Descendants of James McCURDY & Nancy McKINNEY

 

as of 7 September 2004

 

Generation No. 1

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1.  James3 McCURDY  (Robert?2, McCURDY1) was born 1756 in Belzashane Parish, Co. Antrim, Ireland, and died 10 Nov 1835 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA1.  He married Nancy McKINNEY 1783.  She was born 1763, and died 28 Mar 1828 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA.

 

Children of James McCURDY and Nancy McKINNEY are:

 

        2                 i.    Jane McCURDY, born Bet. 1780 - 17903; died Aft. 1840.  She married John MARTIN; born Bet. 1775 - 1784; died 22 Jun 1829 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA4.

 

        3                ii.    Robert McCURDY, born 1783; died 28 Mar 1828 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA.  He married Isabella FINDLEY; born 31 Mar 1787 in Westmoreland Co. PA; died 15 Apr 1869 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA.

 

        4               iii.    Margaret McCURDY, born Nov 1787 in Westmoreland Co. PA; died 12 Oct 1865 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA.  She married John McCONAUGHY 31 Mar 1808 in Westmoreland Co. PA6; born 22 Feb 1783 in Fulton Co. PA7; died 21 Jul 1870 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA7.

 

        5               iv.    John McCURDY, born 25 Aug 1791 in Westmoreland Co. PA8; died 5 Jun 1856 in Blair Co. PA8,9.  He married Rachel STEWART 11 Jul 1833; born 4 Jan 1807 in Spruce Creek Valley, Huntingdon County, PA10,11; died 18 Nov 1879 in Altoona, Blair Co. PA12,13,14.

 

        6                v.    Agness Ann McCURDY, born Bet. 1794 - 1800 in Westmoreland Co. PA; died 30 Nov 1849 in Westmoreland Co. PA15.  She married William TRINDLE, Sr.; died Aft. 184316.

 

        7               vi.    William McCURDY, born 1 Apr 1795 in Fairfield Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA17; died 6 Jun 1856 in Winslow, Stephenson Co. IL17.  He married (1) Jane McCRACKEN 21 Apr 1831 in Fairfield Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA17; born 1810 in Fairfield Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA17; died 1846 in Troy, Perry Co. IN17.  He married (2) Phoebe BANKSON Aft. 184718; born 182019.

 

        8              vii.    James McCURDY, born 29 Nov 1795 in PA20,21,22; died 16 Aug 1868 in Lewistown, Mifflin Co. PA23.  He married (1) Martha McKANNAN 9 Aug 182124; died 16 Mar 182224.  He married (2) Eliza BERNHEISEL25 8 Feb 1831 in Lewistown, Mifflin Co. PA26; born ca 1800 in PA27; died 7 Dec 1877 in Lewistown, Mifflin Co. PA28.

 

        9             viii.    George Hill McCURDY, born 1799; died 8 Sep 1839 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA.  He married Elizabeth CRAWFORD29; born 1810; died 1886.

 

        10             ix.    Barbara McCURDY, born 1803; died 13 Jul 1834 in Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA30.  She married Andrew HUNTER; born ca 1791 in PA31,32,33; died Aft. 1870.

 

        11              x.    Mary McCURDY, born ca 1808 in PA34; died Nov 1894.  She married John Pettit LAFFERTY; born ca 1802 in PA35; died 16 Mar 1875 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co. PA36,37,38.

 

 

Notes for James McCURDY:

 

1783 Taxable in Westmoreland County, PA.

 

Shirley G. McQuillis, compiler, Listing of Inhabitants in 1783: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, P.O. Box 253, Laughlintown, PA, 15655, 1983, p. 11

 

[Introductory Note by Ms. McQuillis:  "This publication is a listing of all taxable inhabitants living in Westmoreland County in the year 1783."]

 

James McCURDY, Fairfield Twp. [listed twice, or was it two individuals? - ed.]

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1790 PA Census:  Westmoreland Co. Fairfield Twp.

