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Record for Margaret Christy
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Sines, Wm A. information
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Record for Martha Sine Archer Rice (35) facts
20221119GHLn- revisited
20180915HAv, pasted from BUfx [transcribed at bottom -jcw]:
Martha "Mattie" Sine Rice
Birth: Aug. 24 (21 -jcw), 1800
York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: May 19, 1870
Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
[death -- pension payment records.]
Twin to John Sine,
Notes under Jacob Christy Sine in
Chronicles of Core Page 155-- of his sisters:
Martha SINE was the mother of
- Parmelia SINE, who married Benjamin Ammons, and
- Alpheus SINE, the father of Rezin Sine, and
- Milton, the father of Albert Grant Sine.
Through her marriage to Thomas Rice, (John Thomas Rice)
Martha SINE became the mother of
- John,
- Minerva, who married Eli Shuman,
- Mary who married William, son of Moses Mathews, and
- Rebecca, mother of Landora, Jennie and Belle Rice.
Mr. Core does not mention the infant daughter Peggy, named in the will of Stephen Archer 1824, first husband of Martha Sine.
("I leave to my wife Martha and her infant daughter PEGGY,"
next line, "to my wife Martha and OUR daughter")
Martha Sine married Stephen Archer June 12, 1823
Stephen Archer 1775-1824 [He was a widow(er) when he married Martha Sine]
Tennant's of Monongalia County, by John Michael Price
Written: As stated before, Stephen Archer was a long-time friend of the Tennant family. His pension file revealed the following:
- About 1783 at the age of thirty-eight he was married to an eighteen year old woman named Elizabeth. They had at least two daughters whom they named Elizabeth and Mary. Elizabeth was severely handicapped from birth and remained at home. They lived on the property of W. Alexander Clegg. Stephen taught school for many years to support the family but following a period of unsteady nerves he was without a profession and the family borrowed heavily from Mr. Clegg.
In 1818 at the age of 73, without income or assets, Stephen filed for and was awarded a soldier's pension. Sometime after 1820 his wife may have died, for
- on June 12, 1822 at the age of about seventy-seven he married Martha, the twenty year old daughter of William and Margaret Sine of York, Pennsylvania. About May 12, 1824 Stephen Archer died.
An interesting footnote of "pension intrigue" followed his death. From his pension recorded it is revealed that his widow Martha remarried in 1835 to a man name John Rice who subsequently died in 1848. In 1853 via Stephen's service record Martha applied for and was awarded a widow's pension. In 1855 she was awarded 160 acres of bounty land.
From there the story takes an interesting historical turn. In the files is a letter, dated 1881 from the office of one A. Stephen Hough of St. George West Virginia to W. W. Duley. Hough's stationery indicated that he was an "Agent for Subscription Books, Sewing Machines, Pictures, New and Used Inventions, Etc.: In the Letter Mr. Hough alleges the following:
Transcribed as Written:
Dear Sir
I take the liberty of writing you (a case in point) -
Dr. James V. Boughner Morgantown W Va, got a pention for Matty Rice as the Widow of Archie - a Revolutionary soldier and she drew a pension for many years (or as long as she lived.)
My object in writing to you, is to make a plain statement of facts in the case. To wit: Matty Sine at the age of 18 married the Old man Archie and he died.
She then ran off with her Bro in law whose wife was living and went to Ohio from W. Va. An had two children by him. She (Matty) got in the poor house in Ohio and got aquatined with John Rice an Irishman and then got married, they lived together and had 6 children 5 girls and one boy.
Then Boughner got her a pension - Matty swore falsely when she said she was Archies Widow and had not remarried since his death - and each time that her pension papers were made out she swore falsely that she was Archies widow - and Bougher knew it.
