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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNT-Y. t^ " ^r^ ) 



becca (Knight) Parry, and in 1800 settled 

 in Horsham, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Thomas and Susanna were the par- 

 ents of seven children: Martha, born 3 mo. 

 6, 1800, died 10 mo. 2, 1866, unmarried; 

 Elizabeth, born 4 mo, 4, 1802, died 7 mo. 

 4, 1890; Hannah, born 8 mo. 20, 1804, died 

 3 mo. 28, 1886; CHARLES, born 2 mo. 11, 

 1807, died 2 mo. 19, 1881, married HAN- 

 NAH HESTON; Jonathan, born 3 mo. 28, 

 1810, died 10 mo. 20, 1884, married tirsi 

 Anna Headley and (second) Sarah R. 

 Quinby; Rebecca, born 3 mo. 12, 1813, died 

 II mo. 7, 1872, unmarried; Joseph, born 

 3 mo. 25, 1815, died 11 mo. 8, 1828. 



Charles Stackhouse, son of Thomas and 

 Susanna (Parry) Stackhouse, was born in 

 Horsham, 2 mo. 11, 1807, married II mo. 12, 

 1834, Hannah Heston, born 9 mo. 9, 1805, 

 died 3 mo. 3, 1889, daughter of John and 

 Rachel (Warner) Heston, of Wrightstown, 

 Bucks county. John Heston, father of Han- 

 nah, was born 2 mo. 9, 1776, and died 8 mo. 

 22, 1843. He was a son of Jesse Heston, 

 born 6 mo. 25, 1743, died 1828, and Mary 

 Stackhouse, daughter of Isaac and Mary 

 (Harding) Stackhouse, before-mentioned. 

 Jesse Heston was a son of Jacob and Mary 

 (Warner) Heston, and grandson of Zebu- 

 Ion and Dorothy Heston, the latter of whom 

 was the third wife of Thomas Stackhouse 

 the emigrant. Charles and Hannah (Hes- 

 ton) Stackhouse were the parents of four 

 children, only two of whom lived to mature 

 age, viz. : Thomas W., born 7 mo. 16, 1842, 

 married Elizabeth J. Kenderdine ; and John 

 H. Stackhouse, first above-mentioned, who 

 was born i mo. 24, 1844. 



John H. Stackhouse was born and reared 

 in Horsham township, and was educated 

 at' the public schools of that township ; he 

 was of a scholarly turn of mind, and being 

 very fond of books acquired quite a fund 

 of useful knowledge. He was reared to the 

 life of a farmer, and followed that vocation 

 until a few years before his death, 4 mo. 

 14, 1899, owning and cultivating a farm of 

 eighty-five acres. He married, 11 mo. 21, 

 1866, Rachel P. Stackhouse, daughter of 

 Benjamin and Mary (Phares) Stackhouse, 

 of Southampton, Bucks county. Benjamin 

 Stackhouse was a son of Isaac and Mar- 

 garet (Thornton) Stackhouse, and a grand- 

 son of Thomas and Hannah (White) 

 Stackhouse, before mentioned. 



Isaac Stackhouse, son of Thomas and 

 Hannah, born in Middletown, in 1775, mar- 

 ried at Falls Meeting, 5 mo. 14, 1795. Mar- 

 garet Thornton, daughter of James Thorn- 

 ton, and removed to Horsham in 1797. He 

 died 4 mo. 23, 1824. The children of Isaac 

 and Margaret (Thornton) Stackhouse were 

 as follows: i. Hannah, born 1796, mar- 

 ried James West; 2. Thomas, born 1798, 

 died 8 mo. 16, 1867, married Phebe K. Paul, 

 and had children, Charles, John and Eliza- 

 beth. 3. Amos B., born 4 mo. 25. 1800, died 

 8 mo. 26, 1836, married Eliza Landis; 4. 

 Lydia B., born 7 mo. t8, 1802, died 6 mo. 

 4. 1835. married Isaac C. Knight; 5. BEN- 

 JAIMIN, born 7 mo. 8, 1804, died 11 mo. 17, 



1873, married twice,i(see below) ; 6. Isaac, 

 born I mo. 29, 1806, died 5 mo. 22,, 1868, 

 married Eliza Phares, and had children; 

 Townsend, Lydia, Thornton, Amos, Mar- 

 garet and Elizabeth. 7. Thornton, born <} 

 mo. 8, 1809, died 4 mo. 29, 1892, married 

 Mary H. Twining, and had children ; James, 

 Henry, Clara and Emma ; 8. Margaret, born 



I mo. 29, 1814, married James McMullin. 

 Benjamin Stackhouse, third son of Isaac 



and Margaret, born 7 mo. 8, 1804, married 

 first Elizabeth Raisin, and had two chil- 

 dren, Evan and Burroughs. He married 

 (second) in 1831, Mary Phares, born i mo. 

 24, 1814, died 5 mo. 3, 1888, daughter of 

 William and Rachel (Bodine) Phares, and 

 they were the parents of six children : i. 

 John, born 7 mo. 7, 1839, married Adaline 

 Burton, and had children; J. Burton, Eliza- 

 beth, John and Joseph, the latter dying: 

 young. 2. George, married Catharine Law- 

 rence, and has children : T. Clifton, Ben- 

 jamin, Harry and Ida; 3. Rachel P., bora 

 1842, married JOHN H. STACKHOUSE, 

 above mentioned; 4. Pierson N., married, 



II mo. 8, 1866, Achsah P. Hampton, daugh- 

 ter of Simeon and Letitia Hampton; 5. 

 Benjamin, died in infancy; 6. Oliver, died 

 in infancy. 



John H. and Rachel P. Stackhouse were 

 the parents of two children : John, born 

 12 mo. 27, 1867, married Thirza Smith, 

 and has two children, Harvey and Evan;, 

 and Howard, born 4 mo. 8, 1877. 



CHARLES T. WILKINSON is de- 

 scended from ancestry connected with the 

 nobility of England, and among those who 

 have borne the name in America have been 

 several men prominent in public and pro- 

 fessional life. He is also a descendant of 

 the second minister having charge of the 

 First Baptist church in this country. In 

 England one Lawrence Wilkinson jvas a 

 lieutenant in the army of Charles I and at 

 the surrender of Newcastle, October 22, 



1644, he was taken prisoner by parliament 

 and the Scotch troops. The progenitor of 

 the family in America was Lawrence Wil- 

 kinson, a native of Lanchester, county Dur- 

 ham, England, but the ancestry can be traced 

 back to still more remote generations, for 

 record is obtainable concerning his grand- 

 father, who also bore the name of Lawrence 

 Wilkinson, who resided at Hartly House, 

 Lanchester,' county Durham. 



(II) William Wilkinson, son of Lawrence 

 Wilkinson, wedded Mary Conyers, a daugh- 

 ter of Christopher Conyers, of Hardin,. 

 England, and a sister of John C. Bort. 



(III) Lawrence Wilkinson, son of Will- 

 iam and Mary Wilkinson, was born in Lan- 

 caster, England, and came to America in 



1645, settling at Providence, Rhode Island, 

 where his remaining days were passed. His 

 son 



(IV) Captain Samuel Wilkinson, served 

 in the continental assembly of Rhode Island. 

 He was an expert surveyor, being ofteni 



