HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Joseph, the oldest son of John and Mary 

 (Horner) Hart, born January 21, 1811, 

 receiving a liberal education and grad- 

 uated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, 

 Pennsylvania. He followed the profes- 

 sion of teaching for many years, and was 

 deeply interested in public affairs up to 

 the time of his death in 1898. He married 

 Jane, daughter of William and Ellen 

 Vansant, and had four children, — George 

 W., Charles H., Mary E., and Ella S. 

 George W. followed the vocation of a 

 farmer, married Jennie Valentine, had one 

 child, Charles Vincent, who received a 

 public school education, then graduated 

 from West Chester Normal school, re- 

 ceiving a scholarship to Dartmouth, grad- 

 uated from that institution and afterward 

 from Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, and is now practicing in 

 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Charles H. was 

 also a teacher, and at the time of his 

 death, in 1881, was principal of a school 

 in the Twenty-third Ward, Philadelphia. 

 He was also connected with several news- 

 papers, and enjoyed the reputation of being 

 a deep thinker. Mary E. died in infancy. 

 Ella S. taught school in Horsham. Mont- 

 gomery county, for a few years, then re- 

 turned home to attend her father in his de- 

 clining years. She now lives in Hatboro, 

 Pennsylvania. 



William H., second son of John and 

 Mary (Horner) Hart, was born April 23, 

 1813. In 1845 he married Rachel Ayers, of 

 Moreland, Tvlontgomery county. They had 

 three children, all of whom died in 

 infancy. 



James, the third son of John and Mary 

 (Horner) Hart, born December 15, 1820, 

 married Rachel, daughter of Isaac and 

 Emilie Hobensack. With his family he 

 moved to jNIaryland and located near IBalti- 

 more, where as a farmer he continued to 

 reside until the beginning of the civil war. 

 Owing to the hostile feeling entertained 

 toward northerners he was obliged to 

 sacrifice his property and return with his 

 family to Bucks county. He then enlisted 

 in the First New Jersey Cavalry Regiment, 

 in the company commanded by his cousin, 

 Captain John H. Shelmire. In recognition 

 of his bravery and courage he was 

 promoted to major of the regiment, and at 

 the same time held the commission as 

 major in the United States army. He was 

 repeatedly wounded, and finally killed, after 

 the evacuation of Richmond, at the battle 

 of Five Forks, Virginia, April i, 1865. 

 His remains were brought home and in- 

 terred in the Southampton Baptist burial 

 ground, along with his kindred. He left 

 a widow and six children, all of whom 

 are living. 



George, the fourth son of John and J^Iary 

 (Horner) Hart, born April 18, 1823, re- 

 ceived a good thorough home education, 

 and afterwards graduated at YalQ. In 1849 

 he went to California, returned to Phila- 

 delphia, became a partner in the mercantile 

 house of Shunway, Hart & Co., married 



Louisa Webb, and had four children, one 

 of whom is still living. 



B. Frank, the fifth son of John and 

 Mary (Horjaer) Hart, and the subject of 

 our sketch, born March 22, 1825, like- 

 wise received a liberal education and 

 taught different schools in his native county 

 and also in Philadelphia. He then located 

 in Philadelphia, and was for many years 

 associated with John P. Veree's rolling 

 mill in Kensington, then became exe- 

 cutive officer and general manager of one 

 of the city passengers railways. After 

 many years of close attention to business 

 he retired from active life, and now resides 

 with his family at 2010 Wallace street, 

 Philadelphia. He is a member of the 

 Bucks County Historical Society, and takes 

 a lively interest in the affairs of the county 

 with whose history his distinguished an- 

 cestors were so closely identified. April 

 9, 1867, he married Anna H., daughter of 

 Thomas Barnett, Philadelphia, and had 

 five children. John Davis, born March 25, 

 1868, died in infancy; Sarah, born May 23, 

 1869; Mabel, born November 10, 1870, 

 died March 14, 1873; Walter, born October 

 5, 1874; and Lydia, born September 11, 

 1876. Sara, daughter of B. Frank and 

 Anna (Barnett) Hart, married Rev. Madi- 

 son C. Peters, the distinguished preacher, 

 author and lecturer of Philadelphia, and 

 has three children, Dorothy, Anna and 

 Frank H. Walter Horner, son of B. 

 Frank and Anna (Barnett) Hart, gradu- 

 ated from Colonel Hyatt's [Military School 

 and is now one of Philadelphia's rising 

 business men. Lydia, daughter of B. Frank 

 and Anna (Barnett) Hart, remains at 

 home with her parents. 



Thompson Darrah, sixth son of John 

 and Jilary (Horner) Hart, born August 

 14. 1827, went to Philadelphia, where he 

 engaged in business. He married Susan 

 Snedecar, and had one child. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he enlisted as 

 first lieutenant in his cousin's (Colonel 

 Alfred Marple's) company in Colonel W. 

 W. H. Davis's 104th Regiment, Pennsyl- 

 vania Volunteers, and was later commis- 

 sioned as lieutenant-colonel and commanded 

 a brigade at the siege of Charleston, South 

 Carolina. 



Ann Eliza, daughter of John and Mary 

 (Horner) Hart, born January 17, 1817, 

 died June, 1900. 



Mary Darrah, daughter of John and 

 ]\Iary (Horner) Hart, born July 18, 1818, 

 died. 



GENERAL WILLIAM WATTS 



HART DAVIS, a veteran of two wars, 

 author, journalist and historian, was born 

 at Davisville, Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1820, and 

 comes of English, Welsh and Scotch-Irish 

 ancestry, representing the commingling of 

 the blood of these different nationalities to 

 which we are indebted for many of the 

 finest types of American citizenship. 



On the paternal side, his great-grand- 



