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from '''''The Descendants of Robert Hoge or Hogg of Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania''''' Including the Families of Lytle, McCullough, McKee, Sturgeon, Dunbar, Graham, Stitt, Harnish, Vance, Robinson, Potts, McBride. Being a copy of a manuscript prepared by Dr. Egle about 1900 for publication in a second volume of his ''Pennsylvania Genealogies''. Dr. Egle died before this material was published.  The original manuscript was purchased from Miss Catherine I. Egle by Leonard Lytle of Detroit, MI, and a copy with additional matter made by him in August, 1921. <br> Manuscript available at Butler Area Public Library, Butler PA.

<br>p.2: <br>I.[[Robert Hoge|Robert Hogg or Hoge]], born Nov. 1721, a native of South Scotland, emigrated in early life to County Down, Province of Ulster, Ireland.  He came to America in 1752. In the spring of 1754 he located on a tract of land in Tuscarora Valley, then in Cumberland County, Province of Pennsylvania.  In June 1756, owing to the Indian incursions upon the Juniata, Mr. Hoge fled with his little family to Carlisle, returning only in the fall of that year.  On two other occasions did this early pioneer seek safety in the then principal place of refuge west of the Susquehanna. He died on his plantation the 25th Jan. 1798, aged eighty years.  His wife Letitia ____, born June 1724 in the north of Ireland, died March 8, 1812, in Juniata County Penn. and with her husband buried in what is now known as the "McKee graveyard."  They had issue:<br>1. William, b. 1751, in Ireland; d. 1753 in Philadelphia.<br>2. [[Sarah Hoge|Sarah]], b. May 1753; m. first George McCullough; secondly, Hamilton Graham.<br> 3. Jenny, b. 1755; m. ___Robinson of the Juniata settlement; removed to Kentucky, and located near Maysville, where they died, S.P.; their estate was left to a son of Thomas McKee, and grandson of Mrs. Robinson's sister Martha. <br>4. [[Martha Hoge|Martha]], b. Dec. 1759; m. Thomas McKee.<br>5. Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1762; m. John McKee. <br> 6. Robert, b. ___1764; d. in infancy. <br>7. James, b. January 1766; d. ___; m. Mary Irvin.

<br>Notes by Leonard Lytle (as footnote, bottom of page 2): 
*  [[Robert Hoge|Robert Hogg]]'s will is on file at Lewistown, PA. It mentions wife Letitia, son James, daughters Ina, [[Sarah Hoge|Sarah]], Jane Robinson, [[Martha Hoge|Martha]] and Mary McKee; grandchildren Letitia McCullough and Ann McCullough; Robert, George and Jane Graham; Robert Hogg, [[James Irvin Hogue|James Irwin Hogg]].
* At Lewiston, PA is recorded the following deed: "Robert and Letitia Hogge of Milford to their daughter Jean Robinson and Alexander her husband 50 acres adjoining William Graham and McCollough's heirs, 1793, signed Robert Hogg, and Letitia Hogg, her X mark.
<br>pg. 3-4:<br> II. [[Sarah Hoge]] (dau. of Robert) b. May 1753, in the city of Philadelphia, Penn. d. June 26, 1828, near Waterford, Juniata Co. Pa.  She was a remarkable woman in many ways, a most estimable wife and mother.  She was twice married; m. first in Tuscarora Valley, 1778 to ''George McCullough'', b. 1751 in County Down Ireland; d. in the year 1783, his death resulting from the bite of a rabid dog.  Mr. McCullough came to America prior to 1774, with ''his cousins Thomas and John McKee'', and settled in the Tuscarora Valley.  When the war of the Revolution broke out, he sided with the patriots of his locality, and served during the greater part of the struggle for Independence.  <br>He left issue (surname McCullough). <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; i. ''Letitia'', b. Feb 26, 1779; m. ''Robert Lytle''.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; ii. ''Anna'', b. Sept 28, 1781; ''Mr. Moses Sturgeon''.  (See Sturgeon record.)<br>Mrs. McCullough m. secondly, in (1781 per source; more likely 1787), ''Hamilton Graham''.  They had issue (surname Graham):<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; i. ''George'', b. Feb.8, 1788, in Tuscarora Valley, Penn. d. April, 1849, in Spruce Hill Twp.  Juniata Co. Penn.  m. and left issue: ''Robert, James, William, Fleming, and Sarah H.''<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; ii. ''Jane'', b. Dec. 4, 1790; d. Feb. 19, 1873 in Brighton, Washington Co. Iowa, whither she removed in 1855; she m. Feb.1, 1821, ''William Vance'', b. May 8, 1790, in Shannon, Ireland: d. March 1844, at Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio; came with his parents when a child to the Juniata Valley; in 1834 removed to Miami Co. Ohio; they had issue (surname Vance):<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. ''Mary Jane'', b. Dec. 26, 1822; d. Sept 28, 1840.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. ''Sarah'', b. Sept. 25, 1824; m. ''Daniel Kindall'' in Brighton, Washington Co. Iowa, and had issue.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  3. ''James O.'', b. Oct 14, 1825; a farmer; resides in Washington Co., Iowa.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4. ''William'', b. Oct 13, 1829; followed the gold pioneers to California in 1849 where he died July 26, 1852.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5. ''Letitia Lytle'' b. April 2, 1833, m. ''James Robinson a descendant of the Tuscarora Valley Robinsons'' who shared in the ill-fated Indian massacre of 1763; resides near Brighton, Iowa and had issue.<br>iii. ''Robert Graham'', b. 1792, d. 1859 near Logansport Ind.  Of his children, ''Matthew K. '' was a lieutenant in the 46th Indiana Regt. and d. at Helena, Ark. during the Rebellion; while ''Issaiah A. '' served in the 9th Regt. Illinois Cavalry.

