Elizabeth Coates Paschall – An 18th Century Wife, Mother, Medical Authority, and Entrepreneur

by Linda Stewart, 4 March 2020

Joseph Paschall (ID= B24), was the son of Thomas Paschall and Margaret Griffith Jenkins, and grandson of Thomas Paschall and Joanna Sloper.  Joseph was born on 23 March 1699 in Philadelphia, PA, and died on 26 December 1741 in Philadelphia[i].  Joseph belonged to one of the oldest Quaker families in Philadelphia county.  Both of his parents came to Pennsylvania in their youth with their parents, early in 1682, his father Thomas from Bristol, England, and his mother Margaret from Tenby, Penbrokeshire, Wales[ii].

Joseph married Elizabeth Coates on 28 Apr 1721 at the Darby Monthly Meeting in Chester, Pennsylvania[iii].  Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Coates and Beulah Jaques, was born on 12 March 1702 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died on 10 April 1767 in Philadelphia.  Joseph and Elizabeth had nine children: Joseph, Sarah, Isaac, Mary, Thomas, Beulah, Elizabeth, James, and Joseph.  Only Isaac, Beulah, and the youngest Joseph survived infancy.  Their son Isaac was the only child to marry, and he had two daughters, Elizabeth Coates Paschall and Sarah Paschall[iv].

Elizabeth was educated and introduced to entrepreneurship at a early age by both her mother and her father.  Her mother, Beulah, was a literary lady and educated Elizabeth at home.  She not only taught her the fundamentals of reading, writing, and arithmetic, she also taught her healing knowledge and remedies.  Elizabeth had a religiously inclined, educated, medically adept, and assertive mother as a role model[v].

Her father, Thomas, engaged in mercantile affairs on a considerable scale in Philadelphia.  He was a shipping merchant to and from foreign ports, and supplied planters and smaller dealers with the necessary staple merchandise.  He imported large quantities of goods from England, Barbados, and West Indies.  As was the custom of the well-to-do residents of Colonial Philadelphia, in addition to his town residence, he had a “county seat” at Frankford.  In 1714, he purchased several hundred acres of land, where he and his family would spend a portion of the summer months.  Thomas died in 1719, leaving a house on the north side of High Street in Philadelphia, along with all the back lots to Elizabeth[vi].

When Joseph and Elizabeth married in 1721, they took up residence in the house on High Street, later known as Market Street.  Joseph, became a prominent business man, owning a large dry goods store.  He was elected to the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia in October, 1732, and held the seat until his death in 1741.  He was also the founder of the first Volunteer Fire Company in Philadelphia, with his name heading the list of the twenty men who started the first Fire Engine Company on December 7, 1736, of whom Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one[vii].  Joseph conducted business with Dr. Franklin by purchasing schoolbooks for their son Isaac at Franklin’s shop.  “Franklin’s ledger D, page 58 records “Cordery for Isaac,” “Erasmus for Do,” a “Dutch grammar” and other texts “for Isaac.”[viii].

After Joseph died, Elizabeth continued with the dry goods business.  In addition to being a mother and a shopkeeper, she also practiced medicine.  She proudly recorded many medical recipes and “my own Invention”.  She discussed the efficacy and safety of drugs with a wide range of people, including doctors, botanists, apothecaries, midwives, relatives, friends, servants, and customers in her effort to discover the best cures[ix].

Elizabeth’s “Receipt Book” was photocopied by the Historical Collection of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and can be viewed online at  https://www.chstm.org/web_of_healing/archives/CP/paschall.html

In 1746, Elizabeth took out an notice in the Pennsylvania Gazette … “Elizabeth Paschall, Shopkeeper, in Market Street, intending to take down and re-build the house she now lives in, and remove for the space of 3 months to the house where Robert Jordan formerly lived in Strawberry Alley; will continue to sell all sorts of Merchant’s Goods as usual.  All persons indebted to the estate of her deceased husband, Joseph Paschall, are desired to pay their respective debts, or she must proceed against them, as the Law directs.”

The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Sunday, 5 June 1746, Page 3

After renovating the Market Street property, the store was on the main floor and their residence was upstairs.  Elizabeth desired a “county seat” to retreat from city life.  She purchased thirteen acres of land from her brother, Samuel Coates.  The land was previously part of her father’s Frankford property.  In 1748, she began construction on a country house of native grey stone, in which she named “Cedar Grove”.   The construction was completed in 1750[x].

The original house consisted of two rooms on the first floor, the present dining room and the room back of it, two rooms on the second, and the attic space above.  The house was exceedingly small, but a rural house was not meant for a dwelling house.  It was designed to be used merely as a shelter for rest and refreshment when the owner or any member of the family might be spending the day at the farm.  Elizabeth and the children could spend time between the two houses.  The Market Street house and Cedar Grove were only five miles apart [xi].

Cedar Grove Mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Photo courtesy of Brian W. Schaller

Upon Elizabeth’s death, Isaac and Joseph liquidated her stock in the store with an advertisement in The Pennsylvania Chronicle.  Cedar Grove was passed to her unmarried daughter Beulah, who, upon her death, passed it to her niece, Sarah Paschall Morris.

