Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for the Cyrus Levi PINKERTON Family *********************************************** Copyright sHARON Pinkerton Wayland. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Sharon Pinkerton Wayland Email address: spwpcw@verizon.net Husband: Cyrus Levi PINKERTON (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19) Birthdate: August 22, 1826 Birthplace: Halifax, Dauphin County, PA Death date: September 30, 1880 Place of death: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois Father: George PINKERTON (1797-1875) (2)(3)(10) Mother: Margaret WRIGHT (1803-1882) Marriage date: April 20, 1848 Marriage place: Halifax, Dauphin County, PA Wife: Hannah "Fannie" All SINGER (5)(8)(9)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) Birthdate: 1830 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Death date: 1884 Place of death: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois Father: Unknown Mother: Unknown CHILDREN Child No. 1: Margaret "Maggie" Ellen (2)(9)(14)(15) Sex: F Birthdate: August 1849 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown Place of death: Sioux City, Iowa Marriage date: 1867/1868 Marriage place: Pennsylvania Spouse's name: Frank H. Shepherd (2) Child No. 2: Francis "Frank" Elmore (2)(5)(8)(9)(15) Sex: M Birthdate: December 20, 1852 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: February 13, 1938 Place of death: Riverside, California Marriage date: October 20, 1881 Marriage place: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois Spouse's name: Marie E. BOIS (8) Child No. 3: William H. Sex: M Birthdate: December 28, 1856 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: December 29, 1858 Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Buried: Methodist Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, PA Marriage date: Died in infancy Marriage place: Died in infancy Child No. 4: Jane "Jennie" M. (2)(8)(9)(15)(16) Sex: F Birthdate: January 1856 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown Place of death: Sioux City, Iowa Marriage date: February 20, 1879 Marriage place: Champaign Co., Illinois Spouse's name: Homer J. NICHOLSON (2) Child No. 5: Alice L. (2)(5)(8)(9)(16) Sex: F Birthdate: 1860 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown After 1950 Place of death: Texas Marriage date: November 19, 1882 Marriage place: Unknown Spouse's name: George W. KIRBY Child No. 6: Edward (or Edwin) Ellsworth (2)(5)(8)(9)(16)(18) Sex: M Birthdate: March 28, 1863 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown - by 1938 Place of death: Chicago, Illinois Marriage date: 1885/1886 Marriage place: Unknown Spouse's name: Fannie LOSTETTER Child No. 7: Bertram Eugene (2)(5)(8)(9)(18) Sex: M Birthdate: March 28, 1872 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: after 1954 Place of death: Houston, Texas Marriage date: June 6, 1900 Marriage place: Unknown Spouse's name: Jean SMELTY Child No. 8: Sarah "Sadie" Watson (9)(18) Sex: F Birthdate: July 14, 1851 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Marriage date: Died in infancy Marriage place: Died in infancy Child No. 9: Lucy Amelia (18) Sex: F Birthdate: October 10, 1850 Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Death date: Unknown Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA Marriage date: Died in infancy Marriage place: Died in infancy ================================================================================ Documentation: 1. Schuylkill County Deeds, Grantee Index No1 p77. Cyrus L. PINKERTON Grantee: Lot 129 Tremont (1855); Lot 11 Tremont (1858); Branch Twp Property (1873); Tremont Twp Property (1874); Foster Twp Property (1874); Hegins Twp Property (1874) 2. Orphans Court Docket #20, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA p.289 "my son Cyrus being since deceased leaving issue Maggie intermarried with Thomas Shepperd, Frank, Jennie intermarried with Homer J. Nicholson, Alice, Edwin, and Bertie." 