<br>Notes by Leonard Lytle (as footnotes at bottom of pages 3-7):
* The following is a copy of an original document belonging to Mrs. Lettitia A. Harnish of Alexandria, Pa.  She is the granddaughter of Robert and Letitia Lytle.  It was written by James McKee Lytle, their son.  For five years prior to Lettitia Lytle's death, in 1864, she was blind.<br>"Statement of Lettitial Lytle, widow of Robert Lytle, dec., now living at Alexandria, Huntington County, Pennsylvania."<br>I am the daughter of George McCullough, who came from Ireland to America prior to the Revolution.  He was a stone mason by trade, landed at Philadelphia and from there went to Northumberland, to erect a barn for a Quaker, when so employed he was drafted, by the draft on the Militia, I think from the information I received this was about the year '74.  When there engaged he met with Jno. McKee and some other acquaintances who were living in Tuscarora Valley, and whom he accompanied home after the service of the draft, when there he became acquainted with my mother, Sarah Hoagg, in the year '75 whom he married and there he resided when he again was called into service, about the year '76.  After serving his time he again returned home, and continued at farming, until again called out in '78.  Hugh Gray was with him in '78, and according to the family record I was born in Feb. '79, after his return from the war.  He died in Sept. '84 leaving but two children living, Lettitia and Ann, the latter 2 years younger than the older.  My mother again married a man the name of Hamilton Grimes, in the year of '89, by whom she had two sons and a daughter, named Robert, George and Jane, and lived on in Tuscarora Valley to her death which took place somewhere in the year '29 or '30.  I the oldest daughter of this first husband was married to Robert Lytle on the 6th July 1802 (by the Rev. Mr. Coulter, a Presbyterian Preacher) and lived with him until the __ day of August 1847 when he died at Hollidaysburg Blair County, Pa.  My sister Ann McCulloch married Moses Sturgeon in 1800 and lived with him until 1850, when he died.  She died in 1851, both died in Shelby County, Ohio."

* I have some letters written by Mrs. Margaret Townsley of Cedarville, Ohio, in 1887. She was gathering material for Egle's "Pennsylvania Genealogies" and I think that she furnished the information from which this manuscript was prepared by Dr. Egle.  Miss Catherine I. Egle informs me that she cannot find the papers on the Sturgeon family and thinks they may have been sold.  In order to preserve what information I have on the Sturgeon family I gave the following extracts from the letters of Mrs. Margaret Townsley:  <br>"Letitia McCullough was the only sister of Ann McCullough, wife of Moses Sturgeon, and their daughter Lettitia Sturgeon was my mother.  She first married John Campbell of Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio in 1821.  To them 2 sons and 1 daughter was born.  Mr. Campbell died she again married my father John Dalzell, in 1834 and to them were born two children, myself and a brother who died in infancy.  My mothers name was Letitia, by that ever dear and loved name we called our daughter, Orrel Lettitia.  She died at the age of 2 years and 3 months.  Of our four children we have but one living, a son John Dalzell Townsley, now 25 years of age, residing in Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio, there in business but not married." <br>The postmaster at Cedarville, Ohio, informed me in 1921 that Mrs. Townsley died years ago and that he thinks her son John Dalzell Townsley is now living in Kansas City.  I have not been able to get in touch with him.

