Husband: Cyrus Levi PINKERTON (1) thru (18), (25,26,27,28)
Birthdate: August 22, 1826
Birthplace: Halifax, Dauphin County, PA
Death date: September 30, 1880
Place of death: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois
Father: George PINKERTON (1797-1875) (17,18,25)
Mother: Margaret WRIGHT (1803-1882) (18,25)

Marriage date: April 20, 1848 (1)
Marriage place: Halifax, Dauphin County, PA

Wife: Hannah "Fannie" All SINGER (1,3,10(11,16,25)
Birthdate: 1830
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Death date: 1884
Place of death: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois
Father: Adam SINGER (25)
Mother: HERSHBERGER (25)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Margaret "Maggie" Ellen (3,10,25)
Sex: F
Birthdate: August 1849
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Sioux City, Iowa
Burial:
Marriage date: 1867/1868
Marriage place: Pennsylvania
Spouses' names: Frank H. SHEPHERD

Child No. 2: Francis "Frank" Elmore (10,16,21,25,26,27)
Sex: M
Birthdate: December 20, 1852
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: February 13, 1938
Place of death: Riverside, California
Burial:
Marriage date: October 20, 1881
Marriage place: Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois
Spouses' names: Marie E. BOIS

Child No. 3: William H.
Sex: M
Birthdate: December 28, 1856
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: December 29, 1858
Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Burial: Methodist Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, PA
Marriage date: Died in infancy
Marriage place: Died in infancy
Spouses' names:

Child No. 4: Jane "Jennie" M. (10,11)
Birthdate: January 1856
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Sioux City, Iowa
Burial:
Marriage date: February 20, 1879
Marriage place: Champaign Co., Illinois
Spouses' names: Homer J. NICHOLSON

Child No. 5: Alice L. (11,16,25)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1860
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown, after 1950
Place of death: Texas
Burial:
Marriage date: November 19, 1882
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: George W. KIRBY

Child No. 6: Edward Ellsworth (11,16,19,23,24,25)
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 28, 1863
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: May 30, 1929
Place of death: Chicago, Cook County Illinois
Burial:
Marriage date: 1885/1886
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: Fannie LOSTETTER

Child No. 7: Bertram Eugene (16,20,22,25,26,27)
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 28, 1872
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: After 1954
Place of death: Houston, Texas
Burial:
Marriage date: June 6, 1900
Marriage place: unknown
Spouses' names: Jean SMELTY (20,22)

Child No. 8: Sarah "Sadie" Watson (25)
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 14, 1851
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Burial:
Marriage date: Died in infancy
Marriage place: Died in infancy
Spouses' names:

Child No. 9: Lucy Amelia (25)
Sex: F
Birthdate: October 10, 1850
Birthplace: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA
Burial:
Marriage date: Died in infancy
Marriage place: Died in infancy
Spouses' names:

Child No. 10: unknown (25)
Sex: unknown
Birthdate: unknown
Birthplace: unknown
Death date: Died in Infancy
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:
 
