Saegertown and Brookhouser Cemeteries

photos - Tina in 1990 and again in 2026 at Patrick and Anna Maries grave. The last photo is from 1990 and shows the back of the headstone, which reads:

Sad sad was our parting for much did we love thee,
Yet would we repine at the way of our Lord?
Then sleep 'neath the grass which is growing above thee
Till roused by the sound of the Angels words.
Yes, mournfully think of her now since days gone
and speak of her kindness, her love and truth;
and patiently hope at the last rising dawn
in glory to view her immortal in youth.

William Johnston McGill / Patrick's side Gen 3 /

William was the son of William Perry McGill and Juliana (Julia Ann) Cochran, the first son born after four daughters. He was thirteen when his father died, and he grew up on the family farm in Crawford County. Born: 20 July 1834, Woodcock Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania and died: 27 January 1902, Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey

He enlisted in the Union Army on 11 May 1861, serving in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves (38th Pennsylvania Infantry). On 20 December 1861, he was wounded at the Battle of Dranesville, Virginia, when a musket ball entered the left side of his abdomen. The injury caused lifelong internal complications. He completed a full three‑year term and was honorably discharged on 11 May 1864.

William married Charlotte Ross on 23 November 1866 in Sugar Lake, Wayne Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Their marriage lasted until Charlotte’s death in 1891. Charlotte is buried at Bayview-New York Bay Cemetery in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey.

William and Charlotte had nine children: Margaret Gertrude, Anna Tina, Emma Jane, Charles, Julia, Rose, William Jr., Edward Everett, and Alfred Raymond.

Margaret H McGill (1830-1876) / Patrick's Side - Gen 3 /

Margaret Helen McGill is daughter of William Perry McGill and Julia A Cochran McGill. Margaret was unmarried and in 1870 living with her sister Nancy and husband George Floyd in Blooming Valley, Crawford County. She died on 27 November 1876, just past her 46th birthday. Today her grave-marker is found laying flat upon the ground.

Charles Dillon McGill (no grave photo) / Patrick's Side - Gen 2 /

Charles Dillon McGill is the youngest son of Patrick the Pioneer and Anna Marie Baird McGill.
McGill Born At McGill Settlement Good Intent Patent 1802.
... And first wife is Angelina C Martin McGill (1810-1848)
Angelina is was the daughter of Armand Martin, a soldier of 1812, who was a son of Gen Charles Martin, who gained celebrity in the Revolutionary War as a staff officer with Colonel Armand commander of the famous corps known as Armand's Legion. Angeline's mother was Mary Ryan daughter of John and Catherine Ryan an elder sister of Isabella Ryan McGill.
First wife of Charles Dillon McGill, married 1829. Angelina and Charles were parents of 9 children. Angeline was a beautiful and accomplished woman and the mother of a very bright and interesting family.
... and second wife Almira A McGill (1815-1894), aka Elmira Clark McGill, of North East Pa, died At Saegertown Pa in 1898 and was buried in the Saegertown cemetery. Charles Dillon and Elmira were parents of James Buchanan McGill. (no grave photo)

John McGill (1795-1878) / Patrick's Side - Gen 2 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

Son of Anna Marie Baird and Patrick McGill, the Pioneer, so 2nd Generation, but not our direct ancestor.
On June 12 1822, John married Isabella Ryan.
...and his wife Isabella Ryan McGill (1800-1876)
Daughter of John and Catherine Himrod Ryan of Woodcock township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. They established their home on the North Hundred of the Good Intent Patent where they passed the remainder of their days and raised a family of two sons and six daughters; two daughters died in infancy.

Their biography is combined --> John & Isabella McGill.

Isabella McGill (1835-1851) / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.
Born April 26,1835 Died Dec 23 AD 1851

Daughter of John and Isabelle Ryan McGill. Aged 16 years 7 months 26 days . According to Augustus, "Isabella was a beautiful girl She died of heart disease instantly without previous illness premonition or warning."

Anna Maria McGill (1824-1898) / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.
Daughter of John McGill & Isabella Ryan

Anna Marie McGill was born September 6th AD 1824 Died March 8th AD 1898. Unmarried.

