Margaret married John Francisco Abt 1815. John was born 1792, New Jersey, USA; died May 1864, South Abington, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

James and Margaret lived at Clarks Green, PA.

Margaret married James P. Meade 26 Feb 1843, Abington, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA. James (son of Eleazar Mead and Elizabeth Parker) was born 23 Jul 1816, Roxbury, Delaware, New York, USA; died 6 Mar 1855, Clarks Green, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Clarks Green, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Orpha and John Mullnix lived in Nicholson, Moscow and finally Waverly, Pennsylvania. John worked for the D, L, & W railroad and was killed while working on the railroad. Many of the family members are buried in the Clarks Green PA cemetary.

Orpha married John Mullnex. John was born 1833, New York, United States; died , Railroad, York, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Almiron Covey. Almiron (son of Ebenezer Covey and Lydia Ross) was born 22 Dec 1813, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States; died 17 Aug 1903, Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried , Clarks Green, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
or Clarks Green (became Lackawanna County in 1878)

Buried:
South Canaan Bible Protestant Cemetery (Sarah F. Swingle)

Sarah married Daniel Horatio Swingle 25 Dec 1846. Daniel was born 1 Jul 1825, South Canaan, Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; died 2 Dec 1895, South Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; was buried Dec 1895, South Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Livedd on Pine Hill in the Town of Benton.

Alvah married Eunice Hunt. Eunice was born 1832, Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried , Clarks Green, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Henry and Amanda lived on the Sisco family farm in Clarks Green and raised a large family.


Buried:
Clarks Green Cemetary

Henry married Amanda Hicks Abt 1840, Pennsylvania, USA. Amanda was born 11 Mar 1824, Pennsylvania; died 11 Jan 1906, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Clarks Green, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Stark Cemetary

Died:
COD: Arteriosclerosis

Stephen married Mary A. Johnson 25 Dec 1863. Mary was born 1 Apr 1839, Justus, Pennsylvania; died 4 Nov 1907, Harford, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Clark's Green

Died:
Died before 1910

Solomon married Elizabeth Mary Hardy 16 Jun 1857. Elizabeth was born 22 Jul 1835, Barton (Spencer), Tioga County, New York, USA; died Bef 1910, Pennsylania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Haynes married Nettie Simrell. [Group Sheet]

Unknown married John Hinkley. [Group Sheet]

Leroy married Rosetta Russell. [Group Sheet]

Leroy married Floretta Taylor. [Group Sheet]

Amy married Norman White. [Group Sheet]

John married Mame Keator. [Group Sheet]

Margaret married George Loder. [Group Sheet]

Martha married Ben Rozelle. Ben was born , Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Corintha married George W. Bond. [Group Sheet]

Bennoven married Mary Cavanaugh. [Group Sheet]

Pardon married Ida Carr. [Group Sheet]

Pulaski married Nell Cavanaugh. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Almiron was killed in a railroad accoident in the train yard.

Ursula married James P. Frisbie 16 Sep 1875. James was born 22 Jul 1844, South Canaan, Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; died 21 Dec 1875. [Group Sheet]

Ursula married John B. Mains 24 Jul 1881. John was born Jan 1861, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1929, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Lakeville, Paupack Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Lillie married Victor Eugene Gumaer 6 Jul 1890. Victor was born 7 Mar 1868, Benton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States; died 17 Sep 1927, Benton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Eugene married Ruth Ruland. Ruth was born Jan 1853, Pennsylvania, United States; died 1944. [Group Sheet]

Minnie married Horace G. Twinning 1877, , Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA. Horace was born 25 Jul 1854, Pennsylvania; died 1921. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Joseph Gleason. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John W. Sisco entered the Civil war as a Private and mustered out as a Sargeant.


Buried:
Fairview Cemetery Section C, Lot 146

John married Aveline Eva Gardner 24 Dec 1865. Aveline was born 11 Oct 1852, Pennsylvania, USA; died 14 Apr 1917, Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Moscow, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Frances married Paul Marlatte 1874. Paul was born Jan 1850, New Jersey; died 1914. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

George shot himself.


