Re: GEORGE MOYER PA>IN Mid 1800's
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Re: GEORGE MOYER PA>IN Mid 1800's
5/08/99
Steve, I was glad to receive your reply.Margaret's obit said she moved to Switzerland Co. in 1835, according to census her bro. Martin was first child b. in Indiana in 1837, so it all seems to fit together.Dad called Margaret his little grandmother, since his other grandmother was a larger woman.In Margaret's photo she is very trim and petite in old age.Dad said her husband would kid her about being Pennsylvania Dutch, which no doubt she was, with a name like Moyer.Recently in the old news in the local paper I was surprised to find an article that said "Grandma Sisson was found dead in bed, at the home of her son George."I know now the circumstances of her death.Dad said she smoked a very tiny clay pipe, but then many of the women did in those times.She only had five children, one son was afflicted with some type of spinal problem, and died in his early 20's.The rest reached adulthood. A few years before his death Dad rediscovered Margaret & Henry's willow rocker which he remembered back as far as the early 1900's, and he gave it to me.I wonder if it came from Indiana or even PA, since it has the original stencilling, which resembles the type of painting the Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for.I do hope you are able to unearth a little more information on them in the Vevay area.They and the Sissons lived in Pleasant Township, apparently near each other, since they appeared on the same census page.The Sissons lived just east of Bennington.Be sure and keep in touch.
Mary Jo