Fayette County Genealogy ProjectFrom Beers Biographical: page 1120: [Samuel Hagerty; shown in “Beers” as Haggarty] "Robert Haggarty is a son of ... Samuel Haggarty, who was born in County Down, Ireland, and was brought to America by his parents when but four years old. He grew to manhood on a farm in Fayette County, Penn., which was located one mile from Coal Center, Washington County, and there attended the log-cabin schools of the period. In early manhood he was married to Elizabeth Blayney (sic BLANEY), a member of a prominent pioneer family, and she born him the following named children: Mrs. Louisa Russell, of Fayette County, Penn.; William, living in Monongahela; Samuel, deceased at the age of nine years; Johnson, who died in Ohio at the age of twenty-two years; Reuben, who went to Missouri with $1,500, and died seventeen years later, leaving a property of $50,000, and Robert. The father died in 1857 at the age of sixty-one years. He was a prominent member of the Democratic party."... |