Additions to the house were made by Beulah Paschall and succeeding generations. Sarah Paschall Morris doubled the size of Cedar Grove with more rooms and a third floor. A wraparound porch was added later. Various architectural styles such as Baroque, Rococo, and Federal are evident in the interior rooms.

Lydia Thompson Morris, the last of the family to own Cedar Grove, gave the house and original furniture to the City of Philadelphia in 1926. The house was originally located within the present day Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, about 4 miles from the colonial-era city limits. The house was moved from Frankford to Fairmount Park in 1926–28. The Philadelphia Museum of Art administers the house and has kept it fully furnished with period furniture passed down by generations of the Paschall/Morris family. Guided tours of the house are available through the Art Museum.  Cedar Grove is registered on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and is an inventoried structure within the Fairmount Park Historic District entry on the National Register of Historic Places[xii].

Elizabeth Coates Paschall was a remarkable woman with a remarkable life.  She was educated in business and medicine.  She suffered great sorrow with the death of her six children.  When her husband died she continued the business and was a respected shopkeeper.  She taught the business to her sons, Joseph and Isaac, who were partners in the Philadelphia store called The Sign of the Red Hand-saw[xiii].  Elizabeth not only leaves her mark in time with the “Receipt Book” and Cedar Grove, but with her many descendants as well.

[i] Lea, James Henry and George Henry.  “The ancestry and posterity of John Lea of Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England, and of Pennsylvania in America 1503-1906”. New York, Lea Brothers & Co. 1906. p. 399.

Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Births and Burials, 1686-1807; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 365.

[ii] Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 1”. New York: The Lewis Pub Co., 1911, p. 653-654.

[iii] Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Marriage Certificates, 1682-1769; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes.

[iv] Glenn, Thomas Allen,  “Some colonial mansions and those who lived in them : with genealogies of the various families mentioned.”  Philadelphia : H. T. Coates & Co. 1899, p. 119.

Will Date: 15 Oct 1753, Will Proved Date: 18 Oct 1768. Philadelphia County Wills, Book O (1766 – 1770), p. 277, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1900. 

Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Record of Births, Deaths and Burials, 1688-1826; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:359. (Monthly Meeting of Friends Of Philadelphia, PA, Births & Deaths (Abstract) 1688-1826, p. 248)

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume II, p. 403.

Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 1”. New York: The Lewis Pub Co., 1911, p. 653-654.

[v] Brandt, Susan Hanket.  “Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740-1830”. A Dissertation submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board, 2014, p. 171-174.
[vi] Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 1”. New York: The Lewis Pub Co., 1911, p. 651-653.
Coates, Henry Troth.  “Thomas Coates : who removed from England to the province of Pennsylvania, 1683”. Philadelphia : Priv. Print. 1897, p. 22.
[vii] Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Volume 1”. New York: The Lewis Pub Co., 1911, p. 651-653.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0024#BNFN-01-02-02-0024-fn-0005, accessed 5 Mar 2020.
[viii] Faris, John T.  “Old Roads Out Of Philadelphia”, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1917, p. 15.
Bell, Whitfield J. Jr.  “Patriot-Improvers, Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume I, 1743-1768”. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, p. 213.
[ix] Elizabeth Coates (Mrs. Joseph) Paschall, Receipt Book (ca. 1749-1766), photocopy, Historical Collection of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Ellen G. Gartrell, “Women Healers and Domestic Remedies in Eighteenth-Century America: The Recipe Book of Elizabeth Coates Paschal, ” New York Journal of Medicine, LXXXI, no. 1 (January 1987), 23-29.
[x] Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume I”, New York : Lewis Pub. Co., 1911, p. 653
Cedar Grove Mansion, From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Grove_Mansion, accessed 4 March 2020.
[xi] Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Lippncott, Horace Mather.  “The colonial homes of Philadelphia and its neighbourhood”. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, 1912, p. 318-324.
[xii] Jordan, John Woolf.  “Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume I”, New York : Lewis Pub. Co., 1911, p. 653
Cedar Grove Mansion, From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Grove_Mansion, accessed 4 March 2020.
[xiii] Bell, Whitfield J. Jr.  “Patriot-Improvers, Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume I, 1743-1768”. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, p. 291.

New Year’s Blessing for 2020

May your 2020 be full of Jesus’ light and truth. May He bless you with what He knows you and your loved ones need. May He level you up in love, His spirit, His mind, healing for your soul, healing for your body, increase your faith in Him, increase in wisdom and understanding! May you have more than enough in 2020 yet, never forgetting Him for He is the reason we are all here.

God Bless the Paschal-Paschall Family

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Rev. John Lothrop, Ancestor of Reliance & Elizabeth Dennes Paschal

by Linda Stewart, 1 November 2019

William Paschal was married three times.  His first two wives were sisters Reliance and Elizabeth Dennes, with whom 99% of us descend from.  The sisters were the daughters of Samuel Dennes and Mary Crowell, his step sister.  Samuel was the son of Samuel Dennes and the widow Mary Lothrop Crowell. 1 [Further documents are needed for the clarification on the two Samuel Dennes’ and Mary Crowell’s.]

