Westmoreland County PA Archives History .....SCHOLL, Will 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, 6:33 am Oak Hill Nov 2, 1920 Will Scholl, son of M.F. walked down with me Friday morning & s'd he was making abt $275 wages on the RR per month. We got to Mrs Jane Wachob's No 610 Fourth St West Newton Pa at 8:15 AM. At John F. Budd's, he s'd that he & Alvira Markle, daughter of big Gasper, were married Feby 20, 1866 by Rev Hughes, Presbyterian preacher & that he married for his second & present wife, Maria Heltebran Nov 25, 1896 Thanksgiving day. They were married by the Register at the Court House, Greensburgh, Pa. At Millard F. Scholl's On our way to Belle Vernon, Pa Friday forenoon Oct 29th, Will L. Scholl showed me where he had been pitched over the bank by his Auto being struck by a car driven by Martin of Perryopolis Pa & while it cost $200 to repair his car, himself & grandson (Dave's boy who he was taking home) were unhurt. He further asked about Ed D. Brown who he was abt employing to bring suit vs Martin for damages & said that Ed's mother (daughter of Benjamin Rotharmel) was the first girl he ever danced with. He said too, on our way that William Finley had owned a lot of land through which we passed after making the square turn to the left at the John Rankin residence & that this William Finley was a brother of Squire Andrew Finley who had owned the Rotharmel farm. Will?, Bert & Thomas Finley, full brothers, who had a half brother living in the neighborhood & had recently owned these same lands, he thought might be great grandsons of William Finley above named. He spoke too of what William Bell (father of S. Florence Hunter) once on a trip to & from Greensburgh Pa told him about going one dark night to West Newton Pa for Dr Hasson when Sam Bell's wife was having a baby & abt ten days later, when his own wife was having a baby, he went for him again. Dr Hasson said: "whose wife is it having a baby?" & Bell said: "Mine". whereupon Hasson s'd: "What kind of a hell of a wife have you? I just delivered her of a baby last week." Wm Bell then explained that that was his brother Sam's wife. Speaking this morning of Mrs. Wachob & her mother, Will s'd Mrs Martha Cook Hough could sing like a nightingale & was the sweetest voiced woman he ever heard. He used to thresh for them. He s'd the Bells, William & Walter came, he thought to that section from Bell Tp, which was named for the family & where there were lots of Bells. We reached Belle Vernon at 11:30 AM & going to Mrs. Goslin's home found it locked up & a neighbor, Mrs. Wetzel came from across the street opposite & told us she thought she had gone to Moensser Pa to the dentists & invited me to go across & sit down in her sun parlor, which I did, while Will telephoned & in 5 minutes, Mrs. Goslin came home & I went over. She is a sister of Will L. Scholl's wife. She had the family Bible of her Father David P. Bell & of her husband John W. Goslin as well as two leaves of old Bennett records, the first & last of which I copied entire & such as was desired from the Goslin record all of which is recorded on Pages 48 to 50 inclusive. She, Mrs. Nancy Adaline Goslin, today at her home in Belle Vernon Pa told about her sewing for the John B. Cook's & that Mrs. Cook (who was a Cunningham) was all the time talking abt people & particularly about Bela Smith. She was continuing such remarks one day & Mrs. Goslin getting out of patience about the continual gossip remarked that pretty near every family had a skeleton in the closet, whereupon Mrs. Cook grew pale & then livid & Mrs. Goslin thought she was going to die & wondered what she had done. She was to leave that day & Mr. Cook took her home where her Aunt Polly Darr was visiting & she told her about it whereupon she sd to her niece: "Well you know her (Mrs. Cook's) brother killed a woman & ploughed her under in a furrow in the field where he was ploughing". He had thrown her first in the brush & then dragged her from the hiding place in the brush & ploughed her under & some people followed the trail of where she had been dragged across the plowed field & found her. When Mrs Darr s'd to Mrs Goslin's mother: "Why Sarah Jane, you know of that": whereupon Mrs Bell s'd: "Yes, I knew of it, but didn't know it was Mrs Cook's brother". Mrs. Goslin was to go back to sew in two weeks, but they never came for her to go again. I went to Mrs. Wachob's at abt 8 o'clock this morning 29th & was busy taking dates from her until Will got his Auto repaired viz 10:50 AM when we started reaching Belle Vernon at 11:30 PM. Will pointed out the big brick house just this side of the church at the corner of Market ST & the street we went in, through which he s'd the County line ran straight to the mouth of Jacob's Creek. I worked while Will & Mrs. Goslin ate lunch & at 2 PM we started back turning into the right & reaching Will Smith's & Guz Patterson's who both live in the old Col Jimmy Power house in Rostraver Tp, their wives being sisters, viz Boyds of the family owning the 175 A end of the John Jack farm. There was a record in one of the five old Commentaries, in the back of the book of the Walter & Polly Bell family which I have noted on Pages 51 to 53 inclusive. We left there at 4 PM & got to Dave Scholl's (Will's son) at 4:30 PM & stopped for ten minutes. I counted seven children, the three oldest being by his first wife nee Braithwaite, & the four youngest, all handsome children, by his second & present wife who was there & I met. She was a Pore, but was the widow of S. Florence Hunter's son Will who was killed in a saw mill & by whom she had a daughter who lives with them & who Dave was going to train that evening to meet. Dave used to court her before he was first married & recommended her to Hunter after he was first married. Dave has an 80 acre farm which Will sold him last year. Will owned 12 A of coal under the part of