James and Sarah Scott SUMMERVILLE James Summerville was born in County Tyrone, near Belfast, N. Ireland. He is interred with his wife in the Presbyterian Church cemetery, Cowansville, Pennsylvania. The cemetery where James and Sarah Scott Simmeral are buried is also called the Montgomery Cemetery or the Rich Hill Church Cemetery. The name is spelled "Summervill" on James' tombstone. His age appears as 87. "James (Simeral - Irish Name) was born near Belfast, Ireland, in County Down, in 1764....

Adjoining the Linnington-Titus tract on the west and 'Mt. Lorenzo' on the north is a hexagonal tract, 410 acres on the Gapen map, which had been surveyed by Gapen to 'Samuel Parr', on which James Simmeral made an improvement and settlement, March 5, 1796, which was surveyed to him by deputy surveyor Ross, July 6, 1801, which survey was disputed by Hugh Lennington to whom and Archibald McCall it was resurveyed '411 acres 8 perches', March 14, 1805, by virtue of previous improvement and...

James Somerville, the grandfather, was born in County Down, Ireland, not far from Belfast, and was nineteen years of age when he came to the United States and settled near Worthington, Pa., where he claimed 400 acres. In the meanwhile he became lonely and went to Westmoreland county to marry Sarah Scott. While he was absent from his land another prospector came along and quietly settled on 200 acres of the tract, and thus James Somerville found but 200 unoccupied acres awaiting him when he...

James (Simeral - Irish Name) was born near Belfast, Ireland, in County Down, in 1764. James, it is reported got into trouble over poaching rabbits, and to escape he took a ship to America in 1790 when he was 26 yrs. old. Shooting rabbits on the King's land was a hanging offense. He married Sarah Scott at Greensburg, Pa. Sarah was born in 1774 in Westmoreland Co., Pa, and was a daughter of James Scott, who was born in Scotland.

James Summerville (Somerville) was a native of County Down, Ireland, and in 1782 came to America.  He got into some difficulty about shooting rabbits out of the hunting season and to avoid arrest he took passage on a vessel which was ready to sail for the New World.  He first located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and on his arrival there his only possessions consisted of a dog and a gun.  After farming in that county for two years he removed to a place on Crooked Creek in Armstrong County...