Now my object in writing you is to know if Uncle Sam can't pull back all the money off Boughner and make him Smoke for it. Any evidence you want can be turned you by writing to A. Stephen Hough, Saint George West Va Tucker Co please aser by retun mail (enclose-stamp)
Investigation of the files reveals that Matty, regardless of with whom she had children, did in fact reveal that she had remarried but that her second husband had died. The fact that her witnesses were all named Sine - her maiden name - does raise some suspiction. It is unclear whether Boughner ever did indeed Smoke for the allegations made by the vigilant Mr. Hough.
Note: Is this A Stephen Hough related to Asbury Hough that married Margaret Sine daughter of Jacob C. Sine. and why was he so interesting in the life of Martha.
MY NOTE: Martha would have continued to receive this pension because she had a daughter PEGGY with Stephen Archer.
MY NOTE, MYSTERIES AND QUESTION: Between 1824 and 1835 Who was the brother in law that Martha ran away with.
What 2 children were born to Martha and this brother in law?
Were these two children: Alpheus 1827 and Milton 1828. We may never know, until we discover what brother in law Martha ran off with to Ohio.
Was the brother in law an Archer?,(probably so, there are many Archer's in Ohio and some on the 1830 1840 census in Greene County, PA and Monongalia Co. WV)
Or was he the husband of her two sisters, Sarah or Ruth. No information has been found on these two sisters. Was one of these sisters married and still living in 1824 and if so to WHOM?
According to some listings Martha Sine married John Thomas Rice April 24, 1835. I can't find any marriage record for Martha and John Thomas Rice.
My assessment of the 1830 where it seems Martha and her children are living with her parents:
1830 Census: Western Monongalia, Virginia
M19_191 Page: 420 Image: 833
2 males 0-5 born 1825-1830 (Probably grandsons:
Alpheus 1827 and Milton 1828)
1 male 10-15 bn 1815-1820 probably grandson Unknown name
1 male 70-80 bn 1750-1760 William Sine, Sr. 1763
1 female 5-10 bn 1825-1830 (probably grand daughter)
Permelia Sine born 1828
1 female 10 -15 bn 1815-1820 (grand daughter Margaret Sine Archer born 1823)
2 females 20-30 bn 1800-1810 (daughters Margaret 1802-Rebecca 1809)
1 female 30-40 born 1790-1800 (daughter Martha Sine born 1800)
1 female 60-70 1760-1770 (wife Margaret Christy Sine 1768)
1840 This census would be where her children Alpheus, Milton, Permelia, and Margaret were living with their grand parents:
1840 Census: William SINE
Township: West, Monongalia, Virginia
Roll: M704_567 Page: 133 Image: 268
2 males 10-15 bn 1825-1830 (Alpheus 1827, Milton 1828)
1 male 80-90 bn 1750 - 1760 William Sine, Sr. 1763
1 female 5-10 bn 1830-1835 Grand daughter Permelia 1828 (not quiet in the bracket)
1 female 15-20 born 1820-1825 probably grand daughter Margaret Sine Archer 1823
1 female 30-40 bn 1800-1810 daughter Margaret born 1802
1 female 70-80 bn 1760-1770 wife Margaret Christy Sine 1768
1840 John RICE: Monongalia, Virginia, United States
1 male under 5 bn 1835-1840 son John Jr. 1839
1 male 40-49 born 1791-1800 John bn 1799
1 female under 5 born 1835-1840 Rebecca 1837
1 female 40-49 born - 1791-1800 Martha bn 1800
1850 District 37, Monongalia, Virginia
Martha Rice 49 Rebecca Rice 14
John Rice 11 Manirva Rice 8 Mary Rice 4
1860: District 7, Monongalia, Virginia
Martha Rice 59 Rebecca Rice 23
Minerva Rice 17 Mary E Rice 14
Priscilla J Rice 10/12
(Priscilla (Jennie) daughter of Rebecca)
Landora O Rice 4 daughter of Rebecca
Living on Miracle Run, Maybe she buried in Miracle Run Cemetery.
