Hazel Stroup informs us p27, v8, of her cemetery book series that Euphemia was the wife of Isaac Anderson. She also tells us that her age at death was 80 y 11 mo 3 da and gives us the death date I entered above. Perhaps a backwards calculation of her birthdate would help.
Finding online, the informative Register for the Gilchrist papers in a West Virginia repository (see Euphemia's granddaughter and namesake Euphemia Agnes Cilley's findagrave entry) enables me to rely on the date they write on pg 24 (outline) for her, b. 23 Sept 1770. It also informs us that she married 14 Nov 1788. [original papers not seen by me].
One question is whether Euphemia was the mother of James, who was the father of Agnes E Anderson Cilley? Wasn't she named in that census, c1860? This point seems to be confirmed due to the thoughtful gift and preservation of the family papers, Gilchrist/Anderson, infra.
Clues:
1. We are told of Euphemia's father: "More than one-half of the number who left Pennsylvania under Colonel Laughery never returned. After Mr. Anderson's return from captivity with the [p288 - Pioneer Biography] Indians he settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and soon after received the commission of a captain in the Pennsylvania line. He was also appointed commissary for several forts, or block-houses, on the western frontier of the State. This was both a laborious and hazardous business, which he pursued for three years, issuing rations at seven different stations, situated from four to ten miles apart, which required daily rides through forests infested with hostile savages. These rides, for safety, were frequently made in the night, and alone. In November, 1788, Isaac Anderson was married, in Westmoreland county, to Euphemia Moorehead, eldest daughter of Fergus Moorehead [Morehead], who had, also, been a soldier of the revolution. About the year 1771 or 1772, Fergus Moorehead and James Kelly moved to the western part of Pennsylvania, and commenced improvements near where the town of Indiana now stands. "
2. Her death place is also published: "In the year 1801 the United States lands west of the Great Miami river were first offered for sale.* Mr. Anderson remembered the beautiful, rich bottoms of [fn * The first sale of public lands was held at Cincinnati on the first Monday of April, 1801. Laws of the United States, vol. III, page 386.]
[p292 - Pioneer Biography] the Miami river, which he had traversed when a captive with the Indians, on their way to Detroit, and resolved to possess himself of a portion of that fertile soil. Accordingly he purchased a section of land on the west bank of the Great Miami river, above the mouth of Indian creek, in Butler county, on which he commenced a clearing ; and in the year 1812 removed from Cincinnati with his family, and settled on his farm, where he resided until the time of his death. Isaac Anderson died at his residence in Butler county on the 18th of December, 1839, aged eighty-one years and nine months. His wife, Euphemia, with whom he had lived in great harmony for upward of half a century, survived him. She died at the old homestead on Indian creek August 26th, 1851, aged eighty years and eleven months, and was buried beside her husband in the burying-ground at Venice, Butler county, Ohio."[Oh Gen Soc provides a subscription to Heritage Pursuit, where the Butler Co OH history entitled, Pioneer Biography, ___ (McBride?) also is transcribed].
3. Eleven children are named for Euphemia Morehead Anderson on pg 24 of Gilchrist mss Register: Robert, Jane, Margaret, Fergus, Susan, Isaac, Euphemia1 (d.y.), Joseph, William, James [father of Agnes Cilley], Euphemia2; these are B-1 through B-11.
