Friday, June 10, 2016

Elmer E Miller Foils Theif

Today, we celebrate the birth of Elmer Ellsworth Miller. He was born on June 10th, 1861.

We will celebrate by remembering an incident that occurred  when Elmer was 26 years old.

The following article appeared on the front page of the Harrisburg Telegraph on Wednesday, September 14, 1887.



A Thief Captured

He Plies His Vocation at Williams Grove and Lands in Jail

     During the Grangers' picnic at Williams' Grove, a restaurant on the grounds was managed by Elmer E. Miller, of Shepherdstown. This morning Mr. Miller was in Harrisburg and told a TELEGRAPH reporter of the capture of a thief who was plying his vocation during the great show. On Sunday morning after the picnic Mr. Miller was sleeping in one of the board cottages, when a long stick was thrust through a hole in the boards. He paid no attention to the matter at first, but when the stick was again inserted through the aperture (evidently with the intention of wrapping about it, he gave chase to the fellow at the other end and captured him. He was turned over to the police on suspicion of larceny. When Mr. Miller returned to his restaurant a man named Benjamin Walker said that he had noticed the thief's actions and offered to tell Miller where the thief had concealed his booty for $1. Finally he pointed out a place along the creek, where Miller found several empty pocket-books and a number of articles of clothing. Before Miller could return to the police headquarters, the thief, whose name is John Lawson, had been released. It was then decided to watch for him that night, and Millerand one or two others concealed themselves in the bushes near where the booty was discovered. Shortly after Lawson appearedand was taken into custody. He is now in the jail at Carlisle awaiting trial.

(Please note that the above article is transcribed exactly as it appeared with editing errors and misspellings.)

Friday, June 27, 2014

The Sad Fate of Mabel Elizabeth Irvin

This post recounts yet another tragic event in the family of James Irvin. Before this horrific accident, the Irvins had already suffered the disappearance and unsolved murder of Mac.  A railroad mishap crippled Harvey. Ida died far too soon, widowing James at age 53 and leaving the youngest child, Grace, without her mother at only nine years of age. And early in 1929, fire consumed and destroyed Bessie's home. But later that same year, another fire would bring unimaginable pain to the Irvin family.

Mabel Elizabeth was a younger sister to Wilmer Irvin. On November 3, 1897, she became the ninth child born to James and Ida Irvin.

The following article appeared in the Chambersburg Public Opinion on Monday, November 25, 1929.


     Mrs. Mabel Irvin Peters, wife of Andrew Peters, was fatally burned last evening, about 5 o'clock, when a lamp exploded at her home at Brandon. Mrs. Peters was preparing to go to the cellar to get some fruit and as the electric light is not near enough to illuminate the fruit cupboard in the cellar, she lighted a kerosene lamp in the pantry which leads to the cellar. There was an explosion and Mrs. Peters' clothing caught fire from the flaming oil. As Mrs. Peters entered the pantry she told her oldest son, Eugene, to tell his father, who was in his automobile ready to leave the premises, to wait as she wanted to speak to him. When Mr. Peters re-entered the house he found his wife in flames. She was taken in the Good Will ambulance to the Chambersburg Hospital, where she died at 7:45 this morning.
     She is survived by her husband, four children, Eugene, Grace, Andrew Jr. and Bernard, all at home, her father, James Irvin of Harrisburg, and these brothers and sisters, John and Harvey Irvin of Harrisburg, and these brothers and sisters, John and Harvey Irvin of Philadelphia, Wilmer and Ralph Irvin of Harrisburg, Russel Irvin of Johnstown, Mrs. Bessie Rockwell and Mrs. C. J. Gossert of Shippensburg, Mrs. Martin Shipley of Ohiophile, and Mrs. W. D. Rummler of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

(Please note that the above article is transcribed exactly as it appeared with editing errors and misspellings.)

Thursday, June 26, 2014

How Uncle Harvey Lost His Leg

Wilmer Harry Irvin's older brother, Harvey Rossman Irvin, was born on September 29, 1883. James and Ida Irvin were only 21 years-old and 18 years-old, respectively, when their third child was born.

