Mary (Middleswarth) Chess (1799 - 1883)

Descendants

Biography

From Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania:

He (John Chess) married Mary Middleswarth. Children: 1. Jane, who died in 1899 near Greentree borough; married (first) Thomas Steel, (second) William Fred, (third) Andrew Pierce. 2. Eliza J., married Ross Foster; died in Greentree borough. 3. Elizabeth, who lives in Los Angeles, California; is the widow of Joseph McCown. 4. Mary Ann, married John Petticord ; died in Pittsburgh. 5. Moses, born in 1823, died in Chartiers township, in 1895. 6. William, born in 1825, died in 1896; was a retired gardener. 7. John, died in the South. 8. Nancy E., born in 1837, died unmarried in Greentree borough in 1880. 9. Goodman Young Coulter, of further mention.

From History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

(Joseph McKown) In 1872 he married Elizabeth Chess, daughter of John and Mary (Middleswath) Chess.

Moses Chess, farmer, postoffice Green Tree, a son of John and Mary Chess (nee Middlesworth);

John and Mary Chess had nine children: Eliza (deceased wife of Ross Foster), Jane (thrice married; first to T. C. Steele, second to William Frew and last time to Dr. Andrew Pierce), Moses, William, John (deceased), Mary A. (wife of John A. Petticord), Elizabeth (wife of Joseph McKown), Nancy E. (deceased) and Goodman Y. C.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 1, p. 406-408)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #29703294
• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2, p. 478, 572)