Mays Family Tree - Person Sheet
Birth Dateabt 1837
Birth PlacePennsylvania, USA
Death Date23 Nov 19043253
FatherJesse H APPLETON (1810-1889)
MotherMartha BLOOM (1813-1890)
Misc. Notes
She was supposedly buried in the Woods Cemetery but I couldn't find her tombstone. There is one with just initials on it, but not her name.3254
Note: Woods Cemetery is located along state highway 219 (Chestnut Grove Highway) north of Grampian, Clearfield, PA.3255
Note: Woods Cemetery is located along state highway 219 (Chestnut Grove Highway) north of Grampian, Clearfield, PA.3255
Spouses
Misc. Notes
Robert was killed on a logging raft between April and May 1859 as a group of men floated down the Susquehanna from Curwensville to Harrisburg, PA. The water was swift and the raft smashed into a railroad foundation in the river at Harrisburg.
[His son Samuel was born in August of that year.]
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A letter from James M. Leonard, of Clearfield county, received by Wm. P. I. Painter, Esq., states that from the description of the body found floating in the river at this place several weeks since, and interred in the Muncy Cemetery, there is no doubt that it was the body of a man named (paper is folded where the name is printed), drowned at the Rolling Stone, on the 12th of December last. He left a wife and one child. - Muncy Luminary.3256 [Could this victim be Robert?]
[His son Samuel was born in August of that year.]
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A letter from James M. Leonard, of Clearfield county, received by Wm. P. I. Painter, Esq., states that from the description of the body found floating in the river at this place several weeks since, and interred in the Muncy Cemetery, there is no doubt that it was the body of a man named (paper is folded where the name is printed), drowned at the Rolling Stone, on the 12th of December last. He left a wife and one child. - Muncy Luminary.3256 [Could this victim be Robert?]
Family ID5286
Misc. Notes
Not positive Robert and Mary were married, some say yes, others no.3257
ChildrenSamuel Robert (1859-1949)
Misc. Notes
If this is the same Henry Bickel I have found records of at the Clearfield Co., PA courthouse, Henry was married when he and Mary met. I believe Henry and his wife divorced and Henry and Mary married. I have been unable to find marriage record for them in Clearfield Co. PA.
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A Henry Bickel is among those in the list of taxables made in 1861 for Bloom Township, Clearfield County, PA. 509
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A Henry Bickel is among those in the list of taxables made in 1861 for Bloom Township, Clearfield County, PA. 509
Family ID5288