HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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tionary war. Mrs. Ozias, a daughter of 

 Charles Echart, Jr., was born February 19, 

 1840, in what is now known as Chalfont, 

 in New Britain township, Bucks county. 

 She attended the public schools until her 

 seventeenth year, after which she engaged 

 in teaching for two winters, and subsequent 

 to her nineteenth year remained at home 

 with her parents until her marriage in 1862 

 to John Albert Ozias. 



To Mr. and Mrs. Ozias have been born 

 six children : Estella, the wife of Oliver 

 R. Schutz, a son of Edwin Schutz, of 

 Quakertown, and they reside at Quaker- 

 town ; Carrie J., the wife of Rev. William 

 Heist, a son of Henry Heist, of Quaker- 

 town, and they reside at Scranton, Penn- 

 sylvania, with their son Paul ; Winnie is 

 the wife of Ferdinand Sommer, a son of 

 Henry Sommer, and they live at Quaker- 

 town ; Ramon married Emily Egner, of 

 Newark, New Jersey ; J. Howard married 

 E. Irene Harley. a daughter of Jonas L. 

 Harley, of Quakertown, and they are living 

 in that place ; and George Echart married 

 Nellie Haring. a daughter of Charles C. 

 Haring, of Quakertown. The Ozias fam- 

 ily are members of St. John's Lutheran 

 church of Quakertown. 



SARA E. TWINING. William Twining 

 emigrated to this country in the early 

 part of the seventeenth century and set- 

 tled in Massachusetts, but later removed 

 to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died 

 at Newtown in 1703. He had a son, 

 Stephen. Stephen Twining (2), son of 

 the American ancestor, was born at 

 Eastham, Massachusetts, February 6, 

 1659. He became a resident of Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. John Twining 

 (3), son of Stephen, was born at New- 

 town, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1692; he 

 married, and had a son named Jacob. 

 Jacob Twining (4), son- of John, was 

 born October 25, 1730. and his son, David 

 Twining, was the subject's grandfather. 



David Twining (5), son of Jacob, born 

 in Wrightstown township, February 5, 

 1791. was a W'heelwright, but usually fol- 

 lowed farming for his livelihood. He 

 died October 13, 1877. He was a mem- 

 ber of that branch of the Society of 

 Friends knowm as the Hicksites. He 

 married (iirst) Hannah Taylor, by whom 

 three children were born : Amas H., 

 George, Elizabeth H., wife of Edw-ard 

 Atkinson. For his second wife, Mr. 

 Twining married Mercy VanHorn, and 

 by his union were born: Abbott A., died 

 in infancy; Frances M., wife of Francis 

 V. Krusen. 



Amas H. Twnning (6), son of David, 

 was born in Northampton township, Maj- 

 31, 1820, on the farm where the family 

 still resides, and where he farmed during 

 his lifetime. He was a member of the 

 Society of Friends. He married ^^lary. 



daughter of John and Martha (Ridge) 

 Tomlinson. By this union were born the 

 following children: i. George W.; 2. 

 William H.; 3. David;' 4. John; 5. Mil- 

 ton; 6. W^almsley R. ; 7. Sara E.; 8. Mary 

 R., wife of William Adcock, of New 

 Jersey. 



Milton Twining and Walmsley R. Twin- 

 ing, sons of Amos H. Twining, early in life 

 learned the carpenter trade and were 

 engaged in building at Chicago, Pitts- 

 burg and Denver, Colorado. Milton 

 later returned to Bucks county, where he 

 is engaged in farming with his brother, 

 George, on the old homestead. W^alms- 

 ley is now a builder in Philadelphia. 



Sara E. Twining, daughter of Amas 

 H. Twining, was educated at the Belle- 

 vue Academy and the State Normal 

 School at Millersville. For twenty years 

 she has been among the efficient teach- 

 ers in the public schools of Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. 



CHARLES WTLLIAMS, who through- 

 out his entire life has been interested in 

 agricultural pursuits in Bucks county, was 

 born in Buckingham township on the 13th 

 of May, 1833, his parents being Anthony 

 and Sarah (Thompson) Williams, both of 

 whom were natives of Montgomery county. 

 The paternal grandparents were Joseph and 

 Ann Williams. Their son, Anthony Will- 

 iams, was born in Wliite Marsh township, 

 near Chestnut Hill, on the 7th of June, 

 1807, and was of Welsh descent. He con- 

 tinued a resident of Montgomery county 

 until two years after his marriage, when he 

 removed to Bucks county, settling in Buck- 

 ingham township in 1832. After a few 

 years' residence here he returned to Mont- 

 gomery county, purchasing a farm near 

 Ogontz. His death occurred in 1844. An- 

 thony and Sarah T. Williams had seven 

 children, viz.: Charles; Edward H., who is 

 living in Buckingham township ; Joseph T., 

 a resident of Easton, Pennsylvania ; two 

 daughters who died in infancy ; Jane, de- 

 ceased; and Anthony, who has also passed 

 away. Later she married Jesse Shoemaker, 

 having one child Sarah, also deceased. 



Charles Williams was only four years of 

 are when his parents returned to Mont- 

 gomery county, and he was reared on the 

 home farm, there acquiring his early edu- 

 cation at Abington Friends' school and 

 afterward attending Friends' schools in 

 Philadelphia. He was also a student in a 

 private boarding school in Langhorne. On 

 attaining his majority he took charge of the 

 home farm, and continued its operation for 

 two years, after which he removed to Buck- 

 ingham township, Bucks county, his grand- 

 father, Joseph Williams, having deeded him 

 his farm there. In the spring of 1902, 

 (having sold his property the year previous) 

 he removed to his present home, which is 

 owned by his wife, it being her ancestral 

 home through her mother, a descendant of 



