Phillip Heffelfinger of PA & OH

My paternal grandmother. Ivy R. (Mark) Brown has ancestors from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Her 2nd great grandparents were Phillip Heffelfinger & Elizabeth Mowrey. I am attempting to discover more about this family branch.

 

 

Phillip Heffelfnger

28 September 1787 Cumberland Co., PA - 6 July 1877 Wayne Co., OH

Husband of (1) Isabell McCormick & (2) Elizabeth Mowrey

My 4^th great grandfather

 

“Phillip Heffelfinger was born in Cumberland county, Pa., September 28, 1787. He was first married to Isabella McCormick of the same county, who lived less than a year, having one child that died in 1871. He was remarried January 12, 1818, to Elizabeth Mowrey, and by this union had eight children. In the spring of 1818he came West, arriving in Wayne county June 5, and for a while lived in a school house near the residence of the late Daniel Silvers. Two years prior to this he had been out and bought the farm for $700, on which he lived and died. His second wife died March 7, 1871, aged 70 years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, he having, for 25 years before his death, in 1877, been united with the Methodists. He was an honest, pure – minded, sincerely pious man, living to a ripe old age. In his later years he was under the kind care of his daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, Captain Reed. (page 838)

 

Source:

History of Wayne County, Ohio: 

From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time

By Benjamin Douglass 

1878

Indianapolis Ind., Robert Douglass Publisher

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