Nagle, Richard. He served under Gen. Washington in 1776 to 1783. He was one of the early settlers in the McGuire community at Loretto. In 1826 the state of Pennsylvania granted him an annuity of $40 per year for his services at Valley Forge, Germantown, Long Island and elsewhere. He died in 1823, and his wife, Mary, survived him. He had several children, among them Jacob and Honnor. Jacob Nagle died about 1857; the name of his wife was Mary Magdalene; they had eight children: Mary Ann, married to a Mr. Coulter; Richard, died leaving a son named William; John J., Nicholas, Margaret Nagle-Delozier, George, Jacob and Michael James Nagle.

Noel, Nicholas, died in the summer of 1859 at his residence in Washington township. He had eight children: Mary, married Arthur Behe; John, Joseph, Elizabeth, the wife of Conrad Behe; Catherine, married Edward Burk; Margaret, whose husband was John Rainey; Teresa, married Joseph Crist; and Susan, whose husband was Daniel Skelly.

O'Hara, Daniel. He came to Loretto about 1791. He was born Feb. 9, 1761, and died at Loretto, Feb. 9, 1809; he married Rachel Friddle, born in 1770, and died in 1853; their children were: David, born March 6, 1796, died Jan. 21, 1864, he married Elizabeth Parrish (see Joshua Parrish); Henry, born in 1800, died Feb. 18, 1890, married Patience McGuire (see Michael McGuire). David O'Hara was a member of the first board of poor directors for Cambria county.

Parrish, Joshua. He was a native of England, and married Barbara Thimble. At the solicitation of Father Gallitzin he came to Loretto about 1800 and built what is known as the O'Hara mill. He died about September, 1840. They had eight children: Peter Benedict, Joseph, James, Thomas A., John, Elizabeth Parrish-O'Hara, Mary Parrish-Storm and George Parrish. George died before his father, leaving seven children: Joshua, Jr., Demetrius, Susannah, Barbara, George, Michael and Ann Elizabeth Parrish.

Thomas A. Parrish was born Feb. 20, 1804, and died Sept. 11, 1876. He married Mary Storm, a daughter of John Storm, of Loretto. Their son, Francis J. Parrish, of Gallitzin, was born July 24, 1832; he married Mary McConnell, a daughter of Hugh McConnell, of Allegheny township; she died April 26, 1878. They had four children: Louise, Frank P., James W. and Mary J. Parrish. His second wife was Mary Shaffer-Murphy,

and they have two children, Beatrice and Edmund. He has been a justice of the peace for thirty-five years. Joshua D. Parrish is a son of George Parrish, the latter born July 28, 1795, and died Aug. 25, 1837, and Catherine Storm, also a daughter of John Storm. He was born June 3, 1825, and is now residing in Ebensburg, being one of the two only surviving members of the Cambria Guards in the Mexican war. He married Mary Magdalene Myers, a daughter of John Myers.

Pringle, William, was born Aug. 14, 1797, on Pringle Hill, now in Croyle township, and died there March 20, 1895. He was a son of Philip Pringle, who came to that locality in 1795 with six sons and six daughters: William, Jacob, Martin, Samuel, Philip and John; Margaret, Christina, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah Pringle. The elder son, William, married Elizabeth Bolewine, a daughter of Henry Bolewine, then of Somerset county, who moved to Pringle Hill. They had eleven children: Henry, who died when he was fifteen; John, died several years ago in Fremont, Ohio; Margaret, married David Lowman, of New Florence; Elizabeth, died in 1875; Alexander B., died in Conemaugh; William, Jr., died at Portage about 1882; Isaac and John, twins; the former died when four years of age; Christina, married Peter Fleck; Susan, and David W. Pringle, who was killed while in the Union army during the Civil war. Martin Pringle, a son of Martin Pringle, was also killed in the same war, and is interred in the United Brethren cemetery on Pringle Hill. Thomas M. Pringle, a son of William Pringle, Jr., of Portage, is said to be the best rifle shot in America.

Pringle, Martin. He was a brother of Philip (1795), and is the ancestor of another branch.

Proctor, Jesse. He lived in Bedford county and near the town prior to the Revolutionary war. He married Ann Adams, the widow of Samuel Adams, who was killed by the Indians in 1771. (See Early Settlers.) Their son Isaac married Elizabeth Proctor, a daughter of Col. John Proctor, who was a colonel in the War of 1812; they had three children: William, Lucinda H. and Anna Proctor. Anna was drowned in Johnstown in 1810, and Lucinda H. was drowned in the flood of May 31, 1889, at the age of eighty-two. Evan Roberts and Lucinda H. Proctor were married and had seven children: Catherine, married John S. Buchanan; both died May 31, 1889; Thomas Proctor, Almira, married Dr. A. J. Jackson; Virginia,

Lucinda, Elizabeth, married Powell Stackhouse; and I. E. Roberts. All are dead except Mrs. Jackson and I. E. Roberts. The latter was a member of Co. F, 198th Penna. Infantry, in the Civil war. (See George Roberts.)