Mary Crowell was the daughter of Edward Crowell and Mary Lothrop. 2,3 Mary Lothrop was the daughter of Captain Joseph Lothrop & Mary Ansell, and granddaughter of Rev. John Lothrop & Hannah House. 4

Barbara Fleming has done extensive research on the Lothrop family, taking our line back to Walter Lawthrop born ca 1355.  (Barbara Fleming, 3245 Chadbourne Road, Shaker Heights, OH 44120, barbpretz@sbcglobal.net).  Her work is posted on https://sites.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps06/ps06_074.htm  Barbara’s research on Rev. John Lothrop is quite impressive.  Here is just a smidgeon of what she has gathered about his fascinating life …

Rev. John Lothrop was baptized in 1584 in Etton, Yorkshire, England, died in 1653 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and was buried in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery.  He graduated at Queens’ College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in 1605, and a Master of Arts in 1609.  He was the Vicar of Egerton, Kent, England in 1611-1623. He moved to Union Street, Southwark  in London in 1624, where he become the pastor of Henry Jacob’s Independent Congregational church.  Since independent worship from the Church of England was illegal, Lothrop’s services were conducted in secret. He was discovered, and in 1632, he and 43 church members were imprisoned.  Upon promising to leave the country they were released.  Rev. Lothrop and his family came to New England on the ship Griffin in 1634, and shortly afterwards organized a church in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman of Plymouth colony, 1636-37.  Two years later he removed, with a large part of the membership of his church, to Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he held the first communion upon their  arrival.

“One of the remarkable things about John Lothrop, and the highest tribute to his character as a minister, was the way in which his congregation followed him throughout his wanderings. Many members of his original Kent and London gathering were with him in Scituate and accompanied him to Barnstable. History shows few more perfect examples of the shepherd and his flock.”  http://www.sturgislibrary.org/history/history-of-the-library/

A must read article about Rev. John, giving details about his life:  “The Roots of the Ancient Congregational Church in London, Scituate, and Barnstable, Rev. John Lothropp, Minister”, by Dan R. McConnell, 31 Ellens Way, Harwich, MA, 02645. (Published by the Cape Cod Genealogical Society Bulletin, Fall 2008)  http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/roots_ancient_congregational_church.pdf

The Queen’s College Cambridge, founded 1341, by Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain to Queen Philippa of Hainault (the wife of King Edward III of England); hence its name.  Rev. John Lothrop matriculated in 1601, graduated with a BA in 1605, and with an MA in 1609. He was an English Anglican clergyman and dissident, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England.  He was the founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts.  John’s brother Thomas was also admitted to Queen’s College in 1601 and received his Bachelor’s degree in 1604. https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/85827

Rev. John would had received this Bible, published in 1605, as a graduation present from Queens’ College in Cambridge, England when he received his Bachelor of Arts.  Apparently, aboard the ship the Griffin, which brought many of the Lothrop congregation to New England, the Reverend accidently spilled hot candle wax on his Bible during evening prayer. The hot wax burned through several pages. However, Lothrop repaired each burned section, re-writing the damaged passages from memory.  http://wickedyankee.blogspot.com/2012/03/lothrop-bible-and-sturgis-library.html

“More than 100 people crammed inside the Sturgis Library in West Barnstable yesterday to rededicate the Rev. John Lothrop’s 404-year-old Bible.  The book, which Lothrop used to found Scituate’s first church then another church in Barnstable five years later, is now encased in a museum-quality microclimate glass display case, thanks to a $3,000 grant.”  Article by Aaron Gouveia, 11 Oct 2009, Cape Cod Times  http://(https://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20091011/NEWS/910110325)

The First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA is over 380 years old. https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91222/men-of-kent-cemetery#view-photo=882440

A small log cabin on Meeting House Lane served as the first church. The site is marked today by a monument that lists the early members of the parish, “The Men of Kent,” and by gravestones from the 17th century.  The Men of Kent Cemetery is Scituate’s oldest and most historically significant cemetery.  It was established in 1624, and the earliest legible gravestone is from 1694. Most of the slate markers are still in good condition.  http://www.firstparishscituate.org/history-of-first-parish.htm https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91222/men-of-kent-cemetery

Sacrament Rock – Marker Commemorating the First Communion held at Barnstable upon the Rev. John Lothrop’s arrival.  The marker has been rebuilt out of fragments of the boulder that stood at the location of one of the first religious services.   The pewter communion service that was used (brought by Rev. Lothrop from England in 1634) is still in existence.  It was used monthly at the West Parish Church until 1993, when deterioration led it to be removed from use and put into safe keeping.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7518784/john-lothrop

Constructed in 1644 for the Rev.  John Lothrop, founder of Barnstable, the house which forms the original part of the Library is the oldest Library building in the United States. The building is also one of the oldest houses remaining on Cape Cod. Since Rev. Lothrop used the front room of the house for public worship, another distinction of the Sturgis Library is that it is the oldest structure still standing in America where religious services were regularly held. This room, now called “The Lothrop Room,” with its beamed ceiling and pumpkin-colored wide-board floors, retains the quintessential early character of authentic Cape Cod houses. Rev. Lothrop’s bible, with handwritten repairs to the pages, is on display in this room.  On 25 Feb. 1782, William Sturgis, a direct descendant of Rev. Lothrop, was born in this house.  Photo by C J Gunther.  http://www.sturgislibrary.org/history/history-of-the-library/

