HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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May 30, 1865. married Kinsey Krewson. 

 Children, Rachel Florence, William Em- 

 ley, single, and Kate L., wife of James 

 V. Randall, of Newtown. 9. Edward W. 

 born May 30. 1822, died Virginia City, 

 Nevada, married Mary Lemon, no sur- 

 viving issue. 10. Aaron, born March 

 30, 1827, died March 5, 1879, was a mer- 

 chant in New York. 



Nicholas La Rue, third child and eld- 

 est son of Moses and Rachel (John- 

 son) LaRue, was a tailor by trade and 

 followed that vocation at Newportville 

 and later in Philadelphia. He and his 

 wife, Catharine Moon Bunting, were the 

 parents of six children, as follows: i. 

 Albert G., born July 18, 1836, married, 

 December 3, 1857. Annie H. Jackson 

 and resided in Philadelphia. 2. Eugene, 

 born September 17, 1838, died unmarried 

 at Jefferson City, Missouri. 3. Moses, 

 born May 26, 1841, died young. 4. Ruth 

 A., born June 4, 1843, wife of John M. 

 Hartman, of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. 5. 

 Rachel, born January 13, 1846, of Phila- 

 delphia, is unmarried. 6. George S.. 

 born February i, 1848, married in 1868, 

 Emeline Getz. and died in Philadelphia. 

 The paternal ancestry of Catharine 

 (Bunting) LaRue will be found in the 

 sketch of the Bunting family in this vol- 

 ume. 



WILLIAM H. LA RUE. deceased, 

 who throughout his entire life followed 

 farming, was born in New Jersey, Feb- 

 ruary 19. 1823, his parents being Uriah 

 and Elizabeth (Rockafellow) LaRue, in 

 whose family were six children, name- 

 ly: Asa, whose wife's name was Rachel; 

 Hackett; William H.; Jonathan, who 

 married Miss Kiphart; Calvin, who mar- 

 ried Miss Ruth Tice; and Rebecca, who 

 married Charles Kiphart. 



William H. LaRue was reared in 

 Huntington county, N.ew Jersey, pur- 

 suing his education in its public schools. 

 A portion of his boyhood was spent in 

 the home of his uncle. William Heis. 

 At an early age he engaged in farming 

 and followed that vocation throughout 

 his entire life. Mr. LaRue was married 

 twice, his first union being with Jane 

 Parks, by whom he had three children: 

 George H.. who married Mary Moore; 

 Susanna; and Elizabeth, who became 

 the wife of Nathaniel Briton. For his 

 second wife Mr. LaRue chose Margaret 

 Thompson. Her ancestry can be traced 

 back to Mrs. Mary Thompson, who 

 came to this coimtry with her four sons: 

 John, Hugh, William and Robert. Of 

 this family John settled in Wrisrhtp- 

 town. making his home near Chain 

 Bridge, in Northampton township. His 

 house, an old hiproofed one. is still 

 standing, but some of it was torn down 

 and rebuilt in later years. He was treas- 

 urer of the colonies at that time, and 

 while holding the office was robbed, the 



bullet holes being seen in the house until 

 repaired. He married and had seven 

 children: Hugh, born in 1764; William, 

 who was a doctor, married and settled in 

 Chester county, Pennsylvania; Thomas, 

 who married Elizabeth Wilson; James; 

 Elizabeth, who became Mrs. McClellen, 

 and had a son, Charles, who died in the 

 south; Robert, who married Jane Wil- 

 son, and settled near Chain Bridge. 

 Bucks county; and John, who wedded 

 Mary Wilson. 



Hugh Thompson, son of John Thomp- 

 son, was born in 1764, and died in Au- 

 gust, 1847. He wedded Mary Houston 

 and they had five children: Elizabeth, 

 born December 2, 1791, died April 25, 

 1843, was the wife of James Gaine; 

 John, born January 17, 1795; Charles. 

 born August 11. 1797. married Ann 

 Johnson; Samuel, a physician, born 

 February 15, 1800, died February 21, 

 1863, was married twice; his first wife 

 was Martha Burson, and his second wife 

 was Hannah Thomas; and Maria, born 

 September 26, 1803, died August 11, 1865, 

 was the wife of William Poole. 



John Thompson, son of Hugh and 

 Mary Thompson, was born January 17, 

 1795, and married Ann Lefiferts, a 

 daughter of Abraham and Margaret Lef- 

 ferts. Her father was born February 

 17, 1754, and died March 18, 1863. while 

 Mrs. Margaret Lefferts was born Feb- 

 ruary 9, 1761. and died August 4. 1831. 

 Abraham LefTerts was married twice. By 

 the first marriage there were two chil- 

 dren, John and Alice. The former, 

 born March 14, 1784, married and had 

 children: Susan, who married Isaiah 

 Delaney and had two children: Marj:. 

 Helen, who married Lambert Cornell, 

 and Annie, wife of Peter Dyer; 2. Simon, 

 married Susanna States and had a son, 

 John, who married Helen Rich and had 

 two children: Walter and Helen; 3. 

 Mary Ann. became the wife of Harry 

 Search and had two children; Susannah 

 and Theodore; 4. Jonathan, married a 

 ]\Iiss Cornell and had three children, 

 one of whom was Heleiti. wife of Jacob 

 Cornell; 5. Charles, married a Miss 

 Cornell, and had two children; John and 

 Julia; 6. Mary Catharine, became the 

 wife of John C. Fetter and had one child, 

 Emma, wife of Joseph M. Cornell. Alice 

 Lef¥erts, daughter of Abraham Lefiferts. 

 was born October 28. 1790. and married 

 Samuel Winner. Abraham and Margar- 

 et Lefferts had the following children: 

 Simon, born April 14. 1793- died August 

 ii. 1805; Abraham, born July 17, 1794. 

 died August 24, 1862; James, born Sep- 

 tember 26, 1797; and Ann, born October 

 7, 1800, became the wife of John Thomp- 

 son. 



John and Ann (Lefferts) Thompson 

 had nine children, i. Albert, born No- 

 vember 21, 1822. married Susan W. Car- 

 ey and their children were Warner C. 

 and Amos, the latter now deceased. 2. 



