My Genealogy Hound

HENRY MORGAN, miner, post office Turtle Creek, is a native of Wales, born in Breconshire, Feb. 15, 1848. His parents, James and Jane (Edwards) Morgan, came to Allegheny county in 1854, and located at Dravosburg. James was all his life a coal miner, and in 1874 moved to Turtle Creek, where he died in February, 1886, aged sixty-four years. His widow now resides in Wilkins township. They were members of the M. E. Church, and reared seven children: Henry, James (a resident of Homestead), Maria (Mrs. John Skelton, Wilkins), Charles (with his mother) George W. (in Wilkins), Thomas and Jane (with their mother). Two died in infancy-Maria and Thomas. Henry Morgan began mining when only nine years old, and has since followed the business, except a year spent in peddling. After dwelling seven years at Irwin, he came to Turtle Creek in, 1879. His first dwelling here was pulled down to prevent the spread of a fire; he then built another, which was burned down July 5, 1887. Mr. Morgan is associated with the M. E. Church, and politically is a stanch republican. In 1870 he married Lucinda Young, a native of Dravosburg, and daughter of Conrad and Eve Young, natives of Germany and Westmoreland county. Pa. The following are the names of Mr. Morgan’s children: Lillian, Minerva, Conrad Young, James, Charles Wesley, Leonora Hunter, William J. and Mabel.