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CLOSE, CLOSS and variants
One-name study
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 1815 - 1893 (78 years)
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| Name |
Adam Elliott CLOSE |
| Born |
1815 |
Pennsylvania, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1850 |
Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States [2] |
| Census |
1860 |
Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States [3] |
| Census |
1870 |
Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States [4] |
Address:
Old Armagh |
| Occupation |
1870 |
| warehouse worker |
| Census |
1880 |
Milroy, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States [5] |
| Occupation |
1880 [5] |
| labourer |
| Died |
1893 |
Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Person ID |
I25897 |
Close One-Name Study |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2021 |
| Father |
Peter CLOSE, b. Abt 1780, Germany , d. 24 Mar 1838, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States (Age ~ 58 years) |
| Mother |
Jane ORR, b. 1786, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Family ID |
F8402 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary BORGES, b. 1814, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
Bef 1846 |
| Children |
| | 1. Nancy P CLOSE, b. 1838, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Henry James CLOSE, b. 27 Nov 1839, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 21 Mar 1928, Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 88 years) |
| | 3. Mary B CLOSE, b. 1846, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. William Thomas CLOSE, b. 1852, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 19 Jul 1917, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 65 years) |
| | 5. John R CLOSE, b. 10 May 1854, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 17 Apr 1912, Potter township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 57 years) |
| | 6. Sarah M CLOSE, b. 1862, Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
2 Apr 2024 |
| Family ID |
F8404 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 1815 - Pennsylvania, United States |
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 | Census - 1850 - Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Census - 1860 - Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Census - Address:
Old Armagh - 1870 - Armagh Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
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 | Census - 1880 - Milroy, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
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 | Died - 1893 - Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States |
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- [S127] Ancestry.co.uk, Commemorative Bio Record of Central Pennsylvania.
"W H CLOSE, the well-known postmaster at Oak Hall Station, Centre county, was born in Mifflin county, Penn., September 27, 1844, a son of John and Rachel (Longwell) Close, also natives of that county. the paternal grandfather, Peter Close, was born in Germany whence, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, he came to America and took up his residence in Mifflin county, Penn., where his death occurred March 24, 183. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane Orr, died March 26, 1864, at the age of eighty-six years. Six children constituted their family: John; William, who died in infancy; Henry, who died in Mifflin county, in 1894; Adam E, who died in the same count in 1893; Eliza J., who married William Aitkens, a blacksmith, and died in 1856; and William T, a farmer of Mifflin county, who died in 1892.
In the common schools of Siglerville, Mifflin county, John Close obtained his education, but at an early age he left school and learned the shoemaker's trade with Matthew Longwell, whose daughter, Rachel, he afterward married. ... After his marriage, Mr. Close operated rented farms in his native county some twenty years, and then located in Penn's Valley, near Spring Mills ...
- [S317] 1850 USA Census, P 184B Fam 214.
- [S301] 1860 USA Census, P 24 Fam 168.
- [S264] 1870 USA Census, Page 21 Family 157.
- [S86] 1880 USA Census, ED 168 P 27 Fam 222.
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