Leah A. Phares

Leah Phares: I was at the Seese Hill Cemetery this week. Located on Upper Seese Hill Road, Canadensis, Monroe County Pa. The cemetery started as the Seese family Cemetery and has since included other local families. This week I took a number of photos of Leaha Phares stone. She seems to be on her own in the back. I wasn’t sure if other family were there and their stones are missing? Or the top half of her stone seems to be missing. The stone is short and the inscription is low, Probably the top half of the stone is missing. She was born 17 March 1815 and died 9 June 1896.When I started to research her I had a hard time finding any info on her. She was single, and there just isn’t a lot of info on the single ladies. I had also taken photos of the 2 closest stones to her. Lydia Ann Seese (1810-1853) and her husband Peter (1804-1874). Eureka!!! Leaha is a sister of Lydia Anne Phares Seese. The ladies where born in Buck County, daughters of William (1783-1878) yes lived a really long life, and Rachel Bodine (1790-1854). William a Quaker, was also a farmer. William and Rachel had children; Eliza, Stephen, Lydia, Rachel, Mary and William. Their surname is spelled a number of ways Frieze, Fhares, Fares, its English in decent. I’m guessing that the top of Leahs grave marker also had her father on it. The family probably all lived with Lydia and Peter. I couldn’t find evidence of it. Makes me wonder how Peter Seese met Lydia Phares. lots of questions