HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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(Simpson) Hough, of Warrington, and a 

 descendant of Richard Hough, provin- 

 cial councillor, an extended account of 

 whose descendants is given in this vol- 

 ume. The children of William B. and 

 Hannah (Hough) Brown were: Stacy, the 

 subject of this sketch; Nellie, the wife of 

 William Hicks, of Newtown; and Lizzie, 

 who died in infancy. 



Stacy Brown was educated at the State 

 Normal School at Trenton, New Jersey, 

 and the First Pennsylvania State Normal 

 School, Millersville, Pennsylvania. After 

 a few years employment as clerk in a mer- 

 cantile establishment he purchased the 

 Thomas Betts farm in Upper Makefield, 

 near Brownsburg, on which he resided for 

 about five years, and then removed to New- 

 town, where he has been engaged in the 

 undertaking business with his brother-in- 

 law, William Hicks, under the firm name 

 of Brown & Hicks. He married Lavinia, 

 daughter of Dr. Howard and Kate (Smith) 

 Trego, of Newtown, and they are the par- 

 ents of two children — Ellen and Catha- 

 rine. 



EMANUEL N. SHELLY. Abraham, 

 Christian and Johannes Shelly, supposed 

 to be natives of Switzerland, were land- 

 owners in ISIilford township prior to 1750, 

 and from them are descended the numer- 

 ous family now scattered over upper Bucks 

 and Montgomery counties. Christian Shel- 

 ly died in 2^Iilford township in 1793, leav- 

 ing a widow Susanna, and nine children : 

 Henry, who died in 1814, leaving six chil- 

 dren; Elizabeth, wife of Peter Moyer; 

 Mary, wife of Rev. Jacob Funck, of Ches- 

 ter county ; Abraham ; Samuel ; Catharine ; 

 Fronica, wife of Jacob Allebach; Ann, 

 wife of John Beam; and Susanna, wife of 

 Philip Doreworth. 



Samuel Shelly was a miller and tanner. 

 In 1830 he purchased a small farm near 

 Schhcters, in Rockhill township, where 

 he lived until his death in March, 1847. He 

 married Sarah Driesbach, and had seven 

 children: Henry: Tobias, Samuel D., So- 

 phia; Lena, married John Gayman; Caro- 

 line, married Elijah Dennis; and Amanda, 

 married Peter Brown. 



Samuel D. Shelly, second son of Sam- 

 uel and Sarah (Driesbach) Shelly, was 

 born in Rockhill township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1827. Early in life he 

 learned the carpenter trade, and followed 

 it in Rockhill, where he lived until 1900, 

 when he removed to Sellersville, where he 

 died in the spring of 1903. He and his 

 family were members of Jerusalem Luther- 

 an church at Ridge Road, where he of- 

 ficiated as sexton for twenty-five years. 

 He was an honored and respected citizen, 

 of industrious habits and strict integrity. 

 He married Hannah Nace, daughter of 

 Henry Nace, of Rockhill. She died at 

 Sellersville in 1901. Samuel D. and Han- 

 nah (Nace) Shelly were the parents of 

 seven children : Clayton, who married 

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Anna Nuss ; Emanuel N. ; Augustus N., of 

 Sellersville, who married Malinda Rouden- 

 bush, and has nine children ; Malinda ; 

 Pierson; Matilda; and Ida, wife of Mon- 

 roe Cuffel. 



Emanuel N. Shelly, second son of Sam- 

 uel D. and Hannah (Nace) Shelly, was 

 born in Rockhill township, November 21, 

 1854, and was educated at the public 

 schools. He learned the trade of a ci- 

 gar maker when a young man, and fol- 

 lowed that vocation until 1905, having been 

 in the employ of Allen R. Cressman & 

 Sons for thirty-five years, for fifteen ot 

 which he was foreman of their factory. 

 In June, 1905, he purchased the general 

 merchandise store of F. F. Kilmer, at 

 Sellersville, which he now conducts. He 

 has always been actively interested in the 

 aft'airs of the town, and has served as town 

 councilman for six years, and treasurer 

 for one year, as well as filling other local 

 offices. He is a director and president of 

 the Sellersville Building and Loan Asso- 

 ciation, and has been chief of Sellersville 

 Fire Company No. i, for three years. He 

 and his family are members of the Luth- 

 eran church, of which he is a deacon. He 

 is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, 

 F. & A. M., of Sellersville; of Sellers- 

 ville Lodge, No. 658, I. O. O. F., of which 

 he has been the representative in the grand 

 lodge of Pennsylvania several years; of 

 Sellersville Encampment, No. 252, I. O. O. 

 F., and of Sellersville Council, No. 482, 

 P. O. S. of A. Politically he is a Repub- 

 lican. Mr. Shelly married, January 16, 

 1875, Lizzie Ann Gearhart, daughter of 

 Levinus Gearhart, and this union was 

 blessed with eight children, viz : Harry, 

 who married Lizzie Cope, and has two chil- 

 dren ; Charles, married Amelia Rosenber- 

 ger; William, married Lizzie' Nace; 

 Emmtt, wife of Harry J. Buck ; Alfred Rob- 

 ert, married Bertha Lewis; Elmer, de- 

 ceased; and Luther. 



SAMUEL B. LANDIS, of Hilltown 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Oc- 

 tober 4, 1849, and is a son of Rev. 

 George M. and Mary (Bechtel) Landis. 

 John Landis, the pioneer ancestor of the 

 subject of this sketch, came to Pennsyl- 

 vania from the borders of Switzerland in 

 or about the year 1700, and located for a 

 time in the neighborhood of Germantown. 

 He was accompanied to America by Ben- 

 jamin Landis, supposed to be a brother 

 who was a minister among the Mennon- 

 ites, to which sect John Landis also be- 

 longed. Rev. Benjamin Landis later lo- 

 cated in Lancaster county, where he has 

 numerous descendants. John Landis, fol- 

 lowing the trend of German migration up 

 the Schuylkill and its tributaries, eventu- 

 ally located in Milford township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased 

 land in 1743. He died in 1750, leaving a 

 widow Anne, and several sons, .only two 

 of whom, Jacob and Samuel, are mentioned 