 
Documentation:
  1. Tremont Methodist Episcopal Church, Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA, Marriage Records: "Hannah A. SINGER married Cyrus Levi PINKERTON April 20, 1848".
  2. "Tremont Area Bicentennial 1776-1976" published 1976, Schuylkill County Historical Society, "on March 1, 1850 C.L. PINKERTON opened a three month school in the 'Creek School'. On August 31, 1850 KRAMM and PINKERTON were elected teachers at twenty-seven dollars a month."
  3. 1850 Federal Census Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, PA: "Cyrus PINKERTON, 24, Teacher; Hannah, 20; Margaret, 1."
  4. Tremont Tax Assessment Lists, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA for Cyrus L. PINKERTON: 1851; 1856, 1857 - School Teacher; 1858; 1859 - Attorney; 1861-65; 1867- 1878 - Tremont Borough."
  5. ZERBEY'S "History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania", p1118, Schuylkill County Historical Society, Pottsville, PA. "Tremont Township new schools... the first teachers in the building were No 1 Henry Edmunds, $30; No 2 Edward L. JONES, $30; and C.L. PINKERTON, $30... (1854).
  6. ZERBEY'S "History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County, PA., p1117-8, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON 1850: Teacher at Creek School; 1855 Teacher, salary of $30, New Brick School, Church Street, Tremont; 1860 Lawyer.
  7. Schuylkill County Deeds, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA Grantee Index No 1 p77: Cyrus L. PINKERTON buying property in Schuylkill County as follows: Lot 129 (1855), Lot 11 (1858), Lot 41-129 (1866) all in Tremont; property in Branch Township (1873); additional property in Tremont Township (1874), Property in Foster Township (1874), Property in Hegins Township (1882); and p79 Fannie PINKERTON purchased Lot 41, Tremont, PA (1866).
  8. Schuylkill County Deeds, Grantor Index No 1, P, p33 Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: Recorded sale of ten properties owned by Cyrus Levi PINKERTON (1856-1874).
  9. MUNSELL'S History of Schuylkill County, p76: List of State Representatives: Cyrus L. PINKERTON 1859, 1860, PA State Representative.
  10. 1860 Federal Census Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA: C.L PINKERTON, Lawyer, 34; Fannie, 30; Maggie, 11; Francis, 7; Jane, 5."
  11. 1870 Federal Census Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA: Cyrus PINKERTON, Lawyer, 44; Fannie, 40; Jane M. 15; Alice L. 9; Edwin E. 7."
  12. 1875 Map of Tremont listing properties with their owners. Schuylkill County Historical Society, Pottsville, PA: C.L. PINKERTON recorded as the owner of a property on West Main Street in Tremont; and, a property on West Laurel Street.
  13. Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1878, #111: in the divorce proceedings of Susan MOYER PINKERTON against her husband, Benjamin Franklin PINKERTON, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON, Esquire served as her attorney. Susan PINKERTON testified "I received a letter from my husband two or three weeks after he left Tremont for Hollidaysburg. I gave the letter to Cyrus PINKERTON and his brother Hiram PINKERTON to read ... after that I destroyed the letter for fear that some one might get to read it. He stated in the letter that he would never live with me anymore..."
  14. SMULL'S "Legislative Handbook of 1879, p266 State House of Representatives, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON.
  15. BOYD'S Business Directory of Schuylkill County, PA, 1879 - Cyrus Levi PINKERTON, Lawyer, Crescent Street, Tremont, Schuylkill County, PA.
  16. 1880 Federal Census Village of Rantoul, Champagne County, Illinois: "Cyrus PINKERTON 54, Retired Lawyer, Fannie, 50, Francis E. 27, Alice L. 19, Edwin E. 17 Clerk in Store, Bertie 8".
  17. Orphans Court Docket #20, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA p.289 "my son Cyrus being since deceased leaving issue Maggie intermarried with Thomas SHEPPARD, Frank, Jennie intermarried with Homer J. NICHOLSON, Alice, Edwin, and Bertie."
  18. George PINKERTON Will, Schuylkill County Will Book 4, p216-217, Pottsville, PA. Cyrus listed as lineal descendant, "deceased".
  19. 1910 Federal Census 25th Ward, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: "Edward PINKERTON, 45, widowed, born in PA, Manager - Box Factory."
  20. 1910 Federal Census Rossville Village, Vermilion County, Illinois: "Bertram E. PINKERTON, 37, married 9 years, Proprietor & Editor - Weekly Paper; Jean 33, 5 children/5 living; Beatrice, 8; John E., 7; Nancy 6; Allen E. 4; Dorothy 3."
  21. 1910 Federal Census 4th Ward, Urbana, Champagne County, Illinois: "Francis E. PINKERTON, 57, married 28 years; Mary E., 50, married 28 years, four children/4 living; Mary, daughter, 17."
  22. 1920 Federal Census, Monmouth, Monmouth Township, Warren County, Illinois: "Bertram E. PINKERTON, 48, Publisher - Daily Paper, Jean, 44, born Illinois; their children: Beatrice, 17, John C., 16, Nancy G., 15, Allen E., 14, Dorothy, 13 all born in Illinois."
  23. 1920 Federal Census, 25th Ward, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: "Edward PINKERTON, Lodger, 45, widowed, born in Pennsylvania, Manufacturer of boxes."
  24. Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916-1950):"Edward Ellsworth PINKERTON Died May 30, 1929, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Filed June 2, 1929."
