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Crissy (Crissey), Elias |   | Quemahoning Township, Somerset County | Pennsylvania | 1859 | 1867 |
Crissy (Crissey), Elias |   | Hooversville, Somerset County | Pennsylvania |   | 1925 |
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Percussion rifles, tax list of the municipality of Quemahoning from 1859. Elias Crissey was born on February 25, 1835 and was the son of David Crissey and Sarah Hart. He worked in Hooversville, Somerset County, died on July 18, 1925, and is buried at the Hooversville Reformed Cemetery in Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Well, other records reports Elias Crissey in Hooversville, Somerset County, from 1835 to 1915, making flintlock squirrel rifles and that he apprnticed to Samuel Border in 1854. The "Consolidated list of all persons of Class I, subject to do military duty in the sixteenth Congressional District, considering of the county of Somerset of June, 1863" is listing Elias Crissey at age of 28 in Quemahoning. The 1870 census from Quemahoning township list Elias Crissey as a 36 years old blacksmith with wife Margareth, 36 years, Nathaniel 12 years ofl, Jane, 10 years old, george, 8 years old Maggie, 6 years old and Catherina, 2 years old. Also in the 1880 census of Quemahoning we find Elias Crissey. Pittsburg Press, July 19, 1925: "Elias Crissey Dies. Hooversville, Pa., July 18. Elias Crissey, aged 90, Civil war veteran, died at his home here today. He was born in Hooversville. During the Civil war he served in Company E. One Hundred and Seventy-First Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry. He is survived by two sons and two daughters. |