Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . rade of fuller and removedfirst to Augusta county, Virginia, returnedfrom there and removed to near Ligonier inWestmoreland county. Pa., where he built afulling mill and died in 1824. He was aPresbyterian like his father and air
Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . rade of fuller and removedfirst to Augusta county, Virginia, returnedfrom there and removed to near Ligonier inWestmoreland county. Pa., where he built afulling mill and died in 1824. He was aPresbyterian like his father and air the timeof his death was an elder in the church. In 1784 he married Jean Ramsey, a daugh-ter of Samuel and Catherine (Seawright)Ramsev and a granddaughter of William andCatherine (Jackson) Seawright. SamuelRamsey used largely of his means to aid thecolonial troops. William Searight, ,children were: Samuel R., who marriedINIary A. \\ilson, and went to Indiana; Alex-ander wedded to Catherine Jones and wentto Ohio; William, and four that died un-married. I^Irs. Jean (Ramsey) Searight wasborn in 1761 and died May 24, 1851. Hermaternal grandfather was named WilliamSearight and came to Lancaster county fromDonegal, Ireland, about 1740. William Searight, the third son, and thesubject of this sketch was born near Carlisle,Cunilicrland county, Pennsylvania, Decern-. AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE BOOK OF FAYETTE COUNTY. 525 ber 5, 1791, received a plain English educa-tion, and learned the business of fuller anddyer of cloth, a thorough knowledge ofwhich, with his energy, sobriety and honorwas his entire stock in hand. He arrived inFayette county at twenty-one years of ageand rented the old Hammond fulling mill andlater assisted in operating the old Cookes andanother fulling mill at the mouth of Dunlapscreek and rented a mill on the George Wash-ington farm near PerryopoHs, thus becomingthe greatest fulling mill owner and operatorin Western Pennsylvania in that day. He herelaid the foundati
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