Just recently received this genealogy information from a family member. Some
of it was researched in 1915.
Edward Cahill, b. Dublin Ireland, year unknown. He emigrated to American
before the Revolutionary War and settled in Philadelphia. Married Lydia
Jones. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters. I know of one son, Abram (or
Abrham).
Abram was born in Penn, m. Nancy Wallace. They had 13 children:
1. Lydia, b. 1787, m. William Culbertson, died at age 35, 4 children:
Alexander, Nancy, Ruth & Elizabeth.
2. Mary, b. 1789, m. Samuel McFarren, died at age 74, had 10 children:
Mary, Nancy, Jane, Abram, Issac, John, Kesiah, Richard, & two died in
infancy.
3. Rachael, b. 1791, m. John Nimmond, died at age 74, no record of children.
4. Margaret, b. 1794, m. Thomas Culbertson, died at age 76, no record of
children.
5. Isaac, b. 1796, m. married Margaret Bushonnan, died 9-8-1873.
6. Richard, b. 1799, m. Eliza Cummine and also Katherine Richards. He had a
large family, died arnd 1880.
7. Edward, b. 1801
8. Nancy, b. 1803, m. Alexander Culbertson, died at age 30.
9. Jane, b. 1805, m. William Cummins, one of her children was Abram Cahill
Cummins
10. Abram, b. 1808, m. Francies Maria Marsh, died in 1854 at 46 and had 6
children.
11. Elizabeth, b. 1812, m. William Monnet
12. Daniel, b. 1812, m. Camilia Hascall, had 6 children: Nancy, Arab C.;
LeRoy, Mortimer, Daniel & Elizabeth.
13. Peter, b. 1814, m. Susanna Syphart about 1835. Peter is my direct line.
They lived in Lima, OH and they had 6 children:
Nancy, b. 1837
Isaac, b. 1841
Abram b, 1844
Richard Wallace, b. 1846, m. Mary Jane Cremean in Allen Co., OH. They had
6 children:
Stephen Decatur
Leona Cahill Benedum
James Warren or Wallace
William Pierce
Lawrence Eugene
Abram Ellis
William, b. 1848
Elizabeth Cahill Whitaker, b. 1851.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
James Cahill