4. We learn that: "ISAAC ANDERSON. Isaac Anderson was born in the North of Ireland in 1758 and was the youngest of thirteen children. He emigrated to America in 1774, at the age of sixteen years, and landed at Philadelphia. As soon as the war commenced he shouldered his rifle and tendered his services to his adopted country. He joined Col. Morgan's rifle regiment and continued in active service until the close of the war. His first engagement was at IJemis Heights, under the command of General Gates. The British Army was commanded by General Burgoyne. This battle was fought September 19,1777, three miles above Stillwater on the Hudson river. The battle was won and lost several times during the day, and when night came on neither had gained any substantial advantage. On the seventh of October following a second battle was fought about six miles from Saratoga. Col. Morgan's picked rifle regiment, to which Anderson belonged, did effective work. Mr. Anderson was present at General Burgoyne's surrender October 16, 1777. In December, 1777, in a skirmish with the enemy, Anderson was severely wounded by a rifle ball passing in at one check and out on the other side, carrying away several teeth and a part of the jawbone and injuring the sight of one eye. He carried a very deep and disfiguring scar to the end of his life. The battle ground fell into the hands of the enemy and Anderson was left upon the field and supposed to be dead. The next morning he was found alive on the frozen ground. He was taken as a prisoner to Philadelphia. The British surgeon happened to be an Irishman from the same county as the prisoner and was especially attentive and kind. When the British evacuated Philadelphia on the 18th of June, 1778, Mr. Anderson had nearly recovered from his wounds, but feigned illness and was left behind in the hospital, from which he escaped, and lost no time in returning to his old regiment. On the the 28th of June he was in the battle of Monmouth. In 1781 he was in the expedition of General George Rogers Clark against the Indians, and was a lieutenant in Captain Shannon's Company. Anderson was taken prisoner by the Indians, and his Colonel, Loughery, was killed about ten miles below the mouth of the Big Miami, at what is still known as Loughery creek. The whole detachment was either killed or taken prisoners. This was in the month of August. He was taken to Detroit, which he reached on the 10th of October, thence to Montreal on the 28th of November, and was placed in close confinement and detained until the 26th of May, 1782, when he escaped, and after a tedious journey through an unbroken wilderness, subsisting on frogs and half-hatched partridge eggs, arriving at Fishkill, Hudson River, on the 28th of June. Mr. Anderson kept a daily diary from the time he left to join General Clark until he reached Fishkill, after his escape from captivity. This interesting document is still extant, giving the names of the killed and wounded and all the accidents of his tedious journey while a captive, and of his escape.
Mr. Anderson married Euphemia Moorehead, a daughter of Fergus Moorehead, in 1788, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. In the winter of 1795-6, Anderson, with his family, came to Cincinnati. He purchased a lot and built a cabin on Front street, between Main and Walnut streets. He afterwards built him a better house on the lot and kept a store and tavern. In 1801 the lands were opened for settlement on the west side of the Big Miami and a public sale was made in Cincinnati in April, 1801. Mr. Anderson remembered the rich lands through which he passed when a captive of the Indians on his weary journey to Detroit, and determined to possess himself of a farm. He purchased a section at the mouth of Indian creek, in what is now Butler county and in 1812 settled there, where he remained until his death, December 18, 1839, in his eighty-first year. His wife died in 1851. They had eleven children, six of whom were born in Ohio.
5. Robert Anderson [B-1 at WV repository], his eldest son, was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 14, 1789. In 1812 he joined the army under General Harrison, commissioned as a lieutenant. Commodore Perry, being deficient in marines, General Harrison detailed seventy men, Col. Anderson being one, to man the fleet. He was with Perry in his fight with the enemy on Lake Erie. He received, by order of Congress, a silver medal as a testimonial of his bravery in that engagement. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from Butler county for five or six terms and was elected a judge of the court and filled[?] other positions of trust. He died in 1828, leaving two sons.
6. Fergus [B-4 at WV repository], the second son, was born in Cincinnati in 1797. He served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature, was a judge of the court in Butler county—long a trustee of Miami University, taking a deep interest in the institution. The other sons of Isaac Anderson were Isaac, Jr., born in 1799, Joseph, born in 1804, William in 1808, and James in 1810, all born in Cincinnati and were all prominent citizens. His daughters were Mrs. George Dick, Mrs. Neamiah Wade, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. James Boal and Miss Euphemia Anderson and Mrs. J. P. Gilchrist. The descendants of these eleven children are very numerous. The old soldier and his wife were buried in the cemetery at Venice near the Hamilton county line." [ p5-6, The Constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution and By-laws and Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Society: Incorporated May 2, 1893, Instituted May 9, 1893 (Google eBook)]
7. On pg3, Register of the Robert Gilchrist Fam. Papers, Ms1, Spec Coll, James E Morrow Lib, Marshall Univ, Huntington WV, 1973, we learn the location of Euphemia's birth. Here we are told that she was b. Cumberland Co, now Franklin PA [1973], and that she had brothers, William, Joseph and Fergus [Morehead, Moorhead?] with their desc. living in Indiana Co. PA.
