USA - Moffat Branch Connections

[BarbaraM]

Hi --I'm Barbara Meidinger, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Thanks to all for
putting together this great site! I think it has just mega-expanded
my family. I did some information gathering a few years ago, but gave
it up in '04 when I ran out of clues.

My father, Willis Earseman Bowman, had his 90th birthday this year,
and I decided to see what I could find out about his family. And that
was the beginning of this Earseman obsession!

I started with info from my Grandmother's (Mary Earseman) Memories
written to her 8 children in 1952 :

1. Walter Scott Earseman (her grandfather) married Majory Fraser in
Scotland.
2. They immigrated to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (the Allegheny side)
3. Walter was a stonemason and worked on the new Allegheny Courthouse
4. He died early and Majory became a widow at 26 with six children
5. They were devout Covernanter Presbyterians.
6. They came from Inverness Scotland.
7. After Walter died, she bought a farm in Wellsville, Ohio where she
lived and raised her family.
8. Her father was Hugh Fraser Earseman, next to the youngest.
9. Uncle Alec managed the farm always and died a bachelor. He
supposedly gave up his sweetheart to aid his mother.
10. Aunt Isabel was deaf and never married.
11. Aunt Agnes never married and retired after teaching school for 40
years in Lisbon Ohio
12. Aunt Mary married Hiram McCord and never lived any farther away
than Wellsville.
13. Uncle Walter attended Mount Union College and studied law.
14. Hugh Fraser (my grandmother's father) graduated from Mount Union
with high honors and turned from law to the ministry. At Mount Union
he was a Delta Tau Delta. He then took a master's degree a Western
Theological Seminary in Allegheny. After one or two brief pastorates,
he came to the Knox Presbyterian Church in Knox, Clarion County,
Pennsylvania, which he served for over 51 years.
14. Hugh Fraser married Mariam (Myra) McIlhattan in 1887. They were
married by Dr. Elder of the Clarion Church.

Grandmother was too busy with her eight chidren to tell them much
else. So I started on the internet:

1850 US Census: Census taken on 27 Sep 1850 in the Third Ward,
Allegheny City, Allegheny Co. (Ancestry.com - digital image):

James Earseman 38(stone cutter, born in Scotland), Ann 35 (born in
Scotland) Jennette 14, Marj 12, William 10, Walter 8, Ellen M 6
All of the children born in Pennsylvania
Walter Earsman 32 (stone cutter, born in Scotland), Marjory 24 (born
in Scotland), Mary 2, Agnes 4 months (Both born in Pennsylvania )
(lives close to James in the census)

1860 US Census: Census taken 26 July 1860 Washington Township,
Columbiana County, Ohio:

Walter Earseman 38 (Farmer, born in Scotland ,Real Estate worth
$2500), Margery 34, Mary 12, Agnes 10, Alexander 8 , Ann (S orJ) 6,
Hugh F. 3, Walter 1 (Alexander, Ann and Hugh born in Pennsylvania,
Walter born in Ohio)

Emigration extracted records from passenger and Immigration lists
Index, 1500s-1900s, Ancestry.com
James Earseman, Arrival 1839, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania
Alexander Earseman, Arrival 1842, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania
Walter Earseman, Arrival 1842, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania

from Cemetery Inscriptions from Union Dale Cemetery (formerly Mount
Union & Hilldale Cemeteries), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny
County), incorporated 1846. This was on the internet and transcribed
as follows:

EARSEMAN(?), Alexander(?), a native of Moffat, 1858 -- rest is
unreadable. (1 small veterans grave beside it)
EARSEMAN, Ann McDONALD, 1811-1869, Mother & w/o James EARSEMAN
EARSEMAN, James, 1808-1861, Father
EARSEMAN, W.S., Corpl. Co. C, 123 PA. Inf.
ECOFF, Mary EARSEMAN, 1839-1921

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Given the info on Moffat files 1 and 2, and the BIG clue of Moffat on
the Union Dale Cemetery headstone, I think this is enough info to tie
back into the Moffat branch -- Walter 8M would be my GG Grandfather;
James 4M and Alexander 11M would be his brothers! I have lots more
data and will try to incorporate what I have into some sort of North
American tree branch or list and post later.

[Kathy Earsman]

Hi Barbara, I'm Kathy Earsman, wife of the late Peter and mother of Barry, who started this site.
 
Your letter takes me back to when (as a young wife,) Pete and I made contact with Roger Earsman in Scotland, and received a lengthy typed Tree. It was very exciting! 
 
Some of the names you mention ring bells with me.  Barry has a copy of the Tree, and so do I. I think. It is around here somewhere.  It's faded and cumbersome though. I must type it out clearly. 
 
 Basically, the original James Earseman (or whatever spelling they used then,) married Jean ... forget her maiden name. They had an Inn in Scotland... there's info there at Barry's site...  Importantly, they had seven sons, the families of each Roger had researched. There was a page for each, based on the areas in Scotland where they settled. 
(I think there were girls too, but they are harder to keep track of due to the sirname changing.)
 
We lost contact with Roger years ago, though my son's brother and his wife visited them... Sorry. I have been somewhat changed by my husband's death...  all of this is retrievable, that's the important thing.
 
I will search for the documents, (there are others too; census, death certs, letters, things I collected when tracing Peter's family was so engrossing to me. )

 
So. Good to hear from you.  Thank you very much for posting. 
 
My husband's ancester was Alexander!  He went to new Zealand, where we come from. Did he die in America???  Or is this another Alexander?  I do have to check this out... the years and so on...
 
 Best wishes,
 
Kathy Earsman.
 

> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:26:28 -0700
> Subject: [Earsman-Clan] USA - Moffat Branch Connections
> From: bmeid...@gmail.com
> To: Earsma...@googlegroups.com

[chris earsman]

hi kathy  hows things my names chris my great grrenfathers name was alexander earsman he allso came from scotland i think there was a another , i have some photos of them, my granfather was named james earsman he married a woman called marry,  best wishes chris earsman

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