MCCULLOUGH FAMILY. —-The most authentic data we have relating to the McCullough family, of Lima, Ohio, is their entrance into Ireland when Oliver Cromwell made his invasion. They settled at a place called Upper Ballysillan, supposed to be in the neighborhood of Belfast, where they have lived for generations and from them have sprung the McCulloughs of America.
Two brothers, Samuel and Thomas McCullough, natives of Ireland, born near Belfast, in 1750, came to America about 1772. They settled in Washington county, Pa. Thomas entered the army and was killed in one of the Indian fights in that county, and was buried upon the battle field. His body was subsequently taken up by hisibrother and buried in the Presbyterian churchyard, at Pigeon Creek, \Vashington county, Pa. He never married. M. H. McCullough, grandson of the above Samuel McCullough, has now an heirloom much prized by him, it being a letter dated Belfast, Ireland, 1774, written to his grandfather, Samuel McCullough, and brother, Thomas McCullough.
Samuel McCullough was the progenitor of of the Ohio McCulloughs. He took up or entered 150 acres of land in Amwell township, Washington county, Pa., May 11, 1785, and 16, 1787, fifty-six acres more. There be cleared a farm and spent the balance of his life. He married Margaret Pettigrew, whose parents were of Scotch-Irish extraction, and settled in Washington county, Pa., among the pioneers. By this union the following children were born: Thomas, who settled in Trumbull county, Ohio; John, who settled in the same county; Elizabeth, who married Thomas Chambers; Margaret, who married John Lyne, and died in Guernsey county, Ohio; Sarah, who married John Chambers, and died near Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio; Mary, who married William Vance, and died in Knox county, Ohio; Samuel and James, who remained on the homestead, where they spent their lives until 1835, when James moved to Allen county, where he resided the remainder of his life. Mr. McCullough, Sr., died in 1814, his wife dying in 1825; both were buried in the Presbyterian churchyard, at Pigeon Creek, Washington county, Pa.