3. George PINKERTON Will, Schuylkill County Will Book 4, p216-217, Pottsville, PA 4 "Tremont Area Bicentenial 1776-1976" published 1976, Schuylkill County Historical Society, "on March 1, 1850 C.L. PINKERTON opened a three month school in the 'Creek School'. On August 31, 1850 Kramm and Pinkerton were elected teachers at twenty-seven dollars a month." 5. 1880 Federal Census: Village of Rantoul, Champagne Co., Illinois: "Cyrus PINKERTON 54, Retired Lawyer, Fannie, 50, Francis E. 27, Alice L. 19, Edwin E. 17 Clerk in Store, Bertie 8" 6. 1875 Map of Tremont listing properties with their owners. Schuylkill County Historical Society, Pottsville, PA: C.L. PINKERTON recorded as the owner of a property on West Main Street in Tremont; and, a property on West Laurel Street. 7. "History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania", Joseph Zerbey, p1118, Schuylkill County Historical Society, Pottsville, PA. "Tremont Township new schools... the first teachers in the building were No 1 Henry Edmunds, $30; No 2 Edward L. Jones, $30; and C.L. PINKERTON, $30... (1854) 8. "Autobiography of Frank E. Pinkerton" (deceased) ""My father Cyrus Levi PINKERTON ....was a prominent Republican, previously a Whig with abolition sympathies. His house was a station of the underground railroad and the cellar of our house was an asylum for the negroes who escaped from the South and helped them to readh Canada and freedom. . . . They had six children grown to maturity: Maggie, Sadie, Francis, Jennie, Alice, Edward and Bertram. Sadie died young, Jennie of general debility in Sioux City, Iowa, Alice in Tremont of cancer of the stomach; Edward in Chicago; Margaret in Sioux City, Iowa. Surviving are Francis Ellmore and Bertram Eugene. Three died in infancy." 9. B.E. PINKERTON letter (B.E. Pinkerton Stocks & Bonds 423 W. 32nd St. Houston, Texas) dated June 16, 1950, addressed to Mr. Burton L. Pinkerton, Maple Ave. Hatfield, Pennsylvania 10. B.E. PINKERTON letter dated February 2, 1946, addressed to Mrs. Betty (Paul) Reidler 1020 Spruce Street, Ashland, PA. 11. Smulls "Legislative Handbook of 1879, p266 State House of Representatives, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON 12. Zerbey's "History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County, PA., p1117-8, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON 1850: Teacher at Creek School; 1855 Teacher, salary of $30, New Brick School, Church Street, Tremont; 1860 Lawyer 13. Boyd's Business Directory of Schuylkill County, PA, 1879 - Cyrus Levi PINKERTON, Lawyer, Crescent Street, Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA. 14. Federal Census: 1850 Tremont, PA Cyrus PINKERTON, 24; Hannah, 20; Margaret, 1 15. Federal Census: 1860 Tremont, PA C.L PINKERTON, Lawyer, 34; Fannie, 30; Maggie, 11; Francis, 7; Jane, 5 16. Federal Census: 1870 Tremont, PA Cyrus PINKERTON, Lawyer, 44; Fannie, 40; Jane M. 15; Alice L. 9; Edwin E. 7 17. Schuylkill County Deeds, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA Grantee Index No 1 p77: Cyrus L. PINKERTON buying property in Schuylkill County as follows: Lot 129 (1855), Lot 11(1858), Lot 41-129(1866) in Tremont, property in Branch Township(1873), Tremont Township (1874), Foster Township (1874), Hegins Township (1882); P79 Fannie PINKERTON purchased Lot 41, Tremont, PA (1866). 18. Tremont Methodist Episcopal Church Records, Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA 19. Schuylkill County Deeds, Grantor Index No 1, P, p33 Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: C.L. PINKERTON ten Schuylkill County properties Notes: Harold L. PINKERTON Genealogy Source Notebook "Cyrus Levi PINKERTON". Harold is the great-great grandson of George PINKERTON. The inspiration for Pinkerton Genealogy by Harold L. PINKERTON and his daughter, Sharon P. WAYLAND came from communication with Paul W. PINKERTON a distant cousin (now deceased), and his daughter Helen P.RYDELL, who in 1984-1990 worked on mapping the various branches of Pinkerton cousins.