Person:John Stiles (34)

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Name John Stiles
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1786 Benton, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Marriage to Martha McHenry
Death[1] 8 Apr 1849 Benton, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Burial[1] Benton Cemetery, Benton, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania

John Stiles is mentioned in passing in "Historical and Biographical annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania", Vol II, page 730: "Several years after the death of his first wife Mr. Colley [Alexander Colley] married Martha McHenry Stiles, widow of John Stiles, of Benton, and by so doing he became is own son's father-in-law, since Robert LaFayette Colley had previously married her daughter, Martha Jane Stiles. Alexander Colley survived his wife only a few years, her death occurring at the age of ninety."

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave
    Memorial# 8257406.
  2.   Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania: containing a concise history of the two counties and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families : in two volumes, illustrated. (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1915)
    Vol 2, pg 730.