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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



and Anna lived in Philadelphia ; he died 

 3 mo. 9, 1903; they have one daughter, 

 Francelia Williams, who resides with her 

 mother in Philadelphia. She was born 

 I mo. 10, 1878. In September, 1847, he 

 married Sarah S., daughter of William L. 

 and Elizabeth (Large) King, by whom he 

 had two children : Josephine King, born 

 10 mo. 4, 1852, referred to hereinafter, and 

 Sarah Francelia, born 3 mo. 4, 1855, married 

 3 mo. 7, 1878, Evan Thomas, son of Elisha 

 and Harriet (Lukens) Worthington. Their 

 children were : Elisha, born 2 mo. 27, 1879 ; 

 Helen born 6 mo. 15, 1881, died 9 mo. 30, 

 1881 ; Eleanor F., born 12 mo. 7, 1887, died 

 6 mo. 15, 1888. Evan T. and Sarah 1^. 

 Worthington resided in Buckingham, Penn- 

 sylvania, where he had a general store 

 until the spring of 1890 when they mov-ed 

 to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he con-- 

 ducts the middle store purchased by him 

 before his removal to Newtown. Barzilla's 

 second wife died i mo. 26, 1856, and in 

 March, 1858, he married Mary, daughter 

 of George and Maria (Davis) Morrow, 

 by whom he had one son, Samuel Silvey, 

 born 2 mo. i, 1859 ; he married Harriet 

 May, daughter of William and Mary Ann 

 (Hagenbuck) Hendricks, of Chicago. They 

 were married 12 mo. 10, 1888, have one 

 child, Marion Francelia, born 6 mo. 7, 

 1897. Samuel Silvey and his family re- 

 side in Chicago, he is the associate man- 

 ager of the Detroit Stove Works, whose 

 main office is located in Chicago. On 6 

 mo. I, 1875, Barzilla married his fourth 

 wife, Hannah, daughter of Ralph and Mar- 

 tha Harrison, and widow of a Mr. John- 

 son, of Camden, New Jersey, who still 

 survives him. They had no children. He 

 died 6 mo. i, 1901, and was buried in 

 the Pursell burying ground at Upper 

 Black's Eddy, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 

 Josephine King Williams, daughter of 

 Barzilla and Sarah (King) Williams, and 

 the compiler of this record, was born at 

 Erwinna, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 10 

 mo. 4, 1852. She married, 4 mo. 22, 1885, 

 Stacy B., son of Bruce M. and ]\Iartha 

 (Poore) Pursell, of Upper Black's Eddy, 

 Pennsylvania, a record of whose ancestry 

 on both sides is embraced in this work. 

 At the time of their marriage Stacy was 

 a druggist in Portland, Northampton coun- 

 ty, -Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1888 

 he sold his drug store in Portland and they 

 removed to Bristol, Pennsylvania, their 

 present place of residence. In the settle- 

 ment of the estate of Barzilla Williams, 

 the administrator, Stacy B. Pursell, sold 

 the farm to Readen Tettemer, and thus, 

 excepting a store property in Erwinna, 

 owned by Joseph Williams, and a house 

 and lot at Lodi, owned by Mrs. Alice 

 (Williams) Winter, all the ancestral es- 

 tate in Tinicum has passed out of the name, 

 as it has also in Nockamixon : only a few 

 acres of the hill regions of that tract 

 are now owned by the descendants of Ben- 

 jamin Williams, the original purchaser. 



REUBEN ORLANDO SWOPE, at 

 present prinicpal of Glen Rock High 

 School, Glen Rock borough, Bergen coun- 

 ty. New Jersey, was born in Bedminster 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, No- 

 vember 17, 1868. The ancestors of Mr. 

 Swope were of German extraction and 

 have been residents of Bucks county for 

 many generations. But little is known of 

 the earlier generations of the family 

 further than that they belonged to the 

 solid substantial yeomanry of Upper Bucks,, 

 and filled their places in the history with 

 honor and integrity. The grandparents of 

 the subject of this sketch were John and 

 Mary (Wildonger) Swope, whose son Jo- 

 seph Swope, born in Tinicum township, 

 Bucks county, August 6, 183 1, was reared 

 arid, educated in that and Bedminster town- 

 ships, and followed the occupation of a 

 farmer in Bedminster and Plumstead town- 

 ships — and he, as well as his immediate 

 ancestors, was a member of the Ludieran 

 church, and politically he was a Democrat, 

 though he never sought or held political 

 office. He married Mary Overholt, daugh- 

 ter of Abraham and Hannah (Shutt) Over- 

 holt, and granddaughter of Martin and 

 Elizabeth (Nash) Overholt. She was born 

 in Plumstead township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, October 6, 1833. 



Reuben Orlando Swope was educated in 

 the common schools of Bucks county, and 

 later took a course at the West Chester 

 State Normal School, and followed the 

 profession of teacher for eight years in 

 the public schools of Bucks county, two 

 of which he was principal of the high 

 school at Richlandtown. He is now prin- 

 cipal of the high school at Glen Rock, 

 Bergen county, New Jersey. Thoroughly 

 devoted to his profession, he has taken 

 little part in public affairs. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Lutheran church of Hilltown,. 

 and filled the position as organist there 

 for some time. He also served as superin- 

 tendent of the' Sunday school for two- 

 years. Mr. Swope is unmarried. 



THE NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL. 

 In the summer of 1894 the Rev. Dr. Jo- 

 seph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, visited' 

 Russia in an effort to secure data con- 

 cerning the condition of the Jews in that 

 country and to urge means for its ameliora- 

 tion. While there he observed the aston- 

 ishing zeal with which Jews pursued agri- 

 culture within the limits allowed by the 

 Russian Government. He saw a people 

 yearning, not as common prejudice has as- 

 sumed, for a life of trade, but for op- 

 portunities to work out their existence 

 from the soil. He further visited, at the 

 suggestion of Count Tolstoi, the Jewish 

 Agricultural School at Odessa, the end 

 and aim of whose activity was the gradua- 

 tion of practical working farmers, and in- 

 structors and managers of agricultural' 



