The following information was listed in a book about the Lancaster County Forney families published in 1926.
When a small boy, he had a regular weekly errand carrying a loaf of bread to an old indian who had a hut built in the woodland across the creek at the northwest part of the farm.
He was married 5/14/1846 to Anna Keller and the following year he rented a farm of 140 acres in West Donegal Township and spent 39 years as a renter. In 1886, he made sale of his farming implements and stock and bought a home in Elizabethtown, Pa and lived there in a retired life.
Mr Forney was a school director in West Donegal Township. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown Exchange Bank which was organized in 1887. He served as director and vice-president and later elected president.
He outlived his wife by eight years and was placed in a family lot of Mount Tunnel Cemetery in Elizabethtown, PA.
The book contains a picture of him with his wife at 50 years of age
When a small boy, he had a regular weekly errand carrying a loaf of bread to an old indian who had a hut built in the woodland across the creek at the northwest part of the farm.
He was married 5/14/1846 to Anna Keller and the following year he rented a farm of 140 acres in West Donegal Township and spent 39 years as a renter. In 1886, he made sale of his farming implements and stock and bought a home in Elizabethtown, Pa and lived there in a retired life.
Mr Forney was a school director in West Donegal Township. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown Exchange Bank which was organized in 1887. He served as director and vice-president and later elected president.
He outlived his wife by eight years and was placed in a family lot of Mount Tunnel Cemetery in Elizabethtown, PA.
The book contains a picture of him with his wife at 50 years of age
The following information was listed in a book about the Lancaster County Forney families published in 1926.
When a small boy, he had a regular weekly errand carrying a loaf of bread to an old indian who had a hut built in the woodland across the creek at the northwest part of the farm.
He was married 5/14/1846 to Anna Keller and the following year he rented a farm of 140 acres in West Donegal Township and spent 39 years as a renter. In 1886, he made sale of his farming implements and stock and bought a home in Elizabethtown, Pa and lived there in a retired life.
Mr Forney was a school director in West Donegal Township. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown Exchange Bank which was organized in 1887. He served as director and vice-president and later elected president.
He outlived his wife by eight years and was placed in a family lot of Mount Tunnel Cemetery in Elizabethtown, PA.
The book contains a picture of him with his wife at 50 years of age
When a small boy, he had a regular weekly errand carrying a loaf of bread to an old indian who had a hut built in the woodland across the creek at the northwest part of the farm.
He was married 5/14/1846 to Anna Keller and the following year he rented a farm of 140 acres in West Donegal Township and spent 39 years as a renter. In 1886, he made sale of his farming implements and stock and bought a home in Elizabethtown, Pa and lived there in a retired life.
Mr Forney was a school director in West Donegal Township. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown Exchange Bank which was organized in 1887. He served as director and vice-president and later elected president.
He outlived his wife by eight years and was placed in a family lot of Mount Tunnel Cemetery in Elizabethtown, PA.
The book contains a picture of him with his wife at 50 years of age
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