Though we now know very little about Uncle Harvey, we have not forgotten his missing limb. It has often been said that Uncle Harvey walked on a peg leg. Recollection of the mishap that disabled Uncle Harvey has long since faded. Here, to help keep alive our memory of Harvey Rossman Irvin, is the account of the unfortunate and tragic incident as it appeared in a Chambersburg newspaper.

The Franklin Repository, Chambersburg PA
January 8, 1908
Page 2
Date of event: Friday January 3, 1908

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LEG AMPUTATED.

Brakeman Irvin Injured in Yards at this Place

STRUCK BY FREIGHT TRAIN

Thrown Under Heavy Engine and Run Over - Taken To Hospital Where Injuries Were Attended to.

     About 6 o'clock Friday morning Harvey Irvin, of Loudon street, a freight brakeman on the C.V.R.R., met with an accident in the yards at this place, which cost him his right leg.
     Irvin is a brakeman on one of the coal trains running between Chambersburg and Martinsburg. Friday morning he was at the coal chute where his engine was being coaled preparatory to going out on its run. He was standing on the west bound track while a freight was passing into the yard on the east bound track. Irvin failed to notice freight No. 81 pulling out on the track on which he was standing. He was knocked to the side of the track and the engine had passed over his right foot and lower part of the leg. He was picked up by some other employees, placed on engine 87 and taken to Market street, where the ambulance conveyed him to the hospital.
     It was found that the foot and leg were so badly crushed that amputation just below the knee was necessary. At last reports he was doing well.
     Irvin is well known in town having been a motorman on the C. & G. trolley.





Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Bessie Mae Irvin 1880-1963

Bessie Mae was the eldest child of James and Ida Irvin. She was born on May 7, 1880, her father’s 18th birthday and only four days before her mother’s 15th birthday. The 1880 Federal Census shows that the young couple lived with Ida’s parents, David and Eliza Bock, and Ida’s maternal grandmother, Margaret Rossman, in Metal Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania in the year of Bessie’s birth. Though the 1880 enumeration was recorded by W. C. Alexander on June 17th, 1880 and was to include all children born prior to the 1st of June, Bessie was not counted.

On July 24, 1901, Bessie married George W. Rockwell in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. This marriage produced eight children; Lillian, Martin Luther, Gladys Viola, Lulu Ann, George Irwin, Robert W., Gordon, and Charlotte.

At the time of the 1910 Federal Census, the Rockwells lived in Martinsburg, WV. They returned to Franklin County, Pennsylvania prior to the 1920 Federal Census where they were enumerated in the Orrstown District of Southampton Township.

In 1929, disaster struck the Rockwell family home. The following article appeared in the News-Chronicle of Shippensburg on Tuesday, January 15th, 1929.

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HOME AT MIDDLE SPRING BURNS
William Rockwell Property Completely Destroyed by Fire on Monday
Loss is About $5000
Fire believed to have been started by an overheated stove pipe, completely destroyed the William Rockwell home and most of the house furnishing, near Middle Spring, at about 9:30 o’clock Monday morning. The loss was estimated at $5000.
Mr. Rockwell had gone to his work at the Peerless Furniture Company, leaving his wife and a small child at home. While Mrs. Rockwell was preparing to leave the house for Shippensburg, she discovered the fire on the roof of the house.
Spreading the alarm, Mrs. Rockwell attempted to remove the house furnishings, but was only successful in securing a small amount of clothing for the small child.
Neighbors in the section rushed to the scene of the fire, but were unable to stop the flames from consuming the entire house, which was partly brick and wood. A number of papers, valuable to the family were saved, but the house furnishings, with the exception of a few pieces, were lost with the dwelling.
A small frame building, which stood nearby, also was burned. The building had been used as a wash house, it was explained. Other buildings in the vicinity of the home were spared by the wind, which carried the flames and sparks in the opposite direction.
Mrs. Rockwell explained to a representative of the News-Chronicle, that she had planned to leave for Shippensburg in about one-half hour, when the fire was discovered on a section of the building which was covered with shingles.
The building was an old one, located near Middle Spring on the Middle Spring-Roxbury Road. It is known as the White Hill truck farm, and had been owned by Jacob Creamer. The property was partly covered by insurance, it was said.
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More trouble followed in the next year when the family was robbed by Chicken thieves. The News-Chronicle carried the following story on Tuesday, October 21, 1930.

