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THOMOND BALL, son of Henry and Eleanor (Blackall) Ball, was born in Dublin, Ireland, circa 1736, was a merchant in that city, when he was granted the freedom of the city, June 24, 1760. He married Margaret Denham, of the city of Dublin, by license dated June 14, 1759, and on the day following the date of the license, settled upon his intended spouse the sum of three hundred pounds.
In 1769 Thomond Ball emigrated to Pennsylvania with his wife and chil- dren and settled in the borough of Lancaster, where he was successfully en- gaged in business until 1774, when he removed to Sunbury, formerly Fort Au- gusta, the county seat of the newly organized county of Northumberland. He had purchased three hundred acres in the new county, for which he received a warrant of survey dated December 1, 1772, and he was one of the first pur- chasers' of lots in the town of Sunbury, laid out in 1773, receiving a warrant for Lot No. 33, September 13, 1773. On March 1, 1775, he received a warrant for Lot No. 192, and another for thirty-five acres of land. Thomond Ball was named as one of the first Committee of Safety for Northumberland county, be- ing with Alexander Hunter, and John Weizel, Esq., one of the representatives from Augusta township, which included Sunbury, in the first meeting of the committee, February 8, 1776. On the organization of the Committee, Captain John Hambright was selected as chairman, and Thomond Ball, as "Clerk", or secretary. The first minutes of the committee are therefore in his handwrit- ing, and during the year 1776 he was one of the most active and prominent members of the committee, formulating and presenting to the second meeting of the committee on February 26, 1776, a petition to the Assembly in reference to outrages committed on officers of the county by the Connecticut settlers at Wyoming. The meeting of the committee of March 25, 1776, was held at his house in Sunbury. With the reorganization of the Committee of Safety in the Fall of 1776, Thomond Ball retired from the committee. He was appointed January 1, 1777, paymaster of Colonel Thomas Hartley's regiment, Continental Line, and filled that position during the years 1777-78. He was commissioned a justice of the peace of Northumberland county, July 8, 1778, and at about the same time appointed deputy prothonotary, by virtue of these offices offi-
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ciating as justice of the courts of the county, as shown by a letter written by him to the Supreme Executive Council, dated Sunbury, April 27, 1779, in which he recommends the appointment of special justices for the trial of cases and suggests proper persons for commissions.
Thomond Ball died at Sunbury, June 3, 1779. His widow, Margaret (Den- ham) Ball, survived him many years. She received in 1784 two warrants of survey, each for four hundred acres of land in Northampton county, Pennsyl- vania, probably in recognition of the services of her husband. Thomond and Margaret (Denham) Ball had five children, two sons, Blackall William and Henry Ball, and three daughters, Eleanor, Jane and Margaret Ball.
Captain Blackall William Ball, eldest son of Thomond and Margaret (Denham) Ball, born at Dublin, Ireland, May 16, 1761, was commissioned en- sign of Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, October 16, 1776, in his sixteenth year, and was successively promoted second lieutenant, first lieu- tenant and captain, serving in the Third Pennsylvania, and the First Pennsyl- vania regiments with distinction. He died in Philadelphia, February 12, 1812, By his wife, Margaret (Lesley) Ball, he had six daughters, five of whom lived to mature years. One of them, Mary Sluyter Ball, born 1799, married her cousin, George H. Ball, son of her uncle, Henry Ball. Captain Blackall W. Ball left no male issue.
HENRY BALL, second son of Thomond and Margaret (Denham) Ball, born in Dublin, Ireland, November 9, 1762, came with his parents to Pennsylvania when a child, and was reared in Lancaster and Northumberland counties, Penn- sylvania. He enlisted, May 9, 1779, at the age of eighteen, in Captain Thomas Kemplin's company of rangers for Northumberland county. He is described on the muster roll of the company, which gives the date of enlistment, age, size, complexion, trade, and where born, as follows: "Henry Ball, May 9, 1779; eighteen ; five feet eight inches; fair; gentleman; Ireland". These "Ranger" companies were enlisted for service on the frontiers against the Indians and their British and Tory allies. Northumberland county suffered considerably from Indian raids during the Revolution, particularly after the fall of the forts at Wyoming, many of the settlers fleeing with their families down the Sus- quehanna to more thickly-settled and better-fortified localities. Henry Ball received a legacy of fifty pounds, under the will of his mother's brother, Sir Thomas Blackall, Knight, of Dublin, Ireland, above referred to in the account of the early ancestors of the family in Ireland. Mr. Ball removed to Phila- delphia in 1800, and resided there until his death, which occurred April 17, 1816. He married, October 17, 1789, Elizabeth Fulton, born August 15, 1762, of a family that had settled on the banks of the Susquehanna in 1722. Mrs. Ball died in Philadelphia, November 2, 1823. Henry and Elizabeth (Fulton) Ball had nine children, viz : Blackall William, who died in New Orleans, Louis . iana, in 1840; John Fulton, who died in 1826; Elizabeth Maria, married John H. Gordon; Thomond, died in 1824; Henry, of whom presently; Samuel, who died in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1823; George H., a merchant in New York City, who married his cousin, Mary Sluyter Ball, and died in 1873, leaving a large family ; Robert Harris, married Eliza Virginia Leathers; Margaret, died at the age of two years in 1806.
