Leonard Wathen

GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY (1912): "Captain Thomas Wathen was born in 1793 in Frederick county, Maryland, came to Uniontown (Fayette Co., PA) in 1818, married Rebecca Wood in 1819. He followed his trade of shoemaker until his death, August 12, 1857. He served in the war of 1812, attaining the rank of captain, a title by which he was always addressed. Captain Thomas Wathen was a son of Gabriel Wathen, a Frenchman, and Susan (Whitter) Wathen, of Irish descent. They settled in Maryland about the time of the Lord Baltimore settlement, and became large land owners of Frederick county, Children of Gabriel Wathen: Leonard, moved to Kentucky, where descendants are found; Henry, moved to Ohio; Cecelia and Helen, became brides of the church and spent their lives in a convent in Maryland; Susan, married and lived in Frederick county, Maryland; Captain Thomas, of previous mention. Rebecca Wood, wife of Captain Thomas Wathen, was born in Uniontown, 1802, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Comeley) Wood, the Quaker maid of Germantown, Pennsylvania, who defying parents and church clung to her lover and leaving home and kindred came with him to the then wilderness of Western Pennsylvania, there to found a family and help in the upbuilding of a prosperous community. This marriage and the subsequent one of John William Wood and Cecelia V. Wathen unites more than a century later the blood of two of the emigrant Wood brothers, John and Isaac. Children of Captain Thomas and Rebecca (Wood) Wathen: 1. Henry, a shoemaker of Uniontown, married Mary Howser, both deceased. 2. Sarah, died at age of thirteen years. 3. Ellen, married Merchant Springer, of Uniontown, both deceased. 4. Julia C., married John Bierer, an attorney of Uniontown, who died in 1906; she survives him, a resident of Uniontown. 5. Margaret, married James Smith and moved to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, both deceased. 6. Cecelia V., of previous mention, married John William Wood. 7. Amanda, married George Coughanour, whom she survives. 8. Alice, married John Eberhart and lives in Hoboken, Pennsylvania.  (see http://www.pacivilwar.com/bios/wood_john.php)