Nicholas Moul    

NICHOLAS MOUL, deceased, was born March 2, 1812, in Hessen, Germany. He came to America with John, his father, his mother and two sisters when he was eighteen years of age, and settled for awhile in Butler County. He afterward came to Mercer County, where he, December 22, 1836, married Elizabeth Sager, who was born December 2, 1815, in Crawford County, Penn. The Sagers were natives of Westmoreland County, and in 1818 settled on the farm where Alexander Kennedy now resides. This farm was afterward sold, and they moved to the farm where Jacob Shuler now resides. There the mother died in 1857, the father in 1860. There were eight children: John, Jacob, Mary, Abram, Daniel, Elizabeth, Andrew and Barbara. The parents were members of the Lutheran Church. Nicholas Moul settled on a farm in Findley Township, where Mr. Moul was killed by a limb of a tree October 6, 1855. His sad and untimely death was mourned by all who knew him. He was possessed of many noble traits of character. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. By his union with Elizabeth Sager he had eight children: Clarissa, married George Cribbs; John, married Hannah Glenn; Jacob, died when four years old; Reuben, married Ettie Trout, and, after her death, Mrs. Mary George; Salome, lives with her mother; Melissa, died when three years old; Amos, died when one year old; George, a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, killed at Cold Harbor June 7, 1864, having been shot in the head; he died the same evening at 9 o’clock, and was buried on the 8th near the Cold Harbor and White House Landing road. Mrs. Moul settled in Balm in 1857, and has since led a quiet life, deeply mourning the loss of her worthy companion. She is a consistent member of the German Reformed Church.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  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.