8. Danny Ray Morris patiently explained that one small cemetery, Brosius Cem towards Millville, Butler, OH should properly be called the Morehead/Moorhead Cemetery. [bio by findagraver, DBardes]
Finding online, the informative Register for the Gilchrist papers in a West Virginia repository (see Euphemia's granddaughter and namesake Euphemia Agnes Cilley's findagrave entry) enables me to rely on the date they write on pg 24 (outline) for her, b. 23 Sept 1770. It also informs us that she married 14 Nov 1788. [original papers not seen by me].
One question is whether Euphemia was the mother of James, who was the father of Agnes E Anderson Cilley? Wasn't she named in that census, c1860? This point seems to be confirmed due to the thoughtful gift and preservation of the family papers, Gilchrist/Anderson, infra.
Clues:
1. We are told of Euphemia's father: "More than one-half of the number who left Pennsylvania under Colonel Laughery never returned. After Mr. Anderson's return from captivity with the [p288 - Pioneer Biography] Indians he settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and soon after received the commission of a captain in the Pennsylvania line. He was also appointed commissary for several forts, or block-houses, on the western frontier of the State. This was both a laborious and hazardous business, which he pursued for three years, issuing rations at seven different stations, situated from four to ten miles apart, which required daily rides through forests infested with hostile savages. These rides, for safety, were frequently made in the night, and alone. In November, 1788, Isaac Anderson was married, in Westmoreland county, to Euphemia Moorehead, eldest daughter of Fergus Moorehead [Morehead], who had, also, been a soldier of the revolution. About the year 1771 or 1772, Fergus Moorehead and James Kelly moved to the western part of Pennsylvania, and commenced improvements near where the town of Indiana now stands. "
2. Her death place is also published: "In the year 1801 the United States lands west of the Great Miami river were first offered for sale.* Mr. Anderson remembered the beautiful, rich bottoms of [fn * The first sale of public lands was held at Cincinnati on the first Monday of April, 1801. Laws of the United States, vol. III, page 386.]
[p292 - Pioneer Biography] the Miami river, which he had traversed when a captive with the Indians, on their way to Detroit, and resolved to possess himself of a portion of that fertile soil. Accordingly he purchased a section of land on the west bank of the Great Miami river, above the mouth of Indian creek, in Butler county, on which he commenced a clearing ; and in the year 1812 removed from Cincinnati with his family, and settled on his farm, where he resided until the time of his death. Isaac Anderson died at his residence in Butler county on the 18th of December, 1839, aged eighty-one years and nine months. His wife, Euphemia, with whom he had lived in great harmony for upward of half a century, survived him. She died at the old homestead on Indian creek August 26th, 1851, aged eighty years and eleven months, and was buried beside her husband in the burying-ground at Venice, Butler county, Ohio."[Oh Gen Soc provides a subscription to Heritage Pursuit, where the Butler Co OH history entitled, Pioneer Biography, ___ (McBride?) also is transcribed].
3. Eleven children are named for Euphemia Morehead Anderson on pg 24 of Gilchrist mss Register: Robert, Jane, Margaret, Fergus, Susan, Isaac, Euphemia1 (d.y.), Joseph, William, James [father of Agnes Cilley], Euphemia2; these are B-1 through B-11.