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CHICKEN THIEVES CALMLY FORCE WOMAN TO AID IN THEFT
William Rockwell Home Near Middle Spring Scene of Bold Robbery; Mrs. Rockwell Made To Hold Flashlight During Operation
Man Informs Woman Of Former Raids At Home
Operations of chicken thieves were actively resumed Saturday night when about sixty chickens were boldly stolen from the William Rockwell farm near Middle Spring. Mrs. Rockwell was at home alone, two younger children being in bed asleep, when a tall blonde, dark dressed man entered the newly erected Rockwell home through a window from the porch and calmly announced to Mrs. Rockwell that she was being robbed of some chickens. Mrs. Rockwell was forced to supply food for the man and his partner and to help them take away the chickens.
Slightly before 9:30 Saturday night the intruder entered the Rockwell home. Mrs. Rockwell came to the front room from the kitchen. Here she was seized by the man who demanded wine and food. Mrs. Rockwell was quite stunned by the action but replied that she could give him some food and water. Meanwhile the man led Mrs. Rockwell to the kitchen in the rear of the house where he sat down and repeated his demands. Apparently not satisfied by Mrs. Rockwell’s reply, the man went down to the cellar where he carried on a fruitless investigation. Returning to the kitchen he demanded some bread, buttered. Mrs. Rockwell buttered two slices of bread and gave them to him. He then demanded more and she gave two more slices, finally she had eight slices of bread which he placed in the poke from which the bread had come from Mrs. Wengerd, a neighbor who baked bread.
Having secured the food the intruder proceeded to tell Mrs. Rockwell the previous occasions on which he had visited their farm and taken chickens. He recalled one time in May, 1929, when he said he too 300 chickens and later in August when he took 125. A check up at the end of the year showed the Rockwell flock, originally numbering around 5000, to be short by almost 700 chickens. In March of this year the intruder recalled taking 100 chickens on two different occasions. Even last week Mrs. Rockwell recalled seeing a flash light as from a pocket flash flickering near the house. At the time she looked out the window but was unable to see anyone. The intruder on Saturday told Mrs. Rockwell that he was near enough to hit her with his club at the time.
The accounts of his previous visits related, the large blonde man led Mrs. Rockwell to the chicken house about 50 yards west of the house. He held his hand over her mouth so that she could not scream. On reaching the chicken house they were joined by a second man, equally large, dark complexioned and wearing dark clothes. This second man had filled one crate with chickens, apparently taken from the barn. The chickens roost in the barn, the coop, and the tree limbs. The second crate was filled with thirty chickens as Mrs. Rockwell held the light, while the men collected the fowls. The flashlight was taken from Mrs. Rockwell and the men walked off. Some distance beyond the coop, Mrs. Rockwell heard a police whistle blown three short blasts.
While being forced to walk out to the chicken coop from the house, Mrs. Rockwell’s mouth was held tightly by the intruder. Because she wears false teeth, this action almost choked her so that she was unable to reply to the man when he demanded “where in h-l do you buy your chickens”. After the two men had left the coop Mrs. Rockwell dropped her teeth and then groped around in the dark but could not find them. It was 9:00 o’clock when she returned to the house.
When Mr. Rockwell returned from Shippensburg he was told of the robbery and he immediately notified Chief of Police Robert Burns and Chambersburg State Police who arrived about 1:00 o’clock Sunday morning and searched the vicinity for about three hours.
Corporal Fritchey and Private Kelley from the Chambersburg station failed to find any tracks and treated the whole account as rather unreasonable. They stated they had nothing to work on. The case is quite unusual as the intruder made no attempt to hide his features and demanded bread when there were much more tempting dishes at hand including pies. The partner loaded chickens in the barn and then Mrs. Rockwell was forced to hold the flash which the blonde man had to collect the chickens in the coop. The intruder was quite bold in casually recalling his former ravages and sitting in the kitchen for ten or fifteen minutes.
Although Mrs. Rockwell did not hear any machine and believed the men walked off in the direction of Shippensburg carrying the two crates, one above the other, between them, Mrs. Levi Hoover, a neighbor, said she heard the sound of an automobile about 8:30 and again at 9:30. The lane leading to the Rockwell home is not often trafficked so the motor sound might be noticed particularly.
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On November 7th, 1930, the Chambersburg Public Opinion reported the arrest of 11 men from Carlisle and Plainfield who perpetrated the robberies and hustled the stolen chickens. The gang targeted hundreds of farms throughout four counties.

