The Descendants of Robert Hoge or Hogg of Tuscarora Valley, Pennsylvania

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.
Manuscript copied 1991, Butler Area Public Library, Butler PA
This page contains complete wording of those portions of the manuscript relating to our direct Hogue ancestors.

p.2: 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:
1. William, b. 1751, in Ireland; d. 1753 in Philadelphia.
2. Sarah, b. May 1753; m. first George McCullough; secondly, Hamilton Graham.
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.
4. Martha, b. Delc. 1759; m. Thomas McKee.
5. Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1762; m. John McKee.
6. Robert, b. ___1764; d. in infancy.
7. James, b. January 1766; d. ___; m. Mary Irvin.

Notes by Leonard Lytle:
1) Robert Hogg's will is on file at Lewistown, PA. It mentions wife Letitia, son James, daughters Ina, Sarah, Jane Robinson, Martha and Mary McKee; grandchildren Letitia McCullough and Ann McCullough; Robert, George and Jane Graham; Robert Hogg, James Irwin Hogg.
2) 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 Letitial Hogg, her X mark.

p. 8: " James Hoge (son of Robert) b.January 1766, in Tuscarora Val.; d. March 22, 1840 in Slipping Rock (sic) Twp., 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 (...own/line?). Mr. Hoge m. Sept. 1789, Mary Irvin, b. in Tuscarora Valley. They had issue:
1. 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 1) Armstrong; resides in Butler Co. 2) Eliza, m. ___ Wilson, resides in Venango Co. PA.
2. Ann, b. 1793, d. in infancy.
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3. 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.
4. William, b. 1801; m. Jane Ralston;and had issue.
5. Goerge, b. 1804; d. S.P.
6. Thomas, b. 1808; d. March 12, 1885 in Franklin, Penn. In 1833 removed to Venango County where he was namager 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: 1.) Mary T.; m. 1863, Alphenis M. Hoover; d. 1878; was engaged in the oil business. 2.) Hattie E.; m. H. A. Cooper, a merchant of Franklin, Pa.