4. We learn that: "ISAAC ANDERSON. Isaac Anderson was born in the North of Ireland in 1758 and was the youngest of thirteen children. He emigrated to America in 1774, at the age of sixteen years, and landed at Philadelphia. As soon as the war commenced he shouldered his rifle and tendered his services to his adopted country. He joined Col. Morgan's rifle regiment and continued in active service until the close of the war. His first engagement was at IJemis Heights, under the command of General Gates. The British Army was commanded by General Burgoyne. This battle was fought September 19,1777, three miles above Stillwater on the Hudson river. The battle was won and lost several times during the day, and when night came on neither had gained any substantial advantage. On the seventh of October following a second battle was fought about six miles from Saratoga. Col. Morgan's picked rifle regiment, to which Anderson belonged, did effective work. Mr. Anderson was present at General Burgoyne's surrender October 16, 1777. In December, 1777, in a skirmish with the enemy, Anderson was severely wounded by a rifle ball passing in at one check and out on the other side, carrying away several teeth and a part of the jawbone and injuring the sight of one eye. He carried a very deep and disfiguring scar to the end of his life. The battle ground fell into the hands of the enemy and Anderson was left upon the field and supposed to be dead. The next morning he was found alive on the frozen ground. He was taken as a prisoner to Philadelphia. The British surgeon happened to be an Irishman from the same county as the prisoner and was especially attentive and kind. When the British evacuated Philadelphia on the 18th of June, 1778, Mr. Anderson had nearly recovered from his wounds, but feigned illness and was left behind in the hospital, from which he escaped, and lost no time in returning to his old regiment. On the the 28th of June he was in the battle of Monmouth. In 1781 he was in the expedition of General George Rogers Clark against the Indians, and was a lieutenant in Captain Shannon's Company. Anderson was taken prisoner by the Indians, and his Colonel, Loughery, was killed about ten miles below the mouth of the Big Miami, at what is still known as Loughery creek. The whole detachment was either killed or taken prisoners. This was in the month of August. He was taken to Detroit, which he reached on the 10th of October, thence to Montreal on the 28th of November, and was placed in close confinement and detained until the 26th of May, 1782, when he escaped, and after a tedious journey through an unbroken wilderness, subsisting on frogs and half-hatched partridge eggs, arriving at Fishkill, Hudson River, on the 28th of June. Mr. Anderson kept a daily diary from the time he left to join General Clark until he reached Fishkill, after his escape from captivity. This interesting document is still extant, giving the names of the killed and wounded and all the accidents of his tedious journey while a captive, and of his escape.
Mr. Anderson married Euphemia Moorehead, a daughter of Fergus Moorehead, in 1788, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. In the winter of 1795-6, Anderson, with his family, came to Cincinnati. He purchased a lot and built a cabin on Front street, between Main and Walnut streets. He afterwards built him a better house on the lot and kept a store and tavern. In 1801 the lands were opened for settlement on the west side of the Big Miami and a public sale was made in Cincinnati in April, 1801. Mr. Anderson remembered the rich lands through which he passed when a captive of the Indians on his weary journey to Detroit, and determined to possess himself of a farm. He purchased a section at the mouth of Indian creek, in what is now Butler county and in 1812 settled there, where he remained until his death, December 18, 1839, in his eighty-first year. His wife died in 1851. They had eleven children, six of whom were born in Ohio.
5. Robert Anderson [B-1 at WV repository], his eldest son, was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 14, 1789. In 1812 he joined the army under General Harrison, commissioned as a lieutenant. Commodore Perry, being deficient in marines, General Harrison detailed seventy men, Col. Anderson being one, to man the fleet. He was with Perry in his fight with the enemy on Lake Erie. He received, by order of Congress, a silver medal as a testimonial of his bravery in that engagement. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from Butler county for five or six terms and was elected a judge of the court and filled[?] other positions of trust. He died in 1828, leaving two sons.
6. Fergus [B-4 at WV repository], the second son, was born in Cincinnati in 1797. He served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature, was a judge of the court in Butler county—long a trustee of Miami University, taking a deep interest in the institution. The other sons of Isaac Anderson were Isaac, Jr., born in 1799, Joseph, born in 1804, William in 1808, and James in 1810, all born in Cincinnati and were all prominent citizens. His daughters were Mrs. George Dick, Mrs. Neamiah Wade, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. James Boal and Miss Euphemia Anderson and Mrs. J. P. Gilchrist. The descendants of these eleven children are very numerous. The old soldier and his wife were buried in the cemetery at Venice near the Hamilton county line." [ p5-6, The Constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution and By-laws and Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Society: Incorporated May 2, 1893, Instituted May 9, 1893 (Google eBook)]
7. On pg3, Register of the Robert Gilchrist Fam. Papers, Ms1, Spec Coll, James E Morrow Lib, Marshall Univ, Huntington WV, 1973, we learn the location of Euphemia's birth. Here we are told that she was b. Cumberland Co, now Franklin PA [1973], and that she had brothers, William, Joseph and Fergus [Morehead, Moorhead?] with their desc. living in Indiana Co. PA.