Bessie died on September 30, 1963. Her obituary appeared as follows in The News-Chronicle of Shippensburg on Friday, October 4, 1963.

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Rites Held For Mrs. Rockwell
Funeral rites were held Thursday at 2 p.m. from the M. Garfield Barbour and Son Funeral Home for Mrs. Bessie Mae Irvin Rockwell, 83, wife of George W. Rockwell, 16 Lurgan Ave. Shippensburg.
Dr. Edward P. Turnbach of Memorial Lutheran Church officiated, assisted by Rev. Robert Hawk. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
Mrs. Rockwell died Monday at her home.
A daughter of the late James and Ida Buck Irvin, she was born May 7, 1880 at Willow Hill. She held membership in the Lutheran Church.
Survivors include her husband, to whom she was married in July, 1901; three daughters, Mrs. Gladys R. Hassler, Newville; Mrs. Lulu A. Kressler, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Charlotte E. Raymond, Fairfax, Va.; four sons, Luther M. Rockwell, Shippensburg R. D. 1; George I. Rockwell, Shippensburg; Robert W. Rockwell, Carlisle, and Gordon R. Rockwell, Shippensburg; a foster daughter, Mrs. John K. Smith, Funkstown, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Grace Shipley, Fort Wayne, Ind.; two brothers, John Irvin, Philadelphia, and Ralph Irvin, Harrisburg; 11 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.
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George and Bessie Rockwell

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

George McClellan Irvin Found Dead (1895-1909)

Known as "Mack", George was the eighth child of James and Ida Irvin. Mack's tragic and mysterious death has long been part of our Irvin family lore. Through this sad episode, we can look back upon the Irvin family at a time of grief and uncertainty.
The following is an article that appeared on the front page of the Chambersburg Public Opinion. As with any case regarding the disappearance and unexplained death of a youth, this story attracted a good deal of local press coverage.




Public opinion Chambersburg Saturday November 23rd 1912

Mack Irvin’s Remains Found In Mountains After 3 Years; Skull Fractured And Lead Slug In Bones

Town Lad Went Hunting With Paul Johns In 1909; Johns Came Home Alone And Nothing Ever Heard Of Irvin; Coroner Will Hold Inquest Today; Johns Held In Cage As Witness

