| If you pause your cursor on the colored town areas in the map below, a name will be displayed. | Yarnall Migrations After Edgmont |
Our Yarnall line arrived in 1683 in Springfield (dark blue area). Philip went to Edgmont in 1687. It is one of the three light blue areas in the map. The light blue area is where the Yarnalls lived for 233 years from 1687 until 1920. Philip's son (Thomas) and grandsons (Job Sr) and (Caleb Sr) stayed in Edgmont. Caleb's son (John) also stayed in Edgmont. |
Job's son, Job Jr, went
to Middletown where his three sons (Mahlon, Eber, and Norris) were born. John's daughter Eliza had a child (William H) out of wedlock with her cousin (Eber) in Edgmont. William H was taken in by John's sister in Middletown when John and Eliza died. William H later resided in Aston where his son (George Grant) and grandson (Thomas Vincent) were born. Grant expanded the world of the Yarnalls a bit when he moved to Clifton Heights (small yellow area to the right of Springfield) in 1920. His son (Thomas Vincent) really accelerated the migrations because he lived in Clifton Heights, Yeadon, Clifton Heights, Springfield, Upper Providence, Morton, and Brookhaven (the green, yellow, blue, and tan areas) until 1978. Then he moved to Georgia. Thomas Vincent Jr continued the trend because he lived in many areas. First in Yeadon, PA. Next in Clifton Heights, PA. Briefly in Darby, PA and then back to Clifton Heights, PA. Next in Springfield, PA until 1956 (also while at college he lived in Allentown, PA). While in the Army he lived in Ft. Jackson, SC, Ft. Monmouth, NJ, Berlin and Munich Germany. After his military service, his jobs took him to residences in Altoona, PA, then Falls Church, VA, then Rockville, MD, then Richmond, VA, and then Cherry Hill, NJ. In his retirement he moved to Lower Gwynedd, PA in 2015. |
| Early Yarnalls from our branch of the family tree lived in four towns from 1683 until 1920. These were Springfield/Edgmont/Middletown/Aston. These Yarnalls were primarily farmers and mill workers during those 237 years. The next 30 years the family residences of our direct line of ancestors remained in Delaware County. When I went to college in 1950, no Yarnall in our direct line (not in the military) had lived outside of Delaware County. Our family's military service, educational pursuits, and jobs caused us to live in many other parts of the world starting in 1955. My great grandfather William H was the first to live outside of Delaware County when he served in the Army in the Civil War in 1863. That was in step 4 shown on the right. |
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