Oliver Anderson Farmstead
Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Updated: February 4, 2022
General Information about the pages on this web site:
This web site contains eleven pages about the history and genealogy of the Oliver Anderson, Archibald McCullough, and William McCune Families from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Oliver Anderson and William McCune Families are from an area known as the "Corner" located in Montgomery Township five miles southwest of Mercersburg, Pa. Archibald McCullough family is from the area known as the "Little Cove" in Warren Township near the village of Sylvan. Some members in the Archibald McCullough family spell their name as McCulloh.
Other prominent families on this web site are Clark, Dick, Folk, Phelps, & Humphreys which are all connected to the Oliver Anderson family and from Franklin County area.
Information about the Slate Hill Graveyard where Oliver Anderson and David Humphrey, Sr. are buried is included on this web site.
Information on this web site was collected from many sources and also includes much of the information from a book written by Mrs. Elizabeth Brubaker Wolff who was the compiler and author of the book titled "Early History and Genealogy of the Anderson-McCullough-McCune Families and Related Lines of Franklin County, Pa". Other prominent families in her book are Clark, Dick, Folk, Phelps, & Humphrey which are all connected to the Oliver Anderson family. The Wolff book includes data that was compiled up to the late 1950's and was distributed in 1963. Elizabeth also wrote a sketch named "Looking Backward" of the time she lived as a young person in the area known as the "Corner" located 5 miles southwest of Mercersburg, Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It describes her memories and events of places and people living there in the late 1800's. Many of the ancestors in this genealogy once lived in this area of Pennsylvania. The sketch is also included on this web site.
The four family links below are the basic families to access their separate pages. Most pages also contain additional links to the other pages and to other sites with related family documents, pictures, and genealogy information. Information is sometimes presented as photographs and pdf files usually at bottom of pages.
All Related Lines on this Web Site:
Anderson Family Oliver Anderson (1742 - 1810)
McCullough/McCulloh Family Archibald McCullough
McCune Family William McCune (Abt 1712 - 1782)
Humphrey Family David Humphrey, Sr (1720 - 1795)
Oliver Anderson Farm:
The Oliver Anderson farm is located in the area known as the "Corner" five miles southwest of Mercersburg in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The farm is located on a sharp curve in the road at 11300 Punch Bowl Road and the lane to the farm is known as Anne Lane. The farm is at the base of the North Mountain where the Anderson Path begins and goes up over the North Mountain and down into the Little Cove to the village of Sylvan. Part of the farm is currently being developed into small family homes.
OLIVER ANDERSON: (information from Elizabeth Wolff's book "Early History and Genealogy of the Anderson-McCullough-McCune Families and Related Lines of Franklin County, Pa., pg 10, 11)
Coming from the north of Ireland to America early, the family, it is thought, settled in Newcastle County for a number of years, then members of the family came to Cumberland County, Pa., as early as 1764 in what was known as the "Conococheague Settlement", which later became Franklin County. A portion of this county is designated the "Corner" so named from the contour of the mountains in the area. This part of the county was chosen as the future home of the Andersons, and here members of that clan spent their entire lives. He was a farmer by occupation, taking up three hundred and twenty acres of land from the Government, part of which was mountain land. It was then in Cumberland County. His farm was six miles southwest of Mercersburg.
Contact Information: New information, corrections, and updates to this Genealogy and Web Site are welcome. If you have any information or questions please send email to: andersonmccullohmccunefcpa@gmail.com.
Related Web Site: (Anderson Mill, Hays Fording Double Arch Stone Bridge, the Witherspoon "Red" Covered Bridge, Irwinton Historic District and the Hays Bridge Historic District)
Web site Irwinton Mill (aka Anderson Mill) contains information and pictures of Irwinton Mill (aka Anderson Mill), the nearby Hays Fording Double Arch Stone Bridge, the Witherspoon "Red" Covered Bridge, working model of a northern grist mill and a working model of a southern grist mill. Site also contain information about the Irwinton Historic District and the Hays Bridge Historic District taken with permission from two National Register of Historic Places Registration Forms Information is generally about an area on or near Anderson Road and the Conococheague Creek in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Chester Anderson, great-grandson of Oliver Anderson, operated the Irwinton Mill (aka Anderson Mill not far from the family farm in the "Corner" and the Slate Hill Cemetery. The mill is situated along the west branch of the Conococheague Creek, on Anderson Road in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The mill is owned by the youngest son of Chester. Another son built a working model of a grist mill (southern style), and a second grist mill (northern style) which also includes a cider mill, and saw mill.
Related Pages and Web Sites:
Home Page (Anderson-McCullough-McCune Genealogy)
Archibald McCullough Family (aka McCulloh)
David Humphrey, Sr. Family (1720 - 1795)
Oliver Anderson Family 1742 -1810
William McCune Family (abt. 1712 - 1782)
Irwinton Mill (aka Anderson Mill)