 

John McCORDY: 4 males incl. head of family; 2 males under 16; 3 females incl. head of family

James McCORDY: 1 male incl. head of family; 1 male under 16; 2 females incl. head of family

James McCORDEY: 3 males incl. head of family; 1 male under 16; 5 females incl. head of family

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1798 Direct Tax List A: Fairfield Twp. Westmoreland County, PA

 

List A of the 1798 Direct Tax (also known as the Window Tax because the individuals were taxed according to the number of lights, i.e. windowpanes, they had) relates to property exceeding $100 in value, situated on lots of 2 acres or less.

 

McCURDY, James (weaver), a two-story wood dwelling house, 22' X 26', containing 3 windows with 12 lights each, and 1 window with 4 lights; situated on 2 acres.  Valuation: $100.50.

 

McCURDY, James, a two-story wood dwelling house, 20' X 24', containing 2 windows with 12 lights each, 1 window with 9 lights, and 1 window with 4 lights; situated on 2 acres.  Valuation: $100.50.

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1800 PA Census:  Westmoreland Co. Fairfield Twp.

 

Jonathan McCURDY Sr.

John McCURDY Jr.

Widow McCURDY

James McCURDY

James McCURDY--Males: 3 (-10); 1 (10-16); 1 (16-26); 1 (26-45)

            Females: 1 (-10); 1 (10-16); 1 (16-26); 1 (26-45)

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1810 PA Census:  Westmoreland Co. Fairfield Twp. p. 795

 

James McCURDY:  30010  30010

 

p. 796:

 

James McCURDY:  02200  22001

 

not sure which one of these is the correct James

 

also of possible interest:

 

Elb. McCURDY (Widow):  10000  12001 (p. 796)

John McCURDY:  01001  00001 (p. 794)

Robert McCURDY Sr.:  10010  10010 (p. 793)

Robert McCURDY Jr.:  10010  00100 (p. 793)

William McCURDY:  01210  31101 (p. 793)

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quote from a letter to me, Michael S. Caldwell, from Raymond D. McCurdy, 3333 S. 3600 W., Heber City, Utah, 84032, dated 13 May 1995

 

"My dad George J. verbally told me that his grandfather William (1838) told him that his grandfather (James-1756) had a cousin Elisha and an Uncle John and Aunt Mary Fox."

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Excerpts from Revolutionary War Pension Application (S7214) of James McCurdy

 

21st April 1834

A Statement, shewing the Service of James McCurdy

 

Period when the service was rendered:

 

1776, 2 months, rank of Private under Cap. Gibbs; Col. Hannen.

1776, 2 months, rank of Private under Cap Cochran.

1777, 2 months, rank of Private under Gen. Potter.

1777, 2 months, rank of Private under Cap. Marsh

 

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service:  78 years, Chester County, Penna.

 

Proof by which the declaration is supported:  Traditionary and a Living Witness.

 

State of Pennsylvania; Westmoreland County S.S.

      On this Seventeenth day of February A.D. 1834 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Please of said County now sitting James McCurdy a resident of Ligonier Township in the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein after stated.

      In August 1776 he was drafted in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Gibb and marched from "Fog’s manor" in Chester County Pennsylvania, where he then resided and was marched to a place called the "Blazing star" on the Raritan River about fifteen miles from the City of New York and was there attached to a Regiment then commanded by colonel John Hannen after our arrival, to which place our Company was marched without being attached to any Battalion or regiment, at this place re remained for two months for the purpose of preventing the British from advancing upon Philadelphia.  General Washington visited us almost every day, having troops under his command placed at different places in this part of the country.  After our tour of two months expired we were discharged at this place and returned home.

      In December of the same year, he was again drafted in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Stephen Cochran and marched to Philadelphia where his company was attached to a body of Militia under the command of General Potter.  Our Colonels name I cannot recollect.  We were chiefly in Garrison & employed in guarding the City keeping up a guard day and night.  In this service he was continued two months which ended some time in February 1777 & at this place was discharged & returned home.

      In August 1777 he was drafted in a company of Militia the Captain’s name was not recollected and marched from Fogs Manor Chester County to Wilmington in the State of Delaware where we remained some time, from there we marched to the Brandywine & were attached to a body of Militia under the command of General John Potter we remained there till after the Battle.  This declarants Company was on the left wing of the Army during the Battle.  After the engagement he was marched to Chester from thence to Philadelphia thence up the Schullkyll to Swadis* Ford where we were discharged after having served a full term of two months, he returned home in October of the same year.

      In December 1777 he was again drafted in a company of Militia commanded by Captain William Marsh, and marched through Philadelphia to Burlington N. Jersey where we remained a short time & were then marched to Bordentown* and from that to Allen town, while we were at this place the American prisoners arrived who had been released by the British & presented a miserable appearance.  At this three last mentioned places alternately we served a tour of two months and were discharged at Allen town in February 1778 and returned home.

      Declarant further states by reason of old age and the indignant* loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following **** -- viz As a Private in the Militia for Eight months and for such service I claim a pension.

      That he has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no person living who can testify to his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

      That he cannot without expense and inconvenience produce in court the ****** clergyman ** where he resides, to testify as required by the War department, but produces two respectable persons for that purpose.

      He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present* and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any ****** in any state.

 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid above.

 

Randal McLaughlin, Prot.

 

James "his mark" McCurdy

 

We Robert Piper, residing in Ligonier Township in Westmoreland County Penna and Thomas Pollock residing in Ligonier Township Westmoreland County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James McCurdy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

 

Sworn & subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid above.

 

Randal McLaughlin, Prot.

 

[signed] Robt. Piper

[Thomas Pollock did not sign or make his mark.]

 

Interrogation propounded by the Court to the Applicant:

 

1. Where & in what year were you born?

Ans.  I was born in the Parish of Belzashane in the County Antrim Ireland in the year 1756.

 

2. Have you any Record of your age; and if so, where is it?

Ans.  I have a record of my age in my fathers Bible now in my possession put there by my father.

 

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War; and where do you now live?

Ans.  When called into service I lived in Fog's Manor, Chester county Penna from where I removed to Ligonier Valley Westmoreland County Penna after the Revolution & where I now live & have lived ever since.

 

4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?

Ans.  I was drafted in the Militia.

 

5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.

Ans.  Col Hannen.  General Potter.  Gen. Mifflin.  Gen Anthony Wayne and General George Washington.  And refers to the above declaration for answers to the residue of the interrogatory.

 

6.  Did you ever receive a written discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?

Ans.  I never received a written discharge from any person.

 

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

Ans.  I refer to Hon. Thomas Pollock  the Rev. Samuel Swan.  John Pollock.  James Wilson.  Robert Piper & John Ogdon.

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William L. Iscrupe, "Ligonier Township Tax Records, 1829-1842, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania"; Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1977.

 

1829:  McCURDY, James, 194 acres, 1 horse, 2 cows

1831:  McCURDY, James, 194 acres, 1 horse, 2 cows

1834:  McCURDY, James, 194 acres, 1 horse, 2 cows

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"The Ligonier ECHO" issue of 3? February 1892

 

OLD-TIME RECOLLECTIONS No. XXVII. (column written by Francis McConaughy, "A Neighbor")

 

"I now approach the history of my ancestors, as among the early and noted citizens of the valley, my mother's father, Jas. McCurdy, and his brother-in-law, Jas. Gilmore, were citizens as early as 1778. Jas. McCurdy's sister was the wife of Gilmore and perhaps married in North Ireland whence they came. James McCurdy was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, likely from nearly the commencement, as I remember of him telling my mother when I was a small boy of his high esteem of Gen. Washington and that he would pass around among the soldiers in camp, inquiring of their comfort and condition, nearly every day, and of his admiring esteem of his kindness, and bearing always among them at all times, and seemed to lament that he had no sons to represent his high qualities in the country and government in after years for the country's benefit and advancement. He also spoke of the battle of Brandywine in 1777 or '78, when their part of the army was stationed below, under arms in hearing and partly in sight of the bloody strife all day, impatient to be called into action; and that the water of the creek was as red as blood as it passed. I never learned if Jas. Gilmore served in that war or not, neither whether they came to this country at the same time or not. I have learned the first part of his married life was spent in the Forks of Yough, and his wife was of the McKinny family near Periopolis, and moved from there to near West Fairfield in the valley."

 

"When my mother was a babe, the third of the family, in the year 1778 or '79, [in an earlier article, he mentions that he thought the year must have been 1788, as his mother was born in 1787 - ed.] and perhaps the same summer, they hastened to Palmer's Fort, owing to an alarm of Indians, as has been mentioned in a former article. They sold that farm in a few years and bought another on Hannah's Run, containing an excellent quality of limestone and a good coal-bank, where he was bordered by the lands of the Pollocks, Littles, Smiths, Hazlets, Toshes and Cliffords, being a fine neighborhood. He and his wife spent the balance of their days on this place, grandmother dying many years before him with a fever brought to the valley while the canal was being made in 1829, and of which their oldest son, Robert, also died, leaving a family of seven children, part of them small. His family consisted of five sons and five daughters, most of them living to nearly full age of threescore and ten, and one yet living fourscore and six."

 

"He was small in stature compared with his sons, two or three of which were six feet or more, only one, James, his namesake, was his height and about five feet six. He was a weaver by trade in the old country and continued here to some extent with farming largely and successfully with fields sloaping southward and the grandest fields of fine growth of waving wheat and good apple and peach orchard, which I well remember when a boy; and also a fine meadow on Hannah's Run from which he sold much hay. He was good with the rake and fork, but I never saw him plow, mow or cradle grain, but his sons were all first-class in these things. He was a Presbyterian and perhaps an elder. There was another Jas. McCurdy in the same congregation, and I am not sure which was the elder. His family was raised and many of them joined the church during Rev. Hill's ministry. He was, however, near joining with the Seceders when the hymns were introduced, but his wife was not agreed, and Mr. Hill talked to him and convinced him that the hymns were better suited to the New Testament scriptures and that he could also use the psalms if he preferred to do so, and he was satisfied; and he always did use them in family worship, giving out one line at a time, the same as the Seceders did in church."

 

"The Ligonier ECHO" issue of 10 February 1892

 

OLD-TIME RECOLLECTIONS No. XXVIII. (column written by Francis McConaughy, "A Neighbor"):

 

"I had written about all I knew of my grandfather McCurdy and started off on the events of his family, but thought I would write to East End, Pittsburg, to learn if my aged aunt, his youngest child, knew anything additional to what I had written, and I will copy what her daughter, Mrs. Ryall, has written, which is interesting:"

 

" 'Grandfather McCurdy came to this country before the Revolutionary War. The date mother does not know, as the old bible is lost." (This agrees with my former statement of his being in the war under Gen. Washington.) "He left Ireland when 18 years of age. His mother stood on the shore waving a handkerchief. He watched her as long as he could from the deck of the ship. When he died in the valley he was 82. He married in the forks of Youghiogheny and lived there until they had three children and then moved to the valley. Uncle Gilmore came over after he settled in the valley. They had only two children-John and Mrs. Lyons. Grandmother came from Virginia with her parents, the McKinnies, when twelve years of age and they settled in the forks above mentioned where she married grandfather. In crossing the mountains and driving all their stock and conveying their household goods on pack-horses, they camped out at night, and one night the wolves made them a call and killed all their sheep but one.' "

 

"My mother being the third child, the parents were likely married in 1783 at the close of the war, and say grandmother was 20 when married and came over the mountains when 12 years old and 8 years before marriage. Their crossing the mountains would be about 1775 or immediately before the Revolutionary War, and likely some of her brothers were also in the war, and in that way the young man formed acquaintance with the sister that lasted happily during life. At that period of our country's history the mountains would be almost an unbroken wilderness from their eastern side to the settlements west of them."

