Westmoreland County PA Archives History .....Millard F. SCHOLL Family History 1920 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com February 2, 2007, 6:25 am At Millard F. Scholl's on 5th St, West Newton Pa Oct 28, 1920 It was past 8 o'clock when we got through our supper & Will L. Scholl went home as he feared his wife would be uneasy about him & Millard's Jim, a World War Veteran with service in France, six fit tall & with a remarkle [sic] bunch of muscle went with me around to Mrs Wachob's on 4th St near Vine. She was just retiring, s'd she had been out in Rostraver during the day & was tired & we being strangers, she appointed that I come back at 8 Friday morning. We then went to Jim Chambers' garage & got him to run us about a mile across the bridge & down the River toward Collinsburgh to John F. Budd's. The house was dark & upon rapping, Mrs Budd stuck her head out an upstairs window & said Mr Budd had gone to bed. We then told her would return next day & Chambers drove us back to Millard's. Millard says his grandfather Charles J. Scholl left Northampton Co, Pa about 1 1/2 miles from Bath & within a mile & a half from the Slate quarries at Penn Aggie Pa where his father had owned a farm on which was an old stone house in which Millard's great grandfather J. Nicholas Scholl lived & which the Scholls had bought from the Penn's & owned for 115 yrs in the year 1796 (that being the year in which his father J Nicholas Scholl died) & went to Phila Pa where on Jany 27, 1796 (this was a couple months before his father's death) he bought for $6 on Market St a book called "The young Millwrights & Millers Guide" which book Millard has. Two of his brothers were with him. They all three went to Rochester, NY where they built two grist mills. In 1800, Chas J. Scholl & a man who was working for him journeyed to the headwaters of the Allegheny River in NY State, cut down a pine tree & made a canoe out of it & came down the River in same to Pittsburgh Pa & from Pgh in same year, 1800, came to South Huntingdon Tp & the next year, 1801, built a gristmill at Laurelville on the Somerset Pike. The date, 1801, was on the mill & Millard has seen it often. The mill, however, was torn down about 5 yrs ago. The next year, 1802, he was married & the date in the back of the old book above referred to records that: He s'd his Millard says his grandfather moved to Sewickly Mills when he was married & moved to the Robb farm abt 1815 or 1816 & in 1817 moved on the farm where Will L. lives, which he bought from David Shields ctg about 125 A. The old log house stood over in the field facing the back door & yard of present house & to the left of corn crib & barn & back 300 ft or so in a little hollow where is a spring & where was then an orchard, but with only two or three trees still standing in the year 1817 or 1818, William Miller & Mary Markle were married there in 1817 so he said (but I think he is wrong a year as it should be 1816. See No 90, Page 11 if they were married there) & someone took care of the baby Israel while they were being married by Squire Andrew Finley. There too, my grandmother, Leah Markle was married about 1817 or 1818 to Andrew F. Thompson & started on horseback on their hazardous trip through the wilderness to Kentucky. The stone house was built by Chas J. Scholl in 1819 & was burned down on Jany 8, 1866 "the coldest day that blowed" said Millard. A very high wind was blowing & it was 10 degrees below zero. It caught fire from the flues or chimney. The old small log house down the road & by the line of their farm was built by Christian Scholl in 1839 & 1840 & Will L. says he he [sic] was born there & Millard says they were all born there. Millard said he & Will went once to Northampton Co to get the records from the church, but found the church records were destroyed by a fire in 1818, so it was not available. Millard donít think Theodore H. Campbell is of the family I want (but I think he is wrong) but thinks Mrs. Muse, to whom he talked 30 yrs ago, & who lived out on the hill back of Robbins Sta & who told him she was a Campbell was of the family I sought. Her son, Geo Muse (she is dead) Road Engineer for the County with his office on 2d floor of the Court House at Greensburgh would know. He says Jane Campbell, wife of Alexr Guffey & mother of ex sheriff John Guffey, Decd & Col James M. Guffey, was of the same family. In starting out that Thursday morning 28th from Will L. Scholl's, we reached the Pike at the gate schoolhouse, which formerly stood across the road & in Markle's field & where Will s'd my father went but a short distance & turned to the right again, out the ridge road past the Nicholl's house & passing on to beyond a point opposite Will residence, we turned to the right again & passing through the Finley farm, we came to another road & to the right was a new frame house & the old log house in the rear, the John Finley part of the farm over still further to the right, but in plain view along the hillside is the Samuel & Susan Patterson farm where I walked across the fields to see in 1878 Susan who was then sick & in bed & aged 74 yrs. Turning to the left in the road, we came to we pass at once the old brick house which was the home of Squire Andrew Finley & which his son Andrew inherited continuing on up the road the farm lays level & we turned to the left again at the first road & passed a farm that Will said had belonged to Joshua Brothers who had married a daughter of Squire Andrew Finley. Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals, Vol. 4, pg 80-84 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb