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494	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
WILLI WYSEL, of South Fork, was born October 20, 1856, son of Moses Wysel, and grandson of Joseph Wysel. The father of Joseph Wysel was George Wysel, who came from Maryland to Cambria county, where he took up a tract of land at Mineral Point. Wysel Hill, which was then included within the limits of Bedford county, was named in his honor. He was a farmer and hunter. His brother John was a soldier in the revolutionary army. George Wvsel lived to an advanced age.     Joseph Wysel, son of George Wysel, was born in Maryland, and was a child when the family moved to Pennsylvania. He owned a large tract of land at Mineral Point, and moved to Wabash, Indiana county, where he ended his days. He was a Democrat and a member of the Lutheran church.     Moses Wysel, son of Joseph Wysel, was born December 19, 1834, and was reared on a farm, being at one time employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as track foreman. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in May, 1864, was captured at Mine Run, (whence he was taken to Andersonville prison, where he died. He was interred at National Park, July 28, 1865. He married, December 19, 1855, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Funk, and they were the parents of three children: 1. William, of whom later. 2. Henrietta, born in 1858, wife of Ezra Oaks, had eight children. 3. Jennie, born in 1860, wife of Joseph Wicks, Junior, had ten children.     William Wysel, son of Moses and Elizabeth (Funk) Wysel, was educated at the Soldiers' Orphans schools at Cassville and Jacksonville, Pennsylvania. He also pursued a course in mining from the Scranton school of correspondence. He was employed as a clerk until 1896, and in 1901 engaged in mercantile business, intrusting the management of the store to his son, while he himself worked at the trade of carpenter. For sixteen years he served as clerk of the borough council, and for the same length of time was school director. For three years he held the office of treasurer of the borough school fund, and at present is assessor of first ward. He is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.     Mr. Wysel married, in 1876, Anna, daughter of Aaron Berkebile, and they are the parents of the following children: Ella, born 1876; Alva B., 1878; Joseph, 1880; Henry, 1881; John W., 1884; Edith, 1886; Charles H., 1888; Laura, 1891; and Iva, 1896.     WILLIAM H. MOORE, of South Forks, was born in 1868, in Luzerne county, son of William R. Moore, and grandson of William Moore, who was born in 1812, in Maryland, and was until the close of his life a pilot on the Susquehanna river. He was a Democrat, and a supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. William Moore married, in 1837, Mary Ann Thornton, who died in 1906, at eighty-eight years; her mother was a Warren, a relative of old General Warren, of Revolutionary fame. The following children were born to William and Mary Ann Moore: Henry, married Katharine Raiger, had three children; Anna, wife of Samuel Good, had four children; John; William R., of whom later; Alice, wife of Robert Hayes, of Chester county. Mr. Moore, died in 1847, and his widow resides in Philadelphia. Her only brother, Joseph Thornton, enlisted during the Mexican war and never returned home.     William R. Moore, son of William and Mary Ann (Thornton) Moore, was born in 1845, in Maryland, and was reared on a farm. At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted as a private in the Sixth

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