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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	485
May, 1814, and were the parents of the following children: Francis, Catherine, Alfred, Harriet, William, all of whom died in childhood. 6. Mary, born September, 1845, died November, 1865. 7. Anna (subject), 8. Susan, born 1854, died May, 1903, married Robert Steven's. 9. Vincient, born January, 1856, single. 10. Ferdinanda, born 1862, married Lucinda Deitrick and has six children: Grace, Genneve, Florence, Virginia, Francis, and Charles. William. McDermot, the father, was a carpenter by trade, and worked at this in connection with farming. From 1840 to 1841 he followed contracting and building at Ebensburg. In 1847 he settled on his farm, where he remained until his death in 1881. He was supervisor of Washington township (now Cresson) in 1851 and 1853. Politically he was a Democrat, and in religion a Catholic.     The subject's grandfather was Simon McDermot, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March, 1788, and married Mary Weakland, born 1781, died in 1870. The were the parents of eleven children: 1. John, born 1812, died 1847, married Sarah Warthen. 2. James, born June, 1813, died 1865, married Mary Bovine. 3. William. 4. Augustine, born 1816, married Frances Stovel. 5. Mary, born 1818, married Peter Piper. 6. Charles, born 1820; he was a major in the regular army. 7. Barnabas, born 1822, married Catherine Todd. 8. Michael. 9. Catherine, died in childhood. 10. Francis, born 1828, died 1902, married Margaret Maloy. 11. Elizabeth, born 1832, married Arthur Storm, and died 1861. The father of these children was a sturdy farmer of Huntingdon county, and there reared his family, removing to Cambria county in his old age and died at Summit in 1852; his wife in 1870.     Mrs. Hines' great-grandfather on the paternal side came from Ireland when seventeen years of age, and settled in Lancaster City, where he worked at the blacksmith's trade. Later he moved to Huntingdon county and took up land on Shaffer creek and became a farmer, remaining there until an old man, and then moved to Cambria county. His children were: James, Michael, John, Arthur, William, Simon, Henry, Bernard. The father died in 1860.     ZANNA B. BURKET, of Cresson, Pennsylvania, was born December 4, 1879, at Mitchells Mills, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, son of Samuel C. and Maria (Workinger) Burket.     The father was a native of Indiana county. He followed farming clear Mitchell, Mills for a number of years, then sold his farm and engaged in the livery business at Mitchells Mills which he followed for a number of years, and then sold and purchased letters patent for a lifting jack, which he retailed in connection with a medicine for animals, which he compounded for several years. He next moved to Altoona, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the livery business again, operating three years. Politically he was a Liberal, and held many places of public trust, including the officers of constable at Altoona, two terms; was on the police force;, was agent for the Humane Society for three years; was tax collector at Altoona two years; and is now engaged on the stock exchange at Altoona. He married Maria Workinger, of Indiana county, and they are the parents of ten children: 1 and 2. Charles and Milton, died in infancy. 3. Linnie, born 1865, married Harry H. Apple, and had three children: Naomi, Ruth and Genevieve. 4. Mattie, born 1867, married Frank McLeod, and have three children: Mary, Frank and Garnett. 5. Lloyd, born 1869, married Elizabeth, and they have four children, and reside in Ohio. 6. Edmund, born 1871, married Lizzie Trout, and have one child. 7. J. Chalmer, born 1873, single, and re-

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