HENRY BALL, fifth child and fourth son of Henry and Elizabeth (Fulto11)
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Ball, born at Lawrenceville, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1797, was but a child when his parents removed to Philadelphia and he was reared and educated in that city, and lived there the remainder of life, dying March 18, 1866. He married, March 15, 1826, Caroline Frowert. of German ancestry, born in Philadelphia, 1808, died November 29, 1860, and they liad four children; Mary Jane, married Benjamin F. Crawford; Henry, of whom presently ; Caroline, married William S. Andrews; Charles Ball.
HENRY BALL, second child and eldest son of Henry and Caroline (Frowert) Ball, born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1830, died there March 25, 1884. He married, December 31, 1852, Katharine Weinert, 'born September 23, 1832, died August 23, 1878, and they had six children, two of whom died in infancy, and those who survive being: Henry C .; Caroline, wife of Charles M. Fre- hafer ; Thomas B .; Thomas H., of whom presently; and Katharine Ball.
THOMAS HAND BALL, fifth child and youngest son of Henry and Katharine (Weinert) Ball, was born in Philadelphia, October 17, 1863. He was edu- cated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, and at an early age engaged with the firm of Thomas Dolan & Company, manufacturers of woolen yarns, etc., and later in connection with his elder brother, H. C. Ball, under the firm name of H. C. Ball & Company, engaged in the worsted yarn spinning business in Philadelphia. He later engaged in a general commission business in yarns and is agent for Jules Decurmont & Sons, manufacturers of yarns under the French system; the Wissahickon Worsted Mills, at Wissahickon, and Man- yunk; the Lymansville Company, of Providence, Rhode Island; the Landen- burg Worsted Mills, Landenberg, Pennsylvania; James Lee's Sons Company ; and the Emmott Worsted Spinning Company of Chester, Pennsylvania. Thom- as H. Ball is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, in right of his great-great-grandfather, Thomond Ball, paymaster, of Hart- ley's regiment, Continental Line, of Pennsylvania troops, 1776-78; and of his great-grandfather, Henry Ball, of the Northumberland County Rangers. He is also a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; the Site and Relic Society of Germantown; of the Trade's League of Philadelphia; and Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia ; and of the Germantown Cricket Club, White Marsh Country Club, and other social, industrial, patriotic, and benevolent institutions.
Mr. Ball married, December 8, 1908, at Providence, Rhode Island, Nina Louise, daughter of Charles D. and Ella (Bacon) Woodward, of Providence, Rhode Island. Issue: Nina Louise Ball, born September 22, 1909, at Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania.
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PAUL ROSS WEITZEL
PAUL ROSS WEITZEL, of the Philadelphia bar, is a great-great-grandson of Johan Paul Weitzel, a native of the Palatinate, who came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Loyal Judith" from Rotterdam, arriving at Philadelphia, September 3, 1742. His age as registered on the roll of passengers of the "Loyal Judith" was "26 years". He married, about 1745, Charlotte Elizabeth -, maiden name unknown, and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he followed the business of a baker during the Revolutionary War. He died in September, 1797.