Lothrop Hill Cemetery, 2801 Main Street, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts  https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91192/lothrop-hill-cemetery#view-photo=40639714

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/91192/lothrop-hill-cemetery#view-photo=121832655

Tombstone of Capt. Joseph Lothrop, Son of Rev. John Lothrop, and great grandfather of Reliance and Elizabeth Dennes Paschall.  Born 11 April 1624 in the Greater London, England, died 11 December 1702 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA, and was buried in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34365543/joseph-lothrop

“Captain Joseph, born in 1624, married Mary Ansell, 11 Dec 1650.  He settled in Barnstable, was made freeman 8 June 1655, was selectman of the town 21 years, and its Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts 15 years.  He was Registrar of the County Probate Court and was Constable, Lieutenant and Captain.  History speaks of him as a “Conspicuous member of the Council of war” in 1676.  He and his brother Barnabas were commissioned to hold select courts in Barnstable in 1679.  In the inventory of the estate of Joseph Lothrop are reported 27 volumes of law books and 43 volumes of classic and sermon books.”5

This portrait has been mistaken to be the portrait of Rev. John Lothrop, (1584-1653), the original American ancestor.  It is in fact the portrait of Rev. John Lothrop, (1740-1816), the great-great grandson of Rev. John.  The younger Rev. John served as minister of the Second Church, Boston, 1768-1816, when it was located in the North End—first on North Square, and after 1779, on Hanover Street.  In 1776, during the British occupation of Boston, the Second Church was burnt for firewood by British soldiers.  Lathrop was considered a patriot.  He was the second cousin twice removed of Reliance and Elizabeth Dennes Paschal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lathrop_(American_minister)

1 Research by Clarence McDaniel

2 Edward Crowell married Mary Lothrop on 16 January 1673 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Source: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).  After Edward died, the (Widow) Mary Crowell married Samuel Dennes on 14 April 1689 in Woodbridge, New Jersey.  Source: Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.

3 New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, Volume XXIII, Abstracts of Wills, 1670-1730, Dennes, Samuel, Page 134

4 A genealogical memoir of the Lo-Lathrop family in this country: embracing the descendants, as far as known, of The Rev. John Lothropp, of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass, and Mark Lothrop, of Salem and Bridgewater, Mass, and The first generation of descendants of other names. By the Rev. E. B. Huntington, A. M.  Copyright, 1884, by Julia M. Huntington. Ridgefield, Conn.

5 Coe, Sophia Fidelia Hall.  “Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Sophia Fidelia Hall”, Forgotten Books

 

 

Happy Columbus Day

by Linda Stewart, 8 October 2019

Columbus Day is a national holiday which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas on 12 October 1492.  His first voyage to the New World on the Spanish ships Santa María, Niña, and La Pinta took approximately three months.  The Santa Maria, the largest of Columbus’s vessels and his flagship, measured around 70′ in length.  The Nina was thought to be about 45′ in length, and La Pinta was about 65′ in length.  All three ships totaled about 180′ in length.  To give you a visual of how small these ships were, a football field is 300 feet in length.

Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was searching for a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but never found it.  Though he did not really “discover” the New World – as people already lived there – his journeys marked the beginning of centuries of transatlantic conquest and colonization.

Like most topics these days, there is controversy regarding Christopher Columbus.  But if it wasn’t Columbus, it would have been another sea Captain with an adventurous spirit to embark on the unknown to “discover” the New World.  So I thank Christopher Columbus and his three crews.  Many of us would not have stepped out in faith in the unknown as they did.

In August 1682, 190 years after Columbus’ ocean adventure, Thomas Paschall, his wife Joanna and their children, also followed suit with their own ocean adventure.  They embarked for America on one of William Penn’s ships “The Society” of Bristol.  If your ancestors arrived in North America 200 to 300 years ago, they all came by ship.  What stories they could tell!

Sources: http://www.indepthinfo.com/columbus-christopher/nina-pinta-santa-maria.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

Happy Birthday America!

By Linda Stewart, 2 July 2019

“The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull is probably the most famous of all the pictures of the Declaration of Independence. It does not depict the actual signing. Instead it depicts the Committee of Five (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman) presenting their draft of the Declaration to the full Congress.

On July 4th, Americans will be celebrating the birth of our nation.  As genealogical researchers, we know the importance of finding a birth certificate.  We all have one.  It gives the vital information of our existence, and our heritage.   Even before the states made birth certificates mandatory, the birth was recorded in the family bible.  Our country also has a birth certificate.  It is the Declaration Of Independence.  http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

The Revolutionary War began on April 19, 1775.  On July 4, 1776, our Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject and subordinate to the monarch of Britain and were now united, free, and independent states. The Congress had voted to declare independence two days earlier, on July 2, but it was not declared until July 4.  Just as a birth is a difficult and painful process of separating a baby from the mother, our country also had a difficult and painful process of separating itself from England.  The war would last for 8 years.

“Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783.”   https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history

There have been Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution applications for four of William Paschal’s sons Samuel, Isaiah, Elisha, and Thomas, and a his grandson George who supposedly fought in the war.   Two of Thomas Paschall’s grandsons who supposedly fought were Henry and Benjamin.  When filling out a DAR or SAR application, do your own research and do not copy existing applications.  With the records now available, some of these earlier applications are now in question.

