Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for the Levi PINKERTON-2 Family

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Submitted by: Sharon Pinkerton Wayland
Email address: spwpcw@verizon.net


Husband:     Levi PINKERTON      (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(9)(10)(11)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20(21)(23)
Birthdate:   May 22, 1815
Birthplace:  Halifax, Dauphin County, PA
Death date:  March 23, 1892
Place of death:  514 East King Street, York, PA
Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA
Father: Hugh PINKERTON  (1767-1852)
Mother: Margaret ECKERT (1776-prior to 1846)   (17)(18)

Marriage date:    1860
Marriage place:   Pennsylvania

2nd Wife:    Augustine HARNER    (1)(3)(4)(5)(22)
Birthdate:   July 2, 1826
Birthplace:  Pennsylvania
Death date:  December 26, 1891
Place of death:  York, Pennsylvania
Buried:      Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA
Father:      Unknown
Mother:      Unknown


CHILDREN

Child No. 1:  Charles Monroe     (1)(4)(5)(7)(8)(12)(13)(24)
Sex: M
Birthdate:     January 1861
Birthplace:   Schuylkill County, PA
Death date:   March 4, 1948
Place of death:  PENNSYLVANIA
Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA   
Marriage date:   1882
Marriage place:  York County, PA 
Spouse's name:   Charlotte R._________   (7)

Child No. 2:   Ellsworth Harner
Sex: M
Birthdate:  May 14, 1863
Birthplace: Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: Prior to 1868
Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Marriage date:  Died in childhood
Marriage place: Died in childhood
Spouse's name:  Died in childhood

Child No. 3:   Howard Lincoln
Sex: M
Birthdate:   April 26, 1866
Birthplace:  Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date:  Prior to 1868
Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Marriage date:  Died in infancy
Marriage place: Died in infancy
Spouse's name:  Died in infancy

Child No. 4:  Unknown
Sex: Unknown
Birthdate:    Unknown
Birthplace:   Unknown
Death date:   Unknown
Place of death:    Unknown
Marriage date:     Died in infancy
Marriage place:    Died in infancy
Spouse's name:     Died in infancy

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Documentation: 