 

"I will yet write respecting my grandfather McCurdy. His life was truly an eventful one in America, leaving the old country at the age of 18 years and perhaps with little money capital, but making his way up to a good estate in the new and rising country by good industry and careful management. Also at his departure under the eye and invoked blessing of his mother and no doubt his own trust in the Lord, the Ruler of all things, it would be expected he would do well and be excelled by few men in the new country. In all my remembrance of him he was a devoted church goer, and when too aged, Rev. Swan preached at his house. His hearing had failed and he sat by the pulpit on one of two chairs James Donaldson had made and placed there, and when the old log church was taken away and the new brick church dedicated chairs were presented his two sons, Revs. A. and W.M. Donalson."

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(Francis McConaughy mentions the relationship of his grandfather, James McCurdy, to the Rev. Elisha McCurdy in the following excerpt):

 

The Ligonier "Echo" issue of 14 December 1892, "Old-Time Recollections" No. LXIV.

 

"Mr. Editor: I have already mentioned pretty extensively the wagon industry from the valley, by the most enterprising and extensive farmers, and also mentioned the regular advance and improvement of the wagons from carrying two tons burthen, to be large and strong to carry four and five tons over the mountain, as well the appliance of the patent locking machine to wagon and stage, and now to all manner of wheels in motion. And now I will mention, as the first I ever heard of, was my grandfather's cousin, Elisha McCurdy, as being the first wagoner, and first preacher from the valley. This must have been in the latter part of the last century, and many years before the turnpike was made, as after commencing an education for the ministry with old gent Rev. G. Hill and finishing with Rev. Dr. McMillen of Cannonsburg. He was preaching at the first of present century. When his brethren in the ministry chided him for speaking of wagoning, told him to call it transporting merchandise, no he would reply I term it correctly and am not ashamed that I have wagoned to eastern cities; and in his day there were few to equal him, as preacher in revival times in the church."

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More About James McCURDY:

 

Fact 1: Rev. War Pension file: S7214

Fact 2: 1776, Lived in Fagg's Manor, Chester Co. PA at enlistment2

Military service: applied 17 Feb 1834: Westmoreland Co. PA2

will proved: 11 Dec 1835, Ligonier Twp.

will written: 22 Mar 1832, Ligonier Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA

 

Endnotes

 

1.  DAR application of Rosemary Rabe, 1968

2.  Revolutionary War Pension Application

3.  estimate based on census records

4.  Will written 19 May 1828; proved 24 Nov 1829

5.  Willbook 2, p. 211 (#977): Westm. Co. PA

6.  Patricia Ann McConnaughay Gregory, McConnaughey Society of America, Inc. Annual Bulletin,  (Privately printed, P.O. Box 27051, Indpls., IN 46227-0051).

7.  History of Westmoreland County, PA, p. 338

8.  DAR application of Rosemary Rabe, 1968

9.  Blair County Genealogical Society Newsletter, Volume 8, no. 4, transcription of Family Bible of John McCurdy & Rachel Stewart.

10.  1860 PA Census: Huntingdon Co. Warriorsmark Twp. (Series M653, roll 1115), p. 682, dwelling 96, family 96, 6 September 1860, "Rachel McCURDY, 53, Penn."

11.  "The Altoona, PA "Tribune"," obituary, issue of 20 November 1879, p. 3, column 7.

12.  DAR application of Rosemary Rabe, 1968

13.  Fairview Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co. PA,  (Blair County Genealogical Society Publication No. XIX, 1986), p. 294, McCURDY, Rachel w/o John d. 11/18/1879 72y 10m 14d.

14.  "The Altoona, PA "Tribune"," obituary, issue of 20 November 1879, p. 3, column 7.