PASCHALL, SAMUEL, DAR Ancestor #: A088477  (Son of William Paschal of NC)

Notice:  PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER – SEE ANCESTOR’S FULL RECORD  (WHY?)

Service:  NORTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth:  4-1-1727    BERTIE PCT NORTH CAROLINA

Death:  ANTE 11-2-1805     ABBEVILLE DIST SOUTH CAROLINA

Service Source:  HAUN, NC REV ARMY ACCTS, BOOK B, PART XIII, #483, P 1809; NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #52, #903, #904, ROLL #S.115.115; PRUITT, ABSTRACTS OF LAND ENTRIES, GRANVILLE CO, P 22

Service Description: 1) SUPPLIED GUN; PAID FOR SERVICES;

2) SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO MAKE LAND ENTRY, GRANVILLE CO, 24 SEP 1778

PASCHALL, ISAIAH, DAR Ancestor #: A088475  (Son of William Paschal of NC)

Service:  NORTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): SOLDIER

Birth:  CIRCA 1730

Death:  POST 12- -1795     FRANKLIN CO NORTH CAROLINA

Service Description: 1) STATE MILITIA

PASCHALL, ELISHA, DAR Ancestor #: A088471  (Son of William Paschal of NC)

Notice:  DATA IN THE CORRECTION FILE  (WHY?)

Service:  NORTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth:  1735    NORTH CAROLINA

Death:  POST 8-6-1821     WARREN CO NORTH CAROLINA

Service Source:  CLARK, STATE RECS OF NC, VOL 22, PP 175, 176

Service Description: 1) TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, 1778

PASCHALL, THOMAS, DAR Ancestor #: A088478  (Son of William Paschal of NC)

Service:  NORTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): SOLDIER

Birth:  CIRCA 1750    BUTE CO NORTH CAROLINA

Death:  A 11- -1821     WARREN CO NORTH CAROLINA

Service Source:  HAUN, NC REV ARMY ACCTS, VOL 8, PART 6, P 724

Service Description: 1) NC TROOPS

PASCHALL, GEORGE, DAR Ancestor #: A088473  (Grandson of William Paschal of NC)

Service:  SOUTH CAROLINA    Rank(s): PRIVATE

Birth:  11- -1762    GRANVILLE CO NORTH CAROLINA

Death:  9-14-1832     OGLETHORPE CO GEORGIA

Pension Number:  S*W4306

Service Source:  S*W4306

Service Description: 1) CAPTS LEWIS, J HUGHES’ TROOP OF LIGHT DRAGOONS,

2) COL ANTHONY W WHITE; CONT LINE

PASCHALL, HENRY, DAR Ancestor #: A121106  (Grandson of Thomas Paschall of Philadelphia)

Service:  PENNSYLVANIA    Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, PRIVATE

Birth:  8-28-1746    PHILADELPHIA CO PENNSYLVANIA

Death:  5-13-1845     KINGSESSING PHILADELPHIA CO PENNSYLVANIA

Service Description: 1) 1ST CO.4TH & 6TH BATT.CHESTER CO.MILITIA

2) CAPT.LT.NATHANIEL SMITH OATH ALLEGIANCE

PASCHALL, BENJAMIN, DAR Ancestor #: A201698  (Grandson of Thomas Paschall of Philadelphia)

Service:  PENNSYLVANIA    Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth:  CIRCA 1735

Death:  POST 8-7-1785     PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA CO PENNSYLVANIA

Service Source:  PA ARCH, 2ND SER, VOL 3, P 631, 633; WESTCOTT, PERSON WHO TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO PA, 1777-1789, P 2

Service Description: 1) SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE; JUSTICE OF PEACE

Paschall Texas Historical Marker in Wise County

By Linda Stewart, 24 May 2019

    

Marker Number: 13759        N 33° 03.196 W 097° 45.546

Marker Text: 
Robert A. and Molly Paschall settled in this area in 1876 and purchased 160 acres of land near Salt Creek in 1890. In 1902 the Paschall, Texas post office was established in their home which also housed the Paschall-Cottondale Telephone Company. The community of farm families which settled in the surrounding area built a one-room schoolhouse enamed Gravel Hill, and founded a Sabbath school, literary society and Farmers Alliance. The community declined in the early 20th century. The Paschall family has lived in the area for six generations. (1997)

Researched & written by:
Marcella Paschall Phillips
Pasadena, Texas 1996

During and after the Civil War, efforts to settle Wise County had crumbled with Indian raids jeopardizing outlying settlements until 1875 when the last raid occurred. Wise County had been a frontier county for twenty years.

Settlers heading West into the county in the 1870’s must have feared they had reached the end of the earth. They had reached a vague but important line of demarcation, the farming frontier where the familiar woodlands gave way to prairie and cattle ranching in the western part of the county. They had also reached another invisible boundary, the cultural edge of the South where few if any social organizations existed.

It was into this disorganized and sometimes hostile place that Robert Alexander Paschall and his family migrated from Tennessee in 1876. Robert was born in Tennessee in 1853, the eldest son of James Anderson Paschall and Sarah Annie Marshall. He married Molly Dill in June 1876 and they accompanied his parents and his five brothers and two sisters to Wise County. Arriving by train in Ft. Worth, the launching point for westward migration, they then traveled by wagon to Wise County.