Johan Paul and Charlotte E. Weitzel had eleven children, all born in Lan- caster, between the years 1746 and 1765. His second son Caspar, born in 1748, was admitted to the Lancaster bar in 1769; removed to Sunbury, on the organ- ization of Northumberland county, in 1772; was a delegate to the Provincial Convention at Philadelphia, January 23, 1775; recruited a company of which he was commissioned captain, and joined the Continental Army under Wash- ington, and was in the battle of Long Island. A letter written by him to his brother John, describing the battle, is published in the Pensylvania Archives. Another son, Jacob Weitzel, was an ensign and lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line, and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
JOHN WEITZEL, fourth child of Johan Paul and Charlotte Elizabeth Weitzel, born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1752, removed when a youth to Fort Augusta, now Sunbury, and was one of the first county commis- sioners of Northumberland county on its organization in 1772. He was granted Lot No. 82, of the town lots of Sunbury, and a warrant of survey for three hundred acres of land, on January 8, 1773. He was commissioned one of the justices for Northumberland county, July 29, 1775; was a member of the County Committee of Safety, 1775-78; delegate to the Provincial Convention at Philadelphia, June 18, 1775; represented his county in the Constitutional Con- vention of 1776, which framed the first constitution for the state of Pennsyl- vania ; was commissioned a justice of the peace, June 10, 1777, and again on February 26, 1788, and on June 19, 1788, was commissioned by the Supreme Executive Council, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. A letter from him to the Council of Safety, dated Sunbury, December 2, 1776, shows that he was acting as commissary for the Council, and had ad- vanced money for the purchase of supplies, and had rode over the county in the interest of the patriot cause, and "done everything in my power, since I came from Philadelphia to execute your orders". (The letter is printed in full in the Pennsylvania Archives, vol. 5, first series, page 85). The position of justice of Northumberland county was a very trying and responsible one. Prior to the Revolution there was a constant conflict of authority between the Pennsylvania authorities and the Connecticut settlers at Wyoming, upon which subject me- morials were presented to the Provincial Council and Assembly by the justices, and force was resorted to on both sides. During the Revolution, with the fall
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of the forts at Wyoming, Sunbury and vicinity became the frontier of hostilities and was constantly threatened with invasion by the Indians, and their hardly less savage and brutal allies in the pay of the British government. Many of the inhabitants fled from the county, leaving those who remained, in a defenceless and impoverished condition, so that those in authority were called upon to use their most strenuous endeavors in defence of the county.
Judge John Weitzel married (first) Tabitha Morris, of Philadelphia, and (second) Elizabeth Lebe. By his first wife he had two sons, John and Paul, and two daughters; and by the second wife, one son George and two daugh- ters.
JOHN WEITZEL, eldest son of John and Tabitha (Morris) Weitzel, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1772, died there October 9, 1835. He married Elizabeth Lehr, and had five children, Joseph ; Paul ; Elizabeth, married William Bowen; William; Margaret, married Peter K. Fisher.
JOSEPH WEITZEL, eldest child of John and Elizabeth (Lehr) Weitzel, was born near Sunbury, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1808, died March 3, 1899. He married, October 10, 1831, Sarah Ann Woodrow, and had nine children, of whom Paul Ross was the eldest.
PAUL ROSS WEITZEL, son of Joseph and Sarah Ann (Woodrow) Weitzel, was born near Sunbury, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1832. He received his primary education in the select school of Sunbury, and later attended Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport. On May 9, 1854, he entered the Union Law School, Easton, Pennsylvania, and on April 26, 1856, graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was at once admitted to the Northampton county bar, and commenced practice in May of the same year at Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced until 1867, and then removed to Scranton, and followed his profession there until 1893. He was admitted to practice in the United States Court in 1872, and was a member of the Law Associations of the counties of Lycoming, Luzerne and Lackawanna. He served as attorney for the County Commissioners of Lackawanna county from 1878 to 1879. He visited Europe and spent some time in Florence and Rome, Italy. In 1893 he came to Philadelphia and practiced law in the several courts of the city and county until 1906, when he retired from the active practice of his profession.
Mr. Weitzel is a member of Pennsylvania State Society of Cincinnati, being admitted as the representative of Lieutenant Jacob Weitzel, before referred to. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution as a descendant of Judge John Weitzel. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Tioga, Philadelphia, and has been on its board of trustees since 1896.
Paul Ross Weitzel married, January 18, 1859, Fannie Edwards Boyd, daugh- ter of Dr. Eben Little and Ruth Ann (Ellsworth) Boyd of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and they had issue, as follows:
William Ellsworth, b. Feb. 15, 1860, d. Oct. 4, 1860;
Paul Elmer, b. March 23, 1861, m., July 1, 1884, Minnie H. Knorr, and had issue: Paul Revere Weitzel, b. May 23. 1885;
!: .: Leonard Renselaer Weitzel, b. May 2, 1887, m,, Feb. 2, 1909, Mae Kathryn, Jorst, of Phila .;
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Cornelia Shepherd, b. June 3, 1864, m., April 29, 1890, Rev. Austin D. Wolfe, of Mont clair, N. J., and had issue :
William Merril Wolfe, b. Aug. 13, 1891 ;
Frances Cornelia Wolfe, b. Feb. 1, 1894;
Mary Gertrude Wolfe, b. March 17, 1896; Paul Austin Wolfe, b. June 24, 1898;
Alice Margaret Wolfe, b. Jan. 30, 1901 ;
Laura Kathryne Wolfe, b. Sept. 22, 1004.
