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Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project
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| Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Families of Sullivan Township,
Tioga County PA
Alma Bryant and James McConnell,
Jr. of Sullivan
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From Joyce M. Tice's Sullivan-Rutland
Genealogy Project
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All Pages of SRGP are presented with the
expectation of RECIPROCITY. If you are descended from these people, Joyce
needs your family updates to the PRESENT.
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| Photos: Alma Bryant & James McConnell,
Jr. |
| Township: Sullivan Township, Tioga County
PA |
| of Sullivan |
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Photos from McConnell Family Albums
Photos scanned from painted tintype &
enhanced by JMT |
| Name |
Alma Bryant |
| Birth date and place |
16 MAR 1816 CT |
| Death date and place |
23 JAN 1887
Sullivan Township |
| Cemetery |
Wood Cemetery |
| Parents |
Mollie Wood
Ephraim B. Bryant |
| Spouses |
James McConnell, Jr. |
| Name |
James McConnell, Jr |
| Birth date and place |
20 JUL 1814 CT (?) |
| Death date and place |
22 MAR 1887
Sullivan Township |
| Cemetery |
Wood Cemetery |
| Parents |
Sally Gray
James McConnell, Sr. |
| Spouses |
Alma Bryant |
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James and Alma bought and settled on the property now called The Summer
Home by the McCONNELL family. Tioga County was part of a large tract which
had remained in Indian hands until the Treaty of 1784 at Fort Stanwix.
William Bingham was a Pennsylvania Senator in Philadelphia who had purchased,
starting in 1792, over a million acres of land in New York and Pennsylvania
that the commonwealth had surveyed after the 1784 treaty. Following his
death in 1804, his heirs continued to sell the land, a process he had already
begun. This was called the Bingham Estate and it was from this tract that
James and Alma bought the property which has been under McConnell ownership
from that time to the present. The property adjoined the property of Alma's
uncle, Justus Wood and his wife, Elizabeth Schoolcraft Rose, who were the
ancestors of the Woods who lived next door to the McConnells for 140 years
or so until Tom Wood sold the property at his retirement in the 1970s.
Alma and James cleared the land and built their first
house, possibly a log cabin, on the site of the present summer home. Later
a nicer house was built in the area now called the locust grove. Whether
James and Alma built that house and left the older house for Joe and Lib
until 1887 when they both died, or whether Joe and Lib built the new house
leaving the older house for the parents is unknown. The house in the locust
grove burned in the 1890s.
James and Alma bought adjoining farms for their three
daughters. The one we lived in when I was growing up (Soper Place/Rumsey
Place) went to Molly and her husband William Welch who were the parents
of Freeman, my great grandmother Ruth Holly's first husband. The one on
the corner (Soper's Corners), where now both the house and barn are gone,
went to Jeanette and her husband Stephen Beach. The one at the top of the
hill where so many people have lived, where Carrie McConnell and Henry
Beardslee died, went to Caroline and her husband Alvah Gray..
James and Alma died within a few weeks of each other
in 1887. Some have believed that James' middle name was Asher, but there
is so evidence to substantiate this, and it was at a time when few people
had middle names. Obituary- abstract- Mansfield Advertiser 23 Mar 1887-
James McConnell died Elk Run Monday night, aged and respected, 4 children:
Mrs. Stephen Beach, Mansfield; Mrs. Alva Gray and Joseph McConnell of Elk
Run; Mrs. W. W. Welch of Richmond twp.; buried Wood Hill Cemetery.
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