After lying in a wild and lonely place on Broad Mountain, two miles from the nearest human habitation, since some time in October 1909, all that remained Mack Irvin was brought to St. Thomas yesterday and given to the Undertaker Sellers to prepare for burial.
This opens up a case that has brought uncertainty to the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Irvin of Water Street for the past three years. While they sometimes felt that Mac was dead, they never knew.
After attending a show here October 14 1909, Mack Irvin, then aged 13 years, and Paul Johns, then age 16 years, left here on a hunting trip. They walked to Edenville, where they slept a while and then started up the mountains hunting, this being the opening day of the hunting season.
Mack had worked with his father hauling lumber in that part of the county, and he knew the district well despite his tender years.
That night young Johns, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frisby Johns, returned home alone. The next day he told the Irvin family that he had left Mack “in the middle of the road in the mountain,” and that Mac said he intended walking over to his uncle’s, John Buck, not far from Willow Hill.
As young Irvin had on several occasions gone away on these walking trips nothing was thought of it for several days. But when it was learned that he had not arrived at Buck’s the family begin to be worried. The fact of the disappearance of the youth was published, but nothing was ever heard of him.
Some time later young Johns told his mother and she told Mrs. Irvin that he knew that Mack was in the West and that he would return some day. This is a significant statement.
This was the way the case stood for over three years.
On Wednesday Walter Foreman and Robert Pittinger, young man of Greencastle, were out hunting. From Edenville they wandered on the Broad mountain, which is about two miles from County Auditor John Foreman’s place near Franklin Furnace. There on the hill between Devil’s Half Acre and Wolf Hollow, in a place that is rocky and full of scrub oak, they saw a bone lying. They investigated, thinking at first it was a deer bone. Then they saw a human skull and some clothing. In picking up a piece of the coat several human rib bones stuck to it. This was enough for the young men. They marked several trees and left the place.
Yesterday morning Coroner Maclay was notified of the find. He had the two young men go to the spot and secure the bones and remnants of the clothing. They brought the remaining to Undertaker Sellers at St. Thomas and there Corner Maclay examined them.
The Coroner decided to go to the scene and with Dr. John H. Kinter, John Foreman, Irvin and James Shatzer the trip was made. They drove to about a mile and a half of the place and then had to walk over the rough mountain.
In digging in the place where the bones had been found they stirred up some more bones and also found a leaden slug. Most of the bones of the body were recovered, some being gone however. The skull showed the marks of squirrels having gnawed it and it is supposed mountain animals carried off the other bones. There was one shoe remaining.
The remnants of the clothing were brought to town by Coroner Maclay last night. The father and several of the brothers of the Irvin boy examined them and positively identified them as being the parts of clothing worn by Mack the day he left home.
This establishes without doubt the fact that the bones are the remains of young Irvin.
How he met death is far from solved. There are scores of conjectures, all of which at present can be used in the case.
However the Coroner did learn in Edenville that before the two boys, Irvin and Johns, had left that village they had some sort of a fight. The Edenville people say that they had only one gun. The Irvin people think they had two guns, both the property of Johns.
In the account of the disappearance in Public Opinion at the time it was stated that they had only one gun and that Johns brought it home with him when he returned that night.
It was a shotgun and the leaden slug found with bones was as big as a hickory nut. It is stated however by firearms experts that such slugs are sometimes used in shotguns.
The slug was not found in the skull, but there is a good-sized hole in the left side of the skull, which looks like it has been inflicted by a bullet. There is a decided fracture of the skull, extending over the top. The slug could have fallen out the skull after the brain tissue had decomposed.
How came the hole in the skull and the fracture? Where did the lead slug come from? These two queries are yet unanswered.
Another thing was discovered by the Coroner and his party. Over the place where the bones lay a sapling had been placed. The sapling shows unmistakeable signs of having been chopped with an axe and then placed over the remains.
It looks like some one may have shot the lad and then placed the tree over the body. But if the shooter went to that much trouble, why did he not bury the body? The condition of the remains show that they had not been buried under earth and where they were found is not particularly wild.
A wild bullet may have hit the lad and killed him. The presence of the hole in the skull and the lead slug remove the conjecture of his being lost. Anyhow the place where his body lay is on the top of the hill that leads down to a road that goes to Mount Parnell.
When Coroner Maclay communicated his first findings to District Attorney Nicklas that official requested Chief Klenzing to secure young Johns. He was married last week to a daughter of David R. Porter and was working in the woolen mills. Chief Klenzing went there and got Johns.
On the outside Johns asked the Chief why he was being taken and the Chief told him that they had found the remains of young Irvin. Johns replied: “Is that so?” He showed no fright and went on to say that he and Irvin had gone up the mountain on Oct. 15, 1909, and that Irvin had left him on top of the mountain. He told the Chief he could take him to the very place.
That was about all Johns would say. He was placed in the cage and held as a witness, pending development. Last night when it was learned that Irvin had undoubtedly been killed, Chief Klenzing and Deputy Sheriff Robert Walker questioned Johns further, but he did not make any damaging statements. He maintains he left Irvin and came home and that is all he knows about it, he says.
In order to get as many facts as possible Coroner Maclay decided to hold an inquest. This will be held in the St. Thomas Hotel, beginning this morning at 10 o'clock. The following will be in the jury: John Foreman, Irvin Shatzer, Edenville; Johnston Gillan, Calvin Spidal, John Eberly and Calvin Sellers, St. Thomas.
Evidence will be adduced establishing the identity of the remains; the fact that Irvin and Johns quarreled will be shown, and that death likely came from the lead slug and fractured skull will be offered.
Young Johns will be given an opportunity of testifying before the inquest if he desires.
Young Irvin is survived by his parents and these brothers and sisters: John, Harvey, Russell, Wilber, Ralph, Mrs Bessie Rockwell, Mrs. W. O. Rummell, Mrs. J. O. Gossert, Mabel and Grace, all living in town except Russell who lives in Altoona.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

James H. Irvin Obituary

The obituary appears below as it was printed. The following errors and inconsistencies appear: Some sources indicate that James was born in 1862 (death certificate & baptismal record) while others (obituary & headstone) provide the 1863 birth date. "Mrs. W. A. Rummel" should read "Mrs. W. O. Rummel".