Eben Boyd, b. Feb. 23, 1867, m., April 21, 1897, M. Fannie, daughter of D. G Evans, of Phila. ;
Herbert Edwards, b. Dec. 28, 1869, m., Nov. 2, 1898, Grace Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Bissel, of Phila .;
Frances Eleanor, b. Oct. 23, 1872, m., April 6, 1894, Eugene Hale McBride, of Phila .; Carrie Leonard, b. Sept. 21, 1875, m., Nov. 15, 1905, Guy Constant Holbrook, of Boston, Mass., and had issue :
Guy Constant Holbrook Jr., b. Jan. 21, 1907.
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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS PATTON
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS PATTON was born at Union Furnace, Huntingdon coun- ty, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1849. Mr. Patton received his education in schools of Altoona, finishing with a course in the high school. He entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the general superintendent's office, Altoona, on January II, 1865, was transferred to Philadelphia in De- cember, 1871, and was appointed chief clerk in the office of Mr. A. J. Cassatt, general manager, on August 1, 1872, and remained with him in that capacity while Mr. Cassatt filled the positions of general manager, third vice-president and first vice-president. Upon Mr. Cassatt's retirement from the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, Mr. Patton was transferred to the president's de- partment and on April 1, 1884, appointed by the board of directors general as- sistant. On February 10, 1897, he was appointed assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, acting in the same capacity with the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, West Jersey & Seashore Rail- road and Northern Central Railway Companies. On May 24, 1884, he was elected vice-president of the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Com- pany, and upon the refusal of Mr. A. J. Cassatt to accept the presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Mr. Patton was on June 14, 1899, elected president, which position he fills in addition to his official connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. On August 30, 1899, he was elected general chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad department, Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia. He is also a director of the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, a trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital, director of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia and a member of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations of North America, as well as a member of the Valley Forge Park Commission of Penn- sylvania, the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution (having been elected March 22, 1892), the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Pennsylvania Scotch- Irish Society, and the Union League, Racquet and Merion Cricket clubs. Mr. Patton married, in Philadelphia, on December 13, 1876, Katharine Jane Linn, who was born in Landisburg, Perry county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John Atcheson Linn. They had one child, John Linn Patton, born October 13, 1883 ; died October 7, 1900; at the time of his death a member of the sophomore class (1903), Princeton University.
Mr. Patton is descended from a long line of Colonial and Revolutionary fam- ilies. His father George Washington Patton, born 1817, died 1882, was prom- inently identified with the iron furnaces in the Juniata Valley; subsequently moved to Altoona, becoming one of the early settlers and prominent business men of that now prosperous railroad city and serving as its postmaster and as associate judge of Blair county. His mother Mary Burket was born in 1825. in Sinking Valley, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and died in 1856.
His grandfather John Patton, born 1757, died 1836, resided in Woodcock
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Valley, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. He was an early associator in the War of the Revolution and was in active service on the frontiers, assisting in their defense. He was a private in Captain William Donaldson's company of the Third Battalion, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Colonel William Chambers, "called out by an order from Council dated July ye 28, 1777", (Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. xv, p. 575). He sub- sequently served as lieutenant of the Cumberland County Militia on several tours of duty between the years 1778 and 1782 (Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, vol. xxiii, p. 270). He was elected sheriff of Huntingdon county six terms, and was engaged in the construction of the Pennsylvania Canal. His wife Rebecca Simpson born 1777, died 1845, of Paxtang township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was a daughter of Lieutenant John Simpson and his wife Margaret Murray, who was a daughter of Captain James Murray, of Paxtang township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant John Simp- son, born 1744, died 1807, was second lieutenant of Captain James Murray's company, Fourth Battalion, Colonel James Burd, Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania Militia, August 15, 1775; detailed to Continental service at Bristol, Penn- sylvania, January 28, 1777. Captain James Murray, born 1729, died 1804, was a member of the Committee of Observation of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 8, 1775; captain, Colonel James Burd's Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Associators, forming part of the "Flying Camp", 1776; captain, First Company, Tenth Battalion, Colonel Robert Elder, August 26, 1780; cap- tain, Colonel Robert Elder's Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, April 17, 1781 : delegate to the Military Convention held at Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, July 4, 1776, to choose brigadier-generals for the Associated Battalions of Pennsylvania.