Died:
Shot himself

George married Charlotte Emery 6 Jul 1866, South Cannan, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

Arthur married Martha A. Radunz. Martha was born 8 Nov 1882, Ohio; died 19 Sep 1940, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA; was buried , Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah and Joseph lived in Factoryville, Dalton and Waverly, PA. Sarah went by "Lillie"

Mary married Amos G Stanton 5 Oct 1881, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania. Amos was born 25 May 1859, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; died 22 May 1922, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died single as a young man.

Charles married Mary Harding 1882. Mary was born Sep 1857, Michigan; died Bef 1920. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Edward lived on his home farm and continued to work on the original Sisco farm after it was sold to the Courtwrights

Notes:

Died:
Likely Abington, PA

Notes:

Enlisted Oct 3, 2864
Mustered in Oct 30, 1864
Mustered out May 8, 1865

William married Anna Chambers 3 Jul 1867, Dalton Baptist Church, Clarks Green, PA. Anna was born 23 Jun 1846, Ireland; died Sep 1933, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Thomas B. Gleeson. Thomas was born 1853; died 1936; was buried , Clarks Green, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
NOTE: 1870 US Census lists STEPHEN SISCO, born May 1870 but no other info going forward. Either this was Frances who was not named yet and census taker listed as father's name, a twin of Frances Luther or name was changed to Frances

Notes:

The "Independent Republican" on October 25, 1875 reports, "Eliza Jane Sisco, died in West Nicholson on October 7, by her dress taking fire near the stove. Daughter of Stephen and Mary Sisco, aged 11 years 6 months and 26 days." On Wednesday, October 13, 1875 the Tunkhannock Republican obituary notices read, "A daughter of Stephen Sisco of East Lemon, PA, aged 12 years, received injuries by the catching fire of her clothes from which she died on Friday."Eliza Jane Sisco Obituary

Died:
Burned to death

Notes:

According to the 1910 federal census, Albert was living with John and Jane.

John married Jane M Anderson. Jane (daughter of Joseph Anderson and Matilda Haffner) was born 19 Nov 1869, Pennsylvania; died 22 Feb 1915, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. [Group Sheet]

John married Hannah Elizabeth McConnel 14 Nov 1918, Madison, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet]

John married Lillian Harris 12 Apr 1887, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA. Lillian (daughter of Elijah Harris and Marian Harris) was born 21 Jul 1864, Pennsylvania; died 4 Apr 1937, Monroe, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Falls, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

According to the 1910 Federal census, George and Mary had three children as listed and an eighteen year old boarder by the name of Nellie Wheeler.

George married Mary. was born 1877, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Albert Sisco's tombstone reads "Albert E. Fransisco" 1877 - 19XX According to the 1910 Federal Census, Albert was living with John H sisco and his wife Jane.

Albert married Blanche Shafer 1922. Blanche was born 1879, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Ella married Joseph Edward Searles 1898. Joseph (son of Francis Searles and Mary A. Searles) was born 4 Mar 1876, Mill City WY, Pennsylvania; died 9 Jan 1960, Harford, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Kingsley, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Frances "Luther" Sisco was born to Stephen and Mary Ann Johnson Sisco on Tuesday, May 24, 1870 in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. The US Federal census of 1880 confirms that Luther was living at home with his parents in Nicholson. Luther married Mary Mercy Phillips who was nine years his junior on August 25, 1895 in Factoryville, PA. Dorotha (Sisco) Thomas, Luthers grand daughter relates the story that Luther worked for Mary's father who owed Luther money. Since he couldn't pay, he gave Mary to Luther in payment. By 1900, the Federal Census shows Luther as married to Mary Phillips and having two children, Olin and Clara.

Luther was a carpenter and bridge builder who worked on the Nicholson Railroad Bridge in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. His grandson, Leon Sisco recalls visiting him in a shanty village as he was building the bridge. In 1910, the US census shows the Sisco's living on Capwell Hill Road in Clinton, PA. In 1920, Luther and Mary, now in their forties were living alone on Silk Mill Road, Hallstead, PA. It is intereseting to note that their neighbors were the Elveys and Chidesters who would be their neighbors in other locations. In 1930, they were living on River Road with their thirteen year old grandson George "Lloyd" Jamison living with them as his mother Clara Sisco Jamison had died of the "Spanish Influenza" in 1920.

In 1940, Luther and Mary were living on Road 710 (now Bogart Avenue) in Hallstead in the "Severson's" house that was purchased for them by their son Olin. Olin, Ethel and their three children were living down the dirt road in the home that the Luther was originally living in. See Olin Sisco's narrative for the reasons for the living arrangements.

He possessed a bad temper. Luther died in Scranton, PA at the Moses Taylor Hospital.


Buried:
Rose Hill Cemetary

Died:
Age: 78

Frances married Mary Mercy Phillips 25 Aug 1895, Factoryville, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary (daughter of Charles Harris Salsbery Phillips and Almira M. Gardner) was born 1 Aug 1879, Nicholson, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA; died 20 Jan 1953, Hallstead, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Hallstead, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Buried in Tower Cemetary aka West Lenox Cemetary, Lenox, PA

Nettie married Nelson Ferdinand Marcy. Nelson was born 16 Sep 1864, Lenox, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA; died 8 Mar 1936. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Father registered for the draft and regards residence in July 1863 as Scott, PA.

Frederick married Emma Rollison 8 Sep 1885. Emma was born Oct 1861, Pennsylvania; died 6 Aug 1923. [Group Sheet]

Alva married Mary Elizabeth 1902. Mary was born Abt 1877, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Louis married Stella M Smith 1892. Stella was born 19 May 1871, Pensylvania, USA; died 27 Sep 1937, Lackawanna, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

Louis married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Minnie married Stephen Ransom Ford 12 Aug 1925, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA. Stephen (son of David A Ford and Mary E Ford) was born Abt 1903, Laceyville, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States of America; died 5 Aug 1976, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America; was buried , Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Clara died in the flu epidemic.

Clara married George Lynn Jamison 13 Feb 1916, Pennsylvania. George (son of Henry Jamison and Lena Shoemaker Jamison Austin) was born 30 Oct 1896, Pennsylvania, United States of America; died 15 Apr 1967, Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Arthur was a severe asthmatic. He went to Arizona where he was better able to breathe. He got homesick for his family and came back east but could not breathe. Luther and Mary, his parents gave him their Ford touring car and placed all of the money that they had into a little bag and had Leotta hide it in her bra. They set out to Arizona on October 13, 1928 and arrived in Tucson on October 25, 1928. His parents and family back east heard very little from him after he left and then eventually never heard from him again. It was rumored that Arthur and Leotta divorced and that they remarried. They had a son.

Arthur married Leota Wright. Leota was born 3 Jun 1906, United States; died 17 Jan 1970; was buried , Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, USA. [Group Sheet]

Arthur married Ruby W. Rector [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Olin Reece Sisco was born on Friday, March 26, 1897 in Nicholson Township, Pennsylvania to Frances "Luther" and "Mary" Mercy (Phillips) Sisco. By April 15, 1910, at the age of thirteen Olin and his family were living in Factoryville, Pennsylvania on Capwell Hill Road. His father worked as a laborer and bridge builder for the Steam Railroad Company. By 1920, the US Federal census shows Luther and Mary living on Silk Mill Road Hallstead, PA. It is unknown when between 1910 and 1920 they relocated from Factoryville to Hallstead nor whether Olin had ever lived at the Silk Mill Road residence. The only indication that he may have lived in Hallstead is the family lore has it that Olin had to walked the family cow from Factoryville to Hallstead a distance of about thirty-one miles.

