Frederick Warren Jamison

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1920, West Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1940, McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA

Family/Spouse: Eliza Mae Zimmerman. Eliza was born on 1 May 1912 in Follansbee, Brooke Co., WV; died on 21 Jun 1993 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough Co., FL; was buried in Sunset Memory Gardens - Tampa, Hillsborough Co., FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1880, Harnedsville, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1900, Confluence, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1910, Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1920, West Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1930, Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA

Notes:

Name:
Surname spelled "Jemison" in 1880 Federal Census

William married Mary Alice Vansickel in 1897 in prb PA. Mary was born in Aug 1876 in PA; died in 1932 in PA; was buried in Jersey Baptist Churchyard - Ursina, Somerset Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Confluence, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1910, Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1920, West Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA
• Census: 1930, Homestead, Allegheny Co., PA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Native Country: Ireland
• Ship: Philadelphia
• Date & Port of Departure: 1851, Liverpool
• Date & Port of Arrivial: 1 May 1851, Philadelphia
• Census: 1860, Mifflin, Allegheny Co., PA; In the home of James and Margaret Irwin
• Military: 1861-1865; Civil War - Private, Company A, 63rd Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; wounded at Fair Oaks, VA, May 31, 1862; transferred to Company A, 99th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; then transferred to Company D, 105th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, September 19, 1864' mustered out on 11 July 1865.
• Census: 1870, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset Co., PA; In the home of John and Melvina Sauderson - as "John Jameson," b. Pennsylvania. Assumed to be Jonathan Jamison
• Census: 1880, Harnedsville, Somerset Co., PA

Notes:

There is an alternate theory of this Jonathan's parents, siblings and ancestry. This theory is suggested by Sandy Baker, who lives in Washington state. She is a descendant of Jonathan, through his son George. Sandy and her mother Bessie were originally from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where she apparently had other connections including the Reeves and the Mangus families. She says of this::

"About Jonathan, he was adopted by a wealthy family by the name of Sayer in Scotland. They wanted him to become a priest, which he disagreed with the extra book in the bible that the Catholics have. When he refused to become a priest they disowned him. So he changed his name back to Jamison and immigrated to the state. Now I do not know if he changes his name back to Jamison before or after he got to the states. My mother Bessie said that Jonathan was a twin so there should be a brother also."

Martin Jamison, a direct descendant of Jonathan, suggests this other family might be that of Robert and Mary (Wotherspoon) Jamieson, of Glasgow, Scotland. A workup of this other family can be found here,

Birth:
Jonathan's birth dates are all over the place depending on the document. The emigration ship's passage may be the most contemporaneous. It suggests 1842. The IGI says 10 May 1841 but does not identify its source.

Name:
Name usually found spelled in Pennsylvania and Military records as Jamison

Buried:
The Dixmont Cemetery is on the grounds of the old Dixmont Mental Hospital & Institution. Presumably this Jonathan had been an inmate there.

Jonathan married Mary Ann Demmitt on 12 Aug 1870 in Upper Turkeyfoot, Somerset Co., PA. Mary (daughter of Enoch Demmitt and Nancy C. (Unknown)) was born about 1836 in MD; died on 8 Mar 1906 in PA; was buried in Ursina Cemetery - Ursina, Somerset Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Upper Turkeyfoot, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1870, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1880, Harnedsville, Somerset Co., PA
• Census: 1900, Ursina, Somerset Co., PA

Notes:

Birth:
Alternate Birth date 1838

Gravestone gives birth date as 1836

Other Events and Attributes:

• Native Country: Ireland
• Date & Port of Departure: Liverpool
• Ship: Philadelphia
• Date & Port of Arrivial: 1 May 1851, Philadelphia

Notes:

The baptism record for his son Jonathan in 1841 gives William of Movanagher, occupation farmer

William married Jane (Unknown) about 1838 in prb Kilrea Parish, County Londonderry, Ireland. Jane was born about 1816 in Kilrea Parish, County Londonderry, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Native Country: Ireland
• Date & Port of Departure: Liverpool
• Ship: Philadelphia
• Date & Port of Arrivial: 1 May 1851, Philadelphia

Notes:

There seems to be no trace of William or Jane Jameson, apart from the record of their 1851 arrival in Philadelphia. The only records of this family in America, appear to be in the 1860 Federal Census where returns exist for teenage sons, Jonathan, William and Alexander, all living north of Pittsburgh, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, each in separate households with other families. This suggests the parents are no longer around, possibly having died.

Enoch + Nancy C. (Unknown). Nancy was born on 7 Feb 1807 in VA; died on 9 Jun 1885; was buried in Ursina Cemetery - Ursina, Somerset Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]