BIO: ROBERT MICKEY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 347-348
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    ROBERT MICKEY, a prosperous farmer and enterprising citizen of Oakville
  post office, Newton township, traces his line to his great-grandfather,
  Robert Mickey, who founded the family in this country.
    
    (I) Robert Mickey, great-grandfather, emigrated from Ireland, to what is
  now Newton township, and was one of the first settlers in the valley, and he
  and his wife Agnes lived out their span of days there, and their remains were
  interred in the Big Spring cemetery, at Newville.
    
    (II) One of their sons, Robert Mickey, the grandfather of our subject, was
  born in 1746. He inherited that part of the original tract on which his
  grandson now lives, and to which he has added largely, and lived all his life
  on the farm, where in 1767, he built the stone house, in which our subject was
  born. Robert Mickey married Ezemiah Kelly, of York county. His death occurred
  Dec. 22, 1828, when he had attained to the venerable age of eighty-two years.
  His widow lived to be seventy-five years of age, and died Dec. 8, 1830. Their
  children were: Andrew, Thomas, John, James, Mary, Agnes and Margaret, all now
  deceased.
    
    (III) James Mickey, the father of Robert, our subject, was born Feb. 15,
  1795. He became a farmer and never removed from the family home in which he
  was born. He died in the year 1835. On April 15, 1818, he married Lucetta
  Carothers, of Silver Spring township, who was born Aug. 11, 1801, and died
  March 20, 1862. Six children were born to them, two of whom died young. One
  daughter, Ezemiah, born April 26, 1820, became the wife of Joseph Moody,
  removed to Ohio, and died there. The living are: Mary Ann, born Feb. 19,
  1828, wife of William W. Frazier, who lives in Missouri; Hays, born Aug. 6,
  1833, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Kelly, of York county, and now
  resides in California; Robert, the eldest son, born Jan. 14, 1823, until
  three years ago, lived in the house built by his grandfather, but in 1880,
  built his present house, across the road from his birthplace.
    
    For several years prior to the father's death, the farm was rented, but
  when Robert was eighteen years of age, he took a part of
    
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  it into his own hands, and a few years later bought the shares of his two
  sisters, so that he now is the owner of over three-fourths of the manor farm.
  The remainder is owned by his brother. He also owns adjoining property, known
  as the Thomas Mickey farm. In November, 1846, he was married to Elizabeth,
  daughter of John McCulloch, of Newton township. To this union thirteen
  children have been born, three of whom died young. The survivors are: Sarah
  Belle, wife of James Hamphill, living in Kansas; John E., a merchant of
  Oakville; Lucetta, wife of William Park, of Franklin county; Mary Elizabeth,
  wife of John Witherspoon, of Franklin county; Robert Austin, who married Mary
  Belle McCoy, and lives on his father's farm; Ira, who married Sarah Hood, and
  was in the employ of the Carlisle Manufacturing Company, of Carlisle, when he
  died, March 19, 1887; Andrew Elmer, Eugene Sherman and Helen, all three living
  at home; and Quinn Thornton, graduate of Lafayete college and now an attorney
  of Shippensburg. Mr. Mickey has never filled office, but has the best
  interests of the township at heart, and can always be counted upon to uphold
  justice and to advance his locality. He belongs to Big Spring Presbyterian
  Church, in which he takes a leading part, and toward the support of which he
  is a liberal contributor. Mrs. Mickey died Sept. 21, 1893, aged sixty-six
  years, seven months and four days. She was a consistent member of the Big
  Spring Presbyterian Church.