 1. Tombstone Inscription: Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA: PINKERTON Family PLOT   
    "PINKERTON (one large stone with a garland carved beneath Pinkerton)  GEORGE M. 1856-1949  
    Harriet C 1869-1913   John W 1848-1871     LEVI 1815-1892   Augustine  1826-1891   
    William W. 1850-1905"   "Charles M. PINKERTON  Died March 4, 1948"   
 2. 1850 Federal Census, Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Levi PINKERTON, 33, Miner; 
    Catharine, 32; Henrietta, 8; Levi 6; John 4; Isreal 4/12
 3. 1860 Federal Census, Reilly Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "L. PINKERTON, 45, Foreman 
    Driver; Augustine, 31; Harriet, 19; John, 12; Watson, 10; George, 4; John DOYLE, 25, Miner, 
    Eliza 19, Domestic; Michael 13; William 9."
 4. 1870 Federal Census, 1st Ward, York Borough, York County, PA: "Levi PINKERTON, 50, PA, 
    Laborer; Augustine 42; George 13; Charles M. 9."
 5. 1880 Federal Census, 16 North Water Street, 3rd Ward, York, PA: "Levi PINKERTON, 65, Smoker; 
    Augustina, 63; George 24, Huckster; Charles M. 20 Chain Maker."
 6. 1890 Young's "York City Directory, "York Dispatch", York Historical Society, York, PA, p225: 
    "George M. PINKERTON (Levi Pinkerton & Son) house 514 King Street; Levi PINKERTON (Levi 
    Pinkerton & Son) house 514 King Street; Levi Pinkerton & Son, (Levi and George M) hucksters, 
    514 King Street."
 7. 1910 Federal Census, 530 Market Street,12th Ward, York, York County, PA: "Charles M. 
    PINKERTON, 49, Born in Pennsylvania, Married for 28 years, Foreman Laundry; Charlotte R., 45, 
    3 children/3 living, Born in Maryland; Willacine A. REBMAN, daughter, 24, Married 1 year; 
    Paul Rebman, 23, Wood Carver organ factory."  
 8. 1920 Federal Census, 530 Market Street, 12th District, York, PA: Charles M. PINKERTON, 59, 
    Born in PA, Stationary Engineer, General Machine Shop; Charlotte R., 54, Born in Maryland"
 9. "York Gazette", March 24, 1892, p4.:  "DIED  PINKERTON, LEVI  23rd <arcj. 1892. 2:30 pm Levi 
    PINKERTON aged 76 yrs 10 mos 1 day 514 East King Street  Services at house at 3:30pm  
    Interment Private at Prospect Hill Cemetery"
10. Obituary of Levi PINKERTON "York Gazette", York, PA, March 24, 1892, Vol X, No 1363, Thursday 
    Morning, front page: LEVI PINKERTON - DEAD  Mr. Levi Pinkerton of 514 East King Street died 
    yesterday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock.  Had Mr. Pinkerton lived two months longer he would have 
    reached the 77th milestone to his life.   Mr. PINKERTON had long been known to the market 
    people of Centre Square as the proprieter of the coffee bar and the manufacturer of his famous 
    tonic pop or beer.  Mr. Pinkerton was a member of the Duke Street Methodist Church.  About a 
    year ago, Mr. Pinkerton fell on the ice and broke his right arm and this and the death of his 
    aged wife and companion were hard trials to the aged man and to his friends he never seemed to 
    rally from the combined shock.  Only about the beginning of the New Year did he become disable 
    and unable to be out..."
11. "York Gazette" York, PA, Monday morning, January 9, 1905, p4: PINKERTON - On January 7, 1905 
    at Courtland, Kansas William W. PINKERTON, son of the late Levi PINKERTON, age 55 years - 
    Funeral at a later date." 
12. R.L. Polk & Co, "York City Directory" 6th Edition, 1907, York Historical Society, York, PA, 
    p544: "Charles M. PINKERTON, engr, White Rose Laundry, res 530 E. Market" "Geroge Mc PINKERTON, 
    ice cream block machines, res 539 E. King" 
13. Will of Levi PINKERTON, Will Book HH, No 8, p131-133, York County Courthouse, York Pennsylvania, 
    written 1/7/1892. "...real estate situated on Edwin Street in said Freystown, in which my son 
    Charles M. PINKERTON now resides . . . my said son, George M. PINKERTON, executor of this my 
    last Will and Testament." (Made his mark)
14. "Tremont Bicentennial 1776-1976", published in 1976.  Schuylkill County Historical Society, 
    Pottsville, PA, p18.  "The remainder of the township was without schools until 1847 when Tremont 
    Township was formed from Pine Grove, a board of school directors was elected in the fall of 1847.  
    They held an organizational meeting February 26, 1848 with Levi PINKERTON, president, Dr. Fred 
    SPECK, secretary, John Barndt, treasurer and directors T.A. Godfrey, Thomas Bailey and Henry 
    Eckle..."
15. Schuylkill County Deeds Grantor Index Book 1, p103, Schuylkill COunty Courthouse, Pottsville, PA.  