Chambersburg Public Opinion

James H. Irvin
Shippensburg , May 9th - James H. Irvin, 128 East King street, died of a heart condition Wednesday afternoon, his 78th birthday. He was found dead on the front porch, where he had been sitting, by his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Gossert, with whom he made his home. He had been in ill health for four months.
A retired machinist, Mr. Irvin had been making his home with his daughter for the past eight years. He was born in Fannettsburg, but had lived most of his life in the Cumberland Valley, having made his home at Shippensburg, Chambersburg, and Harrisburg.
Mr. Irvin was born May 7, 1863, son of the late John and Margaret Irvin. He was married in 1878 to Miss Ida Catherine Bock, who died in 1916. He was a member of the Methodist Church in Chambersburg and of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty lodge.
Surviving are four sons, Russell Irvin, Pittsburgh; John Irvin, Philadelphia; Wilmer Irvin, Harrisburg; and Ralph Irvin, Harrisburg; four daughters, Mrs. Gossert, Mrs. William Rockwell of town, Mrs. Grace Shipley, Pittsburgh, and Mrs W. A. Rummel, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. C. Manning. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg. Friends may call at the home Saturday evening.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

James Henry Luther Irvin (1862 - 1941)

James Henry Luther Irvin was born on May 7, 1862 in Fannettsburg, Metal Township, Franklin County, PA. His parents, John Andrew and Margaret Karn Irvin, had at least five children before James. His baptism was recorded on November 8, 1862 at Fannettsburg Presbyterian Church.
James married Ida Catherine Rossman Bock in either 1878 or 1880. In either case, husband and wife were very young. The young couple took residence with Ida's parents, David Taylor and Eliza Rossman Bock, as shown in the 1880 Federal Census. The term 'shot-gun wedding' comes to mind. If this label applied to James and Ida, then the 1880 birth of Bessie Mae may have provided the motivation for such a young union. James became a father on his 18th birthday. 
In the ensuing years, James and Ida produced ten more children. The family lived for sometime in or near Fannettsburg. By the time of the 1900 Federal Census, James brought the family to Chambersburg. James found employment as a laborer for the railroad and, later, for a foundry.
The Chambersburg years were marked with tragedy. His son, Harvey, was crippled at work in 1908 when struck by a train car. Another son, George "Mack", disappeared on a hunting trip in 1909, only to be found dead several years later. And in 1915, Ida passed away three weeks after being paralyzed by a stroke. 
James spent the subsequent years residing with his daughters in Shippensburg and finding work as a day laborer on nearby orchards. He alternated between the homes of of his daughters, Bessie Rockwell and Margaret Gossert. He lived in Harrisburg at the time of the 1930 Federal Census, but he returned to Shippensburg by the end of 1933. He remained with Margaret until his death. Jean Eshenman, a great-granddaughter, remembers that during this time, "He sat on his chair and watched the world go by." Surely, that was his right after parenting and providing for 11 children during hard times.
James died on his birthday in 1941. 

The Children of James and Ida Irvin

1. Bessie Mae (m. George Rockwell) 1880-1963
2. John Alexander (m. Elizabeth Grace Coble) 1881-1965
3. Harvey Rossman (m. Gertrude Jacobs) 1883-1939
4. William Russell (m. Bessie Peoples) 1885-1948
5. Wilmer Harry (m. Nora Hollinger) 1887-1946
6. Welthey Jane (m. William Oscar Rummel) 1890-1955
7. Margaret (m. Charles Gossert) 1892-1960
8. George "Mack" McClellan 1895-1909
9. Mabel Elizabeth (m. Andrew Peters) 1897-1929
10. Ralph R (m. Ethel Manuel) 1899-1966
11. Grace Marian (m. Martin Shipley) 1906-1979


4 Generations of Irvins

Standing: John Richard Irvin & Wilmer Irvin
Seated: James Irvin & baby