<br>pg. 4-6:<br>III. [[Martha Hoge]] (daughter of [[Robert Hoge|Robert]]) b. Dec. 1759, in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata Co. Pa. d. July 1836, near Butler, PA.  She m. in 1778, Thomas McKee, b. 1749 in County Down, Ireland, d. 1814, in Butler County, Penn.  He came to America in 1774 and located in the Juniata Settlement.  At the commencement of the struggle for Independence he entered the service, and was under Morgan in the Southern campaign, in the Pennsylvania company attached to the corps of that brave partisan leader.  His canteen and powder horn, carried through the war, are in the possession of his grandson Lieut. Col. J. Cooper McKee, Surgeon, U.S.A.  In 1795 the family removed to Allegheny County, Penn. and the year following 1796 permanently settled on a farm near Butler, Butler County, that State.  They had issue (surname McKee).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;i.  James, b. Jan. 1779, m. Mary (Polly McKee).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ii. Robert. b. 1781, d. 1798 in Butler County. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iii. Jennie (marked out and "Jane" added by another hand) b. Nov. 9, 1782, m. James McKee.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; iv.  Hugh, b. Jan. 5, 1785, m. Margaret Dunbar. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;v. Daniel, b. 1787, d. in infancy. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vi. Letitia, b. 1789, d. Aug. 12, 1866; m. 1810 John Dunbar b. in Castle Fin, County Donegal, Ireland, d. 1830 in Mt. Vernon, Pasey Co. Ind.; was a brother of Margaret, wife of Hugh McKee; was in the war of 1812-14, resided in Butler Co. Penn., until 1816, when he emigrated to Indiana, locating on a farm in Pasey County; he filled several important local offices; and they had issue (surname Dunbar).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Martha, b. 1811; m. George W. Duckworth and had issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Robert, b. May 13, 1813; m. Feb. 21, 1837 Sarah Matthews and had issue.  He was on the frontier with Gen. Custer in his expeditions against the Modocs, and in the Oklahoma Country; resides at Solitude, Ind.  <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Elizabeth J. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. Thomas.  <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. Margaret, m. Olsey Ferrall, reside at Wabash, Wayne Co., Ill., and had issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6. Letitia m. William Sanders<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7. Mary<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8.John; resides at New Harmony, Ind. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vii. John, b. 1791, d. 1816; Unm.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;viii. Thomas, b. 1793; m. in 1823, _____ Bryan, and removed to Kentucky, near Maysville; and had, among other children, John, killed in the battle of Cerrro Gordo, Mexico; another son took the name and inherited the estate of Jenny Hoge Robinson in Kentucky. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ix. Daniel, b. 1795, m. ____ McMullin of Butler; and had a large family; removed to Utah where he died. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;x. Robert Hoge, b. 1797, m. Mary (Polly) Montgomery of Butler County and issue; one son James McKee, resides near Claysville, Washington Co. Penn. an elder in the Presbyterian Church there.

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<br>IV. [[Mary Hoge]] (daughter of [[Robert Hoge|Robert]]), b. Jan. 2, 1762, in Tuscarora Valley; d. Nov. 24, 1847, at Butler, Penn.  She m. Sept. 15, 1778, by Rev. Hugh Magill, A. R. Pres. Minister, John McKee, b. June 1, 1754 in County Down, Ireland; d. Nov. 10, 1830 in Spruce Hill Twp., Juniata Co., Penn.  He was first cousin to Thomas McKee and George McCullough, and came to America in 1774.  He entered the Continental service during the war of the Revolution; Mrs. McKee became widely known in the famous Grey land suit, in which she was the principal witness.  Her last years were spent with her daughter Mary, wife of James McKee.  They had issue (surname McKee).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;i. Robert, b. Jan. 4, 1780; m. Jane McIntyre; removed to Wooster, Ohio, where they both died; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Mackey resides there, while a son John is living at Mansfield, Ohio.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ii. Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1782; d. July 7, 1839 in Pittsburgh, Penn. m. April 11, 1810, Sarah Smith, b. June 29, 1791 in Stewartstown, Ireland; d. Aug. 7, 1834 in Pittsburgh Penn; dau of Rev. Thomas Smith, pastor of Cedar Springs church; they shortly after removed to Pittsburgh, where he became prominent in the organization of the first A. R. Church in that city, one of its first trustees, and one of the original incorporators; as contractor and builder, he erected the first Church edifice for the congregation. They had issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. John Hoge, b. 1811; m. & d. in Philadelphia leaving issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Thomas Smith, b. 1813; d. 1839, in Houston, Texas.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. Jane, b. 1815; d. 1844; m. ___ Glenn of Pittsburgh.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. James Hoge, b. 1818; m. Mary Thomas and resides in Phila; and had issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. Mary, b. 1820; m. Dwight J. Nortin; and had issue; reside in Washington, Iowa..<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6. Hugh, b. 1822; d. 1834.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;7. Elizabeth, b. 1825, d. 1842.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8.William Weir, b. 1827; d. 1878 at Hazelton, PA.; m. Sarah Speise of Tamaqua.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;9. Samuel F. , b. 1829; Capt. in 147th Penn. Reg.; killed in Georgia on Sherman's March to the Sea., July 2, 1864.
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; iii. William, b. Jan.5, 1785; d. April 17, 1847 in Tuscarora Valley, Penn; m. Elizabeth Stuart Laird, d. Oct. 7, 1833; dau. of Samuel Laird; and had issue among others:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. Mary A., d. Jan 1852; m. Col. Wm. Butler of Lewistown Pa.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Sarah; m. Samuel Cooper of Port Royal, Juniata Co. Pa., and there resides.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3. Martha; m. Matthew Forsythe, resides at Derry, Juniata Co. Pa. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4. John Jackson, m. Elizabeth Houser of Wooster, Ohio; resides in Miami Co. Ind.
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iv. Mary, b. July 7, 1787; m. her cousin James McKee of Butler Co. Pa. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;v. James, b. May 4, 1791; d. 1846 in Pittsburg; unm.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vi. John, b. Aug. 10, 1793; d. 1829 in Tuscarora Valley; unm. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vii. Martha, b. Aug. 16, 1795; d. Sept. 5, 1828 in Tuscarora Valley; m. Andrew Mass; no issue.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;viii. Daniel Logan, b. Nov. 1, 1798; d. Aug. 21, 1838 in Clarion Co. Penn; m. Elizabeth Boggs of Allegheny Co. Pa.; and had issue one son, a physician in Hutchinson, Kan.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ix. Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1801; m. James Mairs; removed to Wooster, Ohio and there died leaving issue.