    "Levi PINKERTON, grantor  Anna Beadle, grantee  Book 105, p435  Date of Deed  3-30-1868  Date of 
    Record 1-2-1869  Property Lot 24 Tremont."  "Levi PINKERTON, grantor  Henry Derr, grantee  Book 
    106, p181  Date of Deed 8-3-1868  Date of Record 2-25-1868  Property Lot 24 Tremont"
16. Tax Assessment Lists, Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, Schuylkill County Courthouse, 
    Pottsville, PA.: Levi PINKERTON - 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, Miner; 1857, Engineer; 
    1858-1869; 1870 Levi PINKERTON crossed out, "Transferred to BEADLE and DERR" written over his entry.
17. Original Will of George ECKERT, Will Book 1, p231, Lancaster County Courthouse, Lancaster, PA.  
    (Levi listed as grandson) 
18. Will of George ECKERT, Will Book C, Vol 7, p71-72 (Written after the death of Margaret ECKERT 
    PINKERTON) (Levi listed as grandson)
19. Prowells "History of York County Pennsylvania" Vol II, Biographical Sketch of Levi PINKERTON, 
    p661-662:  Excerpts: Levi PINKERTON born in 1815, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  Levi's father was 
    a miller by trade.  Married Catherine Ollise in 1837 and had eight children.  Became successful 
    coal prospector, mine boss in Schuylkill County, harrassed by Molly Maguires.  "His first wife 
    having been frightened to death by the Mollies who stoned his house."  Married Augustine Harner, 
    1860. "...having been crippled in one limb from falling from a high trestle some years before at 
    the mines, he turned his attention to business, and the following spring started to attend the 
    Market at Center Square."    1868 - moved to York with four surviving children: Harriet, John W., 
    William W., and George McC.  1869 - Started business with son, George McC selling hot coffee.  
    Started to manufacture ice cream, factory at 539 East King Street.  Ice cream sold in small blocks, 
    wrapped in paper, and vended on the streets by boys at          one cent a block.  Son, George 
    invented a machine to mold and cut the blocks cheaply and quickly turning out over two thousand 
    blocks per hour.  1892 - Levi Pinkerton died.  1900 - George McC PINKERTON married Mrs. Harriet C. 
    (nee Mason) KING.  One step-son, Edward M. KING."
20. "History of Dauphin County", Chapter IX Military Records War Office: During the War of 1812 there 
    was established a public office in Halifax called the War Office so called because it was used as 
    a recruiting station during the second war with England.  At the close of the war it was still used 
    by the Pennsylvania Militia and continued according to the records, until 1843.  A list of the 
    officers and privates within the bounds of the eighth company of the 16th Regiment of the first 
    brigade.  The Miltia for 1842: Edmund Beistle, Capt. 1842; Albert G. Umberger, Capt. 1843, Privates-
    Henry Spiese, John Boyer, Levi PINKERTON Samuel Noblet, Hugh Hoake ..."
21. Zerby's History of Schuylkill County, PA, 1916 reprinted from "Pottsville Republican", Nov 28-Dec 
    7, 1934: Levi PINKERTON, 1st President of the School Board of Trement, 1st meeting February 26, 1848.
22. Death Notice of Augustine Harner PINKERTON, "York Dispatch" York, PA, December 28, 1891.
23. "History of York County, PA". John Gibson, Historical Editor.  Chicago: F.A. Battey Publishing Co, 
    1886.  p542 Duke Street Methodist Church, Present official board: J.W. Buckingham, John Laughlin ... 
    H.C. Ziegler, Levi PINKERTON, H.M. Ney."   p572  Franklin Institute by F.L. Spanger "...originated 
    Excelsior Literary Society on August 6, 1878, George Pinkerton elected treasurer..."
24. Will of George M. PINKERTON, Book 4 F, p223, York County Courthouse, York, PA: "...(a) 8/12 to my 
    step-son, Edward M. King, Sr of 1407 First Avenue, York, Pennsylvania;(b) 1/12 to Kate L. Ray (Widow 
    of William W. PINKERTON) of Reading, PA; (c) 1/12 to be shared equally by Charles M Pinkerton (and 
    his two daughters) Minnie P. Hatton and Willisen P. Bradley;  (d) 2/12 to First Methodist Church of 
    York, PA ..."

Notes: 
*Biographical sketch of Levi PINKERTON in the "History of York County" states on p661 "To them four 
children were born, only one of whom is living (1886), Charles M."  (Documentation was found for three 
named children of this union, but not the fourth.)

Harold L. PINKERTON Genealogy Source Notebook "LEVI 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.