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Surnames of Early Paradise Township Families 

Below is our list of some of the families that settled Paradise Township

List compiled by PHS Genealogy Chair Sandy Dietz

This list of names is sourced from Township Assessment
and Early Settler Biographies in the book

History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania

by author Alfred Mathews (1852-1904), published 1886,

R.T. Peck & Co. (Philadelphia), 1438 pages

and the

1830 Census (Price, Pike)*

1840 Census (Price, Monroe)*

1850 Census (Paradise, Monroe)

This list is not exhaustive of all Paradise Township  founding family surnames. PHS welcomes contributions of any additional information concerning 

the township's founding families.

​​*Best estimates based on family names and residence locations for info from the 1830 and 1840 censuses. These families lived in Price Township, Pike & Monroe Counties, which would later become Paradise Township. 

Earliest Settlers
(COMING SOON - Click on family names to link to genealogies where available)

Boorem
Bowman
Bush
Coffman
Dornblazer
Edinger
Heller
Henry
Hilgert
Kintz
Knoll
Koerner
Learn
Nauman
Setzer
Storm
Transue
Utt
Wagner

More Early Paradise Township Families

Ace
Anglemeyer
Bailey
Bellis
Besecker
Bird
Bogart
Boyer
Buckley
Buskirk
Callyhan
Carlton
Cranter
Cross
Courtwright
Deck
DePue
Deitrick
Deubler
Eich
Fanseen
France/Franz
Grant
Groner
Jones
Kinney
Labar
Hamblin
Hardenstine
Koch
Lockyer-Jefferson
Mange
Marsh
Metzgar
Miller
Morgan
Pausel
Price
Ransberry
Rinehart
Roth
Rowe
Senenbaugh
Smith
Stocker
Williams
Wilson
Rheal
Schleiger
Woolbauch
Yotter

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