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Edward Charles Bytheway and Mae Laura Widdup
Following is the story of our ancestors Edward Charles Bytheway, born 19 January 1867 in Shropshire, England and May Laura Widdup, born 2 February 1883 Edward was the third child born of Edward Bytheway (21 March 1841) born in Bilson, Staffordshire, England and Jane (Causer) Humphreys (5 July 1844) born in England. On 27 June 1870 Edward's father left from Liverpool, steerage, ship’s manifest ##903336 bound for New York. He later settled in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. A year later, Jane left on on the "SS Idaho" with Sarah (7), Elizabeth (5), Edward (3) and Joseph (toddler). Our grandpa Edward Bytheway was at the ripe age of 3 years old for this journey. Edward was baptized at the All Saints Parish of Darton on 21 February 1867. Located in the northern reaches of Westmoreland County, the town of Moween, in Loyalhanna Township, along with the drift entry Moween Mines. The mine is opened in the Upper Freeport seam on the Westmoreland county side of the Kiskiminetas River. The tipple is located across the Conemaugh River in Indiana County, the Moween Mine was established ca.1906 by the Keystone Coal Company. The Moween Mines mined the 43 inch thick Upper Freeport Coal seam.
Edwards Parents including Brothers and Sisters
Mae Laura Widdup Parents including Brothers and Sisters A steel bridge, 500 feet
long, spans the river between these points. A track for the loaded mine
cars has been completed, ca.1906. Another will be laid soon. A The third
track has been completed ca.1906. The The Keystone Coal Company, not to be confused with the Keystone Coal & Coke Company of Greensburg, had its general offices in York, Pennsylvania, and was led by W. O. Houck. In addition to the Moween Mines, Keystone Coal Company owned the Glen McClaren Mines in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The Moween Mines exploited the Upper Freeport coal seam which had an average thickness of 42 inches in this area. By ca.1910 the Moween Mines employed eighty-three men and boys in the mines, who produced over 78,000 tons of coal. The miners extracted the coal by pick and shovel and loaded it by hand. Most of the coal produced at the Moween Mines was shipped to steam-coal markets via the Pennsylvania Railroad's Conemaugh Division. By ca.1913 Keystone Coal Company had
opened a second mine at Moween, though it was not operated until the
following year. Although the company continued to mine the coal largely
by hand, it added three Sullivan electric mining machines and employed
three electric trolley mine locomotives for haulage of the coal from the
mines. A boiler house and powerhouse at the mine, contained one 150
kilowatt generator, and During the First World War the Keystone Coal Company moved its field offices from Meyersdale, Somerset County to Moween, Westmoreland County. Edward Bytheway oversaw the coal company's operations at Moween during the 1910's when it built many of the miners houses in Moween. The coal company store in Moween was operated by B. Straths and Brothers Company. The American Hotel was located in Moween, during the coal mining days, operated by Mr. Schardt. Although Keystone Coal Company was one of the smallest coal companies in the region it remained an independent producer and continued to operate mines in Westmoreland and Somerset counties. In ca.1918 Keystone Coal Company, having abandoned the Glen McClaren mine, opened Keystone No. 4 Mine near Meyersdale. However, the Moween Mines remained the larger of the two mining operations. By the mid 1920's the Moween Mines were regularly producing over 120,000 tons of coal each year. The mines employed 130 miners. Edward Bytheway continued to serve as superintendent of the Moween Mines and the company was headed by J. E. Baker of York, Pennsylvania. J. E. Baker led the
Keystone Coal Company through the great depression years of the 1930's.
