The Thomas Muffley family was still in Westmoreland Co. in 1850, but by 1860 they were in Farmington Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Thomas farmed and had a sawmill there, on “Muffy Run”. Two miles straight northwest of Tylersburg the road crosses a small creek (once Muffy Run, on an 1865 map). Just before the creek on the right was the land of the Thomas Muffley family. I think that if one follows the creek downstream (to the east), the mill was close to the junction with Knapp Run. The ruins were slightly visible when my father Robert P. Muffley visited the site, and I have only a single blurry photo of the site. It is not known at what time the family might have visited relatives back in Westmoreland, but my great-grandfather Joe Muffley (b. 1854) recalled visiting kin at the Pine Run Church and in North Washington, Westmoreland Co. Penn.
The Civil War began in 1861, and the young Mary Katherine Muffley died on Oct. 8 of that year. On March 2, 1862, Thomas Muffley died of cholera. His widow Julia Wilhelm Muffley apparently could not afford a headstone for Thomas. It is believed that he was buried at a Lutheran church cemetery (pictured) about 1.5 miles west of the Muffley land, at the junction of Hwy. 36 and Road T-598. Julia sold the land on May 1, 1865. After the Civil War ended, the widow Julia Muffley took the remaining 5 kids by riverboat to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, home of her brother Adam Biddle Wilhelm.
The Thomas Muffley family was still in Westmoreland Co. in 1850, but by 1860 they were in Farmington Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Thomas farmed and had a sawmill there, on “Muffy Run”. Two miles straight northwest of Tylersburg the road crosses a small creek (once Muffy Run, on an 1865 map). Just before the creek on the right was the land of the Thomas Muffley family. I think that if one follows the creek downstream (to the east), the mill was close to the junction with Knapp Run. The ruins were slightly visible when my father Robert P. Muffley visited the site, and I have only a single blurry photo of the site. It is not known at what time the family might have visited relatives back in Westmoreland, but my great-grandfather Joe Muffley (b. 1854) recalled visiting kin at the Pine Run Church and in North Washington, Westmoreland Co. Penn.
The Civil War began in 1861, and the young Mary Katherine Muffley died on Oct. 8 of that year. On March 2, 1862, Thomas Muffley died of cholera. His widow Julia Wilhelm Muffley apparently could not afford a headstone for Thomas. It is believed that he was buried at a Lutheran church cemetery (pictured) about 1.5 miles west of the Muffley land, at the junction of Hwy. 36 and Road T-598. Julia sold the land on May 1, 1865. After the Civil War ended, the widow Julia Muffley took the remaining 5 kids by riverboat to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, home of her brother Adam Biddle Wilhelm.
