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"Genealogy of The McAninch Family", letter dated 24 July 1946, as related |
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by Dr. John V. McAninch of 308 W. Lincoln Ave., McDonald, Pennsylvania, |
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annotated by Franklin Blair McAninch Sr., 901 N. Lane, Martins Ferry Ohio. |
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Shortly after the Revolutionary War, a young Irishman living in North Ireland by the name of MacAninch or McAninch began paying attention to a young Highland Scotch lady who had some royal blood in her veins. Her parents objected to these attentions but the young lady favored them, so they eloped and were married. They came to America and settled in Pennsylvania. According to the best records we have, they had four boys. When these boys grew to be young men they came west of the Allegheny Mountains. One settled in Ohio, near where Cleveland now stands. He married and raised a family. One went to Missouri, married and raised a family. The other two boys came to Pittsburgh about 1804 or 1805. They married, and with some other families, came up the Allegheny River. One of them settled near where East Brady now stands. |
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The other one with others went up Red Bank Creek and settled in the woods about ten miles south of where Brookville now stands. They built a block house to go into in case they were attacked by Indians. They were attacked and Mrs. McAninch had a narrow escape from being taken. She went to the spring for water, an Indian saw her and made a dive for her but she was too swift afoot for him and beat him to the block house. This Mrs. McAninch had six boys and one girl. When Elisha, the oldest one, became a man he went to Pittsburgh and engaged in the hotel business. The other boys, William, George, Henry, and Sylvester settled on farms in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, near Brookville. Lewis, the youngest, was born in 1822. At the age of 18 or 19 he went to Clarion County near Sligo to learn the millwright trade with James Craig. They built grist mills and woolen factories. It was while he was learning his trade that he made the acquaintance of Jenny Myers of near that place. |
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Valentine Myers, and Liney Coy ...were born in the central part of Pa., about 1780 or 1785. ...they came west of the Allegheny Mountains about 1804 or 1805, and settled in the woods on the west bank of little Licking Creek which runs almost parallel with [in 1946] Sligo Railroad. ... They attended the Presbyterian Church called Licking, about four miles east of their home. Valentine Myers departed this life in 1830. His wife ... died in 1842. ... Jenny lived to be 92 at her death. |
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Lewis McAninch and Jenny Myers were married in 1843. They lived in Pennsylvania until 1883 when they went to Kansas. [he died] in 1893, his wife living until 1912. They settled on a farm six miles north of Manhattan on the Blue River. To this union nine children were born. Samuel in Sept. 1850, Catherine Malissa in 1852, David Lewis in 1854, Robert Glenn in 1856, John Valentine in 1859, Elmer Scott McClelland in 1862. Samuel died at the age of nine, Sarah Emiline at four months, Elmer Scott at the age of six years. Catherine Malissa was married and died at the age of 28 leaving four children. William Hamilton died in 1906 leaving three children. Robert Glenn died in 1917 leaving four boys and one girl. John Valentine graduated from Washington Jefferson College in 1886, and from the Western Theological Seminary in 1889. He was ordained in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, in June of 1889, and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian congregation at the same time, remaining its pastor until the time of his death in 1902. He visited the Holy Land in 1901, and other European countries. Mary Elizabeth still lives in Missouri [1946]. David Lewis lived in Clarion County near Emlenton, where he was a physician for 56 years. He died October 6, 1939. |
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McAninch Family History NL, Vol. III, No. 1, February 1995, pg. 6 page 1995-05 |
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[original contents (except as noted); change font for online presentation (May 2003)] |