A. Stephen Hough stated Martha had 6 children with John Rice, 5 girls and 1 boy, Who are the two other girls??
These 2 girls probably born after Milton 1827 and before 1837 and gone from home by 1850
Only three girls are noted: Rebecca, Minerva and Mary
Reference Notes:
- Benjamin Shriver married a Margaret Rice.
- Isaac Davis married a Margaret Rice in 1850 Monongalia
All information or thoughts on the RICE family greatly appreciated.
Family links:
Parents: William A. Sine (1763 - 1842)
Margaret Christy Sine (1768 - 1855)
Spouse: John Thomas Rice (1799 - 1849)
Children: Permelia Sine Ammons (1819 - 1877)*
Margaret Archer (Sine) Moore (1823 - ____)*
Alpheus Sine (1827 - 1916)*
Milton Sine (1828 - 1879)*
Rebecca Rice (1837 - 1903)*
John Thomas Rice (1839 - 1908)*
Minerva Rice Shuman (1843 - 1915)*
Mary Ellen Rice Matthews (1848 - 1889)*
Siblings: Christy Sine (1789 - 1858)*
Mary Sine Matthews (1791 - 1878)*
Jacob C. Sine (1796 - 1873)*
Martha Sine Rice (1800 - 1870)
John Sine (1800 - ____)*
Margaret Sine Wright (1802 - 1881)*
Rebecca Sine Moore (1807 - 1847)*
William Calvin Sine (1807 - 1890)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:Unknown
Created by: Sylvia Sine Whittaker
Record added: Mar 12, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 106581102
transcribed:
Stephen Archer and
Martha Sign was
Married the 12th day
of June in the year
of our Lord 1823,
Daughter of William
Sign and Marget
his wife of Virginia.
She was born on the
21th day of August in
the year 1800 in York
County, Pennsylvania.
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Marriage record- Archer, Stephen & Mattie Sign, 18250612- findagrave
20180915HAv, pasted from BUfx [transcribed at bottom -jcw]:
Martha "Mattie" Sine Rice
Birth: Aug. 24 (21 -jcw), 1800
York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: May 19, 1870
Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA
[death -- pension payment records.]
Twin to John Sine,
Notes under Jacob Christy Sine in
Chronicles of Core Page 155-- of his… |
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Record for Margaret Christy
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Record for William A. Sine
REV. CHRISTY SINE.
EV. CHRISTY SINE was born July 5, 1789, and died April 14,1858. He was buried at Timber Ridge, in Virginia, and this inscription is upon his tomb,--
"In Jesus' name we come to Thee."
He was converted under the labors of Elder Isaac McBride, on the 3rd day of June, 1820, in the 32nd year of his age. He began traveling to preach the gospel in 1821. He left Pennsylvania for Virginia, and in the Great Valley met the woman of his choice and was married to Margaret Hackley, the daughter of a respectable deacon in the Christian church. He located in Frederick county, Virginia. After the death of his first wife, he married again. The name of his second wife was Nancy Murphy.
