Elias & Lucretia Solomon UTT
Remarkably family wanted to spotlight, both of them. They are both buried at the Ransberry Cemetery in Analomink, Pa. Elias was the first one interred in this family cemetery. Elias born in 1749 on Lower Mt Bethel Township, Northampton Co., Pa. probably in Uttsville, the town named after his family. Elias a Revolutionary War patriot joined Captain Jayne Company in 1776. His service ended about 8 years later. He married Lucretia Solomon on 3 January 1782 Sussex Co., N.J. I can’t find any information on Lucretia family, but it’s a good guess she was from Northampton, Co., also. Her cemetery stone information has her birth date as 1763. I believe that is wrong. She would have been 14 when her an Elias were married. Not unheard of but it is doubtful. I put her birth date more in 1757. Her death date is 1859.
She and Elias lived on 200 acres and farmed and logged the property near the cemetery. This land was later part of the Ransberry family farm who are also buried there and then Thomas Stites who built a large hotel there. It's now part of the Brodhead Forest & Stream Association. They had children; Elizabeth, Catherine, Jane, Henry Jacob, Andrew, Eli & Adam. Elia died in 1833, I also read that he was wounded in battle, in the chest and survived his wounds. Could not confirm for sure.
See article from Mike Shepard; https://www.monroehistorical.org/archive/MayJun2012.pdf
From the Brodhead Water Shed; https://brodheadwatershed.org/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63262098/elias-utt
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