<br>pg. 8-9:
<br>V. [[James Hoge]] (son of Robert) b. January 1766, in Tuscarora Val.; d. March 22, 1840 in Slipping Rock Twp. (sic) Butler Co.  His father gave him a farm of 200 acres upon which he resided until 1798, when he removed to Butler County, locating four miles from the county line.  Mr. Hoge m., Sept. 1789, Mary Irvin, b. in Tuscarora Valley.  They had issue:
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;i. Robert, b. 1791: resided in Butler County, a farmer; was a soldier in the war of 1812-14 m. Elizabeth (Betsy) Armstrong of Huntingdon Co.; and had issue among others.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Armstrong; resides in Butler Co.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Eliza, m. ____ Wilson, resides in Venango Co. Pa.
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ii. Ann, b. 1793, d. in infancy.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iii. James Irvin, b. 1796; resided on the farm of his father, and there died; m. Margaret St. Clair of Butler Co.; a son Archibald resides on the old homestead.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iv. William, b. 1801; m. Jane Ralston; and had issue. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;v. George, b. 1804; d. S. P.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;vi.Thomas, b. 1808; d. March 12, 1885 in Franklin, Penn. In 1833 removed to Venango County where he was manager of Lonely Furnace Co.; m. 1838, located three miles east of Franklin where he managed the Van Buren Furnace Co., built a flour mill near to the furnace on French Creek, and also a saw mill; in 1853 elected State Senator, and on his reutrn took up his residence in Franklin and engaged in merchandising; during the War for the Union was appointed Commissioner of the draft for Venango County; in 1863 again elected to the State Senate; and was Mayor of Franklin in 1875; Mr. Hoge was twice married; m. first Nov. 20, 1837, Jennie Whan, dau. of Francis Whan, who died in 1854 at Harrisburg; n. secondly Mrs. Eliza Henderson (nee Marrow) of Allegheny County who d. in 1879.  By first wife there was issue: <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Mary T.; m. 1863, Alphenis M. Hoover; d. 1878; was engaged in the oil business. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. Hattie E.; m. H. A. Cooper, a merchant of Franklin, Pa.

<br>VI. Letitia McCullough ( Sarah (McCullough)(Robert), b. Feb. 26, 1779, in Tuscarora Val. d. July 20, 1864, in Alexandria, Penn. at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Stitt; interred at Hollidaysburg; She married July 6, 1802, at the home of her grandfather Hoge, Robert Lytle, b. Nov. 10, 1778 in the Juniata Val.; d. Aug. 15, 1847, at Hollidaysburg, son of Capt. John Lytle. # He first resided at Cedar Springs, thence removed to Huntingdon, where he engaged in milling and tanning.  In 1820 he went to Alexandria, engaging in the same business, until 1841 when he removed to Hollidaysburg.  They had issue (surname Lytle).
<br>Note by Dr. Egle: (as footnote, pg. 9)<br>Captain John Lytle, resided in Tuscarora Valley as early as 1762; he married a daughter of James Hite, also an early settler, and they had issue:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;i. Robert, b. Nov. 10, 1778; m. Letitia McCullough.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;ii. David<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iii. John <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;iv. James; settled near Xenia, Ohio, where he died.