8. Danny Ray Morris patiently explained that one small cemetery, Brosius Cem towards Millville, Butler, OH should properly be called the Morehead/Moorhead Cemetery. [bio by findagraver, DBardes]
Hazel Stroup informs us p27, v8, of her cemetery book series that Euphemia was the wife of Isaac Anderson. She also tells us that her age at death was 80 y 11 mo 3 da and gives us the death date I entered above. Perhaps a backwards calculation of her birthdate would help.
Finding online, the informative Register for the Gilchrist papers in a West Virginia repository (see Euphemia's granddaughter and namesake Euphemia Agnes Cilley's findagrave entry) enables me to rely on the date they write on pg 24 (outline) for her, b. 23 Sept 1770. It also informs us that she married 14 Nov 1788. [original papers not seen by me].
One question is whether Euphemia was the mother of James, who was the father of Agnes E Anderson Cilley? Wasn't she named in that census, c1860? This point seems to be confirmed due to the thoughtful gift and preservation of the family papers, Gilchrist/Anderson, infra.
Clues:
1. We are told of Euphemia's father: "More than one-half of the number who left Pennsylvania under Colonel Laughery never returned. After Mr. Anderson's return from captivity with the [p288 - Pioneer Biography] Indians he settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and soon after received the commission of a captain in the Pennsylvania line. He was also appointed commissary for several forts, or block-houses, on the western frontier of the State. This was both a laborious and hazardous business, which he pursued for three years, issuing rations at seven different stations, situated from four to ten miles apart, which required daily rides through forests infested with hostile savages. These rides, for safety, were frequently made in the night, and alone. In November, 1788, Isaac Anderson was married, in Westmoreland county, to Euphemia Moorehead, eldest daughter of Fergus Moorehead [Morehead], who had, also, been a soldier of the revolution. About the year 1771 or 1772, Fergus Moorehead and James Kelly moved to the western part of Pennsylvania, and commenced improvements near where the town of Indiana now stands. "
2. Her death place is also published: "In the year 1801 the United States lands west of the Great Miami river were first offered for sale.* Mr. Anderson remembered the beautiful, rich bottoms of [fn * The first sale of public lands was held at Cincinnati on the first Monday of April, 1801. Laws of the United States, vol. III, page 386.]
[p292 - Pioneer Biography] the Miami river, which he had traversed when a captive with the Indians, on their way to Detroit, and resolved to possess himself of a portion of that fertile soil. Accordingly he purchased a section of land on the west bank of the Great Miami river, above the mouth of Indian creek, in Butler county, on which he commenced a clearing ; and in the year 1812 removed from Cincinnati with his family, and settled on his farm, where he resided until the time of his death. Isaac Anderson died at his residence in Butler county on the 18th of December, 1839, aged eighty-one years and nine months. His wife, Euphemia, with whom he had lived in great harmony for upward of half a century, survived him. She died at the old homestead on Indian creek August 26th, 1851, aged eighty years and eleven months, and was buried beside her husband in the burying-ground at Venice, Butler county, Ohio."[Oh Gen Soc provides a subscription to Heritage Pursuit, where the Butler Co OH history entitled, Pioneer Biography, ___ (McBride?) also is transcribed].
3. Eleven children are named for Euphemia Morehead Anderson on pg 24 of Gilchrist mss Register: Robert, Jane, Margaret, Fergus, Susan, Isaac, Euphemia1 (d.y.), Joseph, William, James [father of Agnes Cilley], Euphemia2; these are B-1 through B-11.