Anna Maria McGill was an important factor in the family of John McGill. Augustus says of his sister "She early assumed responsibility for the honor and welfare of the house and when her mother's health failed Anna's sway became absolute. She voluntarily let go every other prospect in life and devoted her cogent energies to the care of others and a more efficient manager never lived. When both her parents were laid away she bought and fitted up for herself a home in the village adjoining my residence The Shacks, where she lived dispensing old time hospitality to all comers, and they were not few; for her home became the resort where the scattered members of the old family and their children came often together and passed many pleasant days. The death of Anna Maria was a severance of ties that will never be restored."

Eliza Ryan McGill Fleming (1830-1904) / Patrick's Side - Gen 3 / not a direct Hoste ancestor.

Daughter of John and Isabella Ryan McGIll, Eliza was born Sept 26 1830.
Eliza R McGill Fleming died Oct 2 1904. They are both buried in the McGill lot Saegertown cemetery. "They had three children to wit: Eva, Sadie, and James."
... and her husband James T Fleming (1832-1891)
James Married Eliza McGill on Nov 29 1864.
James T Fleming died May 14 1891

Lucinda "Tinie" McGill, / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

Daughter of Isabella Ryan and John McGill. Born May 1, 1838 and died June 17, 1864
Tinie, or sometimes spelled Tinnie, was the youngest, the pet of the household. She was never physically strong but intellectually she was gifted far above all other members of the family. She died in Pittsburg having gone there for medical treatment. Buried at home. (Saegertown Cemetery)

Sarah Catherine McGill Hunter (1826–1875) / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

Daughter of John McGill and Isabella Ryan McGill, Sarah Catherine McGill became the wife of Robert Hunter in 1854. She died on October 14, 1875.
... and her husband Robert Hunter (1828–1876)
Son of David Hunter and Catherine Carr Hunter of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, Robert Hunter married Sarah Catherine McGill in September 1854. He spent his life in Crawford County and died on April 4, 1876.

A Generation 4 Mystery Girl

In The McGills, Augustus McGill stated that Robert and Sarah had no children. However, later records raise an interesting question. The 1870 federal census for Woodcock Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, records a twelve-year-old girl named May Hunter, born about 1858, living in their household. She does not appear with them in the 1860 census.

May Hunter (1858–1905)
The identity of May Hunter remains uncertain. Her presence in Robert and Sarah Hunter's household in 1870 suggests she was an important part of the family, but no record has been found proving whether she was their biological daughter, an adopted child, a relative, or a child taken into the household after the upheaval of the Civil War.

A Find a Grave memorial identifies a May Hunter, born August 20, 1858, who died November 5, 1905, at the age of forty-seven. The memorial notes that she was the daughter of Robert Hunter and that she lived with William McGill, although no documentation has yet been found to explain the relationship or reconcile it with Augustus McGill's statement that Robert and Sarah had no children.

Until additional records come to light, May Hunter remains one of the family's intriguing mysteries—a reminder that not every member of a nineteenth-century household fits neatly into the boxes provided by census records or family histories. May's grave was not located on this visit to Saegertown.

Isabelle McGill Hough (1859-1909) / Patrick's side - Gen 4 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

‘Belle’ is the daughter of Augustus and Sarah Peiffer McGill. Born May 11, 1859. Isabelle died July 1909 and is buried in Saegertown Cemetery.
... and her husband William Bloom Hough who she married at Windfall Indiana on June 25 1884. Mr. Hough died Nov 15th 1894. He belonged to a prominent family in Central Indiana and was very much esteemed by all who knew him. He was born Oct 31 1856 and died at the age of thirty eight years one month and fifteen days and is buried in the Windfall cemetery. (The book this information is found in was printed in 1910, and it is likely that they did not have time to include the information of Isabelle’s death prior to printing.)

Armand Martin McGill (1833-1903) / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

Son of Charles Dillon McGill & Angeline.
married Miss Mathilda Briggs of Erie county, Pennsylvania. They had one son Charles. Something we don’t hear much about in those days, Armand and Mathilda separated and were divorced. Their son Charles went with his mother and died in the West. Armand married again to a younger woman named Celestia Renner of Saegertown, born March 1851. They had one son Alvin R. Both of Armand’s former wives remarried and lived in affluent circumstances.

Alvin R McGill (1874-1904) / Patrick's side - Gen 4 / but not a direct ancestor.

son of Armand M. and second wife Celestia Renner of Saegertown. They had one son Alvin R.

