"Swamp" James McCandless

Immigrant 1819

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth		County Down, Ireland
Marriage			To Jane "Jennie" McCandless
Death	< 1850

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5               Generation 6                   Generation 7
 
                                                       +-- Unknown McCandless II
                                                       |   (????-????)
                        +-- "Swamp" James McCandless --+
                        |   (????-????)                | 
 Mary Jane McCandless --+                              +-- [unknown]
 (1832-1882)            |                                  (????-????)
                        +-- Jane "Jennie" McCandless 
                            (1810-1881)       

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Children

(all children with Jane "Jennie" McCandless)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Joshua McCandless	M			Lucinda McCandless
John A. McCandless	M	23 Feb 1831		Hannah Stoughton
Mary Jane McCandless	F	10 Sep 1832		John C. Stoughton	Direct line
Julia Ann McCandless	F			Albert Ralston

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1850 United States Federal Census, Franklin Twp., Butler Co., PA, Page 254, lines 10-14 lists widow Jane McCandless, 40, living with four children: son John McCandless, 19 (farmer); daughter Mary J. McCandless, 17; son Moses McCandless, 14; and son Joshua McCandless, 10. Everyone was born in PA. Moses attended school within the census year. This census is dated 16 Aug 1850. Since the last child was born in 1840, it is reasonable that Swamp James McCandless died in the early 1840's. A family headed by James M. McCandless lives next door.
2	McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County Pennsylvania , 1977, self published by Joseph A. Ferree. Natrona Hgts. PA, p. 69 James McCandless, and p. 68 The Second Group of three Brothers (immigrants): "James McCandless, the second of the second group of three brothers, was born in county down, Ireland ..." lists 4 children.	(complete text James McCandless, The McCandless and Related Families)
3	Pennsylvania Atlas & Gazetteer, 3rd Ed., DeLorme Mapping Company, Freeport MA, 1990, p. 57. Map includes portions of Butler County. One of the tributaries of Muddy Creek and present day Lake Arthur is Swamp Run. It flows through the northwest corner of Centre Twp. into Franklin Twp. (See The McCandless and Realted Families, p. 68, re. the "Swamp McCandlesses.
4	Reproduction Map of Butler County Pennsylvania 1858, Violet M. Covert 2005, p.25 Centre Twp. Map shows the farms of various owners in 1858. In northwestern Centre Twp., along Swamp Run, are various McCandless farms including those listed as belonging to R. McCandless, Geo. McCandless, J. McCandless, McCandless, (and a variety of other McCandlesses). These likely indicate the farms of the three brothers Robert, George, and James McCandless (or James' son Joshua).
5	Butler Co. Cemetery Inventory Vol. II, p.6 Mt. Zion Cemetery. Joshua J. McCandless b. 1859, d. 1918, "husband". Sarah Etta , "wife of Joshua J.", b. 1862, d. 1946. (Joshua J. McCandless is the son of John A. McCandless and Hannah Stoughton; grandson of "Swamp" James McCandless. Also a nephew of John C. Stoughton) pg. 2 Mt. Zion Cemetery. Hannah J. McCandless b. 1871, d. 1909. (Hannah J. McCandless was daughter of Joshua J. & Sarah Etta McCandless, and a cousin of Elizabeth Ann Stoughton)
6	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams.	N/A

Source notes

While the "second group of three brothers" were said to be cousins of the first McCandless immigrants to Butler County PA, it is likely they were one generation younger, and so not likely first cousins as we use the term today. They married children or grandchildren of the first group of immigrant McCandlesses.