4. We learn that: "ISAAC ANDERSON. Isaac Anderson was born in the North of Ireland in 1758 and was the youngest of thirteen children. He emigrated to America in 1774, at the age of sixteen years, and landed at Philadelphia. As soon as the war commenced he shouldered his rifle and tendered his services to his adopted country. He joined Col. Morgan's rifle regiment and continued in active service until the close of the war. His first engagement was at IJemis Heights, under the command of General Gates. The British Army was commanded by General Burgoyne. This battle was fought September 19,1777, three miles above Stillwater on the Hudson river. The battle was won and lost several times during the day, and when night came on neither had gained any substantial advantage. On the seventh of October following a second battle was fought about six miles from Saratoga. Col. Morgan's picked rifle regiment, to which Anderson belonged, did effective work. Mr. Anderson was present at General Burgoyne's surrender October 16, 1777. In December, 1777, in a skirmish with the enemy, Anderson was severely wounded by a rifle ball passing in at one check and out on the other side, carrying away several teeth and a part of the jawbone and injuring the sight of one eye. He carried a very deep and disfiguring scar to the end of his life. The battle ground fell into the hands of the enemy and Anderson was left upon the field and supposed to be dead. The next morning he was found alive on the frozen ground. He was taken as a prisoner to Philadelphia. The British surgeon happened to be an Irishman from the same county as the prisoner and was especially attentive and kind. When the British evacuated Philadelphia on the 18th of June, 1778, Mr. Anderson had nearly recovered from his wounds, but feigned illness and was left behind in the hospital, from which he escaped, and lost no time in returning to his old regiment. On the the 28th of June he was in the battle of Monmouth. In 1781 he was in the expedition of General George Rogers Clark against the Indians, and was a lieutenant in Captain Shannon's Company. Anderson was taken prisoner by the Indians, and his Colonel, Loughery, was killed about ten miles below the mouth of the Big Miami, at what is still known as Loughery creek. The whole detachment was either killed or taken prisoners. This was in the month of August. He was taken to Detroit, which he reached on the 10th of October, thence to Montreal on the 28th of November, and was placed in close confinement and detained until the 26th of May, 1782, when he escaped, and after a tedious journey through an unbroken wilderness, subsisting on frogs and half-hatched partridge eggs, arriving at Fishkill, Hudson River, on the 28th of June. Mr. Anderson kept a daily diary from the time he left to join General Clark until he reached Fishkill, after his escape from captivity. This interesting document is still extant, giving the names of the killed and wounded and all the accidents of his tedious journey while a captive, and of his escape.
Mr. Anderson married Euphemia Moorehead, a daughter of Fergus Moorehead, in 1788, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. In the winter of 1795-6, Anderson, with his family, came to Cincinnati. He purchased a lot and built a cabin on Front street, between Main and Walnut streets. He afterwards built him a better house on the lot and kept a store and tavern. In 1801 the lands were opened for settlement on the west side of the Big Miami and a public sale was made in Cincinnati in April, 1801. Mr. Anderson remembered the rich lands through which he passed when a captive of the Indians on his weary journey to Detroit, and determined to possess himself of a farm. He purchased a section at the mouth of Indian creek, in what is now Butler county and in 1812 settled there, where he remained until his death, December 18, 1839, in his eighty-first year. His wife died in 1851. They had eleven children, six of whom were born in Ohio.
5. Robert Anderson [B-1 at WV repository], his eldest son, was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 14, 1789. In 1812 he joined the army under General Harrison, commissioned as a lieutenant. Commodore Perry, being deficient in marines, General Harrison detailed seventy men, Col. Anderson being one, to man the fleet. He was with Perry in his fight with the enemy on Lake Erie. He received, by order of Congress, a silver medal as a testimonial of his bravery in that engagement. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from Butler county for five or six terms and was elected a judge of the court and filled[?] other positions of trust. He died in 1828, leaving two sons.
6. Fergus [B-4 at WV repository], the second son, was born in Cincinnati in 1797. He served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature, was a judge of the court in Butler county—long a trustee of Miami University, taking a deep interest in the institution. The other sons of Isaac Anderson were Isaac, Jr., born in 1799, Joseph, born in 1804, William in 1808, and James in 1810, all born in Cincinnati and were all prominent citizens. His daughters were Mrs. George Dick, Mrs. Neamiah Wade, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. James Boal and Miss Euphemia Anderson and Mrs. J. P. Gilchrist. The descendants of these eleven children are very numerous. The old soldier and his wife were buried in the cemetery at Venice near the Hamilton county line." [ p5-6, The Constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution and By-laws and Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Society: Incorporated May 2, 1893, Instituted May 9, 1893 (Google eBook)]
7. On pg3, Register of the Robert Gilchrist Fam. Papers, Ms1, Spec Coll, James E Morrow Lib, Marshall Univ, Huntington WV, 1973, we learn the location of Euphemia's birth. Here we are told that she was b. Cumberland Co, now Franklin PA [1973], and that she had brothers, William, Joseph and Fergus [Morehead, Moorhead?] with their desc. living in Indiana Co. PA.
