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- [S1] Newspaper Clipping, 20 Jan 1899, The Shippensburg News.
Miss Elizabeth Colwell
Mr. John Orr, whose wife is a niece of Miss Elizabeth Colwell, whose death occurred in Shippensburg, Jan. 11th, furnished the following interesting facts of the Colwell family:
The ancestry of Miss Elizabeth Colwell, on the maternal side, were the Breckinridges, whose ancestors, with Alexander Culbertson, wee the first settlers in Culbertson's Row, Franklin County, her grandfather, James Colwell, having married Miss Nancy Breckinridge, the first of the name who settled in that part of Cumberland Valley. The Breckinridges, Culbertsons, Johnstons and other families in that part of the valley were closely interwoven in their relationship by marriage.
John Colwell, the father of Miss Colwell, married Miss Kezia Cox, of Southampton Township, Franklin County. Their only child was Mary Colwell, who married Alexander McCune, and wa the mother of Mrs. John I. Cox, E. J. McCune and the late John A. C. McCune, of Shippensburg. After her death, he married Miss Nancy Smith, daughter of Hugh Smith, who had served in the army during the entire Revolutionary War. His second wife died, and he married Miss Martha King, daughter of David and Mary King, who survived him a number of years and died in 1856.
John Colwell built and operated what was long known as Colwell's Mill on the road leading from Middle Spring to Shippesnburg. It is now known as Houser's mill. Miss Colwell was born in the stone house near the mill and spent her childhood and the days of her young womanhood in that house.
The family of John Colwell by Miss Nancy Smith were Mrs. Nancy Hayes, who died a the age of 84 years; her brother, Capt. James S. Colwell, an attorney of Carlisle, after whom Colwell's Post is named, who was killed at the battle of Antietam at the head of his company; her younger sister, Mrs. Jane Philips; her older sister, Miss Elizabeth Colwell. Mrs Jane Philips is in her 84th year.
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East Coast Roots
- 1899
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