Sometime around 1915, Olin must have heard about job availability at the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company (aka EJ) and began working at one of the Johnson City, NY factories. There is a photo of Olin working at EJ as a teenager with Ellsworth Banker, Olin's future brother-in-law who was also from Hallstead. It is not known how or where Olin Reece Sisco and Ethel Mae Banker met. It may have been in Hallstead which is where Ethel lived or at the Endicott Johnson Shoe Company where they both worked. They were married on September 1, 1917 in Binghamton, NY at the parsonage of the Grace Baptist church. Ethel continued to work for the Endicott- Johnson Shoe Company until she and Olin began their family.

On June 5, 1918, after one short year of marriage, Olin registered for the World War I draft as required by law and joined the US Army. His draft registration card indicates that he and Ethel lived at 28 Carhart Street in Johnson City, NY. It was there that they became friends with Eunice and Tom Watkins who lived in the apartment above them. They always joked that they could hear each others conversations through the bathroom walls. Eunice and Tom must have been good friends and neighbors taking care of Ethel while Olin went off to basic training. Olin never deployed as the war came to an end on November 11, 1918 now forever known as "Armistice Day."

At some point between 1918 and 1920, Olin and Ethel moved a few short blocks over to 90 Endicott Road in the Village of Johnson City, Town of Union, NY. It was while living there that on February 25, 1920 that first daughter Dorotha Sisco Thomas was born. Three years later, Ethel delivered twins Leon Arthur and Leo Howard. Leo was born with a spinal defect. In a photo taken of the two infants, it was necessary to wire Leo's neck and head upright as he was unable to do so on his own. Leo died nine months after he was born which must have had an emotional toll on both Olin and Ethel. Dorotha remembers that the undertaker had a big car and she sat between her mtoether and father with baby Leo's casket lying across their lap as they drove to the Floral Park Cemetery to bury the baby.

Sometime around 1923, perhaps just prior to the birth of Leo and Leon, Olin and Ethel had purchased a home at 6 Theron Street, Johnson City, New York, near what is currently the Riverside Drive traffic circle. The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company provided employees with many benefits unknown in today's economy. Homes were built and sold at cost. Playgrounds, recreation halls for bowling, roller skating and dancing were provided. Hospitals and a medical plan which received world-wide attention and acclaim were established. An eight-hour day, one of the first in a large industry, and other benefits were inaugurated. They even provided each employee's child with their first shoes and each Christmas each year thereafter. The home on Theron Street was one of the Endicott Johnson built homes which Olin purchased for $3,000.00.

The period from 1930 to the mid-1940's was the period of Great Depression in the United States. It was during this time of struggling economy that Olin's parents, Luther and Mary Sisco, were having difficulty maintaining and affording the small farm that they had in Hallstead, PA from the income generated from the crops grown in their fields. To help keep the farm, Olin moved his family in with his parents. They waited until June to move the family allowing Dorotha and Leon to finish the school year in Johnson City.

Relations became strained between Olin and Ethel and Olins parents. Olin's mother despised Ethel and had threatened to do all that she could to sabotage the marriage. Olin gave his mother the choice of staying in their current home or moving into the former Severson's home. Mary chose the latter. Eventually, Olin purchased the family farm from his father and also purchased the home on the road above them from the Severson's for his parents to move into as shown in the 1940 federal census. He added more property to the farm from tax sales and in time had a large farm along Route 7 (Church Street) on the road that leads from Conklin, New York to Hallstead, Pennsylvania. The first piece of property that he purchased was along the main road and the creek. Olin's dream was for both he and his son Leon, to run the farm together. Olin must have rented the Theron Street residence out as Real Estate records show that he sold it on October 19th, 1942.

Ethel would bake and can fruits and vegetables from their gardens, taking them to Johnson City to sell for extra income. The basement of the farmhouse was simply dirt floors with stones collected from the fields and creek beds stacked on top of each to provide some insulation from the dirt walls. Wood shelves were built along the walls to provide storage for canned goods and vegetables for the winter. The cool, dark and damp basements provided excellent storage for winter vegetables. Leon and Dorotha had to do the house and farm chores while Olin sold insurance.