it where the buildings are & through Hon Ed E. Robbins intercession, for whom Will had been active working political friend, they sold it to Mrs Elizabeth S. Moore for $800 per acre. Will said the Stoneman's who I wanted to see, lived a mile back of Dave's & coming to toward town, he showed me the Hortensins Lowry farm, just where the road makes two square turns to cross a bridge & creek & s'd the road going north from there was the right road going from West Newton to Stoneman's who lived a mile & a half north from there. We reached John F. Budd's, my 3rd cousin, abt 5 PM & his wife went out & hunted him up & we made appointment with him to see me at 7:30 PM or soon thereafter. Then went on to Mrs Wachob's No 610 4th ST & was there putting down what she told me from 5:05 to 7:07 PM & finished taking from her the Cook record so far as she could give it which was rather extensive & most satisfactory. She is a wonderfully active woman for 86 yrs of age, with no semblance at all of feebleness & her hair is not gray yet. She too is my 3rd cousin as were also John F. Budd & Nancy Adaline Goslin. Mr Budd also 86 yrs old is more feeble than Mrs Wachob, but is still active. Got to Millard F. Scholl's at 7:15 PM & Alleean was upstairs dressing as a witch for Halloween party being given that night for her Sunday School Class, so Samantha Miller, dau of Joe Miller of Ursina, brother of Millard's mother, got me a very good supper. Jim walked down street with me to Chambers garage, where I got them to drive me to John F. Budd's where I arrived at 8 PM & was busy getting a record of certain of Squire Andrew Finley's & Ginsey Jack's descendants until 1:11 AM 30th. He is a medium sized man, rather spare, with a gray beard about two inches long all over his face. He did not tire at all & was very kind & gracious as was his wife too, who was ironing for an hour or two. Mrs Wachob & Mrs Goslin were too very kind & considerate. Mrs Budd is medium sized & rather spare. Mrs Goslin is a rather heavy well built woman, with a large face & a very pretty one & is very young looking for one 62 yrs old. She too is a 3rd cousin of mine, being third cousin day. I got here to Millard's at 1:40 AM 30th, walking up from John Finley Budd's, a full mile in the fine moonlight & found Jim sitting before the fire asleep. Thursday the 28th on the ride with Will L. Scholl, covering as he said the best part & richest land of South Huntingdon Tp, he told me about Cornelius Casali the Catholic priest collecting money to build a church near Phila & running off out here with the money & buying that 300 A farm. He said our great grandfather, Casper Markle, was abt to buy it, once, or an adjoining farm & had the Continental Currency with which to pay for it in full, but delayed closing a little while, when the Continental money became worthless & he didn't get the farm. Passing out to the Pike at Williamsburg & turned to the right as noted on page 88. After leaving Sewickly Church abt noon on 28th, we passed just beyond the church a red brick house to the right of the road where Will said Walter Bell lived. He is a brother of S. Florence Hunter, son of William Bell & grandson of Walter & Polly Bell. Just after passing this house, we crossed Big Sewickly Creek & passing along the Creek, turned to the left through some Milligan farms to the "Dick" U.P. Church & from there went through Herminie & turning again to the left, crossed Little Sewickly Creek in front of mother's old home, which is a medium sized stone house built of many small stones. Just after leaving the Dick U.P. Church, we passed for near a mile through the John J. Carnahan (as I recall it his son John M. Carnahan told me when there Sept 6, 1897 I think that he was a nephew of Col John Carnahan at the willow tree) farm on the left, which runs up to the church & where I was on Sept 7, 1897 to see John Mahon Carnahan two yrs before he died. We continued on to Cowansburgh where Will introduced me to Theodore H. Campbell aged 84 yrs who I believe is a descendant of Samuel Thompson's daughter Margaret Campbell. Will said he threshed for Samuel Brown abt a mile up the hollow fr Fayette City Pa 50 yrs ago & when he was introduced to Mrs Brown, she asked if he was related to Chas J. Scholl whereupon he s'd he was a grandson & she then s'd "We are related. I was a Hosler? & related to the Markles". She then told him of a number of the relatives. Alleeann s'd Leah's husband was Charles Newton Hoey & their baby was named Edward Newton Hoey, a fine well behaved baby born Sept? 23d, 1920. Her brother Jasper's wife was Edith Hoey, a sister of Leah's husband. Jasper & Edith have five children, Dorothy "tix" (six) yrs old a very pretty little girl was in Millard's yesterday (Friday) morning & last night when I was eating supper two more, a boy & girl, beautiful children were in. Alleeann says they are all good looking, boys as well as girls. Dave Scholl's children were handsome too. In speaking of James Fulton, brother of Robt H. & Humphrey, & father of John C. Fulton of Uniontown Pa on Thursday night 28th Oct, Will L & Millard F. Scholl agreed that he was the laziest man they ever knew. Said he had a store & would lie down on the counter with a yard stick at hand & when a customer wd come in he wd ask what they wanted & wd point with the stick to just where they would find it & let them help themselves. Looking north or West from Will L. Scholl's residence toward West Newton, is a very high knoll with slightly elongated level top & a fence running up the side divides it about half & half. The right side of the fence is well formed with an attractive green sod, this belongs to Will's farm. To the left of the farm weeds & briers seem in evidence. This side, I think, belongs to the Saml & Susan Patterson farm. Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. 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