8. Danny Ray Morris patiently explained that one small cemetery, Brosius Cem towards Millville, Butler, OH should properly be called the Morehead/Moorhead Cemetery. [bio by findagraver, DBardes]
Finding online, the informative Register for the Gilchrist papers in a West Virginia repository (see Euphemia's granddaughter and namesake Euphemia Agnes Cilley's findagrave entry) enables me to rely on the date they write on pg 24 (outline) for her, b. 23 Sept 1770. It also informs us that she married 14 Nov 1788. [original papers not seen by me].
One question is whether Euphemia was the mother of James, who was the father of Agnes E Anderson Cilley? Wasn't she named in that census, c1860? This point seems to be confirmed due to the thoughtful gift and preservation of the family papers, Gilchrist/Anderson, infra.
Clues:
1. We are told of Euphemia's father: "More than one-half of the number who left Pennsylvania under Colonel Laughery never returned. After Mr. Anderson's return from captivity with the [p288 - Pioneer Biography] Indians he settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and soon after received the commission of a captain in the Pennsylvania line. He was also appointed commissary for several forts, or block-houses, on the western frontier of the State. This was both a laborious and hazardous business, which he pursued for three years, issuing rations at seven different stations, situated from four to ten miles apart, which required daily rides through forests infested with hostile savages. These rides, for safety, were frequently made in the night, and alone. In November, 1788, Isaac Anderson was married, in Westmoreland county, to Euphemia Moorehead, eldest daughter of Fergus Moorehead [Morehead], who had, also, been a soldier of the revolution. About the year 1771 or 1772, Fergus Moorehead and James Kelly moved to the western part of Pennsylvania, and commenced improvements near where the town of Indiana now stands. "
2. Her death place is also published: "In the year 1801 the United States lands west of the Great Miami river were first offered for sale.* Mr. Anderson remembered the beautiful, rich bottoms of [fn * The first sale of public lands was held at Cincinnati on the first Monday of April, 1801. Laws of the United States, vol. III, page 386.]
[p292 - Pioneer Biography] the Miami river, which he had traversed when a captive with the Indians, on their way to Detroit, and resolved to possess himself of a portion of that fertile soil. Accordingly he purchased a section of land on the west bank of the Great Miami river, above the mouth of Indian creek, in Butler county, on which he commenced a clearing ; and in the year 1812 removed from Cincinnati with his family, and settled on his farm, where he resided until the time of his death. Isaac Anderson died at his residence in Butler county on the 18th of December, 1839, aged eighty-one years and nine months. His wife, Euphemia, with whom he had lived in great harmony for upward of half a century, survived him. She died at the old homestead on Indian creek August 26th, 1851, aged eighty years and eleven months, and was buried beside her husband in the burying-ground at Venice, Butler county, Ohio."[Oh Gen Soc provides a subscription to Heritage Pursuit, where the Butler Co OH history entitled, Pioneer Biography, ___ (McBride?) also is transcribed].
3. Eleven children are named for Euphemia Morehead Anderson on pg 24 of Gilchrist mss Register: Robert, Jane, Margaret, Fergus, Susan, Isaac, Euphemia1 (d.y.), Joseph, William, James [father of Agnes Cilley], Euphemia2; these are B-1 through B-11.