James Anderson settled in the southwestern part of the county in what would become the Bethel Community. Robert and Molly farmed land near the Tarrant and Parker County line until 1890 when Robert bought 160 acres of unimproved land on Salt Creek four miles south of where his father lived. While staying with his father, he walked four miles both ways each day to his land to build the first house on the site which would later be known as Paschall, Texas.

Southwestern Wise County was the last area of Wise County to be settled, being some twenty miles from the county seat at Decatur. It still lacked any social organization in 1890. Settlers coming into the frontier had responded to disorganization as they had in their old homes by forming associations of farmers and stockmen and social institutions, including schools and churches. So it was here.

The basic need was for a school. Robert and Molly now had six children. Robert and his neighbors built a one-room school on bordering land, which was to serve all the community. It was supported by donations only and teachers were boarded in the Paschall home. It was called the Gravel Hill School.

Robert also helped organize the Gravel Hill Sabbath School and taught Sunday School there. An “Alphabetical Register of Officers, Teachers and Scholars’ of 1899 lists 137 individuals who were in attendance.

In a frontier county having few institutions to create a community, the Farmers Alliance came to play an important role. It gave the men a common cause for assembling. A sub-alliance was organized in the community and in 1893 Robert became secretary of the Wise County Farmers Alliance, consisting of some twenty sub-alliances.

With the growth and organization of the community came the need for a post office. There was no rural delivery, and it was necessary to travel six miles to the nearest post office to pick up mail. The community petitioned for a post office and on May 13, 1902 the Paschall, Texas post office was established in the home of Robert and Molly. One end of a porch was enclosed to hold the boxes, and about 30 families from a three-mile radius picked up their mail here. It served the community until rural delivery began in 1904, and the post office was moved to Poolville. Paschall, Texas appeared on Texas maps as late as 1913.

Robert was also instrumental in providing telephone service to the area when he helped organize the Paschall-Cottondale Telephone Exchange in 1905. Stock was sold at $2.00 per customer and 35 families were served. This exchange was also housed in the Paschall home and served the area until 1910.

Robert and Molly lived on the land until their deaths. Robert died in 1917 and Molly in 1940, both at home. They had reared 11 children.

The Paschall land has been owned and occupied by the family continuously since it was purchased in 1890. It now is the home of L/Col. Jim B. Paschall, USAF Ret. Also residing on the land are his son David Lewis Paschall, grandson Riley Alexander Paschall. Jim’s daughter, Terry Paschall Holland, lives on the actual site of Paschall, Texas in the fourth house to be built there. Five generations of Paschall’s have called the former Paschall, Texas home.

Deep Creek Texas School, ca 1909 or 1910

By Linda Stewart, 2 April 2019

Per the Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas Online, “DEEP CREEK (WISE COUNTY),” Deep Creek was named for its steep banks.  The banks begin their rise five miles southeast of Decatur and run south for five miles to the mouth of the West Fork of the Trinity River, a mile east of Boyd.  “It traverses undulating to hilly terrain with light to very dark loamy soils that have an accumulation of lime. Deep Creek was the site of the first house built in Wise County. Pioneer settler Sam Woody built a small house on the banks of the stream in 1854, and within a few years the Deep Creek community had developed in the area. By the mid-1980’s a cemetery was the only reminder of the settlement.”

Several of the Paschall families lived in Deep Creek in the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s.  One of the families was the John Thomas (Jack) Paschall family.  Their children attended the Deep Creek School.

Deep Creek School, ca 1909 or 1910. Ollie Clementine Paschall is on the 3rd roll top left.

If you can identify the teachers and the other students, please let us know.

Happy Hunting!

Picture courtesy of William Harold Reid Jr.

Recognizing the Paschall Researchers of the Past

By Linda Stewart, 24 February 2019

Below is an article in which Clarence McDaniel wrote in 2013.  We are re-posting the article because we believe it is important to recognize and honor the early researchers who dedicated their time and talents to documenting Paschall history.

History of Paschall Family Genealogical Research – by Clarence McDaniel, June 6, 2013; updated Feb 21 2016

I will briefly relate some background history of the research of the PASCHAL(L) family done in the past.

The first notable account was the book, “Ninety-four years”, published in 1872 by George W Paschal, F24. This book mostly concerned his mother but he gave some information about his father. He made an error however in confusing his grandfather and uncles names. This error continues to plague modern casual inquirers. See F-line biography by author.

Next, the Philadelphia society became interested about 1880 in their ancestors and several persons there made attempts to interview and record some information. Notable among these was the Quaker, Gilbert Cope. He made notes and even went to England to find information. He recorded quite a bit of information about the local Paschall family. However, he had limited access to paper documents.

