. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. ccord with the traditions of the family thatthey were farmers. Among the pious laymen who did so much for earlyMethodism, George Siggins was one of the foremost; he at-tended the Quarterly meetings and always assisted at theservices. His mother, Sarah Hood Siggins was a devout followerof John Wesley. She often went to hear him preach, takingher children with her. She was tall and hands
. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. ccord with the traditions of the family thatthey were farmers. Among the pious laymen who did so much for earlyMethodism, George Siggins was one of the foremost; he at-tended the Quarterly meetings and always assisted at theservices. His mother, Sarah Hood Siggins was a devout followerof John Wesley. She often went to hear him preach, takingher children with her. She was tall and handsome, withdark sparkling eyes—was an adept at story telling; of eventemper and gentle manners. She spent the last days of herlife at the home of her son Alexander in Youngsville. John, the second son of John and Sarah H. Siggins lefthome when about twenty-five years old for a trip down theAlleghany River, fell a victim to yellow fever and died andwas buried at Letart Island in the Ohio River. Their eldest daughter, Frances, married Benjamin Bairdof Center Co. Their home was in Lock Haven, Pa. Shedied at the home of her daughter Mary, in Lock Haven,aged three score and ten years. She was a woman of ster-. JOHN WESLEY. Other Families 9 ling qualities of mind and heart and greatly beloved by allwho knew her. George Siggins came to the section of the Alleghany Val-ley now known as Hickory, in 1818. Here he built a twostory log house and began clearing his farm. Later hebuilt a frame addition which is still standing but moved toanother foundation. Many of his methods of farming andirrigation were far in advance of his times. A church andschool house were built also of logs with the windows ofoiled paper and slab benches for seats. There were nostores nearer than Erie or Pittsburg and from these townssupplies were brought in once or twice a year,—sometimesby boat but oftener by wagon load. The Indian villages where Zeisberger established his firstmissions were situated in the hear
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