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MOSES VANCE (b. 23 May 1773, d. 27 Jun 1829)

MOSES VANCE (son of JOHN VANCE, JR and MARGARET WHITE) was born 23 May 1773 in FAYETTE COUNTY, PA., and died 27 Jun 1829 in FAYETTE COUNTY, PA.. He married ELIZABETH STRICKLER on 1790 in FAYETTE COUNTY, PA., daughter of JACOB B. STRICKLER and ELIZABETH STEWART.

Notes for MOSES VANCE:
Buried in a private cemetery on the Nathanial King Farm, formerly the Wade Farm, and originally known as the Moses Vance Farm, located in Upper Tyrone Township, Fayette County, Pa.
In July 9149, inscriptions of the graves were copied and compiled. The following statement was made about the cemetery:
"This cemetery was destroyed by the Pittsburg & West Virginia Railroad Company when they constructed their branch through this section, about the year 1935. There are only two stones remaining, and they are large flat tablestones, in excellent condition, with inscriptions that are very legible and as follows:"

Moses Vance, who departed this life 6/27/1829, age 56 years.

A descendant of the Moses Vance family, who retained a copy of their original family bible, states several of the Moses Vance descendants were buried in this same cemetery, but no doubt their stones were destroyed when the Railroad constructed their branch, or they could have been moved elsewhere, but the stones of Moses Vance and Elizabeth Vance remain under a group of trees.

From the History of Fayette County, Pa., by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L.H. Evert and Company, 1882, p784, Tyrone, Upper and Lower Townships, Fayette County, Penna.

In the surveys of land located in 1769 in the Territory now known as Tyrone Township there are but four entries. One of the first was made by Alexander Vance, who took up three hundred acres upon which a warrant was issued April 3, 1769, but which was not surveyed until John Vance, the father of Moses vance, settled upon a tract of land and the land which he then occupied was first warranted September 4, 1790, to Benjamin Whalley and surveyed November 18, 1790. At that time the property was named "Federal Hill."

John Vance, whose Ancestors came from Scotland and Ireland, was himself a native of Virginia from whence he came in the year mentioned in company with Col. William Crawford, His sister's husband. His wife was MargaretWhite, whom he married in Virginia, and with whom he lived until 1772 when he died and was buried in the Vance Cemetery.

The family of John Vance and Margaret White numbered six children: David, William, Moses, Jane, Elizabeth, and Maria Vance. After her husbands death, Margaret kept the original property for many years in the meantime caring for and bringing up her family of little children. Among the records of property is one where under the date of January 10, 1781, Margaret Vance, widow of John Vance, reported the list of her registered slaves: "one female named Priscilla, aged twenty seven years, and two males, Harry and Daniel, aged respectively seven and three years." Priscilla and Harry afterwards became the property of daughter Jane vance who married Benjamin Whalley. The son, david settled in Kentucky and William remained on the old place until middle life, when he died never having married. Moses also stayed upon the homestead, and when in 1790 the land upon which his father's family had lived so long was warranted to benjamin Whalley, two hundred and fifty acres of it was transferred to him and upon that he resided until his death.

Moses Vance's wife was Elizabeth Strickler, a daughter of Jacob Strickler, and they reared a family of seven sons and two daughters: John, Jacob, Samuel, Francis, William, Crawford, George, Margaret and Eliza Vance.
John still lives on the old Gainer place; Jacob is in Lower Tyrone; and William's home is in Connellsville. Before leaving his native town, Tyrone, William held the office of Justice of the Peace for some years. George removed to Illinois, and Samuel, Francis, Crawford and Margaret are dead.

More About MOSES VANCE:
Burial: Unknown, WADE CEMETERY, FAYETTE COUNTY, PA..

More About MOSES VANCE and ELIZABETH STRICKLER:
Marriage: 1790, FAYETTE COUNTY, PA..

Children of MOSES VANCE and ELIZABETH STRICKLER are:

+CRAWFORD VANCE, b. 1790, FAYETTE COUNTY, PA., d. date unknown.