Surnames: Waggoner, Craft, Aubrey
Levi C Waggoner was born December 28, 1851, at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penna, where he ws brought up and attended the common schools. Leaving school he learned the marble trade with M & T S Wright, a firm then engaged in the business at Brownsville. He continued at this business for twelve years. In 1880 he commenced the business of groceries, provisions and feed and has since successfully carried it on. He has built up a good trade and is located in "the Neck" or Main street.He is a member of I O O F and of the Royal Arcanum and is part owner and manager of the Brownsville Lyceum and president of the Brownsville Natural Gas Co.
He was married in 1875 to Miss Ella Aubrey, daughter of Thomas Aubrey, the proprietor of Aubrey Planing Millls at West Brownsville. They have three children: Thomas A Waggoner; Leroy C Waggoner; and Carrie Waggoner.
He is the son of George Waggoner and May M Craft Waggoner, both natives of Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, and are now living at Brownsville where they removed in 1851.
George Waggoner, the father of Levi C Waggoner, served for three years in the army during the Civil War. He belonged to Company D, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, was mustered out of the service at Harriburg, Pennsylvania, just after the battle of the Wilderness, and held the position of wagon master for a part of the time.
Oliver A Waggoner, brother of Levi C Waggoner, was in the same company and regiment with is father in the war. He was only sixteen years of age when he entered the service, remained till the close of the war, and as mustered out of the service at the same time with his father.
Joshua Waggoner, the grandfather of Levi C Waggoner, was a native of Westmoreland county, Penna, came to Fayette when quite a young man, ans settled upon a farm in Redstone township. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church for many years and died in 1877 at the age
of eighty four years.George B Craft, grandfather of Levi C Waggoner, was a native of Fayette county, Penna, was a farmer and was a writer of poetry published in the Brownsville papers. He died in 1877 at the age of ninety two years.