15.  Tombstone: Fort Palmer Cemetery; Fairfield Twp. Westm. Co. PA

16.  1843 PA Tax List: Westm. Co. Fairfield Twp

17.  Raymond McCurdy letter 1995 April

18.  Raymond McCurdy letter, May 1995

19.  Raymond McCurdy letter 1995 April

20.  1850 PA Census: Mifflin Co. Boro of Lewistown (Series M432, roll 797), p. 267, lines 7-12, dwelling 421, family 444, 26 Sep 1850, "James McCURDY, 55, Tanner, $7000, Pa."

21.  1860 PA Census: Mifflin Co. West Ward Lewistown, P.O. Lewistown (Series M653, roll 1141), p. 422, lines 32-34, dwelling 1074, family 1019, 29 June 1860, "Jas. McCURDY, 65, Tanner, $6000/$500, Pa."

22.  Harold B. Barth, HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO, Vol. 2,  (Historical Publishing Company, Topeka-Indianapolis, 1926), pp. 872-873, "The McCurdy family originally came from Ireland, where James McCurdy was born Nov. 29, 1795." [It was actually this James' father who was born in Ireland.].

23.  COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA of the Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania,  (J.M. Runk & Co., Publishers, Chambersburg, Pa., 1897), vol. 1, p. 474-475.

24.  Howard Wells McCurdy, Biographical Sketch of the McCurdy Families of Lewistown, PA 1761-1924,  (privately printed), p. 3.

25.  COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA of the Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania,  (J.M. Runk & Co., Publishers, Chambersburg, Pa., 1897), vol. 1, p. 474-475.

26.  Howard Wells McCurdy, Biographical Sketch of the McCurdy Families of Lewistown, PA 1761-1924,  (privately printed), p. 3.

27.  1850 PA Census: Mifflin Co. Boro of Lewistown (Series M432, roll 797), p. 267, lines 7-12, dwelling 421, family 444, 26 Sep 1850, "Eliza, 50."

28.  COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA of the Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania,  (J.M. Runk & Co., Publishers, Chambersburg, Pa., 1897), vol. 1, p. 474-475.

29.  Pennsylvania Certificate of Death of Mrs. Mary A. Lemmon, "Maiden name of Mother:  Elizabeth Crawford."

30.  Tombstone: Fort Palmer Cemetery; Fairfield Twp. Westm. Co. PA

31.  1850 PA Census: Jefferson Co. Pine Creek Twp. (Series M432, roll 786), p. 159, lines 1-3, dwelling 1162, family 1177, 1 Oct 1850, "Andrew HUNTER, 59."

32.  1860 PA Census: Jefferson Co. Knox Twp. P.O. Brown's Mills (Series M653, roll 1118), p. 171, lines 31-40, dwelling 1425, family 1408, -- Aug 1860, "Andrew HUNTER, 69."

33.  1870 PA Census: Jefferson Co. Knox Twp. P.O. Knoxdale (Series M593, roll 1352), p. 81, lines 20-28, dwelling 72, family 72, 29 July 1870, "And. HUNTER, 79."

34.  1860 PA Census: Indiana Co. Jacksonville Boro (Series M653, roll 1117), p. 235, lines 20-26, dwelling 1566, family 1506, 23 July 1860, "Mary, 52, Pa."

35.  1860 PA Census: Indiana Co. Jacksonville Boro (Series M653, roll 1117), p. 235, lines 20-26, dwelling 1566, family 1506, 23 July 1860, "John P. LAFFERTY, 58."

36.  Prof. J.T. Stewart, ed., Indiana County, Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present,  (Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1913), "...b. 1800 on a farm...He [John P. Lafferty] died at the age of 74."

37.  Allegheny County, PA Will of John P. Lafferty, index shows death date as 16 March 1875.

38.  Pittsburgh, PA "Pittsburgh Daily Gazette", obituary, issue of Thursday, 18 March 1875, p. 4, col. 6.

 

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