  25. "Autobiography of Frank E. PINKERTON", 1931: "My father, Cyrus Levi PINKERTON was born in Halifax and married Miss Fannie All Singer in Halifax and moved to Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church In the latter village, he taught school, a private institution, pupils paying him tuition.. My mother lead in the singing of geography. I can remember the song as "Pennsylvania's bounded north by New York and New Jersey", and so on throughout the various states. He closed the school as soon as the village took over the education of the children. As a new profession, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, being a leading lawyer of the county. He was elected to the legislature for one term and was a strong candidate for congress in his later years. During the Civil War he was elected to certify those who were drafted to service and was chosen to make up the county's quota of soldiers, who enlisted at $300 each to act as substitutes or volunteers to enter the service of their country. In this public service he and his deputies became very unpopular among Democrats and foreign-born citizens. By a Catholic Priest, who was friendly to him, he was told to beware as there were threats against his life. He was cautious and our family for months was in a fever of anxiety for his life, as well as our own as a boycott was placed on us. We moved from our house and were protected by the city authorities. I was in a dump-coal car when a train was stationed at the National Hotel at Tremont to take drafted men and substitutes to Harrisburg, PA., to be mustered into the service, when a motley crowd of miners, laborers and the excited mob marched into town with all sorts of weapons, threatening to kill anyone who tried to resist them. They marched through the coaches and ordered all persons out of the coaches and demanded the engineer take the train back to the state capitol. He did so without protest. They resisted the draft. Father was secreted in the attic of the hotel, I learned later. Knowing what I did, I was in great fear that they might get me, so I quietly escaped to my home and mother and the children were in fear of the menace that was so close. Father had been selected by Governor Curtis as Colonel of his staff and subsequently raised a regiment for the war but never entered the army, his brother Joseph, substituting for him as he was needed as a home guard. Father issued "Shin Plasters," scrip as legal tender. He had out several thousand dollars during the Civil War, when currency was frozen, withheld from circulation. He died in 1880 in Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois, my mother following him in 1884 with cancer in the neck. She was an exceptionally fine contralto singer, and lead in the church choir and prayer meetings and revivals, the latter being yearly occurances. They had six children grown to maturity: Maggie, Sadie, Francis, Jennie, Alice, Edward and Bertram. Sadie died young; Jennie of general debility in Sioux City, Iowa. Alice in Tremont of cancer of the stomach; Edward in Chicago; Margaret in Sioux City, Iowa. Surviving are Francis Elmore and Bertram Eugene. Three died in infancy. Father was a prominent Republican, previously a Whig with abolition sympathies. His house was a station of the underground railroad and the cellar of our house was an asylum for the negroes who escaped from the South and helped them to reach Canada and freedom. He was "Know-Nothing" when the Americans feared that the foreign element imported by business and mine interests would capture the offices of the county, state and nation and menace the Republican form of government. The "Copperheads" and the "Knights of the Golden Circle" threatened the outstanding leaders favorable to the Union with bodily injury or death. We were forced from our home and for some time were in seclusion. I was ten years old when the war broke out. The patriotic speeches, bands, torch-light parades, general excitement, Battle of Bull Run, John Brown's foolish threat of an uprising and march to liberate the slaves, and the repeated personal conflict, when liquor inflamed the partisans, causing serious bodily injury and death, community and family strifes all creating a tension that divided the people in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. During the war, dead soldiers were brought north and buried, and I can still hear the drum corps leading processions past our house on their way to the Methodist cemetery. They had six children grown to maturity: Maggie, Sadie, Francis, Jennie, Alice, Edward and Bertram. Sadie died young, Jennie of general debility in Sioux City, Iowa, Alice in Tremont of cancer of the stomach; Edward in Chicago; Margaret in Sioux City, Iowa. Surviving are Francis Ellmore and Bertram Eugene. Three died in infancy."
  26. B.E. PINKERTON letter dated February 2, 1946, addressed to Mrs. Betty (PAUL) REIDLER 1020 Spruce Street, Ashland, Pennsylvania: ..."Frank and I were closest together although not in the same communities for much of our lives. However, after my father died when I was eight years of age and my mother died when I was twelve, he became more or less my foster father..."
  27. B.E. PINKERTON letter (B.E. Pinkerton Stocks & Bonds 423 W. 32nd St. Houston, Texas) dated June 16, 1950, addressed to Mr. Burton L. PINKERTON, Maple Ave., Hatfield, Pennsylvania: "My brother, Frank E. PINKERTON who was some twenty years older than myself wrote quite a biography of himself when he was seventy-nine years of age and from it I get most of my ancestry, but it does not go back far enough. Frank wrote that our great- grandfather was born in Halifax, Pennsylvania, but died before he was born in December, 1852. He was a carpenter and in the grain business. Frank did not know the first name of the great-grandfather or of his great-grandmother. On the father's side the grandfather was George PINKERTON, also born in Halifax, but of Scotch descent... I do not remember him although he died at 78 years and grandmother at 80, But, I have been told I was quite a favorite with him since I was born in March 28, 1872, and he was a frequent baby sitter for me. As I remember the family of my aunts and uncles of whom I knew but one, they were Kate PINKERTON BAILEY, Emma PINKERTON MEILY, and the mother of Mrs. REIDLER'S father..."
  28. Paul W. PINKERTON (1915-1990), handwritten genealogy notes concerning Tremont Tax Assessment Lists: 1861 - Cyrus - Attorney, lot, house, improvements, 2nd house, carriage, buggy; 1862 - Cyrus Levi paid additional tax under the heading "gold and silver watches - $100".