Having shed By the 1940's the company had dispensed with the powerhouse and purchased electricity from outside the town. About ca.1950, the Keystone Coal Company ceased operations at the Moween Mines. (History and description of the Moween Mines, with additional data and pictures adapted from "Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1994," America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) Father: Edward Bytheway b: 21 Mar 1842 in Ettinshall, Shropshire, England c: 17 Dec 1843 in St. Leonards, Bilston, Staffordshire, England Mother: Jane Humphries b: 5 Jul 1844 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Jane Humprys was long thought to be the child of William Causer but in reality, William did not marry her mother until much later in life. Elizabeth Causer, Jane's mother was listed on Jane and Edward Bytheway's marriage certificate as Elizabeth Humprys and Jane Humphrys as her illegitimate daughter. For this reason, later in life, Jane Bytheway adopted the maiden name of Causer but William Causer was in fact, her step father. Jane had two half-brothers from mother and step-father, Thomas Causer born 1847 and Charles Causer born 1849. Marriage 1 Margaret Ann Jones 19 Sep 1888, Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania in 1888 and had a child, Jane Phoebe Bytheway, born September 10, 1891 and died in Paintertown, PA on 2 February 1893. Children 1. Jane Phoebe Bytheway, September 10, 1891, Jane Phoebe, started living with her grand parents Edward and Jane Bytheway when her mom died. Because she didn't get along with her new step-mom along with shortly after Aunt Blanch being born in 1908 and she was 4 months pregnant at 16, ran away and married Anthony Calamari where they settled in Charleroi, Washington County, PA, about 60 miles from Saltsburg. Jane Phoebe had her first child in 1911. Marriage 2
May Laura Widdup b:
1884/1886 in ,Pennsylvania • Married: 1906/1907 • Note: In the 1910
Census, Edward states his marriage to May was his second marriage. She
states she has had one child, and that child is still living, which
would be Blanche, born 1908. In the 1930 census, Mae gives h Children 1. Blanche Elizabeth Bytheway b: 1908 in ,Pennsylvania. Blanche worked in a munitions factory during WWII and retired in the Saltsburg house she grew up in. She also shared the house with Fannie (Bytheway) Wilcox and her husband William Wilcox. Blanche never married or had children. In August, 1966, Miss Blanche Bytheway, of Point Pleasant, Saltsburg, returned from an extensive bus tour which took her through the Northwest including many of America's scenic and historical spots. She was insulin dependent diabetic which contributed to her early death. Blanche was the oldest of all of Edward and Mae Laura Bytheway's children. 2.
Francis (Fanny) Grace. Bytheway b:
1912 in ,Pennsylvania. Fannie B. Wilcox, 94, of Saltsburg, died
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, in Latrobe Area Hospital. She was born April
7,
3. Margaret Gwynne Bytheway b: 1914 in Pennsylvania. She died in 2003 of pancreatic cancer without ever getting married or having children. Margaret served in the US Army as a nurse and retired as a Lt. Col. Margaret (Peg) served in WWII and the Korean war. Peg and Robert W. Bytheway were very close while they were growing up and throughout their adult years. Peg served in the US Army as a nurse and retired as Lt. Col. Throughout her army career, she was a part of WWII, Korea and Vietnam. She traveled to Germany, France, Italy, Austria and the middle east. Margaret Bytheway was born on 07/15/1914 and died on 07/31/2003. Margaret Bytheway is buried in the cemetery: Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery , which is located in San Diego, Ca. 4.
Edward John Bytheway b:
1917 in ,,Pennsylvania. Services were at 1 p.m. January 8 at the Fox
Funeral Home for John E. Bytheway Sr., age 84 of 161 Oakley Avenue, who
died January 5, 2001 in Forum Health Beeghly Medical Park Emergency
Room. Mr. Bytheway was born August 22, 1916 in Moween, Pa. A son
5.
Robert Winston Bytheway b: 1922 in ,,Pennsylvania. Relocated
to Washington DC after WWII as a Marriage 1 Spouse Virginia Campbell (1950) Marriage 2 Spouse Shirley Turner (1980)
Grandma Edna and Uncle Eddie as Baby
Robert W. Bytheway and Grandpa Edward Bytheway
Grandpa Edward Bytheway Obituary
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elevation of the bridge is such as
to allow the empty mine cars to run by gravity from the tipple back to
the mine entrance. A foot bridge will soon be erected underneath the
main bridge for the accommodation of those employed at this mine. A
blacksmith shop and a few tenant houses have been erected ca.1906. 
