusaders, settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. My Mother's first parents, came from Scottland about the same time, probably Quakers.
My Father and Mother, when married settled in the great Pine forest in Jefferson County, Pa., in the town of Punxsutawney, where I was born, and shortly afterwards my parents moved to Hites Station on the Canal along the Allegheny River about 20 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., where they lived until the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1860 and as my Father could dig coal and good money could be made at this work in the coal mines, he moved to Blackburn Coal Mines on the Monongahela River, some 60 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa.
He was working there, when in March, 1861, when gathering up his tools, his days work done, a fall of Slate from the roof of the mine fell upon him, and he was carried home, badly crushed, and lived for about three months. During this time, 19 days before his death, my sister (Mary L. Culp) was born thus leaving my Mother with five children, the oldest under 11 and youngest 19 days. Mother absolutely destitute, Civil War on, her brother in the war, as Fathers were too."
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Many thanks to my Cousins Janet and Marlin for providing the above text.
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"My Father's folks came, as I am able to gather, form Holland in the 17th Century, Crusaders, settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. My Mother's first parents, came from Scottland about the same time, probably Quakers.
My Father and Mother, when married settled in the great Pine forest in Jefferson County, Pa., in the town of Punxsutawney, where I was born, and shortly afterwards my parents moved to Hites Station on the Canal along the Allegheny River about 20 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., where they lived until the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1860 and as my Father could dig coal and good money could be made at this work in the coal mines, he moved to Blackburn Coal Mines on the Monongahela River, some 60 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa.
He was working there, when in March, 1861, when gathering up his tools, his days work done, a fall of Slate from the roof of the mine fell upon him, and he was carried home, badly crushed, and lived for about three months. During this time, 19 days before his death, my sister (Mary L. Culp) was born thus leaving my Mother with five children, the oldest under 11 and youngest 19 days. Mother absolutely destitute, Civil War on, her brother in the war, as Fathers were too."
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Many thanks to my Cousins Janet and Marlin for providing the above text.
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The following text was taken from an autobiographical sketch, writen by William Emerson Culp, Jr. when he was 75 years old. In these three paragraphs he is talking about his parents Wm. E. Culp, Sr. and Lavina Ann (Wilson) Culp.
"My Father's folks came, as I am able to gather, form Holland in the 17th Century, Crusaders, settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. My Mother's first parents, came from Scottland about the same time, probably Quakers.
My Father and Mother, when married settled in the great Pine forest in Jefferson County, Pa., in the town of Punxsutawney, where I was born, and shortly afterwards my parents moved to Hites Station on the Canal along the Allegheny River about 20 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., where they lived until the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1860 and as my Father could dig coal and good money could be made at this work in the coal mines, he moved to Blackburn Coal Mines on the Monongahela River, some 60 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa.
He was working there, when in March, 1861, when gathering up his tools, his days work done, a fall of Slate from the roof of the mine fell upon him, and he was carried home, badly crushed, and lived for about three months. During this time, 19 days before his death, my sister (Mary L. Culp) was born thus leaving my Mother with five children, the oldest under 11 and youngest 19 days. Mother absolutely destitute, Civil War on, her brother in the war, as Fathers were too."
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Many thanks to my Cousins Janet and Marlin for providing the above text.
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"My Father's folks came, as I am able to gather, form Holland in the 17th Century, Crusaders, settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. My Mother's first parents, came from Scottland about the same time, probably Quakers.
My Father and Mother, when married settled in the great Pine forest in Jefferson County, Pa., in the town of Punxsutawney, where I was born, and shortly afterwards my parents moved to Hites Station on the Canal along the Allegheny River about 20 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., where they lived until the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1860 and as my Father could dig coal and good money could be made at this work in the coal mines, he moved to Blackburn Coal Mines on the Monongahela River, some 60 miles from Pittsburgh, Pa.
He was working there, when in March, 1861, when gathering up his tools, his days work done, a fall of Slate from the roof of the mine fell upon him, and he was carried home, badly crushed, and lived for about three months. During this time, 19 days before his death, my sister (Mary L. Culp) was born thus leaving my Mother with five children, the oldest under 11 and youngest 19 days. Mother absolutely destitute, Civil War on, her brother in the war, as Fathers were too."
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Many thanks to my Cousins Janet and Marlin for providing the above text.
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CULP - father 1830 - 1861
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James R. Culp, also on the tomb stone, is the grandson of Wm. E. and Lavina Ann (Wilson) Culp, son of their son, Wm. E., Jr.
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