Notes:
  * Francis Elmore PINKERTON (1852-1938), Frank E. PINKERTON, was the oldest son of Cyrus Levi PINKERTON, grandson of George PINKERTON and great-grandson of Hugh PINKERTON. He was a printer and newspaper publisher in Rantoul, Illinois. His autobiography written in California in 1931, was sent by his brother, Bertram Eugene PINKERTON, to Burton LeRoy PINKERTON, Jr. in Philadelphia in 1950. B.E. PINKERTON had been in correspondence with PINKERTON cousins beginning in 1946 with Mrs. Betty PAUL REIDLER of Ashland, PA in an attempt to share family history information. These "genealogy" letters were passed by Burton LeRoy PINKERTON, Jr. to Betty PINKERTON HENDRICKS and from her to her brother, Harold Leroy PINKERTON, Sr.
  * Harold L. PINKERTON Genealogy Source Notebook "Cyrus Levi PINKERTON". Harold L. PINKERTON, Sr. is the son of Forrest Henry PINKERTON, grandson of Wells W. PINKERTON, great-grandson of George A. PINKERTON and the great-great grandson of George PINKERTON.
  * The inspiration for PINKERTON Genealogy by Harold L. PINKERTON and his daughter, Sharon P. WAYLAND came from communication with Paul W. PINKERTON (1915-1990) a distant cousin, and his daughter Helen P. RYDELL, who in 1984- 1990 worked on mapping the various branches of PINKERTON cousins descended from Hugh PINKERTON (1767-1852).
  * The Federal Census Data reported in this Family Group Sheet was culled from the Heritage Quest On-Line Database.