Person:John Longstreth (2)

John Longstreth and Feraby (Worth?) have been identified as the parents of both William Houston Longstreth and Stephen Longstreth, primarily by coincidence in time and geography. There are no other candidate "Longstreths" in the census records of Indiana and Armstrong Counties to even be considered as alternative choices for parents.

Using a similar line of "coincidental" reasoning, James Longstreth and Barbara George are the only available candidates (as of Feb. 2004) to be found in the database or the census records to be candidate parents for John Longstreth, of John and Feraby. If they were his parents, then a Stephen Longstreth (spouse of Christianna) was his brother.

This fits with all the known information for Longstreths in Indiana Co, PA, even though these items by themselves are not proof positive.

Barry Brown has uncovered court records that there were a set of brothers in Indiana Co, John and Steven Longstreth who had as parents James and Barbara (George) Longstreth. They were born at the right times, and lived in Indiana Co, from about 1800 on.

In 1860, John and Feraby were living a few doors from the family of Stephen Longstreth and Nancy Adams;

in the 1870 census John Longstreth, now a widower, was living with the family of William Houston Longstreth and Mary Winebrenner.

The strong coincidences and associations in time and location are the basis for the assignment of John, to be the father of both William and Stephen, to be the same John that is son of James Longstreth and Barbara George.

[JA Longstreth, Feb 2004]