Speaking of Ancestors

***** ***** Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) Dec 8, 1919

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Origin and Curious Evolution of Some English Surnames

ETYMOLOGY MADE INTERESTING. The Origin and Curious Evolution of Some English Surnames. Baltimore Sun. A recent magazine article by Sir Herbert Maxwell presents in a very readable form the derivation of a number of common names. it will be news, for example, to many readers that Snooks was once known as Sevenoakes. Some persons are [...]

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Back in Ye Olden Days

BACK IN YE OLDEN DAYS. Slaves and Distilleries Are on the Tax books of 1805. The Commissioners have been busy during the past week, hauling down tax books used just after the organization of the county and which have laid away for years untouched. Grim age has stained the pages, yet here and there one [...]

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John Sherer to Erect a Wing Dam

Just clipped this from the Adams Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, since the name John Sherer appears on the will/probate document of John Hineman. I have no idea if this is the same man, but wanted to save it for future reference. Transcription: “Passed at the last sitting of the Pennsylvania Legislature.” ***** Transcription: “An act to [...]

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Hineman – Barger – Stanton: Beaver Co., PA

Fault is found with Hineman story I read the story in The TIMES on March 19 informing the county of hte passing away of the county’s former sheriff, John Hineman. As an avid reader and advertiser in your paper, I was appalled and thoroughly disgusted that The TIMES would print such an article with the [...]

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Hineman – Young: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Elsie Hineman was the daughter of David Harper Hineman and Emma Marie White. She was married to James Oliver Young. I think that James O. Young‘s parents were James Summerfield Young and Hannah Sophia Carlson. I also think James‘ sister, was Margaret Young, who was married to Elsie’s brother,  David Edward Hineman. NOTE: The middle [...]

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Hineman: Monaca, Pennsylvania

We have two Charles A. Hinemans in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, born about 5 years apart. Based on census records, this one lived in Monaca, while Charles Allison Hineman, in the previous post, lived in the Brighton/New Brighton area. This Charles A. Hineman (provided I have sorted them out correctly) was the son of  William J. [...]

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Hineman – Grove: New Brighton, Pennsylvania

Charles Allison Hineman, son of  John McConnell Hineman and Mary Ann Hartford: THIS ROOSTER A FREAK. Looks After Young Chicks as Carefully as Own Mother Would. Beaver, Pa., September 11. — Charles A. Hineman, a well-known farmer, of Brighton township, this county, is the owner of a young Brahma rooster which is a freak. Some [...]

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Hineman – Aber – Dilworth – Gilliland

Earl Jay Hineman was the son of  James Madison Hineman and Blanche L Knight. Hineman Earl Jay Hineman, 85, of 1715 Midland-Beaver Road, Industry, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1972, at 10 p.m. in the Rochester Unit of the Medical Center of Beaver County following an illness of several weeks. Born Dec. 1, 1887, in Brighton [...]

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Hineman – Eakin: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

George Lacey Hineman, son of Charles Allison Hineman and Maud Wilma Grove, was married to Daisy H. Eakin, daughter of  William John Eakin and Mary Olive Morrison. ***** Thelma Eakin McBrien Mrs. Thelma Eakin McBrien, 74, of 3840 Tuscarawas Road, Brighton Township, died Thursday, Oct. 30, 1980, in the Medical Center of Beaver County following [...]

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