The next great effort was begun about 1920 by Edward Early Paschal, K536. He was born in Warren Co., NC, in 1865 and became curious about his origins. Since his occupation as a fire insurance salesman required traveling a great deal and he was a single man he met many people and soon found others named Paschal. One of these shared a 1905 letter with him that spoke of a rather dubious origin for the Paschal’s in America. Edward soon became active but had limited means of pursuing the information. He then met Walter Bearden Paschall, H14443, who had the means and an agreement was established between them. Walter provided the funds and Edward did the leg-work and writing. By 1924 the effort was in full swing; Edward made a mailing list and printed a small Paschal pamphlet. This was mailed out requesting the recipients to send info and to add names and addresses of interested persons. This effort caused a great deal of interest with Edward reporting his list was 500 names or more. At this time none of the people involved realized the numbers of families that existed and assumed anyone with the name was closely related. Edward, however, was a good genealogist and did not make such assumptions but asked for evidence of relationships. Most of these people did not have personal access to papers, Bibles, so the work was very low. Edward even went to Washington, DC, to view one particular census page. A tiresome trip at this time. Nevertheless, Edward had gathered up quite a file and was able to see the enormous job ahead. He was careful to have the letters typed with “skin” duplicates. It is due to this that we have today a great many of those letters.

Edward suffered from poor health and went west for the sun and died in El Paso, TX, in 1930. His papers were shipped by his sister to Walter in Oklahoma. Walter later turned the papers over to the Rev. Jacob C. Paschal of Kansas.

The reverend had no genealogical training and was very busy with church work. He did however come up with a family form sheet and using the list made up by Edward mailed out another Paschal newsletter. His son, Rev. Paul Paschal also was involved and they went to Paschal family reunions. These two, father and son, tried to correlate the info but made horrible errors of assumption, errors that persist to this day and likely will always be with us. They also received bad assumptions, passed these on up until very recently in time. Some persons submitting info simply ‘picked’ out an ancestor that was desirable and submitted this as their line. One even added a son where no son of the name ever existed! One, when pestered, simply picked a grandfathers name. A lot of this involved connecting the NC line to the desirable Philadelphia line. Today we know there never was a connection on this side of the Atlantic.

When Rev. Jacob died his son, Rev. Paul, continued the effort somewhat but he had little time for it. He gave some of the papers concerning Elisha Paschal, H-line, to Allen and Mary Johnston of Dime Box, TX. They made an effort on this line and published a large volume on Elisha in 1972. This volume consisted mostly of submittals by individuals on family sheets; little research was done in civil documents. There are many errors in the work but it is a very valuable nonetheless.

Also, in 1969, Rosa Price Paschal published a Paschal book, mostly on the D-line of Georgia. This work is not very well edited but has a great deal of information.

When Rev. Paul died he passed on the work of Edward to Donna Cooper of Des Moines, IA. It is from her gracious help that I was able to obtain copies of most of the documents and have these in my possession today.

I began my own work on Paschal in 1972 with a trip to the downtown Los Angeles library on a Saturday; found a far off parking place and walked blocks. There I viewed my first microfilm. The librarian suggested I should go to the LDS Temple genealogy library in Santa Monica. The next Saturday I did so and the new world of genealogy was opened to me. I once accepted a temporary job for 11 months in Salt Lake so I could visit the library in evenings and Saturdays.

Today I have all of the above named sources and thousands more that were donated to form a Paschal History Library.

Eventually I undertook to gather census information for Paschal’s born before 1901. Also, all of the other databases that can be accessed as they become available. The census was a job too big for one person so I organized a dozen or so volunteers, made out indexes and mailed them out. This was prior to the internet and home PC’s. The response was really great. I correlated the time and places and assigned ID’s to each name. This took about 30 years, part time of course. A great number of those that helped have now passed on but the work remains. It is impossible to cite the names of all the persons over the years that have so generously contributed to this effort. I, when it became possible, established a Paschal-Paschall genealogy site on the internet, where it is today. Recently, I donated the large file of papers to my hometown library in Paris, TN, as I have become too old to keep that file up. I still maintain the internet site putting new information submitted to me online and colonial research for the origin, parents, of William Paschal, C.

The result is that the current Paschal-Paschall genealogy has more detailed source documents and personal information listed than any other I have seen. It is the source documents that make a genealogy; without them it is just a collection of names.

Happy Veterans Day – Thank You For Your Service.

By Linda Stewart, 12 November 2018

According to Veterans Day Facts, “Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans—living or dead—but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime.”

I want to honor the 153 Veterans who are featured in the “John T. Paschall and his wife Mary Cook Paschall, Two Hundred Years of Our Family’s History” book.  Most of them have gone home to be with the Lord.