supplied the electricity for the mine and the
coal company town of Moween. During the First World War coal from the
Moween Mine was extracted exclusively using electric mining machines. In
ca.1917 the Moween Mines employed 142 men and boys, and produced 152,368
tons of coal. By ca.1918 Keystone Coal Company employed 127 miners at
the Moween Mines and they produced over 144,000 tons of coal. 
the Meyersdale mine property, the company operated only the Moween Mines. Employment at the Moween Mines remained relatively stable
with about 120 miners working single shifts. During the Second World War
the Keystone Coal Company employed as many as 211 miners at the Moween
Mines. In ca.1943 the Moween Mines produced about 122,000 tons of coal.
The mine's preparation plant included a coal crusher, bar screens, a
picking table, and loading booms. Six electric trolley locomotives
hauled the coal from the mine. 
er age at
her first marriage (to Edward) as 22. She is 46 that year. Doing the
math gives them a marriage year of 1906. 
1911, in Moween to the late Edward and Mae L. (Widdup) Bytheway,
married in Bermuda, lived there for six years and then lived in
Saltsburg for most of her life. Mrs. Wilcox graduated from California
State Teachers College, where she was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma
sorority, and was a teacher in Loyalhanna Township and the Saltsburg
School District for 28 years before retiring in 1974. She was a member
of Saltsburg Presbyterian Church; the Order of the Eastern Star, Apollo;
AARP Round Top Chapter, Export; the PSEA, and the Indiana County Retired
Schoolteachers Association. Also predeceased by her husband, William S.
Wilcox, who died in 1992; sisters, Blanche Bytheway, who died in 1988,
and Lt. Col. Margaret Bytheway, who died in 2003, and brothers, John
Bytheway, who died in 2001, and Robert W. Bytheway, who died in 1997.
Surviving are many nieces and nephews. Visitation was in the CURRAN
FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES, 701 Salt St., Saltsburg, where
services were at 10 a.m. Saturday with the Rev. Susan Porch Lantz
officiating. Burial in Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg. Memorials may be
made to the American Cancer Society, 320 Bilmar Drive, Pittsburgh, PA
15205.
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Edward and Mae L. Widdup Bytheway and came to Youngstown in 1981 from
Pittsburgh. He graduated from Saltsburg H.S. in Saltsburg, PA., attended
Kiski Prep School & Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. & graduated
from Duff's Business Institute in Pittsburg. He was a Salesman for 25 years
for Ceco Corp. retiring in 1981. He was a member of Calvary Baptist
Church, its XYZ Club, Boardman VFW & the National Rifle Association. He
was a Mason for 50 years. He was a WWII Army Veteran serving in North
Africa, Italy & Sicily. Besides his wife, the former Emogene Cochran
whom he married August 1, 1942, he leaves two daughters, Betty A.
Sandrock of Poland & Margaret A. Yurkovich of Shorewood, IL; A son, John
E. Jr. of Leominster, MA; two sisters Fannie B. Wilcox of Saltsburg and
Margaret G. Bytheway of San Jose, CA; three grandchildren. A sister
Blanche E. Bytheway & a brother Robert W. Bytheway are deceased.
Contributions may be made to the Church, 1463 Shields Road, Youngstown,
Ohio 44512. 
SSGT in the US Army Air Corps and
started working for Capital Airlines as an aircraft mechanic working on
DC3 aircraft. He met Virginia Campbell from Des Moines, Iowa who was
going to school in Washington DC and they married. He had three sons,
Glenn Edward (1951), Robert Alan (1953), William Henry (1954) and one
daughter Susan Elaine (1965). Capital Airlines was purchased by United
Airlines and he was given an opportunity to move to the San Francisco
area as a maintenance supervisor at SFO refurbishing Boeing 727
aircraft. We settled in 1966 in Santa Clara, California. In 1969,
Virginia died of brain cancer. Robert later remarried Shirley Turner
from Sunnyvale in 1980 and they continued to live in Santa Clara until
his death Sept. 11, 1997. He died at the hospital after a failed attempt
to clear a a blocked artery. 
Copyright 2012 William Bytheway, Renton, Washington