Notes:
Data source and researcher is Jean Cawley Corazza, E-mail jcorazza@verizon.net
Jean Cawley Corazza shared the following information she obtained from Mrs. Margaret Fink, Conyngham, PA. It is part of an autobiography by a Mr. Grant, born in 1828 and written in his 89th year (1917). He had suffered a stroke and his right had was paralyzed. He taught himself to write with his left hand. A person recently typed thje manuscript (1982). Mr. Grant lived in Conyngham from 1841 to 1846.
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The Mumars family lived on a small place about 1/2 mile east of the main road. There was an old man and wife, four sons and one daughter, The two sons, Nathan and David and the old man were carpenters. The two younger boys, George and William, were intimate associates and chums with me. I was often with them at their home. I shall never forget their mother. She was such a kind, sociable old lady. Her daughter married Stephen Andreas who had a sawmill on the state road about 2 miles from Hazleton. George went to work in the foundry and learned the trade of a moulder. He later married a daughter of John Menig. He died soon after that. His widow was still living (with her second husband ) in August 1904. I saw her in Conyngham at that time and William was at that time living in Hazleton. The last of his family.
Mr. Aller, an old German tailor, no relatives or heirs of his could be found after death and a younger woman by the name of Salinda Keck, got his house and lot. I do not remember what was her claim for the property. She later married David Mumars who soon after died.
John Menig ws keepin the hotel owned by Brundgage. He gafe up the hotel and moved into a house that he owned. That had been vacated by his son Charles who had built a new house on the lot next door.
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1860: Sugarloaf, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
Post Office: Conyngham
Celinda Munrow 41, $600 real estate, $750 personal, b: PA
Emma Kleiber 14, b: PA
John R " 8, b: PA
Mary A " 6, b: PA
Franklin " 4, b: PA
William " 1, b: PA
1870: Hazle, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
Selinda Mumaw 50, b: PA, keeps house
John Mumaw 18, b: PA, at home, cannot read or write, idiotic
Frank Mumaw 14, b: PA, at home
William Mumaw 11, b: PA, at home
Caroline Shaefer 25, b: PA, seamstress
Nellie Shaefer 21, b: PA, seamstress,
Samuel Kichleim 38, b: PA, hotel clerk
Elizabeth Kein 41, b: PA, domestic servant
Rose Belford 18, b: PA, domestic servanmt