Lackawanna
County, PAGenWeb
These surnames are found in the bible:
BATTEN, CONNAG (CONNAQ?), JAMES, PRICE, REESE, RICHARDS, SELIGMAN,
SMITH, WEAKLIN (WEAKLIM?).
Births
Thomas J. Reese was born Oct 8th 1807
Ann wife of the above was born March 29th 1810
Mary Reese Daughter of the above was born October 22nd 1828
Cathrine Reese was born July 29th 1830
Jane Reese was born March 16th 1832
Eli Reese was born June 4th 1834
Thomas and Fredrk were born March 22nd 1836
John Reese was born October 19th 1838
David Reese was born Feb 1st 1841
Jacob Reese was born March 22nd 1844
Samuel Reese was born Dec 7th 1846
Margret Ann Reese born March 19th 1850
Angeline Reese born April 13th 1852
Died July 30 1933
Deaths
Thomas Reese Son of Thomas and Ann Reese died May 20th 1836
Margret Ann Reese, Daughter of Thomas and Ann Reese, died March 22nd
1850
Mrs. Jane Price died December 14th 1850
David Reese Son of Thomas and Ann Reese was wounded August 20th and
died Dec 20th 1864 at Andersonville Georgia
Mrs. Ann Reese wife of Thos J. Reese Died Dec 9th 1880 Age 70 yr 8
mo. 9 days
Mr. Thomas J. Reese died Oct 15th 1881 Age 74 yrs 8 days
Eli, son of Thos & Ann Reese died April 19(blurred) 1885
Mrs. Cathren Batten died Oct 28th 1899. Age 69 yrs
Mrs. Jane Price died Oct 15th 1901 age 69 years
Fredrk Reese died Dec 11th 1901 age 66 years
Mrs. Mary James Died May 19th 1905 age 76 yr
John H. Smith Died July 2nd 1906 Age 58 yr
Claude K. Smith (Son of John H. and Angeline Smith) died Jan 23 1932
Age 41 yrs 9 mo. 5 days
Angeline Reese Smith (daughter of Thos J. and Ann Reese) died July
30 1933 Age 81 yrs. 3 mo. 17 days
Marriages
Mary Reese to Wm P James December 23rd Dec 1844
Jane Reese to Wm Price Dec 1849
Cathrine Reese to John Batten 1850
John Reese to Sarah Connag [or Connaq?] June 1863
Samuel Reese to Mary Weaklin [or Weaklim?] Feb 2nd 1866
Friday 8:40 p.m.
Jacob Reese to Annie Richards Feb 22nd 1866
Eli Reese to Belinda Seligman August 8th 1866
John H. Smith to Angie Reese May 11th 1881
R. A. Bagley
Wills
PETITION in the matter of the Administration of the goods,
Chattels, Rights and Credits of Frank Snell dec’d.
The Petition of
Flora Snell respectfully showeth that Frank Snell late a resident of
the
City of Scranton, Lackawanna County and State of Pennsylvania,
deceased,
departed this life intestate on Sunday the 22nd day of February, A.D.
1931
at 4:30 o’clock P.M...That the said Frank Snell left
surviving the following...Flora
Snell, widow, Scranton Penna; Donald Snell, son, 38, Scranton Penna;
Frank
Snell Jr., 36, Scranton Penna.; Herbert Snell, Son, 28, Scranton
Penna.
The said intestate was possessed of Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits
to the value of $3,000, and of real estate (less encumbrance) to the
value
of $5,000, as near as can be ascertained, situated as follows 1509
Mulberry
St., Scranton, Penna. (Dated March 6, 1931)
Be it remembered that I Flora R. Snell of Scranton in
the county of Laka. and State of Pennsylvania... And to such estate as
it hath pleased God to entrust to me, I dispose of the same as follows,
viz: To my three sons I give equal shares of all I own at my death.
(Will
Book 88, p. 297, filed Aug. 24, 1950)
Know all men by these presents that I, Philipp Friederich
Zizelmann of the City of Scranton…being of sound mind...do
make, publish
and declare this my last will and testament...in the manner following,
that is to say:
FIRST: That I direct and charge my executor
hereinafter
named as well as my estate hereinafter disposed of, specially with the
burial of my body in christian form but in a manner befitting of my
circumstances
in life and without any display whatever and if possible in Forest Hill
Cemetery in the Borough of Dunmore in said county.
SECOND: As to all my worldly estate real, personal
and
mixed...I give and devise the same in equal shares to my three sons,
Charles
M., Frederick W., and Theodore F...the same to be divided between them
in such manner as may be by them agreed upon,
THIRD: I hereby constitute and appoint my said son,
Frederick
W. Zizelmannn to be the executor of this my will.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and
seal this 17th day of May A.D. one thousand nine hundred and one.