The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-03-23
LOCAL HISTORY SCRAPS.
The Hart Family We're Among the
Early Settlers in What is Now
FnltOn County, Pa.


for the FULTON COUNTY News by c..
Wilson Peck u grandson of Nathaniel
Hart, who acknowledges his indebted
ness TO r. X. Downes for valuable
assistance in gathering data. .-EpIToR.
In gathering and presenting to
generations yet unborn, a his
tory of persons and events, which
TO them may be yltally interest.
ing, our task is rendered all the
more pleasant, by the existing
conditions Of peace and prosper.
ty, that make for the good of our
community.
We're we recording the events
of one hundred and fifty-fve
years ago-or about ten years
after the first white settler had
pushed his way through the un-
broken wilderness and planted
the first cabin in what Is now
Fulton County, Pa, we might tell
Of such blood curdhng events as
that which occurred on the 9th
of November 1865, when about
400 Indians under Shingas, Chief
Of the Delawares, fell upon the
settlers of the Big Cove and To-
noloways, and butchered, or car
RED away, AZ out Of 90 families,
sparing IN their fury neither age,
sex, nor condition. These depre-
datlons were repeated from time
TO time with such dreadful re-
suits, that many of the dlsheart.
ened settlers fed for protection
TO the newly established forts, or
to the more thlckly populated
settlements, to the East.
To-day we dwell amid peaceful
surroundings; and the contrast
presented may serve to give US a
keener appreciation Of our pres
ent day blessings.
Prominent among the early
settlers along the Tonoloways
were three brothers-Jacob,
Nathaniel, and William Hart.
Who their parents were, or which
of these three was Oldest, we have
been unable to learn. OF Jacob
we know little, except that some.
where about 1890 to 1895, he es.
tablIshed home on the old Pal.
mer farm a mile directly north !
of Needmore, owned respectively |
by David Palmer (grandfather). |
Thomas (son), and now by DR.. j. |
Judson and Prof. b. Newton |
(grandsons)
Nathaniel Hart was born Feb
ruary Z, l765 somewhere IN ear"
township, Cumberland county,
Pa. But, as at that time, the
eastern boundary of the CAR"
township here mentioned was
along the top of the mountain
east of McConnell's Cove, and
extended westward to the set
ting sun, the exact spot is not
easily located; but the probabili.
ty Is, that his birth place was not
far from the present village of
Needmore. He built a house
)ne.fourth mile northeast of
Needmore on Tonoloway creek,
the well preserved remains of
which house still stand. 1t was
Ia this house that some-and pro.
baby all-of his fourteen chill.
1ren were born. To his first
wife, Elizabeth Wink who was
born March II, l770, and died IN
1906, eight children were born,
namely;
Rebecca, March 30, 1898;
Jane, September %, 1894;
Sarah, April 25, 1896;
William, February II, 1898;
Adam, Novemb Der IA, 1899;
John, April 9, 1902;
Stephen, March Z, 1904;
Ruhamah, September l, 1905.
Rebecca became the wife of
Abram Stahl, who was born on
the farm south of Needmore now
owned by Alexander Mellott.
She and her husband removed to
City, Indiana, soon aft
Or their marriage, and resided
there until her death July II,
1876.
Of Jane and Sarah, your writer
las no information aside from the
Ia - e 4Lo,,. l;,Nh