Armand died, and about two years since Alvin R died unmarried and the line of Armand became extinct.

Arthur Faulkner McGill (1840-1857) died at 16 years old. / Patrick's side - Gen 3 / but not a direct Hostetter ancestor.

“Our Arthur”

Son of William Perry and Julia Anna. Died at 16 years, 10 months, and 20 days old.

Born January 3, 1841 and died April 22, 1857, these dates are based on the Book by Augustus McGill, but the book gives no cause of death or other information.

Note: Earlier findAgrave attribution identifies this grave marker as belonging to Arthur, son of Henry and Penelope McGill. This is almost certainly a mis-identification, as their son Arthur appears to have died about 1837.

Descendants of Arthur McGill, Sr.,
/ Arthur's Side - Gen 1/
"Arthur and many of his descendants are buried in the Gravel Switch Cemetery." [from the notes of Patrick McGill, gr gr grandson of Patrick the 1st.] Gravel Switch is also known as Gravel Run Cemetery, located in Woodcock Twp., Crawford County, Pa, but finaAgrave has no record of Arthur or any McGills burial here.


Arthur's Generation 2 - Henry McGill, Sr. (1783-1865)

This Henry is son of Arthur McGill, Patricks brother.

Henry, Senior, the husband of Penelope is son of Arthur McGill, Patricks brother, aka the Other Pioneed Brother. To be honest, I do not know where Arthur the Pioneer is buried, but at least one of his sons is here.

... and his wife Penelope Carr McGill (1795-1849)
daughter of Eunice and David Carr. together they had a daughter named Eunice. Born 15 June 1795 and DIED 26 May 1849.

Sarah McGill (1827-1903) / Arthur's Side - Gen 3

Of Sarah McGill, daughter of Henry, Sr. (son of Arthur – Patrick’s brother) and Penelope Carr McGill, Augustus has very little to say, perhaps because of the close nature of their relationship. I know it is hardest for me to write about the people I am closest to.
Augustus simply says, “Sarah Catharine McGill, my gentle playmate in childhood died a few years ago. She was un-married.”

Josiah McGill (1838-1913) / Arthurs Side-Gen 3 / the son of Henry Sr, (son of Arthur – Patrick’s brother) and Penelope Carr McGill.

"After his father's death Josiah remained on the place with his two married sisters and it is a fact that the routine of the house was unbroken and its hospitality unabated until after Sarah and Penelope died." According to Augustus McGill, “This sad event left Josiah bereft for he himself had remained un-married but he finally turned over the management of the large place to Patterson and Mook procured and fitted up to his taste a smaller domain in Hayfield a mile or two away where any curious traveler may find a genuine full blooded McGill, Monarch of all he surveys and lord of the fowl and the brute.”

Penelope McGill (1833-1905) / Arthurs Side - Gen 3

This PENELOPE is the youngest daughter of Henry Sr. (son of Arthur – Patrick’s brother) and Penelope Carr McGill, was "fair to look upon in her youthful days. She was of stately form and attractive presence. She was unmarried and remained at the old home until after the death of her sister Sarah when she went to live with her niece Mrs. Mook and soon after died."

John Patrick McGill (1836–1862) / Patrick's Side - Gen 3.

Son of William Perry McGill and Juliana Cochran McGill.
Born May 4, 1836 • Died June 25, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia

John Patrick McGill was remembered by his cousin Augustus as the family wit. A printer by trade, he was quick with a joke, loved laughter, and had a remarkable gift for lifting the spirits of those around him. His humor and optimism made him a favorite among friends and fellow soldiers alike.

When the Civil War began, John first enlisted with the three-month volunteers before reenlisting on August 15, 1861, in Company B, 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Promoted to First Sergeant, he became known as a dependable leader whose cheerful nature helped sustain the morale of his company during the hardships of camp life.

John never fell in battle. Instead, he died of severe malarial fever on June 25, 1862, just as the Army of the Potomac prepared for the Seven Days Battles near Richmond. His comrades loved him so deeply that they raised the money to embalm his body and send him home to Crawford County. He was buried with military honors, where he rests among generations of the McGill family.

John Patrick McGill grave marker in 1990 and 2026.