Huston Paul, p. 352

HUSTON PAUL, an honored member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of South Strabane township, was born November 10, 1805, in Amwell township, Washington Co., Penn. His father, William Paul, also a native of the county, was here reared to agricultural pursuits, and educated at the subscription schools of the district. He married Hannah Slaught, a resident of the same county, and they then settled on a farm in Amwell township, where they lived many years. The children born to them were James, Huston, Nathan, Sarah (Mrs. Abel McFarland), Rosa (Mrs. Christopher Venum). Andrew, Daniel M., Lavinia (Mrs. Michael Schulser), John, William, Philo and Adaline (Mrs. Thomas Reese). The father of this family died in November, 1840, in his sixty-third year, at the residence of his son Nathan P., in Delaware, Ohio; he was a progressive, self-made man, a Whig in politics, and a liberal supporter of all public enterprises. The mother passed away in February, 1865, in her eighty-second year, and is interred in Lone Pine Cemetery; she died at the home of her son Philo, who lost his life at the battle of the Wilderness in front of Richmond.

Huston Paul, whose name opens this sketch, was carefully brought up on the home place, and early trained to practical farm life, attending during the winter months the subscription schools of the district. On October 4, 1827, he was married to Nancy, youngest child of Martin and Catherine (Battenfield) Heckathorn, who moved from Lancaster county, Penn., to a farm near Waynesburgh, Greene Co., same State. Martin Heckathorn died near Nineveh, Greene county, his wife at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Phebe Iams, in Dayton, Ohio. They were the parents of eight children, viz.: Elizabeth, Eva, Daniel, George, Catherine, Jacob, Phebe and Nancy. For five years after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Huston Paul resided at the mill property, one mile below Amity, in Amwell township, and in the autumn of 1833 moved to the farm in South Strabane township now occupied by Mr. Paul and members of his family. The children born to him are Hannah (Mrs. John C. Hastings), Catherine Jane, William and Nancy E., all yet living. Their mother departed this life in February, 1888, in her eighty-fourth year, having lived the life of a modest, kind and devoted wife and mother, and her body is laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Washington.

Mr. Paul for some five years carried on a grist-mill with success, and has prospered in all his undertakings; he at present owns 240 acres of well improved land. In politics he was first an Old-time Whig, and since the organization of the party has been a stanch Republican. Now far advanced on life’s journey, he is calmly awaiting the summons that shall call him from the cares of the world to a home where there shall be no more pain or sorrow.

Text taken from page 352 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed January 1997 by LuShelle Fletcher of Grand Island, NE as part of the Beers Project.
Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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