John MEANS

                   excerpted from 1886's "History of the Susquehanna & Juniata Valleys" - pages 545-547Robert Means emigrated from Ireland, and, with his family, first settled in Bucks County, from whence he removed, in 1770, to Derry township, Mifflin County. He was married to a Miss Kelly and both were members of the Lewistown Presbyterian Church and both are interred in the old burial-place on the farm of John Means. Robert's children were John, born in 1744; Margaret, in 1748; Robert, November 2, 1750; James, in 1753; Jane, in 1755; Joseph, in 1760; Mary, in 1763; George, in 1764; Nancy, in 1766; and William, in 1769. Son Robert Means, born near Newtown, in Bucks County, married on May 31, 1791, Hannah McKee, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. Their children are George, born in 1792; Margaret, wife of Philip Corbet, in 1794 who moved to Clarion County, Pa., where her death occurred; William, in 1796, who also settled in Clarion County; Andrew, in 1799, who never married, but continued to reside in Armagh township, where he followed the saddler's trade; Robert Anderson, August 8, 1801; Nancy, in 1804, wife of John McClure, who died in Clarion County; Mary Ann, in 1806, who also died in Clarion County; Eliza, in 1808, wife of Robert Rothrock, who removed to White County, Ind, where her death occurred; and Hannah(Mrs. William McFarlane), still living in Lewistown.Robert Anderson Means, on March 26, 1835, married Elizabeth B., daughter of Samuel McNitt, of Armagh township, who was born December 16, 1813 and died September 26, 1875. Their children are Eliza Jane, born in 1836, married to Matthew B. Taylor, of Brown township; Samuel Albert, in 1837, a farmer in White County, Ill.; Francis Andrew, in 1839, a farmer in Derry township; Priscilla, in 1841, wife of Henry Slaymaker, a merchant of Philadelphia; Robert Howard, in 1843, now residing on the homestead; Mary Ann, in 1847, wife of Dr. Owen Osler, of Philadelphia; and William, in 1851, a druggist in Lebanon, Pa.