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FOUND Good Abner Ref!
Highlights: Shows the maiden name for the wife of Abner Eachus! Shows the
maiden name for the wife of James Eachus!!! This reference also states that
Abner and his wife Mary had 12 kids!.
Reference: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Comprising A
Historical Sketch of the County, by Samuel T. Wiley, Gresham Publishing
Company, 1893 (found in Phila library, main branch)
"WILLIAM H. EACHUS, a native and lifelong resident of the "Great Valley" of
Chester County, and the accomodating proprietor of the Malvern livery stables
for the last twelve years, is a son of James and Sarah (Hutchinson) Eachus,
and was born in East Whiteland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, June
2, 1838. The name of Eachus appears as early as 1715. Abner Eachus, the
paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a cattle dealer of
Willistown township, and wedded Mary Barber, by whom he had twelve children.
Their son James Eachus (father), was born 1797 in WIllistown township, and he
died in East Whiteland township, February 26, 1866. at sixty-nine years of
age. He was a lime burner by occupation, and a Jacksonian democrat in
political opinion. He married Sarah Hutchinson, who was a daughter of Thomas
Hutchinson, of Scotch descent, and died September 13, 1880, aged eighty
years. They reared a family of six children, four sons, and two daughters:
Abner, Mary, Thomas, Sarah Jane, William H., and Stephen, who served four
years as a Union soldier in the late civil war.
William H. Eachus was reared in his native township and carefully trained
to habits of indestry, economy, and honesty. He received his education in the
common schools, and, after attaining his majority, purchased a grain
threshing machine, which he ran successfully for eighteen years. At the endof
that time, in 1880, he removed to Malvern, where he purchased the present
livery stable. He keeps a good stock of saddle and driving horses and buggies
and carriages, and has built up a first class and very remunerative patronage.
On January 8, 1868, Mr Eachus was united in marriage with Mary Garrett, a
daughter of John S. Garrett, of East Goshen township, and their union has
been blessed with three children, one son and two daughters: Sarah, John, and
Margaret.
In politics Mr. Eachus is a republican, and believes in the principlesof
the party of Lincoln, Grant, and Harrison. Since coming to Malvern he has
served as street commissioner of that place, but has never been eager of
anxious for any political office within the gift of his fellow citizens. His
livery business and other enterprises in which he is interested take the most
of his time. He is a member of the Baptist church of Malvern, and ranks as
one of the reliable and active citizens of his town."
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Can we all post our collective ABNER stuff here? If he had 12 kids there has to be a good number of quality references people have collected????
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