2. | Siggins, John was born in 1750 in S. Drumcliffe, Sligo County, Ireland (son of Siggins, William and Taylor, Mary); died in 1801 in Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. Notes:
John and Sarah Siggins, the first American ancestor of the Pennsylvania
Siggins Family. John was born in 1750, in County Sligo, Ireland. Died 1801
on a farm called: "Spring Creek", two and one-half miles below "Old Center
Furnace", Center County, Pennsylvania, of which he was a tenant, this farm
was owned by Robert Whitehall. John married Sarah Hood about 1776 in
County Sligo, Ireland. In April of 1793 they, with their five children
emigrated to America, settling first near Philadelphia, from there to
Centre County. After the death of John, his widow with her family moved
to Youngsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania, where the widow died
September 30, 1835, age 85 years. Soon after their marriage, both John
and Sarah experienced religion through the instrumentality of the
Methodist preaching and united with that church. Of Sarah Siggins the
Rev. William Todd says: "Sister Siggins came to Youngsville in 1816 united
with the Methodist Church of that place, and for more than fifty years she
was a Methodist and walked consistently ---in every situation she was
sustained, she was loved, her end was peace".
John married Hood, Sarah in 1776 in Sligo, Ireland. Sarah (daughter of Hood, Samuel Rev. and Hoskyns, Mary) was born in 1750 in Sligo, Ireland; died on 30 Sep 1835 in Youngsville, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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