JOHN MOSHER FAMILY GENEALOGY

STANCLIFF FAMILY GENEALOGY

From book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. and Sherry [Smith] Stancliff

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JOHN MOSHER FAMILY

(171) LOVINIA5 STANCLIFT (Lemuel4, Comfort3, James2, James1)

Daughter of Lemuel and Mehitable [Goff] Stanclift born Erie County, PA Sept. 26, 1815, died Portland, Multnomah County, OR May 1892, married Sept. 27, 1849 JOHN MOSHER born NY 1826.

In 1850 they lived next door to Martin and Adaline [Stanclift] Pinney(1). "They went to Canada and lived there for a few years. He went to preaching, left there and went to Oregon. Was appointed Presiding Elder. He is now living Portland, Oregon."(2)

CHILDREN: John and Lovinia [Stanclift] Mosher

1. ALLEN MOSHER born 1850, "died at age of 3."

2. GEORGE MOSHER "went to Washington, D. C., married there and was employed by the Treasury Department for some years, then moved to Florida and he and his wife died there without issue"

3. ERNEST MOSHER "was a clerk in a store in Portland, Oregon. One morning he was found robbed and lying in the River. He was well educated, a young man of steady habits."

4. ELVA MOSHER "lives with her father at Portland, Oregon."

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Footnotes:

1. .PA 1850 CENSUS, Erie County, Girrard Township, Dwelling 141, Family 146, page 384.

2. .MEMOIRS OF DAVID STANCLIFT gave names of children. All quotes concerning this family from the same source.

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