{"id":9430,"date":"2019-10-16T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=9430"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:27:04","slug":"the-thomas-p-lydia-austen-haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=9430","title":{"rendered":"The Thomas P. & Lydia Allison Austen Haunted House"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the\u00a0Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>
\nby Judith A. Oliver, historian
\nOctober 13, 1996
\nProvided by James Paxton, Austen-Pearce cousin
\n10\/16\/19\"\"(Click on reproduction to enlarge or<\/a>
\nsee 4-part enlargement below for readability)<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: While there have several Thomas P. Austens in Pittsburgh’s North Hills over the years, the one above is believed to have been a descendant of our Ambrose Austen<\/a>. Coincidentally, one named Thomas Pierce Austen (middle name spelled differently than our “Pearce”) was a son of Charles and Ann (relationship to our Austens unclear), died 4 years later, and is buried in the nearby Greenwood Cemetery. As the article says, however, wife Lydia was the granddaughter of our George Allison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Click on each section to enlarge. Print in Landscape.)\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is the original caption for the Austen-Pearce\/Pearce-Austen reunion photo above, taken and published in 1913, from my article on the history of our family reunions.<\/a> Unfortunately, the later 1996 newspaper story doesn’t include our Pearces because of its emphasis on the Austen’s “haunted house.”<\/p>\n

(Click on to enlarge)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to read about a similar haunting in a Pearce family residence of that time, go to “The Pearce Blanket: Keeping the World Warm,”<\/a> and learn about the Austen (first name, not so coincidentally) Pearce house in Harmony, PA.<\/p>\n

Last revised 10\/17\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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