Chester County Genealogy

The Stottsville Inn's Josephine

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:40:00

One of the more intriguing stories about Chester County's local inns is that of the Stottsville Inn on Strasburg Road. As the legend goes, the Inn is haunted by the ghost of Josephine Stott Chandler Emery, after supposedly being murdered by her husband, Horace G. Emery when he found her in bed with someone else. As the story continues, Horace then intended to do himself in and left a suicide note which read as follows:

"I love, love, love you. You are the dream of my life. Come with me to the shoe store and I will make love to you. Love, Horace."

"P.S., I can't live without you so I will commit suicide in the barn. I will bite a cow's leg and he will kick me in the head and kill me. For without you, life is nothing."

Using This Site

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:00:00

Let's face it - there's a lot of information on this site and it may be hard to figure out at first what can be found where on the site. I've created this page to tell you a bit about each section of the site and the types of information that can be found in each section.

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Moore Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:00

In the early part of the 20th century, John Andrew Moore Passmore published a very large genealogy of the Descendants of Andrew Moore. Though there is a wealth of information in the work, it starts off on a bad foot, where he claims that Andrew Moore married Margaret, daughter of Gayen and Margaret (Henderson) Miller. The Minutes of the Ulster Province Meeting in Ireland show: Andrew Moore and Margaret Wilson, both of Dunclady Meeting, were married at the house of Katherine Henderson in Dunclady (County Antrim) the 27th day of 2nd month, 1715.

Pearson ( Peirson) Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:00

Paul Palmer of Texas sent in several issues concerning this early family:

Souplis Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:00

Dori Parsons of California sent this one in about the family of Andris Souplis of Germantown

Beeson Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:40:00

The most common error seen in the Beeson line is that concerning Edward Beeson's wife, Rachel, who is too often shown as Rachel Pennington, daughter of Isaac Pennington. Unfortunately for researchers who would like to claim this, there is no record showing a daughter Rachel for Isaac Pennington and his wife Mary (Proude) Springett. There is also a tendency to claim that Sir Isaac had a second wife after Mary Proude who was the mother of Rachel, but his will of 1679 names Mary as his wife, so we can rule out that one as well.

Downing Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:40:00

Ray Downing, of Las Vegas, who has researched the Downing family extensively, sent in this one:

Gregg Family

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:40:00

I've talked about some of the erroneous research on the Gregg family elsewhere on this site, but for the sake of consistency, I'm repeating some of that information here.