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Memorial stone of John and Sarah Mellott

John M. Mellott

1725–c. 1786

Born 1725. Died about 1786, a member of the Tonoloway Baptist Church, Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

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Life events

Born1725
ChurchApril 1766member, with his wife Sarah, of the Tonoloway Baptist Church, Fulton County, Pennsylvania
Diedabout 1786from a memorial stone, Fulton County, Pennsylvania

Research note: a memorial stone

The dates for John and Sarah come from a memorial stone in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, which reads “MELLOTT / JOHN MELLOTT DIED CA. 1786 / SARAH MELLOTT DIED APRIL 4, 1812 / JOHN MELLOTT AND WIFE SARAH MEMBERS TONOLOWAY BAPTIST CHURCH APRIL 1766”. The stone was clearly set up long after their deaths, so its dates are the work of later researchers. The records behind them, perhaps the minutes of the Tonoloway Baptist Church or a family Bible, have not yet been found.

History and lore

John was the son of Theodore Melot by his first wife, Catherine Maple, and the ancestor of the Mellotts: his descendants took that spelling, mainly in Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Stillwell, and one of their grandsons was named Stillwell Mellott. By April 1766 John and Sarah were members of the Tonoloway Baptist Church, in the Tonoloway valley on the Pennsylvania–Maryland line, in what is now Fulton County, Pennsylvania, where the Mellott spelling took root. A memorial stone there gives John’s death as about 1786.

Memorial stone

White memorial stone reading Mellott, John Mellott died ca. 1786, Sarah Mellott died April 4, 1812, and at the foot, John Mellott and wife Sarah members Tonoloway Baptist Church April 1766
The Mellott memorial stone in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, for John and his wife Sarah. It is a later memorial, not an original grave marker: the words “died ca. 1786” show it was carved long afterward from research into the family.