In "Black Creek Valley," Virginia, Elder C. Sine was successfully laboring in 1882, and was visited by Rev. I. N. Walter. Elder Sine says, "The good cause of the Bible is still progressing in these regions, sinners are bowing to the mild sceptre of Emmanuel, sectarianism is on the decline, bigotry abashed begins to hide its [189] deformed face, and the demon of intolerance is about yielding up the ghost." He was reported well engaged in 1838. This same year, the preliminary meeting for the organization of "The Christian Conference of the Valley in Virginia" was held near his residence in Frederick county, on the 27th of August. He was chosen Secretary. The first regular session of the Conference was held at Antioch in Rockingham county, on the 8th of November. Rev. Sine offered prayer, and the Conference was organized by choosing Elder John Zahn, Moderator, and Elder C. Sine, Secretary. The address before Conference was then delivered by Elder Sine, for which he was given a vote of thanks. In his address he spoke the following:
"Although an episcopal form of government may grow in monarchical soil, it cannot prosper in the soil of American freedom. It is not befitting free men, an& should have no existence in the soil of equal rights. Hence, we arrive at some of the causes that gave rise to the Christian Church in the United States. The principles and church polity of the various sects, being at variance with our free and liberal institutions; and the spirit of civil liberty which has been diffused abroad through our happy land, caused an inquiry to arise in the minds of many of the reflecting part of our community, with regard to sectarian bondage, and the evils of human authoritative creeds. Among the most conspicuous of those who espoused the cause of liberal Christianity, (in opposition to those evils,) in the South, was James O'Kelly, of North Carolina, who united with several other preachers of that state, and of Virginia, in pleading zealously for a congregational system of government in the Methodist church. They contended that their conferences should be composed of preachers and of an equal delegation from the churches, and that [190] the New Testament be their only book of discipline. But when the weight of influence turned on the side of Episcopacy, Mr. O'Kelly, with several other preachers, and a large number of brethren seceded, and on the 25th of December, 1793, made a final separation from the Methodist Episcopal Church, and took the name of "Republican Methodists," but in a subsequent Conference they resolved to be known by the name of "Christians," and to have no creed or discipline but the word of God. Such was the origin of the Southern branch of the Christian Church. In the North we have the name of Dr. Abner Jones, of Hartland, in the State of Vermont, and Elias Smith, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; both of whom were zealous preachers of the Baptist church. They espoused the cause of liberal Christianity, near the same time. They also took the New Testament for their only rule of faith and conduct, and the name "Christian," as their only distinctive appellation. It was not long until a number of preachers, and whole churches flocked to the standard, which they had unfurled, while many young men were raised up among them, who were zealously engaged in propagating the same heaven-authorized sentiments. Such was the origin of the Northern branch of the Church.
"About the commencement of the present century, a great revival of religion took place in the State of Kentucky, among the Presbyterians, at a general meeting on Cane Ridge, which was protracted for many days. The number of converts at this meeting was reckoned at from five hundred to one thousand. Several able ministers of the gospel, who were deeply engaged in the good work at this meeting, received more liberal sentiments than are common among that people, among whom were Marshall, Thompson, B. W. Stone, Dunlavy, and McNemar. Those men seeing the evils of human authoritative creeds, renounced them and espoused the [191] cause of liberal sentiments, and labored with great success for the establishment of the same. At first they formed themselves into what they called "The Springfield Presbytery;" but shortly afterward they resolved to be known simply by the name "Christian," and to have no creed but the New Testament, as a rule of faith and conduct. It was not long however, till Messrs. Marshall and Thompson retrograded into Presbyterianism, in consequence of not receiving sufficient remuneration for their labors, while Dunlavy and McNemar joined the Shakers, probably, from the same cause, and thus B. W. Stone was the only one of the original five who had stepped from the ranks of sectarianism, that remained firm on the ground which they had taken. This noble spirit, however, remained unshaken amidst the cruel storms of persecution, which was poured upon him by his quondam brethren. Several ministers had already united in the same glorious cause, who were shortly joined by many more, who zealously engaged in diffusing abroad the same sentiments. Such is a short and in so many respects imperfect account of the origin of the three branches of the Christian Church. These several branches of the church have taken the same ground,--having taken the Scriptures as the only rule of faith and conduct; they of course reject all doctrines which are not taught therein, which has been the cause of much misrepresentation, slander, and abuse, from the old style orthodox denominations. But "the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew," until they had spread through almost every state in the Union, and have now, "like kindred drops, been mingled into one." They have, indeed, prospered beyond any thing recorded in the annals of church history: so that in little more than a quarter of a century they have increased from a very small beginning, to about one [192] hundred thousand members and perhaps near a thousand ministers.
