Major Ezekiel Sankey, Jr.

Major Ezekiel's parents are Eziekiel Sankey Sr. and Jane Sankey (Culbertson)

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Birth: Oct. 3, 1807 Lawrence County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Nov. 21, 1888 New Castle Lawrence County Pennsylvania, USA

New Castle News Wednesday, November 28, 1888

DEATH OF MAJOR SANKEY

Major Ezekiel Sankey, one of New Castle’s oldest citizens, died Tuesday night after a long illness from diseases resulting from old age.

Major Sankey was a son of Major Ezekiel Sankey, Sr., and was born on his father’s farm at the Harbor, in this county, Oct. 3d, 1807. With the exception of a short time in the pottery business, Mr. Sankey passed his boyhood and youth in farm labor. At the age of 16 he engaged to work on the farm of Samuel McCreary at $6 a month and took his pay in store trade. He remained on the farm three years, and for five years after he worked at the shoemaker’s trade with Nathaniel McElevy. In 1834 he ran the first canal boat that plied between New Castle and Beaver. The boat was known as the Alpha. In 1835 he erected the first warehouse built in New Castle, it stood in the rear of the building now owned by J. N. Euwer’s Sons. In 1836 Mr. Sankey was elected Major of a volunteer battalion of Mercer county and served seven years.

At the time of the failure of the U. S. Bank in Philadelphia in 1841 or ’42, Mr. Mankey was appointed agent, with full power to adjust the claims of the bank against citizens of Mercer county of which this county was then a part. He accomplished this work of compromise to the satisfaction of all. Mr. Sankey was the father of the Greenwood cemetery enterprise and was one of its incorporators in 1852. He was the holding spirit in the scheme to build the New Castle & Darlington R. R. which came near being consummated, but which fell through owing to the disaffection of some of the parties interested. For a number of years Major Sankey was engaged in the mercantile business and at one time was proprietor of the old Mansion House which stood on the site now occupied by the Leslie House, and in 1863 and 1864 conducted the latter hotel.

On February 9th, 1832 he was married to Miss Sarah S. Jones, daughter of Isaac Jones, and the union was blessed with a large family. Minerva, who died Jan. 22d, 1873; Chares C., agent of the Pennsylvania, lives in this city; Eben B., Mrs. Laura McDonald, Mrs. Thomas H. Falls, Henry C., James P., William J., Lawrence and Kate who are twins.

Mrs. Sankey died Sept. 11, 1861, and on Oct. 5, 1862, Mr. Sankey was married to Mrs. R. A. Beeman, of Youngstown. Two sons, J. Powers and Clinton E., were born of this marriage.

Mr. Sankey was a public spirited citizen and New Castle is indebted to him as much as any one for it's present prosperity. In 1838 Mr. Sankey was instrumental in bringing into being the New Castle Female Seminary, and to him much of the credit is due for the passage of the act creating Lawrence county. He was largely interested in incorporating the New Castle Light Company in 1856 and he was one of the incorporators of the first banking house in this city, known as the Bank of New Castle. He was for several years a Director in the New Castle Opera House Company and was one of it's corporators.

Major Sankey was a man of more than ordinary talent, of great originality and was shrewd, thorough and upright in business matters. He had a genial, social nature and an unusually open hearted benevolence.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian church, and of late years has given the subject of religion deep study, and loved to hear the “old, old story” repeated.

Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. from his late residence on West Washington street.

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New Castle News Wednesday, November 28, 1888

The Funeral of The Late Ezekiel Sankey.

The funeral of the late Ezekiel Sankey took place this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The services were at the late residence of the deceased, where a large congregation of people was present. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. M. H. Calkins, Rev. C. H. Dunlap, Rev. R. A. Browne and Rev. J. Q. A. McDowell, and by request of Mrs. Sankey, the music was conducted by members of the family. It was her wish also that four young men, grandsons of her husband, should act as pallbearers, and the sad duty was performed by Eb Falls, Clyde, Charles and Fred Sankey. A large concourse of friends followed the cortege to Greenwood cemetery, where the last words were spoken which ended Ezekiel Sankey’s long and useful career.

Among those present from abroad were: E. B. Sankey, of Missouri; J. P. Sankey, wife and daughter, from Pittsburgh; Albert McElevey, auditor of the Penn’a Co., at Pittsburgh, Mr. Power, of the same city, and Mrs. McElevey of Youngstown.

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Parents:

 Ezekiel Sankey (1772 - 1813)

 Jane Cubbison Sankey (1767 - 1860)

Spouses:

 Sarah Skinner Jones Sankey (1811 - 1861)

 Rhoda A Power Sankey (1825 - 1891)

Children:

 Minerva Sankey (1833 - 1873)*

 Charles Carroll Sankey (1835 - 1914)*

 Henry Clay Sankey (1843 - 1916)*

Siblings:

 Sarah Sankey McElevey (1795 - 1876)*

 Ezekiel Sankey (1807 - 1888)

 David Ira Sankey (1809 - 1884)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Greenwood Cemetery New Castle Lawrence County Pennsylvania, USA

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