4. We learn that: "ISAAC ANDERSON. Isaac Anderson was born in the North of Ireland in 1758 and was the youngest of thirteen children. He emigrated to America in 1774, at the age of sixteen years, and landed at Philadelphia. As soon as the war commenced he shouldered his rifle and tendered his services to his adopted country. He joined Col. Morgan's rifle regiment and continued in active service until the close of the war. His first engagement was at IJemis Heights, under the command of General Gates. The British Army was commanded by General Burgoyne. This battle was fought September 19,1777, three miles above Stillwater on the Hudson river. The battle was won and lost several times during the day, and when night came on neither had gained any substantial advantage. On the seventh of October following a second battle was fought about six miles from Saratoga. Col. Morgan's picked rifle regiment, to which Anderson belonged, did effective work. Mr. Anderson was present at General Burgoyne's surrender October 16, 1777. In December, 1777, in a skirmish with the enemy, Anderson was severely wounded by a rifle ball passing in at one check and out on the other side, carrying away several teeth and a part of the jawbone and injuring the sight of one eye. He carried a very deep and disfiguring scar to the end of his life. The battle ground fell into the hands of the enemy and Anderson was left upon the field and supposed to be dead. The next morning he was found alive on the frozen ground. He was taken as a prisoner to Philadelphia. The British surgeon happened to be an Irishman from the same county as the prisoner and was especially attentive and kind. When the British evacuated Philadelphia on the 18th of June, 1778, Mr. Anderson had nearly recovered from his wounds, but feigned illness and was left behind in the hospital, from which he escaped, and lost no time in returning to his old regiment. On the the 28th of June he was in the battle of Monmouth. In 1781 he was in the expedition of General George Rogers Clark against the Indians, and was a lieutenant in Captain Shannon's Company. Anderson was taken prisoner by the Indians, and his Colonel, Loughery, was killed about ten miles below the mouth of the Big Miami, at what is still known as Loughery creek. The whole detachment was either killed or taken prisoners. This was in the month of August. He was taken to Detroit, which he reached on the 10th of October, thence to Montreal on the 28th of November, and was placed in close confinement and detained until the 26th of May, 1782, when he escaped, and after a tedious journey through an unbroken wilderness, subsisting on frogs and half-hatched partridge eggs, arriving at Fishkill, Hudson River, on the 28th of June. Mr. Anderson kept a daily diary from the time he left to join General Clark until he reached Fishkill, after his escape from captivity. This interesting document is still extant, giving the names of the killed and wounded and all the accidents of his tedious journey while a captive, and of his escape.
Mr. Anderson married Euphemia Moorehead, a daughter of Fergus Moorehead, in 1788, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. In the winter of 1795-6, Anderson, with his family, came to Cincinnati. He purchased a lot and built a cabin on Front street, between Main and Walnut streets. He afterwards built him a better house on the lot and kept a store and tavern. In 1801 the lands were opened for settlement on the west side of the Big Miami and a public sale was made in Cincinnati in April, 1801. Mr. Anderson remembered the rich lands through which he passed when a captive of the Indians on his weary journey to Detroit, and determined to possess himself of a farm. He purchased a section at the mouth of Indian creek, in what is now Butler county and in 1812 settled there, where he remained until his death, December 18, 1839, in his eighty-first year. His wife died in 1851. They had eleven children, six of whom were born in Ohio.
5. Robert Anderson [B-1 at WV repository], his eldest son, was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 14, 1789. In 1812 he joined the army under General Harrison, commissioned as a lieutenant. Commodore Perry, being deficient in marines, General Harrison detailed seventy men, Col. Anderson being one, to man the fleet. He was with Perry in his fight with the enemy on Lake Erie. He received, by order of Congress, a silver medal as a testimonial of his bravery in that engagement. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from Butler county for five or six terms and was elected a judge of the court and filled[?] other positions of trust. He died in 1828, leaving two sons.
6. Fergus [B-4 at WV repository], the second son, was born in Cincinnati in 1797. He served in both branches of the Ohio Legislature, was a judge of the court in Butler county—long a trustee of Miami University, taking a deep interest in the institution. The other sons of Isaac Anderson were Isaac, Jr., born in 1799, Joseph, born in 1804, William in 1808, and James in 1810, all born in Cincinnati and were all prominent citizens. His daughters were Mrs. George Dick, Mrs. Neamiah Wade, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. James Boal and Miss Euphemia Anderson and Mrs. J. P. Gilchrist. The descendants of these eleven children are very numerous. The old soldier and his wife were buried in the cemetery at Venice near the Hamilton county line." [ p5-6, The Constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution and By-laws and Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Society: Incorporated May 2, 1893, Instituted May 9, 1893 (Google eBook)]
7. On pg3, Register of the Robert Gilchrist Fam. Papers, Ms1, Spec Coll, James E Morrow Lib, Marshall Univ, Huntington WV, 1973, we learn the location of Euphemia's birth. Here we are told that she was b. Cumberland Co, now Franklin PA [1973], and that she had brothers, William, Joseph and Fergus [Morehead, Moorhead?] with their desc. living in Indiana Co. PA.
8. Danny Ray Morris patiently explained that one small cemetery, Brosius Cem towards Millville, Butler, OH should properly be called the Morehead/Moorhead Cemetery. [bio by findagraver, DBardes]
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