Olin was very stern and possessed a good business sense. In 1922, to provide the family with additional income Olin joined the Prudential Life Insurance Company and was a sales agent throughout the Binghamton, NY and Susquehanna, County, Pennsylvania area.

He was well respected throughout the area for his business acumen and insights. Many people turned to him for advice on business matters. He retired from Prudential after his first heart attack. Olin was fiercely protective of his family making certain that everyone was provided for. Between January 1918 and December 1920 the world suffered from a major flu epidemic called the "Spanish Flu" that killed between 50 to 100 million people one of which was Olin's twenty-one year old sister Clara Almira who died on March 1, 1920, She left behind a husband, George Lynn Jamison and two children, four year old Lloyd and two year old Luther.

After Clara's death, Lynn abandoned the boys. His WWII Draft registration in 1942 shows him living at 60 Hamilton Street New Haven, CT. Luther was sent to live his paternal grandparents believed to be in New Haven also and Lloyd was sent to live with his maternal grandparents Mary and Luther Sisco in Hallstead, PA. Luther ended up in a children's home in Connecticut. At that time a children's home was viewed almost like a juvenile detention center as opposed to an orphanage. Olin went to Connecticut and got him out. Unfortunately, Luther became a liability. He began to drink heavily. One day Lloyd got a call from the local Hallstead theater that Luther was there drunk and causing a disturbance. Lloyd went to get him but instead of taking him to Luther and Marys, he took him to Olins house. In the process of attempting to get him under control Olin slapped Luther in the house to get him to pay attention. Luther then attempted to punch Olin but missed putting his fist through the wall in the back room that served as Olin's office. Rather than repair the wall, Ethel simply hung a picture over the hole.

On another occasion, Luther went to the Swift's slaughter house that was located across SR 1033 behind what is now the American Legion building. Olin had warned him not to go there because some of the animals to be slaughtered had diseases. Luther brought back pig cholera to Olin's pigs that he was growing for market.

While living in Johnson City in their early married life, Olin and Ethel attended the First Baptist Church, Johnson City, New York. He served the church by teaching as a Sunday school class. The family later attended the Primitive Methodist Church in Johnson City. Sometime after he joined Prudential, he got away from the church until many years later after he suffered a heart attack. At that point he became active at the First Baptist Church, Hallstead PA eventually becoming a deacon. He would travel throughout the Southern Tier of New York and northeastern Pennsylvania to hear preachers. He purchased a portable reel to reel tape recorder to record their messages for greater insights and understanding of the scriptures.

When first grandchild Yvonne Bonnie Sisco came along Olin planted a stand of pine trees in her honor across Bogart Street, then a dirt road with two ruts. Olin was an outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting, fishing on the Susquehanna River and gardening. He had two hunting hounds named Skipper and Tony that he kept outdoors even in the coldest weather because he didn't want to "ruin" them. At times the snow would accumulate to 24-36 inches, so deep that a path needed to be dug from the house to their dog houses near the detached garage in order to feed them. Only on a few extremely cold nights did he allow them into the house for warmth.

Olin began smoking while working for Prudential. As a result of years if smoking he developed a "smoker's cough" better known as pulmonary edema. Olin suffered his first heart attack around 1960, eventually succumbing to atherosclerosis and severe myocardial fibrosis on October 10, 1965


Buried:
Lot 155 Section K Floral Park Cemetary Johnson City NY

Died:
Heart Attack

Olin married Ethel Mae Banker 1 Sep 1917, Binghamton, Broome, New York, USA. Ethel (daughter of Nathaniel James Banker and Lila Ann Hinds) was born 23 May 1900, Hallstead, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA; died 20 Feb 1972, Binghamton, Broome, New York, USA; was buried , Johnson City, Broome, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]