Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Colestock, Joseph June 13, 1808 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 420
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Joseph Colestock, a highly respected citizen of Dunbar 
township, is a son of Jonas Colestock and Margaret Seese 
Colestock, and was born at Connellsville, Fayette county, 
Penna, June 13, 1808.  
    His grandfather, John Colestock, was born in Saxony, 
Germany, and in 1740 came to York county, Penna, where he 
afterwards married Miss Julia Foist.  They ad two sons: John 
Colestock and Jonas Colestock and two daughters.
    Jonas Colestock was born in York county, Penna, in 1765, 
and was a captain in the militia for fourteen years.  In 
1787 he married Margaret Seese, and had the following 
children: Elizabeth Colestock; Margaret Colestock, Charlotte 
Colestock; Susan Colestock, widow of William McCormick, and 
living at Uniontown in the eighty sixty year of her age.  
Mrs Colestock's father, Jacob Seese, was a native of 
Lorraine province, France, now a province of Germany.  He 
was of noble birth and well educated, especially in the 
languages, but being of a military turn of mind became an 
officer in the French army.  He came to America during the 
Revolution and held a command under General Sullivan in the 
latter's expedition to avenge the Wyoming massacre.  
    About 1783 he settled in Westmoreland county, where he 
encountered many hardships of Indian warfare.  His wife was 
Mary Foible of Bavaria, Germany, who was the mother of four 
sons: Micheal Seese, Martin Seese, Christopher Seese and 
Rudolph Seese.  
    Joseph Colestock was reared and educated at 
Connellsville, learned the hatting trade but never followed 
it.  He clerked at Donegal and then for John Gray; taught 
school at Uniontown for several years; was a merchant in 
Springfield township for some years; came to Dunbar township 
in 1867 and engaged successfully in his present business of 
farming.
    In 1837 he was married to Isabella Spears/?Speers, 
daughter of William and Margaret Spears of Uniontown.  They 
have the following children: Margaret Colestock, wife of 
James F Imel, a lumber merchant of Crawford county; 
Lieutenant John Colestock, married Miss Jane King, served in 
the Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was distinguished 
for bravery, never flinched in battle, was promoted to 
corporal and was in line for captaincy when the war closed; 
Minvera Colestock, wife of Matthew Patterson of New Haven; 
Mary Colestock, wife of Thomas Pyles of Hagerstown, 
Maryland; Louisa Colestock; Joseph Colestock married Miss 
Zanie White, and lives in Butler county; Samuel Colestock, 
dead; David H Colestock and Anna B Colestock.  
    Joseph Colestock is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, and gives his time chiefly in the superintendency of 
his farm.  

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