"We have had in this valley the labors of ministers from each of the different branches of the church, who have labored together without a jarring note, which must be a convincing argument, that those who will make the word of God their only rule, will agree in every important point of Christian doctrine and practice. They have at this time a number of conferences organized in the different states, in all, perhaps about thirty; and in many places there are large congregations, and zealous preachers, who are not united by any conference. Their government is generally considered congregational, but, strictly speaking, it is a divine theocracy, their conferences being merely advisory councils, 1 and not intended to make laws for the government of the church of Christ. In their doctrine they are strictly orthodox, being sound in the faith that was once delivered to the saints, hence they reject all doctrine as heretical which is not found in the sacred volume. They are sanguine in the belief that they have taken the only ground upon which the church can ever be united, and that the time will come when human creeds and dogmas shall grow into disrepute, and the Scriptures of divine truth be received by all professing the Christian religion, as the only infallible rule for Christian faith and Christian manners. May that time speedily roll on, is the supreme desire of your brother in the cause of liberal Christianity. Amen."
At the Christian meeting house in Hampshire county, the Conference met November 11, 1839, and Elder Sine was chosen its standing secretary. He was appointed a messenger to visit the Elders and churches in Western Virginia and Pennsylvania, in behalf of his [193] Conference. He was also appointed on the presbytery to ordain Rev. Levi W. N. Barton. In 1840, at the Conference on Timber Ridge, Elders Sine and Miller were appointed to "visit the churches belonging to the Norfolk [Eastern Virginia] Christian Conference for the purpose of forming a more intimate acquaintance with them in order to our co-operation." He also served on a committee to adjust certain difficulties in the Passage church. He had visited the churches in Green and Fayette counties, Pennsylvania. In 1841, the Conference met at Antioch in Rockingham county, and Elder Sine was appointed to travel on the Hampshire circuit, and supply all the churches on that circuit with preaching the ensuing year. In 1842, he was at a meeting on Timber Ridge, commenced by Elder Walter on the 28th of May and conducted for three days. At the Conference at Christian chapel, in Hampshire county, he served on the committee to receive Rev. B. Seever. In 1843, the Conference met in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, I and Elder Sine was continued on the Hampshire circuit.
He was present at the organization of the Virginia Central Conference at East Liberty, August 10, 1849.
In his latter years he seemed to have embraced the doctrines of the Disciples' church. He was an active minister of the gospel more than thirty years, but he was not well grounded in the principles of the Christian Church. The full fruitage that might have crowned his efforts failed to mature. Before his death he joined the Disciples, and thus failed to harvest his labors. "In his personal appearance the Elder was a tall, heavy-built man, with a dark complexion. He had a very commanding appearance in the pulpit." His voice was somewhat harsh, but having mastered his subject, he was clear and fluent in speech. Out of the pulpit he was sociable and conversed usually on religious topics. He was well read in history which he used effectively in his preaching. [194]
Source: P. J. Kernodle Lives of Christian Ministers (1909)
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Anderson, Ottway
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Rev. Christy Sine b1789 download
Source: P. J. Kernodle Lives of Christian Ministers (1909): REV. CHRISTY SINE. EV. CHRISTY SINE was born July 5, 1789, and died April 14,1858. He was buried at Timber Ridge, in Virginia, and this inscription is upon his tomb,-- "In Jesus' name we come to Thee." He was converted under the labors of Elder Isaac McBride, on the 3rd day of… |
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Sine, Alfred Flowers
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Chesney Sine, Mary Ann
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Record for Jacob Christy Sine 20190304HAv (57) facts
- [S395] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Database online. Source number: 62.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: HDH.
Record for William Sine U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about William Sine Name: William Sine Gender: Male Birth Place: PA Birth Year: 1763 Spouse Name: Margaret Christy Spouse Birth Place: VA Spouse Birth Year: 1768 Marriage State: PA Number Pages: 1 Source Citation: Source number: 62.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: HDH.
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