Troy Preston Allen, Thomas Mitchell Anderson, Delbert Monroe Artherholt, Danny Lee Artherholt, Danny Lee Artherholt Jr., Donald Clinton Artherholt,  Arthur Dee Bean, Jr., Claude Melvin Bean, Ronald Chester Bean, John Frederick Belew, Jr., David Lee Bell, Charles Merwyn Blakely, Paul Merwin Blakely, Adron Eldrige Blythe, Robert Andrew Bowman, Robert Andrew Bowman, Jr., Fred Oran Briscoe, Joe Alton Brugger, Arvel B. Bush, James Steve Cannon, Lloyd Donald Cannon, William Claude Cannon, Robert Cheatham, Patricia Bean Clark, Claude William Colwell, Samuel B. Combs, Alvin Wesley Crisp, Jr., Horace Valentine Dean, Nolen Richard Dean, James Conrad Deen, Jordan Clarence Dunlap, William Marion Fletcher, Eugene Denis Fletcher, John George Fratus, William Vincent Freitas, Buford Russell Frith, Finis Eugene Gibson, Archie Orville Gray, Billy Beckham Hamer, Thomas James Hanson, Donnie Dale Hardwick, Curtis Grant Harrell, Forrest Devoy Harrell, Truman Riley Harris, William Herman Harris, Justin Lewis Hart, Marcell T. Haxthausen, Columbus C. High, Harry Jim High, Rufus Morgan High, Bobby Gene Hodge, Marvin Jordan Holmes, Jesse Johnson, Jewel Ethel Johnson, Albert George Jones, Charles Powell Jones, Leonard V. Keller, Marjorie Mae Meek Lambert, Deane M. Lambert, Grover William Landers, John Thomas Langham, Vincent Henri Leyva, Crystal Eugene Lindsey, Emma Lou Lindsey, Oliver Chatman Lindsey, John Melvin Long, Eugene Edward Loving, Samuel Edward Loving, Maurice Lee MaGee, Curtis Odell McDonald, Arthur Glen Mahone, Carl Odell Mahula, Curtis Mathis Mahula, James Thomas Mahula, Hardy Roy Martin, James Hershell Martin, Marion R. Martin, Clarence Rambo Meek, Frank Craig Meek, Gerald Cunningham Meek, Rueben Matherson Meek, John Denver Milliken, Lawrence Benjamin Morris, William Stephen Newsom, Ralph Paschall Noah, James Burton Paschal, Charles James Cook Paschall, Charles Ray Paschall, Charles William Paschall, Darrell Dean Paschall, Edwin Anderson Paschall, Floyd Roland Paschall, Frank Stamps Paschall, George Washington Paschall, Jr., Henry Austin Paschall, James Brice Paschall, John Clinton Paschall, John J. Paschall, Julius Ward Paschall, Lawrence Stanford Paschall, Jr., Lunsford Stanhope Paschall, Montgomery Pike Paschall, Omer Clyde Paschall, Robert Anderson Paschall, William Thomas Paschall, Wilmer Larue Paschall, Wyatt Howard Paschall, Ray Porter,  Leslie E. Reagor, Jack Arnold Reid, William Harold Reid, William Harold Reid, Jr., Douglas Lee Rice, Winnie Ridgway Rice, Spencer Wilder Ridgway, Steve Houston Ridgway, Herman Paul Riley, Jack Fouch Riley, Jr., Tommie Jack Riley, Wintferd Cleo Riley, Leldon James Rogers, Henry Elmer Robinson, Lester Eugene Rogers, Thomas Eli Rogers, Bobby Lee Rutledge, James R. Rutledge, Jackie Sanders, Wyatt Howard Schelsteder, Billie Joe Sherbert, Joseph Grady Sherbert, Jeff Simmons, Jim Simmons, John Simmons, Mary Simmons, Pete Simmons, Steven Simmons, Tammy Simmons, Ted Simmons, Vivian Simmons, Steve Smith, Edward T. Southerland, Lunce Loving Stallons, William Thomas Stanley, Manton Stewart, Francis Marion Stubbs, Jr., Stanley Larue Stubbs,  Lloyd Turner Tabor, Edward Ted Teague, Walter Alvin Teague, Edward Dean Thibodeaux, Arthur Jesse Van Arman, Edward Lee Weeden, Hershell Olan Wilson.

I think the hardest part of researching the John T. Paschall book was the research on the wars.  Each of these men and women have a story to tell.  Here is one such story …

Arthur Mahone was a member of HQ Company, 192nd Tank Battalion. He was a Japanese Prisoner of War who was selected for transport to Japan, from the Philippines, in early October 1944. His POW detachment was sent to the Port Area of Manila. The ship his detachment was scheduled to sail on was ready to depart, but the entire detachment had not arrived.  Another POW detachment was not ready to sail but their ship was. The Japanese swapped POW detachments so the ship could sail.

1,803 Prisoners of War were boarded onto the Arisan Maru on October 11, 1944. The ship sailed and anchored in a cove off Palawan Island. It returned to Manila ten days later where it sailed as part of a convoy. On October 24, 1944, late in the day, the ship was in the Bashi Channel of the South China Sea. The POWs, on deck preparing dinner, watched the Japanese run to the bow of the ship a torpedo passed in front of the ship. Moments later, the guards ran to the stern as another torpedo passed behind the ship. The ship shook and came to a stop. It had been hit by two torpedoes amidships. The POWs were forced back into the holds and the Japanese covered the hatch openings with their covers. They then abandoned ship.

After the Japanese were gone the POWs climbed onto the deck. Most had survived the attack. Those POWs who could not swim raided the food lockers. They wanted to die with full stomachs. For two hours, the ship got lower and lower in the water. At some point, it broke in two. POWs took to the water on anything that floated. Some swam to nearby Japanese ships, but they were pushed away by Japanese sailors with poles. Five men found an abandoned lifeboat that had no oars. During the night, they heard the cries for help which faded away until there was silence. Only nine men survived the sinking. Eight survived to the end of the war.  Submitted to Findagrave, memorial ID #64924959, courtesy of JimO.

Happy Veterans Day – Thank You For Your Service.

Happy Hunting!