Manuel Stoody, p. 1129

MANUEL STOODY is a native of Washington county, having been born in 1824 on the north fork of Pigeon creek, where his school days were passed. His father, Jacob Stoody, was born of German ancestry in 1798, in Somerset township, this county, and passed his youth on the home farm. When he was a young man, a family moved into the neighborhood from Maryland. Young Stoody soon made the acquaintance of Andrew Long, the new-comer, for his pretty daughter Barbara was a most desirable addition to the social circle. Jacob Stoody and Barbara Long soon became warm friends, and this intimacy finally culminated in their marriage. Mrs. Stoody was born in 1801 and died in 1865, leaving the following children: Margaret, wife of Joshua Craven, this county; Rosanna, married to John Guthrie, a farmer of this county; ; John; Manuel; Mary, wife of James Morrison, of Nottingham township, this county; Elizabeth, married to Jacob Yohe, of Carroll township, this county; Sarah, wife of ark Yohe, cousin of Jacob Yohe; Henry, and Jacob. The father died January 13, 1834.

Manuel Stoody grew to manhood on the home farm, and in 1846 was united in marriage with Mary, daughter of John Jones, a native of Fallowfield township. The following children were born to them: Jacob A.; Rachel Ann, Melissa J., William M. (deceased; he was a graduate of the Southwestern State Normal School, at California Penn., and became a prominent teacher in the county), Louella I. (deceased; she also graduated at the Southwestern State Normal School, and afterward at the National School of Elocution and Oratory, at Philadelphia), and John II., a Methodist minister, a graduate of the University of Rochester, N.Y. The mother was called to her long home September 9, 1889. Mr. Stoody learned and until recently followed the carpenter trade, and is now farming on his place, which contains seventy acres of land, situated about six miles south of Monongahela, and four miles west of Charleroi.

Text taken from page 1129 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed January 1997 by Bobbi Steele of Indianapolis, IN 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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