Rhey, James, born in Dublin in 1792, died in Ebensburg in 1852. He married Susan Brookbanke, of Hagerstown, Maryland; she was born in 1800 and died in Ebensburg, November 24, 1897. They had ten children, all having been born in Ebensburg: Ann L. Rhey, born about 1817, and died in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1894; she married Lynn Boyd, a member of congress from the First District in Kentucky, in 1839, at Harrisburg. Lynn Boyd was speaker of the House in the XXXIId and XXXIIId Congress; he died at Paducah in 1859. John S., born 1819, married Ann McFeely, a daughter of Col. John McFeely, of Carlisle; he died in his eightieth year. Mary, born 1821, died in 1892; she married Peter B. McCord, of Harrisburg, a nephew of Simon Cameron. Jane, born 1823, married John C. O'Neill. James W., born 1825. Andrew Jackson, born 1828, and was married. Margaret, born September 6, 1830, is now residing in Ebensburg, the last one of the family. Harriet, born 1832, died in 1864. Rose, was born in 1836 and died in 1877, in Leavenworth, Kansas; she was the wife of Thomas P. Fenlon. Ernest, born in 1841, died in St. Paul, in 1904, single.

Roberts, George. He came to Ebensburg, November 19, 1796. The ancestry begins with Randle Roberts, born about 1670, in North Wales. His son Thomas, born September 29, 1700, and died 1779, married Mary Green, who died October 28, 1777, and his second wife was Elizabeth Matthews. George, the son of Thomas and Mary Green Roberts, was born at Bronnlon, Montgomeryshire, February 11, 1769, and died in Ebensburg in 1862. He and Janet Edwards were married at Llanerfel, same shire, May 20, 1795. Arrived in Philadelphia October 26, 1795. On September 20, 1796, they left for Ebensburg in company with Ezekiel Hughes, and a Mr. Bebb, who had married a sister of George Roberts, and who went to Ohio, where his son, William Bebb, became governor of that state. The others were Ruth Thomas, Owen Davis and wife, Dr. Francis and wife, Ann Roseland and Ann Evans. All walked from Philadelphia, and stopped for some time at a point about eighteen miles east of Blair's Mills, and arrived at their new home in the following month. They had six children, all being born there, who were: Evan, born January

8, 1802, and died March 15, 1871, in Johnstown; he married Lucinda H. Proctor. (See Jesse Proctor.) John E. Roberts, married Mary Hughes, a sister of Ezekiel Hughes of Ebensburg. Their children were: Thomas, Ann, Jane and George, who died in the Union army in the Civil war. George, born 1307; October 4, 1830, he married Ann Hughes, a sister of Mary Hughes; his second wife was Ann Janet Marven. His son John was killed in the Fredericksburg battle. Thomas, died about the time he left college. Edward Roberts, of Ebensburg, married Susan Owens; their children were: Ella, who married Dr. Edward Plank, Annetta J. and George Henry Roberts. Mary Roberts married George J. Rodgers of Ebensburg; Jane was their only child. (See Political Review, Churches, Judicial District and Postmasters for George and Evan Roberts.)

Roberts, Hugh, was born in Wales in 1754, and married Elizabeth Roderigue; they came to Ebensburg about 1784. They had six children: 1. Robert H., married Mary Thomas, a daughter of John Thomas, the gate keeper, and had four children: Milton; Jane, who married Robert Davis; Elizabeth, the wife of R. E. Emith; and Agnes, whose husband was Dr. George Robinson. 2. David H., married Margaret Evans, a daughter of John Evans; they had five children: Howard J., late of Johnstown; Newton I.; Chalmers T.; and Emily who married William Tate, Jr.; Dwight died in infancy. 3. Eliza, married Rowland Davis and had seven children: Thomas, who married a Miss Thomas; Harriet, married Messack Thomas; Rowland R., married Harriet Williams; Robert, married; Mary Ann, the wife of Thomas Williams; Jane, whose husband was Thomas D. Jones; and Elsie, who married a Mr. Williams, of Iowa. 4. Mary, married John Williams, of Ebensburg; had no children. 5. Prudence, married Associate Judge Richard Jones, of Ebensburg, and had five children: Priscilla; Clinton R., who married Emeline Nutter; Harriet, married Thomas J. Lloyd; Malinda, married John Fox; and Catherine, the wife of Mack Ritter. 6. Evan H., born 1810; died, 1851; married Margaret Hughes; they had six children: Elizabeth, married Henry P. Edwards, Iowa; Edwin, died in the Union army; John D., married Mary Kinter, of Johnstown; Mary, died, single; Margaret, married Thomas D. Davis, of Iowa; and Emily, married John R. Hughes, of Iowa.

Roberts, Rev. Levi. His grandfather, Richard Rob