Mrs. Mary Shellito Harper    

MRS. MARY HARPER, P.O. Evansburg, was born in 1813, in Sadsbury Township, this county, daughter of George and Dorcas (Sharp) Shellito, the former of whom was born in 1778, in Ireland, and came to America in 1796. The subject of this sketch was married, October 12, 1837, to John Harper, who died February, 1874, leaving her with three children, the eldest of whom, William, was born August 3, 1838; serving during the late war in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and now lives at home. Fernando C., born August 3, 1844, married Mary A. Richards (have two children: Nancy S., nine years old, and Mary A., seven years of age); he enlisted in 1861, in Company E, One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged in 1862. Rachel B., born March 24, 1847, married, and has one daughter — Kittie May.  Mrs. Harper owns ninety acres of land just north of Conneaut Lake. Oakland Beach forms a part of this estate.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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