His great-grandfather William Patton, born 1730, died 1777, emigrated from the north of Ireland to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, as a young boy, with his parents, John Patton, died 1767, and his wife Susanna Tussey. He married Elizabeth Moore, born 1732, died 1819.
Mr. Patton resides at Radnor, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He has two brothers, T. Blair Patton, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and J. Howard Pat- ton, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and one sister, Mrs. Harold A. Freeman, of St. David's, Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM MARTIN BONSALL
WILLIAM MARTIN BONSALL, of Philadelphia, who traces his descent from nearly a score of families that were the first settlers in the immediate vicinity of Philadelphia, some of them within its present corporate limits and others in neighboring parts of Chester, now Delaware county, comes of an ancient Der- byshire family. The name has its origin in the town of Bonsall, fifteen miles from Derby, England, originally called "Bunteshalle", (Bund-Hall, i. e. Hall of the Covenant).
RICHARD BONSALL, the founder of the family in Pennsylvania, with his wife Mary, daughter of George and Hannah Wood, of Bonsall, Derbyshire, who preceded the Bonsalls to Pennsylvania, came from Mouldridge, in parish of Bradburne, county Derby, bringing a certificate from the Monthly Meeting at Asheford, dated 12mo. (February) 22, 1682-83, "to Remove himselfe into America with his whole familye, withe ye Consent of ffriends". The Certifi- cate, signed by sixteen members of Asheford Meeting, none of whom bore the surname of Bonsall, was deposited at Darby Monthly Meeting, near Philadel- phia, in Chester county.
Richard Bonsall settled with his family on two hundred acres of land on the east side of Darby creek, including the present site of Kellyville, Upper Darby, where he resided until his death, which occurred September 13, 1699. Other lands were, however, surveyed to him, including a tract of about one hundred and fifty acres in Kingsessing township, Philadelphia county, now city, the greater part of which was inherited by his son Benjamin, as hereafter shown. He left a nuncupative will made on his deathbed in the presence of his brother-in-law, John Wood, Michael Blunston and John Hood, who were chosen by his children then of age to administer to the estate.
His wife, Mary (Wood) Bonsall, had died August 24, 1698. Her parents, George and Hannah Wood, with a number of children, were among the first settlers of Darby, having come from Bonsall, Derbyshire, bringing a certificate from the Monthly Meetings of Asheford, Monyash, and Matlack, dated 5mo. (July) 27, 1682, and probably accompanied William Penn to Pennsylvania, in the "Welcome", as did Richard Crosby, and other ancestors of the subject of this sketch.
BENJAMIN BONSALL, sixth child of Richard and Mary (Wood) Bonsall, was born at Darby, Pennsylvania, May II, 1687. On arriving at age, his brothers conveyed to him, in the allotment of the real estate taken by his father, one hundred and four acres in Kingsessing township, Philadelphia county, about two miles from Gray's Ferry, now intersected by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, whereon he erected a house, and resided there until his death on January 6, 1752. He was a well-to-do farmer and left an ample estate in houses, lands, money at interest and horses and cattle.
Benjamin Bonsall was married in his own house in Kingsessing, November 27, 1712, before William Carter, Esq., a justice of the peace, to Martha, daugh-
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ter of John and Sarah Fisher, of the city of Philadelphia. He was a member of Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends, and his marriage without the consent of the Meeting and before a magistrate was a breach of "the good order main- tained among Friends" and he was dealt with therefore. Making a satisfactory acknowledgment therefore, he was retained in membership. His wife Mar- tha dying after bearing him seven children, he married (second) under the au- spices of Darby Monthly Meeting, Elizabeth (Serase) Horne, widow of Ed- ward Horne, who with her husband and children, had come from Horsham, county Sussex, England, early in 1724, bringing a certificate from the Quarter- ly Meeting at Horsham, dated December 10, 1723, and settled in Philadelphia where Edward Horne was a merchant. Her daughter, Sarah Horne, three months later became the wife of Richard Bonsall, son of Benjamin by his first wife, Martha Fisher. By his second marriage he had one son, Nathan Bonsall, who died unmarried on the old homestead in 1807. The Bonsall homestead in Kingsessing, with the major part of the land descended to his daughter Han- nah, who married Philip Price, of Welsh ancestry, the lineal ancestor of the late Eli K. Price.
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