Westmoreland County PA Archives Bibles  ..... POWER-HOUSEMAN Bible: Selected entries from the Journals of Josiah V Thompson
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    At Residence of Homer Houseman, Rostraver Tp, Westd Co Pa June 17, 1922
    the old leather back Bible of Maj John Power, but it had been given to a
  daughter who lives in Ohio, but before it was taken away, Mrs H's daughter,
  Frances Mary Houseman, copied the entire record in her own Bible on Sept 25,
  1908 in a copperplate plain as print hand.  It is a small well bound & well
  preserved Bible printed in NY in 1895 by the American Bible Society.  I am
  copying her record in its entirety below:

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                      Marriages
    John Power & Margaret Finley were married March 25, 1778  *
    John F. Power, son of John & Margaret F. Power & Mary Starret, daughter of
  James & Elizabeth Starret were married Feby 17, 1807.  *
    Bela S. Houseman & Francis Power were married Dec 3, 1847  *
    Homer Houseman & Mary Franklin were married Sept 6, 1881
    C. Gillette Lutz, son of Noah G. & Bella B. Lutz and Sara Agnes Houseman,
  daughter of Homer & Mary R. Houseman were married Dec 23, 1902  *
    Plummer D. Speers son of Edward & Irene P. Speers & Ruth Irene Houseman,
  daughter of Homer & Mary F. Houseman were married Oct 9, 1913  *
    Walter Heath Zundel & Jeannette Houseman were married Aug 29, 1918  *

                            Births
    John Power was born June 6, 1757 of Patrick & Jeannette Power  *
    Margaret Finley daughter of James & Hannah Finley was born Sept 17, 1756  *
    James Power, son of John & Margaret Power was born Oct 29, 1779  *
    Jeannette Power was born Jany 25, 1781  *
    Patrick Power was born Oct 20, 1782  *
    Hannah Power was born Oct 11, 1784  *
    John Finley Power was born Nov 1, 1786  *
    Margaret Power was born Jany 15, 1789  *
    Mary Power was born Apr 12, 1798  *
    Isabella Power was born June 19, 1803  *

    Mary Starrett, daughter of James & Elizabeth Starret was born Oct 16, 1790.

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    Elizabeth S. Power, daughter of John & Mary S. Power was born Oct 1808  *
    James S. Power was born April 14, 1810  *
    John F. Power was born Dec 7th, 1811  *
    Evans W. Power was born Dec 6, 1813  *
    Jane Power was born March 20, 1816  *
    William Power was born May 20, 1818  *
    Hannah Power was born Mch 4, 1822  *
    Harriet Power was born Nov 14, 1824  *
    Mary E. Power was born May 11, 1826  *
    Elizabeth Frances Power was born March 30, 1828  *
    Nancy L. Power was born June 13, 1830  *
    Two infant sons died

    Bela S. Houseman, son of John & Elizabeth Smith Houseman was born June 15, 1824  *
    1. Homer Houseman, son of Bela & Frances Houseman was born Oct 20, 1848 *
    2. Margaret Ella was born Jany 7, 1850  *
    4. Mary Frances was born Dec 5, 1853  *
    3. James S. was born Apr 7, 1851  *
    5. George W. was born Feby 22, 1856  *
    6. John Power was born July 7, 1859  *
    7. Harriet Elizabeth was born Nov 22, 1864  *

    Margaret R. Franklin daughter of Benjamin & Nancy McFarland Franklin was born Nov 6, 1857
    1. Margaret Ella, dau of Homer & Mary R was born Oct 23, 1882  *
    2. Sara Agnes, dau of Homer & Mary R was born Dec 17, 1883 *
    3. Jeannette, dau of Homer & Mary R was born Oct 10, 1885  *
    4. Frances Mary, dau of Homer & Mary R was born Aug 30, 1889  *
    5. Ruth Irene, dau of Homer & Mary R was born May 14, 1893  *

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    1. Eloie [sic] May, dau of Gillette & Sara Lutz was born July 2, 1910  *
    2. Donald Blackburn, son of Gillette & Sara Lutz was born July 5, 1916 *
    3. Kenneth Irwin Lutz, born June 9, 1920  *

    1. Frances Jeannette, daughter of Plummer & Irene Speers was born Nov 29, 1914  *
    2. Winifred Irene, daughter of Plummer & Irene Speers was born May 17, 1917  *
    3. Glenn Houseman Speers, son of Plummer & Irene Speers was born Oct 31, 1918  *

    1. Walter Richard, son of Heath & Jeannette Zundel was born June 17, 1919  *
    2. Rhoda Pauline, daughter of Heath & Jeannette Zundel was born Feby 21, 1921  *

                      Deaths
    John Power died July 21, 1805  *
    Mary Power, wife of John F. Power died Mch 14, 1836  *
    John F. Power died Dec 19, 1865  *
    Margaret Power, wife of John Power died May 29, 1836  *
    Bela S. Houseman died Feby 26, 1898  *
    Francis P. Houseman died May 5, 1901  *
    Margaret Ella Houseman died June 28, 1880  *
    Frances Houseman died Jany 13, 1899  *
    George Houseman died July 1913  *
    Harriet E. Houseman died Jany 19, 1914  *
    James S. Houseman died July 1915  *
    Power Houseman died Mar 12, 1921  *
    Donald Blackburn Lutz died Sept 3, 1918  *

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    In back of Bible
                      Houseman Ancestry
    John Houseman, great great grandfather of Evans Finley & Bela Smith Houseman,
  Christopher & Sara Houseman great grandparents of E.F. & B.S. Houseman
    Jacob & Sarah Johnson Houseman grandparents of E.F. & B.S. Houseman
    John Johnson & Elizabeth S. Houseman, parents of E.F. & B.S. Houseman
    Brothers & sisters of John J. Houseman
    Christopher & Sallie Essington, Mary McBride, Joseph, Jacob, Catherine
  Newbold.
    Christopher's children: Johnson, Jacob, William, Mary Jane, Fordice,
  Elizabeth.

                      Smith Ancestry
    Dr Bela B. Smith & Elizabeth Patterson Smith grandparents of E.F. & B.S.
  Houseman
    John J. & Elizabeth S. Houseman, parents of E.F. & B.S. Houseman

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