The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
William McCleary, who died recently near Claysville leaving an estate
valued at $50,000; Daniel Dawson, subsequently kept a tavern near
Limestone, Marshall county, West Virginia, and died there; Samuel
Rowalt, Robert Bell, William Watkins, John Ford, still living in
Monongahela city; George Freiger, Barney and Samuel Nunemaker, Thomas
Cox, John Ruth, Abram Boyce, Charles Oulitt, James Dean, William
("Boggy") Moore, when a boy a rider on the pony express; John Schenck,
Thomas Hager, Joseph Ruff, Dandy Jack, James Fisk, Joseph Drake, Andrew
Ferrell, John Fouch, George Walker, George Banford, Joseph Lewis, Larry
Willard, Isaiah Fuller, Davy Crockett, Henry Wagner, John Foster, Henry
Smith, James Foster, John Noble, Edward McGinnis, Thomas McGinnis, John
Johnson (Old Sandy), John Horrell, William Grim, Elias Johnson, Daniel
Boyer, James Bodkin, James Null, William Null, William Clark, David
Brower, Richard Frantz, James Rowe, John Seaman, David Brennard, Henry
Schuck, George Crow, James Andrews (Dutch Jim), drove in and out from
Grantsville; John Huhn, drove in and out from Claysville; Moses
Thornburg, Wylie Baily, James McClung, James, Abraham and Robert Devan,
brothers; Thomas and George Henderson, Stephen Leggett, James Wilson,
Henry Herrick, John Giddings, Ed Washburn, J. S. Beck, Frank White,
Jesse Matthews, Robert Fenton, Jesse Hardin, David Johnson, Archy
McGregor, Samuel Darby, James Moore, Joseph Drake, James Riley, William
Matthews, Edward Hall, James Vancamp, Benjamin Miller, grandson of the
old tavern keeper of Uniontown; Samuel Betts, Calvin Springer,
ex-sheriff of Fayette county; James Noggle, Martin Stedler, William
Wiley, John Wiley, William McGidigen, James McGidigen, Daniel Shriver,
Jerome Heck, Frederic Zimmerman, Robert Bennett, Edward Kelley, John
Clark, Samuel Blair, Ross Clark, George Butts, Beck Kelley, William
Kelley, William Fisher, James and Thomas Bradley, Thomas Johnson,
William Brower, Richard Frazee, Isaac Toner (Dumb Ike), Joseph Jenk,
Evans Holton, Daniel Dean, Jesse Brennard, George Brennard, John Steep,
John Collier, Ben Tracy, George Moore, George Richmire, Charles
Richmire, Thomas McMillen, Samuel Porter, Isaac Flagle, William and Ross
Clark, Richard Butts, Garret and West Crawford, John Brown, subsequently
a clerk in the Wheeling postoffice; Joseph Matthews, John Waugh, William
Hickman, a circus man; George Robbins, Abram Boyce, Oliver Jackson,
Joseph Bishop, Thomas McClelland, Elisha Stockwell, Isaac Denny,
subsequently tavern keeper at the old Griffin house in the mountain,
west of Somerfield; John Harris, drove on the Good Intent line, and died
in Uniontown; Charles and Robert Marquis, James Moore, son-in-law of
James Sampey, of Mount Washington; Perry Sheets, drove west of
Washington; Elmer Budd, drove from Uniontown to Brownsville; Frank
Watson, Bate Smith, Sam Jerome, James Downer, son of William, of the big
water trough on Laurel Hill, when a boy a rider for the pony express;
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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